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  • 1 Pauca verba

    В немногих словах; без лишних слов, без многословия; короче говоря.
    Признаюсь, - сказал Джонс, - я не ожидал, чтобы меня так хорошо знали в этих местах; все же, по некоторым соображениям, вы меня обяжете, если никому не назовете моего имени, пока я отсюда не уйду. - Раиса verba, - отвечал цирюльник, - и я был бы очень доволен, если бы никто, кроме меня, не знал вас здесь, потому что у иных людей очень длинные языки; но уверяю вас, я умею хранить тайну. (Генри Фильдинг, История Тома Джонса Найденыша.)

    Латинско-русский словарь крылатых слов и выражений > Pauca verba

  • 2 Без лишних слов

    Латинско-русский словарь крылатых слов и выражений > Без лишних слов

  • 3 Без многословия

    Латинско-русский словарь крылатых слов и выражений > Без многословия

  • 4 В немногих словах

    Латинско-русский словарь крылатых слов и выражений > В немногих словах

  • 5 Короче говоря

    Латинско-русский словарь крылатых слов и выражений > Короче говоря

  • 6 confero

    confĕro, contŭli, collātum (conl-), conferre, v. a.
    I.
    To bring, bear, or carry together, to collect, gather (freq. and class.).
    A.
    In gen.:

    ligna circa casam,

    Nep. Alcib. 10, 4:

    arma,

    Vell. 2, 114, 4:

    cibos ore suo (aves),

    Quint. 2, 6, 7:

    undique collatis membris,

    Hor. A. P. 3 al.:

    sarcinas in unum locum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 24; cf. id. ib. 2, 25:

    collatis militaribus signis,

    id. ib. 7, 2:

    ut premerer sacrā Lauroque collatāque myrto,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 19:

    quo (sc. in proximum horreum) omne rusticum instrumentum,

    Col. 1, 6, 7:

    illuc (sc. in castella) parentes et conjuges,

    Tac. A. 4, 46 fin.:

    dentes in corpore (canes),

    Ov. M. 3, 236:

    materiam omnem, antequam dicere ordiamur,

    Quint. 3, 9, 8:

    summas (scriptorum) in commentarium et capita,

    id. 10, 7, 32:

    plura opera in unam tabulam,

    id. 8, 5, 26:

    quae in proximos quinque libros conlata sunt,

    id. 8, prooem. 1: res Romanas Graeco peregrinoque sermone in historiam, Just. pr. 1; cf. Suet. Caes. 44; cf. I. B. 5. infra.; Quint. 4, 1, 23:

    rogus inimicis collatus manibus,

    Petr. 115 fin. —
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To collect money, treasures, etc., for any object, to bring offerings, contribute:

    dona mihi,

    Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 20:

    contulit aes populus,

    Ov. F. 4, 351;

    so freq. on monuments: AERE CONLATO,

    Inscr. Orell. 3648; 74; Suet. Aug. 59:

    EX AERE CONLATO,

    Inscr. Orell. 3991:

    aurum argentumque in publicum,

    Liv. 28, 36, 3:

    munera ei,

    Nep. Ages. 7, 3:

    tributa quotannis ex censu,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 131:

    conferre eo minus tributi,

    Liv. 5, 20, 5:

    in commune,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 59, § 145; id. Quint. 3, 12:

    quadringena talenta quotannis Delum,

    Nep. Arist. 3, 1:

    (pecunia) ad ejus honores conlata,

    Cic. Fl. 25, 59:

    ad honorem tuum pecunias maximas contulisse,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 65, § 157:

    sextantes in capita,

    Liv. 2, 33, 11:

    pecunias,

    Suet. Caes. 19; id. Aug. 57; 30; Just. 3, 6:

    vinum alius, alius mel,

    Dig. 41, 1, 7; 47, 7, 3 pr.:

    sua bona in medium,

    ib. 37, 6, 1 pr.:

    magnam partem patrimonii alicui rei,

    ib. 50, 4, 5:

    cum et Socrati collatum sit ad victum,

    Quint. 12, 7, 9.— Absol.:

    nos dabimus, nos conferemus, nostro sumptu, non tuo,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 39.—Hence,
    b.
    Trop., like the Gr. sumpherô (v. Lidd. and Scott in h. v. 5.), to be useful, profitable, to profit, serve, be of use to ( = prosum; cf. also conduco, II.; post-Aug., and only in the third person; most freq. in Quint.); constr. with ad, in, the dat., inf., or absol.
    (α).
    With ad:

    naturane plus ad eloquentiam conferat an doctrina,

    Quint. 2, 19, 1; so id. 1, 8, 7; 2, 5, 1; 3, 6, 7 al.; Cels. 6, 6, 1; Col. 12, prooem. § 6; Suet. Tib. 4.—
    * (β).
    With in:

    rursus in alia plus prior (exercitatio) confert,

    Quint. 10, 7, 26.—
    (γ).
    With dat.:

    Gracchorum eloquentiae multum contulisse matrem,

    Quint. 1, 1, 6; so id. prooem. § 6; 2, 9, 2; 3, 7, 12 al.; Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 54; 20, 23, 98, § 261; 29, 1, 6, § 13; Suet. Vesp. 6.—
    (δ).
    With subj. inf.:

    incipiente incremento confert alterna folia circum obruere,

    Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 83.—
    (ε).
    Absol.:

    multum veteres etiam Latini conferunt, imprimis copiam verborum,

    Quint. 1, 8, 8; 2, 5, 16; 4, 2, 123 al.; cf. Sillig ad Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 67.—
    2.
    To bring into connection, to unite, join, connect:

    membris collatis, of an embrace,

    Lucr. 4, 1101; cf.

    ora,

    App. M. 5, p. 161, 17:

    fontes e quibus collatae aquae flumen emittunt,

    Curt. 7, 11, 3: capita, to lay heads together (in conferring, deliberating, etc.), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 12, § 31; Liv. 2, 45, 7: pedem, to go or come with one, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 41; so,

    gradum ( = congredi),

    id. Men. 3, 3, 30; id. Ps. 2, 4, 17; Verg. A. 6, 488.—Of chemical union:

    dissimiles et dispares res in unam potestatem,

    Vitr. 2, 6, 4.—
    b.
    Trop.:

    collatis viribus,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 17; cf.:

    conferre vires in unum,

    Liv. 33, 19, 7:

    collata omnium vota in unius salutem,

    Plin. Pan. 23, 5:

    e singulis frustis collata oratio,

    Quint. 8, 5, 27; cf. id. 2, 9, 3:

    velut studia inter nos conferebamus,

    id. 4, prooem. § 1.— So esp. of conferences, consultations, etc., to consult together, confer, consider or talk over together:

    si quid res feret, coram inter nos conferemus,

    Cic. Att. 1, 20, 1:

    sollicitudines nostras inter nos,

    id. Fam. 6, 21, 2:

    rationes,

    id. Att 5, 21, 12: familiares sermones cum aliquo, to unite in familiar conversation with, id. Off. 2, 11, 39:

    cum hoc in viā sermonem contulit,

    id. Inv. 2, 4, 14; cf.:

    cum aliquo aut sermones aut consilia,

    id. Phil. 2, 15, 38:

    consilia ad adulescentes,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 64; cf.:

    consilia dispersim antea habita,

    Suet. Caes. 80:

    injurias,

    to deliberate together concerning, Tac. Agr. 15; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2.— Absol.:

    omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 8.—With a rel.clause:

    fusi contulerimus inter nos... quid finis,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 2, 4:

    ibi conferentibus, quid animorum Hispanis esset,

    Liv. 27, 20, 4.—
    3.
    To bring or join together in a hostile manner, to set together (most freq. in milit. lang.):

    (Galli) cum Fontejo ferrum ac manus contulerunt,

    Cic. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2):

    signa cum Alexandrinis,

    id. Pis. 21, 49; cf.:

    collatis signis depugnare,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 44; Cic. Imp. Pomp. 23, 66:

    arma cum aliquo,

    Nep. Eum. 11, 5; 3, 6; cf.:

    arma inter se,

    Liv. 21, 1, 2:

    castra cum hoste,

    id. 26, 12, 14; cf.:

    castra castris,

    id. 23, 28, 9; 8, 23, 9; Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114; Caes. B. C. 3, 79:

    pedem cum pede,

    to fight foot to foot, Liv. 28, 2, 6; cf.:

    pede conlato,

    id. 6, 12, 10; 10, 29, 6; 26, 39, 12 al.:

    gradum cum aliquo,

    id. 7, 33, 11:

    pectora luctantia nexu pectoribus,

    Ov. M. 6, 242:

    stat conferre manum Aeneae,

    Verg. A. 12, 678:

    prima movet Cacus collatā proelia dextrā,

    Ov. F. 1, 569:

    collatis cursibus hastas conicere,

    Val. Fl. 6, 270:

    seque viro vir contulit,

    Verg. A. 10, 735.— Poet.:

    inter sese duri certamina belli,

    Verg. A. 10, 147:

    contra conferre manu certamina pugnae,

    Lucr. 4, 843:

    collato Marte,

    Ov. M. 12, 379.— Absol.:

    mecum confer, ait,

    fight with me, Ov. M. 10, 603.—
    b.
    Transf. from milit. affairs to lawsuits: pedem, to encounter, come in contact with one, to attack:

    non possum magis pedem conferre, ut aiunt, aut propius accedere?

    Cic. Planc. 19, 48:

    pedem cum singulis,

    Quint. 5, 13, 11; cf. id. 8, 6, 51; cf.:

    qui illi concedi putem utilius esse quod postulat quam signa conferri,

    Cic. Att. 7, 5, 5.— Poet.:

    lites,

    to contend, quarrel, Hor. S. 1, 5, 54.—
    4.
    To bring together for comparison, to compare; constr. with cum, inter se, ad, the dat., or acc. only.
    (α).
    With cum:

    quem cum eo (sc. Democrito) conferre possumus non modo ingenii magnitudine sed etiam animi?

    Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 73; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 115:

    ut non conferam vitam neque existimationem tuam cum illius,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 20, § 45; id. Sull. 26, 72:

    cum maximis minima,

    id. Opt. Gen. Or. 6, 17; Quint. 5, 13, 12; 8, 4, 2 al.:

    nostras leges cum illorum Lycurgo et Dracone et Solone,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 44, 197; cf.:

    illa cum Graeciā,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; v. also d. —
    (β).
    With inter se (rare):

    vitam inter se utriusque conferte,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20.—
    * (γ).
    With ad:

    bos ad bovem collatus,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 28 Müll.—
    (δ).
    With dat.:

    tempora praesentia praeteritis,

    Lucr. 2, 1166:

    parva magnis,

    Cic. Or. 4, 14:

    alicui illud,

    id. Inv. 2, 50, 151:

    lanam tinctam Tyriae lacernae,

    Quint. 12, 10, 75:

    ingenia ingeniis,

    Sen. Contr. 5, 33:

    illam puellis,

    Prop. 1, 5, 7; 1, 4, 9:

    nil jucundo amico,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 44:

    (Pausanias et Lysander) ne minimā quidem ex parte Lycurgi legibus et disciplinae conferendi sunt,

    Cic. Off. 1, 22, 76; cf. supra, a.—
    (ε).
    With acc. only:

    tesseram hospitalem,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 88:

    conferte Verrem: non ut hominem cum homine comparetis, etc.,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 54, § 121:

    exemplum,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 85; Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 14; Ov. M. 7, 696:

    nec cum quaereretur gener Tarquinio, quisquam Romanae juventutis ullā arte conferri potuit,

    Liv. 1, 39, 4; Suet. Caes. 47:

    census,

    Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 159.—Of documents:

    haec omnia summā curā et diligentiā recognita et conlata sunt,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 190.—
    5.
    With the idea of shortening by bringing together (cf. colligo), to compress, abridge, condense, make or be brief:

    quam potero in verba conferam paucissima,

    Plaut. Men. prol. 6; cf.:

    in pauca, ut occupatus nunc sum, confer, quid velis,

    id. Ps. 1, 3, 44:

    rem in pauca,

    id. Poen. 5, 4, 68; and:

    in pauca verba,

    id. As. 1, 1, 75; id: Pers. 4, 4, 109:

    totam Academiam... ex duobus libris contuli in quattuor,

    Cic. Att. 13, 13, 1:

    ut in pauca conferam,

    id. Caecin. 6, 17:

    sua verba in duos versus,

    Ov. F. 1, 162:

    ex immensā diffusāque legum copiā optima quaeque et necessaria in paucissimos libros,

    Suet. Caes. 44.— [p. 412] *
    6.
    To join in bringing forward, to propose unitedly (as a law; cf.

    fero, II. B. 8. b.): cur enim non confertis, ne sit conubium divitibus et pauperibus,

    Liv. 4, 4, 9 Weissenb. ad loc.
    II.
    (Con intens.) To bear, carry, convey, direct a thing somewhere (in haste, for protection, etc.); and conferre se, to betake or turn one's self anywhere, to go (very freq. and class.).
    A.
    Prop.
    1.
    In gen.
    (α).
    With the designation of the goal: quo me miser conferam? Gracch. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 214:

    qui cum se suaque omnia in oppidum Bratuspantium contulissent,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

    se suaque eo,

    id. ib. 3, 28:

    se suaque in naves,

    Nep. Them. 2, 7 al.:

    iter Brundisium versus,

    Cic. Att. 3, 4 med.; cf.: iter eo, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 4:

    suas rationes et copias in illam provinciam,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 17: legiones in mediam aciem, Auct. B. Alex. 39;

    Auct. B. Afr. 60: quos eodem audita Cannensis clades contulerat,

    Liv. 23, 17, 8:

    parentes illuc,

    Tac. A. 4, 46:

    se Rhodum conferre,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: se Laodiceam, Lent. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 4:

    se Colonas,

    Nep. Paus. 3, 3:

    quo se fusa acies,

    Liv. 9, 16, 1 al.:

    se ad Tissaphernem,

    Nep. Alcib. 5, 2; so,

    se ad Pharnabazum,

    id. Con. 2, 1:

    se in fugam,

    Cic. Caecin. 8, 22: sese in pedes, Enn. ap. Non. p. 518, 20; Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 7 (cf.:

    conicere se in pedes,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 13).—Of things:

    pituita eo se umorve confert,

    Cels. 2, 12.—
    (β).
    Absol.:

    pulcre haec confertur ratis,

    is borne away, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 27.—
    2.
    Esp., in Ov. M. (cf. abeo, II.): aliquem in aliquid, to change into, transform to something:

    aliquem in saxum,

    Ov. M. 4, 278: versos vultus ( poet. circumlocution for se) in hanc, id. ib. 9, 348:

    corpus in albam volucrem,

    id. ib. 12, 145.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., to bring, turn, direct something to; and conferre se, to turn, apply, devote one's self to, etc.:

    quo mortuo me ad pontificem Scaevolam contuli,

    Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    (Crassus) cum initio aetatis ad amicitiam se meam contulisset,

    id. Brut. 81, 281; id. Fam. 11, 29, 2:

    qui se ad senatūs auctoritatem, ad libertatem vestram contulerunt,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; id. Ac. 1, 9, 34:

    se ad studium scribendi,

    id. Arch. 3, 4:

    se ad studia litterarum,

    id. ib. 7, 16; cf. Suet. Gram. 24:

    meus pater eam seditionem in tranquillum conferet (the figure taken from the sea when in commotion),

    Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 16: verba ad rem, to bring words to actions, i. e. to pass from words to deeds, Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 4; id. Hec. 3, 1, 17:

    suspitionem in Capitonem,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 100:

    ut spes votaque sua non prius ad deos quam ad principum aures conferret,

    Tac. A. 4, 39:

    lamentationes suas etiam in testamentum,

    id. ib. 15, 68.—More freq., in partic.,
    2.
    With the access. idea of application or communication, to devote or apply something to a certain purpose, to employ, direct, confer, bestow upon, give, lend, grant, to transfer to (a favorite word with Cic.).
    (α).
    With dat.:

    dona quid cessant mihi Conferre?

    Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 20:

    tibi munera,

    Prop. 2, 3, 25; Nep. Ages. 7, 3:

    victoribus praemia,

    Suet. Calig. 20:

    puellae quinquaginta milia nummūm,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 32, 2:

    fructum alio,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 60; Dig. 37, 6, 1, § 24.—
    (β).
    With ad and acc.:

    hostiles exuvias ornatum ad urbis et posterum gloriam,

    Tac. A. 3, 72:

    Mithridates omne reliquum tempus non ad oblivionem veteris belli, sed ad comparationem novi contulit,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9:

    omne studium atque omne ingenium ad populi Romani gloriam laudemque celebrandam,

    id. Arch. 9, 19; id. Fam. 10, 1, 3:

    omnem meam curam atque operam ad philosophiam,

    id. ib. 4, 3, 4:

    omnem tuum amorem omnemque tuam prudentiam... confer ad eam curam,

    id. Att. 7, 1, 2:

    animum ad fodiendos puteos, Auct. B. Alex. 9: ad naturae suae non vitiosae genus consilium vivendi omne,

    Cic. Off. 1, 33, 120:

    orationem omnem ad misericordiam,

    id. Lig. 1, 1.—
    (γ).
    With in:

    omnes curas cogitationesque in rem publicam,

    Cic. Off. 2, 1, 2:

    diligentiam in valetudinem tuam,

    id. Fam. 16, 4, 4:

    praedas ac manubias suas non in monumenta deorum immortalium, neque in urbis ornamenta conferre, sed, etc.,

    id. Agr. 2, 23, 60:

    in eos, quos speramus nobis profuturos, non dubitamus officia conferre,

    id. Off. 1, 15, 48; so,

    plurimum benignitatis in eum,

    id. ib. 1, 16, 50; id. Lael. 19, 70: curam restituendi Capitolii in L. Vestinum confert, i. e. assigns to, charges with, Tac. H. 4, 53:

    in unius salutem collata omnium vota,

    Plin. Pan. 23, 5.—
    (δ).
    With erga:

    commemoratio benevolentiae ejus, quam erga me a pueritiā contulisses,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 5, 1.—
    3.
    With aliquid ad or in aliquem or aliquid, to refer or ascribe something to a person or thing as its possessor, author (in a good, and freq. in a bad sense), to attribute, impute, assign, ascribe to one, to lay to the charge of:

    species istas hominum in deos,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 77:

    res ad imperium deorum,

    Lucr. 6, 54:

    permulta in Plancium, quae ab eo numquam dicta sunt, conferuntur... Stomachor vero, cum aliorum non me digna in me conferuntur,

    Cic. Planc. 14, 35; id. Fam. 5, 5, 2:

    mortis illius invidiam in L. Flaccum,

    id. Fl. 17, 41:

    suum timorem in rei frumentariae simulationem angustiasque itinerum,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

    sua vitia et suam culpam in senectutem,

    Cic. Sen. 5, 14:

    hanc ego de re publicā disputationem in Africani personam et Phili contuli,

    id. Att. 4, 16, 2.—So esp.:

    culpam in aliquem,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 156; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 97; Cic. Att. 9, 2, a, 1:

    causam in aliquem,

    id. ib. 12, 31, 1; Liv. 5, 11, 6; cf.:

    causam in tempus,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 228.—
    4.
    To transfer to a fixed point of time, fix, assign, refer, appoint, put off, defer, postpone (cf. differo):

    Carthaginis expugnationem in hunc annum,

    Liv. 27, 7, 5: in posterum diem iter suum contulit, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 3:

    omnia in mensem Martium,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1, 24:

    aliquid in ambulationis tempus,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 1:

    eam pecuniam in rei publicae magnum aliquod tempus,

    id. Off. 3, 24, 93:

    quod in longiorem diem conlaturus fuisset,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40 fin.:

    alicujus consulatum in annum aliquem,

    Plin. Pan. 61.—Rarely of place:

    idoneum locum in agris nactus... ibi adventum expectare Pompei eoque omnem belli rationem conferre constituit,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 81 fin. —
    5.
    To bring on, cause, occasion, induce:

    pestem alicui,

    Col. 1, 5, 4:

    candorem mollitiamque,

    Plin. 35, 15, 50, § 175.

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  • 7 verbum

    verbum, ī, n. (Wz. *wer, *wre [erweitert *wer-dh] sagen, altind. vratám, Gebot, Satzung, griech. εἴρω [aus Ϝερjω], ῥημα, Wort [aus Ϝρημα], gotisch waúrd, ahd. wort), das Wort, der Ausdruck, im Plur. die Worte, Ausdrücke, die Rede, I) im allg.: a) übh.: v. durum, abiectum, inquinatum, Cic.: pudet dicere hāc praesente verbum turpe, Ter.: graviore enim verbo uti non licet, um keinen härteren Ausdruck zu gebrauchen (als Parenthese), Cic.: istuc verbum, dieser dein Ausdruck, Ter.: verbum ipsum voluptatis, das Wort »Lust«, Cic.: videtis hoc uno verbo unde significari res duas et ex quo loco et a quo loco, Cic.: in verbis ac nominibus ipsis erat diligens, Cic. – verba (Ausdrücke) mutare, Suet.: dolorem isdem verbis afficere quibus Epicurus, mit denselben Prädikaten belegen, Cic.: verba quaedam (gewisse Formeln) componere, Cic.: in alcis verba iurare, jmdm. den Eid leisten, Curt. – ullum verbum facere (vorbringen, sprechen), nisi quod etc., Plaut.: u. so numquam quoiquam nostrûm verbum fecit, Ter.: numquam hodie tecum commutaturum patrem unum esse verbum, kein Wort (des Vorwurfs) wechseln wird, Ter.: ut est ille bonus vir, tria non commutabitis verba hodie inter vos, Ter.: verbum numquam in publico facere, öffentlich sprechen, einen Vortrag halten, Cic.: de quo ego verbum feci numquam, ich habe über ihn nie ein Wort verloren, Cic.: cum ille verbum facere omnino non potuerit, kein Wort vorbringen konnte, Cic.: u. so verba facere, sowohl übh. = sprechen, schwatzen, Plaut., als insbes. v. Redner = den Sprecher machen, das Wort nehmen, sprechen, reden, einen Vortrag halten, absol., Cic. u.a., apud regem, Nep., pro alqo, Cic., de alqo, de alqa re, Cic.: si is postem aedium tenuisset et pauca verba fecisset, einige Worte (die Einweihungsformel) dazu gesprochen hätte, Cic.: verba secum facere, ein Selbstgespräch halten, Diom. 491, 26: verba facere m. folg. Acc. u. Infin., Sall. Iug. 33, 4; 38, 9. u.ö.: haec pactio non verbis (mündliche Versicherung), sed nominibus et perscriptionibus facta est, Cic.: multis verbis ultro citroque habitis, Reden, Cic. – ille (dies) nefastus erit, per quem tria verba silentur, die drei Worte (do, dico, addico, ich erteile das Klagrecht, spreche Recht, spreche zu), v. Prätor, Ov. fast. 1, 47 (vgl. Varro LL. 6, 30. Macr. sat. 1, 16, 14): u. so verba libera praetor habet, Ov. fast. 1, 52. – Sprichw., verba facere mortuo, zu einem Toten (= vergeblich) reden, Plaut. Poen. 840: verba fiunt mortuo, das sind vergebliche Worte, Ter. Phorm. 1015. – b) Bes. Verbindungen: α) verbo, αα) = durch ein einziges Wort, verbo de sententia destitisti, auf ein W. von mir, Cic.: verbo expedi, mit einem einzigen W., Ter. – ββ) mündlich (Ggstz. scripturā), C. Furnio plura verbo quam scrip turā mandata dedimus, Planc. in Cic. ep. 10, 8, 5: cui verbo mandabo, quid etc., Vulc. Gallic. Avid. Cass. 10. § 10. – β) uno verbo, mit einem Worte = um es mit einem Worte auszudrücken, -zu sagen (wenn man verschiedene genannte Teile od. Einzelbegriffe in ein Ganzes od. in einen Kollektivbegriff zusammenfaßt), si iecur aut pulmones, uno verbo omnia sana faciet, Cato: ut uno verbo complectar, diligentia, Cic.: uno verbo die quid est, Ter.: oloquar uno verbo; mittin me intro? Plaut. – γ) verbis, durch (bloße) Worte, Ggstz. re (durch die Tat), Ter. Andr. 824 u. Phorm. 164: ebenso Ggstz. opere (durch die Tat), Cic. de amic. 72. – δ) ad verbum, e verbo, de verbo, pro verbo, aufs Wort, wörtlich, genau, somnium mirifice ad verbum cum re convenit, Cic.: ad verbum ediscere, Cic.: fabellas Latinas ad verbum de Graecis exprimere, wörtlich übersetzen, Cic.: u. so exprimere verbum e verbo, Cic., od. de verbo, Ter.: reddere verbum pro verbo, Cic., od. verbum verbo, Hor.: id esset verbum e verbo, wörtlich, Cic. – ε) verbi causā od. gratiā, beispielsweise, zum Beispiel, si quis verbi causā oriente Caniculā natus est, Cic.: ut propter aliam quampiam rem, verbi gratiā propter voluptatem, nos amemus, Cic. – ζ) meis, tuis, alcis verbis, in meinem, deinem, in jmds. Namen, für mich, dich, für jmd., si uxori tuae meis verbis eris gratulatus, Cic.: anulum, quem ego militi darem tuis verbis, Plaut.: denuntiatum Fabio senatus verbis, ne etc., Cic. – η) quid verbis opus est? was bedarf es der Worte? Ter.: so auch quid multa verba (sc. faciam)? was soll ich viele Worte machen, kurz, Ter. – θ) te tribus verbis volo! nur auf drei (auf ein paar) Worte! = ich will nur ein paar W. mit dir sprechen, Plaut. trin. 963: so auch paucis verbis te volo, Plaut. mil. 375. – ι) bona verba, quaeso! nur gnädig! nur gemach! Ter. Andr. 204.

    II) prägn.: A) die bloße Rede, das leere Wort, der Schein, verba sunt! Ter.: existimatio, decus, infamia verba sunt atque ineptiae, Cic.: cum hoc verbo atque simulatione Apronio, revera tibi obiectum esset, Cic.: in quibus (civitatibus) verbo sunt liberi omnes, dem Worte nach, Cic.: alci dare verba, leere Worte bieten = etwas aufbinden, anführen, hintergehen, überlisten, betrügen, hinters Licht führen, täuschen, ein Schnippchen schlagen, Komik., Cic. u.a.; vgl. Spengel Ter. Andr. 211.

    B) Plur. verba, Witze, Späße, quibus sunt verba sine penu ac pecunia, die spaßreich sind, aber arm an Geld u. Proviant, Plaut. capt. 472.

    C) kollektiv, das Wort, der Ausdruck, a) übh. = der Ausspruch, die Äußerung, illud mihi verbum non placet, Plaut.: quod verbum audio! Ter.: quod verbum in pectus Iugurthae altius, quam quisquam ratus erat, descendit, Sall. Iug. 11, 7. – b) derSpruch, Sinnspruch, das Sprichwort, verum est verbum, quod memoratur, ubi amici, ibi opus, Plaut.: nam vetus verbum hoc quidem est, communia esse amicorum inter se omnia, Ter.

    D) als gramm. t.t., das Verbum, das Zeitwort, verba temporalia, Varro LL.: vocabula et verba, ut homo et equus, et legit et currit, Varro LL.: ut sententiae verbis finiantur, Cic.: – / Genet. Plur. verbûm, zB. verbûm paucûm, Enn. ann. 246: unum quodque istorum verbûm, Plaut. asin. 153: bes. in der Verbindung verbûm sat est, Plaut. Bacch. 878; rud. 866; truc. 644. – vulg. Nbff. berbum, Corp. inscr. Lat. 10, 410, 6. – verbus, Itala (Cant.) Luc. 4, 32. Itala (Brix.) Ioh. 4, 50 u.ö., s. Rönsch Itala p. 266.

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  • 8 verbum

    verbum, ī, n. (Wz. *wer, *wre [erweitert *wer-dh] sagen, altind. vratám, Gebot, Satzung, griech. εἴρω [aus ερjω], ῥημα, Wort [aus ρημα], gotisch waъrd, ahd. wort), das Wort, der Ausdruck, im Plur. die Worte, Ausdrücke, die Rede, I) im allg.: a) übh.: v. durum, abiectum, inquinatum, Cic.: pudet dicere hāc praesente verbum turpe, Ter.: graviore enim verbo uti non licet, um keinen härteren Ausdruck zu gebrauchen (als Parenthese), Cic.: istuc verbum, dieser dein Ausdruck, Ter.: verbum ipsum voluptatis, das Wort »Lust«, Cic.: videtis hoc uno verbo unde significari res duas et ex quo loco et a quo loco, Cic.: in verbis ac nominibus ipsis erat diligens, Cic. – verba (Ausdrücke) mutare, Suet.: dolorem isdem verbis afficere quibus Epicurus, mit denselben Prädikaten belegen, Cic.: verba quaedam (gewisse Formeln) componere, Cic.: in alcis verba iurare, jmdm. den Eid leisten, Curt. – ullum verbum facere (vorbringen, sprechen), nisi quod etc., Plaut.: u. so numquam quoiquam nostrûm verbum fecit, Ter.: numquam hodie tecum commutaturum patrem unum esse verbum, kein Wort (des Vorwurfs) wechseln wird, Ter.: ut est ille bonus vir, tria non commutabitis verba hodie inter vos, Ter.: verbum numquam in publico facere, öffentlich sprechen, einen Vortrag halten, Cic.: de quo ego verbum feci numquam, ich habe über ihn
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    nie ein Wort verloren, Cic.: cum ille verbum facere omnino non potuerit, kein Wort vorbringen konnte, Cic.: u. so verba facere, sowohl übh. = sprechen, schwatzen, Plaut., als insbes. v. Redner = den Sprecher machen, das Wort nehmen, sprechen, reden, einen Vortrag halten, absol., Cic. u.a., apud regem, Nep., pro alqo, Cic., de alqo, de alqa re, Cic.: si is postem aedium tenuisset et pauca verba fecisset, einige Worte (die Einweihungsformel) dazu gesprochen hätte, Cic.: verba secum facere, ein Selbstgespräch halten, Diom. 491, 26: verba facere m. folg. Acc. u. Infin., Sall. Iug. 33, 4; 38, 9. u.ö.: haec pactio non verbis (mündliche Versicherung), sed nominibus et perscriptionibus facta est, Cic.: multis verbis ultro citroque habitis, Reden, Cic. – ille (dies) nefastus erit, per quem tria verba silentur, die drei Worte (do, dico, addico, ich erteile das Klagrecht, spreche Recht, spreche zu), v. Prätor, Ov. fast. 1, 47 (vgl. Varro LL. 6, 30. Macr. sat. 1, 16, 14): u. so verba libera praetor habet, Ov. fast. 1, 52. – Sprichw., verba facere mortuo, zu einem Toten (= vergeblich) reden, Plaut. Poen. 840: verba fiunt mortuo, das sind vergebliche Worte, Ter. Phorm. 1015. – b) Bes. Verbindungen: α) verbo, αα) = durch ein einziges Wort, verbo de sententia destitisti, auf ein W. von mir, Cic.: verbo expedi, mit einem einzigen W., Ter. – ββ) mündlich (Ggstz. scripturā), C. Furnio plura verbo quam scrip-
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    turā mandata dedimus, Planc. in Cic. ep. 10, 8, 5: cui verbo mandabo, quid etc., Vulc. Gallic. Avid. Cass. 10. § 10. – β) uno verbo, mit einem Worte = um es mit einem Worte auszudrücken, -zu sagen (wenn man verschiedene genannte Teile od. Einzelbegriffe in ein Ganzes od. in einen Kollektivbegriff zusammenfaßt), si iecur aut pulmones, uno verbo omnia sana faciet, Cato: ut uno verbo complectar, diligentia, Cic.: uno verbo die quid est, Ter.: oloquar uno verbo; mittin me intro? Plaut. – γ) verbis, durch (bloße) Worte, Ggstz. re (durch die Tat), Ter. Andr. 824 u. Phorm. 164: ebenso Ggstz. opere (durch die Tat), Cic. de amic. 72. – δ) ad verbum, e verbo, de verbo, pro verbo, aufs Wort, wörtlich, genau, somnium mirifice ad verbum cum re convenit, Cic.: ad verbum ediscere, Cic.: fabellas Latinas ad verbum de Graecis exprimere, wörtlich übersetzen, Cic.: u. so exprimere verbum e verbo, Cic., od. de verbo, Ter.: reddere verbum pro verbo, Cic., od. verbum verbo, Hor.: id esset verbum e verbo, wörtlich, Cic. – ε) verbi causā od. gratiā, beispielsweise, zum Beispiel, si quis verbi causā oriente Caniculā natus est, Cic.: ut propter aliam quampiam rem, verbi gratiā propter voluptatem, nos amemus, Cic. – ζ) meis, tuis, alcis verbis, in meinem, deinem, in jmds. Namen, für mich, dich, für jmd., si uxori tuae meis verbis eris gratulatus, Cic.: anulum, quem ego militi darem tuis verbis,
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    Plaut.: denuntiatum Fabio senatus verbis, ne etc., Cic. – η) quid verbis opus est? was bedarf es der Worte? Ter.: so auch quid multa verba (sc. faciam)? was soll ich viele Worte machen, kurz, Ter. – θ) te tribus verbis volo! nur auf drei (auf ein paar) Worte! = ich will nur ein paar W. mit dir sprechen, Plaut. trin. 963: so auch paucis verbis te volo, Plaut. mil. 375. – ι) bona verba, quaeso! nur gnädig! nur gemach! Ter. Andr. 204.
    II) prägn.: A) die bloße Rede, das leere Wort, der Schein, verba sunt! Ter.: existimatio, decus, infamia verba sunt atque ineptiae, Cic.: cum hoc verbo atque simulatione Apronio, revera tibi obiectum esset, Cic.: in quibus (civitatibus) verbo sunt liberi omnes, dem Worte nach, Cic.: alci dare verba, leere Worte bieten = etwas aufbinden, anführen, hintergehen, überlisten, betrügen, hinters Licht führen, täuschen, ein Schnippchen schlagen, Komik., Cic. u.a.; vgl. Spengel Ter. Andr. 211.
    B) Plur. verba, Witze, Späße, quibus sunt verba sine penu ac pecunia, die spaßreich sind, aber arm an Geld u. Proviant, Plaut. capt. 472.
    C) kollektiv, das Wort, der Ausdruck, a) übh. = der Ausspruch, die Äußerung, illud mihi verbum non placet, Plaut.: quod verbum audio! Ter.: quod verbum in pectus Iugurthae altius, quam quisquam ratus erat, descendit, Sall. Iug. 11, 7. – b) der
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    Spruch, Sinnspruch, das Sprichwort, verum est verbum, quod memoratur, ubi amici, ibi opus, Plaut.: nam vetus verbum hoc quidem est, communia esse amicorum inter se omnia, Ter.
    D) als gramm. t.t., das Verbum, das Zeitwort, verba temporalia, Varro LL.: vocabula et verba, ut homo et equus, et legit et currit, Varro LL.: ut sententiae verbis finiantur, Cic.: – ⇒ Genet. Plur. verbûm, zB. verbûm paucûm, Enn. ann. 246: unum quodque istorum verbûm, Plaut. asin. 153: bes. in der Verbindung verbûm sat est, Plaut. Bacch. 878; rud. 866; truc. 644. – vulg. Nbff. berbum, Corp. inscr. Lat. 10, 410, 6. – verbus, Itala (Cant.) Luc. 4, 32. Itala (Brix.) Ioh. 4, 50 u.ö., s. Rönsch Itala p. 266.

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  • 9 carpo

    carpo, carpsī, carptum, ere (vgl. καρπός, ›Abgepflücktes‹, ahd. herbist, ›Zeit des Abpflückens, Erntens‹), rupfen, I) rupfweise wegnehmen, rupfen, abrupfen, A) eig.: 1) mit der Hand, d.i. a) einen Teil vom Ganzen = pflücken, abpflücken, abreißen, flores ex arbore, Ov.: uvam de palmite, Verg.: herbas manibus, Col.: c. manu (Ggstz. convellere ferro), Verg.: coronas ex collo, Hor.: inter cornua saetas, ausreißen, Verg. – b) ein Ganzes in Teile = rupfen, zupfen, vellera, Verg.: mollia lanae fila, Ambros. in Luc. 8, 11: lana mollis bene carpta (woher das franz. charpie), Cels.: pensum, zupfen, spinnen, Hor. u.a.: cibos digitis, an den Sp. klauben, Ov. – dah. scherzh. stolidum pleno vellere carpe pecus, v. Rupfen, d.i. Prellen der reichen Liebhaber, Prop. 1, 13 (16), 8: so auch c. amantem, Ov. am. 1, 8, 91. – 2) mit dem Munde: a) einen Teil vom Ganzen abrupfen = abfressen, von Tieren, alia animalia carpunt, Cic.: gramen (v. Pferden), Verg.: insbes. v. Bienen = ab- od. aussaugen, cibum, Varr. – u. poet. v. Menschen, oscula, Küsse rauben, Prop. u.a. – b) ein Ganzes in Teilen ab- od. ausfressen, v. Vögeln, iecur, Ov.: v. Bienen = ab- od. aussaugen, thyma, Hor.: flores, Macr. – u. prägn. von Menschen, zu sich nehmen, genießen, speisen, unumquicquid, quod quidem erit bellissimum, carpam, Ter.: mullum, leporem, Mart. – B) übtr.: 1) pflücken, abpflücken, a) einen Teil vom Ganzen = sich aussuchen, auswählen, flosculos, Cic.: paucos ad ignominiam, Cic. – b) poet.: α) pflücken = nach u. nach od. mit Muße genießen, molles sub divo somnos, Verg.: auras vitales, Verg., od. bl. auras, Sil. – diem, Hor.: aetatem, Catull. – β) einen Raum Strecke für Strecke zurücklegen, ihn durchziehen, durcheilen, durchfliegen, Ov.: prata fugā, durchfliehen, Verg.: aethereum volucri pede iter, Ov.: aëra alis, Ov.: hāc duce carpe vias, Ov.: mare, durchfahren, Ov. – od. einen Gang, eine Bewegung im Raume Strecke für Strecke vornehmen, iter od. viam, gehen, wandeln, Verg., Hor. u.a.: supremum iter, den letzten Gang gehen = sterben, Hor.: fugam, fliehen, Sil.: volatus, fliegen, Stat. – 2) rupfen, a) mit Worten, durchhecheln, herunterreißen, tüchtig mitnehmen, bekritteln, verkleinern (s. Döring Plin. ep. 1, 9, 5), alqm maledico dente, Cic.: alqm sermonibus, Liv.: alqm sinistris sermonibus, Plin. ep.: militum vocibus carpi, Caes.: hoc, Vell.: nostros libellos, Ov.: studium non utile, tadeln, Ov.: famam vitamqae, Plin. pan.: c. et detorquere recte facta, Plin. ep. – b) als milit. t. t., dem Feinde durch wiederholte Neckereien od. Scharmützel (wobei man einzelne wegfängt od. tötet) Abbruch tun, ihn durch Angriffe auf verschiedenen Seiten necken u. schwächen (s. Fabri Liv. 22, 16, 2), equitatu agmen adversariorum, Caes.: novissimum agmen od. novissimos, Caes. u. Liv. – dah. im Bilde, numerosum agmen (Schar) reorum posse superari, si per singulos carperetur, wenn man sie einzeln abtue, Plin. ep.: (ira) graves habet impetus; tota vincetur, dum partibus carpitur, wenn man ihm teilweise etwas von seiner Stärke nimmt, Sen. – c) übh. nach u. nach schwächen, -entkräften, -mitnehmen, -verzehren (vgl. Drak. Sil. 2, 458), vires paulatim, Verg.: labor carpit corpus, Ov.: caeco carpi igni, Verg.: carpi parvis cotidie damnis vires suas, verlieren an Zahl, Liv. – II) prägn. = concerpere, discerpere, A) eig.: a) klein hacken, pullus carptus, Apic. 4, 133: Ggstz., pullus integer vel carptus, Apic. 6, 251. – b) zerreißen, zerfleischen, iecur, Ov.: viscera dente, Ov.: alqm, Sen. de ira 3, 18, 2. – B) übtr., zerstückeln, zersplittern (vgl. Drak. Liv. 3, 5, 1), in multas parvasque partes exercitum, Liv.: multifariam vires Romanas, Liv.: quia totum potest excidere, quod potest carpi, Sen.: Etymandrum (fluvium), in Kanäle zersplittern, Curt.: carpenda membris minutioribus oratio est, man muß den Vortrag in kleinere Glieder zerstückeln, in kurzen, abgerissenen Sätzen sprechen, Cic. de or. 3, 190: vix pauca verba carpebat, er gab ein paar abgerissene Worte von sich, Hier. ep. 125, 18. – / Nbf. carpeo, ēre, zB. carpeas, Apic. 4, 151: Nbf. carpio, wovon carpiunt, Vict. Vit. 3, 66.

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  • 10 carpo

    carpo, carpsī, carptum, ere (vgl. καρπός, ›Abgepflücktes‹, ahd. herbist, ›Zeit des Abpflückens, Erntens‹), rupfen, I) rupfweise wegnehmen, rupfen, abrupfen, A) eig.: 1) mit der Hand, d.i. a) einen Teil vom Ganzen = pflücken, abpflücken, abreißen, flores ex arbore, Ov.: uvam de palmite, Verg.: herbas manibus, Col.: c. manu (Ggstz. convellere ferro), Verg.: coronas ex collo, Hor.: inter cornua saetas, ausreißen, Verg. – b) ein Ganzes in Teile = rupfen, zupfen, vellera, Verg.: mollia lanae fila, Ambros. in Luc. 8, 11: lana mollis bene carpta (woher das franz. charpie), Cels.: pensum, zupfen, spinnen, Hor. u.a.: cibos digitis, an den Sp. klauben, Ov. – dah. scherzh. stolidum pleno vellere carpe pecus, v. Rupfen, d.i. Prellen der reichen Liebhaber, Prop. 1, 13 (16), 8: so auch c. amantem, Ov. am. 1, 8, 91. – 2) mit dem Munde: a) einen Teil vom Ganzen abrupfen = abfressen, von Tieren, alia animalia carpunt, Cic.: gramen (v. Pferden), Verg.: insbes. v. Bienen = ab- od. aussaugen, cibum, Varr. – u. poet. v. Menschen, oscula, Küsse rauben, Prop. u.a. – b) ein Ganzes in Teilen ab- od. ausfressen, v. Vögeln, iecur, Ov.: v. Bienen = ab- od. aussaugen, thyma, Hor.: flores, Macr. – u. prägn. von Menschen, zu sich nehmen, genießen, speisen, unumquicquid, quod quidem erit bellissimum, carpam, Ter.: mullum,
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    leporem, Mart. – B) übtr.: 1) pflücken, abpflücken, a) einen Teil vom Ganzen = sich aussuchen, auswählen, flosculos, Cic.: paucos ad ignominiam, Cic. – b) poet.: α) pflücken = nach u. nach od. mit Muße genießen, molles sub divo somnos, Verg.: auras vitales, Verg., od. bl. auras, Sil. – diem, Hor.: aetatem, Catull. – β) einen Raum Strecke für Strecke zurücklegen, ihn durchziehen, durcheilen, durchfliegen, Ov.: prata fugā, durchfliehen, Verg.: aethereum volucri pede iter, Ov.: aëra alis, Ov.: hāc duce carpe vias, Ov.: mare, durchfahren, Ov. – od. einen Gang, eine Bewegung im Raume Strecke für Strecke vornehmen, iter od. viam, gehen, wandeln, Verg., Hor. u.a.: supremum iter, den letzten Gang gehen = sterben, Hor.: fugam, fliehen, Sil.: volatus, fliegen, Stat. – 2) rupfen, a) mit Worten, durchhecheln, herunterreißen, tüchtig mitnehmen, bekritteln, verkleinern (s. Döring Plin. ep. 1, 9, 5), alqm maledico dente, Cic.: alqm sermonibus, Liv.: alqm sinistris sermonibus, Plin. ep.: militum vocibus carpi, Caes.: hoc, Vell.: nostros libellos, Ov.: studium non utile, tadeln, Ov.: famam vitamqae, Plin. pan.: c. et detorquere recte facta, Plin. ep. – b) als milit. t. t., dem Feinde durch wiederholte Neckereien od. Scharmützel (wobei man einzelne wegfängt od. tötet) Abbruch tun, ihn durch Angriffe auf verschiedenen Seiten necken u. schwächen (s. Fabri
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    Liv. 22, 16, 2), equitatu agmen adversariorum, Caes.: novissimum agmen od. novissimos, Caes. u. Liv. – dah. im Bilde, numerosum agmen (Schar) reorum posse superari, si per singulos carperetur, wenn man sie einzeln abtue, Plin. ep.: (ira) graves habet impetus; tota vincetur, dum partibus carpitur, wenn man ihm teilweise etwas von seiner Stärke nimmt, Sen. – c) übh. nach u. nach schwächen, -entkräften, -mitnehmen, -verzehren (vgl. Drak. Sil. 2, 458), vires paulatim, Verg.: labor carpit corpus, Ov.: caeco carpi igni, Verg.: carpi parvis cotidie damnis vires suas, verlieren an Zahl, Liv. – II) prägn. = concerpere, discerpere, A) eig.: a) klein hacken, pullus carptus, Apic. 4, 133: Ggstz., pullus integer vel carptus, Apic. 6, 251. – b) zerreißen, zerfleischen, iecur, Ov.: viscera dente, Ov.: alqm, Sen. de ira 3, 18, 2. – B) übtr., zerstückeln, zersplittern (vgl. Drak. Liv. 3, 5, 1), in multas parvasque partes exercitum, Liv.: multifariam vires Romanas, Liv.: quia totum potest excidere, quod potest carpi, Sen.: Etymandrum (fluvium), in Kanäle zersplittern, Curt.: carpenda membris minutioribus oratio est, man muß den Vortrag in kleinere Glieder zerstückeln, in kurzen, abgerissenen Sätzen sprechen, Cic. de or. 3, 190: vix pauca verba carpebat, er gab ein paar abgerissene Worte von sich, Hier. ep. 125, 18. – ⇒ Nbf. carpeo, ēre, zB. carpeas, Apic. 4, 151: Nbf. carpio, wovon carpiunt, Vict. Vit.
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    3, 66.

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  • 11 adquīrō (acqu-)

        adquīrō (acqu-) quīsīvī, quīsītus, ere    [ad + quaero], to get in addition, obtain besides, accumulate: nihil: novos amicos, S.: armis opes, L.: pauca (verba), i. e. add (to the language), H.: de possessione detrahere, adquirere ad fidem, add to your credit: adquirendi votum, lust for gain, Iu.: virīs eundo, gather force, V. — Poet., to obtain, gain, win: sibi famam, Ph.: vires bello amicas, for war, O.

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  • 12 confero

    confĕro, conferre, contŭli, conlātum (collātum) - tr. - [st2]1 [-] apporter ensemble, amasser, réunir, assembler dans un même lieu, rassembler; porter, transporter. [st2]2 [-] rassembler (pour combattre), engager (un combat). [st2]3 [-] apporter (un tribut, de l'argent), payer. [st2]4 [-] fournir, donner. [st2]5 [-] être utile à, servir à. (intr.). [st2]6 [-] appliquer, employer à, consacrer (le temps) à. [st2]7 [-] attribuer, conférer (une charge). [st2]8 [-] comparer, mettre en parallèle. [st2]9 [-] conférer, discuter, échanger (des propos). [st2]10 [-] remettre, ajourner, renvoyer à, différer. [st2]11 [-] imputer à, rejeter sur, faire retomber sur, faire porter sur. [st2]12 [-] changer, transformer, métamorphoser.    - conferre frumentum: rassembler du blé.    - conferre vires in unum, Liv. 33, 19, 7: réunir les forces.    - conferre copias: concentrer des troupes.    - se conferre Romam: se retirer à Rome, se réfugier à Rome.    - conferre iter versus Brundidium: se diriger vers Brundisium.    - se conferre in fugam: s'enfuir.    - arma (gradum, manum, pedem, signa) conferre: en venir aux mains, engager le combat.    - collatis signis: en bataille rangée.    - tributum conferre in aliquam rem: payer une taxe pour qqch.    - sextantes in capita conferre, Liv. 2, 33, 11: verser un sixième d'as par personne.    - conferre (+ ad et acc. ou dat.) = prodesse: [apporter qqch d'utile ] = être utile à, être profitable à.    - multum veteres etiam Latini conferunt, Quint, 1, 8, 8: même les anciens Latins sont d'un grand profit.    - omne reliquium tempus conferre ad...: consacrer tout le reste de son temps à...    - conferre tempus ad comparationem belli: employer son temps à préparer la guerre.    - ad historiam se conferre: se consacrer à l’histoire.    - conferre officia in aliquem: obliger qqn.    - in pauca conferre: dire en peu de mots, résumer, abréger.    - conferre cum aliquo sermones: s'entretenir avec qqn.    - conferre aliquem alicui (cum aliquo) aliqua re: comparer qqn à qqn sous le rapport de qqch.    - conferre in diem: renvoyer à une date.    - ad arbitrium alicujus aliquid conferre: soumettre qqch au jugement de qqn.    - in aliquem culpam conferre: imputer la faute à qqn, rejeter la faute sur qqn.    - aliquem in saxum conferre, Ov. M. 4, 278: métamorphoser qqn en rocher.
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    confĕro, conferre, contŭli, conlātum (collātum) - tr. - [st2]1 [-] apporter ensemble, amasser, réunir, assembler dans un même lieu, rassembler; porter, transporter. [st2]2 [-] rassembler (pour combattre), engager (un combat). [st2]3 [-] apporter (un tribut, de l'argent), payer. [st2]4 [-] fournir, donner. [st2]5 [-] être utile à, servir à. (intr.). [st2]6 [-] appliquer, employer à, consacrer (le temps) à. [st2]7 [-] attribuer, conférer (une charge). [st2]8 [-] comparer, mettre en parallèle. [st2]9 [-] conférer, discuter, échanger (des propos). [st2]10 [-] remettre, ajourner, renvoyer à, différer. [st2]11 [-] imputer à, rejeter sur, faire retomber sur, faire porter sur. [st2]12 [-] changer, transformer, métamorphoser.    - conferre frumentum: rassembler du blé.    - conferre vires in unum, Liv. 33, 19, 7: réunir les forces.    - conferre copias: concentrer des troupes.    - se conferre Romam: se retirer à Rome, se réfugier à Rome.    - conferre iter versus Brundidium: se diriger vers Brundisium.    - se conferre in fugam: s'enfuir.    - arma (gradum, manum, pedem, signa) conferre: en venir aux mains, engager le combat.    - collatis signis: en bataille rangée.    - tributum conferre in aliquam rem: payer une taxe pour qqch.    - sextantes in capita conferre, Liv. 2, 33, 11: verser un sixième d'as par personne.    - conferre (+ ad et acc. ou dat.) = prodesse: [apporter qqch d'utile ] = être utile à, être profitable à.    - multum veteres etiam Latini conferunt, Quint, 1, 8, 8: même les anciens Latins sont d'un grand profit.    - omne reliquium tempus conferre ad...: consacrer tout le reste de son temps à...    - conferre tempus ad comparationem belli: employer son temps à préparer la guerre.    - ad historiam se conferre: se consacrer à l’histoire.    - conferre officia in aliquem: obliger qqn.    - in pauca conferre: dire en peu de mots, résumer, abréger.    - conferre cum aliquo sermones: s'entretenir avec qqn.    - conferre aliquem alicui (cum aliquo) aliqua re: comparer qqn à qqn sous le rapport de qqch.    - conferre in diem: renvoyer à une date.    - ad arbitrium alicujus aliquid conferre: soumettre qqch au jugement de qqn.    - in aliquem culpam conferre: imputer la faute à qqn, rejeter la faute sur qqn.    - aliquem in saxum conferre, Ov. M. 4, 278: métamorphoser qqn en rocher.
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        Confero, pen. corr. confers, contuli, pen. corr. collatum, pen. prod. conferre. Columel. Porter plusieurs choses en un lieu.
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        Conferre. Plaut. Bailler, Donner, Conferer.
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        Conferre. Plin. iunior. Contribuer.
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        AEs conferre. Ouid. Contribuer.
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        Dicam neminem vnquam tam impudentem fuisse, qui a diis immortalibus tot et tantas res tacitus auderet optare, quot et quantas dii immortales ad Cn. Pompeium contulerunt. Cic. Luy ont donné, ou Ont assemblé en luy.
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        Conferre, Colloqui. Plaut. Deviser, Conferer ensemble, Parlementer.
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        Conferre studia ad arbitrium alterius. Cic. Employer ses estudes, son scavoir és lettres à la volunté d'autruy.
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        Ad alios hanc sinistram diligentiam conferant. Plin. iunior. Qu'ils donnent et attribuent, ou portent et facent present de ceste fascheuse et trop curieuse diligence à d'autres, car je n'en veulx point, et ne veulx estre tel.
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        Conferre, pro Mutare. Ouid. Muer.
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        Amorem conferre alicui. Propert. Donner son amour à aucun, L'aimer.
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        Ita tuum conferto amorem semper si sapis, Ne id, etc. Plaut. Mets, ou jecte ton amour en tel lieu, etc.
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        Animum alio. Terent. Oster son amour d'aucun, et en aimer un autre.
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        Animum ad fodiendos puteos. Hirtius. Appliquer son esprit, Mettre son entente, S'addonner.
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        Benignitatem in aliquem. Cic. Luy faire beaucoup de plaisirs, Luy aulmosner de ses biens.
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        Capita. Liu. S'assembler ensemble pour consulter de quelque affaire, Quand deux ou plusieurs apportent leurs testes l'une aupres de l'autre pour parler de choses secrettes.
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        Castra castris. Caesar. Camper l'un devant l'autre, et vis à vis.
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        Causam in aliquam. Cic. Rejecter sur luy la faulte faicte, Mettre sur luy le blasme, Attribuer, S'excuser sur luy.
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        Certamina belli inter se. Virgil. Batailler.
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        Ore suo cibos conferre. Quintil. Comme font les oiseaulx qui baillent la besquee à leurs petits.
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        Consilia. Terent. Consulter ensemble.
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        Omne consilium, studium, officium, operam, laborem, diligentiam, ad amplitudinem alicuius conferre. Cic. Employer.
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        Consilium viuendi omne ad naturam suam. Cic. Rapporter sa facon et institution de vivre à son naturel, et suyvre sa nature.
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        Consolationes in rem aliquam. Cic. Assembler.
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        Consulatum in eundem annum. Plin. iunior. Rapporter et remettre en mesme annee.
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        Copiam verborum conferre. Quintil. Bailler.
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        Ne post conferas culpam in me. Terent. Ne t'en prens point apres à moy, Ne m'en charge point apres.
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        Curas suas, et quicquid nobis est a Deo datum, in Remp. conferre. Cic. Employer et appliquer toute sa cure et son soing au prouffit de la Republique.
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        In medium singulos denarios in singulos talos conferre. Sueton. Bailler, Coucher, Mettre sur le jeu.
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        Diligentiam in valetudinem alicuius conferre. Cic. Estre soigneux de sa santé, Mettre peine à le remettre en santé.
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        Disputationem conferre in aliquos. Cic. Leur donner et appliquer la disputation et propos, Les faire parler.
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        Dona conferre alicui. Plaut. Bailler ou apporter de tous costez.
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        Exempla aliorum conferre. Plaut. Mettre deux choses l'une contre l'autre, pour veoir qui est la plus belle, ou plus laide, pour en faire comparaison, Paragonner.
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        Si conferendum exemplum est, non, etc. Terent. S'il est besoing d'user d'exemple.
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        Faciem et mores conferre duarum. Ouid. Faire comparaison de l'une à l'autre.
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        Fructum alio conferre. Terent. Porter ailleurs.
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        Gradum. Plaut. Marcher aussi fort qu'un autre, Aller quand et quand luy.
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        Gradum conferre cum hoste. Liu. Assaillir, Mettre pied contre pied, Aller droict à luy, Marcher à l'encontre.
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        In carmen rem aliquam. Columel. Mettre en vers.
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        In commune. Cic. Apporter au prouffit de la communauté, Mettre en commun.
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        In educationem aliquid conferre. Quintil. Employer.
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        Nunc verba in pauca conferam, quid te velim. Plaut. Je te diray en brief ce que je te veulx dire.
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        In pauca. Cic. Conclure, Faire fin.
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        In quaestum vocem conferre. Cic. Employer sa parolle à gaigner argent.
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        In tempus ambulationis conferre cogitationes. Cic. Remettre toutes ses pensees au temps qu'on se pourmenera, N'y penser sinon alors.
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        Inter se. Cic. Conferer ensemble.
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        Coram inter nos conferemus. Cic. Nous parlerons et deviserons ensemble.
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        Ingenium ad rem aliquam. Cic. Employer ou appliquer son esprit.
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        Iter Brundusium versus contuli. Cic. Je prins et addonnay mon chemin vers, etc. Vide ITER.
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        Lites conferre. Horat. Noiser avec aucun.
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        Maledicta in aliquem. Cic. Dire beaucoup d'oultrages à aucun.
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        Manum, vel manus. Cic. S'entrebatre.
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        Munera conferre. Propert. Faire dons, Donner.
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        Officia in aliquem. Cic. Luy faire plaisir et service.
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        Omnem operam ad philosophiam conferre. Cic. Employer toute sa peine à la philosophie.
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        Orationem ad rem aliquam. Plaut. Tourner son propos à parler de quelque autre chose.
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        Permulta in aliquem, quae ab eo nunquam dicta sunt, conferre. Cic. Luy attribuer.
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        Pecuniam in opus. Plin. iunior. Bailler ou employer argent pour faire quelque chose.
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        Nisi forte eam pecuniam in Reipub. magnum aliquod tempus contulerit. Cic. S'il ne l'a reservé pour, etc.
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        Pedem. Plaut. S'approcher.
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        Collato pede praeliari. Liu. Combatre main à main.
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        Conferre pedem. Cic. Venir au poinct, Joindre.
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        Conferre pedem dicuntur Oratores. Quintil. Quand ils viennent cottir et respondre aux argumens de la partie.
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        Pestem hominibus haec conferunt. Columel. Engendrent la peste, ou apportent.
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        Rationem belli aliquo. Caesar. Employer toute la force de la guerre en quelque place.
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        Rationes conferre. Cic. Compter ensemble et venir à compte.
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        Rem in pauca. Plaut. Abbreger, Despescher.
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        Conferre se. Plin. iunior. S'assembler, et s'amasser.
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        Seria conferre cum aliquo. Ouid. Conferer et deviser de choses d'importance.
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        Seditionem in tranquillum. Plaut. Appaiser une noise.
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        Sermonem. Plaut. Parler ensemble.
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        Conferunt sermones inter se. Plaut. Ils parlent et devisent ensemble.
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        Signa. Liu. Combatre et venir les uns contre les autres à enseignes desployees.
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        Stipendium studio alterius. Colum. Aider les estudes d'aucun d'une somme d'argent.
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        Studia sua omnia in aliquem. Cic. Luy faire tous plaisirs et services, S'employer du tout à luy faire plaisir.
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        Studium in rem aliquem. Cic. Employer.
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        Suspicionem in aliquem. Cic. Souspeconner aucun.
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        Tempus ad vel in rem aliquam. Plin. iunior. Cic. Employer et addonner son temps à faire quelque chose.
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        Ex censu quotannis tributa conferre. Cic. Payer le tribut, le fort portant le foible selon leurs richesses.
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        Verba ad rem conferre. Terent. Mettre en effect ce qu'on dict, Faire ce qu'on dict.
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        Conferri solet a te in me verbum illud. Cic. Tu as accoustumé de dire, et user d'un tel mot à l'encontre de moy.
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        Vires in vnum. Liu. Assembler ensemble.
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        Vitam inter se vtriusque conferre. Cic. Comparer l'une à l'autre.
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        Vitia sua in senectutem. Cic. Attribuer ses vices à vieillesse, et dire qu'elle en est cause.
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        Voluntatem conferre in aliquem. Cic. Mettre son affection à aucun.
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        Conferre nouissima primis. Cic. Assembler les derniers aux premiers, Conferer et rapporter, etc.
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        Conferre se totum ad amicitiam alicuius. Cic. S'addonner du tout à aimer aucun.
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        Ad aliquem se conferre. Cic. Se retirer vers aucun, Le suyvre et hanter.
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        Ad authoritatem alicuius. Cic. Suyvre l'authorité d'aucun.
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        Ad curam aliquam se conferre. Cic. Prendre le soing de quelque chose.
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        Ad rempub. Cic. S'addonner au gouvernement et maniement de la republique.
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        Ad studia. Sueton. S'addonner aux lettres.
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        Conferre se ad vmbram arboris. Ouidius. Se mettre à l'ombre d'un arbre.
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        In fidem et clientelam alterius. Cic. Se donner à quelqu'un, Se mettre en sa sauvegarde et tutelle.
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        In societatem aliquorum. Cic. S'associer, S'accompaigner, Se faire compaignon.
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        Ad hostes. Cic. Se rendre aux ennemis.
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        In pedes se conferre. Plaut. Gaigner au pied, S'enfuir.
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        Conferre, Comparare. Dicimus autem, Confero te isti, et cum isto. Cic. Comparer, Paragonner, Confronter.
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        Hominibus magnis se conferre. Ouid. Se comparer à grans personnages.
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        Conferre descriptionem cum tabulis. Cic. Collationner le double ou la copie avec l'original.
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        Conferre, Differer. Cic. Omnia in Martium mensem sunt collata. Rejectez, Differez jusques au mois de Mars.
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        Conferre timorem suum, aut rem aliam in aliquid. Caesar. Dire qu'elle est cause de nostre paour, Attribuer.
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        Romam se contulit. Cic. Il est allé à Romme.
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        Retro se conferre. Claud. Reculer, Retourner.
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        Confert, in tertiis personis, pro Conducit, vel prodest, et vtile est. Columel. Prouffite, Sert, Aide, Est utile.

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  • 13 confero

    cōn-fero, contulī, collātum (conlātum), cōnferre, I) zusammentragen, -bringen, 1) übh. von allen Seiten herbeitragend zusammenbringen, zusammenschaffen, von allen Seiten beischaffen, aufhäufen, auf einen Punkt (Haufen) vereinigen, a) eig.: materiam, Caes.: aggerem, Auct. b. Alex.: frumentum, Caes.: arma, einliefern, Caes.: u. so militaria signa, Caes.: cibos ore suo (v. Vögeln), Quint.: membra undique, Hor.: omnia arma ex oppido, Caes. – uvas in fiscellam, Col.: sarcinas, impedimenta, signa in unum locum, Caes.: ligna circa casam, Nep.: dentes in corpore, Ov. – b) übtr., zusammenstellen, zusammenfassen, malend, plura in unam tabulam opera, Quint. – schriftlich, ex immensa diffusaque legum copia optima quaeque et necessaria in paucissimos libros, Suet.: res Romanas Graeco peregrinoque sermone in historiam, Iustin. – im Ausdruck, rem in pauca, Plaut.: in versus sic verba sua duos, Ov. – u. (mit zu ergänzendem Objekt) conferamus igitur in pauca, Cic.: ut in pauca conferam, testamento facto mulier moritur, Cic.: quam potero in verba conferam paucissima, Plaut.

    2) beisteuernd zusammenbringen, zusammenschießen, aufbringen, entrichten, beitragen, beisteuern, a) eig. (s. Arntzen Aur. Vict. de vir. ill. 19, 7), aes (v. Volke), Ov.: aes certatim (v. Volke), Val. Max.: so bes. collato aere (durch eine Beisteuer an Geld), zB. alqm funerare, Sen., statuam statuere, Suet.: u. so collatis quadrantibus alqm sepelire, Aur. Vict. – c. pecuniam, pecunias, Cic.: tributi minus, Liv.: ex censu quotannis tributa, Cic.: sextantes in capita (auf den Kopf = à Person), Liv.: quadragena talenta quotannis Delum, Nep.: pecunias ad honores alcis, Cic.: aurum ad redimendam civitatem a Gallis, Liv.: aurum argentumque in publicum (für den Staat); Liv.: pecuniam in (zu) statuas, Cic.: tributum in militare stipendium, Liv.: pecuniam pro parte in commune Siciliae, Cic.: ex nostro nonnihil in commune, Cic.: stipem Apollini, Liv.: Agrippae Menenio sextantes aeris in funus, Plin. – absol. (ohne Ang. was?), nos dabimus, nos conferemus, nostro sumptu, non tuo, Plaut.: date stipes, indulgete, conferte, Ps. Quint. decl.: c. alci ad victum, Quint.: c. in funus, ICt. – b) übtr., pater Tiberi plurimum ad victoriam contulit, Suet. Tib. 4, 1.

    3) zu einem Ganzen vereinigend zusammenbringen, zusammenziehen, vereinigen, a) eig.: vires in unum, Liv.: collatis viribus proelium capessere, Iustin.: u. (bildl.) utrumne sententiae duae collatis viribus novissimam periment? Plin. ep.: e quibus (fontibus) collatae aquae per prona montis flumen emittunt, Curt.: dissimiles et dispares res in unam potestatem (durch chemische Bindung), Vitr. – b) übtr.: α) übh.: post hoc proelium collatum omne bellum est circa Corinthum, zog sich zusammen, Nep.: quae utraque, si in unum conferantur (zusammengezogen [addiert] werden), facile saeculi modum expleverint, Val. Max.: hunc collatis precibus adoramus, mit vereinten B., Arnob. 1, 27. – β) prägn., schaffend zusammensetzen, e singulis non membris, sed frustis collata oratio, Quint.: hominis ortus ex utroque gignentium confertur, Quint.

    4) annähernd, nahe hinbringend zusammenbringen, zusammenstecken, zusammenfügen, ganz nahe bringen, a) eig.: α) in friedlicher Absicht: capita (um heimlich zu sprechen), Cic. Verr. 3, 31. Liv. 2, 45, 7: ora, Apul.: membra (bei der Umarmung), Lucr.: gradom, sich nähern, näher herangehen, Plaut. u. Verg.: palma cum palma collata plausum facit, Sen. – β) (bes. als milit. t. t.) in feindlicher Absicht, castra propius, Liv.: castra in propinquum, castra oppido, Auct. b. Alex.: castra cum hoste, Liv.: u. castra castris (hostis), Cic., Caes. u.a. (s. Held Caes. b. c. 3, 79, 2. Fabri Liv. 23, 28, 9). – bes. c. arma, manum, gradum, pedem, signa, v. Nahgefecht, Handgemenge, v. der förmlichen Schlacht, zB. c. arma cum alqo od. inter se, handgemein werden, Caes. u. Liv.: u. so ferrum et manus cum alqo, Cic.: u. manum cum hoste, Liv., u. bl. manum, Liv. – c. gradum cum alqo, Liv.: collato gradu (Fuß an Fuß, Mann gegen Mann) certare, s. Heräus zu Tac. hist. 2, 42, 11. – c. pedem cum pede, u. bl. c. pedem, einander zu Leibe rücken, Liv. (pedem c. auch sprichw. v. streitenden Parteien vor Gericht, Cic.): u. collato pede, Fuß an Fuß, Mann gegen Mann, zB. ut non missilibus tantum, sed gladiis etiam prope collato pede gereretur res, Liv.: collato pede, quasi singuli inter se decertarent, in eodem vestigio stabant, Curt. – conferre signa, handgemein werden, Cic. (auch bildl., im Wortstreit): c. signa cum Alexandrinis, Cic.: aliquoties comminus c. signa cum Romanis, Liv.: signis collatis (in förmlicher Schlacht) superare exercitus regios, Cic.: u. so signis collatis certare, dimicare, inter se concurrere, Liv.: signis collatis cum hostium legionibus pugnare, Cato fr. – c. arto luctantia nexu pectora pectoribus, Ov.: se viro vir contulit, Mann stellte sich dem Mann (= Mann focht gegen Mann), Verg.: u. absol., mecum confer, ait, mit mir kämpfe, Ov. met. 10, 603. -prägn., collato Marte alqm leto dare, im Handgemenge, Ov.: c. certamina belli inter se, sich miteinander einlassen, Verg.: c. lites, miteinander anbinden, Hor. – b) übtr., mittelst der Rede jmdm. mitteilen, mit jmd. austauschen, wechseln, sermonem, Plaut.: sermonem cum alqo u. in via cum alqo, Cic.: sermones familiares cum alqo, Cic.: sermonem cum alqo de modo et forma sacrae arae, Val. Max.: quadam de re sermonem inter se, Val. Max. – c. omnia sua consilia, Ter.: u. consilia de Romano bello, Liv.: cum ullo aut sermones aut consilia contulit saepius? Cic. – c. iniurias, Tac.: c. haec od. sollicitudines inter se, Cic.: seria cum alqo, Ov.: hoc coram c., Cic.: tum, si quid res feret, coram conferemus, Cic. – m. folg. Relotiv- od. indir. Fragesatz, ideo sum brevior, quod, ut spero, coram brevi tempore conferre quae volumus licebit, Cic.: ibi conferentibus, quid in cuiusque provinciae regione animorom Hispanis esset, Liv. – absol. = sich besprechen, omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari, Plaut. rud. 338: c. cum alqo, Augustin. ep. 33, 2: u. nisi contulerimus inter nos, quid finis sit etc., wenn wir nicht untereinander besprochen haben, was usw., Cic. de fin. 2, 4: u. diligentius inter se, Vulg. 2. Mach. 11, 36.

    5) gegenüberstellend zusammenbringen, a) im Kampfe, messen, vires, Liv.: ex propinquo vires, Liv. – b) zur Beurteilung zusammenstellen, zusammenhalten, zum Vergleich herbeiziehen, vergleichen, tesseram hospitalem, Plaut.: exemplum, Komik.: utrorumque facta, Nep.: faciem moresque duarum, Ov.: rationes, die Rechnung vergleichen, Abrechnung halten, Cic. u. (bildl.) Sen.: ebenso accepta et expensa, Sen.: haec omnia summā curā et diligentiā recognita et collata sunt, kollationiert (v. Abschriften), Cic. – Gallicum cum Germanorum agro, Caes.: fortunam Metropolitum cum casu Gomphensium, Caes.: cum illius vita P. Sullae vobis notissimam, Cic.: volumina cum recitatis, Vitr.: conferte Verrem, non ut hominem cum homine comparetis, sed ut pacem cum bello, leges cum vi conferatis, Cic.: quem cum eo conferre possumus non modo ingenii magnitudine, sed etiam animi? Cic. – parva magnis, Cic.: minora maioribus, Auct. b. Alex.: se laudibus alterius, Phaedr.: vitam inter se utriusque, Cic.: bos ad bovem collatus, Varr.

    II) nach einem Punkte hintragen, 1) übh. hinbringen, hinschaffen, hinführen, hinwenden, hinkehren, etw. wohin verlegen, versetzen, setzen, stellen, flüchten, a) eig.: parentes et coniuges illuc, Tac.: nihil domum suam, Nep.: pecunias monimentaque ex fano Herculis in privatam domum, Caes. – suas rationes et copias (seine Spekulationen u. Fonds) in illam provinciam, Cic. – Deiotari legiones in mediam aciem, Auct. b. Alex.: u. so tertiam aciem in sinistrum cornu, Auct. b. Afr.: eodem suum omnem equitatum, Auct. b. Afr. – c. signa ad alqm (zu jmd. stoßen), Liv.: aber (feindl.) signa in laevum cornu, sich mit dem Angriffe gegen den l. Fl. wenden, Liv. – c. iter eo, den Weg dahin nehmen, Brut. in Cic. ep.: ebenso iter Brundisium versus, Cic. – c. propere pedes in curriculum, Varr. fr. – u. bes. c. se, sich begeben, sich flüchten, se alio, Cic.: se continuo c. protinam in pedes, Plaut.: se suaque in naves, Nep.: se in astu, Cic.: se suaque omnia in oppidum, Caes.: se ad hostes, Cic.: se Rhodum, Cic.: se in fanum Veneris, Val. Max.: se ad hospitem (Ggstz. in meritoriam tabernam devertere), Val. Max.: urbs ipsa, quo se fusa contulerat acies, sich geflüchtet hatte, Liv. – m. 1. Supin., se dormitum c., Cic. ep. 9, 26, 1: se eo (dahin) cubitum, Suet. Aug. 6. – v. Lebl., si pituita eo se confert, Cels.: spiritus eodem se contulit, Sen.: c. se in angustum (v. Atomen), Sen. – u. im Passiv, navium pars ex errore eodem conferebatur, wurde ebendahin geführt, Auct. b. Afr.: absol., bene navis agitatur, pulchre haec confertur ratis, wird dahingetragen, Plaut. Bacch. 797. – b) übtr.: α) se conf. m. Ang. wohin? durch ad od. in u. Akk. = sich zu jmd. od. einer Sache in irgend ein Verhältnis begeben, sich an jmd. od. etw. anschließen, sich ihm zuwenden, hingeben, widmen, c. se ad pontificem Scaevolam, Cic.: c. se ad senatus auctoritatem, Cic.: c. se ad amicitiam alcis, Cic.: c. se in amicitiam et fidem (Schutz) alcis, Cic.: c. se in alcis fidem et clientelam, Cic.: c. se ad studium scribendi, ad philosophiae studium, Cic.: ad scribendum se contulit, er wurde Schriftsteller, Hieron.: c. se ad studia litterarum, Cic. – β) etwas schriftlich od. mündlich irgendwohin bringen, aufnehmen, eintragen, irgendwo anbringen, vorbringen, ab utrisque ea, quae commode dici videntur, in suas artes c., Cic.: lamentationes suas etiam in testamentum, Tac.: spes votaque non prius ad deos quam ad principum aures, Tac. – cur non confertis (nehmt ihr nicht [in den Antrag] auf, warum tragt ihr nicht zugleich darauf an), ne sit conubium divitibus ac pauperibus? Liv. 4, 4, 9. – γ) ein Vorhaben, ein Amt u. dgl. auf eine gewisse Zeit legen, ansetzen, verlegen, omnia in mensem Martium, Cic.: iter suum in posterum diem, Brut. in Cic. ep.: alqd in longiorem diem (Ggstz. alqd repraesentare), Caes.: eo (verst. in Caesaris adventum) omnem belli rationem, Caes.: alcis tertium consulatum eundem in annum, Plin. pan. – u. ein geschichtl. Ereignis chronologisch in od. auf eine Zeit setzen, verlegen, Carthaginis expugnationem in hunc annum, Liv. 27, 7, 5. – δ) in eine gewisse Abteilung, wissensch. Form bringen, totam Academiam ex duobus libris contuli in quattuor, Cic.: ex immensa diffusaque legum copia optima quaeque in paucissimos libros, Suet.: reliquam rusticarum rerum partem in carmen, Col.: res Romanas Graeco peregrinoque sermone in historiam, Iustin. – ε) in einen Zustand bringen, übergehen lassen, seditionem in tranquillum, Plaut.: verba ad rem, Ter. – dah. poet. = verwandeln, alqm in saxum, Ov.: corpus in volucrem, Ov.

    2) zuwendend, a) eig., eine Gabe, Kosten u. dgl. zuwenden, darbringen, hergeben, verwenden, bestimmen, pecuniam florenti parti (Partei), Nep.: munera alci, Nep.: praemia alci, Suet.: u. puellae L milia nummum, Plin. ep. – fructum alio, Ter.: eam pecuniam in rei publicae magnum aliquod tempus, Cic.: pecuniam ad beneficentiam liberalitatemque, Cic.: impendia in educationem, Cic.: praedas ac manubias in urbis ornamenta, Cic. – b) übtr.: α) Gedanken, Neigung, Gesinnung, eine Tätigkeit, Zeit u. dgl. wohin wenden, richten, zuwenden, angedeihen lassen, erweisen, anwenden, verwenden, alio animum suum (sein Gelüst), Ter.: animum huc, Ter.: animum ad fodiendos puteos, Auct. b. Alex.: omnes suas curas cogitationesque in rem publicam, Cic.: curam ad philosophiam, Cic.: laudem in commune, jedem für alle Ruhm erwerben (Ggstz. laudem ex communi ad se trahere), Liv.: benignitatis plurimum in alqm, Cic.: benevolentiam erga alqm a pueritia, Cic.: fructum virtutis et ingenii in proximum quemque, Cic.: plurimum ad victoriam, Suet.: plurimum operae, studii, diligentiae, laboris ad conficiendum reditum alcis, Cic.: omne reliquum tempus non ad oblivionem veteris belli, sed ad comparationem novi, Cic. – selten schlimme Dinge, maledicta in alqm, Cic.: legem ad perniciem civitatis, in Anwendung kommen lassen, mißbrauchen, Nep. – β) etw. zur Ausführung in jmds. Hand legen, jmdm. übertragen, überlassen, rem ad alqm, Cic.: omnem spem salutis ad clementiam victoris, Cic.: de re publica disputationem in Africani personam et Phili et Laelii, Cic.: curam restituendi Capitolii in L. Vestinum, Tac. – γ) etw. auf jmd. od. etw. übertragen = jmdm. beilegen, als Besitzer, quis non videt species istas hominum collatas in deos aut consilio quodam sapientium... aut superstitione, Cic. de nat. deor. 1, 77. – od. als Urheber jmdm., als Ursache einer Sache beilegen, beimessen, zur Last legen, auf jmd. od. etw. schieben, verbum falso in alqm, Cic.: permulta in Plancium, quae ab eo dicta non sunt, Cic.: suum timorem in rei frumentariae simulationem angustiasque itineris, Caes. – c. culpam od. causam in alqm, Cic.: crimina in alqm, Cic.: falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam, Cic.: suspicionem in alqm, Cic.: vitia in senectutem, Cic. – δ) confert (v. mehreren conferunt), wie συμφέρει, es ist etw. od. jmdm. zuträglich, förderlich, trägt mit bei, wirkt mit, gew. m. Ang. wieviel? durch aliquid, nihil, multum, plus, plurimum u. dgl., zB. quin etiam aliquid confert et aetas et corpus, Cels.: senecta nihil confert, Plin.: multum veteres Latini (auctores) conferunt, Quint.: non plus contulerunt lecti Cicero aut Demosthenes? Quint.: plurimum oratori confert lectio poëtarum, Quint.: quod contulisse plurimum videtur, Cels.: m. Infin. als Subj., incipiente incremento confert alterna folia circumobruere, Plin. 19, 83. – zugl. m. Ang. wozu? durch Adv. eo (dazu), od. durch ad od. (selten) in u. Akk., od. durch bl. Dat. (s. Herbst Quint. 10, 1, 95. Sillig Plin. 35, 67), multum autem eo confert et corporis et nervorum habitus, Cels.: confert etiam aliquid ad somnum silanus iuxta cadens, Cels.: rursus in alia plus prior confert (exercitatio), Quint.: plus scientiae collaturus quam eloquentiae, Quint.: plurimum coeptis contulerunt iactatum exemplar epistulae;... simul rumor dissipatus etc., Suet.: allium voci confert, Plin. – m. Ang. worin? wobei? durch in u. Abl., in morbis cum multum fortuna conferat, Cels. 7. praef. § 4. – / Perf. contulĕrunt gemessen, Prop. 2, 3, 25.

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  • 14 confero

    cōn-fero, contulī, collātum (conlātum), cōnferre, I) zusammentragen, -bringen, 1) übh. von allen Seiten herbeitragend zusammenbringen, zusammenschaffen, von allen Seiten beischaffen, aufhäufen, auf einen Punkt (Haufen) vereinigen, a) eig.: materiam, Caes.: aggerem, Auct. b. Alex.: frumentum, Caes.: arma, einliefern, Caes.: u. so militaria signa, Caes.: cibos ore suo (v. Vögeln), Quint.: membra undique, Hor.: omnia arma ex oppido, Caes. – uvas in fiscellam, Col.: sarcinas, impedimenta, signa in unum locum, Caes.: ligna circa casam, Nep.: dentes in corpore, Ov. – b) übtr., zusammenstellen, zusammenfassen, malend, plura in unam tabulam opera, Quint. – schriftlich, ex immensa diffusaque legum copia optima quaeque et necessaria in paucissimos libros, Suet.: res Romanas Graeco peregrinoque sermone in historiam, Iustin. – im Ausdruck, rem in pauca, Plaut.: in versus sic verba sua duos, Ov. – u. (mit zu ergänzendem Objekt) conferamus igitur in pauca, Cic.: ut in pauca conferam, testamento facto mulier moritur, Cic.: quam potero in verba conferam paucissima, Plaut.
    2) beisteuernd zusammenbringen, zusammenschießen, aufbringen, entrichten, beitragen, beisteuern, a) eig. (s. Arntzen Aur. Vict. de vir. ill. 19, 7), aes (v. Volke), Ov.: aes certatim (v. Volke), Val.
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    Max.: so bes. collato aere (durch eine Beisteuer an Geld), zB. alqm funerare, Sen., statuam statuere, Suet.: u. so collatis quadrantibus alqm sepelire, Aur. Vict. – c. pecuniam, pecunias, Cic.: tributi minus, Liv.: ex censu quotannis tributa, Cic.: sextantes in capita (auf den Kopf = à Person), Liv.: quadragena talenta quotannis Delum, Nep.: pecunias ad honores alcis, Cic.: aurum ad redimendam civitatem a Gallis, Liv.: aurum argentumque in publicum (für den Staat); Liv.: pecuniam in (zu) statuas, Cic.: tributum in militare stipendium, Liv.: pecuniam pro parte in commune Siciliae, Cic.: ex nostro nonnihil in commune, Cic.: stipem Apollini, Liv.: Agrippae Menenio sextantes aeris in funus, Plin. – absol. (ohne Ang. was?), nos dabimus, nos conferemus, nostro sumptu, non tuo, Plaut.: date stipes, indulgete, conferte, Ps. Quint. decl.: c. alci ad victum, Quint.: c. in funus, ICt. – b) übtr., pater Tiberi plurimum ad victoriam contulit, Suet. Tib. 4, 1.
    3) zu einem Ganzen vereinigend zusammenbringen, zusammenziehen, vereinigen, a) eig.: vires in unum, Liv.: collatis viribus proelium capessere, Iustin.: u. (bildl.) utrumne sententiae duae collatis viribus novissimam periment? Plin. ep.: e quibus (fontibus) collatae aquae per prona montis flumen emittunt, Curt.: dissimiles et dispares res in unam potestatem (durch chemische Bindung), Vitr. – b) übtr.: α)
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    übh.: post hoc proelium collatum omne bellum est circa Corinthum, zog sich zusammen, Nep.: quae utraque, si in unum conferantur (zusammengezogen [addiert] werden), facile saeculi modum expleverint, Val. Max.: hunc collatis precibus adoramus, mit vereinten B., Arnob. 1, 27. – β) prägn., schaffend zusammensetzen, e singulis non membris, sed frustis collata oratio, Quint.: hominis ortus ex utroque gignentium confertur, Quint.
    4) annähernd, nahe hinbringend zusammenbringen, zusammenstecken, zusammenfügen, ganz nahe bringen, a) eig.: α) in friedlicher Absicht: capita (um heimlich zu sprechen), Cic. Verr. 3, 31. Liv. 2, 45, 7: ora, Apul.: membra (bei der Umarmung), Lucr.: gradom, sich nähern, näher herangehen, Plaut. u. Verg.: palma cum palma collata plausum facit, Sen. – β) (bes. als milit. t. t.) in feindlicher Absicht, castra propius, Liv.: castra in propinquum, castra oppido, Auct. b. Alex.: castra cum hoste, Liv.: u. castra castris (hostis), Cic., Caes. u.a. (s. Held Caes. b. c. 3, 79, 2. Fabri Liv. 23, 28, 9). – bes. c. arma, manum, gradum, pedem, signa, v. Nahgefecht, Handgemenge, v. der förmlichen Schlacht, zB. c. arma cum alqo od. inter se, handgemein werden, Caes. u. Liv.: u. so ferrum et manus cum alqo, Cic.: u. manum cum hoste, Liv., u. bl. manum, Liv. – c. gradum cum alqo, Liv.: collato gradu (Fuß an Fuß, Mann gegen
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    Mann) certare, s. Heräus zu Tac. hist. 2, 42, 11. – c. pedem cum pede, u. bl. c. pedem, einander zu Leibe rücken, Liv. (pedem c. auch sprichw. v. streitenden Parteien vor Gericht, Cic.): u. collato pede, Fuß an Fuß, Mann gegen Mann, zB. ut non missilibus tantum, sed gladiis etiam prope collato pede gereretur res, Liv.: collato pede, quasi singuli inter se decertarent, in eodem vestigio stabant, Curt. – conferre signa, handgemein werden, Cic. (auch bildl., im Wortstreit): c. signa cum Alexandrinis, Cic.: aliquoties comminus c. signa cum Romanis, Liv.: signis collatis (in förmlicher Schlacht) superare exercitus regios, Cic.: u. so signis collatis certare, dimicare, inter se concurrere, Liv.: signis collatis cum hostium legionibus pugnare, Cato fr. – c. arto luctantia nexu pectora pectoribus, Ov.: se viro vir contulit, Mann stellte sich dem Mann (= Mann focht gegen Mann), Verg.: u. absol., mecum confer, ait, mit mir kämpfe, Ov. met. 10, 603. -prägn., collato Marte alqm leto dare, im Handgemenge, Ov.: c. certamina belli inter se, sich miteinander einlassen, Verg.: c. lites, miteinander anbinden, Hor. – b) übtr., mittelst der Rede jmdm. mitteilen, mit jmd. austauschen, wechseln, sermonem, Plaut.: sermonem cum alqo u. in via cum alqo, Cic.: sermones familiares cum alqo, Cic.: sermonem cum alqo de modo et forma sacrae arae, Val. Max.: quadam de re sermonem inter se, Val. Max. – c.
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    omnia sua consilia, Ter.: u. consilia de Romano bello, Liv.: cum ullo aut sermones aut consilia contulit saepius? Cic. – c. iniurias, Tac.: c. haec od. sollicitudines inter se, Cic.: seria cum alqo, Ov.: hoc coram c., Cic.: tum, si quid res feret, coram conferemus, Cic. – m. folg. Relotiv- od. indir. Fragesatz, ideo sum brevior, quod, ut spero, coram brevi tempore conferre quae volumus licebit, Cic.: ibi conferentibus, quid in cuiusque provinciae regione animorom Hispanis esset, Liv. – absol. = sich besprechen, omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari, Plaut. rud. 338: c. cum alqo, Augustin. ep. 33, 2: u. nisi contulerimus inter nos, quid finis sit etc., wenn wir nicht untereinander besprochen haben, was usw., Cic. de fin. 2, 4: u. diligentius inter se, Vulg. 2. Mach. 11, 36.
    5) gegenüberstellend zusammenbringen, a) im Kampfe, messen, vires, Liv.: ex propinquo vires, Liv. – b) zur Beurteilung zusammenstellen, zusammenhalten, zum Vergleich herbeiziehen, vergleichen, tesseram hospitalem, Plaut.: exemplum, Komik.: utrorumque facta, Nep.: faciem moresque duarum, Ov.: rationes, die Rechnung vergleichen, Abrechnung halten, Cic. u. (bildl.) Sen.: ebenso accepta et expensa, Sen.: haec omnia summā curā et diligentiā recognita et collata sunt, kollationiert (v. Abschriften), Cic. – Gallicum cum Germanorum agro, Caes.: fortunam Metropolitum cum casu Gomphensium,
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    Caes.: cum illius vita P. Sullae vobis notissimam, Cic.: volumina cum recitatis, Vitr.: conferte Verrem, non ut hominem cum homine comparetis, sed ut pacem cum bello, leges cum vi conferatis, Cic.: quem cum eo conferre possumus non modo ingenii magnitudine, sed etiam animi? Cic. – parva magnis, Cic.: minora maioribus, Auct. b. Alex.: se laudibus alterius, Phaedr.: vitam inter se utriusque, Cic.: bos ad bovem collatus, Varr.
    II) nach einem Punkte hintragen, 1) übh. hinbringen, hinschaffen, hinführen, hinwenden, hinkehren, etw. wohin verlegen, versetzen, setzen, stellen, flüchten, a) eig.: parentes et coniuges illuc, Tac.: nihil domum suam, Nep.: pecunias monimentaque ex fano Herculis in privatam domum, Caes. – suas rationes et copias (seine Spekulationen u. Fonds) in illam provinciam, Cic. – Deiotari legiones in mediam aciem, Auct. b. Alex.: u. so tertiam aciem in sinistrum cornu, Auct. b. Afr.: eodem suum omnem equitatum, Auct. b. Afr. – c. signa ad alqm (zu jmd. stoßen), Liv.: aber (feindl.) signa in laevum cornu, sich mit dem Angriffe gegen den l. Fl. wenden, Liv. – c. iter eo, den Weg dahin nehmen, Brut. in Cic. ep.: ebenso iter Brundisium versus, Cic. – c. propere pedes in curriculum, Varr. fr. – u. bes. c. se, sich begeben, sich flüchten, se alio, Cic.: se continuo c. protinam in pedes, Plaut.: se suaque in naves, Nep.: se in astu,
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    Cic.: se suaque omnia in oppidum, Caes.: se ad hostes, Cic.: se Rhodum, Cic.: se in fanum Veneris, Val. Max.: se ad hospitem (Ggstz. in meritoriam tabernam devertere), Val. Max.: urbs ipsa, quo se fusa contulerat acies, sich geflüchtet hatte, Liv. – m. 1. Supin., se dormitum c., Cic. ep. 9, 26, 1: se eo (dahin) cubitum, Suet. Aug. 6. – v. Lebl., si pituita eo se confert, Cels.: spiritus eodem se contulit, Sen.: c. se in angustum (v. Atomen), Sen. – u. im Passiv, navium pars ex errore eodem conferebatur, wurde ebendahin geführt, Auct. b. Afr.: absol., bene navis agitatur, pulchre haec confertur ratis, wird dahingetragen, Plaut. Bacch. 797. – b) übtr.: α) se conf. m. Ang. wohin? durch ad od. in u. Akk. = sich zu jmd. od. einer Sache in irgend ein Verhältnis begeben, sich an jmd. od. etw. anschließen, sich ihm zuwenden, hingeben, widmen, c. se ad pontificem Scaevolam, Cic.: c. se ad senatus auctoritatem, Cic.: c. se ad amicitiam alcis, Cic.: c. se in amicitiam et fidem (Schutz) alcis, Cic.: c. se in alcis fidem et clientelam, Cic.: c. se ad studium scribendi, ad philosophiae studium, Cic.: ad scribendum se contulit, er wurde Schriftsteller, Hieron.: c. se ad studia litterarum, Cic. – β) etwas schriftlich od. mündlich irgendwohin bringen, aufnehmen, eintragen, irgendwo anbringen, vorbringen, ab utrisque ea, quae commode dici videntur, in suas artes c., Cic.: lamentationes suas etiam in testamentum, Tac.: spes vota-
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    que non prius ad deos quam ad principum aures, Tac. – cur non confertis (nehmt ihr nicht [in den Antrag] auf, warum tragt ihr nicht zugleich darauf an), ne sit conubium divitibus ac pauperibus? Liv. 4, 4, 9. – γ) ein Vorhaben, ein Amt u. dgl. auf eine gewisse Zeit legen, ansetzen, verlegen, omnia in mensem Martium, Cic.: iter suum in posterum diem, Brut. in Cic. ep.: alqd in longiorem diem (Ggstz. alqd repraesentare), Caes.: eo (verst. in Caesaris adventum) omnem belli rationem, Caes.: alcis tertium consulatum eundem in annum, Plin. pan. – u. ein geschichtl. Ereignis chronologisch in od. auf eine Zeit setzen, verlegen, Carthaginis expugnationem in hunc annum, Liv. 27, 7, 5. – δ) in eine gewisse Abteilung, wissensch. Form bringen, totam Academiam ex duobus libris contuli in quattuor, Cic.: ex immensa diffusaque legum copia optima quaeque in paucissimos libros, Suet.: reliquam rusticarum rerum partem in carmen, Col.: res Romanas Graeco peregrinoque sermone in historiam, Iustin. – ε) in einen Zustand bringen, übergehen lassen, seditionem in tranquillum, Plaut.: verba ad rem, Ter. – dah. poet. = verwandeln, alqm in saxum, Ov.: corpus in volucrem, Ov.
    2) zuwendend, a) eig., eine Gabe, Kosten u. dgl. zuwenden, darbringen, hergeben, verwenden, bestimmen, pecuniam florenti parti (Partei), Nep.: munera alci, Nep.: praemia alci, Suet.: u. puellae L milia
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    nummum, Plin. ep. – fructum alio, Ter.: eam pecuniam in rei publicae magnum aliquod tempus, Cic.: pecuniam ad beneficentiam liberalitatemque, Cic.: impendia in educationem, Cic.: praedas ac manubias in urbis ornamenta, Cic. – b) übtr.: α) Gedanken, Neigung, Gesinnung, eine Tätigkeit, Zeit u. dgl. wohin wenden, richten, zuwenden, angedeihen lassen, erweisen, anwenden, verwenden, alio animum suum (sein Gelüst), Ter.: animum huc, Ter.: animum ad fodiendos puteos, Auct. b. Alex.: omnes suas curas cogitationesque in rem publicam, Cic.: curam ad philosophiam, Cic.: laudem in commune, jedem für alle Ruhm erwerben (Ggstz. laudem ex communi ad se trahere), Liv.: benignitatis plurimum in alqm, Cic.: benevolentiam erga alqm a pueritia, Cic.: fructum virtutis et ingenii in proximum quemque, Cic.: plurimum ad victoriam, Suet.: plurimum operae, studii, diligentiae, laboris ad conficiendum reditum alcis, Cic.: omne reliquum tempus non ad oblivionem veteris belli, sed ad comparationem novi, Cic. – selten schlimme Dinge, maledicta in alqm, Cic.: legem ad perniciem civitatis, in Anwendung kommen lassen, mißbrauchen, Nep. – β) etw. zur Ausführung in jmds. Hand legen, jmdm. übertragen, überlassen, rem ad alqm, Cic.: omnem spem salutis ad clementiam victoris, Cic.: de re publica disputationem in Africani personam et Phili et Laelii, Cic.: curam resti-
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    tuendi Capitolii in L. Vestinum, Tac. – γ) etw. auf jmd. od. etw. übertragen = jmdm. beilegen, als Besitzer, quis non videt species istas hominum collatas in deos aut consilio quodam sapientium... aut superstitione, Cic. de nat. deor. 1, 77. – od. als Urheber jmdm., als Ursache einer Sache beilegen, beimessen, zur Last legen, auf jmd. od. etw. schieben, verbum falso in alqm, Cic.: permulta in Plancium, quae ab eo dicta non sunt, Cic.: suum timorem in rei frumentariae simulationem angustiasque itineris, Caes. – c. culpam od. causam in alqm, Cic.: crimina in alqm, Cic.: falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam, Cic.: suspicionem in alqm, Cic.: vitia in senectutem, Cic. – δ) confert (v. mehreren conferunt), wie συμφέρει, es ist etw. od. jmdm. zuträglich, förderlich, trägt mit bei, wirkt mit, gew. m. Ang. wieviel? durch aliquid, nihil, multum, plus, plurimum u. dgl., zB. quin etiam aliquid confert et aetas et corpus, Cels.: senecta nihil confert, Plin.: multum veteres Latini (auctores) conferunt, Quint.: non plus contulerunt lecti Cicero aut Demosthenes? Quint.: plurimum oratori confert lectio poëtarum, Quint.: quod contulisse plurimum videtur, Cels.: m. Infin. als Subj., incipiente incremento confert alterna folia circumobruere, Plin. 19, 83. – zugl. m. Ang. wozu? durch Adv. eo (dazu), od. durch ad od. (selten) in u. Akk., od. durch bl. Dat. (s. Herbst Quint. 10, 1, 95. Sillig Plin.
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    35, 67), multum autem eo confert et corporis et nervorum habitus, Cels.: confert etiam aliquid ad somnum silanus iuxta cadens, Cels.: rursus in alia plus prior confert (exercitatio), Quint.: plus scientiae collaturus quam eloquentiae, Quint.: plurimum coeptis contulerunt iactatum exemplar epistulae;... simul rumor dissipatus etc., Suet.: allium voci confert, Plin. – m. Ang. worin? wobei? durch in u. Abl., in morbis cum multum fortuna conferat, Cels. 7. praef. § 4. – ⇒ Perf. contulĕrunt gemessen, Prop. 2, 3, 25.

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    pōno, posuī, positum, ere (zsgzg. aus po [= ἀπό] u. sino, dah. auch die Kürze des o im Perf. u. Sup.), niederlassen= legen, setzen, stellen, hinlegen, hinsetzen, hinstellen, aufstellen (griech. τίθημι), konstr. m. Advv. des Ortes, mit in u. Abl. (unklass. mit in u. Akk.), mit ad, ante, sub, super u.a. Praepp., poet. u. nachaug. m. bl. Abl., und absol. (d.h. ohne Angabe des Ortes), I) im allg.: 1) eig.: a) übh.: α) lebl. Objj.: hic verbenas ponite, Hor. – litteras in sinu, in den B. stecken, Liv. fr.: anulum in sede regia, Curt.: speculum in cathedra, Phaedr.: sacra in mensa penatium ordine, Naev. fr.: coronam in caput, Gell.: oleas in solem biduum, Cato: stipitem in flammas, Ov.: in naves putidas commeatum, Cato fr.: cortinam plumbeam in lacum, Cato. – gladium ad caput (zu Häupten), Sen. – caput (Ciceronis) inter duas manus in rostris, Liv. fr.: caput alcis ante regis pedes, corpus ante ipsum, Curt. – ubicumque posuit vestigium, Cic.: vestigia in locuplete domo, Hor.; u. im Bilde, quācumque ingredimur, vestigium in aliqua historia ponimus, Cic. – pedem ubi ponat in suo (regno) non habet, Cic.; u. im Bilde, quod autem sapientia pedem ubi poneret non haberet, Cic. – p. genu, die Knie niederlassen, auf die K. fallen, niederknien, Ov., Sen. rhet., Curt. u.a. (s. Mützell Curt. 4, 6 [28], 28). – p. oscula in labellis, Prop., oscula genis, Stat. – p. scalas, ansetzen, anlegen, Caes. – ne positis quidem, sed abiectis poculis, Curt. – hastā positā pro aede Iovis Statoris, aufgesteckt (bei einer Versteigerung), Cic. – β) persönl. Objj.: posito (sanft niedergesetzt) magis rege, quam effuso (abgeworfen), Curt. – in senatu sunt positi, Cic. fr.: positi vernae circa Lares, Hor. – p. sese in curulibus sellis, Flor. – b) ein Gerät setzen, hinstellen, aufstellen, mensam, Hor.: sellam iuxta, Sall.: in tabernaculo sellam auream, Nep.: mensas totis castris, Curt.: alci mensas exstructas dapibus, Ov.: mensam prandendi gratiā, Val. Max. – p. casses, Ov. – c) hinlagern, hinstrecken, artus in litore, Verg.: corpus in ripa, Ov.: se toro, Ov.: positus inter cervicalia minutissima, Petron.: Giton super pectus meum positus, Petron.: somno positae, im Schl. hingelagert, Verg.: sic positum (vitulum) in clauso linquunt, Verg. – und auf das Totenbett hinlegen, hinbetten, toro componar positaeque det oscula frater, Ov. met. 9, 504. – u. einen Leichnam, Gebeine beisetzen, corpus, Lucr. u. ICt.: alqm, Corp. inscr. Lat. 8, 434 u. 452: alqm patriā terrā, Verg.: ossa collecta in marmorea domo, Tibull.: ossa collata in urnam auream in foro quod aedificavit sub columna posita sunt, Eutr.; vgl. Goßrau Verg. Aen. 2, 644. – d) jmdm. zu Ehren eine Bildsäule usw. aufstellen, alci statuam, Nep.: columnam Duillio in foro, Quint.: imaginem tyrannicidae in gymnasio, Quint. – bes. (wie τιθέναι) einer Gottheit als Weihgeschenk aufstellen, niederlegen, weihen, donum ex auro in aede Iovis, Liv.: coronam auream in Capitolio donum, Liv.: ex praeda tripodem aureum Delphis, Nep.: serta, Ov.: sectos fratri capillos (als Totenopfer), Ov.: poet., vota, weihen, Prop. Vgl. die Auslgg. zu Hor. carm. 3, 26, 6. Prop. 2, 11, 27. – e) etw. beim Spiele, beim Wetten als Preis setzen, einsetzen, provocat me in aleam, ut ego ludam: pono pallium, ille suum anulum opposuit, Plaut.: p. pocula fagina, Verg. – u. etwas zum Pfande setzen, meam esse vitam hic pro te positam pigneri, verpfändet, Plaut. capt. 433. – übtr. = aussetzen, caput periculo, Plaut. capt. 688. – f) als t. t. der Rechenkunst: p. calculum, τών ψηφον τιθέναι, die Rechensteinchen aufs Brett setzen, einen Ansatz machen, eine Berechnung anstellen, ut diligens ratiocinator calculo posito videt, Colum.: ponatur calculus, adsint cum tabula pueri, Iuven. – dah. im Bilde, cum imperio c. p., sich berechnen, Rechnung ablegen, Plin. pan.: cum alqa re parem calculum ponere, etwas gleichmachen, Plin. ep.: bene calculum ponere, die Sache wohl in Betrachtung ziehen, reiflich überlegen, Petron.: ebenso omnes, quos ego movi, in utraque parte calculos pone etc., Plin. ep. – g) als milit. t. t., eine Mannschaft, einen Befehlshaber mit einer Mannschaft irgendwohin legen, irgendwo aufstellen, praesidium ibi, Caes.: duas legiones in Turonis ad fines Carnutum, Caes.: legionem tuendae orae maritimae causā, Caes.: insidias contra alqm, Cic.: centuriones in statione ad praetoriam portam, Caes.: custodias circa portas, Liv. – h) jmd. an einem entfernten Orte niedersetzen, wohin versetzen, pone me ubi etc., pone sub curru solis in terra etc., Hor.: p. in aethere, Ov.: alqm in caelo, Iustin., in astris, Hyg.: modo me Thebis modo ponit Athenis, Hor. – i) eine Bekanntmachung öffentlich aufstellen, anschlagen, erlassen, edictum, Tac. ann. 1, 7: positis propalam libellis, durch öffentliche Anschläge, ibid. 4, 27. – k) schriftlich hinsetzen, α) übh.: signa novis praeceptis, sich die n. L. anmerken, niederschreiben (ὑποσημειοῦσθαι), Hor. sat. 2, 4, 2. – β) anführen, verba eius haec posuit, Gell. 6 (7), 9, 12: et ipsos quidem versus in libro, quo dixi positos, legat, Gell. 6 (7), 16, 3: ex quibus unum (testimonium), quod prae manibus est, ponemus, Gell. 5, 13, 3. – l) im Partic. Perf. Pass. positus, a, um, α) hingelegt, hingefallen, p. nix, Hor.: positae pruinae, Prop.: p. ros, p. carbunculus, Plin. – β) v. Örtlichkeiten = situs, wo gelegen, liegend, befindlich, Roma in montibus posita, Cic.: Delos in Aegaeo mari p., Cic.: portus ex adverso urbi p., Liv.: tumulus opportune ad id p., Liv.

    2) übtr.: a) übh. legen, setzen, stellen, pone ante oculos laetitiam senatus, Cic.: alqd p. paene in conspectu, Cic.: alqd sub uno aspectu, Cic. – in ullo fortunae gradu positus, v. Pers., Curt.: haud multum infra magnitudinis tuae fastigium positus (Parmenio), Curt.: artes infra se positae, Hor. – caput suum p. periculo, in G. geben, Plaut. – ponendus est ille ambitus, non abiciendus, ihren ruhigen Gang bis zu Ende nehmen lassen, Cic. – b) jmd. od. etw. in irgendeinen Zustand setzen, bringen, alqm eodem ponere et parare, gleich daneben stellen u. vergleichen, Plaut.: alqm in crimen populo atque infamiam, jmdm. verleumderische Nachrede beim Volke zuziehen (v. einem Versprechen), Plaut.: alqm p. in gratia ( selten in gratiam) apud alqm, Cic.: alqm in culpa et suspicione, schuldig u. verdächtig machen, Cic.: in laude positum esse, im Besitze des Ruhmes sein, Cic. – c) etw, in etw. od. jmd. setzen, auf etw. bauen, -beruhenlassen, omnem spem salutis in virtute, Caes.: in Pompeio omnem spem otii, Cic.: unum communis salutis auxilium in celeritate, Caes. – sed quoniam tantum in ea arte ponitis (so viel gebt, so großes Gewicht legt), videte, ne etc., Cic.: u. so multum in suorum misericordia p., Curt. – dah. im Passiv, positum esse in alqa re = auf etw. beruhen, begründet sein, sich stützen, ankommen, in spe, Cic.: in alcis liberalitate, Cic. – d) eine Zeit od. eine Tätigkeit usw. auf etw. verwenden, totum diem in consideranda causa, Cic.: Quintilem (mensem) in reditu, Cic. – omnem curam in siderum cognitione, Cic.: totum animum atque omnem curam, operam diligentiamque suam in petitione, Cic.: se totum in contemplandis rebus, versenken, Cic. – e) etw. od. jmd. unter eine Klasse setzen, rechnen, zählen, alqd in vitiis, Nep.: mortem in malis, Cic.: alqm inter veteres, Hor.: inter quos me ipse dubia in re poni malim, Liv. 29, 25, 2: si medicus me inter eos, quos perambulat, ponit, mich unter seine Patienten rechnet, Sen. de ben. 6, 16, 6. – u. gleichs. in eine Rubrik setzen, etwas für das u. das ansehen, halten, alqd in laude, in magna laude, Cic.: alqd in beneficii loco, Cic.: Africam in tertia parte. Sall.: id C. Norbano in nefario crimine atque in fraude capitali, Cic.: hoc metuere, alterum in metu non p., für bedenklich halten, Poet. b. Cic. ad Att. 12, 51, 3; 14, 21, 3; top. 55: haud in magno discrimine ponere, kein großes Gewicht darauf legen, Liv.: ponere in dubio (in Zweifel stellen), utrum... an, Liv.: id ne pro certo ponerem (für gewiß annehmen), Piso effecit, Liv.: alqm alci in aequo ponere, jmdm. gleichstellen, Liv. – und wie θέσθαι m. dopp. Acc. u. im Passiv m. dopp. Nom. = jmd. od. etwas ansehen, halten für usw., p. alqm principem, Cic. u. Nep.: quae omnia infamia ponuntur, Nep.: nemo ei par ponitur, Nep. – f) etw. schriftl. setzen, hersetzen, hinsetzen, anführen, äußern, bemerken, sagen, ipsa enim (verba), sicut Messalae, posui, Suet.: quapropter tanta in re ipsius Heminae verba ponam, Plin.: de arrogatione me dixeram aliqua positurum, Vopisc.: cuius pauca exempla posui, Cic.: p. inter causas suffragationis suae, Suet.: ut paulo ante posui, Cic.: ponam in extremo quid sentiam, Cic.: hoc ipsum elegantius poni meliusque potuit, Cic.: quod nunc communiter in sepultis ponitur, ut humati dicantur, Cic.: cum in eis haec posuisset, Nep.: quam (epistulam) ipsam melius est ponere, quam de ea plurimum dicere, Vopisc.: ponere vocabulum malā significatione, Donat. – dah. ponor ad scribendum, man setzt mich (meinen Namen) bei Abfassung der Senatsbeschlüsse mit hin, Cic. ep. 9, 15, 4.

    II) prägn.: A) schaffend legen, setzen, hinsetzen, aufstellen, aufführen, errichten, anlegen, gründen, 1) eig.: a) v. Bau-, Werkmeister usw.: fundamenta, ICt.: tropaeum, Nep.: opus, Ov.: aras, templa, Verg.: moenia Troiae, Ov.: urbem, Verg.: castella, Tac.: Byzantium in extrema Europa, Tac.: in ipso cubiculo poni tabernaculum iussit, das Badezelt aufschlagen, Sen. – als milit. t. t., p. castra (ein Lager aufschlagen) in proximo colle, Caes., loco iniquo, Caes., sub radicibus montis, ad amnem, Curt. – p. munimenta manu, Curt. – b) v. Künstler (Bildhauer, Maler), setzen, anbringen, darstellen, Orphea in medio silvasque sequentes, Verg.: ponere totum nescire, ein Ganzes hinstellen, darstellen, Hor. – si Venerem Cous nusquam posuisset Apelles, Ov. – hic saxo, liquidis ille coloribus sollers nunc hominem ponere, nunc deum, Hor. – c) v. Dichter, hinstellen, darstellen, nec ponere lucum artifices, Pers. 1, 70; vgl. pone Tigellinum, führe (dem Zuhörer) naturgetreu vor, Iuven. 1, 155.

    2) übtr.: a) übh. legen, setzen, quorum omnium virtutum fundamenta in voluptate tamquam in aqua ponitis, Cic.: his fundamentis positis consulatus tui, Cic.: ponere initia male, Cic.: ponere spem, seine Hoffnung darauf setzen, m. folg. Acc. u. Infin., Plaut. capt. 957. – b) feststellen, aufstellen, bestimmen, leges in conviviis, Cic.: iura p. (griech. νομοθετειν), Prop.: festos laetosque ritus, Tac.; vgl. mores viris et moenia, Verg.: p. pretium, einen Preis bestimmen, auswerfen, Sen.: u. so huic signo milia centum, den Preis von 100000, Hor.: p. praemium, eine Belohnung aufstellen, auswerfen, verheißen, Sall., Liv. u.a. (s. Drak. Liv. 39, 17, 1): Olympiada, eine Ol. ansetzen, festsetzen, Cic. – p. alci od. alci rei nomen ( wie ονομα θειναί τινι), einen Namen gleichs. feststellen, beilegen, Cic. u.a. – p. rationem, Rechnung aufstellen, ablegen, Suet.; vgl. p. rationem cum Orco, Rechnung halten mit usw., Cic. – c) als feststehend aufstellen, annehmen, behaupten (nicht »voraussetzen«, s. Jordan Cic. Caecin. 32. p. 195), duo genera ponunt, deorum alterum, alterum hominum, Cic.: alii elementa novem posuerunt, Quint.: sed positum sit primum nosmet ipsos commendatos esse nobis, Cic. – m. dopp. Acc., als das u. das annehmen, vitae brevis signa raros dentes, Plin.: im Passiv m. dopp. Nom., si ponatur adulter caecus, aleator pauper, Quint. – d) ein Thema zur Besprechung stellen, aufstellen, bestimmen, quaestiunculam, Cic.: quaestionem, Phaedr. u. Sen.: p. aliquid, ad quod audiam, volo, Cic.: materia, in qua ponitur tibicen, qui etc., Quint. – u. absol. = eine oder die Frage stellen, ponere iubebam, de quo quis audire vellet, Cic.: p. an etc., Sen. – e) jmd. in ein Amt, in eine Würde, Stellung (als Aufseher, Richter, Kläger) setzen, aufstellen, einsetzen, anstellen, alci custodem, Caes.: alci accusatorem, Cael. in Cic. ep.: satis idoneum officii sui iudicem, Cic. – u. m. dopp. Acc., alqm custodem in frumento publico, Cic.: alqm imperatorem Numidis, Sall.: alqm principem in bello, Nep. – m. super u. Akk., super armamentarium positus, Curt. 6, 7 (27), 22: puer super hoc positus officium, Petron. 56, 8.

    B) zum Genießen eine Speise, ein Getränk auftragen, vorsetzen (klass. apponere), globos melle unguito, papaver infriato, ponito, Cato: p. pavonem, merulas, Hor.: p. unctum, einen Leckerbissen, Hor.: invitas ad aprum, ponis mihi porcum, Mart.: ceteris vilia et minuta ponebat, Plin. ep.: da Trebio, pone ad Trebium, Iuven. – vinum, Petron.: merum in gemma, Ov.: quis posuit secretam in auro dapem? Sen.: alci venenum cum cibo, Liv.: alci in patina liquidam sorbitionem, Phaedr.

    C) als t. t. des Landbaues: 1) pflanzend usw. setzen, einsetzen, stecken, piros, Verg.: arborem, Hor.: vitem, Colum.: vitem ordine, Ambros. – semina (Pflanzen), Verg.: panicum et milium, Colum. – 2) eine Frucht zur Aufbewahrung hinlegen, einlegen (klass. reponere), p. in horreis, Pallad.: sorba lecta duriora et posita, Pallad. D) als publiz. t. t., etw. irgendwo zur Verwahrung niederlegen, hinterlegen, tabulas testamenti in aerario, Caes. b. c. 3, 108, 4: compositio publicis bibliothecis posita, Scrib. Larg. 97: pecuniam apud tutorem, ICt.: apparatum sive impensam in publico, ICt.

    E) als t. t. der Geschäftssprache, ein Kapital auf Zinsen anlegen (vgl. die Auslgg. zu Hor. epod. 2, 70 u. zu Hor. ep. 1, 18, 111), pecuniam in praedio, Cic., apud alqm, Cic.: pecuniam kalendis, Hor.: dives positis in fenore nummis, Hor. – übtr., otia recte, Hor.: beneficium apud alqm, bene apud alqm, Cic.: munus bene apud alqm, Liv.

    F) als t. t. der Toilettensprache, das Haar legen, zurechtlegen, ordnen, p. comas in statione, Ov.: positi sine lege et sine arte capilli, Ov.: ponendis in mille modos perfecta capillis, Ov.

    G) eine Aufregung in der Natur sich legen machen (Ggstz. tollere), tollere seu ponere vult freta (v. Windgott Notus), Hor.: magnos cum ponunt aequora motus, Prop. – dah. refl., ponere, sich legen, v. Winden, Verg., Ov. u. Gell. (s. Goßrau Verg. Aen. 7, 27): u. so auch positi flatus, Min. Fel.

    H) niederlegen, von sich legen, fortlegen, ablegen, weglegen, ab-, wegwerfen (Ggstz. sumere), 1) eig.: a) übh.: velamina de tenero corpore, Ov.: e corpore pennas, Ov.: librum de manibus, Cic. – vestem, tunicam, Cic.: sarcinam, Petron.: barbam, Suet.: insignia morbi, fasciolas, cubital, focalia, Hor.: librum, aus der Hand legen, Cic.: semen, Verg.: coronam luctus gratiā, Cic.: nec sumit aut ponit secures arbitrio popularis aurae, Hor. – als milit. t. t., p. arma, die Waffen niederlegen, ablegen, Cic. u.a., u. (v. sich Unterwerfenden) = die W. strecken, Caes. u.a. (s. Drak. Liv. 6, 10, 5). – b) v. weibl. Wesen, die Leibesfrucht ablegen, v. Frauen, positum est uteri onus, Ov. – v. der Sau, werfen, fetum ad imam cavernam, Phaedr. – v. Vögeln, legen, p. pauca ova, Colum.: p. ova in saepibus, Ov.

    2) übtr., ablegen, von sich tun, entfernen, fahren lassen, aufgeben (Ggstz. sumere, suscipere), bellum, Sall. u.a.: vitam, Cic. u.a.: triumviri nomen, Tac. – vitia, Cic.: amores cum praetexta toga, Cic.: inimicitias, Cael. b. Cic.: discordias, Tac.: dolorem, Cic.: curam et aegritudinem, Cic.: curas externorum periculorum, Liv.: omnes aliarum rerum curas, Liv.: metum, Ov. u. Plin. ep.: animos feroces, Liv.: ferocia corda, Verg.: vitae mortisque consilium vel suscipere vel ponere, Plin. ep. – poet., moras, Verg. – als milit. t. t. u. übtr., p. tirocinium, rudimentum, zurücklegen, ablegen, Liv. u.a. – u. als publiz. t. t., eine Würde niederlegen (klass. deponere), posito magistratu (Ggstz. quamdiu in magistratu est), ICt.

    3) als naut. t. t., Anker werfen, ancoris positis terrae applicare naves, Liv. 28, 17, 13.

    / Archaist. Perf. poseivei, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 551. lin. 3: posivi, Plaut. Pseud. 1281: posivit u. posibit, Act. fr. arv. a. 27, f.: posivt (so!), Corp. inscr. Lat. 3, 2208 u. 4367: possivit, ibid. 7, 579 u. 656: posivimus, Plaut. vidul. fr. 6 Stud. ( bei Prisc. 10, 37): posiverunt, Corp. inscr. Lat. 3, 6442. Cato r. r. praef. § 1. Cic. Tusc. 5, 83: posivere, Itin. Alex. 2 (3): posiveris, Plaut. trin. 145. Cato r. r. 4: posieit, Corp. inscr. Lat. 9, 3049 u. 3267: posiit, Corp. inscr. Lat. 5, 2575 u. 7, 574: posit od. posIt, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 1282. 1298. 1436 u.a.: possit, Corp. inscr. Lat. 2, 2712: poseit, ibid. 1, 1281 u. 1283: posierunt, ibid. 1, 1284. 3, 860: posiere, ibid. 5, 2714: posier(e), Corp. inscr. Lat. 13, 5282. Vgl. Georges Lexik. der lat. Wortf., S. 539. – Synkop. Partiz. Perf. postus, Lucr. 1, 1059; 3, 855 u.a. Sil. 13, 553. Ter. Maur. 2905.

    lateinisch-deutsches > pono

  • 16 pono

    pōno, posuī, positum, ere (zsgzg. aus po [= ἀπό] u. sino, dah. auch die Kürze des o im Perf. u. Sup.), niederlassen= legen, setzen, stellen, hinlegen, hinsetzen, hinstellen, aufstellen (griech. τίθημι), konstr. m. Advv. des Ortes, mit in u. Abl. (unklass. mit in u. Akk.), mit ad, ante, sub, super u.a. Praepp., poet. u. nachaug. m. bl. Abl., und absol. (d.h. ohne Angabe des Ortes), I) im allg.: 1) eig.: a) übh.: α) lebl. Objj.: hic verbenas ponite, Hor. – litteras in sinu, in den B. stecken, Liv. fr.: anulum in sede regia, Curt.: speculum in cathedra, Phaedr.: sacra in mensa penatium ordine, Naev. fr.: coronam in caput, Gell.: oleas in solem biduum, Cato: stipitem in flammas, Ov.: in naves putidas commeatum, Cato fr.: cortinam plumbeam in lacum, Cato. – gladium ad caput (zu Häupten), Sen. – caput (Ciceronis) inter duas manus in rostris, Liv. fr.: caput alcis ante regis pedes, corpus ante ipsum, Curt. – ubicumque posuit vestigium, Cic.: vestigia in locuplete domo, Hor.; u. im Bilde, quācumque ingredimur, vestigium in aliqua historia ponimus, Cic. – pedem ubi ponat in suo (regno) non habet, Cic.; u. im Bilde, quod autem sapientia pedem ubi poneret non haberet, Cic. – p. genu, die Knie niederlassen, auf die K. fallen, niederknien, Ov., Sen. rhet., Curt. u.a. (s. Mützell Curt. 4, 6 [28], 28). – p. oscula in labellis, Prop., oscula genis, Stat. – p. sca-
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    las, ansetzen, anlegen, Caes. – ne positis quidem, sed abiectis poculis, Curt. – hastā positā pro aede Iovis Statoris, aufgesteckt (bei einer Versteigerung), Cic. – β) persönl. Objj.: posito (sanft niedergesetzt) magis rege, quam effuso (abgeworfen), Curt. – in senatu sunt positi, Cic. fr.: positi vernae circa Lares, Hor. – p. sese in curulibus sellis, Flor. – b) ein Gerät setzen, hinstellen, aufstellen, mensam, Hor.: sellam iuxta, Sall.: in tabernaculo sellam auream, Nep.: mensas totis castris, Curt.: alci mensas exstructas dapibus, Ov.: mensam prandendi gratiā, Val. Max. – p. casses, Ov. – c) hinlagern, hinstrecken, artus in litore, Verg.: corpus in ripa, Ov.: se toro, Ov.: positus inter cervicalia minutissima, Petron.: Giton super pectus meum positus, Petron.: somno positae, im Schl. hingelagert, Verg.: sic positum (vitulum) in clauso linquunt, Verg. – und auf das Totenbett hinlegen, hinbetten, toro componar positaeque det oscula frater, Ov. met. 9, 504. – u. einen Leichnam, Gebeine beisetzen, corpus, Lucr. u. ICt.: alqm, Corp. inscr. Lat. 8, 434 u. 452: alqm patriā terrā, Verg.: ossa collecta in marmorea domo, Tibull.: ossa collata in urnam auream in foro quod aedificavit sub columna posita sunt, Eutr.; vgl. Goßrau Verg. Aen. 2, 644. – d) jmdm. zu Ehren eine Bildsäule usw. aufstellen, alci statuam, Nep.: columnam Duillio in foro, Quint.: imaginem tyrannicidae in gymnasio, Quint. – bes.
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    (wie τιθέναι) einer Gottheit als Weihgeschenk aufstellen, niederlegen, weihen, donum ex auro in aede Iovis, Liv.: coronam auream in Capitolio donum, Liv.: ex praeda tripodem aureum Delphis, Nep.: serta, Ov.: sectos fratri capillos (als Totenopfer), Ov.: poet., vota, weihen, Prop. Vgl. die Auslgg. zu Hor. carm. 3, 26, 6. Prop. 2, 11, 27. – e) etw. beim Spiele, beim Wetten als Preis setzen, einsetzen, provocat me in aleam, ut ego ludam: pono pallium, ille suum anulum opposuit, Plaut.: p. pocula fagina, Verg. – u. etwas zum Pfande setzen, meam esse vitam hic pro te positam pigneri, verpfändet, Plaut. capt. 433. – übtr. = aussetzen, caput periculo, Plaut. capt. 688. – f) als t. t. der Rechenkunst: p. calculum, τών ψηφον τιθέναι, die Rechensteinchen aufs Brett setzen, einen Ansatz machen, eine Berechnung anstellen, ut diligens ratiocinator calculo posito videt, Colum.: ponatur calculus, adsint cum tabula pueri, Iuven. – dah. im Bilde, cum imperio c. p., sich berechnen, Rechnung ablegen, Plin. pan.: cum alqa re parem calculum ponere, etwas gleichmachen, Plin. ep.: bene calculum ponere, die Sache wohl in Betrachtung ziehen, reiflich überlegen, Petron.: ebenso omnes, quos ego movi, in utraque parte calculos pone etc., Plin. ep. – g) als milit. t. t., eine Mannschaft, einen Befehlshaber mit einer Mannschaft irgendwohin legen, irgendwo aufstellen, praesidium ibi, Caes.: duas legi-
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    ones in Turonis ad fines Carnutum, Caes.: legionem tuendae orae maritimae causā, Caes.: insidias contra alqm, Cic.: centuriones in statione ad praetoriam portam, Caes.: custodias circa portas, Liv. – h) jmd. an einem entfernten Orte niedersetzen, wohin versetzen, pone me ubi etc., pone sub curru solis in terra etc., Hor.: p. in aethere, Ov.: alqm in caelo, Iustin., in astris, Hyg.: modo me Thebis modo ponit Athenis, Hor. – i) eine Bekanntmachung öffentlich aufstellen, anschlagen, erlassen, edictum, Tac. ann. 1, 7: positis propalam libellis, durch öffentliche Anschläge, ibid. 4, 27. – k) schriftlich hinsetzen, α) übh.: signa novis praeceptis, sich die n. L. anmerken, niederschreiben (ὑποσημειοῦσθαι), Hor. sat. 2, 4, 2. – β) anführen, verba eius haec posuit, Gell. 6 (7), 9, 12: et ipsos quidem versus in libro, quo dixi positos, legat, Gell. 6 (7), 16, 3: ex quibus unum (testimonium), quod prae manibus est, ponemus, Gell. 5, 13, 3. – l) im Partic. Perf. Pass. positus, a, um, α) hingelegt, hingefallen, p. nix, Hor.: positae pruinae, Prop.: p. ros, p. carbunculus, Plin. – β) v. Örtlichkeiten = situs, wo gelegen, liegend, befindlich, Roma in montibus posita, Cic.: Delos in Aegaeo mari p., Cic.: portus ex adverso urbi p., Liv.: tumulus opportune ad id p., Liv.
    2) übtr.: a) übh. legen, setzen, stellen, pone ante oculos laetitiam senatus, Cic.: alqd p. paene in cons-
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    pectu, Cic.: alqd sub uno aspectu, Cic. – in ullo fortunae gradu positus, v. Pers., Curt.: haud multum infra magnitudinis tuae fastigium positus (Parmenio), Curt.: artes infra se positae, Hor. – caput suum p. periculo, in G. geben, Plaut. – ponendus est ille ambitus, non abiciendus, ihren ruhigen Gang bis zu Ende nehmen lassen, Cic. – b) jmd. od. etw. in irgendeinen Zustand setzen, bringen, alqm eodem ponere et parare, gleich daneben stellen u. vergleichen, Plaut.: alqm in crimen populo atque infamiam, jmdm. verleumderische Nachrede beim Volke zuziehen (v. einem Versprechen), Plaut.: alqm p. in gratia ( selten in gratiam) apud alqm, Cic.: alqm in culpa et suspicione, schuldig u. verdächtig machen, Cic.: in laude positum esse, im Besitze des Ruhmes sein, Cic. – c) etw, in etw. od. jmd. setzen, auf etw. bauen, -beruhenlassen, omnem spem salutis in virtute, Caes.: in Pompeio omnem spem otii, Cic.: unum communis salutis auxilium in celeritate, Caes. – sed quoniam tantum in ea arte ponitis (so viel gebt, so großes Gewicht legt), videte, ne etc., Cic.: u. so multum in suorum misericordia p., Curt. – dah. im Passiv, positum esse in alqa re = auf etw. beruhen, begründet sein, sich stützen, ankommen, in spe, Cic.: in alcis liberalitate, Cic. – d) eine Zeit od. eine Tätigkeit usw. auf etw. verwenden, totum diem in consideranda causa, Cic.: Quintilem (mensem) in reditu, Cic. – omnem
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    curam in siderum cognitione, Cic.: totum animum atque omnem curam, operam diligentiamque suam in petitione, Cic.: se totum in contemplandis rebus, versenken, Cic. – e) etw. od. jmd. unter eine Klasse setzen, rechnen, zählen, alqd in vitiis, Nep.: mortem in malis, Cic.: alqm inter veteres, Hor.: inter quos me ipse dubia in re poni malim, Liv. 29, 25, 2: si medicus me inter eos, quos perambulat, ponit, mich unter seine Patienten rechnet, Sen. de ben. 6, 16, 6. – u. gleichs. in eine Rubrik setzen, etwas für das u. das ansehen, halten, alqd in laude, in magna laude, Cic.: alqd in beneficii loco, Cic.: Africam in tertia parte. Sall.: id C. Norbano in nefario crimine atque in fraude capitali, Cic.: hoc metuere, alterum in metu non p., für bedenklich halten, Poet. b. Cic. ad Att. 12, 51, 3; 14, 21, 3; top. 55: haud in magno discrimine ponere, kein großes Gewicht darauf legen, Liv.: ponere in dubio (in Zweifel stellen), utrum... an, Liv.: id ne pro certo ponerem (für gewiß annehmen), Piso effecit, Liv.: alqm alci in aequo ponere, jmdm. gleichstellen, Liv. – und wie θέσθαι m. dopp. Acc. u. im Passiv m. dopp. Nom. = jmd. od. etwas ansehen, halten für usw., p. alqm principem, Cic. u. Nep.: quae omnia infamia ponuntur, Nep.: nemo ei par ponitur, Nep. – f) etw. schriftl. setzen, hersetzen, hinsetzen, anführen, äußern, bemerken, sagen, ipsa enim (verba), sicut Messalae, posui, Suet.: quapropter tanta in re ipsius
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    Heminae verba ponam, Plin.: de arrogatione me dixeram aliqua positurum, Vopisc.: cuius pauca exempla posui, Cic.: p. inter causas suffragationis suae, Suet.: ut paulo ante posui, Cic.: ponam in extremo quid sentiam, Cic.: hoc ipsum elegantius poni meliusque potuit, Cic.: quod nunc communiter in sepultis ponitur, ut humati dicantur, Cic.: cum in eis haec posuisset, Nep.: quam (epistulam) ipsam melius est ponere, quam de ea plurimum dicere, Vopisc.: ponere vocabulum malā significatione, Donat. – dah. ponor ad scribendum, man setzt mich (meinen Namen) bei Abfassung der Senatsbeschlüsse mit hin, Cic. ep. 9, 15, 4.
    II) prägn.: A) schaffend legen, setzen, hinsetzen, aufstellen, aufführen, errichten, anlegen, gründen, 1) eig.: a) v. Bau-, Werkmeister usw.: fundamenta, ICt.: tropaeum, Nep.: opus, Ov.: aras, templa, Verg.: moenia Troiae, Ov.: urbem, Verg.: castella, Tac.: Byzantium in extrema Europa, Tac.: in ipso cubiculo poni tabernaculum iussit, das Badezelt aufschlagen, Sen. – als milit. t. t., p. castra (ein Lager aufschlagen) in proximo colle, Caes., loco iniquo, Caes., sub radicibus montis, ad amnem, Curt. – p. munimenta manu, Curt. – b) v. Künstler (Bildhauer, Maler), setzen, anbringen, darstellen, Orphea in medio silvasque sequentes, Verg.: ponere totum nescire, ein Ganzes hinstellen, darstellen, Hor. – si Venerem Cous nusquam posuisset Apelles, Ov. – hic saxo, liquidis
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    ille coloribus sollers nunc hominem ponere, nunc deum, Hor. – c) v. Dichter, hinstellen, darstellen, nec ponere lucum artifices, Pers. 1, 70; vgl. pone Tigellinum, führe (dem Zuhörer) naturgetreu vor, Iuven. 1, 155.
    2) übtr.: a) übh. legen, setzen, quorum omnium virtutum fundamenta in voluptate tamquam in aqua ponitis, Cic.: his fundamentis positis consulatus tui, Cic.: ponere initia male, Cic.: ponere spem, seine Hoffnung darauf setzen, m. folg. Acc. u. Infin., Plaut. capt. 957. – b) feststellen, aufstellen, bestimmen, leges in conviviis, Cic.: iura p. (griech. νομοθετειν), Prop.: festos laetosque ritus, Tac.; vgl. mores viris et moenia, Verg.: p. pretium, einen Preis bestimmen, auswerfen, Sen.: u. so huic signo milia centum, den Preis von 100000, Hor.: p. praemium, eine Belohnung aufstellen, auswerfen, verheißen, Sall., Liv. u.a. (s. Drak. Liv. 39, 17, 1): Olympiada, eine Ol. ansetzen, festsetzen, Cic. – p. alci od. alci rei nomen ( wie ονομα θειναί τινι), einen Namen gleichs. feststellen, beilegen, Cic. u.a. – p. rationem, Rechnung aufstellen, ablegen, Suet.; vgl. p. rationem cum Orco, Rechnung halten mit usw., Cic. – c) als feststehend aufstellen, annehmen, behaupten (nicht »voraussetzen«, s. Jordan Cic. Caecin. 32. p. 195), duo genera ponunt, deorum alterum, alterum hominum, Cic.: alii elementa novem posuerunt, Quint.: sed positum
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    sit primum nosmet ipsos commendatos esse nobis, Cic. – m. dopp. Acc., als das u. das annehmen, vitae brevis signa raros dentes, Plin.: im Passiv m. dopp. Nom., si ponatur adulter caecus, aleator pauper, Quint. – d) ein Thema zur Besprechung stellen, aufstellen, bestimmen, quaestiunculam, Cic.: quaestionem, Phaedr. u. Sen.: p. aliquid, ad quod audiam, volo, Cic.: materia, in qua ponitur tibicen, qui etc., Quint. – u. absol. = eine oder die Frage stellen, ponere iubebam, de quo quis audire vellet, Cic.: p. an etc., Sen. – e) jmd. in ein Amt, in eine Würde, Stellung (als Aufseher, Richter, Kläger) setzen, aufstellen, einsetzen, anstellen, alci custodem, Caes.: alci accusatorem, Cael. in Cic. ep.: satis idoneum officii sui iudicem, Cic. – u. m. dopp. Acc., alqm custodem in frumento publico, Cic.: alqm imperatorem Numidis, Sall.: alqm principem in bello, Nep. – m. super u. Akk., super armamentarium positus, Curt. 6, 7 (27), 22: puer super hoc positus officium, Petron. 56, 8.
    B) zum Genießen eine Speise, ein Getränk auftragen, vorsetzen (klass. apponere), globos melle unguito, papaver infriato, ponito, Cato: p. pavonem, merulas, Hor.: p. unctum, einen Leckerbissen, Hor.: invitas ad aprum, ponis mihi porcum, Mart.: ceteris vilia et minuta ponebat, Plin. ep.: da Trebio, pone ad Trebium, Iuven. – vinum, Petron.: merum in gemma, Ov.: quis posuit secretam in auro dapem? Sen.: alci
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    venenum cum cibo, Liv.: alci in patina liquidam sorbitionem, Phaedr.
    C) als t. t. des Landbaues: 1) pflanzend usw. setzen, einsetzen, stecken, piros, Verg.: arborem, Hor.: vitem, Colum.: vitem ordine, Ambros. – semina (Pflanzen), Verg.: panicum et milium, Colum. – 2) eine Frucht zur Aufbewahrung hinlegen, einlegen (klass. reponere), p. in horreis, Pallad.: sorba lecta duriora et posita, Pallad. D) als publiz. t. t., etw. irgendwo zur Verwahrung niederlegen, hinterlegen, tabulas testamenti in aerario, Caes. b. c. 3, 108, 4: compositio publicis bibliothecis posita, Scrib. Larg. 97: pecuniam apud tutorem, ICt.: apparatum sive impensam in publico, ICt.
    E) als t. t. der Geschäftssprache, ein Kapital auf Zinsen anlegen (vgl. die Auslgg. zu Hor. epod. 2, 70 u. zu Hor. ep. 1, 18, 111), pecuniam in praedio, Cic., apud alqm, Cic.: pecuniam kalendis, Hor.: dives positis in fenore nummis, Hor. – übtr., otia recte, Hor.: beneficium apud alqm, bene apud alqm, Cic.: munus bene apud alqm, Liv.
    F) als t. t. der Toilettensprache, das Haar legen, zurechtlegen, ordnen, p. comas in statione, Ov.: positi sine lege et sine arte capilli, Ov.: ponendis in mille modos perfecta capillis, Ov.
    G) eine Aufregung in der Natur sich legen machen (Ggstz. tollere), tollere seu ponere vult freta (v.
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    Windgott Notus), Hor.: magnos cum ponunt aequora motus, Prop. – dah. refl., ponere, sich legen, v. Winden, Verg., Ov. u. Gell. (s. Goßrau Verg. Aen. 7, 27): u. so auch positi flatus, Min. Fel.
    H) niederlegen, von sich legen, fortlegen, ablegen, weglegen, ab-, wegwerfen (Ggstz. sumere), 1) eig.: a) übh.: velamina de tenero corpore, Ov.: e corpore pennas, Ov.: librum de manibus, Cic. – vestem, tunicam, Cic.: sarcinam, Petron.: barbam, Suet.: insignia morbi, fasciolas, cubital, focalia, Hor.: librum, aus der Hand legen, Cic.: semen, Verg.: coronam luctus gratiā, Cic.: nec sumit aut ponit secures arbitrio popularis aurae, Hor. – als milit. t. t., p. arma, die Waffen niederlegen, ablegen, Cic. u.a., u. (v. sich Unterwerfenden) = die W. strecken, Caes. u.a. (s. Drak. Liv. 6, 10, 5). – b) v. weibl. Wesen, die Leibesfrucht ablegen, v. Frauen, positum est uteri onus, Ov. – v. der Sau, werfen, fetum ad imam cavernam, Phaedr. – v. Vögeln, legen, p. pauca ova, Colum.: p. ova in saepibus, Ov.
    2) übtr., ablegen, von sich tun, entfernen, fahren lassen, aufgeben (Ggstz. sumere, suscipere), bellum, Sall. u.a.: vitam, Cic. u.a.: triumviri nomen, Tac. – vitia, Cic.: amores cum praetexta toga, Cic.: inimicitias, Cael. b. Cic.: discordias, Tac.: dolorem, Cic.: curam et aegritudinem, Cic.: curas externorum periculorum, Liv.: omnes aliarum rerum curas, Liv.: metum,
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    Ov. u. Plin. ep.: animos feroces, Liv.: ferocia corda, Verg.: vitae mortisque consilium vel suscipere vel ponere, Plin. ep. – poet., moras, Verg. – als milit. t. t. u. übtr., p. tirocinium, rudimentum, zurücklegen, ablegen, Liv. u.a. – u. als publiz. t. t., eine Würde niederlegen (klass. deponere), posito magistratu (Ggstz. quamdiu in magistratu est), ICt.
    3) als naut. t. t., Anker werfen, ancoris positis terrae applicare naves, Liv. 28, 17, 13.
    ⇒ Archaist. Perf. poseivei, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 551. lin. 3: posivi, Plaut. Pseud. 1281: posivit u. posibit, Act. fr. arv. a. 27, f.: posivt (so!), Corp. inscr. Lat. 3, 2208 u. 4367: possivit, ibid. 7, 579 u. 656: posivimus, Plaut. vidul. fr. 6 Stud. ( bei Prisc. 10, 37): posiverunt, Corp. inscr. Lat. 3, 6442. Cato r. r. praef. § 1. Cic. Tusc. 5, 83: posivere, Itin. Alex. 2 (3): posiveris, Plaut. trin. 145. Cato r. r. 4: posieit, Corp. inscr. Lat. 9, 3049 u. 3267: posiit, Corp. inscr. Lat. 5, 2575 u. 7, 574: posit od. posIt, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 1282. 1298. 1436 u.a.: possit, Corp. inscr. Lat. 2, 2712: poseit, ibid. 1, 1281 u. 1283: posierunt, ibid. 1, 1284. 3, 860: posiere, ibid. 5, 2714: posier(e), Corp. inscr. Lat. 13, 5282. Vgl. Georges Lexik. der lat. Wortf., S. 539. – Synkop. Partiz. Perf. postus, Lucr. 1, 1059; 3, 855 u.a. Sil. 13, 553. Ter. Maur. 2905.

    Ausführliches Lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch > pono

  • 17 pro

    I prō praep. cum abl.
    1) перед, против (aciem instruere p. castris Cs; praesidia collocare p. templis C)
    2) впереди, спереди
    saxa mittere p. tectis Sl — бросать камни, стоя на переднем краю крыши
    3) в пользу, в защиту, за (p. patriā pugnare L и mori C, H; oratio p. Milone C)
    p. aliquo esse C — стоять за кого-л.
    4) вместо (taleis p. nummo uti Cs)
    veniam p. laude peto O — я прошу не похвалы, а снисхождения
    5)
    а) за (incerta p. certis captare Sl)
    p. consule C — проконсул, наместник, замещающий консула
    б) от имени, именем (loqui p. aliquo Cs)
    6) как, в качестве (aliquem p. deo colere QC, Just)
    p. amico C, L — как друг, по-дружески
    p. certo C, L etc. — наверное, с уверенностью
    p. viso Cs — как лично виденное, как факт
    7) в уплату за (pecuniam p. frumento accipere L); в воздаяние за (p. meritis Cs); в возмездие за (p. scelere Cs)
    8) по сравнению (с чем-л.), соответственно, по отношению (к чему-л.)
    pro multitudine hominum Helvetii angustos se fines hacere arbitrabantur Cs — гельветы считали, что по отношению к (с точки зрения) твоей численности они обладали (слишком) маленькой территорией
    9) сообразно, в зависимости (от чего-л.)
    p. portione Cato и p. ratā parte Cs — в определённом соотношении, сообразно
    10) относительно, про (p. re paucă loquar V; pauca p. aliquā re verba facere Sl)
    II prō! (prōh!) interj.
    о!, ах! (p. dii immortales! C; p. deorum atque hominum fidem! C); увы!
    at mea, pro, nullo pondere verba cadunt! O — мои же слова (Брисеиды) не имеют, увы, никакого веса!
    III prō- (pro- и prōd-)
    1) вперёд (profere, prodeo)
    3) для, в пользу ( prosum)
    5) сообразно (proquam, prout)

    Латинско-русский словарь > pro

  • 18 addo

    addo, ĕre, dĭdī, dĭtum, tr. [st1]1 [-] approcher de, placer à côté de, attacher à, mettre dans.    - addere frena feris, Virg.: mettre le frein à des chevaux fougueux.    - alicui socium se addere, Virg.: s'attacher comme compagnon à qqn.    - addere manus in arma, Ov.: mettre les armes à la main.    - addere virgas alicui, Liv.: frapper qqn de verges.    - addere allium in cava dentium, Plin.: introduire de l'ail dans les dents creuses.    - addere se in florem, Ov.: passer à l'état de fleur. [st1]2 [-] au fig.: apporter, donner.    - fletus ingenio muliebri additus est, Pac.: les larmes sont le partage des femmes.    - alicui animum (animos) addere: donner du courage à qqn, donner un surcroît de courage à qqn.    - addere dignitatem, Sall.: donner de la considération.    - addere moram rebus, Virg.: retarder une entreprise.    - addere modum dextrae, Sil.: suspendre ses coups. [st1]3 [-] ajouter à (ad + acc., ou dat.), adjoindre, joindre, donner (en surplus).    - nihil addo, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 255: je ne mets rien de plus, je ne renchéris pas.    - addere res novas in edictum, Nep.: ajouter de nouvelles dispositions à un édit.    - avec dat. addere flammae aquam, Tib. 2, 4, 42: jeter de l'eau sur le feu.    - rem ad rem addere: ajouter qqch à qqch.    - avec dat. non esse malo addendum malum, Phaedr. 6: il ne faut pas à un mal ajouter un autre mal.    - rogo ut pari simplicitate, si qua existimabitis addenda commutanda omittenda, indicetis mihi, Plin. Ep. 3, 10: je vous prie de m'indiquer en toute simplicité les ajouts, les modifications et les suppressions qu'il y a lieu de faire.    - magnitudinem animi in addendo, non demendo reipublicae, ostendere, Sall.: mettre sa grandeur d'âme à enrichir et non à dépouiller la république.    - addere + prop, inf.: ajouter que.    - addere ut: ajouter que.    - addere ne: ajouter que... ne... pas.    - addere gradum (s.-ent. gradui): doubler le pas, presser le pas.    - (huc) adde quod: (à cela) ajoute le fait que.    - hunc laborem ad cotidiana opera addebant, Caes. BC. 3, 49: ils ajoutaient cette peine à leurs tâches quotidiennes.    - eas epistulas in eundem fasciculum velim addas, Cic. Att. 12, 53: je voudrais que tu joignes les lettres au même paquet.    - conpertum ego habeo verba virtutem addere, Sall. C. 58: je sais bien que les paroles ne donnent pas de courage.    - addere alicui calcar: éperonner qqn, stimuler qqn.    - multum animis eorum addere, Sall. J. 75: accroître leur courage.    - addere de aliqua re, Caes. BG. 5, 41: parler en outre de qqch.    - pauca addit, Caes. BC, 1, 8, 4: il ajoute quelques mots.    - ceteris audaciam addere, Sall. J. 94: inspirer de l'audace aux autres.    - nugis pondus addere, Hor. Ep. 1, 18: donner de l'importance à des bagatelles.    - addere arti plurimum, Quint.: contribuer beaucoup au progrès de l'art. [st1]4 [-] additionner, faire une addition.    - addendo deducendoque videre quae reliqui summa fiat, Cic. Off. 1, 18, 59: [en ajoutant et en retranchant, voir ce que devient le total du reste] = par des additions et des soustractions, voir ce qui reste au total.
    * * *
    addo, ĕre, dĭdī, dĭtum, tr. [st1]1 [-] approcher de, placer à côté de, attacher à, mettre dans.    - addere frena feris, Virg.: mettre le frein à des chevaux fougueux.    - alicui socium se addere, Virg.: s'attacher comme compagnon à qqn.    - addere manus in arma, Ov.: mettre les armes à la main.    - addere virgas alicui, Liv.: frapper qqn de verges.    - addere allium in cava dentium, Plin.: introduire de l'ail dans les dents creuses.    - addere se in florem, Ov.: passer à l'état de fleur. [st1]2 [-] au fig.: apporter, donner.    - fletus ingenio muliebri additus est, Pac.: les larmes sont le partage des femmes.    - alicui animum (animos) addere: donner du courage à qqn, donner un surcroît de courage à qqn.    - addere dignitatem, Sall.: donner de la considération.    - addere moram rebus, Virg.: retarder une entreprise.    - addere modum dextrae, Sil.: suspendre ses coups. [st1]3 [-] ajouter à (ad + acc., ou dat.), adjoindre, joindre, donner (en surplus).    - nihil addo, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 255: je ne mets rien de plus, je ne renchéris pas.    - addere res novas in edictum, Nep.: ajouter de nouvelles dispositions à un édit.    - avec dat. addere flammae aquam, Tib. 2, 4, 42: jeter de l'eau sur le feu.    - rem ad rem addere: ajouter qqch à qqch.    - avec dat. non esse malo addendum malum, Phaedr. 6: il ne faut pas à un mal ajouter un autre mal.    - rogo ut pari simplicitate, si qua existimabitis addenda commutanda omittenda, indicetis mihi, Plin. Ep. 3, 10: je vous prie de m'indiquer en toute simplicité les ajouts, les modifications et les suppressions qu'il y a lieu de faire.    - magnitudinem animi in addendo, non demendo reipublicae, ostendere, Sall.: mettre sa grandeur d'âme à enrichir et non à dépouiller la république.    - addere + prop, inf.: ajouter que.    - addere ut: ajouter que.    - addere ne: ajouter que... ne... pas.    - addere gradum (s.-ent. gradui): doubler le pas, presser le pas.    - (huc) adde quod: (à cela) ajoute le fait que.    - hunc laborem ad cotidiana opera addebant, Caes. BC. 3, 49: ils ajoutaient cette peine à leurs tâches quotidiennes.    - eas epistulas in eundem fasciculum velim addas, Cic. Att. 12, 53: je voudrais que tu joignes les lettres au même paquet.    - conpertum ego habeo verba virtutem addere, Sall. C. 58: je sais bien que les paroles ne donnent pas de courage.    - addere alicui calcar: éperonner qqn, stimuler qqn.    - multum animis eorum addere, Sall. J. 75: accroître leur courage.    - addere de aliqua re, Caes. BG. 5, 41: parler en outre de qqch.    - pauca addit, Caes. BC, 1, 8, 4: il ajoute quelques mots.    - ceteris audaciam addere, Sall. J. 94: inspirer de l'audace aux autres.    - nugis pondus addere, Hor. Ep. 1, 18: donner de l'importance à des bagatelles.    - addere arti plurimum, Quint.: contribuer beaucoup au progrès de l'art. [st1]4 [-] additionner, faire une addition.    - addendo deducendoque videre quae reliqui summa fiat, Cic. Off. 1, 18, 59: [en ajoutant et en retranchant, voir ce que devient le total du reste] = par des additions et des soustractions, voir ce qui reste au total.
    * * *
    I.
        Addo, addas, addare, pen. corr. Plaut. Donner.
    II.
        Addo, addis, addidi, penul. corr. additum, pen. corr. addere, Ex Ad, et Do, das. Adjouster, Bailler d'avantage.
    \
        Quid ad hanc mansuetudinem addi potest? Cic. Est il possible d'estre plus doulx?
    \
        Addere in potu vnguentum. Plin. Mesler parmi.
    \
        Nihil addo de meo. Cic. Je n'y adjouste rien du mien.
    \
        Literas meas in eundem fasciculum velim addas. Cic. Que tu les mettes au mesme pacquet.
    \
        Hoc addebat. Terent. Il disoit d'avantage, Il adjoustoit oultre.
    \
        In vnguenta additur ab aliquibus. Plin. Aucuns le meslent parmi ou dedens les onguents, Le meslent avec les autres drogues pour faire des onguents.
    \
        In medicamenta additur. Plin. Il entre dedens les medicaments, On en fait des medicaments.
    \
        In mustum addere. Plin. Mesler parmi, ou Mettre dedens du moust.
    \
        Additur in caua dentium. Pli. On le met dedens le creux des dents.
    \
        Addere in coronas. Plin. En faire des chapeaux avec d'autres fleurs. \ Addere in nares. Plin. Mettre dedens le nez.
    \
        Adde huc praedas hominum atque pecudum actas. Liu. Adjouste ci endroit les ravissements des hommes et bestails.
    \
        Adde quod insidiae sacris a vatibus absunt. Ouid. Oultre ce.
    \
        Addere animum. Cic. Accroistre le courage.
    \
        Annos duos addiderat ad duo lustra. Ouid. Il avoit douze ans, Il estoit aagé de douze ans.
    \
        Aquam addere flammae. Tibull. Jecter de l'eau sur la flambe pour l'esteindre.
    \
        Calcar addere alicui. Horat. Inciter, Picquer.
    \
        Cornua addere pauperi. Horat. Luy bailler des cornes, Luy bailler occasion d'estre fier, orgueilleux, ou violent.
    \
        Hunc virtus addidit astris. Ouid. Ses vertus l'ont mis au ciel, Par ses vertus il est monté au ciel.
    \
        Addere cognomen. Liu. Surnommer.
    \
        Addere, vel ponere ad compendium. Plaut. Abbreger son compte.
    \
        Addere custodem vel comitem. Plaut. Bailler pour garde, ou Pour faire compagnie.
    \
        Addere dono. Plaut. Donner oultre, ou D'avantage.
    \
        Exemplis melioribus se addere. Claudia. Suyvre les meilleurs exemples.
    \
        Facta pollicitis addere. Ouid. Faire ce qu'on a promis, Accomplir sa promesse, Tenir promesse.
    \
        Addere fidem. Plin. iunior. Confermer.
    \
        Fidem pollicitam dictis addere. Ouid. Pollicitam dictis Iuppiter adde fidem. Tien ta promesse, Fay ce que tu m'as promis.
    \
        Fiduciam addere alicui rei. Tacit. Donner fiance ou bonne esperance.
    \
        Finem addere alicui rei. Claudian. Mettre fin.
    \
        Fraena equis addere. Virgil. Brider.
    \
        Gradum addere. Plin. iunior. Se haster, Marcher plus viste, Avancer son pas.
    \
        Laborem addere alicui rei. Tacit. Prendre, ou Mettre peine à bien accoustrer quelque chose.
    \
        Manus addere in vincula. Ouid. Lier les mains.
    \
        Addere naturam. Virgil. Bailler une nature, ou condition.
    \
        Nomen addere alicui. Claud. Nommer, Imposer un nom.
    \
        Addere operam. Plaut. Mettre peine.
    \
        Cancer partes illaesas addit vitiatis. Ouid. Le chancre corrompt les parties saines.
    \
        Scelus addere in scelus. Oui. Faire meschanceté sur meschanceté.
    \
        Spem et metum addere alicui. Tacit. Donner esperance et crainte.
    \
        Stimulos in praelia menti addere. Lucan. Inciter au combat, Encourager pour combatre.
    \
        Addere vitium pudicitiae. Plaut. Despuceler une vierge.
    \
        Vocabulum aliquod filio addere. Claudian. Donner, ou Imposer quelque nom.
    \
        Virtutem addere. Sallust. Faire plus vaillant, ou vertueux.
    \
        Addidit multum reipublicae. Sallust. Il a beaucoup profité à la republique, Il a beaucoup augmenté le bien public.
    \
        Addere, pro Large et copiose dare seu ministrare. Adde merum. Tibullus. Verse moy du vin largement, et sans eau, Renforce de vin.

    Dictionarium latinogallicum > addo

  • 19 contra

    contrā, adv. and prep. [stem con, i. e. cum, through a comparative form conter; cf.: alter, uter, inter, praeter, etc.; in abl. fem. form like the locative adverbs ea, qua, etc.; cf.: ultra, intra, extra, citra], orig., in comparison with; hence, over against, fronting, in front, opposite, in opposition to, against, contrary to, opposed to, etc.
    I.
    Adv. (referring to an opposed object often with the force of a preposition with ellipsis of a pronoun, = against it, against him, etc.).
    A.
    Local.
    1.
    Lit., of position in front of a person, place, or thing.
    a.
    With verb of being or position expressed or understood.
    (α).
    Referring to living beings, opposite, in face of, face to face, facing, in front of, fronting, confronting (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.):

    feminam scelestam te, adstans contra, contuor,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 26:

    ut confidenter mihi contra adstitit,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 6; Lucr. 4, 223; 6, 929:

    signum contra, quoad longissume oculi ferebant, animo finivit,

    Liv. 1, 18, 8:

    stat contra starique jubet,

    Juv. 3, 290:

    stat contra dicitque tibi tua pagina Fures!

    Mart. 1, 55, 12:

    ulmus erat contra,

    in front of her, Ov. M. 14, 661:

    templa vides contra,

    in front (of us), id. ib. 7, 587.—Of position in front of the enemy:

    contra conserta manu,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3: contra consistere, to make front against them, Caes. B. G. 2, 17.—
    (β).
    Referring to things and places, over against (it), opposite (to it), on the opposite side (mostly post-Aug.):

    contra jacet Cancer patulam distentus in alvum,

    Manil. 2, 253:

    posita contra Hispania,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    promuntorium quod contra procedit,

    Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6: relinquendae autem contra erunt vacuae tabellae, on the opposite side, i. e. of the leaf, Quint. 10, 3, 32: illo quaerente cur non decidant contra siti, the antipodes (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; v. II. A. 1. c. a), Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161.—With the governing verb understood:

    arguam hanc vidisse apud te contra conservum meum,

    face to face, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91:

    jam omnia contra circaque hostium plena erant, Liv 5, 37, 8: eadem verba contra (i. e. ponuntur),

    side by side, Quint. 9, 3, 36; Verg. A. 6, 23.—
    b.
    With verbs of motion, so as to be opposite to an object or face to face with a person, variously rendered.
    (α).
    Referring to persons:

    accede ad me atque adi contra,

    come right up to me, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri contra ingruunt, advance to their front (in Plaut. hostility is not implied in contra), id. Am. 1, 1, 84: quis nos pater aut cognatu' volet contra tueri, face to face, eye to eye, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 12 Mull. (Trag. Rel. v. 444 Rib.); Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 55 (Trag. Rel. v. 538 ib.):

    adspicedum contra me = contra adspice me,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 56 Lorenz ad lec.:

    contra adspicere,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45:

    contra intueri,

    Liv. 1, 16, 6; 9, 6, 8; Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 6:

    cum veniret contra Marcianus,

    Quint. 6, 3, 95; Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 152.—
    (β).
    Of things:

    hic ubi sol radiis... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspergine contra,

    Lucr. 6, 525; Cels. 8, 8, 1:

    quam (turrim) promoti contra validi asseres... perfregere,

    Tac. H. 4, 30.—Reciprocally: oscula non pervenientia contra, not coming through (the wall) so as to meet, Ov. M. 4, 80.—
    2.
    Transf. to equivalents of weight, value, and price; so,
    (α).
    In Plaut. only in the colloq. phrases auro contra, aurichalco contra, and contra auro (sc. posito); lit., for gold placed against; cf.:

    aes contrarium, s. v. contrarius: (servus) non carus'st auro contra,

    at his weight in gold, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 30: jam auro contra constat filius, id. Truc. 2, 6, 57 (Speng. aurichalco): auro contra cedo modestum amatorem! A me aurum accipe. Pa. Cedo mihi contra aurichalco quoi ego sano serviam, id. Curc. 1, 3, 45 sq.; id. Mil. 3, 1, 63; 4, 2, 85; id. Ps. 2, 3, 23.—
    (β).
    In post-Aug. prose (very rare):

    at si aquae et ejus rei quam contra pensabis par pondus erit, nec pessum ibit, nec exstabit, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    3.
    Of reciprocal actions, = vicissim, in turn, in return, back, on my, his, etc., part, likewise, counter-.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71:

    quae me amat, quam ego contra amo,

    id. Merc. 5. 2, 77; id. Cist. 1, 1, 96; id. Trin. 4, 2, 55; id. As. 2, 2, 110:

    qui arguat se, eum contra vincat jurejurando suo,

    make a victorious counter-charge, id. Mil. 2, 2, 37:

    si laudabit haec Illius formam, tu hujus contra (i. e. lauda),

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 54:

    audi nunc contra jam,

    listen in turn, id. Phorm. 4, 4, 18; id. Ad. 5, 4, 23:

    at tu mihi contra nunc videre fortunatus, Phaedria, Cui, etc.,

    you likewise seem fortunate to me, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 21:

    Mettius Tullo gratulatur, contra Tullus Mettium benigne alloquitur,

    Liv. 1, 28, 1:

    contra ut me diligat illa,

    Cat. 76. 23; Hor. S. 1, 3, 27 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, with ellipsis of inquit, = respondit:

    cui latrans contra senex,

    Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:

    scietis, inquam, etc., contra Nigrinus: ad quem missi sunt? ego, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 4.—

    Rarely with inquit, etc., expressed: at ille contra, renidens, Audi, inquit, discipule, etc.,

    Gell. 15, 9, 9; cf.:

    contra talia reddit,

    Claud. B. Gild. 379.—
    (β).
    With dat. pers.:

    consulo quem dolum doloso contra conservo parem,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 45:

    facere contra huic aegre,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10:

    hiscine contra insidiabere?

    id. Hec. 1. 1, 13:

    tibi contra gratiam Referre,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 7.—
    (γ).
    With item:

    item a me contra factum est,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 20:

    puellam senex Amat et item contra filius,

    id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Pers. 5, 2, 36; id. Am. 1, 1, 67; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 25.—
    (δ).
    Combining a reciprocal with a local relation (A. 1. a. a, and b. a): contra carinantes verba, exchanging abusive words ( face to face), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 361 (Ann. v. 181 Vahl.): tubae utrimque contra canunt;

    Consonat terra,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; 1, 1, 86:

    confer gradum Contra pariter,

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 18; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28:

    video amicam... Ubi contra adspexit me, etc.,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45; Verg. E. 7, 8; cf. Lucr. 4, 243:

    vesper adest, juvenes consurgite!... Cernitis, innuptae, juvenes? consurgite contra!

    Cat. 62, 6.—
    (ε).
    Implying also opposition: Pe. Conpellabo. Ph. Orationis aciem contra conferam, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20:

    si scias quod donum huic dono contra comparet,

    what counter gift, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 63: quod Scipio postulavit... ut, etc. Et quod contra collega postulavit ne, etc., Annal. Trib. Pleb. ap. Gell. 7 (6), 19, 5:

    si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 1;

    Auct. B. Alex. 24: illo licente contra liceri audeat nemo,

    to bid in opposition, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Liv. 4, 53, 6:

    agedum pauca accipe contra,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 38.—So in battle:

    Numidae... Romanorum ordines conturbare... neque contra feriundi copia erat,

    Sall. J. 50, 4; and in law: et ab eo is qui adoptat vindicat... et illo contra non vindicante, etc., Gai Inst. 1, 134; 2, 24.—Esp. in replies:

    oratio contra a Demosthene pro Ctesiphonte edita,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213:

    dicit accusator haec: primum, etc.... quid contra reus?

    id. Clu. 30, 81; id. Fin. 5, 22, 63; Curt. 4, 1, 10; 7, 9, 1.
    B.
    Of opposition, strife, etc., against; constr. absol., with dat., and ne, quominus or quin.
    1.
    Of physical exertion.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    concurrunt... aetheriae nubes contra pugnantibu' ventis,

    struggling against each other, Lucr. 6. 98:

    nec nos obniti contra... Sufficimus,

    bear up, battle against, Verg. A. 5, 21; Ov. M. 9, 50; 2, 434:

    at ille contra nititur,

    resists, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103; 7, 20, 19, § 82:

    pars remigum, tamquam imperitia... officia nautarum impediebant. Mox contra tendere,

    rowed in an opposite direction, Tac. H. 4, 16.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    te rogo ne contrahas ac demittas animum, neque te obrui tamquam fluctu... sinas, contraque erigas ac resistas,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:

    et torrens judicem vel nitentem contra feret, cogatque ire qua rapiet,

    Quint. 12, 10, 61.— With ne: vi contra niti, ne advorsus eum fiat, Cato ap. Gell. 7 (6), 3, 16.—With quominus, Lucr. 1, 780.—
    2.
    Of mental exertion:

    si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra,

    arm yourself against them, Lucr. 2, 1043; 2, 280. —With dat.:

    siti contra... pugnandum,

    Cels. 4, 2 fin. —
    3.
    Of hostile opposition in gen.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quod animadversum est in eo qui contra omni ratione pugnarunt, non debeo reprehendere,

    who made opposition in every way, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107:

    contra etiam aliquid abs te profectum ex multis audivi,

    something inimical, id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    aut alio quovis (sc. colore) qui contra pugnet et obstet,

    Lucr. 2, 794; 2, 868.—
    4.
    Of warfare.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    ut eos adversarios existimemus qui arma contra ferant,

    Cic. Off. 1, 25, 87; 1, 12, 37; Vell. 2, 28, 4; cf.:

    quid quod exercitum contra duxit?

    Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23:

    ut si qua ex parte obviam contra veniretur, acie instructa depugnarent,

    if they should be attacked by an open charge, Caes. B. G. 7, 28:

    issentque confestim ad urbem ni venire contra exercitum... audissent,

    Liv. 7, 39, 17:

    cum Romanae legiones contra direxerint,

    would oppose their march, Tac. H. 4, 58; id. A. 6, 44.—With dat.:

    et huic contra itum ad amnem Erinden,

    Tac. A. 11, 10.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur, velut adversus communem hostem,

    Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 205.—
    5.
    Of legal contests.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a.—
    (β).
    Venire contra, of any legal act with the intention to hurt the adversary:

    quid? si omnium mortalium Sthenio nemo inimicior quam hic C. Claudius... fuit? si de litteris corruptis contra venit, etc.?

    if he made a charge of forgery against him? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107; cf. II. B. c. b.—
    (γ).
    On the part of the adversary:

    inveniendum contra est, quo distet haec causa a ceteris,

    Quint. 5, 10, 114; 9, 2, 35; 12, 8, 10.—
    (δ).
    Of judgments against the parties or against opinions:

    ne spoliaret fama probatum hominem si contra judicasset,

    given an adverse decision, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77; cf. Val. Max. 7, 2, 4; Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—
    6.
    Of literary opposition.
    (α).
    Mostly with verbs of saying; v. 9. a. g.—
    (β).
    With other verbs:

    astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,

    Lucr. 5, 728:

    contra nunc illud pone, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 14, 6:

    habeat (liber meus) etiam quosdam qui contra sentiant et adversentur,

    some dissentients and opponents, Quint. 3, 1, 5; 2, 17, 40; 3, 8, 69.—
    7.
    Of public and political opposition.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a. d.—
    (β).
    With petere, to be a candidate for office in opposition to another:

    nihil enim supererat de quo certarent, nihil quod contra peterent,

    no office was left for which to canvass against each other, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91:

    honores contra petere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 17.—With ire, with dat., of an opposing vote in the senate (cf.:

    pedibus ire): sententia Cassii ut nemo unus contra ire ausus est, ita dissonae voces respondebant,

    Tac. A. 14, 45.—
    8.
    Of violation of law, contracts, etc.: contra facere, or contra committere, to violate, transgress a law, etc.: leges esse non ex ejus qui contra commiserit utilitate, spectari oportere, not in the interest of the transgressor, Cic. Inv. 2, 48, 153:

    si quis sub hoc pacto vendiderit ancillam ne prostitueretur, et si contra factum esset,

    and if the contract was violated, Dig. 18, 1, 56.—
    9.
    With verbs of saying, etc., contra dicere; less freq. disputare, disserere, pugnare, in the sense of dicere, and contra scribere (often contradico, in one word, in post-Aug. writers; esp. with dat.).
    a.
    Absol.
    (α).
    Contra dicere, to speak as counsel of the adversary, to plead his cause, in legal proceedings:

    cum contra dicturus Hortensius esset,

    would speak on the other side, Cic. Quint. 24, 77:

    hoc... contra dicente Cotta judicatum est,

    id. Caecin. 33, 97:

    dixisse ut contra nemo videretur,

    id. Brut. 53, 198: ut contra Crassus... exorsus est, began on the other side, id. ib. § 197.—Hence: qui contra dicit, the adversary or counsel of the adversary:

    contra autem qui dicet, similitudinem infirmare debebit,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 151; id. Part. Or. 21, 108.—In the same sense: agens contra: si nos... impares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, that we are unequal to the talents of our adversary's counsel, [p. 453] Quint. 4, 1, 8.—
    (β).
    To make charges against (rare):

    si qui contra vellet dicere, usurum esse eum suo testimonio,

    Cic. Clu. 48, 134:

    qua ratione nemo neque tum item fecerit, neque nunc contra dicat,

    id. Quint. 29, 88; so,

    contra disputare, of objections to or against a witness: nihil contra disputabo priusquam dixerit,

    id. Fl. 21, 51.—
    (γ).
    In gen., to speak on the other side of a question:

    fiebat autem ita, ut cum is qui audire vellet dixisset quid sibi videretur, tum ego contra dicerem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; id. Fin. 2, 1, 2; so,

    contra disputare and contra scribere,

    id. Or. 1, 19, 85; Vitr. 3, 1, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 13; Dig. 9, 2, 21, § 1.—Hence: qui contra dicunt or disputant, the opponents:

    nec qui contra dicunt causam difficilem repellunt,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 2:

    ad coarguendos qui contra disputant,

    to refule his opponents, Quint. 2, 15, 26.—
    (δ).
    To oppose or object to a proposition, motion, or petition:

    quam palam principes dixerunt contra!

    protested against it, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Cic. Clu. 47, 130.—With pugnare:

    cum decerneretur frequenti senatu, contra pugnante Pisone, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:

    filius ejus incolumitatem optat: contradicit pater,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 85; 9, 2, 83; Plin. ap. Gell. 9, 16, 5; Cic. Dom. 33, 87:

    contradicente nullo,

    Suet. Caes. 20; Dig. 3, 3, 15.—
    (ε).
    To reply:

    contradixit edicto,

    answered by an edict, Suet. Aug. 56. —
    (ζ).
    Abl. absol. impers.:

    explorandum videtur an etiam contradicto aliquando judicio consuetudo firmata sit,

    whether the custom has been confirmed by judgment upon a judicial contest, Dig. 1, 3, 34.—
    b.
    With acc. neutr. pron., to object, to make or raise an objection, to reply; esp. in legal proceedings:

    ego enim, te disputante, quid contra dicerem meditabar,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:

    ut contra si quid dicere velit non audiatur,

    id. Fin. 5, 10, 27:

    aiebat illum primo sane diu multa contra (i. e. dixisse), ad extremum autem, etc.,

    id. Att. 2, 22, 2.— Hence: quod contra dicitur, or quae contra dicuntur, the objections:

    ut et id quod intenderemus confirmare, et id quod contra diceretur refellere (possemus),

    refute the objections, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90:

    quia neque reprehendi quae contra dicuntur possunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 81, 331; id. Inv. 2, 44, 127; Quint. 1, 2, 17.—In the same sense, as subst.: contrā dicta, orum, n. plur.:

    seu proposita confirmamus, sive contra dicta dissolvimus,

    or refute the objections, Quint. 4, prooem. 6.—With acc. and inf.:

    dicitur contra, nullum esse testamentum,

    the objection is made that there is no testament, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 42.—
    c.
    With dat., written in one word (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    To oppose a person by speaking against his views:

    solitum se etiam Thraseae contradicere,

    to oppose even Thrasea, Tac. H. 2, 91:

    tibi,

    Suet. Aug. 54:

    Curioni...,

    id. Rhet. 1. —Hence of answers and replies in law: quid si filium testatoris heres ejus prohibuit? Huic contradici potest: ergo pietatis, etc., he may be answered by this plea, etc., Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—And of advisory answers opposed to one's legal views:

    volenti mihi ream adulterii postulare eam, etc., contradictum est,

    my views were disapproved, rejected, Dig. 48, 5, 11, § 10.—
    (β).
    To oppose an opinion, with dat. of the thing:

    cum plures tantum sententiis aliorum contradicerent,

    opposed the opinions, Tac. H. 1, 39.—
    (γ).
    To object to a motion or petition, with dat. of the petitioner:

    patrem qui damnavit optat ne is torqueatur: pater ei contradicit,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 81:

    cum ambienti ut legibus solveretur multi contradicerent,

    Suet. Caes. 18; Dig. 40, 5, 14; 40, 12, 33.—
    (δ).
    With dat. of the petition:

    preces erant, sed quibus contradici non posset,

    which could not be denied, Tac. H. 4, 46 fin.; Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 2.—
    (ε).
    To contest the validity of a law (rare):

    quibus (legibus) contradici potest,

    Quint. 7, 7, 4.—
    (ζ).
    To contradict an assertion (very rare):

    pro certis autem habemus... cuicunque adversarius non contradicit,

    Quint. 5, 10, 13.—
    d.
    With quin, to object:

    praetor Samnitibus respondit... nec contra dici quin amicitia de integro reconcilietur,

    there was no objection to a reconciliation, Liv. 8, 2, 2.
    C.
    To one's disadvantage; mostly predic. with esse, unfavorable, adverse, damaging (post-Aug.;

    but cf. II. B. 2.): ut eum qui responsurus est vel tacere, vel etiam invitum id quod sit contra cogat fateri,

    Quint. 7, 3, 14:

    cum verba (legis) contra sint,

    id. 7, 1, 49:

    sed experimentum contra fuit,

    unsuccessful, Tac. H. 2, 97 fin.:

    ubi fortuna contra fuit,

    id. ib. 3, 18:

    si fortuna contra daret,

    should be unfavorable, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. A. 15, 13.
    D.
    Of logical opposition, with negative force.
    1.
    Of a direct contrast.
    a.
    Predicatively, with esse, fieri, etc., the contrary, the opposite:

    quod fieri totum contra manifesta docet res,

    but experience teaches that just the contrary is true, Lucr. 3, 686; 4, 1088:

    in stultitia contra est,

    with fools the reverse is true, Cic. Clu. 31, 84:

    in hac quidem re vereor ne etiam contra (i. e. sit),

    id. Att. 12, 46; id. Off. 1, 15, 49:

    quod contra est,

    Sall. J. 85, 21:

    quis non credat, etc.? Contra autem est,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 12; id. Ep. 7, 3; Dig. 37, 4, 4:

    contra fore si, etc.,

    ib. 34, 2, 39, § 2:

    immo forsitan et contra (i. e. erit),

    ib. 41, 3, 49:

    ego contra puto (i. e. esse),

    Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 7; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25.—
    b.
    With evenire, accidere, sentire, scribere, habere, etc.:

    utrumque contra accidit: istic enim bellum est exortum, hic pax consecuta,

    of both the contrary has happened, Cic. Fam. 12, 18, 2; so Dig. 38, 2, 51:

    id ego contra puto (sc.: faciendum esse),

    id. Att. 10, 8, 2:

    contra evenit in iis morbis,

    Sen. Ep. 52, 7; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163:

    ego contra sentio,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 15, 5; Sedig. ap. Gell. 15, 24, 4; Dig. 40, 2, 25:

    Proculus contra (sc. sentit),

    ib. 35, 2, 1, § 14; 33, 7, 25:

    licet Celsus contra scribat,

    ib. 9, 2, 21, § 1: contra probatur, Gai Inst. 2, 78; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 34.—Very rarely referring to a term in the same clause:

    cujus disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur,

    interpreted in an opposite sense, misinterpreted, misunderstood, Tac. H. 4, 86 fin. —
    c.
    Referring to a word or phrase in the same predicate.
    (α).
    To an adverb, in an opposite manner, otherwise, differently, not, etc.:

    nam ad summam totius rei pertinet, caute an contra demonstrata res sit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 81, 330: quod viriliter animoque fit, id, etc.;

    quod contra, id turpe,

    id. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    sit sapienter usus aut contra,

    Quint. 2, 5, 15:

    lactuca locis apricis optume autumno ponitur, mediterraneis aut frigidis contra ( = pessime),

    Col. 11, 3, 25.—
    (β).
    To a predicative adjective, not, the opposite, the reverse, etc.:

    ut aliae (res) probabiles videantur aliae contra,

    improbable, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103; id. Off. 2, 2, 7:

    quid est quod me impediat ea quae probabilia mihi videantur sequi, quae contra, improbare,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 8; id. Or. 2, 31, 135; Quint. 4, 2, 52.—
    (γ).
    To a verbal predicate:

    an frater fratri exsistat heres, an contra ( = annon),

    Dig. 34, 5, 19.—
    (δ).
    To a subject infinitive:

    laudare testem vel contra pertinet ad momentum judiciorum,

    praising or censuring a witness, Quint. 3, 7, 2.—
    (ε).
    To a clause, translated by not or by a repetition of the clause with a negative:

    quae secundum naturam essent, ea sumenda et quadam aestimatione dignanda docebat, contraque contraria,

    those that were not, not, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 36: quod cuidam aut sapiens videor quod una non jerim, aut felix fuisse;

    mihi contra,

    id. Att. 9, 12, 4: an credibile est, incestum cum filia commissum? Et contra, veneficum in noverca, adulterum in luxurioso? and incredible, etc., Quint. 5, 10, 19; so Dig. 9, 1, 2, § 1.—
    (ζ).
    To an attributive genitive:

    Marius cognoscere quid boni utrisque or contra esset (i. e. mali),

    Sall. J. 88, 2:

    verum de origine laudis contraque perspiciemus suo tempore (i. e. vituperationis),

    Quint. 2, 4, 21:

    alii a propositione accusatoris contraque loci oriuntur,

    the accuser and the accused, id. 7, 2, 31;

    so in several titles of the Digests, as Depositi vel contra, = actio depositi, vel contraria actio depositarii,

    Dig. 16, 3 tit.; so ib. 16, 17, 1; 16, 13, 6; 16, 13, 7.—
    2.
    Reversing the relation of terms in the preceding sentence, the reverse, conversely, vice versa, etc.
    a.
    With its own predicate: saepe... corpus aegret, Cum tamen ex alia laetamur parte latenti;

    Et retro fit uti contra sit saepe vicissim, Cum miser ex animo laetatur corpore toto,

    Lucr. 3, 108: illa altera argumentatio, quasi retro et contra, prius sumit, etc., ( proceeding), so to speak, backward and in inverted order, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46: neque illud ignoro, etc.; sed non idem accidit contra, but the converse is not true, Quint. 8, 6, 3; Gell. 4, 2, 5: ut vocabula verbis, verba rursus adverbiis, nomina appositis et pronominibus essent priora. Nam fit contra quoque frequenter non indecore. for often, not inelegantly, the order is reversed, Quint. 9, 4, 24:

    quae etiam contra valent,

    i. e. if the terms are reversed, id. 3, 7, 25; 9, 2, 49; 8, 6, 25; 9, 4, 72.—
    b.
    Belonging to the same predicate:

    ut quidque erit dicendum ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra,

    Cic. Or. 36, 123:

    cum emtor venditori, vel contra, heres exstitit,

    Dig. 35, 2, 48:

    in quibus patrium pro possessivo dicitur, vel contra,

    Quint. 1, 5, 45; 5, 10, 71:

    junguntur autem aut ex nostro et peregrino, ut biclinium, aut contra, ut epitogium et Anticato,

    id. 1, 5, 68:

    ut capras in montosis potius locis quam in herbidis (pascar), equas contra,

    but with mares the reverse is the case, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16:

    itaque ille dicere melius quam praecipere, nos contra fortasse possumus,

    Cic. Or. 42, 143:

    qua collegi solent ex his quae faciunt ea quae faciuntur, aut contra,

    or vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 80; Dig. 14, 1, 1, § 12; 48, 5, 23, § 4.
    E.
    In logical antithesis of clauses with a merely rhet. force, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa; sometimes almost = sed or autem (freq.).
    1.
    In independent clauses.
    a.
    Opposing persons or parties: fortunam insanam esse... perhibent philosophi... Sunt autem alii philosophi qui contra Fortunam negant ullam exstare, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36 (Trag. Rel. v. 372 Rib.); Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 1:

    ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti Verri crimini daturus sum... Tu, contra, ne quae ille quidem fecit, obicies,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35:

    ego contra ostendo, non modo nihil fecisse Sex. Roscium, sed, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79; id. Phil. 8, 3, 8; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62:

    in Italia bellum gerimus, in sede ac solo nostro... Hannibal contra in aliena, in hostili est terra,

    Liv. 22, 39, 13; 21, 50, 2; 3, 15, 2; 6, 7, 4; 9, 35, 4 et saep.; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; Vell. 2, 31, 4; Sen. Ep. 9, 14; id. Ira, 2, 33, 6; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 84; 3, 57; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vit. 2; Just. 2, 1, 10; 8, 4, 11:

    contra mercator, navim jactantibus austris Militia est potior?

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 30; 1, 3, 27; Prop. 2, 1, 45; 2, 23, 13 (3, 17, 3); Sen. Hippol. 214;

    so with versa vice: barbarae gentes (Alexandrum) non ut hostem, sed ut parentem luxerunt... Contra Macedones versa vice non ut civem, sed ut hostem amissum gaudebant,

    Just. 13, 1, 7.—
    b.
    Introducing a secondary or parallel opposition of thought: in loco umidiore far potius serunt quam triticum;

    contra in aridiore hordeum potius quam far,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 4; 1, 1, 47: si nihil esset quod inane vocaret, Omne foret solidum;

    nisi contra corpora certe Essent, etc., Omne quod est spatium vacuum constaret inane,

    Lucr. 1, 521; 4, 348; cf.:

    justa omnia decora sunt, injusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94; id. N. D. 2, 15, 41; id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; id. Quint. 30, 93: id. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: facilem esse rem... si modo unum omnes sentiant; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere, Caes. B. G, 5, 31; Liv. 25, 30, 3; Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 92; 11, 14, 14, § 35; Suet. Caes. 73; Gell. 1, 4, 5:

    si male rem gerere insani est, contra bene, sani,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 74.—
    2.
    In opposition to a dependent clause:

    ut hi miseri, sic contra illi beati quos, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; so id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Quint. 9, 3, 39:

    cui ego rei tantum abest ut impedimento sim, ut contra te M. Manli adhorter, etc.,

    Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 31, 4:

    cum virtus adeo neminem spe ac pollicitatione corrumpat, ut contra in se inpendere jubeat, ac, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 1, 2: aut igitur negemus quidquam ratione confici, cum contra nihil sine ratione recte fieri possit, aut, etc., whereas on the contrary, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 84; cf.:

    at contra,

    Lucr. 2, 392.—
    3.
    With co-ordinate conjunctions.
    a.
    Copulative, et contra or contraque (never with ac or atque); also nec contra (rare), and on the other hand.
    (α).
    With reference to a reason or conclusion, after nam, enim, cum, or itaque: nam et ratione uti... omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli [p. 454]... tam dedecet quam, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    malus est enim custos... metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 23:

    cum reficiat animos varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare,

    Quint. 1, 12, 4; 3, 8, 32; 8, 6, 20:

    itaque in probris maxime in promptu est, si quid tale dici potest, etc. Contraque in laudibus, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf. Suet. Calig. 51; so with nec:

    nam nec comoedia cothurnis assurgit, nec contra tragoedia socculo ingreditur,

    Quint. 10, 2, 22.—
    (β).
    With contrasted examples or illustrations, often after ut or sic:

    audivi ex majoribus natu, hoc idem fuisse in P. Scipione Nasica, contraque patrem ejus... nullam comitatem habuisse sermonis,

    Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109:

    ut suspitionibus credi oportere, et contra suspitionibus credi non oportere,

    id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 8, 4, 1; 5, 10, 48; 9, 3, 7; 9, 4, 52; 11, 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 82, 14; Dig. 17, 1, 22, § 4.—
    (γ).
    With contrasted actions, assumptions, etc.:

    atque utinam qui ubique sunt propugnatores hujus imperii possent in hanc civitatem venire, et contra oppugnatores rei publicae de civitate exterminari!

    Cic. Balb. 22, 51:

    domo pignori data, et area ejus tenebitur... et contra jus soli sequitur aedificium,

    Dig. 13, 7, 21:

    equo et asina genitos mares, hinnos antiqui vocabant: contraque mulos quos asini et equae generassent,

    Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 17: ceterum potest ex lege quidem esse judicium, sed legitimum non esse, et contra ex lege non esse, sed legitimum esse, Gai Inst. 4, 109; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161; 35, 15, 5, § 183.—
    (δ).
    After a negative clause, affirming the opposite idea, et contra or contraque, but on the contrary:

    in quo (consulatu) ego imperavi nihil, et contra patribus conscriptis et bonis omnibus parui,

    Cic. Sull. 7, 21:

    nunc vero cum ne pulsus quidem ita sim ut superare non possim, contraque a populo Romano semper sim defensus, etc.,

    id. Dom. 33, 88; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Marcell. 6, 20; so,

    et contra,

    Suet. Tit. 7.—
    b.
    With adversative conjunctions, at contra, sed contra, contra autem, contra vero (not verum contra, nor contra tamen).
    (α).
    At contra (freq.), merely a strengthened contra (v. 1. supra): huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores Jucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;

    At contra taetri absinthi natura... foedo pertorqueat ora sapore,

    Lucr. 2, 400:

    cogunt,

    id. 2, 74; 1, 366; 2, 235 et saep.: nos qui domi sumus, tibi beati videmur;

    at contra nobis tu quidem... prae nobis beatus,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 66; Sall. J. 36, 2; 4, 7; 15, 3; id. C. 12, 5:

    ideo siccas aiunt Aethiopiae solitudines... At contra constat Germaniam abundare rivis,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 6, 2; 1, 3, 1; id. Ep. 100, 7; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186; Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. A. 4, 28.—
    (β).
    Sed contra, after a negative sentence (class.):

    non quo acui ingenia adulescentium nollem, sed contra ingenia obtundi nolui,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93; id. Att. 9, 15, 3; id. Ac. 1, 10, 35; id. Fl. 11, 26:

    arma populi Romani non liberis servitutem, sed contra servientibus libertatem adferre,

    Liv. 45, 18, 1:

    tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,

    Verg. A. 6, 95; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12.—PostAug. also without a preceding negation:

    obiisse nostro Laium scelere autumant superi inferique: sed animus contra innocens... negat,

    Sen. Oedip. 765; Symm. Ep. 6, 81.—
    (γ).
    Contra autem (rare;

    in Cic. only where different subjects have contrasted predicates in dependent clauses): quia pacis est insigne toga, contra autem arma tumultus atque belli,

    Cic. Pis. 30, 73.—In later writers = contra alone:

    sub septemtrione aedificia... conversa ad calidas partes oportere fieri videntur. Contra autem sub impetu solis meridiani regionibus conversa ad septemtrionem... sunt facienda,

    Vitr. 6, 1, 2; Gell. 14, 2, 19; Dig. 7, 1, 25, § 3; 34, 3, 25.—
    (δ).
    Contra vero (very rare;

    not in Cic.), used for contra: contra vero quercus infinitam habet aeternitatem,

    Vitr. 2, 9, 8; 6, 1, 3; Cels. 3, 6 fin. —
    (ε).
    Atqui contra, App. Mag. p. 287, 24.—
    c.
    With disjunctive conjunctions, aut contra, vel contra, seu contra, or on the contrary, or conversely (always without change of subject).
    (α).
    Aut contra:

    num aut scriptum neget, aut contra factum infitietur?

    Cic. Part. Or. 38, 133: quae (mens) aut languescit... aut contra tumescit, etc., Quint. 1, 2, 18:

    si imbres defuere, aut contra abundavere,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 228.—
    (β).
    Vel contra:

    hinc enim quaestiones oriuntur: Injuriam fecisti, sed quia magistratus, majestatis actio est? Vel contra: Licuit... quia magistratus?

    Quint. 5, 10, 40; 9, 4, 96; Suet. Galb. 3; Dig. 35, 2, 56, § 4; 8, 4, 6.—
    (γ).
    Seu contra:

    seu tristis veniam, seu contra laetus amicis,

    Prop. 1, 11, 25.—
    d.
    With causal conjunctions, nam contra (very rare;

    never contra enim): falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum quod, etc. Nam contra, reputando, neque majus aliud, neque praestabilius invenies,

    Sall. J. 1, 1; Quint. 1, 1, 1; 9, 2, 23. —
    4.
    In late Lat., e contra (also one word, ēcontrā) = contra,
    (α).
    In the meaning, the contrary (D. 1.):

    aliis vero econtra videtur,

    Hier. Ep. 12.—
    (β).
    Et econtra = et contra (E. 3. a.):

    honestiorum provectu et econtra suppliciis,

    Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.—For quod contra, v. II. E. 1. c.—
    5.
    With emphatic particles.
    a.
    Quin contra, nay on the contrary, opposing an affirmative sentence to a preceding negative statement (quin etiam amplifies without opposition; sed contra opposes without amplification; quin contra both opposes and amplifies);

    not before Livy: num qui enim socordius rempublicam administrari post Calvi tribunatum... quam? etc. Quin contra patricios aliquot damnatos... neminem plebeium,

    Liv. 6, 37, 8; 31, 31, 9; 35, 26, 10; 37, 15, 3.—
    b.
    Immo contra (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    = no, on the contrary, refuting opinions, after questions and in the form of a dialogue:

    existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates?... Immo contra, nolo tibi umquam deesse laetitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 23, 3; Dig. 33, 7, 5; 33, 7, 29.—
    (β).
    = sed contra, but on the contrary:

    proinde ne submiseris te, immo contra fige stabilem gradum,

    Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6; id. Cons. Polyb. 15, 2; cf. prep.:

    immo contra ea,

    Liv. 41, 24, 8; cf. II. E. 1. b. infra.—
    c.
    Item contra = an emphatic et contra (very rare):

    quoniam... beate vivere alii in alio, vos in voluptate ponitis, item contra miseriam in dolore, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86; cf. I. A. 3. g supra.
    F.
    With a comparative clause introduced by ac, atque, or quam, representing a logical or moral opposition (contra atque debuit = non ita ut debuit; cf. Cic. Or. 3, 19, 70); cf. prep., II. C. 3. g, and II. E. 2. infra.
    1.
    Of logical opposition, contrary to, different from, otherwise than; in the best prose only with atque or ac.
    (α).
    With atque:

    item, contra atque apud nos, fieri ad Elephantinem ut neque ficus neque vites amittant folia,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6:

    simulacrum Jovis, contra atque ante fuerat, ad orientem convertere,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Sull. 24, 69:

    judicium suscepturos contra atque omnis Italia populusque Romanus judicavisset,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 12; id. B. G. 4, 13; Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95.—
    (β).
    With ac:

    itaque contra est ac dicitis,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 41:

    vides, omnia fere contra ac dicta sint evenisse,

    id. Div. 2, 24, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11; id. Or. 40, 137:

    cum contra ac Deiotarus sensit victoria belli judicaret,

    id. Phil. 11, 13, 34:

    Petreius ubi videt, Catilinam, contra ac ratus erat, magna vi tendere, etc.,

    Sall. C. 60, 5.—
    (γ).
    With ac and atque:

    si denique aliquid non contra ac liceret factum diceretur, sed contra atque oporteret,

    Cic. Balb. 3, 7.—
    (δ).
    With quam (post-Aug.):

    cui contra quam proposuerat aliqua cesserunt,

    Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 5; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149; 11, 21, 24, § 72; Gell. 6 (7), 8, 6:

    contra quam licet,

    id. 1, 3, 19; Sil. 15, 107.—
    2.
    Of moral opposition of acts contrary to rules and principles (cf. II. 3. g infra); so always with quam:

    mater Aviti, generi sui, contra quam fas erat, amore capta,

    contrary to the divine law, Cic. Clu. 5, 12:

    ut senatus, contra quam ipse censuisset, ad vestitum rediret,

    contrary to its own resolution, id. Pis. 8, 18:

    contra quam ista causa postulasset,

    id. Caecin. 24, 67:

    contra quam sanctum legibus est,

    Liv. 30, 19, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 2; id. Dom. 46, 122:

    contraque faciunt quam polliceri videntur,

    Auct. Her. 4, 3, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86.
    II.
    Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to (acc. to many scholars not ante-class.; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 108; but found Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24 Fleck., a line omitted by Lorenz as a gloss; id. Pers. 1, 1, 13 Ritschl; Att. ap. Non. p. 469, 15, or Trag. Rel. v. 476 Rib.; cf. also Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18; Cato, R. R. 18, 1, and v. I. A. 1. a. b, and I. A. 1. b. a supra).
    A.
    Local uses.
    1.
    Opposite, over against, facing.
    a.
    Of countries and places (mostly of those separated by water;

    adversus and e regione mostly of places opposite by land): insulae natura triquetra, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13; 3, 9; 4, 20:

    ad insulam quae est contra Massiliam,

    id. B. C. 1, 56; 3, 23:

    Rhodios, pacatis contra insulam suam terris, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 15, 7; 3, 26, 8:

    Carthago Italiam contra,

    Verg. A. 1, 13; 5, 124; Ov. M. 14, 17:

    insulae quae contra Tauri promuntorium inopportune navigantibus objacent, Chelidoniae nominantur,

    Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 3, 26, 30, § 151; 6, 28, 32, § 152; 5, 7, 7, § 41; Tac. A. 3, 1; id. H. 2, 17.—
    b.
    Of the heavenly bodies:

    donique (luna) eum (sc. solem) contra pleno bene lumine fulsit,

    Lucr. 5, 708:

    contra Volucris rostrum posita est Lyra,

    Vitr. 9, 4, 5; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5, 9; 1, 8, 3; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 5, 10, 10, § 56.—So, tertium (latus Britanniae) est contra septem triones, opposite ( facing); hence, contra meridiem and contra ortus (instead of ad or adversus meridiem, etc.), facing the south and east, Plin. 6, 24, 24, § 85; 17, 2, 2, § 22. —So of a person standing in the sunlight:

    cum minima umbra (i. e. a sole) contra medium fiet hominem,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327; cf.:

    contra mediam faciem meridies erit,

    id. 18, 33, 76, § 326.—
    c.
    Of opposite ends of a line.
    (α).
    Of the diameter of the earth: esse e regione nobis e contraria parte terrae qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123.—
    (β).
    Of a line drawn:

    contra autem E littera I erit ubi secat circinationem linea,

    opposite the point E will be the letter I, Vitr. 9, 7, 4.—
    d.
    Of buildings, etc.:

    contra hoc aviarium est aliud minus in quo quae mortuae sunt aves curator servare solet,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; Vitr. 5, 6, 3; 3, 5, 15:

    (statuam) quae fuerit contra Jovis Statoris aedem in vestibulo Superbi domus,

    Plin. 34, 6, 13, § 29:

    contra medium fere porticum diaeta paulum recedit,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20; 2, 17, 5; Suet. Aug. 44.—
    e.
    Of places on the human body:

    id quod contra stomachum est,

    Cels. 4, 5 (4, 12 med.); 7, 7;

    4, 20 (13).—Of the direction of the intestines, etc.: ea... contra medium alvum orsa,

    Cels. 4, 1 fin. —
    2.
    Of actions, opposite, towards, against, facing (syn.:

    adversus, ad, e regione,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 61).
    a.
    In gen.:

    quamvis subito... quamque Rem contra speculum ponas, apparet imago,

    Lucr. 4, 156: Democritus... clipeum constituit contra exortum Hyperionis, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4:

    et contra magnum potes hos (i.e. oculos) attollere solem, Nec tremis...?

    Prop. 1, 15, 37; Col. 7, 3, 8:

    rex constiterat contra pedites,

    Curt. 10, 9, 13; 9, 5, 1:

    ne contra septentrionem paveris,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 330; 28, 6, 19, § 69:

    contra solem varie refulgens,

    placed in the sun, id. 37, 10, 63, § 173; 10, 54, 75, § 151; 37, 6, 22, § 83;

    37, 7, 25, § 95: cum terrestres volucres contra aquam clangores dabunt,

    id. 18, 35, 87, § 363; 19, 8, 39, § 131.—
    b.
    Dependent on verbs of motion (very rare without the idea of hostility):

    (Dinocrates) incessit contra tribunal regis jus dicentis,

    towards, Vitr. 2, praef. 1.—So trop., of actions done for a purpose:

    lege Cornelia de sicariis tenetur qui, cum in magistratu esset, eorum quid fecerit contra hominis necem quod legibus permissum non sit,

    Dig. 48, 8, 4.—
    c.
    Appositively, with the predicate: (elephanti) tanta narratur clementia contra minus validos, ut, etc., if fronting weaker animals, if brought in contact with them (not to be connected with clementia), Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23.—Similarly: dum... fidens non est contra feram, if fronting the animal (not dependent on fidens), Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 57.—
    d.
    Against an opposing action, etc.:

    contra vim atque impetum fluminis conversa,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 5:

    cum plateae contra directos ventos erunt conformatae,

    Vitr. 1, 6, 8:

    ut contra ventum gregem pascamus,

    Col. 7, 3, 12; Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 2; Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52; 17, 2, 2, § 21; 8, 16, 21, § 54:

    contra fluminum impetus aggeribus,

    id. 35, 14, 48, § 169:

    capite in sole contra pilum peruncto,

    id. 27, 4, 5, § 17; 18, 35, 88, § 364; Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83; Sil. 14, 352; Dig. 9, 2, 29, § 4. [p. 455] — Trop.:

    contra fortunam tenendus est cursus,

    Sen. Prov. 5, 9.—Prov.:

    contra stimulum calces,

    kick against the pricks, Isid. Orig. 1, 36, 28 (al. calcitres); cf. Amm. 18, 5, 1.—
    e.
    Of local actions with hostile intent.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quae vis Coclitem contra omnes hostium copias tenuit?

    Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12:

    Pompeium Cartejae receptum scribis: jam igitur contra hunc exercitum (sc. constitit),

    id. Att. 15, 20, 3:

    pertimescam, credo, ne mihi non liceat contra vos in contione consistere,

    to face you, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; Lepidus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26:

    a fronte contra hostem pedum quindecim fossam fieri jussit,

    id. ib. 1, 41; 1, 42; id. B. G. 7, 62:

    Tullus adversus Veientem hostem derigit suos: Albanos contra legionem Fidenatium collocat,

    Liv. 1, 27, 5; 24, 41, 5; 38, 4, 5; Verg. A. 12, 279; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13; 2, 3, 17.—Appositively, with a local verb understood:

    terribilis haec contra fugientes belua est, fugax contra insequentes,

    i. e. if fronting, if placed opposite, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 92.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus collocata,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Mil. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 7, 5:

    tum contra hanc Romam illa altera Roma quaeretur,

    will be as a rival against this Rome, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 86:

    cui rationi contra homines barbaros atque imperitos locus fuisset, hac ne ipsum quidem sperare, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

    (Cicero) plerumque contra inimicos atque obtrectatores plus vindicat sibi,

    when fronting adversaries, Quint. 11, 1, 23.—
    f.
    In partic.
    (α).
    Stare contra aliquem (opp. stare ab aliquo); usu. implying hostility; mostly trop., to stand against, to be arrayed against, to face, oppose:

    quod contra hoc exemplum nulla staret eorum ratio,

    Auct. Her. 4, 5, 7:

    contra populi studium,

    Cic. Brut. 34, 126:

    contra civium perditorum... dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causa,

    id. ib. 79, 273; so,

    a mendacio contra veritatem,

    id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:

    contra cives in acie,

    id. Att. 16, 11, 2:

    et adversi contra stetit ora juvenci,

    opposite, Verg. A. 5, 477; 5, 414:

    haec enim (ratio) sola... stat contra fortunam,

    Sen. Ep. 14, 4, 2: contra leonem etiam stetit, fronted, i. e. hunted, Spart. Carac. 5 fin. —
    (β).
    Contra aliquem ire:

    aut saevos Libyae contra ire leones,

    Stat. Th. 9, 16.— Trop.:

    uti contra injurias armati eatis,

    Sall. J. 31, 6:

    interritus (sapiens) et contra illa (mala) ibit et inter illa,

    Sen. Ep. 59, 8; cf.: contra venire, II. B. 1. c. b infra, and v. also II. B. 2. b. and II. B. 1. b. infra.—
    3.
    Transf.,
    a.
    To persons placed together for comparison:

    C. vero Caesar, si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur,

    Quint. 10, 1, 114:

    CORONATO CONTRA OMNES SCAENICOS,

    Inscr. Grut. p. 331, n. 4.—
    b.
    To things compared, as if weighed against each other as to their value, strength, etc.
    (α).
    Lit. (very rare):

    quamcunque vis rem expende, et contra aquam statue... Si gravior est, leviorem rem... feret, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    (β).
    Prop.:

    cujus (i. e. generis humani) causa videtur cuncta alia genuisse natura, magna saeva mercede contra tanta sua munera,

    Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 1:

    qui amicus esse coepit quia expedit, placebit ei aliquod pretium contra amicitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 9, 9:

    numquam ulli fortiores cives fuerunt quam qui ausi sunt eum contra tantas opes ejus... condemnare,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:

    tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse, contra incredibilem contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri,

    id. ib. 7, 2, 2; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

    nomen prorogans nostrum et memoriam extendens contra brevitatem aevi,

    as a compensation for, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154.—So esp., valere contra, to weigh against, counterbalance, avail or prevail against: non vereor ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:

    (illa facta) pro periculo potius quam contra salutem valere debere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; id. Off. 3, 29, 104:

    contrane lucrum nil valere Pauperis ingenium?

    Hor. Epod. 11, 11; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 1; id. Cons. Helv. 5, 5; so,

    robur habere contra: si contra unamquamlibet partem fortunae satis tibi roboris est,

    id. ib. 13, 2;

    so of counterchecks: in Creta decem qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni plebis, sic illi contra vim regiam constituti,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 58.—Of antidotes: cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus valere dicitur, item contra venena omnia, Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—Hence,
    c.
    Colloq., aliquid contra aurum est, something is worth gold, is superb, both predicatively and attributively (cf.: auro contra, I. A. 2. supra): hujusce pomaria in summa Sacra Via ubi poma veneunt, contra aurum imago, a spectacle for gold, i. e. a magnificent sight, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10 MSS. (al. aliter):

    numcubi hic vides citrum... num quod emblema aut lithostratum? quae illic omnia contra aurum,

    superb, id. ib. 3, 2, 4 MSS. (Schneid. omits aurum, ex conj.):

    oneravi vinum, et tunc erat contra aurum,

    Petr. 7, 6.—
    d.
    Transf., of replies, with aiebat, inquit, etc.; both in friendly and inimical sense; esp., contra ea, contra haec, = the adv. contra:

    contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 29:

    contra ea Verginius unum Ap. Claudium et legum expertem et, etc., aiebat,

    Liv. 3, 57, 1; 24, 45, 4:

    quae contra breviter fata est vates,

    Verg. A. 6, 398:

    contra quod disertus Tu impie fecisti inquit, etc.,

    Quint. 7, 1, 53 (cf.: contra ea, II. E. 1. infra).
    B.
    Denoting hostility or disadvantage.
    1.
    With verbs of hostile action.
    a.
    Of physical exertion:

    pugnavere et tertio consulatu ejus viginti (elephanti) contra pedites quingentos,

    Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22:

    proelium Afri contra Aegyptios primi fecere fustibus,

    id. 7, 56, 57, § 200; 8, 40, 61, § 142. —
    b.
    Referring to warfare (usu. adversus), bellum gerere (rarely for cum or adversus; but contra patriam, contra aras, etc., not cum patria, etc.; cf.

    bellum, II. A. 1. e.): a quo prohibitos esse vos contra Caesarem gerere bellum (opp. pro),

    Cic. Lig. 8, 25; id. Phil. 5, 10, 27; Liv. Ep. 129.—With bellum suscipere:

    contra Antonium,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 5; so,

    contra patriam,

    id. Sull. 20, 58:

    pugnare contra patriam,

    id. ib. 25, 70:

    contra conjuges et liberos,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 15, 5:

    armatum esse contra populum Romanum,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—With arma ferre (freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 72; 13, 21, 47; Liv. 28, 28, 15; Nep. Att. 4, 2; Tib. 1, 6, 30; Ov. M. 4, 609; 13, 269; id. P. 1, 1, 26.—With arma sumere or capere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19; id. Phil. 4, 1, 2; 4, 3, 7:

    armis contendere contra,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

    arma alicui dare (trop.),

    Cic. Phil. 2, 21, 53:

    aciem instruere (trop.),

    Liv. 25, 4, 4:

    exercitum comparare,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14; 4, 1, 2:

    exercitum instruere,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    exercitum ducere and adducere,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; 3, 4, 11:

    exercitum contra Philippum mittere,

    id. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    naves ducere contra,

    Hor. Epod. 4, 19:

    ducere contra hostes,

    Liv. 1, 27, 4:

    florem Italiae educere contra,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    proficisci contra,

    to march against, Liv. 1, 11, 3; 8, 2, 5:

    auxilium ferre Rutulis contra Latinos,

    Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88:

    juvare aliquem contra,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    consilium inire contra Sequanos,

    to take hostile measures against, id. B. G. 6, 12.—
    c.
    Of legal contention (more freq. adversus, except with verbs of saying).
    (α).
    In gen., with agere or causam agere, to act as counsel against a party or his attorney:

    cum agerem contra hominem disertissimum nostrae civitatis,

    Cic. Caecin. 33, 97; id. Brut. 63, 226; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 3; Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Causam recipere or suscipere contra, to accept a retainer against:

    (causam) quam receperam contra pueros Octavios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 49, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 1.—Adesse alicui contra, to appear, act as one's counsel against:

    rogavit me Caecilius ut adessem contra Satrium,

    Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 5 al.; cf.:

    esse contra,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 3.— Trop.: conquesturus venit;

    at contra se adfuit et satisfacienti satisfecit,

    Sen. Fragm. Amic. 14, 1, 89:

    causam defendere contra,

    against the accuser, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 178:

    statuere contra aliquem (sc. causam),

    to establish a case against an adversary, id. Or. 10, 34:

    actio competit contra,

    Dig. 49, 14, 41:

    querelam instituere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 21, § 1:

    bonorum possessionem petere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 23:

    jus obtinere contra,

    Cic. Quint. 9, 34:

    pugnare contra,

    to struggle against the accuser, id. Sull. 17, 49; id. Verr. 1, 11, 33:

    id quod mihi contra illos datum est,

    i. e. a local advantage over, id. Tull. 14, 33:

    judicare contra aliquem,

    id. Fl. 20, 48; Dig. 21, 2, 55; 5, 2, 14; Just. Inst. 4, 17, 2:

    pronuntiare contra,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 34, 2: dare sententiam contra, Dig. 21, 2, 56, § 1:

    decernere contra,

    Cic. Fl. 31, 76:

    appellare contra aliquem,

    Dig. 49, 1, 3; 49, 5, 6; cf.:

    contra sententiam,

    Cod. Just. 7, 62, 32, § 2.—Sentire contra aliquem, to have an opinion unfavorable to:

    cur vos (cum) aliquid contra me sentire dicatis, etc.,

    Cic. Caecin. 27, 79.—
    (β).
    Venire contra aliquem, to appear as counsel for one's adversary:

    quid tu, Saturi, qui contra hunc venis, existimas aliter?

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18; id. Mur. 4, 9; id. Phil. 8, 6, 18.—Venire contra rem alicujus, to give advice damaging one's interests:

    contra rem suam me venisse questus est,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.—
    (γ).
    With dicere and other verbs of saying. (aa) Of a lawyer pleading against a lawyer:

    ipse ille Mucius, quid in illa causa cum contra te diceret, attulit quod? etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244:

    cum ille contra me pro Sex. Naevio diceret,

    id. Brut. 60, 2, 7; id. de Or. 2, 7, 30; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 45; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Brut. 26, 102; so,

    causam dicere,

    id. Or. 2, 23, 98:

    causam perorare,

    id. Quint. 24, 77.—(bb) Of a lawyer's pleading against the parties: dic mihi, M. Pinari, num si contra te dixero mihi male dicturus es? Servil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; 3, 34, 138; 1, 14, 60; id. Or. 35, 123; Quint. 11, 1, 57; cf. with ellipsis of acc.:

    quorum alter pro Aufldia, contra dixit alter,

    id. 10, 1, 22.—(ng) Of a party against a lawyer:

    si Gaditani contra me dicerent,

    if the Gaditani were my adversaries, Cic. Balb. 17, 38.—(dd) Of witnesses and experts, and the pleadings against them:

    si decressent legationem quae contra istum diceret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: contra testes dicere (opp. a testibus or pro testibus). Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118 (cf.:

    testimonium in aliquem dicere,

    id. Sull. 17, 48; Quint. 7, 4, 36):

    contra juris consultos dicere,

    against their legal opinions, Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—So of witnesses in scientific questions:

    contra testes dicendum est,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 1.—(ee) Dicere or contendere aliquid contra aliquem, to maintain a point against:

    cum interrogamus adversarios... quid contra nos dici possit,

    Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33:

    tamenne vereris ut possis hoc contra Hortensium contendere?

    Cic. Quint. 25, 78. —
    d.
    Of literary adversaries, mostly with verbs of saying and writing:

    cum scriberem contra Epicurios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    contra Epicurum satis superque dictum est,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

    contra Brutum,

    id. Tusc. 5, 8, 21:

    contra Academiam,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Fin. 1, 1, 2; 5, 8, 22; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; 5, 30, 84; id. Ac. 2, 4, 17:

    contra autem omnia disputatur a nostris,

    id. Off. 2, 2, 8.—
    e.
    Of public and political adversaries (syn. adversus and in).
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sentire contra,

    Cic. Mil. 2, 5:

    pugnare contra bonos,

    id. Sull. 25, 71:

    contra eos summa ope nitebatur nobilitas,

    Sall. C. 38, 2; Cic. Sest. 19, 42; 52, 112:

    (tribuni) qui aut contra consulem, aut pro studio ejus pugnabant,

    Liv. 39, 32, 12.—
    (β).
    Of political speaking:

    cum (Cato) eo ipso anno contra Serv. Galbam ad populum summa contentione dixisset,

    Cic. Brut. 20, 80; so id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostile or criminal acts in gen. (syn.:

    adversus, in): inire consilia contra,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

    manum comparare contra aliquem,

    id. Sull. 24, 68:

    conjurationem facere,

    id. ib. 4, 12:

    congredi,

    id. Lig. 3, 9; Sall. J. 64, 4:

    aliquid contra imperatorem moliri,

    Just. Inst. 4, 18, 3:

    nec dolor armasset contra sua viscera matrem,

    against her own offspring Ov. R. Am. 59.—Facere contra (more freq. with abstr. objects; cf. II. C. 1. f. b infra): nunc te contra Caesarem facere summae stultitiae est, to take parts against, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 2:

    eae (res) contra nos ambae faciunt,

    operate against us, id. Quint. 1, 1.—With verbs of saying, etc.:

    homo disertus non intellegit, eum quem contra dicit laudari a se?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; 2, 1, 2; 2, 21, 51; Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 70:

    epigramma quod contra quamdam Gelliam scripsit,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38:

    disputare contra deos, in two signif.: contra deum licet disputare liberius,

    to accuse, reproach a god, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76; but: mala et impia consuetudo est contra deos disputandi, to reason against the gods, i. e. against their existence, id. ib. 2, 67, 168.—
    2.
    Predicatively, with esse (videri, etc.), against, injurious to, unfavorable, prejudicial, to one's disadvantage: ut [p. 456] ex senatusconsulto neque cujus intersit, neque contra quem sit intellegi possit, Cic. Mur. 32, 68; id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; 2, 74, 299; 2, 81, 330; id. Sull. 13, 39; Sen. Ben. 6, 31, 6:

    licentiam malis dare certe contra bonos est,

    injurious to, Quint. 4, 2, 75:

    res contra nos est, of unfavorable chances in a lawsuit,

    id. 4, 66, 1; 4, 2, 75; 5, 13, 32.—Often, contra aliquem = quod est contra aliquem, referring to indef. pronouns or adjectives:

    nihil contra me fecit odio mei = nihil quod esset contra me,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. Off. 3, 31, 112:

    quibus (temporibus) aliquid contra Caesarem Pompeio suaserim,

    id. Phil. 2, 10, 24.—
    3.
    Added adverb. to the predicate, mostly referring to purpose, with hostile intent, for the purpose of some hostile act, in order to oppose, in opposition:

    Caesarine eam (provinciam) tradituri fuistis, an contra Caesarem retenturi?

    or keep it against Caesar, Cic. Lig. 7, 23:

    sero enim resistimus ei quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,

    id. Att. 7, 5, 5:

    judicium illud pecunia esse temptatum non pro Cluentio, sed contra Cluentium,

    id. Clu. 4, 9; id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52; id. Ac. 2, 28, 92:

    cum quae facitis ejusmodi sint ut ea contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini,

    id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; Sen. Ep. 3, 7, 3: Curio se contra eum totum parat, i. e. to speak against him, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Caes. B. C. 1, 85 ter; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192; Plin. Pan. 41.—So with the force of a temporal clause:

    fidem meam quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti,

    in the suit against, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4.—
    4.
    Dependent on adjectives (rare):

    contra se ipse misericors,

    to his own injury, Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:

    severissimus judex contra fures,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—
    5.
    With nouns.
    a.
    Acc. to 1. b.:

    ut quam maximae contra Hannibalem copiae sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17; cf. Vell. 2, 76, 3.—
    b.
    Acc. to 1. c. and 1. e.; so esp., oratio contra (cf.: oratio in).
    (α).
    Oratio contra (never in), of an address against the counsel of a party or against the prosecutor:

    quid in omni oratione Crassus vel apud centumviros contra Scaevolam, vel contra accusatorem Brutum, cum pro Cn. Plancio diceret?

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 220; cf.:

    Cato pro se contra Cassium = in oratione contra,

    Gell. 10, 15, 3; so,

    haec perpetua defensio contra Scaevolam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221:

    orationem illam egregiam quam (Aeschines) in Ctesiphontem contra Demosthenem dixerat,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 213.—
    (β).
    Of an address against the party, either in judicial or political affairs:

    unam orationem contra Gracchum reliquit,

    Cic. Brut. 26, 99:

    (Demosthenis) oratio contra Leptinem... contra Aeschinem falsae legationis,

    id. Or. 31, 111; Gell. 10, 24, 10; 10, 18, 91; Cic. Brut. 46, 169; Quint. 12, 10, 61; Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Brut. 44, 164; Gell. 13, 25 (24), 15; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 13; 11, 2, 25.—
    c.
    Acc. to 1. f.:

    contra patres concitatio et seditio,

    Cic. Brut. 14, 56.—Of animals:

    contra volpium genus communibus inimicitiis,

    Plin. 10, 76, 96, § 207.
    C.
    With inanimate and abstract objects.
    1.
    Directly dependent on verbs (cf. B. 1.).
    a.
    Of physical or moral exertion:

    cum fulmina contra Tot paribus streperet clipeis,

    Verg. A. 10, 567:

    pugnandum tamquam contra morbum, sic contra senectutem,

    Cic. Sen. 11, 35:

    contra verum niti,

    Sall. J. 35, 8:

    contra fortunam luctari,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 15, 2; id. Brev. Vit. 10, 1; id. Ep. 78, 15; 99, 32; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110.—
    b.
    Of warfare (lit. and trop.):

    bellum contra aras, focos, vitam fortunasque gerere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    bellum gerimus... contra arma verbis,

    id. Fam. 12, 22, 1.—So of logical contradictions:

    artificis autem est invenire in actione adversarii quae semet ipsa pugnent,

    Quint. 5, 13, 30.—
    c.
    Of legal contention.
    (α).
    Of the actions of the counsel or prosecutor: dicere, or perorare, agere contra aliquid, to plead against, contest something:

    contra argumenta, rumores, tabulas, quaestiones (opp. ab argumentis, etc.),

    Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9 sqq.; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118:

    contra ratiocinationem,

    id. Inv. 2, 50, 153: contra scriptum dicere, to contest, controvert a written law or a document, id. ib. 2, 47, 138; 2, 48, 143; id. Brut. 39, 145; Quint. 7, 7, 1:

    contra caput dicere,

    to plead against life, Cic. Quint. 13, 44 (cf.:

    servum in caput domini interrogare,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 1, 34; 5, 16, 5 and 8; 5, 46, 3): contra libertatem agere, Dig. 40, 12, 26.—Pregn.:

    contra rerum naturam, contraque consuetudinem hominum dicere (opp. contra nos dicere),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 45.—
    (β).
    Of judicial decisions contradicting documents, etc.:

    contra tabulas judicare,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 281:

    contra testamentum,

    Dig. 2, 17, § 1:

    contra sententiam dicere,

    ib. 49, 8, 1, § 2.—
    (γ).
    Admittere aliquem contra bona, to admit a petition for bonorum possessio (cf.:

    inmittere in bona),

    Dig. 38, 2, 3, § 6.—
    d.
    Of antagonism in literary and ethical questions.
    (α).
    To contend that something is false:

    dicere, disputare, disserere contra opinionem or sententiam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; 5, 19, 55; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 5, 4, 10; id. Ac. 2, 18, 60; Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 3; id. Ep. 87, 5; 102, 5 (cf.:

    in sententiam dicere,

    in support of an opinion, Caes. B. G. 1, 45):

    contra sensus dicere,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 101:

    contra rhetoricen dicere,

    Quint. 2, 17, 40.—
    (β).
    Of criticism, hostility to principles, etc.:

    contra Iliadem et Odysseam scribere,

    Vitr. 7, praef. 8:

    contra quorum disciplinam ingenium ejus exarserat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 29, 83.—
    (γ).
    Ethically:

    contra voluptatem dicere,

    that pleasure is a moral evil, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 21:

    contra mortem loqui,

    that death is no evil, Sen. Ep. 82, 7;

    in both senses: contra vitia, pericula, fortunam, ambitionem,

    id. ib. 100, 10:

    contra fortunam gloriari,

    that fortune has no power over him, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 26; Sen. Ep. 26, 5.—
    e.
    Of public and political acts and speeches:

    contra potentiam accusatorum dicere,

    Cic. Brut. 44, 164:

    contra legem dicere or verba facere,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 53; Liv. 34, 8, 1:

    rogationem ferre contra coloniam ( = contra legem de colonia deducenda),

    Cic. Clu. 51, 140; Auct. Her. 1, 17, 21; Plin. 8, 17, 24, § 64.—
    f.
    Of hostility, injury, wrongs, etc.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    senatusconsulto quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret,

    directed against, Cic. Fam. 12, 29, 2:

    contra rem publicam se commovere,

    id. Cat. 1, 26; 1, 3, 7:

    incitari,

    id. Sest. 47, 100:

    consilia inire,

    id. Agr. 2, 3, 8:

    conjurationem facere,

    Sall. C. 30, 6:

    contra salutem urbis incitari,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20:

    cogitare aliquid contra salutem,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 21: contra voluntatem or studium dicere, to oppose one's will in a speech:

    esse aliquem in civitate qui contra ejus (Chrysogoni) voluntatem dicere auderet,

    id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60; id. Phil. 1, 11, 28; id. de Or. 3, 34, 138; id. Mur. 4, 10; Tac. H. 2, 91:

    ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro injuria,

    do not array yourself against equity, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71.— Trop.:

    quis non contra Marii arma, contra Suliae proscriptionem irascitur? ( = Mario propter arma, Sullae propter proscriptionem),

    Sen. Ira, 2, 2, 3.—
    (β).
    In partic.: facere contra aliquid (syn. adversus), to commit an offence against, to transgress, etc.:

    si quis ad Antonium profectus esset... senatus existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; id. Mil. 5, 13; 6, 14; id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 3, 25, 95; S. C. ap. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 7; so,

    contra salutem rei publicae facere,

    Cic. Dom. 38, 102:

    contra majestatem,

    against the emperor, Dig. 48, 4, 5:

    contra leges,

    Cic. Dom. 18, 48; id. Vatin. 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Mur. 32, 67; id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; cf. id. Clu. 34, 92; id. Mur. 32, 68; id. Dom. 14, 38; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13; Gai Inst. 4, 121:

    contra edictum (praetoris),

    Cic. Verr 2, 3, 10, § 25; Dig. 39, 1, 20, § 1:

    contra foedus,

    Cic. Balb. 6, 16:

    contra jusjurandum ac fidem,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; id. Lael. 3, 30, 74; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 7; Prop. 3, 30, 44 (2, 32, 44).—And ironically:

    tune contra Caesaris nutum (sc. facies)?

    Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1.—Rarely contra ea facere = contra facere, adverb. (cf. I. B. 8. and II. E. 1. b.):

    corpus in civitatem inferri non licet... et qui contra ea fecerit, extra ordinem punitur,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 2; 1, 21, 12.—
    2.
    Predicatively with esse (usu. impers.), in violation of, in conflict with, contrary to (cf. 3. g).
    (α).
    With esse expressed as the predicate:

    hominem hominis incommodo suum augere commodum magis est contra naturam quam mors,

    Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Sen. Ep. 5, 4; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:

    contra leges or legem est,

    Cic. Pis. 13, 30; id. Mur. 32, 67:

    contra officium est,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 1, 10, 32; 1, 6, 19; cf. id. Lael. 11, 39; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Liv. 6, 40, 5; Sen. Q. N. 2, 37, 2; Gai Inst. 3, 157; Dig. 30, 1, 112, § 3; 16, 3, 1, § 7.—With ellipsis of object (naturam), Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 89; cf.:

    adeo res ista non habet ullam moram quae contra causas ignium sit,

    unfavorable to the formation of fire, Sen. Q. N. 2, 26, 7.—
    (β).
    With verbal predicate, referring to an indef. pron. or adj., with esse understood:

    scis hunc... nihil umquam contra rem tuam cogitasse ( = nihil quod contra rem tuam esset),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 147; id. Mil. 5, 13:

    aliquid contra animum audiendi,

    something against our liking, Sen. Const. 19, 2.—So mostly with facere:

    si quid Socrates aut Aristippus contra morem consuetudinemque fecerint,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; id. Att. 3, 23, 2; 2, 22, 2; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Sall. C. 15, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 11; 8, 2, 17; 35, 1, 79, § 2. —
    (γ).
    Contra officium, substantively, = id quod contra officium est:

    Sic inter recte factum atque peccatum, officium et contra officium, media locabat quaedam,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—
    3.
    Adverbially with the predicate.
    (α).
    In order to oppose, in opposition to, with hostile intent (cf. B. 3.):

    eidem illam proscriptionem capitis mei contra salutem rei publicae rogatam esse dicebant,

    that the proposal of the law was an attack on the republic, Cic. Prov. Cons. 19, 45; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 35; id. Phil. 10, 10, 22:

    imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit,

    to reply to the demands, Sall. J. 83, 3; 25, 6; so,

    advocare contra,

    Sen. Cons. Polyb. 12, 4; id. Ep. 15, 2, 52:

    si contra mortem te praeparaveris,

    to meet death, id. ib. 11, 3, 8.—
    (β).
    With the force of a clause of manner, injuriously to, etc.:

    quibus contra valetudinis commodum laborandum est,

    Cic. Mur. 23, 47; Suet. Aug. 78:

    contra hominis salutem,

    with danger to a man's life, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 29.—
    (γ).
    In gen., of conflict with some rule or principle, contrary to, in violation of, without regard to ( = ita ut contra sit; cf. 2. supra; very freq. from the class. period;

    syn. adversus): ceperitne pecunias contra leges P. Decius,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 136; id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10; id. Fl. 34, 86:

    pecuniam contra leges auferre,

    id. Verr. 1, 18, 56; 2, 1, 10, § 27; 2, 5, 18, § 46; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    contra legem,

    id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41:

    contra jus fasque,

    id. Har. Resp. 16, 34; id. Quint. 6, 28:

    contra jus,

    Liv. 5, 4, 14; id. Dom. 13, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34:

    contra jus gentium,

    Liv. 4, 32, 5; 9, 10, 10; 21, 25, 7; 5, 36, 6;

    6, 1, 6: contra juris rigorem,

    Dig. 40, 5, 24, § 10 et saep.:

    contra testimonium aliquid judicare,

    without regard to, Cic. Brut. 31, 117:

    aliquid contra verecundiam disputare,

    contrary to the rules of decency, id. Off. 1, 35, 128:

    aliquid contra fidem constituere,

    Quint. 5, 13, 34:

    quae majores nostri contra lubidinem animi sui recte atque ordine fecere,

    contrary to the dictates of passion, Sall. C. 51, 4; id. J. 33, 1; cf. of logical opposition, II. E. 2. infra.—
    4.
    Dependent on substt.
    a.
    Of physical strife:

    scit ille imparem sibi luctatum contra nexus (draconis),

    Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33. —
    b.
    Of warfare:

    imperatorum copia contra tuum furorem,

    Cic. Mur. 39, 83:

    Parthorum gloria contra nomen Romanum,

    Liv. 9, 18, 6: in castris perditorum contra patriam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—
    c.
    Of legal contention:

    causa contra scriptum,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 46, 135.—
    d.
    Of political speaking:

    divina M. Tullii eloquentia contra leges agrarias,

    Quint. 2, 16, 7; 9, 3, 50; Gell. 18, 7, 7.—
    e.
    Of literary opposition:

    Caesaris vituperatio contra laudationem meam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 40, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostility, etc.:

    cujus factum, inceptum, conatumve contra patriam,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    ullum factum dictumve nostrum contra utilitatem vestram,

    Liv. 6, 40, 5.—
    g.
    Of injury:

    vitae cupiditas contra rem publicam,

    Cic. Planc. 37, 90: contra serpentes venenum, fatal to serpents, or as a defence against serpents, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.—
    h.
    Of violation, disregard, etc. (cf. 3. g):

    iter contra senatus auctoritatem,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:

    contra consuetudinem somnium,

    Plin. 10, 77, 98, § 211:

    bonorum possessio contra tabulas,

    Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 13; Gai Inst. 3, 41.—
    5.
    Dependent on adjectives (very rare; cf.

    II. D. 2. c. infra): contraque patris impii regnum impotens, avum resolvam,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 966.
    D.
    Of defence, protection, and resistance (syn.: adversus, ab).
    1.
    Against persons.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    cum populus Romanus suam auctoritatem vel contra omnes qui dissentiunt possit defendere,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63: si ego consul rem publicam [p. 457] contra te et gregales tuos defendissem, id. Sest. 52, 111; 22, 49; 8, 20; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45:

    contra quem multum omnes boni providerunt,

    provided a great defence, id. Mur. 38, 81: formula qua utitur patronus contra libertum qui eum in jus vocat, as a defence against, Gai Inst. 4, 46. —And of protection of plants against injurious animals:

    contra haec animalia proderit, si, etc.,

    Pall. 10, 3, 2.—
    b.
    Dependent on adjectives, mostly participial:

    paratus contra,

    Cic. Mil. 21, 56:

    nihil satis firmum contra Metellum,

    Sall. J. 80, 1:

    contra potentes nemo est munitus satis,

    Phaedr. 2, 6, 1.—
    2.
    Against inanimate and abstract things.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    contra avium morsus munitur vallo aristarum,

    Cic. Sen. 15, 51:

    propugnaculum, quo contra omnes meos impetus usurum se putat,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; 2, 5, 39, § 102:

    publicam causam contra vim armatam suscipere,

    id. Dom. 34, 91; id. Quint. 30, 94; id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:

    contra tantas difficultates providere,

    Sall. J. 90, 1; 76, 4; so,

    contra ea,

    id. ib. 57, 5:

    patricii vi contra vim resistunt,

    Liv. 3, 13, 4; Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28; Tac. Agr. 45; Sen. Prov. 4, 12; id. Const. 5, 4.—
    b.
    Dependent on substt.:

    suffragia contra oppugnationem vestrae majestatis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 12, 35:

    defensio contra vim,

    id. Mil. 5, 14:

    patronus justitiae fuit contra orationem Phili,

    id. Lael. 7, 25; Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 14, 3, 4, § 40:

    contra labores patientia,

    id. 23, 1, 22, § 37.—
    c.
    Dependent on adjectives (in Cic. freq. with P. a. predicatively used; otherwise very rare;

    in later prose freq.): nec est quidquam Cilicia contra Syriam munitius,

    against an attack from the side of Syria, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 4:

    ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem posset esse,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Mil. 25, 67; id. Tusc. 5, 8, 19; 5, 27, 76:

    vir contra audaciam firmissimus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; Sall. J. 33, 2; 28, 5:

    fortis contra dolorem,

    Sen. Ep. 98, 18; Quint. 12, 1, 10:

    callosus,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147; 14, 2, 4, § 23:

    far contra hiemes firmissimum,

    id. 18, 8, 19, § 83:

    equus tenax contra vincula,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 13:

    contraque minantia fata pervigil,

    Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 284.—
    3.
    Of remedies against sickness and its causes, poison, etc.; so only in Plin.; in Pall. only of preventives and of protection against hurtful animals, and against mental perturbations in gen.; cf. infra (syn. ad in Cat., Cic., Cels., Col.; adversus only in Celsus, who also has in with abl.).
    (α).
    Dependent on verbs:

    cujus et vinum et uva contra serpentium ictus medetur,

    Plin. 14, 18, 22, § 117; 7, 2, 2, § 13:

    prodest et contra suspiria et tussim,

    id. 20, 13, 50, § 128:

    valet potum contra venena,

    id. 28, 7, 21, § 74; 29, 4, 22, § 71; 29, 4, 26, § 81; 28, 8, 27, § 98; 16, 37, 71, § 180; 35, 6, 14, § 34; 28, 6, 18, §§ 65-67.—
    (β).
    Dependent on substt.:

    remedium contra morsus,

    Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118; 10, 59, 79, § 163:

    contra venena esse omnia remedio,

    id. 16, 44, 95, § 251; 17, 24, 37, § 240; 7, 1, 1, § 4.—
    (γ).
    Dependent on adjectives:

    vinum quod salutare contra pestilentiam sit,

    Pall. 11, 14, 17.—
    (δ).
    Appositively, as a remedy:

    cujus lacteum succum miris laudibus celebrat... contra serpentes et venena,

    Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 29, 4, 26, § 83. —So of remedies against affections:

    Tiberium tonante caelo coronari ea (lauro) solitum ferunt contra fulminum metus,

    Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135; cf. Sen. Ira, 2, 21, 1; id. Tranq. 5. 1.
    E.
    Of logical opposition.
    1.
    With a neuter demonstrative (contra ea, contra haec, contra quae, quod contra = contra, adv.).
    a.
    The contrary, the reverse (very rare; cf.

    I. D. 1.): sed mihi contra ea videtur,

    but to me the contrary seems true, Sall. J. 85, 1:

    omnia quae contra haec sunt, omnia quae contra sunt,

    and vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 90. —
    b.
    Contra ea, on the contrary, in logical antithesis (not in Cic. and Sall.; once in Caes. and Quint.; several times in Liv. and Nep.; cf.: contra ea, in other uses, II. A. 2. e. a, II. D. 2. a., II. A. 3. d., II. C. 1. f.):

    omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi... contra ea Caesar... spatiumque interponendum... putabat ( = at contra),

    but Caesar on the contrary, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: superbe ab Samnitibus... legati prohibiti commercio sunt;

    contra ea benigne ab Siculorum tyrannis adjuti,

    Liv. 4, 52, 6; 2, 60, 1; 21, 20, 6;

    44, 43, 5: pater... Thracem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem,

    Nep. Iphicr. 3, 4; id. praef. 6; id. Alcib. 8, 1.—And after a question, with immo (cf. I. E. 5. b.):

    an infirmissimi omnium... (sumus)? Immo contra ea vel viribus nostris, vel, etc., tuti (sumus),

    Liv. 41, 24, 8.—
    c.
    Quod contra, by anastrophe (v. F. 1.), contrary to which, whereas, while on the contrary (only once in Lucr. and three times in Cic.):

    illud in his rebus vereor ne forte rearis, Inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque indugredi sceleris: quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta,

    whereas on the contrary, Lucr. 1, 81:

    cujus a me corpus crematum est, quod contra decuit ab illo meum (sc. cremari),

    Cic. Sen. 23, 84:

    quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,

    id. Lael. 24, 90 (B. and K. place a comma after oportebat; cf.

    Nauck ad loc.): reliquum est ut eum nemo judicio defenderit: quod contra copiosissime defensum esse contendi,

    id. Quint. 28, 87 (many consider contra in all these passages as an adverb; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 121 sq.; some explain quod as an ancient ablative, = qua re;

    v. Ritschl,

    Plaut. Exc. p. 57, Munro ad Lucr. 1, 82).—
    2.
    With an abstract noun, with the force of the adverb contra with ac or atque (I. F. 1.), contrary to, contrary to what, etc. (esp. in Sall., not in Cic.; cf. praeter): celeriter contraque omnium opinionem confecto itinere, contrary to the opinion ( = contra ac rati erant), Caes. B. G. 6, 30:

    contra opinionem Jugurthae ad Thalam perveniunt,

    Sall. J. 75, 9; Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Contra spem either contrary to the opinion, or against the hope:

    Metellus contra spem suam laetissume excipitur ( = contra ac ratus, veritus est),

    Sall. J. 88, 1; so,

    cetera contra spem salva invenit,

    Liv. 9, 23, 17:

    contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit,

    id. 6, 25, 5; Curt. 8, 4, 45;

    but: at Jugurtha contra spem nuntio accepto ( = contra ac speraverat),

    Sall. J. 28, 1; Liv. 24, 45, 3:

    postquam... Jugurtha contra timorem animi praemia sceleris adeptum sese videt,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ipse in Numidiam procedit, ubi contra belli faciem tuguria plena hominumque... erant ( = contra ac in bello evenire solet),

    id. ib. 46, 5:

    contra famam,

    Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 7, 53, 54, § 180:

    segniterque et contra industriam absconditae formicae,

    slowly, and in a manner different from their usual activity, id. 18, 35, 88, § 364.—Of persons:

    frigidam potionem esse debere, contra priores auctores, Asclepiades confirmavit,

    contrary to the opinion of the former physicians, Cels. 4, 26 (19).
    F.
    Sometimes by anastrophe after its noun.
    1.
    In prose, after relatives, esp. in Cic.:

    quos contra disputant,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 47:

    quem contra dicit,

    id. Phil. 2, 8, 18 (v. II. B. 1. f.):

    quem contra veneris,

    id. Mur. 4, 9:

    quas contra, praeter te, etc.,

    id. Vatin. 7, 18:

    eos ipsos quos contra statuas,

    id. Or. 10, 34:

    quos contra me senatus armavit,

    id. Att. 10, 8, 8:

    quam contra multa locutus est,

    Sen. Ep. 82, 7, Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 3; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 332; v. also E. 1. c. supra.—
    2.
    After other words ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    hunc igitur contra mittam contendere causam,

    Lucr. 4, 471:

    dicere eos contra,

    id. 4, 484:

    donique eum contra,

    id. 5, 708:

    agmina contra,

    Verg. A. 12, 279:

    magnum Alciden contra,

    id. ib. 5, 414:

    Paridem contra,

    id. ib. 5, 370:

    Italiam contra,

    id. ib. 1, 13:

    deos contra,

    Ov. P. 1, 1, 26:

    Messania moenia contra,

    id. M. 14, 17:

    litora Calabriae contra,

    Tac. A. 3, 1.

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    contrā, adv. and prep. [stem con, i. e. cum, through a comparative form conter; cf.: alter, uter, inter, praeter, etc.; in abl. fem. form like the locative adverbs ea, qua, etc.; cf.: ultra, intra, extra, citra], orig., in comparison with; hence, over against, fronting, in front, opposite, in opposition to, against, contrary to, opposed to, etc.
    I.
    Adv. (referring to an opposed object often with the force of a preposition with ellipsis of a pronoun, = against it, against him, etc.).
    A.
    Local.
    1.
    Lit., of position in front of a person, place, or thing.
    a.
    With verb of being or position expressed or understood.
    (α).
    Referring to living beings, opposite, in face of, face to face, facing, in front of, fronting, confronting (not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.):

    feminam scelestam te, adstans contra, contuor,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 26:

    ut confidenter mihi contra adstitit,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 6; Lucr. 4, 223; 6, 929:

    signum contra, quoad longissume oculi ferebant, animo finivit,

    Liv. 1, 18, 8:

    stat contra starique jubet,

    Juv. 3, 290:

    stat contra dicitque tibi tua pagina Fures!

    Mart. 1, 55, 12:

    ulmus erat contra,

    in front of her, Ov. M. 14, 661:

    templa vides contra,

    in front (of us), id. ib. 7, 587.—Of position in front of the enemy:

    contra conserta manu,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3: contra consistere, to make front against them, Caes. B. G. 2, 17.—
    (β).
    Referring to things and places, over against (it), opposite (to it), on the opposite side (mostly post-Aug.):

    contra jacet Cancer patulam distentus in alvum,

    Manil. 2, 253:

    posita contra Hispania,

    Tac. Agr. 11:

    promuntorium quod contra procedit,

    Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6: relinquendae autem contra erunt vacuae tabellae, on the opposite side, i. e. of the leaf, Quint. 10, 3, 32: illo quaerente cur non decidant contra siti, the antipodes (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; v. II. A. 1. c. a), Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161.—With the governing verb understood:

    arguam hanc vidisse apud te contra conservum meum,

    face to face, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 91:

    jam omnia contra circaque hostium plena erant, Liv 5, 37, 8: eadem verba contra (i. e. ponuntur),

    side by side, Quint. 9, 3, 36; Verg. A. 6, 23.—
    b.
    With verbs of motion, so as to be opposite to an object or face to face with a person, variously rendered.
    (α).
    Referring to persons:

    accede ad me atque adi contra,

    come right up to me, Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: hostes crebri cadunt; nostri contra ingruunt, advance to their front (in Plaut. hostility is not implied in contra), id. Am. 1, 1, 84: quis nos pater aut cognatu' volet contra tueri, face to face, eye to eye, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 12 Mull. (Trag. Rel. v. 444 Rib.); Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 55 (Trag. Rel. v. 538 ib.):

    adspicedum contra me = contra adspice me,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 56 Lorenz ad lec.:

    contra adspicere,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45:

    contra intueri,

    Liv. 1, 16, 6; 9, 6, 8; Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 6:

    cum veniret contra Marcianus,

    Quint. 6, 3, 95; Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 152.—
    (β).
    Of things:

    hic ubi sol radiis... Adversa fulsit nimborum aspergine contra,

    Lucr. 6, 525; Cels. 8, 8, 1:

    quam (turrim) promoti contra validi asseres... perfregere,

    Tac. H. 4, 30.—Reciprocally: oscula non pervenientia contra, not coming through (the wall) so as to meet, Ov. M. 4, 80.—
    2.
    Transf. to equivalents of weight, value, and price; so,
    (α).
    In Plaut. only in the colloq. phrases auro contra, aurichalco contra, and contra auro (sc. posito); lit., for gold placed against; cf.:

    aes contrarium, s. v. contrarius: (servus) non carus'st auro contra,

    at his weight in gold, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 30: jam auro contra constat filius, id. Truc. 2, 6, 57 (Speng. aurichalco): auro contra cedo modestum amatorem! A me aurum accipe. Pa. Cedo mihi contra aurichalco quoi ego sano serviam, id. Curc. 1, 3, 45 sq.; id. Mil. 3, 1, 63; 4, 2, 85; id. Ps. 2, 3, 23.—
    (β).
    In post-Aug. prose (very rare):

    at si aquae et ejus rei quam contra pensabis par pondus erit, nec pessum ibit, nec exstabit, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    3.
    Of reciprocal actions, = vicissim, in turn, in return, back, on my, his, etc., part, likewise, counter-.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    te ut deludam contra, lusorem meum,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 71:

    quae me amat, quam ego contra amo,

    id. Merc. 5. 2, 77; id. Cist. 1, 1, 96; id. Trin. 4, 2, 55; id. As. 2, 2, 110:

    qui arguat se, eum contra vincat jurejurando suo,

    make a victorious counter-charge, id. Mil. 2, 2, 37:

    si laudabit haec Illius formam, tu hujus contra (i. e. lauda),

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 54:

    audi nunc contra jam,

    listen in turn, id. Phorm. 4, 4, 18; id. Ad. 5, 4, 23:

    at tu mihi contra nunc videre fortunatus, Phaedria, Cui, etc.,

    you likewise seem fortunate to me, id. Phorm. 1, 3, 21:

    Mettius Tullo gratulatur, contra Tullus Mettium benigne alloquitur,

    Liv. 1, 28, 1:

    contra ut me diligat illa,

    Cat. 76. 23; Hor. S. 1, 3, 27 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, with ellipsis of inquit, = respondit:

    cui latrans contra senex,

    Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:

    scietis, inquam, etc., contra Nigrinus: ad quem missi sunt? ego, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 4.—

    Rarely with inquit, etc., expressed: at ille contra, renidens, Audi, inquit, discipule, etc.,

    Gell. 15, 9, 9; cf.:

    contra talia reddit,

    Claud. B. Gild. 379.—
    (β).
    With dat. pers.:

    consulo quem dolum doloso contra conservo parem,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 45:

    facere contra huic aegre,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 10:

    hiscine contra insidiabere?

    id. Hec. 1. 1, 13:

    tibi contra gratiam Referre,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 7.—
    (γ).
    With item:

    item a me contra factum est,

    Plaut. Aul. prol. 20:

    puellam senex Amat et item contra filius,

    id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Pers. 5, 2, 36; id. Am. 1, 1, 67; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 25.—
    (δ).
    Combining a reciprocal with a local relation (A. 1. a. a, and b. a): contra carinantes verba, exchanging abusive words ( face to face), Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 361 (Ann. v. 181 Vahl.): tubae utrimque contra canunt;

    Consonat terra,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; 1, 1, 86:

    confer gradum Contra pariter,

    id. Ps. 2, 4, 18; id. Truc. 1, 2, 28:

    video amicam... Ubi contra adspexit me, etc.,

    id. Mil. 2, 1, 45; Verg. E. 7, 8; cf. Lucr. 4, 243:

    vesper adest, juvenes consurgite!... Cernitis, innuptae, juvenes? consurgite contra!

    Cat. 62, 6.—
    (ε).
    Implying also opposition: Pe. Conpellabo. Ph. Orationis aciem contra conferam, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20:

    si scias quod donum huic dono contra comparet,

    what counter gift, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 63: quod Scipio postulavit... ut, etc. Et quod contra collega postulavit ne, etc., Annal. Trib. Pleb. ap. Gell. 7 (6), 19, 5:

    si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7; Nep. Epam. 6, 1;

    Auct. B. Alex. 24: illo licente contra liceri audeat nemo,

    to bid in opposition, Caes. B. G. 1, 18; Liv. 4, 53, 6:

    agedum pauca accipe contra,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 38.—So in battle:

    Numidae... Romanorum ordines conturbare... neque contra feriundi copia erat,

    Sall. J. 50, 4; and in law: et ab eo is qui adoptat vindicat... et illo contra non vindicante, etc., Gai Inst. 1, 134; 2, 24.—Esp. in replies:

    oratio contra a Demosthene pro Ctesiphonte edita,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213:

    dicit accusator haec: primum, etc.... quid contra reus?

    id. Clu. 30, 81; id. Fin. 5, 22, 63; Curt. 4, 1, 10; 7, 9, 1.
    B.
    Of opposition, strife, etc., against; constr. absol., with dat., and ne, quominus or quin.
    1.
    Of physical exertion.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    concurrunt... aetheriae nubes contra pugnantibu' ventis,

    struggling against each other, Lucr. 6. 98:

    nec nos obniti contra... Sufficimus,

    bear up, battle against, Verg. A. 5, 21; Ov. M. 9, 50; 2, 434:

    at ille contra nititur,

    resists, Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 103; 7, 20, 19, § 82:

    pars remigum, tamquam imperitia... officia nautarum impediebant. Mox contra tendere,

    rowed in an opposite direction, Tac. H. 4, 16.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    te rogo ne contrahas ac demittas animum, neque te obrui tamquam fluctu... sinas, contraque erigas ac resistas,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:

    et torrens judicem vel nitentem contra feret, cogatque ire qua rapiet,

    Quint. 12, 10, 61.— With ne: vi contra niti, ne advorsus eum fiat, Cato ap. Gell. 7 (6), 3, 16.—With quominus, Lucr. 1, 780.—
    2.
    Of mental exertion:

    si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra,

    arm yourself against them, Lucr. 2, 1043; 2, 280. —With dat.:

    siti contra... pugnandum,

    Cels. 4, 2 fin. —
    3.
    Of hostile opposition in gen.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quod animadversum est in eo qui contra omni ratione pugnarunt, non debeo reprehendere,

    who made opposition in every way, Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137; id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107:

    contra etiam aliquid abs te profectum ex multis audivi,

    something inimical, id. Fam. 5, 5, 2.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    aut alio quovis (sc. colore) qui contra pugnet et obstet,

    Lucr. 2, 794; 2, 868.—
    4.
    Of warfare.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    ut eos adversarios existimemus qui arma contra ferant,

    Cic. Off. 1, 25, 87; 1, 12, 37; Vell. 2, 28, 4; cf.:

    quid quod exercitum contra duxit?

    Auct. Her. 4, 16, 23:

    ut si qua ex parte obviam contra veniretur, acie instructa depugnarent,

    if they should be attacked by an open charge, Caes. B. G. 7, 28:

    issentque confestim ad urbem ni venire contra exercitum... audissent,

    Liv. 7, 39, 17:

    cum Romanae legiones contra direxerint,

    would oppose their march, Tac. H. 4, 58; id. A. 6, 44.—With dat.:

    et huic contra itum ad amnem Erinden,

    Tac. A. 11, 10.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur, velut adversus communem hostem,

    Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 205.—
    5.
    Of legal contests.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a.—
    (β).
    Venire contra, of any legal act with the intention to hurt the adversary:

    quid? si omnium mortalium Sthenio nemo inimicior quam hic C. Claudius... fuit? si de litteris corruptis contra venit, etc.?

    if he made a charge of forgery against him? Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 43, § 107; cf. II. B. c. b.—
    (γ).
    On the part of the adversary:

    inveniendum contra est, quo distet haec causa a ceteris,

    Quint. 5, 10, 114; 9, 2, 35; 12, 8, 10.—
    (δ).
    Of judgments against the parties or against opinions:

    ne spoliaret fama probatum hominem si contra judicasset,

    given an adverse decision, Cic. Off. 3, 19, 77; cf. Val. Max. 7, 2, 4; Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—
    6.
    Of literary opposition.
    (α).
    Mostly with verbs of saying; v. 9. a. g.—
    (β).
    With other verbs:

    astrologorum artem contra convincere tendit,

    Lucr. 5, 728:

    contra nunc illud pone, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 14, 6:

    habeat (liber meus) etiam quosdam qui contra sentiant et adversentur,

    some dissentients and opponents, Quint. 3, 1, 5; 2, 17, 40; 3, 8, 69.—
    7.
    Of public and political opposition.
    (α).
    With verbs of saying; v. 9. a. d.—
    (β).
    With petere, to be a candidate for office in opposition to another:

    nihil enim supererat de quo certarent, nihil quod contra peterent,

    no office was left for which to canvass against each other, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91:

    honores contra petere,

    Quint. 6, 1, 17.—With ire, with dat., of an opposing vote in the senate (cf.:

    pedibus ire): sententia Cassii ut nemo unus contra ire ausus est, ita dissonae voces respondebant,

    Tac. A. 14, 45.—
    8.
    Of violation of law, contracts, etc.: contra facere, or contra committere, to violate, transgress a law, etc.: leges esse non ex ejus qui contra commiserit utilitate, spectari oportere, not in the interest of the transgressor, Cic. Inv. 2, 48, 153:

    si quis sub hoc pacto vendiderit ancillam ne prostitueretur, et si contra factum esset,

    and if the contract was violated, Dig. 18, 1, 56.—
    9.
    With verbs of saying, etc., contra dicere; less freq. disputare, disserere, pugnare, in the sense of dicere, and contra scribere (often contradico, in one word, in post-Aug. writers; esp. with dat.).
    a.
    Absol.
    (α).
    Contra dicere, to speak as counsel of the adversary, to plead his cause, in legal proceedings:

    cum contra dicturus Hortensius esset,

    would speak on the other side, Cic. Quint. 24, 77:

    hoc... contra dicente Cotta judicatum est,

    id. Caecin. 33, 97:

    dixisse ut contra nemo videretur,

    id. Brut. 53, 198: ut contra Crassus... exorsus est, began on the other side, id. ib. § 197.—Hence: qui contra dicit, the adversary or counsel of the adversary:

    contra autem qui dicet, similitudinem infirmare debebit,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 151; id. Part. Or. 21, 108.—In the same sense: agens contra: si nos... impares agentium contra ingeniis dixerimus, that we are unequal to the talents of our adversary's counsel, [p. 453] Quint. 4, 1, 8.—
    (β).
    To make charges against (rare):

    si qui contra vellet dicere, usurum esse eum suo testimonio,

    Cic. Clu. 48, 134:

    qua ratione nemo neque tum item fecerit, neque nunc contra dicat,

    id. Quint. 29, 88; so,

    contra disputare, of objections to or against a witness: nihil contra disputabo priusquam dixerit,

    id. Fl. 21, 51.—
    (γ).
    In gen., to speak on the other side of a question:

    fiebat autem ita, ut cum is qui audire vellet dixisset quid sibi videretur, tum ego contra dicerem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; id. Fin. 2, 1, 2; so,

    contra disputare and contra scribere,

    id. Or. 1, 19, 85; Vitr. 3, 1, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 13; Dig. 9, 2, 21, § 1.—Hence: qui contra dicunt or disputant, the opponents:

    nec qui contra dicunt causam difficilem repellunt,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 2:

    ad coarguendos qui contra disputant,

    to refule his opponents, Quint. 2, 15, 26.—
    (δ).
    To oppose or object to a proposition, motion, or petition:

    quam palam principes dixerunt contra!

    protested against it, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41; Caes. B. C. 1, 32; Cic. Clu. 47, 130.—With pugnare:

    cum decerneretur frequenti senatu, contra pugnante Pisone, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:

    filius ejus incolumitatem optat: contradicit pater,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 85; 9, 2, 83; Plin. ap. Gell. 9, 16, 5; Cic. Dom. 33, 87:

    contradicente nullo,

    Suet. Caes. 20; Dig. 3, 3, 15.—
    (ε).
    To reply:

    contradixit edicto,

    answered by an edict, Suet. Aug. 56. —
    (ζ).
    Abl. absol. impers.:

    explorandum videtur an etiam contradicto aliquando judicio consuetudo firmata sit,

    whether the custom has been confirmed by judgment upon a judicial contest, Dig. 1, 3, 34.—
    b.
    With acc. neutr. pron., to object, to make or raise an objection, to reply; esp. in legal proceedings:

    ego enim, te disputante, quid contra dicerem meditabar,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 1, 1:

    ut contra si quid dicere velit non audiatur,

    id. Fin. 5, 10, 27:

    aiebat illum primo sane diu multa contra (i. e. dixisse), ad extremum autem, etc.,

    id. Att. 2, 22, 2.— Hence: quod contra dicitur, or quae contra dicuntur, the objections:

    ut et id quod intenderemus confirmare, et id quod contra diceretur refellere (possemus),

    refute the objections, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90:

    quia neque reprehendi quae contra dicuntur possunt, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 81, 331; id. Inv. 2, 44, 127; Quint. 1, 2, 17.—In the same sense, as subst.: contrā dicta, orum, n. plur.:

    seu proposita confirmamus, sive contra dicta dissolvimus,

    or refute the objections, Quint. 4, prooem. 6.—With acc. and inf.:

    dicitur contra, nullum esse testamentum,

    the objection is made that there is no testament, Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 42.—
    c.
    With dat., written in one word (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    To oppose a person by speaking against his views:

    solitum se etiam Thraseae contradicere,

    to oppose even Thrasea, Tac. H. 2, 91:

    tibi,

    Suet. Aug. 54:

    Curioni...,

    id. Rhet. 1. —Hence of answers and replies in law: quid si filium testatoris heres ejus prohibuit? Huic contradici potest: ergo pietatis, etc., he may be answered by this plea, etc., Dig. 11, 7, 14, § 13.—And of advisory answers opposed to one's legal views:

    volenti mihi ream adulterii postulare eam, etc., contradictum est,

    my views were disapproved, rejected, Dig. 48, 5, 11, § 10.—
    (β).
    To oppose an opinion, with dat. of the thing:

    cum plures tantum sententiis aliorum contradicerent,

    opposed the opinions, Tac. H. 1, 39.—
    (γ).
    To object to a motion or petition, with dat. of the petitioner:

    patrem qui damnavit optat ne is torqueatur: pater ei contradicit,

    the father objects, Quint. 9, 2, 81:

    cum ambienti ut legibus solveretur multi contradicerent,

    Suet. Caes. 18; Dig. 40, 5, 14; 40, 12, 33.—
    (δ).
    With dat. of the petition:

    preces erant, sed quibus contradici non posset,

    which could not be denied, Tac. H. 4, 46 fin.; Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 2.—
    (ε).
    To contest the validity of a law (rare):

    quibus (legibus) contradici potest,

    Quint. 7, 7, 4.—
    (ζ).
    To contradict an assertion (very rare):

    pro certis autem habemus... cuicunque adversarius non contradicit,

    Quint. 5, 10, 13.—
    d.
    With quin, to object:

    praetor Samnitibus respondit... nec contra dici quin amicitia de integro reconcilietur,

    there was no objection to a reconciliation, Liv. 8, 2, 2.
    C.
    To one's disadvantage; mostly predic. with esse, unfavorable, adverse, damaging (post-Aug.;

    but cf. II. B. 2.): ut eum qui responsurus est vel tacere, vel etiam invitum id quod sit contra cogat fateri,

    Quint. 7, 3, 14:

    cum verba (legis) contra sint,

    id. 7, 1, 49:

    sed experimentum contra fuit,

    unsuccessful, Tac. H. 2, 97 fin.:

    ubi fortuna contra fuit,

    id. ib. 3, 18:

    si fortuna contra daret,

    should be unfavorable, id. ib. 1, 65 fin.; id. A. 15, 13.
    D.
    Of logical opposition, with negative force.
    1.
    Of a direct contrast.
    a.
    Predicatively, with esse, fieri, etc., the contrary, the opposite:

    quod fieri totum contra manifesta docet res,

    but experience teaches that just the contrary is true, Lucr. 3, 686; 4, 1088:

    in stultitia contra est,

    with fools the reverse is true, Cic. Clu. 31, 84:

    in hac quidem re vereor ne etiam contra (i. e. sit),

    id. Att. 12, 46; id. Off. 1, 15, 49:

    quod contra est,

    Sall. J. 85, 21:

    quis non credat, etc.? Contra autem est,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 12; id. Ep. 7, 3; Dig. 37, 4, 4:

    contra fore si, etc.,

    ib. 34, 2, 39, § 2:

    immo forsitan et contra (i. e. erit),

    ib. 41, 3, 49:

    ego contra puto (i. e. esse),

    Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 7; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25.—
    b.
    With evenire, accidere, sentire, scribere, habere, etc.:

    utrumque contra accidit: istic enim bellum est exortum, hic pax consecuta,

    of both the contrary has happened, Cic. Fam. 12, 18, 2; so Dig. 38, 2, 51:

    id ego contra puto (sc.: faciendum esse),

    id. Att. 10, 8, 2:

    contra evenit in iis morbis,

    Sen. Ep. 52, 7; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163:

    ego contra sentio,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 15, 5; Sedig. ap. Gell. 15, 24, 4; Dig. 40, 2, 25:

    Proculus contra (sc. sentit),

    ib. 35, 2, 1, § 14; 33, 7, 25:

    licet Celsus contra scribat,

    ib. 9, 2, 21, § 1: contra probatur, Gai Inst. 2, 78; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 34.—Very rarely referring to a term in the same clause:

    cujus disparem mitioremque naturam contra interpretabatur,

    interpreted in an opposite sense, misinterpreted, misunderstood, Tac. H. 4, 86 fin. —
    c.
    Referring to a word or phrase in the same predicate.
    (α).
    To an adverb, in an opposite manner, otherwise, differently, not, etc.:

    nam ad summam totius rei pertinet, caute an contra demonstrata res sit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 81, 330: quod viriliter animoque fit, id, etc.;

    quod contra, id turpe,

    id. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    sit sapienter usus aut contra,

    Quint. 2, 5, 15:

    lactuca locis apricis optume autumno ponitur, mediterraneis aut frigidis contra ( = pessime),

    Col. 11, 3, 25.—
    (β).
    To a predicative adjective, not, the opposite, the reverse, etc.:

    ut aliae (res) probabiles videantur aliae contra,

    improbable, Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103; id. Off. 2, 2, 7:

    quid est quod me impediat ea quae probabilia mihi videantur sequi, quae contra, improbare,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 8; id. Or. 2, 31, 135; Quint. 4, 2, 52.—
    (γ).
    To a verbal predicate:

    an frater fratri exsistat heres, an contra ( = annon),

    Dig. 34, 5, 19.—
    (δ).
    To a subject infinitive:

    laudare testem vel contra pertinet ad momentum judiciorum,

    praising or censuring a witness, Quint. 3, 7, 2.—
    (ε).
    To a clause, translated by not or by a repetition of the clause with a negative:

    quae secundum naturam essent, ea sumenda et quadam aestimatione dignanda docebat, contraque contraria,

    those that were not, not, Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 36: quod cuidam aut sapiens videor quod una non jerim, aut felix fuisse;

    mihi contra,

    id. Att. 9, 12, 4: an credibile est, incestum cum filia commissum? Et contra, veneficum in noverca, adulterum in luxurioso? and incredible, etc., Quint. 5, 10, 19; so Dig. 9, 1, 2, § 1.—
    (ζ).
    To an attributive genitive:

    Marius cognoscere quid boni utrisque or contra esset (i. e. mali),

    Sall. J. 88, 2:

    verum de origine laudis contraque perspiciemus suo tempore (i. e. vituperationis),

    Quint. 2, 4, 21:

    alii a propositione accusatoris contraque loci oriuntur,

    the accuser and the accused, id. 7, 2, 31;

    so in several titles of the Digests, as Depositi vel contra, = actio depositi, vel contraria actio depositarii,

    Dig. 16, 3 tit.; so ib. 16, 17, 1; 16, 13, 6; 16, 13, 7.—
    2.
    Reversing the relation of terms in the preceding sentence, the reverse, conversely, vice versa, etc.
    a.
    With its own predicate: saepe... corpus aegret, Cum tamen ex alia laetamur parte latenti;

    Et retro fit uti contra sit saepe vicissim, Cum miser ex animo laetatur corpore toto,

    Lucr. 3, 108: illa altera argumentatio, quasi retro et contra, prius sumit, etc., ( proceeding), so to speak, backward and in inverted order, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46: neque illud ignoro, etc.; sed non idem accidit contra, but the converse is not true, Quint. 8, 6, 3; Gell. 4, 2, 5: ut vocabula verbis, verba rursus adverbiis, nomina appositis et pronominibus essent priora. Nam fit contra quoque frequenter non indecore. for often, not inelegantly, the order is reversed, Quint. 9, 4, 24:

    quae etiam contra valent,

    i. e. if the terms are reversed, id. 3, 7, 25; 9, 2, 49; 8, 6, 25; 9, 4, 72.—
    b.
    Belonging to the same predicate:

    ut quidque erit dicendum ita dicet, nec satura jejune, nec grandia minute, nec item contra,

    Cic. Or. 36, 123:

    cum emtor venditori, vel contra, heres exstitit,

    Dig. 35, 2, 48:

    in quibus patrium pro possessivo dicitur, vel contra,

    Quint. 1, 5, 45; 5, 10, 71:

    junguntur autem aut ex nostro et peregrino, ut biclinium, aut contra, ut epitogium et Anticato,

    id. 1, 5, 68:

    ut capras in montosis potius locis quam in herbidis (pascar), equas contra,

    but with mares the reverse is the case, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16:

    itaque ille dicere melius quam praecipere, nos contra fortasse possumus,

    Cic. Or. 42, 143:

    qua collegi solent ex his quae faciunt ea quae faciuntur, aut contra,

    or vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 80; Dig. 14, 1, 1, § 12; 48, 5, 23, § 4.
    E.
    In logical antithesis of clauses with a merely rhet. force, on the contrary, on the other hand, vice versa; sometimes almost = sed or autem (freq.).
    1.
    In independent clauses.
    a.
    Opposing persons or parties: fortunam insanam esse... perhibent philosophi... Sunt autem alii philosophi qui contra Fortunam negant ullam exstare, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36 (Trag. Rel. v. 372 Rib.); Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 1:

    ego etiam quae tu sine Verre commisisti Verri crimini daturus sum... Tu, contra, ne quae ille quidem fecit, obicies,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 11, 35:

    ego contra ostendo, non modo nihil fecisse Sex. Roscium, sed, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 29, 79; id. Phil. 8, 3, 8; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Fin. 5, 22, 62:

    in Italia bellum gerimus, in sede ac solo nostro... Hannibal contra in aliena, in hostili est terra,

    Liv. 22, 39, 13; 21, 50, 2; 3, 15, 2; 6, 7, 4; 9, 35, 4 et saep.; Nep. Alcib. 8, 1; Vell. 2, 31, 4; Sen. Ep. 9, 14; id. Ira, 2, 33, 6; Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 84; 3, 57; Suet. Tib. 2; id. Vit. 2; Just. 2, 1, 10; 8, 4, 11:

    contra mercator, navim jactantibus austris Militia est potior?

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 6; 1, 2, 30; 1, 3, 27; Prop. 2, 1, 45; 2, 23, 13 (3, 17, 3); Sen. Hippol. 214;

    so with versa vice: barbarae gentes (Alexandrum) non ut hostem, sed ut parentem luxerunt... Contra Macedones versa vice non ut civem, sed ut hostem amissum gaudebant,

    Just. 13, 1, 7.—
    b.
    Introducing a secondary or parallel opposition of thought: in loco umidiore far potius serunt quam triticum;

    contra in aridiore hordeum potius quam far,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 4; 1, 1, 47: si nihil esset quod inane vocaret, Omne foret solidum;

    nisi contra corpora certe Essent, etc., Omne quod est spatium vacuum constaret inane,

    Lucr. 1, 521; 4, 348; cf.:

    justa omnia decora sunt, injusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora,

    Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94; id. N. D. 2, 15, 41; id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; id. Quint. 30, 93: id. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Leg. 2, 1, 2: facilem esse rem... si modo unum omnes sentiant; contra in dissensione nullam se salutem perspicere, Caes. B. G, 5, 31; Liv. 25, 30, 3; Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 2; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 92; 11, 14, 14, § 35; Suet. Caes. 73; Gell. 1, 4, 5:

    si male rem gerere insani est, contra bene, sani,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 74.—
    2.
    In opposition to a dependent clause:

    ut hi miseri, sic contra illi beati quos, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; so id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Quint. 9, 3, 39:

    cui ego rei tantum abest ut impedimento sim, ut contra te M. Manli adhorter, etc.,

    Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 31, 4:

    cum virtus adeo neminem spe ac pollicitatione corrumpat, ut contra in se inpendere jubeat, ac, etc.,

    Sen. Ben. 4, 1, 2: aut igitur negemus quidquam ratione confici, cum contra nihil sine ratione recte fieri possit, aut, etc., whereas on the contrary, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 84; cf.:

    at contra,

    Lucr. 2, 392.—
    3.
    With co-ordinate conjunctions.
    a.
    Copulative, et contra or contraque (never with ac or atque); also nec contra (rare), and on the other hand.
    (α).
    With reference to a reason or conclusion, after nam, enim, cum, or itaque: nam et ratione uti... omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli [p. 454]... tam dedecet quam, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94:

    malus est enim custos... metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis,

    id. ib. 2, 7, 23:

    cum reficiat animos varietas ipsa, contraque sit aliquanto difficilius in labore uno perseverare,

    Quint. 1, 12, 4; 3, 8, 32; 8, 6, 20:

    itaque in probris maxime in promptu est, si quid tale dici potest, etc. Contraque in laudibus, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; cf. Suet. Calig. 51; so with nec:

    nam nec comoedia cothurnis assurgit, nec contra tragoedia socculo ingreditur,

    Quint. 10, 2, 22.—
    (β).
    With contrasted examples or illustrations, often after ut or sic:

    audivi ex majoribus natu, hoc idem fuisse in P. Scipione Nasica, contraque patrem ejus... nullam comitatem habuisse sermonis,

    Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109:

    ut suspitionibus credi oportere, et contra suspitionibus credi non oportere,

    id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; Quint. 8, 4, 1; 5, 10, 48; 9, 3, 7; 9, 4, 52; 11, 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 82, 14; Dig. 17, 1, 22, § 4.—
    (γ).
    With contrasted actions, assumptions, etc.:

    atque utinam qui ubique sunt propugnatores hujus imperii possent in hanc civitatem venire, et contra oppugnatores rei publicae de civitate exterminari!

    Cic. Balb. 22, 51:

    domo pignori data, et area ejus tenebitur... et contra jus soli sequitur aedificium,

    Dig. 13, 7, 21:

    equo et asina genitos mares, hinnos antiqui vocabant: contraque mulos quos asini et equae generassent,

    Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 17: ceterum potest ex lege quidem esse judicium, sed legitimum non esse, et contra ex lege non esse, sed legitimum esse, Gai Inst. 4, 109; Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 161; 35, 15, 5, § 183.—
    (δ).
    After a negative clause, affirming the opposite idea, et contra or contraque, but on the contrary:

    in quo (consulatu) ego imperavi nihil, et contra patribus conscriptis et bonis omnibus parui,

    Cic. Sull. 7, 21:

    nunc vero cum ne pulsus quidem ita sim ut superare non possim, contraque a populo Romano semper sim defensus, etc.,

    id. Dom. 33, 88; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Marcell. 6, 20; so,

    et contra,

    Suet. Tit. 7.—
    b.
    With adversative conjunctions, at contra, sed contra, contra autem, contra vero (not verum contra, nor contra tamen).
    (α).
    At contra (freq.), merely a strengthened contra (v. 1. supra): huc accedit uti mellis lactisque liquores Jucundo sensu linguae tractentur in ore;

    At contra taetri absinthi natura... foedo pertorqueat ora sapore,

    Lucr. 2, 400:

    cogunt,

    id. 2, 74; 1, 366; 2, 235 et saep.: nos qui domi sumus, tibi beati videmur;

    at contra nobis tu quidem... prae nobis beatus,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2; id. Tusc. 1, 3, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; id. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 66; Sall. J. 36, 2; 4, 7; 15, 3; id. C. 12, 5:

    ideo siccas aiunt Aethiopiae solitudines... At contra constat Germaniam abundare rivis,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 6, 2; 1, 3, 1; id. Ep. 100, 7; Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 186; Suet. Galb. 15; Tac. A. 4, 28.—
    (β).
    Sed contra, after a negative sentence (class.):

    non quo acui ingenia adulescentium nollem, sed contra ingenia obtundi nolui,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93; id. Att. 9, 15, 3; id. Ac. 1, 10, 35; id. Fl. 11, 26:

    arma populi Romani non liberis servitutem, sed contra servientibus libertatem adferre,

    Liv. 45, 18, 1:

    tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,

    Verg. A. 6, 95; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 12.—PostAug. also without a preceding negation:

    obiisse nostro Laium scelere autumant superi inferique: sed animus contra innocens... negat,

    Sen. Oedip. 765; Symm. Ep. 6, 81.—
    (γ).
    Contra autem (rare;

    in Cic. only where different subjects have contrasted predicates in dependent clauses): quia pacis est insigne toga, contra autem arma tumultus atque belli,

    Cic. Pis. 30, 73.—In later writers = contra alone:

    sub septemtrione aedificia... conversa ad calidas partes oportere fieri videntur. Contra autem sub impetu solis meridiani regionibus conversa ad septemtrionem... sunt facienda,

    Vitr. 6, 1, 2; Gell. 14, 2, 19; Dig. 7, 1, 25, § 3; 34, 3, 25.—
    (δ).
    Contra vero (very rare;

    not in Cic.), used for contra: contra vero quercus infinitam habet aeternitatem,

    Vitr. 2, 9, 8; 6, 1, 3; Cels. 3, 6 fin. —
    (ε).
    Atqui contra, App. Mag. p. 287, 24.—
    c.
    With disjunctive conjunctions, aut contra, vel contra, seu contra, or on the contrary, or conversely (always without change of subject).
    (α).
    Aut contra:

    num aut scriptum neget, aut contra factum infitietur?

    Cic. Part. Or. 38, 133: quae (mens) aut languescit... aut contra tumescit, etc., Quint. 1, 2, 18:

    si imbres defuere, aut contra abundavere,

    Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 228.—
    (β).
    Vel contra:

    hinc enim quaestiones oriuntur: Injuriam fecisti, sed quia magistratus, majestatis actio est? Vel contra: Licuit... quia magistratus?

    Quint. 5, 10, 40; 9, 4, 96; Suet. Galb. 3; Dig. 35, 2, 56, § 4; 8, 4, 6.—
    (γ).
    Seu contra:

    seu tristis veniam, seu contra laetus amicis,

    Prop. 1, 11, 25.—
    d.
    With causal conjunctions, nam contra (very rare;

    never contra enim): falso queritur de natura sua genus humanum quod, etc. Nam contra, reputando, neque majus aliud, neque praestabilius invenies,

    Sall. J. 1, 1; Quint. 1, 1, 1; 9, 2, 23. —
    4.
    In late Lat., e contra (also one word, ēcontrā) = contra,
    (α).
    In the meaning, the contrary (D. 1.):

    aliis vero econtra videtur,

    Hier. Ep. 12.—
    (β).
    Et econtra = et contra (E. 3. a.):

    honestiorum provectu et econtra suppliciis,

    Aur. Vict. Caes. 39, 45.—For quod contra, v. II. E. 1. c.—
    5.
    With emphatic particles.
    a.
    Quin contra, nay on the contrary, opposing an affirmative sentence to a preceding negative statement (quin etiam amplifies without opposition; sed contra opposes without amplification; quin contra both opposes and amplifies);

    not before Livy: num qui enim socordius rempublicam administrari post Calvi tribunatum... quam? etc. Quin contra patricios aliquot damnatos... neminem plebeium,

    Liv. 6, 37, 8; 31, 31, 9; 35, 26, 10; 37, 15, 3.—
    b.
    Immo contra (post-Aug.).
    (α).
    = no, on the contrary, refuting opinions, after questions and in the form of a dialogue:

    existimas nunc me detrahere tibi multas voluptates?... Immo contra, nolo tibi umquam deesse laetitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 23, 3; Dig. 33, 7, 5; 33, 7, 29.—
    (β).
    = sed contra, but on the contrary:

    proinde ne submiseris te, immo contra fige stabilem gradum,

    Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6; id. Cons. Polyb. 15, 2; cf. prep.:

    immo contra ea,

    Liv. 41, 24, 8; cf. II. E. 1. b. infra.—
    c.
    Item contra = an emphatic et contra (very rare):

    quoniam... beate vivere alii in alio, vos in voluptate ponitis, item contra miseriam in dolore, etc.,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86; cf. I. A. 3. g supra.
    F.
    With a comparative clause introduced by ac, atque, or quam, representing a logical or moral opposition (contra atque debuit = non ita ut debuit; cf. Cic. Or. 3, 19, 70); cf. prep., II. C. 3. g, and II. E. 2. infra.
    1.
    Of logical opposition, contrary to, different from, otherwise than; in the best prose only with atque or ac.
    (α).
    With atque:

    item, contra atque apud nos, fieri ad Elephantinem ut neque ficus neque vites amittant folia,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 6:

    simulacrum Jovis, contra atque ante fuerat, ad orientem convertere,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20; id. Sull. 24, 69:

    judicium suscepturos contra atque omnis Italia populusque Romanus judicavisset,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 12; id. B. G. 4, 13; Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95.—
    (β).
    With ac:

    itaque contra est ac dicitis,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 15, 41:

    vides, omnia fere contra ac dicta sint evenisse,

    id. Div. 2, 24, 53; so id. Verr. 2, 4, 6, § 11; id. Or. 40, 137:

    cum contra ac Deiotarus sensit victoria belli judicaret,

    id. Phil. 11, 13, 34:

    Petreius ubi videt, Catilinam, contra ac ratus erat, magna vi tendere, etc.,

    Sall. C. 60, 5.—
    (γ).
    With ac and atque:

    si denique aliquid non contra ac liceret factum diceretur, sed contra atque oporteret,

    Cic. Balb. 3, 7.—
    (δ).
    With quam (post-Aug.):

    cui contra quam proposuerat aliqua cesserunt,

    Sen. Ira, 3, 6, 5; Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149; 11, 21, 24, § 72; Gell. 6 (7), 8, 6:

    contra quam licet,

    id. 1, 3, 19; Sil. 15, 107.—
    2.
    Of moral opposition of acts contrary to rules and principles (cf. II. 3. g infra); so always with quam:

    mater Aviti, generi sui, contra quam fas erat, amore capta,

    contrary to the divine law, Cic. Clu. 5, 12:

    ut senatus, contra quam ipse censuisset, ad vestitum rediret,

    contrary to its own resolution, id. Pis. 8, 18:

    contra quam ista causa postulasset,

    id. Caecin. 24, 67:

    contra quam sanctum legibus est,

    Liv. 30, 19, 9; Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 2; id. Dom. 46, 122:

    contraque faciunt quam polliceri videntur,

    Auct. Her. 4, 3, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 86.
    II.
    Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to (acc. to many scholars not ante-class.; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 108; but found Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24 Fleck., a line omitted by Lorenz as a gloss; id. Pers. 1, 1, 13 Ritschl; Att. ap. Non. p. 469, 15, or Trag. Rel. v. 476 Rib.; cf. also Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 18; Cato, R. R. 18, 1, and v. I. A. 1. a. b, and I. A. 1. b. a supra).
    A.
    Local uses.
    1.
    Opposite, over against, facing.
    a.
    Of countries and places (mostly of those separated by water;

    adversus and e regione mostly of places opposite by land): insulae natura triquetra, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13; 3, 9; 4, 20:

    ad insulam quae est contra Massiliam,

    id. B. C. 1, 56; 3, 23:

    Rhodios, pacatis contra insulam suam terris, etc.,

    Liv. 37, 15, 7; 3, 26, 8:

    Carthago Italiam contra,

    Verg. A. 1, 13; 5, 124; Ov. M. 14, 17:

    insulae quae contra Tauri promuntorium inopportune navigantibus objacent, Chelidoniae nominantur,

    Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 3, 26, 30, § 151; 6, 28, 32, § 152; 5, 7, 7, § 41; Tac. A. 3, 1; id. H. 2, 17.—
    b.
    Of the heavenly bodies:

    donique (luna) eum (sc. solem) contra pleno bene lumine fulsit,

    Lucr. 5, 708:

    contra Volucris rostrum posita est Lyra,

    Vitr. 9, 4, 5; Sen. Q. N. 1, 5, 9; 1, 8, 3; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 5, 10, 10, § 56.—So, tertium (latus Britanniae) est contra septem triones, opposite ( facing); hence, contra meridiem and contra ortus (instead of ad or adversus meridiem, etc.), facing the south and east, Plin. 6, 24, 24, § 85; 17, 2, 2, § 22. —So of a person standing in the sunlight:

    cum minima umbra (i. e. a sole) contra medium fiet hominem,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 327; cf.:

    contra mediam faciem meridies erit,

    id. 18, 33, 76, § 326.—
    c.
    Of opposite ends of a line.
    (α).
    Of the diameter of the earth: esse e regione nobis e contraria parte terrae qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123.—
    (β).
    Of a line drawn:

    contra autem E littera I erit ubi secat circinationem linea,

    opposite the point E will be the letter I, Vitr. 9, 7, 4.—
    d.
    Of buildings, etc.:

    contra hoc aviarium est aliud minus in quo quae mortuae sunt aves curator servare solet,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; Vitr. 5, 6, 3; 3, 5, 15:

    (statuam) quae fuerit contra Jovis Statoris aedem in vestibulo Superbi domus,

    Plin. 34, 6, 13, § 29:

    contra medium fere porticum diaeta paulum recedit,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20; 2, 17, 5; Suet. Aug. 44.—
    e.
    Of places on the human body:

    id quod contra stomachum est,

    Cels. 4, 5 (4, 12 med.); 7, 7;

    4, 20 (13).—Of the direction of the intestines, etc.: ea... contra medium alvum orsa,

    Cels. 4, 1 fin. —
    2.
    Of actions, opposite, towards, against, facing (syn.:

    adversus, ad, e regione,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 61).
    a.
    In gen.:

    quamvis subito... quamque Rem contra speculum ponas, apparet imago,

    Lucr. 4, 156: Democritus... clipeum constituit contra exortum Hyperionis, Laber. ap. Gell. 10, 17, 4:

    et contra magnum potes hos (i.e. oculos) attollere solem, Nec tremis...?

    Prop. 1, 15, 37; Col. 7, 3, 8:

    rex constiterat contra pedites,

    Curt. 10, 9, 13; 9, 5, 1:

    ne contra septentrionem paveris,

    Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 330; 28, 6, 19, § 69:

    contra solem varie refulgens,

    placed in the sun, id. 37, 10, 63, § 173; 10, 54, 75, § 151; 37, 6, 22, § 83;

    37, 7, 25, § 95: cum terrestres volucres contra aquam clangores dabunt,

    id. 18, 35, 87, § 363; 19, 8, 39, § 131.—
    b.
    Dependent on verbs of motion (very rare without the idea of hostility):

    (Dinocrates) incessit contra tribunal regis jus dicentis,

    towards, Vitr. 2, praef. 1.—So trop., of actions done for a purpose:

    lege Cornelia de sicariis tenetur qui, cum in magistratu esset, eorum quid fecerit contra hominis necem quod legibus permissum non sit,

    Dig. 48, 8, 4.—
    c.
    Appositively, with the predicate: (elephanti) tanta narratur clementia contra minus validos, ut, etc., if fronting weaker animals, if brought in contact with them (not to be connected with clementia), Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23.—Similarly: dum... fidens non est contra feram, if fronting the animal (not dependent on fidens), Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 57.—
    d.
    Against an opposing action, etc.:

    contra vim atque impetum fluminis conversa,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 5:

    cum plateae contra directos ventos erunt conformatae,

    Vitr. 1, 6, 8:

    ut contra ventum gregem pascamus,

    Col. 7, 3, 12; Sen. Q. N. 2, 31, 2; Plin. 29, 3, 12, § 52; 17, 2, 2, § 21; 8, 16, 21, § 54:

    contra fluminum impetus aggeribus,

    id. 35, 14, 48, § 169:

    capite in sole contra pilum peruncto,

    id. 27, 4, 5, § 17; 18, 35, 88, § 364; Varr. ap. Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83; Sil. 14, 352; Dig. 9, 2, 29, § 4. [p. 455] — Trop.:

    contra fortunam tenendus est cursus,

    Sen. Prov. 5, 9.—Prov.:

    contra stimulum calces,

    kick against the pricks, Isid. Orig. 1, 36, 28 (al. calcitres); cf. Amm. 18, 5, 1.—
    e.
    Of local actions with hostile intent.
    (α).
    Lit.:

    quae vis Coclitem contra omnes hostium copias tenuit?

    Cic. Par. 1, 2, 12:

    Pompeium Cartejae receptum scribis: jam igitur contra hunc exercitum (sc. constitit),

    id. Att. 15, 20, 3:

    pertimescam, credo, ne mihi non liceat contra vos in contione consistere,

    to face you, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25; Lepidus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26:

    a fronte contra hostem pedum quindecim fossam fieri jussit,

    id. ib. 1, 41; 1, 42; id. B. G. 7, 62:

    Tullus adversus Veientem hostem derigit suos: Albanos contra legionem Fidenatium collocat,

    Liv. 1, 27, 5; 24, 41, 5; 38, 4, 5; Verg. A. 12, 279; Front. Strat. 2, 2, 13; 2, 3, 17.—Appositively, with a local verb understood:

    terribilis haec contra fugientes belua est, fugax contra insequentes,

    i. e. if fronting, if placed opposite, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 92.—
    (β).
    Trop.:

    castra sunt in Italia contra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibus collocata,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Mil. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 7, 5:

    tum contra hanc Romam illa altera Roma quaeretur,

    will be as a rival against this Rome, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 86:

    cui rationi contra homines barbaros atque imperitos locus fuisset, hac ne ipsum quidem sperare, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

    (Cicero) plerumque contra inimicos atque obtrectatores plus vindicat sibi,

    when fronting adversaries, Quint. 11, 1, 23.—
    f.
    In partic.
    (α).
    Stare contra aliquem (opp. stare ab aliquo); usu. implying hostility; mostly trop., to stand against, to be arrayed against, to face, oppose:

    quod contra hoc exemplum nulla staret eorum ratio,

    Auct. Her. 4, 5, 7:

    contra populi studium,

    Cic. Brut. 34, 126:

    contra civium perditorum... dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causa,

    id. ib. 79, 273; so,

    a mendacio contra veritatem,

    id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:

    contra cives in acie,

    id. Att. 16, 11, 2:

    et adversi contra stetit ora juvenci,

    opposite, Verg. A. 5, 477; 5, 414:

    haec enim (ratio) sola... stat contra fortunam,

    Sen. Ep. 14, 4, 2: contra leonem etiam stetit, fronted, i. e. hunted, Spart. Carac. 5 fin. —
    (β).
    Contra aliquem ire:

    aut saevos Libyae contra ire leones,

    Stat. Th. 9, 16.— Trop.:

    uti contra injurias armati eatis,

    Sall. J. 31, 6:

    interritus (sapiens) et contra illa (mala) ibit et inter illa,

    Sen. Ep. 59, 8; cf.: contra venire, II. B. 1. c. b infra, and v. also II. B. 2. b. and II. B. 1. b. infra.—
    3.
    Transf.,
    a.
    To persons placed together for comparison:

    C. vero Caesar, si foro tantum vacasset, non alius ex nostris contra Ciceronem nominaretur,

    Quint. 10, 1, 114:

    CORONATO CONTRA OMNES SCAENICOS,

    Inscr. Grut. p. 331, n. 4.—
    b.
    To things compared, as if weighed against each other as to their value, strength, etc.
    (α).
    Lit. (very rare):

    quamcunque vis rem expende, et contra aquam statue... Si gravior est, leviorem rem... feret, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 25, 5.—
    (β).
    Prop.:

    cujus (i. e. generis humani) causa videtur cuncta alia genuisse natura, magna saeva mercede contra tanta sua munera,

    Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 1:

    qui amicus esse coepit quia expedit, placebit ei aliquod pretium contra amicitiam,

    Sen. Ep. 9, 9:

    numquam ulli fortiores cives fuerunt quam qui ausi sunt eum contra tantas opes ejus... condemnare,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 2, 3:

    tantum studium bonorum in me exstitisse, contra incredibilem contentionem clarissimi et potentissimi viri,

    id. ib. 7, 2, 2; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

    nomen prorogans nostrum et memoriam extendens contra brevitatem aevi,

    as a compensation for, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154.—So esp., valere contra, to weigh against, counterbalance, avail or prevail against: non vereor ne meae vitae modestia parum valitura sit contra falsos rumores, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8:

    (illa facta) pro periculo potius quam contra salutem valere debere,

    Cic. Part. Or. 35, 120; id. Off. 3, 29, 104:

    contrane lucrum nil valere Pauperis ingenium?

    Hor. Epod. 11, 11; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 1; id. Cons. Helv. 5, 5; so,

    robur habere contra: si contra unamquamlibet partem fortunae satis tibi roboris est,

    id. ib. 13, 2;

    so of counterchecks: in Creta decem qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni plebis, sic illi contra vim regiam constituti,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 58.—Of antidotes: cimicum natura contra serpentium morsus valere dicitur, item contra venena omnia, Plin. 29, 4, 17, § 61.—Hence,
    c.
    Colloq., aliquid contra aurum est, something is worth gold, is superb, both predicatively and attributively (cf.: auro contra, I. A. 2. supra): hujusce pomaria in summa Sacra Via ubi poma veneunt, contra aurum imago, a spectacle for gold, i. e. a magnificent sight, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 10 MSS. (al. aliter):

    numcubi hic vides citrum... num quod emblema aut lithostratum? quae illic omnia contra aurum,

    superb, id. ib. 3, 2, 4 MSS. (Schneid. omits aurum, ex conj.):

    oneravi vinum, et tunc erat contra aurum,

    Petr. 7, 6.—
    d.
    Transf., of replies, with aiebat, inquit, etc.; both in friendly and inimical sense; esp., contra ea, contra haec, = the adv. contra:

    contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 29:

    contra ea Verginius unum Ap. Claudium et legum expertem et, etc., aiebat,

    Liv. 3, 57, 1; 24, 45, 4:

    quae contra breviter fata est vates,

    Verg. A. 6, 398:

    contra quod disertus Tu impie fecisti inquit, etc.,

    Quint. 7, 1, 53 (cf.: contra ea, II. E. 1. infra).
    B.
    Denoting hostility or disadvantage.
    1.
    With verbs of hostile action.
    a.
    Of physical exertion:

    pugnavere et tertio consulatu ejus viginti (elephanti) contra pedites quingentos,

    Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22:

    proelium Afri contra Aegyptios primi fecere fustibus,

    id. 7, 56, 57, § 200; 8, 40, 61, § 142. —
    b.
    Referring to warfare (usu. adversus), bellum gerere (rarely for cum or adversus; but contra patriam, contra aras, etc., not cum patria, etc.; cf.

    bellum, II. A. 1. e.): a quo prohibitos esse vos contra Caesarem gerere bellum (opp. pro),

    Cic. Lig. 8, 25; id. Phil. 5, 10, 27; Liv. Ep. 129.—With bellum suscipere:

    contra Antonium,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 5; so,

    contra patriam,

    id. Sull. 20, 58:

    pugnare contra patriam,

    id. ib. 25, 70:

    contra conjuges et liberos,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 15, 5:

    armatum esse contra populum Romanum,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32.—With arma ferre (freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 72; 13, 21, 47; Liv. 28, 28, 15; Nep. Att. 4, 2; Tib. 1, 6, 30; Ov. M. 4, 609; 13, 269; id. P. 1, 1, 26.—With arma sumere or capere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 6, 19; id. Phil. 4, 1, 2; 4, 3, 7:

    armis contendere contra,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 13:

    arma alicui dare (trop.),

    Cic. Phil. 2, 21, 53:

    aciem instruere (trop.),

    Liv. 25, 4, 4:

    exercitum comparare,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 14; 4, 1, 2:

    exercitum instruere,

    id. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    exercitum ducere and adducere,

    id. Phil. 4, 2, 5; 3, 4, 11:

    exercitum contra Philippum mittere,

    id. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    naves ducere contra,

    Hor. Epod. 4, 19:

    ducere contra hostes,

    Liv. 1, 27, 4:

    florem Italiae educere contra,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24:

    proficisci contra,

    to march against, Liv. 1, 11, 3; 8, 2, 5:

    auxilium ferre Rutulis contra Latinos,

    Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88:

    juvare aliquem contra,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 35:

    consilium inire contra Sequanos,

    to take hostile measures against, id. B. G. 6, 12.—
    c.
    Of legal contention (more freq. adversus, except with verbs of saying).
    (α).
    In gen., with agere or causam agere, to act as counsel against a party or his attorney:

    cum agerem contra hominem disertissimum nostrae civitatis,

    Cic. Caecin. 33, 97; id. Brut. 63, 226; Sen. Ben. 4, 15, 3; Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Causam recipere or suscipere contra, to accept a retainer against:

    (causam) quam receperam contra pueros Octavios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 49, 1; Quint. 6, 1, 12; Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 1.—Adesse alicui contra, to appear, act as one's counsel against:

    rogavit me Caecilius ut adessem contra Satrium,

    Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 1, 7, 5 al.; cf.:

    esse contra,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 3.— Trop.: conquesturus venit;

    at contra se adfuit et satisfacienti satisfecit,

    Sen. Fragm. Amic. 14, 1, 89:

    causam defendere contra,

    against the accuser, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 178:

    statuere contra aliquem (sc. causam),

    to establish a case against an adversary, id. Or. 10, 34:

    actio competit contra,

    Dig. 49, 14, 41:

    querelam instituere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 21, § 1:

    bonorum possessionem petere contra,

    ib. 5, 2, 23:

    jus obtinere contra,

    Cic. Quint. 9, 34:

    pugnare contra,

    to struggle against the accuser, id. Sull. 17, 49; id. Verr. 1, 11, 33:

    id quod mihi contra illos datum est,

    i. e. a local advantage over, id. Tull. 14, 33:

    judicare contra aliquem,

    id. Fl. 20, 48; Dig. 21, 2, 55; 5, 2, 14; Just. Inst. 4, 17, 2:

    pronuntiare contra,

    Paul. Sent. 5, 34, 2: dare sententiam contra, Dig. 21, 2, 56, § 1:

    decernere contra,

    Cic. Fl. 31, 76:

    appellare contra aliquem,

    Dig. 49, 1, 3; 49, 5, 6; cf.:

    contra sententiam,

    Cod. Just. 7, 62, 32, § 2.—Sentire contra aliquem, to have an opinion unfavorable to:

    cur vos (cum) aliquid contra me sentire dicatis, etc.,

    Cic. Caecin. 27, 79.—
    (β).
    Venire contra aliquem, to appear as counsel for one's adversary:

    quid tu, Saturi, qui contra hunc venis, existimas aliter?

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18; id. Mur. 4, 9; id. Phil. 8, 6, 18.—Venire contra rem alicujus, to give advice damaging one's interests:

    contra rem suam me venisse questus est,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 2, 3.—
    (γ).
    With dicere and other verbs of saying. (aa) Of a lawyer pleading against a lawyer:

    ipse ille Mucius, quid in illa causa cum contra te diceret, attulit quod? etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244:

    cum ille contra me pro Sex. Naevio diceret,

    id. Brut. 60, 2, 7; id. de Or. 2, 7, 30; id. Rosc. Am. 15, 45; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. Planc. 2, 5; id. Brut. 26, 102; so,

    causam dicere,

    id. Or. 2, 23, 98:

    causam perorare,

    id. Quint. 24, 77.—(bb) Of a lawyer's pleading against the parties: dic mihi, M. Pinari, num si contra te dixero mihi male dicturus es? Servil. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; 3, 34, 138; 1, 14, 60; id. Or. 35, 123; Quint. 11, 1, 57; cf. with ellipsis of acc.:

    quorum alter pro Aufldia, contra dixit alter,

    id. 10, 1, 22.—(ng) Of a party against a lawyer:

    si Gaditani contra me dicerent,

    if the Gaditani were my adversaries, Cic. Balb. 17, 38.—(dd) Of witnesses and experts, and the pleadings against them:

    si decressent legationem quae contra istum diceret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: contra testes dicere (opp. a testibus or pro testibus). Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118 (cf.:

    testimonium in aliquem dicere,

    id. Sull. 17, 48; Quint. 7, 4, 36):

    contra juris consultos dicere,

    against their legal opinions, Cic. Caecin. 24, 69.—So of witnesses in scientific questions:

    contra testes dicendum est,

    Sen. Q. N. 7, 16, 1.—(ee) Dicere or contendere aliquid contra aliquem, to maintain a point against:

    cum interrogamus adversarios... quid contra nos dici possit,

    Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33:

    tamenne vereris ut possis hoc contra Hortensium contendere?

    Cic. Quint. 25, 78. —
    d.
    Of literary adversaries, mostly with verbs of saying and writing:

    cum scriberem contra Epicurios,

    Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    contra Epicurum satis superque dictum est,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

    contra Brutum,

    id. Tusc. 5, 8, 21:

    contra Academiam,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 63; id. Fin. 1, 1, 2; 5, 8, 22; id. Tusc. 5, 11, 32; 5, 30, 84; id. Ac. 2, 4, 17:

    contra autem omnia disputatur a nostris,

    id. Off. 2, 2, 8.—
    e.
    Of public and political adversaries (syn. adversus and in).
    (α).
    In gen.:

    sentire contra,

    Cic. Mil. 2, 5:

    pugnare contra bonos,

    id. Sull. 25, 71:

    contra eos summa ope nitebatur nobilitas,

    Sall. C. 38, 2; Cic. Sest. 19, 42; 52, 112:

    (tribuni) qui aut contra consulem, aut pro studio ejus pugnabant,

    Liv. 39, 32, 12.—
    (β).
    Of political speaking:

    cum (Cato) eo ipso anno contra Serv. Galbam ad populum summa contentione dixisset,

    Cic. Brut. 20, 80; so id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 53; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 9, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostile or criminal acts in gen. (syn.:

    adversus, in): inire consilia contra,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 110; id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

    manum comparare contra aliquem,

    id. Sull. 24, 68:

    conjurationem facere,

    id. ib. 4, 12:

    congredi,

    id. Lig. 3, 9; Sall. J. 64, 4:

    aliquid contra imperatorem moliri,

    Just. Inst. 4, 18, 3:

    nec dolor armasset contra sua viscera matrem,

    against her own offspring Ov. R. Am. 59.—Facere contra (more freq. with abstr. objects; cf. II. C. 1. f. b infra): nunc te contra Caesarem facere summae stultitiae est, to take parts against, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 2:

    eae (res) contra nos ambae faciunt,

    operate against us, id. Quint. 1, 1.—With verbs of saying, etc.:

    homo disertus non intellegit, eum quem contra dicit laudari a se?

    Cic. Phil. 2, 8, 18; 2, 1, 2; 2, 21, 51; Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 70:

    epigramma quod contra quamdam Gelliam scripsit,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 38:

    disputare contra deos, in two signif.: contra deum licet disputare liberius,

    to accuse, reproach a god, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76; but: mala et impia consuetudo est contra deos disputandi, to reason against the gods, i. e. against their existence, id. ib. 2, 67, 168.—
    2.
    Predicatively, with esse (videri, etc.), against, injurious to, unfavorable, prejudicial, to one's disadvantage: ut [p. 456] ex senatusconsulto neque cujus intersit, neque contra quem sit intellegi possit, Cic. Mur. 32, 68; id. de Or. 3, 20, 75; 2, 74, 299; 2, 81, 330; id. Sull. 13, 39; Sen. Ben. 6, 31, 6:

    licentiam malis dare certe contra bonos est,

    injurious to, Quint. 4, 2, 75:

    res contra nos est, of unfavorable chances in a lawsuit,

    id. 4, 66, 1; 4, 2, 75; 5, 13, 32.—Often, contra aliquem = quod est contra aliquem, referring to indef. pronouns or adjectives:

    nihil contra me fecit odio mei = nihil quod esset contra me,

    Cic. Har. Resp. 3, 5; id. Off. 3, 31, 112:

    quibus (temporibus) aliquid contra Caesarem Pompeio suaserim,

    id. Phil. 2, 10, 24.—
    3.
    Added adverb. to the predicate, mostly referring to purpose, with hostile intent, for the purpose of some hostile act, in order to oppose, in opposition:

    Caesarine eam (provinciam) tradituri fuistis, an contra Caesarem retenturi?

    or keep it against Caesar, Cic. Lig. 7, 23:

    sero enim resistimus ei quem per annos decem aluimus contra nos,

    id. Att. 7, 5, 5:

    judicium illud pecunia esse temptatum non pro Cluentio, sed contra Cluentium,

    id. Clu. 4, 9; id. Imp. Pomp. 17, 52; id. Ac. 2, 28, 92:

    cum quae facitis ejusmodi sint ut ea contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini,

    id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; Sen. Ep. 3, 7, 3: Curio se contra eum totum parat, i. e. to speak against him, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Caes. B. C. 1, 85 ter; Sen. Q. N. 1, 7, 1; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192; Plin. Pan. 41.—So with the force of a temporal clause:

    fidem meam quam essent contra Massam Baebium experti,

    in the suit against, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4.—
    4.
    Dependent on adjectives (rare):

    contra se ipse misericors,

    to his own injury, Phaedr. 4, 18, 3:

    severissimus judex contra fures,

    Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28.—
    5.
    With nouns.
    a.
    Acc. to 1. b.:

    ut quam maximae contra Hannibalem copiae sint,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17; cf. Vell. 2, 76, 3.—
    b.
    Acc. to 1. c. and 1. e.; so esp., oratio contra (cf.: oratio in).
    (α).
    Oratio contra (never in), of an address against the counsel of a party or against the prosecutor:

    quid in omni oratione Crassus vel apud centumviros contra Scaevolam, vel contra accusatorem Brutum, cum pro Cn. Plancio diceret?

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 220; cf.:

    Cato pro se contra Cassium = in oratione contra,

    Gell. 10, 15, 3; so,

    haec perpetua defensio contra Scaevolam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 221:

    orationem illam egregiam quam (Aeschines) in Ctesiphontem contra Demosthenem dixerat,

    id. ib. 3, 56, 213.—
    (β).
    Of an address against the party, either in judicial or political affairs:

    unam orationem contra Gracchum reliquit,

    Cic. Brut. 26, 99:

    (Demosthenis) oratio contra Leptinem... contra Aeschinem falsae legationis,

    id. Or. 31, 111; Gell. 10, 24, 10; 10, 18, 91; Cic. Brut. 46, 169; Quint. 12, 10, 61; Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Brut. 44, 164; Gell. 13, 25 (24), 15; cf. Quint. 4, 3, 13; 11, 2, 25.—
    c.
    Acc. to 1. f.:

    contra patres concitatio et seditio,

    Cic. Brut. 14, 56.—Of animals:

    contra volpium genus communibus inimicitiis,

    Plin. 10, 76, 96, § 207.
    C.
    With inanimate and abstract objects.
    1.
    Directly dependent on verbs (cf. B. 1.).
    a.
    Of physical or moral exertion:

    cum fulmina contra Tot paribus streperet clipeis,

    Verg. A. 10, 567:

    pugnandum tamquam contra morbum, sic contra senectutem,

    Cic. Sen. 11, 35:

    contra verum niti,

    Sall. J. 35, 8:

    contra fortunam luctari,

    Sen. Ben. 7, 15, 2; id. Brev. Vit. 10, 1; id. Ep. 78, 15; 99, 32; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 31, 110.—
    b.
    Of warfare (lit. and trop.):

    bellum contra aras, focos, vitam fortunasque gerere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 1, 1:

    bellum gerimus... contra arma verbis,

    id. Fam. 12, 22, 1.—So of logical contradictions:

    artificis autem est invenire in actione adversarii quae semet ipsa pugnent,

    Quint. 5, 13, 30.—
    c.
    Of legal contention.
    (α).
    Of the actions of the counsel or prosecutor: dicere, or perorare, agere contra aliquid, to plead against, contest something:

    contra argumenta, rumores, tabulas, quaestiones (opp. ab argumentis, etc.),

    Auct. Her. 2, 6, 9 sqq.; Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118:

    contra ratiocinationem,

    id. Inv. 2, 50, 153: contra scriptum dicere, to contest, controvert a written law or a document, id. ib. 2, 47, 138; 2, 48, 143; id. Brut. 39, 145; Quint. 7, 7, 1:

    contra caput dicere,

    to plead against life, Cic. Quint. 13, 44 (cf.:

    servum in caput domini interrogare,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 1, 34; 5, 16, 5 and 8; 5, 46, 3): contra libertatem agere, Dig. 40, 12, 26.—Pregn.:

    contra rerum naturam, contraque consuetudinem hominum dicere (opp. contra nos dicere),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 15, 45.—
    (β).
    Of judicial decisions contradicting documents, etc.:

    contra tabulas judicare,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 281:

    contra testamentum,

    Dig. 2, 17, § 1:

    contra sententiam dicere,

    ib. 49, 8, 1, § 2.—
    (γ).
    Admittere aliquem contra bona, to admit a petition for bonorum possessio (cf.:

    inmittere in bona),

    Dig. 38, 2, 3, § 6.—
    d.
    Of antagonism in literary and ethical questions.
    (α).
    To contend that something is false:

    dicere, disputare, disserere contra opinionem or sententiam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 8; 5, 19, 55; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 5, 4, 10; id. Ac. 2, 18, 60; Sen. Ira, 1, 3, 3; id. Ep. 87, 5; 102, 5 (cf.:

    in sententiam dicere,

    in support of an opinion, Caes. B. G. 1, 45):

    contra sensus dicere,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 101:

    contra rhetoricen dicere,

    Quint. 2, 17, 40.—
    (β).
    Of criticism, hostility to principles, etc.:

    contra Iliadem et Odysseam scribere,

    Vitr. 7, praef. 8:

    contra quorum disciplinam ingenium ejus exarserat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 29, 83.—
    (γ).
    Ethically:

    contra voluptatem dicere,

    that pleasure is a moral evil, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 21:

    contra mortem loqui,

    that death is no evil, Sen. Ep. 82, 7;

    in both senses: contra vitia, pericula, fortunam, ambitionem,

    id. ib. 100, 10:

    contra fortunam gloriari,

    that fortune has no power over him, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 26; Sen. Ep. 26, 5.—
    e.
    Of public and political acts and speeches:

    contra potentiam accusatorum dicere,

    Cic. Brut. 44, 164:

    contra legem dicere or verba facere,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 53; Liv. 34, 8, 1:

    rogationem ferre contra coloniam ( = contra legem de colonia deducenda),

    Cic. Clu. 51, 140; Auct. Her. 1, 17, 21; Plin. 8, 17, 24, § 64.—
    f.
    Of hostility, injury, wrongs, etc.
    (α).
    In gen.:

    senatusconsulto quod contra dignitatem tuam fieret,

    directed against, Cic. Fam. 12, 29, 2:

    contra rem publicam se commovere,

    id. Cat. 1, 26; 1, 3, 7:

    incitari,

    id. Sest. 47, 100:

    consilia inire,

    id. Agr. 2, 3, 8:

    conjurationem facere,

    Sall. C. 30, 6:

    contra salutem urbis incitari,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 20:

    cogitare aliquid contra salutem,

    id. ib. 3, 9, 21: contra voluntatem or studium dicere, to oppose one's will in a speech:

    esse aliquem in civitate qui contra ejus (Chrysogoni) voluntatem dicere auderet,

    id. Rosc. Am. 22, 60; id. Phil. 1, 11, 28; id. de Or. 3, 34, 138; id. Mur. 4, 10; Tac. H. 2, 91:

    ne quid contra aequitatem contendas, ne quid pro injuria,

    do not array yourself against equity, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 71.— Trop.:

    quis non contra Marii arma, contra Suliae proscriptionem irascitur? ( = Mario propter arma, Sullae propter proscriptionem),

    Sen. Ira, 2, 2, 3.—
    (β).
    In partic.: facere contra aliquid (syn. adversus), to commit an offence against, to transgress, etc.:

    si quis ad Antonium profectus esset... senatus existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse,

    Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 33; id. Mil. 5, 13; 6, 14; id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 3, 25, 95; S. C. ap. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 6; Liv. 25, 4, 7; so,

    contra salutem rei publicae facere,

    Cic. Dom. 38, 102:

    contra majestatem,

    against the emperor, Dig. 48, 4, 5:

    contra leges,

    Cic. Dom. 18, 48; id. Vatin. 7, 18; id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Mur. 32, 67; id. de Or. 3, 19, 70; cf. id. Clu. 34, 92; id. Mur. 32, 68; id. Dom. 14, 38; id. Phil. 10, 6, 13; Gai Inst. 4, 121:

    contra edictum (praetoris),

    Cic. Verr 2, 3, 10, § 25; Dig. 39, 1, 20, § 1:

    contra foedus,

    Cic. Balb. 6, 16:

    contra jusjurandum ac fidem,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; id. Lael. 3, 30, 74; id. Verr. 2, 3, 3, § 7; Prop. 3, 30, 44 (2, 32, 44).—And ironically:

    tune contra Caesaris nutum (sc. facies)?

    Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1.—Rarely contra ea facere = contra facere, adverb. (cf. I. B. 8. and II. E. 1. b.):

    corpus in civitatem inferri non licet... et qui contra ea fecerit, extra ordinem punitur,

    Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 2; 1, 21, 12.—
    2.
    Predicatively with esse (usu. impers.), in violation of, in conflict with, contrary to (cf. 3. g).
    (α).
    With esse expressed as the predicate:

    hominem hominis incommodo suum augere commodum magis est contra naturam quam mors,

    Cic. Off. 3, 5, 21; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31; id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; Sen. Ep. 5, 4; Plin. 7, 8, 6, § 45:

    contra leges or legem est,

    Cic. Pis. 13, 30; id. Mur. 32, 67:

    contra officium est,

    id. Off. 3, 10, 43; 1, 10, 32; 1, 6, 19; cf. id. Lael. 11, 39; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Liv. 6, 40, 5; Sen. Q. N. 2, 37, 2; Gai Inst. 3, 157; Dig. 30, 1, 112, § 3; 16, 3, 1, § 7.—With ellipsis of object (naturam), Cic. Fin. 5, 29, 89; cf.:

    adeo res ista non habet ullam moram quae contra causas ignium sit,

    unfavorable to the formation of fire, Sen. Q. N. 2, 26, 7.—
    (β).
    With verbal predicate, referring to an indef. pron. or adj., with esse understood:

    scis hunc... nihil umquam contra rem tuam cogitasse ( = nihil quod contra rem tuam esset),

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 50, 147; id. Mil. 5, 13:

    aliquid contra animum audiendi,

    something against our liking, Sen. Const. 19, 2.—So mostly with facere:

    si quid Socrates aut Aristippus contra morem consuetudinemque fecerint,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148; id. Att. 3, 23, 2; 2, 22, 2; id. Off. 3, 15, 63; Sall. C. 15, 1; Dig. 8, 2, 11; 8, 2, 17; 35, 1, 79, § 2. —
    (γ).
    Contra officium, substantively, = id quod contra officium est:

    Sic inter recte factum atque peccatum, officium et contra officium, media locabat quaedam,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—
    3.
    Adverbially with the predicate.
    (α).
    In order to oppose, in opposition to, with hostile intent (cf. B. 3.):

    eidem illam proscriptionem capitis mei contra salutem rei publicae rogatam esse dicebant,

    that the proposal of the law was an attack on the republic, Cic. Prov. Cons. 19, 45; id. Rab. Perd. 12, 35; id. Phil. 10, 10, 22:

    imperator contra postulata Bocchi nuntios mittit,

    to reply to the demands, Sall. J. 83, 3; 25, 6; so,

    advocare contra,

    Sen. Cons. Polyb. 12, 4; id. Ep. 15, 2, 52:

    si contra mortem te praeparaveris,

    to meet death, id. ib. 11, 3, 8.—
    (β).
    With the force of a clause of manner, injuriously to, etc.:

    quibus contra valetudinis commodum laborandum est,

    Cic. Mur. 23, 47; Suet. Aug. 78:

    contra hominis salutem,

    with danger to a man's life, Cod. Just. 7, 62, 29.—
    (γ).
    In gen., of conflict with some rule or principle, contrary to, in violation of, without regard to ( = ita ut contra sit; cf. 2. supra; very freq. from the class. period;

    syn. adversus): ceperitne pecunias contra leges P. Decius,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 136; id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10; id. Fl. 34, 86:

    pecuniam contra leges auferre,

    id. Verr. 1, 18, 56; 2, 1, 10, § 27; 2, 5, 18, § 46; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    contra legem,

    id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Dom. 16, 41:

    contra jus fasque,

    id. Har. Resp. 16, 34; id. Quint. 6, 28:

    contra jus,

    Liv. 5, 4, 14; id. Dom. 13, 55; id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34:

    contra jus gentium,

    Liv. 4, 32, 5; 9, 10, 10; 21, 25, 7; 5, 36, 6;

    6, 1, 6: contra juris rigorem,

    Dig. 40, 5, 24, § 10 et saep.:

    contra testimonium aliquid judicare,

    without regard to, Cic. Brut. 31, 117:

    aliquid contra verecundiam disputare,

    contrary to the rules of decency, id. Off. 1, 35, 128:

    aliquid contra fidem constituere,

    Quint. 5, 13, 34:

    quae majores nostri contra lubidinem animi sui recte atque ordine fecere,

    contrary to the dictates of passion, Sall. C. 51, 4; id. J. 33, 1; cf. of logical opposition, II. E. 2. infra.—
    4.
    Dependent on substt.
    a.
    Of physical strife:

    scit ille imparem sibi luctatum contra nexus (draconis),

    Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33. —
    b.
    Of warfare:

    imperatorum copia contra tuum furorem,

    Cic. Mur. 39, 83:

    Parthorum gloria contra nomen Romanum,

    Liv. 9, 18, 6: in castris perditorum contra patriam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—
    c.
    Of legal contention:

    causa contra scriptum,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 46, 135.—
    d.
    Of political speaking:

    divina M. Tullii eloquentia contra leges agrarias,

    Quint. 2, 16, 7; 9, 3, 50; Gell. 18, 7, 7.—
    e.
    Of literary opposition:

    Caesaris vituperatio contra laudationem meam,

    Cic. Att. 12, 40, 1.—
    f.
    Of hostility, etc.:

    cujus factum, inceptum, conatumve contra patriam,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    ullum factum dictumve nostrum contra utilitatem vestram,

    Liv. 6, 40, 5.—
    g.
    Of injury:

    vitae cupiditas contra rem publicam,

    Cic. Planc. 37, 90: contra serpentes venenum, fatal to serpents, or as a defence against serpents, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 15.—
    h.
    Of violation, disregard, etc. (cf. 3. g):

    iter contra senatus auctoritatem,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 19, 48:

    contra consuetudinem somnium,

    Plin. 10, 77, 98, § 211:

    bonorum possessio contra tabulas,

    Dig. 37, 4, 3, § 13; Gai Inst. 3, 41.—
    5.
    Dependent on adjectives (very rare; cf.

    II. D. 2. c. infra): contraque patris impii regnum impotens, avum resolvam,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 966.
    D.
    Of defence, protection, and resistance (syn.: adversus, ab).
    1.
    Against persons.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    cum populus Romanus suam auctoritatem vel contra omnes qui dissentiunt possit defendere,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 63: si ego consul rem publicam [p. 457] contra te et gregales tuos defendissem, id. Sest. 52, 111; 22, 49; 8, 20; id. Fam. 11, 27, 7; id. Phil. 2, 18, 45:

    contra quem multum omnes boni providerunt,

    provided a great defence, id. Mur. 38, 81: formula qua utitur patronus contra libertum qui eum in jus vocat, as a defence against, Gai Inst. 4, 46. —And of protection of plants against injurious animals:

    contra haec animalia proderit, si, etc.,

    Pall. 10, 3, 2.—
    b.
    Dependent on adjectives, mostly participial:

    paratus contra,

    Cic. Mil. 21, 56:

    nihil satis firmum contra Metellum,

    Sall. J. 80, 1:

    contra potentes nemo est munitus satis,

    Phaedr. 2, 6, 1.—
    2.
    Against inanimate and abstract things.
    a.
    Dependent on verbs:

    contra avium morsus munitur vallo aristarum,

    Cic. Sen. 15, 51:

    propugnaculum, quo contra omnes meos impetus usurum se putat,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 40; 2, 5, 39, § 102:

    publicam causam contra vim armatam suscipere,

    id. Dom. 34, 91; id. Quint. 30, 94; id. Leg. 3, 3, 9:

    contra tantas difficultates providere,

    Sall. J. 90, 1; 76, 4; so,

    contra ea,

    id. ib. 57, 5:

    patricii vi contra vim resistunt,

    Liv. 3, 13, 4; Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28; Tac. Agr. 45; Sen. Prov. 4, 12; id. Const. 5, 4.—
    b.
    Dependent on substt.:

    suffragia contra oppugnationem vestrae majestatis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 12, 35:

    defensio contra vim,

    id. Mil. 5, 14:

    patronus justitiae fuit contra orationem Phili,

    id. Lael. 7, 25; Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30; 14, 3, 4, § 40:

    contra labores patientia,

    id. 23, 1, 22, § 37.—
    c.
    Dependent on adjectives (in Cic. freq. with P. a. predicatively used; otherwise very rare;

    in later prose freq.): nec est quidquam Cilicia contra Syriam munitius,

    against an attack from the side of Syria, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 4:

    ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem posset esse,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 15, § 39; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Mil. 25, 67; id. Tusc. 5, 8, 19; 5, 27, 76:

    vir contra audaciam firmissimus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 30, 85; Sall. J. 33, 2; 28, 5:

    fortis contra dolorem,

    Sen. Ep. 98, 18; Quint. 12, 1, 10:

    callosus,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147; 14, 2, 4, § 23:

    far contra hiemes firmissimum,

    id. 18, 8, 19, § 83:

    equus tenax contra vincula,

    Ov. Am. 3, 4, 13:

    contraque minantia fata pervigil,

    Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 1, 284.—
    3.
    Of remedies against sickness and its causes, poison, etc.; so only in Plin.; in Pall. only of preventives and of protection against hurtful animals, and against mental perturbations in gen.; cf. infra (syn. ad in Cat., Cic., Cels., Col.; adversus only in Celsus, who also has in with abl.).
    (α).
    Dependent on verbs:

    cujus et vinum et uva contra serpentium ictus medetur,

    Plin. 14, 18, 22, § 117; 7, 2, 2, § 13:

    prodest et contra suspiria et tussim,

    id. 20, 13, 50, § 128:

    valet potum contra venena,

    id. 28, 7, 21, § 74; 29, 4, 22, § 71; 29, 4, 26, § 81; 28, 8, 27, § 98; 16, 37, 71, § 180; 35, 6, 14, § 34; 28, 6, 18, §§ 65-67.—
    (β).
    Dependent on substt.:

    remedium contra morsus,

    Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 118; 10, 59, 79, § 163:

    contra venena esse omnia remedio,

    id. 16, 44, 95, § 251; 17, 24, 37, § 240; 7, 1, 1, § 4.—
    (γ).
    Dependent on adjectives:

    vinum quod salutare contra pestilentiam sit,

    Pall. 11, 14, 17.—
    (δ).
    Appositively, as a remedy:

    cujus lacteum succum miris laudibus celebrat... contra serpentes et venena,

    Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 16; 29, 4, 26, § 83. —So of remedies against affections:

    Tiberium tonante caelo coronari ea (lauro) solitum ferunt contra fulminum metus,

    Plin. 15, 30, 40, § 135; cf. Sen. Ira, 2, 21, 1; id. Tranq. 5. 1.
    E.
    Of logical opposition.
    1.
    With a neuter demonstrative (contra ea, contra haec, contra quae, quod contra = contra, adv.).
    a.
    The contrary, the reverse (very rare; cf.

    I. D. 1.): sed mihi contra ea videtur,

    but to me the contrary seems true, Sall. J. 85, 1:

    omnia quae contra haec sunt, omnia quae contra sunt,

    and vice versa, Quint. 5, 10, 90. —
    b.
    Contra ea, on the contrary, in logical antithesis (not in Cic. and Sall.; once in Caes. and Quint.; several times in Liv. and Nep.; cf.: contra ea, in other uses, II. A. 2. e. a, II. D. 2. a., II. A. 3. d., II. C. 1. f.):

    omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi... contra ea Caesar... spatiumque interponendum... putabat ( = at contra),

    but Caesar on the contrary, Caes. B. C. 3, 74: superbe ab Samnitibus... legati prohibiti commercio sunt;

    contra ea benigne ab Siculorum tyrannis adjuti,

    Liv. 4, 52, 6; 2, 60, 1; 21, 20, 6;

    44, 43, 5: pater... Thracem me genuit, contra ea mater Atheniensem,

    Nep. Iphicr. 3, 4; id. praef. 6; id. Alcib. 8, 1.—And after a question, with immo (cf. I. E. 5. b.):

    an infirmissimi omnium... (sumus)? Immo contra ea vel viribus nostris, vel, etc., tuti (sumus),

    Liv. 41, 24, 8.—
    c.
    Quod contra, by anastrophe (v. F. 1.), contrary to which, whereas, while on the contrary (only once in Lucr. and three times in Cic.):

    illud in his rebus vereor ne forte rearis, Inpia te rationis inire elementa viamque indugredi sceleris: quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta,

    whereas on the contrary, Lucr. 1, 81:

    cujus a me corpus crematum est, quod contra decuit ab illo meum (sc. cremari),

    Cic. Sen. 23, 84:

    quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,

    id. Lael. 24, 90 (B. and K. place a comma after oportebat; cf.

    Nauck ad loc.): reliquum est ut eum nemo judicio defenderit: quod contra copiosissime defensum esse contendi,

    id. Quint. 28, 87 (many consider contra in all these passages as an adverb; cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 121 sq.; some explain quod as an ancient ablative, = qua re;

    v. Ritschl,

    Plaut. Exc. p. 57, Munro ad Lucr. 1, 82).—
    2.
    With an abstract noun, with the force of the adverb contra with ac or atque (I. F. 1.), contrary to, contrary to what, etc. (esp. in Sall., not in Cic.; cf. praeter): celeriter contraque omnium opinionem confecto itinere, contrary to the opinion ( = contra ac rati erant), Caes. B. G. 6, 30:

    contra opinionem Jugurthae ad Thalam perveniunt,

    Sall. J. 75, 9; Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Contra spem either contrary to the opinion, or against the hope:

    Metellus contra spem suam laetissume excipitur ( = contra ac ratus, veritus est),

    Sall. J. 88, 1; so,

    cetera contra spem salva invenit,

    Liv. 9, 23, 17:

    contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit,

    id. 6, 25, 5; Curt. 8, 4, 45;

    but: at Jugurtha contra spem nuntio accepto ( = contra ac speraverat),

    Sall. J. 28, 1; Liv. 24, 45, 3:

    postquam... Jugurtha contra timorem animi praemia sceleris adeptum sese videt,

    Sall. J. 20, 1:

    ipse in Numidiam procedit, ubi contra belli faciem tuguria plena hominumque... erant ( = contra ac in bello evenire solet),

    id. ib. 46, 5:

    contra famam,

    Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 7, 53, 54, § 180:

    segniterque et contra industriam absconditae formicae,

    slowly, and in a manner different from their usual activity, id. 18, 35, 88, § 364.—Of persons:

    frigidam potionem esse debere, contra priores auctores, Asclepiades confirmavit,

    contrary to the opinion of the former physicians, Cels. 4, 26 (19).
    F.
    Sometimes by anastrophe after its noun.
    1.
    In prose, after relatives, esp. in Cic.:

    quos contra disputant,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 47:

    quem contra dicit,

    id. Phil. 2, 8, 18 (v. II. B. 1. f.):

    quem contra veneris,

    id. Mur. 4, 9:

    quas contra, praeter te, etc.,

    id. Vatin. 7, 18:

    eos ipsos quos contra statuas,

    id. Or. 10, 34:

    quos contra me senatus armavit,

    id. Att. 10, 8, 8:

    quam contra multa locutus est,

    Sen. Ep. 82, 7, Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 3; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 332; v. also E. 1. c. supra.—
    2.
    After other words ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    hunc igitur contra mittam contendere causam,

    Lucr. 4, 471:

    dicere eos contra,

    id. 4, 484:

    donique eum contra,

    id. 5, 708:

    agmina contra,

    Verg. A. 12, 279:

    magnum Alciden contra,

    id. ib. 5, 414:

    Paridem contra,

    id. ib. 5, 370:

    Italiam contra,

    id. ib. 1, 13:

    deos contra,

    Ov. P. 1, 1, 26:

    Messania moenia contra,

    id. M. 14, 17:

    litora Calabriae contra,

    Tac. A. 3, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > contra dicta

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