one who helps

adjūtor, ātus, 1, v. dep., i. q. adjuto, and also ante-class. (found in Pac., Afran., and Lucil.): adjutamini et defendite, Pac. ap. Non. 74, 2; Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 89; Pac. ap. Non. 477, 26: me adjutamini, Afran. ib.: magna adjutatus diu, Lucil. ib.

adjūtor, ōris, m. [adjuvo], one who helps, a helper, assistant, aider, promoter (class. through all periods).

In gen.:

hic adjutor meus et monitor et praemonstrator,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 2:

ejus iracundiae,

id. Ad. 1, 1, 66:

ad hanc rem adjutorem dari,

id. Phorm. 3, 3, 26:

adjutores ad me restituendum multi fuerunt,

Cic. Quint. 9:

in psaltria hac emunda,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 9:

honoris,

Cic. Fl. 1:

ad praedam,

id. Rose. Am. 2, 6; so id. de Or. 1, 59; id. Tusc. 1, 12:

tibi venit adjutor,

id. N. D. 1, 7:

L. ille Torquatus auctor exstitit,

id. Sull. 34; id. Off. 2, 15; 3, 33; id. Fin. 5, 30; id. Att. 8, 3; 9, 12; Caes. B. C. 1, 7; Sall. J. 82; Liv. 29, 1, 18:

nolite dubitare libertatem consule adjutore defendere,

with the aid of the consul, Cic. Leg. Agr. 16;

and so often,

id. Verr. 1, 155; id. Font. 44; id. Clu. 36; id. Mur. 84.—

Esp., a common name of a military or civil officer, an aid, adjutant, assistant, deputy, secretary, etc.:

comites et adjutores negotiorum publicorum,

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

dato adjutore Pharnabazo,

Nep. Con. 4; so id. Chabr. 2; Liv. 33, 43; Suet. Aug. 39; id. Tib. 63; id. Calig. 26:

rhetorum (i. e. hypodidascali),

Quint. 2, 5, 3; Gell. 13, 9; and in the inscriptions in Orell. 3462, 3200 al.; under the emperors an officer of court, minister (v. Vell. 2, 127; cf. Suet. Calig. 26); usu. with ab and the word indicative of the office (v. ab fin.):

adjutor a rationibus, Orell. Inscr. 32: a sacris,

ib. 2847:

a commentariis ornamentorum,

ib. 2892.— Also with gen.:

adjutor cornicularii,

ib. 3517:

haruspicum imperatoris,

ib. 3420 al. —In scenic language, adjutor is the one who, by his part, sustains or assists the hero of the piece (prôtagônistês), to which the class. passage, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, refers; cf. Heind. ad Hor. S. 1, 9, 46:

in scena postquam solus constitit sine apparatu, nullis adjutoribus,

with no subordinate actors, Phaedr. 5, 5, 14; Suet. Gramm. 18; Val. Max. 2, 4, no. 4.

ad-jŭvo, jūvi, jūtum, 1, v. a. (very rare juvavi, juvatum;

hence, adjuvaturus,

Petr. Sat. 18: adjŭro or adjuero = adjuvero, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1:

adjuerit = adjuverit,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 4), to give aid to, to help, assist, support: aliquem. (Adjuvare applies to every kind of help or support; while auxiliari is only used of one who, from his weakness, needs assistance, and subvenire of one who is in difficulty or embarrassment; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 1, 7.)

In gen.: O Tite, si quid te adjuero curamve levāsso quae nunc te coquit, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 339 Vahl.): di me etsi perdunt, tamen esse adjutam expetunt, Pac. ap. Non. 97, 14 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 102):

miseras, inopes, aerumnosas aliquo auxilio,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 39:

operā me adjuves,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 3:

me adjuves in hac re,

id. And. 3, 3, 10:

id spero adjuturos deos (i. e. in ea re),

id. ib. 3, 2, 42:

ad verum probandum auctoritas adjuvat,

Cic. Quint. 23:

si nihil ad percipiendam colendamque virtutem litteris adjuvarentur,

id. Arch. 7, 16: maerorem orationis lacrimis suis, id. de Or. [p. 39] 2, 47:

Q. Hortensii operā rem publicam adjutam (esse),

id. Phil. 10, 26: si nos mediocris fortuna rei publicae adjuverit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15:

aliquem in filiarum collocatione,

id. Off. 2, 16:

auxiliis et copiis, i. e. militibus auxiliariis,

id. Fam. 1, 7; cf. Liv. 29, 5:

sua sponte eos adjutum profectus,

Nep. Chabr. 2; id. Milt. 2; id. Phoc. 2:

Antiochum Aetolosque adjuturos pronuntiat,

Liv. 34, 37:

fortĭs fortuna adjuvat,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 25, and Liv. 34, 37:

aliquem ad bellum,

id. 29, 1; cf. id. 27, 15 Drak.:

adjutus casu,

Suet. Tib. 13:

suffragio,

id. Vitell. 7:

manu alicujus,

id. Dom. 14:

adjuvare preces,

id. Ner. 21:

pennis adjutus amoris,

Ov. M. 1, 540; so Juv. 6, 504; Sil. 6, 249; cf. id. 5, 326.—

Esp.

To help, cherish (esp. a state of mind), to sustain:

jam tu quoque hujus adjuvas insaniam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 166:

ferendus error immo vero etiam adjuvandus,

Cic. Att. 12, 43:

clamore Romani adjuvant militem suum,

animate, encourage, Liv. 1, 25; so Curt. 3, 6:

ignem,

Liv. 34, 39:

formam cură,

Ov. M. 2, 732.—

Absol. (very rare), to profit, avail, be of use, be profitable (syn.: utile est, operae pretium est, convenit).

Impers.:

in re mala animo si bono utare, adjuvat,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 10.—

With subject:

solitudo aliquid adjuvat,

Cic. Att. 12, 14:

alteri non multum adjuvabant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 17:

adjuvat hoc quoque,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 73.

With a whole subjective clause with quod as subject: multum eorum opinionem adjuvat, quod ( the circumstance that) sine jumentis... ad iter profectos videbant, Caes. B. C. 1, 69. —

With two acc.:

irrides in re tanta? neque me quidquam consilio adjuvas?

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 29; cf. Rudd. II. p. 179, n. 75.—

With ut or ne:

ut amplissimum nomen consequeremur, unus praeter ceteros adjuvisti,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15:

adjuvato, nequis liminis obseret tabellam,

Cat. 324.—

With inf.: adjuvat enim (pater, the male) incubare, helps to hatch, Plin. 11, 24, 29, § 85.—

With the dat. of the person and the acc. of the thing:

operam mutuam dent et messem hanc nobis adjuvent,

Gell. 2, 29; cf. adjuto.—Hence, adjŭvans, antis, P. a., subst. with gen.:

non haec adjuvantia causarum, sed has ipsas esse omnium causas,

Cic. Univ. 14.

ad-jŭvo, jūvi, jūtum, 1, v. a. (very rare juvavi, juvatum;

hence, adjuvaturus,

Petr. Sat. 18: adjŭro or adjuero = adjuvero, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1:

adjuerit = adjuverit,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 4), to give aid to, to help, assist, support: aliquem. (Adjuvare applies to every kind of help or support; while auxiliari is only used of one who, from his weakness, needs assistance, and subvenire of one who is in difficulty or embarrassment; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 1, 7.)

In gen.: O Tite, si quid te adjuero curamve levāsso quae nunc te coquit, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 339 Vahl.): di me etsi perdunt, tamen esse adjutam expetunt, Pac. ap. Non. 97, 14 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 102):

miseras, inopes, aerumnosas aliquo auxilio,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 39:

operā me adjuves,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 3:

me adjuves in hac re,

id. And. 3, 3, 10:

id spero adjuturos deos (i. e. in ea re),

id. ib. 3, 2, 42:

ad verum probandum auctoritas adjuvat,

Cic. Quint. 23:

si nihil ad percipiendam colendamque virtutem litteris adjuvarentur,

id. Arch. 7, 16: maerorem orationis lacrimis suis, id. de Or. [p. 39] 2, 47:

Q. Hortensii operā rem publicam adjutam (esse),

id. Phil. 10, 26: si nos mediocris fortuna rei publicae adjuverit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 15:

aliquem in filiarum collocatione,

id. Off. 2, 16:

auxiliis et copiis, i. e. militibus auxiliariis,

id. Fam. 1, 7; cf. Liv. 29, 5:

sua sponte eos adjutum profectus,

Nep. Chabr. 2; id. Milt. 2; id. Phoc. 2:

Antiochum Aetolosque adjuturos pronuntiat,

Liv. 34, 37:

fortĭs fortuna adjuvat,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 25, and Liv. 34, 37:

aliquem ad bellum,

id. 29, 1; cf. id. 27, 15 Drak.:

adjutus casu,

Suet. Tib. 13:

suffragio,

id. Vitell. 7:

manu alicujus,

id. Dom. 14:

adjuvare preces,

id. Ner. 21:

pennis adjutus amoris,

Ov. M. 1, 540; so Juv. 6, 504; Sil. 6, 249; cf. id. 5, 326.—

Esp.

To help, cherish (esp. a state of mind), to sustain:

jam tu quoque hujus adjuvas insaniam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 166:

ferendus error immo vero etiam adjuvandus,

Cic. Att. 12, 43:

clamore Romani adjuvant militem suum,

animate, encourage, Liv. 1, 25; so Curt. 3, 6:

ignem,

Liv. 34, 39:

formam cură,

Ov. M. 2, 732.—

Absol. (very rare), to profit, avail, be of use, be profitable (syn.: utile est, operae pretium est, convenit).

Impers.:

in re mala animo si bono utare, adjuvat,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 10.—

With subject:

solitudo aliquid adjuvat,

Cic. Att. 12, 14:

alteri non multum adjuvabant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 17:

adjuvat hoc quoque,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 73.

With a whole subjective clause with quod as subject: multum eorum opinionem adjuvat, quod ( the circumstance that) sine jumentis... ad iter profectos videbant, Caes. B. C. 1, 69. —

With two acc.:

irrides in re tanta? neque me quidquam consilio adjuvas?

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 29; cf. Rudd. II. p. 179, n. 75.—

With ut or ne:

ut amplissimum nomen consequeremur, unus praeter ceteros adjuvisti,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15:

adjuvato, nequis liminis obseret tabellam,

Cat. 324.—

With inf.: adjuvat enim (pater, the male) incubare, helps to hatch, Plin. 11, 24, 29, § 85.—

With the dat. of the person and the acc. of the thing:

operam mutuam dent et messem hanc nobis adjuvent,

Gell. 2, 29; cf. adjuto.—Hence, adjŭvans, antis, P. a., subst. with gen.:

non haec adjuvantia causarum, sed has ipsas esse omnium causas,

Cic. Univ. 14.