pertīca+cato

pertĭca, ae, f., a pole, a long staff.

In gen.:

perticam habere... quī verberarem asinos,

Plaut. As. 3, 2, 43:

pertica suspensos portabat longa maniplos,

Ov. F. 3, 117; cf. id. Nuc. 68:

perticis oleas decutere,

Plin. 15, 3, 3, § 11:

messis perticis flagellatur,

id. 18, 30, 72, § 298; 16, 37, 68, § 174:

perticae, quibus araneae deterguntur,

Dig. 33, 7, 12:

pertica quā stabuli fores oflirmari solebant,

App. M. 7, 28, p. 200.—

In partic.

A set, slip, young tree; of willows, Plin. 17, 20, 32, § 141.—

A measuring-rod, with which the grants of land were measured out to the soldiers; a pole, perch (usually called decempeda):

abstulit excultas pertica tristis opes,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 130; Val. Cato, Dir. 45; cf. Serv. Verg. Ecl. 9, 7.—

Transf., a portion of land measured out with the pertica:

quodcumque coloniae est assignatum, id universum pertica appellatur,

Front. Limit. Agr. p. 43 Goes.—

Trop., a measure. —Prov.:

non unā perticā, quod dicitur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 8.

prō̆pāgo, āvi, ātum, āre, v. a. [pro and root pag- of pango, pêgnumi].

Lit.

To set or fasten down; hence, to set slips, propagate by slips, Cato, R. R. 52, 1:

castanea melius ex vicino pertica declinata propagatur,

Col. 4, 33, 3:

vitem, ficum, oleam, Punicam, malorum genera omnia, laurum, prunos,

Plin. 17, 13, 21, § 96:

abrotonum cacumine suo se propagat,

id. 21, 10, 34, § 60.—Hence,

In gen., to propagate, generate, continue by procreation:

stirpem,

Cic. Phil. 1, 6, 13:

cum ipse sui generis initium ac nominis ab se gigni et propagari vellet,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 180:

prolem,

Lucr. 2, 996.—

Transf.

In gen., to extend, enlarge, increase:

fines imperii,

Cic. Rep. 3, 12, 21:

finis imperii propagavit,

Nep. Ham. 2, 5:

eo bello terminos populi Romani propagari,

Liv. 36, 1, 3:

terminos Urbis,

Tac. A. 12, 23:

augere et propagare imperium,

Suet. Ner. 18:

propagatae civitates,

Vell. 1, 14, 1:

sumptus cenarum,

Gell. 2, 24, 15:

notitiam Britanniae,

Plin. 4, 16, 30, § 102: fidem Christianam propagare, Greg. M. in Job, 27, 37.—

In time, to prolong, continue, extend, preserve (syn.:

prorogo, produco): victu fero vitam propagare,

Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2:

haec posteritati propagantur,

are transferred to posterity, id. Sest. 48, 102:

meus consulatus multa saecula propagarit rei publicae,

has preserved the State for many centuries, id. Cat. 2, 5, 11:

vitam aucupio,

to prolong, preserve, id. Fin. 5, 11, 32:

memoriam aeternam alicui,

Plin. 15, 14, 15, § 49: imperium consuli in annum, to prolong, = prorogare, Liv. 23, 25, 11:

hereditarium bellum, sic facta hominis vita est temporaria, sed longa, quae in mille annos propagaretur,

Lact. 2, 12, 21.—

To add as an appendix or extension, in writing:

Carum cum liberis,

i. e. the life of, Vop. 24, 8.

prō̆pāgo (prŏ-, Lucr. 1, 42; Verg. A. 6, 870; Ov. M. 2, 38:

prō-,

Verg. G. 2, 26), ĭnis, f. (m., Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 13) [1. propago].

Lit.

A set, layer of a plant, Cic. Sen. 15, 52; Col. Arb. 7, 2:

arbores aut semine proveniunt, aut plantis radicis, aut propagine, aut avulsione, aut surculo, aut insito et consecto arboris trunco,

Plin. 17, 10, 9, § 58.—

Of any slip or shoot that may be used for propagating: propagines e vitibus altius praetentos non succidet, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 13; Hor. Epod. 2, 9; Vulg. Gen. 40, 10.—

Transf., of men and beasts, offspring, descendant, child; children, race, breed, stock, progeny, posterity (mostly poet.), Lucr. 5, 1027:

Memmi clara,

id. 1, 42:

alipedis de stirpe dei versuta propago,

Ov. M. 11, 312:

Romana,

Verg. A. 6, 871:

vera,

Ov. M. 2, 38; cf. id. ib. 1, 160:

blanda catulorum,

Lucr. 4, 997.—In prose:

aliorum ejus liberorum propago Liciniani sunt cognominati,

Plin. 7, 14, 12, § 62:

clarorum virorum propagines,

descendants, posterity, Nep. Att. 18, 2. [p. 1468]