natura nos ad majora quaedam genuit et conformavit

gigno, gĕnŭi, gĕnĭtum, 3 (archaic primary form of the pres. gĕno, ĕre:

genit,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 19: genunt, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.:

genat,

Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 4: genitur, Auct. ap. Cic. Inv. 2, 42, 122; Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 141:

genuntur,

Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 3:

genamur,

Censor. 3, 1; inf. pass. geni, Lucr. 3, 797; gen. gerund. genendi, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 1:

genendo,

Censor. 3, 1; Arn. 4, 21; inf. pres. pass. gignier, Lucr. 3, 623; 6, 246; 807), v. a. [root gen-; Sanscr. ǵan-, ǵanami, beget; gātis, birth; Gr. gen- in gignomai, genos, gunê; Lat. genus, genius, gener, gens; also nascor (gn-; cf. gnatus), natura; cf. gamos, gambros (v. Curt. Gr. Etym. 536); gigno for gigeno, redupl. like gignomai], to beget, bear, bring forth, produce; in pass., to be born, to spring, arise, proceed; of animate and inanimate subjects and objects (syn.: creo, genero, pario).

Lit.: Saturno, quem Coelus genuit, Enn. ap. Non. 197, 9 (Ann. v. 27 Vahl.):

sextus (Hercules) hic ex Alcumena, quem Juppiter genuit,

Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42:

nec Hecubam causam interitus fuisse Trojanis, quod Alexandrum genuerit, nec Tyndareum Agamemnoni, quod Clytaemnestram,

id. Fat. 15, 34:

quaecumque animal pariunt, in capita gignunt,

bring forth their young with the head foremost, Plin. 10, 64, 84, § 183. So of the human mother (mostly post-Aug.):

idcirco, inquit Lacaena, genueram (filium),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102:

e septem liberis, quos ipsa genuisset, unum superesse,

Curt. 10, 5, 23:

rectius Lolliam induci, quando nullos liberos genuisset,

Tac. A. 12, 2 init.; Val. Max. 7, 7, 4; so,

ex aliquo,

Curt. 8, 3, 3; Tac. A. 12, 3:

pisces ova cum genuerunt, relinquunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 129:

ova,

Plin. 11, 37, 80, § 204:

omnia quae terra gignat (shortly before, pariat),

Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. Fin. 5, 11, 33: o Romule, Romule die, Qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt! Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 116 Vahl.); cf.:

ut idem deus urbem hanc gentibus, vos huic urbi genuisse videatur,

Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 32:

ita ut plurimum (aurum) Asturia gignat,

Plin. 33. [p. 815] 4, 21, §

78: India eos (beryllos) gignit,

id. 37, 5, 20, § 76:

ad majora quaedam natura nos genuit et conformavit,

Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 23:

deus animum ex sua mente et divinitate genuit,

id. Univ. 8.— Pass., usu. with abl., of either or both parents:

Meri bellatores gignuntur,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 85:

nuper erat genitus,

Ov. M. 10, 522:

qui antecedente anno genitum eum scribant,

Suet. Tib. 5:

septimo mense geniti,

Plin. 11, 37, 59, § 158:

pellice genitus,

Liv. 40, 9, 2; Suet. Aug. 17:

Jove genitus,

Curt. 8, 10, 1; 9, 8, 22:

juvenes eadem matre geniti,

id. 6, 14, 4; Liv. 1, 3, 3; Suet. Aug. 17; id. Tib. 7; id. Ner. 5 fin.:

genitum fratre adoptaverat,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 2.—Also with de, ab, ex:

De quo Remulusque feroxque Acrota sunt geniti,

Ov. M. 14, 617:

genitus de sanguine,

id. ib. 1, 748; id. H. 16, 117:

de Jove,

Gell. 13, 1, 3 (cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 19, 34):

filium ab eo genitum nominare,

Just. 12, 7, 10;

but: a se (= ex se) genitum esse Vitellium,

Tac. H. 3, 64:

puer ex ea genitus,

Curt. 8, 10, 36:

(vacca) e terra genita,

Ov. M. 1, 615:

dis genite et geniture deos,

Verg. A. 9, 642:

dis genitus,

Quint. 1, 10, 9:

adolescentis in omnium virtutum exempla geniti,

Vell. 2, 116, 2:

quae in terris gignantur, ad usum hominum omnia creari,

Cic. Off. 1, 7, 22:

nec enim id esset principium, quod gigneretur aliunde,

id. Rep. 6, 25:

ubi tus gignitur,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 89:

Corycium nemus, ubi crocum gignitur,

Curt. 3, 4 fin. — Poet. with inf.:

omne potens animal leti genitumque nocere,

Luc. 6, 485.— Absol.:

ut in gignendo, in educando perfacile appareat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 33, 109:

hae (mulieres), quae gignunt, imbecillos edunt,

Cels. 2, 1 med.

Trop., to produce, occasion, cause:

multa nobis blandimenta natura ipsa genuit,

Cic. Cael. 17, 41:

haec ipsa virtus amicitiam et gignit et continet,

id. Lael. 6, 20:

ludus genuit trepidum certamen et iram, Ira truces inimicitias et funebre bellum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 48:

qui genuit in hac urbe dicendi copiam,

Cic. Brut. 73, 255:

praeceptiones,

Auct. Her. 4, 3, 5:

probationes,

Quint. 5, 1, 1:

mel gignit insaniam,

Plin. 21, 13, 45, § 177; cf.:

baccharis odor somnum gignit,

id. 21, 19, 77, § 132:

alium sitim gignit,

id. 20, 6, 23, § 57.—In pass., to be born, to spring, arise, proceed:

cum ipse (Cato) sui generis initium ac nominis ab se gigni et propagari vellet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 180:

ex hac maxima libertate tyrannis gignitur et illa injustissima et durissima servitus,

id. Rep. 1, 44:

et aegritudines et metus et reliquae perturbationes omnes gignuntur ex ea (intemperantia),

id. Tusc. 4, 9, 22: Plato eas (ideas) gigni negat et ait semper esse, id. Or. 3, 10:

ipsi autem intelligamus natura gigni sensum diligendi et benevolentiae caritatem,

id. Lael. 9, 32:

odia etiam gigni sempiterna (opp. exstingui familiaritates),

id. ib. 10, 35:

in animorum permotione gignenda,

id. de Or. 3, 30, 118:

de gignenda et comparanda sapientia,

Gell. 13, 8, 1.—Hence, gignentĭa, ĭum, n. (fruit-bearing), organic bodies, things that grow, as plants, trees, etc.:

loca nuda gignentium,

Sall. J. 79, 6:

ilex aucta in altitudinem, quo cuncta gignentium natura fert,

id. ib. 93, 4:

animam animantium omnium non corpoream esse... omniumque gignentium esse seniorem,

App. Dogm. Plat. p. 193; opp. animalia, Lact. de Ira Dei, 1, 13.

con-formo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to form, fashion, shape symmetrically or skilfully (several times in Cic.; elsewhere very rare).

Prop.:

si mundum aedificatum esse, non a naturā conformatum putarem,

Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 26:

ad majora quaedam nos natura genuit et conformavit,

id. Fin. 1, 7, 23: quercus conformata securi, * Cat. 19, 3:

(ursa) fetum lambendo conformat et fingit,

licks into shape, Gell. 17, 10, 3: ova in volucrum speciem, * Col. 8, 5, 10:

imaginem tauri,

Gell. 13, 9, 6.—

Trop.: puellam, Afran. ap. Non. p. 174, 32:

animum et mentem cogitatione hominum excellentium,

Cic. Arch. 6, 14:

ipse me conformo ad ejus voluntatem,

id. Fam. 1, 8, 2:

mores,

id. Fin. 4, 2, 5; cf.:

liberos parente orbatos sibi et posteris,

Tac. A. 4, 8; Cic. Mur. 29, 60:

vocem hujus hortatu praeceptisque,

id. Arch. 1, 1; cf.

11, 3, 45:

orationem constructione verborum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 5, 17 (but in Lucr. 4, 114, the right read. is confirmem).