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nor was it doubted in common life

  • 1 vita

    vīta, ae ( gen. sing. vitaï, Lucr. 1, 415; 2, 79; 3, 396), f. [vivo; Sanscr. gīv, to live; Gr. bios, life], life.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    tribus rebus animantium vita tenetur, cibo, potione, spiritu,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134:

    dare, adimere vitam alicui,

    id. Phil. 2, 3, 5:

    necessaria praesidia vitae,

    id. Off. 1, 17, 58:

    in liberos vitae necisque potestatem habere,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 19:

    exiguum vitae curriculum,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 30:

    ego in vitā meā nullā umquam voluptate tantā sum adfectus, etc.,

    id. Att. 5, 20, 6:

    vitam agere honestissime,

    id. Phil. 9, 7, 15; cf.:

    degere miserrimam,

    id. Sull. 27, 75:

    vitam in egestate degere,

    id. Rosc. Am. 49, 144:

    tutiorem vivere,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 118:

    profundere pro aliquo,

    id. Phil. 14, 11, 30 fin.:

    amittere per summum dedecus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 11, 30:

    auferre alicui,

    id. Sen. 19, 71:

    in vitā manere,

    id. Fam. 5, 15, 3:

    in vitā diutius esse,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 5:

    e vitā discedere,

    id. Fam. 2, 2; cf.

    cedere,

    id. Brut. 1, 4:

    vitā cedere,

    id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35:

    de vitā decedere,

    id. Rab. Perd. 11:

    vitā se privare,

    id. de Or. 3, 3, 9:

    vitā aliquem expellere,

    id. Mur. 16, 34:

    si vita suppetet,

    id. Fin. 1, 4, 11: si mihi vita contigerit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1:

    ne ego hodie tibi bonam vitam feci,

    a pleasant life, Plaut. Pers. 4, 8, 3:

    bonam vitam dare,

    id. Cas. 4, 4, 21; cf.

    , on the other hand: malae taedia vitae,

    Ov. P. 1, 9, 31.—
    B.
    In partic., life, as a period of time = aetas (post-Aug.):

    ii quadragensimum annum vitae non excedunt,

    Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 195; 7, 2, 2, § 30; 7, 49, 50, § 160:

    periit anno vitae septimo et quinquagesimo,

    Suet. Vit. 18:

    septem et triginta annos vitae explevit,

    Tac. A. 2, 88 fin.; Val. Max. 4, 1, 6; 8, 13, ext. 7; Gell. 15, 7, 1; Hier. in Dan. 6, 1.— Plur.:

    nec vero, si geometrae et grammatici... omnem suam vitam in singulis artibus consumpserint, sequitur, ut plures quasdam vitas ad plura discenda desideremus,

    Quint. 12, 11, 20; cf. also in the foll.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    A living, support, subsistence (Plautinian;

    syn. victus): vitam sibi repperire,

    Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 9; cf.:

    neque illi concedam quicquam de vitā meā,

    id. Trin. 2, 4, 76.—
    B.
    A life, i. e. a way or mode of life (class.): vita hominis [p. 1999] ex ante factis spectabitur, Auct. Her. 2, 3, 4:

    vita rustica honestissima atque suavissima,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 48:

    hanc usus, vita, mores respuit,

    id. Mur. 35, 74; cf.:

    inquirendo in utriusque vitam et mores,

    Liv. 40, 16, 2; so (with mores) Ov. H. 17, 172 Ruhnk.:

    neque ante philosophiam patefactam hac de re communis vita dubitavit,

    nor was it doubted in common life, Cic. Div. 1, 39, 86:

    vita, victusque communis,

    social life, id. Off. 1, 17, 58; cf.:

    omni vitā atque victu excultus,

    id. Brut. 25, 95.— Plur.:

    inspicere, tamquam in speculum, in vitas omnium,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 61; cf.:

    per omnium vitas amicitia serpit,

    Cic. Leal. 23, 87:

    (Minos) vitas et crimina discit,

    Verg. A. 6, 433. —
    C.
    Life, real life (opp. fancy or fiction):

    ex quo est illud e vitā ductum ab Afranio,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 20, 45:

    de vitā hominum mediā sumptum,

    Gell. 2, 23, 12:

    nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 60.—
    D.
    Like our life, to denote a very dear object:

    certe tu vita es mihi,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 24; cf. Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 33.—Hence, mea vita, or simply vita, my life, as a term of endearment, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 6; Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 3; 14, 4, 1; Prop. 1, 2, 1; 2, 20 (3, 13), 17.—
    E.
    The living, i. e. mankind, the world; like Gr. bios ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

    rura cano, rurisque deos, his vita magistris Desuevit quernā pellere glande famem,

    Tib. 2, 1, 37:

    agnoscat mores vita legatque suos,

    Mart. 8, 3, 20:

    verum falsumne sit, vita non decrevit,

    Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 48:

    alias in tumultu vita erat,

    id. 13, 13, 27, § 89.—
    F.
    A life, i. e. a course of life, career, as the subject of biography: in hoc exponemus libro de vitā (al. vitam) excellentium imperatorum, Nep. praef. § 8; id. Epam. 4 fin.:

    vitae memoriam prosā oratione composuit,

    Suet. Claud. 1 fin.:

    propositā vitae ejus velut summā,

    id. Aug. 9:

    referam nunc interiorem ac familiarem ejus vitam,

    id. ib. 61; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 368:

    qui vitas resque gestas clarorum hominum memoriae mandaverunt,

    Gell. 1, 3, 1.—
    G.
    The duration of life (in plants, etc.), duration:

    arborum immensa,

    Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 234; 16, 44, 90, § 241; Pall. 12, 7, 17.—
    H.
    An existence, a being, of spirits in the infernal regions:

    tenues sine corpore vitae,

    Verg. A. 6, 292; cf. id. ib. 12, 952.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > vita

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