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  • 1 stupro

    āvī, ātum, āre
    осквернять ( pulvinar C); растлевать, портить ( mores Tert); бесчестить, позорить (filiam Pl, C)

    Латинско-русский словарь > stupro

  • 2 stupro

    stupro, āvi, ātum, āre (stuprum), schänden, I) im allg.: pulvinar, Cic. de har. resp. 33: mores, Tert. apol. 6. – II) schänden durch Unzucht entehren, filiam, Plaut., Cic. u.a.: virginem, Sen. rhet.: liberos eorum et coniuges, Liv. epit.: ingenuam, Quint.: Lucretia vi stuprata, Cic.: stuprata mater familiae, Liv.

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  • 3 stupro

    stupro, āvi, ātum, āre (stuprum), schänden, I) im allg.: pulvinar, Cic. de har. resp. 33: mores, Tert. apol. 6. – II) schänden durch Unzucht entehren, filiam, Plaut., Cic. u.a.: virginem, Sen. rhet.: liberos eorum et coniuges, Liv. epit.: ingenuam, Quint.: Lucretia vi stuprata, Cic.: stuprata mater familiae, Liv.

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  • 4 bonae

    bŏnus (old form dŭonus, Carm. Sall. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Mull.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 67 Mull.), a, um, adj. [for duonus, cf. bellum, bis, and cf. root dvi-; hence deidô, deos], good; comp. melior, us [cf. Gr. mala, mallon], better; sup. optimus ( optumus, ante-class. and often class.) [root opof ops, opes; cf. copia, apiscor], best.
    I.
    Attributively.
    A.
    As adjunct of nouns denoting persons.
    1.
    Vir bonus.
    (α).
    A man morally good (kalos kagathos):

    quoniam boni me viri pauperant, improbi alunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 60:

    omnibus virtutibus instructos et ornatos tum sapientes, tum viros bonos dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 10, 28:

    ille vir bonus qui... intolerabili dolore lacerari potius quam aut officium prodat aut fidem,

    id. Ac. 2, 8, 23:

    sive vir bonus est is qui prodest quibus potest, nocet nemini, certe istum virum bonum non facile reperimus,

    id. Off. 3, 15, 64:

    qui se ita gerunt ut eorum probitas, fides, integritas, etc.... hos viros bonos... appellandos putemus,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    non intellegunt se de callido homine loqui, non de bono viro,

    id. Att. 7, 2, 4:

    ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 12:

    nec enim melior vir fuit Africano quisquam, nec clarior,

    id. Lael. 2, 6; id. Leg. 1, 14, 41; 1, 18, 48; id. Planc. 4, 9; id. Par. 3, 1, 21; id. Marcell. 6, 20; id. Fam. 7, 21; id. Off. 2, 16, 57.—
    (β).
    An honest man:

    justitia, ex qua viri boni nominantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 7, 21; 1, 44, 155; 2, 11, 39; 2, 12, 42; 2, 20, 71;

    3, 12, 50: cum is sponsionem fecisset ni vir bonus esset,

    id. ib. 3, 19, 77:

    quoniam Demosthenes nec vir bonus esset, nec bene meritus de civitate,

    id. Opt. Gen. 7, 20; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116.—
    (γ).
    A man of good standing in the community:

    id viri boni arbitratu deducetur,

    Cato, R. R. 143; so id. ib. 149:

    tuam partem viri bono arbitratu... dari oportet,

    Dig. 17, 1, [p. 244] 35;

    37, 6, 2, § 2: quem voles virum bonum nominato,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 55:

    vir bonus est... quo res sponsore, et quo causae teste tenentur,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 40.—Hence, ironically of wealthy men:

    praetores jus dicunt, aediles ludos parant, viri boni usuras perscribunt,

    Cic. Att. 9, 12, 3.—
    (δ).
    Ironically of bad men:

    sed eccum lenonem Lycum, bonum virum,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 52; Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 9; 4, 3, 18; id. Ad. 3, 4, 30:

    expectabam quinam isti viri boni testes hujus manifesto deprehensi veneni dicerentur,

    Cic. Cael. 26, 63:

    nam socer ejus, vir multum bonus est,

    id. Agr. 3, 3, 13;

    so especially in addresses (mostly comic.): age tu, illuc procede, bone vir!

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 1; id. Curc. 5, 2, 12; id. Ps. 4, 7, 48; id. Pers. 5, 2, 11; Ter. And. 3, 5, 10; 5, 2, 5; id. Ad. 4, 2, 17; id. Eun. 5, 2, 11:

    quid tu, vir optime? Ecquid habes quod dicas?

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 36, 104.—
    (ε).
    Sometimes boni viri = boni, in the sense of optimates (v. I. A. 3.):

    bonis viris quid juris reliquit tribunatus C. Gracchi?

    Cic. Leg. 3, 9, 20.—
    (ζ).
    As a conventional courtesy:

    homines optimi non intellegunt, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 25:

    bone accusator,

    id. Rosc. Am. 21, 58:

    sic illum amicum vocasti, quomodo omnes candidatos bonos viros dicimus,

    gentlemen, Sen. Ep. 3, 1.—For bonus vir, a good husband, v. 3.; and for vir optimus, as a laudatory epithet, v. 5.—
    2.
    Boni homines (rare) = boni, better classes of society, v. II. A. 3:

    in foro infimo boni homines atque dites ambulant,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 14.—
    3.
    With nouns denoting persons in regard to their functions, offices, occupations, and qualities, denoting excellence:

    bonus consul,

    Liv. 4, 40, 6; 22, 39, 2 (different: consules duos, bonos quidem, sed dumtaxat bonos, amisimus, consuls of good sentiments, almost = bad consuls, Cic. ad Brut. 1, 3, 4):

    boni tribuni plebis,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 10, 25:

    bonus senator,

    id. Prov. Cons. 15, 37:

    senator bonus,

    id. Dom. 4, 8:

    bonus judex,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 34:

    bonus augur (ironically),

    id. Phil. 2, 32, 80:

    bonus vates,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 27:

    bonus imperator,

    Sall. C. 60, 4:

    bonus dux,

    Quint. 12, 1, 43 (cf. trop.:

    naturam, optimam ducem,

    the best guide, Cic. Sen. 2, 5):

    bonus miles,

    Sall. C. 60, 4; Sen. Vit. Beat. 15, 5:

    bonus orator,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

    optimus orator,

    id. Opt. Gen. 1, 3:

    poeta bonus,

    id. de Or. 1, 3, 11; 2, 46, 194; id. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

    scriptor bonus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 104:

    bonus advocatus,

    id. 5, 13, 10:

    bonus defensor,

    id. 5, 13, 3:

    bonus altercator,

    a good debater, id. 6, 4, 10:

    bonus praeceptor,

    id. 5, 13, 44; 10, 5, 22:

    bonus gubernator,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100:

    optimus opifex,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 133:

    sutor bonus,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 125:

    actor optimus,

    Cic. Sest. 57, 122:

    cantor optimus est modulator,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 130:

    melior gladiator,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 33: agricola (colonus, dominus) bonus, Cato, R. R. prooem.; Cic. Sen. 16, 56:

    bonus paterfamilias,

    a thrifty head of the house, Nep. Att. 13, 1:

    bonus servus,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 58; id. Am. 2, 1, 46; id. Men. 5, 6, 1; Cic. Mil. 22, 58:

    dominus bonus,

    Cato, R. R. 14:

    bonus custos,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 38.—Ironically, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57:

    filius bonus,

    Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 9:

    patres,

    Quint. 11, 3, 178:

    parens,

    id. 6, prooem. 4: bonus (melior, optimus), viz. a good husband, Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 51 sq.; Liv. 1, 9, 15:

    uxor melior,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    amicus,

    id. Fam. 2, 15, 3:

    amicus optimus,

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 18:

    optimus testis,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 27, 2:

    auctor, in two senses,

    good authority, id. Att. 5, 12, 3;

    and = bonus scriptor (post-class.),

    Quint. 10, 1, 74.—Esp.:

    bonus civis (rarely civis bonus): in re publica ea velle quae tranquilla et honesta sint: talem enim solemus et sentire bonum civem et dicere, Cic.-Off. 1, 34, 124: eaque est summa ratio et sapientia boni civis, commoda civium non divellere, atque omnes aequitate eadem continere,

    id. ib. 2, 23, 83:

    eum esse civem et fidelem et bonum,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 15; Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 2; 1, 9, 10; 3, 12, 1; 6, 6, 11; id. Off. 1, 44, 155; Liv. 22, 39, 3; Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 10 Dietsch:

    optimus et fortissimus civis,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 3; id. Sest. 17, 39.—
    4.
    Bonus and optimus as epithets of the gods.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sed te bonus Mercurius perdat,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 23:

    fata... bonique divi,

    Hor. C. 4, 2, 38:

    divis orte bonis,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 1:

    O bone deus!

    Scrib. Comp. 84 fin.: BONORVM DEORVM, Inscr. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 84: totidem, pater optime, dixi, Tu mihi da cives, referring to Jupiter, Ov. M. 7, 627.—
    (β).
    Optimus Maximus, a standing epithet of Jupiter:

    (Juppiter) a majoribus nostris Optimus Maximus (nominatur), et quidem ante optimus, id est beneficentissimus, quam Maximus,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 25, 64:

    Jovem optimum et maximum ob eas res appellant, non quod, etc.,

    id. ib. 3, 36, 87:

    in templo Jovis Optimi Maximi,

    id. Sest. 56, 129; id. Prov. Cons. 9, 22:

    nutu Jovis Optimi Maximi,

    id. Cat. 3, 9, 21; Liv. 1, 12, 7; id. 6, 16, 2.—
    (γ).
    Di boni, O di boni, expressing indignation, sorrow, or surprise:

    di boni, hunc visitavi antidhac!

    Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 16:

    di boni, boni quid porto!

    Ter. And. 2, 2, 1:

    di boni, quid hoc morbi est,

    id. Eun. 2, 1, 19; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 13; id. Ad. 3, 3, 86:

    alter, O di boni, quam taeter incedebat!

    Cic. Sest. 8, 19; id. Brut. 84, 288; id. Phil. 2, 8, 20; 2, 32, 80; id. Att. 1, 16, 5; 14, 21, 2; Val. Max. 3, 5, 1; Sen. Vit. Beat. 2, 3.—
    (δ).
    Bona Dea, etc., v. 6.—
    5.
    Optimus as a laudatory epithet.
    (α).
    Vir optimus:

    per vos nobis, per optimos viros optimis civibus periculum inferre conantur,

    Cic. Sest. 1, 2:

    virum optimum et constantissimum M. Cispium,

    id. ib. 35, 76:

    fratrem meum, virum optimum, fortissimum,

    id. ib.:

    consolabor hos praesentes, viros optimos,

    id. Balb. 19, 44; id. Planc. 21, 51; 23, 55; id. Mil. 14, 38; id. Marcell. 4, 10; id. Att. 5, 1, 5; Hor. S. 1, 6, 53.—
    (β).
    Femina bona, optima:

    tua conjunx bona femina,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 16:

    hujus sanctissimae feminae atque optimae pater,

    id. ib. —
    (γ).
    Senex, pater, frater, etc.:

    optimus: parentes ejus, prudentissimi atque optimi senis,

    Cic. Planc. 41, 97:

    insuevit pater optimus hoc me,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 105; 2, 1, 12:

    C. Marcelli, fratris optimi,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 6; id. Q. Fr. 2, 6 (8), 2; 2, 4, 2.—
    (δ).
    With proper names ( poet.):

    optimus Vergilius,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 54:

    Maecenas optimus,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 27:

    optime Quinti,

    id. Ep. 1, 16, 1.—
    (ε).
    Esp. as an epithet of the Roman emperors:

    quid tam civile, tam senatorium quam illud, additum a nobis Optimi cognomen?

    Plin. Pan. 2, 7:

    gratias, inquit, ago, optime Princeps!

    Sen. Tranq. 14. 4:

    ex epistula optimi imperatoris Antonini,

    Gai. Inst. 1, 102; cf.:

    bene te patriae pater optime Caesar,

    Ov. F. 2, 637:

    optime Romulae Custos gentis,

    Hor. C. 4, 5, 1.—
    6.
    Bonus and Bona, names of deities.
    (α).
    Bona Dea, the goddess of Chastity, whose temple could not be entered by males (cf. Macr. S. 1, 12; Lact. 1, 22):

    Bonae Deae pulvinaribus,

    Cic. Pis. 39, 95; id. Mil. 31, 86; id. Fam. 1, 9, 15; cf.

    in mal. part.,

    Juv. 2, 86 sq.; 6, 314 sq.; 6, 335 sq.—
    (β).
    Bonus Eventus, Varr. R. R. 1, 1 med.; Amm. 29, 6, 19; Inscr. Orell. 907; 1780 sq.—
    (γ).
    Bona Fortuna:

    si bona Fortuna veniat, ne intromiseris,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 3, 22:

    Bonae Fortunae (signum),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 7:

    FORTVNAE BONAE DOMESTICAE,

    Inscr. Orell. 1743 sq. —
    (δ).
    Bona Spes:

    Spes Bona, obsecro, subventa mihi,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 12:

    BONAE SPEI,

    Aug. Inscr. Grut. 1075, 1.—
    (ε).
    BONA MENS, Inscr. Orell. 1818 sqq.:

    Mens Bona, si qua dea es, tua me in sacraria dono,

    Prop. 3, 24, 19.
    B.
    With nouns denoting things.
    1.
    Things concrete, denoting excellence:

    navis bona dicitur non quae pretiosis coloribus picta est... sed stabilis et firma,

    Sen. Ep. 76, 13:

    gladium bonum dices, non cui auratus est balteus, etc., sed cui et ad secandum subtilis acies est, et, etc.,

    id. ib. 76, 14:

    id vinum erit lene et bono colore,

    Cato, R. R. 109; Lucr. 2, 418; Ov. Am. 2, 7, 9:

    tabulas... collocare in bono lumine,

    Cic. Brut. 75, 261: ex quavis olea oleum... bonum fieri potest. Cato, R. R. 3:

    per aestatem boves aquam bonam et liquidam bibant semper curato,

    id. ib. 73; cf.:

    bonae aquae, ironically compared to wine,

    Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 28:

    praedium bonum caelum habeat,

    good temperature, Cato, R. R. 1:

    bona tempestate,

    in good weather, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4:

    (praedium) solo bono valeat,

    by good soil, Cato, R. R. 1:

    bonae (aedes) cum curantur male,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 24:

    villam bonam,

    Cic. Off. 3, 13, 55:

    bonus pons,

    Cat. 17, 5:

    scyphi optimi (= optime facti),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 14, § 32:

    perbona toreumata,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 18, §

    38: bona domicilia,

    comfortable residences, id. N. D. 2, 37, 95:

    agrum Meliorem nemo habet,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 12:

    fundum meliorem,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52: fundos optimos et fructuosissimos, id. Agr. 3, 4, 14:

    equus melior,

    id. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    bona cena,

    Cat. 13, 3:

    boni nummi,

    good, not counterfeit, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 144; Cic. Off. 3, 23, 91:

    super omnia vultus accessere boni,

    good looks, Ov. M. 8, 678:

    mulier bona forma,

    of a fine form, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 13:

    equus formae melioris,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 52:

    tam bona cervix, simul ac jussero, demetur,

    fine, beautiful, Suet. Calig. 33:

    fruges bonae,

    Cat. 34, 19:

    ova suci melioris,

    of better flavor, Hor. S. 2, 4, 13.— Trop.:

    animus aequus optimum est aerumnae condimentum,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 71: bona dextra, a lucky hand (cf.:

    bonum omen, 2. e.),

    Quint. 6, 3, 69:

    scio te bona esse voce, ne clama nimis,

    good, sound, loud voice, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 43; so,

    bona firmaque vox,

    Quint. 11, 3, 13.—
    2.
    Things abstract.
    a.
    Of physical well-being:

    ut si qui neget sine bona valetudine posse bene vivi,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 51, 93; Sen. Vit. Beat. 22, 2; Lucr. 3, 102; Val. Max. 2, 5, 6; Quint. 10, 3, 26; 11, 2, 35 et saep.:

    non bonus somnus de prandio est,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 8:

    bona aetas,

    prime of life, Cic. Sen. 14, 48:

    optima aetate,

    id. Fam. 10, 3, 3.—Ironically:

    bona, inquis, aetate, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 76, 1.—
    b.
    Of the mind and soul:

    meliore esse sensu,

    Cic. Sest. 21, 47:

    optima indoles,

    id. Fin. 5, 22, 61:

    bona conscientia,

    Quint. 6, 1, 33; 9, 2, 93; Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 5:

    bono ingenio me esse ornatam quam auro multo mavolo,

    with a good heart, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 91; id. Stich. 1, 21, 59; Sall. C. 10, 5:

    mens melior,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 78; Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13; Liv. 39, 16, 5; Sen. Ben. 1, 11, 4; id. Ep. 10, 4; Pers. 2, 8; Petr. 61.—Personified, Prop. 3 (4), 24, 19; Ov. Am. 1, 2, 31:

    duos optimae indolis filios,

    Val. Max. 5, 7, 2; Sen. Ben. 6, 16, 6; Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    bonum consilium,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 6; id. Rud. 4, 3, 18; Cic. Off. 1, 33, 121:

    bona voluntas,

    a good purpose, Quint. 12, 11, 31:

    memoria bona,

    Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

    bona ratio cum perdita... confligit,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 25:

    bonae rationes,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 50:

    pronuntiatio bona,

    Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—
    c.
    Of moral relations:

    ego si bonam famam mihi servasso, sat ero dives,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 71; Cic. Sest. 66, 139; Liv. 6, 11, 7; Hor. S. 1, 2, 61 (cf. Cic. Att. 7, 26, 1;

    v. e. infra): si ego in causa tam bona cessi tribuni plebis furori,

    Cic. Sest. 16, 36; id. Planc. 36, 87; Ov. M. 5, 220:

    fac, sis, bonae frugi sies,

    of good, regular habits, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 35; id. Cas. 2, 4, 5; 2, 5, 19; id. Ps. 1, 5, 53; id. Truc. 1, 1, 13; id. Capt. 5, 2, 3 sq. (v. frux, II. B. 1. b.): vilicus disciplina bona utatur. Cato, R. R. 5:

    bona studia,

    moral pursuits, Auct. Her. 4, 17, 25:

    quidquid vita meliore parasti,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 15: ad spem mortis melioris, an honorable death; so as an epithet of religious exercises:

    Juppiter, te bonas preces precor,

    Cato, R. R. 134; 139.—
    d.
    Of external, artistic, and literary value and usefulness:

    bono usui estis nulli,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 15:

    Optumo optume optumam operam das,

    id. Am. 1, 1, 122:

    bonam dedistis mihi operam,

    a valuable service to me, id. Poen. 2, 3, 70; 3, 6, 11; id. Pers. 4, 7, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 11 (in a different sense: me bona opera aut mala Tibi inventurum esse auxilium argentarium, by fair or unfair means, id. Ps. 1, 1, 102;

    v. e. infra): optima hereditas a patribus traditur liberis... gloria virtutis rerumque gestarum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 33, 121:

    bonum otium,

    valuable leisure, Sall. C. 4, 1:

    bonis versibus,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

    versus meliores,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 81:

    meliora poemata,

    Hor. A. P. 303:

    in illa pro Ctesiphonte oratione longe optima,

    Cic. Or. 8, 26:

    optimas fabulas,

    id. Off. 1, 31, 114:

    melius munus,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 7.—
    e.
    Favorable, prosperous, lucky, fortunate:

    de Procilio rumores non boni,

    unfavorable rumors, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 5:

    bona de Domitio, praeclara de Afranio fama est,

    about their success in the war, id. ib. 7, 26, 1:

    si fuisset in discipulo comparando meliore fortuna,

    id. Pis. 29, 71; cf.

    fortuna optima esse,

    to be in the best pecuniary circumstances, id. ad Brut. 1, 1, 2:

    occasio tam bona,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 9:

    senex est eo meliore condicione quam adulesoens cum, etc.,

    Cic. Sen. 19, 68; id. Fam. 4, 32:

    bona navigatio,

    id. N. D. 3, 34, 83;

    esp. in phrase bona spes.—Object.: ergo in iis adulescentibus bonam spem esse dicemus et magnam indolem quos, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 117.—Subject.:

    ego sum spe bona,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 28, 3; id. Cat. 2, 11, 25; [p. 245] id. Att. 14, 1 a, 3; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16:

    optima spe,

    id. Fam. 12, 11, 2.—Pregn., = spes bonarum rerum, Sall. C. 21, 1;

    v. C. 1. c. infra: meliora responsa,

    more favorable, Liv. 7, 21, 6:

    melior interpretatio,

    Tac. H. 3, 65:

    cum laude et bonis recordationibus,

    id. A. 4, 38:

    amnis Doctus iter melius,

    i. e. less injurious, Hor. A. P. 68:

    omen bonum,

    a good, lucky omen, Cic. Pis. 13, 31; cf.

    Liv. praef. § 13: melius omen,

    Ov. F. 1, 221;

    optimum,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 2:

    bona scaeva,

    Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 24:

    auspicio optumo,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 6; cf.:

    memini bene, sed meliore Tempore dicam = opportuniore tempore,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 68.—
    f.
    Of public affairs, si mihi bona re publica frui non licuerit, Cic. Mil. 34, 93:

    optima res publica,

    id. Or. 1, 1, 1; id. Phil. 1, 8, 19:

    minus bonis temporibus,

    id. Dom. 4, 8; so,

    optimis temporibus,

    id. Sest. 3, 6:

    nostrae res meliore loco videbantur,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 3, 1:

    lex optima,

    id. Pis. 16, 37; id. Sest. 64, 137; id. Phil, 1, 8, 19.—
    g.
    Good = large, considerable:

    bono atque amplo lucro,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 6:

    bona librorum copia,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 109; cf.:

    bona copia cornu,

    Ov. M. 9, 88; v. bona pars, C. 8. g.—
    h.
    Noble; with genus, good family, noble extraction, honorable birth: quali me arbitraris genere prognatum? Eu. Bono, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 35; so id. Ep. 1, 2, 4; 2, 1, 3; id. Pers. 4, 4, 94:

    si bono genere natus sit,

    Auct. Her. 3, 7, 13.—
    k.
    Referring to good-will, kindness, faithfulness, in certain phrases.
    (α).
    Bona venia or cum bona venia, with the kind permission of a person addressed, especially bona venia orare, expetere, etc.:

    primum abs te hoc bona venia expeto,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 31:

    bona tua venia dixerim,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 34:

    oravit bona venia Quirites, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 41, 3:

    obsecro vos.. bona venia vestra liceat, etc.,

    id. 6, 40, 10:

    cum bona venia quaeso audiatis, etc.,

    id. 29, 17, 6; Arn. c. Gent. 1, p. 5; cf.

    . sed des veniam bonus oro = venia bona oro,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 5.—
    (β).
    Bona pax, without quarrelling:

    bona pax sit potius,

    let us have no quarrel about that, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 7;

    so especially cum bona pace, or bona pace: Hannibal ad Alpis cum bona pace incolentium... pervenit,

    without a difficulty with the inhabitants, Liv. 21, 32, 6; 21, 24, 5; 1, 24, 3; 28, 37, 4; 8, 15, 1; cf.: si bonam (pacem) dederitis, = a fair peace, under acceptable conditions, id. 8, 21, 4.—
    (γ).
    Amicitia bona = bona fide servata, faithful, undisturbed friendship:

    igitur amicitia Masinissae bona atque honesta nobis permansit,

    Sall. J. 5, 5.—
    (δ).
    Bona societas, alliance:

    Segestes, memoria bonae societatis, impavidus,

    Tac. A. 1, 58.
    C.
    In particular phrases.
    1.
    Bonae res.
    a.
    = Vitae commoda, comforts of life, abstract or concrete:

    concedatur bonis rebus homines morte privari,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 87:

    optimis rebus usus est,

    he had every most desirable thing, Nep. Att. 18, 1.—
    b.
    = Res secundae, opp. res adversae, prosperity:

    bonis rebus tuis, meas irrides malas,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 45:

    in bonis rebus,

    Hor. C. 2, 3, 2. —
    c.
    Res bona = res familiaris bona, wealth ( poet.): in re bona esse, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4.—Also an object of value:

    homines quibus mala abunde omnia erant, sed neque res neque spes bona ulla,

    who had no property, nor the hope of any, Sall. C. 21, 1. —
    d.
    Costly things, articles of luxury:

    capere urbem in Arabia plenam bonarum rerum,

    Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 46; 4, 4, 82:

    nimium rei bonae,

    id. Stich. 2, 3, 55:

    ignorantia bonarum rerum,

    Nep. Ages. 8, 5 ' bonis rebus gaudere, Hor. S. 2, 6, 110:

    re bona copiosum esse,

    Gell. 16, 19, 7.—
    e.
    Moral, morally good:

    illi cum res non bonas tractent,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 72:

    ut de virtutibus et vitiis, omninoque de bonis rebus et malis quaererent,

    id. ib. 1, 4, 15:

    quid habemus in rebus bonis et malis explorati?

    id. ib. 2, 42, 129; so id. Or. 1, 10, 42; id. Leg. 1, 22, 58:

    quae tamen omnia dulciora fuint et moribus bonis et artibus,

    id. Sen. 18, 65.—
    f.
    In literary composition, important or interesting matter, subjects, or questions:

    res bonas verbis electis dictas quis non legat?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 8:

    studiis generorum, praesertim in re bona,

    Plaut. Am. 8, 26.—
    2.
    Bonae artes.
    (α).
    A good, laudable way of dealing:

    qui praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit,

    Sall. C. 2, 9:

    huic bonae artes desunt, dolis atque fallaciis contendit,

    id. ib. 11, 2:

    quod is bonarum artium cupiens erat,

    Tac. A. 6, 46.—
    (β).
    Liberal arts and sciences:

    litteris aut ulli bonae arti,

    Quint. 12, 1, 7:

    conservate civem bonarum artium, bonarum partium, bonorum virorum,

    Cic. Sest. 32, 77. —Esp.:

    optimae artes: optimarum artium scientia,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 4; id. Ac. 2, 1, 1; id. Cael. 10, 24; id. Marcell. 1, 4.—
    3.
    Bona fides, or fides bona.
    a.
    Good faith, i. e. conscious honesty in acts or words: qui nummos fide bona solvit, who pays (the price of labor) in good faith, i. e. as it is honestly earned, Cato, R. R. 14:

    dic, bona fide, tu id aurum non subripuisti?

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 46; 4, 10, 47; id. Capt. 4, 2, 111; id. Most. 3, 1, 137; id. Poen. 1, 3, 30; id. Pers. 4, 3, 16; id. Ps. 4, 6, 33:

    si tibi optima fide omnia concessit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 144; Quint. 10, 3, 23.—Hence, bonae fidei vir, a conscientious man, Quint. 10, 7, 1.—
    b.
    Jurid. t. t.
    (α).
    Good faith in contracts and legal acts in general, opposed to dolus malus, honesty and fairness in dealing with another:

    ad fidem bonam statuit pertinere, notum esse emptori vitium quod nosset venditor,

    Cic. Off. 3, 16, 67.—Hence, alienam rem bona fide emere, to buy, believing the seller to be the rightful owner, Dig. 41, 3, 10; 41, 3, 13, § 1. bonae fidei possessor (also possessio), believing that he is the rightful owner, ib. 5, 3, 25, § 11; 5, 3, 22; 41, 3, 15, § 2;

    41, 3, 24: conventio contra bonam fidem et mores bonos,

    ib. 16, 31, § 7: bonam fidem praestare, to be responsible for one ' s good faith, ib. 17, 1, 10 prooem.—Hence,
    (β).
    Bonae fidei actiones or judicia, actions in equity, i. e. certain classes of actions in which the strict civil law was set aside by the praetorian edict in favor of equity:

    actiones quaedam bonae fidei sunt, quaedam stricti juris. Bonae fidei sunt haec: exempto vendito, locato conducto, etc.,

    Just. Inst. 4, 6, 28, § 19.—In the republican time the praetor added in such actions to his formula for the judex the words ex fide bona, or, in full:

    quidquid dare facere oportet ex fide bona,

    Cic. Off. 3, 16, 66:

    iste dolus malus et legibus erat vindicatus, et sine lege, judiciis in quibus additur ex fide bona,

    id. ib. 3, 15, 61; cf. id. ib. 3, 17, 70.—
    4.
    Bona verba.
    (α).
    Kind words:

    Bona verba quaeso,

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 33.—
    (β).
    Words of good omen (v. omen):

    dicamus bona verba,

    Tib. 2, 2, 1:

    dicite suffuso ter bona verba mero,

    Ov. F. 2, 638.—
    (γ).
    Elegant or well-chosen expressions:

    quid est tam furiosum quam verborum vel optimorum atque ornatissimorum sonitus inanis,

    Cic. Or. 1, 12, 51:

    verborum bonorum cursu,

    id. Brut. 66, 233:

    omnia verba sunt alicubi optima,

    Quint. 10, 1, 9.—
    (δ).
    Moral sayings:

    non est quod contemnas bona verba et bonis cogitationibus plena praecordia,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 1. —
    5.
    Bona dicta.
    (α).
    Polite, courteous language:

    hoc petere me precario a vobis jussit leniter dictis bonis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 25.—
    (β).
    Witticisms ( bon-mots): flammam a sapiente facilius ore in ardente opprimi, quam bona dicta teneat, Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 2, 54, 222:

    dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus quibus solebam menstruales epulas ante adipiscier,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 22:

    ibo intro ad libros ut discam de dictis melioribus,

    id. Stich. 2, 3, 75.—
    6.
    Bona facta.
    (α).
    = bene facta (v. bene, I. B. 2. b.), laudable deeds:

    nobilitas ambobus et majorum bona facta (sc. erant),

    Tac. A. 3, 40.—
    (β).
    Bonum factum est, colloq., = bene est, bene factum est (v. bene, I. B. 2. b.):

    bonum factum est, ut edicta servetis mea,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 16:

    haec imperata quae sunt pro imperio histrico, bonum hercle factum (est) pro se quisque ut meminerit,

    id. ib. 45.— Hence,
    (γ).
    Elliptically, introducing commands which cannot be enforced, = if you will do so, it will be well:

    peregrinis in senatum allectis, libellus propositus est: bonum factum, ne quis senatori novo curiam monstrare velit,

    Suet. Caes. 80:

    et Chaldaeos edicere: bonum factum, ne Vitellius... usquam esset,

    id. Vit. 14:

    hac die Carthaginem vici: bonum factum, in Capitolium eamus, et deos supplicemus,

    Aur. Vict. 49; cf.:

    o edictum, cui adscribi non poterit bonum factum,

    Tert. Pud. 1.—
    7.
    Bona gratia.
    (α).
    A friendly understanding:

    cur non videmus inter nos haec potius cum bona Ut componantur gratia quam cum mala?

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 17; so,

    per gratiam bonam abire,

    to part with good feelings, Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 33.—In jest: sine bona gratia abire, of things cast away, Plaut Truc. 2, 7, 15.—
    (β).
    Pleon., in the phrase bonam gratiam habere, = gratiam habere, to thank (v. B. 2. k.), Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 32; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 99.—
    8.
    Bona pars.
    (α).
    The well-disposed part of a body of persons:

    ut plerumque fit, major pars (i. e. of the senate) meliorem vicit,

    Liv. 21, 4, 1:

    pars melior senatus ad meliora responsa trahere,

    id. 7, 21, 6.—
    (β).
    The good party, i. e. the optimates (gen. in plur.):

    civem bonarum partium,

    Cic. Sest. 32, 77:

    (fuit) meliorum partium aliquando,

    id. Cael. 6, 13:

    qui sibi gratiam melioris partis velit quaesitam,

    Liv. 2, 44, 3.—Paronom.: (Roscius) semper partium in re publica tam quam in scaena optimarum, i. e. party and part in a drama, Cic. Sest. 56, 120.—
    (γ).
    Of things or persons, a considerable part (cf. a good deal):

    bonam partem ad te adtulit,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 43:

    bonam partem sermonis in hunc diem esse dilatam,

    Cic. Or. 2, 3, 14:

    bonam magnamque partem exercitus,

    Val. Max. 5, 2, ext. 4:

    bona pars noctium,

    Quint. 12, 11, 19:

    bona pars hominum,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 61:

    meae vocis... bona pars,

    id. C. 4, 2, 46; so id. A. P. 297; Ov. P. 1, 8, 74:

    melior pars diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156.—
    (δ).
    Rarely, and mostly eccl. Lat.: optima pars, the best part or lot:

    nostri melior pars animus est,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, prooem. § 14; cf.:

    quae pars optima est in homine,

    best, most valuable, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 67:

    major pars aetatis, certe melior reipublicae data sit,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 18, 1:

    Maria optimam partem elegit, quae non auferetur ab ea,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 42.—
    (ε).
    Adverb.:

    bonam partem = ex magna parte,

    Lucr. 6, 1249.—
    (ζ).
    Aliquem in optimam partem cognoscere, to know somebody from his most favorable side, Cic. Off. 2, 13, 46: aliquid in optimam partem accipere, to take something in good part, interpret it most favorably:

    Caesar mihi ignoscit quod non venerim, seseque in optimam partem id accipere dicit,

    id. Att. 10, 3 a, 2; id. ad Brut. 1, 2, 3:

    quaeso ut hoc in bonam partem accipias,

    id. Rosc. Am. 16, 45.—
    9.
    Dies bonus or bona.
    (α).
    A day of good omen, a fortunate day (= dies laetus, faustus):

    tum tu igitur die bono, Aphrodisiis, addice, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. 2, 49:

    nunc dicenda bona sunt bona verba die,

    Ov. F. 1, 72.—
    (β).
    A beautiful, serene day, Sen. Vit. Beat. 22, 3.—
    10.
    Bonus mos.
    (α).
    Boni mores, referring to individuals, good, decent, moral habits:

    nihil est amabilius quam morum similitudo bonorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 56:

    nam hic nimium morbus mores invasit bonos,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 6:

    domi militiaeque boni mores colebantur,

    Sall. C. 9, 1:

    propter ejus suavissimos et optimos mores,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13:

    cum per tot annos matronae optimis moribus vixerint,

    Liv. 34, 6, 9:

    mores meliores,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 18.—
    (β).
    Bonus mos or boni mores, in the abstract, morality, the laws, rules of morality: ei vos morigerari mos bonu'st, it is a rule of morality that you should, etc., Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 4:

    ex optimo more et sanctissima disciplina,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 69:

    neglegentia boni moris,

    Sen. Ep. 97, 1.—Jurid. t. t.:

    conventio, mandatum contra bonos mores,

    in conflict with morality, Quint. 3, 1, 57; Dig. 16, 3, 1, § 7; Gai. Inst. 3, 157 et saep. —
    11.
    Adverbial phrases.
    a.
    Bono animo esse, or bonum animum habere.
    (α).
    To be of good cheer or courage:

    bono animo es! Liberabit ille te homo,

    Plaut. Merc 3, 1, 33; so id. Aul. 4, 10, 61; id. Mil. 4, 8, 32; id. Rud. 3, 3, 17; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 4; id. Heaut. 4, 6, 18; id. Ad. 2, 4, 20; 3, 5, 1; 4, 2, 4; 4, 5, 62; id. Phorm. 5, 8, 72:

    animo bono es,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 103; id. Am. 2, 2, 48; 5, 2, 1:

    bono animo es, inquit Scrofa, et fiscinam expedi,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 26:

    bono animo sint et tui et mei familiares,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 18, 1; 6, 10, 29:

    bono animo esse jubere eam consul,

    Liv. 39, 13, 7:

    habe modo bonum animum,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 58; so id. Am. 1, 3, 47; id. Truc. 2, 6, 44; id. Aul. 2, 2, 15:

    habe animum bonum,

    id. Cas. 2, 6, 35; id. Ep. 2, 2, 1; 4, 2, 31:

    bonum animum habe,

    Liv. 45, 8, 5:

    clamor ortus ut bonum animum haberet,

    id. 8, 32, 1; so Sen. Ep. 87, 38.—
    (β).
    Bono animo esse, or facere aliquid, to be of a good or friendly disposition, or to do with good, honest intentions:

    audire jubet vos imperator histricus, bonoque ut animo sedeant in subselliis qui, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 5: sunt enim (consules) [p. 246] optimo animo, summo consilio, of the best disposition, Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 2:

    bono te animo tum populus Romanus... dicere existimavit ea quae sentiebatis, sed, etc.,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 56:

    quod nondum bono animo in populum Romanum viderentur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6; Quint. 7, 4, 15.—
    (γ).
    Bonus animus, good temper, patience:

    bonus animus in mala re dimidium mali est,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 37:

    vos etiam hoc animo meliore feratis,

    Ov. M. 9, 433.—
    b.
    Bono modo.
    (α).
    = placide, with composure, moderation:

    si quis quid deliquerit, pro noxa bono modo vindicet,

    Cato, R. R. 5:

    haec tibi tam sunt defendenda quam moenia, mihi autem bono modo, tantum quantum videbitur,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 44, 137.—
    (β).
    In a decent manner:

    neu quisquam prohibeto filium quin amet... quod bono fiat modo,

    Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 62. —
    c.
    Jure optimo or optimo jure, with good, perfect right:

    te ipse jure optumo incuses licet,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 23; id. Rud. 2, 6, 53:

    ut jure optimo me deserere posses,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6; Sen. Ot. Sap. 2 (29), 2.—With pass. or intr. verb, deservedly:

    ne jure optimo irrideamur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 31, 111; cf. id. ib. 1, 42, 151; id. Marcell. 1, 4;

    similarly, optimo judicio,

    Val. Max. 2, 9, 2.
    II.
    As subst.
    A.
    bŏnus, boni, m.; of persons.
    1.
    In sing. or plur. orig. = bonus vir, boni viri; v. I. A. 1. a. b, supra, a morally good man.
    (α).
    Plur.:

    bonis quod bene fit haud perit,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 2; id. Capt. 2, 2, 108; id. Trin. 2, 1, 55; id. Pers. 4, 5, 2:

    melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos beneficium collocari puto,

    Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71:

    verum esse ut bonos boni diligant, quamobrem... bonis inter bonos quasi necessariam (esse) benevolentiam,

    id. Lael. 14, 50:

    diverso itinere malos a bonis loca taetra... habere,

    Sall. C. 52, 13; 7, 2; 52, 22:

    oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 52:

    tam bonis quam malis conduntur urbes,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 28, 4; so id. Vit. Beat. 15, 6; Quint. 9, 2, 76.—Rarely bŏnae, arum, f., good women:

    quia omnes bonos bonasque adcurare addecet, etc.,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 41.—
    (β).
    Sing.:

    malus bonum malum esse volt ut sit sui similis,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 8:

    nec enim cuique bono mali quidquam evenire potest,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 99; cf.:

    qui meliorem audax vocet in jus,

    Hor. S. 2, 5, 29.—
    2.
    Bonus, a man of honor.
    (α).
    A brave man:

    pro qua (patria) quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere si ei sit profuturus?

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57:

    libertatem quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittat,

    Sall. C. 33, 5:

    fortes creantur fortibus et bonis,

    Hor. C. 4, 4, 29 (opp. ignavi):

    fama impari boni atque ignavi erant,

    Sall. J. 57, 6; 53, 8; id. C. 11, 2. —
    (β).
    A gentleman:

    quis enim umquam, qui paululum modo bonorum consuetudinem nosset, litteras ad se ab amico missas... in medium protulit?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 7.—
    3.
    Boni, the better (i. e. higher) classes of society.
    (α).
    In gen. (of political sentiments, = optimates, opp. populares, seditiosi, perditi cives, etc.;

    so usu. in Cic.): meam causam omnes boni proprie enixeque susceperant,

    Cic. Sest. 16, 38:

    audaces homines et perditi nutu impelluntur... boni, nescio quomodo, tardiores sunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 47, 100:

    ego Kal. Jan. senatum et bonos omnes legis agrariae... metu liberavi,

    id. Pis. 2, 4:

    etenim omnes boni, quantum in ipsis fuit, Caesarem occiderunt,

    id. Phil. 2, 13, 29; id. Fam. 5, 2, 8; 5, 21, 2; id. Sest. 2, 5; 16, 36; 48, 103; id. Planc. 35, 86; id. Mil. 2, 5; id. Off. 2. 12, 43:

    maledictis increpat omnes bonos,

    Sall. C. 21, 4; 19, 2; 33, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 22; so,

    optimi,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 17, 37; and, ironically, boni identified with the rich:

    bonorum, id est lautorum et locupletum,

    id. Att. 8, 1, 3.—
    (β).
    Without reference to political views;

    opp. vulgus (rare): nihil ego istos moror fatuos mores quibus boni dedecorant se,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 22:

    semper in civitate quibus opes nullae sunt bonis invident,

    Sall. C. 37, 3:

    elatus est sine ulla pompa funeris, comitantibus omnibus bonis, maxima vulgi frequentia,

    Nep. Att. 22, 2.—So, mĕlĭōres, um, m., one ' s betters:

    ut quaestui habeant male loqui melioribus,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 13:

    da locum melioribus,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 37.—
    4.
    Boni, bone, in addresses, as an expression of courtesy, Hor. S. 2, 2, 1; 2, 6, 51; 2, 6, 95; id. Ep. 2, 2, 37; ironice, id. S. 2, 3, 31.—
    5.
    Optimus quisque = quivis bonus, omnes boni.
    (α).
    Referring to morality:

    esse aliquid natura pulcrum quod optimus quisque sequeretur,

    every good man, Cic. Sen. 13, 43:

    qui ita se gerebant ut sua consilia optimo cuique probarent, optimates habebantur,

    id. Sest. 45, 96; id. Off. 1, 43, 154; id. Fin. 1, 7, 24; id. Sest. 54, 115; and = even the best:

    quare deus optimum quemque mala valetudine adficit?

    Sen. Prov. 4, 8.—
    (β).
    Of the educated classes:

    adhibenda est quaedam reverentia adversus homines, et optimi cujusque et reliquorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 28, 99; cf. id. ib. 1, 25, 85:

    Catilina plerisque consularibus, praeterea optumo cuique, litteras mittit,

    Sall. C. 34, 2:

    optimo cuique infesta libertas,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 8, 2 (32 fin.).—
    (γ).
    Honorable, brave:

    optumus quisque cadere et sauciari, ceteris metus augeri,

    Sall. J. 92, 8.—
    (δ).
    In gen., excellent:

    optimus quisque facere quam dicere... malebat,

    Sall. C. 8, 5.—
    (ε).
    Distributively:

    ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur,

    to the best man in each instance, Sall. C. 2, 6.—
    (ζ).
    Referring to another superlative ( = quo quisque melior eo magis, etc.):

    hic aditus laudis qui semper optimo cuique maxime patuit,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1; so id. Lael. 4, 14; id. Inv. 2, 11, 36; Sen. Vit. Beat. 18, 1.—
    (η).
    Attributively, with a noun:

    optimam quamque causam,

    Cic. Sest. 43, 93:

    optima quaeque dies,

    Verg. G. 3, 66.
    2.
    bŏnum, i, n., plur. bona; mĕlĭus, ōris, n.; optĭmum, i, n. (v. infra); of things in gen.
    1.
    Bonum, or plur. bona, a good, or goods in a moral and metaphysical sense, a moral good, a blessing: sunt autem hae de finibus defensae sententiae: nihil bonum nisi honestum, ut Stoici; nihil bonum nisi voluptatem, ut Epicurus;

    nihil bonum nisi vacuitatem doloris, ut Hieronymus... tria genera bonorum, maxima animi, secunda corporis, externa tertia, ut Peripatetici, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 30, 84 sq.:

    quid est igitur bonum? Si quid recte fit et honeste et cum virtute, id bene fieri vere dicitur, et quod rectum et honestum et cum virtute est, id solum opinor bonum,

    id. Par. 1, 1, 9:

    ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud simplex et verum bonum quod non possit ab honestate sejungi,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

    non-est igitur voluptas bonum,

    id. Fin. 1, 11, 39: finis bonorum et malorum (telos agathôn) = summa bona et mala:

    sunt nonnullae disciplinae quae, propositis bonorum et malorum finibus, officium omne pervertant. Nam qui summum bonum sic instituit ut, etc.,

    id. Off. 1, 2, 5; cf. id. Par. 1, 3, 14; id. Ac. 2, 9, 29; 2, 36, 114; 2, 42, 129; id. Fin. 1, 9, 29; 1, 12, 42; id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66; Sen. Vit. Beat. 24, 5; id. Ep. 117, 1 et saep.—
    2.
    Bonum, what is valuable, beneficial, estimable, favorable, pleasant, physically or mentally:

    quoi boni Tantum adfero quantum ipsus a diis optat,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 9:

    multa bona vobis volt facere,

    will do you much good, id. Poen. 5, 4, 60; id. Am. prol. 43, 49; id. Pers. 4, 8, 4; 2, 3, 14; id. Cas. 2, 8, 32:

    tum demum nostra intellegemus bona quom ea amisimus,

    id. Capt. 1, 2, 33:

    multa tibi di dent bona,

    id. Poen. 1, 1, 80; cf. id. ib. 3, 3, 54; 3, 3, 74; id. Mil. 3, 1, 120; id. Men. 3, 3, 34; id. Pers. 4, 3, 23; id. Truc. 1, 2, 23; id. Merc. 1, 2, 40; id. Most. 1, 1, 47:

    omnia Bona dicere,

    to speak in the highest terms of one, Ter. And. 1, 1, 70:

    sed ne vivus quidem bono caret, si eo non indiget,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

    cum quaecumque bona Peripateticis, eadem Stoicis commoda viderentur,

    id. ib. 5, 41, 120:

    nihil enim boni nosti,

    nothing that is good for any thing, id. Phil. 2, 7, 16:

    mala pro bonis legere dementia est,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 1; Val. Max. 5, 3, ext. 3 fin.; Hor. S. 1, 2, 73:

    quia bonum sit valere,

    a good thing, Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 62 (cf. III. A. 5. infra):

    melius: quo quidem haud scio an... quidquam melius sit homini a dis immortalibus datum,

    id. Lael. 6, 20:

    meliora... Aristotelem de istis rebus scripsisse,

    id. Or. 1, 10, 43:

    optimum: difficillimum est formam exponere optimi,

    id. ib. 11, 36.— Here belongs the phrase boni consulere;

    v. consulo.—So after prepositions: in bonum vertere, v. under verto: in melius ire,

    to change for the better, Tac. A. 12, 68.—In the same sense: in melius aliquid referre, or reflectere ( poet.), Verg. A. 1, 281; 11, 426; 10, 632:

    ad melius transcurrere,

    to pass over to something better, Hor. S. 2, 2, 82.—
    3.
    Bonum or bona, prosperity:

    fortiter malum qui patitur, idem post patitur bonum,

    Plaut. As. 2, 2, 58:

    nulli est homini perpetuum bonum,

    id. Curc. 1, 3, 33:

    unā tecum bona, mala tolerabimus,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 23:

    quibus in bonis fuerint et nunc quibus in malis sint, ostenditur ( = in secundis, in adversis rebus),

    Cic. Inv. 1, 55, 107.—
    4.
    Good qualities, gifts:

    omnia adsunt bona, quem penes'st virtus,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 30:

    magnis illi et divinis bonis hanc licentiam adsequebantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148:

    nisi qui se suā gravitate et castimoniā... tum etiam naturali quodam bono defenderet, etc.,

    id. Cael. 5, 11:

    hunc meā sententiā divinis quibusdam bonis instructum atque ornatum puto,

    id. ib. 17, 39:

    non intellego quod bonum cuiquam sit apud tales viros profuturum,

    id. Balb. 28, 63:

    gaude isto tuo tam excellenti bono,

    id. Marcell. 6, 19; so id. Imp. Pomp. 16, 49.—
    5.
    Advantage, benefit:

    si plus adipiscare, re explicatā, boni, quam addubitatā mali,

    Cic. Off. 1, 24, 83:

    saepe cogitavi bonine an mali plus adtulerit... eloquentiae studium,

    id. Inv. 1, 1, 1; 2, 35, 106; id. Off. 2, 2, 5; id. Sest. 10, 24:

    maximum bonum in celeritate ponebat,

    Sall. C. 43, 4; so, bono publico (abl.), for the public good:

    hoc ita si fit, publico fiat bono,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 183; Liv. 2, 44, 3; Dig. 41, 3, 1.—
    6.
    With aequum, what is fair and good, the fair ( thing), fairness, equity:

    si bonum aequomque oras,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 149; so id. Pers. 3, 1, 71; id. Rud. 1, 2, 94; id. Men. 4, 2, 11:

    si tu aliquam partem aequi bonique dixeris,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 32; id. Heaut. 4, 1, 29; id. Ad. 1, 1, 39:

    a quo vivo nec praesens nec absens quidquam aequi bonique impetravit,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 37, 94.—Hence, aequo et bono, or ex aequo et bono, in ( with) fairness, in equity, Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 30; Auct. Her. 2, 10, 14; 2, 12, 18; 2, 13, 20; Gai. Inst. 3, 137: aequi bonique, as gen. of value, with facere:

    istuc, Chreme, Aequi bonique facio,

    I place a fair and proper value on it, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 40.—
    7.
    Bona, one ' s property, fortunes, almost always denoting the whole of one's possessions.
    a.
    In gen.:

    paterna oportet reddi filio bona,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 120:

    bona sua med habiturum omnia,

    id. Truc. 2, 4, 49; cf. id. ib. 2, 7, 6; 4, 2, 29; id. Rud. 2, 6, 22; id. Most. 1, 3, 77; id. Trin. 4, 4, 3; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4:

    bona mea diripiebantur atque ad consulem deferebantur,

    Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

    cum de capite, civis et de bonis proscriptio ferretur,

    id. ib. 30, 65:

    bona, fortunas, possessiones omnium,

    id. Caecin. 13, 38:

    at mulctantur bonis exsules,

    id. Tusc. 5, 37, 106; id. Off. 2, 23, 81; id. Par. 1, 1, 7; id. Sest. 19, 42; 43, 94; 52, 111; id. Phil. 2, 26, 64; Caes. B. G. 7, 3; Liv. 2, 3, 5; 2, 5, 5; 4, 15, 8; Tac. A. 2, 48; Quint. 6, 1, 19 et saep.—
    b.
    Bonorum possessio, the possession of one ' s property by another.
    (α).
    Bonorum possessio in consequence of bonorum cessio, i. e. an assignment of one ' s property for the benefit of creditors, Dig. 42, tit. 3.—
    (β).
    Bonorum possessio granted by the prætor against a contumacious or insolvent debtor (in bona mittere, in bona ire jubere, bona possidere jubere, etc.); cf. Dig. 42, tit. 4:

    postulat a Burrieno Naevius ut ex edicto bona possidere liceat,

    Cic. Quint. 6, 25, and the whole of c. 8:

    edixit... neu quis militis... bona possideret aut venderet,

    Liv. 2, 24, 6:

    bona proscribere,

    to offer the property thus transferred for sale, Cic. Quint. 6, 25.—
    (γ).
    Chiefly referring to the property of a defunct person (hereditas), where the prætor, till the heir had proved his right, granted a bonorum possessio secundum tabulas or contra tabulas, Dig. 37, tit. 4; 37, tit. 11.—
    c.
    In bonis esse;

    with reference to the older civil law, which distinguished between civil property (habere rem ex jure Quiritium) and natural property (rem in bonis habere, res in bonis est),

    Gai. Inst. 2, 40, 41; Dig. 40, 12, 38, § 2; 37, 6, 2, § 1; 37, 6, 3, § 2; ib. Fragm. 1, 16; Gai. Inst. 1, 22; 1, 35; 1, 222; 1, 167; Dig. 1, 8, 1; 27, 10, 10:

    neque bonorum possessorum, neque... res pleno jure fiunt, sed in bonis efficiuntur,

    ib. Fragm. 3, 80.—Hence, nullam omnino arbitrabamur de eā hereditate controversiam eum habiturum, et est hodie in bonis, i. e. [p. 247] the bonorum possessio has been granted to him, which did not give full ownership, but effected only that the hereditas was in bonis. Cic. Fam. 13, 30, 1.
    III.
    Predicative use.
    A.
    With nouns or pronouns as subjects.
    1.
    Bonum esse, to be morally good, honest:

    nunc mihi bonae necessum est esse ingratiis, Quamquam esse nolo,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 82:

    bonam ego quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo,

    id. Poen. 1, 2, 93; so id. Capt. 2, 1, 44; id. Men. 4, 2, 6; id. Rud. prol. 29:

    itaque viros fortes magnanimos eosdem, bonos et simplices... esse volumus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63; cf. id. ib. 3, 21, 84; id. Att. 15, 6, 1:

    Cato esse quam videri bonus malebat,

    Sall. C. 54, 5:

    ut politiora, non ut meliora fiant ingenia,

    Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 5 fin.
    2.
    To be beneficial, prosperous, advantageous, valuable, favorable, serviceable, correct, with reference to both persons and things as subjects, and in regard to physical and mental relations:

    jam istuc non bonumst,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 29; Cato, R. R. 157:

    oleum viridius et melius fiet,

    id. ib. 3:

    vinum ut alvum bonam faciat,

    to correct the bowels, id. ib. 156:

    quid est homini salute melius?

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 127:

    non optuma haec sunt, verum meliora quam deterruma,

    id. Trin. 2, 3, 1:

    quid est quod huc possit quod melius sit accedere?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 12, 41; 1, 18, 57; id. Tusc. 1, 41, 99:

    in quo (vestitu), sicut in plerisque rebus, mediocritas optima est,

    id. Off. 1, 36, 130; 2, 17, 59; id. Inv. 1, 31, 51; id. Or. 2, 6; 11, 36:

    meliorem tamen militem... in futura proelia id certamen fecit,

    Liv. 2, 51, 3:

    parvus ut est cygni melior canor, ille gruum quam Clamor,

    Lucr. 4, 181; 4, 191:

    si meliora dies, ut vina, poemata reddit,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 34.—So in the optative formula:

    quod bonum, faustum, felixque sit,

    Liv. 1, 28, 7; 1, 17, 10; 39, 15, 1; 3, 54;

    3, 34.—Also, quod bonum atque fortunatum mihi sit,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 50;

    and with a noun as subject: ut nobis haec habitatio Bona, fausta, felix, fortunataque evenat,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 3.—
    3.
    To be kind:

    bonus cum probis'st (erus), malus cum malis,

    Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 22:

    hic si vellet bonus ac benignus Esse,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 52.—
    4.
    With reference to the gods:

    ecastor ambae (Fortuna et Salus sunt bonae,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 129:

    Palladis aut oculos ausa negare bonos (esse),

    Prop. 3, 24, 12 (2, 28, 12).—
    B.
    Impers.
    1.
    Bonum est (very rare for the class. bene est; v. bene).
    (α).
    Without a subject:

    bonum sit!

    may it be fortunate, favorable! Verg. E. 8, 106.—
    (β).
    With subject inf.:

    nam et stulte facere, et stulte fabularier in aetate haud bonum est,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 61:

    bonum est pauxillum amare, insane non bonum est,

    id. Curc. 1, 3,20.—
    2.
    Melius est.
    (α).
    With subject inf.:

    melius sanam est mentem sumere,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 51:

    nihil sentire est melius quam tam prava sentire,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125; cf. id. Fin. 1, 19, 62; id. Off. 1, 43, 156; so,

    melius fuit, fuisset, or fuerat,

    it would have been better, id. N. D. 3, 33; id. Sen. 23, 82; id. Off. 3, 25, 94:

    proinde quiesse erit melius,

    Liv. 3, 48, 3; 3, 41, 3; Verg. A. 11, 303.—
    (β).
    With subject inf.-clause:

    meliu'st te quae sunt mandata tibi praevortier,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 125; id. Men. 5, 9, 32.—
    (γ).
    With ut-clause:

    quid melius quam ut hinc intro abeam et me suspendam clanculum,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 145; so id. Ps. 4, 7, 18.—
    (δ).
    With subjectclause in the subjunctive:

    nunc quid mihi meliu'st quam ilico hic opperiar erum,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 22.—
    3.
    Optimum est.
    (α).
    With subject inf.:

    optimum visum est, captivos quam primum deportare,

    Liv. 23, 34, 8:

    si quis dicit optimum esse navigare,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 8, 4 (32 fin.); so, optimum fuit, it would have been better, and optimum erat, it would be better, Quint. 6, prooem. 3; 11, 2, 33; Hor. S. 2, 1, 7.—
    (β).
    With inf.-clause:

    constituerunt optimum esse, domum suam quemque reverti,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 10: optimum visum est, in fluctuantem aciem tradi equos, etc., Liv 6, 24, 10; 22, 27, 6.—
    (γ).
    With ut and subj:

    hoc vero optimum, ut is qui, etc., id ultimum bonorum, id ipsum quid et quale sit nesciat,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 3, 6.—
    (δ).
    With quod:

    illa vero optima (sunt) quod cum Haluntium venisset Archagathum vocari jussit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 51:

    optimum vero (est) quod dictaturae nomen in perpetuum de re publica sustulisti,

    id. Phil. 2, 36, 91.—
    (ε).
    With second sup., in the phrase optumum factu est (where factu is redundant):

    sed hoc mihi optumum factu arbitror,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 16:

    optimum factu esse duxerant frumento... nostros prohibere,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 30:

    optumum factu credens exercitum augere,

    Sall. C. 32, 1 (Kritz, factum); 57, 5 (Kritz, factum).
    IV.
    Ellipt. use: di meliora, i. e. dent or velint, i. e. let the gods grant better things than what you say, etc.; God forbid! in full:

    di melius duint,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 16:

    di meliora velint!

    Ov. M. 7, 37.—Ellipt.:

    di meliora! inquit,

    Cic. Sen. 14, 47:

    id ubi mulier audivit, perturbata, dii meliora inquit, etc.,

    Liv. 39, 10, 2; 9, 9, 6; Verg. G. 3, 513;

    similarly, di melius, i. e. fecerunt,

    Val. Max. 6, 1, ext. 3.
    V.
    With object expressed,
    1.
    By dat.
    (α).
    = good, useful, beneficial for:

    ambula, id lieni optumum est,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 25:

    quia vobis eadem quae mihi bona malaque esse intellexi,

    Sall. C. 20, 3:

    bona bello Cornus, jaculis, etc.,

    Verg. G. 2, 447.—
    (β).
    = benignus or propitius, kind to:

    vicinis bonus esto,

    Cato, R. R. 4:

    bene merenti mala es, male merenti bona es,

    Plaut. As. 1, 2, 3:

    vos o mihi Manes, Este boni,

    Verg. A. 12, 647.—
    (γ).
    = idoneus, fit for, adapted to:

    qui locus vino optimus dicetur esse,

    Cato, R. R. 6:

    tum erit ei rei optumum tempus,

    id. ib. 26:

    terra cui putre solum, Optima frumentis,

    Verg. G. 2, 205; 2, 319; 1, 286.—
    (δ).
    With sum and dat., in the phrase alicui bono est, it is of service to one, profits him:

    accusant in quibus occidi patrem Sex. Roscii bono fuit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 13:

    bono fuisse Romanis adventum eorum constabat,

    Liv. 7, 12, 4.—Hence, with rel. dat.: cui bono (est), for whose advantage it is:

    quod si quis usurpet illud Cassianum cui bono fuerit, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 35:

    cui bono fuisset,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 84; id. Mil. 12, 32 Ascon. ad loc.; cf.

    ellipt. form cui bono?

    Prisc. p. 1208 P.—
    (ε).
    With dat. gerund:

    ager oleto conserundo qui in Favonium spectavit, aliis bonus nullus erit,

    Cato, R. R. 6; Varr. R. R. 1, 24:

    (mons) quia pecori bonus alendo erat,

    Liv. 29, 31; 9, 10.—
    2.
    By ad and acc.:

    refert et ad quam rem bona aut non bona sit,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 91:

    occasio quaeritur idoneane fuerit ad rem adoriendam, an alia melior,

    Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7:

    non campos modo militi Romano ad proelium bonos, etc.,

    Tac. A. 2, 14.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > bonae

  • 5 bonus

    bŏnus (old form dŭonus, Carm. Sall. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Mull.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 67 Mull.), a, um, adj. [for duonus, cf. bellum, bis, and cf. root dvi-; hence deidô, deos], good; comp. melior, us [cf. Gr. mala, mallon], better; sup. optimus ( optumus, ante-class. and often class.) [root opof ops, opes; cf. copia, apiscor], best.
    I.
    Attributively.
    A.
    As adjunct of nouns denoting persons.
    1.
    Vir bonus.
    (α).
    A man morally good (kalos kagathos):

    quoniam boni me viri pauperant, improbi alunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 60:

    omnibus virtutibus instructos et ornatos tum sapientes, tum viros bonos dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 10, 28:

    ille vir bonus qui... intolerabili dolore lacerari potius quam aut officium prodat aut fidem,

    id. Ac. 2, 8, 23:

    sive vir bonus est is qui prodest quibus potest, nocet nemini, certe istum virum bonum non facile reperimus,

    id. Off. 3, 15, 64:

    qui se ita gerunt ut eorum probitas, fides, integritas, etc.... hos viros bonos... appellandos putemus,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    non intellegunt se de callido homine loqui, non de bono viro,

    id. Att. 7, 2, 4:

    ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 12:

    nec enim melior vir fuit Africano quisquam, nec clarior,

    id. Lael. 2, 6; id. Leg. 1, 14, 41; 1, 18, 48; id. Planc. 4, 9; id. Par. 3, 1, 21; id. Marcell. 6, 20; id. Fam. 7, 21; id. Off. 2, 16, 57.—
    (β).
    An honest man:

    justitia, ex qua viri boni nominantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 7, 21; 1, 44, 155; 2, 11, 39; 2, 12, 42; 2, 20, 71;

    3, 12, 50: cum is sponsionem fecisset ni vir bonus esset,

    id. ib. 3, 19, 77:

    quoniam Demosthenes nec vir bonus esset, nec bene meritus de civitate,

    id. Opt. Gen. 7, 20; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116.—
    (γ).
    A man of good standing in the community:

    id viri boni arbitratu deducetur,

    Cato, R. R. 143; so id. ib. 149:

    tuam partem viri bono arbitratu... dari oportet,

    Dig. 17, 1, [p. 244] 35;

    37, 6, 2, § 2: quem voles virum bonum nominato,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 55:

    vir bonus est... quo res sponsore, et quo causae teste tenentur,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 40.—Hence, ironically of wealthy men:

    praetores jus dicunt, aediles ludos parant, viri boni usuras perscribunt,

    Cic. Att. 9, 12, 3.—
    (δ).
    Ironically of bad men:

    sed eccum lenonem Lycum, bonum virum,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 52; Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 9; 4, 3, 18; id. Ad. 3, 4, 30:

    expectabam quinam isti viri boni testes hujus manifesto deprehensi veneni dicerentur,

    Cic. Cael. 26, 63:

    nam socer ejus, vir multum bonus est,

    id. Agr. 3, 3, 13;

    so especially in addresses (mostly comic.): age tu, illuc procede, bone vir!

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 1; id. Curc. 5, 2, 12; id. Ps. 4, 7, 48; id. Pers. 5, 2, 11; Ter. And. 3, 5, 10; 5, 2, 5; id. Ad. 4, 2, 17; id. Eun. 5, 2, 11:

    quid tu, vir optime? Ecquid habes quod dicas?

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 36, 104.—
    (ε).
    Sometimes boni viri = boni, in the sense of optimates (v. I. A. 3.):

    bonis viris quid juris reliquit tribunatus C. Gracchi?

    Cic. Leg. 3, 9, 20.—
    (ζ).
    As a conventional courtesy:

    homines optimi non intellegunt, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 25:

    bone accusator,

    id. Rosc. Am. 21, 58:

    sic illum amicum vocasti, quomodo omnes candidatos bonos viros dicimus,

    gentlemen, Sen. Ep. 3, 1.—For bonus vir, a good husband, v. 3.; and for vir optimus, as a laudatory epithet, v. 5.—
    2.
    Boni homines (rare) = boni, better classes of society, v. II. A. 3:

    in foro infimo boni homines atque dites ambulant,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 14.—
    3.
    With nouns denoting persons in regard to their functions, offices, occupations, and qualities, denoting excellence:

    bonus consul,

    Liv. 4, 40, 6; 22, 39, 2 (different: consules duos, bonos quidem, sed dumtaxat bonos, amisimus, consuls of good sentiments, almost = bad consuls, Cic. ad Brut. 1, 3, 4):

    boni tribuni plebis,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 10, 25:

    bonus senator,

    id. Prov. Cons. 15, 37:

    senator bonus,

    id. Dom. 4, 8:

    bonus judex,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 34:

    bonus augur (ironically),

    id. Phil. 2, 32, 80:

    bonus vates,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 27:

    bonus imperator,

    Sall. C. 60, 4:

    bonus dux,

    Quint. 12, 1, 43 (cf. trop.:

    naturam, optimam ducem,

    the best guide, Cic. Sen. 2, 5):

    bonus miles,

    Sall. C. 60, 4; Sen. Vit. Beat. 15, 5:

    bonus orator,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

    optimus orator,

    id. Opt. Gen. 1, 3:

    poeta bonus,

    id. de Or. 1, 3, 11; 2, 46, 194; id. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

    scriptor bonus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 104:

    bonus advocatus,

    id. 5, 13, 10:

    bonus defensor,

    id. 5, 13, 3:

    bonus altercator,

    a good debater, id. 6, 4, 10:

    bonus praeceptor,

    id. 5, 13, 44; 10, 5, 22:

    bonus gubernator,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100:

    optimus opifex,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 133:

    sutor bonus,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 125:

    actor optimus,

    Cic. Sest. 57, 122:

    cantor optimus est modulator,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 130:

    melior gladiator,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 33: agricola (colonus, dominus) bonus, Cato, R. R. prooem.; Cic. Sen. 16, 56:

    bonus paterfamilias,

    a thrifty head of the house, Nep. Att. 13, 1:

    bonus servus,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 58; id. Am. 2, 1, 46; id. Men. 5, 6, 1; Cic. Mil. 22, 58:

    dominus bonus,

    Cato, R. R. 14:

    bonus custos,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 38.—Ironically, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57:

    filius bonus,

    Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 9:

    patres,

    Quint. 11, 3, 178:

    parens,

    id. 6, prooem. 4: bonus (melior, optimus), viz. a good husband, Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 51 sq.; Liv. 1, 9, 15:

    uxor melior,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    amicus,

    id. Fam. 2, 15, 3:

    amicus optimus,

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 18:

    optimus testis,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 27, 2:

    auctor, in two senses,

    good authority, id. Att. 5, 12, 3;

    and = bonus scriptor (post-class.),

    Quint. 10, 1, 74.—Esp.:

    bonus civis (rarely civis bonus): in re publica ea velle quae tranquilla et honesta sint: talem enim solemus et sentire bonum civem et dicere, Cic.-Off. 1, 34, 124: eaque est summa ratio et sapientia boni civis, commoda civium non divellere, atque omnes aequitate eadem continere,

    id. ib. 2, 23, 83:

    eum esse civem et fidelem et bonum,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 15; Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 2; 1, 9, 10; 3, 12, 1; 6, 6, 11; id. Off. 1, 44, 155; Liv. 22, 39, 3; Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 10 Dietsch:

    optimus et fortissimus civis,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 3; id. Sest. 17, 39.—
    4.
    Bonus and optimus as epithets of the gods.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sed te bonus Mercurius perdat,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 23:

    fata... bonique divi,

    Hor. C. 4, 2, 38:

    divis orte bonis,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 1:

    O bone deus!

    Scrib. Comp. 84 fin.: BONORVM DEORVM, Inscr. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 84: totidem, pater optime, dixi, Tu mihi da cives, referring to Jupiter, Ov. M. 7, 627.—
    (β).
    Optimus Maximus, a standing epithet of Jupiter:

    (Juppiter) a majoribus nostris Optimus Maximus (nominatur), et quidem ante optimus, id est beneficentissimus, quam Maximus,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 25, 64:

    Jovem optimum et maximum ob eas res appellant, non quod, etc.,

    id. ib. 3, 36, 87:

    in templo Jovis Optimi Maximi,

    id. Sest. 56, 129; id. Prov. Cons. 9, 22:

    nutu Jovis Optimi Maximi,

    id. Cat. 3, 9, 21; Liv. 1, 12, 7; id. 6, 16, 2.—
    (γ).
    Di boni, O di boni, expressing indignation, sorrow, or surprise:

    di boni, hunc visitavi antidhac!

    Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 16:

    di boni, boni quid porto!

    Ter. And. 2, 2, 1:

    di boni, quid hoc morbi est,

    id. Eun. 2, 1, 19; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 13; id. Ad. 3, 3, 86:

    alter, O di boni, quam taeter incedebat!

    Cic. Sest. 8, 19; id. Brut. 84, 288; id. Phil. 2, 8, 20; 2, 32, 80; id. Att. 1, 16, 5; 14, 21, 2; Val. Max. 3, 5, 1; Sen. Vit. Beat. 2, 3.—
    (δ).
    Bona Dea, etc., v. 6.—
    5.
    Optimus as a laudatory epithet.
    (α).
    Vir optimus:

    per vos nobis, per optimos viros optimis civibus periculum inferre conantur,

    Cic. Sest. 1, 2:

    virum optimum et constantissimum M. Cispium,

    id. ib. 35, 76:

    fratrem meum, virum optimum, fortissimum,

    id. ib.:

    consolabor hos praesentes, viros optimos,

    id. Balb. 19, 44; id. Planc. 21, 51; 23, 55; id. Mil. 14, 38; id. Marcell. 4, 10; id. Att. 5, 1, 5; Hor. S. 1, 6, 53.—
    (β).
    Femina bona, optima:

    tua conjunx bona femina,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 16:

    hujus sanctissimae feminae atque optimae pater,

    id. ib. —
    (γ).
    Senex, pater, frater, etc.:

    optimus: parentes ejus, prudentissimi atque optimi senis,

    Cic. Planc. 41, 97:

    insuevit pater optimus hoc me,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 105; 2, 1, 12:

    C. Marcelli, fratris optimi,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 6; id. Q. Fr. 2, 6 (8), 2; 2, 4, 2.—
    (δ).
    With proper names ( poet.):

    optimus Vergilius,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 54:

    Maecenas optimus,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 27:

    optime Quinti,

    id. Ep. 1, 16, 1.—
    (ε).
    Esp. as an epithet of the Roman emperors:

    quid tam civile, tam senatorium quam illud, additum a nobis Optimi cognomen?

    Plin. Pan. 2, 7:

    gratias, inquit, ago, optime Princeps!

    Sen. Tranq. 14. 4:

    ex epistula optimi imperatoris Antonini,

    Gai. Inst. 1, 102; cf.:

    bene te patriae pater optime Caesar,

    Ov. F. 2, 637:

    optime Romulae Custos gentis,

    Hor. C. 4, 5, 1.—
    6.
    Bonus and Bona, names of deities.
    (α).
    Bona Dea, the goddess of Chastity, whose temple could not be entered by males (cf. Macr. S. 1, 12; Lact. 1, 22):

    Bonae Deae pulvinaribus,

    Cic. Pis. 39, 95; id. Mil. 31, 86; id. Fam. 1, 9, 15; cf.

    in mal. part.,

    Juv. 2, 86 sq.; 6, 314 sq.; 6, 335 sq.—
    (β).
    Bonus Eventus, Varr. R. R. 1, 1 med.; Amm. 29, 6, 19; Inscr. Orell. 907; 1780 sq.—
    (γ).
    Bona Fortuna:

    si bona Fortuna veniat, ne intromiseris,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 3, 22:

    Bonae Fortunae (signum),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 7:

    FORTVNAE BONAE DOMESTICAE,

    Inscr. Orell. 1743 sq. —
    (δ).
    Bona Spes:

    Spes Bona, obsecro, subventa mihi,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 12:

    BONAE SPEI,

    Aug. Inscr. Grut. 1075, 1.—
    (ε).
    BONA MENS, Inscr. Orell. 1818 sqq.:

    Mens Bona, si qua dea es, tua me in sacraria dono,

    Prop. 3, 24, 19.
    B.
    With nouns denoting things.
    1.
    Things concrete, denoting excellence:

    navis bona dicitur non quae pretiosis coloribus picta est... sed stabilis et firma,

    Sen. Ep. 76, 13:

    gladium bonum dices, non cui auratus est balteus, etc., sed cui et ad secandum subtilis acies est, et, etc.,

    id. ib. 76, 14:

    id vinum erit lene et bono colore,

    Cato, R. R. 109; Lucr. 2, 418; Ov. Am. 2, 7, 9:

    tabulas... collocare in bono lumine,

    Cic. Brut. 75, 261: ex quavis olea oleum... bonum fieri potest. Cato, R. R. 3:

    per aestatem boves aquam bonam et liquidam bibant semper curato,

    id. ib. 73; cf.:

    bonae aquae, ironically compared to wine,

    Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 28:

    praedium bonum caelum habeat,

    good temperature, Cato, R. R. 1:

    bona tempestate,

    in good weather, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4:

    (praedium) solo bono valeat,

    by good soil, Cato, R. R. 1:

    bonae (aedes) cum curantur male,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 24:

    villam bonam,

    Cic. Off. 3, 13, 55:

    bonus pons,

    Cat. 17, 5:

    scyphi optimi (= optime facti),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 14, § 32:

    perbona toreumata,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 18, §

    38: bona domicilia,

    comfortable residences, id. N. D. 2, 37, 95:

    agrum Meliorem nemo habet,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 12:

    fundum meliorem,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52: fundos optimos et fructuosissimos, id. Agr. 3, 4, 14:

    equus melior,

    id. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    bona cena,

    Cat. 13, 3:

    boni nummi,

    good, not counterfeit, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 144; Cic. Off. 3, 23, 91:

    super omnia vultus accessere boni,

    good looks, Ov. M. 8, 678:

    mulier bona forma,

    of a fine form, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 13:

    equus formae melioris,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 52:

    tam bona cervix, simul ac jussero, demetur,

    fine, beautiful, Suet. Calig. 33:

    fruges bonae,

    Cat. 34, 19:

    ova suci melioris,

    of better flavor, Hor. S. 2, 4, 13.— Trop.:

    animus aequus optimum est aerumnae condimentum,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 71: bona dextra, a lucky hand (cf.:

    bonum omen, 2. e.),

    Quint. 6, 3, 69:

    scio te bona esse voce, ne clama nimis,

    good, sound, loud voice, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 43; so,

    bona firmaque vox,

    Quint. 11, 3, 13.—
    2.
    Things abstract.
    a.
    Of physical well-being:

    ut si qui neget sine bona valetudine posse bene vivi,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 51, 93; Sen. Vit. Beat. 22, 2; Lucr. 3, 102; Val. Max. 2, 5, 6; Quint. 10, 3, 26; 11, 2, 35 et saep.:

    non bonus somnus de prandio est,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 8:

    bona aetas,

    prime of life, Cic. Sen. 14, 48:

    optima aetate,

    id. Fam. 10, 3, 3.—Ironically:

    bona, inquis, aetate, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 76, 1.—
    b.
    Of the mind and soul:

    meliore esse sensu,

    Cic. Sest. 21, 47:

    optima indoles,

    id. Fin. 5, 22, 61:

    bona conscientia,

    Quint. 6, 1, 33; 9, 2, 93; Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 5:

    bono ingenio me esse ornatam quam auro multo mavolo,

    with a good heart, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 91; id. Stich. 1, 21, 59; Sall. C. 10, 5:

    mens melior,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 78; Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13; Liv. 39, 16, 5; Sen. Ben. 1, 11, 4; id. Ep. 10, 4; Pers. 2, 8; Petr. 61.—Personified, Prop. 3 (4), 24, 19; Ov. Am. 1, 2, 31:

    duos optimae indolis filios,

    Val. Max. 5, 7, 2; Sen. Ben. 6, 16, 6; Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    bonum consilium,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 6; id. Rud. 4, 3, 18; Cic. Off. 1, 33, 121:

    bona voluntas,

    a good purpose, Quint. 12, 11, 31:

    memoria bona,

    Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

    bona ratio cum perdita... confligit,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 25:

    bonae rationes,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 50:

    pronuntiatio bona,

    Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—
    c.
    Of moral relations:

    ego si bonam famam mihi servasso, sat ero dives,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 71; Cic. Sest. 66, 139; Liv. 6, 11, 7; Hor. S. 1, 2, 61 (cf. Cic. Att. 7, 26, 1;

    v. e. infra): si ego in causa tam bona cessi tribuni plebis furori,

    Cic. Sest. 16, 36; id. Planc. 36, 87; Ov. M. 5, 220:

    fac, sis, bonae frugi sies,

    of good, regular habits, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 35; id. Cas. 2, 4, 5; 2, 5, 19; id. Ps. 1, 5, 53; id. Truc. 1, 1, 13; id. Capt. 5, 2, 3 sq. (v. frux, II. B. 1. b.): vilicus disciplina bona utatur. Cato, R. R. 5:

    bona studia,

    moral pursuits, Auct. Her. 4, 17, 25:

    quidquid vita meliore parasti,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 15: ad spem mortis melioris, an honorable death; so as an epithet of religious exercises:

    Juppiter, te bonas preces precor,

    Cato, R. R. 134; 139.—
    d.
    Of external, artistic, and literary value and usefulness:

    bono usui estis nulli,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 15:

    Optumo optume optumam operam das,

    id. Am. 1, 1, 122:

    bonam dedistis mihi operam,

    a valuable service to me, id. Poen. 2, 3, 70; 3, 6, 11; id. Pers. 4, 7, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 11 (in a different sense: me bona opera aut mala Tibi inventurum esse auxilium argentarium, by fair or unfair means, id. Ps. 1, 1, 102;

    v. e. infra): optima hereditas a patribus traditur liberis... gloria virtutis rerumque gestarum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 33, 121:

    bonum otium,

    valuable leisure, Sall. C. 4, 1:

    bonis versibus,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

    versus meliores,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 81:

    meliora poemata,

    Hor. A. P. 303:

    in illa pro Ctesiphonte oratione longe optima,

    Cic. Or. 8, 26:

    optimas fabulas,

    id. Off. 1, 31, 114:

    melius munus,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 7.—
    e.
    Favorable, prosperous, lucky, fortunate:

    de Procilio rumores non boni,

    unfavorable rumors, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 5:

    bona de Domitio, praeclara de Afranio fama est,

    about their success in the war, id. ib. 7, 26, 1:

    si fuisset in discipulo comparando meliore fortuna,

    id. Pis. 29, 71; cf.

    fortuna optima esse,

    to be in the best pecuniary circumstances, id. ad Brut. 1, 1, 2:

    occasio tam bona,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 9:

    senex est eo meliore condicione quam adulesoens cum, etc.,

    Cic. Sen. 19, 68; id. Fam. 4, 32:

    bona navigatio,

    id. N. D. 3, 34, 83;

    esp. in phrase bona spes.—Object.: ergo in iis adulescentibus bonam spem esse dicemus et magnam indolem quos, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 117.—Subject.:

    ego sum spe bona,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 28, 3; id. Cat. 2, 11, 25; [p. 245] id. Att. 14, 1 a, 3; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16:

    optima spe,

    id. Fam. 12, 11, 2.—Pregn., = spes bonarum rerum, Sall. C. 21, 1;

    v. C. 1. c. infra: meliora responsa,

    more favorable, Liv. 7, 21, 6:

    melior interpretatio,

    Tac. H. 3, 65:

    cum laude et bonis recordationibus,

    id. A. 4, 38:

    amnis Doctus iter melius,

    i. e. less injurious, Hor. A. P. 68:

    omen bonum,

    a good, lucky omen, Cic. Pis. 13, 31; cf.

    Liv. praef. § 13: melius omen,

    Ov. F. 1, 221;

    optimum,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 2:

    bona scaeva,

    Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 24:

    auspicio optumo,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 6; cf.:

    memini bene, sed meliore Tempore dicam = opportuniore tempore,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 68.—
    f.
    Of public affairs, si mihi bona re publica frui non licuerit, Cic. Mil. 34, 93:

    optima res publica,

    id. Or. 1, 1, 1; id. Phil. 1, 8, 19:

    minus bonis temporibus,

    id. Dom. 4, 8; so,

    optimis temporibus,

    id. Sest. 3, 6:

    nostrae res meliore loco videbantur,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 3, 1:

    lex optima,

    id. Pis. 16, 37; id. Sest. 64, 137; id. Phil, 1, 8, 19.—
    g.
    Good = large, considerable:

    bono atque amplo lucro,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 6:

    bona librorum copia,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 109; cf.:

    bona copia cornu,

    Ov. M. 9, 88; v. bona pars, C. 8. g.—
    h.
    Noble; with genus, good family, noble extraction, honorable birth: quali me arbitraris genere prognatum? Eu. Bono, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 35; so id. Ep. 1, 2, 4; 2, 1, 3; id. Pers. 4, 4, 94:

    si bono genere natus sit,

    Auct. Her. 3, 7, 13.—
    k.
    Referring to good-will, kindness, faithfulness, in certain phrases.
    (α).
    Bona venia or cum bona venia, with the kind permission of a person addressed, especially bona venia orare, expetere, etc.:

    primum abs te hoc bona venia expeto,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 31:

    bona tua venia dixerim,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 34:

    oravit bona venia Quirites, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 41, 3:

    obsecro vos.. bona venia vestra liceat, etc.,

    id. 6, 40, 10:

    cum bona venia quaeso audiatis, etc.,

    id. 29, 17, 6; Arn. c. Gent. 1, p. 5; cf.

    . sed des veniam bonus oro = venia bona oro,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 5.—
    (β).
    Bona pax, without quarrelling:

    bona pax sit potius,

    let us have no quarrel about that, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 7;

    so especially cum bona pace, or bona pace: Hannibal ad Alpis cum bona pace incolentium... pervenit,

    without a difficulty with the inhabitants, Liv. 21, 32, 6; 21, 24, 5; 1, 24, 3; 28, 37, 4; 8, 15, 1; cf.: si bonam (pacem) dederitis, = a fair peace, under acceptable conditions, id. 8, 21, 4.—
    (γ).
    Amicitia bona = bona fide servata, faithful, undisturbed friendship:

    igitur amicitia Masinissae bona atque honesta nobis permansit,

    Sall. J. 5, 5.—
    (δ).
    Bona societas, alliance:

    Segestes, memoria bonae societatis, impavidus,

    Tac. A. 1, 58.
    C.
    In particular phrases.
    1.
    Bonae res.
    a.
    = Vitae commoda, comforts of life, abstract or concrete:

    concedatur bonis rebus homines morte privari,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 87:

    optimis rebus usus est,

    he had every most desirable thing, Nep. Att. 18, 1.—
    b.
    = Res secundae, opp. res adversae, prosperity:

    bonis rebus tuis, meas irrides malas,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 45:

    in bonis rebus,

    Hor. C. 2, 3, 2. —
    c.
    Res bona = res familiaris bona, wealth ( poet.): in re bona esse, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4.—Also an object of value:

    homines quibus mala abunde omnia erant, sed neque res neque spes bona ulla,

    who had no property, nor the hope of any, Sall. C. 21, 1. —
    d.
    Costly things, articles of luxury:

    capere urbem in Arabia plenam bonarum rerum,

    Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 46; 4, 4, 82:

    nimium rei bonae,

    id. Stich. 2, 3, 55:

    ignorantia bonarum rerum,

    Nep. Ages. 8, 5 ' bonis rebus gaudere, Hor. S. 2, 6, 110:

    re bona copiosum esse,

    Gell. 16, 19, 7.—
    e.
    Moral, morally good:

    illi cum res non bonas tractent,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 72:

    ut de virtutibus et vitiis, omninoque de bonis rebus et malis quaererent,

    id. ib. 1, 4, 15:

    quid habemus in rebus bonis et malis explorati?

    id. ib. 2, 42, 129; so id. Or. 1, 10, 42; id. Leg. 1, 22, 58:

    quae tamen omnia dulciora fuint et moribus bonis et artibus,

    id. Sen. 18, 65.—
    f.
    In literary composition, important or interesting matter, subjects, or questions:

    res bonas verbis electis dictas quis non legat?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 8:

    studiis generorum, praesertim in re bona,

    Plaut. Am. 8, 26.—
    2.
    Bonae artes.
    (α).
    A good, laudable way of dealing:

    qui praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit,

    Sall. C. 2, 9:

    huic bonae artes desunt, dolis atque fallaciis contendit,

    id. ib. 11, 2:

    quod is bonarum artium cupiens erat,

    Tac. A. 6, 46.—
    (β).
    Liberal arts and sciences:

    litteris aut ulli bonae arti,

    Quint. 12, 1, 7:

    conservate civem bonarum artium, bonarum partium, bonorum virorum,

    Cic. Sest. 32, 77. —Esp.:

    optimae artes: optimarum artium scientia,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 4; id. Ac. 2, 1, 1; id. Cael. 10, 24; id. Marcell. 1, 4.—
    3.
    Bona fides, or fides bona.
    a.
    Good faith, i. e. conscious honesty in acts or words: qui nummos fide bona solvit, who pays (the price of labor) in good faith, i. e. as it is honestly earned, Cato, R. R. 14:

    dic, bona fide, tu id aurum non subripuisti?

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 46; 4, 10, 47; id. Capt. 4, 2, 111; id. Most. 3, 1, 137; id. Poen. 1, 3, 30; id. Pers. 4, 3, 16; id. Ps. 4, 6, 33:

    si tibi optima fide omnia concessit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 144; Quint. 10, 3, 23.—Hence, bonae fidei vir, a conscientious man, Quint. 10, 7, 1.—
    b.
    Jurid. t. t.
    (α).
    Good faith in contracts and legal acts in general, opposed to dolus malus, honesty and fairness in dealing with another:

    ad fidem bonam statuit pertinere, notum esse emptori vitium quod nosset venditor,

    Cic. Off. 3, 16, 67.—Hence, alienam rem bona fide emere, to buy, believing the seller to be the rightful owner, Dig. 41, 3, 10; 41, 3, 13, § 1. bonae fidei possessor (also possessio), believing that he is the rightful owner, ib. 5, 3, 25, § 11; 5, 3, 22; 41, 3, 15, § 2;

    41, 3, 24: conventio contra bonam fidem et mores bonos,

    ib. 16, 31, § 7: bonam fidem praestare, to be responsible for one ' s good faith, ib. 17, 1, 10 prooem.—Hence,
    (β).
    Bonae fidei actiones or judicia, actions in equity, i. e. certain classes of actions in which the strict civil law was set aside by the praetorian edict in favor of equity:

    actiones quaedam bonae fidei sunt, quaedam stricti juris. Bonae fidei sunt haec: exempto vendito, locato conducto, etc.,

    Just. Inst. 4, 6, 28, § 19.—In the republican time the praetor added in such actions to his formula for the judex the words ex fide bona, or, in full:

    quidquid dare facere oportet ex fide bona,

    Cic. Off. 3, 16, 66:

    iste dolus malus et legibus erat vindicatus, et sine lege, judiciis in quibus additur ex fide bona,

    id. ib. 3, 15, 61; cf. id. ib. 3, 17, 70.—
    4.
    Bona verba.
    (α).
    Kind words:

    Bona verba quaeso,

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 33.—
    (β).
    Words of good omen (v. omen):

    dicamus bona verba,

    Tib. 2, 2, 1:

    dicite suffuso ter bona verba mero,

    Ov. F. 2, 638.—
    (γ).
    Elegant or well-chosen expressions:

    quid est tam furiosum quam verborum vel optimorum atque ornatissimorum sonitus inanis,

    Cic. Or. 1, 12, 51:

    verborum bonorum cursu,

    id. Brut. 66, 233:

    omnia verba sunt alicubi optima,

    Quint. 10, 1, 9.—
    (δ).
    Moral sayings:

    non est quod contemnas bona verba et bonis cogitationibus plena praecordia,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 1. —
    5.
    Bona dicta.
    (α).
    Polite, courteous language:

    hoc petere me precario a vobis jussit leniter dictis bonis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 25.—
    (β).
    Witticisms ( bon-mots): flammam a sapiente facilius ore in ardente opprimi, quam bona dicta teneat, Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 2, 54, 222:

    dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus quibus solebam menstruales epulas ante adipiscier,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 22:

    ibo intro ad libros ut discam de dictis melioribus,

    id. Stich. 2, 3, 75.—
    6.
    Bona facta.
    (α).
    = bene facta (v. bene, I. B. 2. b.), laudable deeds:

    nobilitas ambobus et majorum bona facta (sc. erant),

    Tac. A. 3, 40.—
    (β).
    Bonum factum est, colloq., = bene est, bene factum est (v. bene, I. B. 2. b.):

    bonum factum est, ut edicta servetis mea,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 16:

    haec imperata quae sunt pro imperio histrico, bonum hercle factum (est) pro se quisque ut meminerit,

    id. ib. 45.— Hence,
    (γ).
    Elliptically, introducing commands which cannot be enforced, = if you will do so, it will be well:

    peregrinis in senatum allectis, libellus propositus est: bonum factum, ne quis senatori novo curiam monstrare velit,

    Suet. Caes. 80:

    et Chaldaeos edicere: bonum factum, ne Vitellius... usquam esset,

    id. Vit. 14:

    hac die Carthaginem vici: bonum factum, in Capitolium eamus, et deos supplicemus,

    Aur. Vict. 49; cf.:

    o edictum, cui adscribi non poterit bonum factum,

    Tert. Pud. 1.—
    7.
    Bona gratia.
    (α).
    A friendly understanding:

    cur non videmus inter nos haec potius cum bona Ut componantur gratia quam cum mala?

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 17; so,

    per gratiam bonam abire,

    to part with good feelings, Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 33.—In jest: sine bona gratia abire, of things cast away, Plaut Truc. 2, 7, 15.—
    (β).
    Pleon., in the phrase bonam gratiam habere, = gratiam habere, to thank (v. B. 2. k.), Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 32; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 99.—
    8.
    Bona pars.
    (α).
    The well-disposed part of a body of persons:

    ut plerumque fit, major pars (i. e. of the senate) meliorem vicit,

    Liv. 21, 4, 1:

    pars melior senatus ad meliora responsa trahere,

    id. 7, 21, 6.—
    (β).
    The good party, i. e. the optimates (gen. in plur.):

    civem bonarum partium,

    Cic. Sest. 32, 77:

    (fuit) meliorum partium aliquando,

    id. Cael. 6, 13:

    qui sibi gratiam melioris partis velit quaesitam,

    Liv. 2, 44, 3.—Paronom.: (Roscius) semper partium in re publica tam quam in scaena optimarum, i. e. party and part in a drama, Cic. Sest. 56, 120.—
    (γ).
    Of things or persons, a considerable part (cf. a good deal):

    bonam partem ad te adtulit,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 43:

    bonam partem sermonis in hunc diem esse dilatam,

    Cic. Or. 2, 3, 14:

    bonam magnamque partem exercitus,

    Val. Max. 5, 2, ext. 4:

    bona pars noctium,

    Quint. 12, 11, 19:

    bona pars hominum,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 61:

    meae vocis... bona pars,

    id. C. 4, 2, 46; so id. A. P. 297; Ov. P. 1, 8, 74:

    melior pars diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156.—
    (δ).
    Rarely, and mostly eccl. Lat.: optima pars, the best part or lot:

    nostri melior pars animus est,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, prooem. § 14; cf.:

    quae pars optima est in homine,

    best, most valuable, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 67:

    major pars aetatis, certe melior reipublicae data sit,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 18, 1:

    Maria optimam partem elegit, quae non auferetur ab ea,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 42.—
    (ε).
    Adverb.:

    bonam partem = ex magna parte,

    Lucr. 6, 1249.—
    (ζ).
    Aliquem in optimam partem cognoscere, to know somebody from his most favorable side, Cic. Off. 2, 13, 46: aliquid in optimam partem accipere, to take something in good part, interpret it most favorably:

    Caesar mihi ignoscit quod non venerim, seseque in optimam partem id accipere dicit,

    id. Att. 10, 3 a, 2; id. ad Brut. 1, 2, 3:

    quaeso ut hoc in bonam partem accipias,

    id. Rosc. Am. 16, 45.—
    9.
    Dies bonus or bona.
    (α).
    A day of good omen, a fortunate day (= dies laetus, faustus):

    tum tu igitur die bono, Aphrodisiis, addice, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. 2, 49:

    nunc dicenda bona sunt bona verba die,

    Ov. F. 1, 72.—
    (β).
    A beautiful, serene day, Sen. Vit. Beat. 22, 3.—
    10.
    Bonus mos.
    (α).
    Boni mores, referring to individuals, good, decent, moral habits:

    nihil est amabilius quam morum similitudo bonorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 56:

    nam hic nimium morbus mores invasit bonos,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 6:

    domi militiaeque boni mores colebantur,

    Sall. C. 9, 1:

    propter ejus suavissimos et optimos mores,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13:

    cum per tot annos matronae optimis moribus vixerint,

    Liv. 34, 6, 9:

    mores meliores,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 18.—
    (β).
    Bonus mos or boni mores, in the abstract, morality, the laws, rules of morality: ei vos morigerari mos bonu'st, it is a rule of morality that you should, etc., Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 4:

    ex optimo more et sanctissima disciplina,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 69:

    neglegentia boni moris,

    Sen. Ep. 97, 1.—Jurid. t. t.:

    conventio, mandatum contra bonos mores,

    in conflict with morality, Quint. 3, 1, 57; Dig. 16, 3, 1, § 7; Gai. Inst. 3, 157 et saep. —
    11.
    Adverbial phrases.
    a.
    Bono animo esse, or bonum animum habere.
    (α).
    To be of good cheer or courage:

    bono animo es! Liberabit ille te homo,

    Plaut. Merc 3, 1, 33; so id. Aul. 4, 10, 61; id. Mil. 4, 8, 32; id. Rud. 3, 3, 17; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 4; id. Heaut. 4, 6, 18; id. Ad. 2, 4, 20; 3, 5, 1; 4, 2, 4; 4, 5, 62; id. Phorm. 5, 8, 72:

    animo bono es,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 103; id. Am. 2, 2, 48; 5, 2, 1:

    bono animo es, inquit Scrofa, et fiscinam expedi,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 26:

    bono animo sint et tui et mei familiares,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 18, 1; 6, 10, 29:

    bono animo esse jubere eam consul,

    Liv. 39, 13, 7:

    habe modo bonum animum,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 58; so id. Am. 1, 3, 47; id. Truc. 2, 6, 44; id. Aul. 2, 2, 15:

    habe animum bonum,

    id. Cas. 2, 6, 35; id. Ep. 2, 2, 1; 4, 2, 31:

    bonum animum habe,

    Liv. 45, 8, 5:

    clamor ortus ut bonum animum haberet,

    id. 8, 32, 1; so Sen. Ep. 87, 38.—
    (β).
    Bono animo esse, or facere aliquid, to be of a good or friendly disposition, or to do with good, honest intentions:

    audire jubet vos imperator histricus, bonoque ut animo sedeant in subselliis qui, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 5: sunt enim (consules) [p. 246] optimo animo, summo consilio, of the best disposition, Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 2:

    bono te animo tum populus Romanus... dicere existimavit ea quae sentiebatis, sed, etc.,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 56:

    quod nondum bono animo in populum Romanum viderentur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6; Quint. 7, 4, 15.—
    (γ).
    Bonus animus, good temper, patience:

    bonus animus in mala re dimidium mali est,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 37:

    vos etiam hoc animo meliore feratis,

    Ov. M. 9, 433.—
    b.
    Bono modo.
    (α).
    = placide, with composure, moderation:

    si quis quid deliquerit, pro noxa bono modo vindicet,

    Cato, R. R. 5:

    haec tibi tam sunt defendenda quam moenia, mihi autem bono modo, tantum quantum videbitur,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 44, 137.—
    (β).
    In a decent manner:

    neu quisquam prohibeto filium quin amet... quod bono fiat modo,

    Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 62. —
    c.
    Jure optimo or optimo jure, with good, perfect right:

    te ipse jure optumo incuses licet,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 23; id. Rud. 2, 6, 53:

    ut jure optimo me deserere posses,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6; Sen. Ot. Sap. 2 (29), 2.—With pass. or intr. verb, deservedly:

    ne jure optimo irrideamur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 31, 111; cf. id. ib. 1, 42, 151; id. Marcell. 1, 4;

    similarly, optimo judicio,

    Val. Max. 2, 9, 2.
    II.
    As subst.
    A.
    bŏnus, boni, m.; of persons.
    1.
    In sing. or plur. orig. = bonus vir, boni viri; v. I. A. 1. a. b, supra, a morally good man.
    (α).
    Plur.:

    bonis quod bene fit haud perit,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 2; id. Capt. 2, 2, 108; id. Trin. 2, 1, 55; id. Pers. 4, 5, 2:

    melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos beneficium collocari puto,

    Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71:

    verum esse ut bonos boni diligant, quamobrem... bonis inter bonos quasi necessariam (esse) benevolentiam,

    id. Lael. 14, 50:

    diverso itinere malos a bonis loca taetra... habere,

    Sall. C. 52, 13; 7, 2; 52, 22:

    oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 52:

    tam bonis quam malis conduntur urbes,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 28, 4; so id. Vit. Beat. 15, 6; Quint. 9, 2, 76.—Rarely bŏnae, arum, f., good women:

    quia omnes bonos bonasque adcurare addecet, etc.,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 41.—
    (β).
    Sing.:

    malus bonum malum esse volt ut sit sui similis,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 8:

    nec enim cuique bono mali quidquam evenire potest,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 99; cf.:

    qui meliorem audax vocet in jus,

    Hor. S. 2, 5, 29.—
    2.
    Bonus, a man of honor.
    (α).
    A brave man:

    pro qua (patria) quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere si ei sit profuturus?

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57:

    libertatem quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittat,

    Sall. C. 33, 5:

    fortes creantur fortibus et bonis,

    Hor. C. 4, 4, 29 (opp. ignavi):

    fama impari boni atque ignavi erant,

    Sall. J. 57, 6; 53, 8; id. C. 11, 2. —
    (β).
    A gentleman:

    quis enim umquam, qui paululum modo bonorum consuetudinem nosset, litteras ad se ab amico missas... in medium protulit?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 7.—
    3.
    Boni, the better (i. e. higher) classes of society.
    (α).
    In gen. (of political sentiments, = optimates, opp. populares, seditiosi, perditi cives, etc.;

    so usu. in Cic.): meam causam omnes boni proprie enixeque susceperant,

    Cic. Sest. 16, 38:

    audaces homines et perditi nutu impelluntur... boni, nescio quomodo, tardiores sunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 47, 100:

    ego Kal. Jan. senatum et bonos omnes legis agrariae... metu liberavi,

    id. Pis. 2, 4:

    etenim omnes boni, quantum in ipsis fuit, Caesarem occiderunt,

    id. Phil. 2, 13, 29; id. Fam. 5, 2, 8; 5, 21, 2; id. Sest. 2, 5; 16, 36; 48, 103; id. Planc. 35, 86; id. Mil. 2, 5; id. Off. 2. 12, 43:

    maledictis increpat omnes bonos,

    Sall. C. 21, 4; 19, 2; 33, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 22; so,

    optimi,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 17, 37; and, ironically, boni identified with the rich:

    bonorum, id est lautorum et locupletum,

    id. Att. 8, 1, 3.—
    (β).
    Without reference to political views;

    opp. vulgus (rare): nihil ego istos moror fatuos mores quibus boni dedecorant se,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 22:

    semper in civitate quibus opes nullae sunt bonis invident,

    Sall. C. 37, 3:

    elatus est sine ulla pompa funeris, comitantibus omnibus bonis, maxima vulgi frequentia,

    Nep. Att. 22, 2.—So, mĕlĭōres, um, m., one ' s betters:

    ut quaestui habeant male loqui melioribus,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 13:

    da locum melioribus,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 37.—
    4.
    Boni, bone, in addresses, as an expression of courtesy, Hor. S. 2, 2, 1; 2, 6, 51; 2, 6, 95; id. Ep. 2, 2, 37; ironice, id. S. 2, 3, 31.—
    5.
    Optimus quisque = quivis bonus, omnes boni.
    (α).
    Referring to morality:

    esse aliquid natura pulcrum quod optimus quisque sequeretur,

    every good man, Cic. Sen. 13, 43:

    qui ita se gerebant ut sua consilia optimo cuique probarent, optimates habebantur,

    id. Sest. 45, 96; id. Off. 1, 43, 154; id. Fin. 1, 7, 24; id. Sest. 54, 115; and = even the best:

    quare deus optimum quemque mala valetudine adficit?

    Sen. Prov. 4, 8.—
    (β).
    Of the educated classes:

    adhibenda est quaedam reverentia adversus homines, et optimi cujusque et reliquorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 28, 99; cf. id. ib. 1, 25, 85:

    Catilina plerisque consularibus, praeterea optumo cuique, litteras mittit,

    Sall. C. 34, 2:

    optimo cuique infesta libertas,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 8, 2 (32 fin.).—
    (γ).
    Honorable, brave:

    optumus quisque cadere et sauciari, ceteris metus augeri,

    Sall. J. 92, 8.—
    (δ).
    In gen., excellent:

    optimus quisque facere quam dicere... malebat,

    Sall. C. 8, 5.—
    (ε).
    Distributively:

    ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur,

    to the best man in each instance, Sall. C. 2, 6.—
    (ζ).
    Referring to another superlative ( = quo quisque melior eo magis, etc.):

    hic aditus laudis qui semper optimo cuique maxime patuit,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1; so id. Lael. 4, 14; id. Inv. 2, 11, 36; Sen. Vit. Beat. 18, 1.—
    (η).
    Attributively, with a noun:

    optimam quamque causam,

    Cic. Sest. 43, 93:

    optima quaeque dies,

    Verg. G. 3, 66.
    2.
    bŏnum, i, n., plur. bona; mĕlĭus, ōris, n.; optĭmum, i, n. (v. infra); of things in gen.
    1.
    Bonum, or plur. bona, a good, or goods in a moral and metaphysical sense, a moral good, a blessing: sunt autem hae de finibus defensae sententiae: nihil bonum nisi honestum, ut Stoici; nihil bonum nisi voluptatem, ut Epicurus;

    nihil bonum nisi vacuitatem doloris, ut Hieronymus... tria genera bonorum, maxima animi, secunda corporis, externa tertia, ut Peripatetici, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 30, 84 sq.:

    quid est igitur bonum? Si quid recte fit et honeste et cum virtute, id bene fieri vere dicitur, et quod rectum et honestum et cum virtute est, id solum opinor bonum,

    id. Par. 1, 1, 9:

    ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud simplex et verum bonum quod non possit ab honestate sejungi,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

    non-est igitur voluptas bonum,

    id. Fin. 1, 11, 39: finis bonorum et malorum (telos agathôn) = summa bona et mala:

    sunt nonnullae disciplinae quae, propositis bonorum et malorum finibus, officium omne pervertant. Nam qui summum bonum sic instituit ut, etc.,

    id. Off. 1, 2, 5; cf. id. Par. 1, 3, 14; id. Ac. 2, 9, 29; 2, 36, 114; 2, 42, 129; id. Fin. 1, 9, 29; 1, 12, 42; id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66; Sen. Vit. Beat. 24, 5; id. Ep. 117, 1 et saep.—
    2.
    Bonum, what is valuable, beneficial, estimable, favorable, pleasant, physically or mentally:

    quoi boni Tantum adfero quantum ipsus a diis optat,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 9:

    multa bona vobis volt facere,

    will do you much good, id. Poen. 5, 4, 60; id. Am. prol. 43, 49; id. Pers. 4, 8, 4; 2, 3, 14; id. Cas. 2, 8, 32:

    tum demum nostra intellegemus bona quom ea amisimus,

    id. Capt. 1, 2, 33:

    multa tibi di dent bona,

    id. Poen. 1, 1, 80; cf. id. ib. 3, 3, 54; 3, 3, 74; id. Mil. 3, 1, 120; id. Men. 3, 3, 34; id. Pers. 4, 3, 23; id. Truc. 1, 2, 23; id. Merc. 1, 2, 40; id. Most. 1, 1, 47:

    omnia Bona dicere,

    to speak in the highest terms of one, Ter. And. 1, 1, 70:

    sed ne vivus quidem bono caret, si eo non indiget,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

    cum quaecumque bona Peripateticis, eadem Stoicis commoda viderentur,

    id. ib. 5, 41, 120:

    nihil enim boni nosti,

    nothing that is good for any thing, id. Phil. 2, 7, 16:

    mala pro bonis legere dementia est,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 1; Val. Max. 5, 3, ext. 3 fin.; Hor. S. 1, 2, 73:

    quia bonum sit valere,

    a good thing, Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 62 (cf. III. A. 5. infra):

    melius: quo quidem haud scio an... quidquam melius sit homini a dis immortalibus datum,

    id. Lael. 6, 20:

    meliora... Aristotelem de istis rebus scripsisse,

    id. Or. 1, 10, 43:

    optimum: difficillimum est formam exponere optimi,

    id. ib. 11, 36.— Here belongs the phrase boni consulere;

    v. consulo.—So after prepositions: in bonum vertere, v. under verto: in melius ire,

    to change for the better, Tac. A. 12, 68.—In the same sense: in melius aliquid referre, or reflectere ( poet.), Verg. A. 1, 281; 11, 426; 10, 632:

    ad melius transcurrere,

    to pass over to something better, Hor. S. 2, 2, 82.—
    3.
    Bonum or bona, prosperity:

    fortiter malum qui patitur, idem post patitur bonum,

    Plaut. As. 2, 2, 58:

    nulli est homini perpetuum bonum,

    id. Curc. 1, 3, 33:

    unā tecum bona, mala tolerabimus,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 23:

    quibus in bonis fuerint et nunc quibus in malis sint, ostenditur ( = in secundis, in adversis rebus),

    Cic. Inv. 1, 55, 107.—
    4.
    Good qualities, gifts:

    omnia adsunt bona, quem penes'st virtus,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 30:

    magnis illi et divinis bonis hanc licentiam adsequebantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148:

    nisi qui se suā gravitate et castimoniā... tum etiam naturali quodam bono defenderet, etc.,

    id. Cael. 5, 11:

    hunc meā sententiā divinis quibusdam bonis instructum atque ornatum puto,

    id. ib. 17, 39:

    non intellego quod bonum cuiquam sit apud tales viros profuturum,

    id. Balb. 28, 63:

    gaude isto tuo tam excellenti bono,

    id. Marcell. 6, 19; so id. Imp. Pomp. 16, 49.—
    5.
    Advantage, benefit:

    si plus adipiscare, re explicatā, boni, quam addubitatā mali,

    Cic. Off. 1, 24, 83:

    saepe cogitavi bonine an mali plus adtulerit... eloquentiae studium,

    id. Inv. 1, 1, 1; 2, 35, 106; id. Off. 2, 2, 5; id. Sest. 10, 24:

    maximum bonum in celeritate ponebat,

    Sall. C. 43, 4; so, bono publico (abl.), for the public good:

    hoc ita si fit, publico fiat bono,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 183; Liv. 2, 44, 3; Dig. 41, 3, 1.—
    6.
    With aequum, what is fair and good, the fair ( thing), fairness, equity:

    si bonum aequomque oras,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 149; so id. Pers. 3, 1, 71; id. Rud. 1, 2, 94; id. Men. 4, 2, 11:

    si tu aliquam partem aequi bonique dixeris,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 32; id. Heaut. 4, 1, 29; id. Ad. 1, 1, 39:

    a quo vivo nec praesens nec absens quidquam aequi bonique impetravit,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 37, 94.—Hence, aequo et bono, or ex aequo et bono, in ( with) fairness, in equity, Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 30; Auct. Her. 2, 10, 14; 2, 12, 18; 2, 13, 20; Gai. Inst. 3, 137: aequi bonique, as gen. of value, with facere:

    istuc, Chreme, Aequi bonique facio,

    I place a fair and proper value on it, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 40.—
    7.
    Bona, one ' s property, fortunes, almost always denoting the whole of one's possessions.
    a.
    In gen.:

    paterna oportet reddi filio bona,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 120:

    bona sua med habiturum omnia,

    id. Truc. 2, 4, 49; cf. id. ib. 2, 7, 6; 4, 2, 29; id. Rud. 2, 6, 22; id. Most. 1, 3, 77; id. Trin. 4, 4, 3; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4:

    bona mea diripiebantur atque ad consulem deferebantur,

    Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

    cum de capite, civis et de bonis proscriptio ferretur,

    id. ib. 30, 65:

    bona, fortunas, possessiones omnium,

    id. Caecin. 13, 38:

    at mulctantur bonis exsules,

    id. Tusc. 5, 37, 106; id. Off. 2, 23, 81; id. Par. 1, 1, 7; id. Sest. 19, 42; 43, 94; 52, 111; id. Phil. 2, 26, 64; Caes. B. G. 7, 3; Liv. 2, 3, 5; 2, 5, 5; 4, 15, 8; Tac. A. 2, 48; Quint. 6, 1, 19 et saep.—
    b.
    Bonorum possessio, the possession of one ' s property by another.
    (α).
    Bonorum possessio in consequence of bonorum cessio, i. e. an assignment of one ' s property for the benefit of creditors, Dig. 42, tit. 3.—
    (β).
    Bonorum possessio granted by the prætor against a contumacious or insolvent debtor (in bona mittere, in bona ire jubere, bona possidere jubere, etc.); cf. Dig. 42, tit. 4:

    postulat a Burrieno Naevius ut ex edicto bona possidere liceat,

    Cic. Quint. 6, 25, and the whole of c. 8:

    edixit... neu quis militis... bona possideret aut venderet,

    Liv. 2, 24, 6:

    bona proscribere,

    to offer the property thus transferred for sale, Cic. Quint. 6, 25.—
    (γ).
    Chiefly referring to the property of a defunct person (hereditas), where the prætor, till the heir had proved his right, granted a bonorum possessio secundum tabulas or contra tabulas, Dig. 37, tit. 4; 37, tit. 11.—
    c.
    In bonis esse;

    with reference to the older civil law, which distinguished between civil property (habere rem ex jure Quiritium) and natural property (rem in bonis habere, res in bonis est),

    Gai. Inst. 2, 40, 41; Dig. 40, 12, 38, § 2; 37, 6, 2, § 1; 37, 6, 3, § 2; ib. Fragm. 1, 16; Gai. Inst. 1, 22; 1, 35; 1, 222; 1, 167; Dig. 1, 8, 1; 27, 10, 10:

    neque bonorum possessorum, neque... res pleno jure fiunt, sed in bonis efficiuntur,

    ib. Fragm. 3, 80.—Hence, nullam omnino arbitrabamur de eā hereditate controversiam eum habiturum, et est hodie in bonis, i. e. [p. 247] the bonorum possessio has been granted to him, which did not give full ownership, but effected only that the hereditas was in bonis. Cic. Fam. 13, 30, 1.
    III.
    Predicative use.
    A.
    With nouns or pronouns as subjects.
    1.
    Bonum esse, to be morally good, honest:

    nunc mihi bonae necessum est esse ingratiis, Quamquam esse nolo,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 82:

    bonam ego quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo,

    id. Poen. 1, 2, 93; so id. Capt. 2, 1, 44; id. Men. 4, 2, 6; id. Rud. prol. 29:

    itaque viros fortes magnanimos eosdem, bonos et simplices... esse volumus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63; cf. id. ib. 3, 21, 84; id. Att. 15, 6, 1:

    Cato esse quam videri bonus malebat,

    Sall. C. 54, 5:

    ut politiora, non ut meliora fiant ingenia,

    Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 5 fin.
    2.
    To be beneficial, prosperous, advantageous, valuable, favorable, serviceable, correct, with reference to both persons and things as subjects, and in regard to physical and mental relations:

    jam istuc non bonumst,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 29; Cato, R. R. 157:

    oleum viridius et melius fiet,

    id. ib. 3:

    vinum ut alvum bonam faciat,

    to correct the bowels, id. ib. 156:

    quid est homini salute melius?

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 127:

    non optuma haec sunt, verum meliora quam deterruma,

    id. Trin. 2, 3, 1:

    quid est quod huc possit quod melius sit accedere?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 12, 41; 1, 18, 57; id. Tusc. 1, 41, 99:

    in quo (vestitu), sicut in plerisque rebus, mediocritas optima est,

    id. Off. 1, 36, 130; 2, 17, 59; id. Inv. 1, 31, 51; id. Or. 2, 6; 11, 36:

    meliorem tamen militem... in futura proelia id certamen fecit,

    Liv. 2, 51, 3:

    parvus ut est cygni melior canor, ille gruum quam Clamor,

    Lucr. 4, 181; 4, 191:

    si meliora dies, ut vina, poemata reddit,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 34.—So in the optative formula:

    quod bonum, faustum, felixque sit,

    Liv. 1, 28, 7; 1, 17, 10; 39, 15, 1; 3, 54;

    3, 34.—Also, quod bonum atque fortunatum mihi sit,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 50;

    and with a noun as subject: ut nobis haec habitatio Bona, fausta, felix, fortunataque evenat,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 3.—
    3.
    To be kind:

    bonus cum probis'st (erus), malus cum malis,

    Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 22:

    hic si vellet bonus ac benignus Esse,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 52.—
    4.
    With reference to the gods:

    ecastor ambae (Fortuna et Salus sunt bonae,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 129:

    Palladis aut oculos ausa negare bonos (esse),

    Prop. 3, 24, 12 (2, 28, 12).—
    B.
    Impers.
    1.
    Bonum est (very rare for the class. bene est; v. bene).
    (α).
    Without a subject:

    bonum sit!

    may it be fortunate, favorable! Verg. E. 8, 106.—
    (β).
    With subject inf.:

    nam et stulte facere, et stulte fabularier in aetate haud bonum est,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 61:

    bonum est pauxillum amare, insane non bonum est,

    id. Curc. 1, 3,20.—
    2.
    Melius est.
    (α).
    With subject inf.:

    melius sanam est mentem sumere,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 51:

    nihil sentire est melius quam tam prava sentire,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125; cf. id. Fin. 1, 19, 62; id. Off. 1, 43, 156; so,

    melius fuit, fuisset, or fuerat,

    it would have been better, id. N. D. 3, 33; id. Sen. 23, 82; id. Off. 3, 25, 94:

    proinde quiesse erit melius,

    Liv. 3, 48, 3; 3, 41, 3; Verg. A. 11, 303.—
    (β).
    With subject inf.-clause:

    meliu'st te quae sunt mandata tibi praevortier,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 125; id. Men. 5, 9, 32.—
    (γ).
    With ut-clause:

    quid melius quam ut hinc intro abeam et me suspendam clanculum,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 145; so id. Ps. 4, 7, 18.—
    (δ).
    With subjectclause in the subjunctive:

    nunc quid mihi meliu'st quam ilico hic opperiar erum,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 22.—
    3.
    Optimum est.
    (α).
    With subject inf.:

    optimum visum est, captivos quam primum deportare,

    Liv. 23, 34, 8:

    si quis dicit optimum esse navigare,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 8, 4 (32 fin.); so, optimum fuit, it would have been better, and optimum erat, it would be better, Quint. 6, prooem. 3; 11, 2, 33; Hor. S. 2, 1, 7.—
    (β).
    With inf.-clause:

    constituerunt optimum esse, domum suam quemque reverti,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 10: optimum visum est, in fluctuantem aciem tradi equos, etc., Liv 6, 24, 10; 22, 27, 6.—
    (γ).
    With ut and subj:

    hoc vero optimum, ut is qui, etc., id ultimum bonorum, id ipsum quid et quale sit nesciat,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 3, 6.—
    (δ).
    With quod:

    illa vero optima (sunt) quod cum Haluntium venisset Archagathum vocari jussit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 51:

    optimum vero (est) quod dictaturae nomen in perpetuum de re publica sustulisti,

    id. Phil. 2, 36, 91.—
    (ε).
    With second sup., in the phrase optumum factu est (where factu is redundant):

    sed hoc mihi optumum factu arbitror,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 16:

    optimum factu esse duxerant frumento... nostros prohibere,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 30:

    optumum factu credens exercitum augere,

    Sall. C. 32, 1 (Kritz, factum); 57, 5 (Kritz, factum).
    IV.
    Ellipt. use: di meliora, i. e. dent or velint, i. e. let the gods grant better things than what you say, etc.; God forbid! in full:

    di melius duint,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 16:

    di meliora velint!

    Ov. M. 7, 37.—Ellipt.:

    di meliora! inquit,

    Cic. Sen. 14, 47:

    id ubi mulier audivit, perturbata, dii meliora inquit, etc.,

    Liv. 39, 10, 2; 9, 9, 6; Verg. G. 3, 513;

    similarly, di melius, i. e. fecerunt,

    Val. Max. 6, 1, ext. 3.
    V.
    With object expressed,
    1.
    By dat.
    (α).
    = good, useful, beneficial for:

    ambula, id lieni optumum est,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 25:

    quia vobis eadem quae mihi bona malaque esse intellexi,

    Sall. C. 20, 3:

    bona bello Cornus, jaculis, etc.,

    Verg. G. 2, 447.—
    (β).
    = benignus or propitius, kind to:

    vicinis bonus esto,

    Cato, R. R. 4:

    bene merenti mala es, male merenti bona es,

    Plaut. As. 1, 2, 3:

    vos o mihi Manes, Este boni,

    Verg. A. 12, 647.—
    (γ).
    = idoneus, fit for, adapted to:

    qui locus vino optimus dicetur esse,

    Cato, R. R. 6:

    tum erit ei rei optumum tempus,

    id. ib. 26:

    terra cui putre solum, Optima frumentis,

    Verg. G. 2, 205; 2, 319; 1, 286.—
    (δ).
    With sum and dat., in the phrase alicui bono est, it is of service to one, profits him:

    accusant in quibus occidi patrem Sex. Roscii bono fuit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 13:

    bono fuisse Romanis adventum eorum constabat,

    Liv. 7, 12, 4.—Hence, with rel. dat.: cui bono (est), for whose advantage it is:

    quod si quis usurpet illud Cassianum cui bono fuerit, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 35:

    cui bono fuisset,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 84; id. Mil. 12, 32 Ascon. ad loc.; cf.

    ellipt. form cui bono?

    Prisc. p. 1208 P.—
    (ε).
    With dat. gerund:

    ager oleto conserundo qui in Favonium spectavit, aliis bonus nullus erit,

    Cato, R. R. 6; Varr. R. R. 1, 24:

    (mons) quia pecori bonus alendo erat,

    Liv. 29, 31; 9, 10.—
    2.
    By ad and acc.:

    refert et ad quam rem bona aut non bona sit,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 91:

    occasio quaeritur idoneane fuerit ad rem adoriendam, an alia melior,

    Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7:

    non campos modo militi Romano ad proelium bonos, etc.,

    Tac. A. 2, 14.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > bonus

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    bŏnus (old form dŭonus, Carm. Sall. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Mull.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 67 Mull.), a, um, adj. [for duonus, cf. bellum, bis, and cf. root dvi-; hence deidô, deos], good; comp. melior, us [cf. Gr. mala, mallon], better; sup. optimus ( optumus, ante-class. and often class.) [root opof ops, opes; cf. copia, apiscor], best.
    I.
    Attributively.
    A.
    As adjunct of nouns denoting persons.
    1.
    Vir bonus.
    (α).
    A man morally good (kalos kagathos):

    quoniam boni me viri pauperant, improbi alunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 60:

    omnibus virtutibus instructos et ornatos tum sapientes, tum viros bonos dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 10, 28:

    ille vir bonus qui... intolerabili dolore lacerari potius quam aut officium prodat aut fidem,

    id. Ac. 2, 8, 23:

    sive vir bonus est is qui prodest quibus potest, nocet nemini, certe istum virum bonum non facile reperimus,

    id. Off. 3, 15, 64:

    qui se ita gerunt ut eorum probitas, fides, integritas, etc.... hos viros bonos... appellandos putemus,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    non intellegunt se de callido homine loqui, non de bono viro,

    id. Att. 7, 2, 4:

    ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 12:

    nec enim melior vir fuit Africano quisquam, nec clarior,

    id. Lael. 2, 6; id. Leg. 1, 14, 41; 1, 18, 48; id. Planc. 4, 9; id. Par. 3, 1, 21; id. Marcell. 6, 20; id. Fam. 7, 21; id. Off. 2, 16, 57.—
    (β).
    An honest man:

    justitia, ex qua viri boni nominantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 7, 21; 1, 44, 155; 2, 11, 39; 2, 12, 42; 2, 20, 71;

    3, 12, 50: cum is sponsionem fecisset ni vir bonus esset,

    id. ib. 3, 19, 77:

    quoniam Demosthenes nec vir bonus esset, nec bene meritus de civitate,

    id. Opt. Gen. 7, 20; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116.—
    (γ).
    A man of good standing in the community:

    id viri boni arbitratu deducetur,

    Cato, R. R. 143; so id. ib. 149:

    tuam partem viri bono arbitratu... dari oportet,

    Dig. 17, 1, [p. 244] 35;

    37, 6, 2, § 2: quem voles virum bonum nominato,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 55:

    vir bonus est... quo res sponsore, et quo causae teste tenentur,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 40.—Hence, ironically of wealthy men:

    praetores jus dicunt, aediles ludos parant, viri boni usuras perscribunt,

    Cic. Att. 9, 12, 3.—
    (δ).
    Ironically of bad men:

    sed eccum lenonem Lycum, bonum virum,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 52; Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 9; 4, 3, 18; id. Ad. 3, 4, 30:

    expectabam quinam isti viri boni testes hujus manifesto deprehensi veneni dicerentur,

    Cic. Cael. 26, 63:

    nam socer ejus, vir multum bonus est,

    id. Agr. 3, 3, 13;

    so especially in addresses (mostly comic.): age tu, illuc procede, bone vir!

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 1; id. Curc. 5, 2, 12; id. Ps. 4, 7, 48; id. Pers. 5, 2, 11; Ter. And. 3, 5, 10; 5, 2, 5; id. Ad. 4, 2, 17; id. Eun. 5, 2, 11:

    quid tu, vir optime? Ecquid habes quod dicas?

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 36, 104.—
    (ε).
    Sometimes boni viri = boni, in the sense of optimates (v. I. A. 3.):

    bonis viris quid juris reliquit tribunatus C. Gracchi?

    Cic. Leg. 3, 9, 20.—
    (ζ).
    As a conventional courtesy:

    homines optimi non intellegunt, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 25:

    bone accusator,

    id. Rosc. Am. 21, 58:

    sic illum amicum vocasti, quomodo omnes candidatos bonos viros dicimus,

    gentlemen, Sen. Ep. 3, 1.—For bonus vir, a good husband, v. 3.; and for vir optimus, as a laudatory epithet, v. 5.—
    2.
    Boni homines (rare) = boni, better classes of society, v. II. A. 3:

    in foro infimo boni homines atque dites ambulant,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 14.—
    3.
    With nouns denoting persons in regard to their functions, offices, occupations, and qualities, denoting excellence:

    bonus consul,

    Liv. 4, 40, 6; 22, 39, 2 (different: consules duos, bonos quidem, sed dumtaxat bonos, amisimus, consuls of good sentiments, almost = bad consuls, Cic. ad Brut. 1, 3, 4):

    boni tribuni plebis,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 10, 25:

    bonus senator,

    id. Prov. Cons. 15, 37:

    senator bonus,

    id. Dom. 4, 8:

    bonus judex,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 34:

    bonus augur (ironically),

    id. Phil. 2, 32, 80:

    bonus vates,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 27:

    bonus imperator,

    Sall. C. 60, 4:

    bonus dux,

    Quint. 12, 1, 43 (cf. trop.:

    naturam, optimam ducem,

    the best guide, Cic. Sen. 2, 5):

    bonus miles,

    Sall. C. 60, 4; Sen. Vit. Beat. 15, 5:

    bonus orator,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

    optimus orator,

    id. Opt. Gen. 1, 3:

    poeta bonus,

    id. de Or. 1, 3, 11; 2, 46, 194; id. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

    scriptor bonus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 104:

    bonus advocatus,

    id. 5, 13, 10:

    bonus defensor,

    id. 5, 13, 3:

    bonus altercator,

    a good debater, id. 6, 4, 10:

    bonus praeceptor,

    id. 5, 13, 44; 10, 5, 22:

    bonus gubernator,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100:

    optimus opifex,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 133:

    sutor bonus,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 125:

    actor optimus,

    Cic. Sest. 57, 122:

    cantor optimus est modulator,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 130:

    melior gladiator,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 33: agricola (colonus, dominus) bonus, Cato, R. R. prooem.; Cic. Sen. 16, 56:

    bonus paterfamilias,

    a thrifty head of the house, Nep. Att. 13, 1:

    bonus servus,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 58; id. Am. 2, 1, 46; id. Men. 5, 6, 1; Cic. Mil. 22, 58:

    dominus bonus,

    Cato, R. R. 14:

    bonus custos,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 38.—Ironically, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57:

    filius bonus,

    Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 9:

    patres,

    Quint. 11, 3, 178:

    parens,

    id. 6, prooem. 4: bonus (melior, optimus), viz. a good husband, Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 51 sq.; Liv. 1, 9, 15:

    uxor melior,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    amicus,

    id. Fam. 2, 15, 3:

    amicus optimus,

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 18:

    optimus testis,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 27, 2:

    auctor, in two senses,

    good authority, id. Att. 5, 12, 3;

    and = bonus scriptor (post-class.),

    Quint. 10, 1, 74.—Esp.:

    bonus civis (rarely civis bonus): in re publica ea velle quae tranquilla et honesta sint: talem enim solemus et sentire bonum civem et dicere, Cic.-Off. 1, 34, 124: eaque est summa ratio et sapientia boni civis, commoda civium non divellere, atque omnes aequitate eadem continere,

    id. ib. 2, 23, 83:

    eum esse civem et fidelem et bonum,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 15; Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 2; 1, 9, 10; 3, 12, 1; 6, 6, 11; id. Off. 1, 44, 155; Liv. 22, 39, 3; Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 10 Dietsch:

    optimus et fortissimus civis,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 3; id. Sest. 17, 39.—
    4.
    Bonus and optimus as epithets of the gods.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sed te bonus Mercurius perdat,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 23:

    fata... bonique divi,

    Hor. C. 4, 2, 38:

    divis orte bonis,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 1:

    O bone deus!

    Scrib. Comp. 84 fin.: BONORVM DEORVM, Inscr. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 84: totidem, pater optime, dixi, Tu mihi da cives, referring to Jupiter, Ov. M. 7, 627.—
    (β).
    Optimus Maximus, a standing epithet of Jupiter:

    (Juppiter) a majoribus nostris Optimus Maximus (nominatur), et quidem ante optimus, id est beneficentissimus, quam Maximus,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 25, 64:

    Jovem optimum et maximum ob eas res appellant, non quod, etc.,

    id. ib. 3, 36, 87:

    in templo Jovis Optimi Maximi,

    id. Sest. 56, 129; id. Prov. Cons. 9, 22:

    nutu Jovis Optimi Maximi,

    id. Cat. 3, 9, 21; Liv. 1, 12, 7; id. 6, 16, 2.—
    (γ).
    Di boni, O di boni, expressing indignation, sorrow, or surprise:

    di boni, hunc visitavi antidhac!

    Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 16:

    di boni, boni quid porto!

    Ter. And. 2, 2, 1:

    di boni, quid hoc morbi est,

    id. Eun. 2, 1, 19; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 13; id. Ad. 3, 3, 86:

    alter, O di boni, quam taeter incedebat!

    Cic. Sest. 8, 19; id. Brut. 84, 288; id. Phil. 2, 8, 20; 2, 32, 80; id. Att. 1, 16, 5; 14, 21, 2; Val. Max. 3, 5, 1; Sen. Vit. Beat. 2, 3.—
    (δ).
    Bona Dea, etc., v. 6.—
    5.
    Optimus as a laudatory epithet.
    (α).
    Vir optimus:

    per vos nobis, per optimos viros optimis civibus periculum inferre conantur,

    Cic. Sest. 1, 2:

    virum optimum et constantissimum M. Cispium,

    id. ib. 35, 76:

    fratrem meum, virum optimum, fortissimum,

    id. ib.:

    consolabor hos praesentes, viros optimos,

    id. Balb. 19, 44; id. Planc. 21, 51; 23, 55; id. Mil. 14, 38; id. Marcell. 4, 10; id. Att. 5, 1, 5; Hor. S. 1, 6, 53.—
    (β).
    Femina bona, optima:

    tua conjunx bona femina,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 16:

    hujus sanctissimae feminae atque optimae pater,

    id. ib. —
    (γ).
    Senex, pater, frater, etc.:

    optimus: parentes ejus, prudentissimi atque optimi senis,

    Cic. Planc. 41, 97:

    insuevit pater optimus hoc me,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 105; 2, 1, 12:

    C. Marcelli, fratris optimi,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 6; id. Q. Fr. 2, 6 (8), 2; 2, 4, 2.—
    (δ).
    With proper names ( poet.):

    optimus Vergilius,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 54:

    Maecenas optimus,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 27:

    optime Quinti,

    id. Ep. 1, 16, 1.—
    (ε).
    Esp. as an epithet of the Roman emperors:

    quid tam civile, tam senatorium quam illud, additum a nobis Optimi cognomen?

    Plin. Pan. 2, 7:

    gratias, inquit, ago, optime Princeps!

    Sen. Tranq. 14. 4:

    ex epistula optimi imperatoris Antonini,

    Gai. Inst. 1, 102; cf.:

    bene te patriae pater optime Caesar,

    Ov. F. 2, 637:

    optime Romulae Custos gentis,

    Hor. C. 4, 5, 1.—
    6.
    Bonus and Bona, names of deities.
    (α).
    Bona Dea, the goddess of Chastity, whose temple could not be entered by males (cf. Macr. S. 1, 12; Lact. 1, 22):

    Bonae Deae pulvinaribus,

    Cic. Pis. 39, 95; id. Mil. 31, 86; id. Fam. 1, 9, 15; cf.

    in mal. part.,

    Juv. 2, 86 sq.; 6, 314 sq.; 6, 335 sq.—
    (β).
    Bonus Eventus, Varr. R. R. 1, 1 med.; Amm. 29, 6, 19; Inscr. Orell. 907; 1780 sq.—
    (γ).
    Bona Fortuna:

    si bona Fortuna veniat, ne intromiseris,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 3, 22:

    Bonae Fortunae (signum),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 7:

    FORTVNAE BONAE DOMESTICAE,

    Inscr. Orell. 1743 sq. —
    (δ).
    Bona Spes:

    Spes Bona, obsecro, subventa mihi,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 12:

    BONAE SPEI,

    Aug. Inscr. Grut. 1075, 1.—
    (ε).
    BONA MENS, Inscr. Orell. 1818 sqq.:

    Mens Bona, si qua dea es, tua me in sacraria dono,

    Prop. 3, 24, 19.
    B.
    With nouns denoting things.
    1.
    Things concrete, denoting excellence:

    navis bona dicitur non quae pretiosis coloribus picta est... sed stabilis et firma,

    Sen. Ep. 76, 13:

    gladium bonum dices, non cui auratus est balteus, etc., sed cui et ad secandum subtilis acies est, et, etc.,

    id. ib. 76, 14:

    id vinum erit lene et bono colore,

    Cato, R. R. 109; Lucr. 2, 418; Ov. Am. 2, 7, 9:

    tabulas... collocare in bono lumine,

    Cic. Brut. 75, 261: ex quavis olea oleum... bonum fieri potest. Cato, R. R. 3:

    per aestatem boves aquam bonam et liquidam bibant semper curato,

    id. ib. 73; cf.:

    bonae aquae, ironically compared to wine,

    Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 28:

    praedium bonum caelum habeat,

    good temperature, Cato, R. R. 1:

    bona tempestate,

    in good weather, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4:

    (praedium) solo bono valeat,

    by good soil, Cato, R. R. 1:

    bonae (aedes) cum curantur male,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 24:

    villam bonam,

    Cic. Off. 3, 13, 55:

    bonus pons,

    Cat. 17, 5:

    scyphi optimi (= optime facti),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 14, § 32:

    perbona toreumata,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 18, §

    38: bona domicilia,

    comfortable residences, id. N. D. 2, 37, 95:

    agrum Meliorem nemo habet,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 12:

    fundum meliorem,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52: fundos optimos et fructuosissimos, id. Agr. 3, 4, 14:

    equus melior,

    id. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    bona cena,

    Cat. 13, 3:

    boni nummi,

    good, not counterfeit, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 144; Cic. Off. 3, 23, 91:

    super omnia vultus accessere boni,

    good looks, Ov. M. 8, 678:

    mulier bona forma,

    of a fine form, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 13:

    equus formae melioris,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 52:

    tam bona cervix, simul ac jussero, demetur,

    fine, beautiful, Suet. Calig. 33:

    fruges bonae,

    Cat. 34, 19:

    ova suci melioris,

    of better flavor, Hor. S. 2, 4, 13.— Trop.:

    animus aequus optimum est aerumnae condimentum,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 71: bona dextra, a lucky hand (cf.:

    bonum omen, 2. e.),

    Quint. 6, 3, 69:

    scio te bona esse voce, ne clama nimis,

    good, sound, loud voice, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 43; so,

    bona firmaque vox,

    Quint. 11, 3, 13.—
    2.
    Things abstract.
    a.
    Of physical well-being:

    ut si qui neget sine bona valetudine posse bene vivi,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 51, 93; Sen. Vit. Beat. 22, 2; Lucr. 3, 102; Val. Max. 2, 5, 6; Quint. 10, 3, 26; 11, 2, 35 et saep.:

    non bonus somnus de prandio est,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 8:

    bona aetas,

    prime of life, Cic. Sen. 14, 48:

    optima aetate,

    id. Fam. 10, 3, 3.—Ironically:

    bona, inquis, aetate, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 76, 1.—
    b.
    Of the mind and soul:

    meliore esse sensu,

    Cic. Sest. 21, 47:

    optima indoles,

    id. Fin. 5, 22, 61:

    bona conscientia,

    Quint. 6, 1, 33; 9, 2, 93; Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 5:

    bono ingenio me esse ornatam quam auro multo mavolo,

    with a good heart, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 91; id. Stich. 1, 21, 59; Sall. C. 10, 5:

    mens melior,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 78; Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13; Liv. 39, 16, 5; Sen. Ben. 1, 11, 4; id. Ep. 10, 4; Pers. 2, 8; Petr. 61.—Personified, Prop. 3 (4), 24, 19; Ov. Am. 1, 2, 31:

    duos optimae indolis filios,

    Val. Max. 5, 7, 2; Sen. Ben. 6, 16, 6; Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    bonum consilium,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 6; id. Rud. 4, 3, 18; Cic. Off. 1, 33, 121:

    bona voluntas,

    a good purpose, Quint. 12, 11, 31:

    memoria bona,

    Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

    bona ratio cum perdita... confligit,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 25:

    bonae rationes,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 50:

    pronuntiatio bona,

    Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—
    c.
    Of moral relations:

    ego si bonam famam mihi servasso, sat ero dives,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 71; Cic. Sest. 66, 139; Liv. 6, 11, 7; Hor. S. 1, 2, 61 (cf. Cic. Att. 7, 26, 1;

    v. e. infra): si ego in causa tam bona cessi tribuni plebis furori,

    Cic. Sest. 16, 36; id. Planc. 36, 87; Ov. M. 5, 220:

    fac, sis, bonae frugi sies,

    of good, regular habits, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 35; id. Cas. 2, 4, 5; 2, 5, 19; id. Ps. 1, 5, 53; id. Truc. 1, 1, 13; id. Capt. 5, 2, 3 sq. (v. frux, II. B. 1. b.): vilicus disciplina bona utatur. Cato, R. R. 5:

    bona studia,

    moral pursuits, Auct. Her. 4, 17, 25:

    quidquid vita meliore parasti,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 15: ad spem mortis melioris, an honorable death; so as an epithet of religious exercises:

    Juppiter, te bonas preces precor,

    Cato, R. R. 134; 139.—
    d.
    Of external, artistic, and literary value and usefulness:

    bono usui estis nulli,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 15:

    Optumo optume optumam operam das,

    id. Am. 1, 1, 122:

    bonam dedistis mihi operam,

    a valuable service to me, id. Poen. 2, 3, 70; 3, 6, 11; id. Pers. 4, 7, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 11 (in a different sense: me bona opera aut mala Tibi inventurum esse auxilium argentarium, by fair or unfair means, id. Ps. 1, 1, 102;

    v. e. infra): optima hereditas a patribus traditur liberis... gloria virtutis rerumque gestarum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 33, 121:

    bonum otium,

    valuable leisure, Sall. C. 4, 1:

    bonis versibus,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

    versus meliores,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 81:

    meliora poemata,

    Hor. A. P. 303:

    in illa pro Ctesiphonte oratione longe optima,

    Cic. Or. 8, 26:

    optimas fabulas,

    id. Off. 1, 31, 114:

    melius munus,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 7.—
    e.
    Favorable, prosperous, lucky, fortunate:

    de Procilio rumores non boni,

    unfavorable rumors, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 5:

    bona de Domitio, praeclara de Afranio fama est,

    about their success in the war, id. ib. 7, 26, 1:

    si fuisset in discipulo comparando meliore fortuna,

    id. Pis. 29, 71; cf.

    fortuna optima esse,

    to be in the best pecuniary circumstances, id. ad Brut. 1, 1, 2:

    occasio tam bona,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 9:

    senex est eo meliore condicione quam adulesoens cum, etc.,

    Cic. Sen. 19, 68; id. Fam. 4, 32:

    bona navigatio,

    id. N. D. 3, 34, 83;

    esp. in phrase bona spes.—Object.: ergo in iis adulescentibus bonam spem esse dicemus et magnam indolem quos, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 117.—Subject.:

    ego sum spe bona,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 28, 3; id. Cat. 2, 11, 25; [p. 245] id. Att. 14, 1 a, 3; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16:

    optima spe,

    id. Fam. 12, 11, 2.—Pregn., = spes bonarum rerum, Sall. C. 21, 1;

    v. C. 1. c. infra: meliora responsa,

    more favorable, Liv. 7, 21, 6:

    melior interpretatio,

    Tac. H. 3, 65:

    cum laude et bonis recordationibus,

    id. A. 4, 38:

    amnis Doctus iter melius,

    i. e. less injurious, Hor. A. P. 68:

    omen bonum,

    a good, lucky omen, Cic. Pis. 13, 31; cf.

    Liv. praef. § 13: melius omen,

    Ov. F. 1, 221;

    optimum,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 2:

    bona scaeva,

    Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 24:

    auspicio optumo,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 6; cf.:

    memini bene, sed meliore Tempore dicam = opportuniore tempore,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 68.—
    f.
    Of public affairs, si mihi bona re publica frui non licuerit, Cic. Mil. 34, 93:

    optima res publica,

    id. Or. 1, 1, 1; id. Phil. 1, 8, 19:

    minus bonis temporibus,

    id. Dom. 4, 8; so,

    optimis temporibus,

    id. Sest. 3, 6:

    nostrae res meliore loco videbantur,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 3, 1:

    lex optima,

    id. Pis. 16, 37; id. Sest. 64, 137; id. Phil, 1, 8, 19.—
    g.
    Good = large, considerable:

    bono atque amplo lucro,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 6:

    bona librorum copia,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 109; cf.:

    bona copia cornu,

    Ov. M. 9, 88; v. bona pars, C. 8. g.—
    h.
    Noble; with genus, good family, noble extraction, honorable birth: quali me arbitraris genere prognatum? Eu. Bono, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 35; so id. Ep. 1, 2, 4; 2, 1, 3; id. Pers. 4, 4, 94:

    si bono genere natus sit,

    Auct. Her. 3, 7, 13.—
    k.
    Referring to good-will, kindness, faithfulness, in certain phrases.
    (α).
    Bona venia or cum bona venia, with the kind permission of a person addressed, especially bona venia orare, expetere, etc.:

    primum abs te hoc bona venia expeto,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 31:

    bona tua venia dixerim,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 34:

    oravit bona venia Quirites, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 41, 3:

    obsecro vos.. bona venia vestra liceat, etc.,

    id. 6, 40, 10:

    cum bona venia quaeso audiatis, etc.,

    id. 29, 17, 6; Arn. c. Gent. 1, p. 5; cf.

    . sed des veniam bonus oro = venia bona oro,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 5.—
    (β).
    Bona pax, without quarrelling:

    bona pax sit potius,

    let us have no quarrel about that, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 7;

    so especially cum bona pace, or bona pace: Hannibal ad Alpis cum bona pace incolentium... pervenit,

    without a difficulty with the inhabitants, Liv. 21, 32, 6; 21, 24, 5; 1, 24, 3; 28, 37, 4; 8, 15, 1; cf.: si bonam (pacem) dederitis, = a fair peace, under acceptable conditions, id. 8, 21, 4.—
    (γ).
    Amicitia bona = bona fide servata, faithful, undisturbed friendship:

    igitur amicitia Masinissae bona atque honesta nobis permansit,

    Sall. J. 5, 5.—
    (δ).
    Bona societas, alliance:

    Segestes, memoria bonae societatis, impavidus,

    Tac. A. 1, 58.
    C.
    In particular phrases.
    1.
    Bonae res.
    a.
    = Vitae commoda, comforts of life, abstract or concrete:

    concedatur bonis rebus homines morte privari,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 87:

    optimis rebus usus est,

    he had every most desirable thing, Nep. Att. 18, 1.—
    b.
    = Res secundae, opp. res adversae, prosperity:

    bonis rebus tuis, meas irrides malas,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 45:

    in bonis rebus,

    Hor. C. 2, 3, 2. —
    c.
    Res bona = res familiaris bona, wealth ( poet.): in re bona esse, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4.—Also an object of value:

    homines quibus mala abunde omnia erant, sed neque res neque spes bona ulla,

    who had no property, nor the hope of any, Sall. C. 21, 1. —
    d.
    Costly things, articles of luxury:

    capere urbem in Arabia plenam bonarum rerum,

    Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 46; 4, 4, 82:

    nimium rei bonae,

    id. Stich. 2, 3, 55:

    ignorantia bonarum rerum,

    Nep. Ages. 8, 5 ' bonis rebus gaudere, Hor. S. 2, 6, 110:

    re bona copiosum esse,

    Gell. 16, 19, 7.—
    e.
    Moral, morally good:

    illi cum res non bonas tractent,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 72:

    ut de virtutibus et vitiis, omninoque de bonis rebus et malis quaererent,

    id. ib. 1, 4, 15:

    quid habemus in rebus bonis et malis explorati?

    id. ib. 2, 42, 129; so id. Or. 1, 10, 42; id. Leg. 1, 22, 58:

    quae tamen omnia dulciora fuint et moribus bonis et artibus,

    id. Sen. 18, 65.—
    f.
    In literary composition, important or interesting matter, subjects, or questions:

    res bonas verbis electis dictas quis non legat?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 8:

    studiis generorum, praesertim in re bona,

    Plaut. Am. 8, 26.—
    2.
    Bonae artes.
    (α).
    A good, laudable way of dealing:

    qui praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit,

    Sall. C. 2, 9:

    huic bonae artes desunt, dolis atque fallaciis contendit,

    id. ib. 11, 2:

    quod is bonarum artium cupiens erat,

    Tac. A. 6, 46.—
    (β).
    Liberal arts and sciences:

    litteris aut ulli bonae arti,

    Quint. 12, 1, 7:

    conservate civem bonarum artium, bonarum partium, bonorum virorum,

    Cic. Sest. 32, 77. —Esp.:

    optimae artes: optimarum artium scientia,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 4; id. Ac. 2, 1, 1; id. Cael. 10, 24; id. Marcell. 1, 4.—
    3.
    Bona fides, or fides bona.
    a.
    Good faith, i. e. conscious honesty in acts or words: qui nummos fide bona solvit, who pays (the price of labor) in good faith, i. e. as it is honestly earned, Cato, R. R. 14:

    dic, bona fide, tu id aurum non subripuisti?

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 46; 4, 10, 47; id. Capt. 4, 2, 111; id. Most. 3, 1, 137; id. Poen. 1, 3, 30; id. Pers. 4, 3, 16; id. Ps. 4, 6, 33:

    si tibi optima fide omnia concessit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 144; Quint. 10, 3, 23.—Hence, bonae fidei vir, a conscientious man, Quint. 10, 7, 1.—
    b.
    Jurid. t. t.
    (α).
    Good faith in contracts and legal acts in general, opposed to dolus malus, honesty and fairness in dealing with another:

    ad fidem bonam statuit pertinere, notum esse emptori vitium quod nosset venditor,

    Cic. Off. 3, 16, 67.—Hence, alienam rem bona fide emere, to buy, believing the seller to be the rightful owner, Dig. 41, 3, 10; 41, 3, 13, § 1. bonae fidei possessor (also possessio), believing that he is the rightful owner, ib. 5, 3, 25, § 11; 5, 3, 22; 41, 3, 15, § 2;

    41, 3, 24: conventio contra bonam fidem et mores bonos,

    ib. 16, 31, § 7: bonam fidem praestare, to be responsible for one ' s good faith, ib. 17, 1, 10 prooem.—Hence,
    (β).
    Bonae fidei actiones or judicia, actions in equity, i. e. certain classes of actions in which the strict civil law was set aside by the praetorian edict in favor of equity:

    actiones quaedam bonae fidei sunt, quaedam stricti juris. Bonae fidei sunt haec: exempto vendito, locato conducto, etc.,

    Just. Inst. 4, 6, 28, § 19.—In the republican time the praetor added in such actions to his formula for the judex the words ex fide bona, or, in full:

    quidquid dare facere oportet ex fide bona,

    Cic. Off. 3, 16, 66:

    iste dolus malus et legibus erat vindicatus, et sine lege, judiciis in quibus additur ex fide bona,

    id. ib. 3, 15, 61; cf. id. ib. 3, 17, 70.—
    4.
    Bona verba.
    (α).
    Kind words:

    Bona verba quaeso,

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 33.—
    (β).
    Words of good omen (v. omen):

    dicamus bona verba,

    Tib. 2, 2, 1:

    dicite suffuso ter bona verba mero,

    Ov. F. 2, 638.—
    (γ).
    Elegant or well-chosen expressions:

    quid est tam furiosum quam verborum vel optimorum atque ornatissimorum sonitus inanis,

    Cic. Or. 1, 12, 51:

    verborum bonorum cursu,

    id. Brut. 66, 233:

    omnia verba sunt alicubi optima,

    Quint. 10, 1, 9.—
    (δ).
    Moral sayings:

    non est quod contemnas bona verba et bonis cogitationibus plena praecordia,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 1. —
    5.
    Bona dicta.
    (α).
    Polite, courteous language:

    hoc petere me precario a vobis jussit leniter dictis bonis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 25.—
    (β).
    Witticisms ( bon-mots): flammam a sapiente facilius ore in ardente opprimi, quam bona dicta teneat, Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 2, 54, 222:

    dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus quibus solebam menstruales epulas ante adipiscier,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 22:

    ibo intro ad libros ut discam de dictis melioribus,

    id. Stich. 2, 3, 75.—
    6.
    Bona facta.
    (α).
    = bene facta (v. bene, I. B. 2. b.), laudable deeds:

    nobilitas ambobus et majorum bona facta (sc. erant),

    Tac. A. 3, 40.—
    (β).
    Bonum factum est, colloq., = bene est, bene factum est (v. bene, I. B. 2. b.):

    bonum factum est, ut edicta servetis mea,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 16:

    haec imperata quae sunt pro imperio histrico, bonum hercle factum (est) pro se quisque ut meminerit,

    id. ib. 45.— Hence,
    (γ).
    Elliptically, introducing commands which cannot be enforced, = if you will do so, it will be well:

    peregrinis in senatum allectis, libellus propositus est: bonum factum, ne quis senatori novo curiam monstrare velit,

    Suet. Caes. 80:

    et Chaldaeos edicere: bonum factum, ne Vitellius... usquam esset,

    id. Vit. 14:

    hac die Carthaginem vici: bonum factum, in Capitolium eamus, et deos supplicemus,

    Aur. Vict. 49; cf.:

    o edictum, cui adscribi non poterit bonum factum,

    Tert. Pud. 1.—
    7.
    Bona gratia.
    (α).
    A friendly understanding:

    cur non videmus inter nos haec potius cum bona Ut componantur gratia quam cum mala?

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 17; so,

    per gratiam bonam abire,

    to part with good feelings, Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 33.—In jest: sine bona gratia abire, of things cast away, Plaut Truc. 2, 7, 15.—
    (β).
    Pleon., in the phrase bonam gratiam habere, = gratiam habere, to thank (v. B. 2. k.), Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 32; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 99.—
    8.
    Bona pars.
    (α).
    The well-disposed part of a body of persons:

    ut plerumque fit, major pars (i. e. of the senate) meliorem vicit,

    Liv. 21, 4, 1:

    pars melior senatus ad meliora responsa trahere,

    id. 7, 21, 6.—
    (β).
    The good party, i. e. the optimates (gen. in plur.):

    civem bonarum partium,

    Cic. Sest. 32, 77:

    (fuit) meliorum partium aliquando,

    id. Cael. 6, 13:

    qui sibi gratiam melioris partis velit quaesitam,

    Liv. 2, 44, 3.—Paronom.: (Roscius) semper partium in re publica tam quam in scaena optimarum, i. e. party and part in a drama, Cic. Sest. 56, 120.—
    (γ).
    Of things or persons, a considerable part (cf. a good deal):

    bonam partem ad te adtulit,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 43:

    bonam partem sermonis in hunc diem esse dilatam,

    Cic. Or. 2, 3, 14:

    bonam magnamque partem exercitus,

    Val. Max. 5, 2, ext. 4:

    bona pars noctium,

    Quint. 12, 11, 19:

    bona pars hominum,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 61:

    meae vocis... bona pars,

    id. C. 4, 2, 46; so id. A. P. 297; Ov. P. 1, 8, 74:

    melior pars diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156.—
    (δ).
    Rarely, and mostly eccl. Lat.: optima pars, the best part or lot:

    nostri melior pars animus est,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, prooem. § 14; cf.:

    quae pars optima est in homine,

    best, most valuable, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 67:

    major pars aetatis, certe melior reipublicae data sit,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 18, 1:

    Maria optimam partem elegit, quae non auferetur ab ea,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 42.—
    (ε).
    Adverb.:

    bonam partem = ex magna parte,

    Lucr. 6, 1249.—
    (ζ).
    Aliquem in optimam partem cognoscere, to know somebody from his most favorable side, Cic. Off. 2, 13, 46: aliquid in optimam partem accipere, to take something in good part, interpret it most favorably:

    Caesar mihi ignoscit quod non venerim, seseque in optimam partem id accipere dicit,

    id. Att. 10, 3 a, 2; id. ad Brut. 1, 2, 3:

    quaeso ut hoc in bonam partem accipias,

    id. Rosc. Am. 16, 45.—
    9.
    Dies bonus or bona.
    (α).
    A day of good omen, a fortunate day (= dies laetus, faustus):

    tum tu igitur die bono, Aphrodisiis, addice, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. 2, 49:

    nunc dicenda bona sunt bona verba die,

    Ov. F. 1, 72.—
    (β).
    A beautiful, serene day, Sen. Vit. Beat. 22, 3.—
    10.
    Bonus mos.
    (α).
    Boni mores, referring to individuals, good, decent, moral habits:

    nihil est amabilius quam morum similitudo bonorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 56:

    nam hic nimium morbus mores invasit bonos,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 6:

    domi militiaeque boni mores colebantur,

    Sall. C. 9, 1:

    propter ejus suavissimos et optimos mores,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13:

    cum per tot annos matronae optimis moribus vixerint,

    Liv. 34, 6, 9:

    mores meliores,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 18.—
    (β).
    Bonus mos or boni mores, in the abstract, morality, the laws, rules of morality: ei vos morigerari mos bonu'st, it is a rule of morality that you should, etc., Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 4:

    ex optimo more et sanctissima disciplina,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 69:

    neglegentia boni moris,

    Sen. Ep. 97, 1.—Jurid. t. t.:

    conventio, mandatum contra bonos mores,

    in conflict with morality, Quint. 3, 1, 57; Dig. 16, 3, 1, § 7; Gai. Inst. 3, 157 et saep. —
    11.
    Adverbial phrases.
    a.
    Bono animo esse, or bonum animum habere.
    (α).
    To be of good cheer or courage:

    bono animo es! Liberabit ille te homo,

    Plaut. Merc 3, 1, 33; so id. Aul. 4, 10, 61; id. Mil. 4, 8, 32; id. Rud. 3, 3, 17; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 4; id. Heaut. 4, 6, 18; id. Ad. 2, 4, 20; 3, 5, 1; 4, 2, 4; 4, 5, 62; id. Phorm. 5, 8, 72:

    animo bono es,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 103; id. Am. 2, 2, 48; 5, 2, 1:

    bono animo es, inquit Scrofa, et fiscinam expedi,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 26:

    bono animo sint et tui et mei familiares,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 18, 1; 6, 10, 29:

    bono animo esse jubere eam consul,

    Liv. 39, 13, 7:

    habe modo bonum animum,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 58; so id. Am. 1, 3, 47; id. Truc. 2, 6, 44; id. Aul. 2, 2, 15:

    habe animum bonum,

    id. Cas. 2, 6, 35; id. Ep. 2, 2, 1; 4, 2, 31:

    bonum animum habe,

    Liv. 45, 8, 5:

    clamor ortus ut bonum animum haberet,

    id. 8, 32, 1; so Sen. Ep. 87, 38.—
    (β).
    Bono animo esse, or facere aliquid, to be of a good or friendly disposition, or to do with good, honest intentions:

    audire jubet vos imperator histricus, bonoque ut animo sedeant in subselliis qui, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 5: sunt enim (consules) [p. 246] optimo animo, summo consilio, of the best disposition, Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 2:

    bono te animo tum populus Romanus... dicere existimavit ea quae sentiebatis, sed, etc.,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 56:

    quod nondum bono animo in populum Romanum viderentur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6; Quint. 7, 4, 15.—
    (γ).
    Bonus animus, good temper, patience:

    bonus animus in mala re dimidium mali est,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 37:

    vos etiam hoc animo meliore feratis,

    Ov. M. 9, 433.—
    b.
    Bono modo.
    (α).
    = placide, with composure, moderation:

    si quis quid deliquerit, pro noxa bono modo vindicet,

    Cato, R. R. 5:

    haec tibi tam sunt defendenda quam moenia, mihi autem bono modo, tantum quantum videbitur,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 44, 137.—
    (β).
    In a decent manner:

    neu quisquam prohibeto filium quin amet... quod bono fiat modo,

    Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 62. —
    c.
    Jure optimo or optimo jure, with good, perfect right:

    te ipse jure optumo incuses licet,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 23; id. Rud. 2, 6, 53:

    ut jure optimo me deserere posses,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6; Sen. Ot. Sap. 2 (29), 2.—With pass. or intr. verb, deservedly:

    ne jure optimo irrideamur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 31, 111; cf. id. ib. 1, 42, 151; id. Marcell. 1, 4;

    similarly, optimo judicio,

    Val. Max. 2, 9, 2.
    II.
    As subst.
    A.
    bŏnus, boni, m.; of persons.
    1.
    In sing. or plur. orig. = bonus vir, boni viri; v. I. A. 1. a. b, supra, a morally good man.
    (α).
    Plur.:

    bonis quod bene fit haud perit,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 2; id. Capt. 2, 2, 108; id. Trin. 2, 1, 55; id. Pers. 4, 5, 2:

    melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos beneficium collocari puto,

    Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71:

    verum esse ut bonos boni diligant, quamobrem... bonis inter bonos quasi necessariam (esse) benevolentiam,

    id. Lael. 14, 50:

    diverso itinere malos a bonis loca taetra... habere,

    Sall. C. 52, 13; 7, 2; 52, 22:

    oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 52:

    tam bonis quam malis conduntur urbes,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 28, 4; so id. Vit. Beat. 15, 6; Quint. 9, 2, 76.—Rarely bŏnae, arum, f., good women:

    quia omnes bonos bonasque adcurare addecet, etc.,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 41.—
    (β).
    Sing.:

    malus bonum malum esse volt ut sit sui similis,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 8:

    nec enim cuique bono mali quidquam evenire potest,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 99; cf.:

    qui meliorem audax vocet in jus,

    Hor. S. 2, 5, 29.—
    2.
    Bonus, a man of honor.
    (α).
    A brave man:

    pro qua (patria) quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere si ei sit profuturus?

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57:

    libertatem quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittat,

    Sall. C. 33, 5:

    fortes creantur fortibus et bonis,

    Hor. C. 4, 4, 29 (opp. ignavi):

    fama impari boni atque ignavi erant,

    Sall. J. 57, 6; 53, 8; id. C. 11, 2. —
    (β).
    A gentleman:

    quis enim umquam, qui paululum modo bonorum consuetudinem nosset, litteras ad se ab amico missas... in medium protulit?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 7.—
    3.
    Boni, the better (i. e. higher) classes of society.
    (α).
    In gen. (of political sentiments, = optimates, opp. populares, seditiosi, perditi cives, etc.;

    so usu. in Cic.): meam causam omnes boni proprie enixeque susceperant,

    Cic. Sest. 16, 38:

    audaces homines et perditi nutu impelluntur... boni, nescio quomodo, tardiores sunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 47, 100:

    ego Kal. Jan. senatum et bonos omnes legis agrariae... metu liberavi,

    id. Pis. 2, 4:

    etenim omnes boni, quantum in ipsis fuit, Caesarem occiderunt,

    id. Phil. 2, 13, 29; id. Fam. 5, 2, 8; 5, 21, 2; id. Sest. 2, 5; 16, 36; 48, 103; id. Planc. 35, 86; id. Mil. 2, 5; id. Off. 2. 12, 43:

    maledictis increpat omnes bonos,

    Sall. C. 21, 4; 19, 2; 33, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 22; so,

    optimi,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 17, 37; and, ironically, boni identified with the rich:

    bonorum, id est lautorum et locupletum,

    id. Att. 8, 1, 3.—
    (β).
    Without reference to political views;

    opp. vulgus (rare): nihil ego istos moror fatuos mores quibus boni dedecorant se,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 22:

    semper in civitate quibus opes nullae sunt bonis invident,

    Sall. C. 37, 3:

    elatus est sine ulla pompa funeris, comitantibus omnibus bonis, maxima vulgi frequentia,

    Nep. Att. 22, 2.—So, mĕlĭōres, um, m., one ' s betters:

    ut quaestui habeant male loqui melioribus,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 13:

    da locum melioribus,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 37.—
    4.
    Boni, bone, in addresses, as an expression of courtesy, Hor. S. 2, 2, 1; 2, 6, 51; 2, 6, 95; id. Ep. 2, 2, 37; ironice, id. S. 2, 3, 31.—
    5.
    Optimus quisque = quivis bonus, omnes boni.
    (α).
    Referring to morality:

    esse aliquid natura pulcrum quod optimus quisque sequeretur,

    every good man, Cic. Sen. 13, 43:

    qui ita se gerebant ut sua consilia optimo cuique probarent, optimates habebantur,

    id. Sest. 45, 96; id. Off. 1, 43, 154; id. Fin. 1, 7, 24; id. Sest. 54, 115; and = even the best:

    quare deus optimum quemque mala valetudine adficit?

    Sen. Prov. 4, 8.—
    (β).
    Of the educated classes:

    adhibenda est quaedam reverentia adversus homines, et optimi cujusque et reliquorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 28, 99; cf. id. ib. 1, 25, 85:

    Catilina plerisque consularibus, praeterea optumo cuique, litteras mittit,

    Sall. C. 34, 2:

    optimo cuique infesta libertas,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 8, 2 (32 fin.).—
    (γ).
    Honorable, brave:

    optumus quisque cadere et sauciari, ceteris metus augeri,

    Sall. J. 92, 8.—
    (δ).
    In gen., excellent:

    optimus quisque facere quam dicere... malebat,

    Sall. C. 8, 5.—
    (ε).
    Distributively:

    ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur,

    to the best man in each instance, Sall. C. 2, 6.—
    (ζ).
    Referring to another superlative ( = quo quisque melior eo magis, etc.):

    hic aditus laudis qui semper optimo cuique maxime patuit,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1; so id. Lael. 4, 14; id. Inv. 2, 11, 36; Sen. Vit. Beat. 18, 1.—
    (η).
    Attributively, with a noun:

    optimam quamque causam,

    Cic. Sest. 43, 93:

    optima quaeque dies,

    Verg. G. 3, 66.
    2.
    bŏnum, i, n., plur. bona; mĕlĭus, ōris, n.; optĭmum, i, n. (v. infra); of things in gen.
    1.
    Bonum, or plur. bona, a good, or goods in a moral and metaphysical sense, a moral good, a blessing: sunt autem hae de finibus defensae sententiae: nihil bonum nisi honestum, ut Stoici; nihil bonum nisi voluptatem, ut Epicurus;

    nihil bonum nisi vacuitatem doloris, ut Hieronymus... tria genera bonorum, maxima animi, secunda corporis, externa tertia, ut Peripatetici, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 30, 84 sq.:

    quid est igitur bonum? Si quid recte fit et honeste et cum virtute, id bene fieri vere dicitur, et quod rectum et honestum et cum virtute est, id solum opinor bonum,

    id. Par. 1, 1, 9:

    ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud simplex et verum bonum quod non possit ab honestate sejungi,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

    non-est igitur voluptas bonum,

    id. Fin. 1, 11, 39: finis bonorum et malorum (telos agathôn) = summa bona et mala:

    sunt nonnullae disciplinae quae, propositis bonorum et malorum finibus, officium omne pervertant. Nam qui summum bonum sic instituit ut, etc.,

    id. Off. 1, 2, 5; cf. id. Par. 1, 3, 14; id. Ac. 2, 9, 29; 2, 36, 114; 2, 42, 129; id. Fin. 1, 9, 29; 1, 12, 42; id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66; Sen. Vit. Beat. 24, 5; id. Ep. 117, 1 et saep.—
    2.
    Bonum, what is valuable, beneficial, estimable, favorable, pleasant, physically or mentally:

    quoi boni Tantum adfero quantum ipsus a diis optat,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 9:

    multa bona vobis volt facere,

    will do you much good, id. Poen. 5, 4, 60; id. Am. prol. 43, 49; id. Pers. 4, 8, 4; 2, 3, 14; id. Cas. 2, 8, 32:

    tum demum nostra intellegemus bona quom ea amisimus,

    id. Capt. 1, 2, 33:

    multa tibi di dent bona,

    id. Poen. 1, 1, 80; cf. id. ib. 3, 3, 54; 3, 3, 74; id. Mil. 3, 1, 120; id. Men. 3, 3, 34; id. Pers. 4, 3, 23; id. Truc. 1, 2, 23; id. Merc. 1, 2, 40; id. Most. 1, 1, 47:

    omnia Bona dicere,

    to speak in the highest terms of one, Ter. And. 1, 1, 70:

    sed ne vivus quidem bono caret, si eo non indiget,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

    cum quaecumque bona Peripateticis, eadem Stoicis commoda viderentur,

    id. ib. 5, 41, 120:

    nihil enim boni nosti,

    nothing that is good for any thing, id. Phil. 2, 7, 16:

    mala pro bonis legere dementia est,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 1; Val. Max. 5, 3, ext. 3 fin.; Hor. S. 1, 2, 73:

    quia bonum sit valere,

    a good thing, Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 62 (cf. III. A. 5. infra):

    melius: quo quidem haud scio an... quidquam melius sit homini a dis immortalibus datum,

    id. Lael. 6, 20:

    meliora... Aristotelem de istis rebus scripsisse,

    id. Or. 1, 10, 43:

    optimum: difficillimum est formam exponere optimi,

    id. ib. 11, 36.— Here belongs the phrase boni consulere;

    v. consulo.—So after prepositions: in bonum vertere, v. under verto: in melius ire,

    to change for the better, Tac. A. 12, 68.—In the same sense: in melius aliquid referre, or reflectere ( poet.), Verg. A. 1, 281; 11, 426; 10, 632:

    ad melius transcurrere,

    to pass over to something better, Hor. S. 2, 2, 82.—
    3.
    Bonum or bona, prosperity:

    fortiter malum qui patitur, idem post patitur bonum,

    Plaut. As. 2, 2, 58:

    nulli est homini perpetuum bonum,

    id. Curc. 1, 3, 33:

    unā tecum bona, mala tolerabimus,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 23:

    quibus in bonis fuerint et nunc quibus in malis sint, ostenditur ( = in secundis, in adversis rebus),

    Cic. Inv. 1, 55, 107.—
    4.
    Good qualities, gifts:

    omnia adsunt bona, quem penes'st virtus,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 30:

    magnis illi et divinis bonis hanc licentiam adsequebantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148:

    nisi qui se suā gravitate et castimoniā... tum etiam naturali quodam bono defenderet, etc.,

    id. Cael. 5, 11:

    hunc meā sententiā divinis quibusdam bonis instructum atque ornatum puto,

    id. ib. 17, 39:

    non intellego quod bonum cuiquam sit apud tales viros profuturum,

    id. Balb. 28, 63:

    gaude isto tuo tam excellenti bono,

    id. Marcell. 6, 19; so id. Imp. Pomp. 16, 49.—
    5.
    Advantage, benefit:

    si plus adipiscare, re explicatā, boni, quam addubitatā mali,

    Cic. Off. 1, 24, 83:

    saepe cogitavi bonine an mali plus adtulerit... eloquentiae studium,

    id. Inv. 1, 1, 1; 2, 35, 106; id. Off. 2, 2, 5; id. Sest. 10, 24:

    maximum bonum in celeritate ponebat,

    Sall. C. 43, 4; so, bono publico (abl.), for the public good:

    hoc ita si fit, publico fiat bono,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 183; Liv. 2, 44, 3; Dig. 41, 3, 1.—
    6.
    With aequum, what is fair and good, the fair ( thing), fairness, equity:

    si bonum aequomque oras,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 149; so id. Pers. 3, 1, 71; id. Rud. 1, 2, 94; id. Men. 4, 2, 11:

    si tu aliquam partem aequi bonique dixeris,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 32; id. Heaut. 4, 1, 29; id. Ad. 1, 1, 39:

    a quo vivo nec praesens nec absens quidquam aequi bonique impetravit,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 37, 94.—Hence, aequo et bono, or ex aequo et bono, in ( with) fairness, in equity, Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 30; Auct. Her. 2, 10, 14; 2, 12, 18; 2, 13, 20; Gai. Inst. 3, 137: aequi bonique, as gen. of value, with facere:

    istuc, Chreme, Aequi bonique facio,

    I place a fair and proper value on it, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 40.—
    7.
    Bona, one ' s property, fortunes, almost always denoting the whole of one's possessions.
    a.
    In gen.:

    paterna oportet reddi filio bona,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 120:

    bona sua med habiturum omnia,

    id. Truc. 2, 4, 49; cf. id. ib. 2, 7, 6; 4, 2, 29; id. Rud. 2, 6, 22; id. Most. 1, 3, 77; id. Trin. 4, 4, 3; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4:

    bona mea diripiebantur atque ad consulem deferebantur,

    Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

    cum de capite, civis et de bonis proscriptio ferretur,

    id. ib. 30, 65:

    bona, fortunas, possessiones omnium,

    id. Caecin. 13, 38:

    at mulctantur bonis exsules,

    id. Tusc. 5, 37, 106; id. Off. 2, 23, 81; id. Par. 1, 1, 7; id. Sest. 19, 42; 43, 94; 52, 111; id. Phil. 2, 26, 64; Caes. B. G. 7, 3; Liv. 2, 3, 5; 2, 5, 5; 4, 15, 8; Tac. A. 2, 48; Quint. 6, 1, 19 et saep.—
    b.
    Bonorum possessio, the possession of one ' s property by another.
    (α).
    Bonorum possessio in consequence of bonorum cessio, i. e. an assignment of one ' s property for the benefit of creditors, Dig. 42, tit. 3.—
    (β).
    Bonorum possessio granted by the prætor against a contumacious or insolvent debtor (in bona mittere, in bona ire jubere, bona possidere jubere, etc.); cf. Dig. 42, tit. 4:

    postulat a Burrieno Naevius ut ex edicto bona possidere liceat,

    Cic. Quint. 6, 25, and the whole of c. 8:

    edixit... neu quis militis... bona possideret aut venderet,

    Liv. 2, 24, 6:

    bona proscribere,

    to offer the property thus transferred for sale, Cic. Quint. 6, 25.—
    (γ).
    Chiefly referring to the property of a defunct person (hereditas), where the prætor, till the heir had proved his right, granted a bonorum possessio secundum tabulas or contra tabulas, Dig. 37, tit. 4; 37, tit. 11.—
    c.
    In bonis esse;

    with reference to the older civil law, which distinguished between civil property (habere rem ex jure Quiritium) and natural property (rem in bonis habere, res in bonis est),

    Gai. Inst. 2, 40, 41; Dig. 40, 12, 38, § 2; 37, 6, 2, § 1; 37, 6, 3, § 2; ib. Fragm. 1, 16; Gai. Inst. 1, 22; 1, 35; 1, 222; 1, 167; Dig. 1, 8, 1; 27, 10, 10:

    neque bonorum possessorum, neque... res pleno jure fiunt, sed in bonis efficiuntur,

    ib. Fragm. 3, 80.—Hence, nullam omnino arbitrabamur de eā hereditate controversiam eum habiturum, et est hodie in bonis, i. e. [p. 247] the bonorum possessio has been granted to him, which did not give full ownership, but effected only that the hereditas was in bonis. Cic. Fam. 13, 30, 1.
    III.
    Predicative use.
    A.
    With nouns or pronouns as subjects.
    1.
    Bonum esse, to be morally good, honest:

    nunc mihi bonae necessum est esse ingratiis, Quamquam esse nolo,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 82:

    bonam ego quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo,

    id. Poen. 1, 2, 93; so id. Capt. 2, 1, 44; id. Men. 4, 2, 6; id. Rud. prol. 29:

    itaque viros fortes magnanimos eosdem, bonos et simplices... esse volumus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63; cf. id. ib. 3, 21, 84; id. Att. 15, 6, 1:

    Cato esse quam videri bonus malebat,

    Sall. C. 54, 5:

    ut politiora, non ut meliora fiant ingenia,

    Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 5 fin.
    2.
    To be beneficial, prosperous, advantageous, valuable, favorable, serviceable, correct, with reference to both persons and things as subjects, and in regard to physical and mental relations:

    jam istuc non bonumst,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 29; Cato, R. R. 157:

    oleum viridius et melius fiet,

    id. ib. 3:

    vinum ut alvum bonam faciat,

    to correct the bowels, id. ib. 156:

    quid est homini salute melius?

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 127:

    non optuma haec sunt, verum meliora quam deterruma,

    id. Trin. 2, 3, 1:

    quid est quod huc possit quod melius sit accedere?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 12, 41; 1, 18, 57; id. Tusc. 1, 41, 99:

    in quo (vestitu), sicut in plerisque rebus, mediocritas optima est,

    id. Off. 1, 36, 130; 2, 17, 59; id. Inv. 1, 31, 51; id. Or. 2, 6; 11, 36:

    meliorem tamen militem... in futura proelia id certamen fecit,

    Liv. 2, 51, 3:

    parvus ut est cygni melior canor, ille gruum quam Clamor,

    Lucr. 4, 181; 4, 191:

    si meliora dies, ut vina, poemata reddit,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 34.—So in the optative formula:

    quod bonum, faustum, felixque sit,

    Liv. 1, 28, 7; 1, 17, 10; 39, 15, 1; 3, 54;

    3, 34.—Also, quod bonum atque fortunatum mihi sit,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 50;

    and with a noun as subject: ut nobis haec habitatio Bona, fausta, felix, fortunataque evenat,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 3.—
    3.
    To be kind:

    bonus cum probis'st (erus), malus cum malis,

    Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 22:

    hic si vellet bonus ac benignus Esse,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 52.—
    4.
    With reference to the gods:

    ecastor ambae (Fortuna et Salus sunt bonae,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 129:

    Palladis aut oculos ausa negare bonos (esse),

    Prop. 3, 24, 12 (2, 28, 12).—
    B.
    Impers.
    1.
    Bonum est (very rare for the class. bene est; v. bene).
    (α).
    Without a subject:

    bonum sit!

    may it be fortunate, favorable! Verg. E. 8, 106.—
    (β).
    With subject inf.:

    nam et stulte facere, et stulte fabularier in aetate haud bonum est,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 61:

    bonum est pauxillum amare, insane non bonum est,

    id. Curc. 1, 3,20.—
    2.
    Melius est.
    (α).
    With subject inf.:

    melius sanam est mentem sumere,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 51:

    nihil sentire est melius quam tam prava sentire,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125; cf. id. Fin. 1, 19, 62; id. Off. 1, 43, 156; so,

    melius fuit, fuisset, or fuerat,

    it would have been better, id. N. D. 3, 33; id. Sen. 23, 82; id. Off. 3, 25, 94:

    proinde quiesse erit melius,

    Liv. 3, 48, 3; 3, 41, 3; Verg. A. 11, 303.—
    (β).
    With subject inf.-clause:

    meliu'st te quae sunt mandata tibi praevortier,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 125; id. Men. 5, 9, 32.—
    (γ).
    With ut-clause:

    quid melius quam ut hinc intro abeam et me suspendam clanculum,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 145; so id. Ps. 4, 7, 18.—
    (δ).
    With subjectclause in the subjunctive:

    nunc quid mihi meliu'st quam ilico hic opperiar erum,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 22.—
    3.
    Optimum est.
    (α).
    With subject inf.:

    optimum visum est, captivos quam primum deportare,

    Liv. 23, 34, 8:

    si quis dicit optimum esse navigare,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 8, 4 (32 fin.); so, optimum fuit, it would have been better, and optimum erat, it would be better, Quint. 6, prooem. 3; 11, 2, 33; Hor. S. 2, 1, 7.—
    (β).
    With inf.-clause:

    constituerunt optimum esse, domum suam quemque reverti,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 10: optimum visum est, in fluctuantem aciem tradi equos, etc., Liv 6, 24, 10; 22, 27, 6.—
    (γ).
    With ut and subj:

    hoc vero optimum, ut is qui, etc., id ultimum bonorum, id ipsum quid et quale sit nesciat,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 3, 6.—
    (δ).
    With quod:

    illa vero optima (sunt) quod cum Haluntium venisset Archagathum vocari jussit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 51:

    optimum vero (est) quod dictaturae nomen in perpetuum de re publica sustulisti,

    id. Phil. 2, 36, 91.—
    (ε).
    With second sup., in the phrase optumum factu est (where factu is redundant):

    sed hoc mihi optumum factu arbitror,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 16:

    optimum factu esse duxerant frumento... nostros prohibere,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 30:

    optumum factu credens exercitum augere,

    Sall. C. 32, 1 (Kritz, factum); 57, 5 (Kritz, factum).
    IV.
    Ellipt. use: di meliora, i. e. dent or velint, i. e. let the gods grant better things than what you say, etc.; God forbid! in full:

    di melius duint,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 16:

    di meliora velint!

    Ov. M. 7, 37.—Ellipt.:

    di meliora! inquit,

    Cic. Sen. 14, 47:

    id ubi mulier audivit, perturbata, dii meliora inquit, etc.,

    Liv. 39, 10, 2; 9, 9, 6; Verg. G. 3, 513;

    similarly, di melius, i. e. fecerunt,

    Val. Max. 6, 1, ext. 3.
    V.
    With object expressed,
    1.
    By dat.
    (α).
    = good, useful, beneficial for:

    ambula, id lieni optumum est,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 25:

    quia vobis eadem quae mihi bona malaque esse intellexi,

    Sall. C. 20, 3:

    bona bello Cornus, jaculis, etc.,

    Verg. G. 2, 447.—
    (β).
    = benignus or propitius, kind to:

    vicinis bonus esto,

    Cato, R. R. 4:

    bene merenti mala es, male merenti bona es,

    Plaut. As. 1, 2, 3:

    vos o mihi Manes, Este boni,

    Verg. A. 12, 647.—
    (γ).
    = idoneus, fit for, adapted to:

    qui locus vino optimus dicetur esse,

    Cato, R. R. 6:

    tum erit ei rei optumum tempus,

    id. ib. 26:

    terra cui putre solum, Optima frumentis,

    Verg. G. 2, 205; 2, 319; 1, 286.—
    (δ).
    With sum and dat., in the phrase alicui bono est, it is of service to one, profits him:

    accusant in quibus occidi patrem Sex. Roscii bono fuit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 13:

    bono fuisse Romanis adventum eorum constabat,

    Liv. 7, 12, 4.—Hence, with rel. dat.: cui bono (est), for whose advantage it is:

    quod si quis usurpet illud Cassianum cui bono fuerit, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 35:

    cui bono fuisset,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 84; id. Mil. 12, 32 Ascon. ad loc.; cf.

    ellipt. form cui bono?

    Prisc. p. 1208 P.—
    (ε).
    With dat. gerund:

    ager oleto conserundo qui in Favonium spectavit, aliis bonus nullus erit,

    Cato, R. R. 6; Varr. R. R. 1, 24:

    (mons) quia pecori bonus alendo erat,

    Liv. 29, 31; 9, 10.—
    2.
    By ad and acc.:

    refert et ad quam rem bona aut non bona sit,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 91:

    occasio quaeritur idoneane fuerit ad rem adoriendam, an alia melior,

    Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7:

    non campos modo militi Romano ad proelium bonos, etc.,

    Tac. A. 2, 14.

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  • 7 optimum

    bŏnus (old form dŭonus, Carm. Sall. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Mull.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 67 Mull.), a, um, adj. [for duonus, cf. bellum, bis, and cf. root dvi-; hence deidô, deos], good; comp. melior, us [cf. Gr. mala, mallon], better; sup. optimus ( optumus, ante-class. and often class.) [root opof ops, opes; cf. copia, apiscor], best.
    I.
    Attributively.
    A.
    As adjunct of nouns denoting persons.
    1.
    Vir bonus.
    (α).
    A man morally good (kalos kagathos):

    quoniam boni me viri pauperant, improbi alunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 60:

    omnibus virtutibus instructos et ornatos tum sapientes, tum viros bonos dicimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 10, 28:

    ille vir bonus qui... intolerabili dolore lacerari potius quam aut officium prodat aut fidem,

    id. Ac. 2, 8, 23:

    sive vir bonus est is qui prodest quibus potest, nocet nemini, certe istum virum bonum non facile reperimus,

    id. Off. 3, 15, 64:

    qui se ita gerunt ut eorum probitas, fides, integritas, etc.... hos viros bonos... appellandos putemus,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    non intellegunt se de callido homine loqui, non de bono viro,

    id. Att. 7, 2, 4:

    ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 12:

    nec enim melior vir fuit Africano quisquam, nec clarior,

    id. Lael. 2, 6; id. Leg. 1, 14, 41; 1, 18, 48; id. Planc. 4, 9; id. Par. 3, 1, 21; id. Marcell. 6, 20; id. Fam. 7, 21; id. Off. 2, 16, 57.—
    (β).
    An honest man:

    justitia, ex qua viri boni nominantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 7, 21; 1, 44, 155; 2, 11, 39; 2, 12, 42; 2, 20, 71;

    3, 12, 50: cum is sponsionem fecisset ni vir bonus esset,

    id. ib. 3, 19, 77:

    quoniam Demosthenes nec vir bonus esset, nec bene meritus de civitate,

    id. Opt. Gen. 7, 20; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116.—
    (γ).
    A man of good standing in the community:

    id viri boni arbitratu deducetur,

    Cato, R. R. 143; so id. ib. 149:

    tuam partem viri bono arbitratu... dari oportet,

    Dig. 17, 1, [p. 244] 35;

    37, 6, 2, § 2: quem voles virum bonum nominato,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 55:

    vir bonus est... quo res sponsore, et quo causae teste tenentur,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 40.—Hence, ironically of wealthy men:

    praetores jus dicunt, aediles ludos parant, viri boni usuras perscribunt,

    Cic. Att. 9, 12, 3.—
    (δ).
    Ironically of bad men:

    sed eccum lenonem Lycum, bonum virum,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 52; Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 9; 4, 3, 18; id. Ad. 3, 4, 30:

    expectabam quinam isti viri boni testes hujus manifesto deprehensi veneni dicerentur,

    Cic. Cael. 26, 63:

    nam socer ejus, vir multum bonus est,

    id. Agr. 3, 3, 13;

    so especially in addresses (mostly comic.): age tu, illuc procede, bone vir!

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 1; id. Curc. 5, 2, 12; id. Ps. 4, 7, 48; id. Pers. 5, 2, 11; Ter. And. 3, 5, 10; 5, 2, 5; id. Ad. 4, 2, 17; id. Eun. 5, 2, 11:

    quid tu, vir optime? Ecquid habes quod dicas?

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 36, 104.—
    (ε).
    Sometimes boni viri = boni, in the sense of optimates (v. I. A. 3.):

    bonis viris quid juris reliquit tribunatus C. Gracchi?

    Cic. Leg. 3, 9, 20.—
    (ζ).
    As a conventional courtesy:

    homines optimi non intellegunt, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 25:

    bone accusator,

    id. Rosc. Am. 21, 58:

    sic illum amicum vocasti, quomodo omnes candidatos bonos viros dicimus,

    gentlemen, Sen. Ep. 3, 1.—For bonus vir, a good husband, v. 3.; and for vir optimus, as a laudatory epithet, v. 5.—
    2.
    Boni homines (rare) = boni, better classes of society, v. II. A. 3:

    in foro infimo boni homines atque dites ambulant,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 14.—
    3.
    With nouns denoting persons in regard to their functions, offices, occupations, and qualities, denoting excellence:

    bonus consul,

    Liv. 4, 40, 6; 22, 39, 2 (different: consules duos, bonos quidem, sed dumtaxat bonos, amisimus, consuls of good sentiments, almost = bad consuls, Cic. ad Brut. 1, 3, 4):

    boni tribuni plebis,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 10, 25:

    bonus senator,

    id. Prov. Cons. 15, 37:

    senator bonus,

    id. Dom. 4, 8:

    bonus judex,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 34:

    bonus augur (ironically),

    id. Phil. 2, 32, 80:

    bonus vates,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 27:

    bonus imperator,

    Sall. C. 60, 4:

    bonus dux,

    Quint. 12, 1, 43 (cf. trop.:

    naturam, optimam ducem,

    the best guide, Cic. Sen. 2, 5):

    bonus miles,

    Sall. C. 60, 4; Sen. Vit. Beat. 15, 5:

    bonus orator,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

    optimus orator,

    id. Opt. Gen. 1, 3:

    poeta bonus,

    id. de Or. 1, 3, 11; 2, 46, 194; id. Fin. 1, 3, 10:

    scriptor bonus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 104:

    bonus advocatus,

    id. 5, 13, 10:

    bonus defensor,

    id. 5, 13, 3:

    bonus altercator,

    a good debater, id. 6, 4, 10:

    bonus praeceptor,

    id. 5, 13, 44; 10, 5, 22:

    bonus gubernator,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100:

    optimus opifex,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 133:

    sutor bonus,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 125:

    actor optimus,

    Cic. Sest. 57, 122:

    cantor optimus est modulator,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 130:

    melior gladiator,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 33: agricola (colonus, dominus) bonus, Cato, R. R. prooem.; Cic. Sen. 16, 56:

    bonus paterfamilias,

    a thrifty head of the house, Nep. Att. 13, 1:

    bonus servus,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 58; id. Am. 2, 1, 46; id. Men. 5, 6, 1; Cic. Mil. 22, 58:

    dominus bonus,

    Cato, R. R. 14:

    bonus custos,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 38.—Ironically, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57:

    filius bonus,

    Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 9:

    patres,

    Quint. 11, 3, 178:

    parens,

    id. 6, prooem. 4: bonus (melior, optimus), viz. a good husband, Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 51 sq.; Liv. 1, 9, 15:

    uxor melior,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    amicus,

    id. Fam. 2, 15, 3:

    amicus optimus,

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 3, 18:

    optimus testis,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 27, 2:

    auctor, in two senses,

    good authority, id. Att. 5, 12, 3;

    and = bonus scriptor (post-class.),

    Quint. 10, 1, 74.—Esp.:

    bonus civis (rarely civis bonus): in re publica ea velle quae tranquilla et honesta sint: talem enim solemus et sentire bonum civem et dicere, Cic.-Off. 1, 34, 124: eaque est summa ratio et sapientia boni civis, commoda civium non divellere, atque omnes aequitate eadem continere,

    id. ib. 2, 23, 83:

    eum esse civem et fidelem et bonum,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 15; Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 2; 1, 9, 10; 3, 12, 1; 6, 6, 11; id. Off. 1, 44, 155; Liv. 22, 39, 3; Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 10 Dietsch:

    optimus et fortissimus civis,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 3; id. Sest. 17, 39.—
    4.
    Bonus and optimus as epithets of the gods.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sed te bonus Mercurius perdat,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 23:

    fata... bonique divi,

    Hor. C. 4, 2, 38:

    divis orte bonis,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 1:

    O bone deus!

    Scrib. Comp. 84 fin.: BONORVM DEORVM, Inscr. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 84: totidem, pater optime, dixi, Tu mihi da cives, referring to Jupiter, Ov. M. 7, 627.—
    (β).
    Optimus Maximus, a standing epithet of Jupiter:

    (Juppiter) a majoribus nostris Optimus Maximus (nominatur), et quidem ante optimus, id est beneficentissimus, quam Maximus,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 25, 64:

    Jovem optimum et maximum ob eas res appellant, non quod, etc.,

    id. ib. 3, 36, 87:

    in templo Jovis Optimi Maximi,

    id. Sest. 56, 129; id. Prov. Cons. 9, 22:

    nutu Jovis Optimi Maximi,

    id. Cat. 3, 9, 21; Liv. 1, 12, 7; id. 6, 16, 2.—
    (γ).
    Di boni, O di boni, expressing indignation, sorrow, or surprise:

    di boni, hunc visitavi antidhac!

    Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 16:

    di boni, boni quid porto!

    Ter. And. 2, 2, 1:

    di boni, quid hoc morbi est,

    id. Eun. 2, 1, 19; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 13; id. Ad. 3, 3, 86:

    alter, O di boni, quam taeter incedebat!

    Cic. Sest. 8, 19; id. Brut. 84, 288; id. Phil. 2, 8, 20; 2, 32, 80; id. Att. 1, 16, 5; 14, 21, 2; Val. Max. 3, 5, 1; Sen. Vit. Beat. 2, 3.—
    (δ).
    Bona Dea, etc., v. 6.—
    5.
    Optimus as a laudatory epithet.
    (α).
    Vir optimus:

    per vos nobis, per optimos viros optimis civibus periculum inferre conantur,

    Cic. Sest. 1, 2:

    virum optimum et constantissimum M. Cispium,

    id. ib. 35, 76:

    fratrem meum, virum optimum, fortissimum,

    id. ib.:

    consolabor hos praesentes, viros optimos,

    id. Balb. 19, 44; id. Planc. 21, 51; 23, 55; id. Mil. 14, 38; id. Marcell. 4, 10; id. Att. 5, 1, 5; Hor. S. 1, 6, 53.—
    (β).
    Femina bona, optima:

    tua conjunx bona femina,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 16:

    hujus sanctissimae feminae atque optimae pater,

    id. ib. —
    (γ).
    Senex, pater, frater, etc.:

    optimus: parentes ejus, prudentissimi atque optimi senis,

    Cic. Planc. 41, 97:

    insuevit pater optimus hoc me,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 105; 2, 1, 12:

    C. Marcelli, fratris optimi,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 6; id. Q. Fr. 2, 6 (8), 2; 2, 4, 2.—
    (δ).
    With proper names ( poet.):

    optimus Vergilius,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 54:

    Maecenas optimus,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 27:

    optime Quinti,

    id. Ep. 1, 16, 1.—
    (ε).
    Esp. as an epithet of the Roman emperors:

    quid tam civile, tam senatorium quam illud, additum a nobis Optimi cognomen?

    Plin. Pan. 2, 7:

    gratias, inquit, ago, optime Princeps!

    Sen. Tranq. 14. 4:

    ex epistula optimi imperatoris Antonini,

    Gai. Inst. 1, 102; cf.:

    bene te patriae pater optime Caesar,

    Ov. F. 2, 637:

    optime Romulae Custos gentis,

    Hor. C. 4, 5, 1.—
    6.
    Bonus and Bona, names of deities.
    (α).
    Bona Dea, the goddess of Chastity, whose temple could not be entered by males (cf. Macr. S. 1, 12; Lact. 1, 22):

    Bonae Deae pulvinaribus,

    Cic. Pis. 39, 95; id. Mil. 31, 86; id. Fam. 1, 9, 15; cf.

    in mal. part.,

    Juv. 2, 86 sq.; 6, 314 sq.; 6, 335 sq.—
    (β).
    Bonus Eventus, Varr. R. R. 1, 1 med.; Amm. 29, 6, 19; Inscr. Orell. 907; 1780 sq.—
    (γ).
    Bona Fortuna:

    si bona Fortuna veniat, ne intromiseris,

    Plaut. Aul. 1, 3, 22:

    Bonae Fortunae (signum),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 7:

    FORTVNAE BONAE DOMESTICAE,

    Inscr. Orell. 1743 sq. —
    (δ).
    Bona Spes:

    Spes Bona, obsecro, subventa mihi,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 12:

    BONAE SPEI,

    Aug. Inscr. Grut. 1075, 1.—
    (ε).
    BONA MENS, Inscr. Orell. 1818 sqq.:

    Mens Bona, si qua dea es, tua me in sacraria dono,

    Prop. 3, 24, 19.
    B.
    With nouns denoting things.
    1.
    Things concrete, denoting excellence:

    navis bona dicitur non quae pretiosis coloribus picta est... sed stabilis et firma,

    Sen. Ep. 76, 13:

    gladium bonum dices, non cui auratus est balteus, etc., sed cui et ad secandum subtilis acies est, et, etc.,

    id. ib. 76, 14:

    id vinum erit lene et bono colore,

    Cato, R. R. 109; Lucr. 2, 418; Ov. Am. 2, 7, 9:

    tabulas... collocare in bono lumine,

    Cic. Brut. 75, 261: ex quavis olea oleum... bonum fieri potest. Cato, R. R. 3:

    per aestatem boves aquam bonam et liquidam bibant semper curato,

    id. ib. 73; cf.:

    bonae aquae, ironically compared to wine,

    Prop. 2, 33 (3, 31), 28:

    praedium bonum caelum habeat,

    good temperature, Cato, R. R. 1:

    bona tempestate,

    in good weather, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4:

    (praedium) solo bono valeat,

    by good soil, Cato, R. R. 1:

    bonae (aedes) cum curantur male,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 24:

    villam bonam,

    Cic. Off. 3, 13, 55:

    bonus pons,

    Cat. 17, 5:

    scyphi optimi (= optime facti),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 14, § 32:

    perbona toreumata,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 18, §

    38: bona domicilia,

    comfortable residences, id. N. D. 2, 37, 95:

    agrum Meliorem nemo habet,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 12:

    fundum meliorem,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52: fundos optimos et fructuosissimos, id. Agr. 3, 4, 14:

    equus melior,

    id. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    bona cena,

    Cat. 13, 3:

    boni nummi,

    good, not counterfeit, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 144; Cic. Off. 3, 23, 91:

    super omnia vultus accessere boni,

    good looks, Ov. M. 8, 678:

    mulier bona forma,

    of a fine form, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 13:

    equus formae melioris,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 52:

    tam bona cervix, simul ac jussero, demetur,

    fine, beautiful, Suet. Calig. 33:

    fruges bonae,

    Cat. 34, 19:

    ova suci melioris,

    of better flavor, Hor. S. 2, 4, 13.— Trop.:

    animus aequus optimum est aerumnae condimentum,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 71: bona dextra, a lucky hand (cf.:

    bonum omen, 2. e.),

    Quint. 6, 3, 69:

    scio te bona esse voce, ne clama nimis,

    good, sound, loud voice, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 43; so,

    bona firmaque vox,

    Quint. 11, 3, 13.—
    2.
    Things abstract.
    a.
    Of physical well-being:

    ut si qui neget sine bona valetudine posse bene vivi,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 51, 93; Sen. Vit. Beat. 22, 2; Lucr. 3, 102; Val. Max. 2, 5, 6; Quint. 10, 3, 26; 11, 2, 35 et saep.:

    non bonus somnus de prandio est,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 8:

    bona aetas,

    prime of life, Cic. Sen. 14, 48:

    optima aetate,

    id. Fam. 10, 3, 3.—Ironically:

    bona, inquis, aetate, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 76, 1.—
    b.
    Of the mind and soul:

    meliore esse sensu,

    Cic. Sest. 21, 47:

    optima indoles,

    id. Fin. 5, 22, 61:

    bona conscientia,

    Quint. 6, 1, 33; 9, 2, 93; Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 5:

    bono ingenio me esse ornatam quam auro multo mavolo,

    with a good heart, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 91; id. Stich. 1, 21, 59; Sall. C. 10, 5:

    mens melior,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 78; Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13; Liv. 39, 16, 5; Sen. Ben. 1, 11, 4; id. Ep. 10, 4; Pers. 2, 8; Petr. 61.—Personified, Prop. 3 (4), 24, 19; Ov. Am. 1, 2, 31:

    duos optimae indolis filios,

    Val. Max. 5, 7, 2; Sen. Ben. 6, 16, 6; Quint. 1, 2, 5:

    bonum consilium,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 6; id. Rud. 4, 3, 18; Cic. Off. 1, 33, 121:

    bona voluntas,

    a good purpose, Quint. 12, 11, 31:

    memoria bona,

    Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

    bona ratio cum perdita... confligit,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 25:

    bonae rationes,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 50:

    pronuntiatio bona,

    Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—
    c.
    Of moral relations:

    ego si bonam famam mihi servasso, sat ero dives,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 71; Cic. Sest. 66, 139; Liv. 6, 11, 7; Hor. S. 1, 2, 61 (cf. Cic. Att. 7, 26, 1;

    v. e. infra): si ego in causa tam bona cessi tribuni plebis furori,

    Cic. Sest. 16, 36; id. Planc. 36, 87; Ov. M. 5, 220:

    fac, sis, bonae frugi sies,

    of good, regular habits, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 35; id. Cas. 2, 4, 5; 2, 5, 19; id. Ps. 1, 5, 53; id. Truc. 1, 1, 13; id. Capt. 5, 2, 3 sq. (v. frux, II. B. 1. b.): vilicus disciplina bona utatur. Cato, R. R. 5:

    bona studia,

    moral pursuits, Auct. Her. 4, 17, 25:

    quidquid vita meliore parasti,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 15: ad spem mortis melioris, an honorable death; so as an epithet of religious exercises:

    Juppiter, te bonas preces precor,

    Cato, R. R. 134; 139.—
    d.
    Of external, artistic, and literary value and usefulness:

    bono usui estis nulli,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 15:

    Optumo optume optumam operam das,

    id. Am. 1, 1, 122:

    bonam dedistis mihi operam,

    a valuable service to me, id. Poen. 2, 3, 70; 3, 6, 11; id. Pers. 4, 7, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 11 (in a different sense: me bona opera aut mala Tibi inventurum esse auxilium argentarium, by fair or unfair means, id. Ps. 1, 1, 102;

    v. e. infra): optima hereditas a patribus traditur liberis... gloria virtutis rerumque gestarum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 33, 121:

    bonum otium,

    valuable leisure, Sall. C. 4, 1:

    bonis versibus,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

    versus meliores,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 81:

    meliora poemata,

    Hor. A. P. 303:

    in illa pro Ctesiphonte oratione longe optima,

    Cic. Or. 8, 26:

    optimas fabulas,

    id. Off. 1, 31, 114:

    melius munus,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 7.—
    e.
    Favorable, prosperous, lucky, fortunate:

    de Procilio rumores non boni,

    unfavorable rumors, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 5:

    bona de Domitio, praeclara de Afranio fama est,

    about their success in the war, id. ib. 7, 26, 1:

    si fuisset in discipulo comparando meliore fortuna,

    id. Pis. 29, 71; cf.

    fortuna optima esse,

    to be in the best pecuniary circumstances, id. ad Brut. 1, 1, 2:

    occasio tam bona,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 9:

    senex est eo meliore condicione quam adulesoens cum, etc.,

    Cic. Sen. 19, 68; id. Fam. 4, 32:

    bona navigatio,

    id. N. D. 3, 34, 83;

    esp. in phrase bona spes.—Object.: ergo in iis adulescentibus bonam spem esse dicemus et magnam indolem quos, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 117.—Subject.:

    ego sum spe bona,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 28, 3; id. Cat. 2, 11, 25; [p. 245] id. Att. 14, 1 a, 3; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16:

    optima spe,

    id. Fam. 12, 11, 2.—Pregn., = spes bonarum rerum, Sall. C. 21, 1;

    v. C. 1. c. infra: meliora responsa,

    more favorable, Liv. 7, 21, 6:

    melior interpretatio,

    Tac. H. 3, 65:

    cum laude et bonis recordationibus,

    id. A. 4, 38:

    amnis Doctus iter melius,

    i. e. less injurious, Hor. A. P. 68:

    omen bonum,

    a good, lucky omen, Cic. Pis. 13, 31; cf.

    Liv. praef. § 13: melius omen,

    Ov. F. 1, 221;

    optimum,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 2:

    bona scaeva,

    Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 24:

    auspicio optumo,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 6; cf.:

    memini bene, sed meliore Tempore dicam = opportuniore tempore,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 68.—
    f.
    Of public affairs, si mihi bona re publica frui non licuerit, Cic. Mil. 34, 93:

    optima res publica,

    id. Or. 1, 1, 1; id. Phil. 1, 8, 19:

    minus bonis temporibus,

    id. Dom. 4, 8; so,

    optimis temporibus,

    id. Sest. 3, 6:

    nostrae res meliore loco videbantur,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 3, 1:

    lex optima,

    id. Pis. 16, 37; id. Sest. 64, 137; id. Phil, 1, 8, 19.—
    g.
    Good = large, considerable:

    bono atque amplo lucro,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 6:

    bona librorum copia,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 109; cf.:

    bona copia cornu,

    Ov. M. 9, 88; v. bona pars, C. 8. g.—
    h.
    Noble; with genus, good family, noble extraction, honorable birth: quali me arbitraris genere prognatum? Eu. Bono, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 35; so id. Ep. 1, 2, 4; 2, 1, 3; id. Pers. 4, 4, 94:

    si bono genere natus sit,

    Auct. Her. 3, 7, 13.—
    k.
    Referring to good-will, kindness, faithfulness, in certain phrases.
    (α).
    Bona venia or cum bona venia, with the kind permission of a person addressed, especially bona venia orare, expetere, etc.:

    primum abs te hoc bona venia expeto,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 31:

    bona tua venia dixerim,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 34:

    oravit bona venia Quirites, ne, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 41, 3:

    obsecro vos.. bona venia vestra liceat, etc.,

    id. 6, 40, 10:

    cum bona venia quaeso audiatis, etc.,

    id. 29, 17, 6; Arn. c. Gent. 1, p. 5; cf.

    . sed des veniam bonus oro = venia bona oro,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 5.—
    (β).
    Bona pax, without quarrelling:

    bona pax sit potius,

    let us have no quarrel about that, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 7;

    so especially cum bona pace, or bona pace: Hannibal ad Alpis cum bona pace incolentium... pervenit,

    without a difficulty with the inhabitants, Liv. 21, 32, 6; 21, 24, 5; 1, 24, 3; 28, 37, 4; 8, 15, 1; cf.: si bonam (pacem) dederitis, = a fair peace, under acceptable conditions, id. 8, 21, 4.—
    (γ).
    Amicitia bona = bona fide servata, faithful, undisturbed friendship:

    igitur amicitia Masinissae bona atque honesta nobis permansit,

    Sall. J. 5, 5.—
    (δ).
    Bona societas, alliance:

    Segestes, memoria bonae societatis, impavidus,

    Tac. A. 1, 58.
    C.
    In particular phrases.
    1.
    Bonae res.
    a.
    = Vitae commoda, comforts of life, abstract or concrete:

    concedatur bonis rebus homines morte privari,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 87:

    optimis rebus usus est,

    he had every most desirable thing, Nep. Att. 18, 1.—
    b.
    = Res secundae, opp. res adversae, prosperity:

    bonis rebus tuis, meas irrides malas,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 45:

    in bonis rebus,

    Hor. C. 2, 3, 2. —
    c.
    Res bona = res familiaris bona, wealth ( poet.): in re bona esse, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4.—Also an object of value:

    homines quibus mala abunde omnia erant, sed neque res neque spes bona ulla,

    who had no property, nor the hope of any, Sall. C. 21, 1. —
    d.
    Costly things, articles of luxury:

    capere urbem in Arabia plenam bonarum rerum,

    Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 46; 4, 4, 82:

    nimium rei bonae,

    id. Stich. 2, 3, 55:

    ignorantia bonarum rerum,

    Nep. Ages. 8, 5 ' bonis rebus gaudere, Hor. S. 2, 6, 110:

    re bona copiosum esse,

    Gell. 16, 19, 7.—
    e.
    Moral, morally good:

    illi cum res non bonas tractent,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 72:

    ut de virtutibus et vitiis, omninoque de bonis rebus et malis quaererent,

    id. ib. 1, 4, 15:

    quid habemus in rebus bonis et malis explorati?

    id. ib. 2, 42, 129; so id. Or. 1, 10, 42; id. Leg. 1, 22, 58:

    quae tamen omnia dulciora fuint et moribus bonis et artibus,

    id. Sen. 18, 65.—
    f.
    In literary composition, important or interesting matter, subjects, or questions:

    res bonas verbis electis dictas quis non legat?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 8:

    studiis generorum, praesertim in re bona,

    Plaut. Am. 8, 26.—
    2.
    Bonae artes.
    (α).
    A good, laudable way of dealing:

    qui praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit,

    Sall. C. 2, 9:

    huic bonae artes desunt, dolis atque fallaciis contendit,

    id. ib. 11, 2:

    quod is bonarum artium cupiens erat,

    Tac. A. 6, 46.—
    (β).
    Liberal arts and sciences:

    litteris aut ulli bonae arti,

    Quint. 12, 1, 7:

    conservate civem bonarum artium, bonarum partium, bonorum virorum,

    Cic. Sest. 32, 77. —Esp.:

    optimae artes: optimarum artium scientia,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 4; id. Ac. 2, 1, 1; id. Cael. 10, 24; id. Marcell. 1, 4.—
    3.
    Bona fides, or fides bona.
    a.
    Good faith, i. e. conscious honesty in acts or words: qui nummos fide bona solvit, who pays (the price of labor) in good faith, i. e. as it is honestly earned, Cato, R. R. 14:

    dic, bona fide, tu id aurum non subripuisti?

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 46; 4, 10, 47; id. Capt. 4, 2, 111; id. Most. 3, 1, 137; id. Poen. 1, 3, 30; id. Pers. 4, 3, 16; id. Ps. 4, 6, 33:

    si tibi optima fide omnia concessit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 144; Quint. 10, 3, 23.—Hence, bonae fidei vir, a conscientious man, Quint. 10, 7, 1.—
    b.
    Jurid. t. t.
    (α).
    Good faith in contracts and legal acts in general, opposed to dolus malus, honesty and fairness in dealing with another:

    ad fidem bonam statuit pertinere, notum esse emptori vitium quod nosset venditor,

    Cic. Off. 3, 16, 67.—Hence, alienam rem bona fide emere, to buy, believing the seller to be the rightful owner, Dig. 41, 3, 10; 41, 3, 13, § 1. bonae fidei possessor (also possessio), believing that he is the rightful owner, ib. 5, 3, 25, § 11; 5, 3, 22; 41, 3, 15, § 2;

    41, 3, 24: conventio contra bonam fidem et mores bonos,

    ib. 16, 31, § 7: bonam fidem praestare, to be responsible for one ' s good faith, ib. 17, 1, 10 prooem.—Hence,
    (β).
    Bonae fidei actiones or judicia, actions in equity, i. e. certain classes of actions in which the strict civil law was set aside by the praetorian edict in favor of equity:

    actiones quaedam bonae fidei sunt, quaedam stricti juris. Bonae fidei sunt haec: exempto vendito, locato conducto, etc.,

    Just. Inst. 4, 6, 28, § 19.—In the republican time the praetor added in such actions to his formula for the judex the words ex fide bona, or, in full:

    quidquid dare facere oportet ex fide bona,

    Cic. Off. 3, 16, 66:

    iste dolus malus et legibus erat vindicatus, et sine lege, judiciis in quibus additur ex fide bona,

    id. ib. 3, 15, 61; cf. id. ib. 3, 17, 70.—
    4.
    Bona verba.
    (α).
    Kind words:

    Bona verba quaeso,

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 33.—
    (β).
    Words of good omen (v. omen):

    dicamus bona verba,

    Tib. 2, 2, 1:

    dicite suffuso ter bona verba mero,

    Ov. F. 2, 638.—
    (γ).
    Elegant or well-chosen expressions:

    quid est tam furiosum quam verborum vel optimorum atque ornatissimorum sonitus inanis,

    Cic. Or. 1, 12, 51:

    verborum bonorum cursu,

    id. Brut. 66, 233:

    omnia verba sunt alicubi optima,

    Quint. 10, 1, 9.—
    (δ).
    Moral sayings:

    non est quod contemnas bona verba et bonis cogitationibus plena praecordia,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 1. —
    5.
    Bona dicta.
    (α).
    Polite, courteous language:

    hoc petere me precario a vobis jussit leniter dictis bonis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 25.—
    (β).
    Witticisms ( bon-mots): flammam a sapiente facilius ore in ardente opprimi, quam bona dicta teneat, Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 2, 54, 222:

    dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus quibus solebam menstruales epulas ante adipiscier,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 22:

    ibo intro ad libros ut discam de dictis melioribus,

    id. Stich. 2, 3, 75.—
    6.
    Bona facta.
    (α).
    = bene facta (v. bene, I. B. 2. b.), laudable deeds:

    nobilitas ambobus et majorum bona facta (sc. erant),

    Tac. A. 3, 40.—
    (β).
    Bonum factum est, colloq., = bene est, bene factum est (v. bene, I. B. 2. b.):

    bonum factum est, ut edicta servetis mea,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 16:

    haec imperata quae sunt pro imperio histrico, bonum hercle factum (est) pro se quisque ut meminerit,

    id. ib. 45.— Hence,
    (γ).
    Elliptically, introducing commands which cannot be enforced, = if you will do so, it will be well:

    peregrinis in senatum allectis, libellus propositus est: bonum factum, ne quis senatori novo curiam monstrare velit,

    Suet. Caes. 80:

    et Chaldaeos edicere: bonum factum, ne Vitellius... usquam esset,

    id. Vit. 14:

    hac die Carthaginem vici: bonum factum, in Capitolium eamus, et deos supplicemus,

    Aur. Vict. 49; cf.:

    o edictum, cui adscribi non poterit bonum factum,

    Tert. Pud. 1.—
    7.
    Bona gratia.
    (α).
    A friendly understanding:

    cur non videmus inter nos haec potius cum bona Ut componantur gratia quam cum mala?

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 17; so,

    per gratiam bonam abire,

    to part with good feelings, Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 33.—In jest: sine bona gratia abire, of things cast away, Plaut Truc. 2, 7, 15.—
    (β).
    Pleon., in the phrase bonam gratiam habere, = gratiam habere, to thank (v. B. 2. k.), Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 32; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 99.—
    8.
    Bona pars.
    (α).
    The well-disposed part of a body of persons:

    ut plerumque fit, major pars (i. e. of the senate) meliorem vicit,

    Liv. 21, 4, 1:

    pars melior senatus ad meliora responsa trahere,

    id. 7, 21, 6.—
    (β).
    The good party, i. e. the optimates (gen. in plur.):

    civem bonarum partium,

    Cic. Sest. 32, 77:

    (fuit) meliorum partium aliquando,

    id. Cael. 6, 13:

    qui sibi gratiam melioris partis velit quaesitam,

    Liv. 2, 44, 3.—Paronom.: (Roscius) semper partium in re publica tam quam in scaena optimarum, i. e. party and part in a drama, Cic. Sest. 56, 120.—
    (γ).
    Of things or persons, a considerable part (cf. a good deal):

    bonam partem ad te adtulit,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 43:

    bonam partem sermonis in hunc diem esse dilatam,

    Cic. Or. 2, 3, 14:

    bonam magnamque partem exercitus,

    Val. Max. 5, 2, ext. 4:

    bona pars noctium,

    Quint. 12, 11, 19:

    bona pars hominum,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 61:

    meae vocis... bona pars,

    id. C. 4, 2, 46; so id. A. P. 297; Ov. P. 1, 8, 74:

    melior pars diei,

    Verg. A. 9, 156.—
    (δ).
    Rarely, and mostly eccl. Lat.: optima pars, the best part or lot:

    nostri melior pars animus est,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, prooem. § 14; cf.:

    quae pars optima est in homine,

    best, most valuable, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 67:

    major pars aetatis, certe melior reipublicae data sit,

    Sen. Brev. Vit. 18, 1:

    Maria optimam partem elegit, quae non auferetur ab ea,

    Vulg. Luc. 10, 42.—
    (ε).
    Adverb.:

    bonam partem = ex magna parte,

    Lucr. 6, 1249.—
    (ζ).
    Aliquem in optimam partem cognoscere, to know somebody from his most favorable side, Cic. Off. 2, 13, 46: aliquid in optimam partem accipere, to take something in good part, interpret it most favorably:

    Caesar mihi ignoscit quod non venerim, seseque in optimam partem id accipere dicit,

    id. Att. 10, 3 a, 2; id. ad Brut. 1, 2, 3:

    quaeso ut hoc in bonam partem accipias,

    id. Rosc. Am. 16, 45.—
    9.
    Dies bonus or bona.
    (α).
    A day of good omen, a fortunate day (= dies laetus, faustus):

    tum tu igitur die bono, Aphrodisiis, addice, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. 2, 49:

    nunc dicenda bona sunt bona verba die,

    Ov. F. 1, 72.—
    (β).
    A beautiful, serene day, Sen. Vit. Beat. 22, 3.—
    10.
    Bonus mos.
    (α).
    Boni mores, referring to individuals, good, decent, moral habits:

    nihil est amabilius quam morum similitudo bonorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 56:

    nam hic nimium morbus mores invasit bonos,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 6:

    domi militiaeque boni mores colebantur,

    Sall. C. 9, 1:

    propter ejus suavissimos et optimos mores,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 5, 13:

    cum per tot annos matronae optimis moribus vixerint,

    Liv. 34, 6, 9:

    mores meliores,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 18.—
    (β).
    Bonus mos or boni mores, in the abstract, morality, the laws, rules of morality: ei vos morigerari mos bonu'st, it is a rule of morality that you should, etc., Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 4:

    ex optimo more et sanctissima disciplina,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 69:

    neglegentia boni moris,

    Sen. Ep. 97, 1.—Jurid. t. t.:

    conventio, mandatum contra bonos mores,

    in conflict with morality, Quint. 3, 1, 57; Dig. 16, 3, 1, § 7; Gai. Inst. 3, 157 et saep. —
    11.
    Adverbial phrases.
    a.
    Bono animo esse, or bonum animum habere.
    (α).
    To be of good cheer or courage:

    bono animo es! Liberabit ille te homo,

    Plaut. Merc 3, 1, 33; so id. Aul. 4, 10, 61; id. Mil. 4, 8, 32; id. Rud. 3, 3, 17; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 4; id. Heaut. 4, 6, 18; id. Ad. 2, 4, 20; 3, 5, 1; 4, 2, 4; 4, 5, 62; id. Phorm. 5, 8, 72:

    animo bono es,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 103; id. Am. 2, 2, 48; 5, 2, 1:

    bono animo es, inquit Scrofa, et fiscinam expedi,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 26:

    bono animo sint et tui et mei familiares,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 18, 1; 6, 10, 29:

    bono animo esse jubere eam consul,

    Liv. 39, 13, 7:

    habe modo bonum animum,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 58; so id. Am. 1, 3, 47; id. Truc. 2, 6, 44; id. Aul. 2, 2, 15:

    habe animum bonum,

    id. Cas. 2, 6, 35; id. Ep. 2, 2, 1; 4, 2, 31:

    bonum animum habe,

    Liv. 45, 8, 5:

    clamor ortus ut bonum animum haberet,

    id. 8, 32, 1; so Sen. Ep. 87, 38.—
    (β).
    Bono animo esse, or facere aliquid, to be of a good or friendly disposition, or to do with good, honest intentions:

    audire jubet vos imperator histricus, bonoque ut animo sedeant in subselliis qui, etc.,

    Plaut. Poen. prol. 5: sunt enim (consules) [p. 246] optimo animo, summo consilio, of the best disposition, Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 2:

    bono te animo tum populus Romanus... dicere existimavit ea quae sentiebatis, sed, etc.,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 56:

    quod nondum bono animo in populum Romanum viderentur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6; Quint. 7, 4, 15.—
    (γ).
    Bonus animus, good temper, patience:

    bonus animus in mala re dimidium mali est,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 37:

    vos etiam hoc animo meliore feratis,

    Ov. M. 9, 433.—
    b.
    Bono modo.
    (α).
    = placide, with composure, moderation:

    si quis quid deliquerit, pro noxa bono modo vindicet,

    Cato, R. R. 5:

    haec tibi tam sunt defendenda quam moenia, mihi autem bono modo, tantum quantum videbitur,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 44, 137.—
    (β).
    In a decent manner:

    neu quisquam prohibeto filium quin amet... quod bono fiat modo,

    Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 62. —
    c.
    Jure optimo or optimo jure, with good, perfect right:

    te ipse jure optumo incuses licet,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 23; id. Rud. 2, 6, 53:

    ut jure optimo me deserere posses,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6; Sen. Ot. Sap. 2 (29), 2.—With pass. or intr. verb, deservedly:

    ne jure optimo irrideamur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 31, 111; cf. id. ib. 1, 42, 151; id. Marcell. 1, 4;

    similarly, optimo judicio,

    Val. Max. 2, 9, 2.
    II.
    As subst.
    A.
    bŏnus, boni, m.; of persons.
    1.
    In sing. or plur. orig. = bonus vir, boni viri; v. I. A. 1. a. b, supra, a morally good man.
    (α).
    Plur.:

    bonis quod bene fit haud perit,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 2; id. Capt. 2, 2, 108; id. Trin. 2, 1, 55; id. Pers. 4, 5, 2:

    melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos beneficium collocari puto,

    Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71:

    verum esse ut bonos boni diligant, quamobrem... bonis inter bonos quasi necessariam (esse) benevolentiam,

    id. Lael. 14, 50:

    diverso itinere malos a bonis loca taetra... habere,

    Sall. C. 52, 13; 7, 2; 52, 22:

    oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 52:

    tam bonis quam malis conduntur urbes,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 28, 4; so id. Vit. Beat. 15, 6; Quint. 9, 2, 76.—Rarely bŏnae, arum, f., good women:

    quia omnes bonos bonasque adcurare addecet, etc.,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 41.—
    (β).
    Sing.:

    malus bonum malum esse volt ut sit sui similis,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 8:

    nec enim cuique bono mali quidquam evenire potest,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 99; cf.:

    qui meliorem audax vocet in jus,

    Hor. S. 2, 5, 29.—
    2.
    Bonus, a man of honor.
    (α).
    A brave man:

    pro qua (patria) quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere si ei sit profuturus?

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57:

    libertatem quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittat,

    Sall. C. 33, 5:

    fortes creantur fortibus et bonis,

    Hor. C. 4, 4, 29 (opp. ignavi):

    fama impari boni atque ignavi erant,

    Sall. J. 57, 6; 53, 8; id. C. 11, 2. —
    (β).
    A gentleman:

    quis enim umquam, qui paululum modo bonorum consuetudinem nosset, litteras ad se ab amico missas... in medium protulit?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 7.—
    3.
    Boni, the better (i. e. higher) classes of society.
    (α).
    In gen. (of political sentiments, = optimates, opp. populares, seditiosi, perditi cives, etc.;

    so usu. in Cic.): meam causam omnes boni proprie enixeque susceperant,

    Cic. Sest. 16, 38:

    audaces homines et perditi nutu impelluntur... boni, nescio quomodo, tardiores sunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 47, 100:

    ego Kal. Jan. senatum et bonos omnes legis agrariae... metu liberavi,

    id. Pis. 2, 4:

    etenim omnes boni, quantum in ipsis fuit, Caesarem occiderunt,

    id. Phil. 2, 13, 29; id. Fam. 5, 2, 8; 5, 21, 2; id. Sest. 2, 5; 16, 36; 48, 103; id. Planc. 35, 86; id. Mil. 2, 5; id. Off. 2. 12, 43:

    maledictis increpat omnes bonos,

    Sall. C. 21, 4; 19, 2; 33, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 22; so,

    optimi,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 17, 37; and, ironically, boni identified with the rich:

    bonorum, id est lautorum et locupletum,

    id. Att. 8, 1, 3.—
    (β).
    Without reference to political views;

    opp. vulgus (rare): nihil ego istos moror fatuos mores quibus boni dedecorant se,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 22:

    semper in civitate quibus opes nullae sunt bonis invident,

    Sall. C. 37, 3:

    elatus est sine ulla pompa funeris, comitantibus omnibus bonis, maxima vulgi frequentia,

    Nep. Att. 22, 2.—So, mĕlĭōres, um, m., one ' s betters:

    ut quaestui habeant male loqui melioribus,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 13:

    da locum melioribus,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 37.—
    4.
    Boni, bone, in addresses, as an expression of courtesy, Hor. S. 2, 2, 1; 2, 6, 51; 2, 6, 95; id. Ep. 2, 2, 37; ironice, id. S. 2, 3, 31.—
    5.
    Optimus quisque = quivis bonus, omnes boni.
    (α).
    Referring to morality:

    esse aliquid natura pulcrum quod optimus quisque sequeretur,

    every good man, Cic. Sen. 13, 43:

    qui ita se gerebant ut sua consilia optimo cuique probarent, optimates habebantur,

    id. Sest. 45, 96; id. Off. 1, 43, 154; id. Fin. 1, 7, 24; id. Sest. 54, 115; and = even the best:

    quare deus optimum quemque mala valetudine adficit?

    Sen. Prov. 4, 8.—
    (β).
    Of the educated classes:

    adhibenda est quaedam reverentia adversus homines, et optimi cujusque et reliquorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 28, 99; cf. id. ib. 1, 25, 85:

    Catilina plerisque consularibus, praeterea optumo cuique, litteras mittit,

    Sall. C. 34, 2:

    optimo cuique infesta libertas,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 8, 2 (32 fin.).—
    (γ).
    Honorable, brave:

    optumus quisque cadere et sauciari, ceteris metus augeri,

    Sall. J. 92, 8.—
    (δ).
    In gen., excellent:

    optimus quisque facere quam dicere... malebat,

    Sall. C. 8, 5.—
    (ε).
    Distributively:

    ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur,

    to the best man in each instance, Sall. C. 2, 6.—
    (ζ).
    Referring to another superlative ( = quo quisque melior eo magis, etc.):

    hic aditus laudis qui semper optimo cuique maxime patuit,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1; so id. Lael. 4, 14; id. Inv. 2, 11, 36; Sen. Vit. Beat. 18, 1.—
    (η).
    Attributively, with a noun:

    optimam quamque causam,

    Cic. Sest. 43, 93:

    optima quaeque dies,

    Verg. G. 3, 66.
    2.
    bŏnum, i, n., plur. bona; mĕlĭus, ōris, n.; optĭmum, i, n. (v. infra); of things in gen.
    1.
    Bonum, or plur. bona, a good, or goods in a moral and metaphysical sense, a moral good, a blessing: sunt autem hae de finibus defensae sententiae: nihil bonum nisi honestum, ut Stoici; nihil bonum nisi voluptatem, ut Epicurus;

    nihil bonum nisi vacuitatem doloris, ut Hieronymus... tria genera bonorum, maxima animi, secunda corporis, externa tertia, ut Peripatetici, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 30, 84 sq.:

    quid est igitur bonum? Si quid recte fit et honeste et cum virtute, id bene fieri vere dicitur, et quod rectum et honestum et cum virtute est, id solum opinor bonum,

    id. Par. 1, 1, 9:

    ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud simplex et verum bonum quod non possit ab honestate sejungi,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

    non-est igitur voluptas bonum,

    id. Fin. 1, 11, 39: finis bonorum et malorum (telos agathôn) = summa bona et mala:

    sunt nonnullae disciplinae quae, propositis bonorum et malorum finibus, officium omne pervertant. Nam qui summum bonum sic instituit ut, etc.,

    id. Off. 1, 2, 5; cf. id. Par. 1, 3, 14; id. Ac. 2, 9, 29; 2, 36, 114; 2, 42, 129; id. Fin. 1, 9, 29; 1, 12, 42; id. Tusc. 4, 31, 66; Sen. Vit. Beat. 24, 5; id. Ep. 117, 1 et saep.—
    2.
    Bonum, what is valuable, beneficial, estimable, favorable, pleasant, physically or mentally:

    quoi boni Tantum adfero quantum ipsus a diis optat,

    Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 9:

    multa bona vobis volt facere,

    will do you much good, id. Poen. 5, 4, 60; id. Am. prol. 43, 49; id. Pers. 4, 8, 4; 2, 3, 14; id. Cas. 2, 8, 32:

    tum demum nostra intellegemus bona quom ea amisimus,

    id. Capt. 1, 2, 33:

    multa tibi di dent bona,

    id. Poen. 1, 1, 80; cf. id. ib. 3, 3, 54; 3, 3, 74; id. Mil. 3, 1, 120; id. Men. 3, 3, 34; id. Pers. 4, 3, 23; id. Truc. 1, 2, 23; id. Merc. 1, 2, 40; id. Most. 1, 1, 47:

    omnia Bona dicere,

    to speak in the highest terms of one, Ter. And. 1, 1, 70:

    sed ne vivus quidem bono caret, si eo non indiget,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

    cum quaecumque bona Peripateticis, eadem Stoicis commoda viderentur,

    id. ib. 5, 41, 120:

    nihil enim boni nosti,

    nothing that is good for any thing, id. Phil. 2, 7, 16:

    mala pro bonis legere dementia est,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 1; Val. Max. 5, 3, ext. 3 fin.; Hor. S. 1, 2, 73:

    quia bonum sit valere,

    a good thing, Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 62 (cf. III. A. 5. infra):

    melius: quo quidem haud scio an... quidquam melius sit homini a dis immortalibus datum,

    id. Lael. 6, 20:

    meliora... Aristotelem de istis rebus scripsisse,

    id. Or. 1, 10, 43:

    optimum: difficillimum est formam exponere optimi,

    id. ib. 11, 36.— Here belongs the phrase boni consulere;

    v. consulo.—So after prepositions: in bonum vertere, v. under verto: in melius ire,

    to change for the better, Tac. A. 12, 68.—In the same sense: in melius aliquid referre, or reflectere ( poet.), Verg. A. 1, 281; 11, 426; 10, 632:

    ad melius transcurrere,

    to pass over to something better, Hor. S. 2, 2, 82.—
    3.
    Bonum or bona, prosperity:

    fortiter malum qui patitur, idem post patitur bonum,

    Plaut. As. 2, 2, 58:

    nulli est homini perpetuum bonum,

    id. Curc. 1, 3, 33:

    unā tecum bona, mala tolerabimus,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 23:

    quibus in bonis fuerint et nunc quibus in malis sint, ostenditur ( = in secundis, in adversis rebus),

    Cic. Inv. 1, 55, 107.—
    4.
    Good qualities, gifts:

    omnia adsunt bona, quem penes'st virtus,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 30:

    magnis illi et divinis bonis hanc licentiam adsequebantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148:

    nisi qui se suā gravitate et castimoniā... tum etiam naturali quodam bono defenderet, etc.,

    id. Cael. 5, 11:

    hunc meā sententiā divinis quibusdam bonis instructum atque ornatum puto,

    id. ib. 17, 39:

    non intellego quod bonum cuiquam sit apud tales viros profuturum,

    id. Balb. 28, 63:

    gaude isto tuo tam excellenti bono,

    id. Marcell. 6, 19; so id. Imp. Pomp. 16, 49.—
    5.
    Advantage, benefit:

    si plus adipiscare, re explicatā, boni, quam addubitatā mali,

    Cic. Off. 1, 24, 83:

    saepe cogitavi bonine an mali plus adtulerit... eloquentiae studium,

    id. Inv. 1, 1, 1; 2, 35, 106; id. Off. 2, 2, 5; id. Sest. 10, 24:

    maximum bonum in celeritate ponebat,

    Sall. C. 43, 4; so, bono publico (abl.), for the public good:

    hoc ita si fit, publico fiat bono,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 183; Liv. 2, 44, 3; Dig. 41, 3, 1.—
    6.
    With aequum, what is fair and good, the fair ( thing), fairness, equity:

    si bonum aequomque oras,

    Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 149; so id. Pers. 3, 1, 71; id. Rud. 1, 2, 94; id. Men. 4, 2, 11:

    si tu aliquam partem aequi bonique dixeris,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 32; id. Heaut. 4, 1, 29; id. Ad. 1, 1, 39:

    a quo vivo nec praesens nec absens quidquam aequi bonique impetravit,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 37, 94.—Hence, aequo et bono, or ex aequo et bono, in ( with) fairness, in equity, Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 30; Auct. Her. 2, 10, 14; 2, 12, 18; 2, 13, 20; Gai. Inst. 3, 137: aequi bonique, as gen. of value, with facere:

    istuc, Chreme, Aequi bonique facio,

    I place a fair and proper value on it, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 40.—
    7.
    Bona, one ' s property, fortunes, almost always denoting the whole of one's possessions.
    a.
    In gen.:

    paterna oportet reddi filio bona,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 120:

    bona sua med habiturum omnia,

    id. Truc. 2, 4, 49; cf. id. ib. 2, 7, 6; 4, 2, 29; id. Rud. 2, 6, 22; id. Most. 1, 3, 77; id. Trin. 4, 4, 3; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4:

    bona mea diripiebantur atque ad consulem deferebantur,

    Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

    cum de capite, civis et de bonis proscriptio ferretur,

    id. ib. 30, 65:

    bona, fortunas, possessiones omnium,

    id. Caecin. 13, 38:

    at mulctantur bonis exsules,

    id. Tusc. 5, 37, 106; id. Off. 2, 23, 81; id. Par. 1, 1, 7; id. Sest. 19, 42; 43, 94; 52, 111; id. Phil. 2, 26, 64; Caes. B. G. 7, 3; Liv. 2, 3, 5; 2, 5, 5; 4, 15, 8; Tac. A. 2, 48; Quint. 6, 1, 19 et saep.—
    b.
    Bonorum possessio, the possession of one ' s property by another.
    (α).
    Bonorum possessio in consequence of bonorum cessio, i. e. an assignment of one ' s property for the benefit of creditors, Dig. 42, tit. 3.—
    (β).
    Bonorum possessio granted by the prætor against a contumacious or insolvent debtor (in bona mittere, in bona ire jubere, bona possidere jubere, etc.); cf. Dig. 42, tit. 4:

    postulat a Burrieno Naevius ut ex edicto bona possidere liceat,

    Cic. Quint. 6, 25, and the whole of c. 8:

    edixit... neu quis militis... bona possideret aut venderet,

    Liv. 2, 24, 6:

    bona proscribere,

    to offer the property thus transferred for sale, Cic. Quint. 6, 25.—
    (γ).
    Chiefly referring to the property of a defunct person (hereditas), where the prætor, till the heir had proved his right, granted a bonorum possessio secundum tabulas or contra tabulas, Dig. 37, tit. 4; 37, tit. 11.—
    c.
    In bonis esse;

    with reference to the older civil law, which distinguished between civil property (habere rem ex jure Quiritium) and natural property (rem in bonis habere, res in bonis est),

    Gai. Inst. 2, 40, 41; Dig. 40, 12, 38, § 2; 37, 6, 2, § 1; 37, 6, 3, § 2; ib. Fragm. 1, 16; Gai. Inst. 1, 22; 1, 35; 1, 222; 1, 167; Dig. 1, 8, 1; 27, 10, 10:

    neque bonorum possessorum, neque... res pleno jure fiunt, sed in bonis efficiuntur,

    ib. Fragm. 3, 80.—Hence, nullam omnino arbitrabamur de eā hereditate controversiam eum habiturum, et est hodie in bonis, i. e. [p. 247] the bonorum possessio has been granted to him, which did not give full ownership, but effected only that the hereditas was in bonis. Cic. Fam. 13, 30, 1.
    III.
    Predicative use.
    A.
    With nouns or pronouns as subjects.
    1.
    Bonum esse, to be morally good, honest:

    nunc mihi bonae necessum est esse ingratiis, Quamquam esse nolo,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 82:

    bonam ego quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo,

    id. Poen. 1, 2, 93; so id. Capt. 2, 1, 44; id. Men. 4, 2, 6; id. Rud. prol. 29:

    itaque viros fortes magnanimos eosdem, bonos et simplices... esse volumus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63; cf. id. ib. 3, 21, 84; id. Att. 15, 6, 1:

    Cato esse quam videri bonus malebat,

    Sall. C. 54, 5:

    ut politiora, non ut meliora fiant ingenia,

    Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 5 fin.
    2.
    To be beneficial, prosperous, advantageous, valuable, favorable, serviceable, correct, with reference to both persons and things as subjects, and in regard to physical and mental relations:

    jam istuc non bonumst,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 29; Cato, R. R. 157:

    oleum viridius et melius fiet,

    id. ib. 3:

    vinum ut alvum bonam faciat,

    to correct the bowels, id. ib. 156:

    quid est homini salute melius?

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 127:

    non optuma haec sunt, verum meliora quam deterruma,

    id. Trin. 2, 3, 1:

    quid est quod huc possit quod melius sit accedere?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 12, 41; 1, 18, 57; id. Tusc. 1, 41, 99:

    in quo (vestitu), sicut in plerisque rebus, mediocritas optima est,

    id. Off. 1, 36, 130; 2, 17, 59; id. Inv. 1, 31, 51; id. Or. 2, 6; 11, 36:

    meliorem tamen militem... in futura proelia id certamen fecit,

    Liv. 2, 51, 3:

    parvus ut est cygni melior canor, ille gruum quam Clamor,

    Lucr. 4, 181; 4, 191:

    si meliora dies, ut vina, poemata reddit,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 34.—So in the optative formula:

    quod bonum, faustum, felixque sit,

    Liv. 1, 28, 7; 1, 17, 10; 39, 15, 1; 3, 54;

    3, 34.—Also, quod bonum atque fortunatum mihi sit,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 50;

    and with a noun as subject: ut nobis haec habitatio Bona, fausta, felix, fortunataque evenat,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 3.—
    3.
    To be kind:

    bonus cum probis'st (erus), malus cum malis,

    Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 22:

    hic si vellet bonus ac benignus Esse,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 52.—
    4.
    With reference to the gods:

    ecastor ambae (Fortuna et Salus sunt bonae,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 129:

    Palladis aut oculos ausa negare bonos (esse),

    Prop. 3, 24, 12 (2, 28, 12).—
    B.
    Impers.
    1.
    Bonum est (very rare for the class. bene est; v. bene).
    (α).
    Without a subject:

    bonum sit!

    may it be fortunate, favorable! Verg. E. 8, 106.—
    (β).
    With subject inf.:

    nam et stulte facere, et stulte fabularier in aetate haud bonum est,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 61:

    bonum est pauxillum amare, insane non bonum est,

    id. Curc. 1, 3,20.—
    2.
    Melius est.
    (α).
    With subject inf.:

    melius sanam est mentem sumere,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 51:

    nihil sentire est melius quam tam prava sentire,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125; cf. id. Fin. 1, 19, 62; id. Off. 1, 43, 156; so,

    melius fuit, fuisset, or fuerat,

    it would have been better, id. N. D. 3, 33; id. Sen. 23, 82; id. Off. 3, 25, 94:

    proinde quiesse erit melius,

    Liv. 3, 48, 3; 3, 41, 3; Verg. A. 11, 303.—
    (β).
    With subject inf.-clause:

    meliu'st te quae sunt mandata tibi praevortier,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 125; id. Men. 5, 9, 32.—
    (γ).
    With ut-clause:

    quid melius quam ut hinc intro abeam et me suspendam clanculum,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 145; so id. Ps. 4, 7, 18.—
    (δ).
    With subjectclause in the subjunctive:

    nunc quid mihi meliu'st quam ilico hic opperiar erum,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 22.—
    3.
    Optimum est.
    (α).
    With subject inf.:

    optimum visum est, captivos quam primum deportare,

    Liv. 23, 34, 8:

    si quis dicit optimum esse navigare,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 8, 4 (32 fin.); so, optimum fuit, it would have been better, and optimum erat, it would be better, Quint. 6, prooem. 3; 11, 2, 33; Hor. S. 2, 1, 7.—
    (β).
    With inf.-clause:

    constituerunt optimum esse, domum suam quemque reverti,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 10: optimum visum est, in fluctuantem aciem tradi equos, etc., Liv 6, 24, 10; 22, 27, 6.—
    (γ).
    With ut and subj:

    hoc vero optimum, ut is qui, etc., id ultimum bonorum, id ipsum quid et quale sit nesciat,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 3, 6.—
    (δ).
    With quod:

    illa vero optima (sunt) quod cum Haluntium venisset Archagathum vocari jussit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 51:

    optimum vero (est) quod dictaturae nomen in perpetuum de re publica sustulisti,

    id. Phil. 2, 36, 91.—
    (ε).
    With second sup., in the phrase optumum factu est (where factu is redundant):

    sed hoc mihi optumum factu arbitror,

    Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 16:

    optimum factu esse duxerant frumento... nostros prohibere,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 30:

    optumum factu credens exercitum augere,

    Sall. C. 32, 1 (Kritz, factum); 57, 5 (Kritz, factum).
    IV.
    Ellipt. use: di meliora, i. e. dent or velint, i. e. let the gods grant better things than what you say, etc.; God forbid! in full:

    di melius duint,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 16:

    di meliora velint!

    Ov. M. 7, 37.—Ellipt.:

    di meliora! inquit,

    Cic. Sen. 14, 47:

    id ubi mulier audivit, perturbata, dii meliora inquit, etc.,

    Liv. 39, 10, 2; 9, 9, 6; Verg. G. 3, 513;

    similarly, di melius, i. e. fecerunt,

    Val. Max. 6, 1, ext. 3.
    V.
    With object expressed,
    1.
    By dat.
    (α).
    = good, useful, beneficial for:

    ambula, id lieni optumum est,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 25:

    quia vobis eadem quae mihi bona malaque esse intellexi,

    Sall. C. 20, 3:

    bona bello Cornus, jaculis, etc.,

    Verg. G. 2, 447.—
    (β).
    = benignus or propitius, kind to:

    vicinis bonus esto,

    Cato, R. R. 4:

    bene merenti mala es, male merenti bona es,

    Plaut. As. 1, 2, 3:

    vos o mihi Manes, Este boni,

    Verg. A. 12, 647.—
    (γ).
    = idoneus, fit for, adapted to:

    qui locus vino optimus dicetur esse,

    Cato, R. R. 6:

    tum erit ei rei optumum tempus,

    id. ib. 26:

    terra cui putre solum, Optima frumentis,

    Verg. G. 2, 205; 2, 319; 1, 286.—
    (δ).
    With sum and dat., in the phrase alicui bono est, it is of service to one, profits him:

    accusant in quibus occidi patrem Sex. Roscii bono fuit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 13:

    bono fuisse Romanis adventum eorum constabat,

    Liv. 7, 12, 4.—Hence, with rel. dat.: cui bono (est), for whose advantage it is:

    quod si quis usurpet illud Cassianum cui bono fuerit, etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 35:

    cui bono fuisset,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 84; id. Mil. 12, 32 Ascon. ad loc.; cf.

    ellipt. form cui bono?

    Prisc. p. 1208 P.—
    (ε).
    With dat. gerund:

    ager oleto conserundo qui in Favonium spectavit, aliis bonus nullus erit,

    Cato, R. R. 6; Varr. R. R. 1, 24:

    (mons) quia pecori bonus alendo erat,

    Liv. 29, 31; 9, 10.—
    2.
    By ad and acc.:

    refert et ad quam rem bona aut non bona sit,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 91:

    occasio quaeritur idoneane fuerit ad rem adoriendam, an alia melior,

    Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7:

    non campos modo militi Romano ad proelium bonos, etc.,

    Tac. A. 2, 14.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > optimum

  • 8 facio

    facio, fēcī, factum, ere (verwandt mit dem Stamme θε in τίθημι, ε-θη-κα), machen in der weitesten Bedeutung; dah. I) tr. u. zwar: A) zunächst von jeder äußerlichen Tätigkeit, die sich in Hervorbringung eines handgreiflichen, in die Sinne fallenden Produktes kundgibt, 1) machen = verfertigen, bauen, lectulos faciundos dare, Ter.: alci anulum, Cic.: classem, bauen, Caes.: castra, aufschlagen, Caes.: murum saxo quadrato, Liv.: pontem in Istro flumine, schlagen über, Nep.: semitam per fundum, anlegen, Plaut.: litteram, schreiben, Cic. – armis faciendis praeesse, eine Waffenfabrik leiten, Cic. – phalerae pulcherrime factae (gearbeitet), Cic. – dah. a) von der Tätigkeit des Schreibenden, niederschreiben, schriftlich aufsetzen, litteras ad alqm, an jmd. schreiben, Cic.: sermonem inter nos habitum in Cumano, Cic. – b) v. körperlicher Tätigkeit übh., wie unser machen, tun, geben, iactum, einen Wurf tun, Auct. b. Alex.: gradum, Cic.: sibi viam, bahnen, Liv.: alci transitum, jmd. durchlassen, Liv.: alci savium, geben, Plaut.: alci ventulum, zufächeln, Ter.: vela, s. 1. vēlum(Segel): significationem, ein Zeichen (Signal) geben, Caes.: impetum in hostes, machen, Liv.

    2) zeugen, erzeugen, hervorbringen, volucres ova ac pullos faciunt, legen Eier u. brüten Junge aus, Varro: asinus od. apis facit subolem, Col. u. Plin.: rapa facit cymam, treibt hervor, Col.: stercus, Mist machen, Col.: stercus facit multam herbam, erzeugt, gibt, Col.: corpus facere, s. corpus(no. I, B, 1): calorem, Wärme erzeugen, Plin.: maculas, Flecken machen (verursachen), Plin.: ignem ex lignis viridibus, Feuer machen (anmachen) aus usw., Cic. – homo ad ista expedienda factus, wie gemacht, -geschaffen (= von Natur geschickt), Cic.: ex industria factus ad imitationem stultitiae, geflissentlich den Schein der Narrheit suchend, Liv. 1, 56, 8: factus naturā et consuetudine exercitus m. Infin., Tac. ann. 14, 56. – dah. a) von der schaffenden Tätigkeit des Redners u. Dichters, machen = schaffen, bilden (s. Voß Verg. ecl. 3, 86), orationem, versus, poëma, Cic.: in versu faciendo saepe caput scabere, Hor.: orationis faciendae et ornandae auctores locupletissimi, Cic. – u. b) als gramm. t. t. von Wörtern = die u. die (Kasus- od. Tempus- od. abgeleitete) Form bilden, cur aper apri, pater patris faciat? (im Genetiv) apri bildet od. hat, Quint.: cum Alba faciat Albanos et Albenses, volo volui et volavi, Quint. (vgl. Quint. 1, 6, 13 sqq.): eadem (littera) fecit ex duello bellum, Quint.: genetivus Oedipi faciet, wird haben, Donat.: si numerum pluralem facere cogetur, Gramm. Vatic.

    3) erzielen, erwerben, gewinnen, sich machen, ex arvo aeque magno, sed male consito et minus multum et minus bonum vinum et frumentum f., Varro (vgl. ποιειν τι εκ της γης): praedam, machen, Caes.: praedas ab alqo, Nep.: rem, sich Vermögen erwerben, Hor.: lucrum, manubias sibi ex etc., Cic.: divitias ex alqa re, Plaut.: magnas pecunias ex metallis, Nep.: liberis plurimum, erwerben, Ter.: stipendia, Sold verdienen = Kriegsdienste tun, Sall. u. Liv.

    4) = conficere, a) aufbringen, auf die Beine bringen, auftreiben, tributum, Cic.: manum, Cic.: exercitum, Vell.: exercitum argento, Sall. in Sen. ep.: auxilia mercede, Tac. – b) eine Strecke im Raume durchmachen = zurücklegen, cursu quingenta stadia, Iustin. 11, 8, 2. – u. dav. übtr. c) eine Zeit durchmachen = zubringen, verleben, paucissimos unā dies, Sen.: annum in fuga, ICt.

    5) (als arithm. t. t.) = efficere, machen, ausmachen, Lais μυρίας δραχμὰς poposcit, hoc facit nummi nostratis denariûm decem milia, Gell. 1, 8, 5: actus quadratus undique finitur pedibus CXX; hoc duplicatum facit iugerum, Col. 5, 1, 5: quae utraeque summae in se multiplicatae quadratorum faciunt pedum viginti octo milia et octingentos (pedes), ibid. § 6.

    B) von derjenigen Tätigkeit, die sich im Hervorbringen von Handlungen und Zuständen kundgibt, also: 1) machen, tun = verrichten, ausüben, vornehmen, begehen, leisten, ausführen, zustande ( zuwege) bringen, verwirklichen (Ggstz. velle od. facere velle, beabsichtigen), α) m. allg. Objj.: ego plus quam feci facere non possum, Cic.: neque hoc in uno fecit Annaeo (tat er an usw.), sed in omnibus senatoribus, Cic.: omnia amici causā f., Cic.: id quod neque facere neque velle per sese honestum est, Gell. – β) m. Acc. subst.: opus, Feldarbeit verrichten, Ter.: iter, s. iter(Reise, Marsch): facinus, Cic.: u. so fortia facinora fecimus, M. Caes. in Fronto epist. ad M. Caes. 5. p. 68, 7 N.: caedem, furtum, fraudem, Cic.: exempla in alqm, Exempel an jmd. statuieren, Plaut.: gratulationem, abstatten, Quint.: largitionem, vornehmen, Cic.: alci medicinam, jmd. heilen, Cic.: nullus melius medicinam facit, kein Arzt versteht sich besser darauf, Plaut.: brevi dignum exitum facturos, würden sich bald ihr verdientes Ende bereiten, Suet.: initium, finem, moram, periculum u. dgl., s. fīnis, initium usw. – comitia, abhalten, Liv.: indutias, pacem, Waffenstillstand-, Frieden machen, -schließen, Cic. u.a.: seditionem, Cic.: bellum, Kr. anstiften, anfangen, Cic.; alci, jmd. in Krieg verwickeln, jmd. bekriegen (wie πόλεμον ποιειν τινι), Nep. u.a.: neque fecisse Rhodienses bellum neque facere voluisse, Gell.: proelium, ein Treffen anfangen, sich in einen Kampf einlassen, Cic., Sall. u.a.: fugam, die Fl. ergreifen, Sall. u. Liv.; aber fugam (mit u. ohne hostium u. dgl.) facere, eine Fl. bewirken, in die Fl. schlagen, Sall. u. Liv. (s. Weißenb. Liv. 21, 5, 16): deditionem, sich ergeben, Sall.: nomina, s. nōmen. – imperata, ausführen, Caes.: promissum, erfüllen, Cic. – quas res neque solverunt neque fecerunt (leisteten), Liv. – γ) m. Advv.: multa impure atque taetre, Cic.: vel facere quod non optime possis, vel facere quod non pessime facias, humanitatis est, Cic.: ut nihil intemperanter, nihil effeminate faciam, optabo, Sen. – δ) m. quid in Fragesätzen: αα) quid facis? was beginnst du? Ov. fast. 2, 386 u. ö. – ββ) quid faciam? was soll ich tun od. anfangen? quid facerem? was sollte ich tun? was zu tun? (von solchen, die ratlos sind u. mit Ratlosigkeit sich entschuldigen), s. Ruhnk. Ov. her. 8, 50; 10, 59: quid faciam infelix? Ov.: quid facerem? Verg.: sed tu quid faceres? Ov. – ε) fac. de alqo od. de alqa re, bl. alqo od. alqā re, alci od. alci rei, cum alqa re, mit jmd. od. etw. tun, machen, anfangen, gew. in Fragesätzen (s. Bünem. Lact. 2, 3, 3), quid de puero era tua fecit? Plaut.: quid de eo facies? Lact.: quid de his faciunt facturive sunt? Lact.: quid de praeda faciendum censerent? Liv.: quidnam facerent de rebus suis? was sie in ihrer Lage tun sollten? Nep. Them. 2, 6. – nescit quid faciat auro, Plaut.: quid illis faciat ceteris (Dat.), Plaut.: quid hoc homine od. huic homini facias? was will man od. willst du mit dem M. anfangen? Cic.: quid faceret Chrysippus huic conclusioni? was könnte Chr. gegen diesen Schluß einwenden? quid hic cum tragicis versibus et syrmā facis? Valer. com.: quid hic homo tantum incipissit facere cum tantis minis? Plaut. – ζ) prägn., m. quid od. m. allgem. Acc., tun = begehen, verbrechen, sündigen, quid feci? nihil feci, Plin. ep.: quid feci? quid commerui aut peccavi pater? Ter.: quid fecit? Ter.: faciunt hi plura, Iuven.

    2) insbes.: a) eine Feierlichkeit veranstalten, cenas, Cic.: ludos, Cic.: sacra od. sacrificium od. res divinas, ein Opfer vollziehen, opfern ( ἱερὰ ῥέζειν), Cic. (vgl. Fabri Liv. 22, 10, 3 sqq.; u. absol. s. unten no. III, 4). – b) etw. als gewöhnl. Geschäft betreiben, treiben, ausüben, praeconium (Geschäft eines Ausrufers), argentariam, Cic.: medicinam, als Arzt praktizieren, Phaedr. Vgl. Gräve Cic. Verr. 5, 18, 46 und die Auslgg. zu Phaedr. 1, 14, 2.

    3) bewirken = bereiten, verschaffen, nomen, cognomen alci rei, geben, Liv.: alci auspicium, jmd. zu etw. auffordern, veranlassen, Hor.: dci negotium, s. negōtium: silentium, verschaffen, Liv.: orationi audientiam, Gehör verschaffen, Cic.: alci famam prompti ingenii, Quint.: favorem, Liv.

    4) jmdm. etw. geben, gewähren, potestatem (Erlaubnis), Cic.: commercium sermonis, Liv.: alci gratiam alcis rei (Verzeihung, Nachsicht), Cic.

    5) einen Körper- od. Gemütszustand an od. in jmd. erregen, rege machen, erwecken, einflößen, alci fletum, jmd. zum Weinen bringen, Col.: alci dolorem, Cic. ad Att. 11, 8, 2: alci desiderium alcis rei, Liv.: alci fidem, bei jmd. Glauben erwecken = jmd. (von etw.) überzeügen, Cic.: hosti audaciam, Liv.: divitiae animos (Mut) faciunt, Liv.: spiritus (hohen Mut), Liv.: spem, Cic. u. Liv.: curam, Tac.: taedium, stomachum, Cic.: iram, Quint.: metum, Cels. u. Tac.: metum insidiarum, Liv.: timorem, Liv.: suspicionem, Cic.

    6) machen, bewirken, es fertig bringen, dahin arbeiten, daß usw., lassen, a) m. ut u. Konj., faciuntne intellegendo ut nihil intellegant, Ter.: facis, ut rursus plebes in Aventinum sevocanda esse videatur, Cic.: splendor vester facit, ut peccare sine summo rei publicae periculo non possitis, Cic.: alterum facio, ut caveam, alterum, ut non credam, facere non possum, Cic.: ut nihil ad te dem litterarum facere non possum (ich kann es nicht über mich gewinnen), Cic. – dah. facere ut nicht selten gebraucht, um den Begriff der Tätigkeit nachdrücklicher hervorzuheben, facite, ut mores eius et vultum recordemini, macht, daß ihr euch erinnert = erinnert euch, Cic. – u. facio ut etc. m. einem Adi. od. Adv. = ich verstehe mich dazu, zu usw., invitus feci, ut Flamininum e senatu eicerem, Cic.: itaque feci non invitus, ut prodessem multis rogatu tuo, habe mich ganz gern dazu verstanden, Cic.: facio libenter, ut per litteras tecum colloquar, Cic. – b) m. bl. Konj.: immo illi mitem faxo faciant fustibus, Afran. fr.: ego faxim ted Amphitruonem malis esse quam Iovem, Plaut.: haud sibi cum Danais rem faxo et pube Pelasgā esse ferant, Verg.: fallat eam faxo, Ov.: faxo sciatis, Petron.: et ita ultima sit, faciam, Veneris concordia vestrae, Ov.: di facerent, sine patre forem! Ov.: der Imperat. fac (facito) mit folg. Konjunktiv als Umschreibung eines affirmativen Imperativs, unser mache od. tue dafür, daß usw., od. laß mit folg. Infinitiv, certum hominem ad eum mittas face, Nep.: fac sciam, tue mir zu wissen, laß mich wissen, Cic.: surculos facito sint longi binos pedes, mache, daß sie sind, od. laß sie sein, Cato. – c) fac. m. folg. ne od. quo u. Konj., non fac. m. folg. quin od. quo minus u. Konj., luctus facit ne dubitem, Acc. fr.: quod ne permittat in hostem, ipsa facit gravitas, Ov.: mors faciet ne sim, cum venerit, exsul, Ov.: nach dem Imperat. (vgl. no. b), tu fac ne ventis verba profundam, Lucr.: fac ne quid aliud cures hoc tempore nisi ut quam commodissime convalescas, Cic.: per se quisque sedulo faciebant, quo illam mihi lenirent miseriam, Ter. – non enim faciam, quin scias, ich werde es nicht fertig bringen (nicht über mich gewinnen), dich in Unwissenheit zu lassen, Plaut.: numquam quisquam faciet, quin soror ista sit germana huius, nimmer wird es jemand fertig bringen (beweisen), daß sie nicht usw., Plaut. (vgl. Brix u. Lorenz Plaut. mil. 283 u. 473): facere non possum (ich kann nicht umhin), quin cotidie ad te mittam (litteras), Cic.: facere non potui, quin tibi voluntatem declararem meam, Cic.: neu quis facito, quo minus ei oetantur (= utantur) fruantur habeant, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 200. no. XI (p. 79). – d) m. Acc. u. Infin. (s. Ruhnken Ov. her. 17, 174), vel carnuficinam hunc facere possum perpeti, Plaut.: qui nati coram me cernere letum fecisti, Verg.: noc me telum flere facit, Ov.: illum forma timere facit, Ov.: desiderium facit macrescere volucres, Varro: u. nach dem Imperat. (vgl. no. b), mel Atticum ter intervere facito, Col.: noch dem Fut., succum mori agrestis paulum facies defervere, Pallad.: quae res scissuris eos faciet aperiri, Pallad. – e) faxo m. folg. Indic. Fut. (s. Klotz u. Spengel Ter. Andr. 854), temperi ego faxo scies, Plaut.: iam faxo hic aderit, Ter.: immo vero indignum iam facinus faxo ex me audies, Ter. – f) m. Infin., facias videre Romam, Corp. inscr. Lat. 8, 2632: m. Infin. pass., remitti fecit, Amm. 27, 7, 3.

    7) machen, darstellen, lassen, m. folg. Acc. u. Infin., v. Künstlern, fecerat et viridi fetam Mavortis in antro procubuisse lupam, Verg.: stare deum pelagi longoque ferire tridente aspera saxa facit, Ov.: v. Schriftstellern, qui nuper fecit servo currenti in via decesse populum, Ter.: quem tamen Homerus apud inferos conveniri facit ab Ulisse, Cic.: quem in suis libris fecit (Cicero) de re publica disputare, Augustin. de civ. dei 2, 21, 4 in.: quos loqui facit in ea disputatione, Augustin. de civ. dei 2, 21, 4.

    8) zum Ausdrucke der bloß gedachten od. angenommenen Wirkung, mit folg. Acc. u. Infin., a) lassen = den Fall setzen, annehmen, voraussetzen, esse deos faciamus, Cic.: fac, quaeso, qui ego sum, esse te, Cic. – b) sich stellen, als ob usw., se facit esse venustum, Catull. 97, 9: facio me alias res agere, ich tue (stelle mich), als ob ich usw., Cic. ep. 15, 18, 1.

    9) (= efficere) bewirken, beweisen, haec enim ratio facit lunam non habere lumen proprium, Macr. somn. Scip. 1, 19, 9.

    10) mit dopp. Acc., a) mit einem Subst. als Acc. ber Wirkung, jmd. od. etw. zu etw. machen, α) übh.: alqm consulem, jmd. zum K. machen (sowohl v. Volke als v. einem einzelnen, der bewirkt, es durchsetzt, daß jmd. K. wird, s. Ellendt Cic. de or. 2, 66, 268), Cic.: alqm regem Epiri, Iustin.: alqm reum, in den Anklagestand versetzen, Cic.: alqm heredem, zum E. machen = einsetzen, Cic.: alqm testem, zum Z. nehmen, Ter. u. Liv.: Siciliam provinciam, zur Provinz machen, Vell.: captivum de rege facturi videbantur, Iustin.: im Passiv m. dopp. Nom., de accusatore Scipionis venerator factus est, Val. Max.: u. ohne Prädikat, si ille factus esset (sc. consul), dazu (zum Konsul) gemacht worden wäre, Cic. Muren. 50; vgl. Cic. Planc. 9 u. 14. – β) vorgeblich zu etwas machen, für etwas ausgeben, me unum ex iis feci, qui etc., ich gab mich aus für einen usw., ich tat, als wäre ich einer usw., Cic.: facio te apud illum deum, Ter.: ut puellae unum me facerem beatiorum, um mich als einer von den Wohlhabenden aufzuspielen, Catull. 10, 17: et se facit venustum, spielt sich als schöner Mann (als Adonis) auf, Catull. 97, 7.: verbis se locupletem f., sich reich machen, Cic. – b) mit einem Adi. od. Partic, im Acc. zur Angabe der Wirkung, des Zustandes, der an jmd. hervorgebracht wird, animum dubium, zweifelhaft machen, Cic.: alqm sanum, disertum, Cic.: alqm peritum alcis rei, geschickt machen in usw., Nep.: alqm certum, certiorem, s. certusno. II, B, 3, b. S. 1097 (vgl. Lorenz Plaut. Pseud. 16): u. certum od. certius facere alci, s. certusno. II, B, 3, a, α S. 1096 (vgl. Brix Plaut. Men. 764. Lorenz Pseud. 16): alqm scientem, Plaut. asin. 48. Ter. heaut. 873: alqd planum, deutlich machen, Quint. – selten mit einem Adv., wie alqd palam, offenbar machen, Nep. – Partiz. factus m. dopp. Voc., o tu lectule deliciis facte beate meis! Prop. 2, 15, 2. – c) mit einem Partic, od. Adi. im Acc. zur Bezeichnung der Tatigkeit, in der jmd. od. etw. dargestellt wird, Xenophon facit Socratem disputantem etc., stellt dar, führt ein als behauptend usw., Cic. (vgl. oben no. 7): alqm od. alqd missum, s. mittono. II, A u. B: alqd reliquum, s. reliquus: u. so ademptum tibi iam faxo (= adimam) omnem metum, Ter.: faxo tali eum mactatum (mactabo) atque hic est infortunio, Ter.

    11) etwas zum Eigentum jmds. machen, jmd. in Besitz von etwas setzen, mit Genet. des Besitzers, tota Asia populi Romani facta est, fiel dem röm. Volke anheim, Cic.: Graeci optionem Carthaginiensium faciunt, legen die Wahl in die Hände der K., Sall.: facere alqd potestatis od. dicionis suae, in seine Gewalt od. Botmäßigkeit bringen, Liv. (vgl. Fabri Liv. 21, 53, 6): ebenso alqm sui iuris, jmd. sich untertan machen, Vell.: omnia arbitrii sui, seiner Willkür untertan machen, Liv.: alqd sui muneris od. beneficii sui, etw. als sein Geschenk, seine Wohltat betrachten lassen, Tac. u. Iustin. (vgl. Benecke u. Fittb. Iustin. 13, 4, 9): alqm proprii iuris, selbständig-, unabhängig machen, Iustin. (vgl. Benecke u. Fittb. Iustin. 9, 1, 3). – Aber auch mit dem Pron. possess., alqam terram suam, ein Land sich unterwerfen, Caes.: alqm suum, sich jmd. zum Freunde machen, Ter.: neque gloriam meam, laborem illorom faciam, ich werde nicht mir den Ruhm nehmen, ihnen die Mühe lassen, Sall.

    12) einen gewissen Wert auf etwas legen (vgl. unser »sich wenig aus etwas machen« u. dgl.) = so u. so achten, schätzen, si aliter nos faciant, quam aequum est, Plaut. – u. bes. mit Genet. des Wertes, parvi, minimi, pluris, maximi, nihili, Plaut., Cic. u.a.: nec pluris nunc facere Camillum hoc bellum, kümmere sich ebensowenig um usw., Cic. – Hierher gehören wohl auch die Formeln: aequi bonique f. alqd, mit etwas zufrieden sein u. dgl. (s. aequusno. II, 2, b a. E), Cic.: lucri, gewinnen, Nep.

    13) die Wirkung der Tatigkeit als eine reflexive gedacht = etwas leiden, erleiden, (vgl. unser »er hat sich Schaden getan«), parietes vitium faciunt, werden schadhaft, Plin.: naufragium f., Schiffbruch leiden, Cic. u.a.: damnum, detrimentum, Schaden leiden, Cic. u.a. (nicht hierher, sondern oben zu no. B, 1 gehört iacturam f., s. iactūra).

    14) wie das deutsche tun u. das griechische ποιειν, so steht auch facere im zweiten Redegliede, wenn das Verbum des ersten Gliedes im zweiten bleibt u. man die Wiederholung desselben Wortes vermeiden will, wo also facere den allgemeinen Begriff eines Verbums bezeichnet (wenn auch im Verbum kein »Tun« liegt) u. seine nähere Bestimmung aus dem vorhergehenden Satzgliede empfängt, wie: an Scythes Anacharsis potuit pro nihilo ducere pecuniam: nostrates philosophi facere non potuerunt? konnten es nicht tun (= konnten das Geld nicht verachten), Cic.: cum collega consentiente (sicut milites faciunt, wie die S. tun) hostibus obviam ire, Cic.: me, ut adhuc fecistis, audiatis, Cic.: incumbite in causam, ut facitis, Cic. Vgl. Heusinger Cic. de off. 1, 1. Kühner Cic. Tusc. 4, 31. Wopkens Lectt. Tull. 1, 3. p. 17 H. Orelli Hor. sat. 1, 1, 63 sq. Ruhnken Ov. her. 11, 31.

    II) (spätlat.) v. refl. (se) facere alqo, wohin ma chen = sich begeben, intra limen sese facit, Apul. met. 5, 2: homo meus coepit ad stelas facere, Petron. 62, 4: ad illum ex Libya Hammon facit, Tert. de pall. 3. Vgl. Oudend. Apul. met. 5, 2. p. 321. Salmasius Tert. de pall. 3. p. 206 (ed. Lugd. Bat. 1656).

    III) intr.: 1) = εργάζεσθαι, arbeiten, Feldarbeit verrichten, Ter. heaut. 60 (73 opus facere).

    2) handeln, handelnd auftreten, deus, qui primitus operatur ac facit, Chalcid. Tim.: qui, cum cogitasset, facere auderet, Nep.: facto non consulto in tali periculo opus esse, Sall.: opus est facto, Komik.: quoniam, ut aiunt, dei facientes adiuvant, Varro: ratio faciendi, Quint. – m. Advv. – irgendwie handeln, nequiter, schlechte Streiche spielen, Plaut.: bene et benigne, Plaut.: illiberaliter, Ter.: arroganter, Caes.: sedulo, Ter.: humaniter, bene, praeclare, amice, Cic.: iucunde, Plin. ep.: recte, Ter. u. Cic.: seu recte seu perperam, Cic.: fortius, quam locutus est, fecit, Curt. – alci bene, gegen jmd. gut handeln, jmdm. dienen, nützen, Ter.; Ggstz. male alci, jmdm. schaden, Plaut.: alci aegre, jmdm. wehtun, ihn kränken, Ter.: ex voluntate alcis, Liv.: e re publica, Liv.: adversus rem publicam, Caes.: contra rem publicam, Sall.: adversus senatus consultum, Liv.: animo bono, Nep.: animo optimo, Cic.: more tuo, Plaut.: iure, Acc. fr. u. Quint.: lege, Quint.: malā fide, Nep.

    3) facere cum od. ab alqo, mit jmd. od. auf jmds. Seite tätig sein, mit jmd. es halten, zusammenhalten, auf jmds. Seite od. Partei sein, jmd. unterstützen, begünstigen, cum alqo, Cic., Nep. u.a.; ab alqo, Cic. u.a. (so auch illinc od. unā facere, auf seiner Seite stehen, es mit ihm halten, Cic. ad Att. 7, 3, 5 W.; Sull. 36); Ggstz. facere adversus alqm, es wider jmd. halten, die Gegenpartei begünstigen, Nep. Eum. 8, 2 (dazu Bremi): eae res contra nos ambae faciunt in hoc tempore, Cic. Quinct. 1.

    4) eine Opferhandlung vornehmen, mit Dat. der Gottheit, der man opfert (wie ῥέζειν τινί), m. Acc. der Sache, die man opfert, od. mit Abl. des Opfers, mit dem man opfert, qui faciet quando volet, quāque lege volet, facito, Plebisc. vet. bei Liv. 22, 10, 3. – fac. dis, Plaut.: Iunoni Sospitae, Cic.: Marti et Robigini, Tert. – grandia liba Pali, Ov.: bidentes Herculi propter viam, Laber. fr.: Iovi Victori pocillum mulsi, Liv.: pro populo faciens quantum Saufeia bibebat, Iuven. – fac. agnis, Plaut.: catulo, Col.: fac. Iovi bidenti verre, Pompon. com. fr.: agnā Iovi, Varro LL.: vitulā pro frugibus, Verg.

    5) euphem., vollenden = sterben, faciendum (faciundum) fuit od. faciundum hoc fuit, Anthol. epigr. II. no. 63–66 (Rhein. Mus. 27, 131 f.).

    6) obszön: a) suae rei causā facere, zu Stuhle gehen, kacken, Petron. 47, 4 u. 66, 2. – b) v. Beischlaf, Catull. 110, 2 u. 5. Pers. 4, 48. Iuven. 7, 239. Petron. 9, 9; 45, 8; 87, 9.

    7) zu od. für etw. passen, geschickt sein, m. ad u. Akk. od. m. bl. Dat., v. leb. Wesen, alii ad aprum, alii ad cervum canes faciunt, einige sind Saufänger (Saurüden), andere Schweißhunde, Sen. exc. contr. 3. praef. § 9: Aurelianus ad nostra iam non facit tempora, Vopisc. Aurel. 8, 3: v. Lebl., Medeae faciunt ad scelus omne manus, Ov.: ad talem formam non facit iste locus, Ov.: haec aetas optime facit ad haec studia, Sen.: quod belle facit ad versum, Sen.: quorumdam contumelia non facit ad aulam, Sen.: m. Dat., non faciet capiti dura corona meo, Prop. 3, 1, 20.

    8) zu, für, gegen od. bei etw. tun, wirken, nützen, helfen, dienlich, förderlich, nützlich sein, absol., od. m. ad, in, adversus u. Akk., od. m. bl. Dat., a) übh.: nec caelum nec aquae faciunt nec terra nec aurae, weder das Klima bekommt mir, noch usw., Ov.: multum viva vox facit, Sen.: fecit aliquid et materia, Sen.: quid stemmata faciunt? Iuven.: quid faciunt leges, ubi etc.? Petron.: dicite, pontifices, in sancto (Tempel) quid facit aurum? Pers.: mire facit (es tut eine außerordentliche Wirkung) in peroratione confessio, Quint. – illa ad publicos usus facientia, Pacat. pan.: quorum (oppidorum) mentio tantum ad ordinem facit, Mela: faciunt in hunc usum arundinum quoque folia, Col. – incolumi Rhodos et Mitylene pulchra facit, Hor. – m. Infin. (als Subj.), plurimum facit diligenter nosse causas, Quint. 6, 4, 8: adversus omnia tela, adversus omnium hostium genus facit mortem contemnere, Sen. ep. 36, 8. – b) als mediz. t. t., id bene faciet, Cato: quod idem remedium optime facit exemptā stirpe, Col. – hic sucus facit (ist gut, schlägt an) ad difficultatem urinae, Plin.: quicquid ad salivam facit, Petron.: nihil aeque facere ad urinae morsum, Suet.: medicamentum quod proprie adversus solutionem stomachi facit, Scribon. – radix coeliacis praeclare facit in cinere tosta, leistet den Unterleibskranken vortreffliche Dienste, Plin.: feniculi suci cyathus unus potui datus mirifice pulmoni facit, Plin. Val.

    / Alter Imperat. face, zB. Enn. ann. 20*. Plaut. asin. 605 u. ö. Ter. Andr. 680 u. ö. Cato r. r. 7 u. 32, 1 ö. Catull. 36, 16. Nep. Paus. 2, 4. Ov. her. 2, 98 u. ö. (als veraltet angef. bei Quint. 1, 6, 21; vgl. Mart. Cap. 3, § 320). – Arch. Fut. faciem, Cato bei Quint. 1, 7, 23 (die besten Hdschrn. facie, wofür Bergk Beitr. 1, 153 faciee schreiben will). – Arch. Perf. fecei, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 551. – Arch. Konj. Perf. faxim (= fecerim), Enn. fr. scen. 308. Plaut. Amph. 511; aul. 420. Ter. adelph. 887. 896. – Archaist. Fut. exakt. faxo (= fecero), Afran. com. 67. Plaut. Amph. 355. Ter. Andr. 854. Verg. Aen. 9, 158. Ov. met. 3, 271. Petron. 95, 3. Sil. 17, 235: faxis, Naev. com. 47. Pacuv. tr. 123. Plaut. capt. 124. Ter. Andr. 753. Hor. sat. 2, 3, 38: faxsit, XII tabb. 8, 4 (bei Gell. 20, 1, 12). Pacuv. tr. 424. Acc. tr. 556; od. faxit, Lex Num. Pomp. bei Paul. ex Fest. 6, 2. Plaut. capt. 622. Ter. heaut. 198: faximus, Plaut. truc. 61: faxitis, Formul. vet. bei Liv. 23, 11, 2 u. 29, 27, 3: faxint, in der Formel di faxint, Plaut. Amph. 632; vidul. fr. 2, 31 St. Ter. heaut. 161. Cic. Verr. 3, 81 u. ep. 14, 3, 3. – Passiv facitur, Nigid. comm. gr. bei Non. 507, 15: faciatur, Titin. com. 97. Petron. 71, 10: faxitur (= factum erit), Formul. vet. bei Liv. 22, 10, 6. – Das Passiv von facio vertritt fio, w. s.

    lateinisch-deutsches > facio

  • 9 facio

    Cic.: facinus facere, obire, committere, Cic., od. in se admittere, Caes., od. patrare, Sall. – meton., a) die Missetat (der Mord) für das, womit sie verübt wird, facinus excussit ab ore, den Giftbecher, Ov. met. 7, 423. – b) der Missetäter, senile illud facinus (böse Stück), Apul. met. 4, 12: omnium flagitiorum atque facinorum circum se tamquam stipatorum catervae, Scharen von Schandbuben u. Bösewichtern, Sall. Cat. 14, 1. – II) übtr.: a) konkr., ein Stück Arbeit, facinus luculentum, ein Prachtstück, Plaut. Men. 141. – b) abstr., ein Stück Arbeit, Geschäft, ein Handel, ein Streich, ein Umstand, eine Sache (s. Lorenz Plaut. mil. 376), quod facinus (Schauspiel) video? Plaut.: non ego istuc mihi facinus conducibile esse arbitror, Plaut.: amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam immoenest facinus (ist ein undankbares G. od. Stück Arbeit), Plaut.: humanum facinus factumst, so geht es mit den Menschen, Plaut. – Genet. spätlat. auch facineris, nach Vel. Long. (VII) 73, 1 u. oft auch durch die Abschreiber in Handschriften des Cicero u. Livius.
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    facio, fēcī, factum, ere (verwandt mit dem Stamme θε in τίθημι, ε-θη-κα), machen in der weitesten Bedeutung; dah. I) tr. u. zwar: A) zunächst von jeder äußerlichen Tätigkeit, die sich in Hervorbringung eines handgreiflichen, in die Sinne fallenden Pro-
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    duktes kundgibt, 1) machen = verfertigen, bauen, lectulos faciundos dare, Ter.: alci anulum, Cic.: classem, bauen, Caes.: castra, aufschlagen, Caes.: murum saxo quadrato, Liv.: pontem in Istro flumine, schlagen über, Nep.: semitam per fundum, anlegen, Plaut.: litteram, schreiben, Cic. – armis faciendis praeesse, eine Waffenfabrik leiten, Cic. – phalerae pulcherrime factae (gearbeitet), Cic. – dah. a) von der Tätigkeit des Schreibenden, niederschreiben, schriftlich aufsetzen, litteras ad alqm, an jmd. schreiben, Cic.: sermonem inter nos habitum in Cumano, Cic. – b) v. körperlicher Tätigkeit übh., wie unser machen, tun, geben, iactum, einen Wurf tun, Auct. b. Alex.: gradum, Cic.: sibi viam, bahnen, Liv.: alci transitum, jmd. durchlassen, Liv.: alci savium, geben, Plaut.: alci ventulum, zufächeln, Ter.: vela, s. velum (Segel): significationem, ein Zeichen (Signal) geben, Caes.: impetum in hostes, machen, Liv.
    2) zeugen, erzeugen, hervorbringen, volucres ova ac pullos faciunt, legen Eier u. brüten Junge aus, Varro: asinus od. apis facit subolem, Col. u. Plin.: rapa facit cymam, treibt hervor, Col.: stercus, Mist machen, Col.: stercus facit multam herbam, erzeugt, gibt, Col.: corpus facere, s. corpus (no. I, B, 1): calorem, Wärme erzeugen, Plin.: maculas, Flecken machen (verursachen), Plin.: ignem ex lignis viridibus, Feuer machen (anmachen) aus usw., Cic. – homo ad
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    ista expedienda factus, wie gemacht, -geschaffen (= von Natur geschickt), Cic.: ex industria factus ad imitationem stultitiae, geflissentlich den Schein der Narrheit suchend, Liv. 1, 56, 8: factus naturā et consuetudine exercitus m. Infin., Tac. ann. 14, 56. – dah. a) von der schaffenden Tätigkeit des Redners u. Dichters, machen = schaffen, bilden (s. Voß Verg. ecl. 3, 86), orationem, versus, poëma, Cic.: in versu faciendo saepe caput scabere, Hor.: orationis faciendae et ornandae auctores locupletissimi, Cic. – u. b) als gramm. t. t. von Wörtern = die u. die (Kasus- od. Tempus- od. abgeleitete) Form bilden, cur aper apri, pater patris faciat? (im Genetiv) apri bildet od. hat, Quint.: cum Alba faciat Albanos et Albenses, volo volui et volavi, Quint. (vgl. Quint. 1, 6, 13 sqq.): eadem (littera) fecit ex duello bellum, Quint.: genetivus Oedipi faciet, wird haben, Donat.: si numerum pluralem facere cogetur, Gramm. Vatic.
    3) erzielen, erwerben, gewinnen, sich machen, ex arvo aeque magno, sed male consito et minus multum et minus bonum vinum et frumentum f., Varro (vgl. ποιειν τι εκ της γης): praedam, machen, Caes.: praedas ab alqo, Nep.: rem, sich Vermögen erwerben, Hor.: lucrum, manubias sibi ex etc., Cic.: divitias ex alqa re, Plaut.: magnas pecunias ex metallis, Nep.: liberis plurimum, erwerben, Ter.: stipendia, Sold verdienen = Kriegsdienste tun, Sall. u. Liv.
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    4) = conficere, a) aufbringen, auf die Beine bringen, auftreiben, tributum, Cic.: manum, Cic.: exercitum, Vell.: exercitum argento, Sall. in Sen. ep.: auxilia mercede, Tac. – b) eine Strecke im Raume durchmachen = zurücklegen, cursu quingenta stadia, Iustin. 11, 8, 2. – u. dav. übtr. c) eine Zeit durchmachen = zubringen, verleben, paucissimos unā dies, Sen.: annum in fuga, ICt.
    5) (als arithm. t. t.) = efficere, machen, ausmachen, Lais μυρίας δραχμὰς poposcit, hoc facit nummi nostratis denariûm decem milia, Gell. 1, 8, 5: actus quadratus undique finitur pedibus CXX; hoc duplicatum facit iugerum, Col. 5, 1, 5: quae utraeque summae in se multiplicatae quadratorum faciunt pedum viginti octo milia et octingentos (pedes), ibid. § 6.
    B) von derjenigen Tätigkeit, die sich im Hervorbringen von Handlungen und Zuständen kundgibt, also: 1) machen, tun = verrichten, ausüben, vornehmen, begehen, leisten, ausführen, zustande ( zuwege) bringen, verwirklichen (Ggstz. velle od. facere velle, beabsichtigen), α) m. allg. Objj.: ego plus quam feci facere non possum, Cic.: neque hoc in uno fecit Annaeo (tat er an usw.), sed in omnibus senatoribus, Cic.: omnia amici causā f., Cic.: id quod neque facere neque velle per sese honestum est, Gell. – β) m. Acc. subst.: opus, Feldarbeit verrich-
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    ten, Ter.: iter, s. iter (Reise, Marsch): facinus, Cic.: u. so fortia facinora fecimus, M. Caes. in Fronto epist. ad M. Caes. 5. p. 68, 7 N.: caedem, furtum, fraudem, Cic.: exempla in alqm, Exempel an jmd. statuieren, Plaut.: gratulationem, abstatten, Quint.: largitionem, vornehmen, Cic.: alci medicinam, jmd. heilen, Cic.: nullus melius medicinam facit, kein Arzt versteht sich besser darauf, Plaut.: brevi dignum exitum facturos, würden sich bald ihr verdientes Ende bereiten, Suet.: initium, finem, moram, periculum u. dgl., s. finis, initium usw. – comitia, abhalten, Liv.: indutias, pacem, Waffenstillstand-, Frieden machen, -schließen, Cic. u.a.: seditionem, Cic.: bellum, Kr. anstiften, anfangen, Cic.; alci, jmd. in Krieg verwickeln, jmd. bekriegen (wie πόλεμον ποιειν τινι), Nep. u.a.: neque fecisse Rhodienses bellum neque facere voluisse, Gell.: proelium, ein Treffen anfangen, sich in einen Kampf einlassen, Cic., Sall. u.a.: fugam, die Fl. ergreifen, Sall. u. Liv.; aber fugam (mit u. ohne hostium u. dgl.) facere, eine Fl. bewirken, in die Fl. schlagen, Sall. u. Liv. (s. Weißenb. Liv. 21, 5, 16): deditionem, sich ergeben, Sall.: nomina, s. nomen. – imperata, ausführen, Caes.: promissum, erfüllen, Cic. – quas res neque solverunt neque fecerunt (leisteten), Liv. – γ) m. Advv.: multa impure atque taetre, Cic.: vel facere quod non optime possis, vel facere quod non pessime facias, humanita-
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    tis est, Cic.: ut nihil intemperanter, nihil effeminate faciam, optabo, Sen. – δ) m. quid in Fragesätzen: αα) quid facis? was beginnst du? Ov. fast. 2, 386 u. ö. – ββ) quid faciam? was soll ich tun od. anfangen? quid facerem? was sollte ich tun? was zu tun? (von solchen, die ratlos sind u. mit Ratlosigkeit sich entschuldigen), s. Ruhnk. Ov. her. 8, 50; 10, 59: quid faciam infelix? Ov.: quid facerem? Verg.: sed tu quid faceres? Ov. – ε) fac. de alqo od. de alqa re, bl. alqo od. alqā re, alci od. alci rei, cum alqa re, mit jmd. od. etw. tun, machen, anfangen, gew. in Fragesätzen (s. Bünem. Lact. 2, 3, 3), quid de puero era tua fecit? Plaut.: quid de eo facies? Lact.: quid de his faciunt facturive sunt? Lact.: quid de praeda faciendum censerent? Liv.: quidnam facerent de rebus suis? was sie in ihrer Lage tun sollten? Nep. Them. 2, 6. – nescit quid faciat auro, Plaut.: quid illis faciat ceteris (Dat.), Plaut.: quid hoc homine od. huic homini facias? was will man od. willst du mit dem M. anfangen? Cic.: quid faceret Chrysippus huic conclusioni? was könnte Chr. gegen diesen Schluß einwenden? quid hic cum tragicis versibus et syrmā facis? Valer. com.: quid hic homo tantum incipissit facere cum tantis minis? Plaut. – ζ) prägn., m. quid od. m. allgem. Acc., tun = begehen, verbrechen, sündigen, quid feci? nihil feci, Plin. ep.: quid feci? quid commerui aut peccavi pater? Ter.: quid fecit? Ter.: faciunt hi plura,
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    Iuven.
    2) insbes.: a) eine Feierlichkeit veranstalten, cenas, Cic.: ludos, Cic.: sacra od. sacrificium od. res divinas, ein Opfer vollziehen, opfern ( ἱερὰ ῥέζειν), Cic. (vgl. Fabri Liv. 22, 10, 3 sqq.; u. absol. s. unten no. III, 4). – b) etw. als gewöhnl. Geschäft betreiben, treiben, ausüben, praeconium (Geschäft eines Ausrufers), argentariam, Cic.: medicinam, als Arzt praktizieren, Phaedr. Vgl. Gräve Cic. Verr. 5, 18, 46 und die Auslgg. zu Phaedr. 1, 14, 2.
    3) bewirken = bereiten, verschaffen, nomen, cognomen alci rei, geben, Liv.: alci auspicium, jmd. zu etw. auffordern, veranlassen, Hor.: dci negotium, s. negotium: silentium, verschaffen, Liv.: orationi audientiam, Gehör verschaffen, Cic.: alci famam prompti ingenii, Quint.: favorem, Liv.
    4) jmdm. etw. geben, gewähren, potestatem (Erlaubnis), Cic.: commercium sermonis, Liv.: alci gratiam alcis rei (Verzeihung, Nachsicht), Cic.
    5) einen Körper- od. Gemütszustand an od. in jmd. erregen, rege machen, erwecken, einflößen, alci fletum, jmd. zum Weinen bringen, Col.: alci dolorem, Cic. ad Att. 11, 8, 2: alci desiderium alcis rei, Liv.: alci fidem, bei jmd. Glauben erwecken = jmd. (von etw.) überzeügen, Cic.: hosti audaciam, Liv.: divitiae animos (Mut) faciunt, Liv.: spiritus (hohen Mut), Liv.: spem, Cic. u. Liv.: curam, Tac.: taedium,
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    stomachum, Cic.: iram, Quint.: metum, Cels. u. Tac.: metum insidiarum, Liv.: timorem, Liv.: suspicionem, Cic.
    6) machen, bewirken, es fertig bringen, dahin arbeiten, daß usw., lassen, a) m. ut u. Konj., faciuntne intellegendo ut nihil intellegant, Ter.: facis, ut rursus plebes in Aventinum sevocanda esse videatur, Cic.: splendor vester facit, ut peccare sine summo rei publicae periculo non possitis, Cic.: alterum facio, ut caveam, alterum, ut non credam, facere non possum, Cic.: ut nihil ad te dem litterarum facere non possum (ich kann es nicht über mich gewinnen), Cic. – dah. facere ut nicht selten gebraucht, um den Begriff der Tätigkeit nachdrücklicher hervorzuheben, facite, ut mores eius et vultum recordemini, macht, daß ihr euch erinnert = erinnert euch, Cic. – u. facio ut etc. m. einem Adi. od. Adv. = ich verstehe mich dazu, zu usw., invitus feci, ut Flamininum e senatu eicerem, Cic.: itaque feci non invitus, ut prodessem multis rogatu tuo, habe mich ganz gern dazu verstanden, Cic.: facio libenter, ut per litteras tecum colloquar, Cic. – b) m. bl. Konj.: immo illi mitem faxo faciant fustibus, Afran. fr.: ego faxim ted Amphitruonem malis esse quam Iovem, Plaut.: haud sibi cum Danais rem faxo et pube Pelasgā esse ferant, Verg.: fallat eam faxo, Ov.: faxo sciatis, Petron.: et ita ultima sit, faciam, Veneris concordia vestrae, Ov.: di
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    facerent, sine patre forem! Ov.: der Imperat. fac (facito) mit folg. Konjunktiv als Umschreibung eines affirmativen Imperativs, unser mache od. tue dafür, daß usw., od. laß mit folg. Infinitiv, certum hominem ad eum mittas face, Nep.: fac sciam, tue mir zu wissen, laß mich wissen, Cic.: surculos facito sint longi binos pedes, mache, daß sie sind, od. laß sie sein, Cato. – c) fac. m. folg. ne od. quo u. Konj., non fac. m. folg. quin od. quo minus u. Konj., luctus facit ne dubitem, Acc. fr.: quod ne permittat in hostem, ipsa facit gravitas, Ov.: mors faciet ne sim, cum venerit, exsul, Ov.: nach dem Imperat. (vgl. no. b), tu fac ne ventis verba profundam, Lucr.: fac ne quid aliud cures hoc tempore nisi ut quam commodissime convalescas, Cic.: per se quisque sedulo faciebant, quo illam mihi lenirent miseriam, Ter. – non enim faciam, quin scias, ich werde es nicht fertig bringen (nicht über mich gewinnen), dich in Unwissenheit zu lassen, Plaut.: numquam quisquam faciet, quin soror ista sit germana huius, nimmer wird es jemand fertig bringen (beweisen), daß sie nicht usw., Plaut. (vgl. Brix u. Lorenz Plaut. mil. 283 u. 473): facere non possum (ich kann nicht umhin), quin cotidie ad te mittam (litteras), Cic.: facere non potui, quin tibi voluntatem declararem meam, Cic.: neu quis facito, quo minus ei oetantur (= utantur) fruantur habeant, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 200. no. XI (p. 79). – d) m. Acc. u. Infin. (s.
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    Ruhnken Ov. her. 17, 174), vel carnuficinam hunc facere possum perpeti, Plaut.: qui nati coram me cernere letum fecisti, Verg.: noc me telum flere facit, Ov.: illum forma timere facit, Ov.: desiderium facit macrescere volucres, Varro: u. nach dem Imperat. (vgl. no. b), mel Atticum ter intervere facito, Col.: noch dem Fut., succum mori agrestis paulum facies defervere, Pallad.: quae res scissuris eos faciet aperiri, Pallad. – e) faxo m. folg. Indic. Fut. (s. Klotz u. Spengel Ter. Andr. 854), temperi ego faxo scies, Plaut.: iam faxo hic aderit, Ter.: immo vero indignum iam facinus faxo ex me audies, Ter. – f) m. Infin., facias videre Romam, Corp. inscr. Lat. 8, 2632: m. Infin. pass., remitti fecit, Amm. 27, 7, 3.
    7) machen, darstellen, lassen, m. folg. Acc. u. Infin., v. Künstlern, fecerat et viridi fetam Mavortis in antro procubuisse lupam, Verg.: stare deum pelagi longoque ferire tridente aspera saxa facit, Ov.: v. Schriftstellern, qui nuper fecit servo currenti in via decesse populum, Ter.: quem tamen Homerus apud inferos conveniri facit ab Ulisse, Cic.: quem in suis libris fecit (Cicero) de re publica disputare, Augustin. de civ. dei 2, 21, 4 in.: quos loqui facit in ea disputatione, Augustin. de civ. dei 2, 21, 4.
    8) zum Ausdrucke der bloß gedachten od. angenommenen Wirkung, mit folg. Acc. u. Infin., a) lassen = den Fall setzen, annehmen, voraussetzen,
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    esse deos faciamus, Cic.: fac, quaeso, qui ego sum, esse te, Cic. – b) sich stellen, als ob usw., se facit esse venustum, Catull. 97, 9: facio me alias res agere, ich tue (stelle mich), als ob ich usw., Cic. ep. 15, 18, 1.
    9) (= efficere) bewirken, beweisen, haec enim ratio facit lunam non habere lumen proprium, Macr. somn. Scip. 1, 19, 9.
    10) mit dopp. Acc., a) mit einem Subst. als Acc. ber Wirkung, jmd. od. etw. zu etw. machen, α) übh.: alqm consulem, jmd. zum K. machen (sowohl v. Volke als v. einem einzelnen, der bewirkt, es durchsetzt, daß jmd. K. wird, s. Ellendt Cic. de or. 2, 66, 268), Cic.: alqm regem Epiri, Iustin.: alqm reum, in den Anklagestand versetzen, Cic.: alqm heredem, zum E. machen = einsetzen, Cic.: alqm testem, zum Z. nehmen, Ter. u. Liv.: Siciliam provinciam, zur Provinz machen, Vell.: captivum de rege facturi videbantur, Iustin.: im Passiv m. dopp. Nom., de accusatore Scipionis venerator factus est, Val. Max.: u. ohne Prädikat, si ille factus esset (sc. consul), dazu (zum Konsul) gemacht worden wäre, Cic. Muren. 50; vgl. Cic. Planc. 9 u. 14. – β) vorgeblich zu etwas machen, für etwas ausgeben, me unum ex iis feci, qui etc., ich gab mich aus für einen usw., ich tat, als wäre ich einer usw., Cic.: facio te apud illum deum, Ter.: ut puellae unum me facerem beatiorum, um mich
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    als einer von den Wohlhabenden aufzuspielen, Catull. 10, 17: et se facit venustum, spielt sich als schöner Mann (als Adonis) auf, Catull. 97, 7.: verbis se locupletem f., sich reich machen, Cic. – b) mit einem Adi. od. Partic, im Acc. zur Angabe der Wirkung, des Zustandes, der an jmd. hervorgebracht wird, animum dubium, zweifelhaft machen, Cic.: alqm sanum, disertum, Cic.: alqm peritum alcis rei, geschickt machen in usw., Nep.: alqm certum, certiorem, s. certus no. II, B, 3, b. S. 1097 (vgl. Lorenz Plaut. Pseud. 16): u. certum od. certius facere alci, s. certus no. II, B, 3, a, α S. 1096 (vgl. Brix Plaut. Men. 764. Lorenz Pseud. 16): alqm scientem, Plaut. asin. 48. Ter. heaut. 873: alqd planum, deutlich machen, Quint. – selten mit einem Adv., wie alqd palam, offenbar machen, Nep. – Partiz. factus m. dopp. Voc., o tu lectule deliciis facte beate meis! Prop. 2, 15, 2. – c) mit einem Partic, od. Adi. im Acc. zur Bezeichnung der Tatigkeit, in der jmd. od. etw. dargestellt wird, Xenophon facit Socratem disputantem etc., stellt dar, führt ein als behauptend usw., Cic. (vgl. oben no. 7): alqm od. alqd missum, s. mitto no. II, A u. B: alqd reliquum, s. reliquus: u. so ademptum tibi iam faxo (= adimam) omnem metum, Ter.: faxo tali eum mactatum (mactabo) atque hic est infortunio, Ter.
    11) etwas zum Eigentum jmds. machen, jmd. in
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    Besitz von etwas setzen, mit Genet. des Besitzers, tota Asia populi Romani facta est, fiel dem röm. Volke anheim, Cic.: Graeci optionem Carthaginiensium faciunt, legen die Wahl in die Hände der K., Sall.: facere alqd potestatis od. dicionis suae, in seine Gewalt od. Botmäßigkeit bringen, Liv. (vgl. Fabri Liv. 21, 53, 6): ebenso alqm sui iuris, jmd. sich untertan machen, Vell.: omnia arbitrii sui, seiner Willkür untertan machen, Liv.: alqd sui muneris od. beneficii sui, etw. als sein Geschenk, seine Wohltat betrachten lassen, Tac. u. Iustin. (vgl. Benecke u. Fittb. Iustin. 13, 4, 9): alqm proprii iuris, selbständig-, unabhängig machen, Iustin. (vgl. Benecke u. Fittb. Iustin. 9, 1, 3). – Aber auch mit dem Pron. possess., alqam terram suam, ein Land sich unterwerfen, Caes.: alqm suum, sich jmd. zum Freunde machen, Ter.: neque gloriam meam, laborem illorom faciam, ich werde nicht mir den Ruhm nehmen, ihnen die Mühe lassen, Sall.
    12) einen gewissen Wert auf etwas legen (vgl. unser »sich wenig aus etwas machen« u. dgl.) = so u. so achten, schätzen, si aliter nos faciant, quam aequum est, Plaut. – u. bes. mit Genet. des Wertes, parvi, minimi, pluris, maximi, nihili, Plaut., Cic. u.a.: nec pluris nunc facere Camillum hoc bellum, kümmere sich ebensowenig um usw., Cic. – Hierher gehören wohl auch die Formeln: aequi bonique f. alqd,
    ————
    mit etwas zufrieden sein u. dgl. (s. aequus no. II, 2, b a. E), Cic.: lucri, gewinnen, Nep.
    13) die Wirkung der Tatigkeit als eine reflexive gedacht = etwas leiden, erleiden, (vgl. unser »er hat sich Schaden getan«), parietes vitium faciunt, werden schadhaft, Plin.: naufragium f., Schiffbruch leiden, Cic. u.a.: damnum, detrimentum, Schaden leiden, Cic. u.a. (nicht hierher, sondern oben zu no. B, 1 gehört iacturam f., s. iactura).
    14) wie das deutsche tun u. das griechische ποιειν, so steht auch facere im zweiten Redegliede, wenn das Verbum des ersten Gliedes im zweiten bleibt u. man die Wiederholung desselben Wortes vermeiden will, wo also facere den allgemeinen Begriff eines Verbums bezeichnet (wenn auch im Verbum kein »Tun« liegt) u. seine nähere Bestimmung aus dem vorhergehenden Satzgliede empfängt, wie: an Scythes Anacharsis potuit pro nihilo ducere pecuniam: nostrates philosophi facere non potuerunt? konnten es nicht tun (= konnten das Geld nicht verachten), Cic.: cum collega consentiente (sicut milites faciunt, wie die S. tun) hostibus obviam ire, Cic.: me, ut adhuc fecistis, audiatis, Cic.: incumbite in causam, ut facitis, Cic. Vgl. Heusinger Cic. de off. 1, 1. Kühner Cic. Tusc. 4, 31. Wopkens Lectt. Tull. 1, 3. p. 17 H. Orelli Hor. sat. 1, 1, 63 sq. Ruhnken Ov. her. 11, 31.
    II) (spätlat.) v. refl. (se) facere alqo, wohin ma-
    ————
    chen = sich begeben, intra limen sese facit, Apul. met. 5, 2: homo meus coepit ad stelas facere, Petron. 62, 4: ad illum ex Libya Hammon facit, Tert. de pall. 3. Vgl. Oudend. Apul. met. 5, 2. p. 321. Salmasius Tert. de pall. 3. p. 206 (ed. Lugd. Bat. 1656).
    III) intr.: 1) = εργάζεσθαι, arbeiten, Feldarbeit verrichten, Ter. heaut. 60 (73 opus facere).
    2) handeln, handelnd auftreten, deus, qui primitus operatur ac facit, Chalcid. Tim.: qui, cum cogitasset, facere auderet, Nep.: facto non consulto in tali periculo opus esse, Sall.: opus est facto, Komik.: quoniam, ut aiunt, dei facientes adiuvant, Varro: ratio faciendi, Quint. – m. Advv. – irgendwie handeln, nequiter, schlechte Streiche spielen, Plaut.: bene et benigne, Plaut.: illiberaliter, Ter.: arroganter, Caes.: sedulo, Ter.: humaniter, bene, praeclare, amice, Cic.: iucunde, Plin. ep.: recte, Ter. u. Cic.: seu recte seu perperam, Cic.: fortius, quam locutus est, fecit, Curt. – alci bene, gegen jmd. gut handeln, jmdm. dienen, nützen, Ter.; Ggstz. male alci, jmdm. schaden, Plaut.: alci aegre, jmdm. wehtun, ihn kränken, Ter.: ex voluntate alcis, Liv.: e re publica, Liv.: adversus rem publicam, Caes.: contra rem publicam, Sall.: adversus senatus consultum, Liv.: animo bono, Nep.: animo optimo, Cic.: more tuo, Plaut.: iure, Acc. fr. u. Quint.: lege, Quint.: malā fide, Nep.
    3) facere cum od. ab alqo, mit jmd. od. auf jmds.
    ————
    Seite tätig sein, mit jmd. es halten, zusammenhalten, auf jmds. Seite od. Partei sein, jmd. unterstützen, begünstigen, cum alqo, Cic., Nep. u.a.; ab alqo, Cic. u.a. (so auch illinc od. unā facere, auf seiner Seite stehen, es mit ihm halten, Cic. ad Att. 7, 3, 5 W.; Sull. 36); Ggstz. facere adversus alqm, es wider jmd. halten, die Gegenpartei begünstigen, Nep. Eum. 8, 2 (dazu Bremi): eae res contra nos ambae faciunt in hoc tempore, Cic. Quinct. 1.
    4) eine Opferhandlung vornehmen, mit Dat. der Gottheit, der man opfert (wie ῥέζειν τινί), m. Acc. der Sache, die man opfert, od. mit Abl. des Opfers, mit dem man opfert, qui faciet quando volet, quāque lege volet, facito, Plebisc. vet. bei Liv. 22, 10, 3. – fac. dis, Plaut.: Iunoni Sospitae, Cic.: Marti et Robigini, Tert. – grandia liba Pali, Ov.: bidentes Herculi propter viam, Laber. fr.: Iovi Victori pocillum mulsi, Liv.: pro populo faciens quantum Saufeia bibebat, Iuven. – fac. agnis, Plaut.: catulo, Col.: fac. Iovi bidenti verre, Pompon. com. fr.: agnā Iovi, Varro LL.: vitulā pro frugibus, Verg.
    5) euphem., vollenden = sterben, faciendum (faciundum) fuit od. faciundum hoc fuit, Anthol. epigr. II. no. 63-66 (Rhein. Mus. 27, 131 f.).
    6) obszön: a) suae rei causā facere, zu Stuhle gehen, kacken, Petron. 47, 4 u. 66, 2. – b) v. Beischlaf, Catull. 110, 2 u. 5. Pers. 4, 48. Iuven. 7, 239.
    ————
    Petron. 9, 9; 45, 8; 87, 9.
    7) zu od. für etw. passen, geschickt sein, m. ad u. Akk. od. m. bl. Dat., v. leb. Wesen, alii ad aprum, alii ad cervum canes faciunt, einige sind Saufänger (Saurüden), andere Schweißhunde, Sen. exc. contr. 3. praef. § 9: Aurelianus ad nostra iam non facit tempora, Vopisc. Aurel. 8, 3: v. Lebl., Medeae faciunt ad scelus omne manus, Ov.: ad talem formam non facit iste locus, Ov.: haec aetas optime facit ad haec studia, Sen.: quod belle facit ad versum, Sen.: quorumdam contumelia non facit ad aulam, Sen.: m. Dat., non faciet capiti dura corona meo, Prop. 3, 1, 20.
    8) zu, für, gegen od. bei etw. tun, wirken, nützen, helfen, dienlich, förderlich, nützlich sein, absol., od. m. ad, in, adversus u. Akk., od. m. bl. Dat., a) übh.: nec caelum nec aquae faciunt nec terra nec aurae, weder das Klima bekommt mir, noch usw., Ov.: multum viva vox facit, Sen.: fecit aliquid et materia, Sen.: quid stemmata faciunt? Iuven.: quid faciunt leges, ubi etc.? Petron.: dicite, pontifices, in sancto (Tempel) quid facit aurum? Pers.: mire facit (es tut eine außerordentliche Wirkung) in peroratione confessio, Quint. – illa ad publicos usus facientia, Pacat. pan.: quorum (oppidorum) mentio tantum ad ordinem facit, Mela: faciunt in hunc usum arundinum quoque folia, Col. – incolumi Rhodos et Mitylene pulchra facit, Hor. – m. Infin. (als Subj.), plurimum facit dili-
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    genter nosse causas, Quint. 6, 4, 8: adversus omnia tela, adversus omnium hostium genus facit mortem contemnere, Sen. ep. 36, 8. – b) als mediz. t. t., id bene faciet, Cato: quod idem remedium optime facit exemptā stirpe, Col. – hic sucus facit (ist gut, schlägt an) ad difficultatem urinae, Plin.: quicquid ad salivam facit, Petron.: nihil aeque facere ad urinae morsum, Suet.: medicamentum quod proprie adversus solutionem stomachi facit, Scribon. – radix coeliacis praeclare facit in cinere tosta, leistet den Unterleibskranken vortreffliche Dienste, Plin.: feniculi suci cyathus unus potui datus mirifice pulmoni facit, Plin. Val.
    Alter Imperat. face, zB. Enn. ann. 20*. Plaut. asin. 605 u. ö. Ter. Andr. 680 u. ö. Cato r. r. 7 u. 32, 1 ö. Catull. 36, 16. Nep. Paus. 2, 4. Ov. her. 2, 98 u. ö. (als veraltet angef. bei Quint. 1, 6, 21; vgl. Mart. Cap. 3, § 320). – Arch. Fut. faciem, Cato bei Quint. 1, 7, 23 (die besten Hdschrn. facie, wofür Bergk Beitr. 1, 153 faciee schreiben will). – Arch. Perf. fecei, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 551. – Arch. Konj. Perf. faxim (= fecerim), Enn. fr. scen. 308. Plaut. Amph. 511; aul. 420. Ter. adelph. 887. 896. – Archaist. Fut. exakt. faxo (= fecero), Afran. com. 67. Plaut. Amph. 355. Ter. Andr. 854. Verg. Aen. 9, 158. Ov. met. 3, 271. Petron. 95, 3. Sil. 17, 235: faxis, Naev. com. 47. Pacuv. tr. 123. Plaut. capt. 124. Ter. Andr. 753. Hor. sat. 2, 3, 38: faxsit, XII tabb. 8, 4 (bei Gell. 20, 1,
    ————
    12). Pacuv. tr. 424. Acc. tr. 556; od. faxit, Lex Num. Pomp. bei Paul. ex Fest. 6, 2. Plaut. capt. 622. Ter. heaut. 198: faximus, Plaut. truc. 61: faxitis, Formul. vet. bei Liv. 23, 11, 2 u. 29, 27, 3: faxint, in der Formel di faxint, Plaut. Amph. 632; vidul. fr. 2, 31 St. Ter. heaut. 161. Cic. Verr. 3, 81 u. ep. 14, 3, 3. – Passiv facitur, Nigid. comm. gr. bei Non. 507, 15: faciatur, Titin. com. 97. Petron. 71, 10: faxitur (= factum erit), Formul. vet. bei Liv. 22, 10, 6. – Das Passiv von facio vertritt fio, w. s.

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  • 10 exprimo

    ex-prĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3, v. a. [premo], to press or squeeze out, to force out (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    oleum ex malobathro,

    Plin. 12, 26, 59, § 129:

    sucum expresso semini,

    id. 20, 1, 2, § 3:

    sucum flore,

    id. 21, 19, 74, § 127:

    sucum radici,

    id. 27, 13, 109, § 136; cf.: vinum palmis, oleum sesamae (dat.), id. 6, 28, 32, § 161:

    oleum amygdalis,

    id. 13, 1, 2, § 8:

    sudorem de corpore,

    Lucr. 5, 487:

    lacrimulam oculos terendo,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 23:

    si nubium conflictu ardor expressus se emiserit, id esse fulmen,

    Cic. Div. 2, 19, 44:

    liquorem per densa foramina (cribri),

    Ov. M. 12, 438; cf.:

    aquam in altum,

    Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 39:

    aquam in altitudinem,

    Vitr. 8, 7:

    quantum has (turres) quotidianus agger expresserat,

    had carried up, raised, Caes. B. G. 7, 22, 4 Oud.:

    pecuniam alicui,

    Suet. Oth. 5; id. Vesp. 4.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    With an object denoting that out of which something is pressed or squeezed, to press, squeeze, wring:

    spongiam ex oleo vel aceto,

    Cels. 5, 24 med.:

    lanam ex vino vel aceto,

    Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 31; cf.:

    Venus madidas exprimit imbre comas,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 224:

    spongiae expressae inter duas tabulas,

    Plin. 31, 11, 47, § 128:

    oleam,

    id. 12, 27, 60, § 130:

    folia rosae,

    id. 21, 18, 73, § 122:

    tuberculum,

    id. 11, 11, 12, § 29.—
    2.
    To form by pressure, to represent, form, model, portray, express (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

    freq. in the elder Pliny): (faber) et ungues exprimet et molles imitabitur aere capillos,

    Hor. A. P. 33; cf.:

    alicujus furorem... verecundiae ruborem,

    Plin. 34, 14, 40, § 140:

    expressa in cera ex anulo imago,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 54:

    imaginem hominis gypso e facie ipsa,

    Plin. 35, 12, 44, § 153; cf.:

    effigiem de signis,

    id. ib.:

    optime Herculem Delphis et Alexandrum, etc.,

    id. 34, 8, 19, § 66 et saep.:

    vestis stricta et singulos artus exprimens,

    exhibiting, showing, Tac. G. 17:

    pulcher aspectu sit athleta, cujus lacertos exercitatio expressit,

    has well developed, made muscular, Quint. 8, 3, 10.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To squeeze or wring out, to extort, wrest, elicit: lex, quam ex natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus, qs. pressed out, Cic. Mil. 4, 10:

    utilitas expressit nomina rerum,

    has imposed, Lucr. 5, 1029: cf.:

    cum ab iis saepius quaereret, neque ullam omnino vocem exprimere posset,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 32, 3:

    expressa est Romanis necessitas obsides dandi,

    Liv. 2, 13, 4:

    confessionem concessi maris hosti,

    id. 37, 31, 5:

    confessionem cruciatu,

    Suet. Galb. 10:

    deditionem ultimā necessitate,

    Liv. 8, 2, 6:

    pecunia vi expressa et coacta,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 165:

    tu si tuis blanditiis a Sicyoniis nummulorum aliquid expresseris,

    Cic. Att. 1, 19, 9:

    risum magis quam gemitum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 7 et saep.—With ut:

    expressi, ut conficere se tabulas negaret,

    have constrained, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 47, § 112:

    expressit, ut polliceretur,

    Curt. 6, 7. —
    B.
    Transf. (acc. to I. B. 2.), to imitate, copy, represent, to portray, describe, express, esp. in words (cf. reddo):

    cum magnitudine animi tum liberalitate vitam patris et consuetudinem expresserit,

    i. e. imitated, Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4:

    lex expressa ad naturam,

    id. Leg. 2, 5, 13:

    vitia imitatione ex aliquo expressa,

    id. de Or. 3, 12, 47:

    rem ante oculos ponit, cum exprimit omnia perspicue, ut res prope dicam manu tentari possit,

    Auct. Her. 4, 40, 62; cf. id. ib. §

    63: hanc speciem Pasiteles caelavit argento et noster expressit Archias versibus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79:

    mores alicujus oratione,

    id. de Or. 2, 43, 184:

    multas nobis imagines fortissimorum virorum expressas scriptores Graeci et Latini reliquerunt,

    id. Arch. 6, 14; cf. id. ib. 12, 30:

    in Platonis libris omnibus fere Socrates exprimitur,

    id. de Or. 3, 4, 15: Mithridaticum bellum magnum atque difficile totum ab hoc expressum est, depicted to the life, id. Arch. 9, 21; cf.:

    ut Euryalum exprimat infans,

    may resemble, Juv. 6, 81.—With rel.-clause as object:

    diligenter, quae vis subjecta sit vocibus,

    id. Fin. 2, 2, 6:

    exprimere non possum, quanto sim gaudio affectus,

    tell, express, Plin. Ep. 5, 15, 2; Vell. 2, 124, 1:

    verbis exprimere quid quis sentiat,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 7:

    quod exprimere dicendo sensa possumus,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 32:

    mores in scriptis exprimere,

    Suet. Vit. Ter. 4.—Of translating into another language, to render, translate:

    si modo id exprimere Latine potuero,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 43; cf. id. ib. 1, 44: katalêpsin, verbum e verbo exprimentes comprehensionem dicemus, id. Ac. 2, 10, 31:

    nec tamen exprimi verbum e verbo necesse erit,

    id. Fin. 3, 4, 15; cf.:

    verbum de verbo expressum extulit,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 11:

    fabellae Latinae ad verbum de Graecis expressae,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 2, 4; Plin. Ep. 4, 18, 1.—Of words, to pronounce, utter:

    nolo exprimi litteras putidius nolo obscurari neglegentius,

    with affected distinctness, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41:

    verba,

    Quint. 1, 2, 6; 9, 4, 10; 40 al.—Rarely of a personal object:

    oratorem imitando effingere atque exprimere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 90:

    moderatorem rei publicae nostris libris diligenter expressimus,

    id. Att. 8, 11, 1.—Hence, expressus, a, um, P. a., clearly exhibited, prominent, distinct, visible, manifest, clear, plain, express (syn. solidus, opp. adumbratus).
    A.
    Lit.:

    species deorum, quae nihil concreti habeat, nihil solidi, nihil expressi, nihil eminentis,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75; cf.:

    litterae lituraeque omnes assimulatae, expressae,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 189:

    corpora lacertis expressa,

    powerful, muscular, Quint. 8 praef. §

    19: protinus omnibus membris, expressus infans,

    fully formed, id. 2, 4, 6.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen.:

    habuit Catilina permulta maximarum non expressa signa, sed adumbrata virtutum,

    Cic. Cael. 5, 12; cf.:

    est gloria solida quaedam res et expressa, non adumbrata,

    id. Tusc. 3, 2, 3 (v. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 62, p. 723 sq.):

    indicia solida et expressa,

    id. Planc. 12; cf.:

    veri juris germanaeque justitiae solida et expressa effigies,

    id. Off. 3, 17, 69:

    expressa sceleris vestigia,

    id. Rosc. Am. 22, 62:

    expressiora et illustriora,

    id. Fam. 1, 7, 9; cf. Plin. Ep. 5, 15, 3; and:

    quid expressius atque signatius in hanc causam?

    Tert. Res. Carn. 3.—
    2.
    Expressa carmina Battiadae, translated, Cat. 65, 16.—Of distinct pronunciation:

    vitia oris emendet, ut expressa sint verba, ut suis quaeque litterae sonis enuntientur,

    Quint. 1, 11, 4:

    expressior sermo,

    id. 1, 1, 37:

    expressior loquacitas generi picarum est,

    Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 118. —In a bad sense, of a too emphatic, affected pronunciation: sonus erat dulcis: litterae neque expressae neque oppressae, ne aut obscurum esset aut putidum, Cic Off. 1, 37, 133.—Hence, adv.: expressē.
    * 1.
    Lit., with pressure, strongly:

    artus expressius fricare,

    Scrib. Comp. 198.—
    2.
    Trop., expressly, distinctly, clearly:

    conscripta exempla,

    Auct. Her. 4, 7, 10:

    quod ipsum expressius Hesiodus hoc versu significavit,

    Col. 11, 1, 29.—Of pronunciation, distinctly:

    ut ea (R littera) a nullo expressius efferretur,

    Val. Max. 8, 7, 1 ext.

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  • 11 elatro

    ē-lātro, āre, herausbellen, übtr. v. Menschen, herauspoltern, vere quod placet ut non acriter (unumwunden) elatrem? Hor. ep. 1, 18, 18: causas non elatro, Tert. de pall. 5: cum in mores vestros omnem eloquii amaritudinem elatrent, Tert. ad nat. 1, 4.

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  • 12 expono

    ex-pōno, posuī, positum, ere, heraus-, offen hinsetzen, aufstellen, I) eig.: A) im allg.: scalas, hinsetzen, anlegen, Verg. Aen. 10, 654: fenum Graecum in sole aut in furno, ut siccescat, Col. 12, 28, 1: eam (partem foliorum inferiorem) supra fieri et exponi ad oculos et ad solem, Gell. 9, 7, 1: im Bilde, vitam in oculis atque in conspectu omnium, Cic. div. in Caec. 27: totam causam explicemus atque ante oculos expositam consideremus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 34. – dah. expositus, v. Örtl., frei daliegend, hinliegend, sich erstreckend, expositae prope in ipsis litoribus urbes, Liv.: Numidia ad ripas exposita fluminis Ampsaci, Mela: rupes exposta (= exposita) ponto, Verg. – B) insbes.: 1) an das Land setzen, a) an das Land werfen, -spülen, os (Orphei) peregrinis arenis, Ov. met. 11, 56: contortas fundo rates Tauromenitanis litoribus (v. der Charybdis), Pacat. pan. 26, 4. – b) als naut. t. t., α) an das Land setzen, landen, ausladen, ausschiffen, lebl. Ggstde., advexi, exposui, Cic.: exp. frnmentum, Cic.: merces suas, ICt.: tegulas de navibus, Liv. – Pers. (bes. Truppen), copias, milites, exercitum, Caes.: ibi Themistoclem, Nep.: milites (ex) navibus, Caes.: filium in terram, Caes.: milites od. exercitum in terram, Caes. u. Liv.: legiones in terram, Vell.: alqm in litus, Liv., in litore, Suet.: alqm in portu Tarentino, Iustin.: exercitum in Africa, Liv.: milites ad eum locum, qui appellabatur Palaeste, Caes. – dah. scherzh., ego istos amasios hoc ictu exponam (an die Luft setzen) atque omnes eiciam foras, Plaut. truc. 658: paene exposivit cubito, hat mich fast auf den Sand gesetzt, Plaut. Cas. 853. – β) über Bord werfen, onus, Marcian. dig. 39, 4, 16. § 8. – 2) öffentlich aufstellen, alqd venditioni, Tac.: bes. zur Schau, vasa Samia, Cic.: u. magnum argenti pondus (eine Masse von Silbergeschirr), Caes.: alqm populo videndum, Ov.: copias in omnibus collibus, gleichs. ausstellen, offen aufstellen, Caes. – 3) ein Kind an einem Orte aussetzen, puellam, Komik.: puerum, Iustin.: pueros, Lact.: filios, Tert.: puellam ad necem, Plaut.: in proxima alluvie pueros, Liv.: infantem ad ianuam matris, Suet.: ingenuus in Gallia natus, sed expositus, Suet.: subst., expositum agnoscere, recipere, Quint.: lex de expositis, Quint. – 4) eine Pflanze usw. ins Land setzen, mense Februario seu planta seu semen exponitur, Pallad. 3, 25, 31. – II) übtr.: 1) aufstellen, vor Augen legen, a) im allg.: praemia alci, Cic.: vitam suam ad imitandum, Cic.: factum (zur Nachahmung), Cic. – b) aussetzen = zur Verfügung stellen, alci DCCC, Cic.: per urbes benigne commeatus, Liv.: colores alci ad variandum, Cic. – c) als jurist. t. t., schriftl. ausstellen, epistulam (einen Schein) in eos exposuit, ICt.: exp. cautionem in alqm, ICt. – 2) mündlich od. schriftlich darlegen, a) aus einandersetzen, darstellen, zeigen, schildern, beschreiben, abhandeln, vitam alcis totam, Cic.: mores Graiorum, Nep.: alqm versibus, Nep.: breviter consulatum alcis, Cic.: Africae situm paucis, Sall.: mandata in senatu, Cic.: plura de alqo, Nep.: bl. de vita imperatorum, Nep.: m. folg. indir. Fragesatz (m. qui, quid, quemadmodum u. dgl.), Lucr., Cic. u.a.: m. folg. Acc. u. Infin. (= zeigen, dartun), Lucr. 1, 121. Cic. Tusc. 1, 26. – b) den Inhalt von etwas in Worte kleiden, aufsetzen, aufstellen, condiciones pacis, Iustin.: orationem obliquam, Iustin. – 3) aussetzen = preisgeben, bloßstellen, gew. exponi od. expositum esse u. Partiz. expositus, a) der Lage, Stellung nach, ager expositus ventis, Plin.: locus expositus solibus, Plin.: mare procellis undique expositum, Mela: mare in omnes tempestates expositum, Sen.: mare nimiā propinquitate ad pericula classium externarum expositum, Liv.: expositi adversus Italiam, Liv.: ut (exercitus) undique hosti exponeretur, Flor.: expositus ad ictus, Liv. u. Curt.: ad omnes ictus, Curt.: contra magnas copias se expositum videre, Auct. b. Afr. – b) den Verhältnissen nach, ne inermes provinciae barbaris nationibus exponerentur, Tac.: expositum ad invidiam Marcelli nomen, Tac.: ut minus ad iniurias fortunae simus expositi, Sen.: libertas exposita ad iniurias Masinissae, Liv.: ira magis exposita contemptui est, Sen. – absol. (iracundi) simplices videntur, quia expositi sunt, weil sie (der Tücke) preisgegeben sind, Sen. de ira 2, 16, 3: u. so bei Spät. oft = dem Hohne preisgeben, nomen dei, Lact.: vitia patriarcharum, Ambros.; vgl. Bünem. Lact. 1, 7. § 7. – 4) ablegen (s. Bünem. Lact. 3, 26, 13 u. 7, 5, 22. Rönsch Itala p. 364), nomen virginitatis, Arnob.: infantiam, Lact.: veterem hominem, Tert.: curas, Arnob. – / Archaist. Perf. exposivit, Plaut. Cas. 853. – Synkop. Partiz. Perf. expostus, Cato r. r. 151, 2. Verg. Aen. 10, 694. Stat. Theb. 5, 551 u. 7, 197.

    lateinisch-deutsches > expono

  • 13 persequor

    persĕquor, sĕqui, sĕcūtus sum (sĕquūtus sum) [st1]1 [-] suivre obstinément, suivre de bout en bout.    - Cleomenem persecuti sunt, Cic. Verr. 5, 91: ils continuèrent à suivre (suivirent jusqu'au bout) Cléomène.    - aliquem ipsius vestigiis persequi, Cic. Br. 307: suivre qqn pas à pas.    - celeritate scribendi persequi posse quae dicuntur, Cic. Sull. 42: grâce à la promptitude de l'écriture, pouvoir suivre les paroles, écrire aussi vite que la parole.    - omnes solitudines persequi, Cic. Pis. 53: ne parcourir que des endroits déserts.    - omnes vias persequi, Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 6: suivre tous les chemins, tenter tous les moyens. [st1]2 [-] poursuivre; poursuivre par vengeance, venger, venger; poursuivre en justice.    - fugientes persequi, Caes. BG. 7, 67: poursuivre les fuyards.    - bello civitatem persequi, Caes. BG. 5, 1, 9: faire la guerre à outrance à une cité.    - mortem alicujus persequi, Caes. BG. 7, 38, 8: venger la mort de qqn.    - jus suum persequi, Cic. Caec. 8: chercher à faire valoir son droit. [st1]3 [-] chercher à obtenir, s'attacher à, être sectateur de; marcher sur les traces de, imiter.    - qui syngraphas suas persequuntur, Cic. Rep. 3: ceux qui cherchent à obtenir un contrat avantageux pour eux-mêmes.    - horum hominem sectam atque instituta persequimur, Cic. Verr. 5: voilà les hommes dont je suis fidèlement l'école et les principes.    - laudem cupidissime persequi, Cic. R. Post. 2: poursuivre passionnément la gloire. [st1]4 [-] mener à bonne fin, accomplir, exécuter; faire rentrer (de l'argent), encaisser.    - hoc, ut dico, factis persequar, Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 11: ce que je dis, je le ferai.    - herus quod imperavit, neglexisti persequi, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 40: tu as négligé de faire ce que ton maître t'a commandé.    - relictam persequitur vitem attondens, Virg. G. 2: il continue de tailler le reste de la vigne.    - vitam inopem et vagam persequi, Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15: mener une vie misérable et errante. [st1]5 [-] parcourir par écrit, exposer, raconter, traiter.    - philosophiam Latinis litteris persequi, Cic. Ac. 1, 12: traiter la philosophie en langue latine.    - ceteros persequi, Cic. Phil. 2, 27: citer tous les autres à la suite.    - plura persequi, Nep.: s'étendre plus longuement.    - quae versibus persecutus est Ennius, Cic. Sen. 6, 16: sujet traité en vers par Ennius.    - scripturā aliquid persequi, Cic. Fam. 15, 21, 4: traiter qqch par écrit. [st1]6 [-] explorer.    - persecutus putamen, Petr. 33, 8: ayant exploré la coquille (de l'œuf).    - persequere continentis his funeribus dies, Cic. Pis.: passe en revue les jours qui ont suivi les funérailles. [st1]7 [-] poursuivre, persécuter.    - persequebantur Judaei Jesum quia haec faciebat in sabbato, Vulg.: les Juifs persécutaient Jésus parce qu'il faisait ces choses-là le jour du sabbat.    - Tert. ad Scap. 5; Vulg. Act. 7, 52; Vulg. Rom. 12, 14. [st1]8 [-] Hyg. être poursuivi.    - illa se in mare praecipitavit, ne persequeretur, Hyg. Fab. 198: elle se jeta dans la mer pour éviter d'être poursuivie.
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    persĕquor, sĕqui, sĕcūtus sum (sĕquūtus sum) [st1]1 [-] suivre obstinément, suivre de bout en bout.    - Cleomenem persecuti sunt, Cic. Verr. 5, 91: ils continuèrent à suivre (suivirent jusqu'au bout) Cléomène.    - aliquem ipsius vestigiis persequi, Cic. Br. 307: suivre qqn pas à pas.    - celeritate scribendi persequi posse quae dicuntur, Cic. Sull. 42: grâce à la promptitude de l'écriture, pouvoir suivre les paroles, écrire aussi vite que la parole.    - omnes solitudines persequi, Cic. Pis. 53: ne parcourir que des endroits déserts.    - omnes vias persequi, Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 6: suivre tous les chemins, tenter tous les moyens. [st1]2 [-] poursuivre; poursuivre par vengeance, venger, venger; poursuivre en justice.    - fugientes persequi, Caes. BG. 7, 67: poursuivre les fuyards.    - bello civitatem persequi, Caes. BG. 5, 1, 9: faire la guerre à outrance à une cité.    - mortem alicujus persequi, Caes. BG. 7, 38, 8: venger la mort de qqn.    - jus suum persequi, Cic. Caec. 8: chercher à faire valoir son droit. [st1]3 [-] chercher à obtenir, s'attacher à, être sectateur de; marcher sur les traces de, imiter.    - qui syngraphas suas persequuntur, Cic. Rep. 3: ceux qui cherchent à obtenir un contrat avantageux pour eux-mêmes.    - horum hominem sectam atque instituta persequimur, Cic. Verr. 5: voilà les hommes dont je suis fidèlement l'école et les principes.    - laudem cupidissime persequi, Cic. R. Post. 2: poursuivre passionnément la gloire. [st1]4 [-] mener à bonne fin, accomplir, exécuter; faire rentrer (de l'argent), encaisser.    - hoc, ut dico, factis persequar, Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 11: ce que je dis, je le ferai.    - herus quod imperavit, neglexisti persequi, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 40: tu as négligé de faire ce que ton maître t'a commandé.    - relictam persequitur vitem attondens, Virg. G. 2: il continue de tailler le reste de la vigne.    - vitam inopem et vagam persequi, Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15: mener une vie misérable et errante. [st1]5 [-] parcourir par écrit, exposer, raconter, traiter.    - philosophiam Latinis litteris persequi, Cic. Ac. 1, 12: traiter la philosophie en langue latine.    - ceteros persequi, Cic. Phil. 2, 27: citer tous les autres à la suite.    - plura persequi, Nep.: s'étendre plus longuement.    - quae versibus persecutus est Ennius, Cic. Sen. 6, 16: sujet traité en vers par Ennius.    - scripturā aliquid persequi, Cic. Fam. 15, 21, 4: traiter qqch par écrit. [st1]6 [-] explorer.    - persecutus putamen, Petr. 33, 8: ayant exploré la coquille (de l'œuf).    - persequere continentis his funeribus dies, Cic. Pis.: passe en revue les jours qui ont suivi les funérailles. [st1]7 [-] poursuivre, persécuter.    - persequebantur Judaei Jesum quia haec faciebat in sabbato, Vulg.: les Juifs persécutaient Jésus parce qu'il faisait ces choses-là le jour du sabbat.    - Tert. ad Scap. 5; Vulg. Act. 7, 52; Vulg. Rom. 12, 14. [st1]8 [-] Hyg. être poursuivi.    - illa se in mare praecipitavit, ne persequeretur, Hyg. Fab. 198: elle se jeta dans la mer pour éviter d'être poursuivie.
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        Persequor, pen. cor. persequeris, persequutus sum, persequi. Terent. Poursuyvre, Pourchasser.
    \
        Bello persequi aliquem. Caes. Luy faire la guerre, Le persecuter de guerre.
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        Persequi aliquem terra et mari. Cic. Par mer et par terre.
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        Vestigiis ipsius persequi aliquem, per translationem. Cic. Le suyvre pas à pas, A la trace, A la route.
    \
        Iudicio persequi aliquem. Cic. Poursuyvre en jugement, Par devant le juge, En justice, Pourchasser contre luy, ou faire poursuite et pourchas en justice.
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        Artem aliquam persequi. Cic. Y employer son estude et son temps.
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        Consuetudine et celeritate scribendi, facillime quae dicerentur, persequi. Cic. Escrire aussi viste qu'un autre parle, et ne rien omettre de ce qu'il a dict, Suyvre de la main la langue d'un autre.
    \
        Factis persequi quod dicimus. Plaut. Faire ce que nous disons.
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        Feras persequi. Ouid. Chasser aux bestes sauvages.
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        Imperium patris persequi. Plaut. Faire ce que le pere commande.
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        Incoepta persequi. Liu. Poursuyvre ce qu'on a commencé.
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        Inimicitias paternas persequi. Cic. Venger.
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        Instituta alicuius seruare, et vestigiis persequi. Cic. Observer et garder de poinct en poinct.
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        Ius suum persequi. Cic. Defendre et poursuyvre son droict.
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        Mores patris persequi. Plaut. Suyvre les meurs du pere.
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        Mortem alicuius persequi. Cic. Venger.
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        Numeris cursus syderum persequi. Cic. Rediger par supputations.
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        Odio persequitur omnes. Seneca. Il hait, ou ha en haine.
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        Poenas alicuius persequi. Cic. Venger la mort d'aucun.
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        Promissa alterius persequi. Plautus. Soliciter qu'il tienne sa promesse.
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        Scriptura persequi. Cic. Escrire, Rediger par escript.
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        Versibus aliqua persequi. Cic. Escrire en vers.
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        Vestigia alicuius persequi. Cic. L'ensuyvre de pres.
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        Viam persequi. Terent. Poursuyvre un chemin.
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        Vita persequi disciplinam recte viuendi. Cic. Vivre selon la discipline de bien vivre.
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        Vitia aliquem persequuntur ab institutione puerili. Quintil. Le suyvent, et ne le laissent point.
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        Voce aliquid persequi. Cicero. Poursuyvre de parolles quelque chose.
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        Voluptates cuiusque modi persequi. Cic. S'addonner à toutes voluptez.
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        Nominatim voluptates omnes persequitur Epicurus. Cic. Il les nomme toutes par leurs noms.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > persequor

  • 14 elatro

    ē-lātro, āre, herausbellen, übtr. v. Menschen, herauspoltern, vere quod placet ut non acriter (unumwunden) elatrem? Hor. ep. 1, 18, 18: causas non elatro, Tert. de pall. 5: cum in mores vestros omnem eloquii amaritudinem elatrent, Tert. ad nat. 1, 4.

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  • 15 expono

    ex-pōno, posuī, positum, ere, heraus-, offen hinsetzen, aufstellen, I) eig.: A) im allg.: scalas, hinsetzen, anlegen, Verg. Aen. 10, 654: fenum Graecum in sole aut in furno, ut siccescat, Col. 12, 28, 1: eam (partem foliorum inferiorem) supra fieri et exponi ad oculos et ad solem, Gell. 9, 7, 1: im Bilde, vitam in oculis atque in conspectu omnium, Cic. div. in Caec. 27: totam causam explicemus atque ante oculos expositam consideremus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 34. – dah. expositus, v. Örtl., frei daliegend, hinliegend, sich erstreckend, expositae prope in ipsis litoribus urbes, Liv.: Numidia ad ripas exposita fluminis Ampsaci, Mela: rupes exposta (= exposita) ponto, Verg. – B) insbes.: 1) an das Land setzen, a) an das Land werfen, - spülen, os (Orphei) peregrinis arenis, Ov. met. 11, 56: contortas fundo rates Tauromenitanis litoribus (v. der Charybdis), Pacat. pan. 26, 4. – b) als naut. t. t., α) an das Land setzen, landen, ausladen, ausschiffen, lebl. Ggstde., advexi, exposui, Cic.: exp. frnmentum, Cic.: merces suas, ICt.: tegulas de navibus, Liv. – Pers. (bes. Truppen), copias, milites, exercitum, Caes.: ibi Themistoclem, Nep.: milites (ex) navibus, Caes.: filium in terram, Caes.: milites od. exercitum in terram, Caes. u. Liv.: legiones in terram, Vell.: alqm in litus, Liv., in litore, Suet.: alqm in portu Tarentino, Iustin.: exercitum in Africa, Liv.: mi-
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    lites ad eum locum, qui appellabatur Palaeste, Caes. – dah. scherzh., ego istos amasios hoc ictu exponam (an die Luft setzen) atque omnes eiciam foras, Plaut. truc. 658: paene exposivit cubito, hat mich fast auf den Sand gesetzt, Plaut. Cas. 853. – β) über Bord werfen, onus, Marcian. dig. 39, 4, 16. § 8. – 2) öffentlich aufstellen, alqd venditioni, Tac.: bes. zur Schau, vasa Samia, Cic.: u. magnum argenti pondus (eine Masse von Silbergeschirr), Caes.: alqm populo videndum, Ov.: copias in omnibus collibus, gleichs. ausstellen, offen aufstellen, Caes. – 3) ein Kind an einem Orte aussetzen, puellam, Komik.: puerum, Iustin.: pueros, Lact.: filios, Tert.: puellam ad necem, Plaut.: in proxima alluvie pueros, Liv.: infantem ad ianuam matris, Suet.: ingenuus in Gallia natus, sed expositus, Suet.: subst., expositum agnoscere, recipere, Quint.: lex de expositis, Quint. – 4) eine Pflanze usw. ins Land setzen, mense Februario seu planta seu semen exponitur, Pallad. 3, 25, 31. – II) übtr.: 1) aufstellen, vor Augen legen, a) im allg.: praemia alci, Cic.: vitam suam ad imitandum, Cic.: factum (zur Nachahmung), Cic. – b) aussetzen = zur Verfügung stellen, alci DCCC, Cic.: per urbes benigne commeatus, Liv.: colores alci ad variandum, Cic. – c) als jurist. t. t., schriftl. ausstellen, epistulam (einen Schein) in eos exposuit, ICt.: exp. cautionem in alqm, ICt. – 2) mündlich od. schriftlich darlegen, a) aus-
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    einandersetzen, darstellen, zeigen, schildern, beschreiben, abhandeln, vitam alcis totam, Cic.: mores Graiorum, Nep.: alqm versibus, Nep.: breviter consulatum alcis, Cic.: Africae situm paucis, Sall.: mandata in senatu, Cic.: plura de alqo, Nep.: bl. de vita imperatorum, Nep.: m. folg. indir. Fragesatz (m. qui, quid, quemadmodum u. dgl.), Lucr., Cic. u.a.: m. folg. Acc. u. Infin. (= zeigen, dartun), Lucr. 1, 121. Cic. Tusc. 1, 26. – b) den Inhalt von etwas in Worte kleiden, aufsetzen, aufstellen, condiciones pacis, Iustin.: orationem obliquam, Iustin. – 3) aussetzen = preisgeben, bloßstellen, gew. exponi od. expositum esse u. Partiz. expositus, a) der Lage, Stellung nach, ager expositus ventis, Plin.: locus expositus solibus, Plin.: mare procellis undique expositum, Mela: mare in omnes tempestates expositum, Sen.: mare nimiā propinquitate ad pericula classium externarum expositum, Liv.: expositi adversus Italiam, Liv.: ut (exercitus) undique hosti exponeretur, Flor.: expositus ad ictus, Liv. u. Curt.: ad omnes ictus, Curt.: contra magnas copias se expositum videre, Auct. b. Afr. – b) den Verhältnissen nach, ne inermes provinciae barbaris nationibus exponerentur, Tac.: expositum ad invidiam Marcelli nomen, Tac.: ut minus ad iniurias fortunae simus expositi, Sen.: libertas exposita ad iniurias Masinissae, Liv.: ira magis exposita contemptui est, Sen. – absol. (iracundi) simplices videntur,
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    quia expositi sunt, weil sie (der Tücke) preisgegeben sind, Sen. de ira 2, 16, 3: u. so bei Spät. oft = dem Hohne preisgeben, nomen dei, Lact.: vitia patriarcharum, Ambros.; vgl. Bünem. Lact. 1, 7. § 7. – 4) ablegen (s. Bünem. Lact. 3, 26, 13 u. 7, 5, 22. Rönsch Itala p. 364), nomen virginitatis, Arnob.: infantiam, Lact.: veterem hominem, Tert.: curas, Arnob. – Archaist. Perf. exposivit, Plaut. Cas. 853. – Synkop. Partiz. Perf. expostus, Cato r. r. 151, 2. Verg. Aen. 10, 694. Stat. Theb. 5, 551 u. 7, 197.

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  • 16 colens

    1.
    cŏlo, colŭi, cultum, 3, v. a. [from the stem KOL, whence boukolos, boukoleô; cf.: colonus, in-cola, agri-cola] (orig. pertaining to agriculture), to cultivate, till, tend, take care of a field, garden, etc. (freq. in all per. and species of composition).
    I.
    Prop.
    (α).
    With acc.:

    fundum,

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

    agrum,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 14; Cato, R. R. 61; Col. 1 pr.:

    agri non omnes frugiferi sunt qui coluntur,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; id. Agr. 2, 25, 67:

    arva et vineta et oleas et arbustum,

    Quint. 1, 12, 7:

    praedia,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 49:

    rus,

    Col. 1, 1:

    rura,

    Cat. 64, 38; Tib. 1, 5, 21; Verg. G. 2, 413:

    hortos,

    Ov. M. 14, 624 al.:

    jugera,

    Col. 1 pr.:

    patrios fines,

    id. ib.:

    solum,

    id. 2, 2, 8:

    terram,

    id. 2, 2, 4:

    arbustum,

    Quint. 1, 12, 7:

    vitem,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38:

    arbores,

    Hor. C. 2, 14, 22:

    arva,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 24; Ov. Am. 1, 13, 15:

    fructus,

    Verg. G. 2, 36:

    fruges,

    Ov. M. 15, 134:

    poma,

    id. ib. 14, 687; cf. under P. a.—
    (β).
    Absol., Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 8; Verg. G. 1, 121; Dig. 19, 2, 54, § 1.—
    B.
    In gen., without reference to economics, to abide, dwell, stay in a place, to inhabit (syn.: incolo, habito; most freq. since the Aug. per.).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    hanc domum,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 4:

    nemora atque cavos montes silvasque colebant,

    Lucr. 5, 955:

    regiones Acherunticas,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21:

    colitur ea pars (urbis) et habitatur frequentissime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, § 119:

    urbem, urbem, mi Rufe, cole,

    id. Fam. 2, 12, 2:

    has terras,

    id. N. D. 2, 66, 164; Tac. A. 2, 60:

    loca Idae,

    Cat. 63, 70:

    Idalium,

    id. 36, 12 sq.; 61, 17:

    urbem Trojanam,

    Verg. A. 4, 343:

    Sicaniam,

    Ov. M. 5, 495:

    Maeoniam Sipylumque,

    id. ib. 6, 149:

    Elin Messeniaque arva,

    id. ib. 2, 679:

    regnum nemorale Dianae,

    id. ib. 14, 331:

    hoc nemus,

    id. ib. 15, 545:

    Elysium,

    Verg. A. 5, 735:

    loca magna,

    Ov. M. 14, 681; Liv. 1, 7, 10:

    Britanniam,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    Rheni ripam,

    id. G. 28:

    victam ripam,

    id. A. 1, 59:

    terras,

    id. ib. 2, 60; cf. id. H. 5, 2:

    insulam,

    id. A. 12, 61; id. G. 29:

    regionem,

    Curt. 7, 7, 4.— Poet., of poets:

    me juvat in primā coluisse Helicona juventā,

    i. e. to have written poetry in early youth, Prop. 3 (4), 5, 19.—Also of animals:

    anguis stagna,

    Verg. G. 3, 430; Ov. M. 2, 380.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    hic,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 68:

    subdiu colere te usque perpetuom diem,

    id. Most. 3, 2, 78; Liv. 42, 67, 9; Curt. 9, 9, 2:

    colunt discreti ac diversi,

    Tac. G. 16:

    proximi Cattis Usipii ac Tencteri colunt,

    id. ib. 32:

    circa utramque ripam Rhodani,

    Liv. 21, 26, 6:

    quā Cilices maritimi colunt,

    id. 38, 18, 12:

    prope Oceanum,

    id. 24, 49, 6:

    usque ad Albim,

    Tac. A. 2, 41:

    ultra Borysthenem fluvium,

    Gell. 9, 4, 6:

    super Bosporum,

    Curt. 6, 2, 13:

    extra urbem,

    App. M. 1, p. 111.—
    II.
    Trop. (freq. and class.).
    A. 1.
    Of the gods: colere aliquem locum, to frequent, cherish, care for, protect, be the guardian of, said of places where they were worshipped, had temples, etc.:

    deos deasque veneror, qui hanc urbem colunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 1, 19; Cat. 36, 12:

    Pallas, quas condidit arces, Ipsa colat,

    Verg. E. 2, 62:

    ille (Juppiter) colit terras,

    id. ib. 3, 61; id. A. 1, 16 Forbig. ad loc.:

    undis jura dabat, nymphisque colentibus undas,

    Ov. M. 1, 576:

    urbem colentes di,

    Liv. 31, 30, 9; 5, 21, 3:

    vos, Ceres mater ac Proserpina, precor, ceteri superi infernique di, qui hanc urbem colitis,

    id. 24, 39, 8:

    divi divaeque, qui maria terrasque colitis,

    id. 29, 27, 1.—
    2.
    Rarely with persons as object (syn.:

    curo, studeo, observo, obsequor): Juppiter, qui genus colis alisque hominum,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 24; cf.:

    (Castor et Pollux) dum terras hominumque colunt genus,

    i. e. improve, polish, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 7. —
    3.
    Of the body or its parts, to cultivate, attend to, dress, clothe, adorn, etc.:

    formamque augere colendo,

    by attire, dress, Ov. M. 10, 534:

    corpora,

    id. A. A. 3, 107:

    tu quoque dum coleris,

    id. ib. 3, 225.—With abl.:

    lacertos auro,

    Curt. 8, 9, 21:

    lacertum armillā aureā,

    Petr. 32:

    capillos,

    Tib. 1, 6, 39; 1, 8, 9.—
    4.
    With abstr. objects, to cultivate, cherish, seek, practise, devote one ' s self to, etc.;

    of mental and moral cultivation: aequom et bonum,

    Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 10:

    amicitiam,

    id. Cist. 1, 1, 27:

    fidem rectumque,

    Ov. M. 1, 90:

    fortitudinem,

    Curt. 10, 3, 9:

    jus et fas,

    Liv. 27, 17 fin.:

    memoriam alicujus,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 31, 101:

    bonos mores,

    Sall. C. 9, 1:

    suum quaestum colit,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 137:

    pietatem,

    id. As. 3, 1, 5; Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 33:

    virtutem,

    Cic. Arch. 7, 16; id. Off. 1, 41, 149:

    amicitiam, justitiam, liberalitatem,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 5:

    virginitatis amorem,

    Verg. A. 11, 584:

    pacem,

    Ov. M. 11, 297; cf. Martem, Sil. [p. 370] 8, 464:

    studium philosophiae,

    Cic. Brut. 91, 315:

    disciplinam,

    id. ib. 31, 117:

    aequabile et temperatum orationis genus,

    id. Off. 1, 1, 3:

    patrias artes militiamque,

    Ov. F. 2, 508; cf.:

    artes liberales,

    Suet. Tib. 60:

    ingenium singulari rerum militarium prudentiā,

    Vell. 2, 29, 5 Kritz.—
    5.
    Of a period of time or a condition, to live in, experience, live through, pass, spend, etc.:

    servitutem apud aliquem,

    to be a slave, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 7:

    nunc plane nec ego victum, nec vitam illam colere possum, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2; and poet. in gen.: vitam or aevum = degere, to take care of life, for to live:

    vitam,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 74; id. Cas. 2, 1, 12; id. Rud. 1, 5, 25:

    vitam inopem,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 84:

    aevum vi,

    Lucr. 5, 1144 and 1149.—
    B.
    Colere aliquem, to regard one with care, i. e. to honor, revere, reverence, worship, etc. (syn.: observo, veneror, diligo).
    1.
    Most freq. of the reverence and worship of the gods, and the respect paid to objects pertaining thereto, to honor, respect, revere, reverence, worship:

    quid est enim cur deos ab hominibus colendos dicas?

    Cic. N. D. 1, 41, 115:

    hos deos et venerari et colere debemus,

    id. ib. 2, 28, 71; cf. id. ib. 1, 42, 119; id. Agr. 2, 35, 94; Liv. 39, 15, 2; Cat. 61, 48:

    Phoebe silvarumque potens Diana... o colendi Semper et culti,

    Hor. C. S. 2 and 3; cf. Ov. M. 8, 350:

    deos aris, pulvinaribus,

    Plin. Pan. 11, 3:

    Mercurium,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17:

    Apollinem nimiā religione,

    Curt. 4, 3, 21:

    Cererem secubitu,

    Ov. A. 3, 10, 16:

    (deam) magis officiis quam probitate,

    id. P. 3, 1, 76:

    per flamines et sacerdotes,

    Tac. A. 1, 10; Suet. Vit. 1:

    quo cognomine is deus quādam in parte urbis colebatur,

    id. Aug. 70:

    deum precibus,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 580:

    testimoniorum religionem et fidem,

    Cic. Fl. 4, 9; cf. id. Font. 10, 21; and:

    colebantur religiones pie magis quam magnifice,

    Liv. 3, 57, 7; and:

    apud quos juxta divinas religiones humana fides colitur,

    id. 9, 9, 4:

    sacra,

    Ov. M. 4, 32; 15, 679:

    aras,

    id. ib. 3, 733; 6, 208; cf. Liv. 1, 7, 10; Suet. Vit. 2 et saep.:

    numina alicujus,

    Verg. G. 1, 30:

    templum,

    id. A. 4, 458; Ov. M. 11, 578:

    caerimonias sepulcrorum tantā curà,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 27:

    sacrarium summā caerimoniā,

    Nep. Th. 8, 4:

    simulacrum,

    Suet. Galb. 4.—
    2.
    Of the honor bestowed upon men:

    ut Africanum ut deum coleret Laelius,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18:

    quia me colitis et magnificatis,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 23; Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 54:

    a quibus diligenter observari videmur et coli,

    Cic. Mur. 34, 70; cf. id. Fam. 6, 10, 7; 13, 22, 1; id. Off. 1, 41, 149; Sall. J. 10, 8:

    poëtarum nomen,

    Cic. Arch. 11, 27:

    civitatem,

    id. Fl. 22, 52; cf.:

    in amicis et diligendis et colendis,

    id. Lael. 22, 85 and 82:

    semper ego plebem Romanam militiae domique... colo atque colui,

    Liv. 7, 32, 16:

    colere et ornare,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 2:

    me diligentissime,

    id. ib. 13, 25 init.:

    si te colo, Sexte, non amabo,

    Mart. 2, 55:

    aliquem donis,

    Liv. 31, 43, 7:

    litteris,

    Nep. Att. 20, 4:

    nec illos arte colam, nec opulenter,

    Sall. J. 85, 34 Kritz.— Hence,
    1.
    cŏlens, entis, P. a., honoring, treating respectfully; subst., a reverer, worshipper; with gen.:

    religionum,

    Cic. Planc. 33, 80.—
    2.
    cultus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.).
    A.
    Cultivated, tilled:

    ager cultior,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 20:

    ager cultissimus,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33:

    materia et culta et silvestris,

    id. N. D. 2, 60, 151:

    res pecuaria,

    id. Quint. 3, 12:

    rus cultissimum,

    Col. 1, 1, 1:

    terra,

    Quint. 5, 11, 24:

    fundus cultior,

    id. 8, 3, 8:

    cultiora loca,

    Curt. 7, 3, 18.—
    b.
    Subst.: culta, ōrum, n., tilled, cultivated land, gardens, plantations, etc., Lucr. 1, 165; 1, 210; 5, 1370; Verg. G. 1, 153; 2, 196; 4, 372; Plin. 24, 10, 49, § 83—Hence,
    B.
    Trop., ornamented, adorned, polished, elegant, cultivated:

    milites habebat tam cultos ut argento et auro politis armis ornaret,

    Suet. Caes. 67:

    adulter,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 499:

    turba muliebriter culta,

    Curt. 3, 3, 14:

    sacerdos veste candidā cultus,

    Plin. 16, 44, 95, § 251:

    matrona vetitā purpurā culta,

    Suet. Ner. 32:

    filia cultior,

    Mart. 10, 98, 3:

    animi culti,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

    tempora et ingenia cultiora,

    Curt. 7, 8, 11:

    Tibullus,

    Ov. Am. 1, 15, 28; cf.

    carmina,

    id. A. A. 3, 341:

    cultiores doctioresque redire,

    Gell. 19, 8, 1:

    sermone cultissimus,

    Aur. Vict. Epit. 45.— Adv.: cul-tē, elegantly: dicere, * Quint. 8, 3, 7; Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 6.— Comp.:

    dicere,

    Sen. Suas. 4 fin.; Tac. Or. 21: (sc. veste) progredi, Just. 3, 3, 5:

    incubare strato lectulo,

    Val. Max. 2, 6, 8.— Sup. apparently not in use.
    2.
    cōlo, āvi, ātum, āre, v. a. [colum], to filter, strain, to clarify, purify (post-Aug.):

    ceram,

    Col. 9, 16, 1:

    mel,

    id. 12, 11, 1:

    vinum sportā palmeā,

    Pall. Febr. 27:

    sucum linteo,

    Plin. 25, 13, 103, § 164:

    thymum cribro,

    Col. 7, 8, 7:

    aliquid per linteum,

    Scrib. Comp. 271:

    ad colum,

    Veg. 2, 28, 19:

    per colum,

    Apic. 4, 2:

    aurum,

    App. Flor. p. 343, 20:

    terra colans,

    Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 38:

    faex colata,

    id. 31, 8, 44, § 95.— Poet.:

    amnes inductis retibus,

    i. e. to spread out a fish-net, Manil. 5, 193.—Hence, cōlātus, a, um, P. a., cleansed, purified (post-class.):

    nitor (beryllorum),

    Tert. Anim. 9.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    certiora et colatiora somniari,

    Tert. Anim. 48.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > colens

  • 17 colo

    1.
    cŏlo, colŭi, cultum, 3, v. a. [from the stem KOL, whence boukolos, boukoleô; cf.: colonus, in-cola, agri-cola] (orig. pertaining to agriculture), to cultivate, till, tend, take care of a field, garden, etc. (freq. in all per. and species of composition).
    I.
    Prop.
    (α).
    With acc.:

    fundum,

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

    agrum,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 14; Cato, R. R. 61; Col. 1 pr.:

    agri non omnes frugiferi sunt qui coluntur,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; id. Agr. 2, 25, 67:

    arva et vineta et oleas et arbustum,

    Quint. 1, 12, 7:

    praedia,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 49:

    rus,

    Col. 1, 1:

    rura,

    Cat. 64, 38; Tib. 1, 5, 21; Verg. G. 2, 413:

    hortos,

    Ov. M. 14, 624 al.:

    jugera,

    Col. 1 pr.:

    patrios fines,

    id. ib.:

    solum,

    id. 2, 2, 8:

    terram,

    id. 2, 2, 4:

    arbustum,

    Quint. 1, 12, 7:

    vitem,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38:

    arbores,

    Hor. C. 2, 14, 22:

    arva,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 24; Ov. Am. 1, 13, 15:

    fructus,

    Verg. G. 2, 36:

    fruges,

    Ov. M. 15, 134:

    poma,

    id. ib. 14, 687; cf. under P. a.—
    (β).
    Absol., Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 8; Verg. G. 1, 121; Dig. 19, 2, 54, § 1.—
    B.
    In gen., without reference to economics, to abide, dwell, stay in a place, to inhabit (syn.: incolo, habito; most freq. since the Aug. per.).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    hanc domum,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 4:

    nemora atque cavos montes silvasque colebant,

    Lucr. 5, 955:

    regiones Acherunticas,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21:

    colitur ea pars (urbis) et habitatur frequentissime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, § 119:

    urbem, urbem, mi Rufe, cole,

    id. Fam. 2, 12, 2:

    has terras,

    id. N. D. 2, 66, 164; Tac. A. 2, 60:

    loca Idae,

    Cat. 63, 70:

    Idalium,

    id. 36, 12 sq.; 61, 17:

    urbem Trojanam,

    Verg. A. 4, 343:

    Sicaniam,

    Ov. M. 5, 495:

    Maeoniam Sipylumque,

    id. ib. 6, 149:

    Elin Messeniaque arva,

    id. ib. 2, 679:

    regnum nemorale Dianae,

    id. ib. 14, 331:

    hoc nemus,

    id. ib. 15, 545:

    Elysium,

    Verg. A. 5, 735:

    loca magna,

    Ov. M. 14, 681; Liv. 1, 7, 10:

    Britanniam,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    Rheni ripam,

    id. G. 28:

    victam ripam,

    id. A. 1, 59:

    terras,

    id. ib. 2, 60; cf. id. H. 5, 2:

    insulam,

    id. A. 12, 61; id. G. 29:

    regionem,

    Curt. 7, 7, 4.— Poet., of poets:

    me juvat in primā coluisse Helicona juventā,

    i. e. to have written poetry in early youth, Prop. 3 (4), 5, 19.—Also of animals:

    anguis stagna,

    Verg. G. 3, 430; Ov. M. 2, 380.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    hic,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 68:

    subdiu colere te usque perpetuom diem,

    id. Most. 3, 2, 78; Liv. 42, 67, 9; Curt. 9, 9, 2:

    colunt discreti ac diversi,

    Tac. G. 16:

    proximi Cattis Usipii ac Tencteri colunt,

    id. ib. 32:

    circa utramque ripam Rhodani,

    Liv. 21, 26, 6:

    quā Cilices maritimi colunt,

    id. 38, 18, 12:

    prope Oceanum,

    id. 24, 49, 6:

    usque ad Albim,

    Tac. A. 2, 41:

    ultra Borysthenem fluvium,

    Gell. 9, 4, 6:

    super Bosporum,

    Curt. 6, 2, 13:

    extra urbem,

    App. M. 1, p. 111.—
    II.
    Trop. (freq. and class.).
    A. 1.
    Of the gods: colere aliquem locum, to frequent, cherish, care for, protect, be the guardian of, said of places where they were worshipped, had temples, etc.:

    deos deasque veneror, qui hanc urbem colunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 1, 19; Cat. 36, 12:

    Pallas, quas condidit arces, Ipsa colat,

    Verg. E. 2, 62:

    ille (Juppiter) colit terras,

    id. ib. 3, 61; id. A. 1, 16 Forbig. ad loc.:

    undis jura dabat, nymphisque colentibus undas,

    Ov. M. 1, 576:

    urbem colentes di,

    Liv. 31, 30, 9; 5, 21, 3:

    vos, Ceres mater ac Proserpina, precor, ceteri superi infernique di, qui hanc urbem colitis,

    id. 24, 39, 8:

    divi divaeque, qui maria terrasque colitis,

    id. 29, 27, 1.—
    2.
    Rarely with persons as object (syn.:

    curo, studeo, observo, obsequor): Juppiter, qui genus colis alisque hominum,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 24; cf.:

    (Castor et Pollux) dum terras hominumque colunt genus,

    i. e. improve, polish, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 7. —
    3.
    Of the body or its parts, to cultivate, attend to, dress, clothe, adorn, etc.:

    formamque augere colendo,

    by attire, dress, Ov. M. 10, 534:

    corpora,

    id. A. A. 3, 107:

    tu quoque dum coleris,

    id. ib. 3, 225.—With abl.:

    lacertos auro,

    Curt. 8, 9, 21:

    lacertum armillā aureā,

    Petr. 32:

    capillos,

    Tib. 1, 6, 39; 1, 8, 9.—
    4.
    With abstr. objects, to cultivate, cherish, seek, practise, devote one ' s self to, etc.;

    of mental and moral cultivation: aequom et bonum,

    Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 10:

    amicitiam,

    id. Cist. 1, 1, 27:

    fidem rectumque,

    Ov. M. 1, 90:

    fortitudinem,

    Curt. 10, 3, 9:

    jus et fas,

    Liv. 27, 17 fin.:

    memoriam alicujus,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 31, 101:

    bonos mores,

    Sall. C. 9, 1:

    suum quaestum colit,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 137:

    pietatem,

    id. As. 3, 1, 5; Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 33:

    virtutem,

    Cic. Arch. 7, 16; id. Off. 1, 41, 149:

    amicitiam, justitiam, liberalitatem,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 5:

    virginitatis amorem,

    Verg. A. 11, 584:

    pacem,

    Ov. M. 11, 297; cf. Martem, Sil. [p. 370] 8, 464:

    studium philosophiae,

    Cic. Brut. 91, 315:

    disciplinam,

    id. ib. 31, 117:

    aequabile et temperatum orationis genus,

    id. Off. 1, 1, 3:

    patrias artes militiamque,

    Ov. F. 2, 508; cf.:

    artes liberales,

    Suet. Tib. 60:

    ingenium singulari rerum militarium prudentiā,

    Vell. 2, 29, 5 Kritz.—
    5.
    Of a period of time or a condition, to live in, experience, live through, pass, spend, etc.:

    servitutem apud aliquem,

    to be a slave, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 7:

    nunc plane nec ego victum, nec vitam illam colere possum, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2; and poet. in gen.: vitam or aevum = degere, to take care of life, for to live:

    vitam,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 74; id. Cas. 2, 1, 12; id. Rud. 1, 5, 25:

    vitam inopem,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 84:

    aevum vi,

    Lucr. 5, 1144 and 1149.—
    B.
    Colere aliquem, to regard one with care, i. e. to honor, revere, reverence, worship, etc. (syn.: observo, veneror, diligo).
    1.
    Most freq. of the reverence and worship of the gods, and the respect paid to objects pertaining thereto, to honor, respect, revere, reverence, worship:

    quid est enim cur deos ab hominibus colendos dicas?

    Cic. N. D. 1, 41, 115:

    hos deos et venerari et colere debemus,

    id. ib. 2, 28, 71; cf. id. ib. 1, 42, 119; id. Agr. 2, 35, 94; Liv. 39, 15, 2; Cat. 61, 48:

    Phoebe silvarumque potens Diana... o colendi Semper et culti,

    Hor. C. S. 2 and 3; cf. Ov. M. 8, 350:

    deos aris, pulvinaribus,

    Plin. Pan. 11, 3:

    Mercurium,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17:

    Apollinem nimiā religione,

    Curt. 4, 3, 21:

    Cererem secubitu,

    Ov. A. 3, 10, 16:

    (deam) magis officiis quam probitate,

    id. P. 3, 1, 76:

    per flamines et sacerdotes,

    Tac. A. 1, 10; Suet. Vit. 1:

    quo cognomine is deus quādam in parte urbis colebatur,

    id. Aug. 70:

    deum precibus,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 580:

    testimoniorum religionem et fidem,

    Cic. Fl. 4, 9; cf. id. Font. 10, 21; and:

    colebantur religiones pie magis quam magnifice,

    Liv. 3, 57, 7; and:

    apud quos juxta divinas religiones humana fides colitur,

    id. 9, 9, 4:

    sacra,

    Ov. M. 4, 32; 15, 679:

    aras,

    id. ib. 3, 733; 6, 208; cf. Liv. 1, 7, 10; Suet. Vit. 2 et saep.:

    numina alicujus,

    Verg. G. 1, 30:

    templum,

    id. A. 4, 458; Ov. M. 11, 578:

    caerimonias sepulcrorum tantā curà,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 27:

    sacrarium summā caerimoniā,

    Nep. Th. 8, 4:

    simulacrum,

    Suet. Galb. 4.—
    2.
    Of the honor bestowed upon men:

    ut Africanum ut deum coleret Laelius,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18:

    quia me colitis et magnificatis,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 23; Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 54:

    a quibus diligenter observari videmur et coli,

    Cic. Mur. 34, 70; cf. id. Fam. 6, 10, 7; 13, 22, 1; id. Off. 1, 41, 149; Sall. J. 10, 8:

    poëtarum nomen,

    Cic. Arch. 11, 27:

    civitatem,

    id. Fl. 22, 52; cf.:

    in amicis et diligendis et colendis,

    id. Lael. 22, 85 and 82:

    semper ego plebem Romanam militiae domique... colo atque colui,

    Liv. 7, 32, 16:

    colere et ornare,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 2:

    me diligentissime,

    id. ib. 13, 25 init.:

    si te colo, Sexte, non amabo,

    Mart. 2, 55:

    aliquem donis,

    Liv. 31, 43, 7:

    litteris,

    Nep. Att. 20, 4:

    nec illos arte colam, nec opulenter,

    Sall. J. 85, 34 Kritz.— Hence,
    1.
    cŏlens, entis, P. a., honoring, treating respectfully; subst., a reverer, worshipper; with gen.:

    religionum,

    Cic. Planc. 33, 80.—
    2.
    cultus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.).
    A.
    Cultivated, tilled:

    ager cultior,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 20:

    ager cultissimus,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33:

    materia et culta et silvestris,

    id. N. D. 2, 60, 151:

    res pecuaria,

    id. Quint. 3, 12:

    rus cultissimum,

    Col. 1, 1, 1:

    terra,

    Quint. 5, 11, 24:

    fundus cultior,

    id. 8, 3, 8:

    cultiora loca,

    Curt. 7, 3, 18.—
    b.
    Subst.: culta, ōrum, n., tilled, cultivated land, gardens, plantations, etc., Lucr. 1, 165; 1, 210; 5, 1370; Verg. G. 1, 153; 2, 196; 4, 372; Plin. 24, 10, 49, § 83—Hence,
    B.
    Trop., ornamented, adorned, polished, elegant, cultivated:

    milites habebat tam cultos ut argento et auro politis armis ornaret,

    Suet. Caes. 67:

    adulter,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 499:

    turba muliebriter culta,

    Curt. 3, 3, 14:

    sacerdos veste candidā cultus,

    Plin. 16, 44, 95, § 251:

    matrona vetitā purpurā culta,

    Suet. Ner. 32:

    filia cultior,

    Mart. 10, 98, 3:

    animi culti,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

    tempora et ingenia cultiora,

    Curt. 7, 8, 11:

    Tibullus,

    Ov. Am. 1, 15, 28; cf.

    carmina,

    id. A. A. 3, 341:

    cultiores doctioresque redire,

    Gell. 19, 8, 1:

    sermone cultissimus,

    Aur. Vict. Epit. 45.— Adv.: cul-tē, elegantly: dicere, * Quint. 8, 3, 7; Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 6.— Comp.:

    dicere,

    Sen. Suas. 4 fin.; Tac. Or. 21: (sc. veste) progredi, Just. 3, 3, 5:

    incubare strato lectulo,

    Val. Max. 2, 6, 8.— Sup. apparently not in use.
    2.
    cōlo, āvi, ātum, āre, v. a. [colum], to filter, strain, to clarify, purify (post-Aug.):

    ceram,

    Col. 9, 16, 1:

    mel,

    id. 12, 11, 1:

    vinum sportā palmeā,

    Pall. Febr. 27:

    sucum linteo,

    Plin. 25, 13, 103, § 164:

    thymum cribro,

    Col. 7, 8, 7:

    aliquid per linteum,

    Scrib. Comp. 271:

    ad colum,

    Veg. 2, 28, 19:

    per colum,

    Apic. 4, 2:

    aurum,

    App. Flor. p. 343, 20:

    terra colans,

    Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 38:

    faex colata,

    id. 31, 8, 44, § 95.— Poet.:

    amnes inductis retibus,

    i. e. to spread out a fish-net, Manil. 5, 193.—Hence, cōlātus, a, um, P. a., cleansed, purified (post-class.):

    nitor (beryllorum),

    Tert. Anim. 9.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    certiora et colatiora somniari,

    Tert. Anim. 48.

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  • 18 culta

    1.
    cŏlo, colŭi, cultum, 3, v. a. [from the stem KOL, whence boukolos, boukoleô; cf.: colonus, in-cola, agri-cola] (orig. pertaining to agriculture), to cultivate, till, tend, take care of a field, garden, etc. (freq. in all per. and species of composition).
    I.
    Prop.
    (α).
    With acc.:

    fundum,

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

    agrum,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 14; Cato, R. R. 61; Col. 1 pr.:

    agri non omnes frugiferi sunt qui coluntur,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; id. Agr. 2, 25, 67:

    arva et vineta et oleas et arbustum,

    Quint. 1, 12, 7:

    praedia,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 49:

    rus,

    Col. 1, 1:

    rura,

    Cat. 64, 38; Tib. 1, 5, 21; Verg. G. 2, 413:

    hortos,

    Ov. M. 14, 624 al.:

    jugera,

    Col. 1 pr.:

    patrios fines,

    id. ib.:

    solum,

    id. 2, 2, 8:

    terram,

    id. 2, 2, 4:

    arbustum,

    Quint. 1, 12, 7:

    vitem,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38:

    arbores,

    Hor. C. 2, 14, 22:

    arva,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 24; Ov. Am. 1, 13, 15:

    fructus,

    Verg. G. 2, 36:

    fruges,

    Ov. M. 15, 134:

    poma,

    id. ib. 14, 687; cf. under P. a.—
    (β).
    Absol., Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 8; Verg. G. 1, 121; Dig. 19, 2, 54, § 1.—
    B.
    In gen., without reference to economics, to abide, dwell, stay in a place, to inhabit (syn.: incolo, habito; most freq. since the Aug. per.).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    hanc domum,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 4:

    nemora atque cavos montes silvasque colebant,

    Lucr. 5, 955:

    regiones Acherunticas,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21:

    colitur ea pars (urbis) et habitatur frequentissime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, § 119:

    urbem, urbem, mi Rufe, cole,

    id. Fam. 2, 12, 2:

    has terras,

    id. N. D. 2, 66, 164; Tac. A. 2, 60:

    loca Idae,

    Cat. 63, 70:

    Idalium,

    id. 36, 12 sq.; 61, 17:

    urbem Trojanam,

    Verg. A. 4, 343:

    Sicaniam,

    Ov. M. 5, 495:

    Maeoniam Sipylumque,

    id. ib. 6, 149:

    Elin Messeniaque arva,

    id. ib. 2, 679:

    regnum nemorale Dianae,

    id. ib. 14, 331:

    hoc nemus,

    id. ib. 15, 545:

    Elysium,

    Verg. A. 5, 735:

    loca magna,

    Ov. M. 14, 681; Liv. 1, 7, 10:

    Britanniam,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    Rheni ripam,

    id. G. 28:

    victam ripam,

    id. A. 1, 59:

    terras,

    id. ib. 2, 60; cf. id. H. 5, 2:

    insulam,

    id. A. 12, 61; id. G. 29:

    regionem,

    Curt. 7, 7, 4.— Poet., of poets:

    me juvat in primā coluisse Helicona juventā,

    i. e. to have written poetry in early youth, Prop. 3 (4), 5, 19.—Also of animals:

    anguis stagna,

    Verg. G. 3, 430; Ov. M. 2, 380.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    hic,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 68:

    subdiu colere te usque perpetuom diem,

    id. Most. 3, 2, 78; Liv. 42, 67, 9; Curt. 9, 9, 2:

    colunt discreti ac diversi,

    Tac. G. 16:

    proximi Cattis Usipii ac Tencteri colunt,

    id. ib. 32:

    circa utramque ripam Rhodani,

    Liv. 21, 26, 6:

    quā Cilices maritimi colunt,

    id. 38, 18, 12:

    prope Oceanum,

    id. 24, 49, 6:

    usque ad Albim,

    Tac. A. 2, 41:

    ultra Borysthenem fluvium,

    Gell. 9, 4, 6:

    super Bosporum,

    Curt. 6, 2, 13:

    extra urbem,

    App. M. 1, p. 111.—
    II.
    Trop. (freq. and class.).
    A. 1.
    Of the gods: colere aliquem locum, to frequent, cherish, care for, protect, be the guardian of, said of places where they were worshipped, had temples, etc.:

    deos deasque veneror, qui hanc urbem colunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 1, 19; Cat. 36, 12:

    Pallas, quas condidit arces, Ipsa colat,

    Verg. E. 2, 62:

    ille (Juppiter) colit terras,

    id. ib. 3, 61; id. A. 1, 16 Forbig. ad loc.:

    undis jura dabat, nymphisque colentibus undas,

    Ov. M. 1, 576:

    urbem colentes di,

    Liv. 31, 30, 9; 5, 21, 3:

    vos, Ceres mater ac Proserpina, precor, ceteri superi infernique di, qui hanc urbem colitis,

    id. 24, 39, 8:

    divi divaeque, qui maria terrasque colitis,

    id. 29, 27, 1.—
    2.
    Rarely with persons as object (syn.:

    curo, studeo, observo, obsequor): Juppiter, qui genus colis alisque hominum,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 24; cf.:

    (Castor et Pollux) dum terras hominumque colunt genus,

    i. e. improve, polish, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 7. —
    3.
    Of the body or its parts, to cultivate, attend to, dress, clothe, adorn, etc.:

    formamque augere colendo,

    by attire, dress, Ov. M. 10, 534:

    corpora,

    id. A. A. 3, 107:

    tu quoque dum coleris,

    id. ib. 3, 225.—With abl.:

    lacertos auro,

    Curt. 8, 9, 21:

    lacertum armillā aureā,

    Petr. 32:

    capillos,

    Tib. 1, 6, 39; 1, 8, 9.—
    4.
    With abstr. objects, to cultivate, cherish, seek, practise, devote one ' s self to, etc.;

    of mental and moral cultivation: aequom et bonum,

    Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 10:

    amicitiam,

    id. Cist. 1, 1, 27:

    fidem rectumque,

    Ov. M. 1, 90:

    fortitudinem,

    Curt. 10, 3, 9:

    jus et fas,

    Liv. 27, 17 fin.:

    memoriam alicujus,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 31, 101:

    bonos mores,

    Sall. C. 9, 1:

    suum quaestum colit,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 137:

    pietatem,

    id. As. 3, 1, 5; Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 33:

    virtutem,

    Cic. Arch. 7, 16; id. Off. 1, 41, 149:

    amicitiam, justitiam, liberalitatem,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 5:

    virginitatis amorem,

    Verg. A. 11, 584:

    pacem,

    Ov. M. 11, 297; cf. Martem, Sil. [p. 370] 8, 464:

    studium philosophiae,

    Cic. Brut. 91, 315:

    disciplinam,

    id. ib. 31, 117:

    aequabile et temperatum orationis genus,

    id. Off. 1, 1, 3:

    patrias artes militiamque,

    Ov. F. 2, 508; cf.:

    artes liberales,

    Suet. Tib. 60:

    ingenium singulari rerum militarium prudentiā,

    Vell. 2, 29, 5 Kritz.—
    5.
    Of a period of time or a condition, to live in, experience, live through, pass, spend, etc.:

    servitutem apud aliquem,

    to be a slave, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 7:

    nunc plane nec ego victum, nec vitam illam colere possum, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2; and poet. in gen.: vitam or aevum = degere, to take care of life, for to live:

    vitam,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 74; id. Cas. 2, 1, 12; id. Rud. 1, 5, 25:

    vitam inopem,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 84:

    aevum vi,

    Lucr. 5, 1144 and 1149.—
    B.
    Colere aliquem, to regard one with care, i. e. to honor, revere, reverence, worship, etc. (syn.: observo, veneror, diligo).
    1.
    Most freq. of the reverence and worship of the gods, and the respect paid to objects pertaining thereto, to honor, respect, revere, reverence, worship:

    quid est enim cur deos ab hominibus colendos dicas?

    Cic. N. D. 1, 41, 115:

    hos deos et venerari et colere debemus,

    id. ib. 2, 28, 71; cf. id. ib. 1, 42, 119; id. Agr. 2, 35, 94; Liv. 39, 15, 2; Cat. 61, 48:

    Phoebe silvarumque potens Diana... o colendi Semper et culti,

    Hor. C. S. 2 and 3; cf. Ov. M. 8, 350:

    deos aris, pulvinaribus,

    Plin. Pan. 11, 3:

    Mercurium,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17:

    Apollinem nimiā religione,

    Curt. 4, 3, 21:

    Cererem secubitu,

    Ov. A. 3, 10, 16:

    (deam) magis officiis quam probitate,

    id. P. 3, 1, 76:

    per flamines et sacerdotes,

    Tac. A. 1, 10; Suet. Vit. 1:

    quo cognomine is deus quādam in parte urbis colebatur,

    id. Aug. 70:

    deum precibus,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 580:

    testimoniorum religionem et fidem,

    Cic. Fl. 4, 9; cf. id. Font. 10, 21; and:

    colebantur religiones pie magis quam magnifice,

    Liv. 3, 57, 7; and:

    apud quos juxta divinas religiones humana fides colitur,

    id. 9, 9, 4:

    sacra,

    Ov. M. 4, 32; 15, 679:

    aras,

    id. ib. 3, 733; 6, 208; cf. Liv. 1, 7, 10; Suet. Vit. 2 et saep.:

    numina alicujus,

    Verg. G. 1, 30:

    templum,

    id. A. 4, 458; Ov. M. 11, 578:

    caerimonias sepulcrorum tantā curà,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 27:

    sacrarium summā caerimoniā,

    Nep. Th. 8, 4:

    simulacrum,

    Suet. Galb. 4.—
    2.
    Of the honor bestowed upon men:

    ut Africanum ut deum coleret Laelius,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 12, 18:

    quia me colitis et magnificatis,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 23; Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 54:

    a quibus diligenter observari videmur et coli,

    Cic. Mur. 34, 70; cf. id. Fam. 6, 10, 7; 13, 22, 1; id. Off. 1, 41, 149; Sall. J. 10, 8:

    poëtarum nomen,

    Cic. Arch. 11, 27:

    civitatem,

    id. Fl. 22, 52; cf.:

    in amicis et diligendis et colendis,

    id. Lael. 22, 85 and 82:

    semper ego plebem Romanam militiae domique... colo atque colui,

    Liv. 7, 32, 16:

    colere et ornare,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 2:

    me diligentissime,

    id. ib. 13, 25 init.:

    si te colo, Sexte, non amabo,

    Mart. 2, 55:

    aliquem donis,

    Liv. 31, 43, 7:

    litteris,

    Nep. Att. 20, 4:

    nec illos arte colam, nec opulenter,

    Sall. J. 85, 34 Kritz.— Hence,
    1.
    cŏlens, entis, P. a., honoring, treating respectfully; subst., a reverer, worshipper; with gen.:

    religionum,

    Cic. Planc. 33, 80.—
    2.
    cultus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.).
    A.
    Cultivated, tilled:

    ager cultior,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 20:

    ager cultissimus,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33:

    materia et culta et silvestris,

    id. N. D. 2, 60, 151:

    res pecuaria,

    id. Quint. 3, 12:

    rus cultissimum,

    Col. 1, 1, 1:

    terra,

    Quint. 5, 11, 24:

    fundus cultior,

    id. 8, 3, 8:

    cultiora loca,

    Curt. 7, 3, 18.—
    b.
    Subst.: culta, ōrum, n., tilled, cultivated land, gardens, plantations, etc., Lucr. 1, 165; 1, 210; 5, 1370; Verg. G. 1, 153; 2, 196; 4, 372; Plin. 24, 10, 49, § 83—Hence,
    B.
    Trop., ornamented, adorned, polished, elegant, cultivated:

    milites habebat tam cultos ut argento et auro politis armis ornaret,

    Suet. Caes. 67:

    adulter,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 499:

    turba muliebriter culta,

    Curt. 3, 3, 14:

    sacerdos veste candidā cultus,

    Plin. 16, 44, 95, § 251:

    matrona vetitā purpurā culta,

    Suet. Ner. 32:

    filia cultior,

    Mart. 10, 98, 3:

    animi culti,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

    tempora et ingenia cultiora,

    Curt. 7, 8, 11:

    Tibullus,

    Ov. Am. 1, 15, 28; cf.

    carmina,

    id. A. A. 3, 341:

    cultiores doctioresque redire,

    Gell. 19, 8, 1:

    sermone cultissimus,

    Aur. Vict. Epit. 45.— Adv.: cul-tē, elegantly: dicere, * Quint. 8, 3, 7; Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 6.— Comp.:

    dicere,

    Sen. Suas. 4 fin.; Tac. Or. 21: (sc. veste) progredi, Just. 3, 3, 5:

    incubare strato lectulo,

    Val. Max. 2, 6, 8.— Sup. apparently not in use.
    2.
    cōlo, āvi, ātum, āre, v. a. [colum], to filter, strain, to clarify, purify (post-Aug.):

    ceram,

    Col. 9, 16, 1:

    mel,

    id. 12, 11, 1:

    vinum sportā palmeā,

    Pall. Febr. 27:

    sucum linteo,

    Plin. 25, 13, 103, § 164:

    thymum cribro,

    Col. 7, 8, 7:

    aliquid per linteum,

    Scrib. Comp. 271:

    ad colum,

    Veg. 2, 28, 19:

    per colum,

    Apic. 4, 2:

    aurum,

    App. Flor. p. 343, 20:

    terra colans,

    Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 38:

    faex colata,

    id. 31, 8, 44, § 95.— Poet.:

    amnes inductis retibus,

    i. e. to spread out a fish-net, Manil. 5, 193.—Hence, cōlātus, a, um, P. a., cleansed, purified (post-class.):

    nitor (beryllorum),

    Tert. Anim. 9.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    certiora et colatiora somniari,

    Tert. Anim. 48.

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  • 19 demuto

    dē-mūto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.
    I.
    Act., to change, alter, and sometimes to alter for the worse, to make worse (repeatedly in Plaut. and in post-Aug. prose; otherwise rare; not in the Ciceronian period): voces demutat, Cato ap. Macr. S. 2, 10 med.; cf.:

    orationem meam,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 8:

    imperium tuum,

    id. Men. 5, 2, 118:

    sententiam nostram in iis,

    Gell. 17, 1, 6:

    caro demutata, Tert. Res. carn. 55 al.: placitum instituto flaminum nihil demutari,

    Tac. A. 4, 16:

    si demutant mores ingenium tuum,

    to make worse, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 36.—
    II.
    Neutr., to change one's mind or purpose:

    non demutabo,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 142; id. ib. 153; cf.: prorsus nihilum de aliqua re, Jul. Val. rer. gest. Alex. 1, 13.—
    2.
    To change, alter, become different (with atque or ab

    very rare): numquid videtur demutare atque ut quidem dixi esse, etc.,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 37; cf. id. Stich. 5, 4, 43; Ap. Mag. p. 284, 17.—
    3.
    To deviate, depart:

    (fama) demutans de veritate,

    Tert. Apol. 7.

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  • 20 saeculum

    saecŭlum ( poet., esp. Lucretian, saeclum; less correctly sēcŭlum, sēclum), i, n. dim. [etym. dub.; perh. root si- = sa-; Gr. saô, to sift; Lat. sero, satus; whence Saturnus, etc.; hence, orig.], a race, breed, generation (freq. in Lucr.; very rare in later writers; usu. in plur.):

    saecla propagare,

    Lucr. 1, 21; cf. id. 2, 173; 5, 850:

    nec toties possent generatim saecla referre Naturam parentum,

    id. 1, 597:

    saecla animantum,

    i. e. animals, id. 2, 78; 5, 855:

    hominum,

    id. 1, 467; 5, 339; 6, 722:

    ferarum,

    id. 2, 995; 3, 753; 4, 413; 4, 686; cf.:

    silvestria ferarum,

    id. 5, 967:

    serpentia ferarum,

    id. 6, 766:

    mortalia,

    id. 5, 805; 5, 982; 5, 1238:

    bucera (with lanigerae pecudes),

    id. 5, 866; 6, 1245; cf.:

    vetusta cornicum (with corvorum greges),

    id. 5, 1084:

    aurea pavonum,

    id. 2, 503:

    totisque expectent saecula ripis,

    i. e. the shades of the infernal regions, Stat. Th. 11, 592.— Sing.:

    et muliebre oritur patrio de semine saeclum,

    the female sex, women, Lucr. 4, 1223; so,

    muliebre,

    id. 5, 1020; 2, 10 sq.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Like genea.
    1.
    The ordinary lifetime of the human species, a lifetime, generation, age (of thirty-three years; class.; esp. freq. in signif. 2. infra; cf. Schoem. ad Cic. N. D. 1, 9, 21):

    cum ad idem, unde semel profecta sunt, cuncta astra redierint... tum ille vere vertens annus appellari potest: in quo vix dicere audeo, quam multa saecula hominum teneantur,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24 Mos.:

    cum ex hac parte saecula plura numerentur,

    Liv. 9, 18:

    quorum (Socratis atque Epicuri) aetates non annis sed saeculis scimus esse disjunctas,

    Hier. Vit. Cler. 4, p. 262; cf. Censor. de Die Nat. 17; Auct. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 508; id. E. 4, 5.—
    (β).
    Esp., the lifetime or reign of a ruler:

    illustrari saeculum suum ejusmodi exemplo arbitrabatur,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 6:

    digna saeculo tuo,

    id. ib. 10, 1, 2.—
    2.
    The human race living in a particular age, a generation, an age, the times: serit arbores quae alteri saeculo prosient, Caecil. ap. Cic. Sen. 7, 24:

    in id saeculum Romuli cecidit aetas, cum jam plena Graecia poëtarum esset,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 18 (for which:

    quorum aetas cum in eorum tempora incidisset,

    id. Or. 12, 39):

    saeculorum reliquorum judicium,

    id. Div. 1, 19, 36:

    ipse fortasse in hujus saeculi errore versor,

    id. Par. 6, 3, 50; cf.:

    hujus saeculi insolentia,

    id. Phil. 9, 6, 23; and: o [p. 1614] nostri infamia saecli, Ov. M. 8, 97; cf.

    also: novi ego hoc saeculum, moribus quibus siet,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 6; so,

    hujus saecli mores,

    id. Truc. prol. 13; and:

    hoccine saeclum! o scelera! o genera sacrilega, o hominem impurum!

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 6; cf. id. Eun. 2, 2, 15:

    nec mutam repertam esse dicunt mulierem ullo in saeculo,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 7:

    Cato rudi saeculo litteras Graecas didicit,

    Quint. 12, 11, 23; so,

    rude,

    id. 2, 5, 23:

    grave ne rediret Saeculum Pyrrhae,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 6:

    primo statim beatissimi saeculi ortu,

    Tac. Agr. 3; so,

    beatissimum,

    id. ib. 44:

    felix et aureum,

    id. Or. 12; Quint. 8, 6, 24:

    aureum,

    Sen. Contr. 2, 17; Lact. 5, 6, 13; cf.:

    aurea saecula,

    Verg. A. 6, 792; Ov. A. A. 2, 277:

    his jungendi sunt Diocletianus aurei parens saeculi, et Maximianus, ut vulgo dicitur, ferrei,

    Lampr. Elag. 35:

    ceteri, qui dii ex hominibus facti esse dicuntur, minus eruditis hominum saeculis fuerunt (with Romuli aetas),

    Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 18; cf.:

    res publica constituta non unā hominum vitā sed aliquot saeculis et aetatibus,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 2:

    perpetuā saeculorum admiratione celebrantur,

    Quint. 11, 1, 13:

    fecunda culpae saecula,

    Hor. C. 3, 6, 17:

    ferro duravit saecula,

    id. Epod. 16, 65; cf.:

    sic ad ferrum venistis ab auro, Saecula,

    Ov. M. 15, 261.—
    3.
    The spirit of the age or times: nemo illic vitia ridet;

    nec corrumpere et corrumpi saeculum vocatur,

    Tac. G. 19.—
    B.
    The utmost lifetime of man, a period of a hundred years, a century:

    saeclum spatium annorum centum vocārunt,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 2, § 11 Müll.; cf. Fest. s. v. saeculares, p. 328 ib.; Censor. de Die Nat. 17:

    cum (Numa) illam sapientiam constituendae civitatis duobus prope saeculis ante cognovit, quam eam Graeci natam esse senserunt,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 37, 154:

    saeculo festas referente luces,

    Hor. C. 4, 6, 42; cf.:

    multa virum durando saecula vincit,

    Verg. G. 2, 295.—
    2.
    For an indefinitely long period, an age; plur. (so mostly):

    (Saturni stella) nihil immutat sempiternis saeculorum aetatibus, quin eadem iisdem temporibus efficiat,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52:

    aliquot saeculis post,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 73:

    cum aliquot saecula in Italiā viguisset,

    id. Univ. 1; so,

    tot,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 55, § 122; id. Ac. 2, 5, 15:

    quot,

    Quint. 12, 11, 22:

    multa,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 20; 6, 26, 29; id. de Or. 2, 5, 21; id. Cat. 2, 5, 11; id. Fam. 11, 14, 3:

    plurima,

    id. Rep. 3, 9, 14:

    sexcenta,

    id. Fat. 12, 27:

    omnia,

    id. Lael. 4, 15; id. Phil. 2, 22, 54:

    ex omni saeculorum memoriā,

    id. ib. 4, 1, 3:

    vir saeculorum memoriā dignus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 104; cf.:

    ingeniorum monumenta, quae saeculis probarentur,

    id. 3, 7, 18:

    facto in saecula ituro,

    to future ages, to posterity, Sil. 12, 312; so Plin. Pan. 55, 1:

    in famam et saecula mitti,

    Luc. 10, 533: tarda gelu saeclisque effeta senectus, with (many) years, Verg. A. 8, 508.— Sing.:

    propemodum saeculi res in unum diem cumulavit,

    Curt. 4, 16, 10:

    longo putidam (anum) saeculo,

    Hor. Epod. 8, 1:

    ut videri possit saeculo prior,

    Quint. 10, 1, 113.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.), the following phrases are used to express forever, to all eternity, endlessly, without end:

    in saeculum,

    Vulg. Exod. 21, 6; id. Dan. 3, 89:

    in saeculum saeculi,

    id. Psa. 36, 27; id. 2 Cor. 9, 9:

    in saecula,

    id. Ps. 77, 69; id. Rom. 1, 25:

    in saecula saeculorum,

    Tert. ad Uxor. 1, 1; Ambros. Hexaëm. 3, 17, 72; Vulg. Tob. 9, 11; id. Rom. 16, 27; id. Apoc. 1, 6 et saep.—
    C.
    Like the biblical, aiôn, the world, worldliness (eccl. Lat.):

    immaculatus ab hoc saeculo,

    Vulg. Jacob. 1, 27: et servientem corpori Absolve vinclis saeculi, Prud. steph. 2, 583; so id. Cath. 5, 109; Paul. Nol. Ep. 23, 33 fin.
    D.
    Heathenism (eccl. Lat.):

    saeculi exempla,

    Tert. Exhort. ad Cast. 13 (al. saecularia).

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > saeculum

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