of the cross-roads

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compĭtum ( compĕtum, Varr. L. L. 6, § 25 Müll.), i, n. (mostly in plur.; in sing., Cato, R. R. 5, 4; Varr. L. L. 6, § 43 Müll., and in Non. p. 94, 27; Liv. 27, 4, 12; Fest. p. 174, 7 Müll.; Dig. 8, 10, 12, § 3; Tert. Test. Anim. 1 fin. —Access. form compĭtus, i, m., Varr. and Caecil. ap. Non. p. 196, 9 sq.) [competo], a place where several ways meet, a cross - way, cross - road, Cic. Agr. 1, 3, 7; Liv. 34, 2, 12; Verg. G. 2, 382; Prop. 4 (5), 1, 23; 4 (5), 3, 57; Ov. F. 1, 142; 2, 615; 5, 140; Hor. S. 2, 3, 26; 2, 6, 50; id. Ep. 1, 1, 49:

compita Larum (Romae) CCLXV.,

Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 66.—

Trop. (with allusion to the fable of the Choice of Hercules), Pers. 5, 35. —

Meton.:

stomachi,

Tert. Res Carn. 60.—Of an altar raised at cross-roads, Grat. Cyn. 483; Inscr. Grut. 107, 1 al.

compĭtum ( compĕtum, Varr. L. L. 6, § 25 Müll.), i, n. (mostly in plur.; in sing., Cato, R. R. 5, 4; Varr. L. L. 6, § 43 Müll., and in Non. p. 94, 27; Liv. 27, 4, 12; Fest. p. 174, 7 Müll.; Dig. 8, 10, 12, § 3; Tert. Test. Anim. 1 fin. —Access. form compĭtus, i, m., Varr. and Caecil. ap. Non. p. 196, 9 sq.) [competo], a place where several ways meet, a cross - way, cross - road, Cic. Agr. 1, 3, 7; Liv. 34, 2, 12; Verg. G. 2, 382; Prop. 4 (5), 1, 23; 4 (5), 3, 57; Ov. F. 1, 142; 2, 615; 5, 140; Hor. S. 2, 3, 26; 2, 6, 50; id. Ep. 1, 1, 49:

compita Larum (Romae) CCLXV.,

Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 66.—

Trop. (with allusion to the fable of the Choice of Hercules), Pers. 5, 35. —

Meton.:

stomachi,

Tert. Res Carn. 60.—Of an altar raised at cross-roads, Grat. Cyn. 483; Inscr. Grut. 107, 1 al.

compĭtālis, e, adj. [compitum], of or pertaining to the cross-ways:

Lares,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 25 Müll.; Suet. Aug. 31 (qui compita servant, Ov. F. 2, 615; cf. id. ib. 5, 140 sq.).—

Subst.

‡ compĭtāles, ium, m., priests of the Lares compitales:

COMPIT. LAR. AVG.,

Inscr. Orell. 3958 sq. —

compĭtālĭa, ium and iōrum (cf. Charis. p. 27 sq. P.; Prisc. p. 744 ib.:

compitaliorum,

Cic. Pis. 4, 8 Orell. N. cr.), n., a festival, annually celebrated at cross - roads (compita) in honor of the Lares, soon after the Saturnalia, on a day appointed by the prætor (cf. conceptivus, II.), Varr. L. L. 6, § 25 Müll.; cf. Gell. 10, 24, 3; Macr. S. 1, 7 fin.; Cato, R. R. 5, 4; 57, 2; Cic. Att. 2, 3, 3; Plin. 36, 27, 70, § 204; Paul. ex Fest. p. 40, 3, and Fest. p. 257, 1 Müll.

compĭtālis, e, adj. [compitum], of or pertaining to the cross-ways:

Lares,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 25 Müll.; Suet. Aug. 31 (qui compita servant, Ov. F. 2, 615; cf. id. ib. 5, 140 sq.).—

Subst.

‡ compĭtāles, ium, m., priests of the Lares compitales:

COMPIT. LAR. AVG.,

Inscr. Orell. 3958 sq. —

compĭtālĭa, ium and iōrum (cf. Charis. p. 27 sq. P.; Prisc. p. 744 ib.:

compitaliorum,

Cic. Pis. 4, 8 Orell. N. cr.), n., a festival, annually celebrated at cross - roads (compita) in honor of the Lares, soon after the Saturnalia, on a day appointed by the prætor (cf. conceptivus, II.), Varr. L. L. 6, § 25 Müll.; cf. Gell. 10, 24, 3; Macr. S. 1, 7 fin.; Cato, R. R. 5, 4; 57, 2; Cic. Att. 2, 3, 3; Plin. 36, 27, 70, § 204; Paul. ex Fest. p. 40, 3, and Fest. p. 257, 1 Müll.

compĭtālis, e, adj. [compitum], of or pertaining to the cross-ways:

Lares,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 25 Müll.; Suet. Aug. 31 (qui compita servant, Ov. F. 2, 615; cf. id. ib. 5, 140 sq.).—

Subst.

‡ compĭtāles, ium, m., priests of the Lares compitales:

COMPIT. LAR. AVG.,

Inscr. Orell. 3958 sq. —

compĭtālĭa, ium and iōrum (cf. Charis. p. 27 sq. P.; Prisc. p. 744 ib.:

compitaliorum,

Cic. Pis. 4, 8 Orell. N. cr.), n., a festival, annually celebrated at cross - roads (compita) in honor of the Lares, soon after the Saturnalia, on a day appointed by the prætor (cf. conceptivus, II.), Varr. L. L. 6, § 25 Müll.; cf. Gell. 10, 24, 3; Macr. S. 1, 7 fin.; Cato, R. R. 5, 4; 57, 2; Cic. Att. 2, 3, 3; Plin. 36, 27, 70, § 204; Paul. ex Fest. p. 40, 3, and Fest. p. 257, 1 Müll.

quā̆drĭvĭum, ii, n. [quattuor-via].

Lit., a place where four ways meet, a crossway, cross-road:

in quadriviis et angiportis,

Cat. 58, 4; so Juv. 1, 63:

DII,

the tutelar gods of cross-roads, Inscr. Grut. 84, 5; 1015, 1; Inscr. Rein. col. 1, n. 14.—

Transf., the assemblage of the four mathematical sciences (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy), Boëth. Arithmet. 1, 1.

Lăres (old form ‡ Lăses, Inscr. Fratr. Arval.; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 2 Müll.), um and ĭum (Larum, Varr. L. L. 5, § 49 Müll.; Cic. Rep. 5, 5, 7; id. N. D. 3, 25, 63; id. Leg. 2, 8, 19; Inscr. Orell. 961:

Larium,

Liv. 40, 52), m. [old Lat. Lases; Etrusc. Laran, Lalan; root las-; cf. lascivus], tutelar deities, Lares, belonging orig. to the Etruscan religion, and worshipped especially as the presiders over and protectors of a particular locality (cf. Otfr. Müll. Etrusc. 2, p. 90 sq.):

praestites,

the tutelar deities of an entire city, Ov. F. 5, 129 sq.:

mille Lares geniumque ducis, qui tradidit illos, urbs habet,

id. ib. 5, 145:

Puteolanae civitatis,

Inscr. Orell. 1670:

civitatum, Inscr. ap. Grut. p. 10, 2: vicorum,

Arn. 3, 41:

rurales, Inscr. ap. Grut. p. 251: compitales,

of cross - roads, Suet. Aug. 31; called also Lares compitalicii, Philarg. ad Verg. G. 2, 381:

viales,

worshipped by the road-side, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 24:

permarini,

tutelar deities of the sea, Liv. 40, 52: caelipotentes, Inscr. ap. Tert. de Spect. 5.— Sing.:

Lari viali,

Inscr. Orell. 1762; 1894:

eundem esse Genium et Larem, multi veteres memoriae prodiderunt,

Censor. 3, 2.—

Most commonly the Lares (as familiares or domestici), the tutelar deities of a house, household gods, domestic Lares (whose images stood on the hearth in a little shrine, aedes, or in a small chapel, lararium); as the tutelar deities of each particular dwelling, also in sing.: Lar, Laris, m.

In plur.:

rem divinam facere Laribus familiaribus,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 1, 17:

sanctis Penatium deorum Larumque familiarium sedibus,

Cic. Rep. 5, 5, 7; id. Quint. 27 fin.:

ad aedem Larum,

id. N. D. 3, 25, 63:

immolet aequis porcum Laribus,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 164:

Laribus tuum Miscet numen,

id. C. 4, 5, 34. —

In sing.:

ego Lar sum familiaris, ex hac familia,

Plaut. Aul. prol. 2:

haec imponuntur in foco nostro dari,

id. ib. 2, 8, 16:

familiae Lar pater, alium Larem persequi,

id. Merc. 5, 1, 5 sq. —

Meton., a hearth, dwelling, home (class.; usually in sing.):

larem corona nostrum decorari volo,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 1:

relinquent larem familiarem suum?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 27:

ad suum larem familiarem redire,

id. ib. 2, 3, 54, §

125: nobis larem familiarem nusquam ullum esse?

Sall. C. 20:

paternus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 51:

patrius,

id. S. 1, 2, 56; cf.:

avitus apto Cum lare fundus,

id. C. 1, 12, 43:

gaudens lare certo,

id. Ep. 1, 7, 58:

parvo sub lare,

id. C. 3, 29, 14:

conductus,

Mart. 11, 82, 2:

deserere larem,

to abandon one's home, Ov. F. 1, 478:

pelli lare,

to be driven from a place, id. ib. 6, 362:

alumnus laris Antenorei,

i. e. of the city of Padua, Mart. 1, 77, 2: ob eam rem tibi Lare commercioque interdico, Vet. Formul. ap. Paul. Sent. 3, 4, 7.—

In plur., Ov. R. Am. 302:

jussa pars mutare lares,

Hor. C. S. 39.— Poet., of a bird's nest:

avis in ramo tecta laremque parat,

Ov. F. 3, 242:

cum rapit Halcyones miserae fetumque laremque,

Val. Fl. 4, 45.

Lăres, ĭum, f., a city in Numidia, Sall. J. 90 Kritz N. cr.

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trĭvĭum, i, n. [ter-via].

Lit., a place where three roads meet, a fork in the roads, cross-road:

ut ventum est in trivium,

Cic. Div. 1, 54, 123.—

Transf., in gen., a public square, the public street, highway; plur.:

in triviis aut in compitis,

Cic. Agr. 1, 3, 7:

nocturnisque Hecate triviis ululata per urbes,

Verg. A. 4, 609; Lucr. 4, 1203:

occurram in triviis,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 59; id. Ep. 1, 16, 64; 1, 17, 58; id. A. P. 245.— Sing.:

pueros in trivio docere,

Just. 21, 5; Tib. 1, 1, 12 (22).—Prov.:

arripere maledictum ex trivio,

i. e. out of the street, from the mob, Cic. Mur. 6, 13.

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līmĕs, ĭtis, m. [root in līmus; cf. limen, and Gr. lechris; cf. Just. Inst. 1, 12, 5], a cross-path, balk between fields.

Lit., the Romans usually had in their fields two broad and two narrower paths; the principal balk from east to west was called limes decumanus; that from north to south was called cardo;

of the two smaller ones, that running from east to west was called prorus, the other, from north to south, transversus,

Hyg. de Limit. Const. 18, 33 and 34; Col. 1, 8, 7:

lutosi limites,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 8. —

Transf. (mostly poet.).

A boundary, limit between two fields or estates, consisting of a stone or a balk:

partiri limite campum,

Verg. G. 1, 126:

saxum antiquum, ingens, campo quod forte jacebat, Limes agro positus, litem ut discerneret arvis,

id. A. 12, 897:

effodit medio de limite saxum,

Juv. 16, 38.—

A fortified boundaryline, a boundary-wall:

cuncta inter castellum Alisonem ac Rhenum novis limitibus aggeribusque permunita,

Tac. A. 2, 7:

limite acto promotisque praesidiis,

id. G. 29: penetrat interius, aperit limites, Vell. 2, 120.—

In gen., any path, passage, road, way; also, by-street, by-road:

eo limite Athenienses signa extulerunt,

Liv. 31, 39:

profectus inde transversis limitibus,

id. ib.:

lato te limite ducam,

Verg. A. 9, 323:

acclivis,

Ov. M. 2, 19:

limite recto fugere,

id. ib. 7, 782:

transversi,

by-roads, Liv. 22, 12, 2 Fabr.; 31, 39, 5; 41, 14 init.: limes Appiae, the line of the Appian street (for the street itself), id. 22, 15, 11:

limite acto (i. e. facto),

Tac. G. 29.—

Of the channel of a stream: solito dum flumina currant Limite,

Ov. M. 8, 558; Prop. 5, 9, 60.—Of the track of light left behind them by comets, fiery meteors, torches, etc.:

flammiferumque trahens spatioso limite crinem, Stella micat,

Ov. M. 15, 849:

tum longo limite sulcus Dat lucem,

Verg. A. 2, 697; Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96:

sectus in obliquo est lato curvamine limes,

the zodiac, Ov. M. 2, 130:

latum per agmen Ardens limitem agit ferro,

Verg. A. 10, 514; cf. Sil. 4, 463; 9, 379; Stat. Th. 9, 182.—

A line or vein in a precious stone:

nigram materiam distinguente limite albo,

Plin. 37, 10, 69, § 184.—

Trop.

A boundary, limit:

limes carminis,

Stat. Th. 1, 16:

aestuat infelix angusto limite mundi,

Juv. 10, 169.—

A distinction, difference:

judicium brevi limite falle tuum,

Ov. R. Am. 325:

quaedam perquam tenui limite dividuntur,

Quint. 9, 1, 3.—

A way, path:

si maledicitis vostro gradiar limite,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 18:

bene meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditum patet,

Cic. Somn. Scip. 8; Sen. Ben. 1, 15, 2:

eundem limitem agere,

to go the same way, employ the same means, Ov. A. A. 3, 558.