per-tango

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per-tingo, ĕre, v. a. [tango], to stretch out, reach, extend to a certain point (rare; not in Cic.; often confounded in MSS. with pertineo).

Lit.:

collis in immensum pertingens,

Sall. J. 48, 3 Dietsch and Kritz:

montis Apennini jugum mediā curvaturā prope tangens oras maris Hadriani pertingit circumitionibus contra fretum,

Vitr. 2, 10, 1:

infortunatam pertingens cespite Trojam,

Avien. Descr. Orb. 986:

turris, cujus culmen pertingat ad caelum,

Vulg. Gen. 11, 4; id. 2 Par. 28, 9 al. (but in Lucr. 4, 277, the correct read. is perterget, v. Lachm. ad h. l.).—

Trop., to reach, attain:

ad sapientiam Zenonis pertingere,

Front. p. 255.

tento or tempto, āvi, ātum, 1 ( part. gen. plur. tentantum, Verg. G. 2, 247), v. freq. a. [tendo], to handle, touch, feel a thing (class.; cf.: tango, tracto).

Lit.

In gen.:

rem manu,

Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62:

manibus pectora,

Ov. M. 10, 282; 10, 289:

loca feminarum digitis,

Col. 8, 11, 8:

ficum rostro,

Ov. F. 2, 254:

flumen vix pede (with attingere),

Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

quadratum,

Lucr. 4, 234:

caput in tenebris,

Phaedr. 3, 10, 26:

pullos singulos,

Col. 8, 5, 17:

invisos amictus,

Verg. G. 3, 563:

aciem pugionum,

Suet. Ner. 49; cf.:

acumen stili,

id. Rhet. 5:

bracchia emittit temptanti maria similis Sarpedon,

Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98:

pullos,

Col. 8, 5, 17; 8, 11, 8.—

In partic.

In medic. lang.:

venas,

to feel the pulse, Quint. 11, 3, 88; Suet. Tib. 72; Ov. H. 20, 139.—

To try the strength of, make an attempt upon, i. e. to attack, assail (cf.: aggredior, adorior).

Of warfare:

scalis et classe moenia oppidi tentans,

Caes. B. C. 3, 40:

opera nostra,

id. B. G. 7, 73:

urbem,

Liv. 33, 5, 3; 26, 38, 5:

munitiones,

id. 9, 35, 1:

moenia Aiexandriae,

id. 45, 11:

Achaiam,

Caes. B. C. 3, 55 Britanniam, Suet. Claud. 17:

aggredi et tentare,

Vell. 2, 113, 3:

aliquem auxiliis Thraciae,

Flor. 2, 14, 4.—

Of disease, poison, etc.:

animi valentes morbo tentari non possunt, corpora possunt,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 14, 31; cf.:

gravis auctumnus omnem exercitum valetudine tentaverat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 2:

temptari a morbo,

Plin. 24, 19, 113, § 174:

praecordiorum inflatione tentari,

Suet. Aug. 81:

tentatus est motiunculis levibus,

id. Vesp. 24; Hor. S. 2, 3, 163; id. Ep. 1, 6, 28; Verg. G. 3, 441 al.:

vina temptant caput,

attack, affect, Plin. 23, 1, 20, § 35.— Absol.:

temptantis aquas non nocere,

unwholesome, Plin. 20, 7, 26, § 68; cf. Verg. G. 2, 94.—

Transf., to try; to prove, put to the test; to attempt, essay a course of action, etc. (so most freq.; syn.: experior, periclitor).

In gen., constr. with acc., with inf., with rel.-clause, with ut, or absol.

With acc.:

cum se ipse perspexerit totumque tentarit, intelleget, etc.,

Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 59; cf.:

se in arte memoriae,

Quint. 11, 2, 34 (preceded by memoriam suam experiri):

tentarem te, quo animo accipias,

Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 3:

quo utamur quasi equis temptatis, sic amicitiā aliquā parte periclitatis moribus amicorum,

id. Lael. 17, 63;

alicujus scientiam auguratus,

id. Div. 1, 17, 32:

tentarem summi regis prudentiam,

id. Tusc. 1, 41, 98:

ut satis impulsas tentavit pollice chordas,

Ov. M. 10, 145:

culturam agelli, Lucr 5, 1368: iter per provinciam per vim, Caes B. G. 1, 14: negatā iter viā,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 22 Bosporum, id. ib. 3, 4, 31:

Thetim ratibus,

Verg. E. 4, 32:

Oceanum,

Tac. G. 34 fin.:

Istrum, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 135: aditus,

Verg. A. 4, 293:

temptanda via est,

id. G. 3, 8:

ad tentandum vadum fluminis,

Curt. 4, 9, 15:

nullo modo animus audientis aut incitari aut leniri potest, qui modus a me non tentatus sit,

Cic. Or. 38, 132:

rem frustra,

Caes. B. C. 1, 26:

belli fortunam,

id. B. G. 1, 36; so,

fortunam,

id. ib. 3, 6; 7, 64; Sall. J. 7, 1:

periculum,

Cic. Cornel. Fragm. 1:

quaestionem,

id. Clu. 57, 157:

patientiam vestram,

id. Agr. 2, 7, 19:

spem pacis,

Liv. 21, 12, 3; cf.:

spem triumphi,

id. 28, 38, 4: libertatem, [p. 1856] id. 6, 18, 11:

relationem,

id. 33, 23, 3:

intercessionem,

id. 9, 8, 13:

silentium nequicquam per praeconem,

id. 8, 33, 2:

crimina,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 80:

majora,

id. ib. 1, 17, 24:

caelestia,

id. ib. 1, 17, 34 et saep.—

With rel.-clause:

tentavi, quid in eo genere possem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 7:

tentabam, spiraret an non,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 26:

quae sit fortuna facillima, temptat,

Verg. A. 11, 761:

cum tentaret si qua res esset cibi,

something to eat, Phaedr. 4, 7, 4:

tenta, Chrysogonus quanti doceat,

Juv. 7, 175.—

With inf.:

aquā prohibere hostem tentare coepit,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 40:

tentabo etiam de hoc dicere,

Quint. 6, 2, 29; 2, 14, 1:

(sol) caelum radiis accendere tentans,

Lucr. 5, 659:

tentarunt aequore tingi,

Ov. M. 2, 172:

(vestis) frustra tentata revelli,

id. ib. 9, 168:

taurus irasci in cornua temptat,

Verg. A. 12, 104:

nemo in sese tentat descendere,

Pers. 4, 23:

litteras deferre,

Curt. 3, 7, 13; Juv. 7, 5.—

With ut:

cum ille Romuli senatus tentaret post Romuli excessum, ut ipse gereret sine rege rem publicam,

Cic. Rep. 2, 12, 23:

quid aliud hoc judicio tentatur, nisi ut id fieri liceat?

id. Rosc. Am. 5, 13; Suet. Caes. 11.— Impers. pass.:

tentatum a L. Sextio tribuno plebis, ut rogationem ferret, etc.,

Liv. 4, 49, 6.—

Absol.:

tenta quā lubet,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 20:

ne tentando cautiorem faceret,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 23.—

In partic., to try any one, in a friendly or hostile manner; to urge, incite; to tempt, sound, tamper with; also, to excite, disquiet, disturb, agitate:

quem ego toties omni ratione tentans ad disputandum elicere non potuissem,

Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 13:

cum per Drusum saepe tentassem,

id. ib. 1, 21, 97:

utrum admonitus an tentatus an, etc.... pervenerit ad hanc improbitatem nescio,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 105:

cum a proximis impetrare non possent, ulteriores tentant,

Caes. B. G. 6, 2:

animos servorum spe et metu, ut, etc.,

Cic. Clu. 63, 176:

animos popularium,

Sall. J. 48, 1:

animos singulorum ad res novas,

Suet. Tib. 12 fin.:

animum precando,

Verg. A. 4, 113:

judicium pecunia,

Cic. Clu. 4, 9; 30, 80:

aliquem promissis et minis,

Tac. H. 1, 75; cf.:

tentatā Othonianorum fide per colloquium et promissa,

id. ib. 2, 20:

tribunos de fugae societate,

Suet. Ner. 47:

deos multā caede bidentium,

Hor. C. 3, 23, 14:

Junonem tentare Ixion ausus,

Tib. 1, 3, 73; cf. Ov. A. A. 1, 389; Val. Max. 6, 1, 7:

nationes lacessere bello et tentare,

to agitate, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 23; cf.:

ut exsul potius tentare quam consul vexare rem publicam posses,

id. Cat. 1, 10, 27:

in his rebus evertendis unius hominis senectus, infirmitas solitudoque tentata est,

id. Rab. Perd. 1, 2:

militis iras,

Luc. 2, 529; Vulg. Gen. 22, 1 et saep.

A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to the a, a of the other Indo-. European languages:

A primum est: hinc incipiam, et quae nomina ab hoc sunt, Lucil. ap. Terent. Scaur. p. 2255 P.: sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

ne in A quidem atque S litteras exire temere masculina Graeca nomina recto casu patiebantur,

Quint. 1, 5, 61.

The sound of the A is short or long in every part of the word; as, ăb, păter, ită; ā, māter, frustrā. During a short period (between about 620 and 670 A. U. C. = from 134 to 84 B.C.) long a was written aa, probably first by the poet L. Attius, in the manner of the Oscan language; so we find in Latin inscriptions: AA. CETEREIS (i.e.a ceteris), CALAASI, FAATO, HAACE, MAARCIVM, PAAPVS, PAASTORES, VAARVS; and in Greek writing, MAAPKOPs PsIOS MAAPKEAAOS, KOINTON MAAPKION (like Osc. aasas = Lat. āra, Osc. Paapi = Lat. Pāpius, Osc. Paakul = Lat. Pāculus, Pācullus, Pācuvius, etc.), v. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 28 sq., and cf. Mommsen, Unterital. Dialekte, p. 210 sq. (The Umbrian language has gone a step farther, and written long a by aha, as Aharna, Naharcom, trahaf, etc.; cf. Aufrecht and Kirchhoff, Umbrische Sprachdenkm. p. 76 sq.) Vid. also the letters E and U.

In etymological and grammatical formation of words, short a very often (sometimes also long a) is changed into other vowels.

Short a is changed,

, into long a —

In consequence of the suppression of the following consonants at the end or in the middle of the word: ŭb, ā; vădis, vūs; ăg-, ăg-men, exāmen; tăg-, contūmino; căd-, cāsus. Hence also in the abl. sing. of the first decl., and in the particles derived from it. in consequence of the suppression of the original ablat. end. - d: PRAEDAD (Col. Rostr.), praedā; SENTENTIAD (S. C. de Bacch.), sententiā; EXTBAD (ib.), extrā; SVPRAD (ib.), suprā. —Hence,

In perfect forms: scăb-o, scābi; căveo, cūvi; făv-eo, fāvi; păv-eo, pāvi (for scăbui, căvui, făvui, păvui).

In other forms: ăgo, ambūges; păc-, păc-iscor, pâcis (pâx); săg-ax, sūgus, sāga; măc-er, mâcero; făg- (phagein), fūgus. (Contrary to analogy, ă remains short in dănunt, from dă-in-unt, V. Ritschl, l.l.p. 17.)

Short a is changed into é or ē—

Into é.

Most frequently in the second part of compounds, particularly before two consonants: facio, confectus; jacio, conjectus; rapio, dereptus; dăm-, damno, condemno; fāl-, fallo, fefelli; măn-, mando, commendo; scando, ascendo; ăp-, aptus, ineptus; ăr-, ars, iners, sollers; ăn-, annus, perennis; căpio, auceps; căput, triceps; ăgo, remex; jăcio, objex. And thus in Plautus, according to the best MSS., dispenno, dispessus from pando, compectus from compăciscor, anteceptus from capio (on the other hand, in Vergil, according to the best MS., aspurgo, attractare, deiractare, kept their a unchanged).

Sometimes ă is changed into ĕ also before one consonant (but in this case it is usually changed into ĭ; v. infra, 3. a. a.): grădior, ingrĕdior; pătior, perpĕtior; părio, repĕrio; păro, vitupĕro; ăp-, coepi (i. e. co-ŭpi); căno, tubicĕn, tibicĕn; in the reduplicated carcĕr (from carcar) farfŏrus (written also farfārus); and so, according to the better MSS., aequipĕro from păro, and defĕtigo from fătigo.

In words taken from the Greek: talanton, talŏntum; phalara, phalŏrae; sisaron, sisŏr (but, according to the best MSS., cumŭra from kamara, not camŏra).

Short a is changed to ē in some perfect forms: ăgo, ēgi; fūcio, féci; jăci, jĕci; frag-, frango, frēgi; căpio, cēpi, and păg-, pango, pēgi (together with pepĭgi and panxi, v. pango).

Short a is changed to ĭ, a (most frequently in the second part of compounds)

before one consonant: ăgo, abĭgo; făcio, confĭcio; cădo, concĭdo; sălio, assĭlio; răpio, abrĭpio; păter, Juppĭter (in Umbrian lang. unchanged, Jupater), Marspĭter; Diespĭter, Opĭter; rătus, irrĭtus; ămicus, inìmicus (but ŭ remains unchanged in adŭmo, impătiens, and in some compounds of a later period of Roman literature, as praejacio, calefacio, etc.). —

Sometimes also before two consonants (where it is usually changed into ĕ; v. supra, 2. a. b.): tăg-, tango, contingo; păg-, pango, compingo (unchanged in some compounds, as peragro, desacro, depango, obcanto, etc.).

ă is changed into ĭ in the reduplicated perfect forms: cădo, cecĭdi; căno, cecĭni; tăg-, tango, tetĭgi; păg-, pango, pepĭgi.

Likewise in some roots which have ă: păg-, pignus; străg- (strangulo, strangô), stringo.

In words taken from the Greek: mêchanê, machĭna; patanê, patĭna; bukanê, bucĭna; trutanê, trutĭna; balaneion, balĭneum; Katana, Catĭna (written also Catana); Akragas, Agrĭgentum.

Short a is changed into short or long o.

Into ŏ: scăbo, scobs; păr, pars, portio; dăm-, dŏmo; Fabii, Fŏvii (v. Paul. ex Fest. p. 87); marmaron, marmŏr; Mars, redupl. Marmar, Marmor (Carm. Fratr. Arv.).

Into ō: dă-, dōnum, dōs; ăc-, ăcuo, ōcior (v. this art.).

Short a is changed into ŭ —

In the second part of compounds, particularly before l, p, and b: calco, inculco; salsus, insulsus; salto, exsulto; capio, occŭpo; răpio, surrupio and surruptus (also written surripio and surreptus); tăberna, contŭbernium; —before other consonants: quătio, conoŭtio; as, decussis; Mars, Mamŭrius, Mamŭralia; and once also condumnari (Tab. Bant. lin. 8, immediately followed by condemnatus, v. Klenze, Philol. Abhandl. tab. I., and Mommsen, Unterital. Dial. p. 149).

In words of Greek origin: Hekabê, Hecŭba; skutalê, scutŭla; kraipalê, crapŭla; passalos, pessŭlus; aphlaston, aplustre; thriambos, triumphus.

ă is perhaps changed into ŭ in ulciscor, compared with alc-, ulexô (arc-, arceo).

Long a is sometimes changed into ē or ō.

Into é: hālo, anhélo; fās-, féstus, profēstus; nām, némpe.

Into ō: gnā-, gnārus, ignārus, ignōro. (But in general long a remains unchanged in composition: lābor, delūbor; gnàvus, ignūnus; fàma, infūmis.)

Contrary to the mode of changing Greek a into Latin e, i, o, u (v. supra), Latin a has sometimes taken the place of other Greek vowels in words borrowed from the Greek, as: lonchê, lancea; kulix, călix; Ganumêoês, Caiāmitus.

The repugnance of the Latin Language to the Greek combined vowels ao has caused the translocation of them in Alumento for Daomeoôn (Paul. ex Fest. p. 18 Müll.).— Greek a is suppressed in Hercules from Hêraklês (probably in consequence of the inserted u; in late Latin we find Heracla and Heracula, cf. Ritschl, in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, vol. 12, p. 108).

Latin ă was early combined with the vowels i and u, forming the diphthongs ai and au; by changing the i into e, the diphthong ai soon became ae. So we find in the oldest inscriptions: AIDE, AIDLLIS, AIQVOM, GNAIVOD, HAICE, DVELONAI, TABELAI, DATAI, etc., which soon gave place to aedem, aedilis, aequom, Gnaeo, haec, Bellonae, tabellae, datae, etc. (the Col. Rostr. has PRAESENTE, PRAEDAD, and the S. C. de Bacch. AEDEM. The triphthong aei, found in CONQVAEISIVEI (?), is very rare; Miliar. Popil. lin. 11, v. Ritschl, l. l. p. 21). In some poets the old gen. sing. of the first decl. (- ai) is preserved, but is dissyllabic, āī. So in Ennius: Albūī Longūī, terrūī frugiferāī, frondosāī, lunāī, viāī; in Vergil: aulāī, aurāī, aquāī, pictāī; in Ausonius: herāī.

ue as well as au are changed into other vowels.

The sound of ae, e, and oe being very similar, these vowels are often interchanged in the best MSS., So we find caerimonia and cerimonia, caepa and cēpa, saeoulum and séculum; scaena and scēna; caelum and coelum, haedus and hoedus, macstus and moestus; cena, coena, and caena, etc.

In composition and reduplications ae becomes í: aequus, iníquus; quaero, inquíro; laedo, illído; taedet, pertisum (noticed by Cic.); aestumo, exístumo; cuedo, cecídi, concído, homicida.

ae is also changed into í in a Latinized word of Greek origin: Achaios (AchaiWos), Achíous.

The diphthong au is often changed to ó and ú (the latter particularly in compounds): caudex, códex; Claudius, Clodius; lautus, lotus; plaustrum, plōstrum; plaudo, plōdo, explōdo; paululum, pōlulum; faux, suffōco; si audes (acc. to Cic. or acc. to others, si audies), sódes, etc.; claudo, inclūdo; causa, accūso. Hence in some words a regular gradation of au, o, u is found: claudo, clōdicare, clúdo; raudus, ródus, rúdus; caupo, cópa, cūpa; naugae, nōgae (both forms in the MSS. of Plautus), nūgae; fraustra, frode, frude (in MSS. of Vergil); cf. Ritschl, in Wintercatalog 1854-55, and O. Ribbeck, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. vol. 77, p. 181 sq.—The change of au into oē and ō appears only in audio, (oboedio) obēdio.

Au sometimes takes the place of av-: faveo, fautum, favitor, fautor; navis, navita, nauta; avis, auceps, auspex. So Latin aut corresponds to Sanscr. avo. (whence - vā, Lat. - ve), Osc. avti, Umbr. ute, ote; and so the Lat. preposition ab, through av, becomes au in the words aufero and aufugio (prop. av-fero, av-fugio, for ab-fero, ab-fugio). Vid. the art. ab init.

In primitive roots, which have their kindred forms in the sister-languages of the Latin, the original a, still found in the Sanscrit, is in Latin either preserved or more frequently changed into other vowels.

Original a preserved: Sanscr. mātri, Lat. màter; S. bhrātri, L. fràter; S. nāsā, L. nàsus and nàris; S. ap, L. aqua; S. apa, L. ab; S. nāma, L. năm; S. ćatur, [p. 2] L. quattuor (in Greek changed: thettares); S. capūla, L. căput (in Greek changed: kephalê, etc.).

Original a is changed into other Latin vowels—

Into e: S. ad, L. ed (ĕdo); S. as, L. es (esse); S. pat, L. pet (peto); S. pād, L. pĕd (pès); S. dant, L. dent (dens); S. ǵan, L. gen (gigno); S. mā, L. mè-tior; S. saptan, L. septem; S. daśan, L. decem; S. śata, L. centum; S. aham, L. ŏgo; S. pāra, L. per; S. paśu, L. pŏcus; S. asva, L. ŏquus, etc.

Into i: S. an-, a- (neg. part.), L. in-: S. ana (prep.), L. in; S. antar, L. inter; S. sama, L. similis; S. agni, L. ignis; S. abhra, L. imber; S. panéa, L. quinque, etc.

Into o: S. avi, L. ŏvi (ovis); S. vać, L. vōc (voco); S. pra, L. pro; S. pā, L. po (pŏtum); S. nāma, L. nōmen; S. api, L. ŏb; S. navan, L. nŏvem; S. nava, L. nŏvus, etc.

Into u: S. marmara, L. murmur.

Into ai, ae: S. prati, L. (prai) prae; S. śaśpa, L. caespes.

Into different vowels in the different derivatives: S. mā, L. mê-tior, mŏdus; S. praó, L. prŏcor, prŏcus; S. vah, L. vĕho, via.

Sometimes the Latin has preserved the original a, while even the Sanscrit has changed it: Lat. pa-, pater, Sanscr. pd, pitri.

As an abbreviation A. usually denotes the praenomen Aulus; A. A. = Auli duo, Inscr. Orell. 1530 (but A. A. = Aquae Aponi, the modern Abano, ib. 1643 sq.; 2620; 3011). The three directors of the mint were designated by III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F. (i. e. auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo), ib. 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 al.;

so also A. A. A.,

ib. 3441 (cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 13 fin., and v. the art. Triumviri); A. D. A. agris dandis adsignandis, and A. I. A. agris judicandis adsignandis; A. O. amico optimo; A. P. a populo or aediliciae potestatis; A. P. R. aerario populi Romani. —Upon the voting tablets in judicial trials A. denoted absoluo; hence A. is called littera salutaris, Cic. Mil. 6, 15; v. littera. In the Roman Comitia A. (= antiquo) denoted the rejection of the point in question; v. antiquo. In Cicero's Tusculan Disputations the A. designated one of the disputants = adulescens or auditor, opp. to M. for magister or Marcus (Cicero); but it is to be remarked that the letters A and M do not occur in the best MSS. of this treatise; cf. edd. ad Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 9.—In dates A. D. = ante diem; v. ante; A. U. C. = anno urbis conditae; A. P. R. C. anno post Romam conditam.

a, prep.=ab, v. ab.

ā, interj.=ah, v. ah.

A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to the a, a of the other Indo-. European languages:

A primum est: hinc incipiam, et quae nomina ab hoc sunt, Lucil. ap. Terent. Scaur. p. 2255 P.: sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

ne in A quidem atque S litteras exire temere masculina Graeca nomina recto casu patiebantur,

Quint. 1, 5, 61.

The sound of the A is short or long in every part of the word; as, ăb, păter, ită; ā, māter, frustrā. During a short period (between about 620 and 670 A. U. C. = from 134 to 84 B.C.) long a was written aa, probably first by the poet L. Attius, in the manner of the Oscan language; so we find in Latin inscriptions: AA. CETEREIS (i.e.a ceteris), CALAASI, FAATO, HAACE, MAARCIVM, PAAPVS, PAASTORES, VAARVS; and in Greek writing, MAAPKOPs PsIOS MAAPKEAAOS, KOINTON MAAPKION (like Osc. aasas = Lat. āra, Osc. Paapi = Lat. Pāpius, Osc. Paakul = Lat. Pāculus, Pācullus, Pācuvius, etc.), v. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 28 sq., and cf. Mommsen, Unterital. Dialekte, p. 210 sq. (The Umbrian language has gone a step farther, and written long a by aha, as Aharna, Naharcom, trahaf, etc.; cf. Aufrecht and Kirchhoff, Umbrische Sprachdenkm. p. 76 sq.) Vid. also the letters E and U.

In etymological and grammatical formation of words, short a very often (sometimes also long a) is changed into other vowels.

Short a is changed,

, into long a —

In consequence of the suppression of the following consonants at the end or in the middle of the word: ŭb, ā; vădis, vūs; ăg-, ăg-men, exāmen; tăg-, contūmino; căd-, cāsus. Hence also in the abl. sing. of the first decl., and in the particles derived from it. in consequence of the suppression of the original ablat. end. - d: PRAEDAD (Col. Rostr.), praedā; SENTENTIAD (S. C. de Bacch.), sententiā; EXTBAD (ib.), extrā; SVPRAD (ib.), suprā. —Hence,

In perfect forms: scăb-o, scābi; căveo, cūvi; făv-eo, fāvi; păv-eo, pāvi (for scăbui, căvui, făvui, păvui).

In other forms: ăgo, ambūges; păc-, păc-iscor, pâcis (pâx); săg-ax, sūgus, sāga; măc-er, mâcero; făg- (phagein), fūgus. (Contrary to analogy, ă remains short in dănunt, from dă-in-unt, V. Ritschl, l.l.p. 17.)

Short a is changed into é or ē—

Into é.

Most frequently in the second part of compounds, particularly before two consonants: facio, confectus; jacio, conjectus; rapio, dereptus; dăm-, damno, condemno; fāl-, fallo, fefelli; măn-, mando, commendo; scando, ascendo; ăp-, aptus, ineptus; ăr-, ars, iners, sollers; ăn-, annus, perennis; căpio, auceps; căput, triceps; ăgo, remex; jăcio, objex. And thus in Plautus, according to the best MSS., dispenno, dispessus from pando, compectus from compăciscor, anteceptus from capio (on the other hand, in Vergil, according to the best MS., aspurgo, attractare, deiractare, kept their a unchanged).

Sometimes ă is changed into ĕ also before one consonant (but in this case it is usually changed into ĭ; v. infra, 3. a. a.): grădior, ingrĕdior; pătior, perpĕtior; părio, repĕrio; păro, vitupĕro; ăp-, coepi (i. e. co-ŭpi); căno, tubicĕn, tibicĕn; in the reduplicated carcĕr (from carcar) farfŏrus (written also farfārus); and so, according to the better MSS., aequipĕro from păro, and defĕtigo from fătigo.

In words taken from the Greek: talanton, talŏntum; phalara, phalŏrae; sisaron, sisŏr (but, according to the best MSS., cumŭra from kamara, not camŏra).

Short a is changed to ē in some perfect forms: ăgo, ēgi; fūcio, féci; jăci, jĕci; frag-, frango, frēgi; căpio, cēpi, and păg-, pango, pēgi (together with pepĭgi and panxi, v. pango).

Short a is changed to ĭ, a (most frequently in the second part of compounds)

before one consonant: ăgo, abĭgo; făcio, confĭcio; cădo, concĭdo; sălio, assĭlio; răpio, abrĭpio; păter, Juppĭter (in Umbrian lang. unchanged, Jupater), Marspĭter; Diespĭter, Opĭter; rătus, irrĭtus; ămicus, inìmicus (but ŭ remains unchanged in adŭmo, impătiens, and in some compounds of a later period of Roman literature, as praejacio, calefacio, etc.). —

Sometimes also before two consonants (where it is usually changed into ĕ; v. supra, 2. a. b.): tăg-, tango, contingo; păg-, pango, compingo (unchanged in some compounds, as peragro, desacro, depango, obcanto, etc.).

ă is changed into ĭ in the reduplicated perfect forms: cădo, cecĭdi; căno, cecĭni; tăg-, tango, tetĭgi; păg-, pango, pepĭgi.

Likewise in some roots which have ă: păg-, pignus; străg- (strangulo, strangô), stringo.

In words taken from the Greek: mêchanê, machĭna; patanê, patĭna; bukanê, bucĭna; trutanê, trutĭna; balaneion, balĭneum; Katana, Catĭna (written also Catana); Akragas, Agrĭgentum.

Short a is changed into short or long o.

Into ŏ: scăbo, scobs; păr, pars, portio; dăm-, dŏmo; Fabii, Fŏvii (v. Paul. ex Fest. p. 87); marmaron, marmŏr; Mars, redupl. Marmar, Marmor (Carm. Fratr. Arv.).

Into ō: dă-, dōnum, dōs; ăc-, ăcuo, ōcior (v. this art.).

Short a is changed into ŭ —

In the second part of compounds, particularly before l, p, and b: calco, inculco; salsus, insulsus; salto, exsulto; capio, occŭpo; răpio, surrupio and surruptus (also written surripio and surreptus); tăberna, contŭbernium; —before other consonants: quătio, conoŭtio; as, decussis; Mars, Mamŭrius, Mamŭralia; and once also condumnari (Tab. Bant. lin. 8, immediately followed by condemnatus, v. Klenze, Philol. Abhandl. tab. I., and Mommsen, Unterital. Dial. p. 149).

In words of Greek origin: Hekabê, Hecŭba; skutalê, scutŭla; kraipalê, crapŭla; passalos, pessŭlus; aphlaston, aplustre; thriambos, triumphus.

ă is perhaps changed into ŭ in ulciscor, compared with alc-, ulexô (arc-, arceo).

Long a is sometimes changed into ē or ō.

Into é: hālo, anhélo; fās-, féstus, profēstus; nām, némpe.

Into ō: gnā-, gnārus, ignārus, ignōro. (But in general long a remains unchanged in composition: lābor, delūbor; gnàvus, ignūnus; fàma, infūmis.)

Contrary to the mode of changing Greek a into Latin e, i, o, u (v. supra), Latin a has sometimes taken the place of other Greek vowels in words borrowed from the Greek, as: lonchê, lancea; kulix, călix; Ganumêoês, Caiāmitus.

The repugnance of the Latin Language to the Greek combined vowels ao has caused the translocation of them in Alumento for Daomeoôn (Paul. ex Fest. p. 18 Müll.).— Greek a is suppressed in Hercules from Hêraklês (probably in consequence of the inserted u; in late Latin we find Heracla and Heracula, cf. Ritschl, in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, vol. 12, p. 108).

Latin ă was early combined with the vowels i and u, forming the diphthongs ai and au; by changing the i into e, the diphthong ai soon became ae. So we find in the oldest inscriptions: AIDE, AIDLLIS, AIQVOM, GNAIVOD, HAICE, DVELONAI, TABELAI, DATAI, etc., which soon gave place to aedem, aedilis, aequom, Gnaeo, haec, Bellonae, tabellae, datae, etc. (the Col. Rostr. has PRAESENTE, PRAEDAD, and the S. C. de Bacch. AEDEM. The triphthong aei, found in CONQVAEISIVEI (?), is very rare; Miliar. Popil. lin. 11, v. Ritschl, l. l. p. 21). In some poets the old gen. sing. of the first decl. (- ai) is preserved, but is dissyllabic, āī. So in Ennius: Albūī Longūī, terrūī frugiferāī, frondosāī, lunāī, viāī; in Vergil: aulāī, aurāī, aquāī, pictāī; in Ausonius: herāī.

ue as well as au are changed into other vowels.

The sound of ae, e, and oe being very similar, these vowels are often interchanged in the best MSS., So we find caerimonia and cerimonia, caepa and cēpa, saeoulum and séculum; scaena and scēna; caelum and coelum, haedus and hoedus, macstus and moestus; cena, coena, and caena, etc.

In composition and reduplications ae becomes í: aequus, iníquus; quaero, inquíro; laedo, illído; taedet, pertisum (noticed by Cic.); aestumo, exístumo; cuedo, cecídi, concído, homicida.

ae is also changed into í in a Latinized word of Greek origin: Achaios (AchaiWos), Achíous.

The diphthong au is often changed to ó and ú (the latter particularly in compounds): caudex, códex; Claudius, Clodius; lautus, lotus; plaustrum, plōstrum; plaudo, plōdo, explōdo; paululum, pōlulum; faux, suffōco; si audes (acc. to Cic. or acc. to others, si audies), sódes, etc.; claudo, inclūdo; causa, accūso. Hence in some words a regular gradation of au, o, u is found: claudo, clōdicare, clúdo; raudus, ródus, rúdus; caupo, cópa, cūpa; naugae, nōgae (both forms in the MSS. of Plautus), nūgae; fraustra, frode, frude (in MSS. of Vergil); cf. Ritschl, in Wintercatalog 1854-55, and O. Ribbeck, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. vol. 77, p. 181 sq.—The change of au into oē and ō appears only in audio, (oboedio) obēdio.

Au sometimes takes the place of av-: faveo, fautum, favitor, fautor; navis, navita, nauta; avis, auceps, auspex. So Latin aut corresponds to Sanscr. avo. (whence - vā, Lat. - ve), Osc. avti, Umbr. ute, ote; and so the Lat. preposition ab, through av, becomes au in the words aufero and aufugio (prop. av-fero, av-fugio, for ab-fero, ab-fugio). Vid. the art. ab init.

In primitive roots, which have their kindred forms in the sister-languages of the Latin, the original a, still found in the Sanscrit, is in Latin either preserved or more frequently changed into other vowels.

Original a preserved: Sanscr. mātri, Lat. màter; S. bhrātri, L. fràter; S. nāsā, L. nàsus and nàris; S. ap, L. aqua; S. apa, L. ab; S. nāma, L. năm; S. ćatur, [p. 2] L. quattuor (in Greek changed: thettares); S. capūla, L. căput (in Greek changed: kephalê, etc.).

Original a is changed into other Latin vowels—

Into e: S. ad, L. ed (ĕdo); S. as, L. es (esse); S. pat, L. pet (peto); S. pād, L. pĕd (pès); S. dant, L. dent (dens); S. ǵan, L. gen (gigno); S. mā, L. mè-tior; S. saptan, L. septem; S. daśan, L. decem; S. śata, L. centum; S. aham, L. ŏgo; S. pāra, L. per; S. paśu, L. pŏcus; S. asva, L. ŏquus, etc.

Into i: S. an-, a- (neg. part.), L. in-: S. ana (prep.), L. in; S. antar, L. inter; S. sama, L. similis; S. agni, L. ignis; S. abhra, L. imber; S. panéa, L. quinque, etc.

Into o: S. avi, L. ŏvi (ovis); S. vać, L. vōc (voco); S. pra, L. pro; S. pā, L. po (pŏtum); S. nāma, L. nōmen; S. api, L. ŏb; S. navan, L. nŏvem; S. nava, L. nŏvus, etc.

Into u: S. marmara, L. murmur.

Into ai, ae: S. prati, L. (prai) prae; S. śaśpa, L. caespes.

Into different vowels in the different derivatives: S. mā, L. mê-tior, mŏdus; S. praó, L. prŏcor, prŏcus; S. vah, L. vĕho, via.

Sometimes the Latin has preserved the original a, while even the Sanscrit has changed it: Lat. pa-, pater, Sanscr. pd, pitri.

As an abbreviation A. usually denotes the praenomen Aulus; A. A. = Auli duo, Inscr. Orell. 1530 (but A. A. = Aquae Aponi, the modern Abano, ib. 1643 sq.; 2620; 3011). The three directors of the mint were designated by III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F. (i. e. auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo), ib. 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 al.;

so also A. A. A.,

ib. 3441 (cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 13 fin., and v. the art. Triumviri); A. D. A. agris dandis adsignandis, and A. I. A. agris judicandis adsignandis; A. O. amico optimo; A. P. a populo or aediliciae potestatis; A. P. R. aerario populi Romani. —Upon the voting tablets in judicial trials A. denoted absoluo; hence A. is called littera salutaris, Cic. Mil. 6, 15; v. littera. In the Roman Comitia A. (= antiquo) denoted the rejection of the point in question; v. antiquo. In Cicero's Tusculan Disputations the A. designated one of the disputants = adulescens or auditor, opp. to M. for magister or Marcus (Cicero); but it is to be remarked that the letters A and M do not occur in the best MSS. of this treatise; cf. edd. ad Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 9.—In dates A. D. = ante diem; v. ante; A. U. C. = anno urbis conditae; A. P. R. C. anno post Romam conditam.

a, prep.=ab, v. ab.

ā, interj.=ah, v. ah.

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tracto, āvi, ātum ( gen. plur. part. tractantum, Ov. P. 3, 3, 20), 1, v. freq. a. [traho].

To draw violently, to drag, tug, haul, etc. (so, very rare): qui te (Hectorem) sic tractavere? Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Trag. v. 96 Vahl.):

tractatus per aequora campi,

id. Ann. v. 140 Vahl.:

tractata comis antistita Phoebi,

Ov. M. 13, 410:

malis morsuque ferarum Tractari,

to be torn, rent, lacerated, Lucr. 3, 889.—

To touch, take in hand, handle, manage, wield; to exercise, practise, transact, perform, etc. (freq. and class.; cf.: tango, ago, perago).

Lit.:

ut ea, quae gustemus, olfaciamus, tractemus, audiamus, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 111:

numquam temere tinnit tintinnabulum, nisi qui illud tractat,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 163:

aliquid manibus,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 103:

tractavisti hospitam ante aedes meas,

id. Mil. 2, 6, 30:

mateilionem Corinthium cupidissime tractans,

Cic. Par. 5, 2, 38:

volucra, quae non possum tractare sine magno gemitu,

id. Att. 12, 22, 1:

aret Pellis et ad tactum tractanti dura resistit,

Verg. G. 3, 502:

puer unctis Tractavit calicem manibus,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 79:

vitulos consuescere manu tractari,

Col. 6, 2, 1:

tractat inauratae consona fila lyrae,

i. e. strikes, plays upon, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 60: necdum res igni scibant tractare, to prepare, i. e. to cook, dress, Lucr. 5, 953:

solum terrae aere,

id. 5, 1289; cf.:

lutosum agrum,

i. e. to till, Col. 2, 4, 5:

tractari tuerique vites,

Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 39:

ceram pollice,

Ov. M. 10, 285; cf. id. ib. 8, 196:

lanam,

Just. 1, 3:

lanuginem,

Suet. Ner. 34:

gubernacula,

to manage, Cic. Sest. 9, 20:

tela,

to wield, Liv. 7, 32, 11; cf.:

speciosius arma,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 53:

servus, qui meam bibliothecen multorum nummorum tractavit,

has taken care of, had charge of, Cic. Fam. 13, 77, 3; cf.: eras tu quaestor;

pecuniam publicam tu tractabas,

id. Div. in Caecil. 10, 32:

rationem Prusensium,

Plin. Ep. 10, 28, 5.—

Trop., to handle, manage, practise, conduct, lead, etc.

In gen.: ut ne res temere tractent turbidas, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 1, 45, 199 (Trag. v. 189 Vahl.):

suam rem minus caute et cogitate,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 46:

causas amicorum tractare atque agere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 37, 170:

causam difficiliorem,

id. Fam. 3, 12, 3:

condiciones,

Caes. B. C. 3, 28:

bellum,

to conduct, carry on, Liv. 23, 28, 4; Tac. A. 1, 59; Just. 9, 8, 12; 22, 5, 4:

proelia,

Sil. 15, 466; cf.:

vitam vulgivago more ferarum,

to lead, pass, spend, Lucr. 5, 930; so,

vitam,

Auct. Her. 4, 24, 33 (al. transactam):

imperium,

Just. 1, 2, 1:

regna,

id. 2, 4, 20:

pauca admodum vi tractata, quo ceteris quies esset,

Tac. A. 1, 9 fin.:

artem,

to practise, Ter. Phorm. prol. 17; Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 22:

verba vetera,

to employ, Quint. 11, 1, 6:

personam in scenā,

to perform, act, represent, id. Rosc. Com. 7, 20; so,

partes secundas (mimus),

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 14:

animos,

Cic. Or. 28, 97; cf. Quint. 11, 1, 85.—Reflex.:

quo in munere ita se tractavit, ut, etc.,

has so conducted himself, Cic. Fam. 13, 12, 1; so,

ita me in re publicā tractabo, ut meminerim, etc.,

id. Cat. 3, 12, 29.—

In partic.

To treat, use, or conduct one ' s self towards a person in any manner:

ego te, ut merita es de me, tractare exsequar,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 8: haec arte tractabat virum, ut, etc., Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 125:

omnibus rebus eum ita tractes, ut, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 1, 3:

non tractabo ut consulem,

id. Phil. 2, 5, 10:

aliquem liberaliter,

id. Verr. 1, 8, 23:

nec liberalius nec honorificentius potuisse tractari,

id. Fam. 13, 27, 2:

pater parum pie tractatus a filio,

id. Cael. 2, 3:

mercatores ac navicularii injuriosius tractati,

id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11:

pauloque benignius ipsum Te tractare voles,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 12. —

To handle, treat, investigate, discuss any thing, mentally, orally, or in writing (cf.: dissero, disputo, ago). ( a) With acc.:

quem ad modum quamque causam tractare conveniat,

Auct. Her. 2, 2, 2:

oratori omnia quaesita, audita, lecta, disputata, tractata, agitata esse debent,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 54:

habeat omnes philosophiae notos et tractatos locos,

id. Or. 33, 118:

causas amicorum,

id. de Or. 1, 37, 170:

tractata res,

id. Rep. 3, 3, 4:

definitiones fortitudinis,

id. Tusc. 4, 24, 53:

partem philosophiae,

id. Ac. 1, 8, 30:

constantiam,

id. Lael. 18, 65; cf. id. ib. 22, 82:

ibi consilia decem legatorum tractabantur,

Liv. 33, 31, 7:

fama fuit... tractatas inter Eumenen et Persea condiciones amicitiae,

id. 44, 13, 9:

scrupulosius tractabo ventos,

Plin. 2, 46, 45, § 118: prima elementa, Quint. prooem. 21;

1, 1, 23: locus, qui copississime a Cicerone tractatur,

id. 1, 4, 24; 7, 2, 43:

aliquid memori pectore,

to ponder, reflect upon, Juv. 11, 28; cf.:

tractare proeliorum vias,

Tac. A. 2, 5: ut quaestio diligentius tractaretur, Aug. Civ. Dei, 2, 21, 1.—

With de and abl. (mostly postAug.):

de officii parte,

Sen. Contr. 2, 1 (9), 20 (dub.;

Madv. and Kiessl. partem): quoniam de religionibus tractabatur,

Tac. A. 3, 71:

ubi de figuris orationis tractandum erit,

Quint. 1, 5, 5; 2, 13, 14; 2, 20, 10:

de negotiis,

to discuss, Suet. Aug. 35 fin. —

With interrog.-clause:

quo tractatur amicus an inimicus,

Quint. 5, 10, 29; 7, 2, 56:

utra sit antiquior (lex),

id. 7, 7, 8:

cum tractaret, quinam adipisci principem locum abnuerent, etc.,

Tac. A. 1, 13.—

To negotiate, treat:

dum de condicionibus tractat,

Nep. Eum. 5, 7; Suet. Claud. 26:

de Asiā,

Just. 37, 3, 4:

de redimendo filio,

id. 31, 7, 7.