oblīviscor

oblīviscor, lītus (archaic inf. obliscier. Att. Tr. 190; 488), 3, v. dep. [ob and livor, q. v.; livēre, to become dark; hence, to have the mind darkened, forget], to forget; constr. with gen. of pers. and with gen. or acc. of thing; less freq. with inf. or a rel.clause (class.; cf. dedisco).

With gen. of person:

vivorum memini, nec tamen Epicuri licet oblivisci,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3: nescio hercule, neque unde eam, neque quorsum eam;

ita prorsum oblitus sum mei,

I have so completely forgotten myself, been lost in thought, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 15:

regisque ducumque meique,

Ov. M. 13, 276:

dum tu ades, sunt oblitae sui,

Cic. Fam. 9, 12, 1:

nec oblitus sui est Ithacus discrimine tanto,

was not forgetful of himself, untrue to his nature, Verg. A. 3, 629; cf. Val. Fl. 3, 664: sui, to forget one's self, know nothing of one's former self, sc. after death, Sen. Herc. Fur. 292; also, to forget one's self in a character represented or assumed:

tamquam in eo tragoediae argumento sui oblitus tantum Catonem cogitāsset,

Tac. Or. 2. —

With gen. of thing:

meminens naturae et professionis oblitus,

Sid. Ep. 4, 12:

nec umquam obliviscar noctis illius, etc.,

Cic. Planc. 42, 101; cf.:

oblivisci temporum meorum,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 8:

ut nostrae dignitatis simus obliti,

id. ib. 1, 7, 7:

veterumque oblitus honorum,

Ov. M. 7, 543; Just. 4, 2, 5:

oblivisci veteris contumeliae, recentium injuriarum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

controversiarum ac dissensionum,

id. ib. 7, 34:

pristini instituti,

id. B. C. 3, 57:

offensarum,

Tac. H. 2, 1:

tot exemplorum,

Quint. 9, 2, 86.—

With acc. of thing:

qui quod dedit id ob litust datum,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 24:

officium meum,

id. Cas. 1, 1, 16:

injurias,

Cic. Cael. 20, 50; cf.:

artificium obliviscatur,

id. Rosc. Am. 17, 49:

res praeclarissimas,

id. Mil. 23, 63:

totam causam,

id. Brut. 60, 218:

haec tam crebra Etruriae concilia,

Liv. 5, 5, Drak. N. cr.:

ut alia obliviscar,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 31, 87.—With acc. of person:

obliti sunt Deum,

Vulg. Psa. 105, 21; 49, 22.—

With inf.:

oblita pharetram tollere,

Ov. M. 2, 439:

suas quatere pennas,

id. ib. 4, 676: dicere aliquid. Ter. And. 5, 1, 22:

obliviscor, Roscium et Cluvium viros esse primarios,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 17, 50.—

With a rel.clause:

in scriptis obliviscebatur, quid paulo ante posuisset,

Cic. Brut. 60, 218.—

Poet., transf., of things:

saeclis obliviscentibus,

i. e. causing forgetfulness, Cat. 68, 43:

oblito pectore,

id. 64, 207: pomaque degenerant sucos oblita priores, forgetting, i. e. being deprived of losing, Verg. G. 2, 59; imitated by Col. poët. 10, 408.—

Prov.:

oblivisci nomen suum,

to forget one's own name, to have a bad memory, Petr. 66.—

Part. fut. pass.:

oblitusque meorum, obliviscendus et illis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 9:

obliviscendi stratiotici,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 49.

signif. ( poet. and late Lat.):

post emancipationem in totum adoptivae familiae obliviscuntur,

Dig. 23, 2, 60, § 6:

oblita carmina,

Verg. E. 9, 53; Val. Fl. 2, 388:

oblitos superūm dolores,

id. 1, 791:

suis hominibus oblitus,

August. Mus. 4, 4.

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oblĭtus, a, um, Part., from oblino.

oblītus, a, um, Part., from obliviscor.

oblīvĭo, ōnis, f. [obliviscor].

Lit., a being forgotten, forgetfulness, oblivion (class.):

oblivio veteris belli,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4 init.:

laudem alicujus ab oblivione atque a silentio vindicare,

to rescue from oblivion, id. de Or. 2, 2, 7:

meam tuorum erga me meritorum memoriam nulla umquam delebit oblivio,

id. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

dare aliquid oblivioni,

to consign to oblivion, Liv. 1, 31, 3:

oblivione obruere,

Cic. Brut. 15, 60; for which (late Lat.): oblivioni tradere, Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 31, 2; Hier. in Psa. 68, 1 al.:

omnes ejus injurias voluntariā quādam oblivione contriveram,

had consigned to oblivion, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 20:

in oblivionem negoti venire,

to forget, id. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 79:

satius erat ista in oblivionem ire,

to be forgotten, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 7 init.:

in oblivionem diuturnitate adduci,

Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 54:

capit me oblivio alicujus rei,

I forget something, id. Off. 1, 8, 26:

per oblivionem,

through forgetfulness, Suet. Caes. 28:

in oblivione est,

is forgotten, Vulg. Luc. 12, 6.—In plur.:

carpere lividas Obliviones,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 34; Gell. 9, 5, 6; Quint. Decl. 306.—

Transf.

Subject., a forgetting, forgetfulness (post-Aug.):

in eo (Claudio) mirati sunt homines et oblivionem et inconsiderantiam,

Suet. Claud. 39, Tac. A. 11, 38.—

Concr

Oblivio litterarum, a poet. designation of Orbilius Pupillus, a grammarian, who lost his memory in his old age, Bibacul. ap. Suet. Gram. 9.—

Flumen Oblivionis, an appellation of the river Limia, in Hispania Tarraconensis, acc. to the Gr. ho tês lêthês, Mel. 3, 1, 8; Flor. 2, 17, 12; called flumen Oblivio, Liv Epit. 55.

V, v, a character derived from the Greek g, Mar. Victor. p. 2459 P. A consonant which, though originally written with the same sign as the vowel u (v. the letter U), was by the ancients themselves considered as essentially different from it, Charis. p. 57 P.; Diom. p. 416; 420 P.; Prisc. p. 539; 542; 544 sq. P.; Vel. Long. p. 2215; 2222 P.; just as the consonant i ( j) and the vowel i were regarded as two distinct letters; v. the letter J.

The sound of V seems to have been the same with that of English initial W. It corresponded to the Æolic digamma;

hence it is called,

Quint. 12, 10, 29, Aeolica littera, and the emperor Claudius used the Greek digamma inverted F to represent it (because in its proper position it already formed the Latin letter F), Quint. 1, 7, 26; Prisc. p. 545 sq. P.; Gell. 14, 5, 2;

v. also the inscrr. of the period during and immediately succeeding the reign of Claudius,

Inscr. Orell. 710 sq.; Marini Atti, p. 97. In very many words which were originally common to both languages, the initial or medial v in Latin represents a lost digamma in Greek; cf.: ver, êr; vis, is; video, ID; vestis, esthês; vitulus, italos; vomo, emeô; voco, epô; volvo, eilô; vinum, oinos; viola, ion; vespera, hespera; Vesta, Hestia; silva, hulê; ovis, oïs; divus, dios; aevum, aiôn; scaevus, skaios; vicus, oikos; levis, leios al. (For a full discussion of the sound of V, see Roby, Gram. I. praef. p. xxxiii. sqq.).—

V has the closest affinity to the vowel u, and hence, in the course of composition and inflection, it often passed into the latter: solvo, solutum, from solvĭtum, solŭĭtum; caveo, cautum, from cavitum; fautor, from faveo; lautum, from lavo; nauta, from navita; audeo, cf. avidus; neu, seu, from neve, sive; tui, cf. Sanscr. tvam; sui, Sanscr. sva-; suavis, Sanscr. svadus, and is resolved into it by the poets from prosodial necessity: silŭa (trisyl.) for silva; dissŏlŭo, evŏlŭam (quadrisyl.), for dissolvam, evolvam; dissŏlŭenda, evolŭisse (quinquasyl.), for dissolvenda, evolvisse, etc., just as, for the same cause, although less freq., u passed into v: gēnva, tēnvis (dissyl.), for gēnŭa, tĕnŭis; tēnvĭa, tēnvĭus (trisyl.), for tĕnŭĭa, tĕnŭĭus.—For the affinity of v to b, v. the letter B.—

V as a medial between two vowels was very freq. elided, esp. in inflection, and the word underwent in consequence a greater or less contraction: amavisti, amāsti; deleverunt, delērunt; novisti, nōsti; audivisti, audīsti, or audiisti; siveris, siris, or sieris; obliviscor, oblitus; dives, dis; aeviternus, aeternus; divitior, ditior; bovibus, bubus, etc.; providens, prudens; movimentum, momentum; provorsus, prorsus; si vis, sis; si vultis, sultis; Jovis pater, Juppiter; mage volo, mavolo, malo; non volo, nolo, etc. An example of the elision of v without a further contraction of the word is found in seorsus, from sevorsus (v. seorsus).—This etymological suppression of v is to be distinguished from its purely orthographical omission before or after u in ancient MSS. and inscriptions, as serus for servus, noum for novum, festius for festivus, Pacuius for Pacuvius; cf. the letters J and Q.—V is sometimes elided after a mute: dis for dvis from duo; likewise after s: sibi for svibi (from su-ibi); sis, sas, sos, for suis, suas, suos; sultis for si vultis; so Lat. si corresponds to Umbr. sve and Osc. svai; v. esp. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 310 sqq.—

As an abbreviation, V (as the sign of the consonant) stands for vir, vivus, vixit, voto, vale, verba, etc.; V. C., or also VC., vir clarissimus; VCP., voti compos posuit; V. V., virgo Vestalis; V. F. Q. D. E. R. F. P. D. E. R. I. C., verba fecerunt. Quid de eā re fieri placeret, de eā re ita censuerunt.—As a numeral, the letter V stands for half of the geometrical cross X or ten, Zumpt, Gr. § 115 Anm. 1.

V, v, a character derived from the Greek g, Mar. Victor. p. 2459 P. A consonant which, though originally written with the same sign as the vowel u (v. the letter U), was by the ancients themselves considered as essentially different from it, Charis. p. 57 P.; Diom. p. 416; 420 P.; Prisc. p. 539; 542; 544 sq. P.; Vel. Long. p. 2215; 2222 P.; just as the consonant i ( j) and the vowel i were regarded as two distinct letters; v. the letter J.

The sound of V seems to have been the same with that of English initial W. It corresponded to the Æolic digamma;

hence it is called,

Quint. 12, 10, 29, Aeolica littera, and the emperor Claudius used the Greek digamma inverted F to represent it (because in its proper position it already formed the Latin letter F), Quint. 1, 7, 26; Prisc. p. 545 sq. P.; Gell. 14, 5, 2;

v. also the inscrr. of the period during and immediately succeeding the reign of Claudius,

Inscr. Orell. 710 sq.; Marini Atti, p. 97. In very many words which were originally common to both languages, the initial or medial v in Latin represents a lost digamma in Greek; cf.: ver, êr; vis, is; video, ID; vestis, esthês; vitulus, italos; vomo, emeô; voco, epô; volvo, eilô; vinum, oinos; viola, ion; vespera, hespera; Vesta, Hestia; silva, hulê; ovis, oïs; divus, dios; aevum, aiôn; scaevus, skaios; vicus, oikos; levis, leios al. (For a full discussion of the sound of V, see Roby, Gram. I. praef. p. xxxiii. sqq.).—

V has the closest affinity to the vowel u, and hence, in the course of composition and inflection, it often passed into the latter: solvo, solutum, from solvĭtum, solŭĭtum; caveo, cautum, from cavitum; fautor, from faveo; lautum, from lavo; nauta, from navita; audeo, cf. avidus; neu, seu, from neve, sive; tui, cf. Sanscr. tvam; sui, Sanscr. sva-; suavis, Sanscr. svadus, and is resolved into it by the poets from prosodial necessity: silŭa (trisyl.) for silva; dissŏlŭo, evŏlŭam (quadrisyl.), for dissolvam, evolvam; dissŏlŭenda, evolŭisse (quinquasyl.), for dissolvenda, evolvisse, etc., just as, for the same cause, although less freq., u passed into v: gēnva, tēnvis (dissyl.), for gēnŭa, tĕnŭis; tēnvĭa, tēnvĭus (trisyl.), for tĕnŭĭa, tĕnŭĭus.—For the affinity of v to b, v. the letter B.—

V as a medial between two vowels was very freq. elided, esp. in inflection, and the word underwent in consequence a greater or less contraction: amavisti, amāsti; deleverunt, delērunt; novisti, nōsti; audivisti, audīsti, or audiisti; siveris, siris, or sieris; obliviscor, oblitus; dives, dis; aeviternus, aeternus; divitior, ditior; bovibus, bubus, etc.; providens, prudens; movimentum, momentum; provorsus, prorsus; si vis, sis; si vultis, sultis; Jovis pater, Juppiter; mage volo, mavolo, malo; non volo, nolo, etc. An example of the elision of v without a further contraction of the word is found in seorsus, from sevorsus (v. seorsus).—This etymological suppression of v is to be distinguished from its purely orthographical omission before or after u in ancient MSS. and inscriptions, as serus for servus, noum for novum, festius for festivus, Pacuius for Pacuvius; cf. the letters J and Q.—V is sometimes elided after a mute: dis for dvis from duo; likewise after s: sibi for svibi (from su-ibi); sis, sas, sos, for suis, suas, suos; sultis for si vultis; so Lat. si corresponds to Umbr. sve and Osc. svai; v. esp. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 310 sqq.—

As an abbreviation, V (as the sign of the consonant) stands for vir, vivus, vixit, voto, vale, verba, etc.; V. C., or also VC., vir clarissimus; VCP., voti compos posuit; V. V., virgo Vestalis; V. F. Q. D. E. R. F. P. D. E. R. I. C., verba fecerunt. Quid de eā re fieri placeret, de eā re ita censuerunt.—As a numeral, the letter V stands for half of the geometrical cross X or ten, Zumpt, Gr. § 115 Anm. 1.