nūtrīx

nūtrĭo, īvi and ii, ītum (contr. form, nutrīmus for nutrivimus, Nemes. Ecl. 3, 26:

nutribat for nutriebat,

Verg. A. 11, 572; Sil. 16, 29; so,

nutribant,

Verg. A. 7, 485: nutribo for nutriam, Rhemn. Palaem. 1383; Cledon. 1914.—In the dep. form, nutritor for nutrito, Verg. G. 2, 425; cf. Prisc. p. 798 P.), 4, v. a. [Sanscr. root snu-, flow; Gr. neô (sneWô), swim; cf. nurus], to suckle, nourish, feed, foster, bring up, rear (syn. alere; not in Cic., but v. nutrix and nutrimentum).

Lit.:

quos lupa nutrit,

Ov. F. 2, 415:

nutritus lacte ferino,

id. Tr. 3, 11, 3:

ilignā nutritus glande,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 40:

balaenae mammis nutriunt fetus,

Plin. 11, 40, 95, § 235:

serpente ciconia pullos Nutrit,

Juv. 14, 75: taurus nutritus in herbā, id. 12, 12.—

Transf., to nourish, support, maintain, foster.—Of plants:

terra herbas Nutrit,

Ov. R. Am. 45:

myrtos roscido umore nutrire,

Cat. 61, 25:

nutriri cinere vult ruta,

Plin. 19, 8, 45, § 156:

fruges humo nutriente,

Curt. 8, 10, 8; Petr. 120:

Pax Cererem nutrit,

Ov. F. 1, 704.— Poet.:

Edonis nutritum missile ventis,

a shaft taken from a tree toughened by storms, Val. Fl. 6, 340.—

To nourish, nurse, take care of, attend to the body:

cura corporum nutriendorum,

Liv. 4, 52:

aegrum nutrire per eos cibos, quos, etc.,

Cels. 3, 23:

vires,

id. ib.:

ulcus,

to heal, id. 5, 26:

damnum naturae in filio,

Liv. 7, 4:

morbos,

Cels. 6, 6:

capillum,

Plin. 22, 22, 39, § 82: comam, Hier. in Amos, 8, 9 sq.; Vulg. 1 Cor. 11, 14 sq.:

cutem, mulierum in facie incorruptam,

Plin. 21, 21, 91, § 159.—

Nutrire vinum, to mix wine with spices, in order that it may keep, Col. 12, 30, 1:

nutritum vinum,

id. 12, 21, 3.—

In gen., to preserve:

nutriuntur optime (mensae citreae) splendescuntque, manu siccā fricatae,

Plin. 13, 15, 30, § 99.—

Trop., to nourish, cherish, support, cultivate, sustain:

indoles Nutrita faustis sub penetralibus,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 25:

amorem,

Ov. A. A. 3, 579:

pascere ac nutrire furorem (al. favorem),

Sil. 7, 497:

impetus ille sacer qui vatum pectora nutrit,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 25:

carmen,

id. ib. 3, 4, 26:

artes bonas, praecipue studia litterarum,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 41, 14:

nummi, quos hic quincunce modesto nutrieras,

Pers. 5, 149:

Graeciam,

i. e. to treat mildly, Liv. 36, 35.—Of fire, to feed:

gnes suscitat foliisque nutrit,

Ov. M. 8, 643; 6, 493:

graves simultates, quas Mucianus callide nutriebat,

Tac. H. 3, 53 fin.:

nimiam ac marcentem diu pacem,

id. G. 36.

pĕdĭsĕquus, and lesscorrectly pĕdis-sĕquus, old form pĕdĭsĕcus, a, adj. [pes-sequor], that follows on foot:

SERVVS PEDISSEQVVS,

Inscr. Murat. 928, 6.—Hence, subst.: pĕdĭsĕquus, i, m., a male attendant; a footman, man-servant, page, lackey; and, pĕdĭsĕqua, ae, f., a female attendant, a waiting-woman, Dig. 31, 1, 67; 34, 1, 17; 40, 4, 59; Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 27:

gnatae pedissequa nutrix anus,

id. ib. 4, 10, 77; id. As. 1, 3, 31:

vestem, uniones, pedisequos et cetera,

Phaedr. 4, 5, 36:

clamore pedisequorum nostrorum,

Cic. Att. 2, 16, 1; Nep. Att. 13, 3:

turba pedisequorum,

Col. 1 prooem. 12.—Comically: Pa. Sequere hac me. Py. Pedisecus tibi sum, I'll follow at your heels, immediately, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 18.—

Trop., a follower, attendant:

istam juris scientiam eloquentiae tamquam ancillulam pedisequamque adjunxisti,

Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 236:

vix satis idoneae (divitiae) tibi videbuntur, quae virtutis pedisequae sint,

the handmaids of virtue, Auct. Her. 4, 14, 20:

sapientem quippe pedisequum et imitatorem dei dicimus et sequi arbitramur deum,

App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 25, 14.

pĕdĭsĕquus, and lesscorrectly pĕdis-sĕquus, old form pĕdĭsĕcus, a, adj. [pes-sequor], that follows on foot:

SERVVS PEDISSEQVVS,

Inscr. Murat. 928, 6.—Hence, subst.: pĕdĭsĕquus, i, m., a male attendant; a footman, man-servant, page, lackey; and, pĕdĭsĕqua, ae, f., a female attendant, a waiting-woman, Dig. 31, 1, 67; 34, 1, 17; 40, 4, 59; Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 27:

gnatae pedissequa nutrix anus,

id. ib. 4, 10, 77; id. As. 1, 3, 31:

vestem, uniones, pedisequos et cetera,

Phaedr. 4, 5, 36:

clamore pedisequorum nostrorum,

Cic. Att. 2, 16, 1; Nep. Att. 13, 3:

turba pedisequorum,

Col. 1 prooem. 12.—Comically: Pa. Sequere hac me. Py. Pedisecus tibi sum, I'll follow at your heels, immediately, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 18.—

Trop., a follower, attendant:

istam juris scientiam eloquentiae tamquam ancillulam pedisequamque adjunxisti,

Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 236:

vix satis idoneae (divitiae) tibi videbuntur, quae virtutis pedisequae sint,

the handmaids of virtue, Auct. Her. 4, 14, 20:

sapientem quippe pedisequum et imitatorem dei dicimus et sequi arbitramur deum,

App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 25, 14.

pĕdĭsĕquus, and lesscorrectly pĕdis-sĕquus, old form pĕdĭsĕcus, a, adj. [pes-sequor], that follows on foot:

SERVVS PEDISSEQVVS,

Inscr. Murat. 928, 6.—Hence, subst.: pĕdĭsĕquus, i, m., a male attendant; a footman, man-servant, page, lackey; and, pĕdĭsĕqua, ae, f., a female attendant, a waiting-woman, Dig. 31, 1, 67; 34, 1, 17; 40, 4, 59; Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 27:

gnatae pedissequa nutrix anus,

id. ib. 4, 10, 77; id. As. 1, 3, 31:

vestem, uniones, pedisequos et cetera,

Phaedr. 4, 5, 36:

clamore pedisequorum nostrorum,

Cic. Att. 2, 16, 1; Nep. Att. 13, 3:

turba pedisequorum,

Col. 1 prooem. 12.—Comically: Pa. Sequere hac me. Py. Pedisecus tibi sum, I'll follow at your heels, immediately, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 18.—

Trop., a follower, attendant:

istam juris scientiam eloquentiae tamquam ancillulam pedisequamque adjunxisti,

Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 236:

vix satis idoneae (divitiae) tibi videbuntur, quae virtutis pedisequae sint,

the handmaids of virtue, Auct. Her. 4, 14, 20:

sapientem quippe pedisequum et imitatorem dei dicimus et sequi arbitramur deum,

App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 25, 14.

sēdŭlus, a, um, adj. [etym. dub.; acc. to Curt. from root hed-, to go; Gr. hodos, way; whence Lat. solum, solium; cf. tremulus, from tremo; prop. active, inclined to motion; but perh. better referred to root sed-, sid-, (Sanscr. sad-), of sedeo; Engl. sit; cf. assiduus. The derivation from sē - dolo, adopted by Don. Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 59; Serv. Verg. A. 2, 374; Non. 37, 28; and Isid. Orig. 10, 244 and 247; cf. Döderl. Syn. 1, p. 117 sq. al., is an error]; orig. sitting fast, persisting in some course of action; hence, busy, diligent, industrious, zealous, careful, unremitting, solicitous, assiduous, sedulous (mostly poet.;

syn.: diligens, officiosus, attentus): eloquentes videbare, non sedulos velle conquirere,

orators, not those who labor at oratory, Cic. Brut. 47, 176:

haec a concubitu fit sedula, tardior illa,

Ov. A. A. 1, 377:

exanimat lentus spectator, sedulus inflat,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 178:

tantum venerata virum hunc sedula curet,

Tib. 1, 5, 33; cf.

puer (minister),

Hor. C. 1, 38, 6:

agricola,

Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 101:

olitor, Col. poët. 10, 148: apis,

Tib. 2, 1, 50; Ov. M. 13, 928:

Baucis,

id. ib. 8, 640:

anus,

Tib. 1, 3, 84:

nutrix,

Ov. H. 21, 95; id. M. 10, 438; Hor. A. P. 116:

mater,

Phaedr. 4, 5, 13:

deducat juvenum sedula turba senem,

Tib. 1, 4, 80:

sedula fune viri contento bracchia lassant,

Ov. F. 4, 297:

labor,

Sen. Hippol. 1109:

opera,

App. M. 9, p. 237:

industria,

id. ib. 2, p. 128:

ministerium,

id. ib. 11, p. 267:

cura,

Col. 8, 1, 3 et saep.: velim te arbitrari factum. R. Sedulum est, submoventur hostes, removentur lapides, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 194 P.—

With an invidious implication, officious, obtrusive:

ne studio nostri pecces odiumque libellis Sedulus importes opera vehemente minister,

Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 5:

hospes,

id. S. 1, 5, 71:

nec quisquam flammae sedulus addat aquam,

Tib. 2, 4, 42:

luna,

Prop. 1, 3, 32; cf.:

male sedulus,

Ov. A. A. 3, 699; id. M. 10, 438.—Hence, advv.

sēdŭlō, busily, diligently, industriously, eagerly, carefully, zealously, unremittingly, assiduously, solicitously, sedulously.

In gen. (very freq. and class.;

a favorite word of Plaut. and Ter.): nam ille amico suo sodali sedulo rem mandatam exsequitur,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 71 sq.:

ut cognorant, dabimus operam sedulo,

id. Cas. prol. 16; so,

operam dare,

id. Pers. 4, 7, 10; id. Men. 5, 7, 20:

addere,

id. Cist. 1, 1, 54; id. Most. 1, 2, 41:

comparare quae opus sunt,

Liv. 1, 41:

faciam sedulo, Ut, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 25.—Most freq. with facere; cf. Cato, R. R. 2, 2; Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 108; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 30; id. Merc. 2, 3, 126; id. Poen. 1, 2, 144; id. Pers. 1, 1, 47 sq.; Ter. And. 3, 4, 18; 4, 1, 56; id. Eun. 2, 3, 71; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 74; 2, 4, 16; id. Ad. 1, 1, 25; 2, 2, 43; Cic. Clu. 21, 58; id. Fin. 3, 4 fin.; Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10 a, 2.—With fieri, Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 31; id. Rud. 1, 4, 22; id. Trin. 1, 2, 155; Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 59; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 51; 5, 8, 12; Cic. Fam. 2, 11 fin.; cf.:

sedulo id ago,

Ter. And. 3, 5, 8:

agitans mecum,

id. Phorm. 4, 3, 10: ad socios nostros sedulo dispertieram, alio frumentum, alio legatos, etc., Cato ap. Charis. p. 197 P.; cf.: salutem impertit studiose et sedulo, Lucil. ap. Non. 37, 30:

aliquid conservare,

Cato, R. R. 5, 8:

servare,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 7; id. Curc. 5, 2, 41; id. Rud. 2, 3, 52:

celare,

id. Aul. 1, 2, 35:

dissimulare,

Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 2; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 81:

animum advertere,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 40; id. Rud. 2, 2, 1; cf.:

munditer se habere,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 26: Ge. Valuistine usque? Ep. Sustentatum'st sedulo, id. Stich. 3, 2, 14; 4, 2, 8:

sedulo aliquid dicere,

to assert emphatically, protest, id. Capt. 4, 2, 106; cf.: ego illud sedulo Negare factum;

ille instat factum,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 119; so,

moneo,

id. Ad. 3, 3, 72:

et moneo, et hortor,

id. Hec. 1, 1, 6:

credere,

i. e. sincerely, id. Phorm. 2, 4, 13; cf.

argumentari,

Cic. Att. 3, 12, 1.—

In partic., with an implication of design, on purpose, designedly, intentionally (rare;

not in Cic.): aliquid occultare,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 48:

fingit causas, ne det, sedulo,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 58:

nusquam nisi in virtute spes est, milites, et ego sedulo, ne esset, feci,

Liv. 34, 14:

diem extrahere,

id. 28, 15:

tempus terere,

id. 3, 46: imitari aliquem, Quint. 7, 1, 54.—

sēdŭlē, busily, diligently, carefully, etc. (post-Aug. and rare):

semper custos sedule circumire debet alvearia,

Col. 9, 9, 1: hoc munus implet sedule, Prud. steph. 5, 407; Vulg. 4 Reg. 4, 13.

testis, is, comm. ( neutr. form:

caelum teste vocat,

Alcim. 6, 576), one who attests any thing (orally or in writing), a witness (cf. superstes):

testes vinctos attines,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 63:

pluris est oculatus testis unus quam auriti decem,

id. ib. 2, 6, 8:

deos absentes testes memoras,

id. Merc. 3, 4, 42:

vosque, dii, testes facio,

Liv. 1, 59, 1:

deos hominesque se testes facere,

id. 34, 11, 8:

deūm, quos testes foederum invocabant consules,

id. 8, 6, 1:

ut manus ad caelum tendens deos testes ingrati animi Magnetum invocaret,

id. 35, 31, 13; 39, 51, 12; 41, 25, 4; Curt. 4, 10, 33:

apud me ut apud bonum judicem argumenta plus quam testes valent,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 59:

si negem... quo me teste convinces?

id. Phil. 2, 4, 8:

satis idonei testes et conscii,

id. Font. 7, 16; so,

cupidi, conjurati et ab religione remoti,

id. ib. 10, 21:

religiosus,

id. Vatin. 1, 1:

incorrupti atque integri,

id. Fin. 1, 21, 71:

graves, leves,

id. Quint. 23, 75:

locupletissimi,

id. Brut. 93, 322 et saep.:

dabo tibi testis nec nimis antiquos nec ullo modo barbaros,

id. Rep. 1, 37, 58; so,

testes dare in aliquam rem,

id. Quint. 23, 75:

proferre,

id. Balb. 18, 41:

adhibere,

id. Fin. 2, 21, 67:

citare in aliquam rem,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 59, §146:

ut iis testibus in summā pecuniae uteretur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 105; cf. id. B. G. 1, 14:

testibus uti,

Cic. Verr. 1, 18, 55; Quint. 5, 7, 9; 9, 2, 98. — With dependent-clause:

testis faciet ilico, Vendidisse me,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

iis utimini testibus appropinquare eorum adventum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77, cf. id. B. C. 3, 90. — Fem.:

Venus Cyrenensis, testem te testor mihi,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 51:

teste deā,

Ov. H. 16 (17), 124:

nutrix testis fida doloris,

Sen. Oct. 76:

musa mea,

Ov. P. 3, 9, 50:

inductā teste in senatu, Haec, inquit, etc.,

Suet. Claud. 40.—Of things:

sidera sunt testes et matutina pruina,

Prop. 2, 9, 41:

quid debeas, o Roma Neronibus, Testis Metaurum flumen et Hasdrubal Devictus, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 38:

testis mecum est anulus,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 49.—

Transf., an eye-witness, spectator, i. q. arbiter (rare; cf.

also conscius): facies bona teste caret,

Ov. A. A. 3, 398:

puduitque gementem, Illo teste mori,

Luc. 9, 887:

ac lunā teste moventur,

Juv. 6, 311.

testis, is, m., a testicle, Plaut. Mil. 5, 28; 5, 33:

dexter asini testis in vino potus,

Plin. 28, 19, 80, § 261:

testes pecori ad crura decidui,

id. 11, 49, 110, § 263; so in plur., Lucil. ap. Non. 235, 5; Hor. S. 1, 2, 45.—In a pun, with 1. testis:

quod amas, amato testibus praesentibus,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 31:

magnis testibus ista res agetur,

Auct. Priap. 2: cf.

integritatis,

Phaedr. 3, 11, 5. [p. 1864]

nūtrīcĭus and - tĭus, a, um, adj. [nutrix], that suckles, nourishes, nurses.

Adj.:

quis Faustulum nescit pastorem fuisse nutricium, qui Romulum et Remum educavit?

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9:

nutriciae curae,

Arn. 2, 58:

humus radices tenero velut nutricio sinu recipit,

Col. 3, 13, 7.—

Subst.

nūtrīcĭus, ii, m., a bringer up, a tutor:

erat in procuratione regni, propter aetatem pueri, nutricius ejus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 107; Inscr. Orell. 2964.—Also, transf.:

Favonius afflatu nutricium exercebit,

Plin. 18, 34, 67, § 337.—

nūtrī-cĭa, ae, f., a nurse, governess, tutoress, Hier. Ep. 108, n. 30.—

nūtrīcĭum, ii, n., a nursing; nourishment:

illius pio maternoque nutricio aeger convalui,

Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 19, 2:

nutricia ducere ab aliquo,

Arn. 5, 163:

omnia infantum nutricia,

Manil. 3, 133.—

In plur.: nūtrīcĭa, ōrum, n., a nurse's wages, ta threptêria (late Lat.), Dig. 50, 13, 1 fin.

ŭtĕrus, i, m. (collat. form ŭter, Caecil. ap. Non. 188, 15; neutr. collat. form ŭtĕ-rum, i, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 10, acc. to Non. 229, 33; Turp. and Afran. ib.) [Sanscr. uttara, later; Gr. husteros; cf. Gr. hustera, womb; Sanscr. udaram, belly; Engl. udder], the womb, matrix (syn. volva).

Lit.:

utero exorti dolores,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 40:

perii, mea nutrix, uterum dolet!

id. Aul. 4, 7, 10; id. Truc. 1, 2, 96: quae te beluam ex utero, non hominem fudit, Cic. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 139; Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 97; Hirt. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 54; Prop. 4, 1, 100; Hor. C. 3, 22, 2; Ov. M. 9, 280; 9, 315; 10, 495; id. F. 2, 452; Tac. A. 1, 59; Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 13.—

Transf.

Of the cavities of the earth, from which the first creatures are represented to have come forth, Lucr. 5, 806; cf. Lact. 2, 11 init. —

The fruit of the womb, a fetus, child, young:

feminae uterum gerentes,

i. e. pregnant, Cels. 2, 10; Tac. A. 1, 59.—Of animals, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 14; Plin. 8, 40, 62, § 151.—

In gen., the belly, paunch: me puero uterus erat solarium: ubi iste monebat esse, etc., Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 5; Verg. A. 7, 499; [p. 1946] Cels. 4, 1; Juv. 10, 309; Luc. 6, 115; 9, 773.—

Of swans,

Plin. 10, 47, 66, § 131.—

Of inanimate things;

of the Trojan horse,

Verg. A. 2, 52:

dolii,

Col. 12, 4, 5:

lato utero (navium),

Tac. A. 2, 6.

ŭtĕrus, i, m. (collat. form ŭter, Caecil. ap. Non. 188, 15; neutr. collat. form ŭtĕ-rum, i, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 10, acc. to Non. 229, 33; Turp. and Afran. ib.) [Sanscr. uttara, later; Gr. husteros; cf. Gr. hustera, womb; Sanscr. udaram, belly; Engl. udder], the womb, matrix (syn. volva).

Lit.:

utero exorti dolores,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 40:

perii, mea nutrix, uterum dolet!

id. Aul. 4, 7, 10; id. Truc. 1, 2, 96: quae te beluam ex utero, non hominem fudit, Cic. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 139; Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 97; Hirt. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 54; Prop. 4, 1, 100; Hor. C. 3, 22, 2; Ov. M. 9, 280; 9, 315; 10, 495; id. F. 2, 452; Tac. A. 1, 59; Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 13.—

Transf.

Of the cavities of the earth, from which the first creatures are represented to have come forth, Lucr. 5, 806; cf. Lact. 2, 11 init. —

The fruit of the womb, a fetus, child, young:

feminae uterum gerentes,

i. e. pregnant, Cels. 2, 10; Tac. A. 1, 59.—Of animals, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 14; Plin. 8, 40, 62, § 151.—

In gen., the belly, paunch: me puero uterus erat solarium: ubi iste monebat esse, etc., Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 5; Verg. A. 7, 499; [p. 1946] Cels. 4, 1; Juv. 10, 309; Luc. 6, 115; 9, 773.—

Of swans,

Plin. 10, 47, 66, § 131.—

Of inanimate things;

of the Trojan horse,

Verg. A. 2, 52:

dolii,

Col. 12, 4, 5:

lato utero (navium),

Tac. A. 2, 6.