out+of+the+way

ob-vĕnĭo, vēni, ventum, 4, v. n.

Lit., to come before or in the way of, to meet (syn.: obviam venio, occurro;

perh. only in the foll. passage): se in tempore pugnae obventurum,

would come up to the fight, join in the battle, Liv. 29, 34, 8.—

Transf.

To come or fall to one; to fall to one's lot; usually referring only to what is accidental, as the result of a lot, etc.:

Syria Scipioni,

Caes. B. C. 1, 6:

legati, quibus hae partes ad defendendum obvenerant,

id. B. G. 7, 81:

tibi obvenit iste labos,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 40:

Aemilio novum bellum in Etruriā sorte obvenit,

Liv. 9, 31, 1:

cui classis obvenisset,

id. 30, 40, 12.—But also in gen.:

cum hereditas ei obvenisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 7, § 19 (dub.;

Orell. and B. and K. venisset): si istiusmodi mi fundus hereditate obvenerit,

Varr. R. R. 1, 12, 2:

cum obvenisset mihi hereditas,

Plin. Ep. 7, 11, 6; 3, 6, 1; id. Pan. 40, 1; Just. 38, 5, 4:

haud ab re tibi istic obvenit labos,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 40.—

Still more gen., like obtingere, of an event, to fall out, to befall, happen, occur to one:

obvenit occasio,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 15:

vitium (at the auspices),

Cic. Phil. 2, 33, 83; id. Off. 2, 21, 74:

quaecumque obvenissent,

Suet. Vesp. 21:

obveniens lucrum,

Gai. Inst. 3, 151.

ob-vĭam (also written separate, ob vĭam; cf. Corss. Ausspr. I. 495, 769), adv.

Lit., in the way; hence, with verbs of motion (in a good or bad sense), towards, against, to meet: ob Trojam duxit exercitum pro ad, similiterque vadimonium obisse, id est ad vadimonium isse, et obviam ad viam, Paul. ex Fest. p. 147 Müll.: morti occumbant obviam, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 2, 62 (Ann. v. 176 Vahl.):

nec quisquam tam audax fuat homo, qui obviam obsistat mihi,

as to put himself in my way, Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 2:

cum in Cumanum mihi obviam venisti,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 3:

prodire,

id. ib. 3, 7, 4; cf.: si quā ex parte obviam contra veniretur, an advance or attack should be made, Caes. B. G. 7, 28: alicui obviam advenire, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 10, 3, 5:

quem quaero, optime ecce obviam mihi est,

is coming to meet me, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 16:

fit obviam Clodio ante fundum ejus,

meets, Cic. Mil. 10, 29:

obviam ire alicui,

to go to meet, id. Mur. 32, 67 et saep.:

obviam procedere alicui,

to go to meet, id. Phil. 2, 32, 78:

prodire alicui,

id. ib. 2, 24, 58:

properare,

id. Fam. 14, 5, 2:

proficisci,

Caes. B. G. 7, 12:

exire,

id. B. C. 1, 18:

progredi,

Liv. 7, 10:

mittere,

to send to meet, Cic. Fam. 3, 7, 4:

se offerre,

to go to meet, to meet, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 24:

effundi,

to pour out to meet, to go in great numbers to meet, Liv. 5, 23:

de obviam itione ita faciam,

Cic. Att. 11, 16, 1;

late Lat., also, in obviam: ecce exercitus in obviam illis,

Vulg. 1 Macc. 16, 5.—

Trop., at hand, within reach:

nec sycophantiis, nec fucis ullum mantellum obviam est,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 6:

in comitio estote obviam,

id. Poen. 3, 6, 12:

tibi nulla aegritudo est animo obviam,

id. Stich. 4, 1, 16:

amanti mihi tot obviam eveniunt morae,

present themselves, interpose, id. Cas. 3, 4, 28:

ire periculis,

to meet courageously, to encounter them, Sall. J. 7, 4:

cupiditati hominum obviam ire,

to resist, oppose, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 106; so,

ire superbiae nobilitatis,

Sall. J. 5, 1:

ire sceleri,

id. ib. 22, 3:

ire injuriae,

id. ib. 14, 25:

ire irae,

Liv. 9, 14:

ire fraudibus,

Tac. A. 6, 16:

crimini,

Liv. 9, 26.—Also, in a good sense, to meet an evil, i. e. to remedy, prevent it:

ni Caesar obviam isset, tribuendo pecunias pro modo detrimenti,

Tac. A. 4, 64:

infecunditati terrarum,

id. ib. 4, 6:

timori,

id. H. 4, 46:

dedecori,

id. A. 13, 5.

penso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [pendo], to weigh or weigh out carefully (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; not in Cic., for in Off. 2, 19, 68, conpensandum is the correct reading. Neither is it found in Plaut., Ter., Lucr., or Cæs.; syn.: pendo, expendo).

Lit.:

aurum,

Liv. 38, 24; Sil. 4, 153; Col. 12, 51, 2:

C. Gracchi caput auro pensatum,

paid for with its weight in gold, Flor. 3, 15, 6:

odores ac purpurae et auro pensanda,

worth their weight in gold, Sen. Ep. 73, 5.—Prov.:

pensare aliquem eādem trutinā,

to weigh one in the same balance, judge one by the same standard, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 29.—

Transf.

To counterbalance with any thing, to compensate, recompense, repay, make good, requite; for the usual compensare:

exiguā turis impensā tanta beneficia pensaturi,

Curt. 8, 5, 10:

beneficia beneficiis,

Sen. Ben. 3, 9, 3; Suet. Aug. 25:

praematuram mortem immortali nominis sui memoriā,

Vell. 2, 88, 3:

vulnera et sanguis aviditate praedae,

Tac. H. 3, 26 fin.; cf. id. ib. 4, 74; id. A. 2, 26: vicem alicujus, to supply the place of a thing, to compensate for a thing, Plin. 31, 8, 44, § 97;

transmarinae res quādam vice pensatae,

Liv. 26, 37:

iter,

to shorten the way, Luc. 9, 685.—

To pay, repay, punish with any thing:

nece pudorem,

Ov. H. 2, 143:

omnia uno ictu,

Sen. Oedip. 936:

nefarium concubitum voluntariā morte,

Val. Max. 1, 8, 3.—

To purchase with any thing:

vitam auro,

Sil. 2, 35:

victoriam damno militis,

Vell. 2, 115, 4.—

To exchange for any thing:

palatia caelo,

Calp. Ecl. 4, 141:

laetitiam moerore,

Plin. 7, 40, 41, § 132.—

To allay, quench:

sitim,

Calp. Ecl. 5, 111.—

To weigh, ponder, examine, consider:

ex factis, non ex dictis, amicos pensare,

Liv. 34, 49:

ad consilium pensandum temporis opus esse,

id. 22, 51, 3; Curt. 3, 6, 3; 8, 2, 14; 7, 33, 2:

singula animi consulta,

id. 7, 8, 1:

stat pensata diu belli sententia,

Sil. 7, 223.

călămus, i, m., = kalamos.

Lit., a reed, cane (pure Lat. harundo; cf.

canna),

Plin. 16, 36, 65, § 159 sq.; 16, 21, 33, § 80; Col. 3, 15, 1; 4, 4, 1; Pall. Nov. 22, 3 al.:

aromaticus (found in Syria and Arabia),

sweet calamus, Col. 12, 52, 2:

odoratus,

Plin. 12, 22, 48, § 104; Veg. 6, 13, 3.—Also absol.:

calamus,

Cato, R. R. 105, 2; Plin. 13, 1, 2, § 8 sq.:

Syriacus,

Veg. 4, 13, 4.—

Meton.

For objects made of reeds (cf. harundo, and Liddell and Scott, under kalamos).

A reed-pen (cf. Dict. of Antiq.;

class.): quicumque calamus in manus meas inciderit, eo utar tamquam bono,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14 (15 b), 1:

sumere,

id. Att. 6, 8, 1: calamo et atramento militare, Cato ap. Ruf. p. 199:

quoad intinguntur calami,

Quint. 10, 3, 31:

transversus,

Hor. A. P. 447:

scriptorius,

Cels. 7, 11; 7, 27; Scrib. 10, 47.—

A reed-pipe, reed (cf. Lucr. 5, 1380 sq.; the form is described in Tib. 2, 5, 32; Ov. M. 1, 711):

unco saepe labro calamos percurrit hiantes,

with curved lip runs over the open reeds, Lucr. 4, 590; 5, 1382; 5, 1407; Verg. E. 2, 34; 5, 48; 1, 10; 2, 32; 5, 2; Cat. 63, 22; Prop. 3 (4), 17, 34; 4 (5), 1, 24; Ov. M. 11, 161 al.—

An arrow:

hastas et calami spicula Gnosii,

Hor. C. 1, 15, 17; Verg. E. 3, 13; Prop. 2 (3), 19, 24; Ov. M. 7, 778; 8, 30; Juv. 13, 80; cf. Plin. 16, 36, 65, § 159 sq.—

An angling-rod, fishing-rod:

calamo salientes ducere pisces,

Ov. M. 3, 587.—

A lime-twig for snaring birds, Prop. 3 (4), 13, 46; Mart. 13, 68; 14, 218; Sen. Oct. 411.—

A signal-pole or rod, Col. 3, 15, 1 sq.—

A measuring-rod, Vulg. Ezech. 40, 5 al.—

Transf. to things of a similar form.

In gen., any straw of grain, a stalk, stem, blade:

lupini calamus,

Verg. G. 1, 76:

calamus altior frumento quam hordeo,

Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 61.—

A graft, a scion, Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 102 sq.; 17, 18. 30, § 129; 24, 14, 75, § 123; Col. 4, 29, 9.—

A small rod, used in Egypt for pointing out the way, Plin. 6, 29, 33, § 166.—

The hollow arm of a candelabra, Vulg. Exod. 25, 31 sq. [p. 267]

objecto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [id.], to throw before or against, to set against, oppose.

Lit. ( poet.):

(pelagi volucres) Nunc caput objectare fretis, nunc currere in undas,

i. e. to dive down, Verg. G. 1, 386:

huc illuc clipeum objectans,

opposing, presenting, Stat. Th. 2, 662:

ingerit objectans trepidantibus ora leonis,

Sil. 2, 194.—

Trop.

In gen.

To abandon, expose, endanger:

statuit eum objectare periculis,

Sall. J. 7, 1:

caput periclis,

to expose, Verg. A. 2, 751:

corpora bello,

id. G. 4, 218:

aliquem dolo simul et casibus,

Tac. A. 2, 5:

pro aliquo animam,

Verg. A. 12, 229.—

To throw in the way, interpose, cause:

moras,

Ov. Hal. 91.—

In partic.

To throw out, charge, object, to reproach or upbraid with, to accuse of any thing as a crime (so most freq., but whether used by Cic. is doubtful):

objectare alicui inopiam,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 28:

rus mihi tu objectas?

id. Most. 1, 1, 16:

probrum alicui,

Cic. Dom. 29; Sall. J. 85, 14; Tac. H. 2, 30: cum in colloquiis Pompeiani famem nostris objectarent, * Caes. B. C. 3, 48:

vecordiam,

Sall. J. 94, 4:

veneficia in principem et devotiones,

Tac. A. 4, 52:

spoliatas et inopes legiones Trebellio,

id. H. 1, 60:

natum (i. e. filii mortem),

Ov. M. 2, 400.—With object-clause:

mihi objectent lenocinium facere,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 76:

nobilitas objectare Fabio fugisse eum Appium Claudium collegam,

Liv. 10, 15, 12. —

To throw out, let fall, say any thing (disagreeable) to any one:

cave tu illi objectes nunc in aegritudine, Te has emisse,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 123.

rĕ-solvo, solvi, sŏlūtum, 3, v. a., to untie, unfasten, unbind; to loose, loosen, release, open (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; cf.: relaxo, resero, recludo, libero).

Lit.

In gen.:

equos,

to unyoke, Ov. F. 4, 180; cf.:

juncta juga leonibus,

Cat. 63, 76:

quem suā sponte vinxerit, non resolvat, etc.,

Col. 1, 8, 16; 11, 1, 22:

cinctas vestes,

Ov. M. 1, 382; cf.

nodum,

Cels. 7, 4, 4:

fila,

to loose, separate, Ov. M. 2, 654:

vulnera,

to unbind, Quint. 6, 1, 30; 49:

oras,

to cast loose from the shore, Liv. 22, 19, 10 Drak. N. cr.:

virginem catenis,

i. e. to release, Ov. M. 4, 737; cf.:

crura vinclis,

id. A. A. 3, 272:

(puella) resoluta capillos,

id. Am. 2, 14, 39:

claustra,

to open, Lucr. 1, 415:

litteras,

Liv. 26, 15:

venas,

Tac. A. 6, 48:

jugulum mucrone,

Ov. M. 1, 227:

ferro,

id. ib. 6, 643:

manum in diversum,

Quint. 11, 3, 97:

fauces haec in verba,

Ov. M. 2, 282; cf.:

exspectato Ora sono,

id. ib. 13, 126:

fatis ora,

Verg. G. 4, 452;

and simply ora,

id. A. 3, 457:

ignis aurum resolvit,

melts, dissolves, Lucr. 6, 967:

nivem,

to melt, thaw, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 13; cf.:

resolutus repente Rhenus,

Suet. Dom. 6:

margaritas in tabem,

Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

glaebam in pulverem,

Col. 11, 2, 60:

nummos,

to melt down, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 30 fin. — Poet.:

nebulas ventis ac sole,

to disperse, dissipate, scatter, Ov. M. 14, 400; cf.

tenebras (sidere),

Verg. A. 8, 591:

resoluta caligo,

Sil. 5, 58: Zephyro se glaeba, becomes loose or soft, Verg. G. 1, 44; Curt. 4, 6, 11:

terra resoluta,

Col. 4, 1, 4; 11, 3, 5:

muros ariete,

to break down, Sil. 5, 553:

cinctos muros,

id. 12, 495:

saxa,

id. 1, 369. —

In partic.

To relax, unnerve, enervate, enfeeble the body (cf. remitto):

felicitas hos inflat, illos mollit et totos resolvit,

Sen. Ep. 36, 1:

(Cerberus) immania terga resolvit Fusus humi,

stretched out, Verg. A. 6, 422:

nexos artus,

id. ib. 4, 695:

utrumque (concubitus),

Ov. A. A. 2, 683:

corpus (somno),

id. M. 7, 328:

placitā resoluta quiete,

id. ib. 9, 468:

membra ad molles choros,

Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 42; Curt. 4, 16, 13:

fatigatione resolutus,

id. 6, 8, 21; 9, 5, 10.—

Mostly ante-class., to pay a debt:

minas,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 39:

argentum,

id. ib. 3, 2, 16; id. Men. 5, 5, 30:

pro vecturā,

id. As. 2, 4, 27; cf. Cato, R. R. 144, 3; 145, 1; 148, 2:

damnum boni viri arbitratu resolvere,

id. ib. 149, 2. —

Trop.

In gen. (acc. to I. A.), to separate, unbind, set free, release; to disclose, show, reveal, lay open; to annul, cancel, make void, abolish, destroy (syn. rescindo):

ipsas periodos majoribus intervallis et velut laxioribus nodis resolvemus,

Quint. 9, 4, 127:

quoniam, quā fieri quicquid posset ratione, resolvi,

have disclosed, shown, Lucr. 5, 773:

teque piacula nulla resolvent,

release, Hor. C. 1, 28, 34:

amore resolutus,

Tib. 1, 10, 83:

(Hannibal) Quod sponte abscedat tandemque resolvat Ausoniam,

liberate, Sil. 17, 206:

resoluta legibus urbs,

id. 11, 36:

ira resoluta frenis legum,

Luc. 2, 145:

litem quod lite resolvit,

does away with, ends, Hor. S. 2, 3, 103:

invitat genialis hiems curasque resolvit,

banishes, dispels, Verg. G. 1, 302:

tristitiam animi,

Plin. 24, 6, 15, § 24:

dolos tecti ambagesque,

i. e. find the way through, Verg. A. 6, 29:

jura (pudoris),

id. ib. 4, 27:

dolos fraudesque,

Sil. 7, 153:

gaudia ferro,

id. 13, 508:

amphiboliam,

to destroy, remove, Quint. 7, 9, 4:

ambiguitatem,

id. 12, 2, 13:

dicta ex parte diversā,

i. e. refute, id. 5, 13, 12:

vectigal et onera commerciorum,

to abolish, Tac. H. 4, 65:

stipulationem,

Dig. 21, 2, 57 fin.:

conventionem,

ib. 41, 5, 2:

emptionem,

ib. 18, 2, 2 et saep. —

In partic. (acc. to I. B.).

To relax, soften:

disciplinam militarem,

Tac. H. 1, 51:

judices,

Quint. 4, 2, 19; id. 8, prooem § 12. —

To pay:

unā plagā (cf. I. B. 2. supra),

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 73 (but in Cic. Phil. 14, 14, 38, the correct reading is persoluturum). — Hence, rĕsŏlūtus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 1.), relaxed, enervated, effeminate:

corpora juvenum (with fluxa), Col. praef. § 17: minister Idaeo resolutior cinaedo,

Mart. 10, 98.—

Free, unhampered: os, Val.Max. 8, 7, ext. 1.—

Unbridled:

gaudia,

Sil. 11, 305.— Adv.: rĕsŏlūtē, without restraint:

quo resolutius decachinnetis,

more unrestrainedly, Tert. ad Nat. 1, 19.

sĕgĕs, ĕtis, f. [etym. dub.; perh. root sag-, to fill, feed; Gr. sattô; Lat. sagmen, q. v.], a cornfield.

Lit. (freq. and class.):

partem dimidiam (stercoris) in segetem, ubi pabulum seras, invehito,

Cato, R. R. 29; cf. id. ib. 36: segetes subigere aratris, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 395, 15; Cato, R. R. 37; 155; 5, 4 (v. defrugo); id. Fragm. ap. Gell. 13, 17, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 5; 1, 29, 1; 1, 50, 1 sq.; 1, 69, 1; 2, 7, 11 al.; Lucil., Att., and Varr. ap. Non. 395, 24 sq.; Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; 1, 28, 69:

segetes secundae et uberes,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; id. Sen. 15, 54, id. Verr. 2, 3, 8, § 20:

cohortes frumentatum in proximas segetes misit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 36, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 61; Verg. G. 1, 47 Heyne; 2, 267;

4, 129: segetes occat tibi mox frumenta daturas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 161; id. C. 1, 31, 4; Col. 2, 14, 2 et saep.—

Comically: stimulorum seges,

a cudgelfield, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 6.—

Transf., the standing corn, growing corn, crop in a field (class., but not freq. till after the Aug. per.:

est eorum (rusticorum) gemmare vitis, laetas esse segetes, etc.,

Cic. Or. 24, 81; id. de Or. 3, 38, 155, is cited, merely by way of example, as used by the rustici;

syn. messis): seges grandissima atque optima,

Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 1:

culto stat seges alta solo,

Ov. A. A. 3, 102:

seges prope jam matura,

Caes. B. C. 3, 81 fin. (cf. infra, Liv. 2, 5):

antequam seges in articulum eat,

Col. 2, 12, 9:

uligo segetem enecat,

id. 2, 9, 9:

et segetis canae stantes percurrere aristas,

Ov. M. 10, 655:

producit fruges et segetem imbecillem,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 6, 6; id. Ben. 6, 4, 4.— Plur.:

segetes Collibus et campis habere,

Lucr. 5, 1371:

quid faciat laetas segetes,

Verg. G. 1, 1:

adultae segetes,

Col. 2, 9, 10:

segetes laetas excitare,

id. 2, 15, 4:

laetas segetes afferre,

id. 2, 17, 3.—With gen.:

seges farris matura messi,

Liv. 2, 5:

lini et avenae,

Verg. G. 1, 77:

leguminum,

Col. 2, 13, 3.— Poet., of men springing up out of the ground:

crescit seges clipeata virorum,

Ov. M. 3, 110; 7, 30; id. H. 12, 59 al.—Of a multitude of things crowded together, a crop, etc.:

confixum ferrea texit Telorum seges,

Verg. A. 3, 46; cf. id. ib. 7, 526, and 12, 663; so,

ferri,

Claud. in Ruf. 2, 391; cf.:

Mavortia ferri,

id. III. Cons. Hon. 135:

hystricis,

Aus. Idyll. 2 (Claud. Hystr. 12):

aëna (hydraulici organi),

Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 316:

seges osculationis,

Cat. 48, 6.—

Trop.

(Acc. to I. A.) A field, ground, soil (rare but class.): quod beneficium haud sterili in segete, rex, te obsesse intellegis, Att. ap. Non. 395, 27:

fert casiam non culta seges,

Tib. 1, 3, 61:

ubi prima paretur Arboribus seges,

Verg. G. 2, 267:

quid odisset Clodium Milo segetem ac materiem suae gloriae?

Cic. Mil. 13, 35; cf.:

videtur esse criminum seges, maledictorum materia,

Arn. 5, 172.—

(Acc. to I. B.) A crop, fruit, produce, result, profit ( poet. and very rare):

fertile pectus habes, interque Helicona colentes Uberius nulli provenit ista seges,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 12:

quae inde seges,

Juv. 7, 103:

inde seges scelerum,

Prud. Ham. 258.

* * *

explōrātor, ōris, m. [id.], a searcher out, examiner, explorer; a prying person, a spy (not in Cic.)

In gen.: rerum, Lucil. ap. Non. 366, 31:

suppositicius,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 71.—

Adj., searching:

ignes, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. praef. 11: foci,

Mart. 8, 51, 4.—

In partic.

In milit. lang.

A spy, scout, Caes. B. G. 1, 12, 2; 2, 5, 4; 2, 11, 3; 2, 17, 1 et saep.—

Plur., skirmishers, Tac. H. 2, 17; cf. Inscr. Orell. 5877 sqq.—

Explorator viae, one who ran before the emperor to clear the way, Suet. Tib. 60.

lībro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [libra].

To balance, make even, level, to determine a level: aquam, to level water, i. e. to ascertain the fall of water by means of a level, Vitr. 8, 6, 3: collocationem libratam indicare, id 8, 6, 1.— Pass. impers.:

libratur autem dioptris,

Vitr. 8, 6, 1.—

Transf., to make even or level:

pavimenta,

Cato, R. R. 18, 7.—

To hold in equilibrium, to poise, balance:

terra librata ponderibus,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:

columnarum turbines ita librati perpenderunt, ut puero circumagente tornarentur,

Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 91:

librati pondera caeli orbe tene medio,

Luc. 1, 58.—

To cause to hang or swing, to keep suspended, keep in its place:

vela cadunt primo et dubia librantur ab aura,

are waved to and fro, Ov. F. 3, 585:

et fluctus supra, vento librante, pependit,

Sil. 17, 274:

aëris vi suspensam librari medio spatio tellurem,

Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 10.—

To cause to swing, to swing, sway, brandish, set in motion, hurl, dash, cast, launch, fling, throw:

summā telum librabat ab aure,

Verg. A. 9, 417:

ferro praefixum robur,

id. ib. 10, 479:

caestus,

id. ib. 5, 478:

tum librat ab aure intorquens jaculum,

Sil. 5, 576:

dextra libratum fulmen ab aure misit,

Ov. M. 2, 311; 5, 624; 7, 787; Luc. 3, 433:

librata cum sederit glans,

Liv. 38, 29: librare se, to balance or poise one's self, to fly:

cursum in aëre,

Ov. Am. 2, 6, 11: saepe lapillos Tollunt;

his sese per inania nubila librant,

Verg. G. 4, 196:

haliaeetos librans ex alto sese,

Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 8:

corpus in herba,

to stretch one's self out on the grass, Ov. F. 1, 429: incidentis manus libratur artifici temperamento, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 115:

librare iter,

to take one's way, Sen. Oed. 899.—

Trop.

To make of even weight, to balance, make equal ( poet.):

orbem horis,

Col. 10, 42:

crimina in antithetis,

Pers. 1, 85.—

To weigh, ponder, consider ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

librabat metus,

Stat. Th. 9, 165: quae omnia meritorum momenta perpendit, librat, examinat, Naz. Pan. ad Const. 7: praescriptiones, Cod. Th. 8, 4, 26.— Hence, lībrātus, a, um, P. a.

Level, horizontal:

aquam non esse libratam, sed sphaeroides habere schema,

Vitr. 8, 6.—

Poised, balanced, swung, hurled, launched; forcible, powerful:

librata cum sederit (glans),

Liv. 38, 29:

librato magis et certo ictu,

violent, powerful, Tac. H. 2, 22:

malleus dextra libratus ab aure,

Ov. M. 2, 624:

per nubes aquila librata volatu,

Sil. 15, 429. — Comp.:

libratior ictus,

Liv. 30, 10; cf. id. 42, 65.—Hence, * adv.: lībrātē, deliberately:

aliquid eligere,

Serv. Verg. A. 2, 713.

prae-monstro (old form praemo-stro, v. infra), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to show beforehand, to point out the way, to guide, direct.

In gen. ( poet.):

praemonstra docte, quid fabuletur,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 68:

currenti spatium praemonstra,

Lucr. 6, 93:

te praemonstrante,

under thy guidance, Stat. Th. 1, 66:

praemostro tibi, ut,

I caution you, that, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 61 Brix ad loc.:

quae voluit mihi dixit, docuit et praemonstravit prius,

id. ib. 4, 2, 12.—

In partic., to denote beforehand, to predict, presage, prognosticate:

magnum aliquid populo Romano praemonstrare et praecinere,

Cic. Har. Resp. 10, 21:

ventos futuros, id. poët. Div. 1, 7, 13: hanc suavitatem praemonstratam efficaci auspicio,

Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 82.

exĭtus, a, um, Part., from exeo, II.

exĭtus, ūs, m. [exeo], a going out or forth, egress, departure (class., esp. in the trop. signif.).

Lit.:

reditum mihi gloriosum injuria tua dedit, non exitum calamitosum,

Cic. Par. 4, 29:

omni exitu et pabulatione interclusi,

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

exitum sibi parere,

id. B. C. 3, 69, 3.—In plur.:

singulorum hominum occultos exitus asservare,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21, 4; 1, 25, 4. —Of things:

introitusque elementis redditus exstat,

Lucr. 6, 494:

exitus ut classi felix faustusque daretur,

a setting sail, departure, id. 1, 100:

amnis,

a flowing out, discharge, id. 6, 727: animaï (i. e. venti), a bursting or rushing out, id. 6, 586; cf. Quint. 1, 11, 7.—

Transf., concr., way of egress, outlet, passage:

exitum non habent, ac pervium non est,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 145 Müll.:

cum angusto portarum exitu se ipsi premerent,

Caes. B. G. 7, 28, 3:

in exitu paludis,

mouth, Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 226:

cibi,

vent, id. 11, 34, 40, § 116 et saep.:

si de multis nullus placet exitus,

Juv. 6, 33.—In plur.:

insula undique exitus maritimos habet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 75, § 185:

septem exitus e domo fecerat,

Liv. 39, 51, 5; Col. 6, 30, 8:

alvorum,

Plin. 21, 14, 48, § 82 et saep.

Trop.

A way out, an end, close, conclusion, termination (syn.: eventus, eventum).

In gen.:

hujus orationis difficilius est exitum quam principium invenire,

end, close, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 1, 3; cf.: quemadmodum expediam exitum hujus institutae orationis, non reperio, id. Fam. 3, 12, 2:

exitus fuit orationis,

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

ut tragici poëtae, cum explicare argumenti exitum non potestis, confugitis ad deum,

Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 53:

adducta ad exitum quaestio est,

id. Tusc. 5, 6, 15; cf.:

ad exitum pervenire,

id. Fam. 10, 22, 2; id. Or. 33, 116:

ita magnarum initia rerum celerem et facilem exitum habuerunt,

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

verba quae casus habent in exitu similes,

at the end, Cic. Or. 49, 164; cf.

in the foll.: fugam quaerebamus omnes, quae ipsa exitum non habebat,

end, aim, id. Phil. 5, 16, 42:

hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 6 et saep.:

in exitu est meus consulatus,

Cic. Mur. 37, 80; cf.: in exitu jam annus erat Liv. 35, 10, 1:

superioris anni,

id. 30, 26, 2:

veris,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 170:

oppugnationis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9, 8:

mimi, fabulae,

the catastrophe, conclusion, Cic. Cael. 27, 65:

vitae,

end of life, latter end, Nep. Eum. 13; cf.:

vitae mortisque,

Vell. 2, 7, 1.—In plur.:

tristes exitus habuit consulatus,

Cic. Brut. 34, 128: eae causae sunt plenissimae, quae plurimos exitus dant ad ejusmodi degressionem, outlets, i. e. opportunities, id. de Or. 2, 77, 312: habent exitus aut in a aut in e, etc., Varr. L. L. 10, § 62 Müll.—

In partic., end of life, end, death:

natura ad humanum exitum (Romulum) abripuit,

Cic. Rep. 1, 16 fin.:

duravere usque ad Sejani exitum,

Plin. 8, 58, 74, § 197; Amm. 14, 11:

exitus in dubio est,

Ov. M. 12, 522:

Thrasymachi,

Juv. 7, 204:

saevus et illum exitus eripuit,

id. 10, 127; 271.—In plur.:

nonnumquam bonos exitus habent boni,

Cic. N. D. 3, 37, 89:

non igitur fatales exitus habuerunt,

id. Div. 2, 9, 24.—

A means, method, way, device, solution of a difficulty:

cum autem exitus ab utroque datur conturbato errantique regi,

Cic. Fin. 5, 22, 63:

non solum viam quaestus invenerunt, verum etiam exitum ac rationem defensionis,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 82, § 190:

jam nullum fortunis communibus exitum reperietis,

id. Dom. 47, 123.—

Issue, result, event, i. q. eventus:

si mihi alterutrum de eventu atque exitu rerum promittendum est,

Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 5:

in unum exitum spectare,

id. de Or. 1, 20, 92:

videtur ad exitum venisse quaestio,

id. Tusc. 5, 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 1, 3:

neque exitum legis esse in meretrice publicanda,

i. e. the law would be without proper effect, id. Inv. 2, 40, 118, v. the context:

de exitu rerum sentire,

Caes. B. G. 7, 52 fin.:

incerto etiam nunc exitu victoriae,

id. ib. 7, 62, 6:

de exitu fortunarum suarum consultabant,

id. ib. 7, 77, 1; cf. id. ib. 3, 8, 3; and:

prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus,

events, Hor. C. 3, 29, 29: ut quae rei publicae polliceremur, exitu praestaremus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 3:

exitum rei imponere,

Liv. 37, 19, 1:

quaestiones ad exitum perductae,

id. 40, 19, 10:

ad exitum spei pervenire,

accomplishment, id. 5, 12, 4; so,

serae exitum spei exspectare,

id. 5, 6, 2:

sine exitu esse,

without result, id. 32, 40, 3.—In plur.:

fortasse haec omnia meliores habebunt exitus,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 6:

quae (responsa haruspicum) aut nullos habuerint exitus aut contrarios,

id. Div. 2, 24, 52:

Liber vota bonos ducit ad exitus,

Hor. C. 4, 8, 34; cf.:

(fortuna) Belli secundos reddidit exitus,

id. ib. 4, 14, 38.—Prov.:

exitus acta probat,

the event justifies the deed, Ov. H. 2, 85.

sterno, strāvi, strātum, 3 ( pluperf. sync. strarat, Manil. 1, 774: strasset, Varr. ap. Non. 86, 8), v. a. [Gr. root STOR, storennumi, to spread; stratos, camp; Sanscr. star- strnāmi = sterno; cf.: strages, struo, torus, and lātus, adj., old Lat. stlatus], to spread out, spread abroad; to stretch out, extend.

Lit. (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; in Cic. only in the part. perf.; cf.:

effundo, extendo, subicio, subdo): vestes,

Ov. M. 8, 658:

in duro vellus solo,

id. F. 4, 654:

bubulos utres ponte,

Plin. 6, 29, 34, § 176:

hic glarea dura Sternitur,

Tib. 1, 7, 60:

natas sub aequore virgas Sternit,

i. e. scatters, strews, Ov. M. 4, 743:

harenam,

id. F. 3, 813; id. Am. 2, 14, 8:

herbas,

id. M. 7, 254:

poma passim,

Verg. E. 7, 54:

spongeas ad lunam et pruinas,

Plin. 31, 11. [p. 1758] 47, §

123: arma per flores,

Grat. Cyneg. 487:

fessi sternunt corpora,

stretch out their bodies, lie down, Liv. 27, 47, 9; cf.:

sternunt se somno diversae in litore phocae,

Verg. G. 4, 432.—Mid.:

sternimur optatae gremio telluris,

Verg. A. 3, 509; and:

in Capitolinas certatim scanditur arces Sternunturque Jovi,

Sil. 12, 340.— Part. perf.: strātus, a, um, stretched out, lying down, prostrate (syn. prostratus): strata terrae, Enn. ap. Non. 172, 20 (Trag. v. 370 Vahl.):

nos humi strati,

Cic. de Or. 3, 6, 22:

quidam somno etiam strati,

Liv. 37, 20, 5:

ad pedes strati,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 3:

stratum jacere et genua complecti,

Quint. 6, 1, 34:

nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 21.—

Of places, to extend:

insulae Frisiorum, Chaucorum, etc.... sternuntur inter Helium ac Flevum,

stretch out, extend, Plin. 4, 15, 29, § 101; 3, 5, 9, § 60;

hence, vites stratae,

spreading, Col. 5, 4, 2 (for Nep. Milt. 5, 3, v. under rarus, II. A.).—

In partic., to spread a thing out flat, i. e. to smooth, level (mostly poet.):

sternere aequor aquis,

Verg. A. 8, 89; cf.:

placidi straverunt aequora venti,

id. ib. 5, 763:

nunc omne tibi stratum silet aequor,

id. E. 9, 57:

pontum,

Ov. M. 11, 501:

mare,

Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 125:

stratoque super discumbitur ostro,

Verg. A. 1, 700:

viam per mare,

smoothed, levelled, Lucr. 3, 1030 (acc. to the Gr. hodon storennumi):

stratum militari labore iter,

Quint. 2, 13, 16; so,

hoc iter Alpes, Hoc Cannae stravere tibi,

Sil. 12, 514;

and trop.: praesens tibi fama benignum Stravit iter,

Stat. Th. 12, 813.—

Trop. (the figure borrowed from the sea), to calm, still, moderate:

odia militum,

Tac. H. 1, 58 (cf.:

constrata ira,

Stat. S. 2, 5, 1).—

Transf.

To cover, cover over (by spreading something out; the predom. class. signif. of the word; cf. obtendo).

Of a couch, bed, etc., to spread, prepare, arrange, make:

lectus vestimentis stratus est,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 30; cf.:

strata cubilia sunt herbis,

Lucr. 5, 1417:

rogatus est a Maximo, ut triclinium sterneret... Atque ille stravit pelliculis haedinis lectulos Punicanos,

Cic. Mur. 36, 75; so,

lectum, lectos, biclinium, triclinia, etc.,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 33; id. Most. 1, 4, 14; id. Men. 2, 3, 3; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 70; id. Ps. 1, 2, 31; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 73; id. Ad. 2, 4, 21; Cic. Clu. 5, 14; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61; Hirt. B. G. 8, 51:

his foliis cubitus sternere,

Plin. 24, 9, 38, § 59:

torum frondibus,

Juv. 6, 5:

strata cathedra,

cushioned, id. 9, 52; cf. also, ARCERAM NE STERNITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25; and absol.:

jubet sterni sibi in primā domus parte (sc. lectum),

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7.—

Esp., places, to cover; of a way, road, path, etc., to pave:

aspreta erant strata saxis,

Liv. 9, 35, 2:

via strata,

id. 8, 15, 8:

semitam saxo quadrato straverunt,

id. 10, 23 fin.; so,

vias silice... clivum Capitolinum silice... emporium lapide,

id. 41, 27, 5 sq.; and absol.:

locum illum sternendum locare,

Cic. Att. 14, 15, 2:

pavimentum stratum lapide,

Vulg. Ezech. 40, 17:

viam lapide,

Dig. 43, 11, 1.—

To saddle:

equos,

Liv. 37, 20, 12; 37, 20, 4; Veg. 5, 77:

asinum,

Vulg. Gen. 22, 3.—

In gen., to cover, spread:

argento sternunt iter omne viarum,

Lucr. 2, 626:

foliis nemus Multis et algā litus inutili tempestas Sternet,

will strew over, bestrew, Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

congeriem silvae vellere summam,

Ov. M. 9, 236:

litora nive,

Val. Fl. 5, 175:

harenam Circi chrysocolla,

Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 90:

solum telis,

Verg. A. 9, 666:

Tyrrhenas valles caedibus,

Sil. 6, 602:

strati bacis silvestribus agri,

Verg. G. 2, 183:

ante aras terram caesi stravere juvenci,

covered, id. A. 8, 719.—

To stretch out by flinging down, to throw down, stretch on the ground, throw to the ground, overthrow, prostrate (mostly poet., esp. in Verg.; in prose not before the Aug. period; in Cic. only once in the trop. sense; v. the foll.; cf.

profligo): cujus casus prolapsi cum proximos sterneret,

Liv. 5, 47:

circa jacentem ducem sterne Gallorum catervas,

id. 7, 26, 8:

turbam invadite ac sternite omnia ferro,

id. 24, 38, 7:

alius sit fortis in armis, Sternat et adversos Marte favente duces,

Tib. 1, 10, 30:

caede viros,

Verg. A. 10, 119:

aliquem leto,

id. ib. 8, 566:

morte,

id. ib. 11, 796; Liv. 31, 21, 15; Ov. M. 12, 604:

adversā prensis a fronte capillis Stravit humi pronam,

id. ib. 2, 477: primosque et extremos Stravit humum, Hor. C. 4, 14, 32:

sternitur volnere,

Verg. A. 10, 781:

impetus per stratos caede hostes,

Liv. 4, 29, 1:

aliquem morti,

Verg. A. 12, 464:

irae Thyesten exitio gravi Stravere,

Hor. C. 1, 16, 18:

corpore toto Sternitur in vultus,

Stat. Th. 12, 318:

sternitur, et toto projectus corpore terrae,

Verg. A. 11, 87:

toto praecipitem sternit,

Sil. 4, 182:

hostes,

Just. 2, 11, 13:

Ajax stravit ferro pecus,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 202:

sternitur et procumbit humi bos,

Verg. A. 5, 481:

strata belua texit humum,

Ov. H. 10, 106:

rapidus torrens Sternit agros, sternit sata laeta,

Verg. A. 2, 306:

moenia,

to overthrow, demolish, Ov. M. 12, 550; cf.:

stratis ariete muris,

Liv. 1, 29, 2:

sternit a culmine Trojam,

Verg. A. 2, 603; so,

(elephanti) stabula Indorum dentibus sternunt,

Plin. 8, 9, 9, § 27.—

Trop. (rare):

deorum plagā perculsi, afflictos se et stratos esse fatentur,

cast down, prostrated, Cic. Tusc. 3, 29, 72:

mortalia corda Per gentes humiles stravit pavor,

Verg. G. 1, 331:

virtus populi Romani haec omnia strata humi erexit ac sustulit,

Liv. 26, 41, 12:

stratā Germaniā,

subdued, Amm. 16, 1, 5.—Hence, strātus, a, um, P. a.; as substt.

strāta, ae, f. (sc. via), a paved road or way (post-class.), Eutr. 9, 15:

amplas sternite jam stratas,

Juvenc. 1, 315:

in margine stratae,

id. 3, 656.—

strātum, i, n. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; acc. to II. A.).—

A bed-covering, a coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster:

lecti mollia strata,

Lucr. 4, 849:

proripere se e strato,

Suet. Calig. 51; Ov. M. 5, 34; 10, 267.—

Meton. (pars pro toto), a bed, couch:

haud segnis strato surgit Palinurus,

Verg. A. 3, 513; cf. id. ib. 8, 415;

3, 176: tale,

Nep. Ages. 8:

quies neque molli strato neque silentio arcessita,

Liv. 21, 4, 7.— Plur.:

strataque quae membris intepuere tuis,

Ov. H. 10, 54:

dura,

id. Am. 1, 2, 2; Luc. 1, 239.—Once also (sc. lectus) in the masc., Favorin. ap. Gell. 15, 8, 2.—

A horsecloth, housing, a saddle, Ov. M. 8, 33; Liv. 7, 14, 7; Sen. Ep. 80, 9; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202. —Prov.:

qui asinum non potest, stratum caedit (v. asinum),

Petr. 45, 8.—

A pavement:

saxea viarum,

Lucr. 1, 315; 4, 415: extraneum, Petr. poët. 55, 6, 11.

ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

axit = egerit,

Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

AGIER = agi,

Cic. Off. 3, 15;

agentum = agentium,

Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).

Lit.

Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.

Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

jumenta agebat,

Liv. 1, 48:

capellas ago,

Verg. E. 1, 13:

Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

Ov. F. 1, 323:

caballum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—

With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

agere bovem Romam,

Curt. 1, 45:

equum in hostem,

id. 7, 4:

Germani in amnem aguntur,

Tac. H. 5, 21:

acto ad vallum equo,

id. A. 2, 13:

pecora per calles,

Curt. 7, 11:

per devia rura capellas,

Ov. M. 1, 676:

pecus pastum,

Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

capellas potum age,

Verg. E. 9, 23:

pecus egit altos Visere montes,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—

Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.

Absol.:

agmen agens equitum,

Verg. A. 7, 804.—

With prep., abl., or inf.:

vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

Nep. Dat. 3:

agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

Sil. 4, 720:

(adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

captivos prae se agentes,

Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

Quint. 8, 3, 69:

captivos sub curribus agere,

Mart. 8, 26:

agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

Verg. A. 3, 5;

and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

raptim agmine acto,

id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

egit sol hiemem sub terras,

Verg. G. 4, 51:

poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

unde agis te?

id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

quo hinc te agis?

where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

id. ib. 8, 465:

is enim se primus agebat,

for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

Et tu, unde agis?

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

Quo agis?

id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

Huc age,

Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—

To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

rapiunt feruntque,

Verg. A. 2, 374:

rapere et auferre,

Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

ne pulcram praedam agat,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

id. ib. 44, 5;

so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—

To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).

Of animals:

apros,

Verg. G. 3, 412:

cervum,

id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

citos canes,

Ov. H. 5, 20:

feros tauros,

Suet. Claud. 21.—

Of men:

ceteros ruerem, agerem,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

aliquem in exsilium,

Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

id. 16, 2, 3.—

Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

egisse huc Alpheum vias,

made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

Lucr. 4, 391:

in litus passim naves egerunt,

drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

ratem in amnem,

Ov. F. 1, 500:

naves in advorsum amnem,

Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

agere currum,

to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—

To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

spumas ore,

Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

piceum Flumen agit,

Verg. A. 9, 814:

qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

agens animam spumat,

Lucr. 3, 493:

anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

Cat. 63, 31:

nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

Mart. 1, 80.—

Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

(salices) gemmas agunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

florem agere coeperit ficus,

Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

frondem agere,

Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

se ad auras palmes agit,

Verg. G. 2, 364:

(platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

vera gloria radices agit,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

Ov. M. 2, 582.

Trop.

Spec., to guide, govern:

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—

In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

si quis ad illa deus te agat,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

totis mentibus acta,

Sil. 10, 191:

in furorem agere,

Quint. 6, 1, 31:

si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

Tac. Agr. 41:

provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

id. A. 14, 32.—

To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

me amor fugat, agit,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

Verg. A. 7, 405:

non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

acerba fata Romanos agunt,

id. Epod 7, 17:

diris agam vos,

id. ib. 5, 89:

quam deus ultor agebat,

Ov. M. 14, 750:

futurae mortis agor stimulis,

Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—

To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.

In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.

With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,

Without object:

aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

agendi tempora,

Tac. H. 3, 40:

industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—

In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

Quid agis?

What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

vereor, quid agat,

how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

ut sciatis, quid agam,

Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

prospere agit anima tua,

fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

quid agitur?

how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

Quid intus agitur?

is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—

With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

collum obstringe homini,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

nihil agis,

you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

usque tenebo,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

[nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—

In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

quid agam, habeo,

id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

sed ita quidam agebat,

was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—

To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

observabo quam rem agat,

what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

Id quidem ago,

That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

res vera agitur,

Juv. 4, 35:

Jam tempus agires,

Verg. A. 5, 638:

utilis rebus agendis,

Juv. 14, 72:

grassator ferro agit rem,

does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

gladiis geritur res,

Liv. 9, 41):

nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

postquam id actumst,

after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

sed quid actumst?

id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

Cic. Sull. 12:

ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

id. Off. 1, 29:

agamus quod instat,

Verg. E. 9, 66:

renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

suum negotium agere,

to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

ut vestrum negotium agatis,

Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

Sall. J. 30, 1:

sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—

To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

Ov. H. 12, 212:

hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

Val. Fl. 3, 392:

agere fratri proditionem,

Tac. H. 2, 26:

de intranda Britannia,

id. Agr. 13.—

With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

vigilias agere,

Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

excubias alicui,

Ov. F. 3, 245:

excubias,

Tac. H. 4, 58:

pervigilium,

Suet. Vit. 10:

stationem agere,

to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

triumphum agere,

to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

libera arbitria agere,

to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

paenitentiam agere,

to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

silentia agere,

to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

pacem agere,

Juv. 15, 163:

crimen agere,

to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

laborem agere,

id. Fin. 2, 32:

cursus agere,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

delectum agere,

to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

experimenta agere,

Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

mensuram,

id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

curam agere,

to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

curam ejus egit,

Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

oblivia agere,

to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

nugas agere,

to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

officinas agere,

to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

diis gratias pro meritis agere,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

Haud male agit gratias,

id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

majores etiam habemus,

id. Marcell. 11, 33:

Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

Liv. 26, 48:

agi sibi gratias passus est,

Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—

Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

tempus,

Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

aetatem in litteris,

Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

senectutem,

id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

dies festos,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

otia secura,

Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

ruri agere vitam,

Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

vitam in terris,

Verg. G. 2, 538:

tranquillam vitam agere,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

Hunc (diem) agerem si,

Verg. A. 5, 51:

ver magnus agebat Orbis,

id. G. 2, 338:

aestiva agere,

to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

mensis agitur hic septimus,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

melior pars acta (est) diei,

Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

acta est per lacrimas nox,

Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

tunc principium anni agebatur,

Liv. 3, 6:

actis quindecim annis in regno,

Just. 41, 5, 9:

Nona aetas agitur,

Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

civitas laeta agere,

was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

tum Marius apud primos agebat,

id. ib. 101, 6:

in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

id. ib. 89, 7:

apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

Tac. A. 3, 19:

Thracia discors agebat,

id. ib. 3, 38:

Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

Tac. G. 42:

ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

id. ib. 43:

Gallos trans Padum agentes,

id. H. 3, 34:

quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

id. A. 1, 4:

agere inter homines desinere,

id. ib. 15, 74:

Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

ante aciem agere,

id. G. 7; and:

in armis agere,

id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—

In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

Hoc age,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

Hoc agite, of poetry,

Juv. 7, 20:

hoc agamus,

Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

haec agamus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

agere hoc possumus,

Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

nunc istuc age,

id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

id et agunt et moliuntur,

id. Mur. 38:

(oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

id. Lig. 6, 18:

Hoc agit, ut doleas,

Juv. 5, 157:

Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

id. ib. 4, 10:

Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

Nep. Them. 5, 1:

ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

id. Clu. 64.—

In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

aliena bella mercedibus agere,

Mel. 1, 16:

Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

Martem for bellum,

Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

forum agere,

to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

conventus agere,

to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

vivorum coetus agere,

to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

censum agere,

Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

recensum agere,

id. Caes. 41:

potestatem agere,

Flor. 1, 7, 2:

honorem agere,

Liv. 8, 26:

regnum,

Flor. 1, 6, 2:

rem publicam,

Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

consulatum,

Quint. 12, 1, 16:

praefecturam,

Suet. Tib. 6:

centurionatum,

Tac. A. 1, 44:

senatum,

Suet. Caes. 88:

fiscum agere,

to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

publicum agere,

to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

inquisitionem agere,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

curam alicujus rei agere,

to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

rei publicae curationem agens,

Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —

Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

de condicionibus pacis,

Liv. 8, 37:

de summa re publica,

Suet. Caes. 28:

cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

id. Aug. 94:

de poena alicujus,

Liv. 5, 36:

de agro plebis,

id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

Gell. 13, 15, 10:

agere cum populo de re publica,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.

Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

Juv. 4, 49:

haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

id. ib. 5, 2:

misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

id. ib. 5, 2:

Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

Tac. A. 15, 14:

ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

Suet. Tib. 54.—

With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

praeclare cum aliquo agere,

Cic. Sest. 23:

Male agis mecum,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

tu contra me male agis,

Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

praeclare mecum actum puto,

id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

id. Off. 1, 15:

bene agitur pro noxia,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—

Of transactions before a court or tribunal.

Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

Cic. Caecin. 12:

tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

ex sponso egit,

id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

agere lege in hereditatem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

causa quam vi agere malle,

Tac. A. 13, 37:

tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

ubi manu agitur,

when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—

Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

causam apud centumviros egit,

Cic. Caecin. 24:

Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

egi causam adversus magistratus,

Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

orator agere dicitur causam,

Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

agit causas liberales,

Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

tua res agitur,

is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

tam solute agere, tam leniter,

id. Brut. 80:

tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,

Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

reus agitur,

id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

agere furti,

to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

adulterii cum aliquo,

Quint. 4, 4, 8:

injuriarum,

id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—

Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,

Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

non libertas solum agebatur,

Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

agitur pars tertia mundi,

is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—

Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

perii,

this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

actum hodie est de me,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

jam de Servio actum,

Liv. 1, 47:

actum est de collo meo,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

ilicet me infelicem,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

actumst, ilicet, peristi,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

actumst,

id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—

Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

rem actam agis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

acta agimus,

id. Am. 22.—

To represent by external action, to perform, pronounce, deliver, etc.

Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79:

quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent,

id. ib. 3, 56, 214:

agere fortius et audentius volo,

Tac. Or. 18; 39.—

Of an actor, to represent, play, act:

Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam,

Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so,

fabulam,

Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22:

dum haec agitur fabula,

Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.:

partis,

to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27:

Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 7:

gestum agere in scaena,

id. de Or. 2, 57:

dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu,

Liv. 7, 2 al. — Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3:

egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat,

id. Fam. 2, 9:

amicum imperatoris,

Tac. H. 1, 30:

exulem,

id. A. 1, 4:

socium magis imperii quam ministrum,

id. H. 2, 83:

senatorem,

Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically:

utrinque prora frontem agit,

serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—

Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self:

tanta mobilitate sese Numidae agunt,

Sall. J. 56, 5:

quanto ferocius ante se egerint,

Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm:

qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent,

Suet. Claud. 25:

non principem se, sed ministrum egit,

id. ib. 29:

neglegenter se et avare agere,

Eutr. 6, 9:

prudenter se agebat,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5:

sapienter se agebat,

ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.:

seditiose,

Tac. Agr. 7:

facile justeque,

id. ib. 9:

superbe,

id. H. 2, 27:

ex aequo,

id. ib. 4, 64:

anxius et intentus agebat,

id. Agr. 5.—

Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. age, agete (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.

In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.).

In the sing.:

age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum,

come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1:

age, perge, quaeso,

id. Cist. 2, 3, 12:

age, da veniam filio,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14:

age, age, nunc experiamur,

id. ib. 5, 4, 23:

age sis tu... delude,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16:

quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39:

Agedum vicissim dic,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27:

agedum humanis concede,

Lucr. 3, 962:

age modo hodie sero,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103:

age nuncjam,

id. And. 5, 2, 25:

En age, quid cessas,

Tib. 2, 2, 10:

Quare age,

Verg. A. 7, 429:

Verum age,

id. ib. 12, 832:

Quin age,

id. G. 4, 329:

en, age, Rumpe moras,

id. ib. 3, 43:

eia age,

id. A. 4, 569.—

In the plur.:

agite, pugni,

up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146:

agite bibite,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

agite in modum dicite,

Cat. 61, 38:

Quare agite... conjungite,

id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627:

vos agite... volvite,

Val. Fl. 3, 311:

agite nunc, divites, plorate,

Vulg. Jac. 5, 1:

agitedum,

Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. age tamnete, Hom. Od. 3, 332; age dê trapeiomen, id. Il. 3, 441):

age igitur, intro abite,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54:

En agedum convertite,

Prop. 1, 1, 21:

mittite, agedum, legatos,

Liv. 38, 47:

Ite age,

Stat. Th. 10, 33:

Huc age adeste,

Sil. 11, 169.—

In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266:

nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi,

id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418;

4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.:

age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—

As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat;

dabo,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57:

Age, veniam,

id. And. 4, 2, 30:

age, sit ita factum,

Cic. Mil. 19:

age sane,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.

—Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,

Sometimes follows such verb; as,

In dactylic metre:

Cede agedum,

Prop. 5, 9, 54:

Dic age,

Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149:

Esto age,

Pers. 2, 42:

Fare age,

Verg. A. 3, 362:

Finge age,

Ov. H. 7, 65:

Redde age,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 80:

Surge age,

Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73:

Vade age,

Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so,

agite: Ite agite,

Prop. 4, 3, 7.—

In other metres (very rarely):

appropera age,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38:

dic age,

Hor. C. 1, [p. 77] 32, 3; 2, 11, 22;

3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum,

Liv. 38, 47:

procedat agedum ad pugnam,

id. 7, 9.—

It is often separated from such verb:

age me huc adspice,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1:

Age... instiga,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11:

Quare agite... conjungite,

Cat. 64, 372:

Huc age... veni,

Tib. 2, 5, 2:

Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae,

Verg. A. 2, 707:

en age segnis Rumpe moras,

id. G. 3, 42:

age te procellae Crede,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 62:

Age jam... condisce,

id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,

ăgens, entis, P. a.

Adj.

Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.):

utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358:

acre orator, incensus et agens,

id. Brut. 92, 317.— Comp. and sup. not used.

Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—

Subst.: ăgentes, ium.

Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—

For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—

actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,

actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate:

actum ejus, qui in re publica cum imperio versatus sit,

Cic. Phil. 1, 7:

acta Caesaris servanda censeo,

id. ib. 1, 7:

acta tui praeclari tribunatus,

id. Dom. 31.—

acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, orum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Caesar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1;

but Augustus again prohibited it,

Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatus conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice;

also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta,

the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31:

acta populi,

Suet. Caes. 20:

acta publica,

Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33:

urbana,

id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.

With the time added:

acta eorum temporum,

Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60:

illius temporis,

Ascon. Mil. 44, 16:

ejus anni,

Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—

Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bahr's Rom. Lit. Gesch. 303.—

acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—

acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,

Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—

Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—

acta militarĭa, the daily records of the movements of a legion, Veg. R. R. 2, 19.

ăgo, egi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Mull.;

axit = egerit,

Paul. Diac. 3, 3;

AGIER = agi,

Cic. Off. 3, 15;

agentum = agentium,

Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. agô; Sanscr. ag, aghami = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ogmos; agis = race, contest = agôn; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).

Lit.

Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.

Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258:

jumenta agebat,

Liv. 1, 48:

capellas ago,

Verg. E. 1, 13:

Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc.,

Ov. F. 1, 323:

caballum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—

With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.:

agere bovem Romam,

Curt. 1, 45:

equum in hostem,

id. 7, 4:

Germani in amnem aguntur,

Tac. H. 5, 21:

acto ad vallum equo,

id. A. 2, 13:

pecora per calles,

Curt. 7, 11:

per devia rura capellas,

Ov. M. 1, 676:

pecus pastum,

Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Mull.:

capellas potum age,

Verg. E. 9, 23:

pecus egit altos Visere montes,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—

Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.

Absol.:

agmen agens equitum,

Verg. A. 7, 804.—

With prep., abl., or inf.:

vinctum ante se Thyum agebat,

Nep. Dat. 3:

agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos,

Sil. 4, 720:

(adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit,

Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27:

captivos prae se agentes,

Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1:

acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati,

Quint. 8, 3, 69:

captivos sub curribus agere,

Mart. 8, 26:

agimur auguriis quaerere exilia,

Verg. A. 3, 5;

and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis,

Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go:

quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur,

Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58:

raptim agmine acto,

id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.— Trop.:

egit sol hiemem sub terras,

Verg. G. 4, 51:

poemata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto,

lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.;

also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te?

where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294:

unde agis te?

id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71:

quo hinc te agis?

where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25:

Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat,

was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337:

Aeneas se matutinus agebat,

id. ib. 8, 465:

is enim se primus agebat,

for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se:

Et tu, unde agis?

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

Quo agis?

id. Pers. 2, 2, 34:

Huc age,

Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—

To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere):

Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves,

Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. agein kai pherein, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, pherein kai agein, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.:

rapiunt feruntque,

Verg. A. 2, 374:

rapere et auferre,

Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3:

ut ferri agique res suas viderunt,

id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37;

so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque,

Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as pherein kai agein in Plat. Phaedr. 279, C):

ne pulcram praedam agat,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3:

urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere,

Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3:

pecoris et mancipiorum praedas,

id. ib. 44, 5;

so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo,

Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—

To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).

Of animals:

apros,

Verg. G. 3, 412:

cervum,

id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71:

citos canes,

Ov. H. 5, 20:

feros tauros,

Suet. Claud. 21.—

Of men:

ceteros ruerem, agerem,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.):

ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 4, 12:

Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat,

Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574:

aliquem in exsilium,

Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17;

22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam,

id. 16, 2, 3.—

Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point:

quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium?

lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90:

egisse huc Alpheum vias,

made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695:

vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt,

carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8:

cloacam maximam sub terram agendam,

to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56;

so often in the histt., esp. Caes. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis,

pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16:

accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci,

Verg. A. 9, 505 al.:

fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem,

Lucr. 4, 391:

in litus passim naves egerunt,

drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19:

ratem in amnem,

Ov. F. 1, 500:

naves in advorsum amnem,

Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so,

agere currum,

to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—

To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.):

scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam,

to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675:

spumas ore,

Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66:

piceum Flumen agit,

Verg. A. 9, 814:

qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc.,

when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire:

agens animam spumat,

Lucr. 3, 493:

anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens,

Cat. 63, 31:

nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19:

Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat,

id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13:

eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 8:

Est tanti habere animam ut agam?

Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas;

Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam,

Mart. 1, 80.—

Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend:

(salices) gemmas agunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, 30:

florem agere coeperit ficus,

Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10:

frondem agere,

Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45:

se ad auras palmes agit,

Verg. G. 2, 364:

(platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse,

Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15:

per glebas sensim radicibus actis,

Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583:

robora suas radices in profundum agunt,

Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.:

vera gloria radices agit,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43:

pluma in cutem radices egerat imas,

Ov. M. 2, 582.

Trop.

Spec., to guide, govern:

Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur,

Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of agô; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—

In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to:

si quis ad illa deus te agat,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 24:

una plaga ceteros ad certamen egit,

Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14:

totis mentibus acta,

Sil. 10, 191:

in furorem agere,

Quint. 6, 1, 31:

si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur,

Tac. Agr. 41:

provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat,

id. A. 14, 32.—

To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.):

me amor fugat, agit,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8:

agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum,

Cic. Verr. 1, 3:

perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur,

Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.:

opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit,

i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.— To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.):

reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi,

Verg. A. 7, 405:

non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25:

acerba fata Romanos agunt,

id. Epod 7, 17:

diris agam vos,

id. ib. 5, 89:

quam deus ultor agebat,

Ov. M. 14, 750:

futurae mortis agor stimulis,

Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—

To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. prattein, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, poiein, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.

In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.

With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.:

numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46:

post satietatem nihil (est) agendum,

Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,

Without object:

aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi,

Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49:

agendi tempora,

Tac. H. 3, 40:

industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—

In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11:

Quid agis?

What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? ti pratteis, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4:

vereor, quid agat,

how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17:

ut sciatis, quid agam,

Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21:

prospere agit anima tua,

fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2:

quid agitur?

how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

Quid intus agitur?

is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—

With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit;

collum obstringe homini,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29:

nihil agis,

you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12:

nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kuhn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis;

usque tenebo,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 15:

[nihil agis,] nihil assequeris,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.:

ubi blanditiis agitur nihil,

Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—

In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41:

hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam?

what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3:

quid agam, habeo,

id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.:

sed ita quidam agebat,

was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus [p. 75] proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—

To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.):

At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92:

Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45:

observabo quam rem agat,

what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114:

Id quidem ago,

That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37:

res vera agitur,

Juv. 4, 35:

Jam tempus agires,

Verg. A. 5, 638:

utilis rebus agendis,

Juv. 14, 72:

grassator ferro agit rem,

does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.:

gladiis geritur res,

Liv. 9, 41):

nihil ego nunc de istac re ago,

do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8:

postquam id actumst,

after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so,

sed quid actumst?

id. Ps. 2, 4, 20:

nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem,

Cic. Sull. 12:

ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus,

id. Off. 1, 29:

agamus quod instat,

Verg. E. 9, 66:

renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant,

Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35:

suum negotium agere,

to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so,

ut vestrum negotium agatis,

Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11:

neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent,

Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

postquam res in Africa gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit,

Sall. J. 30, 1:

sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas,

Nep. Con. 3, 8 al. —With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—

To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto):

nescio quid mens mea majus agit,

Ov. H. 12, 212:

hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit,

Val. Fl. 3, 392:

agere fratri proditionem,

Tac. H. 2, 26:

de intranda Britannia,

id. Agr. 13.—

With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. agô with verbal subst.):

rimas agere (sometimes ducere),

to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10:

vigilias agere,

Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76:

excubias alicui,

Ov. F. 3, 245:

excubias,

Tac. H. 4, 58:

pervigilium,

Suet. Vit. 10:

stationem agere,

to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28:

triumphum agere,

to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6:

libera arbitria agere,

to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4:

paenitentiam agere,

to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5:

silentia agere,

to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349:

pacem agere,

Juv. 15, 163:

crimen agere,

to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48:

laborem agere,

id. Fin. 2, 32:

cursus agere,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95:

delectum agere,

to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5:

experimenta agere,

Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

mensuram,

id. 15, 3, 4, § 14:

curam agere,

to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18:

curam ejus egit,

Vulg. Luc. 10, 34:

oblivia agere,

to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540:

nugas agere,

to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often:

officinas agere,

to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias ( poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. charin echein ( habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. charin eidenai; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. charin apodidonai; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7):

diis gratias pro meritis agere,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26:

Haud male agit gratias,

id. Aul. 4, 4, 31:

Magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi?

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1:

Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago,

id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam;

nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum,

id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar;

majores etiam habemus,

id. Marcell. 11, 33:

Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc.,

id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere;

referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc.,

Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9:

gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti,

Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.;

and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2:

Dianae laudes gratesque agam,

id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so,

diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit,

Liv. 26, 48:

agi sibi gratias passus est,

Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.:

Tiberius egit gratis benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates,

id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—

Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dis agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:

tempus,

Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6:

aetatem in litteris,

Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:

senectutem,

id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60:

dies festos,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17:

otia secura,

Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926:

ruri agere vitam,

Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63:

vitam in terris,

Verg. G. 2, 538:

tranquillam vitam agere,

Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2:

Hunc (diem) agerem si,

Verg. A. 5, 51:

ver magnus agebat Orbis,

id. G. 2, 338:

aestiva agere,

to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.— Pass.:

menses jam tibi esse actos vides,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2:

mensis agitur hic septimus,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700:

melior pars acta (est) diei,

Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63:

acta est per lacrimas nox,

Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.:

tunc principium anni agebatur,

Liv. 3, 6:

actis quindecim annis in regno,

Just. 41, 5, 9:

Nona aetas agitur,

Juv. 13, 28 al. —With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old:

quartum annum ago et octogesimum,

am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32:

Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit,

Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640 th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere:

civitas laeta agere,

was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2:

tum Marius apud primos agebat,

id. ib. 101, 6:

in Africa, qua procul a mari incultius agebatur,

id. ib. 89, 7:

apud illos homines, qui tum agebant,

Tac. A. 3, 19:

Thracia discors agebat,

id. ib. 3, 38:

Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt,

Tac. G. 42:

ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt,

id. ib. 43:

Gallos trans Padum agentes,

id. H. 3, 34:

quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit,

id. A. 1, 4:

agere inter homines desinere,

id. ib. 15, 74:

Vitellius non in ore volgi agere,

was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36:

ante aciem agere,

id. G. 7; and:

in armis agere,

id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—

In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it:

qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit,

Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia):

a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissa voce,

hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.:

Hoc age,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31:

Hoc agite, of poetry,

Juv. 7, 20:

hoc agamus,

Sen. Clem. 1, 12:

haec agamus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 49:

agere hoc possumus,

Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48:

hoccine agis an non? hoc agam,

id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4:

nunc istuc age,

id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.:

Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo,

Cic. Lig. 4, 11:

id et agunt et moliuntur,

id. Mur. 38:

(oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit,

id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem... collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret?

id. Lig. 6, 18:

Hoc agit, ut doleas,

Juv. 5, 157:

Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88:

Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat?

have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9:

Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus?

id. ib. 4, 10:

Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,

id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur,

Nep. Them. 5, 1:

ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28:

usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

atqui vides, quam alias res agamus,

id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233:

aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans,

id. Clu. 64.—

In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28):

qui longe alia ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt,

Caes. B. G. 3, 28:

Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc.,

Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29:

aliena bella mercedibus agere,

Mel. 1, 16:

Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer,

Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).— Poet.:

Martem for bellum,

Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare):

levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis,

Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold:

forum agere,

to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and:

conventus agere,

to hold the assizes, id. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44;

used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere,

Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120:

vivorum coetus agere,

to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34:

censum agere,

Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27:

recensum agere,

id. Caes. 41:

potestatem agere,

Flor. 1, 7, 2:

honorem agere,

Liv. 8, 26:

regnum,

Flor. 1, 6, 2:

rem publicam,

Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8:

consulatum,

Quint. 12, 1, 16:

praefecturam,

Suet. Tib. 6:

centurionatum,

Tac. A. 1, 44:

senatum,

Suet. Caes. 88:

fiscum agere,

to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12:

publicum agere,

to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1:

inquisitionem agere,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

curam alicujus rei agere,

to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18:

rei publicae curationem agens,

Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Caes., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —

Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re:

velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9:

de condicionibus pacis,

Liv. 8, 37:

de summa re publica,

Suet. Caes. 28:

cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curia,

id. Aug. 94:

de poena alicujus,

Liv. 5, 36:

de agro plebis,

id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while [p. 76] agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people):

cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet,

Gell. 13, 15, 10:

agere cum populo de re publica,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96:

neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat,

Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.:

hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1:

Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat,

id. Fam. 5, 2.— Transf. to common life.

Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini);

ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)?

I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11:

Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit,

thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18:

algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo,

Juv. 4, 49:

haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant,

thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445:

de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea,

Cic. Fam. 13, 75:

egi cum Claudia et cum vestra sorore Mucia, ut eum ab illa injuria deterrerent,

id. ib. 5, 2:

misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illa mente desisteret,

id. ib. 5, 2:

Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret,

Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.:

Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit,

Nep. Alc. 8, 2:

si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant,

Tac. A. 15, 14:

ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit,

Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate:

Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui,

Suet. Tib. 54.—

With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill:

facile est bene agere cum eis, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 14, 11:

bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc.,

Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16:

praeclare cum aliquo agere,

Cic. Sest. 23:

Male agis mecum,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21:

qui cum creditoribus suis male agat,

Cic. Quinct. 84; and:

tu contra me male agis,

Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off:

intelleget secum actum esse pessime,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50:

praeclare mecum actum puto,

id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14:

vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis,

id. Off. 1, 15:

bene agitur pro noxia,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—

Of transactions before a court or tribunal.

Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngrapha, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causa, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case:

ex jure civili et praetorio agere,

Cic. Caecin. 12:

tamquam ex syngrapha agere cum populo,

to litigate, id. Mur. 17:

ex sponso egit,

id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90:

agere lege in hereditatem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46:

cum illo se lege agere dicebat,

Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11:

non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 4:

causa quam vi agere malle,

Tac. A. 13, 37:

tabellis obsignatis agis mecum,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33:

Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque,

with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so,

Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens,

settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9:

ubi manu agitur,

when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—

Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.:

causam apud centumviros egit,

Cic. Caecin. 24:

Caesar cum ageret apud censores,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus:

egi causam adversus magistratus,

Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11:

orator agere dicitur causam,

Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132:

agit causas liberales,

Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51:

cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret,

Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc;

tua res agitur,

is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13;

and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas,

Cic. Fam. 5, 10:

Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum,

Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10:

tam solute agere, tam leniter,

id. Brut. 80:

tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres?

id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.— Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of:

Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam?

of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53:

causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est,

to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; id. Verr. 1, 13, 37:

Samnitium bella, quae agimus,

are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,

Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18:

reus agitur,

id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged:

agere furti,

to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22:

adulterii cum aliquo,

Quint. 4, 4, 8:

injuriarum,

id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—

Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.:

non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67:

non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae,

the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26:

aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51:

si magna res, magna hereditas agetur,

id. Fin. 2, 17: qua de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,

Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger:

at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72:

quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113:

agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:

in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama,

id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2:

non libertas solum agebatur,

Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.:

nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.):

agitur pars tertia mundi,

is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—

Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est;

perii,

this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliqua re, it is all over with a person or thing:

actum hodie est de me,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63:

jam de Servio actum,

Liv. 1, 47:

actum est de collo meo,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst;

ilicet me infelicem,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17:

si animus hominem pepulit, actumst,

id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15:

actumst, ilicet, peristi,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus;

actumst,

id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—

Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose:

rem actam agis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so,

actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18:

acta agimus,

id. Am. 22.—

To represent by external action, to perform, pronounce, deliver, etc.