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tĭtŭlus, i (collat. form, n.:

HOC TITVLVM,

Inscr. Fabr. 8, 47; Inscr. Cardin. Dipl. 22), m. [root ti- of tinô, timaô], a superscription, inscription, label, litle; a ticket, bill, placard, notice that a thing is to be sold or let (syn. index).

Lit. (esp. freq. after the Aug. per.):

aram condidit dedicavitque cum ingenti rerum ab se gestarum titulo,

Liv. 28, 46, 16:

virtutes in aevum Per titulos memoresque fastos Aeternet,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 4: dant munera templis;

Addunt et titulum: titulus breve carmen habebat,

Ov. M. 9, 793:

cumque ducum titulis oppida capta legat,

id. Tr. 4, 2, 20: titulus nomenque libelli. Ov. R. Am. 1:

librorum,

Quint. 2, 14, 4:

titulum scribere,

Col. 9, praef. §

2: quorum titulus per barbara colla pependit,

i. e. of slaves put up for sale, Prop. 4, 5, 51: paterae, quas cum titulo nominis Camilli ante Capitolium constat positas esse, Liv. 6, 4, 3:

signa cum titulo lamnae aëneae inscripto,

id. 23, 19, 18:

patrem familias canibus objecit, cum hoc titulo,

Suet. Dom. 10:

cras bibet aliquid, cujus patriam titulumque senectus delevit,

Juv. 5, 34:

sepulcri,

epitaph, id. 6, 230; cf.:

cinerem sine titulo, sine nomine jacere,

Plin. Ep. 6, 10, 3; so of an epitaph, id. ib. 9, 19, 3:

domus proscribebatur, si quis emere, si quis conducere vellet: venit Athenodorus, legit titulum auditoque pretio, etc.,

the bill, the notice of sale, Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7; cf. poet.:

ite sub titulum lares,

Tib. 2, 4, 54:

sub titulum nostros misit lares,

Ov. R. Am. 302.—

Transf.

Like our title for an honorable appellation, title of honor, glory:

sustinere titulum consulatus,

Cic. Pis. 9, 19:

quos si titulus hic (sapientis) delectat,

id. Tusc. 5, 10, 30:

servatae pubis Achivae,

Ov. M. 7, 56:

qui stupet in titulis et imaginibus,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 17; id. C. 4, 14, 4; id. S. 2, 3, 212:

et domus est titulis utraque fulta suis,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 32; Ov. F. 2, 16; 1, 602; id. M. 7, 448; 12, 334.—

Repute, renown, fame:

par titulo tantae gloriae fuit,

Liv. 7, 1, 10; Stat. S. 2, 7, 62:

prioris perpetrati belli titulus,

Liv. 28, 41, 3; cf.:

quid in purpurā istā aliud quam victoriarum mearum titulos geris?

Just. 18, 7, 13:

titulo Spartanae victoriae inflatus,

Curt. 10, 10, 14:

captae urbis titulo cedens,

id. 6, 6, 33.—

A sign, token:

ciconia, titulus tepidi temporis,

Petr. 55.—

A cause or reason alleged, a pretence, pretext (so perh. not ante-Aug.; cf.:

causa, nomen): non vos pro Graeciae libertate tantum dimicare: quamquam is quoque egregius titulus esset, etc.,

Liv. 36, 17, 13:

praetendere titulum belli,

id. 37, 54, 13:

honestiorem causam libertatis quam servitutis praetexi titulo,

id. 34, 59, 1 Weissenb. ad loc.:

sub titulo aequandarum legum nostra jura oppressa,

id. 3, 67, 9:

sub honorificentissimo ministerii titulo,

Vell. 2, 45, 4:

ipse (probabatur) accepisse HS. decem milia foedissimo quidem titulo,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 23:

transfugae titulo Babyloniam proficiscitur,

Just. 1, 10, 16:

erat hic quidem titulus cum Graecis coëundi,

id. 5, 1, 8; 11, 10, 10; 15, 4, 13:

titulum sollemnis officii occulto sceleri praeferentes,

Curt. 5, 10, 12:

titulus facinori speciosus praeferebatur,

id. 7, 5, 20. —

The title of a book (post-Aug.; cf.

index): M. Tullius in ipsis librorum quos hac de re primum scripserat titulis,

Quint. 2, 14, 4:

materiam (libri) ex titulo cognosces,

Plin. Ep. 5, 15, 3:

cui vix voluminum suorum frontes maxime placent titulique,

Sen. Tranq. 9, 6.

vergo, ĕre ( perf. and sup. wanting, acc. to Neue, Formenl. 2, pp. 507, 584; but versi is assumed as perf. by Prob. Cath. 1486, and is read, Ov. P. 1, 9, 52, by Merkel, ex conj. for the MS. vertit; acc. to Charis. 3, 1, p. 218, and Diom. 1, p. 366, the perf. is verxi, but it does not occur in extant writings), v. a. and n.

Act., to bend, turn, incline, verge (only poet., and very rare;

syn. inclino): in terras igitur quoque solis vergitur ardor, mid.,

turns itself, verges, Lucr. 2, 212:

et polus aversi calidus quā vergitur Austri,

Luc. 1, 54:

Strongyle vergitur ad exortus solis,

Sol. 6, § 3:

illi imprudentes ipsi sibi saepe venenum Vergebant,

i. e. turned in, poured in, Lucr. 5, 1010:

in gelidos amoma sinus,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 52:

spumantesque mero paterae verguntur,

Stat. Th. 6, 211; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 244.—

Neutr., to bend, turn, incline itself; of places, to lie, be situated in any direction (the class. signif. of the word; syn.: tendo, pertineo, jaceo).

Lit.:

ab oppido declivis locus tenui fastigio vergebat in longitudinem passuum circiter quadringentorum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 45:

collis ad flumen Sabin,

id. B.G. 2, 18:

Galliae pars ad Septentriones,

id. ib. 1, 1:

portus in meridiem,

Liv. 37, 31, 10:

tectum aedium in tectum inferioris porticūs,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4, § 14:

omnes partes in medium,

id. N.D. 2, 45, 116.—

Trop., to turn, bend, incline, etc.:

nisi Bruti auxilium ad Italiam vergere quam ad Asiam maluissemus,

Cic. Phil. 11, 11, 26:

illuc (i. e. in Tiberium) cuncta vergere,

Tac. A. 1, 3:

suam aetatem vergere,

that he was in the decline of his age, id. ib. 2, 43:

sed ne patriae quidem bonus tutor aut vindex est, si ad voluptates vergit,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 15, 3:

animus nec ad recta fortiter nec ad prava vergentis,

id. Tranq. 1, 3:

nox vergit ad lucem,

verges towards, Curt. 4, 7, 9:

vergente jam die,

declining, Suet. Oth. 7; so,

jam senecta,

Tac. A. 4, 41:

vergens annis femina,

id. ib. 13, 19:

aegri vergentes in lethargum,

Plin. 32, 10, 38, § 116:

colore languido in candidum vergente,

id. 12, 12, 26, § 43.