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    ăb, ā, abs, prep. with abl. This IndoEuropean particle (Sanscr. apa or ava, Etr. av, Gr. upo, Goth. af, Old Germ. aba, New Germ. ab, Engl. of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av), au-, a, a; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best MSS. analogous to the prep. apud, the Sanscr. api, and Gr. epi, and by the weakened form af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. The form af, weakened from ap, also very soon became obsolete. There are but five examples of it in inscriptions, at the end of the sixth and in the course of the seventh century B. C., viz.:

    AF VOBEIS,

    Inscr. Orell. 3114;

    AF MVRO,

    ib. 6601;

    AF CAPVA,

    ib. 3308;

    AF SOLO,

    ib. 589;

    AF LYCO,

    ib. 3036 ( afuolunt =avolant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Mull., is only a conjecture). In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; v. Cic. Or. 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab), and cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 7 sq.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only oue used before all vowels and h; here and there also before some consonants, particularly l, n, r, and s; rarely before c, j, d, t; and almost never before the labials p, b, f, v, or before m, such examples as ab Massiliensibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, being of the most rare occurrence.—By changing the b of ab through v into u, the form au originated, which was in use only in the two compounds aufero and aufugio for abfero, ab-fugio; aufuisse for afuisse, in Cod. Medic. of Tac. A. 12, 17, is altogether unusual. Finally, by dropping the b of ab, and lengthening the a, ab was changed into a, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almoet exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form a- in the two compounds a-bio and a-perio, q. v.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and a, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix). From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab):

    abs chorago,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl):

    abs quivis,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

    abs terra,

    Cato, R. R. 51;

    and in compounds: aps-cessero,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 24 (625 R.); id. ib. 3, 2, 84 (710 R): abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A. U. C. (=B. C. 54). After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te appears but rarely in later authors, as in Liv. 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12;

    and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

    id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).
    I.
    In space, and,
    II.
    Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.
    I.
    Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

    Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

    fuga ab urbe turpissima,

    Cic. Att. 7, 21:

    ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

    Verg. E. 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab ( from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit....Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde, qui cum Graccho fucrunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87; cf. Diom. p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad.—Ellipt.: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92. —Often joined with usque:

    illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

    all the way from, Cic. Clu. 68, 192; v. usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from... to, Cic. N. D. 2, 19 init.; cf. ab... in:

    venti a laevo latere in dextrum, ut sol, ambiunt,

    Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.
    b.
    Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

    oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

    quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 43 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 80 fin.; Sall. J. 61; 82; 91; Liv. 2, 33, 6 al.; cf.:

    ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; and:

    protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

    id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

    profecti a domo,

    Liv. 40, 33, 2;

    of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summa transmiserint,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32; so id. Fam. 15, 3, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 23; 3, 24 fin.:

    classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

    Liv. 8, 22, 6;

    of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

    Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

    legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

    id. 24, 40, 2.
    c.
    Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

    Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 41; cf.:

    libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

    Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

    Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

    id. Att. 7, 24:

    cum a vobis discessero,

    id. Sen. 22:

    multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

    Hor. C. 1, 28, 29 al. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i. e. from his house, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

    so a fratre,

    id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

    a Pontio,

    Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

    ab ea,

    Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.
    B.
    Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.
    1.
    Of separation:

    ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

    abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

    tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

    Sall. C. 40, 5:

    absint lacerti ab stabulis,

    Verg. G. 4, 14.—
    2.
    Of distance:

    quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

    Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

    nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

    id. Att. 5, 16 fin.; and:

    hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 1:

    terrae ab hujusce terrae, quam nos incolimus, continuatione distantes,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

    non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3; cf. id. lb. 1, 3, 103.—With adverbs: annos multos longinque ab domo bellum gerentes, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 103 Vahl.):

    cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

    Cic. Cael. 7, 18 fin.; cf.:

    qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

    quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

    procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 17, 1; and:

    tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

    Verg. E. 10, 46 (procul often also with simple abl.;

    v. procul): cum esset in Italia bellum tam prope a Sicilia, tamen in Sicilia non fuit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

    tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

    id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

    tam prope ab domo detineri,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6.—So in Caesar and Livy, with numerals to designate the measure of the distance:

    onerariae naves, quae ex eo loco ab milibus passuum octo vento tenebatur,

    eight miles distant, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 4; and without mentioning the terminus a quo: ad castra contenderunt, et ab milibus passunm minus duobus castra posuerunt, less than two miles off or distant, id. ib. 2, 7, 3; so id. ib. 2, 5, 32; 6, 7, 3; id. B. C. 1, 65; Liv. 38, 20, 2 (for which:

    duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

    id. 37, 38, 5). —
    3.
    To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

    picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos, parra ab dextera consuadent,

    Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12: clamore ab ea parte audito. on this side, Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4: Gallia Celtica attingit ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, on the side of the Sequani, i. e. their country, id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

    pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

    on the Italian side, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

    non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

    at the main entrance, Caes. B. G. 3, 25 fin.:

    erat a septentrionibus collis,

    on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).
    II.
    Fig.
    A.
    In time.
    1.
    From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

    Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

    Juv. 1,40:

    mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

    immediately after the sucrifice, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 4:

    Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

    ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

    immediately after, Liv. 24, 22, 6; cf. id. 28, 33, 1; 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 al.:

    ab eo magistratu,

    after this office, Sall. J. 63, 5:

    a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

    after the greatest hope, Tac. A. 6, 50 fin. —Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adj. recens, immediately after, soon after:

    ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

    Cic. Att. 1, 5, 4; so Suet. Tib. 68:

    confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

    Liv. 30, 36, 1:

    statim a funere,

    Suet. Caes. 85;

    and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

    id. ib. 60:

    protinus ab adoptione,

    Vell. 2, 104, 3:

    Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

    soon after their time, Cic. N. D. 3, 5; so Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2; Verg. A. 6, 450 al. (v. also primum, confestim, etc.).—

    Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die,

    i. e. after their departure from you, Cic. Att. 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nov[adot ], i. e. after leaving (=postquam a Carthagine profecti sunt), Liv. 21, 38, 1:

    secundo Punico (bello) Scipionis classis XL. die a securi navigavit,

    i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.
    2.
    With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

    ab hora tertia bibebatur,

    from the third hour, Cic. Phil. 2, 41:

    infinito ex tempore, non ut antea, ab Sulla et Pompeio consulibus,

    since the consulship of, id. Agr. 2, 21, 56:

    vixit ab omni aeternitate,

    from all eternity, id. Div. 1, 51, 115:

    cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

    Nep. Att. 5, 3:

    in Lycia semper a terrae motu XL. dies serenos esse,

    after an earthquake, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211 al.:

    centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

    since the death of, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

    cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

    id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

    ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

    since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

    diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 36.—Sometimes joined with usque and inde:

    quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

    since the time of, Cic. Vat. 8, 20:

    jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

    from the very beginning of, Liv. 2, 65 fin. —Hence the adverbial expressions ab initio, a principio, a primo, at, in, or from the beginning, at first; v. initium, principium, primus. Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; v. integer.—Ab... ad, from (a time)... to:

    ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

    Cic. Att. 7, 8, 4; cf.:

    cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 2; and:

    a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septingenti octoginta unus,

    Vell. 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque:

    pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

    from morning to evening, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97; id. Most. 3, 1, 3; 3, 2, 80.—Rarely ab... in: Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie, from... till late in the day, Liv. 27, 2, 9; so Col. 2, 10, 17; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 2, 103, 106, § 229; 4, 12, 26, § 89.
    b.
    Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

    qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

    from an early age, from early youth, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 24; so Cic. Off. 2, 13, 44 al.:

    mihi magna cum co jam inde a pueritia fuit semper famillaritas,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; so,

    a pueritia,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27 fin.; id. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

    jam inde ab adulescentia,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

    ab adulescentia,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

    jam a prima adulescentia,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

    ab ineunte adulescentia,

    id. ib. 13, 21, 1; cf.

    followed by ad: usque ad hanc aetatem ab incunte adulescentia,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

    a primis temporibus aetatis,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

    a teneris unguiculis,

    from childhood, id. ib. 1, 6, 2:

    usque a toga pura,

    id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

    jam inde ab incunabulis,

    Liv. 4, 36, 5:

    a prima lanugine,

    Suet. Oth. 12:

    viridi ab aevo,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17 al.;

    rarely of animals: ab infantia,

    Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 182.—Instead of the nom. abstr. very often (like the Greek ek paioôn, etc.) with concrete substantives: a pucro, ab adulescente, a parvis, etc., from childhood, etc.:

    qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

    Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 90; so,

    a pausillo puero,

    id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

    a puero,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 115; id. Fam. 13, 16, 4 (twice) al.:

    a pueris,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2 al.:

    ab adulescente,

    id. Quint. 3, 12:

    ab infante,

    Col. 1, 8, 2:

    a parva virgine,

    Cat. 66, 26 al. —Likewise and in the same sense with adject.: a parvo, from a little child, or childhood, Liv. 1, 39, 6 fin.; cf.:

    a parvis,

    Ter. And. 3, 3, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

    a parvulo,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 8; id. Ad. 1, 1, 23; cf.:

    ab parvulis,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 3:

    ab tenero,

    Col. 5, 6, 20;

    and rarely of animals: (vacca) a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.
    B.
    In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.
    1.
    In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

    suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

    qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

    hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 20 al.:

    quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

    condicionem quam ab te peto,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 87; cf.:

    mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

    si quid ab illo acceperis,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

    quae (i. e. antiquitas) quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

    ab defensione desistere,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 4:

    ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

    id. B. G. 7, 24, 2:

    ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 117, etc.—Of distance (in order, rank, mind, or feeling):

    qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

    the fourth in succession from, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 46:

    tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

    next after him, Verg. E. 5, 49; cf.:

    Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

    next in rank to, Hor. S. 2, 3, 193:

    quid hoc ab illo differt,

    from, Cic. Caecin. 14, 39; cf.:

    hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

    id. Off. 2, 4, 15; and:

    discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

    id. Rep. 3, 9 fin. (v. the verbs differo, disto, discrepo, dissideo, dissentio, etc.):

    quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

    alieno a te animo fuit,

    id. Deiot. 9, 24 (v. alienus). —So the expression ab re (qs. aside from the matter, profit; cf. the opposite, in rem), contrary to one's profit, to a loss, disadvantageous (so in the affirmative very rare and only ante-class.):

    subdole ab re consulit,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12; cf. id. Capt. 2, 2, 88; more frequently and class. (but not with Cicero) in the negative, non, haud, ab re, not without advantage or profit, not useless or unprofitable, adcantageous:

    haut est ab re aucupis,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

    non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

    Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

    a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

    Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

    id. ib. 1, 3:

    disputata ab eo,

    id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

    illa (i. e. numerorum ac vocum vis) maxime a Graecia vetere celebrata,

    id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

    ita generati a natura sumus,

    id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.:

    pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

    Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

    niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 51 al. —With intrans. verbs:

    quae (i. e. anima) calescit ab eo spiritu,

    is warmed by this breath, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; cf. Ov. M. 1, 417: (mare) qua a sole collucet, Cic. Ac. 2, 105:

    salvebis a meo Cicerone,

    i. e. young Cicero sends his compliments to you, id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

    a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

    i. e. by whose command, Nep. Milt. 2, 3:

    ne vir ab hoste cadat,

    Ov. H. 9, 36 al. —A substantive or adjective often takes the place of the verb (so with de, q. v.):

    levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7; cf.:

    a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

    id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

    si calor est a sole,

    id. N. D. 2, 52:

    ex iis a te verbis (for a te scriptis),

    id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

    metu poenae a Romanis,

    Liv. 32, 23, 9:

    bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

    id. 3, 22, 2:

    ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

    id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

    lassus ab equo indomito,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

    Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

    Prop. 5, 1, 126:

    tempus a nostris triste malis,

    time made sad by our misfortunes, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 36.—Different from per:

    vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

    by whom and upon whose orders? Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (cf. id. ib. 34, 97: cujus consilio occisus sit, invenio; cujus manu sit percussus, non laboro); so,

    ab hoc destitutus per Thrasybulum (i. e. Thrasybulo auctore),

    Nep. Alc. 5, 4.—Ambiguity sometimes arises from the fact that the verb in the pass. would require ab if used in the active:

    si postulatur a populo,

    if the people demand it, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58, might also mean, if it is required of the people; on the contrary: quod ab eo (Lucullo) laus imperatoria non admodum exspectabatur, not since he did not expect military renown, but since they did not expect military renown from him, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2, and so often; cf. Rudd. II. p. 213. (The use of the active dative, or dative of the agent, instead of ab with the pass., is well known, Zumpt, § 419. It is very seldom found in prose writers of the golden age of Roman liter.; with Cic. sometimes joined with the participles auditus, cognitus, constitutus, perspectus, provisus, susceptus; cf. Halm ad Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71, and ad ejusdem, Cat. 1, 7 fin.; but freq. at a later period; e. g. in Pliny, in Books 2-4 of H. N., more than twenty times; and likewise in Tacitus seventeen times. Vid. the passages in Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 2, 49.) Far more unusual is the simple abl. in the designation of persons:

    deseror conjuge,

    Ov. H. 12, 161; so id. ib. 5, 75; id. M. 1, 747; Verg. A. 1, 274; Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; 1, 6, 2;

    and in prose,

    Quint. 3, 4, 2; Sen. Contr. 2, 1; Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. Rudd. II. p. 212; Zumpt ad Quint. V. p. 122 Spalding.—Hence the adverbial phrase a se=uph heautou, sua sponte, of one's own uccord, spontaneously:

    ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

    (urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.
    b.
    With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

    pastores a Pergamide,

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

    Turnus ab Aricia,

    Liv. 1, 50, 3 (for which Aricinus, id. 1, 51, 1):

    obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

    Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.
    c.
    In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

    (sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

    id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)
    d.
    With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

    da, puere, ab summo,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 41; so,

    da ab Delphio cantharum circum, id Most. 1, 4, 33: ab eo nobis causa ordienda est potissimum,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

    coepere a fame mala,

    Liv. 4, 12, 7:

    cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

    tail-foremost, Plin. 10, 16, 18:

    a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.
    e.
    With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

    a foliis et stercore purgato,

    Cato, R. R. 65 (66), 1:

    tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

    Ter. Heaut. 1, [p. 4] 1, 23; cf.:

    Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

    Liv. 21, 11, 5:

    expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

    haec provincia non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis est defendenda,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14 (v. defendo):

    ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

    Sall. C. 32:

    ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

    Liv. 21, 35, 12:

    ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

    Cic. Sest. 64, 133.
    f.
    With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

    el metul a Chryside,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 79; cf.:

    ab Hannibale metuens,

    Liv. 23, 36; and:

    metus a praetore,

    id. 23, 15, 7;

    v. Weissenb. ad h. l.: a quo quidem genere, judices, ego numquam timui,

    Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

    postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

    you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.
    g.
    With verbs of fastening and holding:

    funiculus a puppi religatus,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

    cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

    Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.
    h.
    Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

    a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

    Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.
    i.
    Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

    id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 22.
    j.
    Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

    doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

    a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

    id. Ep. 1, 2, 26; cf. id. Aul. 2, 2, 9:

    a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; so,

    a frigore laborantibus,

    Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

    laborare ab re frumentaria,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.
    k.
    Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

    ab ingenio improbus,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

    a me pudica'st,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

    orba ab optimatibus contio,

    Cic. Fl. 23, 54; ro Ov. H. 6,156: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24 fin. (v. securus):

    locus copiosus a frumento,

    Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.:

    sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

    id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

    ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

    id. Brut. 16, 63:

    ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

    Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

    so often in poets ab arte=arte,

    artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.
    l.
    In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

    linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

    thrusting out the tongue in derision, Liv. 7, 10, 5:

    ab honore,

    id. 1, 8; so, ab ira, a spe, ab odio, v. Drak. ad Liv. 24, 30, 1: 26, 1, 3; cf. also Kritz and Fabri ad Sall. J. 31, 3, and Fabri ad Liv. 21, 36, 7.
    m.
    Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

    ab illo injuria,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

    fulgor ab auro,

    Lucr. 2, 5:

    dulces a fontibus undae,

    Verg. G. 2, 243.
    n.
    In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

    scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

    nonnuill ab novissimis,

    id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).
    o.
    In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

    qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

    ab eo qui sunt,

    id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

    nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

    id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).
    p.
    To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

    in Cic. only once): Pollex, servus a pedibus meus,

    one of my couriers, Cic. Att. 8, 5, 1; so,

    a manu servus,

    a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).
    q.
    The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

    a peregre,

    Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

    a foris,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37; Vulg. Gen, 7, 16; ib. Matt. 23, 27:

    ab intus,

    ib. ib. 7, 15:

    ab invicem,

    App. Herb. 112; Vulg. Matt. 25, 32; Cypr. Ep. 63, 9: Hier. Ep. 18:

    a longe,

    Hyg. Fab. 257; Vulg. Gen. 22, 4; ib. Matt. 26, 58:

    a modo,

    ib. ib. 23, 39;

    Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

    Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

    a sursum,

    ib. Marc. 15, 38.
    ► a.
    Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

    Arsinoen, Stratum, Naupactum...fateris ab hostibus esse captas. Quibus autem hostibus? Nempe iis, quos, etc.,

    Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

    a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus? An iis, quae in juventute geruntur et viribus?

    id. Sen. 6:

    a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

    id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

    res publica, quascumque vires habebit, ab iis ipsis, quibus tenetur, de te propediem impetrabit,

    id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—
    b.
    Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—
    c.
    It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

    a vitae periculo,

    Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

    a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

    id. Arch. 6, 12:

    a minus bono,

    Sall. C. 2, 6:

    a satis miti principio,

    Liv. 1, 6, 4:

    damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

    Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—
    d.
    The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

    aque Chao,

    Verg. G. 4, 347:

    aque mero,

    Ov. M. 3, 631:

    aque viro,

    id. H. 6, 156:

    aque suis,

    id. Tr. 5, 2, 74 al. But:

    a meque,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

    abs teque,

    id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

    a teque,

    id. ib. 8, 11, §

    7: a primaque adulescentia,

    id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —
    e.
    A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.
    III.
    In composition ab,
    1.
    Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—
    2.
    It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

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  • 2 nugatorius

    nūgātōrĭus, a, um, adj. [nugator], trifling, worthless, useless, futile, nugatory:

    nugatoriae artes,

    i. e. lies, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 2:

    boves Ligustici,

    worthless, useless, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 9; so,

    unguentum,

    id. L. L. 7, § 64 Müll.:

    ad probandum res infirma nugatoriaque,

    Cic. Caecin. 23, 64:

    illud valde leve est ac nugatorium,

    id. Fam. 11, 2, 3:

    in malā nugatoriāque accusatione,

    id. Rosc. Am. 15, 42:

    genus argumentationis,

    not to the point, Auct. Her. 2, 20, 31: genus deorum, Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 27.—As subst.: nū-gātōrĭus, ii, m., a worthless fellow, nugatorium vocant, Sen. Ep. 36, 2.—Hence, adv.: nūgātōrĭē, triflingly, frivolously:

    tenuiter et nugatorie respondere,

    Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48.

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  • 3 praeverto

    prae-verto or - vorto, ti, 3, v. a., and (only in present tense) praevertor or - vortor ( inf. pass. paragog. praevortier, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 39), 3, v. dep.
    I.
    To prefer:

    ne me uxorem praevertisse dicant prae republicā,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 29:

    si vacas animo, neque habes aliquid, quod huic sermoni praevertendum putes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10; Gell. 4, 3, 2.—
    II. A.
    Lit. ( poet.):

    cursu pedum ventos,

    Verg. A. 7, 807:

    equo ventos,

    id. ib. 12, 345:

    volucremque fugā praevertitur Eurum,

    id. ib. 1, 317:

    vestigia cervae,

    Cat. 64, 341; Stat. Th. 5, 691.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To be beforehand with, to anticipate; with acc., to prevent, make useless: nostra omnis lis est: pulcre praevortar viros, will anticipate, be beforehand with them (cf. praevenio), Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 75:

    aggerem et vineas egit, turresque admovit: quorum usum forte oblata opportunitas praevertit,

    has rendered useless, Liv. 8, 16:

    praevertunt, inquit, me fata,

    prevent me, Ov. M. 2, 657:

    celeri praevertit tristia leto,

    Luc. 8, 29:

    quae absolvi, quoniam mors praeverterat, nequiverunt,

    Gell. 17, 10, 6.—
    2.
    To take possession of beforehand, to preoccupy, prepossess:

    vivo tentat praevertere amore Jampridem resides animos,

    to prepossess, Verg. A. 1, 722; cf.:

    neque praevorto poculum,

    take before my turn, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 59.—
    3.
    To surpass in worth, outweigh, exceed, to be preferable, of more importance:

    erilis praevertit metus,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 16: quoniam pietatem amori tuo video praevortere, outweigh, [p. 1438] exceed, id. Ps. 1, 3, 59:

    nec posse, cum hostes prope ad portas essent, bello praevertisse quicquam,

    Liv. 2, 24.—
    4.
    To turn one's attention first or principally to, to do first or in preference to any thing else, to despatch first; used esp. in the dep.
    (α).
    With dat.:

    rei mandatae omnes sapientes primum praevorti decet,

    to apply themselves principally to it, to despatch it first, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 40:

    ei rei primum praevorti volo,

    id. Capt. 2, 3, 100:

    stultitia est, cui bene esse licet, cum praevorti litibus,

    to occupy one's self with contentions, id. Pers. 5, 2, 20:

    cave, pigritiae praevorteris,

    do not give yourself up to indolence, id. Merc. 1, 2, 3:

    etsi ab hoste discedere detrimentosum esse existimabat, tamen huic rei praevertendum existimavit,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 33.—
    (β).
    With acc., to do or attend to in preference:

    hoc praevortar principio,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 8:

    si quid dictum est per jocum, non aequom est, id te serio praevortier,

    to take it in earnest, id. Am. 3, 2, 39; Liv. 8, 13:

    aliud in praesentia praevertendum sibi esse dixit,

    that must be attended to first, id. 35, 33.— Pass.:

    praevorti hoc certum est rebus aliis omnibus,

    Plaut. Cist. 5, 1, 8. —
    (γ).
    With ad, to apply one's self particularly to any thing:

    si quando ad interna praeverterent,

    Tac. A. 4, 32; so, praevertor, dep.:

    nunc praevertemur ad nostrum orbem,

    Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 123:

    nunc praevertemur ad differentias aeris,

    id. 34, 8, 20, § 94:

    ad ea praeverti,

    Col. 3, 7:

    hostes ad occursandum pugnandumque in eos praevertentur,

    Gell. 3, 7, 6.—
    (δ).
    With an adverb of place:

    illuc praevertamur,

    let us first of all look at this, Hor. S. 1, 3, 38.—
    (ε).
    With a rel.-clause; proximum erat narrare glandiferas quoque, ni praeverti cogeret admiratio, quaenam esset vita sine arbore ullā, Plin. H. N. 16, praef. § 1.—
    (ζ).
    Absol.:

    in rem quod sit, praevortaris, potius quam, etc.,

    do, perform, attend to, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 8.

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  • 4 praevertor

    prae-verto or - vorto, ti, 3, v. a., and (only in present tense) praevertor or - vortor ( inf. pass. paragog. praevortier, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 39), 3, v. dep.
    I.
    To prefer:

    ne me uxorem praevertisse dicant prae republicā,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 29:

    si vacas animo, neque habes aliquid, quod huic sermoni praevertendum putes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10; Gell. 4, 3, 2.—
    II. A.
    Lit. ( poet.):

    cursu pedum ventos,

    Verg. A. 7, 807:

    equo ventos,

    id. ib. 12, 345:

    volucremque fugā praevertitur Eurum,

    id. ib. 1, 317:

    vestigia cervae,

    Cat. 64, 341; Stat. Th. 5, 691.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To be beforehand with, to anticipate; with acc., to prevent, make useless: nostra omnis lis est: pulcre praevortar viros, will anticipate, be beforehand with them (cf. praevenio), Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 75:

    aggerem et vineas egit, turresque admovit: quorum usum forte oblata opportunitas praevertit,

    has rendered useless, Liv. 8, 16:

    praevertunt, inquit, me fata,

    prevent me, Ov. M. 2, 657:

    celeri praevertit tristia leto,

    Luc. 8, 29:

    quae absolvi, quoniam mors praeverterat, nequiverunt,

    Gell. 17, 10, 6.—
    2.
    To take possession of beforehand, to preoccupy, prepossess:

    vivo tentat praevertere amore Jampridem resides animos,

    to prepossess, Verg. A. 1, 722; cf.:

    neque praevorto poculum,

    take before my turn, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 59.—
    3.
    To surpass in worth, outweigh, exceed, to be preferable, of more importance:

    erilis praevertit metus,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 16: quoniam pietatem amori tuo video praevortere, outweigh, [p. 1438] exceed, id. Ps. 1, 3, 59:

    nec posse, cum hostes prope ad portas essent, bello praevertisse quicquam,

    Liv. 2, 24.—
    4.
    To turn one's attention first or principally to, to do first or in preference to any thing else, to despatch first; used esp. in the dep.
    (α).
    With dat.:

    rei mandatae omnes sapientes primum praevorti decet,

    to apply themselves principally to it, to despatch it first, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 40:

    ei rei primum praevorti volo,

    id. Capt. 2, 3, 100:

    stultitia est, cui bene esse licet, cum praevorti litibus,

    to occupy one's self with contentions, id. Pers. 5, 2, 20:

    cave, pigritiae praevorteris,

    do not give yourself up to indolence, id. Merc. 1, 2, 3:

    etsi ab hoste discedere detrimentosum esse existimabat, tamen huic rei praevertendum existimavit,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 33.—
    (β).
    With acc., to do or attend to in preference:

    hoc praevortar principio,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 8:

    si quid dictum est per jocum, non aequom est, id te serio praevortier,

    to take it in earnest, id. Am. 3, 2, 39; Liv. 8, 13:

    aliud in praesentia praevertendum sibi esse dixit,

    that must be attended to first, id. 35, 33.— Pass.:

    praevorti hoc certum est rebus aliis omnibus,

    Plaut. Cist. 5, 1, 8. —
    (γ).
    With ad, to apply one's self particularly to any thing:

    si quando ad interna praeverterent,

    Tac. A. 4, 32; so, praevertor, dep.:

    nunc praevertemur ad nostrum orbem,

    Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 123:

    nunc praevertemur ad differentias aeris,

    id. 34, 8, 20, § 94:

    ad ea praeverti,

    Col. 3, 7:

    hostes ad occursandum pugnandumque in eos praevertentur,

    Gell. 3, 7, 6.—
    (δ).
    With an adverb of place:

    illuc praevertamur,

    let us first of all look at this, Hor. S. 1, 3, 38.—
    (ε).
    With a rel.-clause; proximum erat narrare glandiferas quoque, ni praeverti cogeret admiratio, quaenam esset vita sine arbore ullā, Plin. H. N. 16, praef. § 1.—
    (ζ).
    Absol.:

    in rem quod sit, praevortaris, potius quam, etc.,

    do, perform, attend to, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 8.

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  • 5 vortor

    prae-verto or - vorto, ti, 3, v. a., and (only in present tense) praevertor or - vortor ( inf. pass. paragog. praevortier, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 39), 3, v. dep.
    I.
    To prefer:

    ne me uxorem praevertisse dicant prae republicā,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 29:

    si vacas animo, neque habes aliquid, quod huic sermoni praevertendum putes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10; Gell. 4, 3, 2.—
    II. A.
    Lit. ( poet.):

    cursu pedum ventos,

    Verg. A. 7, 807:

    equo ventos,

    id. ib. 12, 345:

    volucremque fugā praevertitur Eurum,

    id. ib. 1, 317:

    vestigia cervae,

    Cat. 64, 341; Stat. Th. 5, 691.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    To be beforehand with, to anticipate; with acc., to prevent, make useless: nostra omnis lis est: pulcre praevortar viros, will anticipate, be beforehand with them (cf. praevenio), Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 75:

    aggerem et vineas egit, turresque admovit: quorum usum forte oblata opportunitas praevertit,

    has rendered useless, Liv. 8, 16:

    praevertunt, inquit, me fata,

    prevent me, Ov. M. 2, 657:

    celeri praevertit tristia leto,

    Luc. 8, 29:

    quae absolvi, quoniam mors praeverterat, nequiverunt,

    Gell. 17, 10, 6.—
    2.
    To take possession of beforehand, to preoccupy, prepossess:

    vivo tentat praevertere amore Jampridem resides animos,

    to prepossess, Verg. A. 1, 722; cf.:

    neque praevorto poculum,

    take before my turn, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 59.—
    3.
    To surpass in worth, outweigh, exceed, to be preferable, of more importance:

    erilis praevertit metus,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 16: quoniam pietatem amori tuo video praevortere, outweigh, [p. 1438] exceed, id. Ps. 1, 3, 59:

    nec posse, cum hostes prope ad portas essent, bello praevertisse quicquam,

    Liv. 2, 24.—
    4.
    To turn one's attention first or principally to, to do first or in preference to any thing else, to despatch first; used esp. in the dep.
    (α).
    With dat.:

    rei mandatae omnes sapientes primum praevorti decet,

    to apply themselves principally to it, to despatch it first, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 40:

    ei rei primum praevorti volo,

    id. Capt. 2, 3, 100:

    stultitia est, cui bene esse licet, cum praevorti litibus,

    to occupy one's self with contentions, id. Pers. 5, 2, 20:

    cave, pigritiae praevorteris,

    do not give yourself up to indolence, id. Merc. 1, 2, 3:

    etsi ab hoste discedere detrimentosum esse existimabat, tamen huic rei praevertendum existimavit,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 33.—
    (β).
    With acc., to do or attend to in preference:

    hoc praevortar principio,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 8:

    si quid dictum est per jocum, non aequom est, id te serio praevortier,

    to take it in earnest, id. Am. 3, 2, 39; Liv. 8, 13:

    aliud in praesentia praevertendum sibi esse dixit,

    that must be attended to first, id. 35, 33.— Pass.:

    praevorti hoc certum est rebus aliis omnibus,

    Plaut. Cist. 5, 1, 8. —
    (γ).
    With ad, to apply one's self particularly to any thing:

    si quando ad interna praeverterent,

    Tac. A. 4, 32; so, praevertor, dep.:

    nunc praevertemur ad nostrum orbem,

    Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 123:

    nunc praevertemur ad differentias aeris,

    id. 34, 8, 20, § 94:

    ad ea praeverti,

    Col. 3, 7:

    hostes ad occursandum pugnandumque in eos praevertentur,

    Gell. 3, 7, 6.—
    (δ).
    With an adverb of place:

    illuc praevertamur,

    let us first of all look at this, Hor. S. 1, 3, 38.—
    (ε).
    With a rel.-clause; proximum erat narrare glandiferas quoque, ni praeverti cogeret admiratio, quaenam esset vita sine arbore ullā, Plin. H. N. 16, praef. § 1.—
    (ζ).
    Absol.:

    in rem quod sit, praevortaris, potius quam, etc.,

    do, perform, attend to, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 8.

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  • 6 vacantia

    văco, āvi, ātum, 1 ( perf. vacui, Tert. Pall. 4; id. Pud. 8 fin.; id. adv. Val. 9), v. n. [etym. dub.], to be empty, void, or vacant; to be void of, or without; not to contain (class.; cf.: careo, egeo).
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of space, etc.
    1.
    Absol.:

    quācumque vacat spatium, quod inane vocamus,

    Lucr. 1, 507; so,

    spatium,

    id. 2, 1053; 6, 1029:

    inane,

    id. 1, 520:

    villa ita completa militibus est, ut vix triclinium... vacaret,

    Cic. Att. 13, 52, 1:

    tota domus superior vacat,

    id. ib. 13, 12, 10:

    aedes,

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 7:

    maximam putant esse laudem, quam latissime a suis finibus vacare agros,

    to be uninhabited, uncultivated, Caes. B. G. 4, 3:

    locus,

    id. ib. 1, 28; Quint. 8, 6, 18; 9, 4, 118; 10, 3, 33:

    ostia septem Pulverulenta vacant, septem sine flumine valles,

    Ov. M. 2, 256:

    odi cum late splendida cera vacat,

    id. Am. 1, 11, 20:

    haec fiunt dum vacat harena,

    Sen. Ep. 7, 4.—
    2.
    With abl. (so most freq.):

    illa natura caelestis et terra vacat et umore,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; cf. id. N. D. 2, 24, 64:

    mens vacans corpore,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 25:

    hoste vacare domos,

    Verg. A. 3, 123:

    (domus) quae Igne vacet,

    Ov. M. 2, 764:

    custode vacans,

    id. ib. 2, 422:

    ora vacent epulis,

    i. e. abstain from, id. ib. 15, 478: ea pars oppidi, quae fluminis circuitu vacabat, Auct. B. G. 8, 41. —
    3.
    With ab:

    haec a custodiis classium loca maxime vacabant,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 25.—
    B.
    Transf., to be vacant. free from, without, unoccupied, etc.
    1.
    With abl.:

    ejusmodi (nimiis animi) motibus sermo debet vacare,

    Cic. Off. 1, 38, 136:

    nulla vitae pars vacare officio potest,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 4:

    omni curatione et administratione rerum (dii),

    id. N. D. 1, 1, 2:

    studiis,

    id. de Or. 3, 11, 43:

    curā et negotio,

    id. Leg. 1, 3, 8:

    vitio,

    id. ib. 3, 3, 10:

    culpā,

    id. Fam. 7, 3, 4:

    criminibus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 34:

    febri,

    Cels. 2, 14 med.:

    morbis,

    Dig. 21, 1, 53:

    amplitudo animi pulchrior, si vacet populo,

    keeps free from, remains aloof from, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

    respublica et milite illic et pecuniā vacet,

    be free from the necessity of furnishing, Liv. 2, 48, 9.—
    2.
    With ab and abl.:

    nullum tempus illi umquam vacabat aut a forensi dictione aut a scribendo,

    Cic. Brut. 78, 272:

    (rex) quicquid a bellis populi Romani vacabat, cum hominibus nostris consuetudines jungebat,

    id. Deiot. 9, 27:

    a publico officio et munere,

    id. Div. 2, 2, 7:

    ab opere (milites),

    Caes. B. C. 3, 76:

    ne quando a metu ac periculis vacarent,

    Liv. 7, 1:

    vacant ab imbecillis valetudinaria,

    Col. 12, 3, 8:

    a culpā,

    Sen. Ep. 97, 1:

    a periculo,

    id. Q. N. 6, 1, 1:

    a negotiis,

    Phaedr. 3 prol.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    To be free from labor, not busied, idle, at leisure; to have leisure or time:

    quamvis occupatus sis, otii tamen plus habes: aut, si ne tu quidem vacas, noli, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 1; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 27:

    festus in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove pagus,

    Hor. C. 3, 18, 11:

    si vacabis,

    Cic. Att. 12, 38, 2:

    si forte vacas,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 95.—
    2.
    After the Aug. per. esp. freq.
    a.
    Vacare alicui rei, to be free to attend, apply, or devote one's self to something; to have leisure or time for a thing (cf. studeo):

    philosophiae, Quinte, semper vaco,

    Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10:

    in itinere, quasi solutus ceteris curis, huic uni vacaret,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15:

    huic uni negotio vacare,

    Vell. 2, 114, 1:

    ille non vacasse sermoni suo regem causatus discessit,

    Curt. 6, 7, 21:

    paulum etiam palaestricis,

    Quint. 1, 11, 15:

    studio operis pulcherrimi,

    id. 12, 1, 4:

    foro,

    id. 10, 1, 114:

    clientium negotiis,

    Tac. A. 16, 22:

    non discendo tantum juri, sed etiam docendo,

    Quint. 12, 1, 10:

    libellis legendis ac rescribendis,

    Suet. Aug. 45:

    queruntur de superiorum fastidio, quod ipsis adire volentibus non vacaverint,

    have no leisure for them, can not attend to them, Sen. Brev. Vit. 2, 5.—Rarely absol.:

    dum perago tecum pauca sed apta, vaca,

    Ov. Am. 2, 2, 2.—
    b.
    Vacare ad aliquid:

    non vaco ad istas ineptias,

    Sen. Ep. 49, 9; cf. ( poet.):

    in grande opus,

    Ov. P. 3, 3, 36; also, with inf.:

    sternere acies,

    Stat. Th. 8, 185.—
    c.
    Vacat (alicui), impers., there is time, room, or leisure for a thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
    (α).
    With inf. (so most freq.): si primā repetens ab origine pergam Et vacet annales nostrorum audire laborum, Verg. A. 1, 373:

    tunc et elegiam vacabit in manus sumere,

    Quint. 10, 1, 58:

    non vacabit incohare haec studia,

    id. 1, 12, 12: hactenus indulsisse vacat, it is permitted, i. q. licet, Verg. A. 10, 625 Heyne; imitated by Sil. 17, 374.—
    (β).
    With dat., I ( thou, he, etc.) have leisure or time for a thing:

    nobis venari nec vacat nec libet,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 16, 1:

    non vacat exiguis rebus adesse Jovi,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 216:

    nec nostris praebere vacet tibi cantibus aures,

    id. M. 5, 334:

    obstat enim diligentiae scribendi etiam fatigatio et abunde, si vacet, lucis spatia sufficiunt,

    Quint. 10, 3, 27:

    cui esse diserto vacet,

    id. 11, 1, 50:

    quo magis te, cui vacat, hortor, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 11; 8, 15, 1; Curt. 10, 10, 12; Vell. 1, 15, 1; 2, 124, 1.— Absol.:

    teneri properentur amores, Dum vacat,

    Ov. Am. 3, 1, 70:

    si vacat,

    Juv. 1, 21. —
    B.
    Of possessions, lands, etc., to be unoccupied, vacant, ownerless:

    cum agri Ligustini... aliquantum vacaret, senatūs consultum est factum, ut is ager viritim divideretur,

    Liv. 42, 4, 3:

    fundi possessionem nancisci, quae ex neglegentiā domini vacat,

    Dig. 41, 3, 37:

    si nemo sit, bona vacabunt,

    ib. 38, 7, 2 fin. —
    2.
    Esp., of offices, relations, positions, employments, etc., to be vacant, without incumbent, etc.:

    si Piso adesset, nullius philosophiae vacaret locus,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 16: quid enim nostrā victum esse Antonium, si victus est, ut alii vacaret, quod ille obtinuit? may stand open, Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 17, 6:

    rogo ut Suram praeturā exornare digneris, cuia locus vacet,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 12 (7), 1:

    rogo dignitati... vel auguratum vel septemviratum, quia vacant, adicere digneris,

    id. ib. 10, 13 (8).— Hence, văcans, antis, P. a.
    A.
    Empty, unoccupied, without an owner, vacant:

    locus,

    Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16, 8:

    metaphora... vacantem locum occupare debet,

    Quint. 8, 6, 18:

    regnum,

    Just. 42, 4, 2; 25, 2, 4; 27, 3, 1:

    saltus,

    Verg. G. 3, 477:

    balneae,

    Tac. H. 3, 11:

    bona,

    Dig. 30, 1, 93; 30, 1, 111.— Subst.: văcantia, ĭum, n., vacant estates, property without an owner:

    ut, si a privilegiis parentum cessaretur, velut parens omnium populus vacantia teneret,

    Tac. A. 3, 28.—
    B.
    Of women, single, unmarried, without a husband:

    qui vacantem mulierem rapuit vel nuptam,

    Dig. 48, 6, 5; Quint. Decl. 262 (cf. vacua, Ov. H. 20, 149).—
    C.
    Of persons, at leisure, unoccupied, idle:

    nec petiit animum vacantem,

    Ov. M. 9, 612.— Subst.: văcantĭa, ĭum, n., that which is superfluous, useless (post-class.):

    vacantia ex quāque re ac non necessariā auferre et excidere,

    Gell. 6, 5, 6.—Hence, adv.: vă-canter, superfluously, Gell. 17, 10, 16.

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  • 7 vaco

    văco, āvi, ātum, 1 ( perf. vacui, Tert. Pall. 4; id. Pud. 8 fin.; id. adv. Val. 9), v. n. [etym. dub.], to be empty, void, or vacant; to be void of, or without; not to contain (class.; cf.: careo, egeo).
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of space, etc.
    1.
    Absol.:

    quācumque vacat spatium, quod inane vocamus,

    Lucr. 1, 507; so,

    spatium,

    id. 2, 1053; 6, 1029:

    inane,

    id. 1, 520:

    villa ita completa militibus est, ut vix triclinium... vacaret,

    Cic. Att. 13, 52, 1:

    tota domus superior vacat,

    id. ib. 13, 12, 10:

    aedes,

    Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 7:

    maximam putant esse laudem, quam latissime a suis finibus vacare agros,

    to be uninhabited, uncultivated, Caes. B. G. 4, 3:

    locus,

    id. ib. 1, 28; Quint. 8, 6, 18; 9, 4, 118; 10, 3, 33:

    ostia septem Pulverulenta vacant, septem sine flumine valles,

    Ov. M. 2, 256:

    odi cum late splendida cera vacat,

    id. Am. 1, 11, 20:

    haec fiunt dum vacat harena,

    Sen. Ep. 7, 4.—
    2.
    With abl. (so most freq.):

    illa natura caelestis et terra vacat et umore,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; cf. id. N. D. 2, 24, 64:

    mens vacans corpore,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 25:

    hoste vacare domos,

    Verg. A. 3, 123:

    (domus) quae Igne vacet,

    Ov. M. 2, 764:

    custode vacans,

    id. ib. 2, 422:

    ora vacent epulis,

    i. e. abstain from, id. ib. 15, 478: ea pars oppidi, quae fluminis circuitu vacabat, Auct. B. G. 8, 41. —
    3.
    With ab:

    haec a custodiis classium loca maxime vacabant,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 25.—
    B.
    Transf., to be vacant. free from, without, unoccupied, etc.
    1.
    With abl.:

    ejusmodi (nimiis animi) motibus sermo debet vacare,

    Cic. Off. 1, 38, 136:

    nulla vitae pars vacare officio potest,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 4:

    omni curatione et administratione rerum (dii),

    id. N. D. 1, 1, 2:

    studiis,

    id. de Or. 3, 11, 43:

    curā et negotio,

    id. Leg. 1, 3, 8:

    vitio,

    id. ib. 3, 3, 10:

    culpā,

    id. Fam. 7, 3, 4:

    criminibus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 34:

    febri,

    Cels. 2, 14 med.:

    morbis,

    Dig. 21, 1, 53:

    amplitudo animi pulchrior, si vacet populo,

    keeps free from, remains aloof from, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

    respublica et milite illic et pecuniā vacet,

    be free from the necessity of furnishing, Liv. 2, 48, 9.—
    2.
    With ab and abl.:

    nullum tempus illi umquam vacabat aut a forensi dictione aut a scribendo,

    Cic. Brut. 78, 272:

    (rex) quicquid a bellis populi Romani vacabat, cum hominibus nostris consuetudines jungebat,

    id. Deiot. 9, 27:

    a publico officio et munere,

    id. Div. 2, 2, 7:

    ab opere (milites),

    Caes. B. C. 3, 76:

    ne quando a metu ac periculis vacarent,

    Liv. 7, 1:

    vacant ab imbecillis valetudinaria,

    Col. 12, 3, 8:

    a culpā,

    Sen. Ep. 97, 1:

    a periculo,

    id. Q. N. 6, 1, 1:

    a negotiis,

    Phaedr. 3 prol.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    To be free from labor, not busied, idle, at leisure; to have leisure or time:

    quamvis occupatus sis, otii tamen plus habes: aut, si ne tu quidem vacas, noli, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 1; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 27:

    festus in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove pagus,

    Hor. C. 3, 18, 11:

    si vacabis,

    Cic. Att. 12, 38, 2:

    si forte vacas,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 95.—
    2.
    After the Aug. per. esp. freq.
    a.
    Vacare alicui rei, to be free to attend, apply, or devote one's self to something; to have leisure or time for a thing (cf. studeo):

    philosophiae, Quinte, semper vaco,

    Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10:

    in itinere, quasi solutus ceteris curis, huic uni vacaret,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15:

    huic uni negotio vacare,

    Vell. 2, 114, 1:

    ille non vacasse sermoni suo regem causatus discessit,

    Curt. 6, 7, 21:

    paulum etiam palaestricis,

    Quint. 1, 11, 15:

    studio operis pulcherrimi,

    id. 12, 1, 4:

    foro,

    id. 10, 1, 114:

    clientium negotiis,

    Tac. A. 16, 22:

    non discendo tantum juri, sed etiam docendo,

    Quint. 12, 1, 10:

    libellis legendis ac rescribendis,

    Suet. Aug. 45:

    queruntur de superiorum fastidio, quod ipsis adire volentibus non vacaverint,

    have no leisure for them, can not attend to them, Sen. Brev. Vit. 2, 5.—Rarely absol.:

    dum perago tecum pauca sed apta, vaca,

    Ov. Am. 2, 2, 2.—
    b.
    Vacare ad aliquid:

    non vaco ad istas ineptias,

    Sen. Ep. 49, 9; cf. ( poet.):

    in grande opus,

    Ov. P. 3, 3, 36; also, with inf.:

    sternere acies,

    Stat. Th. 8, 185.—
    c.
    Vacat (alicui), impers., there is time, room, or leisure for a thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
    (α).
    With inf. (so most freq.): si primā repetens ab origine pergam Et vacet annales nostrorum audire laborum, Verg. A. 1, 373:

    tunc et elegiam vacabit in manus sumere,

    Quint. 10, 1, 58:

    non vacabit incohare haec studia,

    id. 1, 12, 12: hactenus indulsisse vacat, it is permitted, i. q. licet, Verg. A. 10, 625 Heyne; imitated by Sil. 17, 374.—
    (β).
    With dat., I ( thou, he, etc.) have leisure or time for a thing:

    nobis venari nec vacat nec libet,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 16, 1:

    non vacat exiguis rebus adesse Jovi,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 216:

    nec nostris praebere vacet tibi cantibus aures,

    id. M. 5, 334:

    obstat enim diligentiae scribendi etiam fatigatio et abunde, si vacet, lucis spatia sufficiunt,

    Quint. 10, 3, 27:

    cui esse diserto vacet,

    id. 11, 1, 50:

    quo magis te, cui vacat, hortor, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 11; 8, 15, 1; Curt. 10, 10, 12; Vell. 1, 15, 1; 2, 124, 1.— Absol.:

    teneri properentur amores, Dum vacat,

    Ov. Am. 3, 1, 70:

    si vacat,

    Juv. 1, 21. —
    B.
    Of possessions, lands, etc., to be unoccupied, vacant, ownerless:

    cum agri Ligustini... aliquantum vacaret, senatūs consultum est factum, ut is ager viritim divideretur,

    Liv. 42, 4, 3:

    fundi possessionem nancisci, quae ex neglegentiā domini vacat,

    Dig. 41, 3, 37:

    si nemo sit, bona vacabunt,

    ib. 38, 7, 2 fin. —
    2.
    Esp., of offices, relations, positions, employments, etc., to be vacant, without incumbent, etc.:

    si Piso adesset, nullius philosophiae vacaret locus,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 16: quid enim nostrā victum esse Antonium, si victus est, ut alii vacaret, quod ille obtinuit? may stand open, Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 17, 6:

    rogo ut Suram praeturā exornare digneris, cuia locus vacet,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 12 (7), 1:

    rogo dignitati... vel auguratum vel septemviratum, quia vacant, adicere digneris,

    id. ib. 10, 13 (8).— Hence, văcans, antis, P. a.
    A.
    Empty, unoccupied, without an owner, vacant:

    locus,

    Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16, 8:

    metaphora... vacantem locum occupare debet,

    Quint. 8, 6, 18:

    regnum,

    Just. 42, 4, 2; 25, 2, 4; 27, 3, 1:

    saltus,

    Verg. G. 3, 477:

    balneae,

    Tac. H. 3, 11:

    bona,

    Dig. 30, 1, 93; 30, 1, 111.— Subst.: văcantia, ĭum, n., vacant estates, property without an owner:

    ut, si a privilegiis parentum cessaretur, velut parens omnium populus vacantia teneret,

    Tac. A. 3, 28.—
    B.
    Of women, single, unmarried, without a husband:

    qui vacantem mulierem rapuit vel nuptam,

    Dig. 48, 6, 5; Quint. Decl. 262 (cf. vacua, Ov. H. 20, 149).—
    C.
    Of persons, at leisure, unoccupied, idle:

    nec petiit animum vacantem,

    Ov. M. 9, 612.— Subst.: văcantĭa, ĭum, n., that which is superfluous, useless (post-class.):

    vacantia ex quāque re ac non necessariā auferre et excidere,

    Gell. 6, 5, 6.—Hence, adv.: vă-canter, superfluously, Gell. 17, 10, 16.

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  • 8 vacuum

    văcŭus, a, um, adj. [vaco], empty, void, free, clear, devoid of, without something (freq. and class.; cf. inanis.)
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., in material sense.
    (α).
    Absol.:

    spatium vacuum,

    Lucr. 1, 523; cf. id. 1, 394; 1, 509:

    vacua castra,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 45:

    perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna,

    Verg. A. 6, 269:

    atria,

    id. ib. 7, 379;

    2, 528: porticus,

    id. ib. 2, 761:

    videntur Aëra per vacuum ferri,

    id. G. 3, 109:

    Acerrae,

    unpeopled, id. ib. 2, 225:

    Cumae,

    Juv. 3, 2:

    Ulubrae,

    id. 10, 102:

    agri,

    Verg. G. 2, 54:

    aurae,

    id. A. 12, 592:

    caelum,

    id. ib. 5, 515:

    oppida, Auct. B. Afr. 9: aliquam partem aedium vacuam facere,

    Liv. 39, 14, 2:

    aër,

    Hor. C. 1, 3, 34:

    theatrum,

    id. Ep. 2, 2, 130:

    aula,

    id. C. 4, 14, 36:

    tabellae,

    Quint. 10, 3, 32:

    numerus peditum in vicem prolapsorum equitum vacuos capientium ad pugnam equos,

    Liv. 44, 26, 3:

    lectus,

    Prop. 2, 2, 1: Ov. M. 11, 471:

    per vacuum locum inruperunt,

    Liv. 25, 3, 18:

    manus,

    Quint. 11, 2, 42:

    ossa vacuis exsucta medullis,

    Juv. 8, 90: si vacuo ventre mulier fuit, not pregnant (opp. plenus), Dig. 29, 2, 84:

    vultus,

    without eyes, Sen. Oedip. 1012.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    nihil igni vacuum videri potest,

    Cic. Univ. 4:

    gladium vaginā vacuum in urbe non vidimus,

    id. Marcell. 6, 17:

    moenia defensoribus,

    Liv. 42, 63, 6:

    viae occursu hominum,

    id. 5, 41, 5:

    cultoribus agri,

    Ov. M. 7, 653:

    ense ebur,

    id. ib. 4, 148:

    arvum arboribus,

    Col. 3, 11, 3:

    loca fetu in vite,

    id. 3, 10, 5:

    pectus velamine,

    Stat. Th. 1, 593.—
    (γ).
    With ab and abl.:

    Messana ab his rebus...vacua ac nuda est,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 2, § 3:

    oppidum vacuum ab defensoribus,

    without, Caes. B. G. 2, 12:

    pars Galliae ab exercitu,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 46:

    vacuum ab hostibus mare,

    Liv. 37, 13, 6.—
    (δ).
    With gen. (rare; mostly poet.):

    ager aridus et frugum vacuus,

    Sall. J. 90, 1:

    Romana urbs annonae,

    Mamert. Grat. Act. ad Julian. 14.—
    b.
    Subst.: vă-cŭum, i, n., an empty space, an open or vacant place, a void, vacuity:

    vacuum minus intus habere,

    Lucr. 1, 367:

    in vacuum poterunt se extendere rami,

    Verg. G. 2, 287:

    ne per vacuum incurreret hostis,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 37:

    libera per vacuum posui vestigia princeps,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 21.—
    B.
    Transf., free from, clear, devoid of, without.
    (α).
    With abl.:

    animus per somnum sensibus et curis vacuus,

    Cic. Div. 2, 11, 27:

    molestiis,

    id. Fam. 4, 4, 2:

    cupiditate et timore,

    id. Fin. 2, 10, 30:

    consilium periculo,

    id. Att. 10, 16, 2:

    cum vacui curis etiam quid in caelo fiat scire avemus,

    id. Fin. 2, 14, 46:

    vacui negotiis vivere possimus,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 12:

    his rebus mens vacua,

    id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9:

    vacuus duellis Janus,

    Hor. C. 4, 15, 8:

    crimine nox vacua est,

    Ov. F. 4, 581:

    ille metu vacuus,

    id. M. 3, 582:

    nullum tempus sterile et vacuum beneficio,

    Plin. Pan. 56, 2:

    aemulatione,

    Tac. A. 12, 2:

    curā domesticā vacuus,

    id. H. 1, 88:

    tali culpā,

    id. A. 6, 16:

    tributo,

    id. ib. 12, 61:

    vacuam laboribus egi vitam,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 9.—
    (β).
    With ab and abl.:

    Mamertini soli vacui, expertes, soluti ac liberi fuerunt ab omni sumptu, molestiā, munere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23:

    a securibus et tributis,

    Tac. A. 12, 34; 12, 61:

    hora nulla vacua a furto, a scelere, crudelitate, flagitio reperietur,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 34:

    nullus dies ab exercitationibus oratoriis,

    id. Brut. 90, 309:

    animus a talibus factis vacuus et integer,

    id. Inv. 2, 7, 24:

    cum ab omni molestiā vacuus esses,

    id. Fam. 11, 16, 1:

    domus a suspitione religionis vacua atque pura,

    id. Har. Resp. 6, 11:

    ab odio, amicitiā, irā atque misericordiā,

    Sall. C. 51, 1:

    a culpa,

    id. ib. 14, 4: censores vacui ab operum locandorun;

    curā,

    Liv. 24, 18, 1.—
    (γ).
    With gen.:

    vacuas caedis habete manus,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 642:

    operum vacuus,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 119:

    vacuas habuissem criminis umbras,

    Ov. M. 6, 541:

    composuit ad Caesarem litteras, quasi confecto bello verbis magnificas, rerum vacuas,

    Tac. A. 15, 8.—
    (δ).
    With dat. of that for which room or a vacancy exists or is made:

    Aruns Tarquinius et Tullia minor, prope continuatis funeribus cum domos vacuas novo matrimonio fecissent, junguntur,

    Liv. 1, 46, 9:

    necato filio vacuam domum scelestis nuptiis fecisse,

    Sall. C. 15, 2:

    quanto molimine circumspectemus vacuam Romanis vatibus aedem (Apollinis),

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 94.— Subst.: văcŭum, i, n., leisure:

    aliquid invenire vacui,

    Quint. 10, 6, 1.—
    II.
    In partic. (cf. vaco, II.).
    A.
    Free from labor or occupation, without business, at leisure, clear, disengaged, unoccupied, idle:

    quoniam vacui sumus, dicam,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 13:

    si es animo vacuo, expone nobis quod quaerimus... hunc elegimus diem, cum te sciremus esse vacuum,

    id. Brut. 5, 20:

    animus vacuus ac solutus,

    id. Verr. 1, 9, 26:

    aures vacuae atque eruditae,

    Quint. 10, 1, 32:

    aures,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 26; Ov. M. 4, 41; 12, 56:

    pedibus vacuis terere Porticum,

    id. A. A. 1, 491:

    si quid vacui sub umbrā Lusimus,

    Hor. C. 1, 32, 1:

    cetera, quae vacuas tenuissent carmine mentes,

    Verg. G. 3, 3:

    ne vacuum esse me nunc ad narrandum credas,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 23:

    ut animum vacuum ad res difficiles scribendas afferam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 38, 3:

    cum per tot menses vacuā civitate nemo controversiam fecerit,

    Liv. 3, 40, 10.— Sup.:

    nec rursus jubeo, dum sit vacuissima quaeras,

    Ov. P. 3, 1, 141.— Poet., transf., of places in which to lounge or enjoy leisure, quiet, peaceful, undisturbed, etc.:

    Tibur,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 45:

    Athenae,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 81:

    tonsoris in umbrā,

    id. ib. 1, 7, 50 (cf.:

    otiosa Neapolis,

    id. Epod. 5, 43).—Rarely of persons, free from care, calm, composed:

    Rutilius animo vacuus,

    i. e. careless, without apprehension, Sall. J. 52, 6:

    haud animi vacuus,

    quiet, Stat. Th. 5, 644:

    cantamus vacui, sive quid urimur,

    Hor. C. 1, 6, 19; so of one free from love, id. ib. 1, 5, 10.—Of female animals, not bearing young:

    equa,

    Col. 6, 37, 10.— Impers.: vacuum est, with inf., there is leisure, time, Sall. H. 1, 10; Tac. H. 2, 28.—
    B.
    Of time, free, vacant, disengaged, leisure:

    etiam si spatium ad dicendum nostro commodo vacuosque dies habuissemus,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 56:

    cum vacui temporis nihil haberem,

    id. Att. 2, 23, 1:

    vacuam noctem operi dedere,

    Liv. 3, 28, 7:

    tempora,

    Col. 12, 4, 1; cf. Luc. 3, 26.—
    C.
    Of women, free, unmarried, single:

    ubi mulier vacua fuit,

    Tac. A. 13, 44: vacuis indicere nuptias, Pseudo - Quint. Decl. 376:

    Hersilia,

    i. e. widowed, Ov. M. 14, 831.—
    D.
    Of possessions, free, vacant, without an occupant or master:

    vacuam possessionem regni sperans,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 112:

    prudentiae doctrinaeque possessio... quasi caduca atque vacua,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 122:

    centuria, id. Tull. § 17: sese praedia vacua filio traditurum,

    id. Rosc. Am. 9, 26:

    vacuam rempublicam tradere Hannibali,

    Liv. 23, 2, 7:

    ut impetus fiat in vacuam rempublicam,

    Sall. C. 52, 23:

    sacerdotia ut vacua contulit in alios,

    Tac. A. 6, 40; cf.:

    Syriam provinciam vacuam tum morte Atilii Rufi,

    id. Agr. 40:

    vacua Armenia,

    without a ruler, id. A. 12, 50:

    bona,

    Dig. 38, 9, 1, § 12:

    possessio,

    ib. 41, 3, 4, § 22; Gai Inst. 4, 131.— Subst.: văcŭum, i, n.:

    si quis casus puerum egerit Orco, In vacuum venias,

    into the vacant property, Hor. S. 2, 5, 50:

    ut in vacuum lege praeditoriā venalis pependerit,

    Suet. Claud. 9; cf. Quint. 12, 9, 8.—
    E.
    Without value, worthless, useless, empty, vain, unprofitable, = vanus (rare;

    not anteAug.): si respublica et senatus et populus vacua nomina sunt,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    rem,

    Petr. 102:

    vacua et inanis productio verbi,

    Gell. 11, 15, 6:

    tollens vacuum plus nimio Gloria verticem,

    her empty head, Hor. C. 1, 18, 15:

    pecunia,

    unused, unproductive, Dig. 19, 5, 24; cf. ib. 16, 3, 28.

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  • 9 vacuus

    văcŭus, a, um, adj. [vaco], empty, void, free, clear, devoid of, without something (freq. and class.; cf. inanis.)
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., in material sense.
    (α).
    Absol.:

    spatium vacuum,

    Lucr. 1, 523; cf. id. 1, 394; 1, 509:

    vacua castra,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 45:

    perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna,

    Verg. A. 6, 269:

    atria,

    id. ib. 7, 379;

    2, 528: porticus,

    id. ib. 2, 761:

    videntur Aëra per vacuum ferri,

    id. G. 3, 109:

    Acerrae,

    unpeopled, id. ib. 2, 225:

    Cumae,

    Juv. 3, 2:

    Ulubrae,

    id. 10, 102:

    agri,

    Verg. G. 2, 54:

    aurae,

    id. A. 12, 592:

    caelum,

    id. ib. 5, 515:

    oppida, Auct. B. Afr. 9: aliquam partem aedium vacuam facere,

    Liv. 39, 14, 2:

    aër,

    Hor. C. 1, 3, 34:

    theatrum,

    id. Ep. 2, 2, 130:

    aula,

    id. C. 4, 14, 36:

    tabellae,

    Quint. 10, 3, 32:

    numerus peditum in vicem prolapsorum equitum vacuos capientium ad pugnam equos,

    Liv. 44, 26, 3:

    lectus,

    Prop. 2, 2, 1: Ov. M. 11, 471:

    per vacuum locum inruperunt,

    Liv. 25, 3, 18:

    manus,

    Quint. 11, 2, 42:

    ossa vacuis exsucta medullis,

    Juv. 8, 90: si vacuo ventre mulier fuit, not pregnant (opp. plenus), Dig. 29, 2, 84:

    vultus,

    without eyes, Sen. Oedip. 1012.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    nihil igni vacuum videri potest,

    Cic. Univ. 4:

    gladium vaginā vacuum in urbe non vidimus,

    id. Marcell. 6, 17:

    moenia defensoribus,

    Liv. 42, 63, 6:

    viae occursu hominum,

    id. 5, 41, 5:

    cultoribus agri,

    Ov. M. 7, 653:

    ense ebur,

    id. ib. 4, 148:

    arvum arboribus,

    Col. 3, 11, 3:

    loca fetu in vite,

    id. 3, 10, 5:

    pectus velamine,

    Stat. Th. 1, 593.—
    (γ).
    With ab and abl.:

    Messana ab his rebus...vacua ac nuda est,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 2, § 3:

    oppidum vacuum ab defensoribus,

    without, Caes. B. G. 2, 12:

    pars Galliae ab exercitu,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 46:

    vacuum ab hostibus mare,

    Liv. 37, 13, 6.—
    (δ).
    With gen. (rare; mostly poet.):

    ager aridus et frugum vacuus,

    Sall. J. 90, 1:

    Romana urbs annonae,

    Mamert. Grat. Act. ad Julian. 14.—
    b.
    Subst.: vă-cŭum, i, n., an empty space, an open or vacant place, a void, vacuity:

    vacuum minus intus habere,

    Lucr. 1, 367:

    in vacuum poterunt se extendere rami,

    Verg. G. 2, 287:

    ne per vacuum incurreret hostis,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 37:

    libera per vacuum posui vestigia princeps,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 21.—
    B.
    Transf., free from, clear, devoid of, without.
    (α).
    With abl.:

    animus per somnum sensibus et curis vacuus,

    Cic. Div. 2, 11, 27:

    molestiis,

    id. Fam. 4, 4, 2:

    cupiditate et timore,

    id. Fin. 2, 10, 30:

    consilium periculo,

    id. Att. 10, 16, 2:

    cum vacui curis etiam quid in caelo fiat scire avemus,

    id. Fin. 2, 14, 46:

    vacui negotiis vivere possimus,

    id. ib. 4, 5, 12:

    his rebus mens vacua,

    id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9:

    vacuus duellis Janus,

    Hor. C. 4, 15, 8:

    crimine nox vacua est,

    Ov. F. 4, 581:

    ille metu vacuus,

    id. M. 3, 582:

    nullum tempus sterile et vacuum beneficio,

    Plin. Pan. 56, 2:

    aemulatione,

    Tac. A. 12, 2:

    curā domesticā vacuus,

    id. H. 1, 88:

    tali culpā,

    id. A. 6, 16:

    tributo,

    id. ib. 12, 61:

    vacuam laboribus egi vitam,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 9.—
    (β).
    With ab and abl.:

    Mamertini soli vacui, expertes, soluti ac liberi fuerunt ab omni sumptu, molestiā, munere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23:

    a securibus et tributis,

    Tac. A. 12, 34; 12, 61:

    hora nulla vacua a furto, a scelere, crudelitate, flagitio reperietur,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 34:

    nullus dies ab exercitationibus oratoriis,

    id. Brut. 90, 309:

    animus a talibus factis vacuus et integer,

    id. Inv. 2, 7, 24:

    cum ab omni molestiā vacuus esses,

    id. Fam. 11, 16, 1:

    domus a suspitione religionis vacua atque pura,

    id. Har. Resp. 6, 11:

    ab odio, amicitiā, irā atque misericordiā,

    Sall. C. 51, 1:

    a culpa,

    id. ib. 14, 4: censores vacui ab operum locandorun;

    curā,

    Liv. 24, 18, 1.—
    (γ).
    With gen.:

    vacuas caedis habete manus,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 642:

    operum vacuus,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 119:

    vacuas habuissem criminis umbras,

    Ov. M. 6, 541:

    composuit ad Caesarem litteras, quasi confecto bello verbis magnificas, rerum vacuas,

    Tac. A. 15, 8.—
    (δ).
    With dat. of that for which room or a vacancy exists or is made:

    Aruns Tarquinius et Tullia minor, prope continuatis funeribus cum domos vacuas novo matrimonio fecissent, junguntur,

    Liv. 1, 46, 9:

    necato filio vacuam domum scelestis nuptiis fecisse,

    Sall. C. 15, 2:

    quanto molimine circumspectemus vacuam Romanis vatibus aedem (Apollinis),

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 94.— Subst.: văcŭum, i, n., leisure:

    aliquid invenire vacui,

    Quint. 10, 6, 1.—
    II.
    In partic. (cf. vaco, II.).
    A.
    Free from labor or occupation, without business, at leisure, clear, disengaged, unoccupied, idle:

    quoniam vacui sumus, dicam,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 13:

    si es animo vacuo, expone nobis quod quaerimus... hunc elegimus diem, cum te sciremus esse vacuum,

    id. Brut. 5, 20:

    animus vacuus ac solutus,

    id. Verr. 1, 9, 26:

    aures vacuae atque eruditae,

    Quint. 10, 1, 32:

    aures,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 26; Ov. M. 4, 41; 12, 56:

    pedibus vacuis terere Porticum,

    id. A. A. 1, 491:

    si quid vacui sub umbrā Lusimus,

    Hor. C. 1, 32, 1:

    cetera, quae vacuas tenuissent carmine mentes,

    Verg. G. 3, 3:

    ne vacuum esse me nunc ad narrandum credas,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 23:

    ut animum vacuum ad res difficiles scribendas afferam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 38, 3:

    cum per tot menses vacuā civitate nemo controversiam fecerit,

    Liv. 3, 40, 10.— Sup.:

    nec rursus jubeo, dum sit vacuissima quaeras,

    Ov. P. 3, 1, 141.— Poet., transf., of places in which to lounge or enjoy leisure, quiet, peaceful, undisturbed, etc.:

    Tibur,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 45:

    Athenae,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 81:

    tonsoris in umbrā,

    id. ib. 1, 7, 50 (cf.:

    otiosa Neapolis,

    id. Epod. 5, 43).—Rarely of persons, free from care, calm, composed:

    Rutilius animo vacuus,

    i. e. careless, without apprehension, Sall. J. 52, 6:

    haud animi vacuus,

    quiet, Stat. Th. 5, 644:

    cantamus vacui, sive quid urimur,

    Hor. C. 1, 6, 19; so of one free from love, id. ib. 1, 5, 10.—Of female animals, not bearing young:

    equa,

    Col. 6, 37, 10.— Impers.: vacuum est, with inf., there is leisure, time, Sall. H. 1, 10; Tac. H. 2, 28.—
    B.
    Of time, free, vacant, disengaged, leisure:

    etiam si spatium ad dicendum nostro commodo vacuosque dies habuissemus,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 56:

    cum vacui temporis nihil haberem,

    id. Att. 2, 23, 1:

    vacuam noctem operi dedere,

    Liv. 3, 28, 7:

    tempora,

    Col. 12, 4, 1; cf. Luc. 3, 26.—
    C.
    Of women, free, unmarried, single:

    ubi mulier vacua fuit,

    Tac. A. 13, 44: vacuis indicere nuptias, Pseudo - Quint. Decl. 376:

    Hersilia,

    i. e. widowed, Ov. M. 14, 831.—
    D.
    Of possessions, free, vacant, without an occupant or master:

    vacuam possessionem regni sperans,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 112:

    prudentiae doctrinaeque possessio... quasi caduca atque vacua,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 122:

    centuria, id. Tull. § 17: sese praedia vacua filio traditurum,

    id. Rosc. Am. 9, 26:

    vacuam rempublicam tradere Hannibali,

    Liv. 23, 2, 7:

    ut impetus fiat in vacuam rempublicam,

    Sall. C. 52, 23:

    sacerdotia ut vacua contulit in alios,

    Tac. A. 6, 40; cf.:

    Syriam provinciam vacuam tum morte Atilii Rufi,

    id. Agr. 40:

    vacua Armenia,

    without a ruler, id. A. 12, 50:

    bona,

    Dig. 38, 9, 1, § 12:

    possessio,

    ib. 41, 3, 4, § 22; Gai Inst. 4, 131.— Subst.: văcŭum, i, n.:

    si quis casus puerum egerit Orco, In vacuum venias,

    into the vacant property, Hor. S. 2, 5, 50:

    ut in vacuum lege praeditoriā venalis pependerit,

    Suet. Claud. 9; cf. Quint. 12, 9, 8.—
    E.
    Without value, worthless, useless, empty, vain, unprofitable, = vanus (rare;

    not anteAug.): si respublica et senatus et populus vacua nomina sunt,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    rem,

    Petr. 102:

    vacua et inanis productio verbi,

    Gell. 11, 15, 6:

    tollens vacuum plus nimio Gloria verticem,

    her empty head, Hor. C. 1, 18, 15:

    pecunia,

    unused, unproductive, Dig. 19, 5, 24; cf. ib. 16, 3, 28.

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  • 10 sterilis

    stĕrĭlis, e (collat. form, acc. sing. fem sterilam sterilem, Fest. p. 316 Müll.; neutr. plur. sterila, Lucr. 2, 845; abl. sterile, Apic. 7, 1, § 258), adj. [Gr. stereos, hard; steriphê, steira, barren; Sanscr. starī, vacca sterilis], unfruitful, barren, sterile, of plants and animals (class. and very freq.;

    syn infecundus): steriles nascuntur avenae,

    Verg. E. 5, 37; so,

    ulvae,

    Ov. M. 4, 299:

    herba,

    id. Am. 3, 7, 31; Curt. 4, 1, 21:

    platani,

    Verg. G. 2, 70:

    agri,

    id. ib. 1, 84; id. A. 3, 141:

    tellus,

    Ov. M. 8, 789:

    palus,

    Hor. A. P. 65:

    harena,

    Verg. G. 1, 70:

    humus,

    Prop. 3, 2 (2, 11), 2; Curt. 7, 5, 34:

    solum,

    id. 3, 4, 3:

    steriles nimium crasso sunt semine,

    Lucr. 4, 1240; Cat. 67, 26:

    galli Tanagric' ad partus sunt steriliores,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 6:

    vacca,

    Verg. A. 6, 251:

    multae (mulie res),

    Lucr. 4, 1251:

    viri,

    i. e. eunuchs, Cat. 63, 69; Plin. 24, 10, 47, § 78; Mart. 9, 9, 8:

    ova,

    Plin. 10, 60, 80, § 166.—
    B.
    Transf. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
    1.
    Of things, causing unfruitfulness or sterility:

    rubigo,

    Hor. C. 3, 23, 6:

    frigus,

    Luc. 4, 108:

    hiems,

    Mart. 8, 68, 10:

    serere pampinariis sterile est,

    produces sterility, Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 157.—
    2.
    In gen., barren, bare, empty:

    manus,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 3:

    sterilis amator a datis,

    bare of gifts, id. ib. 2, 1, 30:

    amicus,

    Juv. 12, 97; Mart. 10, 18, 3:

    epistulae,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 2, 2:

    saeculum,

    id. ib. 5, 17, 6:

    civitas ad aquas,

    App. M. 1, p. 106 fin.:

    vadum,

    Sen. Thyest. 173:

    corpora sonitu (with jejuna succo),

    that yield no sound, Lucr. 2, 845:

    prospectus,

    without human beings, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 15:

    domus,

    without children, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 62:

    nummi,

    that do not bear interest, Dig. 22, 1, 7.—With gen.:

    sterilis laurus baccarum,

    Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 130:

    lapides plumbi,

    id. 33, 7, 40, § 119.—
    II.
    Trop., unproductive, unprofitable, fruitless, useless, vain:

    Februarius,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2:

    quod monumentum, quod immo temporis punctum, aut beneficio sterile, aut vacuum laude?

    Plin. Pan. 56, 2:

    ne sit sterile et effetum (saeculum),

    id. Ep. 5, 17, 6:

    fama (with cassa),

    Stat. Th. 6, 70:

    labor,

    Mart. 10, 58, 8:

    pax,

    Tac. A. 1, 17:

    amor,

    i. e. unreturned, unrequited, Ov. M. 1, 496; Stat. S. 3, 4, 42:

    cathedrae,

    unprofitable, Mart. 1, 76, 14; Juv. 7, 203:

    litus sterili versamus aratro,

    id. 7, 49.—With gen., destitute, deprived of, unacquainted with:

    urbes talium studiorum fuere steriles,

    Vell. 1, 18 fin.:

    non adeo virtutum sterile saeculum,

    Tac. H. 1, 3:

    heu steriles veri!

    Pers. 5, 75.

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  • 11 rēs

        rēs reī, f    [RA-], a thing, object, matter, affair, business, event, fact, circumstance, occurrence, deed, condition, case: divinarum humanarumque rerum cognitio: te ut ulla res frangat?: relictis rebus suis omnibus: rem omnibus narrare: si res postulabit, the case: re bene gestā: scriptor rerum suarum, annalist: neque est ulla res, in quā, etc.: magna res principio statim belli, a great advantage, L.: Nil admirari prope res est una, quae, etc., the only thing, H.: rerum, facta est pulcherrima Roma, the most beautiful thing in the world, V.: fortissima rerum animalia, O.: dulcissime rerum, H.— A circumstance, condition: In' in malam rem, go to the bad, T.: mala res, a wretched condition, S.: res secundae, good-fortune, H.: prosperae res, N.: in secundissimis rebus: adversa belli res, L.: dubiae res, S.—In phrases with e or pro: E re natā melius fieri haud potuit, after what has happened, T.: pro re natā, according to circumstances: consilium pro tempore et pro re capere, as circumstances should require, Cs.: pro re pauca loquar, V.: ex re et ex tempore.—With an adj. in circumlocution: abhorrens ab re uxoriā<*> matrimony, T.: in arbitrio rei uxoriae, dowry: belhcam rem administrari, a battle: pecuaria res et rustica, cattle: liber de rebus rusticis, agriculture: res frumentaria, forage, Cs.: res iudiciaria, the administration of justice: res ludicra, play, H.: Veneris res, O.— A subject, story, events, facts, history: cui lecta potenter erit res, H.: agitur res in scaenis, H.: res populi R. perscribere, L.: res Persicae, history, N.— An actual thing, reality, verity, truth, fact: ipsam rem loqui, T.: nihil est aliud in re, in fact, L.: se ipsa res aperit, N.: quantum distet argumentatio tua ab re ipsā.— Abl adverb., in fact, in truth, really, actually: eos deos non re, sed opinione esse dicunt: verbo permittere, re hortari: hoc verbo ac simulatione Apronio, re verā tibi obiectum: haec ille, si verbis non audet, re quidem verā palam loquitur: venit, specie ut indutiae essent, re verā ad petendum veniam, L.— Effects, substance, property, possessions, estate: et re salvā et perditā, T.: talentūm rem decem, T.: res eos iampridem, fides nuper deficere coepit: in tenui re, in narrow circumstances, H.: quantis opibus, quibus de rebus: privatae res.— A benefit, profit, advantage, interest, weal: Quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua, is concerned, T.: Si in remst utrique, ut fiant, if it is a good thing for both, T.: in rem fore credens universos adpellare, useful, S.: imperat quae in rem sunt, L.: Non ex re istius, not for his good, T.: contra rem suam me venisse questus est: minime, dum ob rem, to the purpose, T.: ob rem facere, advantageously, S.: haec haud ab re duxi referre, irrelevant, L.: non ab re esse, useless, L.— A cause, reason, ground, account.—In the phrase, eā re, therefore: illud eā re a se esse concessum, quod, etc.; see also quā re, quam ob rem.— An affair, matter of business, business: multa inter se communicare et de re Gallicanā: tecum mihi res est, my business is: erat res ei cum exercitu, he had to deal: cum his mihi res sit, let me attend to, Cs.: quocum tum uno rem habebam, had relations, T.— A case in law, lawsuit, cause, suit, action: utrum rem an litem dici oporteret: quarum rerum litium causarum condixit pater patratus, L. (old form.): capere pecunias ob rem iudicandam.— An affair, battle, campaign, military operation: res gesta virtute: ut res gesta est narrabo ordine, T.: his rebus gestis, Cs.: bene rem gerere, H.: res gestae, military achievements, H.—Of the state, in the phrase, res publica (often written respublica, res p.), the common weal, a commonwealth, state, republic: dum modo calamitas a rei p. periculis seiungatur: si re p. non possis frui, stultum nolle privatā, public life: egestates tot egentissimorum hominum nec privatas posse res nec rem p. sustinere: auguratum est, rem Romanam p. summam fore: paene victā re p.: rem p. delere.—In the phrase, e re publicā, for the good of the state, for the common weal, in the public interests: senatūs consultis bene et e re p. factis: uti e re p. fideque suā videretur. — Plur: hoc loquor de tribus his generibus rerum p.: utiliores rebus suis publicis esse.—Without publica, the state, commonwealth, government: Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Enn. ap. C.: Hic (Marcellus) rem Romanam Sistet, V.: nec rem Romanam tam desidem umquam fuisse, L.: res Asiae evertere, V.: Custode rerum Caesare, H.—In the phrase, rerum potiri, to obtain the sovereignty, control the government: qui rerum potiri volunt: dum ea (civitas) rerum potita est, become supreme.—In the phrase, res novae, political change, revolution.
    * * *
    I
    thing; event, business; fact; cause; property
    II
    res; (20th letter of Hebrew alphabet); (transliterate as R)

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  • 12 inefficax

    inefficacis (gen.), inefficacior -or -us, inefficacissimus -a -um ADJ
    useless, ineffectual, unavailing, achieving nothing; invalid (legal), inoperative; not potent/efficacious (remedies), ineffective

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  • 13 irritus

    I.
    undecided, void, unfixed, of no effect.
    II.
    vain, useless, ineffectual, of not effect.

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  • 14 cassa

    cassus, a, um, adj., empty, void, hollow.
    I.
    Prop. (syn.: inanis, vacuus; mostly poet.).
    A.
    Absol.:

    nux,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 137; Hor. S. 2, 5, 36:

    glans,

    Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 37:

    canna,

    unfruitful, Ov. F. 6, 406:

    granum inane cassumque,

    Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15. 6.— Subst.: palearum cassa, Sol. c. 52 fin. —
    B.
    Expressing that of which the subject is empty, etc., wanting, devoid of, deprived of, without.
    1.
    With abl.: sanguine cassa (cochlea), bloodless, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133; so,

    virgo dote cassa,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 14:

    lumine aër,

    Lucr. 4, 368:

    lumine corpus,

    id. 5, 719; 5, 757:

    animā corpus,

    id. 3, 562.— Poet.:

    cassus lumine (= vitā),

    deprived of life, dead, Verg. A. 2, 85; imitated by Stat. Th. 2, 15;

    and in like sense aethere cassus,

    Verg. A. 11, 104:

    simulacra cassa sensu,

    Lucr. 4, 127.—
    2.
    With gen.:

    cassus luminis ensis,

    Cic. Arat. 369.—
    3.
    With ab:

    elementum ab omnibus,

    App. de Deo Socr. p. 46.—
    II.
    Trop., vain, empty, useless, futile, fruitless (syn.: inanis, irritus): cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; so,

    copia verborum,

    Lucr. 4, 511:

    vota,

    Verg. A. 12, 780:

    fertilitas terrae,

    Ov. M. 5, 482:

    fraus,

    Luc. 5, 130:

    consilia,

    Sen. Troad. 570:

    viae,

    vain, profitless, Stat. Th. 11, 449:

    labores,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 6:

    manus,

    without effect, Stat. Th. 9, 770:

    augur futuri,

    false, erring, id. ib. 9, 629:

    omen,

    id. ib. 5, 318.— Subst.: cassa, ōrum, n., empty things:

    palearum,

    Sol. 52;

    esp. of speech: cassa memorare,

    to talk idly, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 16; so,

    cassa habebantur quae, etc.,

    were thought vain, futile, Tac. H. 3, 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 352.— Esp. freq. in poetry (in prose, but not in Cic.), in cassum, or, in one word, incas-sum, adverb., in vain, uselessly, to no purpose:

    ex multis omnia in cassum cadunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; cf. Lucr. 2, 1165: temere, in cassum frustraque, without aim or purpose, fortuitously, id. 2, 1060; so id. 5, 1002; 5, 1430:

    furere,

    Verg. G. 3, 100:

    longos ciebat Incassum fletus,

    id. A. 3, 345:

    tot incassum fusos patiere labores?

    id. ib. 7, 421.—In prose:

    quae profecto incassum agebantur,

    Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch:

    vana incassum jactare tela,

    Liv. 10, 29, 2:

    incassum missae preces,

    id. 2, 49, 8:

    aliquid incassum disserere,

    Tac. A. 1, 4; Just. 11, 15, 6; Lact. 6, 9, 17; Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1: frustra in cassumque. Mart. Cap. 1, § 10.— Also cassum: quid cassum times? Sen. Herc. Oet. 353; cf.: matên, frustra, nequicquam, cassum, Gloss. Cyrill.

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  • 15 cassum

    cassus, a, um, adj., empty, void, hollow.
    I.
    Prop. (syn.: inanis, vacuus; mostly poet.).
    A.
    Absol.:

    nux,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 137; Hor. S. 2, 5, 36:

    glans,

    Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 37:

    canna,

    unfruitful, Ov. F. 6, 406:

    granum inane cassumque,

    Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15. 6.— Subst.: palearum cassa, Sol. c. 52 fin. —
    B.
    Expressing that of which the subject is empty, etc., wanting, devoid of, deprived of, without.
    1.
    With abl.: sanguine cassa (cochlea), bloodless, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133; so,

    virgo dote cassa,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 14:

    lumine aër,

    Lucr. 4, 368:

    lumine corpus,

    id. 5, 719; 5, 757:

    animā corpus,

    id. 3, 562.— Poet.:

    cassus lumine (= vitā),

    deprived of life, dead, Verg. A. 2, 85; imitated by Stat. Th. 2, 15;

    and in like sense aethere cassus,

    Verg. A. 11, 104:

    simulacra cassa sensu,

    Lucr. 4, 127.—
    2.
    With gen.:

    cassus luminis ensis,

    Cic. Arat. 369.—
    3.
    With ab:

    elementum ab omnibus,

    App. de Deo Socr. p. 46.—
    II.
    Trop., vain, empty, useless, futile, fruitless (syn.: inanis, irritus): cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; so,

    copia verborum,

    Lucr. 4, 511:

    vota,

    Verg. A. 12, 780:

    fertilitas terrae,

    Ov. M. 5, 482:

    fraus,

    Luc. 5, 130:

    consilia,

    Sen. Troad. 570:

    viae,

    vain, profitless, Stat. Th. 11, 449:

    labores,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 6:

    manus,

    without effect, Stat. Th. 9, 770:

    augur futuri,

    false, erring, id. ib. 9, 629:

    omen,

    id. ib. 5, 318.— Subst.: cassa, ōrum, n., empty things:

    palearum,

    Sol. 52;

    esp. of speech: cassa memorare,

    to talk idly, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 16; so,

    cassa habebantur quae, etc.,

    were thought vain, futile, Tac. H. 3, 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 352.— Esp. freq. in poetry (in prose, but not in Cic.), in cassum, or, in one word, incas-sum, adverb., in vain, uselessly, to no purpose:

    ex multis omnia in cassum cadunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; cf. Lucr. 2, 1165: temere, in cassum frustraque, without aim or purpose, fortuitously, id. 2, 1060; so id. 5, 1002; 5, 1430:

    furere,

    Verg. G. 3, 100:

    longos ciebat Incassum fletus,

    id. A. 3, 345:

    tot incassum fusos patiere labores?

    id. ib. 7, 421.—In prose:

    quae profecto incassum agebantur,

    Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch:

    vana incassum jactare tela,

    Liv. 10, 29, 2:

    incassum missae preces,

    id. 2, 49, 8:

    aliquid incassum disserere,

    Tac. A. 1, 4; Just. 11, 15, 6; Lact. 6, 9, 17; Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1: frustra in cassumque. Mart. Cap. 1, § 10.— Also cassum: quid cassum times? Sen. Herc. Oet. 353; cf.: matên, frustra, nequicquam, cassum, Gloss. Cyrill.

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  • 16 cassus

    cassus, a, um, adj., empty, void, hollow.
    I.
    Prop. (syn.: inanis, vacuus; mostly poet.).
    A.
    Absol.:

    nux,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 137; Hor. S. 2, 5, 36:

    glans,

    Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 37:

    canna,

    unfruitful, Ov. F. 6, 406:

    granum inane cassumque,

    Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: anulus, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15. 6.— Subst.: palearum cassa, Sol. c. 52 fin. —
    B.
    Expressing that of which the subject is empty, etc., wanting, devoid of, deprived of, without.
    1.
    With abl.: sanguine cassa (cochlea), bloodless, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133; so,

    virgo dote cassa,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 14:

    lumine aër,

    Lucr. 4, 368:

    lumine corpus,

    id. 5, 719; 5, 757:

    animā corpus,

    id. 3, 562.— Poet.:

    cassus lumine (= vitā),

    deprived of life, dead, Verg. A. 2, 85; imitated by Stat. Th. 2, 15;

    and in like sense aethere cassus,

    Verg. A. 11, 104:

    simulacra cassa sensu,

    Lucr. 4, 127.—
    2.
    With gen.:

    cassus luminis ensis,

    Cic. Arat. 369.—
    3.
    With ab:

    elementum ab omnibus,

    App. de Deo Socr. p. 46.—
    II.
    Trop., vain, empty, useless, futile, fruitless (syn.: inanis, irritus): cassum quiddam et inani vocis sono decoratum, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; so,

    copia verborum,

    Lucr. 4, 511:

    vota,

    Verg. A. 12, 780:

    fertilitas terrae,

    Ov. M. 5, 482:

    fraus,

    Luc. 5, 130:

    consilia,

    Sen. Troad. 570:

    viae,

    vain, profitless, Stat. Th. 11, 449:

    labores,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 6:

    manus,

    without effect, Stat. Th. 9, 770:

    augur futuri,

    false, erring, id. ib. 9, 629:

    omen,

    id. ib. 5, 318.— Subst.: cassa, ōrum, n., empty things:

    palearum,

    Sol. 52;

    esp. of speech: cassa memorare,

    to talk idly, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 16; so,

    cassa habebantur quae, etc.,

    were thought vain, futile, Tac. H. 3, 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 352.— Esp. freq. in poetry (in prose, but not in Cic.), in cassum, or, in one word, incas-sum, adverb., in vain, uselessly, to no purpose:

    ex multis omnia in cassum cadunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; cf. Lucr. 2, 1165: temere, in cassum frustraque, without aim or purpose, fortuitously, id. 2, 1060; so id. 5, 1002; 5, 1430:

    furere,

    Verg. G. 3, 100:

    longos ciebat Incassum fletus,

    id. A. 3, 345:

    tot incassum fusos patiere labores?

    id. ib. 7, 421.—In prose:

    quae profecto incassum agebantur,

    Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch:

    vana incassum jactare tela,

    Liv. 10, 29, 2:

    incassum missae preces,

    id. 2, 49, 8:

    aliquid incassum disserere,

    Tac. A. 1, 4; Just. 11, 15, 6; Lact. 6, 9, 17; Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1: frustra in cassumque. Mart. Cap. 1, § 10.— Also cassum: quid cassum times? Sen. Herc. Oet. 353; cf.: matên, frustra, nequicquam, cassum, Gloss. Cyrill.

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  • 17 lacus

    lăcus, ūs ( gen. laci, Vulg. Dan. 6, 17; 24; id. Jer. 37, 15; Cassiod. Var. 11, 14; dat. and abl. plur. lacis, Anthol. Lat. 5, 71, 10:

    lacibus,

    Plin. 23, 1, 20, § 33;

    usually lacubus,

    Ov. M. 12, 278 al.), m. [root lak, to tear; Gr. lakos, lakeros, lakkos; Lat. lacer, lacinia, lacuna, lāma; cf. lacerna; originally any thing hollow, hence].
    I.
    A large vessel for liquids, a basin, tank, tub; esp. a vat into which the wine flowed from the press, Cato, R. R. 25; 67, 2; Col. 12, 18, 3:

    tu quoque devotos, Bacche, relinque lacus,

    Tib. 2, 3, 64:

    de lacubus proxima musta tuis,

    Ov. F. 4, 888;

    a tank of water, in which heated metal was cooled: alii stridentia tingunt Aera lacu,

    Verg. G. 4, 173:

    gelido ceu quondam lamina candens tincta lacu, stridit,

    Ov. M. 9, 170:

    ferrum, igne rubens... lacubus demittit,

    id. ib. 12, 278.—Hence,
    B.
    Transf.:

    oratio quasi de musto ac lacu fervida,

    i. e. still new, that has not done fermenting, Cic. Brut. 83, 288.—
    II.
    A large body of water which rises and falls (opp. stagnum, a standing pool), a lake, pond:

    agri, aedificia, lacus, stagna,

    Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7:

    exhalant lacus nebulam,

    Lucr. 5, 463:

    deae, quae illos Hennenses lacus lucosque incolitis,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 188; cf.

    2, 4, 48, § 107: Averni,

    Lucr. 6, 746; Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

    Albanus,

    id. Div. 1, 44, 100:

    Fucinus,

    Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 124:

    dicebar sicco vilior esse lacu,

    Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 12:

    ad spurcos lacus,

    Juv. 6, 603.— Poet., of a river:

    deinde lacu fluvius se condidit alto Ima petens,

    Verg. A. 8, 66; cf. v. 74;

    of the Styx,

    id. ib. 6, 134; 238; 393.—
    III.
    A large reservoir for water, a basin, tank, cistern (of which there were a great number in Rome), Front. 3; 78; Liv. 39, 44; Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 121:

    a furno redeuntes lacuque,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 37.—A place called Lacus: garruli et malevoli supra Lacum, at the pond (perh. Lacus Curtius or Lacus Juturnae), Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 16.—Prov.:

    siccus lacus, for something useless,

    Prop. 2, 11, 11 (3, 6, 12).—
    IV. a.
    A hole in which lime is slacked, a lime-hole, Vitr. 7, 2, 2.—
    b.
    One of the bins or receptacles for pulse in a granary:

    sed et lacubus distinguuntur granaria, ut separatim quaeque legumina ponantur,

    Col. 1, 6, 14.—
    c.
    A den or cave for lions:

    labitur in lacum leonum,

    Prud. Cath. 4, 65; Vulg. Dan. 6, 7.—
    d.
    The pit, the place of the dead (cf. II. fin. supra):

    salvasti me a descendentibus in lacum,

    Vulg. Psa. 29, 4.—
    V.
    For lacunar, a panel in a ceiling (ante-class.): resultant aedesque lacusque, Lucil. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 726.

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  • 18 lignum

    lignum, i, n. [prob. root leg-, v. 2. lĕgo; that which is gathered, i. e. for firewood], wood ( firewood. opp. to materia, timber for building, Dig. 32, 1, 55).
    I.
    Lit. (class. only in plur.):

    ligna neque fumosa erunt et ardebunt bene,

    Cato, R. R. 130:

    ligna et sarmenta circumdare, ignem subicere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 69:

    ignem ex lignis viridibus atque umidis fieri jussit,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 17, §

    45: ligna super foco Large reponens,

    Hor. C. 1, 9, 5: ligna et virgas et carbones quibusdam videri esse in penu, Mas. Sab. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 22.—Prov.: in silvam ligna ferre, i. e. to perform useless labor, or, as we say in English, to carry coals to Newcastle, Hor. S. 1, 10, 34:

    lignorum aliquid posce,

    Juv. 7, 24.—
    B.
    In gen., timber, wood:

    hos lignum stabat in usus, Annosam si forte nucem dejecerat Eurus,

    i. e. for making tables, Juv. 11, 118.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    That which is made of wood, a writing-tablet:

    vana supervacui dicunt chirographa ligni,

    Juv. 13, 137; 16, 41; a plank:

    ventis animam committe, dolato confisus ligno,

    id. 12, 58.—
    B.
    The hard part of fruit, the shell (of a nut), or the stone or kernel (of cherries, plums, etc.):

    bacarum intus lignum,

    Plin. 15, 28, 34, § 111; 15, 3, 3, § 10:

    lignum in pomo,

    id. 13, 4, 9, § 40; of grape-stones, id. 17, 21, 35, § 162.—
    C.
    A fault in table-tops, where the grain of the wood is not curly, but straight, Plin. 13, 15, 30, § 98.—
    D.
    ( Poet. and late Lat.) A tree, Verg. A. 12, 767; Hor. S. 1, 8, 1; id. C. 2, 13, 11:

    lignum pomiferum,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 11:

    lignum scientiae boni et mali,

    id. ib. 2, 9:

    lignum vitae,

    id. Apoc. 2, 9.—
    E.
    A staff, club (eccl. Lat.):

    cum gladiis et lignis,

    Vulg. Marc. 14, 43 and 48.

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  • 19 litus

    1.
    lĭtus, a, um, Part., from lino.
    2.
    lĭtus, ūs, m. [lino], a smearing, besmearing, anointing:

    litu,

    Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 110 (Cels. 6, 6, 20, instead of litum we should read lenitum; v. Targa, ad loc.).
    3.
    lītus (not littus), ŏris, n. [cf. limnê, leimôn, limên; and lino], the sea-shore, seaside, beach, strand (opp. ripa, the bank of a river: ora, the coast of the sea; cf. Ov. M. 1, 37 sqq.; Verg. A. 3, 75):

    litus est, quousque maximus fluctus a mari pervenit,

    Dig. 50, 16, 96:

    solebat Aquilius quaerentibus, quid esset litus, ita definire: qua fluctus eluderet,

    Cic. Top. 7, 32:

    quid est tam commune quam... litus ejectis,

    id. Rosc. Am. 26, 72:

    litus tunditur undā,

    Cat. 11, 4:

    praetervolare litora,

    Hor. Epod. 16, 40:

    Circaeae raduntur litora terrae,

    Verg. A. 7, 10:

    petere,

    Ov. M. 2, 844:

    intrare,

    id. ib. 14, 104:

    sinuosum legere,

    Val. Fl. 2, 451:

    litoris ora,

    Verg. A. 3, 396; cf. id. G. 2, 44.—Prov.:

    litus arare,

    i. e. to labor in vain, take useless pains, Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 48; so,

    litus sterili versamus aratro,

    Juv. 7, 49: in litus harenas fundere, to pour sand on the sea-shore, i. e. to add to that of which there is already an abundance, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 44.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    A landing-place:

    quod uno parvoque litore adiretur,

    Suet. Tib. 40.—
    B.
    The shore of a lake:

    Trasimeni litora,

    Sil. 15, 818:

    Larium litus,

    Cat. 35, 4; Plin. Ep. 9, 7.—
    C.
    The bank of a river:

    hostias constituit omnes in litore,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 97:

    viridique in litore conspicitur sus,

    Verg. A. 8, 83:

    percussa fluctu litora,

    id. E. 5, 83.—
    D.
    Land situated on the sea-side:

    cui litus arandum dedimus,

    Verg. A. 4, 212:

    electione litorum,

    Tac. H. 3, 63.

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  • 20 otiosus

    ōtĭōsus, a, um, adj. [otium], at leisure, unoccupied, disengaged, unemployed, idle (class.; cf. feriatus, immunis; opp. negotiosus).
    I.
    Of persons.
    A.
    In gen.:

    nimis otiosum te arbitror hominem esse,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 34; 40:

    quamvis etiam maneo otiosus hic,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 15:

    cum essem otiosus domi,

    Cic. Brut. 3, 10:

    rebus humanis aliquos otiosos deos praeficere,

    id. N. D. 3, 39, 93.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Without official employment, free from public affairs:

    quo in studio hominum quoque ingeniosissimorum otiosissimorumque totas aetates videmus esse contritas,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 219:

    quem locum nos otiosi convertimus,

    in an interval of leisure, id. Div. 2, 30, 63:

    Graeculum se atque otiosum putari maluit,

    id. Sest. 51, 110: numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam cum otiosus, that he was never less at leisure than when [p. 1285] free from official business, Cato ap. Cic. Off. 3, 1, 1:

    cum a te tua promissa flagitabam, ad urbem te otiosissimum esse arbitrabar,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 11, 3:

    cum otiosus stilum prehenderat,

    id. Brut. 24, 93.—
    2.
    With respect to participation, quiet, unconcerned, indifferent, neutral:

    spectatores otiosi Leuctricae calamitatis,

    Cic. Off. 2, 7, 26:

    quidam enim non modo armatis, sed etiam otiosis minabantur,

    id. Marcell. 6, 18.—
    3.
    Without excitement, quiet, passionless, calm, tranquil:

    etiam istos, quibus odio est otium, quietissimos atque otiosissimos reddam,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 37, 102:

    vide ut otiosus it,

    Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 10; Cic. Fam. 9, 25, 3.—
    4.
    Of style, tedious, dull:

    (Cicero) lentus est in principiis, longus in narrationibus, otiosus circa excessus,

    Tac. Or. 22.—
    5.
    That has leisure for any thing; with gen.: studiorum otiosi, Plin. H. N. praef. § 6.—Hence,
    C.
    Subst.: ōtĭōsus, i, m., a private person, one not in official life:

    et facilior et tutior vita est otiosorum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 21, 70:

    otioso vero et nihil agenti privato,... quando imperium senatus dedit?

    id. Phil. 11, 8, 20.—
    2.
    Non-combatants, civilians:

    crudeliter enim otiosis minabantur,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 6, 3 (B. and K. otiosissimi):

    militare nomen grave inter otiosos,

    Tac. Agr. 40.—
    II.
    Of inanim. and abstr. things, at leisure, free, idle, unemployed: otioso in otio animus nescit, quid velit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 256 Vahl.):

    ego, cui fuerit ne otium quidem umquam otiosum,

    Cic. Planc. 27, 66: pecuniae, idle, unemployed (opp. occupatus), Plin. Ep. 10, 62, 1:

    senectus,

    Cic. Sen. 14, 49:

    his supplicationum otiosis diebus,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 3:

    quid quiete otiosius animi,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 13, 4.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Idle, useless, unprofitable, superfluous (cf.:

    ignavus, iners, desidiosus): sententiae,

    Quint. 1, 1, 35:

    sermo,

    id. 8, 2, 19:

    otiosissimae occupationes,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 6, 4; so,

    otiosum est persequi singula,

    Lact. 2, 4, 28; cf. Min. Fel. 23, 1.—
    2.
    Quiet, free from any thing; with ab:

    animo nunc jam otioso esse impero,

    Ter. And. 5, 2, 1:

    ab animo,

    id. Phorm. 2, 2, 26:

    a metu,

    Gell. 2, 29, 9:

    quid est animi quiete otiosius,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 13, 2.—
    3.
    With a quiet or gentle motion, quiet, gentle:

    fons vel rivus huc conveniat otiosus,

    flowing quietly, gently, Pall. 1, 37, 3.—Hence, adv.: ōtĭōsē.
    A.
    Lit., at leisure, at ease, without occupation:

    vivere,

    Cic. Off. 3, 26, 97:

    inambulare in foro,

    Liv. 23, 7 fin.:

    sequi,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 8:

    ire,

    id. Ep. 5, 1, 21:

    magnast res, quam ego tecum otiose, si otiumst, cupio loqui,

    id. Aul. 4, 10, 41.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Calmly, quietly, without haste, gently, gradually: ambula ergo cito. Sy. Immo otiose, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 14; cf. id. Truc. 1, 2, 66 (opp. to properare):

    bene et otiose percoquere,

    Cato, R. R. 76 fin.:

    contemplari unumquodque otiose et considerare coepit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 33:

    quaerere,

    id. Fin. 4, 13, 22:

    segniter, otiose, neglegenter, contumaciter omnia agere,

    Liv. 2, 57.—
    2.
    Free from fear, quietly, fearlessly:

    ademptum tibi jam faxo omnem metum, in aurem utramvis otiose ut dormias,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 100.

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