nitro

* * *

ex-cŏquo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to boil out, melt out, dry up.

Lit.:

usque coquito, dum dimidium excoquas,

i. e. you boil away, Cato, R. R. 107, 2:

mustum ad dimidium,

Col. 12, 19, 1:

testudinem vino,

to boil thoroughly, Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 38:

glebas melle,

id. 37, 12, 74, § 194:

ferrum (ignis),

i. e. to harden, Ov. M. 14, 712:

harenas admixto nitro in vitrum,

Tac. H. 5, 7:

lapide cremato in caminis donec excoquatur in rubricam,

Plin. 34, 13, 37, § 135:

ignis vitium metallis excoquit,

Ov. F. 4, 786:

omne per ignes vitium,

Verg. G. 1, 88;

hence, excoctum argentum,

i. e. purified, Gell. 6, 5, 9; cf.:

excoxi te, non quasi argentum,

Vulg. Isa. 48, 10:

imagines excoctae flammis,

melted down, Plin. Pan. 52, 5:

excoctum parum habet suci,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 109 Müll.:

terram sol excoquit et facit are,

dries up, Lucr. 6, 962; cf.:

tam excoctam (ancillam) reddam atque atram quam carbo est,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63.—With an abstr. object: cruditatem Laconicis, qs. to boil out, i. e. to drive out by steam-baths, Col. 1 praef. §

16: excocta maturitas hordei,

i. e. overripe, Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 80.—

Trop.:

malum alicui,

to devise, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 53 (cf. coquo):

mentem,

to plague, vex, Sen. Herc. Fur. 105 (cf. coquo).

in-vĕtĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to render old, to give age or duration to a thing.

Lit.:

aquam,

Col. 12, 12:

allium, cepamque,

Plin. 19, 6, 34, § 115.— Pass., to become old, to acquire age or durability; to abide, endure (class. but rare):

non tam stabilis opinio permaneret,... nec una cum saeclis aetatibusque hominum inveterari posset,

Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5 B. and K. (al. inveterascere):

ad ea, quae inveterari volunt, nitro utuntur,

Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 111:

vina,

id. 19, 4, 19, § 53.— Part. pass.: invĕtĕrātus, a, um.

Kept for a long time:

acetum,

Plin. 23, 2, 28, § 59:

vinum,

id. 15, 2, 3, § 7:

jecur felis, inveteratum sale,

preserved in, id. 28, 16, 66, § 229; so,

fel vino,

id. 32, 7, 25, § 77 et saep.—

Inveterate, old, of long standing, rooted:

amicitia,

Cic. Fam. 3, 9, 3:

dolor,

id. Tusc. 3, 16, 35:

malum,

id. Phil. 5, 11, 31:

conglutinatio,

id. de Sen. 20:

licentia,

Nep. Eum. 8; Suet. Ner. 16:

litterae atque doctrinae,

Aug. C. D. 22, 6 init.:

codex,

hardened by age, Col. 4, 8, 4. —

Of diseases, sores, etc., deep-seated, chronic, inveterate:

scabritiae oculorum,

Plin. 24, 12, 31, § 121:

ulcus,

id. 29, 4, 18, § 65.— Hence, subst.: invĕtĕrāta, ōrum, n., chronic diseases:

vehementius contra inveterata pugnandum,

Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 8.—

Trop.

Mid.:

inveterari,

to keep, last, endure, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5; Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 53.— Esp., in law, part. pass.: inveteratus, established by prescription, customary:

mores sunt tacitus consensus populi, longa consuetudine inveteratus,

Ulp. Fragm. 1, 4.—

To cause to fail, bring to an end, abolish (eccl. Lat.):

notitiam veri Dei,

Lact. 2, 16 fin.

in-vĕtĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to render old, to give age or duration to a thing.

Lit.:

aquam,

Col. 12, 12:

allium, cepamque,

Plin. 19, 6, 34, § 115.— Pass., to become old, to acquire age or durability; to abide, endure (class. but rare):

non tam stabilis opinio permaneret,... nec una cum saeclis aetatibusque hominum inveterari posset,

Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5 B. and K. (al. inveterascere):

ad ea, quae inveterari volunt, nitro utuntur,

Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 111:

vina,

id. 19, 4, 19, § 53.— Part. pass.: invĕtĕrātus, a, um.

Kept for a long time:

acetum,

Plin. 23, 2, 28, § 59:

vinum,

id. 15, 2, 3, § 7:

jecur felis, inveteratum sale,

preserved in, id. 28, 16, 66, § 229; so,

fel vino,

id. 32, 7, 25, § 77 et saep.—

Inveterate, old, of long standing, rooted:

amicitia,

Cic. Fam. 3, 9, 3:

dolor,

id. Tusc. 3, 16, 35:

malum,

id. Phil. 5, 11, 31:

conglutinatio,

id. de Sen. 20:

licentia,

Nep. Eum. 8; Suet. Ner. 16:

litterae atque doctrinae,

Aug. C. D. 22, 6 init.:

codex,

hardened by age, Col. 4, 8, 4. —

Of diseases, sores, etc., deep-seated, chronic, inveterate:

scabritiae oculorum,

Plin. 24, 12, 31, § 121:

ulcus,

id. 29, 4, 18, § 65.— Hence, subst.: invĕtĕrāta, ōrum, n., chronic diseases:

vehementius contra inveterata pugnandum,

Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 8.—

Trop.

Mid.:

inveterari,

to keep, last, endure, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5; Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 53.— Esp., in law, part. pass.: inveteratus, established by prescription, customary:

mores sunt tacitus consensus populi, longa consuetudine inveteratus,

Ulp. Fragm. 1, 4.—

To cause to fail, bring to an end, abolish (eccl. Lat.):

notitiam veri Dei,

Lact. 2, 16 fin.

in-vĕtĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to render old, to give age or duration to a thing.

Lit.:

aquam,

Col. 12, 12:

allium, cepamque,

Plin. 19, 6, 34, § 115.— Pass., to become old, to acquire age or durability; to abide, endure (class. but rare):

non tam stabilis opinio permaneret,... nec una cum saeclis aetatibusque hominum inveterari posset,

Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5 B. and K. (al. inveterascere):

ad ea, quae inveterari volunt, nitro utuntur,

Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 111:

vina,

id. 19, 4, 19, § 53.— Part. pass.: invĕtĕrātus, a, um.

Kept for a long time:

acetum,

Plin. 23, 2, 28, § 59:

vinum,

id. 15, 2, 3, § 7:

jecur felis, inveteratum sale,

preserved in, id. 28, 16, 66, § 229; so,

fel vino,

id. 32, 7, 25, § 77 et saep.—

Inveterate, old, of long standing, rooted:

amicitia,

Cic. Fam. 3, 9, 3:

dolor,

id. Tusc. 3, 16, 35:

malum,

id. Phil. 5, 11, 31:

conglutinatio,

id. de Sen. 20:

licentia,

Nep. Eum. 8; Suet. Ner. 16:

litterae atque doctrinae,

Aug. C. D. 22, 6 init.:

codex,

hardened by age, Col. 4, 8, 4. —

Of diseases, sores, etc., deep-seated, chronic, inveterate:

scabritiae oculorum,

Plin. 24, 12, 31, § 121:

ulcus,

id. 29, 4, 18, § 65.— Hence, subst.: invĕtĕrāta, ōrum, n., chronic diseases:

vehementius contra inveterata pugnandum,

Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 8.—

Trop.

Mid.:

inveterari,

to keep, last, endure, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5; Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 53.— Esp., in law, part. pass.: inveteratus, established by prescription, customary:

mores sunt tacitus consensus populi, longa consuetudine inveteratus,

Ulp. Fragm. 1, 4.—

To cause to fail, bring to an end, abolish (eccl. Lat.):

notitiam veri Dei,

Lact. 2, 16 fin.

mădĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum, 3, v. a.; in pass.: mădĕfīo, factus, fĭĕri [madeo, facio], to make wet, to wet, moisten, to soak, drench, water, etc.

In gen.:

lanam aceto et nitro,

Plin. 32, 7, 25, § 77:

amarantus madefactus aquā revirescit,

id. 21, 8, 23, §

47: radix in vino madefacta,

id. 26, 6, 15, § 29:

spongiam (opp. exprimere),

Suet. Vesp. 16:

ne libelli madefierent,

id. Caes. 64:

imbuti sanguine gladii, vel madefacti potius,

Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6; cf.:

Graeciam madefactum iri sanguine,

id. Div. 1, 32, 68; Verg. A. 5, 330:

caules,

to soak, steep, Plin. 25, 6, 31, § 68:

terram suo madefecit odore,

steeped, Ov. M. 4, 253.— Poet.:

caris vellera sucis bis madefacta,

i. e. dyed, Tib. 4, 2, 16.—

In partic., to drench with wine, to intoxicate, make drunk ( poet. and in post-class. prose): eo vos vostrosque adeo pantices madefacitis, quom ego sim hic siccus, * Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 51:

multo madefactus Iaccho, Col. poët. 10, 309: poculis amplioribus madefacit,

Amm. 15, 3, 7; cf.:

molli luxu madefacta (membra),

Sil. 12, 18.

mundo, āre, v. a. [1. mundus], to make clean, to clean, cleanse (post-Aug.;

syn.: purgo, emendo): mundatur nitro,

Plin. 33, 6, 34, § 103:

praesepia mundanda curare,

Col. 12, 3:

perlui et mundari,

Mamert. Grat. Act. 9 fin. —

Transf. (eccl. Lat.), to cleanse, make clean.

Ceremonially, according to the Levitical law of uncleanness:

et purificabis eos (sc. Levitas),

Vulg. Num. 8, 6.—

Spiritually, from sin:

ab occultis meis munda me,

Vulg. Psa. 19, 12:

mundemus nos ab omni inquinamento earnis et spiritūs,

id. 2 Cor. 7, 1.—Hence, mundātus, a, um, P. a., cleansed, clean (late Lat.); in comp.:

quam sim ab illā peste mundatior,

Aug. Conf. 10, 37.

nĭtrum, i, n., = nitron, also called sal nitrum, native mineral alkali, native soda, natron; found chiefly in Media, Egypt, Thrace, and Macedonia, Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 106:

flos nitri,

Vitr. 7, 11, 1;

and used for washing with: laveris te nitro,

Vulg. Jer. 2, 22; Isid. Orig. 16, 2.—Hence,

Transf.: censuram lomentum aut nitrum esse, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 4.

vĭcis (as a gen.; the nom. does not occur), vicem, vice; in plur., vices (nom. and acc.) and vicibus (dat. and abl.), f. [cf. Gr. eikô, to yield; root Wik-; v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 135], change, interchange, alternation, alternate or reciprocal succession, vicissitude (the gen. not ante-Aug.; the other cases class.).

Lit.

In gen. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; for which, in class. prose, vicissitudo).

Sing.: ignotus juvenum coetus alternā vice Inibat alacris, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 214 P. (Trag. v. 151 Vahl.):

hac vice sermonum,

conversation, Verg. A. 6, 535:

vice sermonis,

Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 79; cf. in the foll. b:

deus haec fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice,

Hor. Epod. 13, 8:

solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favoni,

id. C. 1, 4, 1:

commoti Patres vice fortunarum humanarum,

Liv. 7, 31, 6: dum Nox vicem peragit, performs the exchange, i. e. alternales with day, Ov. M. 4, 218:

ridica contingens vitem mutuā vice sustinetur et sustinet,

Col. 4, 16:

versā vice,

reversely, Dig. 43, 29, 3; App. Dogm. Plat. p. 32, 6; id. Flor. p. 363; Just. 6, 5, 11 al.—

Plur.:

plerumque gratae divitibus vices Mundaeque parvo sub Lare pauperum Cenae,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 13:

et interrogandi se ipsum et respondendi sibi solent esse non ingratae vices,

Quint. 9, 2, 14:

loquendi,

id. 6, 4, 11; Ov. P. 2, 10, 35:

ipsius lectionis taedium vicibus levatur,

Quint. 1, 12, 4:

habet has vices condicio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur,

Plin. Pan. 5 fin.:

spatium diei noctis excipiunt vices,

Phaedr. 2, 8, 10:

haec quoque non perstant... Quasque vices peragant... docebo,

what vicissitudes they undergo, Ov. M. 15, 238:

mutat terra vices,

renews her changes, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3:

perque vicis modo Persephone! modo Filia! clamat,

alternately, Ov. F. 4, 483; so,

per vicis,

id. M. 4, 40; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23:

per vices annorum,

i. e. every other year, id. 12, 14, 30, § 54:

cur vicibus factis convivia ineant,

alternately, by turns, Ov. F. 4, 353.—

Adverb.: in vicem (also freq. one word, invĭcem; and less freq. vicem, in vices, or per vices), by turns, alternately, one after the other, mutually, reciprocally.

In vicem: bibenda aqua: postero die etiam vinum: deinde in vicem alternis diebus modo aqua modo vinum, Cels. 3, 2 med.:

reliqui, qui domi manserunt, se atque alios alunt: hi rursus in vicem anno post in armis sunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1:

propter vicinitatem simul eramus invicem,

Cic. Att. 5, 10, 5; Quint. 11, 3, 168:

multis invicem casibus victi victoresque,

Liv. 2, 44, 12:

non comisantium in vicem more jam diu vivimus inter nos,

id. 40, 9, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.:

in vicem inter se gratantes,

id. 9, 43, 17:

inque vicem tua me, te mea forma capit,

Ov. H. 17, 180; id. M. 6, 631; 8, 473; Verg. G. 3, 188; Hor. S. 1, 3, 141 al.—

Vicem:

ut unus fasces haberet, et hoc insigne regium suam cujusque vicem, per omnes iret,

Liv. 3, 36, 3; cf. id. 1, 9, 15.—

In vices ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

inque vices illum tectos qui laesit amores, Laedit amore pari,

Ov. M. 4, 191; 12, 161; Tac. G. 26 Halm.—

Per vices (post-Aug. and very rare):

quod ipsum imperari per vices optimum est,

Quint. 2, 4, 6 Halm.—

In partic.

A time, turn (late Lat.; cf. Orell. ad Hor. C. 4, 14, 13):

ager tertiā vice arabitur,

Pall. 10, 1:

tribus per diem vicibus,

id. 1, 3 fin.; cf.:

tesserulas in medium vice suā quisque jaciebamus,

Gell. 18, 13, 1:

vice quādam,

once, Sid. Ep. 7, 1; Aus. Pan. Grat. Aug. 4.—

Reciprocal behavior or conduct, i. e. return, requital, reciprocal service, recompense, remuneration, retaliation (rare but class.):

recito praedicationem amplissimi beneficii, vicem officii praesentis,

Cic. Sest. 4, 10:

tanto proclivius est injuriae quam beneficio vicem exsolvere,

Tac. H. 4, 3; Prop. 1, 13, 10:

redde vicem meritis,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 23:

non poteris ipsa referre vicem,

id. A. A. 1, 370; cf.:

dejecit acer plus vice simplici (i. e. non tantam solum cladem illis intulit quantam ipsi dederant, sed duplum, Schol.),

Hor. C. 4, 14, 13 Orell. ad loc.— Plur.:

spernentem sperne, sequenti Redde vices,

Ov. M. 14, 36:

neque est ullus affectus... qui magis vices exigat,

Plin. Pan. 85, 3.—

The changes of fate, fate, hap, lot, condition, fortune, misfortune:

mihi uni necesse erit et meam et aliorum vicem pertimescere?

Cic. Dom. 4, 8:

indignando et ipse vicem ejus,

Liv. 40, 23, 1:

tacite gementes tristem fortunae vicem,

Phaedr. 5, 1, 6; cf.:

vicem suam conquestus est,

Suet. Aug. 66:

convertere humanam vicem,

Hor. Epod. 5, 88:

publicā vice commoveri,

Quint. 11, 1, 42; cf. id. 4, 1, 33.— Plur.:

fors et Debita jura vicesque superbae Te maneant ipsum,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 32:

testor in occasu vestro nec tela nec ullas Vitavisse vices Danaūm,

dangers, contests, Verg. A. 2, 433.—

Transf., the position, place, room, stead, post, office, duty of one person or thing as assumed by another (the usual signif. of the word):

heredum causa justissima est: nulla est enim persona, quae ad vicem ejus, qui e vitā emigrarit, propius accedat,

Cic. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

ego succedens in vicem imperii tui,

Liv. 38, 48, 7:

ipse in locum vicemque consulis provolat,

id. 3, 18, 9:

postquam (Juppiter) te dedit, qui erga omne humanum genus vice suā fungereris,

stand in the place of, represent, Plin. Pan. 80, 6:

fungar vice cotis,

Hor. A. P. 304:

per speciem alienae fungendae vicis opes suas firmavit,

Liv. 1, 41, 6:

ne sacra regiae vicis desererentur,

id. 1, 20, 2:

vestramque meamque vicem explete,

Tac. A. 4, 8 fin.:

cujus... ego vicem debeo inplere,

Plin. Ep. 6, 6, 6:

(Manus) adverbiorum atque pronominum obtinent vicem,

Quint. 11, 3, 87:

in ordine vicis suae,

Vulg. Luc. 1, 8.— Plur.: non ad suum pertinere officium rati, quando divisae professionum vices essent, Quint. Inst. prooem. § 4.—

Adverb.

Vicem, with the gen. or a pers. pron., in the place of, instead of, on account of, for, for the sake of:

eri vicem meamque,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 11:

qui hodie sese excruciari meam vicem possit pati,

id. Most. 2, 1, 8; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 24:

vos respondetote istinc istarum vicem,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 34:

tuam vicem saepe doleo,

Cic. Fam. 12, 23, 3:

suam vicem indignantem magistratu abisse,

Liv. 2, 31, 11: remittimus hoc tibi, ne nostram vicem irascaris. id. 34, 32, 6:

sollicito consuli... eorum vicem quos, etc.,

id. 44, 3, 5:

rex, vicem eorum quos ad tam manifestum periculum miserat,

Curt. 7, 11, 20:

maestus non suam vicem, sed propter, etc.,

id. 7, 2, 5: cum Pompeius aedem Victoriae dedicaturus foret, cujus gradus vicem theatri essent, Tiro Tull. ap. [p. 1987] Gell. 10, 1, 7:

quoniam res familiaris obsidis vicem esse apud rempublicam videbatur,

Gell. 16, 10, 11.—

Sometimes in a more general sense, after the manner of, like:

Sardanapali vicem in suo lectulo mori,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 7: ceteri vicem pecorum obtruncabantur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 497, 26; cf. the foll.—

Vice, instead of, for, on account of:

in pane salis vice utuntur nitro,

Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 115:

temonis vice trahitur,

Col. 6, 2, 7:

murum urbi cocto latere circumdedit, harenae vice bitumine interstrato,

Just. 1, 2, 7:

exanimes vice unius,

Liv. 1, 25, 6:

senatus vice populi,

Just. Inst. 1, 2, 5.—

In a more general sense (cf. the preced. numbers), after the manner of, like:

jactari se passa fluctu algae vice,

Plin. 9, 45, 68, § 147:

moveri periclitantium vice possumus,

Quint. 6, 2, 35:

diebus ac noctibus vice mundi circumagi,

Suet. Ner. 31:

quaeque dixerat, oracli vice accipiens,

Tac. A. 6, 21 fin.:

ut deorum vice mortuos honorarent,

like gods, Lact. 4, 28 fin.:

vice navium,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 47, 22:

vice pecudum occidi,

Lact. 5, 10, 6:

vice imbellium proculcati,

Dict. Cret. 3, 24.—

In vicem, instead of, for, in place of:

potest malleolus protinus in vicem viviradicis conseri,

Col. 3, 14, 3:

defatigatis in vicem integri succedunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 85:

in omnium vicem regni unius insatiabilis amor Successit,

Liv. 40, 8, 18:

missis in vicem eorum quinque milibus sociorum,

id. 31, 11, 3; Col. 5, 6, 1; so dat. vici, Quint. Decl. 6, 4.—

Ad vicem, instead of, for:

ad tegularum et imbricum vicem,

Plin. 36, 22, 44, § 159:

ad vicem solis cinis calidus subjectus,

Pall. 4, 10 fin.; 3, 28;

very rarely, ad invicem,

Veg. Vet. 2, 7 fin. —

In a more general sense (cf. in the preced. numbers a. and b.), after the manner of, like:

majores natu a majoribus colebantur ad deum prope ad parentum vicem,

Gell. 2, 15, 1.