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  • 1 Cornix cornici oculos non effodiet

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  • 2 oculus

    ŏcŭlus (sync. oclus, Prud. steph. 10, 592 dub.), i, m. [kindr. with Sanscr. akshi and aksha, from the root ītsh, videre; Gr. ossomai, osse; Goth. augō; Germ. Auge; Engl. eye], an eye.
    I.
    Lit.:

    quae (natura) primum oculos membranis tenuissimis vestivit et saepsit... sed lubricos oculos fecit et mobiles,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142; cf. Cels. 7, 7, 13; Plin. 11, 37, 52, § 139 sq.; Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 221:

    venusti,

    id. Tusc. 5, 16, 46:

    eminentes,

    prominent, id. Vatin. 2, 4:

    oculi tanquam speculatores,

    id. N. D. 2, 57, 140:

    acuti,

    id. Planc. 27, 69:

    maligni,

    Verg. A. 5, 654:

    minaces,

    Luc. 2, 26: oculos conicere in aliquem, to cast or fix one's eyes upon, Cic. Clu. 19, 54:

    oculos conjecit in hostem,

    Verg. A. 12, 483: adicere alicui rei, to cast one's eyes upon, glance at:

    ad eorum ne quem oculos adiciat suos,

    Plaut. As. 4, 1, 24; to covet, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 15, § 37:

    adicere ad rem aliquam,

    id. Agr. 2, 10, 25:

    de aliquo nusquam deicere,

    to never turn one's eyes away from, to regard with fixed attention, id. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 33:

    deicere ab aliquā re,

    to turn away, id. Phil. 1, 1, 1:

    in terram figere,

    to fix one's eyes upon the ground, Tac. H. 4, 72:

    deicere in terram,

    to cast down to, Quint. 1, 11, 9:

    demittere,

    Ov. M. 15, 612:

    erigere,

    id. ib. 4, 146: attollere. Verg. A. 4, 688; Ov. M. 2, 448:

    circumferre,

    id. ib. 6, 169:

    premere,

    Verg. A. 9, 487: deponere, to fix, Hor C. 1, 36, 18:

    distorquere,

    id. S. 1, 9, 65:

    spargere,

    to direct hither and thither, Pers. 5, 33:

    oculis cernere,

    to see with one's own eyes, Nep. Timol. 2, 2:

    oculos auferre spectanti,

    to blind the eyes of an observer, to cheat him before his eyes, Liv. 6, 15 fin.: ponere sibi aliquid ante oculos. i. e. to imagine to one's self any thing, Cic. Agr. 2, 20, 53:

    proponere oculis suis aliquid,

    id. Sest. 7, 17:

    esse ante oculos,

    to be before one's eyes, id. Lael. 11, 38: res posita in oculis, and ante oculos, that lies before one's eyes, is apparent, evident:

    de rebus ante oculos positis,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 5:

    omnia sunt enim posita ante oculos,

    id. de Or. 1, 43, 192:

    inque meis oculis candida Delos erat,

    before my eyes, Ov. H. 21, 82: vivere in oculis, habitare in oculis, to live in the sight of, in the presence of, in intercourse with:

    in maximā celebritate atque in oculis civium quondam viximus,

    Cic. Off. 3, 1, 3:

    habitavi in oculis,

    id. Planc. 27, 66; cf.:

    in foro palam Syracusis in ore atque in oculis provinciae,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 33, § 81; Liv. 22, 12; 35, 10; Tac. H. 4, 77:

    habere in oculis,

    to keep in sight, to watch, observe, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 66:

    in oculis omnium submergi,

    Curt. 9, 4, 11:

    se ante oculos suos trucidari sinerent,

    Liv. 2, 6, 2; 4, 14, 5; Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48: ab oculis alicujus abire (ire), to leave one's presence:

    Abin' hinc ab oculis?

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 147; id. Truc. 2, 5, 24; Sen. Ep. 36, 10; cf.:

    ab oculis recedere,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 11:

    ab oculis concedere,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17:

    (angues) conspecti repente ex oculis abierunt,

    out of sight, Liv. 25, 16, 2:

    prodigii species ex oculis elapsa,

    id. 26, 19, 7:

    (avem) ablatam ex oculis,

    Tac. H. 2, 50:

    facesserent propere ex urbe ab ore atque oculis populi Romani,

    Liv. 6, 17, 8:

    sub oculis alicujus,

    before a person's eyes, in his presence, Caes. B. C. 1, 71; Vell. 2, 79, 4:

    sub oculis domini esse,

    Col. 9, 5, 2:

    quos honores sub oculis tuis gessit,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 11, 2:

    sub avi oculis necari,

    Just. 1, 4, 5; Flor. 4, 7, 8:

    hostes sub oculis erant,

    Liv. 22, 14, 3; 26, 38, 9:

    sub oculis Caesaris,

    Tac. A. 2, 35: hunc oculis suis nostrarum numquam quisquam vidit, with his own eyes, i. e. actually, in person, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 10:

    numquam ante hunc diem meis oculis eam videram,

    id. Hec. 5, 4, 23: ad oculum, for display, to be seen:

    non ad oculum servientes,

    Vulg. Eph. 1, 18; id. Col. 3, 22.—As a term of endearment, the apple of my eye, my darling:

    ubi isti sunt quibus vos oculi estis, quibus vitae estis, quibus deliciae?

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 46:

    bene vale, ocule mi!

    id. Curc. 1, 3, 47 —Hence, in a double sense:

    par oculorum in amicitiā M. Antonii triumviri,

    Suet. Rhet. 5.—The ancients swore by their eyes:

    si voltis per oculos jurare, nihilo magis facietis,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 1.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    The power of seeing, sight, vision: ut eum quoque oculum, quo bene videret, amitteret, lost, i. e. became blind, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 48:

    oculos perdere,

    id. Har. Resp. 18, 37:

    restituere alicui,

    Suet. Vesp. 7; cf.:

    oculis usurpare rem,

    i. e. see, Lucr. 1, 301.—
    2.
    A luminary, said of the sun and stars ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose): mundi oculus. i. e. the sun, Ov. M. 4, 228:

    stellarum oculi,

    Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 10.—
    3.
    A spot resembling an eye, as on a panther's hide, a peacock's tail, etc., Plin. 8, 17, 23, § 62:

    pavonum caudae,

    id. 13, 15, 30, § 96. —So arch. t. t.:

    oculus volutae,

    Vitr. 3, 5. —
    4.
    Of plants.
    a.
    An eye, bud, bourgeon: oculos imponere, i. e. to bud, inoculate, Verg. G. 2, 73:

    gemmans,

    Col. 4, 24, 16.—
    b.
    A bulb or knob on many roots, on the reed, etc.:

    harundinis,

    Cato, R. R. 6, 3; Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 3:

    seritur harundo bulbo radicis, quem alii oculum vocant,

    Plin. 17, 20, 33, § 144.—
    c.
    A plant, called also aizoum majus, Plin. 25, 13, 102, § 160. —
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    A principal ornament: hi duo illos oculos orae maritimae effoderunt ( Corinth and Carthage), Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 91:

    ex duobus Graeciae oculis,

    i. e. Athens and Sparta, Just. 5, 8, 4.—
    B.
    The eye of the soul, the mind's eye:

    eloquentiam quam nullis nisi mentis oculis videre possumus,

    Cic. Or. 29, 101:

    acrioribus mentis oculis intueri,

    Col. 3, 8, 1:

    oculos pascere re aliquā,

    to feast one's eyes on any thing, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 65; cf.:

    concupiscentia oculorum,

    Vulg. 1 Joh. 2, 16: fructum oculis (dat.) capere ex aliquā re, Nep. Eum. 11, 2: oculi dolent, the eyes ache, i. e. one is afflicted by something seen, Ter. Ph. 5, 8, 64; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1; cf.:

    pietas, pater, oculis dolorem prohibet,

    i. e. forbids me to take offence, Plaut. As. 5, 1, 4: in oculis, in the eye, i. e. in view, hoped or expected:

    frumenti spes, quae in oculis fuerat, utrosque frustrata pariter,

    Liv. 26, 39, 23:

    acies et arma in oculis erant,

    Curt. 3, 6, 3:

    Philotae supplicium in oculis erat,

    id. 8, 6, 21:

    esse in oculis,

    to be beloved, esteemed, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 5:

    esse in oculis multitudinis,

    id. Tusc. 2, 26, 63: ferre, gestare in oculis, to love, esteem, value:

    oderat tum, cum, etc....jam fert in oculis,

    id. Phil. 6, 4, 11:

    rex te ergo in oculis,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 11: aequis oculis videre, i. e. contentedly, with satisfaction (like aequo animo), Curt. 8, 2, 9: ante oculos, in mind, in view:

    mors ante oculos debet esse,

    Sen. Ep. 12, 6; Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 6; also plain, obvious:

    simul est illud ante oculos,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 85, 349:

    sit ante oculos Nero,

    i. e. set him before you, consider him, Tac. H. 1, 16: ante oculos habere, to keep in mind (post-class.):

    habe ante oculos hanc esse terram,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 24, 4:

    mortalitatem,

    id. ib. 2, 10, 4; Just. 5, 6, 1; for which (late Lat.) prae oculis: prae oculis habere terrorem futuri judicii, Greg. M. Ep. 2, 48;

    3, 27 al.: nec jam fas ullum prae oculis habent,

    Amm. 30, 4, 18: ob oculos versari, to be before the mind, etc.:

    mors (ei) ob oculos versatur,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39; Liv. 28, 19, 14; cf.:

    usu versatur ante oculos vobis Glaucia,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 98; id. Fin. 2, 22, 75; 5, 1, 3; id. Dom. 55, 141; Liv. 34, 36, 6: ponere aliquid ante oculos, to call up in mind, imagine, etc.:

    eā (translatione) utimur rei ante oculos ponendae causā,

    Auct. Her. 4, 34, 45:

    ora eorum ponite vobis ante oculos,

    Cic. Phil. 13, 2, 4:

    calamitatem Cottae sibi ante oculos ponunt,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 37:

    exsilium Cn. Marci sibi proponunt ante oculos,

    Liv. 2, 54, 6:

    conjurationem ante oculos ponere,

    id. 24, 24, 8:

    studia eorum vobis ante oculos proponere,

    Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48;

    rarely: constituere sibi aliquid ante oculos,

    Cic. Cael. 32, 79; Aug. Serm. 233, 3: ante oculos ponere (proponere), with ellips. of dat. of person, Cic. Marc. 2, 5; id. Deiot. 7, 20; id. Phil. 2, 45, 115; 11, 3, 7; id. N. D. 1, 41, 114:

    nec a re publicā deiciebam oculos,

    id. Phil. 1, 1, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > oculus

  • 3 oculus

        oculus ī, m    [2 AC-], an eye: (lacrimulam) oculos terendo expresserit, T.: magis te quam oculos amo meos, T.: eminentes, prominent: oculi tamquam speculatores: maligni, V.: oculi in Oppianicum coniciebantur, were turned: adiectum esse oculum hereditati, his eye was on: ad omnia vestra oculos adicere: oculos de isto nusquam deicere, regard with fixed attention: demittere, O.: attollere, V.: circumferre, O.: premere, V.: deponere, to fix, H.: oculis somno coniventibus: unguibus illi in oculos involare, fly at, T.: quod ante oculos est, is in full view: ne abstuleritis observantibus etiam oculos, cheat out of their eyes, L.: in oculis civium vivere, in public: in oculis omnium submergi, Cu.: ab oculis concedere: ex oculis abire, out of sight, L.: facesserent ex urbe ab oculis populi R., L.: sub oculis accepto detrimento, in (Caesar's) presence, Cs.: eum quoque oculum, quo bene videret, amittere, lost the sight of: altero oculo capitur, becomes blind of one eye, L.— A luminary: mundi oculus, the sun, O.—In plants, an eye, bud, bourgeon: oculos imponere, inoculate, V.—Fig., a principal ornament: duo illos oculos orae maritimae effoderunt, i. e. Corinth and Carthage.—The eye of the soul, mind's eye: eius cru<*>iatu pascere oculos, feast one's eyes: fructum oculis ex eius casu capere, delight their eyes, N.: tuo viro oculi dolent, i. e. he is afflicted, T.: acies et arma in oculis erant, in view, Cu.: si in oculis sis multitudinis, are belo<*>ed by: oderat tum. cum... iam fert in oculis, values highly: rex te ergo in oculis gestare? held dear, T.: aequis oculis videre, i. e. contentedly, Cu.: simul est illud ante oculos, obvious: mors (ei) ob oculos versatur, is in view: ora eorum ponite vobis ante oculos, picture to yourselves: pone illum ante oculos diem, fix your thoughts on: nec a re p. deiciebam oculos, lose sight of.
    * * *

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  • 4 defigo

    dē-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a., to fasten down or in; and with especial reference to the terminus, to drive, fix, or fasten into (class.). —
    I.
    Lit.: in campo Martio crucem ad civium supplicium defigi et constitui jubes, Cic. Rab. perd. 4; so,

    tigna machinationibus immissa in flumen,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4:

    sudes sub aqua,

    id. ib. 5, 18, 3:

    asseres in terra defigebantur,

    id. B. C. 2, 2; Liv. 44, 5:

    verutum in balteo,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 44, 7:

    sicam in consulis corpore,

    to thrust, Cic. Cat. 1, 6; cf.:

    cultrum in corde,

    Liv. 1, 58 fin.:

    tellure hastas,

    Verg. A. 12, 130; cf. id. ib. 6, 652:

    gladium superne jugulo,

    Liv. 1, 25; cf. Ov. M. 13, 436 al.: cruci defiguntur, Varr. ap. Non. 221, 13:

    arborem penitus terrae,

    Verg. G. 2, 290:

    te hodie, si prehendero, defigam in terram colaphis,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 22 (for which, shortly after, cruci affigere):

    morsus in aurem,

    Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34:

    clavum percussum malleo in cerebrum,

    Vulg. Judic. 4, 21; Eccles. 12, 11. —
    B.
    Meton. (Causa pro effectu.) To fix, fasten, render immovable (rare):

    defixa caelo sidera,

    Hor. Epod. 17, 5; cf. Ov. M. 11, 76:

    defixere aciem in his vestigiis,

    have fixed them motionless, Tac. Agr. 34; cf.:

    defixi et Neronem intuentes,

    id. A. 13, 16:

    sedeo defixus,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 34, 1:

    me defixum in ora, etc.,

    Prop. 1, 8, 15.—
    C.
    Esp. in phrase, manus defigere, to strike hands, i. e., to close a contract as surety, to pledge one's person, Vulg. Prov. 6, 1; 22, 26.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to fix, fasten; to turn intently in any direction:

    virtus est una altissimis defixa radicibus,

    Cic. Phil. 4, 5:

    oculos in vultu regis,

    Curt. 7, 8:

    iratos oculos in te,

    Ov. Am. 2, 18, 15:

    in alicujus possessiones oculos defigere,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10:

    oculos defigere in terram,

    Quint. 11, 3, 158; Curt. 9, 3.— Absol.:

    oculos,

    to let fall, cast down, Tac. A. 3, 1:

    Aeneas defixus lumina,

    Verg. A. 6, 156:

    animos in ea, quae perspicua sunt,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 15:

    disputare non vaganti oratione, sed defixa in una republica,

    id. Rep. 1, 11; cf.:

    in eo mentem orationemque defigit,

    id. de Or. 3, 8, 31:

    omnes suas curas in reip. salute,

    id. Phil. 14, 5, 13; id. Verr. 1, 3; cf. id. Prov. Cons. 4, 8.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To strike motionless, sc. with astonishment, etc.; to stupefy, astound, astonish (not freq. till after the Aug. per.):

    utraque simul objecta res oculis animisque immobiles parumper eos defixit,

    Liv. 21, 33; so,

    aliquem,

    id. 3, 47; 6, 40 al.: silentium triste ita defixit omnium animos, ut, etc., Liv. 1, 29.—In the part. perf.:

    dum stupet obtutuque haeret defixus in uno,

    Verg. A. 1, 495; 6, 156; 7, 249; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 14; Liv. 8, 7; Tac. A. 1, 68; 13, 5 et saep.—
    2.
    Religious t. t.
    * a.
    To declare fixedly, firmly, unalterably:

    QVAE AVGVR VITIOSA, DIRA DEFIXERIT, IRRITA SVNTO,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 8 fin. —
    b.
    (Because, in making imprecations, the waxen image of him for whom destruction was to be prepared, or his name written in wax, was stuck through with a needle; cf. Ov. H. 6, 91 sq., and Voss upon Verg. E. 8, 80.) To bewitch, enchant; to curse any thing:

    caput alicujus dira imprecatione,

    Sen. Ben. 6, 35:

    defigi imprecationibus,

    Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19:

    nomina cerā,

    Ov. Am. 3, 7, 29; cf.:

    DEFIXA NOMINA,

    Inscr. Orell. 3726:

    regis animum Iolchiacis votis,

    Verg. Cir. 376.—
    3.
    To censure, reprove a thing:

    culpam,

    Pers. 5, 16.

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  • 5 attollo

    at-tollo ( attolo, arch.), no perf. or sup., 3, v. a., to lift or raise up, raise, elevate, lift on high (in the poets and postAug. prose writers very frequent, but not in Cic.; syn.: tollo, erigo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    super limen pedes attollere,

    Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 1:

    signa,

    id. ib. 2, 6, 5: pallium attollere, i. e. accingere (v. accingo), * Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 31:

    illum (regem) omnes apes... saepe attollunt umeris,

    Verg. G. 4, 217: Nec semel irrisus triviis attollere curat Fracto crure planum, to raise up the juggler, to help him up, * Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 58 Schmid:

    parvumque attollite natum,

    lift up, Ov. M. 9, 387:

    caput,

    id. ib. 5, 503:

    oculos humo,

    id. ib. 2, 448:

    Et contra magnum potes hos (oculos) attollere solem,

    Prop. 1, 15, 37:

    Sed non attollere contra Sustinet haec oculos,

    Ov. M. 6, 605:

    Attollens Joseph oculos vidit etc.,

    Vulg. Gen. 43, 29:

    timidum lumen ad lumina,

    Ov. M. 10, 293:

    vultus jacentes,

    id. ib. 4, 144:

    corpus ulnis,

    id. ib. 7, 847:

    manus ad caelum,

    Liv. 10, 36:

    cornua e mari,

    Plin. 9, 27, 43, § 82:

    attollite portas, principes,

    Vulg. Psa. 23, 7; 23, 9:

    mare ventis,

    Tac. Agr. 10; cf.:

    Euphratem attolli,

    swollen, id. A. 6, 37:

    se in femur,

    raises himself on his thigh, Verg. A. 10, 856:

    se in auras,

    Ov. M. 4, 722:

    se recto trunco,

    id. ib. 2, 822:

    attollentem se ab gravi casu,

    Liv. 8, 7, 6:

    a terrā se attollentem,

    Plin. 21, 11, 36, § 62.—

    With middle signif.: e mediis hunc (sc. Atlantem) harenis in caelum attolli prodidere,

    Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 6:

    attollitur monte Pione,

    id. 5, 29, 31, § 115.—Of buildings, to raise, erect, build:

    immensam molem,

    Verg. A. 2, 185:

    arcem,

    id. ib. 3, 134:

    attollitur opus in altitudinem XXXX. cubitis,

    Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 30:

    turres in centenos vicenos[que ] attollebantur,

    Tac. H. 5, 11.— Poet.:

    cum die stativorum campum alacritate discursu pulvere attolleres,

    Plin. Pan. 14, 3; cf. Verg. A. 9, 714.—
    II.
    Trop., to raise, elevate, exalt, sustain; also, to enlarge, aggrandize, to render prominent or conspicuous, to extol (so esp. freq. in Tac.):

    Punica se quantis attollet gloria rebus,

    Verg. A. 4, 49:

    ultro implacabilis ardet Attollitque animos,

    id. ib. 12, 4:

    ad consulatūs spem attollere animos,

    Liv. 22, 26:

    rectos ac vividos animos non ut alii contundis ac deprimis, sed foves et attollis,

    Plin. Pan. 44, 6:

    Frangit et attollit vires in milite causa,

    Prop. 5, 6, 51:

    attollique suum laetis ad sidera nomen vocibus,

    Luc. 7, 11:

    quanto Ciceronis studio Brutus Cassiusque attollerentur,

    were distinguished, Vell. 2, 65 Ruhnk. (cf. Cic. Phil. 11, 14: animadverti dici jam a quibusdam exornari etiam nimium a me Brutum, nimium Cassium ornari); so,

    insignibus triumphi,

    Tac. A. 3, 72; id. H. 2, 90; 3, 37; 4, 59; id. Agr. 39:

    res per similitudinem,

    Quint. 8, 6, 68: his (frons) contrahitur, attollitur ( is drawn up or raised), demittitur, id. 11, 3, 78:

    belloque et armis rem publicam,

    Tac. H. 4, 52:

    cuncta in majus attollens,

    id. A. 15, 30:

    sua facta, suos casus,

    id. Agr. 25.— Form attolo, of doubtful meaning:

    Quis vetat qui ne attolat? Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 82 Rib.: Custodite istunc vos, ne vim qui attolat neve attigat,

    id. ib. p. 105 (= auferre or afferre, Non.).

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  • 6 attolo

    at-tollo ( attolo, arch.), no perf. or sup., 3, v. a., to lift or raise up, raise, elevate, lift on high (in the poets and postAug. prose writers very frequent, but not in Cic.; syn.: tollo, erigo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    super limen pedes attollere,

    Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 1:

    signa,

    id. ib. 2, 6, 5: pallium attollere, i. e. accingere (v. accingo), * Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 31:

    illum (regem) omnes apes... saepe attollunt umeris,

    Verg. G. 4, 217: Nec semel irrisus triviis attollere curat Fracto crure planum, to raise up the juggler, to help him up, * Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 58 Schmid:

    parvumque attollite natum,

    lift up, Ov. M. 9, 387:

    caput,

    id. ib. 5, 503:

    oculos humo,

    id. ib. 2, 448:

    Et contra magnum potes hos (oculos) attollere solem,

    Prop. 1, 15, 37:

    Sed non attollere contra Sustinet haec oculos,

    Ov. M. 6, 605:

    Attollens Joseph oculos vidit etc.,

    Vulg. Gen. 43, 29:

    timidum lumen ad lumina,

    Ov. M. 10, 293:

    vultus jacentes,

    id. ib. 4, 144:

    corpus ulnis,

    id. ib. 7, 847:

    manus ad caelum,

    Liv. 10, 36:

    cornua e mari,

    Plin. 9, 27, 43, § 82:

    attollite portas, principes,

    Vulg. Psa. 23, 7; 23, 9:

    mare ventis,

    Tac. Agr. 10; cf.:

    Euphratem attolli,

    swollen, id. A. 6, 37:

    se in femur,

    raises himself on his thigh, Verg. A. 10, 856:

    se in auras,

    Ov. M. 4, 722:

    se recto trunco,

    id. ib. 2, 822:

    attollentem se ab gravi casu,

    Liv. 8, 7, 6:

    a terrā se attollentem,

    Plin. 21, 11, 36, § 62.—

    With middle signif.: e mediis hunc (sc. Atlantem) harenis in caelum attolli prodidere,

    Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 6:

    attollitur monte Pione,

    id. 5, 29, 31, § 115.—Of buildings, to raise, erect, build:

    immensam molem,

    Verg. A. 2, 185:

    arcem,

    id. ib. 3, 134:

    attollitur opus in altitudinem XXXX. cubitis,

    Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 30:

    turres in centenos vicenos[que ] attollebantur,

    Tac. H. 5, 11.— Poet.:

    cum die stativorum campum alacritate discursu pulvere attolleres,

    Plin. Pan. 14, 3; cf. Verg. A. 9, 714.—
    II.
    Trop., to raise, elevate, exalt, sustain; also, to enlarge, aggrandize, to render prominent or conspicuous, to extol (so esp. freq. in Tac.):

    Punica se quantis attollet gloria rebus,

    Verg. A. 4, 49:

    ultro implacabilis ardet Attollitque animos,

    id. ib. 12, 4:

    ad consulatūs spem attollere animos,

    Liv. 22, 26:

    rectos ac vividos animos non ut alii contundis ac deprimis, sed foves et attollis,

    Plin. Pan. 44, 6:

    Frangit et attollit vires in milite causa,

    Prop. 5, 6, 51:

    attollique suum laetis ad sidera nomen vocibus,

    Luc. 7, 11:

    quanto Ciceronis studio Brutus Cassiusque attollerentur,

    were distinguished, Vell. 2, 65 Ruhnk. (cf. Cic. Phil. 11, 14: animadverti dici jam a quibusdam exornari etiam nimium a me Brutum, nimium Cassium ornari); so,

    insignibus triumphi,

    Tac. A. 3, 72; id. H. 2, 90; 3, 37; 4, 59; id. Agr. 39:

    res per similitudinem,

    Quint. 8, 6, 68: his (frons) contrahitur, attollitur ( is drawn up or raised), demittitur, id. 11, 3, 78:

    belloque et armis rem publicam,

    Tac. H. 4, 52:

    cuncta in majus attollens,

    id. A. 15, 30:

    sua facta, suos casus,

    id. Agr. 25.— Form attolo, of doubtful meaning:

    Quis vetat qui ne attolat? Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 82 Rib.: Custodite istunc vos, ne vim qui attolat neve attigat,

    id. ib. p. 105 (= auferre or afferre, Non.).

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  • 7 deicio

    dē-ĭcĭo or dejicio, jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. [jacio], to throw or cast down; to hurl down, precipitate (very freq., and class.).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    araneas de foribus et de pariete,

    Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 31:

    aliquem de ponte in Tiberim,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 100; cf.:

    aliquem e ponte,

    Suet. Caes. 80:

    aliquem de saxo (Tarpeio),

    Liv. 5, 47; 6, 20; Hor. S. 1, 6, 39; cf.

    aliquem saxo Tarpeio,

    Tac. A. 6, 19:

    aliquem equo,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12, 5; Liv. 4, 19:

    jugum servile a cervicibus,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6:

    togam ab umeris,

    Suet. Aug. 52; cf.:

    togam de umero,

    id. Caes. 9 al.; esp. reflex. with pron.:

    se de muro,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 18, 3; cf.:

    se de superiore parte aedium,

    Nep. Dion, 4 fin.:

    se per munitiones,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 5:

    se a praealtis montibus (venti),

    Liv. 28, 6:

    librum in mare,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14; cf.:

    aliquem in locum inferiorem,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 44, 12:

    aliquem e summo in Tartara,

    Lucr. 5, 1124:

    elatam securim in caput (regis),

    Liv. 1, 40; cf. id. 7, 10:

    equum e campo in cavam hanc viam,

    force to leap down, id. 23, 47:

    bustum aut monumentum, aut columnam,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 26; so,

    statuas veterum hominum (c. c. depellere simulacra deorum),

    id. Cat. 3, 8, 19:

    monumenta regis templaque Vestae,

    Hor. Od. 1, 2, 15:

    signa aenea in Capitolio (tempestas),

    Liv. 40, 2:

    omnes Hermas,

    Nep. Alcib. 3:

    turrim,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 22; cf.

    arces,

    Hor. Od. 4, 14, 13 et saep.:

    arbores,

    to fell, Liv. 21, 37, 2; Vitr. 2, 9, 4:

    caput uno ictu,

    to cut off, Verg. A. 9, 770; id. ib. 10, 546:

    libellos,

    to tear down, Cic. Quint. 6, 27; Sen. Ben. 4, 12 (but Caes. B. G. 3, 15, antemnis disjectis is the true reading): comam, Afran. ap. Non. 514, 2; cf.:

    crinibus dejectis,

    loose, dishevelled, Tac. A. 14, 30:

    sortes,

    to cast into the urn, Caes. B. C. 1, 6, 5:

    dejectam aerea sortem accepit galea,

    Verg. A. 5, 490 sq.:

    cum dejecta sors esset,

    Liv. 21, 42; cf.:

    pernam, glandium,

    to throw into the pot, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 36:

    alvum,

    to purge, Cato R. R. 158; cf.:

    casei caprini, qui facillimi deiciantur,

    i. e. are most easily digested, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 3;

    opp. alvum superiorem,

    i. e. to vomit, Cato R. R. 156, 2.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    Milit. t. t., to drive out, dislodge an enemy from his position: hostes muro turribusque dejecti, Caes. B. G. 7, 28; cf.:

    nostri dejecti sunt loco,

    id. ib. 7, 51:

    praesidium ex saltu,

    id. B. C. 1, 37 fin.; cf.:

    agmen Gallorum ex rupe Tarpeia,

    Liv. 7, 10:

    ex tot castellis,

    id. 44, 35:

    praesidium Claternā,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 6; cf.:

    praesidium loco summe munito,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 30: praesidium (without abl.), Caes. B. G. 7, 36, 7; id. B. C. 3, 23, 2; Liv. 4, 53 al.:

    castra hostium,

    to destroy, id. 25, 14:

    praetorium,

    id. 41, 2 et saep.—
    2.
    Jurid. t. t., to drive out, turn out of possession, eject, dispossess (cf. deduco):

    unde vi prohibitus sis... unde dejectus?

    Cic. Caecin. 13; cf. id. ib. 17, 50:

    nisi ex eo loco ubi vestigium impresserit, deici neminem posse,

    id. ib. 27, 76 fin.:

    aliquem de possessione imperii,

    Liv. 45, 22.—
    3.
    Naut. t. t., pass.: deici, to be driven out of one's course:

    naves ad inferiorem partem insulae,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 28, 2:

    classis tempestate vexata ad Balearīs insulas deicitur,

    Liv. 23, 34, 16; id. 23, 40, 6.—
    4.
    Pregn. (cf.: cado, concĭdo, decĭdo; caedo, concīdo, decīdo, etc.), to fell with a mortal wound, to bring down dead to the ground; to kill, slay:

    his dejectis et coacervatis cadaveribus,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 27, 4; 4, 12; id. B. C. 1, 46; 3, 51; cf.:

    quem telo primum, quem postremum aspera virgo Deicis?

    Verg. A. 11, 665:

    avem ab alto caelo,

    id. ib. 5, 542; cf. id. ib. 11, 580:

    Glaucoque bovem Thetidique juvencam Deicit Ancaeus,

    i. e. slaughters as a sacrifice, Val. Fl. 1, 191:

    super juvencum stabat dejectum leo,

    Phaedr. 2, 1, 1:

    (Hercules) aves sagittis dejecit,

    Lact. 1, 9, 2:

    gruem,

    Verg. A. 11, 580.—
    5.
    To lower, let down, hang down, depress, of the head, etc. (cf. II. A. infra):

    dejecto capite (opp. supino capite),

    Quint. 11, 3, 69.—Of a nod (opp. relato capite), Apul. Met. 10.—Of a wild beast:

    id (caput) dejectum semper in terram,

    Plin. 8, 21, 32, § 77:

    in pectora mentum,

    Ov. M. 12, 255:

    euntes dejecta cervice Getae,

    Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 180.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen.:

    pueri Sisennae oculos de isto numquam deicere,

    never took their eyes off him, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15; cf. id. ib. 2, 5, 71:

    oculos a republica,

    id. Phil. 1, 1:

    dejecit vultum et demissa voce locuta est,

    cast down her eyes, Verg. A. 3, 320; cf.:

    oculos in terram,

    Quint. 1, 11, 9 al.;

    and in Gr. construction, dejectus oculos,

    with downcast eyes, Verg. A. 11, 480:

    dejectus vultum,

    Stat. Th. 3, 367:

    ecquid ergo intellegis quantum mali de humana condicione dejeceris?

    thou hast removed, averted, Cic. Tusc. 1, 8; cf.:

    quantum de doloris terrore,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 14:

    vitia a se ratione,

    id. ib. 4, 37, 80; cf.:

    cruciatum a corpore (with depellere omnia verbera),

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 62:

    hunc metum Siciliae,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 49 fin.:

    quae replenda vel deicienda sunt,

    Quint. 10, 4, 1:

    eum de sententia dejecistis,

    hast diverted from his opinion, Cic. Phil. 9, 4, 8:

    fortis et constantis est, non tumultuantem de gradu deici, ut dicitur,

    id. Off. 1, 23, 80; cf. id. Att. 16, 15, 3.—
    B.
    In partic. (acc. to no. I. B. 2.), to cast one down from the prospect of a thing; to prevent from obtaining, to deprive, rob of:

    de honore deici,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 9, 25:

    de possessione imperii,

    Liv. 45, 22, 7;

    for which, ad deiciendum honore eum,

    Liv. 39, 41;

    and, dejecti honore,

    id. 3, 35; so with simple abl.:

    aliquem aedilitate,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 8, 23:

    aedilitate,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 8, § 23:

    praeturā,

    id. Mur. 36, 76:

    principatu,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 63, 8:

    certo consulatu,

    Liv. 40, 46, 14:

    spe,

    id. 44, 28, 1:

    ea spe,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 8, 4; cf.:

    opinione trium legionum (i. e. spe trium legionum colligendarum),

    id. ib. 5, 48:

    conjuge tanto,

    Verg. A. 3, 317. —Without abl.: M. Caelium mentio illa fatua... subito dejecit, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 3:

    cum inimicum eo quoque anno petentem dejecisset,

    Liv. 38, 35:

    uxorem (sc. conjugio),

    Tac. A. 11, 29 fin.:

    hoc dejecto,

    after his fall, Nep. Thras. 3, 1; cf. Tac. A. 2, 3; Luc. 8, 27:

    ex alto dejectus culmine regni,

    Sil. 17, 143.—
    C.
    To humble:

    deicimur, sed non perimus,

    Vulg. 2 Cor. 4, 9:

    deiciendi hominis causa,

    Lact. 4, 27, 17.—Hence, dejectus, a, um, P. a. (very rare).
    I.
    Sunk down, low:

    equitatus noster etsi dejectis atque inferioribus locis constiterat,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 46, 3:

    dejectius,

    Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 6 fin. —
    II.
    (Acc. to no. II. B., deprived of hope; hence) Cast down, dejected, dispirited:

    haud dejectus equum duci jubet,

    Verg. A. 10, 858; cf.: [p. 535] haud sic dejecta, Stat. Th. 3, 315:

    in epilogis plerumque dejecti et infracti sumus,

    Quint. 9. 4, 138.— Sup. does not occur.—
    * Adv. dējectē, low; only comp., dejectius, Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 27 fin.

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  • 8 ante

        ante adv. and praep.    [ANT-].    I. Adv., of space, before, in front, forwards: ante aut post pugnandi ordo, L.: positum ante pullum Sustulit, served, H.: non ante, sed retro.—Usu. of time, before, previously: nonne oportuit Praescisse me ante, T.: fructus ante actae vitae: ante feci mentionem: ut ante dixi: ut saepe ante fecerant: non filius ante pudicus, hitherto, Iu.: multis ante saeculis, many centuries earlier: paucis ante diebus: biennio ante: paulo ante, a little while ago: ante aliquanto: tanto ante praedixeras.—Followed by quam, sooner than, before: ante quam ad sententiam redeo, dicam, etc.: memini Catonem anno ante quam est mortuus disserere: ante quam veniat in Pontum, mittet, etc.: ante... Ararim Parthus bibet... Quam... labatur, etc., V.: qui (sol) ante quam se abderet, vidit, etc.: ante vero quam sit ea res adlata: nullum ante finem pugnae quam morientes fecerunt, L. — Rarely with a subst: neque ignari sumus ante malorum, earlier ills, V.: prodere patriam ante satellitibus, to those who had been, etc., L.—    II. Praep. with acc, before. —In space: ante ostium: ante fores, H.: ante aras, V. — Of persons: causam ante eum dicere, plead before his bar: ante ipsum Serapim: ante ora patrum, V.: ante oculos vestros: togati ante pedes, as servants, Iu.: equitatum ante se mittit, Cs.: ante signa progressus, L.—Fig.: pone illum ante oculos viam, recall: omnia sunt posita ante oculos, made clear. — Of esteem or rank, before: facundiā Graecos ante Romanos fuisse, S.: me ante Alexandrum... esse, superior to, L.: Iulus Ante annos animum gerens, superior to, V.: ante alios gratus erat tibi, more than, O.: (virgo) longe ante alios insignis specie, L.: felix ante alias virgo, V.: ante omnīs furor est insignis equarum, V.: longe ante alios acceptissimus militum animis, L.: maestitia ante omnia insignis, above all things, L.: dulces ante omnia Musae, V. — In time, before: ante brumam, T.: ante lucem venire: ante noctem, H.: ante lucernas, Iu.: ante me sententias dicere, S.: tot annis ante civitatem datam: ante id tempus duces erant, until, N.: neque umquam ante hunc diem, never till now, T.: iam ante Socratem, before the time of: qui honos togato habitus ante me est nemini, before my time: Ante Iovem, V.: ante Helenam, H.: per hunc castissimum ante regiam iniuriam sanguinem iuro, L.: ante mare et terras, O.: ante cibum, H.: Hoc discunt omnes ante alpha et beta, before learning ABC, Iu.: ante istum praetorem, before his praetorship: ante hanc urbem conditam, before the founding of this city: ante Epaminondam natum, N.: ante te cognitum, S.: ante conditam condendamve urbem, i. e. built or planned, L.—Poet., with gerund: (equi) ante domandum, before they are broken, V. — Esp. in phrases: factus est (consul) bis, primum ante tempus, before the lawful age: Filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos, before the destined time, O.: Sed misera ante diem, prematurely, V.: dies ante paucos, a few days sooner, L.: nobis ante quadrennium amissus est, four years ago, Ta.— Ante diem (abbrev. a. d.) with an ordinal number denotes the day of the month, reckoned inclusively, e. g., ante diem quintum (a. d. V.) Kalendas Aprilīs means, by our reckoning, the fourth day before the calends of April: ante diem XIII. Kalendas Ianuarias, the 20th of Dec.: ante diem quartum idūs Martias, the 3d day before the Ides of March, the 12th of March, L. — The entire phrase, as the name of the day, may be preceded by a praep: in ante diem quartum Kal. Dec. distulit: caedem te optimatium contulisse in ante diem V. Kal. Nov., to the 28th of Oct.
    * * *
    I
    before, previously, first, before this, earlier; in front/advance of; forwards
    II
    in front/presence of, in view; before (space/time/degree); over against, facing

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  • 9 dēiciō or dēiiciō

        dēiciō or dēiiciō iēcī, iectus, ere    [de + iacio], to throw down, hurl down, precipitate, prostrate, raze, fell, cut down, tear down, destroy: alqm de ponte in Tiberim: alqm de saxo (Tarpeio), L.: a cervicibus iugum: se de muro, leap, Cs.: saxi deiectae vertice caprae, V.: se per munitiones, leap over, Cs.: venti a montibus se deiciunt, L.: volnerato equo deiectus, Cs.: statuas veterum hominum: naves deiciendi operis missae, to destroy, Cs.: monumenta regis, H.: muros, L.: ut omnes Hermae deicerentur, N.: deiectā turri, Cs.: caput uno ictu, V.; libellos, to tear down: sortīs, to cast, Cs.: deiectis lacrimis, shed, Pr.—Poet., with dat: Gyan leto, V.—Prov.: de gradu deici (orig. of a gladiator), to be thrown off one's balance, i. e. lose one's head.—To drive out, dislodge, expel: nostri deiecti sunt loco, Cs.: praesidium ex saltu, Cs.: Gallorum agmen ex rupe Tarpeiā, L.: praesidium Claternā.— To drive out, turn out of possession, eject, dispossess: unde sis deiectus: ex eo loco.— Pass: deici, to be driven out of one's course: naves ad inferiorem partem insulae, Cs.: classis tempestate vexata ad Belearīs insulas deicitur, L. — To lay low, strike down, kill, slay, slaughter: paucis deiectis, Cs.: quem telo primum Deicis? V.: (viperam) Deice, crush, V.: super iuvencum stabat deiectum leo, Ph.— To lower, let fall, de press: in pectora mentum, O.—Fig., to cast down: oculos: voltum, V.: deiectus oculos, with downcast eyes, V.: Deiecto in humum voltu, O.— To remove, avert, divert, turn away, repel: hunc metum Siciliae damnatione istius: oculos a re p.: quantum mali de humanā condicione: vitia a se ratione: eum de sententiā.— To prevent from obtaining, deprive, rob of: de possessione imperi vos, L.: principatu, Cs.: eā spe, Cs.: deiecta coniuge tanto, V.: uxore deiectā (sc. coniugio), Ta.: hoc deiecto, after his fall, N.—In elections, to defeat, disappoint, prevent the choice of: me aedilitate: eiusdem pecuniā de honore deici: civis optimus praeturā deiectus: deiectis honore per coitionem, L.

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  • 10 ante

    antĕ (old form anti, whence antidea, antideo, antidhac; v. antea, anteeo, and antehac) [Gr. anti, over against, facing, anta, antên; Sanscr. anti = over against; Germ. ant- in Ant-wort = Goth. anda-vaurdi, an answer, anda-nahti, the night before], prep. and adv. (acc. to Max. Victor. p. 1953, as prep. with the grave accent; as adv. with the acute on the last syl.).
    I.
    Prep. with acc., before (syn.: prae, pro).
    A.
    In space, or trop. in regard to estimation, judgment, or rank (usu. only of objects at rest. while prae is used of those in motion; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 1, 21; v. exceptions infra).
    1.
    In space:

    quem ante aedīs video,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 136:

    ante ostium Me audivit stare,

    Ter. And. 3, 1, 16; so Vulg. Lev. 1, 5:

    Ornatas paulo ante fores,

    Juv. 6, 227; so Vulg. Num. 3, 26:

    ante meum limen,

    Juv. 11, 190:

    ante suum fundum,

    Cic. Mil. 10:

    ut ante suos hortulos postridie piscarentur,

    id. Off. 3, 14, 58:

    ante sepulcrales infelix adstitit aras,

    Ov. M. 8, 480; so Verg. A. 1, 344; 3, 545; Juv. 10, 268:

    ante altaria,

    id. 8, 155; so Vulg. Deut. 26, 4; ib. Matt. 5, 24. —Of persons:

    ante hosce deos erant arulae,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3:

    quīs ante ora patrum contigit oppetere,

    Verg. A. 1, 95; id. G. 4, 477:

    ipsius unam (navem) ante oculos pontus in puppim ferit,

    id. A. 1, 114; 2, 531; 2, 773:

    ante se statuit funditores,

    Liv. 42, 58:

    Flos Asiae ante ipsum,

    Juv. 5, 56; Vulg. Matt. 17, 2:

    si luditur alea pernox Ante Numantinos,

    Juv. 8, 11.— Trop.:

    ante oculos collocata,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 192:

    ante oculos errat domus,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 57: [p. 128] causam ante eum diceret, before him as judge, Cic. Verr. 1, 3, 9:

    donec stet ante judicium,

    Vulg. Josh. 20, 6; ib. Marc. 13, 9.—And in eccl. Lat., after the Heb. and Hel. Gr., before, in the sight of, in the judgment of:

    ante Dominum vilior fiam,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 6, 21 sq.:

    non te justifices ante Deum,

    ib. Eccli. 7, 5:

    justi ambo ante Deum,

    ib. Luc. 1, 6;

    and fully: fecit Asa rectum ante conspectum Domini,

    ib. 3 Reg. 15, 11; ib. Apoc. 12, 10.—Hence, homines ante pedes (in later Lat.), servants; cf. the annotators upon Juv. 7, 143.—With verbs of motion:

    ante me ito,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 70:

    equitatum omnem ante se mittit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 21:

    ante ceteras cohortes extra aciem procurrere,

    id. B. C. 1, 55:

    praecurrit ante omnes,

    id. ib. 2, 34; so Nep. Dat. 3, 2; Liv. 7, 41; 45, 40 al.; Vulg. Lev. 27, 11; ib. 1 Reg. 12, 2.—
    2.
    Trop. of preference in judgment, or regulations in respect to rank, before (this is properly the signification of prae, q. v.; hence more rare than that, and never used by Cic.): quem ante me diligo, before myself, more than myself, Balbus ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15.—So ante aliquem esse, to surpass, excel any one:

    facundiā Graecos, gloriā belli Gallos ante Romanos fuisse,

    Sall. C. 53, 3, ubi v. Corte and Kritz:

    tum me vero et ante Alexandrum et ante Pyrrhum et ante omnes alios imperatores esse,

    superior to, Liv. 35, 14:

    necessitas ante rationem est,

    necessity knows no law, Curt. 7, 7, 10.—Hence very freq. (but mostly poet. and post-class.),
    a.
    Ante alios, ante omnes, ante ceteros, etc., before others, before all, etc., to designate a comparative relation;

    also sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, with comparatives and superlatives: tibi, Neptune, ante alios deos gratias ago,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 5; so Ov. M. 10, 120:

    scito illum ante omnīs minumi mortalem preti,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 8:

    tua ante omnes experientia,

    Tac. A. 2, 76; 1, 27; Liv. 1, 9:

    Junoni ante omnīs candentis vaccae media inter cornua (pateram) fundit,

    Verg. A. 4, 59:

    Ipse est ante omnes,

    Vulg. Col. 1, 17:

    O felix una ante alias Priameïa virgo,

    Verg. A. 3, 321:

    ante omnes furor est insignis equarum,

    id. G. 3, 266:

    scelere ante alios immanior omnīs,

    id. A. 1, 347; Liv. 5, 42:

    ante alios pulcherrimus omnīs Turnus,

    Verg. A. 7, 55; so Nep. Att. 3, 3; Liv. 1, 15; cf. Rudd. II. p. 82; II. p. 101; II. p. 305.—
    b.
    Ante omnia.
    (α).
    Before all things, first of all:

    alvus ante omnia ducitur,

    Cels. 7, 30:

    oportet autem ante omnia os nudare,

    id. 8, 2:

    Ante omnia instituit, ut etc.,

    Suet. Ner. 32; id. Calig. 21:

    Ante omnia autem, fratres, etc.,

    Vulg. Jac. 5, 12; ib. 1 Petr. 4, 8.—
    (β).
    Comparatively, above all, especially, chiefty:

    publica maestitia eo ante omnia insignis, quia matronae annum, ut parentem, eum luxerunt,

    Liv. 2, 7; 7, 4:

    quae natura multis et ante omnia ursis,

    Plin. 8, 35, 53, § 125:

    dulces ante omnia Musae,

    the Muses pleasing above all things, Verg. G. 2, 475; id. E. 2, 72:

    deformem et taetrum ante omnia vultum,

    Juv. 10, 191.—
    (γ).
    In entering upon the discussion of several particulars, or in adducing arguments, first of all, in the first place (similar to ac primum quidem, kai prôton men oun; cf. Spald. ad Quint. 4, 2, 4):

    ante omnia quid sit rhetorice,

    Quint. 2, 15, 1:

    ante omnia igitur imitatio per se ipsa non sufficit,

    id. 10, 2, 4; so id. 1, 2, 9; 4, 2, 40; 4, 2, 52; 5, 13, 6; 9, 1, 23.—
    B.
    Of time.
    1.
    Before: ANTE MERIDIEM CAVSAM CONICITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Auct. ad Her. 2, 13; cf.

    Dirks. Transl. 177 sq.: ante lucem a portu me praemisisti domum,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 55; so Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 259; id. Inv. 2, 4, 15; Suet. Galb. 22; Vulg. Luc. 24, 22:

    ante diem caupo sciet,

    Juv. 9, 108:

    ante brumam,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 28:

    ante noctem,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 51:

    pereundum erit ante lucernas,

    Juv. 10, 339:

    ante haec omnia,

    Vulg. Luc. 21, 12.— The designation of time is often expressed paraphrastically.
    a.
    By a person who lived at the time:

    jam ante Socratem,

    before the time of, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 44:

    qui honos togato habitus ante me est nemini,

    before me, before my time, id. Cat. 4, 3:

    ante Jovem nulli subigebant arva coloni,

    Verg. G. 1, 125:

    vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 25:

    ante Helenam,

    id. S. 1, 3, 107:

    ante se,

    Tac. H. 1, 50:

    quod ante eum nemo,

    Suet. Caes. 26 al. —
    b.
    By other objects pertaining to a particular time: ante hoc factum, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 64:

    ante has meas litteras,

    i. e. before the receipt of this letter, Cic. Fam. 13, 17:

    per hunc castissimum ante regiam injuriam sanguinem juro,

    Liv. 1, 59:

    ante mare et terras, et quod tegit omnia, caelum,

    Ov. M. 1, 5:

    ante sidus fervidum,

    Hor. Epod. 1, 27:

    ante cibum,

    id. S. 1, 10, 61, and Juv. 6, 428:

    Hoc discunt omnes ante alpha et beta,

    before their A B C, id. 14, 209:

    cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?

    Verg. A. 11, 424:

    Tecum prius ergo voluta Haec ante tubas,

    Juv. 1, 169.—Also by the designation of the office of a person:

    ante aedilitatem meam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 17:

    ante sceptrum Dictaei regis,

    Verg. G. 2, 536:

    ante imperium ducis,

    Flor. 4, 2, 66:

    relictis multis filiis et in regno et ante regnum susceptis,

    Just. 2, 10.—And by the designation of office in app. to the person:

    mortuus est ante istum praetorem,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 45, 115:

    docuerant fabulas ante hos consules,

    id. Brut. 18, 73:

    cum ante illum imperatorem clipeis uterentur,

    Nep. Iphicr. 1, 3:

    quos ante se imperatorem nemo ausus sit aspicere,

    id. Epam. 8, 3.—A part. perf. or fut. pass. is freq. added to such substantives for the sake of explanation:

    ante hanc urbem conditam,

    before the founding of this city, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7 (opp. post urbem conditam):

    non multo ante urbem captam,

    id. Div. 1, 45:

    ante Epaminondam natum,

    Nep. Epam. 10, 4:

    ante te cognitum multis orantibus opem tuli,

    Sall. J. 110, 2:

    ante decemviros creatos,

    Liv. 3, 53 al. —
    2.
    Hence particular phrases.
    a.
    Ante tempus,
    (α).
    Before the right time:

    ante tempus excitatis suis,

    Liv. 31, 36.—
    (β).
    Before the appointed, proper, or lawful time:

    factus est consul bis, primum ante tempus,

    Cic. Lael. 3:

    honores et ante tempus et quosdam novi generis cepit,

    Suet. Aug. 26:

    venisti ante tempus torquere nos?

    Vulg. Matt. 8, 29 (cf. annus, II. D.).—
    b.
    Ante diem, poet.,
    (α).
    Before the time:

    Caesaribus virtus contigit ante diem,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 184:

    ante diem vultu gressuque superbo Vicerat aequales,

    Stat. S. 2, 1, 108.—
    (β).
    Before the time destined by fate:

    filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos,

    Ov. M. 1, 148:

    hic dolor ante diem Pandiona misit ad umbras,

    id. ib. 6, 675; id. A. A. 3, 739:

    sed misera ante diem subitoque accensa furore, etc.,

    Verg. A. 4, 697 (cf. Soph. Antig. 461: ei de tou chronou prosthen thanoumai). —
    c.
    Ante hunc diem, with a negative:

    istunc hominem numquam audivi ante hunc diem,

    never before this day, never until now, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 60; 4, 2, 7:

    neque umquam ante hunc diem,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 19; 5, 4, 23:

    Novum crimen et ante hunc diem inauditum ad te Q. Tubero detulit,

    Cic. Lig. 1, 1 (cf. Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 17: neque eum ante usquam conspexi prius). —
    3.
    Ante diem (abbrev. a. d.) with an ordinal number gives the date, not of the foregoing, but of the present day; e. g. ante diem quintum (a. d. V.) Kalendas Apriles, the fifth day before the calends of April. Orig. the ante belonged to Kalendas, and they said either, ante die quinto Kalendas (i. e. die quinto ante Kalendas), or ante diem quintum Kalendas; the latter phraseology became the prevailing one, and ante diem, being considered as one word, the prepp. in and ex could be prefixed; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 3, 12; Duker ad Liv. 27, 23; Rudd. II. p. 291; Madv. Gr. Suppl. I.; Drak. ad Liv. 45, 2, 12: me ante diem XIII. Kalendas Januarias principem revocandae libertatis fuisse, the thirteenth before the calends of January, i. e. the 20 th of Dec., Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 20: ante diem XII. Kalendas Novembres, the 21 st of Oct.: ante diem VI. Kalendas Novembres, the 27 th of Oct., id. Cat. 1, 3: ante diem VIII. Kalendas Decembres, the 24 th of Nov., id. Phil. 3, 8: a. d. IV. Id. Mart. (ante diem quartum Idus Martias), i. e. the 12 th of March, Liv. 40, 59: ante diem III. Non. Jan. M. Cicero natus est, i. e. on the 3 d of Jan., Gell. 15, 28 al.:

    in ante diem quartum Kal. Dec. distulit,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 8: caedem te optimatium contulisse in ante diem V. Kal. Nov., to the 28 th of Oct., id. Cat. 1, 3:

    ex ante diem VII. Id. Febr.,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1: nuntii venerant ex ante diem Non. Jun. usque ad prid. Kal. Sept., from the 3 d of June, Cic. Att. 3, 17:

    supplicatio indicta est ante diem V. Id. Oct. cum eo die in quinque dies,

    Liv. 45, 2, 12.—
    4.
    Sometimes to designate the whole time until the passing moment:

    ante id tempus et mari et terrā duces erant Lace daemonii,

    Nep. Arist. 2, 3:

    qui honos huic uni ante id tempus contigit,

    id. Timoth. 2, 3:

    invictus ante eam diem fuerat,

    Curt. 5, 3, 22.—
    5.
    Ante annos, before the destined time:

    Ante suos annos occidit,

    Ov. Am. 2, 2, 46:

    Ante annos animumque gerens curamque virilem,

    beyond his years, Verg. A. 9, 311 (cf.:

    suos annos praeterire,

    Sil. 4, 428; and:

    annos transcendere factis,

    id. 2, 348). —
    6.
    Ante hoc, for antea, antehac, belongs to the later Latin:

    ante hoc incognita,

    Luc. 6, 116:

    ante hoc domūs pars videntur,

    Tac. G. 13.
    II.
    Adv., of space and time (the latter most freq.).
    A.
    Of space, before, in front, forwards: post me erat Aegina, ante Megara, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 9:

    fluvius ab tergo, ante circaque velut ripa praeceps oram ejus omnem cingebat,

    Liv. 27, 18; 22, 5:

    coronatus stabit et ante calix,

    Tib. 2, 5, 98:

    plena oculis et ante et retro,

    Vulg. Apoc. 4, 6.—Of motion (cf. supra, I. A. 1.):

    si aut manibus ingrediatur quis aut non ante, sed retro,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35:

    pallida Tisiphone morbos agit ante metumque,

    Verg. G. 3, 552.—
    B.
    1.. Of time, before, previously (always in reference to another past time, while ante as prep. is used in reference to the present).
    a.
    With verbs:

    nonne oportuit Praescīsse me ante,

    Ter. And. 1, 5, 4:

    id te oro, ut ante eamus,

    id. ib. 3, 3, 24;

    very freq. in Cic.: quod utinam illi ante accidisset,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 14:

    quae ante acta sunt,

    id. Verr. 1, 109:

    sicut ante fecimus,

    Vulg. Jos. 8, 5; ib. Jud. 16, 20:

    fructus omnis ante actae vitae,

    Cic. Marcell. 3; so Ov. M. 12, 115, and Tac. A. 6, 16:

    apud vos ante feci mentionem,

    Cic. Agr. 3, 4:

    faciam hoc non novum, sed ab eis ante factum,

    id. Verr. 1, 55; Verg. E. 9, 63; Juv. 3, 243; 15, 320:

    illud de quo ante dixi,

    Cic. Sex. Rosc. 116:

    quos ante dixi,

    id. Off. 2, 14, 50:

    ut ante dixi,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 16; id. Mil. 45:

    quem ad modum ante dixi,

    id. Sex. Rosc. 91:

    additis, quae ante deliquerant,

    Tac. A. 6, 9:

    filium ante sublatum brevi amisit,

    id. Agr. 6; id. G. 10; id. A. 11, 7; id. H. 2, 43.—And often accomp. by jam:

    acceperam jam ante Caesaris litteras, ut etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 49; id. Marcell. 12; id. Verr. 2, 23.—Rarely accomp. by saepe.:

    ut saepe ante fecerant,

    Cic. Balb. 40; id. Rab. Post. 13.—
    b.
    Rarely with adjj.:

    non filius ante pudicus,

    Juv. 3, 111:

    quos acciverat, incertum, experiens an et ante gnavos,

    Tac. A. 14, 7.—
    c.
    Often with substt. in the abl. or acc. for a more accurate designation of time (cf. also abhinc with the abl. and acc.; in these cases ante was considered by the ancient critics as a prep., which could also govern the abl.; cf. Charis. p. 209 P.; Serv. ad Verg. E. 1, 30. The position of ante is sometimes before and sometimes after the subst., and sometimes between the numeral and the subst.):

    illos septem et multis ante saeculis Lycurgum accepimus fuisse sapientes,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7:

    etsi perpaucis ante diebus (i. e. before the departure of Theophilus, of whom mention is afterwards made) dederam Q. Mucio litteras ad te,

    id. Fam. 4, 9:

    paucis diebus ante,

    id. Phil. 2, 40:

    viginti annis ante,

    id. Lael. 12, 42:

    voverat eam annis undecim ante,

    Liv. 40, 52, 4 (cf. id. 40, 51:

    quae bello Ligustico ante annis octo vovisset): optimum erit ante annum scrobes facere,

    a year before, Col. 4, 2; Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 7:

    Tyron urbem ante annum Trojanae cladis condiderunt,

    a year before the fall of Troy, Just. 18, 3, 5:

    ante quadriennium amissus es,

    four years previously, Tac. Agr. 45:

    aliquot ante annos,

    Suet. Caes. 12; v. id. ib. 81 al.—
    d.
    With the advv. multo, paulo, aliquanto, tanto, quanto, and rarely permultum:

    multo ante prospexi tempestatem futuram,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

    haud multo ante adventum,

    Tac. Agr. 18.—And in the order ante multo:

    ante multo a te didicerimus,

    Cic. Sen. 2, 6:

    Venisti paulo ante in senatum,

    id. Cat. 1, 7, 16; id. Marcell. 7; id. Mil. 7; Tac. G. 41; id. H. 3, 68; Suet. Caes. 21; Vulg. Sap. 15, 8; ib. 2 Macc. 3, 30;

    6, 29 et saep.—And in the order ante paulo: quae ante paulo perbreviter attigi,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 4:

    profectus est aliquanto ante furorem Catilinae,

    id. Sull. 20, 56 bis; id. Verr. 1, 149.—And in the order ante aliquanto: ante aliquanto quam tu natus es, Cic. Fam. [p. 129] 10, 4; id. Vatin. 25; id. Verr. 2, 46:

    tanto ante praedixeras,

    id. Phil. 2, 33:

    quod si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 34; 5, 78, 89; id. Cat. 3, 17; id. de Or. 1, 7, 26; so Quint. 2, 4, 28:

    quanto ante providerit,

    Cic. Sest. 8:

    permultum ante certior factus eram litteris,

    id. Fam. 3, 11; cf. Prisc. p. 1191 P.—
    2.
    Followed by quam (written also as one word, antequam; the form prius quam was more freq. in archaic Latin), sooner than; before.
    a.
    With ind. pres.:

    ante quam doceo id factum non esse, libet mihi,

    Cic. Quinct. 48:

    ante quam ad sententiam redeo, de me pauca dicam,

    id. Cat. 4, 20; id. Mil. 7; id. Deiot. 7; id. Clu. 6.—
    b.
    With ind. perf.:

    memini Catonem anno ante quam est mortuus mecum disserere,

    Cic. Lael. 3, 11:

    anno ipso ante quam natus est Ennius,

    id. Brut. 18, 72:

    ante aliquanto quam tu natus es,

    id. Fam. 10, 3:

    neque ante dimisit eum quam fidem dedit,

    Liv. 39, 10:

    ante quam ille est factus inimicus,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 9.—
    c.
    Rarely with fut. perf.:

    ante provinciam sibi decretam audiet quam potuerit tempus ei rei datum suspicari,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 24:

    neque defatigabor ante quam... percepero,

    id. de Or. 3, 36, 145.—
    d.
    With subj. pres.:

    ante quam veniat in Pontum, litteras ad Cn. Pompeium mittet,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 53:

    hac lege ante omnia veniunt, quam gleba una ematur,

    id. ib. 2, 71; id. Sest. 15; id. Phil. 1, 1; Verg. E. 1, 60 sqq.; Vulg. Gen. 11, 4; ib. 4 Reg. 2, 9; ib. Matt. 6, 8.—
    e.
    With subj. imperf.:

    Romae et ad urbem, ante quam proficisceretur, quaerere coepit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 167:

    qui (sol) ante quam se abderet, fugientem vidit Antonium,

    id. Phil. 14, 27; 8, 1; id. Verr. 4, 147; Vulg. Gen. 2, 5; 13, 10; ib. Matt. 1, 18; ib. Joan. 8, 58.—
    f.
    With subj. perf.:

    ante vero quam sit ea res adlata, laetitiā frui satis est,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 1:

    domesticum malum opprimit ante quam prospicere potueris,

    id. Verr. 1, 39; id. Sull. 44; id. Planc. 40:

    nec ante vincere desierint quam Rubro mari inclusis quod vincerent defuerit,

    Liv. 42, 52:

    nec ante (barbam capillumque) dempserit quam vindicāsset,

    Suet. Caes. 67.—
    g.
    With subj. pluperf.:

    se ante quam eam uxorem duxisset domum, sperāsse etc.,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 71:

    qui ante quam de meo adventu audire potuissent, in Macedoniam perrexi,

    Cic. Planc. 98:

    ut consul ante fieret, quam ullum alium magistratum capere licuisset,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 62; id. Quinct. 9; id. Verr. 2, 55; 2, 171.—
    h.
    With inf.:

    dici vix potest quam multa sint quae respondeatis ante fieri oportere, quam ad hanc rationem devenire,

    Cic. Quinct. 54.—
    i.
    With part.:

    armati nullum ante finem pugnae quam morientes fecerunt,

    Liv. 21, 15, 4 (on the use of these different constructions, v. Roby, §§ 1671, 1462, 1672 etc.; Draeger, Hist. Synt. II. pp. 589 sqq.;

    and esp. Fischer, Gr. § 621). —In the poets sometimes with quam before ante: Respice item quam nil ad nos anteacta vetustas Temporis aeterni fuerit, quam nascimur ante,

    Lucr. 3, 972:

    Non ego signatis quicquam mandare tabellis, Ne legat id nemo quam meus ante, velim,

    Tib. 4, 7, 8; Mart. 9, 36, 6.—Also in the poets sometimes pleon. ante—prius—quam:

    sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat Ante, pudor, quam te violo aut tua jura resolvo,

    Verg. A. 4, 24; so,

    prius—quam— ante: Aut prius infecto deposcit praemia cursu, Septima quam metam triverit ante rota?

    Prop. 3, 20, 25.—
    3.
    For the designation of order, foll. by tum, deinde, etc., first, in the first place (only in later Lat. for the class. primum):

    ut ante caput, deinde reliqua pars auferatur,

    Cels. 7, 29:

    et ante dicam de his, quae, etc.: tum, etc.,

    id. 5, 26:

    ante tonderi... deinde... tum, etc.,

    id. 6, 6, 8; so Plin. 34, 13, 34, § 131 dub.—
    4.
    Very rarely used as adj. (in imitation of the Greek):

    neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum,

    earlier, previous ills, Verg. A. 1, 198 (cf. tôn paros kakôn, Soph. O. T. 1423):

    ille elegit, qui recipit ante meliorem,

    Quint. Decl. 1, 14; cf. Liv. 24, 82, 5 (on this use of the adv., v. Kritz ad Sall. J. 76, 5).
    III.
    In composition.
    A.
    Of space, before, in front of, forwards: antepono, antefigo, antefero, antemitto.—
    B.
    Fig. of preference, before, above: antepono.—
    C.
    Of degree, before, above, more: antepotens, antepollens—
    D.
    In designations of time only with adjj. and advv.: antelucanus, antemeridianus, antehac, antelucio.With verbs, ante is more correctly written separately: ante actus, ante factus, ante gestus, ante paro, etc., although editions differ in this respect. V. more upon this word in Hand, Turs. I. pp. 361-390, and pp. 394-402.

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    antĕ (old form anti, whence antidea, antideo, antidhac; v. antea, anteeo, and antehac) [Gr. anti, over against, facing, anta, antên; Sanscr. anti = over against; Germ. ant- in Ant-wort = Goth. anda-vaurdi, an answer, anda-nahti, the night before], prep. and adv. (acc. to Max. Victor. p. 1953, as prep. with the grave accent; as adv. with the acute on the last syl.).
    I.
    Prep. with acc., before (syn.: prae, pro).
    A.
    In space, or trop. in regard to estimation, judgment, or rank (usu. only of objects at rest. while prae is used of those in motion; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 1, 21; v. exceptions infra).
    1.
    In space:

    quem ante aedīs video,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 136:

    ante ostium Me audivit stare,

    Ter. And. 3, 1, 16; so Vulg. Lev. 1, 5:

    Ornatas paulo ante fores,

    Juv. 6, 227; so Vulg. Num. 3, 26:

    ante meum limen,

    Juv. 11, 190:

    ante suum fundum,

    Cic. Mil. 10:

    ut ante suos hortulos postridie piscarentur,

    id. Off. 3, 14, 58:

    ante sepulcrales infelix adstitit aras,

    Ov. M. 8, 480; so Verg. A. 1, 344; 3, 545; Juv. 10, 268:

    ante altaria,

    id. 8, 155; so Vulg. Deut. 26, 4; ib. Matt. 5, 24. —Of persons:

    ante hosce deos erant arulae,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3:

    quīs ante ora patrum contigit oppetere,

    Verg. A. 1, 95; id. G. 4, 477:

    ipsius unam (navem) ante oculos pontus in puppim ferit,

    id. A. 1, 114; 2, 531; 2, 773:

    ante se statuit funditores,

    Liv. 42, 58:

    Flos Asiae ante ipsum,

    Juv. 5, 56; Vulg. Matt. 17, 2:

    si luditur alea pernox Ante Numantinos,

    Juv. 8, 11.— Trop.:

    ante oculos collocata,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 192:

    ante oculos errat domus,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 57: [p. 128] causam ante eum diceret, before him as judge, Cic. Verr. 1, 3, 9:

    donec stet ante judicium,

    Vulg. Josh. 20, 6; ib. Marc. 13, 9.—And in eccl. Lat., after the Heb. and Hel. Gr., before, in the sight of, in the judgment of:

    ante Dominum vilior fiam,

    Vulg. 2 Reg. 6, 21 sq.:

    non te justifices ante Deum,

    ib. Eccli. 7, 5:

    justi ambo ante Deum,

    ib. Luc. 1, 6;

    and fully: fecit Asa rectum ante conspectum Domini,

    ib. 3 Reg. 15, 11; ib. Apoc. 12, 10.—Hence, homines ante pedes (in later Lat.), servants; cf. the annotators upon Juv. 7, 143.—With verbs of motion:

    ante me ito,

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 70:

    equitatum omnem ante se mittit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 21:

    ante ceteras cohortes extra aciem procurrere,

    id. B. C. 1, 55:

    praecurrit ante omnes,

    id. ib. 2, 34; so Nep. Dat. 3, 2; Liv. 7, 41; 45, 40 al.; Vulg. Lev. 27, 11; ib. 1 Reg. 12, 2.—
    2.
    Trop. of preference in judgment, or regulations in respect to rank, before (this is properly the signification of prae, q. v.; hence more rare than that, and never used by Cic.): quem ante me diligo, before myself, more than myself, Balbus ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15.—So ante aliquem esse, to surpass, excel any one:

    facundiā Graecos, gloriā belli Gallos ante Romanos fuisse,

    Sall. C. 53, 3, ubi v. Corte and Kritz:

    tum me vero et ante Alexandrum et ante Pyrrhum et ante omnes alios imperatores esse,

    superior to, Liv. 35, 14:

    necessitas ante rationem est,

    necessity knows no law, Curt. 7, 7, 10.—Hence very freq. (but mostly poet. and post-class.),
    a.
    Ante alios, ante omnes, ante ceteros, etc., before others, before all, etc., to designate a comparative relation;

    also sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, with comparatives and superlatives: tibi, Neptune, ante alios deos gratias ago,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 5; so Ov. M. 10, 120:

    scito illum ante omnīs minumi mortalem preti,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 8:

    tua ante omnes experientia,

    Tac. A. 2, 76; 1, 27; Liv. 1, 9:

    Junoni ante omnīs candentis vaccae media inter cornua (pateram) fundit,

    Verg. A. 4, 59:

    Ipse est ante omnes,

    Vulg. Col. 1, 17:

    O felix una ante alias Priameïa virgo,

    Verg. A. 3, 321:

    ante omnes furor est insignis equarum,

    id. G. 3, 266:

    scelere ante alios immanior omnīs,

    id. A. 1, 347; Liv. 5, 42:

    ante alios pulcherrimus omnīs Turnus,

    Verg. A. 7, 55; so Nep. Att. 3, 3; Liv. 1, 15; cf. Rudd. II. p. 82; II. p. 101; II. p. 305.—
    b.
    Ante omnia.
    (α).
    Before all things, first of all:

    alvus ante omnia ducitur,

    Cels. 7, 30:

    oportet autem ante omnia os nudare,

    id. 8, 2:

    Ante omnia instituit, ut etc.,

    Suet. Ner. 32; id. Calig. 21:

    Ante omnia autem, fratres, etc.,

    Vulg. Jac. 5, 12; ib. 1 Petr. 4, 8.—
    (β).
    Comparatively, above all, especially, chiefty:

    publica maestitia eo ante omnia insignis, quia matronae annum, ut parentem, eum luxerunt,

    Liv. 2, 7; 7, 4:

    quae natura multis et ante omnia ursis,

    Plin. 8, 35, 53, § 125:

    dulces ante omnia Musae,

    the Muses pleasing above all things, Verg. G. 2, 475; id. E. 2, 72:

    deformem et taetrum ante omnia vultum,

    Juv. 10, 191.—
    (γ).
    In entering upon the discussion of several particulars, or in adducing arguments, first of all, in the first place (similar to ac primum quidem, kai prôton men oun; cf. Spald. ad Quint. 4, 2, 4):

    ante omnia quid sit rhetorice,

    Quint. 2, 15, 1:

    ante omnia igitur imitatio per se ipsa non sufficit,

    id. 10, 2, 4; so id. 1, 2, 9; 4, 2, 40; 4, 2, 52; 5, 13, 6; 9, 1, 23.—
    B.
    Of time.
    1.
    Before: ANTE MERIDIEM CAVSAM CONICITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Auct. ad Her. 2, 13; cf.

    Dirks. Transl. 177 sq.: ante lucem a portu me praemisisti domum,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 55; so Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 259; id. Inv. 2, 4, 15; Suet. Galb. 22; Vulg. Luc. 24, 22:

    ante diem caupo sciet,

    Juv. 9, 108:

    ante brumam,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 28:

    ante noctem,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 51:

    pereundum erit ante lucernas,

    Juv. 10, 339:

    ante haec omnia,

    Vulg. Luc. 21, 12.— The designation of time is often expressed paraphrastically.
    a.
    By a person who lived at the time:

    jam ante Socratem,

    before the time of, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 44:

    qui honos togato habitus ante me est nemini,

    before me, before my time, id. Cat. 4, 3:

    ante Jovem nulli subigebant arva coloni,

    Verg. G. 1, 125:

    vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 25:

    ante Helenam,

    id. S. 1, 3, 107:

    ante se,

    Tac. H. 1, 50:

    quod ante eum nemo,

    Suet. Caes. 26 al. —
    b.
    By other objects pertaining to a particular time: ante hoc factum, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 64:

    ante has meas litteras,

    i. e. before the receipt of this letter, Cic. Fam. 13, 17:

    per hunc castissimum ante regiam injuriam sanguinem juro,

    Liv. 1, 59:

    ante mare et terras, et quod tegit omnia, caelum,

    Ov. M. 1, 5:

    ante sidus fervidum,

    Hor. Epod. 1, 27:

    ante cibum,

    id. S. 1, 10, 61, and Juv. 6, 428:

    Hoc discunt omnes ante alpha et beta,

    before their A B C, id. 14, 209:

    cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?

    Verg. A. 11, 424:

    Tecum prius ergo voluta Haec ante tubas,

    Juv. 1, 169.—Also by the designation of the office of a person:

    ante aedilitatem meam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 17:

    ante sceptrum Dictaei regis,

    Verg. G. 2, 536:

    ante imperium ducis,

    Flor. 4, 2, 66:

    relictis multis filiis et in regno et ante regnum susceptis,

    Just. 2, 10.—And by the designation of office in app. to the person:

    mortuus est ante istum praetorem,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 45, 115:

    docuerant fabulas ante hos consules,

    id. Brut. 18, 73:

    cum ante illum imperatorem clipeis uterentur,

    Nep. Iphicr. 1, 3:

    quos ante se imperatorem nemo ausus sit aspicere,

    id. Epam. 8, 3.—A part. perf. or fut. pass. is freq. added to such substantives for the sake of explanation:

    ante hanc urbem conditam,

    before the founding of this city, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7 (opp. post urbem conditam):

    non multo ante urbem captam,

    id. Div. 1, 45:

    ante Epaminondam natum,

    Nep. Epam. 10, 4:

    ante te cognitum multis orantibus opem tuli,

    Sall. J. 110, 2:

    ante decemviros creatos,

    Liv. 3, 53 al. —
    2.
    Hence particular phrases.
    a.
    Ante tempus,
    (α).
    Before the right time:

    ante tempus excitatis suis,

    Liv. 31, 36.—
    (β).
    Before the appointed, proper, or lawful time:

    factus est consul bis, primum ante tempus,

    Cic. Lael. 3:

    honores et ante tempus et quosdam novi generis cepit,

    Suet. Aug. 26:

    venisti ante tempus torquere nos?

    Vulg. Matt. 8, 29 (cf. annus, II. D.).—
    b.
    Ante diem, poet.,
    (α).
    Before the time:

    Caesaribus virtus contigit ante diem,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 184:

    ante diem vultu gressuque superbo Vicerat aequales,

    Stat. S. 2, 1, 108.—
    (β).
    Before the time destined by fate:

    filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos,

    Ov. M. 1, 148:

    hic dolor ante diem Pandiona misit ad umbras,

    id. ib. 6, 675; id. A. A. 3, 739:

    sed misera ante diem subitoque accensa furore, etc.,

    Verg. A. 4, 697 (cf. Soph. Antig. 461: ei de tou chronou prosthen thanoumai). —
    c.
    Ante hunc diem, with a negative:

    istunc hominem numquam audivi ante hunc diem,

    never before this day, never until now, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 60; 4, 2, 7:

    neque umquam ante hunc diem,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 19; 5, 4, 23:

    Novum crimen et ante hunc diem inauditum ad te Q. Tubero detulit,

    Cic. Lig. 1, 1 (cf. Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 17: neque eum ante usquam conspexi prius). —
    3.
    Ante diem (abbrev. a. d.) with an ordinal number gives the date, not of the foregoing, but of the present day; e. g. ante diem quintum (a. d. V.) Kalendas Apriles, the fifth day before the calends of April. Orig. the ante belonged to Kalendas, and they said either, ante die quinto Kalendas (i. e. die quinto ante Kalendas), or ante diem quintum Kalendas; the latter phraseology became the prevailing one, and ante diem, being considered as one word, the prepp. in and ex could be prefixed; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 3, 12; Duker ad Liv. 27, 23; Rudd. II. p. 291; Madv. Gr. Suppl. I.; Drak. ad Liv. 45, 2, 12: me ante diem XIII. Kalendas Januarias principem revocandae libertatis fuisse, the thirteenth before the calends of January, i. e. the 20 th of Dec., Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 20: ante diem XII. Kalendas Novembres, the 21 st of Oct.: ante diem VI. Kalendas Novembres, the 27 th of Oct., id. Cat. 1, 3: ante diem VIII. Kalendas Decembres, the 24 th of Nov., id. Phil. 3, 8: a. d. IV. Id. Mart. (ante diem quartum Idus Martias), i. e. the 12 th of March, Liv. 40, 59: ante diem III. Non. Jan. M. Cicero natus est, i. e. on the 3 d of Jan., Gell. 15, 28 al.:

    in ante diem quartum Kal. Dec. distulit,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 8: caedem te optimatium contulisse in ante diem V. Kal. Nov., to the 28 th of Oct., id. Cat. 1, 3:

    ex ante diem VII. Id. Febr.,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1: nuntii venerant ex ante diem Non. Jun. usque ad prid. Kal. Sept., from the 3 d of June, Cic. Att. 3, 17:

    supplicatio indicta est ante diem V. Id. Oct. cum eo die in quinque dies,

    Liv. 45, 2, 12.—
    4.
    Sometimes to designate the whole time until the passing moment:

    ante id tempus et mari et terrā duces erant Lace daemonii,

    Nep. Arist. 2, 3:

    qui honos huic uni ante id tempus contigit,

    id. Timoth. 2, 3:

    invictus ante eam diem fuerat,

    Curt. 5, 3, 22.—
    5.
    Ante annos, before the destined time:

    Ante suos annos occidit,

    Ov. Am. 2, 2, 46:

    Ante annos animumque gerens curamque virilem,

    beyond his years, Verg. A. 9, 311 (cf.:

    suos annos praeterire,

    Sil. 4, 428; and:

    annos transcendere factis,

    id. 2, 348). —
    6.
    Ante hoc, for antea, antehac, belongs to the later Latin:

    ante hoc incognita,

    Luc. 6, 116:

    ante hoc domūs pars videntur,

    Tac. G. 13.
    II.
    Adv., of space and time (the latter most freq.).
    A.
    Of space, before, in front, forwards: post me erat Aegina, ante Megara, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 9:

    fluvius ab tergo, ante circaque velut ripa praeceps oram ejus omnem cingebat,

    Liv. 27, 18; 22, 5:

    coronatus stabit et ante calix,

    Tib. 2, 5, 98:

    plena oculis et ante et retro,

    Vulg. Apoc. 4, 6.—Of motion (cf. supra, I. A. 1.):

    si aut manibus ingrediatur quis aut non ante, sed retro,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35:

    pallida Tisiphone morbos agit ante metumque,

    Verg. G. 3, 552.—
    B.
    1.. Of time, before, previously (always in reference to another past time, while ante as prep. is used in reference to the present).
    a.
    With verbs:

    nonne oportuit Praescīsse me ante,

    Ter. And. 1, 5, 4:

    id te oro, ut ante eamus,

    id. ib. 3, 3, 24;

    very freq. in Cic.: quod utinam illi ante accidisset,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 14:

    quae ante acta sunt,

    id. Verr. 1, 109:

    sicut ante fecimus,

    Vulg. Jos. 8, 5; ib. Jud. 16, 20:

    fructus omnis ante actae vitae,

    Cic. Marcell. 3; so Ov. M. 12, 115, and Tac. A. 6, 16:

    apud vos ante feci mentionem,

    Cic. Agr. 3, 4:

    faciam hoc non novum, sed ab eis ante factum,

    id. Verr. 1, 55; Verg. E. 9, 63; Juv. 3, 243; 15, 320:

    illud de quo ante dixi,

    Cic. Sex. Rosc. 116:

    quos ante dixi,

    id. Off. 2, 14, 50:

    ut ante dixi,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 16; id. Mil. 45:

    quem ad modum ante dixi,

    id. Sex. Rosc. 91:

    additis, quae ante deliquerant,

    Tac. A. 6, 9:

    filium ante sublatum brevi amisit,

    id. Agr. 6; id. G. 10; id. A. 11, 7; id. H. 2, 43.—And often accomp. by jam:

    acceperam jam ante Caesaris litteras, ut etc.,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 49; id. Marcell. 12; id. Verr. 2, 23.—Rarely accomp. by saepe.:

    ut saepe ante fecerant,

    Cic. Balb. 40; id. Rab. Post. 13.—
    b.
    Rarely with adjj.:

    non filius ante pudicus,

    Juv. 3, 111:

    quos acciverat, incertum, experiens an et ante gnavos,

    Tac. A. 14, 7.—
    c.
    Often with substt. in the abl. or acc. for a more accurate designation of time (cf. also abhinc with the abl. and acc.; in these cases ante was considered by the ancient critics as a prep., which could also govern the abl.; cf. Charis. p. 209 P.; Serv. ad Verg. E. 1, 30. The position of ante is sometimes before and sometimes after the subst., and sometimes between the numeral and the subst.):

    illos septem et multis ante saeculis Lycurgum accepimus fuisse sapientes,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7:

    etsi perpaucis ante diebus (i. e. before the departure of Theophilus, of whom mention is afterwards made) dederam Q. Mucio litteras ad te,

    id. Fam. 4, 9:

    paucis diebus ante,

    id. Phil. 2, 40:

    viginti annis ante,

    id. Lael. 12, 42:

    voverat eam annis undecim ante,

    Liv. 40, 52, 4 (cf. id. 40, 51:

    quae bello Ligustico ante annis octo vovisset): optimum erit ante annum scrobes facere,

    a year before, Col. 4, 2; Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 7:

    Tyron urbem ante annum Trojanae cladis condiderunt,

    a year before the fall of Troy, Just. 18, 3, 5:

    ante quadriennium amissus es,

    four years previously, Tac. Agr. 45:

    aliquot ante annos,

    Suet. Caes. 12; v. id. ib. 81 al.—
    d.
    With the advv. multo, paulo, aliquanto, tanto, quanto, and rarely permultum:

    multo ante prospexi tempestatem futuram,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

    haud multo ante adventum,

    Tac. Agr. 18.—And in the order ante multo:

    ante multo a te didicerimus,

    Cic. Sen. 2, 6:

    Venisti paulo ante in senatum,

    id. Cat. 1, 7, 16; id. Marcell. 7; id. Mil. 7; Tac. G. 41; id. H. 3, 68; Suet. Caes. 21; Vulg. Sap. 15, 8; ib. 2 Macc. 3, 30;

    6, 29 et saep.—And in the order ante paulo: quae ante paulo perbreviter attigi,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 4:

    profectus est aliquanto ante furorem Catilinae,

    id. Sull. 20, 56 bis; id. Verr. 1, 149.—And in the order ante aliquanto: ante aliquanto quam tu natus es, Cic. Fam. [p. 129] 10, 4; id. Vatin. 25; id. Verr. 2, 46:

    tanto ante praedixeras,

    id. Phil. 2, 33:

    quod si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 34; 5, 78, 89; id. Cat. 3, 17; id. de Or. 1, 7, 26; so Quint. 2, 4, 28:

    quanto ante providerit,

    Cic. Sest. 8:

    permultum ante certior factus eram litteris,

    id. Fam. 3, 11; cf. Prisc. p. 1191 P.—
    2.
    Followed by quam (written also as one word, antequam; the form prius quam was more freq. in archaic Latin), sooner than; before.
    a.
    With ind. pres.:

    ante quam doceo id factum non esse, libet mihi,

    Cic. Quinct. 48:

    ante quam ad sententiam redeo, de me pauca dicam,

    id. Cat. 4, 20; id. Mil. 7; id. Deiot. 7; id. Clu. 6.—
    b.
    With ind. perf.:

    memini Catonem anno ante quam est mortuus mecum disserere,

    Cic. Lael. 3, 11:

    anno ipso ante quam natus est Ennius,

    id. Brut. 18, 72:

    ante aliquanto quam tu natus es,

    id. Fam. 10, 3:

    neque ante dimisit eum quam fidem dedit,

    Liv. 39, 10:

    ante quam ille est factus inimicus,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 9.—
    c.
    Rarely with fut. perf.:

    ante provinciam sibi decretam audiet quam potuerit tempus ei rei datum suspicari,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 24:

    neque defatigabor ante quam... percepero,

    id. de Or. 3, 36, 145.—
    d.
    With subj. pres.:

    ante quam veniat in Pontum, litteras ad Cn. Pompeium mittet,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 53:

    hac lege ante omnia veniunt, quam gleba una ematur,

    id. ib. 2, 71; id. Sest. 15; id. Phil. 1, 1; Verg. E. 1, 60 sqq.; Vulg. Gen. 11, 4; ib. 4 Reg. 2, 9; ib. Matt. 6, 8.—
    e.
    With subj. imperf.:

    Romae et ad urbem, ante quam proficisceretur, quaerere coepit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 167:

    qui (sol) ante quam se abderet, fugientem vidit Antonium,

    id. Phil. 14, 27; 8, 1; id. Verr. 4, 147; Vulg. Gen. 2, 5; 13, 10; ib. Matt. 1, 18; ib. Joan. 8, 58.—
    f.
    With subj. perf.:

    ante vero quam sit ea res adlata, laetitiā frui satis est,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 1:

    domesticum malum opprimit ante quam prospicere potueris,

    id. Verr. 1, 39; id. Sull. 44; id. Planc. 40:

    nec ante vincere desierint quam Rubro mari inclusis quod vincerent defuerit,

    Liv. 42, 52:

    nec ante (barbam capillumque) dempserit quam vindicāsset,

    Suet. Caes. 67.—
    g.
    With subj. pluperf.:

    se ante quam eam uxorem duxisset domum, sperāsse etc.,

    Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 71:

    qui ante quam de meo adventu audire potuissent, in Macedoniam perrexi,

    Cic. Planc. 98:

    ut consul ante fieret, quam ullum alium magistratum capere licuisset,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 62; id. Quinct. 9; id. Verr. 2, 55; 2, 171.—
    h.
    With inf.:

    dici vix potest quam multa sint quae respondeatis ante fieri oportere, quam ad hanc rationem devenire,

    Cic. Quinct. 54.—
    i.
    With part.:

    armati nullum ante finem pugnae quam morientes fecerunt,

    Liv. 21, 15, 4 (on the use of these different constructions, v. Roby, §§ 1671, 1462, 1672 etc.; Draeger, Hist. Synt. II. pp. 589 sqq.;

    and esp. Fischer, Gr. § 621). —In the poets sometimes with quam before ante: Respice item quam nil ad nos anteacta vetustas Temporis aeterni fuerit, quam nascimur ante,

    Lucr. 3, 972:

    Non ego signatis quicquam mandare tabellis, Ne legat id nemo quam meus ante, velim,

    Tib. 4, 7, 8; Mart. 9, 36, 6.—Also in the poets sometimes pleon. ante—prius—quam:

    sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat Ante, pudor, quam te violo aut tua jura resolvo,

    Verg. A. 4, 24; so,

    prius—quam— ante: Aut prius infecto deposcit praemia cursu, Septima quam metam triverit ante rota?

    Prop. 3, 20, 25.—
    3.
    For the designation of order, foll. by tum, deinde, etc., first, in the first place (only in later Lat. for the class. primum):

    ut ante caput, deinde reliqua pars auferatur,

    Cels. 7, 29:

    et ante dicam de his, quae, etc.: tum, etc.,

    id. 5, 26:

    ante tonderi... deinde... tum, etc.,

    id. 6, 6, 8; so Plin. 34, 13, 34, § 131 dub.—
    4.
    Very rarely used as adj. (in imitation of the Greek):

    neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum,

    earlier, previous ills, Verg. A. 1, 198 (cf. tôn paros kakôn, Soph. O. T. 1423):

    ille elegit, qui recipit ante meliorem,

    Quint. Decl. 1, 14; cf. Liv. 24, 82, 5 (on this use of the adv., v. Kritz ad Sall. J. 76, 5).
    III.
    In composition.
    A.
    Of space, before, in front of, forwards: antepono, antefigo, antefero, antemitto.—
    B.
    Fig. of preference, before, above: antepono.—
    C.
    Of degree, before, above, more: antepotens, antepollens—
    D.
    In designations of time only with adjj. and advv.: antelucanus, antemeridianus, antehac, antelucio.With verbs, ante is more correctly written separately: ante actus, ante factus, ante gestus, ante paro, etc., although editions differ in this respect. V. more upon this word in Hand, Turs. I. pp. 361-390, and pp. 394-402.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > anti

  • 12 aperio

    ăpĕrĭo, ĕrŭi, ertum, 4, v. a. ( fut. aperibo, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50; Pompon. ap. Non. p. 506, 30) [ab-pario, to get from, take away from, i.e. to uncover, like the opp. operio, from obpario, to get for, to put upon, i. e. to cover; this is the old explanation, and is received by Corssen, Ausspr. I. p. 653; II. p. 410, and by Vanicek, p. 503], to uncover, make or lay bare.
    I.
    Lit.:

    patinas,

    Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 51: apertae surae, Turp. ap. Non. p. 236, 16:

    apertis lateribus,

    Sisenn. ib. p. 236, 26:

    capite aperto esse,

    Varr. ib. p. 236, 25;

    p. 236, 28: ut corporis partes quaedam aperiantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129:

    caput aperuit,

    id. Phil. 2, 31; Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 236, 20:

    capita,

    Plin. 28, 6, 17, § 60:

    aperto pectore,

    Ov. M. 2, 339; and poet. transf. to the person:

    apertae pectora matres,

    id. ib. 13, 688:

    ramum,

    Verg. A. 6, 406 al. — Trop., to make visible, to show, reveal, Liv. 22, 6:

    dispulsā nebulā diem aperuit,

    id. 26, 17 (cf. just before:

    densa nebula campos circa intexit): dies faciem victoriae,

    Tac. Agr. 38:

    lux aperuit bellum ducemque belli,

    Liv. 3, 15:

    novam aciem dies aperuit,

    Tac. H. 4, 29:

    his unda dehiscens Terram aperit,

    opens to view, Verg. A. 1, 107.—From the intermediate idea of making visible,
    II.
    Metaph.
    A.
    1.. To unclose, open: aperto ex ostio Alti Acheruntis, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

    aperite aliquis ostium,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 26; so id. Heaut. 2, 3, 35:

    forem aperi,

    id. Ad. 2, 1, 13:

    fores,

    id. Eun. 2, 2, 52; Ov. M. 10, 457; Suet. Aug. 82:

    januas carceris,

    Vulg. Act. 5, 19:

    fenestram,

    ib. Gen. 8, 6:

    liquidas vias,

    to open the liquid way, Lucr. 1, 373; so Verg. A. 11, 884:

    sucum venis fundere apertis,

    to pour out moisture from its open veins, Lucr. 5, 812:

    saccum,

    Vulg. Gen. 42, 27:

    os,

    ib. ib. 22, 28:

    labia, ib. Job, 11, 5: oculos,

    ib. Act. 9, 8:

    accepi fasciculum, in quo erat epistula Piliae: abstuli, aperui, legi,

    Cic. Att. 5, 11 fin.; so id. ib. 1, 13;

    6, 3: aperire librum,

    Vulg. Apoc. 5, 5; 20, 12:

    testamentum,

    Plin. 7, 52, 53, § 177 (cf.:

    testamentum resignare,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 9); Suet. Caes. 83; id. Aug. 17:

    sigillum aperire,

    to break, Vulg. Apoc. 6, 3 al.:

    ferro iter aperiundum est,

    Sall. C. 58, 7:

    locum... asylum,

    to make it an asylum, Liv. 1, 8:

    subterraneos specus,

    Tac. G. 16:

    navigantibus maria,

    Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122:

    arbor florem aperit,

    id. 12, 11, 23, § 40 et saep.: aperire parietem, to open a wall, in order to put a door or window in it, Dig. 8, 2, 40: alicui oculos aperire, to give sight to (after the Heb.), Vulg. Joan. 9, 10; 9, 14 al.; so,

    aures aperire,

    to restore hearing to, ib. Marc. 7, 35.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    nec ita claudenda est res familiaris, ut eam benignitas aperire non possit,

    Cic. Off. 2, 15, 54: amicitiae fores. id. Fam. 13, 10:

    multus apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6 fin.:

    tibi virtus tua reditum ad tuos aperuit,

    id. Fam. 6, 11:

    philosophiae fontes,

    id. Tusc. 1, 3, 6; id. Mil. 31, 85 et saep.: alicujus oculos aperire, to open one's eyes, make him discern (after the Heb.), Vulg. Gen. 3, 5; 3, 7; ib. Act. 26, 18; so,

    alicujus cor aperire,

    ib. ib. 16, 14: ventus [p. 136] incendio viam aperuit, Liv. 6, 2:

    occasionem ad invadendum,

    id. 4, 53; so id. 9, 27: si hanc fenestram aperueritis (i.e. if you enter upon the way of complaint), nihil aliud agi sinetis, Suet. Tib. 28 (cf. Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 72:

    Quantam fenestram ad nequitiem patefeceris!): quia aperuisset gentibus ostium fidei,

    Vulg. Act. 14, 27; ib. Col. 4, 3.— So of the new year, to open it, i.e. begin:

    annum,

    Verg. G. 1, 217:

    contigit ergo privatis aperire annum (since the consul entered upon his office the first of January),

    Plin. Pan. 58, 4 Gierig and Schaef.—So also of a school, to establish, set up, begin, or open it:

    Dionysius tyrannus Corinthi dicitur ludum aperuisse,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 18; so Suet. Gram. 16; id. Rhet. 4.— Poet.:

    fuste aperire caput,

    i.e. to cleave, split the head, Juv. 9, 98.—
    B.
    Aperire locum (populum, gentes, etc.), to lay open a place, people, etc., i.e. to open an entrance to, render accessible (cf. patefacio);

    most freq. in the histt., esp. in Tacitus: qui aperuerint armis orbem terrarum,

    Liv. 42, 52; 42, 4:

    Syriam,

    Tac. A. 2, 70:

    omnes terras fortibus viris natura aperuit,

    id. H. 4, 64:

    novas gentes,

    id. Agr. 22:

    gentes ac reges,

    id. G. 1:

    Britanniam tamdiu clausam aperit,

    Mel. 3, 6, 4; Luc. 1, 465 Cort.:

    Eoas,

    id. 4, 352:

    pelagus,

    Val. Fl. 1, 169.—
    C.
    Transf. to mental objects, to disclose something unknown, to unveil, reveal, make known, unfold, to prove, demonstrate; or gen. to explain, recount, etc.:

    occulta quaedam et quasi involuta aperiri,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30:

    explicanda est saepe verbis mens nostra de quāque re atque involutae rei notitia definiendo aperienda est,

    id. Or. 33, 116:

    alicui scripturas aperire,

    Vulg. Luc. 24, 32:

    tua probra aperibo omnia,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50: ne exspectetis argumentum fabulae;

    hi partem aperient,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 23:

    non quo aperiret sententiam suam, sed etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 18, 84:

    eo praesente conjurationem aperit,

    Sall. C. 40, 6:

    naturam et mores,

    id. ib. 53 fin.; so id. ib. 45, 1; 47, 1; id. J. 33, 4:

    lux fugam hostium aperuit,

    Liv. 27, 2:

    aperiri error poterat,

    id. 26, 10:

    casus aperire futuros,

    to disclose the future, Ov. M. 15, 559:

    futura aperit,

    Tac. H. 2, 4.—So also, se aperire or aperiri, to reveal one's true disposition, character:

    tum coacti necessario se aperiunt,

    show themselves in their true light, Ter. And. 4, 1, 8:

    studio aperimur in ipso,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 371:

    exspectandum, dum se ipsa res aperiret,

    Nep. Paus. 3, 7; Quint. prooem. § 3.—Sometimes constr. with acc. and inf., a rel.-clause, or de:

    cum jam directae in se prorae hostes appropinquare aperuissent,

    Liv. 44, 28:

    domino navis, quis sit, aperit,

    Nep. Them. 8, 6; so id. Eum. 13, 3: de clementiā, Auct. ad Her. 2, 31.—In a gen. sense (freq. in epistt.) in Cic. Att. 5, 1, 2: de Oppio factum est, ut volui, et maxime, quod DCCC. aperuisti, you promised, i.e. that it should be paid to him (= ostendisti te daturum, Manut.); cf.

    the more definite expression: de Oppio bene curāsti, quod ei DCCC. exposuisti,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 3.—Hence, ăpertus, a, um, P. a.; pr., opened; hence, open, free.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    Without covering, open, uncovered (opp. tectus):

    naves apertae,

    without deck, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 40; Liv. 31, 22 fin.; cf. id. 32, 21, 14: centum tectae naves et quinquaginta leviores apertae, et saep.; v. navis.—Also, without covering or defence, unprotected, exposed:

    locus,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 84.— Poet., of the sky, clear, cloudless:

    caelo invectus aperto,

    Verg. A. 1, 155:

    aether,

    id. ib. 1, 587:

    aperta serena prospicere,

    id. G. 1, 393.—
    2.
    Unclosed, open, not shut (opp. clausus):

    Janua cum per se transpectum praebet apertum,

    since this affords an open view through it, Lucr. 4, 272:

    oculi,

    id. 4, 339:

    oculorum lumine aperto,

    id. 4, 1139 et saep.:

    nihil tam clausum, neque tam reconditum, quod non istius cupiditati apertissimum promptissimumque esset,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20:

    caelum patens atque apertum,

    id. Div. 1, 1 (diff. from 1.); so Ov. M. 6, 693:

    vidit caelos apertos,

    Vulg. Marc. 1, 10:

    apertus et propatulus locus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49:

    iter,

    Liv. 31, 2:

    apertior aditus ad moenia,

    id. 9, 28:

    campi,

    id. 38, 3:

    per apertum limitem (viae),

    Tac. H. 3, 21; Ov. M. 1, 285:

    fenestrae,

    Vulg. Dan. 6, 10:

    ostia,

    ib. ib. 13, 39:

    aequor,

    Ov. M. 4, 527; so id. ib. 8, 165; 11, 555 et saep. — Poet., of a battle: nec aperti copia Martis Ulla fuit, an action in the open field, Ov. M. 13, 208.—Very freq. ăpertum, subst., that which is open, free; an open, clear space:

    in aperto,

    Lucr. 3, 604:

    per apertum fugientes,

    Hor. C, 3, 12, 10:

    impetum ex aperto facerent,

    Liv. 35, 5:

    castra in aperto posita,

    id. 1, 33; so id. 22, 4:

    volantem in aperto,

    Plin. 10, 8, 9, § 22:

    in aperta prodeunt,

    id. 8, 32, 50, § 117:

    disjecit naves in aperta Oceani,

    Tac. A. 2, 23.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    a.. Opp. to that which is concealed, covered, dark, open, clear, plain, evident, manifest, unobstructed:

    nam nihil aegrius est quam res secernere apertas ab dubiis,

    nothing is, indeed, more difficult than to separate things that are evident from those that are doubtful, Lucr. 4, 467; so id. 4, 596; 1, 915; 5, 1062:

    cum illum ex occultis insidiis in apertum latrocinium conjecimus,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 1:

    simultates partim obscurae, partim apertae,

    id. Manil. 24:

    quid enim potest esse tam apertum tamque perspicuum?

    id. N. D. 2, 2, 4:

    quid rem apertam suspectam facimus?

    Liv. 41, 24:

    non furtim, sed vi aperta,

    id. 25, 24:

    apertus animi motus,

    Quint. 10, 3, 21:

    invidia in occulto, adulatio in aperto,

    Tac. H. 4, 4 et saep.—So, in rhet., of clear, intelligible discourse:

    multo apertius ad intellegendum est, si, etc.... apertam enim narrationem tam esse oportet quam, etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 328; cf. id. Inv. 1, 20.—Hence,
    b.
    Esp. as subst.: in aperto esse,
    (α).
    To be clear, evident, well known, notorious, en tôi phanerôi einai:

    ad cognoscendum omnia illustria magis magisque in aperto,

    Sall. J. 5, 3.—
    (β).
    To be easily practicable, easy, facile (the figure taken from an open field or space):

    agere memoratu digna pronum magisque in aperto erat,

    there was a greater inclination and a more open way to, Tac. Agr. 1:

    hostes aggredi in aperto foret,

    id. H. 3, 56:

    vota virtusque in aperto omniaque prona victoribus,

    id. Agr. 33.—
    2.
    Of character, without dissimulation, open, frank, candid:

    animus apertus et simplex,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 9; id. Off. 3, 13, 57:

    pectus,

    id. Lael. 26, 97. —Hence, ironically: ut semper fuit apertissimus, as he has always been very open, frank (for impudent, shameless), Cic. Mur. 35.—Hence, ăpertē, adv., openly, clearly, plainly.
    I.
    In gen.:

    tam aperte irridens,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 62:

    ab illo aperte tecte quicquid est datum, libenter accepi,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 4; id. Or. 12, 38; id. Am. 18, 67:

    cum Fidenae aperte descissent,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    aperte quod venale habet ostendit,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 83:

    aperte revelari,

    Vulg. 1 Reg. 2, 27:

    non jam secretis colloquiis, sed aperte fremere,

    Tac. A. 11, 28:

    aperte adulari,

    Cic. Am. 26, 99:

    aperte mentiri,

    id. Ac. 2, 6, 18:

    aperte pugnare, id. ap. Aquil. Rom. 10: aperte immundus est,

    Vulg. Lev. 13, 26.— Comp.:

    cum ipsum dolorem hic tulit paulo apertius,

    Cic. Planc. 34; id. Att. 16, 3, 5; Curt. 6, 1, 11:

    ab his proconsuli venenum inter epulas datum est apertius quam ut fallerent,

    Tac. A. 13, 1.— Sup.:

    hinc empta apertissime praetura,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 100:

    equite Romano per te apertissime interfecto,

    id. Har. Resp. 30:

    largiri,

    id. ib. 56:

    praedari,

    id. Verr. 1, 130.—
    II.
    Esp. of what is set forth in words or writing, plainly, clearly, freely, without reserve:

    nempe ergo aperte vis quae restant me loqui?

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 24; id. Phorm. 4, 3, 49:

    aperte indicat (lex) posse rationem habere non praesentis,

    Cic. ad Brut. 1, 5, 3:

    Non tu istuc mihi dictura aperte es, quicquid est?

    Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 3:

    narrare,

    id. Heaut. 4, 3, 24:

    scribere,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 7, 3; Quint. 1, 5, 43.— Comp.:

    Planius atque apertius dicam,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 14, 43:

    distinguere,

    Quint. 3, 6, 45.— Sup.:

    istius injurias quam apertissime vobis planissimeque explicare,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 64, 156:

    aliquid apertissime ostendere,

    Quint. 5, 12, 11.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > aperio

  • 13 aperte

    ăpĕrĭo, ĕrŭi, ertum, 4, v. a. ( fut. aperibo, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50; Pompon. ap. Non. p. 506, 30) [ab-pario, to get from, take away from, i.e. to uncover, like the opp. operio, from obpario, to get for, to put upon, i. e. to cover; this is the old explanation, and is received by Corssen, Ausspr. I. p. 653; II. p. 410, and by Vanicek, p. 503], to uncover, make or lay bare.
    I.
    Lit.:

    patinas,

    Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 51: apertae surae, Turp. ap. Non. p. 236, 16:

    apertis lateribus,

    Sisenn. ib. p. 236, 26:

    capite aperto esse,

    Varr. ib. p. 236, 25;

    p. 236, 28: ut corporis partes quaedam aperiantur,

    Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129:

    caput aperuit,

    id. Phil. 2, 31; Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 236, 20:

    capita,

    Plin. 28, 6, 17, § 60:

    aperto pectore,

    Ov. M. 2, 339; and poet. transf. to the person:

    apertae pectora matres,

    id. ib. 13, 688:

    ramum,

    Verg. A. 6, 406 al. — Trop., to make visible, to show, reveal, Liv. 22, 6:

    dispulsā nebulā diem aperuit,

    id. 26, 17 (cf. just before:

    densa nebula campos circa intexit): dies faciem victoriae,

    Tac. Agr. 38:

    lux aperuit bellum ducemque belli,

    Liv. 3, 15:

    novam aciem dies aperuit,

    Tac. H. 4, 29:

    his unda dehiscens Terram aperit,

    opens to view, Verg. A. 1, 107.—From the intermediate idea of making visible,
    II.
    Metaph.
    A.
    1.. To unclose, open: aperto ex ostio Alti Acheruntis, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

    aperite aliquis ostium,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 26; so id. Heaut. 2, 3, 35:

    forem aperi,

    id. Ad. 2, 1, 13:

    fores,

    id. Eun. 2, 2, 52; Ov. M. 10, 457; Suet. Aug. 82:

    januas carceris,

    Vulg. Act. 5, 19:

    fenestram,

    ib. Gen. 8, 6:

    liquidas vias,

    to open the liquid way, Lucr. 1, 373; so Verg. A. 11, 884:

    sucum venis fundere apertis,

    to pour out moisture from its open veins, Lucr. 5, 812:

    saccum,

    Vulg. Gen. 42, 27:

    os,

    ib. ib. 22, 28:

    labia, ib. Job, 11, 5: oculos,

    ib. Act. 9, 8:

    accepi fasciculum, in quo erat epistula Piliae: abstuli, aperui, legi,

    Cic. Att. 5, 11 fin.; so id. ib. 1, 13;

    6, 3: aperire librum,

    Vulg. Apoc. 5, 5; 20, 12:

    testamentum,

    Plin. 7, 52, 53, § 177 (cf.:

    testamentum resignare,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 9); Suet. Caes. 83; id. Aug. 17:

    sigillum aperire,

    to break, Vulg. Apoc. 6, 3 al.:

    ferro iter aperiundum est,

    Sall. C. 58, 7:

    locum... asylum,

    to make it an asylum, Liv. 1, 8:

    subterraneos specus,

    Tac. G. 16:

    navigantibus maria,

    Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122:

    arbor florem aperit,

    id. 12, 11, 23, § 40 et saep.: aperire parietem, to open a wall, in order to put a door or window in it, Dig. 8, 2, 40: alicui oculos aperire, to give sight to (after the Heb.), Vulg. Joan. 9, 10; 9, 14 al.; so,

    aures aperire,

    to restore hearing to, ib. Marc. 7, 35.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    nec ita claudenda est res familiaris, ut eam benignitas aperire non possit,

    Cic. Off. 2, 15, 54: amicitiae fores. id. Fam. 13, 10:

    multus apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6 fin.:

    tibi virtus tua reditum ad tuos aperuit,

    id. Fam. 6, 11:

    philosophiae fontes,

    id. Tusc. 1, 3, 6; id. Mil. 31, 85 et saep.: alicujus oculos aperire, to open one's eyes, make him discern (after the Heb.), Vulg. Gen. 3, 5; 3, 7; ib. Act. 26, 18; so,

    alicujus cor aperire,

    ib. ib. 16, 14: ventus [p. 136] incendio viam aperuit, Liv. 6, 2:

    occasionem ad invadendum,

    id. 4, 53; so id. 9, 27: si hanc fenestram aperueritis (i.e. if you enter upon the way of complaint), nihil aliud agi sinetis, Suet. Tib. 28 (cf. Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 72:

    Quantam fenestram ad nequitiem patefeceris!): quia aperuisset gentibus ostium fidei,

    Vulg. Act. 14, 27; ib. Col. 4, 3.— So of the new year, to open it, i.e. begin:

    annum,

    Verg. G. 1, 217:

    contigit ergo privatis aperire annum (since the consul entered upon his office the first of January),

    Plin. Pan. 58, 4 Gierig and Schaef.—So also of a school, to establish, set up, begin, or open it:

    Dionysius tyrannus Corinthi dicitur ludum aperuisse,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 18; so Suet. Gram. 16; id. Rhet. 4.— Poet.:

    fuste aperire caput,

    i.e. to cleave, split the head, Juv. 9, 98.—
    B.
    Aperire locum (populum, gentes, etc.), to lay open a place, people, etc., i.e. to open an entrance to, render accessible (cf. patefacio);

    most freq. in the histt., esp. in Tacitus: qui aperuerint armis orbem terrarum,

    Liv. 42, 52; 42, 4:

    Syriam,

    Tac. A. 2, 70:

    omnes terras fortibus viris natura aperuit,

    id. H. 4, 64:

    novas gentes,

    id. Agr. 22:

    gentes ac reges,

    id. G. 1:

    Britanniam tamdiu clausam aperit,

    Mel. 3, 6, 4; Luc. 1, 465 Cort.:

    Eoas,

    id. 4, 352:

    pelagus,

    Val. Fl. 1, 169.—
    C.
    Transf. to mental objects, to disclose something unknown, to unveil, reveal, make known, unfold, to prove, demonstrate; or gen. to explain, recount, etc.:

    occulta quaedam et quasi involuta aperiri,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30:

    explicanda est saepe verbis mens nostra de quāque re atque involutae rei notitia definiendo aperienda est,

    id. Or. 33, 116:

    alicui scripturas aperire,

    Vulg. Luc. 24, 32:

    tua probra aperibo omnia,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50: ne exspectetis argumentum fabulae;

    hi partem aperient,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 23:

    non quo aperiret sententiam suam, sed etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 18, 84:

    eo praesente conjurationem aperit,

    Sall. C. 40, 6:

    naturam et mores,

    id. ib. 53 fin.; so id. ib. 45, 1; 47, 1; id. J. 33, 4:

    lux fugam hostium aperuit,

    Liv. 27, 2:

    aperiri error poterat,

    id. 26, 10:

    casus aperire futuros,

    to disclose the future, Ov. M. 15, 559:

    futura aperit,

    Tac. H. 2, 4.—So also, se aperire or aperiri, to reveal one's true disposition, character:

    tum coacti necessario se aperiunt,

    show themselves in their true light, Ter. And. 4, 1, 8:

    studio aperimur in ipso,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 371:

    exspectandum, dum se ipsa res aperiret,

    Nep. Paus. 3, 7; Quint. prooem. § 3.—Sometimes constr. with acc. and inf., a rel.-clause, or de:

    cum jam directae in se prorae hostes appropinquare aperuissent,

    Liv. 44, 28:

    domino navis, quis sit, aperit,

    Nep. Them. 8, 6; so id. Eum. 13, 3: de clementiā, Auct. ad Her. 2, 31.—In a gen. sense (freq. in epistt.) in Cic. Att. 5, 1, 2: de Oppio factum est, ut volui, et maxime, quod DCCC. aperuisti, you promised, i.e. that it should be paid to him (= ostendisti te daturum, Manut.); cf.

    the more definite expression: de Oppio bene curāsti, quod ei DCCC. exposuisti,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 3.—Hence, ăpertus, a, um, P. a.; pr., opened; hence, open, free.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    Without covering, open, uncovered (opp. tectus):

    naves apertae,

    without deck, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 40; Liv. 31, 22 fin.; cf. id. 32, 21, 14: centum tectae naves et quinquaginta leviores apertae, et saep.; v. navis.—Also, without covering or defence, unprotected, exposed:

    locus,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 84.— Poet., of the sky, clear, cloudless:

    caelo invectus aperto,

    Verg. A. 1, 155:

    aether,

    id. ib. 1, 587:

    aperta serena prospicere,

    id. G. 1, 393.—
    2.
    Unclosed, open, not shut (opp. clausus):

    Janua cum per se transpectum praebet apertum,

    since this affords an open view through it, Lucr. 4, 272:

    oculi,

    id. 4, 339:

    oculorum lumine aperto,

    id. 4, 1139 et saep.:

    nihil tam clausum, neque tam reconditum, quod non istius cupiditati apertissimum promptissimumque esset,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20:

    caelum patens atque apertum,

    id. Div. 1, 1 (diff. from 1.); so Ov. M. 6, 693:

    vidit caelos apertos,

    Vulg. Marc. 1, 10:

    apertus et propatulus locus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49:

    iter,

    Liv. 31, 2:

    apertior aditus ad moenia,

    id. 9, 28:

    campi,

    id. 38, 3:

    per apertum limitem (viae),

    Tac. H. 3, 21; Ov. M. 1, 285:

    fenestrae,

    Vulg. Dan. 6, 10:

    ostia,

    ib. ib. 13, 39:

    aequor,

    Ov. M. 4, 527; so id. ib. 8, 165; 11, 555 et saep. — Poet., of a battle: nec aperti copia Martis Ulla fuit, an action in the open field, Ov. M. 13, 208.—Very freq. ăpertum, subst., that which is open, free; an open, clear space:

    in aperto,

    Lucr. 3, 604:

    per apertum fugientes,

    Hor. C, 3, 12, 10:

    impetum ex aperto facerent,

    Liv. 35, 5:

    castra in aperto posita,

    id. 1, 33; so id. 22, 4:

    volantem in aperto,

    Plin. 10, 8, 9, § 22:

    in aperta prodeunt,

    id. 8, 32, 50, § 117:

    disjecit naves in aperta Oceani,

    Tac. A. 2, 23.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    a.. Opp. to that which is concealed, covered, dark, open, clear, plain, evident, manifest, unobstructed:

    nam nihil aegrius est quam res secernere apertas ab dubiis,

    nothing is, indeed, more difficult than to separate things that are evident from those that are doubtful, Lucr. 4, 467; so id. 4, 596; 1, 915; 5, 1062:

    cum illum ex occultis insidiis in apertum latrocinium conjecimus,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 1:

    simultates partim obscurae, partim apertae,

    id. Manil. 24:

    quid enim potest esse tam apertum tamque perspicuum?

    id. N. D. 2, 2, 4:

    quid rem apertam suspectam facimus?

    Liv. 41, 24:

    non furtim, sed vi aperta,

    id. 25, 24:

    apertus animi motus,

    Quint. 10, 3, 21:

    invidia in occulto, adulatio in aperto,

    Tac. H. 4, 4 et saep.—So, in rhet., of clear, intelligible discourse:

    multo apertius ad intellegendum est, si, etc.... apertam enim narrationem tam esse oportet quam, etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 328; cf. id. Inv. 1, 20.—Hence,
    b.
    Esp. as subst.: in aperto esse,
    (α).
    To be clear, evident, well known, notorious, en tôi phanerôi einai:

    ad cognoscendum omnia illustria magis magisque in aperto,

    Sall. J. 5, 3.—
    (β).
    To be easily practicable, easy, facile (the figure taken from an open field or space):

    agere memoratu digna pronum magisque in aperto erat,

    there was a greater inclination and a more open way to, Tac. Agr. 1:

    hostes aggredi in aperto foret,

    id. H. 3, 56:

    vota virtusque in aperto omniaque prona victoribus,

    id. Agr. 33.—
    2.
    Of character, without dissimulation, open, frank, candid:

    animus apertus et simplex,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 9; id. Off. 3, 13, 57:

    pectus,

    id. Lael. 26, 97. —Hence, ironically: ut semper fuit apertissimus, as he has always been very open, frank (for impudent, shameless), Cic. Mur. 35.—Hence, ăpertē, adv., openly, clearly, plainly.
    I.
    In gen.:

    tam aperte irridens,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 62:

    ab illo aperte tecte quicquid est datum, libenter accepi,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 4; id. Or. 12, 38; id. Am. 18, 67:

    cum Fidenae aperte descissent,

    Liv. 1, 27:

    aperte quod venale habet ostendit,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 83:

    aperte revelari,

    Vulg. 1 Reg. 2, 27:

    non jam secretis colloquiis, sed aperte fremere,

    Tac. A. 11, 28:

    aperte adulari,

    Cic. Am. 26, 99:

    aperte mentiri,

    id. Ac. 2, 6, 18:

    aperte pugnare, id. ap. Aquil. Rom. 10: aperte immundus est,

    Vulg. Lev. 13, 26.— Comp.:

    cum ipsum dolorem hic tulit paulo apertius,

    Cic. Planc. 34; id. Att. 16, 3, 5; Curt. 6, 1, 11:

    ab his proconsuli venenum inter epulas datum est apertius quam ut fallerent,

    Tac. A. 13, 1.— Sup.:

    hinc empta apertissime praetura,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 100:

    equite Romano per te apertissime interfecto,

    id. Har. Resp. 30:

    largiri,

    id. ib. 56:

    praedari,

    id. Verr. 1, 130.—
    II.
    Esp. of what is set forth in words or writing, plainly, clearly, freely, without reserve:

    nempe ergo aperte vis quae restant me loqui?

    Ter. And. 1, 2, 24; id. Phorm. 4, 3, 49:

    aperte indicat (lex) posse rationem habere non praesentis,

    Cic. ad Brut. 1, 5, 3:

    Non tu istuc mihi dictura aperte es, quicquid est?

    Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 3:

    narrare,

    id. Heaut. 4, 3, 24:

    scribere,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 7, 3; Quint. 1, 5, 43.— Comp.:

    Planius atque apertius dicam,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 14, 43:

    distinguere,

    Quint. 3, 6, 45.— Sup.:

    istius injurias quam apertissime vobis planissimeque explicare,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 64, 156:

    aliquid apertissime ostendere,

    Quint. 5, 12, 11.

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  • 14 figo

    fīgo, xi, xum, 3 (archaic part. perf. ficta, Lucr. 3, 4; Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 4), v. a. [Gr. sphing-ô, to bind fast; sphigmos, phimos, muzzle; cf. fīlum, for figlum. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 186; Germ. dick. dicht; Engl. thick. etc., Corss. Krit. Nachtr. p. 233], to fix, fasten, drive or thrust in, attach, affix (class.; cf.: pango, configo, defigo).
    I.
    Lit., constr. aliquid, aliquid in with abl. ( poet. also in with acc., or aliquid with abl. only):

    imbrices medias clavulis,

    Cato, R. R. 21, 3:

    palum in parietem,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 4:

    mucrones in cive an in hoste,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 6:

    tabulam decreti Caesaris aut beneficii,

    to post up, id. ib. 1, 1, 3; cf. id. ib. 12, 5 fin.:

    Antonius accepta grandi pecunia fixit legem a dictatore comitiis latam,

    i. e. posted it up as having been carried, id. Att. 14, 12, 1; cf.:

    adsentiri, ne qua tabula ullius decreti Caesaris figeretur,

    id. Phil. 1, 1, 3:

    fixit leges pretio atque refixit,

    Verg. A. 6, 622:

    quique aera legum vetustate delapsa, noscerent figerentque,

    Tac. H. 4, 40:

    nec verba minacia aere fixo legebantur,

    Ov. M. 1, 91:

    quam damnatis crucem servis fixeras,

    hadst fixed in the ground, erected, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 6, § 12:

    feraces plantas humo,

    to plant, set, Verg. G. 4, 115:

    clavos verticibus,

    Hor. C. 3, 24, 5:

    cuneos,

    Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 109 (dub.):

    veribus trementia (frusta),

    to fix on spits, Verg. A. 1, 212:

    spicula pectore,

    Prop. 2, 13, 2 (3, 4, 2 M.);

    for which: harundo in vertice fixa,

    Hor. S. 1, 8, 7:

    cristas vertice,

    Verg. A. 10, 701:

    fumantes taedas sub pectore,

    id. ib. 7, 457:

    notas in collo dente,

    to impress, Tib. 1, 8, 38:

    virus in venas per vulnera,

    injects, Cic. Arat. 432: vestigia, plants his steps, i. e. moves on, Verg. A. 6, 159:

    arma quae fixa in parietibus fuerant,

    fastened up, hung up, Cic. Div. 1, 34, 74; cf.:

    scuta sublime fixa,

    id. ib. 2, 31, 67:

    arma ad postem Herculis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5:

    arma thalamo,

    Verg. A. 4, 495:

    arma Troïa hic,

    id. ib. 1, 248:

    clipeum postibus,

    id. ib. 3, 287:

    dona Laurenti Divo,

    id. ib. 12, 768: ID AES AD STATVAM LORICATAM DIVI IVLII, S. C. ap. Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 13:

    qui spolia ex hoste fixa domi haberent,

    Liv. 23, 23, 6; 38, 43, 11:

    navalem coronam fastigio Palatinae domus,

    Suet. Claud. 17:

    luteum opus celsā sub trabe (hirundo),

    Ov. F. 1, 158: ipse summis saxis fixus asperis, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107, and id. Pis. 19, 43 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.):

    aliquem cruci,

    nail, Quint. 7, 1, 30; Suet. Dom. 10:

    corpus lacerum in crucem (al. cruce),

    Just. 21, 4 fin.:

    figit in virgine vultus,

    fixes, Verg. A. 12, 70:

    oculos solo,

    id. ib. 1, 482:

    oculos in terram,

    Sen. Ep. 11: in poet. transf.:

    oculos horrenda in virgine fixus,

    Verg. A. 11, 507 (cf.:

    defixus lumina vultu,

    id. ib. 6, 156; Tac. A. 3, 1):

    Caesar in silentium fixus,

    Tac. A. 6, 50 (56):

    obstipo capite et figentes lumine terram,

    Pers. 3, 80:

    foribus miser oscula figit,

    kisses, Lucr. 4, 1179:

    oscula dulcia,

    Verg. A. 1, 687:

    sedem Cumis,

    to fix his abode, Juv. 3, 2:

    domos,

    Tac. A. 13, 54.—
    B.
    Transf., to fix by piercing through, to transfix, pierce (cf. configo, II.):

    hunc intorto figit telo,

    Verg. A. 10, 382:

    hunc jaculo acuto,

    Ov. M. 10, 131: hostes telis, Auct. B. Alex. 30 fin.:

    fixisse puellas gestit (Cupido),

    Tib. 2, 1, 71:

    cervos,

    Verg. E. 2, 29:

    dammas,

    id. G. 1, 308; id. A. 5, 515; Sil. 1, 305:

    cutem (clavi),

    Sen. Prov. 3:

    olli per galeam fixo stetit hasta cerebro,

    Verg. A. 12, 537:

    aprum,

    Juv. 1, 23:

    figar a sagitta,

    Ov. H. 16, 278:

    vulnus,

    to inflict, Mart. 1, 61, 4.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To fix, fasten, direct.
    1.
    With in and abl.: ego omnia mea studia, omnem operam, curam, industriam, cogitationem, [p. 749] mentem denique omnem in Milonis consulatu fixi et locavi, Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 3.—
    2.
    With in and acc. (rare):

    fixus in silentium,

    Tac. A. 6, 50.—
    3.
    In other constructions:

    beneficium, quemadmodum dicitur, trabali clavo,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53:

    nostras intra te fige querelas,

    Juv. 9, 94:

    penitus hoc se malum fixit,

    Sen. Tranq. 15:

    nequitiae fige modum tuae,

    Hor. C. 3, 15, 2. —
    B.
    (Acc. to I. B.) Of speech, to sting; taunt, rally a person:

    aliquem maledictis,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 93:

    adversarios,

    id. Or. 26, 89.—Hence, fixus, a, um, P. a., fixed, fast, immovable.
    A.
    Lit. (very rare):

    illud maneat et fixum sit,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 9, 25:

    inque tuis nunc Fixa pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,

    i. e. firmly fixed in, Lucr. 3, 4; cf.

    in the foll.: astra,

    the fixed stars, Manil. 2, 35; so,

    flammae,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 15.— Far more freq.,
    B.
    Trop.:

    vestigia (integritatis) non pressa leviter, sed fixa ad memoriam illius provinciae sempiternam,

    Cic. Sest. 5, 13:

    non ita fixum, ut convelli non liceret,

    id. Clu. 45, 126: fixum et statutum, id. Mur., 30, 62; cf.:

    consilium fixum,

    id. Att. 6, 14, 2:

    animo fixum immotumque sedere, ne, etc.,

    Verg. A, 4, 15: fixum est, with a subj.-clause, it is fixed, determined, Sil. 2, 364; 3, 114:

    decretum stabile, fixum, ratum,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 9, 27; cf.:

    ratum, fixum, firmum,

    permanent, id. ib. 2, 46, 141:

    illud fixum in animis vestris tenetote,

    fixed, impressed, id. Balb. 28, 64: quae perpetuo animo meo fixa manebunt, Lepid. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 3.— Adv.: fixe, fixedly (late Lat.):

    ubi tenacius habitabit et fixius,

    Aug. Ep. 6 fin.

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  • 15 praestringo

    prae-stringo, inxi, ictum, 3, v. a., to bind fast or hard, to bind or tie up; to squeeze tight, compress, etc.
    I.
    Lit. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    praestrictā fauce,

    Ov. Ib. 551:

    praestricta manus,

    Sen. Troad. 560:

    pollices vincire, nodoque praestringere,

    Tac. A. 12, 47:

    dracones circumplexu facili (elephantos) ambiunt, nexuque nodi praestringunt,

    Plin. 8, 11, 11, § 32:

    praestringere et strangulare,

    id. 17, 24, 37, § 234:

    vehementer praestringere aliquid,

    id. 10, 72, 92, § 192:

    umor praestrictus gelu,

    id. 17, 24, 37, § 217:

    ventus praestringit atque percellit radices arborum, i. e. comprimit,

    id. 18, 34, 77, § 334:

    panis datur ex vino ad discutienda, quae praestringi opus est, i. e. coërceri, sisti,

    id. 22, 25, 68, § 138.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    To bind or wind about ( poet.):

    alicujus tempora sertis,

    Stat. S. 5, 1, 112.—
    B.
    To graze, touch:

    portam vomere,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 40, 102 (al. perstringere):

    Taifalorum terras praestringens,

    Amm. 31, 3, 7:

    praestrictis palatii januis,

    i. e. passed without entering, id. 14, 7, 10.—
    2.
    Trop. (post-class.):

    rerum novarum lugubri visu praestrictus,

    touched, struck, Amm. 29, 6, 9; cf. id. 16, 10, 13.—Hence, esp., to touch in speaking, to mention:

    nomen,

    Amm. 26, 1, 4; cf. id. 22, 15, 3.—With acc. and inf., Amm. 21, 7, 2.—
    C.
    To weaken, blunt, make dull.
    1.
    In gen.:

    illi quorum lingua gladiorum aciem praestringit domi, i. e. by boasting,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 11:

    acies ferri praestringitur,

    Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64:

    nitorem eboris,

    to dim, id. ib.: vites, to deprive them of their eyes or buds, id. 17, 24, 37, § 227.—
    2.
    Esp.: praestringere aciem oculorum or oculos, to blind (class.):

    aciem oculorum,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 4; Lucil. ap. Non. 34, 32; Liv. 40, 58, 4; cf. oculos, Varr. ap. Non. 35, 5; Cic. Vatin. 10, 24; Sen. Ep. 110, 17:

    obtutum oculorum,

    Amm. 17, 7, 2.— Trop.:

    vos aciem animorum nostrorum virtutis splendore praestringitis,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 37; so,

    aciem animi,

    id. Phil. 12, 2, 3; Vell. 2, 118, 4:

    aciem mentis,

    Cic. Div. 1, 29, 61; cf.:

    oculos mentis,

    id. Sen. 12, 42:

    aciem ingenii,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46:

    mentes,

    Amm. 30, 1, 15: praestigias, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73 (Com. Rel. p. 59 Rib.).

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  • 16 propono

    prō-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3, v. a., to put or set forth, to set or lay out, to place before, expose to view, to display (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    proponere vexillum,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 20:

    pallentesque manus, sanguineumque caput,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 9, 30:

    i puer et citus haec aliquā propone columnā,

    Prop. 3 (4), 23, 23:

    aliquid venale,

    to expose for sale, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § 78; cf. Suet. Ner. 16:

    geminum pugnae proponit honorem,

    proposes, offers, Verg. A. 5, 365:

    singulis diebus ediscendos fastos populo proposuit,

    Cic. Mur. 11, 25:

    legem in publicum,

    id. Agr. 2, 5, 13:

    in publico epistulam,

    id. Att. 8, 9, 2; id. Pis. 36, 88:

    vectigalia,

    to publish, publicly advertise, Suet. Calig. 41:

    oppida Romanis proposita ad copiam commeatūs,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 14:

    ne quid volucre proponeretur, praeter, etc.,

    should be served up, Plin. 10, 50, 71, § 139 (al. poneretur).—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To set before the eyes, to propose mentally; to imagine, conceive:

    propone tibi duos reges,

    Cic. Deiot. 14, 40:

    aliquid sibi exemplar,

    id. Univ. 2:

    sibi aliquem ad imitandum,

    id. de Or. 2, 22, 93:

    vos ante oculos animosque vestros... Apronii regnum proponite,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 58:

    eam (vitam) ante oculos vestros proponite,

    id. Sull. 26, 72:

    condicio supplicii in bello timiditati militis proposita,

    id. Clu. 46, 129; 56, 154; 12, 42:

    vim fortunae animo,

    Liv. 30, 30:

    spem libertatis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 5, 15:

    nihil ad scribendum,

    id. Att. 5, 10, 4.—
    B.
    To expose:

    omnibus telis fortunae proposita est vita nostra,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 2:

    tabernis apertis proposita omnia in medio vidit,

    Liv. 6, 25, 9.—
    C.
    To point out, declare, represent, report, say, relate, set forth, publish, etc. (cf.:

    indico, denuntio): ut proponat, quid dicturus sit,

    Cic. Or. 40, 137; id. Brut. 60, 217:

    extremum illud est de iis, quae proposueram,

    id. Fam. 15, 14, 6:

    contione habitā, rem gestam proponit,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 50:

    in exemplum proponere,

    Quint. 7, 1, 41; 12, 2, 27.—With de:

    de Galliae Germaniaeque moribus, et quo differant eae nationes inter se,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 11.—With object-clause:

    quod ante tacuerat, proponit, esse nonnullos, quorum, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 17:

    cui (morbo) remedia celeria faciliaque proponebantur,

    were proposed, suggested, believed to be efficient, Nep. Att. 21, 2.—
    D.
    To offer, propose as a reward:

    Xerxes praemium proposuit, qui invenisset novam voluptatem,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 7, 20:

    populo congiarium, militi donativum,

    Suet. Ner. 7.—
    2.
    In a bad sense, to threaten, denounce:

    cui cum publicatio bonorum, exsilium, mors proponeretur,

    Cic. Planc. 41, 97:

    injuriae, quae propositae sunt a Catone,

    id. Fam. 1, 5, b, 2:

    contentiones, quae mihi proponuntur,

    id. Att. 2, 19, 1:

    improbis poenam,

    id. Fin. 2, 17, 57:

    damnationem et mortem sibi proponat ante oculos,

    Liv. 2, 54, 6; Just. 16, 5, 2.—
    E.
    To lay before, to propose for an answer: aliquam quaestionem, Nep Att. 20, 2:

    aenigma,

    Vulg. Ezech. 17, 2.—
    F.
    To purpose, resolve, intend, design, determine:

    consecutus id, quod animo proposuerat,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 47:

    cum id mihi propositum initio non fuisset,

    I had not proposed it to myself, had not intended it, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6.— With inf.:

    neque propositum nobis est hoc loco (laudare), etc.,

    I am resolved, Cic. Brut. 6, 25.—With ut:

    propositum est, non ut eloquentiam meam perspicias, sed ut,

    the design is, Cic. Brut. 92, 318.—
    G.
    To say or mention beforehand (post-Aug.), Col. 8, 17, 8.—
    2.
    To state the first premise of a syllogism:

    cum proponimus,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 39, 70; 1, 40, 72.—
    H.
    To impose (post-class.):

    novam mihi propono dicendi legem,

    Mamert. Genethl. 5.—Hence, prōpŏsĭtum, i, n.
    A.
    A plan, intention, design, resolution, purpose (class.):

    quidnam Pompeius propositi aut voluntatis ad dimicandum haberet,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 84:

    assequi,

    to attain, Cic. Fin. 3, 6, 22:

    est enim propositum, ut iratum efficiat judicem,

    id. Part. 4, 14:

    tenere,

    to keep to one's purpose, Nep. Eum. 3, 5; Liv. 3, 41, 4; Caes. B. C. 1, 83; 3, 42; 64:

    propositum peragere,

    Nep. Att. 22, 2:

    tenax propositi,

    Hor. C. 3, 3, 1: in proposito manere. Suet. Gram. 24:

    reprehendendi habere,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 19, 7:

    omne propositum operis a nobis destinati,

    Quint. 2, 10, 15; 2, 19, 1; 12, 9, 14.—
    B.
    The first premise of a syllogism, Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 215; Sen. Q. N. 1, 8, 4.—
    2.
    An argument: nam est in proposito finis fides, Cic. Part. 3, 9.—
    3.
    The main point, principal subject, theme:

    a proposito declinare aliquantulum,

    Cic. Or. 40, 137:

    egredi a proposito ornandi causā,

    id. Brut. 21, 82:

    a proposito aberrare,

    id. Fin. 5, 28, 83:

    redire ad propositum,

    id. de Or. 3, 53, 203:

    ad propositum revertamur,

    id. Off. 3, 9, 39:

    a proposito aversus,

    Liv. 2, 8, 8:

    propositum totius operis,

    Sen. Ep. 65, 4 sq.; 65, 8:

    vitae,

    Cels. 5, 26, 6:

    meum,

    Phaedr. 1, 5, 2:

    tuum,

    Sen. Ep. 68, 3.—
    C.
    A way, manner, or course of life ( poet. and post-Aug.):

    mutandum tibi propositum est et vitae genus,

    Phaedr. prol. 3, 15:

    vir proposito sanctissimus,

    Vell. 2, 2, 2.

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  • 17 retorqueo

    rĕ-torquĕo, si, tum, 2, v. a., to twist or bend back; to turn or cast back (class.; cf. [p. 1587] reflecto).
    I.
    Lit.:

    caput in sua terga (anguis),

    Ov. M. 3, 68:

    ora,

    id. ib. 4, 715:

    ora ad os Phoebi,

    id. ib. 11, 163: oculos saepe ad hanc urbem, * Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 2:

    oculos,

    Ov. M. 10, 696:

    omnium oculos in se,

    Quint. Decl. 8, 8:

    tergo bracchia,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 22; cf.:

    manibus retortis,

    id. Ep. 2, 1, 191:

    cervices,

    Plin. Pan. 34, 3:

    ferocis equi colla,

    Ov. H. 4, 79:

    pantherae terga,

    to wrap about, cast about, Verg. A. 8, 460:

    amictum,

    id. ib. 12, 400:

    crinem,

    to crisp, frizzle, Mart. 6, 39, 6:

    litore violenter undas,

    to drive back, repulse, Hor. C. 1, 2, 13:

    Rhoetum unguibus leonis,

    id. ib. 2, 19, 23:

    vela ab Euboïcis aquis,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 84:

    viam,

    i. e. to return by the same way, Claud. Phaen. 27:

    de bysso retorta,

    Vulg. Exod. 26, 1:

    missilia in hostem,

    Curt. 6, 1, 15:

    quod me retorsisti (a morte),

    Quint. Decl. 17, 18. — Mid.: ubi paulatim retorqueri agmen ad dextram conspexerunt, to wheel around, * Caes. B. C. 1, 69, 3.—
    II.
    Trop.: animum ad praeterita, to turn or cast back, Sen. Ben. 3, 3, 3:

    scelus in auctorem,

    Just. 34, 4, 2; cf.:

    crimina in eum,

    Dig. 38, 2, 14, § 6; and simply argumentum, to retort upon one ' s opponent, App. Flor. p. 360, 33:

    mentem,

    to alter, change, Verg. A. 12, 841.

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  • 18 attollō (adt-)

        attollō (adt-) —, —, ere    [ad + tollo], to lift up, raise up, raise, elevate: natum, O.: pallium (i. e. accingere), T.: fracto crure planum, H.: amicum ab humo, V.: oculos humo, O.: oculos contra, i. e. look in the face, O.: mare ventis, Ta.: ad lumina lumen, O.: manūs ad caelum, L.: attolitur unda, V.: capita caelo (of trees), V.: in aegrum se femur, to rise upon, V.: se in auras, O.: fluvio se, out of the river, V.: ex strage se, L.: se ab casu, L.: in caelum attolli, to rise, Ta.: attollit se Lacinia, comes into view, V.—Of buildings, to erect, raise: arcemque attollere tectis, by means of ( high) roofs, V.—To raise, lift up, elevate, exalt: animos. V.: vires in milite, Pr.: ad consulatūs spem animos, L.: alqm praemiis, Ta.: iras, to rise in anger (of a serpent), V.: privati hominis nomen supra principis, Ta.: alcuius progeniem super cunctos, Ta.

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  • 19 pāscō

        pāscō pāvī, pāstus, ere    [PA-], to cause to eat, feed, supply with food: bestias: plures calones atque caballi Pascendi, H.— To feed, nourish, maintain, support: holusculis nos, feed with vegetables: quos dives Anagnia pascit, V.: servos, Iu.: volsis pascunt radicibus herbae (me), V.— To pasture, drive to pasture, attend: sues: greges armentaque, O.: non, me pascente, capellae, cytisum carpetis, V.— Pass, to be fed, feed, graze, pasture: si pulli non pascentur, L.: pascitur in magnā Silā iuvenca, V.: carice pastus acutā, V.: iterum pasto pascitur ante cibo, chews the cud, O. — To feed, supply, cherish, cultivate, let grow: barbam, H.: paverunt Pergama flammas, fed, O.: polus dum sidera pascet, feeds (with vapors), V.: nummos alienos, pile up debts, H.— To pasture, give as pasture: asperrima (collium), V.— To graze, browse: pascentes capellae, V.: saltibus in vacuis, V.: mala gramina, V.: apes arbuta, V.— To consume, lay waste, ravage, desolate: vestros campos, L.—Fig., to feast, delight, satisfy, feed, gratify: oculos, T.: quos Clodi furor incendiis pavit: supplicio oculos: animum picturā, V.: spes inanīs, cherish, V.: his ego rebus pascor, his delector, feast myself: maleficio et scelere pascuntur, live by: Pascere nostro dolore, O.
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    pascere, pavi, pastus V
    feed, feed on; graze

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  • 20 per

        per praep. with acc.    [1 PAR-].    I. In space, through, across, through the midst of, from side to side of, traversing: itinera duo, unum per Sequanos... alterum per provinciam, Cs.: qui per agros fluit: it hasta per tempus utrumque, V.: per medios hostīs evasit, L.— Through, over, throughout, all over, along, among: per totam Italiam, S.: per omnīs partīs provinciae: per viam, along, L.: aegro per manūs tractus servatur, from hand to hand, Cs.: invitati hospita<*>iter per domos, from house to house, L.: passim per herbam Corpora fusa, V.: imperium per omnīs in orbem ibat, went around, L.: per alia atque alia pavida consilia trepidans, from one place to another, L.: Transtra per et remos, V.—With ora, oculos or aurīs, before, to: incedunt per ora vestrum, S.: traducti per hostium oculos, L.: vestras per aurīs ire, V.—    II. In time, through, during, for, throughout, in the course of: per hosce annos: per triennium: per eos forte dies, L.— At, at the time of, during: per idem tempus: per meridiem, at noon, L.: per ludos, L.: per lunam, V.: per infrequentiam comitia perficiunt, L.: per tempus, at the right time, T.—    III. Of agency, through, by, by the hands of, by the agency of: quae comperta sunt per me: per homines explorare, S.: per procuratores agere: quo minus cum eis amicitia esset, per populum R. stetisse, L.: occidebantur? per quos? et a quibus? by whose hands, and at whose instance? —With pronn. reflex., in person, alone, of oneself: milites qui per se de conciliandā pace egerint, Cs.: homo per se cognitus, by his own merit: per me tibi obstiti, single-handed: per se solus, L.—Restrictive, by, for, as far as regards: per me vel stertas licet, I don't care if: per me isti pedibus trahantur: si per suos esset licitum, N.—    IV. Of means or manner, through, by, by means of: id a te per litteras petere: vates per avīs consulti, L.: per litteras certior fit, S.— Through, by, under pretence of, by the pretext of: nos per fidem fallere: per causam exercendorum remigum prodire, Cs.: per Caecilium Sulla accusatur, in the name of: per speciem alienae fungendae vicis suas opes firmavit, L.— Through, by, for the sake of, on account of, with a view to: cum per aetatem nondum auderem, etc. —Esp., in oaths and adjurations: si per plurīs deos iuret, by: per tuam fidem Te obtestor, T.: per ego te deos oro, T.—Poet. in ellipsis: per, si qua est... Intemerata fides, oro, V.—Of manner, in adverb. phrases, by, through, with, at, in: per vim, violently, T.: per ludum et iocum, in sport: per summum dedecus, most infamously: per iram, angrily: per commodum rei p., without injury, L.: per otium, at leisure, L.: per commodum, leisurely, L.: per ignaviam et superbiam aetatem agere, in inglorious pride, S.: per turpitudinem, basely, S.: per virtutem emori, bravely, S.: Per facinus, wickedly, O.: haud per ambages portendere, not obscurely, L.: per tumultum, in disorder, L.
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    through (space); during (time); by, by means of

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