move lightly

mulcĕo, si, sum (rarely mulctum), 2, v. a. [Sanscr. root marc, take hold of; Gr. marptô, marptis; cf. mulco], to stroke; to touch or move lightly (syn. palpo; poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit.:

manu mulcens barbam,

Ov. F. 1, 259:

caput,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

vitulum,

Ov. A. A. 2, 341:

colla,

id. M. 10, 118:

mulcebant Zephyri flores,

rustle through, id. ib. 1, 108:

aura mulcet rosas,

Prop. 4 (5), 7, 60:

virgā mulcere capillos,

to touch lightly, Ov. M. 14, 295:

aristas,

id. F. 5, 161:

mulcere alternos (pueros) et corpora fingere linguā,

Verg. A. 8, 634:

aëra motu,

Lucr. 4, 136:

aethera pennis,

to move, Cic. Arat. 88: mulserat huc navem compulsam fluctibu' pontus, had wafted hither, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 870 P. (Ann. v. 257 Vahl.).—

Transf., to make sweet or pleasant:

pocula succis Lyaei,

Sil. 7, 169. —

Trop., to soothe, soften, appease, allay; to caress, flatter, delight, etc. (syn.:

blandior. placo, lenio, sedo): mulcentem tigres, of Orpheus,

Verg. G. 4, 510:

aliquem dictis,

id. A. 5, 464:

fluctūs,

id. ib. 1, 66:

iras,

id. ib. 7, 755:

jure,

Vell. 2, 117, 3.— To alleviate, mitigate:

variā vulnera mulcet ope,

alleviates the pain of his wounds, Ov. F. 5, 401:

dolores nervorum,

Plin. 22, 24, 50, § 107:

os stomachumque,

id. 22, 24, 51, § 110:

ebrietatem,

id. 21, 20, 81, § 138:

lassitudinem,

id. 37, 5, 16, § 63:

corpora fessa,

Ov. M. 11, 625: aliquem laudibus, to flatter, Pac. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. Mulciber, p. 144 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 109 Rib.):

puellas carmine,

to delight, Hor. C. 3, 11, 24:

animos admiratione,

Quint. 1, 10, 9:

aures figmentis verborum novis,

to delight, Gell. 20, 9, 1.—Hence, mulsus, a, um, P. a.

Adj., mixed with honey; sweet as honey, honey-sweet (post-Aug.):

mulsa (sc. aqua),

honey-water, hydromel, Col. 12, 12, 3:

acetum,

vinegar and honey mixed together, honey-vinegar, Cato, R. R. 157, 6:

lac,

Plin. 10, 22, 27, § 52:

mulsa pira,

Col. 5, 10, 18.— Trop., of words, etc., sweet as honey, honeyed (Plautin.):

ut mulsa dicta dicis!

Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 34:

loqui,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 112.—

Subst.

mulsa, ae, f., a term of endearment, my sweetheart, my honey (Plautin.):

age, mulsa mea,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 14; id. Cas. 2, 6, 20.—

mulsum, i, n. (sc. vinum), honey-wine, mead, i. e. wine mixed or made with honey (class.):

commisce mulsum,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 7; id. Bacch. 4, 9, 48:

frigidum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 282:

aceti, for mulsum acetum,

honeyvinegar, Ser. Samm. 49, 714.

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dĭgĭtus, i, m. [Gr. daktulos; cf. Germ. Zehe, Eng. toe; from root dek(dechomai), to grasp, receive; cf.

Germ. Finger, from fangen,

Curt. Gr. Etym. 133. Corssen, however, still refers digitus to root dik-, dico, deiknumi, as the pointer, indicator, Ausspr. 1, 380; cf. dico], a finger.

Prop.:

tot (cyathos bibimus), quot digiti sunt tibi in manu,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24; id. Most. 5, 1, 69; id. Mil. 2, 2, 47; 4, 2, 57 et saep.—The special designations: pollex, the thumb; index or salutaris, the forefinger; medius, also infamis and impudicus, the middle finger; minimo proximus or medicinalis, the ring-finger; minimus, the little finger, v. under those words.—

Special connections:

attingere aliquem digito (uno),

to touch one lightly, gently, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 15; Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 2 Ruhnk.; Licinius ap. Gell. 19, 9, 13; Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55; cf.

with tangere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 30; id. Poen. 5, 5, 29:

attingere aliquid extremis digitis (with primoribus labris gustare),

to touch lightly, to enjoy slightly, Cic. Cael. 12:

attingere caelum digito,

to be exceedingly happy, id. Att. 2, 1, 7: colere summis digitis, to adore (to touch the offering or consecrated gift) with the tips of the fingers, Lact. 1, 20; 5, 19 fin.; cf. Ov. F. 2, 573:

computare digitis,

to count on the fingers, to reckon up, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 51; Plin. 34, 8, 19, no. 29, § 88; cf.:

numerare per digitos,

Ov. F. 3, 123:

in digitis suis singulas partis causae constituere,

Cic. Div. in Caec. 14, 45.—Hence, venire ad digitos, to be reckoned, Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 87; and:

si tuos digitos novi,

thy skill in reckoning, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13; cf.

also: digerere argumenta in digitos,

to count on the fingers, Quint. 11, 3, 114: concrepare digitos or digitis, to snap the fingers, as a signal of command, Petr. 27, 5; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 53; Cic. Off. 3, 19; v. concrepo; cf.

also: digitus crepans,

Mart. 3, 82, 15:

digitorum crepitus,

id. 14, 119:

digitorum percussio,

Cic. Off. 3, 19, 78:

intendere digitum ad aliquid,

to point the finger at any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 46 fin.:

liceri digito,

to hold up the finger in bidding at an auction, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11;

for which also: tollere digitum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 54. The latter phrase also signifies, to raise the finger in token of submission, said of a combatant, Sid. Ep. 5, 7; cf. Mart. Spect. 29, 5;

and Schol,

Pers. 5, 119:

loqui digitis nutuque,

to talk by signs, Ov. Tr. 2, 453;

different is: postquam fuerant digiti cum voce locuti,

i. e. playing as an accompaniment to singing, Tib. 3, 4, 41; cf.:

ad digiti sonum,

id. 1, 2, 31; cf. also Lucr. 4, 587; 5, 1384:

digito compesce labellum,

hold your tongue, Juv. 1, 160.—For the various modes of employing the fingers in oratorical delivery, cf. Quint. 1, 10, 35; 11, 3, 92 sq.; 103; 120 al.: monstrari digito, i. e. to be pointed out, to become distinguished, famous, Hor. C. 4, 3, 22; Pers. 1, 28;

for which: demonstrari digito,

Tac. Or. 7 fin.; Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Rep. 6, 24; Nep. Datam. 11, 5; Suet. Aug. 45.—Prov. phrases:

nescit, quot digitos habeat in manu, of one who knows nothing at all,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 5:

in digitis hodie percoquam quod ceperit,

i. e. he has caught nothing, id. Rud. 4, 1, 11: ne digitum quidem porrigere, not to stretch out a finger, like the Gr. daktulon mê proteinai, ekteinai, for not to give one's self the least trouble, Cic. Fin. 3, 17, 57; cf.:

exserere digitum,

Pers. 5, 119 Scal.;

and in like manner: proferre digitum,

to move a finger, to make any exertion, Cic. Caecin. 25, 71:

scalpere caput digito, of effeminate men fearful of disarranging their hair,

Juv. 9, 133; cf. Sen. Ep. 52 fin.; a habit of Pompey's, acc. to Calvus ap. Schol. Luc. 7, 726, and Sen. Contr. 3, 19; Amm. 17, 11. (Cf. Echtermeyer's Ueber Namen und symbolische Bedeutung der Finger bei den Griechen und Römern, Progr. d. Hall. Pädagogiums, v. 1835.)

Transf.

A toe (cf. Heb., Gr. daktulos, Fr. doigt), Lucr. 3, 527; Verg. A. 5, 426; Petr. 132, 14; Sen. Ep. 111; Quint. 2, 3, 8 et saep.; also of the toes of animals, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 4; Col. 8, 2, 8; Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 119 al.—

A small bough, a twig, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 12; 17, 24, 37, § 224.—

As a measure of length, an inch, the sixteenth part of a Roman foot (pes), Front. Aquaed. 24 sq.; Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 6; id. B. C. 2, 10, 4; Juv. 12, 59 al.: digiti primores, finger-ends, as a measure, Cato R. R. 21, 2;

digitus transversus,

a fingerbreadth, id. ib. 45 fin.;

48, 2.—Prov.: digitum transversum non discedere ab aliqua re,

not to swerve a finger's breadth, Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 58; cf.

without transversum: nusquam ab argento digitum discedere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 15;

and ellipt.: ab honestissima sententia digitum nusquam,

id. Att. 7, 3, 11.

Dĭgĭtus, i, m., a proper name; in plur.: Digiti Idaei = Daktuloi Idaioi, the priests of Cybele, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf. Arn. 3, 41 and 43, and v. Dactylus.

dĭgĭtus, i, m. [Gr. daktulos; cf. Germ. Zehe, Eng. toe; from root dek(dechomai), to grasp, receive; cf.

Germ. Finger, from fangen,

Curt. Gr. Etym. 133. Corssen, however, still refers digitus to root dik-, dico, deiknumi, as the pointer, indicator, Ausspr. 1, 380; cf. dico], a finger.

Prop.:

tot (cyathos bibimus), quot digiti sunt tibi in manu,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24; id. Most. 5, 1, 69; id. Mil. 2, 2, 47; 4, 2, 57 et saep.—The special designations: pollex, the thumb; index or salutaris, the forefinger; medius, also infamis and impudicus, the middle finger; minimo proximus or medicinalis, the ring-finger; minimus, the little finger, v. under those words.—

Special connections:

attingere aliquem digito (uno),

to touch one lightly, gently, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 15; Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 2 Ruhnk.; Licinius ap. Gell. 19, 9, 13; Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55; cf.

with tangere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 30; id. Poen. 5, 5, 29:

attingere aliquid extremis digitis (with primoribus labris gustare),

to touch lightly, to enjoy slightly, Cic. Cael. 12:

attingere caelum digito,

to be exceedingly happy, id. Att. 2, 1, 7: colere summis digitis, to adore (to touch the offering or consecrated gift) with the tips of the fingers, Lact. 1, 20; 5, 19 fin.; cf. Ov. F. 2, 573:

computare digitis,

to count on the fingers, to reckon up, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 51; Plin. 34, 8, 19, no. 29, § 88; cf.:

numerare per digitos,

Ov. F. 3, 123:

in digitis suis singulas partis causae constituere,

Cic. Div. in Caec. 14, 45.—Hence, venire ad digitos, to be reckoned, Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 87; and:

si tuos digitos novi,

thy skill in reckoning, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13; cf.

also: digerere argumenta in digitos,

to count on the fingers, Quint. 11, 3, 114: concrepare digitos or digitis, to snap the fingers, as a signal of command, Petr. 27, 5; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 53; Cic. Off. 3, 19; v. concrepo; cf.

also: digitus crepans,

Mart. 3, 82, 15:

digitorum crepitus,

id. 14, 119:

digitorum percussio,

Cic. Off. 3, 19, 78:

intendere digitum ad aliquid,

to point the finger at any thing, Cic. de Or. 1, 46 fin.:

liceri digito,

to hold up the finger in bidding at an auction, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11;

for which also: tollere digitum,

id. ib. 2, 1, 54. The latter phrase also signifies, to raise the finger in token of submission, said of a combatant, Sid. Ep. 5, 7; cf. Mart. Spect. 29, 5;

and Schol,

Pers. 5, 119:

loqui digitis nutuque,

to talk by signs, Ov. Tr. 2, 453;

different is: postquam fuerant digiti cum voce locuti,

i. e. playing as an accompaniment to singing, Tib. 3, 4, 41; cf.:

ad digiti sonum,

id. 1, 2, 31; cf. also Lucr. 4, 587; 5, 1384:

digito compesce labellum,

hold your tongue, Juv. 1, 160.—For the various modes of employing the fingers in oratorical delivery, cf. Quint. 1, 10, 35; 11, 3, 92 sq.; 103; 120 al.: monstrari digito, i. e. to be pointed out, to become distinguished, famous, Hor. C. 4, 3, 22; Pers. 1, 28;

for which: demonstrari digito,

Tac. Or. 7 fin.; Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Rep. 6, 24; Nep. Datam. 11, 5; Suet. Aug. 45.—Prov. phrases:

nescit, quot digitos habeat in manu, of one who knows nothing at all,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 5:

in digitis hodie percoquam quod ceperit,

i. e. he has caught nothing, id. Rud. 4, 1, 11: ne digitum quidem porrigere, not to stretch out a finger, like the Gr. daktulon mê proteinai, ekteinai, for not to give one's self the least trouble, Cic. Fin. 3, 17, 57; cf.:

exserere digitum,

Pers. 5, 119 Scal.;

and in like manner: proferre digitum,

to move a finger, to make any exertion, Cic. Caecin. 25, 71:

scalpere caput digito, of effeminate men fearful of disarranging their hair,

Juv. 9, 133; cf. Sen. Ep. 52 fin.; a habit of Pompey's, acc. to Calvus ap. Schol. Luc. 7, 726, and Sen. Contr. 3, 19; Amm. 17, 11. (Cf. Echtermeyer's Ueber Namen und symbolische Bedeutung der Finger bei den Griechen und Römern, Progr. d. Hall. Pädagogiums, v. 1835.)

Transf.

A toe (cf. Heb., Gr. daktulos, Fr. doigt), Lucr. 3, 527; Verg. A. 5, 426; Petr. 132, 14; Sen. Ep. 111; Quint. 2, 3, 8 et saep.; also of the toes of animals, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 4; Col. 8, 2, 8; Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 119 al.—

A small bough, a twig, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 12; 17, 24, 37, § 224.—

As a measure of length, an inch, the sixteenth part of a Roman foot (pes), Front. Aquaed. 24 sq.; Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 6; id. B. C. 2, 10, 4; Juv. 12, 59 al.: digiti primores, finger-ends, as a measure, Cato R. R. 21, 2;

digitus transversus,

a fingerbreadth, id. ib. 45 fin.;

48, 2.—Prov.: digitum transversum non discedere ab aliqua re,

not to swerve a finger's breadth, Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 58; cf.

without transversum: nusquam ab argento digitum discedere,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 15;

and ellipt.: ab honestissima sententia digitum nusquam,

id. Att. 7, 3, 11.

Dĭgĭtus, i, m., a proper name; in plur.: Digiti Idaei = Daktuloi Idaioi, the priests of Cybele, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; cf. Arn. 3, 41 and 43, and v. Dactylus.

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stringo, inxi, ictum, 3, v. a. [root strig; Gr. strang-, to squeeze; stranx, a drop; cf. O. H. Germ. streng; Engl. strong], to draw tight, to bind or tie tight; to draw, bind, or press together, etc. (syn. ligo).

Lit.:

te stringam ad carnarium,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 66:

stringit vitta comas,

Luc. 5, 143: caesariem crinali cultu, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 85:

stricta matutino frigore vulnera,

Liv. 22, 51:

pectora pigro gelu,

Luc. 4, 652:

strictos insedimus amnes,

Val. Fl. 1, 414:

mare gelu stringi et consistere,

Gell. 17, 8, 16:

quercus in duas partes diducta, stricta denuo et cohaesa,

having closed together, id. 15, 16, 4:

habenam,

to draw tight, Stat. Th. 11, 513:

ferrum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 6.—

Transf. (through the intermediate idea of drawing close), to touch, touch upon, touch lightly or slightly, to graze (syn. tango):

litus ama, et laevas stringat sine palmula cautes,

Verg. A. 5, 163; cf.:

stringebat summas ales miserabilis undas,

Ov. M. 11, 733:

aequor (aurā),

id. ib. 4, 136:

metas interiore rotā,

id. Am. 3, 2, 12:

latus,

Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 24:

vestigia canis rostro,

Ov. M. 1, 536 et saep.:

equos,

to stroke, Charis. 84 P.:

tela stringentia corpus,

i. e. slightly touching, Verg. A. 10, 331; cf. Sen. Ben. 2, 6, 1:

coluber Dente pedem strinxit,

Ov. M. 11, 776:

strictus ac recreatus ex vulnere in tempus,

Flor. 4, 12, 44.—

To pull or strip off, to pluck off, cut off, clip off, prune, etc. (cf. destringo):

oleam ubi nigra erit, stringito,

Cato, R. R. 65, 1; so,

oleam,

Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 12:

bacam,

Varr. R. R. 1, 55, 2:

quernas glandes,

Verg. G. 1, 305:

folia ex arboribus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 58; Liv. 23, 30, 3:

frondes,

Verg. E. 9, 61; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 28:

hordea,

Verg. G. 1, 317:

arbores,

Col. 6, 3, 7:

celeriter gladios strinxerunt,

drew from the sheath, unsheathed, Caes. B. C. 3, 93:

strictam aciem offerre,

Verg. A. 6, 291:

ensem,

id. ib. 10, 577; so,

gladios,

id. ib. 12, 278; Ov. M. 7, 333:

ensem,

id. ib. 8, 207;

14, 296: ferrum,

Liv. 7, 40 al.:

cultrum,

id. 7, 5, 5; 3, 50, 3; and poet. transf.:

manum,

to bare, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 14; id. Tr. 5, 2, 30 al.—

Trop.

Of speech, to touch upon, treat briefly, Sil. 8, 48.—Hence, to compress, abridge:

narrationis loco rem stringat,

Quint. 4, 2, 128 Spald.—

To hold in check, to rule, sway (syn. coërceo):

quaecumque meo gens barbara nutu Stringitur, adveniat,

Claud. B. Get. 371.—

To waste, consume, reduce:

praeclaram stringat malus ingluvie rem,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 8.—

(Acc. to I. B.) To touch, move, affect; esp. to affect painfully, to wound, pain:

atque animum patriae strinxit pietatis imago,

Verg. A. 9, 294:

quam tua delicto stringantur pectora nostro,

Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 21:

nomen alicujus,

id. ib. 2, 350.—

To draw in hostility, attack with:

in hostes stringatur iambus,

Ov. R. Am. 377:

bellum,

Flor. 3, 21, 1.—Hence, strictus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), drawn together, close, strait, tight, etc.

Lit.:

laxaret pedem a stricto nodo,

Liv. 24, 7, 5:

duriora genti corpora, stricti artus,

Tac. G. 30:

strictissima janua,

Ov. R. Am. 233:

si strictior fuerit pedatura,

Hyg. Grom. 3, 1:

emplastrum,

thick, Scrib. Comp. 45 fin.:

venter,

i. e. bound up, costive, Veg. 3, 16:

strictior aura,

more severe, colder, Aus. Idyll. 14, 3.—

Trop.

Of language, brief, concise:

quo minus (Aeschines) strictus est,

Quint. 10, 1, 77:

qui (Demosthenes) est strictior multo (quam Cicero),

id. 12, 10, 52.—

Of character, severe, strict:

Catones,

Manil. 5, 106:

mentes,

id. 1, 769:

lex,

Stat. S. 3, 5, 87.—

Rigid, exact (law Lat.):

restitutio stricto jure non competebat,

Dig. 29, 2, 85; 39, 3, 3 al.— Adv.: strictē and strictim, closely, tightly:

in foramen conicies,

Pall. Mart. 8, 2.— Comp., Pall. 1, 6.— Sup., Gell. 16, 3, 4.—

Fig., accurately:

strictius interpretari,

Dig. 8, 2, 20.