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  • 101 considero

    con-sīdĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [acc. to Corss. Nachtr. p. 43, from sidus, prop. to observe the stars; and so Paul. ex Fest. p. 42, 4, and 75, 8 Müll.; cf. desidero], to look at closely, attentively, carefully, to inspect, examine (class. in prose and poetry, esp. in the trop. signif.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    contemplari unum quidque otiose et considerare coepit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 33:

    candelabrum etiam atque etiam,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 28, §

    65: argentum (with contemplari),

    id. ib. 2, 4, 15, §

    33: opus (pictorum),

    id. Off. 1, 41, 147:

    aliquem,

    Sall. C. 58, 18:

    pallium diligentius,

    Petr. 12, 3; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 63:

    feminas diligenter ac lente mercantium more,

    Suet. Calig. 36:

    formam, quā ludum gladiatorium erat aedificaturus,

    id. Caes. 31:

    lucentia sidera,

    Gell. 2, 21, 2:

    spatium,

    Ov. M. 3, 95 al. —
    (β).
    With acc. and inf. as object, to observe, perceive (very rare):

    cum folia decidere considerassent (corresp. with videre and animadvertere),

    Col. 11, 2, 67.—
    (γ).
    With a rel.-clause:

    num tamen exciderit ferrum considerat, hastae,

    Ov. M. 12, 105.—
    II.
    Trop., to consider maturely, to reflect, contemplate, meditate; constr. with the acc., with de, a rel.-clause, ut, or absol.
    (α).
    With acc.:

    mecum in animo vitam tuam,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 5; so,

    eos casus mecum ipse,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 3:

    reliquum est, quod ipsae optime considerabitis, vestri similes feminae sintne Romae,

    id. Fam. 14, 14, 1:

    res atque pericula nostra,

    Sall. C. 52, 2:

    simul ipse qui suadet considerandus est,

    Tac. H. 2, 76.— With ex:

    Rosciorum factum ex ipsius Chrysogoni judicio,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 108. —With aliquid ex aliquā re:

    aliquid ex se et ex suā naturā,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 10, 14; 2, 58, 176.—
    (β).
    With de:

    cum de me ipso ac de meis te considerare velim,

    Cic. Att. 7, 13, 3:

    his de rebus velim cum Pomponio consideretis,

    id. ib. 14, 14, 2:

    de quā (intercessione) isti ipsi considerabunt,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 58:

    de totā re,

    id. Att. 12, 24, 1.— Impers.:

    quale sit id, de quo consideretur,

    inquiry is made, Cic. Off. 3, 4, 18.—
    (γ).
    With rel.-clause:

    considerate cum vestris animis vosmet ipsi, ecquem putetis, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 12, § 29:

    sed velim consideres, quid faciendum putes,

    id. Att. 7, 13, 3; id. Verr. 2, 5, 68, § 174; Liv. 45, 12, 5:

    consideres quid agas, quo progrediare, quem hominem et quā ratione defendas,

    Cic. Verr 2, 5, 68, § 174; Sall. C. 20, 6; 44, 5; Quint. 8, 3, 15; 3, 8, 51 al.: finitimos hostes an amicos velis esse considera, Curt. 7, 8, 30.—So impers.:

    in quā (parte) quid juris sit consideratur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 11, 14.—
    (δ).
    With ut or ne, to take care, to be considerate (rare):

    considerandum erit, ut solum pingue sit,

    Col. 2, 2, 17; so,

    ut lunā crescente id fiat,

    id. 8, 5, 9.— Impers.:

    considerandum est, ne aut temere desperet, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 21, 73.—
    (ε).
    Absol.:

    ille se considerare velle (ait),

    Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 1.—Hence,
    A.
    con-sīdĕranter, adv. (of the P. a. considerans. which is not used), = considerate, in a deliberate, considerate manner (post-Aug. and rare):

    agere,

    Val. Max. 8, 1, Ambust. 2:

    cuneum deponere,

    Pall. Febr. 17, 2.— Comp. considerantius, acc. to Fronto, p. 2194 P., but without voucher.— Sup. not in use.—
    B.
    consīdĕrātus, a, um, P. a., in acc. with 11., maturely reflected upon, considerate, circumspect, cautious, etc. (in good prose; most freq. in Cic.; not in Quint.).
    1.
    Of things:

    verbum consideratissimum, arbitror,

    Cic. Font. 9, 19 (v. arbitror, II.):

    considerata atque provisa via vivendi,

    id. Par. 5, 1, 34; cf.:

    considerata (et diligens) excogitatio faciendi aliquid aut non faciendi,

    id. Inv. 2, 5, 18:

    nihil,

    id. Har. Resp. 2, 3:

    factum,

    id. Sull. 26, 72:

    ratio,

    id. Inv. 2, 54, 164:

    tarditas,

    id. Brut. 42, 154: facilitas parum considerata, Cod. Th. 8, 5, 19.— Comp.:

    consilium,

    Cic. Att. 9, 2, a, 2.—
    2.
    Transf., as in Engl., to the person:

    homo,

    Cic. Caecin. 1, 1; id. Quint. 3, 11:

    consideratus ac sapiens,

    Plin. Pan. 44, 5:

    tardum pro considerato vocent,

    Liv. 22, 39, 20.— Comp.: consideratior factus Caesar (with tardior), Auct. B. Afr. 73; cf.:

    unā in re paulo minus consideratus,

    Cic. Quint. 3, 11.— Adv.: consīdĕrātē, considerately:

    fieri,

    Cic. Quint. 16, 51; id. Off. 1, 38, 136:

    agere,

    id. ib. 1, 27, 94 al.— Comp., Att. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 9; Liv. 4, 45, 8; Suet. Caes. 77.— Sup., Cic. Att. 9, 10, 2.

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  • 102 delego

    dē-lēgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to send, assign, dispatch, delegate a person to any place, person or business; to assign, confide, commit, intrust any thing to a person (for attention, care, protection, etc.); to charge a person with a business; to lay or impose upon a person any charge, order, business, command, etc., esp. of that which one prefers not to attend to in person (good prose; not in Caes.; perh. not in Cic.; v. the doubtful passage Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 2, and Orell. ad loc.).
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    With personal objects:

    si cui fautores delegatos viderint, etc.,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 67 and 83:

    aliquem in Tullianum,

    Liv. 29, 22 fin.:

    infantem ancillis ac nutricibus,

    Tac. G. 20; cf. id. Or. 29:

    Cassium Longinum occidendum delegaverat,

    Suet. Calig. 57:

    studiosos Catonis ad illud volumen delegamus,

    refer to, Nep. Cato 3 fin.:

    ad senatum,

    Liv. 5, 20 fin. —
    B.
    With a thing as object: hunc laborem alteri delegavi, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1; so,

    curam nepotum alicui,

    Quint. 4 prooem. §

    2: officium alicui,

    id. 6 prooem. §

    1: ministerium triumviris,

    Tac. Agr. 2; cf.:

    jurisdictionem magistratibus,

    Suet. Claud. 23:

    ordinandas bibliothecas alicui,

    id. Caes. 56; cf. id. Gramm. 21:

    obsidione delegata in curam collegae,

    Liv. 9, 13:

    delegato sibi officio functi sunt,

    Lact. 1, 4, 6. —
    II.
    In partic., t. t. in the lang. of business, to assign, transfer, make over, either one who is to pay a debt or the debt itself: delegare est vice sua alium reum dare creditori, vel cui jusserit, Dig. 46, 2, 11:

    debitorem,

    ib. 12:

    debitores nobis deos,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 11; cf.:

    delegabo te ad Epicurum, ab illo fiet numeratio,

    id. Ep. 18, 14:

    nomen paterni debitoris,

    Dig. 37, 6, 1.— Absol.:

    Quinto delegabo, si quid aeri meo alieno superabit,

    Cic. Att. 13, 46, 3:

    Balbi regia condicio est delegandi,

    id. ib. 12, 12:

    terram,

    to assign, Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 18.—
    B.
    Trop., to attribute, impute, ascribe to:

    si hoc crimen optimis nominibus delegare possumus,

    Cic. Font. 4, 8; so,

    causam peccati mortuis,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 22, 2:

    scelera ipsa aliis,

    Tac. A. 13, 43:

    omne rei bene aut secus gestae in Etruria decus dedecusque ad Volumnium,

    Liv. 10, 19; cf.:

    servati consulis decus ad servum,

    id. 21, 46 fin.

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  • 103 dignus

    dignus, a, um, adj. [i. e. DIC-nus; root in Sanscr. daç-as, fame; Gr. dokeô, doxa; Lat.: decet, decus], worthy, deserving (in a good or ill sense), of things, suitable, fitting, becoming, proper (very freq. in all periods and kinds of writing).—Constr., in the most finished models of composition, with the abl. pretii, a relative sentence, or absol.; in the Aug. poets also freq. with the inf.; otherwise with ut, the gen., or the acc. of a neutr. pron. or adj.
    (α).
    With abl. (so most freq.):

    dignus domino servus,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 227; cf.:

    vir patre, avo, majoribus suis dignissimus,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 25; id. Fam. 2, 18 fin.;

    juvenes patre digni,

    Hor. A. P. 24 et saep.:

    dignus es verberibus multis,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 71:

    amici novi digni amicitiā,

    Cic. Lael. 19:

    summa laude digni,

    id. Rep. 3, 4; 3, 17 et saep.:

    omnibus probris, quae improbis viris Digna sunt, dignior nullus est homo,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 9:

    assentatio, quae non modo amico, sed ne libero quidem digna est,

    Cic. Lael. 24, 89; Quint. 11, 1, 40:

    dignius odio scelus,

    id. 7, 2, 36:

    o fons, dulci digne mero,

    Hor. C. 3, 13, 2:

    munera digna venustissima Venere,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 4; for which; diem dignum Veneri (abl. v. Venus), id. ib. 1, 2, 45:

    ut te dignam mala malam aetatem exigas,

    id. Aul. 1, 1, 4; cf. id. Trin. 1, 2, 122; id. Rud. 3, 2, 26 et saep.:

    dicendum dignum aliquid horum auribus,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 13:

    aliquid memoria dignum consequi,

    id. ib. 1, 8; * Caes. B. G. 7, 25, 1; Phaedr. 4, 21, 3 al.:

    si quid antea admisissem piaculo dignum,

    Liv. 40, 13 et saep.:

    tribuere id cuique, quod sit quoque dignum,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 11:

    neque enim decorum est neque dis dignum,

    id. Div. 1, 52:

    quicquid dignum sapiente bonoque,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 5 et saep.:

    dicere Cinnā digna,

    Verg. E. 9, 36.—Esp. freq. with supine in u:

    digna memoratu produntur,

    Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 97:

    nihil dignum dictu,

    Liv. 4, 30, 4; 9, 43, 6; 25, 1, 5; Suet. Aug. 43; Val. Max. 1, 5, 9; Sen. Ep. 94, 56; Tac. Agr. 1.—
    (β).
    With rel. clause (freq., though not in the Aug. poets):

    non videre dignus, qui liber sies,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 17; cf. id. Rud. 2, 6, 38; id. Mil. 4, 2, 52:

    qui modeste paret, videtur, qui aliquando imperet, dignus esse,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 2:

    homines dignos, quibuscum disseratur putant,

    id. Ac. 2, 6, 18; Quint. 10, 1, 131 et saep.—So with rel. adv.:

    sive adeo digna res est ubi tu nervos intendas tuos,

    if the thing is really worth your bending your energies to it, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 20; cf.

    also: dignos esse, qui armis cepissent, eorum urbem agrumque Bolanum esse, i. e. ut eorum urbs esset,

    Liv. 4, 49, 11 Weissenb. (Madv. dignum, cf. d infra).—
    (γ).
    Absol. (that of which some one or something is worthy, to be supplied from the context): Mi. Quem ament igitur? Sy. Alium quemlibet;

    Nam nostrorum nemo dignus est (sc. amari),

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 39; cf. id. Curc. 4, 2, 28:

    ut ne nimis cito diligere incipiant neve non dignos, etc.,

    Cic. Lael. 21, 78 sq.:

    illud exemplum ab dignis et idoneis ad indignos et non idoneos transfertur,

    Sall. C. 51, 27 Kritz.:

    dignis ait esse paratus,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 22:

    omnes, ait, malle laudatos a se, dignos indignosque, quam, etc.,

    Liv. 24, 16 et saep.:

    quem dices digniorem esse hominem hodie Athenis alterum?

    Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 24; cf. Suet. Aug. 54:

    dignus patronus,

    Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1, 2: dignior heres, Hor. C. 2, 14, 25:

    digna causa,

    Liv. 21, 6:

    dignum operae pretium,

    Quint. 12, 6, 7:

    dignas grates persolvere,

    Verg. A. 1, 600; 2, 537:

    digna gloria ruris,

    id. G. 1, 168 et saep.:

    ad tuam formam illa digna est,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 21; so, quod supplicium dignum libidini ejus invenias? (where the dat. depends on the verb), Cic. Verr. 2, 26, 16, § 40:

    id, cum ipse per se dignus putaretur, impetravit,

    id. Arch. 4, 6.—So as subst.: "nulla contumelia est, quam facit dignus;" primum quid est dignus? nam etiam malo multi digni, sicut ipse (Antonius), Cic. Phil. 3, 9, 22; so, dignum est, it is fit, proper, becoming, = aequum est, decet, convenit, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 129; id. Merc. 1, 2, 22; Ter. Ph. 2, 3, 55; 129; Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 14; Liv. 1, 14; Sen. de Ira, 1, 12; Verg. G. 3, 391 al.—So comp., Liv. 8, 26, 6; Cic. Clu. 53, 146.— Sup., Cic. Rosc. Am. 3, 8.—
    (δ).
    With inf. (freq. in the Aug. poets;

    not in Cic.): concedere,

    Cat. 68, 131:

    unā perire,

    Ov. M. 1, 241:

    credere,

    id. ib. 3, 311:

    fuisse conjux,

    id. ib. 14, 833:

    decurrere spatium vitae,

    id. Tr. 3, 4, 34:

    ponere annos,

    id. ib. 4, 8, 14 al.; and more freq. in the pass.:

    cantari dignus,

    Verg. E. 5, 54:

    amari,

    id. ib. 89:

    rapi,

    Ov. M. 7, 697:

    describi,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 3:

    notari,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 24:

    legi,

    id. ib. 1, 10, 72: Quint. 10, 1, 96 et saep.:

    auctoribus hoc dedi, quibus dignius credi est,

    Liv. 8, 26 fin.; cf.:

    uterque optimus erat, dignusque alter elegi, alter eligere,

    Plin. Pan. 7, 4.—
    (ε).
    With ut:

    non sum dignus prae te, ut figam palum in parietem,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 4; Liv. 24, 16: eras dignus ut haberes integram manum; Quint. 8, 5, 12; 12, 11, 24.—
    (ζ).
    With gen. (acc. to the Gr. axios tinos—so freq. in Inscr. v. Wordsworth, Fragm. p. 494):

    dignus salutis,

    Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 29; cogitatio dignissima tuae virtutis, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15 A.:

    quidquid putabit dignum esse memoriae,

    Phaedr. 4, 20, 3:

    probae,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 57.—
    (η).
    With acc. of a neutr. pron. or adj.:

    non me censes scire quid dignus siem?

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 16; Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 34:

    si exoptem, quantum dignus, tantum dent (di tibi), etc.,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 26.—
    (θ).
    With ad (very rare):

    ad tuam formam illa una digna est,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 21:

    amicus, dignus huic ad imitandum,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30.—
    (ι).
    With pro:

    si digna poena pro factis eorum reperitur,

    Sall. C. 51, 8; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 13, 42; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 24.— Adv.: dignē, worthily, fitly, becomingly:

    quam digne ornata incedit, haud meretricie!

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 58; id. Cas. 4, 1, 14; Cic. de Sen. 1, 2; Cassius in Cic. Fam. 12, 13; Vell. 2, 67; Suet. Aug. 66; Hor. C. 1, 6, 14; id. Ep. 2, 1, 164 al.— Comp., Hor. S. 2, 7, 47.— Sup. seems not to occur.

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  • 104 excello

    ex-cello, cellŭi, celsum, 3 (also acc. to the 2d conj., praes. indic. excellet, Aem. Mac. ap. Diom. p. 371 P., and subj. excelleat, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 838 and 896 P.), v. a. and n. [cello].
    I.
    Act., to raise up, elevate; only:

    recellere reclinare, et excellere in altum extollere,

    Fest. p. 274, 31; and Paul. ib. 275, 11 Müll.; cf. the P. a. excelsus, below.—
    II.
    Neut., to rise, elevate itself (cf.: antecello, praesto, antecedo, emineo, floreo, vigeo).
    A.
    Lit., only in the P. a. excellens, q. v. A.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., to exult, be elated: animus excellit rebus secundis, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14; 13, 24, 14.—Far more freq. (but not in Plaut. and Ter.; and in the verb. finit. not in Aug. poets),
    2.
    In partic., to be eminent, to distinguish one's self for any quality above others; to surpass, excel, in a good or (less freq.) in a bad sense:

    ut is, qui dignitate principibus excellit facilitate infimis par esse videatur,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    ut inter quos posset excellere, cum iis, etc.,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2 fin.:

    inter omnes,

    id. Or. 2, 6:

    super ceteros,

    Liv. 28, 43:

    ante ceteros,

    App. Flor. 16.—With dat.:

    qui longe ceteris excellere pictoribus existimabatur,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

    quae una ceteris excellebat,

    id. Tusc. 2, 18, 43; id. Fin. 3, 2, 8; id. de Or. 2, 54, 216; id. de Imp. Pomp. 13, 39 al.:

    ceteris,

    Quint. 2, 20, 9.—With abl.:

    bonā famā,

    Lucr. 6, 13:

    ingenio scientiāque,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4:

    animi magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 18 fin.:

    actione,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    hoc genere virtutis,

    id. Fam. 11, 21, 4:

    dignitate,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 9:

    altitudine,

    Plin. 16, 6, 18, § 24:

    candore,

    id. 37, 6, 23, § 88 et saep.—With in and abl.:

    in arte,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

    in aliqua arte et facultate,

    id. de Or. 1, 50, 217:

    in alia parte orationis,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    maxime in amicitiis expetendis colendisque,

    id. Lael. 9, 30; id. de Or. 2, 54, 217 et saep.— Absol.:

    excellit atque eminet vis, potestas nomenque regium,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 28; 2, 23; 1, 22; id. Div. 1, 19, 38; 1, 41, 91; id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.; Tac. Or. 32 (with eminere) et saep. —In a bad sense:

    vitiis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 51:

    cum haec (flagitia), quae excellunt, me nosse videas,

    id. Pis. 38 fin. —Hence,
    1.
    excellens, entis, P. a., rising, overtopping.
    A.
    Lit., high, lofty (very rare;

    not in Cic.): oppida excellentibus locis constituta, Auct. B. Hisp. 8, 4: corpore excellens,

    Vell. 2, 107.—Far more freq. and class.,
    B.
    Trop., distinguishing himself, distinguished, superior, surpassing, excellent:

    deos rerum omnium praestantia excellentes,

    Cic. Div. 2, 63:

    Brutus noster excellens omni genere laudis,

    id. Ac. 1, 3 fin.;

    for which also: in omni genere,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 54, 220:

    cujus excellens in re militari gloria,

    id. Rep. 2, 17:

    Galba fuit inter tot aequales unus excellens,

    id. Brut. 97, 333:

    natura excellens atque praestans,

    id. N. D. 1, 20 fin.:

    scientia excellens atque singularis,

    id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.:

    vir excellenti providentia,

    id. Rep. 2, 3;

    for which: excellente ingenii magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 33 (al. excellenti and excellentis, v. Orell. ad h. l.):

    studium,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 34 fin.:

    pulchritudo muliebris formae,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1: cygnus, * Verg. A. 12, 250 et saep.— Subst.: excellentia, ōrum, n., exceptional instances: nec excellentia, sed quotidiana tractabo, Aus. Grat. Act. § 62.— Comp.:

    ova excellentiora,

    Plin. 29, 3, 11, § 50:

    nihil illo (sc. Alcibiade) fuisse excellentius, vel in vitiis, vel in virtutibus,

    Nep. Alcib. 1.— Sup.:

    excellentissima virtus,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 99, 2; Sen. Vit. Beat. 14:

    cultus,

    Suet. Ner. 20:

    triumphus,

    id. Caes. 37:

    aurum,

    Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 56 et saep.— Adv.: excellon-ter, excellently, Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Nep. Att. 1, 3.— Comp., Cic. Sest. 45.— Sup.:

    excellentissime,

    Aug. Civ. D. 17, 8.—
    2.
    ex-celsus, a, um, P. a., elevated, lofty, high (freq. and class.; cf.: celsus, editus, altus, sublimis, procerus, arduus).
    A.
    Lit.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 80, 2; cf.: vertex montis, * Verg. A. 5, 35:

    locus,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 11:

    porticus,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 14:

    basis (statuae),

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 34; cf.

    signum,

    id. ib.:

    statura,

    Suet. Caes. 45:

    aves (Ibes),

    Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101:

    altitudo vineae,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184 et saep.— Comp.:

    in excelsiore loco,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

    cornu (bovis),

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26, 1; cf.:

    crura chamaeleonis,

    Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 120.— Sup.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 70, 4; cf.

    locus,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 33 fin.:

    rupes,

    Plin. 10, 6, 7, § 19:

    aegilops,

    id. 16, 6, 8, § 22; 11, 37, 49, § 135.—
    b.
    Subst.
    1.
    excelsum, i, n., a height:

    simulacrum Jovis in excelso collocare,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Att. 6, 1, 17:

    Phoebus ab excelso, quantum patet, aspicit aequor,

    Ov. H. 15, 165; so,

    ab excelso,

    id. F. 2, 369:

    prohibebit in excelsum emicare (vitem),

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184.—
    2.
    Ex-celsus, i, m., the Highest, the Most High, i. e. God (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 72, 11 al.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., high, lofty, distinguished, excellent, noble:

    te natura excelsum quendam videlicet et altum et humana despicientem genuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    magnus homo et excelsus,

    id. Mur. 29:

    animus excelsus magnificusque,

    id. Off. 1, 23; cf. id. Opt. Gen. 4, 12:

    excelso et illustri loco sita est laus tua,

    id. Fam. 2, 5; cf.:

    te in excelsissimo humani generis fastigio positum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 11: species magnae excelsaeque gloriac,

    Tac. Agr. 4 fin. et saep.— Comp.:

    (orator) grandior et quodammodo excelsior,

    Cic. Or. 34; cf. Quint. 12, 10, 23; Plin. Pan. 94, 3:

    quo tua in me humanitas fuerit excelsior quam in te mea,

    Cic. Att. 3, 20 fin.—Sup.:

    excelsissimae victoriae,

    Vell. 2, 96 fin.:

    duces,

    id. 2, 114 fin.—Subst.
    (α).
    , m. plur.: excelsi, ōrum, the lofty; prov.:

    excelsis multo facilius casus nocet,

    Pub. Syr. 162 (Rib.).—
    (β).
    Neut.: excelsum, i, an elevated station or position:

    in excelso aetatem agere,

    i. e. in a high station, Sall. C. 51, 12.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.): in excelsis, in the highest, in ascriptions of praise, Vulg. Psa. 148, 1 al.—
    2.
    Esp., in the later period of the empire, a title of high official dignitaries, e. g. of the praefectus praetorio, etc.— Adv.: excelsē, highly, on high, loftily.
    1.
    Lit.:

    si vitis scandit excelsius,

    Col. 4, 1, 5.—
    2.
    Trop., in an elevated manner, highly:

    ornat excelse,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 3:

    excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet,

    Cic. Or. 34, 119:

    excelsissime floruit (Sparta),

    exceedingly, Vell. 1, 6, 3.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > excello

  • 105 excellonter

    ex-cello, cellŭi, celsum, 3 (also acc. to the 2d conj., praes. indic. excellet, Aem. Mac. ap. Diom. p. 371 P., and subj. excelleat, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 838 and 896 P.), v. a. and n. [cello].
    I.
    Act., to raise up, elevate; only:

    recellere reclinare, et excellere in altum extollere,

    Fest. p. 274, 31; and Paul. ib. 275, 11 Müll.; cf. the P. a. excelsus, below.—
    II.
    Neut., to rise, elevate itself (cf.: antecello, praesto, antecedo, emineo, floreo, vigeo).
    A.
    Lit., only in the P. a. excellens, q. v. A.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., to exult, be elated: animus excellit rebus secundis, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14; 13, 24, 14.—Far more freq. (but not in Plaut. and Ter.; and in the verb. finit. not in Aug. poets),
    2.
    In partic., to be eminent, to distinguish one's self for any quality above others; to surpass, excel, in a good or (less freq.) in a bad sense:

    ut is, qui dignitate principibus excellit facilitate infimis par esse videatur,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    ut inter quos posset excellere, cum iis, etc.,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2 fin.:

    inter omnes,

    id. Or. 2, 6:

    super ceteros,

    Liv. 28, 43:

    ante ceteros,

    App. Flor. 16.—With dat.:

    qui longe ceteris excellere pictoribus existimabatur,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

    quae una ceteris excellebat,

    id. Tusc. 2, 18, 43; id. Fin. 3, 2, 8; id. de Or. 2, 54, 216; id. de Imp. Pomp. 13, 39 al.:

    ceteris,

    Quint. 2, 20, 9.—With abl.:

    bonā famā,

    Lucr. 6, 13:

    ingenio scientiāque,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4:

    animi magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 18 fin.:

    actione,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    hoc genere virtutis,

    id. Fam. 11, 21, 4:

    dignitate,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 9:

    altitudine,

    Plin. 16, 6, 18, § 24:

    candore,

    id. 37, 6, 23, § 88 et saep.—With in and abl.:

    in arte,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

    in aliqua arte et facultate,

    id. de Or. 1, 50, 217:

    in alia parte orationis,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    maxime in amicitiis expetendis colendisque,

    id. Lael. 9, 30; id. de Or. 2, 54, 217 et saep.— Absol.:

    excellit atque eminet vis, potestas nomenque regium,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 28; 2, 23; 1, 22; id. Div. 1, 19, 38; 1, 41, 91; id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.; Tac. Or. 32 (with eminere) et saep. —In a bad sense:

    vitiis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 51:

    cum haec (flagitia), quae excellunt, me nosse videas,

    id. Pis. 38 fin. —Hence,
    1.
    excellens, entis, P. a., rising, overtopping.
    A.
    Lit., high, lofty (very rare;

    not in Cic.): oppida excellentibus locis constituta, Auct. B. Hisp. 8, 4: corpore excellens,

    Vell. 2, 107.—Far more freq. and class.,
    B.
    Trop., distinguishing himself, distinguished, superior, surpassing, excellent:

    deos rerum omnium praestantia excellentes,

    Cic. Div. 2, 63:

    Brutus noster excellens omni genere laudis,

    id. Ac. 1, 3 fin.;

    for which also: in omni genere,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 54, 220:

    cujus excellens in re militari gloria,

    id. Rep. 2, 17:

    Galba fuit inter tot aequales unus excellens,

    id. Brut. 97, 333:

    natura excellens atque praestans,

    id. N. D. 1, 20 fin.:

    scientia excellens atque singularis,

    id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.:

    vir excellenti providentia,

    id. Rep. 2, 3;

    for which: excellente ingenii magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 33 (al. excellenti and excellentis, v. Orell. ad h. l.):

    studium,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 34 fin.:

    pulchritudo muliebris formae,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1: cygnus, * Verg. A. 12, 250 et saep.— Subst.: excellentia, ōrum, n., exceptional instances: nec excellentia, sed quotidiana tractabo, Aus. Grat. Act. § 62.— Comp.:

    ova excellentiora,

    Plin. 29, 3, 11, § 50:

    nihil illo (sc. Alcibiade) fuisse excellentius, vel in vitiis, vel in virtutibus,

    Nep. Alcib. 1.— Sup.:

    excellentissima virtus,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 99, 2; Sen. Vit. Beat. 14:

    cultus,

    Suet. Ner. 20:

    triumphus,

    id. Caes. 37:

    aurum,

    Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 56 et saep.— Adv.: excellon-ter, excellently, Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Nep. Att. 1, 3.— Comp., Cic. Sest. 45.— Sup.:

    excellentissime,

    Aug. Civ. D. 17, 8.—
    2.
    ex-celsus, a, um, P. a., elevated, lofty, high (freq. and class.; cf.: celsus, editus, altus, sublimis, procerus, arduus).
    A.
    Lit.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 80, 2; cf.: vertex montis, * Verg. A. 5, 35:

    locus,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 11:

    porticus,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 14:

    basis (statuae),

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 34; cf.

    signum,

    id. ib.:

    statura,

    Suet. Caes. 45:

    aves (Ibes),

    Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101:

    altitudo vineae,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184 et saep.— Comp.:

    in excelsiore loco,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

    cornu (bovis),

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26, 1; cf.:

    crura chamaeleonis,

    Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 120.— Sup.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 70, 4; cf.

    locus,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 33 fin.:

    rupes,

    Plin. 10, 6, 7, § 19:

    aegilops,

    id. 16, 6, 8, § 22; 11, 37, 49, § 135.—
    b.
    Subst.
    1.
    excelsum, i, n., a height:

    simulacrum Jovis in excelso collocare,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Att. 6, 1, 17:

    Phoebus ab excelso, quantum patet, aspicit aequor,

    Ov. H. 15, 165; so,

    ab excelso,

    id. F. 2, 369:

    prohibebit in excelsum emicare (vitem),

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184.—
    2.
    Ex-celsus, i, m., the Highest, the Most High, i. e. God (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 72, 11 al.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., high, lofty, distinguished, excellent, noble:

    te natura excelsum quendam videlicet et altum et humana despicientem genuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    magnus homo et excelsus,

    id. Mur. 29:

    animus excelsus magnificusque,

    id. Off. 1, 23; cf. id. Opt. Gen. 4, 12:

    excelso et illustri loco sita est laus tua,

    id. Fam. 2, 5; cf.:

    te in excelsissimo humani generis fastigio positum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 11: species magnae excelsaeque gloriac,

    Tac. Agr. 4 fin. et saep.— Comp.:

    (orator) grandior et quodammodo excelsior,

    Cic. Or. 34; cf. Quint. 12, 10, 23; Plin. Pan. 94, 3:

    quo tua in me humanitas fuerit excelsior quam in te mea,

    Cic. Att. 3, 20 fin.—Sup.:

    excelsissimae victoriae,

    Vell. 2, 96 fin.:

    duces,

    id. 2, 114 fin.—Subst.
    (α).
    , m. plur.: excelsi, ōrum, the lofty; prov.:

    excelsis multo facilius casus nocet,

    Pub. Syr. 162 (Rib.).—
    (β).
    Neut.: excelsum, i, an elevated station or position:

    in excelso aetatem agere,

    i. e. in a high station, Sall. C. 51, 12.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.): in excelsis, in the highest, in ascriptions of praise, Vulg. Psa. 148, 1 al.—
    2.
    Esp., in the later period of the empire, a title of high official dignitaries, e. g. of the praefectus praetorio, etc.— Adv.: excelsē, highly, on high, loftily.
    1.
    Lit.:

    si vitis scandit excelsius,

    Col. 4, 1, 5.—
    2.
    Trop., in an elevated manner, highly:

    ornat excelse,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 3:

    excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet,

    Cic. Or. 34, 119:

    excelsissime floruit (Sparta),

    exceedingly, Vell. 1, 6, 3.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > excellonter

  • 106 excelsi

    ex-cello, cellŭi, celsum, 3 (also acc. to the 2d conj., praes. indic. excellet, Aem. Mac. ap. Diom. p. 371 P., and subj. excelleat, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 838 and 896 P.), v. a. and n. [cello].
    I.
    Act., to raise up, elevate; only:

    recellere reclinare, et excellere in altum extollere,

    Fest. p. 274, 31; and Paul. ib. 275, 11 Müll.; cf. the P. a. excelsus, below.—
    II.
    Neut., to rise, elevate itself (cf.: antecello, praesto, antecedo, emineo, floreo, vigeo).
    A.
    Lit., only in the P. a. excellens, q. v. A.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., to exult, be elated: animus excellit rebus secundis, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14; 13, 24, 14.—Far more freq. (but not in Plaut. and Ter.; and in the verb. finit. not in Aug. poets),
    2.
    In partic., to be eminent, to distinguish one's self for any quality above others; to surpass, excel, in a good or (less freq.) in a bad sense:

    ut is, qui dignitate principibus excellit facilitate infimis par esse videatur,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    ut inter quos posset excellere, cum iis, etc.,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2 fin.:

    inter omnes,

    id. Or. 2, 6:

    super ceteros,

    Liv. 28, 43:

    ante ceteros,

    App. Flor. 16.—With dat.:

    qui longe ceteris excellere pictoribus existimabatur,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

    quae una ceteris excellebat,

    id. Tusc. 2, 18, 43; id. Fin. 3, 2, 8; id. de Or. 2, 54, 216; id. de Imp. Pomp. 13, 39 al.:

    ceteris,

    Quint. 2, 20, 9.—With abl.:

    bonā famā,

    Lucr. 6, 13:

    ingenio scientiāque,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4:

    animi magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 18 fin.:

    actione,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    hoc genere virtutis,

    id. Fam. 11, 21, 4:

    dignitate,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 9:

    altitudine,

    Plin. 16, 6, 18, § 24:

    candore,

    id. 37, 6, 23, § 88 et saep.—With in and abl.:

    in arte,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

    in aliqua arte et facultate,

    id. de Or. 1, 50, 217:

    in alia parte orationis,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    maxime in amicitiis expetendis colendisque,

    id. Lael. 9, 30; id. de Or. 2, 54, 217 et saep.— Absol.:

    excellit atque eminet vis, potestas nomenque regium,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 28; 2, 23; 1, 22; id. Div. 1, 19, 38; 1, 41, 91; id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.; Tac. Or. 32 (with eminere) et saep. —In a bad sense:

    vitiis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 51:

    cum haec (flagitia), quae excellunt, me nosse videas,

    id. Pis. 38 fin. —Hence,
    1.
    excellens, entis, P. a., rising, overtopping.
    A.
    Lit., high, lofty (very rare;

    not in Cic.): oppida excellentibus locis constituta, Auct. B. Hisp. 8, 4: corpore excellens,

    Vell. 2, 107.—Far more freq. and class.,
    B.
    Trop., distinguishing himself, distinguished, superior, surpassing, excellent:

    deos rerum omnium praestantia excellentes,

    Cic. Div. 2, 63:

    Brutus noster excellens omni genere laudis,

    id. Ac. 1, 3 fin.;

    for which also: in omni genere,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 54, 220:

    cujus excellens in re militari gloria,

    id. Rep. 2, 17:

    Galba fuit inter tot aequales unus excellens,

    id. Brut. 97, 333:

    natura excellens atque praestans,

    id. N. D. 1, 20 fin.:

    scientia excellens atque singularis,

    id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.:

    vir excellenti providentia,

    id. Rep. 2, 3;

    for which: excellente ingenii magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 33 (al. excellenti and excellentis, v. Orell. ad h. l.):

    studium,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 34 fin.:

    pulchritudo muliebris formae,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1: cygnus, * Verg. A. 12, 250 et saep.— Subst.: excellentia, ōrum, n., exceptional instances: nec excellentia, sed quotidiana tractabo, Aus. Grat. Act. § 62.— Comp.:

    ova excellentiora,

    Plin. 29, 3, 11, § 50:

    nihil illo (sc. Alcibiade) fuisse excellentius, vel in vitiis, vel in virtutibus,

    Nep. Alcib. 1.— Sup.:

    excellentissima virtus,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 99, 2; Sen. Vit. Beat. 14:

    cultus,

    Suet. Ner. 20:

    triumphus,

    id. Caes. 37:

    aurum,

    Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 56 et saep.— Adv.: excellon-ter, excellently, Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Nep. Att. 1, 3.— Comp., Cic. Sest. 45.— Sup.:

    excellentissime,

    Aug. Civ. D. 17, 8.—
    2.
    ex-celsus, a, um, P. a., elevated, lofty, high (freq. and class.; cf.: celsus, editus, altus, sublimis, procerus, arduus).
    A.
    Lit.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 80, 2; cf.: vertex montis, * Verg. A. 5, 35:

    locus,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 11:

    porticus,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 14:

    basis (statuae),

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 34; cf.

    signum,

    id. ib.:

    statura,

    Suet. Caes. 45:

    aves (Ibes),

    Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101:

    altitudo vineae,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184 et saep.— Comp.:

    in excelsiore loco,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

    cornu (bovis),

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26, 1; cf.:

    crura chamaeleonis,

    Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 120.— Sup.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 70, 4; cf.

    locus,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 33 fin.:

    rupes,

    Plin. 10, 6, 7, § 19:

    aegilops,

    id. 16, 6, 8, § 22; 11, 37, 49, § 135.—
    b.
    Subst.
    1.
    excelsum, i, n., a height:

    simulacrum Jovis in excelso collocare,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Att. 6, 1, 17:

    Phoebus ab excelso, quantum patet, aspicit aequor,

    Ov. H. 15, 165; so,

    ab excelso,

    id. F. 2, 369:

    prohibebit in excelsum emicare (vitem),

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184.—
    2.
    Ex-celsus, i, m., the Highest, the Most High, i. e. God (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 72, 11 al.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., high, lofty, distinguished, excellent, noble:

    te natura excelsum quendam videlicet et altum et humana despicientem genuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    magnus homo et excelsus,

    id. Mur. 29:

    animus excelsus magnificusque,

    id. Off. 1, 23; cf. id. Opt. Gen. 4, 12:

    excelso et illustri loco sita est laus tua,

    id. Fam. 2, 5; cf.:

    te in excelsissimo humani generis fastigio positum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 11: species magnae excelsaeque gloriac,

    Tac. Agr. 4 fin. et saep.— Comp.:

    (orator) grandior et quodammodo excelsior,

    Cic. Or. 34; cf. Quint. 12, 10, 23; Plin. Pan. 94, 3:

    quo tua in me humanitas fuerit excelsior quam in te mea,

    Cic. Att. 3, 20 fin.—Sup.:

    excelsissimae victoriae,

    Vell. 2, 96 fin.:

    duces,

    id. 2, 114 fin.—Subst.
    (α).
    , m. plur.: excelsi, ōrum, the lofty; prov.:

    excelsis multo facilius casus nocet,

    Pub. Syr. 162 (Rib.).—
    (β).
    Neut.: excelsum, i, an elevated station or position:

    in excelso aetatem agere,

    i. e. in a high station, Sall. C. 51, 12.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.): in excelsis, in the highest, in ascriptions of praise, Vulg. Psa. 148, 1 al.—
    2.
    Esp., in the later period of the empire, a title of high official dignitaries, e. g. of the praefectus praetorio, etc.— Adv.: excelsē, highly, on high, loftily.
    1.
    Lit.:

    si vitis scandit excelsius,

    Col. 4, 1, 5.—
    2.
    Trop., in an elevated manner, highly:

    ornat excelse,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 3:

    excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet,

    Cic. Or. 34, 119:

    excelsissime floruit (Sparta),

    exceedingly, Vell. 1, 6, 3.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > excelsi

  • 107 excelsum

    ex-cello, cellŭi, celsum, 3 (also acc. to the 2d conj., praes. indic. excellet, Aem. Mac. ap. Diom. p. 371 P., and subj. excelleat, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 838 and 896 P.), v. a. and n. [cello].
    I.
    Act., to raise up, elevate; only:

    recellere reclinare, et excellere in altum extollere,

    Fest. p. 274, 31; and Paul. ib. 275, 11 Müll.; cf. the P. a. excelsus, below.—
    II.
    Neut., to rise, elevate itself (cf.: antecello, praesto, antecedo, emineo, floreo, vigeo).
    A.
    Lit., only in the P. a. excellens, q. v. A.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., to exult, be elated: animus excellit rebus secundis, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14; 13, 24, 14.—Far more freq. (but not in Plaut. and Ter.; and in the verb. finit. not in Aug. poets),
    2.
    In partic., to be eminent, to distinguish one's self for any quality above others; to surpass, excel, in a good or (less freq.) in a bad sense:

    ut is, qui dignitate principibus excellit facilitate infimis par esse videatur,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    ut inter quos posset excellere, cum iis, etc.,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2 fin.:

    inter omnes,

    id. Or. 2, 6:

    super ceteros,

    Liv. 28, 43:

    ante ceteros,

    App. Flor. 16.—With dat.:

    qui longe ceteris excellere pictoribus existimabatur,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

    quae una ceteris excellebat,

    id. Tusc. 2, 18, 43; id. Fin. 3, 2, 8; id. de Or. 2, 54, 216; id. de Imp. Pomp. 13, 39 al.:

    ceteris,

    Quint. 2, 20, 9.—With abl.:

    bonā famā,

    Lucr. 6, 13:

    ingenio scientiāque,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4:

    animi magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 18 fin.:

    actione,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    hoc genere virtutis,

    id. Fam. 11, 21, 4:

    dignitate,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 9:

    altitudine,

    Plin. 16, 6, 18, § 24:

    candore,

    id. 37, 6, 23, § 88 et saep.—With in and abl.:

    in arte,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

    in aliqua arte et facultate,

    id. de Or. 1, 50, 217:

    in alia parte orationis,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    maxime in amicitiis expetendis colendisque,

    id. Lael. 9, 30; id. de Or. 2, 54, 217 et saep.— Absol.:

    excellit atque eminet vis, potestas nomenque regium,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 28; 2, 23; 1, 22; id. Div. 1, 19, 38; 1, 41, 91; id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.; Tac. Or. 32 (with eminere) et saep. —In a bad sense:

    vitiis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 51:

    cum haec (flagitia), quae excellunt, me nosse videas,

    id. Pis. 38 fin. —Hence,
    1.
    excellens, entis, P. a., rising, overtopping.
    A.
    Lit., high, lofty (very rare;

    not in Cic.): oppida excellentibus locis constituta, Auct. B. Hisp. 8, 4: corpore excellens,

    Vell. 2, 107.—Far more freq. and class.,
    B.
    Trop., distinguishing himself, distinguished, superior, surpassing, excellent:

    deos rerum omnium praestantia excellentes,

    Cic. Div. 2, 63:

    Brutus noster excellens omni genere laudis,

    id. Ac. 1, 3 fin.;

    for which also: in omni genere,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 54, 220:

    cujus excellens in re militari gloria,

    id. Rep. 2, 17:

    Galba fuit inter tot aequales unus excellens,

    id. Brut. 97, 333:

    natura excellens atque praestans,

    id. N. D. 1, 20 fin.:

    scientia excellens atque singularis,

    id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.:

    vir excellenti providentia,

    id. Rep. 2, 3;

    for which: excellente ingenii magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 33 (al. excellenti and excellentis, v. Orell. ad h. l.):

    studium,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 34 fin.:

    pulchritudo muliebris formae,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1: cygnus, * Verg. A. 12, 250 et saep.— Subst.: excellentia, ōrum, n., exceptional instances: nec excellentia, sed quotidiana tractabo, Aus. Grat. Act. § 62.— Comp.:

    ova excellentiora,

    Plin. 29, 3, 11, § 50:

    nihil illo (sc. Alcibiade) fuisse excellentius, vel in vitiis, vel in virtutibus,

    Nep. Alcib. 1.— Sup.:

    excellentissima virtus,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 99, 2; Sen. Vit. Beat. 14:

    cultus,

    Suet. Ner. 20:

    triumphus,

    id. Caes. 37:

    aurum,

    Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 56 et saep.— Adv.: excellon-ter, excellently, Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Nep. Att. 1, 3.— Comp., Cic. Sest. 45.— Sup.:

    excellentissime,

    Aug. Civ. D. 17, 8.—
    2.
    ex-celsus, a, um, P. a., elevated, lofty, high (freq. and class.; cf.: celsus, editus, altus, sublimis, procerus, arduus).
    A.
    Lit.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 80, 2; cf.: vertex montis, * Verg. A. 5, 35:

    locus,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 11:

    porticus,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 14:

    basis (statuae),

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 34; cf.

    signum,

    id. ib.:

    statura,

    Suet. Caes. 45:

    aves (Ibes),

    Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101:

    altitudo vineae,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184 et saep.— Comp.:

    in excelsiore loco,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

    cornu (bovis),

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26, 1; cf.:

    crura chamaeleonis,

    Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 120.— Sup.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 70, 4; cf.

    locus,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 33 fin.:

    rupes,

    Plin. 10, 6, 7, § 19:

    aegilops,

    id. 16, 6, 8, § 22; 11, 37, 49, § 135.—
    b.
    Subst.
    1.
    excelsum, i, n., a height:

    simulacrum Jovis in excelso collocare,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Att. 6, 1, 17:

    Phoebus ab excelso, quantum patet, aspicit aequor,

    Ov. H. 15, 165; so,

    ab excelso,

    id. F. 2, 369:

    prohibebit in excelsum emicare (vitem),

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184.—
    2.
    Ex-celsus, i, m., the Highest, the Most High, i. e. God (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 72, 11 al.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., high, lofty, distinguished, excellent, noble:

    te natura excelsum quendam videlicet et altum et humana despicientem genuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    magnus homo et excelsus,

    id. Mur. 29:

    animus excelsus magnificusque,

    id. Off. 1, 23; cf. id. Opt. Gen. 4, 12:

    excelso et illustri loco sita est laus tua,

    id. Fam. 2, 5; cf.:

    te in excelsissimo humani generis fastigio positum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 11: species magnae excelsaeque gloriac,

    Tac. Agr. 4 fin. et saep.— Comp.:

    (orator) grandior et quodammodo excelsior,

    Cic. Or. 34; cf. Quint. 12, 10, 23; Plin. Pan. 94, 3:

    quo tua in me humanitas fuerit excelsior quam in te mea,

    Cic. Att. 3, 20 fin.—Sup.:

    excelsissimae victoriae,

    Vell. 2, 96 fin.:

    duces,

    id. 2, 114 fin.—Subst.
    (α).
    , m. plur.: excelsi, ōrum, the lofty; prov.:

    excelsis multo facilius casus nocet,

    Pub. Syr. 162 (Rib.).—
    (β).
    Neut.: excelsum, i, an elevated station or position:

    in excelso aetatem agere,

    i. e. in a high station, Sall. C. 51, 12.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.): in excelsis, in the highest, in ascriptions of praise, Vulg. Psa. 148, 1 al.—
    2.
    Esp., in the later period of the empire, a title of high official dignitaries, e. g. of the praefectus praetorio, etc.— Adv.: excelsē, highly, on high, loftily.
    1.
    Lit.:

    si vitis scandit excelsius,

    Col. 4, 1, 5.—
    2.
    Trop., in an elevated manner, highly:

    ornat excelse,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 3:

    excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet,

    Cic. Or. 34, 119:

    excelsissime floruit (Sparta),

    exceedingly, Vell. 1, 6, 3.

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  • 108 Excelsus

    ex-cello, cellŭi, celsum, 3 (also acc. to the 2d conj., praes. indic. excellet, Aem. Mac. ap. Diom. p. 371 P., and subj. excelleat, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 838 and 896 P.), v. a. and n. [cello].
    I.
    Act., to raise up, elevate; only:

    recellere reclinare, et excellere in altum extollere,

    Fest. p. 274, 31; and Paul. ib. 275, 11 Müll.; cf. the P. a. excelsus, below.—
    II.
    Neut., to rise, elevate itself (cf.: antecello, praesto, antecedo, emineo, floreo, vigeo).
    A.
    Lit., only in the P. a. excellens, q. v. A.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., to exult, be elated: animus excellit rebus secundis, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14; 13, 24, 14.—Far more freq. (but not in Plaut. and Ter.; and in the verb. finit. not in Aug. poets),
    2.
    In partic., to be eminent, to distinguish one's self for any quality above others; to surpass, excel, in a good or (less freq.) in a bad sense:

    ut is, qui dignitate principibus excellit facilitate infimis par esse videatur,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    ut inter quos posset excellere, cum iis, etc.,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 2 fin.:

    inter omnes,

    id. Or. 2, 6:

    super ceteros,

    Liv. 28, 43:

    ante ceteros,

    App. Flor. 16.—With dat.:

    qui longe ceteris excellere pictoribus existimabatur,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

    quae una ceteris excellebat,

    id. Tusc. 2, 18, 43; id. Fin. 3, 2, 8; id. de Or. 2, 54, 216; id. de Imp. Pomp. 13, 39 al.:

    ceteris,

    Quint. 2, 20, 9.—With abl.:

    bonā famā,

    Lucr. 6, 13:

    ingenio scientiāque,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 4:

    animi magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 18 fin.:

    actione,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    hoc genere virtutis,

    id. Fam. 11, 21, 4:

    dignitate,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 9:

    altitudine,

    Plin. 16, 6, 18, § 24:

    candore,

    id. 37, 6, 23, § 88 et saep.—With in and abl.:

    in arte,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 13:

    in aliqua arte et facultate,

    id. de Or. 1, 50, 217:

    in alia parte orationis,

    id. Brut. 59, 215:

    maxime in amicitiis expetendis colendisque,

    id. Lael. 9, 30; id. de Or. 2, 54, 217 et saep.— Absol.:

    excellit atque eminet vis, potestas nomenque regium,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 28; 2, 23; 1, 22; id. Div. 1, 19, 38; 1, 41, 91; id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.; Tac. Or. 32 (with eminere) et saep. —In a bad sense:

    vitiis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 51:

    cum haec (flagitia), quae excellunt, me nosse videas,

    id. Pis. 38 fin. —Hence,
    1.
    excellens, entis, P. a., rising, overtopping.
    A.
    Lit., high, lofty (very rare;

    not in Cic.): oppida excellentibus locis constituta, Auct. B. Hisp. 8, 4: corpore excellens,

    Vell. 2, 107.—Far more freq. and class.,
    B.
    Trop., distinguishing himself, distinguished, superior, surpassing, excellent:

    deos rerum omnium praestantia excellentes,

    Cic. Div. 2, 63:

    Brutus noster excellens omni genere laudis,

    id. Ac. 1, 3 fin.;

    for which also: in omni genere,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; id. de Or. 2, 54, 220:

    cujus excellens in re militari gloria,

    id. Rep. 2, 17:

    Galba fuit inter tot aequales unus excellens,

    id. Brut. 97, 333:

    natura excellens atque praestans,

    id. N. D. 1, 20 fin.:

    scientia excellens atque singularis,

    id. Fam. 4, 3 fin.:

    vir excellenti providentia,

    id. Rep. 2, 3;

    for which: excellente ingenii magnitudine,

    id. Off. 1, 33 (al. excellenti and excellentis, v. Orell. ad h. l.):

    studium,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 34 fin.:

    pulchritudo muliebris formae,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1: cygnus, * Verg. A. 12, 250 et saep.— Subst.: excellentia, ōrum, n., exceptional instances: nec excellentia, sed quotidiana tractabo, Aus. Grat. Act. § 62.— Comp.:

    ova excellentiora,

    Plin. 29, 3, 11, § 50:

    nihil illo (sc. Alcibiade) fuisse excellentius, vel in vitiis, vel in virtutibus,

    Nep. Alcib. 1.— Sup.:

    excellentissima virtus,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 99, 2; Sen. Vit. Beat. 14:

    cultus,

    Suet. Ner. 20:

    triumphus,

    id. Caes. 37:

    aurum,

    Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 56 et saep.— Adv.: excellon-ter, excellently, Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Nep. Att. 1, 3.— Comp., Cic. Sest. 45.— Sup.:

    excellentissime,

    Aug. Civ. D. 17, 8.—
    2.
    ex-celsus, a, um, P. a., elevated, lofty, high (freq. and class.; cf.: celsus, editus, altus, sublimis, procerus, arduus).
    A.
    Lit.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 80, 2; cf.: vertex montis, * Verg. A. 5, 35:

    locus,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 11:

    porticus,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 14:

    basis (statuae),

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 34; cf.

    signum,

    id. ib.:

    statura,

    Suet. Caes. 45:

    aves (Ibes),

    Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101:

    altitudo vineae,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184 et saep.— Comp.:

    in excelsiore loco,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

    cornu (bovis),

    Caes. B. G. 6, 26, 1; cf.:

    crura chamaeleonis,

    Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 120.— Sup.:

    mons,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 70, 4; cf.

    locus,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 33 fin.:

    rupes,

    Plin. 10, 6, 7, § 19:

    aegilops,

    id. 16, 6, 8, § 22; 11, 37, 49, § 135.—
    b.
    Subst.
    1.
    excelsum, i, n., a height:

    simulacrum Jovis in excelso collocare,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Att. 6, 1, 17:

    Phoebus ab excelso, quantum patet, aspicit aequor,

    Ov. H. 15, 165; so,

    ab excelso,

    id. F. 2, 369:

    prohibebit in excelsum emicare (vitem),

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184.—
    2.
    Ex-celsus, i, m., the Highest, the Most High, i. e. God (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 72, 11 al.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., high, lofty, distinguished, excellent, noble:

    te natura excelsum quendam videlicet et altum et humana despicientem genuit,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 11; cf.:

    magnus homo et excelsus,

    id. Mur. 29:

    animus excelsus magnificusque,

    id. Off. 1, 23; cf. id. Opt. Gen. 4, 12:

    excelso et illustri loco sita est laus tua,

    id. Fam. 2, 5; cf.:

    te in excelsissimo humani generis fastigio positum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 11: species magnae excelsaeque gloriac,

    Tac. Agr. 4 fin. et saep.— Comp.:

    (orator) grandior et quodammodo excelsior,

    Cic. Or. 34; cf. Quint. 12, 10, 23; Plin. Pan. 94, 3:

    quo tua in me humanitas fuerit excelsior quam in te mea,

    Cic. Att. 3, 20 fin.—Sup.:

    excelsissimae victoriae,

    Vell. 2, 96 fin.:

    duces,

    id. 2, 114 fin.—Subst.
    (α).
    , m. plur.: excelsi, ōrum, the lofty; prov.:

    excelsis multo facilius casus nocet,

    Pub. Syr. 162 (Rib.).—
    (β).
    Neut.: excelsum, i, an elevated station or position:

    in excelso aetatem agere,

    i. e. in a high station, Sall. C. 51, 12.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.): in excelsis, in the highest, in ascriptions of praise, Vulg. Psa. 148, 1 al.—
    2.
    Esp., in the later period of the empire, a title of high official dignitaries, e. g. of the praefectus praetorio, etc.— Adv.: excelsē, highly, on high, loftily.
    1.
    Lit.:

    si vitis scandit excelsius,

    Col. 4, 1, 5.—
    2.
    Trop., in an elevated manner, highly:

    ornat excelse,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 3:

    excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet,

    Cic. Or. 34, 119:

    excelsissime floruit (Sparta),

    exceedingly, Vell. 1, 6, 3.

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  • 109 facilis

    făcĭlis, e, adj. (archaic forms nom. sing. facil, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 53; adv. facul, like difficul, simul; v. under adv. 2, and cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 87 Müll.), [facio, properly, that may be done or made; hence, pregn.], easy to do, easy, without difficulty.
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Prop., constr. absol., with ad (and the gerund), the supine, inf., ut, and the dat.
    (α).
    Absol.:

    nulla est tam facilis res, quin difficilis siet, quam invitus facias,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 1; cf.:

    facilis et plana via (opp. difficilis),

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 20:

    quae facilia ex difficillimis animi magnitudo redegerat,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 27 fin.; cf.

    also: mihi in causa facili atque explicata perdifficilis et lubrica defensionis ratio proponitur,

    Cic. Planc. 2, 5:

    justa res et facilis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 33:

    facilis et prompta defensio,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 56, 237; cf.:

    facilis et expedita distinctio,

    id. Fin. 1, 10, 33:

    facilia, proclivia, jucunda,

    id. Part. Or. 27, 95; cf.:

    proclivi cursu et facili delabi,

    id. Rep. 1, 28:

    ascensus,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 21:

    aditus,

    id. ib. 3, 25 fin.;

    descensus Averno,

    Verg. A. 6, 126; Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41; cf.:

    celerem et facilem exitum habere,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 22 fin.:

    lutum,

    easy to work, Tib. 1, 1, 40:

    fagus,

    Plin. 16, 43, 84, § 229:

    humus,

    easy to cultivate, mellow, Curt. 4, 6, 5:

    arcus,

    Val. Fl. 1, 109:

    jugum,

    easy to climb, Prop. 4 (5), 10, 4:

    somnus,

    easy to obtain, Hor. C. 2, 11, 8; 3, 21, 4:

    irae,

    easily excited, Luc. 1, 173:

    saevitia,

    easily overcome, Hor. C. 2, 12, 26 et saep.:

    aurae,

    gentle, Ov. H. 16, 123:

    jactura,

    easily borne, Verg. A. 2, 646:

    cera,

    easily shaped, Ov. M. 15, 169:

    victus,

    copious, Verg. G. 2, 460.— Comp.:

    iter multo facilius atque expeditius,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 6, 2:

    cui censemus cursum ad deos faciliorem fuisse quam Scipioni?

    Cic. Lael. 4, 14:

    faciliore et commodiore judicio,

    id. Caecin. 3, 8.— Sup.:

    quod est facillimum, facis,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 4; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 3:

    concordia,

    id. ib. 1, 32:

    hujus summae virtutis facillima est via,

    Quint. 8, 3, 71:

    in quibus (ceris) facillima est ratio delendi,

    id. 10, 3, 31 et saep.—
    (β).
    With ad and the gerund:

    nulla materies tam facilis ad exardescendum est,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 45, 190:

    ad subigendum,

    id. Rep. 2, 41:

    ad credendum,

    id. Tusc. 1, 32, 78:

    palmae ad scandendum,

    Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 29.— Comp.:

    faciliora ad intelligendum,

    Quint. 2, 3, 8.— Sup.:

    haec ad judicandum sunt facillima,

    Cic. Off. 3, 6, 30; id. Fin. 2, 20.—
    (γ).
    With ad and subst.:

    faciles ad receptum angustiae,

    Liv. 32, 12, 3:

    mens ad pejora,

    Quint. 1, 2, 4:

    credulitas feminarum ad gaudia,

    Tac. A. 14, 4.— Comp.:

    mediocritas praeceptoris ad intellectum atque imitationem facilior,

    Quint. 2, 3, 1.—
    (δ).
    With supine:

    facile inventust,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 53:

    res factu facilis,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 26:

    cuivis facile scitu est,

    id. Hec. 3, 1, 15:

    facilis victu gens,

    abounding in resources, Verg. A. 1, 445 Wagn.:

    (Cyclops) nec visu facilis nec dictu affabilis ulli,

    id. ib. 3, 621; cf.:

    sapiens facilis victu fuit,

    Sen. Ep. 90, 11.— Comp.:

    nihil est dictu facilius,

    Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 70.— Sup.:

    factu facillimum,

    Sall. C. 14, 1.—
    (ε).
    With inf.:

    materia facilis est, in te et in tuos dicta dicere,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 17, 42:

    facilis vincere ac vinci vultu eodem,

    Liv. 7, 33, 2:

    facilis corrumpi,

    Tac. H. 4, 39:

    Roma capi facilis,

    Luc. 2, 656.—So esp. freq. in the neuter, facile est, with a subject-clause:

    id esse verum, cuivis facile est noscere,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 8:

    quod illis prohibere erat facile,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 50, 2:

    neque erat facile nostris, uno tempore propugnare et munire,

    id. ib. 3, 45, 4; Quint. 6, 4, 20:

    nec origines persequi facile est,

    Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 46:

    quīs facile est aedem conducere,

    Juv. 3, 31; 4, 103.— Comp.:

    plerumque facilius est plus facere quam idem,

    Quint. 10, 2, 10; 12, 6, 7.— Sup.:

    stulta reprehendere facillimum est,

    Quint. 6, 3, 71; 11, 1, 81.—
    (ζ).
    With ut:

    facilius est, ut esse aliquis successor tuus possit, quam ut velit,

    Plin. Pan. 44, 3; 87, 5; cf. with quod: facile est quod habeant conservam in villa, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 6.—
    (η).
    With dat.:

    terra facilis pecori,

    i.e. suitable, proper, Verg. G. 2, 223; cf.:

    campus operi,

    Liv. 33, 17, 8:

    facilis divisui (Macedonia),

    id. 45, 30, 2:

    neque Thraces commercio faciles erant,

    Liv. 40, 58, 1:

    homines bello faciles,

    Tac. Agr. 21:

    juvenis inanibus,

    easily susceptible, open to, id. A. 2, 27; cf.:

    facilis capessendis inimicitiis,

    id. ib. 5, 11. —
    (θ).
    With gen. ( poet.):

    Hispania frugum facilis,

    fertile in, Claud. Laud. Seren. 54.—
    b.
    Adverbially, in facili, ex (e) facili, and rarely, de facili, easily:

    cum exitus haud in facili essent,

    not easy, Liv. 3, 8, 9 Drak.:

    in facili,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 7: Plin. 18, 28, 68, § 274; Dig. 26, 3, 8:

    ita adducendum, ut ex facili subsequatur,

    easily, Cels. 7, 9 med.:

    ex facili tolerantibus,

    Tac. Agr. 15 init.: ex facili, Cel. 6, 1, 1; Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 60;

    for which: e facili,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 356: de facili ab iis superabuntur, Firm. Math. 5, 6.—
    B.
    Transf.
    a.
    Of persons that do any thing with facility, ready, quick. — Constr. with ad, in, and simple abl.:

    facilis et expeditus ad dicendum,

    Cic. Brut. 48, 180:

    sermone Graeco promptus et facilis,

    Suet. Tib. 71; cf.:

    promptus et facillis ad extemporalitatem usque,

    id. Tit. 3:

    faciles in excogitando et ad discendum prompti,

    Quint. 1, 1, 1:

    exiguo faciles,

    content, Sil. 1, 615.—
    b.
    Of things, easily moving:

    oculi,

    Verg. A. 8, 310:

    manus,

    Ov. F. 3, 536:

    cervix,

    Mart. Spect. 23:

    canes, i. e. agiles,

    Nemes. Cyneg. 50.
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    Of character, easy, good-natured, compliant, willing, yielding, courteous, affable:

    facilis benevolusque,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 35:

    comes, benigni, faciles, suaves homines esse dicuntur,

    Cic. Balb. 16, 36:

    facilis et liberalis pater,

    id. N. D. 3, 29, 73:

    lenis et facilis,

    id. Fam. 5, 2, 9:

    facilis et clemens,

    Suet. Aug. 67:

    facilem populum habere,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 4:

    facilem stillare in aurem,

    Juv. 3, 122:

    di,

    id. 10, 8. —With in and abl.:

    facilem se in rebus cognoscendis praebere,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11, § 32; cf.:

    facilis in causis recipiendis,

    id. Brut. 57, 207:

    faciles in suum cuique tribuendo,

    id. ib. 21, 85:

    faciles ad concedendum,

    id. Div. 2, 52, 107.—With in and acc.:

    sic habeas faciles in tua vota deos,

    Ov. H. 16, 282.—With inf.:

    faciles aurem praebere,

    Prop. 2, 21, 15 (3, 14, 5 M.):

    O faciles dare summa deos,

    Luc. 1, 505.—With gen.:

    facilis impetrandae veniae,

    Liv. 26, 15, 1:

    alloquii facilis (al. alloquiis),

    Val. Fl. 5, 407.— Absol.:

    comi facilique naturā,

    Suet. Gramm. 7:

    facili ac prodigo animo,

    id. Vit. 7.— Comp.:

    facilior aut indulgentior,

    Suet. Vesp. 21; Quint. 7, 1, 27; Flor. 4, 11, 2.— Sup.:

    quid dicam de moribus facillimis,

    Cic. Lael. 3, 11.—
    B.
    Of fortune, favorable, prosperous:

    res et fortunae tuae... quotidie faciliores mihi et meliores videntur,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 1; Liv. 23, 11, 2.— Adv. in four forms: facile, facul, faculter, and faciliter.
    1.
    făcĭlĕ (the class. form).
    (α).
    easily, without trouble or difficulty:

    facile cum valemus recta consilia aegrotis damus,

    Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:

    quis haec non vel facile vel certe aliquo modo posset ediscere?

    Cic. de Or. 2, 57, 232:

    vitia in contraria convertuntur,

    id. Rep. 1, 45.— Comp.:

    cave putes, aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 42 fin.:

    quo facilius otio perfruantur,

    id. ib. 1, 5: id hoc facilius eis persuasit, quod, etc., Caes, B. G. 1, 2, 3.— Sup.:

    ut optimi cujusque animus in morte facillime evolet tamquam e custodia,

    Cic. Lael. 4, 14:

    facillime fingi,

    id. Cael. 9, 22:

    facillime decidit,

    id. Rep. 2, 23:

    mederi inopiae frumentariae,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 24, 6 et saep.—
    (β).
    To add intensity to an expression which already signifies a high degree, certainly, unquestionably, without contradiction, beyond dispute, by far, far (often in Cic.;

    elsewh. rare): virum unum totius Graeciae facile doctissimum,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 9, 23:

    facile deterrimus,

    id. Tusc. 1, 33, 81:

    genere et nobilitate et pecunia facile primus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15; cf.:

    virtute, existimatione, nobilitate facile princeps,

    id. Clu. 5, 11:

    facile princeps,

    id. Div. 2, 42, 87; id. Fam. 6, 10, 2; id. Univ. 1; Flor. 3, 14, 1:

    facile praecipuus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 68:

    facile hic plus mali est, quam illic boni,

    Ter. And. 4, 3, 5: Pe. Sed tu novistin' fidicinam? Fi. Tam facile quam me, as well as I do myself, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 68.—With verbs that denote superiority (vincere, superare, etc.):

    post illum (Herodotum) Thucydides omnes dicendi artificio, mea sententia, facile vicit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 56; cf. id. Off. 2, 19, 59; id. Rep. 1, 23; cf.

    also: stellarum globi terrae magnitudinem facile vincebant,

    id. ib. 6, 16 fin.; id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:

    Sisenna omnes adhuc nostros scriptores facile superavit,

    id. Leg. 1, 2, 7; cf. id. de Or. 3, 11, 43:

    facile palmam habes!

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 80.— In naming a large amount, quite, fully:

    huic hereditas facile ad HS. tricies venit testamento propinqui sui,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 14, § 35.—
    (γ).
    With a negative, non facile or haud facile, to add intensity, not easily, i.e. hardly:

    mira accuratio, ut non facile in ullo diligentiorem majoremque cognoverim,

    Cic. Brut. 67, 238:

    sed haud facile dixerim, cur, etc.,

    id. Rep. 1, 3 fin.; cf.:

    de iis haud facile compertum narraverim,

    Sall. J. 17, 2:

    animus imbutus malis artibus haud facile libidinibus carebat,

    id. C. 13, 5. —
    b.
    Readily, willingly, without hesitation:

    facile omnes perferre ac pati,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 35; cf.:

    te de aeternitate dicentem aberrare a proposito facile patiebar,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 33, 81:

    disertus homo et facile laborans,

    id. Off. 2, 19, 66:

    ego unguibus facile illi in oculos involem,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 6.— Comp.:

    locum habeo nullum, ubi facilius esse possim quam Asturae,

    Cic. Att. 13, 26, 2.—
    c.
    (Acc. to facilis, II. B.) Pleasantly, agreeably, well:

    propter eas (nugas) vivo facilius,

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 6:

    cum animo cogites, Quam vos facillime agitis, quam estis maxume Potentes, dites, fortunati, nobiles,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 56:

    facillime agitare,

    Suet. Vit. Ter. 1:

    ubi Crassus animadvertit, suas copias propter exiguitatem non facile diduci,

    not safely, Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7.—
    2.
    făcul (anteclass.), easily: nobilitate facul propellere iniquos, Lucil. ap. Non. 111, 19; Pac. ib. 21:

    haud facul, ut ait Pacuvius, femina una invenietur bona,

    Afran. ib. 22:

    advorsam ferre fortunam facul,

    Att. ib. 24.—
    3.
    ‡ făculter, acc. to the statement of Paul. ex Fest. p. 87, 1 Müll.; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 325. —
    4.
    făcĭlĭter (post-Aug.; predominating in Vitruvius; censured by Quint. 1, 6, 17), easily:

    ferrum percalefactum faciliter fabricatur,

    Vitr. 1, 4, 3 et saep.; Mart. Cap. 3, § 325.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > facilis

  • 110 in

    1.
    in (old forms endŏ and indŭ, freq. in ante-class. poets; cf. Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4; id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2; Lucil. ap. Lact. 5, 9, 20; Lucr. 2, 1096; 5, 102; 6, 890 et saep.), prep. with abl. and acc. [kindr. with Sanscr. an; Greek en, en-tha, en-then, eis, i. e. en-s, ana; Goth. ana; Germ. in], denotes either rest or motion within or into a place or thing; opp. to ex; in, within, on, upon, among, at; into, to, towards.
    I.
    With abl.
    A.
    In space.
    1.
    Lit., in (with abl. of the place or thing in which):

    aliorum fructus in terra est, aliorum et extra,

    Plin. 19, 4, 22, § 61:

    alii in corde, alii in cerebro dixerunt animi esse sedem et locum,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

    eo in rostris sedente suasit Serviliam legem Crassus,

    id. Brut. 43, 161:

    qui sunt cives in eadem re publica,

    id. Rep. 1, 32 fin.:

    facillimam in ea re publica esse concordiam, in qua idem conducat omnibus,

    id. ib.:

    T. Labienus ex loco superiore, quae res in nostris castris gererentur, conspicatus,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 26, 4:

    quod si in scaena, id est in contione verum valet, etc.,

    Cic. Lael. 26, 97:

    in foro palam Syracusis,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 33, § 81:

    plures in eo loco sine vulnere quam in proelio aut fuga intereunt,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 35:

    tulit de caede, quae in Appia via facta esset,

    Cic. Mil. 6, 15:

    in via fornicata,

    Liv. 22, 36:

    vigebat in illa domo mos patrius et disciplina,

    Cic. de Sen. 11, 37:

    in domo furtum factum ab eo qui domi fuit,

    Quint. 5, 10, 16:

    nupta in domo,

    Liv. 6, 34, 9:

    copias in castris continent,

    in, within, Caes. B. C. 1, 66:

    cum in angusto quodam pulpito stans diceret,

    Quint. 11, 3, 130:

    se ac suos in vehiculo conspici,

    Liv. 5, 40, 10:

    malo in illa tua sedecula sedere, quam in istorum sella curuli,

    Cic. Att. 4, 10:

    sedere in solio,

    id. Fin. 2, 21, 66:

    Albae constiterant, in urbe opportuna,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 6. —

    Sometimes, also, with names of places: omnes se ultro sectari in Epheso memorat mulieres,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 182:

    heri aliquot adolescentuli coiimus in Piraeo,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 4, 1:

    navis et in Cajeta est parata nobis et Brundisii,

    Cic. Att. 8, 3, 6:

    complures (naves) in Hispali faciendas curavit,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 18:

    caesos in Marathone ac Salamine,

    Quint. 12, 10, 24:

    in Berenice urbe Troglodytarum,

    Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 183.—
    2.
    In indicating a multitude or number, of, in, or among which a person or thing is, in, among (= gen. part.):

    in his poeta hic nomen profitetur suum,

    Ter. Eun. prol. 3:

    Thales, qui sapientissimus in septem fuit,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 11, 26:

    peto ut eum complectare, diligas, in tuis habeas,

    id. Fam. 13, 78, 2; cf.:

    in perditis et desperatis,

    id. ib. 13, 56, 1:

    omnia quae secundum naturam fiunt, sunt habenda in bonis,

    id. de Sen. 19, 71:

    dolor in maximis malis ducitur,

    id. Leg. 1, 11, 31:

    justissimus unus in Teucris,

    Verg. A. 2, 426:

    cecidere in pugna ad duo milia... in his quatuor Romani centuriones,

    Liv. 27, 12, 16:

    in diis et feminae sunt,

    Lact. 1, 16, 17.—
    3.
    Of analogous relations of place or position:

    sedere in equo,

    on horseback, id. Verr. 2, 5, 10:

    quid legati in equis,

    id. Pis. 25, 60:

    sedere in leone,

    Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 109:

    in eo flumine pons erat,

    on, over, Caes. B. G. 2, 5:

    in herboso Apidano,

    on the banks of, Prop. 1, 3, 6:

    in digitis,

    on tiptoe, Val. Fl. 4, 267:

    castra in limite locat,

    on the rampart, Tac. A. 1, 50:

    ipse coronam habebat unam in capite, alteram in collo,

    on, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 27:

    oleae in arbore,

    Cels. 2, 24:

    Caesaris in barbaris erat nomen obscurius,

    among, Caes. B. C. 1, 61:

    in ceteris nationibus, Cels. praef. 1: qui in Brutiis praeerat,

    Liv. 25, 16, 7:

    in juvenibus,

    Quint. 11, 1, 32:

    nutus in mutis pro sermone est,

    id. 11, 3, 66.—Of dress, like cum, q. v.:

    in veste candida,

    Liv. 45, 20, 5; 34, 7, 3:

    in calceis,

    id. 24, 38, 2:

    in insignibus,

    id. 5, 41, 2:

    in tunicis albis,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 13:

    in Persico et vulgari habitu,

    Curt. 3, 3, 4:

    in lugubri veste,

    id. 10, 5, 17:

    in Tyriis,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 297:

    in Cois,

    id. ib. v. 298; cf.:

    homines in catenis Romam mittere,

    Liv. 29, 21, 12; 32, 1, 8: quis multa te in rosa urget, etc., Hor C. 1, 5, 1; so, in viola aut in rosa, Cic. Tusc. [p. 912] 5, 26, 73.—So of arms:

    duas legiones in armis,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 11, 6; cf. Verg. A. 3, 395:

    in armis hostis,

    under arms, Ov. M. 12,65:

    quae in ore atque in oculis provinciae gesta sunt (= coram),

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 33, § 81; so,

    in oculis provinciae,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2:

    in oculis omnium,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 7:

    divitiae, decus, gloria in oculis sita sunt,

    Sall. C. 20, 14; Curt. 4, 13, 1; Liv. 22, 12, 6:

    Julianus in ore ejus (Vitellii) jugulatur,

    Tac. H. 3, 77; Sen. Ben. 7, 19, 7.—Of a passage in any writing (but when the author is named, by meton., for his works, apud is used, Krebs, Antibarb. p. 561):

    in populorum institutis aut legibus,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 15, 42:

    in illis libris qui sunt de natura deorum,

    id. Fat. 1, 1:

    in Timaeo dicit,

    id. N. D. 1, 12, 30:

    epistula, in qua omnia perscripta erant,

    Nep. Pelop. 3, 2:

    perscribit in litteris, hostes ab se discessisse,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 49; but in is also used with an author's name when, not a place in his book, but a feature of his style, etc., is referred to:

    in Thucydide orbem modo orationis desidero,

    Cic. Or. 71, 234:

    in Herodoto omnia leniter fluunt,

    Quint. 9, 4, 18.—Of books:

    libri oratorii diu in manibus fuerunt,

    Cic. Att. 4, 13, 2; id. Lael. 25, 96; but more freq. trop.: in manibus habere, tenere, etc., to be engaged, occupied with, to have under control or within reach:

    philosophi quamcunque rem habent in manibus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 7, 18:

    quam spem nunc habeat in manibus, exponam,

    id. Verr. 1, 6, 16:

    rem habere in manibus,

    id. Att. 6, 3, 1; cf.:

    neque mihi in manu fuit Jugurtha qualis foret,

    in my power, Sall. J. 14, 4:

    postquam nihil esse in manu sua respondebatur,

    Liv. 32, 24, 2:

    quod ipsorum in manu sit,... bellum an pacem malint,

    Tac. A. 2, 46; but, cum tantum belli in manibus esset, was in hand, busied (cf.:

    inter manus),

    Liv. 4, 57, 1; so,

    quorum epistulas in manu teneo,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 4, 9; cf. id. Att. 2, 2, 2:

    in manu poculum tenens,

    id. Tusc. 1, 29, 71:

    coronati et lauream in manu tenentes,

    Liv. 40, 37, 3; Suet. Claud. 15 fin. —Of that which is thought of as existing in the mind, memory, character, etc.:

    in animo esse,

    Cic. Fam. 14, 11:

    in animo habere,

    id. Rosc. Am. 18, 52:

    lex est ratio insita in natura,

    id. Leg. 1, 6, 18:

    in memoria sedere,

    id. de Or. 2, 28, 122; cf.:

    tacito mutos volvunt in pectore questus,

    Luc. 1, 247:

    quanta auctoritas fuit in C. Metello!

    Cic. de Sen. 17, 61. —So freq. of a person's qualities of mind or character:

    erat in eo summa eloquentia, summa fides,

    Cic. Mur. 28, 58; cf.:

    in omni animante est summum aliquid atque optimum, ut in equis,

    id. Fin. 4, 41, 37:

    si quid artis in medicis est,

    Curt. 3, 5, 13; cf.:

    nibil esse in morte timendum,

    Lucr. 3, 866.— Esp., in eo loco, in that state or condition:

    in eo enim loco res sunt nostrae, ut, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 35, 7: si vos in eo loco essetis, quid aliud fecissetis? Cat. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 21; so,

    quo in loco, etc.: cum ex equitum et calonum fuga, quo in loco res essent, cognovissent,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

    videtis, quo in loco res haec siet, Ter Phorm. 2, 4, 6: quod ipse, si in eodem loco esset, facturus fuerit,

    Liv. 37, 14, 5.—Hence, without loco, in eo esse ut, etc., to be in such a condition, etc.:

    non in eo esse Carthaginiensium res, ut Galliam armis obtineant,

    Liv. 30, 19, 3:

    cum res non in eo esset, ut Cyprum tentaret,

    id. 33, 41, 9; 8, 27, 3; 2, 17, 5; Nep. Mil. 7, 3; id. Paus. 5, 1 (cf. I. C. 1. infra).—
    B.
    In time, indicating its duration, in, during, in the course of:

    feci ego istaec itidem in adulescentia,

    in my youth, when I was young, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 6:

    in tempore hoc,

    Ter. And. 4, 5, 24:

    in hoc tempore,

    Tac. A. 13, 47:

    in tali tempore,

    Sall. C. 48, 5; Liv. 22, 35; 24, 28 al.:

    in diebus paucis,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 77:

    in brevi spatio,

    id. Heaut. 5, 2, 2; Suet. Vesp. 4:

    in qua aetate,

    Cic. Brut. 43 fin.:

    in ea aetate,

    Liv. 1, 57:

    in omni aetate,

    Cic. de Sen. 3, 9:

    in aetate, qua jam Alexander orbem terrarum subegisset,

    Suet. Caes. 7:

    qua (sc. Iphigenia) nihil erat in eo quidem anno natum pulchrius,

    in the course of, during the year, Cic. Off. 3, 25, 95 (al. eo quidem anno):

    nihil in vita se simile fecisse,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 91: nihil in vita vidit calamitatis A. Cluentius. id. Clu. 6, 18:

    in tota vita inconstans,

    id. Tusc. 4, 13, 29.—
    b.
    In tempore, at the right or proper time, in time (Cic. uses only tempore; v. tempus): eccum ipsum video in tempore huc se recipere, Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 24:

    ni pedites equitesque in tempore subvenissent,

    Liv. 33, 5:

    spreta in tempore gloria interdum cumulatior redit,

    id. 2, 47:

    rebellaturi,

    Tac. A. 12, 50:

    atque adeo in ipso tempore eccum ipsum obviam,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 52: in tempore, opportune. Nos sine praepositione dicimus tempore et tempori, Don. ad Ter. And. 4, 4, 19.—
    c.
    In praesentia and in praesenti, at present, now, at this moment, under these circumstances:

    sic enim mihi in praesentia occurrit,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 8, 14:

    vestrae quidem cenae non solum in praesentia, sed etiam postero die jucundae sunt,

    id. ib. 5, 35, 100:

    id quod unum maxime in praesentia desiderabatur,

    Liv. 21, 37:

    haec ad te in praesenti scripsi, ut, etc.,

    for the present, Cic. Fam. 2, 10, 4.—
    d.
    With gerunds and fut. pass. participles, to indicate duration of time, in:

    fit, ut distrahatur in deliberando animus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 3, 9; id. Fam. 2, 6, 2:

    vitiosum esse in dividendo partem in genere numerare,

    id. Fin. 2, 9, 26:

    quod in litteris dandis praeter consuetudinem proxima nocte vigilarat,

    id. Cat. 3, 3, 6:

    ne in quaerendis suis pugnandi tempus dimitteret,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 21:

    in agris vastandis incendiisque faciendis hostibus,

    in laying waste, id. ib. 5, 19:

    in excidenda Numantia,

    Cic. Off. 1, 22, 76:

    cum in immolanda Iphigenia tristis Calchas esset,

    id. Or. 21, 74.—
    C.
    In other relations, where a person or thing is thought of as in a certain condition, situation, or relation, in:

    qui magno in aere alieno majores etiam possessiones habent,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 18:

    se in insperatis repentinisque pecuniis jactare,

    id. Cat. 2, 9, 20:

    Larinum in summo timore omnium cum armatis advolavit,

    id. Clu. 8, 25.—

    So freq., of qualities or states of mind: summa in sollicitudine ac timore Parthici belli,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 31:

    torpescentne dextrae in amentia illa?

    Liv. 23, 9, 7:

    hunc diem perpetuum in laetitia degere,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 5; Cic. Cat. 4, 1, 2:

    in metu,

    Tac. A. 14, 43:

    in voluptate,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 19, 62:

    alicui in amore esse,

    beloved, id. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 3:

    alicui in amoribus esse,

    id. Att. 6, 1, 12:

    res in invidia erat,

    Sall. J. 25, 5; Liv. 29, 37, 17: sum in expectatione omnium rerum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 10:

    num... Diogenem Stoicum coegit in suis studiis obmutescere senectus?

    in his studies, Cic. de Sen. 7, 21:

    mirificam cepi voluptatem ex tua diligentia: quod in summis tuis occupationibus mihi tamen rei publicae statum per te notum esse voluisti,

    even in, notwithstanding your great occupations, id. Fam. 3, 11, 4.—

    So freq., of business, employment, occupations, etc.: in aliqua re versari,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 47, § 105:

    similia iis, quae in consilio dixerat,

    Curt. 5, 5, 23:

    in certamine armorum atque in omni palaestra quid satis recte cavetur,

    Quint. 9, 4, 8:

    agi in judiciis,

    id. 11, 1, 78:

    tum vos mihi essetis in consilio,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 18, 28:

    in actione... dicere,

    Quint. 8, 2, 2.—Of an office, magistracy:

    in quo tum magistratu forte Brutus erat,

    Liv. 1, 59, 7; 4, 17, 1:

    in eo magistratu pari diligentia se praebuit,

    Nep. Han. 7, 5 (cf. B. 1. supra):

    in ea ipsa causa fuit eloquentissimus,

    Cic. Brut, 43, 160:

    qui non defendit nec obsistit, si potest, injuriae, tam est in vitio, quam, etc.,

    is in the wrong, acts wrongly, id. Off. 1, 7, 23:

    etsi hoc quidem est in vitio, dissolutionem naturae tam valde perhorrescere,

    is wrong, id. Fin. 5, 11, 31:

    non sunt in eo genere tantae commoditates corporis,

    id. ib. 4, 12, 29; cf.:

    an omnino nulla sit in eo genere distinctio,

    id. Or. 61, 205:

    Drusus erat de praevaricatione absolutus in summa quatuor sententiis,

    on the whole, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 16; cf.:

    et in omni summa, ut mones, valde me ad otium pacemque converto,

    id. ib. 3, 5, 5;

    but, in summa, sic maxime judex credit, etc.,

    in a word, in fine, Quint. 9, 2, 72; Auct. B. Alex. 71; Just. 37, 1, 8:

    horum (juvenum) inductio in parte simulacrum decurrentis exercitus erat: ex parte elegantioris exercitii quam militaris artis,

    in part, Liv. 44, 9, 5; cf.:

    quod mihi in parte verum videtur,

    Quint. 2, 8, 6:

    patronorum in parte expeditior, in parte difficilior interrogatio est,

    id. 5, 7, 22:

    hoc facere in eo homine consueverunt,

    in the case of, Caes. B. G. 7, 21:

    in furibus aerarii,

    Sall. C. 52, 12:

    Achilles talis in hoste fuit,

    Verg. A. 2, 540:

    in hoc homine saepe a me quaeris, etc.,

    in the case of, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 6: in nominibus impiis, Sall. C. 51, 15:

    suspectus et in morte matris fuit,

    Suet. Vit. 14:

    qui praesentes metuunt, in absentia hostes erunt, = absentes,

    Curt. 6, 3, 8 (cf. I. B. c. supra).—Of the meaning of words, etc.:

    non solum in eodem sensu, sed etiam in diverso, eadem verba contra,

    Quint. 9, 3, 36:

    aliter voces aut eaedem in diversa significatione ponuntur,

    id. 9, 3, 69:

    Sallustius in significatione ista non superesse sed superare dicit,

    Gell. 1, 22, 15:

    stips non dicitur in significatione trunci,

    Charis. 1, 18, 39:

    semper in significatione ea hortus,

    Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 50. —
    2.
    In with abl. of adjj. is used with the verbs esse and habere to express quality:

    cum exitus haud in facili essent, i. e. haud faciles,

    Liv. 3, 8, 9:

    adeo moderatio tuendae libertatis in difficili est,

    id. 3, 8, 11; 3, 65, 11; but mostly with adjj. of the first and second declension:

    in obscuro esse, Liv. praef. § 3: in dubio esse,

    id. 2, 3, 1; 3, 19, 8; Ov. H. 19, 174:

    dum in dubiost animus,

    Ter. And. 1, 5, 31; 2, 2, 10:

    in integro esse,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 3; id. Att. 11, 15, 4:

    in incerto esse,

    Liv. 5, 28, 5:

    in obvio esse,

    id. 37, 23, 1:

    in tuto esse,

    id. 38, 4, 10; cf.:

    videre te in tuto,

    Cat. 30, 6:

    in aequo esse,

    Liv. 39, 37, 14; Tac. A. 2, 44:

    in expedito esse,

    Curt. 4, 2, 22:

    in proximo esse,

    Quint. 1, 3, 4:

    in aperto esse,

    Sall. C. 5, 3:

    in promisco esse,

    Liv. 7, 17, 7:

    in augusto esse,

    Cels. 5, 27, 2:

    in incerto haberi,

    Sall. J. 46, 8; Tac. A. 15, 17:

    in levi habitum,

    id. H. 2, 21; cf.:

    in incerto relinquere,

    Liv. 5, 28, 5; Tac. H. 2, 83.
    II.
    With acc.
    A.
    In space, with verbs of motion, into or to a place or thing (rarely with names of towns and small islands;

    v. Zumpt, Gram. § 398): influxit non tenuis quidam e Graecia rivulus in hanc urbem,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 19:

    in Ephesum advenit,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 35:

    in Epirum venire,

    Cic. Att. 13, 25, 3:

    ibo in Piraeeum, visamque, ecquae advenerit in portum ex Epheso navis mercatoria,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 2: venio ad Piraeea, in quo magis reprehendendus sum, quod... Piraeea scripserim, non Piraeeum, quam in quod addiderim;

    non enim hoc ut oppido praeposui, sed ut loco,

    Cic. Att. 7, 3, 10:

    se contulisse Tarquinios, in urbem Etruriae florentissimam,

    id. Rep. 2, 19:

    remigrare in domum veterem e nova,

    id. Ac. 1, 4, 13:

    cum in sua rura venerunt,

    id. Tusc. 5, 35, 102:

    a te ipso missi in ultimas gentes,

    id. Fam. 15, 9:

    in Ubios legatos mittere,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 11:

    dein Thalam pervenit, in oppidum magnum et opulentum,

    Sall. J. 75, 1:

    Regillum antiquam in patriam se contulerat,

    Liv. 3, 58, 1:

    abire in exercitum,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 102.— With nuntio:

    cum id Zmyrnam in contionem nuntiatum est,

    Tac. A. 4, 56:

    nuntiatur in castra,

    Lact. Most. Pers. 46; cf.:

    allatis in castra nuntiis,

    Tac. H. 4, 32: in manus sumere, tradere, etc., into one's hands:

    iste unumquodque vas in manus sumere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 63:

    Falerios se in manus Romanis tradidisse,

    Liv. 5, 27, 3.—Rarely with the verbs ponere, collocare, etc. (pregn., i. e. to bring into... and place there):

    in crimen populo ponere,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 10:

    ut liberos, uxores suaque omnia in silvas deponerent,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 19:

    duplam pecuniam in thesauros reponi,

    Liv. 29, 19, 7:

    prius me collocavi in arborem,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 6:

    sororem et propinquas suas nuptum in alias civitates collocasse,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 18.— Motion in any direction, up to, to, into, down to:

    in caelum ascendere,

    Cic. Lael. 23 fin.:

    filium ipse paene in umeros suos extulisset,

    id. de Or. 1, 53, 228:

    tamquam in aram confugitis ad deum,

    up to the altar, id. Tusc. 3, 10, 25:

    Saturno tenebrosa in Tartara misso,

    Ov. M. 1, 113:

    in flumen deicere,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 25, 70; Nep. Chab. 4, 3.—
    2.
    Denoting mere direction towards a place or thing, and hence sometimes joined with versus, towards:

    quid nunc supina sursum in caelum conspicis,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 78:

    si in latus aut dextrum aut sinistrum, ut ipsi in usu est, cubat,

    Cels. 2, 3:

    Belgae spectant in septentriones et orientem solem,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1:

    in orientem Germaniae, in occidentem Hispaniae obtenditur, Gallis in meridiem etiam inspicitur,

    Tac. Agr. 10:

    in laevum prona nixus sedet Inachus urna,

    Stat. Th. 2, 218.—With versus:

    castra ex Biturigibus movet in Arvernos versus,

    towards, Caes. B. G. 7, 8 fin.:

    in Galliam versus movere,

    Sall. C. 56, 4: in [p. 913] ltaliam versus, Front. Strat. 1, 4, 11:

    si in urbem versus venturi erant,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 82. —
    3.
    So of that which is thought of as entering into the mind, memory, etc. (cf. I. A. 2. fin.):

    in memoriam reducere,

    Cic. Inv 1, 52, 98:

    in animum inducere,

    Liv. 27, 9:

    in mentem venire,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 3:

    frequens imitatio transit in mores,

    Quint. 1, 11, 3. —

    Or into a writing or speech: in illam Metellinam orationem addidi quaedam,

    Cic. Att. 1, 13, 5.—
    B.
    In time, into, till, for:

    dormiet in lucem,

    into the daylight, till broad day, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 34:

    statim e somno, quem plerumque in diem extrahunt, lavantur,

    Tac. G. 22: sermonem in multam noctem produximus, deep into the night, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Arus. Mess. p. 239 Lindem.:

    in multam noctem luxit,

    Suet. Tib. 74:

    si febris in noctem augetur,

    Cels. 7, 27:

    dixit in noctem atque etiam nocte illatis lucernis,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 14:

    indutias in triginta annos impetraverunt,

    for thirty years, Liv. 9, 37, 12; 7, 20, 8:

    nisi id verbum in omne tempus perdidissem,

    forever, Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 1:

    ad cenam hominem in hortos invitavit in posterum diem,

    for the following day, id. Off. 3, 14, 58:

    audistis auctionem constitutam in mensem Januarium,

    id. Agr. 1, 2, 4:

    subito reliquit annum suum seque in annum proximum transtulit,

    id. Mil. 9, 24:

    solis defectiones itemque lunae praedicuntur in multos annos,

    for many years, id. Div. 2, 6, 17:

    postero die Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie,

    Liv. 27, 2:

    qui ab matutino tempore duraverunt in occasum,

    Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99:

    seritur (semen lini) a Kalendis Octobribus in ortum aquilae,

    Col. 2, 10, 17.—With usque:

    neque illi didicerunt haec usque in senectutem,

    Quint. 12, 11, 20:

    in illum usque diem servati,

    id. 8, 3, 68:

    in serum usque patente cubiculo,

    Suet. Oth. 11:

    regnum trahat usque in tempora fati,

    Sil. 11, 392: in posterum (posteritatem) or in futurum, in future, for the future: in praesens, for the present: in perpetuum or in aeternum, forever:

    sancit in posterum, ne quis, etc.,

    Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10:

    res dilata est in posterum,

    id. Fam. 10, 12, 3:

    video quanta tempestas invidiae nobis, si minus in praesens, at in posteritatem impendeat,

    id. Cat. 1, 9, 22:

    id aegre et in praesentia hi passi et in futurum etiam metum ceperunt,

    Liv. 34, 27, 10; cf.:

    ingenti omnium et in praesens laetitia et in futurum spe,

    id. 30, 17, 1:

    effugis in futurum,

    Tac. H. 1, 71:

    quod eum tibi quaestoris in loco constitueras, idcirco tibi amicum in perpetuum fore putasti?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 30; cf.:

    oppidum omni periculo in perpetuum liberavit,

    id. Fam. 13, 4, 2:

    quae (leges) non in tempus aliquod, sed perpetuae utilitatis causa in aeternum latae sunt,

    Liv. 34, 6, 4: in tempus, for a while, for a short time, for the occasion (postAug.):

    sensit miles in tempus conficta,

    Tac. A. 1, 37:

    ne urbs sine imperio esset, in tempus deligebatur, qui jus redderet,

    id. ib. 6, 11:

    scaena in tempus structa,

    id. ib. 14, 20. —So in diem, for the day, to meet the day's want:

    nihil ex raptis in diem commeatibus superabat,

    Liv. 22, 40, 8:

    rapto in diem frumento,

    id. 4, 10, 1;

    but, cum illa fundum emisset in diem,

    i. e. a fixed day of payment, Nep. Att. 9, 5: in singulos dies, or simply in dies, with comparatives and verbs denoting increase, from day to day, daily:

    vitium in dies crescit,

    Vell. 2, 5, 2:

    in dies singulos breviores litteras ad te mitto,

    Cic. Att. 5, 7:

    qui senescat in dies,

    Liv. 22, 39, 15: in diem, daily:

    nos in diem vivimus,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

    in diem et horam,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 47;

    and in horas,

    hourly, id. C. 2, 13, 14; id. S. 2, 7, 10.—
    C.
    In other relations, in which an aiming at, an inclining or striving towards a thing, is conceivable, on, about, respecting; towards, against; for, as; in, to; into:

    id, quod apud Platonem est in philosophos dictum,

    about the philosophers, Cic. Off. 1, 9, 28:

    Callimachi epigramma in Ambraciotam Cleombrotum est,

    id. Tusc. 1, 34, 84; cf.:

    cum cenaret Simonides apud Scopam cecinissetque id car men, quod in eum scripsisset, etc.,

    id. de Or. 2, 86, 352:

    quo amore tandem inflammati esse debemus in ejus modi patriam,

    towards, id. ib. 1, 44, 196:

    in liberos nostros indulgentia,

    id. ib. 2, 40, 168:

    de suis meritis in rem publicam aggressus est dicere,

    id. Or. 38, 133: ita ad impietatem in deos, in homines adjunxit injuriam, against, id. N. D. 3, 34 fin.:

    in dominum quaeri,

    to be examined as a witness against, id. Mil. 22, 60:

    in eos impetum facere,

    id. Att. 2, 22, 1:

    invehi in Thebanos,

    Nep. Epam. 6, 1; id. Tim. 5, 3:

    quaecumque est hominis definitio, una in omnes valet,

    id. Leg. 1, 10, 29:

    num etiam in deos immortales inauspicatam legem valuisse?

    Liv. 7, 6, 11:

    vereor coram in os te laudare amplius,

    to your face, Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 5:

    si in me exerciturus (pugnos), quaeso, in parietem ut primum domes,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 168:

    in puppim rediere rates,

    Luc. 3, 545 Burm. (cf.:

    sic equi dicuntur in frena redire, pulsi in terga recedere, Sulp. ad loc.): Cumis eam vidi: venerat enim in funus: cui funeri ego quoque operam dedi,

    to the funeral, to take charge of the funeral, Cic. Att. 15, 1, B:

    se quisque eum optabat, quem fortuna in id certamen legeret,

    Liv. 21, 42, 2:

    quodsi in nullius mercedem negotia eant, pauciora fore,

    Tac. A. 11, 6:

    haec civitas mulieri redimiculum praebeat, haec in collum, haec in crines,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33:

    Rhegium quondam in praesidium missa legio,

    Liv. 28, 28; so,

    datae in praesidium cohortes,

    Tac. H. 4, 35: hoc idem significat Graecus ille in eam sententiam versus, to this effect or purport, Cic. Div. 2, 10, 25; cf. id. Fam. 9, 15, 4:

    haec et in eam sententiam cum multa dixisset,

    id. Att. 2, 22:

    qui omnia sic exaequaverunt, ut in utramque partem ita paria redderent, uti nulla selectione uterentur,

    id. Fin. 3, 4, 12:

    in utramque partem disputat,

    on both sides, for and against, id. Off. 3, 23, 89: te rogo, me tibi in omnes partes defendendum putes, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10 fin.:

    facillime et in optimam partem cognoscuntur adulescentes, qui se ad claros et sapientes viros contulerunt,

    id. Off. 2, 13, 46:

    cives Romani servilem in modum cruciati et necati,

    in the manner of slaves, Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 13; cf.:

    miserandum in modum milites populi Romani capti, necati sunt,

    id. Prov. Cons. 3, 5:

    senior quidam Veiens vaticinantis in modum cecinit,

    Liv. 5, 15, 4;

    also: domus et villae in urbium modum aedificatae,

    Sall. C. 12, 3:

    perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia legitima sint,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

    judicium quin acciperet in ea ipsa verba quae Naevius edebat, non recusasse,

    id. Quint. 20, 63; cf.:

    senatusconsultum in haec verba factum,

    Liv. 30, 43, 9:

    pax data Philippo in has leges est,

    id. 33, 30:

    Gallia omnis divisa est in partes tres,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1; cf.:

    quae quidem in confirmationem et reprehensionem dividuntur,

    Cic. Part. Or. 9, 33: describebat censores binos in singulas civitates, i. e. for or over each state, id. Verr. 2, 2, 53; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 26:

    itaque Titurium Tolosae quaternos denarios in singulas vini amphoras portorii nomine exegisse,

    id. Font. 5, 9:

    extulit eum plebs sextantibus collatis in capita,

    a head, for each person, Liv. 2, 33 fin.:

    Macedonibus treceni nummi in capita statutum est pretium,

    id. 32, 17, 2; cf.:

    Thracia in Rhoemetalcen filium... inque liberos Cotyis dividitur (i. e. inter),

    Tac. A. 2, 67.—
    2.
    Of the object or end in view, regarded also as the motive of action or effect:

    non te in me illiberalem, sed me in se neglegentem putabit,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 1, 16:

    neglegentior in patrem,

    Just. 32, 3, 1:

    in quem omnes intenderat curas,

    Curt. 3, 1, 21:

    quos ardere in proelia vidi,

    Verg. A. 2, 347:

    in bellum ardentes,

    Manil. 4, 220:

    nutante in fugam exercitu,

    Flor. 3, 10, 4:

    in hanc tam opimam mercedem agite ( = ut eam vobis paretis, Weissenb. ad loc.),

    Liv. 21, 43, 7:

    certa praemia, in quorum spem pugnarent,

    id. 21, 45, 4:

    in id sors dejecta,

    id. 21, 42, 2:

    in id fide accepta,

    id. 28, 17, 9:

    in spem pacis solutis animis,

    id. 6, 11, 5 et saep.:

    ingrata misero vita ducenda est in hoc, ut, etc.,

    Hor. Epod. 17, 63:

    nec in hoc adhibetur, ut, etc.,

    Sen. Ep. 16, 3:

    alius non in hoc, ut offenderet, facit, id. de Ira, 2, 26, 3: in quod tum missi?

    Just. 38, 3, 4.—So, like ad, with words expressing affections or inclination of the mind:

    in obsequium plus aequo pronus,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 10:

    paratus in res novas,

    Tac. H. 4, 32:

    in utrumque paratus,

    Verg. A. 2, 61.—
    3.
    Of the result of an act or effort:

    denique in familiae luctum atque in privignorum funus nupsit,

    Cic. Clu. 66, 188:

    paratusque miles, ut ordo agminis in aciem adsisteret,

    Tac. A. 2, 16: excisum Euboicae latus ingens rupis in antrum, Verg. A. 6, 42:

    portus ab Euroo fluctu curvatus in arcum,

    id. ib. 3, 533:

    populum in obsequia principum formavit,

    Just. 3, 2, 9:

    omnium partium decus in mercedem conruptum erat,

    Sall. H. 1, 13 Dietsch:

    commutari ex veris in falsa,

    Cic. Fat. 9, 17; 9, 18:

    in sollicitudinem versa fiducia est,

    Curt. 3, 8, 20.—
    4.
    Esp. in the phrase: in gratiam or in honorem, alicujus, in kindness, to show favor, out of good feeling, to show honor, etc., to any one (first in Liv.; cf. Weissenb. ad Liv. 28, 21, 4;

    Krebs, Antibarb. p. 562): in gratiam levium sociorum injuriam facere,

    Liv. 39, 26, 12:

    pugnaturi in gratiam ducis,

    id. 28, 21, 4:

    quorum in gratiam Saguntum deleverat Hannibal,

    id. 28, 39, 13; cf. id. 35, 2, 6; 26, 6, 16:

    oratio habita in sexus honorem,

    Quint. 1, 1, 6:

    convivium in honorem victoriae,

    id. 11, 2, 12:

    in honorem Quadratillae,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 7:

    in honorem tuum,

    Sen. Ep. 20, 7; 79, 2; 92, 1; Vell. 2, 41 al.—
    5.
    In the phrase, in rem esse, to be useful, to avail (cf.: e re esse;

    opp.: contra rem esse): ut aequom est, quod in rem esse utrique arbitremur,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 10:

    si in rem est Bacchidis,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 27; 2, 2, 7:

    hortatur, imperat, quae in rem sunt,

    Liv. 26, 44, 7:

    cetera, quae cognosse in rem erat,

    id. 22, 3, 2; 44, 19, 3:

    in rem fore credens universos adpellare,

    Sall. C. 20, 1; cf.:

    in duas res magnas id usui fore,

    Liv. 37, 15, 7:

    in hos usus,

    Verg. A. 4, 647.—
    6.
    To form adverbial expressions:

    non nominatim, qui Capuae, sed in universum qui usquam coissent, etc.,

    in general, Liv. 9, 26, 8; cf.:

    terra etsi aliquanto specie differt, in universum tamen aut silvis horrida aut paludibus foeda,

    Tac. G. 5:

    in universum aestimanti, etc.,

    id. ib. 6:

    aestate in totum, si fieri potest, abstinendum est (Venere),

    wholly, entirely, Cels. 1, 3 fin.; cf. Col. 2, 1, 2:

    in plenum dici potest, etc.,

    fully, Plin. 16, 40, 79, § 217:

    Marii virtutem in majus celebrare,

    beyond due bounds, Sall. J. 73, 5:

    aliter se corpus habere atque consuevit, neque in pejus tantum, sed etiam in melius,

    for the worse, for the better, Cels. 2, 2:

    in deterius,

    Tac. A. 14, 43:

    in mollius,

    id. ib. 14, 39:

    quid enim est iracundia in supervacuum tumultuante frigidius? Sen. de Ira, 2, 11: civitas saepta muris neque in barbarum corrupta (v. barbarus),

    Tac. A. 6, 42; cf.:

    aucto in barbarum cognomento,

    id. H. 5, 2:

    priusquam id sors cerneret, in incertum, ne quid gratia momenti faceret, in utramque provinciam decerni,

    while the matter was uncertain, Liv. 43, 12, 2:

    nec puer Iliaca quisquam de gente Latinos In tantum spe tollet avos,

    so much, Verg. A. 6, 876:

    in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

    Liv. 22, 27, 4; cf.:

    quaedam (aquae) fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 24:

    viri in tantum boni, in quantum humana simplicitas intellegi potest,

    Vell. 2, 43, 4:

    quippe pedum digitos, in quantum quaeque secuta est, Traxit,

    Ov. M. 11, 71:

    meliore in omnia ingenio animoque quam fortuna usus,

    in all respects, Vell. 2, 13:

    ut simul in omnia paremur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 25:

    in antecessum dare,

    beforehand, Sen. Ep. 118.—
    7.
    Sometimes with esse, habere, etc., in is followed by the acc. (constr. pregn.), to indicate a direction, aim, purpose, etc. (but v. Madvig. Gram. § 230, obs. 2, note, who regards these accusatives as originating in errors of pronunciation); so, esse in potestatem alicujus, to come into and remain in one ' s power: esse in mentem alicui, to come into and be in one ' s mind: esse in conspectum, to appear to and be in sight: esse in usum, to come into use, be used, etc.:

    quod, qui illam partem urbis tenerent, in eorum potestatem portum futurum intellegebant,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38:

    ut portus in potestatem Locrensium esset,

    Liv. 24, 1, 13; 2, 14, 4:

    eam optimam rem publicam esse duco, quae sit in potestatem optimorum,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 17:

    neque enim sunt motus in nostram potestatem,

    Quint. 6, 2, 29:

    numero mihi in mentem fuit,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 25; cf.:

    ecquid in mentem est tibi?

    id. Bacch. 1, 2, 53:

    nec prius surrexisse ac militibus in conspectum fuisse, quam, etc.,

    Suet. Aug. 16:

    quod satis in usum fuit, sublato, ceterum omne incensum est,

    Liv. 22, 20, 6: ab hospitibus clientibusque suis, ab exteris nationibus, quae in amicitiam populi Romani dicionemque essent, injurias propulsare, Cic. Div. ap. Caecil. 20, 66: adesse in senatum [p. 914] jussit a. d. XIII. Kal. Octobr., id. Phil. 5, 7, 19.—Less freq. with habere: facito in memoriam habeas tuam majorem filiam mihi te despondisse, call or bring to mind, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 108:

    M. Minucium magistrum equitum, ne quid rei bellicae gereret, prope in custodiam habitum,

    put in prison, kept in prison, Liv. 22, 25, 6:

    reliquos in custodiam habitos,

    Tac. H. 1, 87.—So rarely with other verbs:

    pollicetur se provinciam Galliam retenturum in senatus populique Romani potestatem,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 8. —
    III.
    In composition, n regularly becomes assimilated to a foll. l, m, or r, and is changed before the labials into m: illabor, immitto, irrumpo, imbibo, impello.—As to its meaning, according as it is connected with a verb of rest or motion, it conveys the idea of existence in a place or thing, or of motion, direction, or inclination into or to a place or thing: inesse; inhibere, inferre, impellere, etc. See Hand, Turs. III. pp. 243- 356.
    2.
    in (before b and p, im; before l, m, and r, the n assimilates itself to these consonants), an inseparable particle [kindred with Sanscr. a-, an-; Gr. a-, an; Goth. and Germ. un-], which negatives the meaning of the noun or participle with which it is connected; Engl. un-, in-, not: impar, unequal: intolerabilis, unbearable, intolerable: immitis, not mild, rude, etc.

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  • 111 pars

    pars, partis ( gen. sing. PARTVS, Inscr. Corp. Lat. 197, 12; acc. partim, Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 94; Liv. 26, 46, 8; 31, 36, 9; 23, 11, 11; Sall. J. 89, 1; id. H. 2, 41, 1; v. infra fin.; abl. parti, Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 14; Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 5; Lucr. 1, 1113; 4, 515; nom. plur. parteis, Varr. L. L. 5, 4, 21; gen. plur. partum, Caes. ap. Charis. p. 114 P.), f. [root por; Gr. eporon, gave; peprôtai, is given, destined; Lat. portio; cf. parare], a part, piece, portion, share, etc.
    I.
    In gen.:

    ne expers partis esset de nostris bonis,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 39:

    urbis, imperil,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 32, § 84:

    duae partes frumenti,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 19, §

    48: magnas partes habuit publicorum,

    id. Rab. Post. 2, 4:

    dare partes amicis,

    id. ib.:

    Belgae pertinent ad inferiorem partem fluminis Rheni,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1:

    copias in quattuor partes distribuerat,

    Sall. J. 101, 3:

    locare agrum partibus,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 37, 3:

    pars occidentalis Jordanis,

    the west side, Vulg. Jos. 23, 4.—
    2.
    Magna, bona, multa, major, maxima pars, many, a good many, the majority:

    magna pars in iis civitatibus,

    Cic. Balb. 8, 21:

    major pars populi,

    id. Agr. 2, 9, 22:

    maxima pars hominum,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 121; cf.:

    minor pars populi,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 7, 18:

    multa pars mei,

    Hor. C. 3, 30, 6.—
    3.
    Pars, some, partitively (= partim):

    faciunt pars hominum,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13; id. Most. 1, 2, 33; id. Capt. 2, 1, 36: pars levem ducere equitum jacturam;

    pars, etc.,

    Liv. 22, 8; cf. id. 21, 7; 23; 20:

    pars triumphos suos ostentantes,

    Sall. J. 31, 10:

    poscebantque pericula, pars virtute, multi ferocia et cupidine praemiorum,

    Tac. H. 5, 11:

    tergora deripiunt costis et viscera nudant: Pars in frusta secant,

    Verg. A. 1, 212.—Rarely of a single person:

    cum pars Niliacae plebis, cum verna Canopi, Crispinus ventilet, etc.,

    Juv. 1, 26.—
    4.
    Parte, in part, partly:

    (poma) quae candida parte, Parte rubent,

    Ov. M. 3, 483:

    melichloros est geminus, parte flavus, parte melleus,

    Plin. 37, 11, 73, § 191.—Esp., with magnā, maximā, etc.:

    ab semisomnis ac maximā parte inermibus refringi,

    Liv. 9, 24, 12 Weissenb. ad loc.:

    invalido exercitu et magnā parte pestilentiā absumpto,

    id. 24, 34, 14:

    quod saxum magnā parte ita proclive est,

    id. ib.; 41, 6, 6.—
    5.
    Pro parte, for one's share or quota, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 59, § 145.—
    6.
    Ex parte, in part, partly:

    ex parte gaudeo,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9:

    de decem viris sacrorum ex parte de plebe creandis,

    Liv. 6, 42, 2.—Esp.,
    b.
    Ex ullā, ex aliquā, ex magnā, ex maximā parte, in any, etc., degree, measure, etc.:

    si ullā ex parte sententia hujus interdicti infirmata sit,

    Cic. Caecin. 13, 38; id. Rosc. Com. 12, 33:

    ex magnā parte tibi assentior,

    id. Att. 7, 3, 3:

    aut omnino, aut magnā ex parte,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 1:

    saucii ex magnā parte milites,

    Liv. 21, 56, 8:

    ne minimā quidem ex parte,

    not in the slightest degree, Cic. Off. 1, 22, 76.—
    7.
    Multis partibus, by a great deal, much: omnibus partibus, in all respects, altogether:

    non multis partibus malit,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 11, 36:

    quoniam numero multis partibus esset inferior,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 84; 3, 80:

    in Hortensii sententiam multis partibus plures ituros,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 2; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 3:

    omnium virorum bonorum vitam omnibus partibus plus habere semper boni quam mali,

    in all respects, every way, Cic. Fin. 5, 31, 91.—
    8.
    In parte, in part, partly (cf. ex parte, supra):

    in parte expeditior, in parte difficilior,

    Quint. 5, 7, 22; 11, 2, 34:

    in parte verum videtur,

    id. 2, 8, 6; 4, 5, 13; 10, 7, 25.—
    9.
    Pro meā, tuā, suā parte, or simply pro parte (for the stronger pro virili parte, v. virilis, II. 2.), for my, your, or his share, to the best of my, your, his, etc., ability:

    quibus aliquid opis fortasse ego pro meā, tu pro tuā, pro suā quisque parte ferre potuisset,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 15, 3:

    pro meā parte adjuvi, ut, etc.,

    id. ib. 5, 2, 9:

    sciunt ii, qui me norunt, me pro illā tenui infirmāque parte id maxime defendisse, ut, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 47, 136:

    quisquis adest operi, plus quam pro parte laborat,

    Ov. F. 4, 301.—Likewise,
    10.
    In partem, i. q. pro parte, en merei, for one's share, to the best of one's ability:

    quodsi pudica mulier in partem juvet Domum (i. e. quae ad eam proprie pertinet),

    Hor. Epod. 2, 39 (for which:

    age sis tuam partem nunc iam hunc delude,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89 Fleck., where others read tu in partem).—
    11.
    Acc. absol.: magnam, maximam partem, in great part, for the most part:

    magnam partem ex iambis nostra constat oratio,

    Cic. Or. 56, 189; Liv. 5, 14:

    maximam partem ad arma trepidantes caedes oppressit,

    id. 9, 37, 9:

    maximam partem lacte atque pecore vivunt,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 1.—So, bonam partem, Lucr. 6, 1249.—
    12.
    In eam partem.
    a.
    On that side:

    in eam partem accipio,

    i. e. in that sense, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 37:

    in eam partem peccant, quae cautior est,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 56.—
    b.
    On that account, with that intent, to the end that:

    moveor his rebus omnibus, sed in eam partem, ut salvi sint vobiscum omnes,

    Cic. Cat. 4, 2, 3:

    has litteras scripsi in eam partem, ne me motum putares,

    id. Att. 16, 1, 6.—
    13.
    In aliam partem, in the opposite direction:

    antehac est habitus parcus... is nunc in aliam partem palmam possidet,

    for the opposite quality Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 32.—
    14.
    In utramque partem, on both sides, for and against, pro and con: nullam in partem, on neither side: in mitiorem, in optimam partem, in the most mild or most favorable manner, Cic. Att. 15, 23 init.:

    magna vis est fortunae in utramque partem, vel secundas ad res, vel adversas,

    id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

    neutram in partem,

    id. ib.:

    neque ego ullam in partem disputo,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 3, § 6:

    mitiorem in partem interpretari,

    id. Mur. 31, 64:

    in optimam partem aliquid accipere,

    id. Att. 10, 3, 2; id. Fam. 14, 2, 3: in partem aliquem vocare, to call upon one to take his share, to summon to a division of any thing, id. Caecin. 4, 12.—
    15.
    Nullā parte, by no means, not at all, Ov. H. 7, 110; Quint. 2, 16, 18.—
    b.
    Omni parte, and omni a and ex parte, in every respect, entirely:

    gens omni parte pacata,

    Liv. 41, 34; Hor. S. 1, 2, 38:

    quod sit omni ex parte... perfectum,

    Cic. Lael. 21, 79:

    omnique a parte placebam,

    Ov. H. 15, 45.—
    16.
    Per partes, partly, partially:

    quod etsi per partes nonnumquam damnosum est, in summā tamen fit compendiosum,

    Col. 1, 4, 5:

    per partes emendare aliquid,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 10; Dig. 12, 1, 13.—
    17.
    In omnes partes, in every respect, altogether:

    Brundusii jacere in omnes partes est molestum,

    Cic. Att. 11, 6, 2; id. Fam. 4, 10, 2; 13, 1, 2.
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    A party, faction, side, etc. (usu. in plur.; syn. factio).
    (α).
    Sing.:

    timeo huic nostrae parti, quid hic respondeat,

    Ter. And. 2, 5, 8:

    cum non liceret mihi nullius partis esse,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 1:

    a parte heredum intraverant duo,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 10:

    nec ex advocatis partis adversae judex eligendus,

    of the opposite party, Quint. 5, 6, 6; 7, 9, 14; 12, 9, 19 et saep.:

    ut alius in aliam partem mente atque animo traheretur,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 21.—Hence, esp.: ex alterā parte, on the other hand:

    omnia ex alterā parte collocata,

    Cic. Off. 3, 3, 11:

    si videatis catenas, non minus profecto vos ea species moveat, quam si ex alterā parte cernatis, etc.,

    Liv. 22, 59, 15:

    idem ex alterā parte et ancilla fecit,

    Petr. 18 fin.:

    parvuli amplexi patrem tenebant. Ex alterā parte uxor maritum osculis fatigabat,

    Just. 23, 2, 9; cf. Cic. Or. 32, 114.—
    (β).
    Plur. (class.;

    esp. freq. in Tac.),

    Cic. Phil. 13, 20, 47:

    erat, inquit, illarum partium,

    id. Quint. 21, 69:

    in duas partes discedunt Numidae,

    Sall. J. 13, 1:

    ita omnia in duas partes abstracta sunt,

    id. ib. 41, 5:

    mihi a spe, metu, partibus rei publicae animus liber erat,

    id. C. 4, 2:

    ducere aliquem in partes,

    Tac. A. 15, 51:

    trahere,

    id. ib. 4, 60:

    transire in partes,

    id. H. 1, 70. —
    B.
    In plur., a part, character, on the stage: primas partes qui aget, is erit Phormio, [p. 1307] the first part, the principal character, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

    cur partes seni Poëta dederit, quae sunt adulescentium,

    a youthful part, id. Heaut. prol. 1; 10:

    esse primarum, secundarum, aut tertiarum partium,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 51:

    servus primarum partium,

    id. Fl. 27, 65.—
    2.
    Transf. beyond the lang. of the theatre, a part, function, office, duty, etc.—In plur. (class.):

    sine illum priores partes hosce aliquot dies Apud me habere,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 71:

    in scribendo priores partes alicui tribuere,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 4:

    puero me hic sermo inducitur, ut nullae esse possent partes meae,

    so that I could not take a part in it, id. Att. 13, 19, 4:

    constantiae, moderationis, temperantiae, verecundiae partes,

    id. Off. 1, 28, 98:

    has partes lenitatis et misericordiae, quas me natura ipsa docuit semper egi libenter,

    id. Mur. 3, 6:

    partes accusatoris obtinere,

    id. Quint. 2, 8; id. Rosc. Am. 34, 95:

    tuum est hoc munus, tuae partes, etc.,

    id. Fam. 11, 5, 3:

    promitto atque confirmo, me... imperatoris suscepturum officia atque partes,

    id. ib. 3, 10, 8:

    Antonii audio esse partes, ut de totā eloquentiā disserat,

    id. de Or. 2, 7, 26:

    transactis jam meis partibus ad Antonium audiendum venistis,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 15; id. Att. 7, 26, 2: ut ad partes paratus veniat, qs. prepared to act his part, Varr. R. R. 2, 5; so,

    ad partes parati,

    Ov. Am. 1, 8, 87; cf. Liv. 3, 10; Gai. Inst. 4, 160; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 14, 3, 2.—In sing. (mostly post-Aug.):

    haec igitur tibi reliqua pars est,... ut rem publicam constituas, etc.,

    Cic. Marc. 9, 27:

    pars consilii pacisque,

    Tac. H. 3, 46:

    videri alia quoque hujus partis atque officii,

    Quint. 11, 3, 174:

    pars defensoris tota est posita in refutatione,

    id. 5, 13, 1:

    neglegentiae, humilitatis,

    id. 9, 4, 35 et saep. (v. Bonnell, Lex. Quint. p. 627).—
    C.
    A lot, portion, fate:

    hancine ego partem capio ob pietatem praecipuam?

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 4.—
    D.
    A portion, share, of food, Petr. 33:

    equiti Romano avidius vescenti partes suas misit,

    Suet. Calig. 18.—Also, the remains of a meal, App. M. 2, p. 125 med. —
    E.
    A task, lesson:

    puer frugi est, decem partes dicit,

    Petr. 75, 4; 46, 3; 58, 7; Inscr. Grut. 625, 8; Inscr. Orell. 2872.—
    F.
    A part, place, region, of the earth.—In plur., Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 2:

    Orientis partes,

    id. Mur. 41, 89:

    in extremis ignoti partibus orbis,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 3; cf. Ruhnk. on Ov. H. 18, 197.—
    G.
    In counting or calculating, a part, fraction; one half, one third, etc., as the context indicates:

    tres jam copiarum partes,

    fourths, Caes. B. G. 1, 12:

    agri partes duae,

    thirds, Liv. 8, 1:

    duabus partibus peditum amissis,

    id. 21, 40:

    mulctae novem partes,

    tenths, Nep. Timol. 4.—
    H.
    A part of the body, member:

    nam lingua mali pars pessima servi,

    Juv. 9, 121.—Esp., the private parts, Ov. F. 1, 437; id. A. A. 2, 584; Auct. Priap. 30; 38; Phaedr. 4, 7.—Of a testicle, Col. 7, 11.—Hence, adv.: partim (old acc. sing.), partly, in part, a part, some of, some.
    A.
    Lit.
    (α).
    With gen.: cum partim illorum saepe ad eundem morem erat, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 13, 2:

    atque haud scio an partim eorum fuerint, qui, etc.,

    id. ib. 7, 3, 16: utrum neglegentia partim magistratuum, an, etc., nescio, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 10, 13, 4:

    Bruttios Apulosque, partim Samnitium ac Lucanorum defecisse ad Poenos,

    Liv. 23, 11.—So, repeated:

    corpora partim Multa virum terrae infodiunt avectaque partim Finitimos tollunt in agros,

    Verg. A. 11, 204:

    partim... partim: cum partim ejus praedae profundae libidines devorassent, partim nova quaedam et inaudita luxuries, partim etiam, etc.,

    Cic. Pis. 21, 48:

    eorum autem ipsorum partim ejus modi sunt, ut, etc.,

    id. Off. 2, 21, 9; 72; id. de Or. 2, 22, 94; 1, 31, 141:

    partim copiarum ad tumulum expugnandum mittit, partim ipse ad arcem ducit,

    Liv. 26, 46:

    eorum autem, quae objecta sunt mihi, partim ea sunt, etc.,

    id. 42, 41, 2; Nep. Att. 7, 2.—
    (β).
    With ex:

    ex quibus partim tecum fuerunt, partim, etc.,

    Cic. Vatin. 7, 16:

    partim ex illis distracti ac dissipati jacent,

    id. Leg. 2, 17, 42:

    cum partim e nobis ita timidi sint, ut, etc.,... partim, etc.,

    id. Phil. 8, 11, 32:

    ex dubiis partim nobis ipsis ad electionem sunt libera, partim aliorum sententiae commissa,

    Quint. 3, 4, 8.—
    (γ).
    Absol. (so most freq.): animus partim uxoris misericordiā Devinctus, partim victus hujus injuriis, partly,... partly; in part,... in part, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 92 sq.:

    partim quae perspexi his oculis, partim quae accepi auribus,

    id. ib. 3, 3, 3:

    amici partim deseruerint me, partim etiam prodiderint,

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

    diuturni silentii... non timore aliquo, sed partim dolore, partim verecundiā, finem hodiernus dies attulit,

    id. Marc. 1, 1; Quint. 7, 1, 3:

    partim quod... partim quod, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 6, 3:

    partim ductu, partim auspiciis suis,

    Suet. Aug. 21:

    partim cupiditate... partim ambitione... partim etiam inscientiā,

    Quint. 12, 11, 14:

    Scipio dux partim factis fortibus partim suāpte fortunā quādam ingentis ad incrementa gloriae celebratus converterat animos,

    Liv. 29, 26, 5:

    postea renuntiavit foro partim pudore, partim metu,

    Suet. Rhet. 6.—Sometimes partim is placed only in the second member of a partitive proposition:

    Caesar a nobilissimis civibus, partim etiam a se omnibus rebus ornatis, trucidatus,

    Cic. Div. 2, 9, 23; id. Verr. 2, 2, 65, § 158.—Sometimes it corresponds to alius, quidam, etc.:

    bestiarum terrenae sunt aliae, partim aquatiles, aliae quasi ancipites,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 103:

    multa inusitata partim e caelo, alia ex terrā oriebantur, quaedam etiam, etc.,

    id. Div. 1, 42, 93:

    quibusdam placuisse mirabilia quaedam, partim fugiendas esse nimias amicitias,

    Cic. Am. 13, 45:

    castra hostium invadunt, semisomnos partim, alios arma sumentes fugant,

    Sall. J. 21, 2:

    Gaetulos accepimus, partim in tuguriis, alios incultius vagos agitare, etc.,

    id. ib. 19, 5; 38, 3; 40, 2; cf. id. ib. 13, 2; Gell. 2, 22, 1.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    For the most part, chiefly, principally (ante-class.):

    mirum quin tibi ego crederem, ut ipse idem mihi faceres, quod partim faciunt argentarii,

    Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 28:

    bubulcis obsequitor, partim quo libentius boves curent,

    Cato, R. R. 5, 6; 6, 3. —
    2.
    Of time, sometimes (late Lat.), Scrib. Comp. Med. 53.

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  • 112 verenda

    vĕrĕor, ĭtus ( part. pres. verens; rare in histt.; not in Cæs., Liv., Sall., or Curt., veritus being used instead; but freq. in Cic., Nep., and Just.; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 1192), 2, v. dep. a. and n. [Greek root or-, Wor; ouros, epiouros, guardian; horaô, to see; O. H. Germ. warten, to see; Engl. ward], to feel awe of, to reverence, revere, respect; to fear, be afraid of any thing (good or bad); to fear or be afraid to do a thing, etc. (not so strong as metuo, v. Cic. Quint. 1, 1 infra; cf. also timeo); constr. with acc., with an inf., the gen., a foll. ne, ut, a rel.-clause, or absol.
    (α).
    With acc.:

    vereri aliquem,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 23; so,

    vereri et metuere Junonem,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 202: contra nos ambae faciunt, summa gratia et eloquentia;

    quarum alteram vereor, alteram metuo,

    Cic. Quint. 1, 1:

    metuebant eum servi, verebantur liberi,

    id. Sen. 11, 37; cf.:

    quid? veteranos non veremur? nam timeri se ne ipsi quidem volunt,

    id. Phil. 12, 12, 29:

    veremur vos, Romani, et, si ita vultis, etiam timemus,

    Liv. 39, 37, 17:

    ut majorem fratrem vereri,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 3:

    quem discipuli et amant et verentur,

    Quint. 2, 2, 8 Spald. N. cr.:

    non se hostem vereri, sed angustias itineris et magnitudinem silvarum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

    patris conspectum,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 1:

    reprehensionem doctorum atque prudentium,

    Cic. Or. 1, 1:

    Gallica bella,

    id. Att. 14, 4, 1:

    periculum,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 48; id. B. C. 3, 21; Hirt. B. G. 8, 39:

    desidiam in hoc,

    Quint. 1, 3, 7:

    opinionem jactantiae,

    id. 9, 2, 74:

    pauperiem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 39:

    majus,

    id. S. 2, 8, 57:

    supplicium ab aliquo,

    Auct. Her. 2, 19, 28:

    hoc verens in hanc tarditatem incidi,

    Cic. Att. 10, 8, 5:

    quae verens Epicurus... commentus est, etc.,

    id. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

    invidiam verens,

    Nep. Eum. 7, 1.—
    (β).
    With inf.:

    vereri introire in alienam domum,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 32:

    vereor dicere,

    Ter. And. 2, 1, 23:

    vereor committere, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37:

    quos interficere,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 6:

    insanos qui inter vereare insanus haberi,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 40:

    verear magis, Me amoris causā hoc ornatu incedere,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 2:

    judex verebar non omnes causam vincere posse suam,

    Ov. H. 16, 75 sq. — Impers.:

    Cyrenaici, quos non est veritum in voluptate summum bonum ponere,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 39.—
    (γ).
    With gen. (mostly ante-class.): uxor, quae non vereatur viri, Afran. ap. Non. 496, 29:

    tui progenitoris,

    Att. ib. 497, 2:

    feminae primariae,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 78:

    tui testimonii,

    Cic. Att. 8, 4, 1.— Impers.: nihilne te populi veretur, Pac. ap. Non. 497, 2.—
    (δ).
    With dat. (very rare):

    eo minus veritus navibus, quod, etc.,

    for the ships, Caes. B. G. 5, 9.—
    (ε).
    With ne, lest or that:

    sed vereor, ne videatur oratio mea, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 46, 70; 3, 5, 70; id. de Or. 1, 55, 234; id. Sull. 23, 66; Caes. B. G. 1, 19; 1, 42; 2, 1; Sall. J. 14, 20; Hor. S. 1, 2, 127; id. Ep. 1, 16, 19:

    veritus, ne licentia invidiam adcenderet,

    Sall. J. 15, 3:

    agebamus verentes ne quid accideret,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 19, 2:

    tum me inquit collegi, verens ne... noceret,

    id. Att. 15, 21, 1; id. Fam. 9, 16, 1; id. de Or 2, 3, 14; 3, 9, 33; Nep. Dion, 4, 1; 8, 5; id. Them. 5, 1.—To introduce an expression of opinion, like dubito an:

    si, ut Graeci dicunt, omnes aut Graios esse aut barbaros, vereor ne barbarorum rex fuerit (Romulus),

    then I am afraid that, I suspect that, Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58:

    non vereor, ne assentatiunculā quādam aucupari tuam gratiam videar,

    id. Fam. 5, 12, 6; Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 58; id. Mil. 3, 3, 68; Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8.—
    (ζ).
    With ne... non:

    accepi tuas litteras, quibus intellexi te vereri ne superiores mihi redditae non essent,

    Cic. Fam. 14, 5, 1.—So usu. after non vereor, ne non is used instead of ut (cf. ê, infra):

    non vereor ne hoc officium meum P. Servilio non probem,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 82; 2, 2, 47, § 118:

    non vereor, ne non scribendo te expleam,

    id. Fam. 2, 1, 1; 2, 5, 2; 2, 6, 2; 11, 28, 8; Cels. 5, 28, 12.—

    So after questions implying a negative: quid est cur verear ne ad eam non possim accommodare Torquatos nostros?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34;

    and in ironical concessions or assumptions: si meis horis in accusando uti voluissem, vererer ne mihi crimina non suppeterent,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 31; id. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 19.—
    (η).
    With ut, that not:

    veritus ut hostium impetum sustinere posset,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 47:

    illa duo, Crasse, vereor, ut tibi possim concedere,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35; id. Fam. 14, 14, 1; id. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Auct. Her. 3, 6, 11:

    ut ferulā caedas meritum majora subire Verbera non vereor,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 121.—
    (θ).
    With a rel.-clause, to await with fear, to fear, dread:

    heri semper lenitas verebar quorsum evaderet,

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 5:

    Pomptinum quod scribis in urbem introisse, vereor, quid sit,

    Cic. Att. 7, 7, 3: hoc quomodo acciperent homines, vereor etiam nunc, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1:

    vereor, num hic aliud sit dicendum,

    Dig. 20, 4, 11.—
    (ι).
    With de and abl. (very rare):

    de quā (Carthagine) vereri non ante desinam quam illam excisam esse cognovero,

    Cic. Sen. 6, 18.—
    (κ).
    Absol.:

    hic vereri perdidit,

    i. e. he has lost all sense of shame, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 50:

    ne vereamini, Quia bellum Aetolis esse dixi cum Aliis,

    id. Capt. prol. 58: ne vereare;

    meo periculo hujus ego experiar fidem,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 99.—Hence,
    A.
    vĕrenter, adv., with reverence, reverently, Sedul. 1, 8.—
    B.
    vĕrendus, a, um, P. a., that is to be feared or reverenced, awful, venerable; fearful, terrible ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
    1.
    Adj.:

    majestas,

    Ov. M. 4, 540:

    patres,

    id. P. 3, 1, 143; cf. id. Tr. 5, 6, 31:

    ossa (viri),

    id. H. 3, 104:

    Alexander Partho verendus,

    Luc. 10, 46:

    fluctus classibus,

    id. 5, 502.—
    2.
    Subst.: vĕrenda, ōrum, m., the private parts, Plin. 28, 15, 60, § 213; 32, 9, 34, § 107; 36, 21, 42, § 156; Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 14;

    called also partes verendae,

    Veg. Vet. 1, 7.
    ► In a pass.
    signif.: ubi malunt metui quam vereri se ab suis, Afran. ap. Gell. 15, 13, 3; cf. also the impersonal use above, b and g.

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  • 113 vereor

    vĕrĕor, ĭtus ( part. pres. verens; rare in histt.; not in Cæs., Liv., Sall., or Curt., veritus being used instead; but freq. in Cic., Nep., and Just.; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 1192), 2, v. dep. a. and n. [Greek root or-, Wor; ouros, epiouros, guardian; horaô, to see; O. H. Germ. warten, to see; Engl. ward], to feel awe of, to reverence, revere, respect; to fear, be afraid of any thing (good or bad); to fear or be afraid to do a thing, etc. (not so strong as metuo, v. Cic. Quint. 1, 1 infra; cf. also timeo); constr. with acc., with an inf., the gen., a foll. ne, ut, a rel.-clause, or absol.
    (α).
    With acc.:

    vereri aliquem,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 23; so,

    vereri et metuere Junonem,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 202: contra nos ambae faciunt, summa gratia et eloquentia;

    quarum alteram vereor, alteram metuo,

    Cic. Quint. 1, 1:

    metuebant eum servi, verebantur liberi,

    id. Sen. 11, 37; cf.:

    quid? veteranos non veremur? nam timeri se ne ipsi quidem volunt,

    id. Phil. 12, 12, 29:

    veremur vos, Romani, et, si ita vultis, etiam timemus,

    Liv. 39, 37, 17:

    ut majorem fratrem vereri,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 3:

    quem discipuli et amant et verentur,

    Quint. 2, 2, 8 Spald. N. cr.:

    non se hostem vereri, sed angustias itineris et magnitudinem silvarum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

    patris conspectum,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 1:

    reprehensionem doctorum atque prudentium,

    Cic. Or. 1, 1:

    Gallica bella,

    id. Att. 14, 4, 1:

    periculum,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 48; id. B. C. 3, 21; Hirt. B. G. 8, 39:

    desidiam in hoc,

    Quint. 1, 3, 7:

    opinionem jactantiae,

    id. 9, 2, 74:

    pauperiem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 39:

    majus,

    id. S. 2, 8, 57:

    supplicium ab aliquo,

    Auct. Her. 2, 19, 28:

    hoc verens in hanc tarditatem incidi,

    Cic. Att. 10, 8, 5:

    quae verens Epicurus... commentus est, etc.,

    id. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

    invidiam verens,

    Nep. Eum. 7, 1.—
    (β).
    With inf.:

    vereri introire in alienam domum,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 32:

    vereor dicere,

    Ter. And. 2, 1, 23:

    vereor committere, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 37:

    quos interficere,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 6:

    insanos qui inter vereare insanus haberi,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 40:

    verear magis, Me amoris causā hoc ornatu incedere,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 2:

    judex verebar non omnes causam vincere posse suam,

    Ov. H. 16, 75 sq. — Impers.:

    Cyrenaici, quos non est veritum in voluptate summum bonum ponere,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 39.—
    (γ).
    With gen. (mostly ante-class.): uxor, quae non vereatur viri, Afran. ap. Non. 496, 29:

    tui progenitoris,

    Att. ib. 497, 2:

    feminae primariae,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 78:

    tui testimonii,

    Cic. Att. 8, 4, 1.— Impers.: nihilne te populi veretur, Pac. ap. Non. 497, 2.—
    (δ).
    With dat. (very rare):

    eo minus veritus navibus, quod, etc.,

    for the ships, Caes. B. G. 5, 9.—
    (ε).
    With ne, lest or that:

    sed vereor, ne videatur oratio mea, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 46, 70; 3, 5, 70; id. de Or. 1, 55, 234; id. Sull. 23, 66; Caes. B. G. 1, 19; 1, 42; 2, 1; Sall. J. 14, 20; Hor. S. 1, 2, 127; id. Ep. 1, 16, 19:

    veritus, ne licentia invidiam adcenderet,

    Sall. J. 15, 3:

    agebamus verentes ne quid accideret,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 19, 2:

    tum me inquit collegi, verens ne... noceret,

    id. Att. 15, 21, 1; id. Fam. 9, 16, 1; id. de Or 2, 3, 14; 3, 9, 33; Nep. Dion, 4, 1; 8, 5; id. Them. 5, 1.—To introduce an expression of opinion, like dubito an:

    si, ut Graeci dicunt, omnes aut Graios esse aut barbaros, vereor ne barbarorum rex fuerit (Romulus),

    then I am afraid that, I suspect that, Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58:

    non vereor, ne assentatiunculā quādam aucupari tuam gratiam videar,

    id. Fam. 5, 12, 6; Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 58; id. Mil. 3, 3, 68; Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 1; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8.—
    (ζ).
    With ne... non:

    accepi tuas litteras, quibus intellexi te vereri ne superiores mihi redditae non essent,

    Cic. Fam. 14, 5, 1.—So usu. after non vereor, ne non is used instead of ut (cf. ê, infra):

    non vereor ne hoc officium meum P. Servilio non probem,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 82; 2, 2, 47, § 118:

    non vereor, ne non scribendo te expleam,

    id. Fam. 2, 1, 1; 2, 5, 2; 2, 6, 2; 11, 28, 8; Cels. 5, 28, 12.—

    So after questions implying a negative: quid est cur verear ne ad eam non possim accommodare Torquatos nostros?

    Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34;

    and in ironical concessions or assumptions: si meis horis in accusando uti voluissem, vererer ne mihi crimina non suppeterent,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 11, § 31; id. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 19.—
    (η).
    With ut, that not:

    veritus ut hostium impetum sustinere posset,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 47:

    illa duo, Crasse, vereor, ut tibi possim concedere,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35; id. Fam. 14, 14, 1; id. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Auct. Her. 3, 6, 11:

    ut ferulā caedas meritum majora subire Verbera non vereor,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 121.—
    (θ).
    With a rel.-clause, to await with fear, to fear, dread:

    heri semper lenitas verebar quorsum evaderet,

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 5:

    Pomptinum quod scribis in urbem introisse, vereor, quid sit,

    Cic. Att. 7, 7, 3: hoc quomodo acciperent homines, vereor etiam nunc, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1:

    vereor, num hic aliud sit dicendum,

    Dig. 20, 4, 11.—
    (ι).
    With de and abl. (very rare):

    de quā (Carthagine) vereri non ante desinam quam illam excisam esse cognovero,

    Cic. Sen. 6, 18.—
    (κ).
    Absol.:

    hic vereri perdidit,

    i. e. he has lost all sense of shame, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 50:

    ne vereamini, Quia bellum Aetolis esse dixi cum Aliis,

    id. Capt. prol. 58: ne vereare;

    meo periculo hujus ego experiar fidem,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 99.—Hence,
    A.
    vĕrenter, adv., with reverence, reverently, Sedul. 1, 8.—
    B.
    vĕrendus, a, um, P. a., that is to be feared or reverenced, awful, venerable; fearful, terrible ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
    1.
    Adj.:

    majestas,

    Ov. M. 4, 540:

    patres,

    id. P. 3, 1, 143; cf. id. Tr. 5, 6, 31:

    ossa (viri),

    id. H. 3, 104:

    Alexander Partho verendus,

    Luc. 10, 46:

    fluctus classibus,

    id. 5, 502.—
    2.
    Subst.: vĕrenda, ōrum, m., the private parts, Plin. 28, 15, 60, § 213; 32, 9, 34, § 107; 36, 21, 42, § 156; Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 14;

    called also partes verendae,

    Veg. Vet. 1, 7.
    ► In a pass.
    signif.: ubi malunt metui quam vereri se ab suis, Afran. ap. Gell. 15, 13, 3; cf. also the impersonal use above, b and g.

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  • 114 causa (caussa)

        causa (caussa) ae, f    [1 CAV-], a cause, reason, motive, inducement, occasion, opportunity: te causae inpellebant leves, T.: obscura: accedit illa quoque causa: causa, quam ob rem, etc., T.: satis esse causa, quā re, etc., Cs.: si causa nulla est, cur, etc.: causa quod, etc.: ea est causa, ut cloacae subeant, etc., L.: quid causae est quin: nulla causa est quin: causa quo minus, S.: is, qui causa mortis fuit: morbi, V.: nos causa belli sumus, L.: rerum cognoscere causas, V.: Vera obiurgandi causa, T.—Poet.: Bacchus et ad culpam causas dedit (i. e. culparum causa fuit), V.: consurgere in arma, V.: quae rebus sit causa novandis, V.: meo subscribi causa sepulchro, i. e. of my death, O. — In phrases: cum causā, with good reason: sine causā, without good reason: sine ullā apertā causā: his de causis, Cs.: quā de causā: quā ex causa: eā causā, S.: ob eam causam, Cs.: ob eam ipsam causam: quam ob causam, N.: propter eam quam dixi causam: in causā haec sunt, are responsible: vim morbi in causā esse, quo, etc., L.: non paucitatem... causae fuisse cogitabant, to have been the cause, Cs.—Esp., abl. with gen. or possess. adj., on account of, for the sake of: alqm honoris causā nominare, with due respect: omnium nostrum causā: vitandae suspitionis causā: meā causā, T.: meāpte causā, T.: vestrā reique p. causā: vestrarum sedum templorumque causā; cf. quod illi semper sui causā fecerant: additur illius hoc iam causā, quicum agitur.—Meton., an apology, excuse: non causam dico quin ferat, etc., T.: causas nequiquam nectis inanīs, V.—Poet.: Et geminas, causam lacrimis, sacraverat aras, i. e. a place to weep, V.—A feigned cause, pretext, pretence: fingit causas ne det, T.: morae causas facere, reasons for the delay, S.: causas innecte morandi, V.: inferre causam, Cs.: bellandi, N.: per causam exercendorum remigum, under the pretext, Cs.: per causam renovati belli, L.: gratiam per hanc causam conciliare.—In law, a cause, judicial process, lawsuit: causam agere: publicam dicere: proferre: perdere: tenere, O.: causae actor accessi: causam dicere, to defend (oneself or as advocate): linguam causis acuere, for pleading, H.: extra causam esse, not to the point: plura extra causam dixisse: atque peracta est causa prior, i. e. the hearing before the decision, O.—A side, party, faction, cause: condemnare causam illam: et causam et hominem probare, Cs.: publica, the common weal, O.—A relation of friendship, connection: omnes causae et necessitudines veteres: quae mihi sit causa cum Caesare. —A condition, state, situation, relation, position: num enim aliā in causā M. Cato fuit, aliā ceteri, etc.: in eādem causā fuerunt, Cs.: in meliore causā. — A commission, business undertaken, employment: cui senatus dederat publice causam, ut mihi gratias ageret: super tali causā eodem missi, N.—In rhet., a concrete question, case for discussion.

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  • 115 videō

        videō vīdī, vīsus, ēre    [VID-], to see, discern, perceive: ut oculum, quo bene videret, amitteret: oculis cernere ea, quae videmus, etc.: Considium, quod non vidisset, pro viso sibi renuntiasse, Cs.: serpentes atque videres Infernas errare canes, H.: viden, ut geminae stant vertice cristae? V.: nonne vides ut... Antemnae gemant? H.: iam videnti frontem pingit, i. e. awake, V.: et casūs abies visura marinos, i. e. to experience, V.—To see, look at, observe, note: Illud vide, os ut sibi distorsit carnufex, T.: quin tu me vides? see what I have done! i. e. is not this creditable?: atqui istuc ipsum nil periclist; me vide, look at me, i. e. take courage from me, T.—To perceive, observe, hear: mugire videbis Sub pedibus terram, V.: tum videres Stridere susurros, H.— Pass, to be looked upon, be regarded, seem, appear: numquam periculi fugā committendum est, ut imbelles timidique videamur: multo rem iniquiorem visum iri intellegebant: cetera, quae quibusdam admirabilia videntur, etc.: idonea mihi Laeli persona visa est, quae, etc.: quod idem Scipioni videbatur: de familiare illo tuo videor audisse: ut beate vixisse videar, quia, etc.: ut exstinctae potius amicitiae quam oppressae videantur: quae (sapientia) videtur in hominem cadere posse: sed mihi contra ea videtur, S.: non mihi videtur, ad beate vivendum satis posse virtutem: quia videbatur et Limnaeum eodem tempore oppugnari posse, L.—In formal decisions, to appear, be decided, be adjudged: voluerunt, ut ea non esse facta, sed ut videri pronuntiarent: consul adiecit senatūs consultum, Ambraciam non videri vi captam esse, L.: uti Caesar exercitum dimittat; si non faciat, eum adversus rem p. facturum videri, Cs.—Fig., of the mind, to see, perceive, mark, observe, discern, understand, comprehend, be aware: ad te, ut video, comminus accessit: aperte enim adulantem nemo non videt, sees through: si dormientes aliquid animo videre videamur: plus vidisse videri, to have had more insight: cum me vidisse plus fateretur, that I had seen further: di vatesve eorum in futurum vident, L.: quem virum Crassum vidimus: nonne vides, croceos ut Tmolus odores, India mittit ebur, V.— To look at, attend to, consider, think, reflect upon, take note of: nunc ea videamus, quae contra ab his disputari solent: sed videamus Herculem ipsum: legi Bruti epistulam non prudenter rescriptam; sed ipse viderit, let him see to that. Viderit ipse ad aram Confugiam, O.—To look out for, see to, care for, provide, take care, make sure: antecesserat Statius, ut prandium nobis videret. aliud lenius (vinum), T.: navem idoneam ut habeas, diligenter videbis: ne fortuna mea desit, videte, L.—To see, reach, experience, attain, obtain, enjoy: qui suo toto consulatu somnum non viderit: utinam eum diem videam, cum, etc., may live to see: Duxi uxorem; quam ibi miseriam vidi! T.: multas victorias aetas nostra vidit.—To see patiently, bear, permit: tantum degeneramus a patribus nostris, ut eam (oram) nos nunc plenam hostium iam factam Videamus, L.—To see, go to see, visit: sed Septimium vide et Laenatem: videbis ergo hominem, si voles.— Pass, it seems proper, seems right, seems good: ubi visum est, sub vesperum dispersi discedunt, Cs.: M. num non vis audire, etc.? A. ut videtur, as you will: si videatur, L.: si tibi videbitur, villis iis utere, quae, etc.: si ei videretur, integram rem ad senatum reiceret, if he pleased, L.
    * * *
    videre, vidi, visus V
    see, look at; consider; (PASS) seem, seem good, appear, be seen

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  • 116 videō

        videō vīdī, vīsus, ēre    [VID-], to see, discern, perceive: ut oculum, quo bene videret, amitteret: oculis cernere ea, quae videmus, etc.: Considium, quod non vidisset, pro viso sibi renuntiasse, Cs.: serpentes atque videres Infernas errare canes, H.: viden, ut geminae stant vertice cristae? V.: nonne vides ut... Antemnae gemant? H.: iam videnti frontem pingit, i. e. awake, V.: et casūs abies visura marinos, i. e. to experience, V.—To see, look at, observe, note: Illud vide, os ut sibi distorsit carnufex, T.: quin tu me vides? see what I have done! i. e. is not this creditable?: atqui istuc ipsum nil periclist; me vide, look at me, i. e. take courage from me, T.—To perceive, observe, hear: mugire videbis Sub pedibus terram, V.: tum videres Stridere susurros, H.— Pass, to be looked upon, be regarded, seem, appear: numquam periculi fugā committendum est, ut imbelles timidique videamur: multo rem iniquiorem visum iri intellegebant: cetera, quae quibusdam admirabilia videntur, etc.: idonea mihi Laeli persona visa est, quae, etc.: quod idem Scipioni videbatur: de familiare illo tuo videor audisse: ut beate vixisse videar, quia, etc.: ut exstinctae potius amicitiae quam oppressae videantur: quae (sapientia) videtur in hominem cadere posse: sed mihi contra ea videtur, S.: non mihi videtur, ad beate vivendum satis posse virtutem: quia videbatur et Limnaeum eodem tempore oppugnari posse, L.—In formal decisions, to appear, be decided, be adjudged: voluerunt, ut ea non esse facta, sed ut videri pronuntiarent: consul adiecit senatūs consultum, Ambraciam non videri vi captam esse, L.: uti Caesar exercitum dimittat; si non faciat, eum adversus rem p. facturum videri, Cs.—Fig., of the mind, to see, perceive, mark, observe, discern, understand, comprehend, be aware: ad te, ut video, comminus accessit: aperte enim adulantem nemo non videt, sees through: si dormientes aliquid animo videre videamur: plus vidisse videri, to have had more insight: cum me vidisse plus fateretur, that I had seen further: di vatesve eorum in futurum vident, L.: quem virum Crassum vidimus: nonne vides, croceos ut Tmolus odores, India mittit ebur, V.— To look at, attend to, consider, think, reflect upon, take note of: nunc ea videamus, quae contra ab his disputari solent: sed videamus Herculem ipsum: legi Bruti epistulam non prudenter rescriptam; sed ipse viderit, let him see to that. Viderit ipse ad aram Confugiam, O.—To look out for, see to, care for, provide, take care, make sure: antecesserat Statius, ut prandium nobis videret. aliud lenius (vinum), T.: navem idoneam ut habeas, diligenter videbis: ne fortuna mea desit, videte, L.—To see, reach, experience, attain, obtain, enjoy: qui suo toto consulatu somnum non viderit: utinam eum diem videam, cum, etc., may live to see: Duxi uxorem; quam ibi miseriam vidi! T.: multas victorias aetas nostra vidit.—To see patiently, bear, permit: tantum degeneramus a patribus nostris, ut eam (oram) nos nunc plenam hostium iam factam Videamus, L.—To see, go to see, visit: sed Septimium vide et Laenatem: videbis ergo hominem, si voles.— Pass, it seems proper, seems right, seems good: ubi visum est, sub vesperum dispersi discedunt, Cs.: M. num non vis audire, etc.? A. ut videtur, as you will: si videatur, L.: si tibi videbitur, villis iis utere, quae, etc.: si ei videretur, integram rem ad senatum reiceret, if he pleased, L.
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    videre, vidi, visus V
    see, look at; consider; (PASS) seem, seem good, appear, be seen

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  • 117 ambitiose

    ambĭtĭōsus, a, um, adj. [ambitio].
    I.
    (Very rare and mostly poet.) Going round, encompassing; poet., embracing, twining round:

    lascivis hederis ambitiosior,

    Hor. C. 1, 36, 20 (cf.:

    undique ambientibus ramis,

    Curt. 4, 7, 16).—Of a river, making circuits, having many windings:

    Jordanes amnis ambitiosus,

    Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71.— Of oratorical ornament, excessive, superfluous:

    vir bonus ambitiosa recidet Ornamenta,

    Hor. A. P. 447.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    That asks for a thing fawningly; esp., that solicits the favor, good-will, etc., of any one, in a good and bad sense, honor-loving, ambitious, courting favor; vain, vainglorious, conceited, etc.:

    qui ita sit ambitiosus, ut omnes vos nosque cotidie persalutet,

    Cic. Fl. 18:

    homo minime ambitiosus, minime in rogando molestus,

    id. Fam. 13, 1:

    ne forte me in Graecos tam ambitiosum factum esse mirere,

    desirous of the favor of the Greeks, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2:

    pro nostris ut sis ambitiosa malis, Ov P. 3, 1, 84: pro nato caerula mater Ambitiosa suo fuit,

    i.e. begs fawningly of Vulcan for weapons for her son, id. M. 13, 289:

    malis artibus ambitiosus,

    seeking to ingratiate one's self, Tac. H. 2, 57:

    salubris magis princeps quam ambitiosus,

    Suet. Aug. 42 al. —
    B.
    Pass., that is willingly solicited or entreated, ambitious; much sought, honored, admired:

    ambitiosus et qui ambit et qui ambitur,

    Gell. 9, 12:

    turba caelestes ambitiosa sumus,

    Ov. F. 5, 298:

    sexus muliebris saevus, ambitiosus, potestatis avidus,

    Tac. A. 3, 33: si locuples hostis est, avari;

    si pauper, ambitiosi,

    id. Agr. 30:

    nota quidem sed non ambitiosa domus,

    not sought after, Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 18 Jahn: ambitiosae pulchritudinis scortum. Just. 30, 2. —
    C.
    Of things, vain, ostentatious:

    amicitiae,

    founded merely on the desire to please, interested, Cic. Att. 1, 18:

    rogationes,

    id. Fam. 6, 12; so id. ib. 6, 6:

    gloriandi genus,

    Quint. 11, 1, 22:

    preces,

    urgent, Tac. H. 2, 49:

    sententiae,

    Suet. Dom. 8: mors, ambitious, i. e. to obtain fame, Tac. Agr. 42:

    medicina ars,

    boastful, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 20:

    et quaesitorum pelago terrāque ciborum Ambitiosa fames,

    Luc. 4, 376:

    atria,

    splendid, gorgeous, Mart. 12, 69:

    ambitiosis utilia praeferre,

    Quint. 1, 2, 27:

    ambitiosius id existimans quam domi suae majestas postularet,

    more condescending, submissive, Suet. Aug. 25.—
    D.
    In rhet.: orator ambitiosus, who seeks to rouse attention by obsolete or unusual expressions:

    antigerio nemo nisi ambitiosus utetur,

    Quint. 8, 3, 26.—Hence, adv.: ambĭtĭōsē, ambitiously, ostentatiously, etc.:

    de triumpho ambitiose agere,

    Cic. Att. 15, 1:

    ambitiose regnum petere,

    Liv. 1, 35: amicitias ambitiose colere, Tac. [p. 103] H. 1, 10 al.— Comp., Cic. Fam. 3, 7.— Sup., Quint. 6, 3, 68.

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  • 118 ambitiosus

    ambĭtĭōsus, a, um, adj. [ambitio].
    I.
    (Very rare and mostly poet.) Going round, encompassing; poet., embracing, twining round:

    lascivis hederis ambitiosior,

    Hor. C. 1, 36, 20 (cf.:

    undique ambientibus ramis,

    Curt. 4, 7, 16).—Of a river, making circuits, having many windings:

    Jordanes amnis ambitiosus,

    Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71.— Of oratorical ornament, excessive, superfluous:

    vir bonus ambitiosa recidet Ornamenta,

    Hor. A. P. 447.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    That asks for a thing fawningly; esp., that solicits the favor, good-will, etc., of any one, in a good and bad sense, honor-loving, ambitious, courting favor; vain, vainglorious, conceited, etc.:

    qui ita sit ambitiosus, ut omnes vos nosque cotidie persalutet,

    Cic. Fl. 18:

    homo minime ambitiosus, minime in rogando molestus,

    id. Fam. 13, 1:

    ne forte me in Graecos tam ambitiosum factum esse mirere,

    desirous of the favor of the Greeks, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2:

    pro nostris ut sis ambitiosa malis, Ov P. 3, 1, 84: pro nato caerula mater Ambitiosa suo fuit,

    i.e. begs fawningly of Vulcan for weapons for her son, id. M. 13, 289:

    malis artibus ambitiosus,

    seeking to ingratiate one's self, Tac. H. 2, 57:

    salubris magis princeps quam ambitiosus,

    Suet. Aug. 42 al. —
    B.
    Pass., that is willingly solicited or entreated, ambitious; much sought, honored, admired:

    ambitiosus et qui ambit et qui ambitur,

    Gell. 9, 12:

    turba caelestes ambitiosa sumus,

    Ov. F. 5, 298:

    sexus muliebris saevus, ambitiosus, potestatis avidus,

    Tac. A. 3, 33: si locuples hostis est, avari;

    si pauper, ambitiosi,

    id. Agr. 30:

    nota quidem sed non ambitiosa domus,

    not sought after, Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 18 Jahn: ambitiosae pulchritudinis scortum. Just. 30, 2. —
    C.
    Of things, vain, ostentatious:

    amicitiae,

    founded merely on the desire to please, interested, Cic. Att. 1, 18:

    rogationes,

    id. Fam. 6, 12; so id. ib. 6, 6:

    gloriandi genus,

    Quint. 11, 1, 22:

    preces,

    urgent, Tac. H. 2, 49:

    sententiae,

    Suet. Dom. 8: mors, ambitious, i. e. to obtain fame, Tac. Agr. 42:

    medicina ars,

    boastful, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 20:

    et quaesitorum pelago terrāque ciborum Ambitiosa fames,

    Luc. 4, 376:

    atria,

    splendid, gorgeous, Mart. 12, 69:

    ambitiosis utilia praeferre,

    Quint. 1, 2, 27:

    ambitiosius id existimans quam domi suae majestas postularet,

    more condescending, submissive, Suet. Aug. 25.—
    D.
    In rhet.: orator ambitiosus, who seeks to rouse attention by obsolete or unusual expressions:

    antigerio nemo nisi ambitiosus utetur,

    Quint. 8, 3, 26.—Hence, adv.: ambĭtĭōsē, ambitiously, ostentatiously, etc.:

    de triumpho ambitiose agere,

    Cic. Att. 15, 1:

    ambitiose regnum petere,

    Liv. 1, 35: amicitias ambitiose colere, Tac. [p. 103] H. 1, 10 al.— Comp., Cic. Fam. 3, 7.— Sup., Quint. 6, 3, 68.

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  • 119 catus

    1.
    cătus, a, um, adj. [root ka-; Sanscr. ça-, to whet, sharpen; cf. cos, cautes, cuneus; Sabine, = acutus, acc. to Varr. L. L. 7, § 46, p. 90 Bip.].
    * I.
    Sharp to the hearing, clear-sounding, shrill (cf. acutus, 2.): jam cata signa fere sonitum dare voce parabant, Enn. ap. Varr. l. l. (Ann. 447 Vahl.). —
    II.
    Transf. to intellectual objects, in a good and bad sense.
    A.
    In a good sense, clear-sighted, intelligent, sagacious, wise, opp. stultus (in prose probably never naturalized; hence Cic., in prose, adds ut ita dicam; v. the foll.): catus Aelius Sextus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18 (Ann. v. 335 Vahl.); Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 29; id. Ps. 2, 3, 15; Ter. And. 5, 2, 14 Don. and Ruhnk.; Hor. C. 1, 10, 3:

    prudens et, ut ita dicam, catus,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 45.—Constr. with inf.:

    jaculari,

    Hor. C. 3, 12, 10.—With gen.:

    legum,

    Aus. Mos. 400.—Of abstract things:

    dicta,

    Enn. Ann. 519 Vahl.:

    consilium,

    Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 75.—
    B.
    In a bad sense, sly, crafty, cunning, artful ( = callidus, astutus):

    cata est et callida,

    Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 71; so id. Poen. 5, 2, 147; id. Most. 5, 2, 21; id. Trin. 3, 2, 51; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 39.— Adv.: cătē, conform. to II. A.:

    sapienter, docte et cordate et cate,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 3; id. Men. 2, 3, 61; Cic. Arat. 304.— Comp. and sup. not in use in the adj. or in the adv.
    2.
    cătus, i, m., a male cat (post-class.), Pall. Mart. 9, 4; scanned, cātus, Poët. ap. Anth. Lat. 5, p. 162, 3 al.

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  • 120 consulo

    consŭlo, lŭi, ltum, 3, v. n. and a. [from con and root sal-; cf. consul and consilium].
    I.
    To consider, reflect, deliberate, take counsel, reflect upon, consult.
    A. 1.
    In gen.
    (α).
    Absol.: quid nunc? etiam consulis? do you still deliberate, i. e. hesitate? Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 171; cf. id. Truc. 2, 4, 75 Speng.: ne quid in consulendo adversi eveniat, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14:

    consulto opus est,

    there is need of deliberation, Sall. C. 1, 6:

    dum tempus consulendi est,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 19:

    satis facere consulentibus,

    Cic. Or. 42, 143:

    ut omnium rerum vobis ad consulendum potestas esset,

    Liv. 8, 13, 18:

    ut tot uno tempore motibus animi turbati trepidarent magis quam consulerent,

    id. 21, 16, 2:

    praesidium consulenti curiae,

    Hor. C. 2, 1, 14 et saep.—
    (β).
    With in and acc.:

    consulere in longitudinem,

    to take thought for the future, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 10:

    in commune,

    for the common good, id. And. 3, 3, 16; Liv. 32, 21, 1; Tac. A. 12, 5; id. Agr. 12; Curt. 5, 9, 14;

    and in the same sense: in medium,

    Verg. A. 11, 335; Liv. 24, 22, 15; Tac. H. 2, 5; Luc. 5, 46:

    in unum,

    Tac. H. 1, 68; 4, 70:

    in publicum (opp. suscipere proprias simultates),

    Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 21; Tac. A. 1, 24.—
    (γ).
    With de and abl.:

    bello confecto de Rhodiis consultum est,

    Sall. C. 51, 5; so,

    de communibus negotiis,

    id. J. 105, 1:

    de salute suorum,

    Cic. Sull. 22, 63:

    omnibus de rebus,

    Tac. A. 4, 40.—
    (δ).
    With ut or ne:

    consulere vivi ac prospicere debemus, ut illorum (liberorum) solitudo munita sit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 58, § 153:

    tu ne qua manus se attollere nobis A tergo possit, custodi et consule longe,

    Verg. A. 9, 322.— Impers.:

    ut urbi... satis esset praesidii, consultum atque provisum est,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 26:

    ne deficerent, consulendum esse,

    Cels. 3, 4, 31.—
    2.
    Esp., consulere alicui or alicui rei, to take care for some person or thing, to be mindful of, take care of, look to, have regard for, to counsel or consult for:

    tuae rei bene consulere cupio,

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 9:

    quid me fiat, parvi pendis, dum illi consulas,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 37:

    qui parti civium consulunt, partem neglegunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 25, 85: consulere eorum commodis et utilitati salutique [p. 442] servire, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, § 27; so,

    famae, pudicitiae tuae,

    id. Phil. 2, 2, 3:

    dignitati meae,

    id. Fam. 11, 29, 1:

    suae vitae,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 12:

    receptui sibi,

    id. B. C. 3, 69:

    reipublicae juxta ac sibi,

    Sall. C. 37, 8; id. J. 58, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 1:

    timori magis quam religioni,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 67; cf.:

    magis irae quam famae,

    Sall. C. 51, 7:

    qui mi consultum optime velit esse,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 1: mi ires consultum male? to counsel evil or badly, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 36; so,

    male patriae,

    Nep. Epam. 10, 1; id. Phoc. 2, 2.—With si:

    melius consulet (sibi), si, etc.,

    Cels. 1, 3, 55.—
    B.
    Act.
    1.
    Consulere aliquem (or aliquid), to consult with one, to ask his opinion or advice, to ask counsel of, to consult, question (for the sake of advice).
    a.
    In gen.:

    cum te consuluissem, quid mihi faciendum esse censeres,

    Cic. Fam. 11, 29, 1:

    te, qui philosophum audis,

    id. ib. 9, 26, 1:

    Apellem tragoedum, uter, etc.,

    Suet. Calig. 33 al. —Of inanim. objects:

    speculum suum,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 136; cf.:

    spectatas undas, quid se deceat,

    id. M. 4, 312:

    nares, an olerent aera Corinthōn,

    Mart. 9, 60, 11:

    diem de gemmis, etc.,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 251 sq.:

    animum nostrum,

    Quint. 4, 2, 52:

    aures meas,

    id. 9, 4, 93:

    suas vires,

    id. 10, 2, 18 al. —With two accs.:

    ibo et consulam hanc rem amicos, quid faciundum censeant,

    Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 26:

    nec te id consulo,

    Cic. Att. 7, 20, 2:

    consulere prudentiorem coepi aetates tabularum,

    Petr. 88.—Freq.,
    b.
    Esp. as t. t.
    (α).
    In the lang. of religion, to consult a deity, an oracle, omens, etc.:

    Apollinem de re,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 40:

    deum consuluit auguriis, quae suscipienda essent,

    Liv. 1, 20, 7:

    deos hominum fibris,

    Tac. A. 14, 30 fin.:

    Phoebi oracula,

    Ov. M. 3, 9; Suet. Vesp. 5:

    Tiresiam conjectorem,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 76:

    haruspicem,

    Cic. Div. 2, 4, 11; Suet. Tib. 63; Cato, R. R. 5, 4:

    vates nunc extis, nunc per aves,

    Liv. 2, 42, 10:

    Cumaeam anum,

    Ov. F. 4, 158:

    avem primum visam augur,

    id. ib. 1, 180:

    spirantia exta,

    Verg. A. 4, 64; so,

    trepidantia exta,

    Ov. M. 15, 576:

    sacras sortes,

    id. ib. 11, 412:

    Etrusci haruspices male consulentes,

    Gell. 4, 5, 5.— Pass. impers.:

    si publice consuletur... sin privatim,

    Tac. G. 10. —With dependent question:

    senatus pontificum collegium consuli jussit, num omne id aurum in ludos consumi necessum esset,

    Liv. 39, 5, 9:

    consulti per ludibrium pontifices, an concepto necdum edito partu rite nuberet,

    Tac. A. 1, 10.—
    (β).
    In judic. lang., to ask advice of a lawyer, to consult, etc.:

    quam inanes domus eorum omnium, qui de jure civili consuli solent,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 120:

    consuli quidem te a Caesare scribis: sed ego tibi ab illo consuli mallem,

    id. Fam. 7, 11, 2:

    si jus consuleres, peritissimus,

    Liv. 39, 40, 6:

    munus hoc eorum qui consuluntur,

    i. e. who are skilled in the law, Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 14; so id. Quint. 16, 53.—

    With dependent question: consulens eum, an seni jam testato suaderet ordinare suprema judicia,

    Quint. 6, 3, 92.—The formula usual in asking advice was, licet consulere? Cic. Mur. 13, 28; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 192.—
    (γ).
    In publicists' lang., to take counsel with the competent authorities, to consult:

    Quirites, utrum, etc.,

    Liv. 31, 7, 2; so,

    senatum,

    Sall. J. 28, 2:

    senatum de foedere,

    id. ib. 39, 2;

    62, 10: populum de ejus morte,

    Cic. Mil. 7, 16:

    plebem in omnia (tribuni),

    Liv. 6, 39, 2 al. —
    2.
    Aliquid.
    a.
    To take counsel or deliberate upon something, to consider:

    est consulere quiddam quod tecum volo,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 53; id. Pers. 5, 2, 63:

    rem delatam consulere ordine non licuit,

    Liv. 2, 28, 2; so,

    consulere et explorare rem,

    Cic. Att. 2, 16, 4:

    consulis rem nulli obscuram,

    Verg. A. 11, 344 al.:

    bis repulsi Galli quid agant consulunt,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 83.—
    b.
    To advise something, to give advice:

    tun' consulis quicquam?

    Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 1, 3, 22.— Absol.:

    ab re consulit blandiloquentulus,

    advises to his hurt, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 17.
    II.
    Sometimes meton. (causa pro effectu).
    A.
    To take a resolution, resolve, conclude, determine.
    1.
    Neutr.; constr. absol. or with de aliquo or in aliquem:

    de nullis quam de vobis infestius aut inimicius consuluerunt,

    Liv. 28, 29, 8; so,

    de perfugis gravius quam de fugitivis,

    id. 30, 43, 13:

    in humiliores libidinose crudeliterque consulebatur,

    id. 3, 36, 7; so,

    crudeliter in deditos victosque,

    id. 8, 13, 15; cf. Tac. Agr. 16. —
    2.
    Act.:

    quid in concilio consuluistis?

    Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 6:

    animum ego inducam tamen, ut illud, quod tuam in rem bene conducat, consulam,

    id. Cist. 3, 4: ne quid gravius de salute tuā consulas, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 1:

    pessime istuc in te atque in illum consulis,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 28:

    quae reges irā inpulsi male consuluerint,

    Sall. C. 51, 4:

    nisi quod de uxore potuit honestius consuli,

    id. J. 95, 3.— Pass. impers.:

    aliter mihi de illis ac de me ipso consulendum est,

    Cic. Att. 7, 13, 3.—
    B.
    With the access. idea of judging, in the connection boni, optimi aliquid consulere, to excuse, take in good part, interpret favorably; be contented, pleased, or satisfied with:

    sit consul a consulendo vel a judicando: nam et hoc consulere veteres vocaverunt, unde adhuc remanet illud Rogat boni consulas, id est bonum judices,

    Quint. 1, 6, 32; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 41, 8 Müll.: nemo hoc rex ausus est facere, eane fieri bonis, bono genere gnatis boni consulitis? Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17:

    boni consulendum,

    Varr. L. L. 7, § 40 Müll.:

    tu haec quaeso consule missa boni,

    Ov. P. 3, 8, 24; cf. id. Tr. 4, 1, 106; so,

    nostrum laborem,

    Quint. 6, prooem. § 16; Plin. Ep. 7, 12, 3:

    hoc munus,

    Sen. Ben. 1, 1, 8; id. Prov. 2, 4; id. Ep. 9, 20; 17, 9; 88, 17:

    quaerebat argentum avaritia: boni consuluit interim invenisse minium,

    Plin. 33, prooem. 2, § 4;

    8, 16, 17, § 44: boni et optimi consulere,

    App. M. 8, p. 205, 28.— Hence,
    1.
    consultus, a, um, P. a.
    A.
    Well considered or weighed, deliberated upon, maturely pondered:

    bene consultum consilium surripitur saepissume, si minus, etc.,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 5 sq.:

    ipsi omnia, quorum negotium est, consulta ad nos et exquisita deferunt,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 250: neque eam usquam invenio, neque quo eam, neque quā quaeram consultum'st, I know neither, etc., Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 6:

    operā consultā,

    with mature reflection, Gell. 7 (6), 17, 3;

    in the same sense, consulto consilio,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 9, 6:

    consultius est huic poenalem quoque stipulationem subjungere,

    it is better. more advantageous, Dig. 2, 15, 15.—
    B.
    (Acc. to I. B. 1.) Knowing, skilful, experienced, practised, esp. in law; skilled or learned in the law:

    non ille magis juris consultus quam justitiae fuit,

    Cic. Phil. 9, 5, 10:

    juris atque eloquentiae,

    Liv. 10, 22, 7:

    consultissimus vir omnis divini atque humani juris,

    id. 1, 18, 1; cf. Gell. 1, 13, 10:

    insanientis sapientiae,

    Hor. C. 1, 34, 3:

    universae disciplinae,

    Col. 11, 1, 12.—Hence, subst.: consultus, i, m., a lawyer:

    tu consultus modo rusticus,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 17; id. Ep 2, 2, 87; 2, 2, 159; Ov. A. A. 1, 83.— Esp. with juris, often written as one word, jūrisconsultus, i, m., v. h. v.— Absol.:

    ut natura non disciplinā consultus esse videatur,

    Cic. Caecin. 27, 78:

    consultorum alterum disertissimum, disertorum alterum consultissimum fuisse,

    id. Brut. 40, 148:

    consultiores sibimet videntur Deo,

    Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 2.—
    2.
    Subst.: consultum, i, n.
    A.
    (Acc. to I. B. 1. b.) A consultation, inquiry of a deity:

    Sostratus (sacerdos) ubi laeta et congruentia exta magnisque consultis annuere deam videt, etc.,

    Tac. H. 2, 4.—
    B.
    (Acc. to II.) A decree, decision, resolution, plan; so first, Senatus consultum, or in one word, Senatusconsul-tum, a decree of the Senate (most freq. in all periods; the senatus consulta were not, like the plebiscita, the supreme law of the republic; but under the emperors, all new laws took this form, v. esp. Sandars, Introd., Just. Inst. § 15;

    1, 2, 5),

    Sall. C. 42, 3; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, § 149:

    senatus consultum est quod senatus jubet atque constituit, nam cum auctus esset populus Romanus... aequum visum est senatum vice populi consuli,

    Just. Inst. 1, 2, 5;

    for which, consulta Patrum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 41. —Of a decree of the Sicilian council:

    ne senatus consultum Siculi homines facere possent,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65, § 146.—Also in other connections:

    facta et consulta fortium et sapientium,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 24, 62; cf.:

    facta consultaque Alexandri,

    Sall. H. 3, 7 Dietsch:

    consulta et decreta,

    id. J. 11, 5:

    consulta sese omnia cum illo integra habere,

    all objects of consultation, plans, id. ib. 108, 2; cf.:

    ab occultis cavendum hominibus consultisque,

    plans, Liv. 25, 16, 4; and:

    approbare collegam consulta,

    id. 10, 39, 10:

    dum consulta petis,

    responses, oracles, divinations, Verg. A. 6, 151:

    tua magna,

    decisions, id. ib. 11, 410; so,

    mollia,

    Tac. A. 1, 40:

    mala,

    id. ib. 6, 6:

    ex consulto factum,

    purposely, voluntarily, Auct. Her. 2, 30, 49.—Hence, adv., considerately, deliberately, designedly, on purpose.
    (α).
    Form consultō (class. in prose and poetry):

    utrum perturbatione aliquā animi an consulto et cogitata fiat injuria,

    Cic. Off. 1, 8, 27; Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 43; Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 85; id. Leg. 1, 8, 25; Caes. B. G. 5, 16; 5, 37; Sall. J. 60, 5; 64, 5; Quint. 8, 4, 19; Tac. A. 4, 16; Suet. Caes. 56; * Hor. S. 1, 10, 14 al. —
    (β).
    Form consultē (mostly ante- and post-class.):

    qui consulte, docte atque astute cavet,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 14:

    caute atque consulte gesta,

    Liv. 22, 38, 11; Spart. Had. 2.— Comp., Liv. 22, 24, 3; Tac. H. 2, 24. — Sup., Capitol. Pert. 7.

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  • In some jurisdictions, prisoners may not earn good time during their first year of their sentence. — In some jurisdictions, prisoners may not earn good time during their first year of their sentence. The favorable reputation and clientele of an established and well run business. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005 …   Law dictionary

  • Good — • The moral good (bonum honestum) consists in the due ordering of free action or conduct according to the norm of reason, the highest faculty, to which it is to conform Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Good     Good …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • good — adj Good, right are comparable when they mean in accordance with one s standard of what is satisfactory. Good (as opposed to bad) implies full approval or commendation of someone or something in the respect under consideration (as excellence of… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Good Entertainment — (Official name: Good Entertainment Media Group. Also known as Good! Enter ) is record label owned by CJ Music that was formed April 2003. Most notably, they are the current producer of popular boy band Shinhwa (after the band left SM… …   Wikipedia

  • not all that good — not all that good/bad/big/etc not as good bad big etc as all that phrase used for saying that something is not very good bad big etc I didn’t finish the book – it wasn’t all that interesting …   Useful english dictionary

  • Not Like That — Single by Ashley Tisdale from the album Headstrong Released …   Wikipedia

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