pleasing

ămīcus (old form ămēcus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 15 Müll.), a, um, adj. [amo], friendly, kind, amicable, favorable, inclined to, liking; constr. with dat., Zumpt, Gram. §

410: animo esse amico erga aliquem,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 29; Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 3:

tribuni sunt nobis amici,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2 fin.:

homo amicus nobis jam inde a puero,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 86:

Pompeium tibi valde amicum esse cognovi,

Cic. Fam. 1, 8, 5; id. Att. 9, 5:

amicus non magis tyranno quam tyrannidi,

Nep. Dion, 3, 2; id. Att. 9:

male numen amicum,

Verg. A. 2, 735; Ov. F. 3, 834:

(Fortuna) amica varietati constantiam respuit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 16:

amica luto sus,

fond of, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 26.— Comp.:

mihi nemo est amicior Attico,

Cic. Att. 16, 16:

amicior Cilicum aerariis quam nostro,

id. ib. 7, 1, 6; id. Fam. 3, 2, 1.— Sup.:

Deiotarum, fidelissimum regem atque amicissimum rei publicae nostrae,

Cic. Att. 15, 2, 2:

cum summi viri, tum amicissimi,

id. Am. 2, 8:

amicissimi viri,

Suet. Caes. 1:

successor conjunctissimus et amicissimus,

Cic. Fam. 3, 3:

hoc libro ad amicum amicissimus de amicitiā scripsi,

id. Am. 1, 5; 23, 88 (but the comp. and sup. may sometimes be rendered as belonging to 2. amicus, a greater friend, the greatest friend, as in Cic. Att. 16, 16, and Am. 1, 5; so in Gr. basileus etc.).—

Of things, kindly, pleasing (mostly poet.;

so Cic. rarely): nihil homini amico est opportuno amicius,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 44:

secundum te nihil est mihi amicius solitudine,

Cic. Att. 12, 15:

portus intramus amicos,

Verg. A. 5, 57: fessos opibus solatur amicis, id. [p. 106] ib. 5, 416:

vento amico ferri,

Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 17:

per amica silentia lunae,

Verg. A. 2, 255:

amici imbres,

id. G. 4, 115:

sidus amicum,

Hor. Epod. 10, 9:

sol amicum tempus agens,

bringing the welcome hour, id. C. 3, 6, 43:

tempus fraudibus amicum,

Stat. S. 5, 2, 39:

brevitas postulatur, qui mihimet ipsi amicissima est,

Cic. Quinct. 34.—

Amicum est mihi (after the Gr. philon esti moi; in pure Lat., mihi cordi est, etc.); with inf., it pleases me, it accords with my feelings:

nec dis amicum est nec mihi te prius Obire,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 2.—Hence, adv., in a friendly manner, kindly, amicably.

Old form ămīcĭter, Pac. ap. Non. 510, 26; Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 3.—

Class. form ămīcē:

facis amice,

Cic. Am. 2, 9:

haec accipienda amice,

id. ib. 24, 88; id. Fin. 1, 10; id. Off. 1, 26. —

* Comp., Front. ad M. Caes. 1, 6.— Sup., Cic. Div. in Caecil. 9; Caes. B. C. 2, 17.

ămīcus, i, m. [from amo, as philos from phileô, and from ] ( gen. plur. amicūm, Ter. Heaut. prol. 24).

A friend; constr. with gen. or poss. adj.; v. Zumpt, Gram. §

410: est is (amicus) tamquam alter idem,

Cic. Am. 21, 80 (cf. id. ib. 25, 92; id. Off. 1, 17):

amicum qui intuetur, tamquam exemplar intuetur sui,

id. Am. 7, 23:

Non tam utilitas parta per amicum, quam amici amor ipse delectat,

id. ib. 14, 51: Amicus certus in re incertā cernitur, Enn. ap. Cic. ib. 17, 64:

boni improbis, improbi bonis amici esse non possunt,

Cic. ib. 20, 74:

ex omnibus saeculis vix tria aut quattuor nominantur paria amicorum,

id. ib. 4, 15:

tu ex amicis certis mi es certissimus,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 54 and 57:

vetus verbum hoc est, Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 18:

Respicis antiquum lassis in rebus amicum,

Ov. P. 2, 3, 93:

Alba tuus antiquissimus non solum amicus, verum etiam amator,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 63 fin.:

hospitis et amici mei M. Pacuvii fabula,

id. Am. 7, 24:

suis incommodis graviter angi non amicum sed se ipsum amantis est,

of one loving not his friend, but himself, id. ib. 3, 10:

ab amicis honesta petere, amicorum causā honesta facere,

id. ib. 13, 44:

paternus amicus ac pernecessarius,

id. Fl. 6, 14:

amicus novus,

id. Am. 19, 67:

vetus,

id. ib.; Verg. A. 3, 82; Hor. S. 2, 6, 81; Ov. P. 1, 6, 53:

amici ac familiares veteres,

Suet. Tib. 55:

aequaevus,

Verg. A. 5, 452:

ardens,

id. ib. 9, 198:

dulcis,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 69; Ov. P. 1, 8, 31:

carus,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 51; Ov. Tr. 3, 6, 7:

jucundus,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 93:

amici jucundissimi et omnium horarum,

Suet. Tib. 42:

amicus propior,

Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 5:

fidelis,

id. ib. 2, 2, 1; Vulg. Eccli. 6, 14:

fidus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 24:

verus,

Cic. Am. 21, 82; Vulg. Eccli. 25, 12:

mendax,

Hor. A. P. 425:

secernere blandum amicum a vero,

Cic. Am. 25, 95:

memor,

Ov. Tr. 5, 9, 33:

summus,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 1:

primus,

Vulg. 1 Macc. 10, 65:

amici tristes,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 24:

maesti,

Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 5:

dives,

Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 24:

inops,

id. S. 1, 2, 5:

inferioris ordinis amici,

Cic. Am. 19, 69:

communes amici,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2:

amice, salve!

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 12; so Cat. 55, 7; Verg. A. 6, 507; Hor. C. 2, 14, 6; and Vulg. Matt. 20, 13:

magnanimi veritatis amici,

Cic. Off. 1, 19:

amicos parare,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 39:

amicos parare optimam vitae, ut ita dicam, supellectilem,

Cic. Am. 15, 55:

minus amicorum habens,

Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 22:

me unum atque unicum amicum habuit,

Cat. 73, 6;

amicos habere,

Cic. Am. 11, 36; so Vulg. Prov. 22, 11:

nos sibi amicos junget,

Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 32; Hor. S. 1, 3, 54:

amicum servare,

id. ib.:

amicum servare per durum tempus,

Ov. P. 2, 6, 29:

aliquo uti amico,

to have one as a friend, Cic. de Or. 1, 14, 62; Hor. S. 1, 4, 96:

sibi amicum facere,

Vulg. Luc. 16, 9:

amicum diligere,

Verg. A. 9, 430; Vulg. Deut. 13, 6:

amico inservire,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 8:

amico parcere,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 35:

et monendi amici saepe sunt et objurgandi,

Cic. Am. 24, 88:

amico ignoscere,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 110:

angorem pro amico capere,

Cic. Am. 13, 48:

amici jacentem animum excitare,

id. ib. 16, 59:

amicum consolari,

Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 41:

amico orbatus,

Cic. Am. 3, 10:

amicum offendere,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 73:

non paucis munitus amicis,

Ov. P. 2, 3, 25.—Also for patronus, patron, protector; so Horace of Mæcenas, Epod. 1, 2:

amicus potens,

powerful friend, id. C. 2, 18, 12; so,

magnus,

Juv. 3, 57; 6, 313: Suet. Aug. 56:

valentissimi,

id. ib. 35.—And for socius, companion:

trepido fugam exprobravit amico,

Ov. M. 13, 69.—

In polit. relations, a friend of the State (who was not always socius, an ally, but the socius was always amicus; cf.

amicitia): Deiotarus ex animo amicus, unus fidelis populo Romano,

Cic. Phil. 11, 13:

socio atque amico regi,

Liv. 37, 54; 7, 30 et saep.; Suet. Caes. 11.—

In and after the Aug. per., a counsellor, courtier, minister of a prince, Nep. Milt. 3, 2 Dähn.:

fuerunt multi reges ex amicis Alexandri Magni,

id. Reg. 3, 1; so Suet. Caes. 70, 72; 70, 79; id. Aug. 16; 17; 35; 56; 66; id. Calig. 19; id. Ner. 5; id. Galb. 7 al.; cf. Ernest. ad Suet. Excurs. XV.—Hence, ămī-ca, ae, f.

In bon. part., a female friend (very rare; cf. hetaira in Hom., Aristoph., Plato):

amicae, cognatae,

Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 16:

at haec amicae erunt, ubi, etc.,

id. ib. 5, 2, 24:

Me (laedit) soror et cum quae dormit amica simul,

Prop. 2, 6, 12:

ibit ad adfectam, quae non languebit, amicam Visere,

Ov. Am. 2, 2, 21; cf. Juv. 3, 12; 6, 353; 6, 455; 6, 481; so Inscr. Grut. 865, 17; 891, 4. —

In mal. part., = meretrix, a concubine, mistress, courtesan (esp. freq. in the comic poets; so in Gr. hetaira com. in Att. usage): eum suus pater ab amicā abduxit, Naev. ap. Gell. 6, 8:

mulierem pejorem quam haec amica est Phaedromi non vidi,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 1, 3; so id. Trin. 3, 2, 25; 3, 4, 22; id. Cist. 2, 3, 28; id. Ep. 5, 2, 36; 5, 2, 39 al.:

sive ista uxor sive amica est,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 11; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 52; 1, 2, 15; 3, 3, 6; 4, 6, 15 et saep.; Cic. Att. 10, 10; Dig. 50, 16, 144.

ămo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (amāsso = amavero, Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 23; id. Curc. 4, 4, 22; id. Mil. 4, 2, 16; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 28 Müll.:

amāsse = amavisse,

Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 11:

amantum = amantium,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 4; Lucr. 4, 1077; Ov. A. A. 1, 439) [cf. Sanscr. kam = to love; hama = Sanscr. sam = Germ. sammt; Engl. same, Lat. similis; with the radical notion of likeness, union], to like, to love, eraô, phileô (both in the higher and the lower sense, opp. odisse; while diligere (agapô) designates esteem, regard; opp. neglegere or spernere; cf. Doed. Syn. IV. p. 97; in the high sense in the philos. writings and Epp. of Cicero; often in the low sense, esp. in the comic poets. In the Vulg. amo and amor are comparatively little used, prob. from their bad associations, amo being used 51 times and amor 20. Instead of these words, diligo, dilectio and caritas were used. Diligo (incl. dilectus) occurs 422 times, and dilectio and caritas 144 times in all; dilectio 43 and caritas 101 times).

In gen.:

quid autem est amare, nisi velle bonis aliquem adfici, quam maximis, etiamsi ad se ex iis nihil redeat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 24:

amare autem nihil aliud est, nisi eum ipsum diligere, quem ames, nullā indigentiā, nullā utilitate quaesitā,

id. Am. 27, 100:

videas corde amare (eos) inter se,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 60; Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 42:

liberi amare patrem atque matrem videntur,

Gell. 12, 1, 23:

qui amat patrem aut matrem,

Vulg. Matt. 6, 5:

ipse Pater amat vos, h. l. used of God,

ib. Joan. 16, 27:

Cicerones pueri amant inter se,

love each other, Cic. Att. 6, 1:

magis te quam oculos nunc amo meos,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 67:

quem omnes amare meritissimo debemus,

Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 234.—So, amare aliquem ex animo, to love with all one's heart, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5:

unice patriam et cives,

id. Cat. 3, 5:

aliquem amore singulari,

id. Fam. 15, 20:

sicut mater unicum amat filium suum,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 1, 26:

dignus amari,

Verg. E. 5, 89.—Amare in ccntr. with diligere, as stronger, more affectionate: Clodius valde me diligit, vel, ut emphatikôteron dicam, valde me amat, Cic. ad Brut. 1, 1; id. Fam. 9, 14:

eum a me non diligi solum, verum etiam amari,

id. ib. 13, 47; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 421, 30 (Orell. IV. 2, p. 466); Plin. Ep. 3, 9.—But diligere, as indicative of esteem, is more emph. than amare, which denotes an instinctive or affectionate love:

non quo quemquam plus amem, aut plus diligam, Eo feci, sed, etc.,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 16:

homo nobilis, qui a suis et amari et diligi vellet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23:

te semper amavi dilexique,

have loved and esteemed, id. Fam. 15, 7: diligis (agapais) me plus his? Etiam, Domine, tu scis quia amo (philô) te, Vulg. Joan. 21, 15 sqq., ubi v. Alford, Gr. Test. al.—Hence in asseverations: ita (sic) me dii (bene) ament or amabunt, so may the gods love me, by the love of the gods, most assuredly:

ita me di amabunt, etc.,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 30 (v. the pass. in its connection):

ita me di ament, credo,

Ter. And. 5, 4, 44:

non, ita me di bene ament,

id. Hec. 2, 1, 9:

sic me di amabunt, ut, etc.,

id. Heaut. 3, 1, 54.—Hence also ellipt.: ita me Juppiter! (sc. amet or amabit), Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 31 (so in Engl. with different ellipsis, bless me! sc. God).—And as a salutation: Me. Salvus atque fortunatus, Euclio, semper sies. Eu. Di te ament, Me gadore, the gods bless you! Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 6 al.—

Esp.

Amare se, of vain men, to be in love with, to be pleased with one's self, also, to be selfish (used mostly by Cic.):

quam se ipse amans sine rivali!

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 8:

nisi nosmet ipsos valde amabimus,

id. Off. 1, 9, 29; so id. Att. 4, 16 med.; id. Har. Resp. 9:

homines se ipsos amantes,

Vulg. 2 Tim. 3, 2.—

Of unlawful love, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 30:

ut videas eam medullitus me amare!

id. Most. 1, 3, 86 et saep.:

meum gnatum rumor est amare,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 14; 1, 2, 20 al.:

ibi primum insuevit exercitus populi Romani amare, potare, etc.,

Sall. C. 11, 6:

quae (via) eo me solvat amantem,

Verg. A. 4, 479:

non aequo foedere amare,

id. ib. 4, 520; Hor. S. 2, 3, 250 Heind.; Vulg. Jud. 16, 4; ib. 2 Reg. 13, 4 al. —

Trop., to love a thing, to like, to be fond of, to find pleasure in, delight in:

nomen, orationem, vultum, incessum alicujus amare,

Cic. Sest. 49, 105:

amavi amorem tuum,

id. Fam. 9, 16:

Alexidis manum amabam,

id. Att. 7, 2:

amabat litteras,

Nep. Att. 1, 2:

ea, quae res secundae amant, lasciviā atque superbiā incessere,

Sall. J. 41, 3:

amare nemus et fugere urbem,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 77:

amat bonus otia Daphnis,

Verg. E. 5, 61:

non omnes eadem mirantur amantque,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 58:

mirā diversitate naturā, cum īdem homines sic ament inertiam et oderint quietem,

Tac. G. 15:

pax et quies tunc tantum amata,

id. ib. 40:

qui amant vinum et pinguia,

Vulg. Prov. 21, 17:

amant salutationes in foro,

ib. Luc. 20, 46: amat Janua limen, loves to remain shut, i. e. is constantly closed, Hor. C. 1, 25, 3; so,

Nilus amet alveum suum,

keep to its bed, Plin. Pan. 31, 4 al. —With inf. as object:

hic ames dici pater atque princeps,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 50:

amant in synagogis orare,

Vulg. Matt. 6, 5.—

Amare aliquem de or in aliquā re, quod, etc., to like one for something, to be obliged to one for something, to be under obligation, be thankful.

With de:

ecquid nos amas De fidicinā istac?

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 3:

de raudusculo multum te amo,

Cic. Att. 7, 2, 7.—

With in:

et in Attilii negotio te amavi,

Cic. Fam. 13, 62.—

With quod:

te multum amamus, quod, etc.,

Cic. Att. 1, 3: amas me, quod te non vidi? Domit. Afer. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 93.—Also without prep. or quod: soror, parce, amabo. Anter. Quiesco. Adelph. Ergo amo te, I like you, am much obliged to you, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 40:

bene facis: Merito te amo,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 23.—Hence in the eilipt. lang. of conversation, amabo or amabo te (never amabo vos, etc.), lit. I shall like you ( if you say, do, etc., that for me).—Hence in entreaties = oro, quaeso, precor (with ut or ne foll.), be so good, I pray, entreat you (in Plaut. and Ter. very freq.; in the latter always amabo without te;

in Cic. only in Epistt.): quis hic, amabo, est, qui, etc.,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 26:

qui, amabo?

id. Bacch. 1, 1, 19:

quid, amabo, obticuisti?

id. ib. 1, 1, 28 et saep.:

id, amabo, adjuta me,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 70:

id agite, amabo,

id. ib. 1, 2, 50 al.; Cat. 32, 1:

id, amabo te, huic caveas,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 10; id. Men. 4, 3, 4:

amabo te, advola,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 10:

cura, amabo te, Ciceronem nostrum,

id. Att. 2, 2.—With ut or ne foll.:

scin quid te amabo ut facias?

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 71; 3, 3, 1:

amabo, ut illuc transeas,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 31:

amabo te, ne improbitati meae assignes, etc.,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4.—

With inf., to do a thing willingly, to be wont or accustomed to (cf. phileô; mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose):

clamore, vultu, saepe impetu, atque aliis omnibus, quae ira fieri amat,

delights to have done, is wont to do, Sall. J. 34, 1; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 17:

aurum per medios ire satellites Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 9; so id. ib. 2, 3, 9; id. Epod. 8, 15; Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 28; Tac. A. 4, 9.—Hence, ămans, antis, P. a., with gen. or absol.

Fond, loving, kind, feeling kindly to, benevolent, pleasing; and subst., a friend, patron:

continentem, amantem uxoris maxime,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 7:

veterem amicum suum studiosum, amantem, observantem sui,

Cic. Rab. Post. 16:

homines amantes tui,

id. Fam. 9, 6:

cives amantes patriae,

id. Att. 9, 19; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5:

amans cruoris,

Ov. P. 2, 9, 46:

ad nos amantissimos tui veni,

Cic. Fam. 16, 7:

Amantissimus Domini habitabit in eo,

Vulg. Deut. 33, 12; ib. Amos, 5, 11: amantissima eorum non proderunt iis, their most [p. 108] pleasant things, ib. Isa. 44, 9; so ib. Os. 9, 16.—

Trop., of things, friendly, affectionate:

nomen amantius indulgentiusque,

Cic. Clu. 5:

lenissimis et amantissimis verbis utens,

id. Fam. 5, 15 al. —

Sometimes in a bad sense = amator or amica, a paramour; cf. Wolf ad Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 27; cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 38:

quis fallere possit amantem,

Verg. A. 4, 296; 4, 429:

amantium irae amoris integratio est,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 23:

oblitos famae melioris amantīs,

Verg. A. 4, 221:

perjuria amantūm,

Ov. A. A. 1, 633.— Hence, ămanter, adv., lovingly, affectionately, Cic. Fam. 5, 19; id. Att. 2, 4.— Comp., Tac. A. 1, 43.— Sup., Cic. Am. 1.

antĕ (old form anti, whence antidea, antideo, antidhac; v. antea, anteeo, and antehac) [Gr. anti, over against, facing, anta, antên; Sanscr. anti = over against; Germ. ant- in Ant-wort = Goth. anda-vaurdi, an answer, anda-nahti, the night before], prep. and adv. (acc. to Max. Victor. p. 1953, as prep. with the grave accent; as adv. with the acute on the last syl.).

Prep. with acc., before (syn.: prae, pro).

In space, or trop. in regard to estimation, judgment, or rank (usu. only of objects at rest. while prae is used of those in motion; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 1, 21; v. exceptions infra).

In space:

quem ante aedīs video,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 136:

ante ostium Me audivit stare,

Ter. And. 3, 1, 16; so Vulg. Lev. 1, 5:

Ornatas paulo ante fores,

Juv. 6, 227; so Vulg. Num. 3, 26:

ante meum limen,

Juv. 11, 190:

ante suum fundum,

Cic. Mil. 10:

ut ante suos hortulos postridie piscarentur,

id. Off. 3, 14, 58:

ante sepulcrales infelix adstitit aras,

Ov. M. 8, 480; so Verg. A. 1, 344; 3, 545; Juv. 10, 268:

ante altaria,

id. 8, 155; so Vulg. Deut. 26, 4; ib. Matt. 5, 24. —Of persons:

ante hosce deos erant arulae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3:

quīs ante ora patrum contigit oppetere,

Verg. A. 1, 95; id. G. 4, 477:

ipsius unam (navem) ante oculos pontus in puppim ferit,

id. A. 1, 114; 2, 531; 2, 773:

ante se statuit funditores,

Liv. 42, 58:

Flos Asiae ante ipsum,

Juv. 5, 56; Vulg. Matt. 17, 2:

si luditur alea pernox Ante Numantinos,

Juv. 8, 11.— Trop.:

ante oculos collocata,

Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 192:

ante oculos errat domus,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 57: [p. 128] causam ante eum diceret, before him as judge, Cic. Verr. 1, 3, 9:

donec stet ante judicium,

Vulg. Josh. 20, 6; ib. Marc. 13, 9.—And in eccl. Lat., after the Heb. and Hel. Gr., before, in the sight of, in the judgment of:

ante Dominum vilior fiam,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 6, 21 sq.:

non te justifices ante Deum,

ib. Eccli. 7, 5:

justi ambo ante Deum,

ib. Luc. 1, 6;

and fully: fecit Asa rectum ante conspectum Domini,

ib. 3 Reg. 15, 11; ib. Apoc. 12, 10.—Hence, homines ante pedes (in later Lat.), servants; cf. the annotators upon Juv. 7, 143.—With verbs of motion:

ante me ito,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 70:

equitatum omnem ante se mittit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 21:

ante ceteras cohortes extra aciem procurrere,

id. B. C. 1, 55:

praecurrit ante omnes,

id. ib. 2, 34; so Nep. Dat. 3, 2; Liv. 7, 41; 45, 40 al.; Vulg. Lev. 27, 11; ib. 1 Reg. 12, 2.—

Trop. of preference in judgment, or regulations in respect to rank, before (this is properly the signification of prae, q. v.; hence more rare than that, and never used by Cic.): quem ante me diligo, before myself, more than myself, Balbus ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15.—So ante aliquem esse, to surpass, excel any one:

facundiā Graecos, gloriā belli Gallos ante Romanos fuisse,

Sall. C. 53, 3, ubi v. Corte and Kritz:

tum me vero et ante Alexandrum et ante Pyrrhum et ante omnes alios imperatores esse,

superior to, Liv. 35, 14:

necessitas ante rationem est,

necessity knows no law, Curt. 7, 7, 10.—Hence very freq. (but mostly poet. and post-class.),

Ante alios, ante omnes, ante ceteros, etc., before others, before all, etc., to designate a comparative relation;

also sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, with comparatives and superlatives: tibi, Neptune, ante alios deos gratias ago,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 5; so Ov. M. 10, 120:

scito illum ante omnīs minumi mortalem preti,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 8:

tua ante omnes experientia,

Tac. A. 2, 76; 1, 27; Liv. 1, 9:

Junoni ante omnīs candentis vaccae media inter cornua (pateram) fundit,

Verg. A. 4, 59:

Ipse est ante omnes,

Vulg. Col. 1, 17:

O felix una ante alias Priameïa virgo,

Verg. A. 3, 321:

ante omnes furor est insignis equarum,

id. G. 3, 266:

scelere ante alios immanior omnīs,

id. A. 1, 347; Liv. 5, 42:

ante alios pulcherrimus omnīs Turnus,

Verg. A. 7, 55; so Nep. Att. 3, 3; Liv. 1, 15; cf. Rudd. II. p. 82; II. p. 101; II. p. 305.—

Ante omnia.

Before all things, first of all:

alvus ante omnia ducitur,

Cels. 7, 30:

oportet autem ante omnia os nudare,

id. 8, 2:

Ante omnia instituit, ut etc.,

Suet. Ner. 32; id. Calig. 21:

Ante omnia autem, fratres, etc.,

Vulg. Jac. 5, 12; ib. 1 Petr. 4, 8.—

Comparatively, above all, especially, chiefty:

publica maestitia eo ante omnia insignis, quia matronae annum, ut parentem, eum luxerunt,

Liv. 2, 7; 7, 4:

quae natura multis et ante omnia ursis,

Plin. 8, 35, 53, § 125:

dulces ante omnia Musae,

the Muses pleasing above all things, Verg. G. 2, 475; id. E. 2, 72:

deformem et taetrum ante omnia vultum,

Juv. 10, 191.—

In entering upon the discussion of several particulars, or in adducing arguments, first of all, in the first place (similar to ac primum quidem, kai prôton men oun; cf. Spald. ad Quint. 4, 2, 4):

ante omnia quid sit rhetorice,

Quint. 2, 15, 1:

ante omnia igitur imitatio per se ipsa non sufficit,

id. 10, 2, 4; so id. 1, 2, 9; 4, 2, 40; 4, 2, 52; 5, 13, 6; 9, 1, 23.—

Of time.

Before: ANTE MERIDIEM CAVSAM CONICITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Auct. ad Her. 2, 13; cf.

Dirks. Transl. 177 sq.: ante lucem a portu me praemisisti domum,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 55; so Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 259; id. Inv. 2, 4, 15; Suet. Galb. 22; Vulg. Luc. 24, 22:

ante diem caupo sciet,

Juv. 9, 108:

ante brumam,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 28:

ante noctem,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 51:

pereundum erit ante lucernas,

Juv. 10, 339:

ante haec omnia,

Vulg. Luc. 21, 12.— The designation of time is often expressed paraphrastically.

By a person who lived at the time:

jam ante Socratem,

before the time of, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 44:

qui honos togato habitus ante me est nemini,

before me, before my time, id. Cat. 4, 3:

ante Jovem nulli subigebant arva coloni,

Verg. G. 1, 125:

vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 25:

ante Helenam,

id. S. 1, 3, 107:

ante se,

Tac. H. 1, 50:

quod ante eum nemo,

Suet. Caes. 26 al. —

By other objects pertaining to a particular time: ante hoc factum, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 64:

ante has meas litteras,

i. e. before the receipt of this letter, Cic. Fam. 13, 17:

per hunc castissimum ante regiam injuriam sanguinem juro,

Liv. 1, 59:

ante mare et terras, et quod tegit omnia, caelum,

Ov. M. 1, 5:

ante sidus fervidum,

Hor. Epod. 1, 27:

ante cibum,

id. S. 1, 10, 61, and Juv. 6, 428:

Hoc discunt omnes ante alpha et beta,

before their A B C, id. 14, 209:

cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?

Verg. A. 11, 424:

Tecum prius ergo voluta Haec ante tubas,

Juv. 1, 169.—Also by the designation of the office of a person:

ante aedilitatem meam,

Cic. Att. 12, 17:

ante sceptrum Dictaei regis,

Verg. G. 2, 536:

ante imperium ducis,

Flor. 4, 2, 66:

relictis multis filiis et in regno et ante regnum susceptis,

Just. 2, 10.—And by the designation of office in app. to the person:

mortuus est ante istum praetorem,

Cic. Verr. 1, 45, 115:

docuerant fabulas ante hos consules,

id. Brut. 18, 73:

cum ante illum imperatorem clipeis uterentur,

Nep. Iphicr. 1, 3:

quos ante se imperatorem nemo ausus sit aspicere,

id. Epam. 8, 3.—A part. perf. or fut. pass. is freq. added to such substantives for the sake of explanation:

ante hanc urbem conditam,

before the founding of this city, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7 (opp. post urbem conditam):

non multo ante urbem captam,

id. Div. 1, 45:

ante Epaminondam natum,

Nep. Epam. 10, 4:

ante te cognitum multis orantibus opem tuli,

Sall. J. 110, 2:

ante decemviros creatos,

Liv. 3, 53 al. —

Hence particular phrases.

Ante tempus,

Before the right time:

ante tempus excitatis suis,

Liv. 31, 36.—

Before the appointed, proper, or lawful time:

factus est consul bis, primum ante tempus,

Cic. Lael. 3:

honores et ante tempus et quosdam novi generis cepit,

Suet. Aug. 26:

venisti ante tempus torquere nos?

Vulg. Matt. 8, 29 (cf. annus, II. D.).—

Ante diem, poet.,

Before the time:

Caesaribus virtus contigit ante diem,

Ov. A. A. 1, 184:

ante diem vultu gressuque superbo Vicerat aequales,

Stat. S. 2, 1, 108.—

Before the time destined by fate:

filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos,

Ov. M. 1, 148:

hic dolor ante diem Pandiona misit ad umbras,

id. ib. 6, 675; id. A. A. 3, 739:

sed misera ante diem subitoque accensa furore, etc.,

Verg. A. 4, 697 (cf. Soph. Antig. 461: ei de tou chronou prosthen thanoumai). —

Ante hunc diem, with a negative:

istunc hominem numquam audivi ante hunc diem,

never before this day, never until now, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 60; 4, 2, 7:

neque umquam ante hunc diem,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 19; 5, 4, 23:

Novum crimen et ante hunc diem inauditum ad te Q. Tubero detulit,

Cic. Lig. 1, 1 (cf. Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 17: neque eum ante usquam conspexi prius). —

Ante diem (abbrev. a. d.) with an ordinal number gives the date, not of the foregoing, but of the present day; e. g. ante diem quintum (a. d. V.) Kalendas Apriles, the fifth day before the calends of April. Orig. the ante belonged to Kalendas, and they said either, ante die quinto Kalendas (i. e. die quinto ante Kalendas), or ante diem quintum Kalendas; the latter phraseology became the prevailing one, and ante diem, being considered as one word, the prepp. in and ex could be prefixed; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 3, 12; Duker ad Liv. 27, 23; Rudd. II. p. 291; Madv. Gr. Suppl. I.; Drak. ad Liv. 45, 2, 12: me ante diem XIII. Kalendas Januarias principem revocandae libertatis fuisse, the thirteenth before the calends of January, i. e. the 20 th of Dec., Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 20: ante diem XII. Kalendas Novembres, the 21 st of Oct.: ante diem VI. Kalendas Novembres, the 27 th of Oct., id. Cat. 1, 3: ante diem VIII. Kalendas Decembres, the 24 th of Nov., id. Phil. 3, 8: a. d. IV. Id. Mart. (ante diem quartum Idus Martias), i. e. the 12 th of March, Liv. 40, 59: ante diem III. Non. Jan. M. Cicero natus est, i. e. on the 3 d of Jan., Gell. 15, 28 al.:

in ante diem quartum Kal. Dec. distulit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 8: caedem te optimatium contulisse in ante diem V. Kal. Nov., to the 28 th of Oct., id. Cat. 1, 3:

ex ante diem VII. Id. Febr.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1: nuntii venerant ex ante diem Non. Jun. usque ad prid. Kal. Sept., from the 3 d of June, Cic. Att. 3, 17:

supplicatio indicta est ante diem V. Id. Oct. cum eo die in quinque dies,

Liv. 45, 2, 12.—

Sometimes to designate the whole time until the passing moment:

ante id tempus et mari et terrā duces erant Lace daemonii,

Nep. Arist. 2, 3:

qui honos huic uni ante id tempus contigit,

id. Timoth. 2, 3:

invictus ante eam diem fuerat,

Curt. 5, 3, 22.—

Ante annos, before the destined time:

Ante suos annos occidit,

Ov. Am. 2, 2, 46:

Ante annos animumque gerens curamque virilem,

beyond his years, Verg. A. 9, 311 (cf.:

suos annos praeterire,

Sil. 4, 428; and:

annos transcendere factis,

id. 2, 348). —

Ante hoc, for antea, antehac, belongs to the later Latin:

ante hoc incognita,

Luc. 6, 116:

ante hoc domūs pars videntur,

Tac. G. 13.

Adv., of space and time (the latter most freq.).

Of space, before, in front, forwards: post me erat Aegina, ante Megara, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 9:

fluvius ab tergo, ante circaque velut ripa praeceps oram ejus omnem cingebat,

Liv. 27, 18; 22, 5:

coronatus stabit et ante calix,

Tib. 2, 5, 98:

plena oculis et ante et retro,

Vulg. Apoc. 4, 6.—Of motion (cf. supra, I. A. 1.):

si aut manibus ingrediatur quis aut non ante, sed retro,

Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35:

pallida Tisiphone morbos agit ante metumque,

Verg. G. 3, 552.—

1.. Of time, before, previously (always in reference to another past time, while ante as prep. is used in reference to the present).

With verbs:

nonne oportuit Praescīsse me ante,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 4:

id te oro, ut ante eamus,

id. ib. 3, 3, 24;

very freq. in Cic.: quod utinam illi ante accidisset,

Cic. Phil. 11, 14:

quae ante acta sunt,

id. Verr. 1, 109:

sicut ante fecimus,

Vulg. Jos. 8, 5; ib. Jud. 16, 20:

fructus omnis ante actae vitae,

Cic. Marcell. 3; so Ov. M. 12, 115, and Tac. A. 6, 16:

apud vos ante feci mentionem,

Cic. Agr. 3, 4:

faciam hoc non novum, sed ab eis ante factum,

id. Verr. 1, 55; Verg. E. 9, 63; Juv. 3, 243; 15, 320:

illud de quo ante dixi,

Cic. Sex. Rosc. 116:

quos ante dixi,

id. Off. 2, 14, 50:

ut ante dixi,

id. Imp. Pomp. 16; id. Mil. 45:

quem ad modum ante dixi,

id. Sex. Rosc. 91:

additis, quae ante deliquerant,

Tac. A. 6, 9:

filium ante sublatum brevi amisit,

id. Agr. 6; id. G. 10; id. A. 11, 7; id. H. 2, 43.—And often accomp. by jam:

acceperam jam ante Caesaris litteras, ut etc.,

Cic. Phil. 2, 49; id. Marcell. 12; id. Verr. 2, 23.—Rarely accomp. by saepe.:

ut saepe ante fecerant,

Cic. Balb. 40; id. Rab. Post. 13.—

Rarely with adjj.:

non filius ante pudicus,

Juv. 3, 111:

quos acciverat, incertum, experiens an et ante gnavos,

Tac. A. 14, 7.—

Often with substt. in the abl. or acc. for a more accurate designation of time (cf. also abhinc with the abl. and acc.; in these cases ante was considered by the ancient critics as a prep., which could also govern the abl.; cf. Charis. p. 209 P.; Serv. ad Verg. E. 1, 30. The position of ante is sometimes before and sometimes after the subst., and sometimes between the numeral and the subst.):

illos septem et multis ante saeculis Lycurgum accepimus fuisse sapientes,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7:

etsi perpaucis ante diebus (i. e. before the departure of Theophilus, of whom mention is afterwards made) dederam Q. Mucio litteras ad te,

id. Fam. 4, 9:

paucis diebus ante,

id. Phil. 2, 40:

viginti annis ante,

id. Lael. 12, 42:

voverat eam annis undecim ante,

Liv. 40, 52, 4 (cf. id. 40, 51:

quae bello Ligustico ante annis octo vovisset): optimum erit ante annum scrobes facere,

a year before, Col. 4, 2; Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 7:

Tyron urbem ante annum Trojanae cladis condiderunt,

a year before the fall of Troy, Just. 18, 3, 5:

ante quadriennium amissus es,

four years previously, Tac. Agr. 45:

aliquot ante annos,

Suet. Caes. 12; v. id. ib. 81 al.—

With the advv. multo, paulo, aliquanto, tanto, quanto, and rarely permultum:

multo ante prospexi tempestatem futuram,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

haud multo ante adventum,

Tac. Agr. 18.—And in the order ante multo:

ante multo a te didicerimus,

Cic. Sen. 2, 6:

Venisti paulo ante in senatum,

id. Cat. 1, 7, 16; id. Marcell. 7; id. Mil. 7; Tac. G. 41; id. H. 3, 68; Suet. Caes. 21; Vulg. Sap. 15, 8; ib. 2 Macc. 3, 30;

6, 29 et saep.—And in the order ante paulo: quae ante paulo perbreviter attigi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4:

profectus est aliquanto ante furorem Catilinae,

id. Sull. 20, 56 bis; id. Verr. 1, 149.—And in the order ante aliquanto: ante aliquanto quam tu natus es, Cic. Fam. [p. 129] 10, 4; id. Vatin. 25; id. Verr. 2, 46:

tanto ante praedixeras,

id. Phil. 2, 33:

quod si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 34; 5, 78, 89; id. Cat. 3, 17; id. de Or. 1, 7, 26; so Quint. 2, 4, 28:

quanto ante providerit,

Cic. Sest. 8:

permultum ante certior factus eram litteris,

id. Fam. 3, 11; cf. Prisc. p. 1191 P.—

Followed by quam (written also as one word, antequam; the form prius quam was more freq. in archaic Latin), sooner than; before.

With ind. pres.:

ante quam doceo id factum non esse, libet mihi,

Cic. Quinct. 48:

ante quam ad sententiam redeo, de me pauca dicam,

id. Cat. 4, 20; id. Mil. 7; id. Deiot. 7; id. Clu. 6.—

With ind. perf.:

memini Catonem anno ante quam est mortuus mecum disserere,

Cic. Lael. 3, 11:

anno ipso ante quam natus est Ennius,

id. Brut. 18, 72:

ante aliquanto quam tu natus es,

id. Fam. 10, 3:

neque ante dimisit eum quam fidem dedit,

Liv. 39, 10:

ante quam ille est factus inimicus,

Cic. Phil. 12, 9.—

Rarely with fut. perf.:

ante provinciam sibi decretam audiet quam potuerit tempus ei rei datum suspicari,

Cic. Phil. 11, 24:

neque defatigabor ante quam... percepero,

id. de Or. 3, 36, 145.—

With subj. pres.:

ante quam veniat in Pontum, litteras ad Cn. Pompeium mittet,

Cic. Agr. 2, 53:

hac lege ante omnia veniunt, quam gleba una ematur,

id. ib. 2, 71; id. Sest. 15; id. Phil. 1, 1; Verg. E. 1, 60 sqq.; Vulg. Gen. 11, 4; ib. 4 Reg. 2, 9; ib. Matt. 6, 8.—

With subj. imperf.:

Romae et ad urbem, ante quam proficisceretur, quaerere coepit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 167:

qui (sol) ante quam se abderet, fugientem vidit Antonium,

id. Phil. 14, 27; 8, 1; id. Verr. 4, 147; Vulg. Gen. 2, 5; 13, 10; ib. Matt. 1, 18; ib. Joan. 8, 58.—

With subj. perf.:

ante vero quam sit ea res adlata, laetitiā frui satis est,

Cic. Phil. 14, 1:

domesticum malum opprimit ante quam prospicere potueris,

id. Verr. 1, 39; id. Sull. 44; id. Planc. 40:

nec ante vincere desierint quam Rubro mari inclusis quod vincerent defuerit,

Liv. 42, 52:

nec ante (barbam capillumque) dempserit quam vindicāsset,

Suet. Caes. 67.—

With subj. pluperf.:

se ante quam eam uxorem duxisset domum, sperāsse etc.,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 71:

qui ante quam de meo adventu audire potuissent, in Macedoniam perrexi,

Cic. Planc. 98:

ut consul ante fieret, quam ullum alium magistratum capere licuisset,

id. Imp. Pomp. 62; id. Quinct. 9; id. Verr. 2, 55; 2, 171.—

With inf.:

dici vix potest quam multa sint quae respondeatis ante fieri oportere, quam ad hanc rationem devenire,

Cic. Quinct. 54.—

With part.:

armati nullum ante finem pugnae quam morientes fecerunt,

Liv. 21, 15, 4 (on the use of these different constructions, v. Roby, §§ 1671, 1462, 1672 etc.; Draeger, Hist. Synt. II. pp. 589 sqq.;

and esp. Fischer, Gr. § 621). —In the poets sometimes with quam before ante: Respice item quam nil ad nos anteacta vetustas Temporis aeterni fuerit, quam nascimur ante,

Lucr. 3, 972:

Non ego signatis quicquam mandare tabellis, Ne legat id nemo quam meus ante, velim,

Tib. 4, 7, 8; Mart. 9, 36, 6.—Also in the poets sometimes pleon. ante—prius—quam:

sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat Ante, pudor, quam te violo aut tua jura resolvo,

Verg. A. 4, 24; so,

prius—quam— ante: Aut prius infecto deposcit praemia cursu, Septima quam metam triverit ante rota?

Prop. 3, 20, 25.—

For the designation of order, foll. by tum, deinde, etc., first, in the first place (only in later Lat. for the class. primum):

ut ante caput, deinde reliqua pars auferatur,

Cels. 7, 29:

et ante dicam de his, quae, etc.: tum, etc.,

id. 5, 26:

ante tonderi... deinde... tum, etc.,

id. 6, 6, 8; so Plin. 34, 13, 34, § 131 dub.—

Very rarely used as adj. (in imitation of the Greek):

neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum,

earlier, previous ills, Verg. A. 1, 198 (cf. tôn paros kakôn, Soph. O. T. 1423):

ille elegit, qui recipit ante meliorem,

Quint. Decl. 1, 14; cf. Liv. 24, 82, 5 (on this use of the adv., v. Kritz ad Sall. J. 76, 5).

In composition.

Of space, before, in front of, forwards: antepono, antefigo, antefero, antemitto.—

Fig. of preference, before, above: antepono.—

Of degree, before, above, more: antepotens, antepollens—

In designations of time only with adjj. and advv.: antelucanus, antemeridianus, antehac, antelucio.With verbs, ante is more correctly written separately: ante actus, ante factus, ante gestus, ante paro, etc., although editions differ in this respect. V. more upon this word in Hand, Turs. I. pp. 361-390, and pp. 394-402.

antĕ (old form anti, whence antidea, antideo, antidhac; v. antea, anteeo, and antehac) [Gr. anti, over against, facing, anta, antên; Sanscr. anti = over against; Germ. ant- in Ant-wort = Goth. anda-vaurdi, an answer, anda-nahti, the night before], prep. and adv. (acc. to Max. Victor. p. 1953, as prep. with the grave accent; as adv. with the acute on the last syl.).

Prep. with acc., before (syn.: prae, pro).

In space, or trop. in regard to estimation, judgment, or rank (usu. only of objects at rest. while prae is used of those in motion; cf. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 1, 21; v. exceptions infra).

In space:

quem ante aedīs video,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 136:

ante ostium Me audivit stare,

Ter. And. 3, 1, 16; so Vulg. Lev. 1, 5:

Ornatas paulo ante fores,

Juv. 6, 227; so Vulg. Num. 3, 26:

ante meum limen,

Juv. 11, 190:

ante suum fundum,

Cic. Mil. 10:

ut ante suos hortulos postridie piscarentur,

id. Off. 3, 14, 58:

ante sepulcrales infelix adstitit aras,

Ov. M. 8, 480; so Verg. A. 1, 344; 3, 545; Juv. 10, 268:

ante altaria,

id. 8, 155; so Vulg. Deut. 26, 4; ib. Matt. 5, 24. —Of persons:

ante hosce deos erant arulae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3:

quīs ante ora patrum contigit oppetere,

Verg. A. 1, 95; id. G. 4, 477:

ipsius unam (navem) ante oculos pontus in puppim ferit,

id. A. 1, 114; 2, 531; 2, 773:

ante se statuit funditores,

Liv. 42, 58:

Flos Asiae ante ipsum,

Juv. 5, 56; Vulg. Matt. 17, 2:

si luditur alea pernox Ante Numantinos,

Juv. 8, 11.— Trop.:

ante oculos collocata,

Cic. de Or. 1, 43, 192:

ante oculos errat domus,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 57: [p. 128] causam ante eum diceret, before him as judge, Cic. Verr. 1, 3, 9:

donec stet ante judicium,

Vulg. Josh. 20, 6; ib. Marc. 13, 9.—And in eccl. Lat., after the Heb. and Hel. Gr., before, in the sight of, in the judgment of:

ante Dominum vilior fiam,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 6, 21 sq.:

non te justifices ante Deum,

ib. Eccli. 7, 5:

justi ambo ante Deum,

ib. Luc. 1, 6;

and fully: fecit Asa rectum ante conspectum Domini,

ib. 3 Reg. 15, 11; ib. Apoc. 12, 10.—Hence, homines ante pedes (in later Lat.), servants; cf. the annotators upon Juv. 7, 143.—With verbs of motion:

ante me ito,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 70:

equitatum omnem ante se mittit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 21:

ante ceteras cohortes extra aciem procurrere,

id. B. C. 1, 55:

praecurrit ante omnes,

id. ib. 2, 34; so Nep. Dat. 3, 2; Liv. 7, 41; 45, 40 al.; Vulg. Lev. 27, 11; ib. 1 Reg. 12, 2.—

Trop. of preference in judgment, or regulations in respect to rank, before (this is properly the signification of prae, q. v.; hence more rare than that, and never used by Cic.): quem ante me diligo, before myself, more than myself, Balbus ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15.—So ante aliquem esse, to surpass, excel any one:

facundiā Graecos, gloriā belli Gallos ante Romanos fuisse,

Sall. C. 53, 3, ubi v. Corte and Kritz:

tum me vero et ante Alexandrum et ante Pyrrhum et ante omnes alios imperatores esse,

superior to, Liv. 35, 14:

necessitas ante rationem est,

necessity knows no law, Curt. 7, 7, 10.—Hence very freq. (but mostly poet. and post-class.),

Ante alios, ante omnes, ante ceteros, etc., before others, before all, etc., to designate a comparative relation;

also sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, with comparatives and superlatives: tibi, Neptune, ante alios deos gratias ago,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 5; so Ov. M. 10, 120:

scito illum ante omnīs minumi mortalem preti,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 8:

tua ante omnes experientia,

Tac. A. 2, 76; 1, 27; Liv. 1, 9:

Junoni ante omnīs candentis vaccae media inter cornua (pateram) fundit,

Verg. A. 4, 59:

Ipse est ante omnes,

Vulg. Col. 1, 17:

O felix una ante alias Priameïa virgo,

Verg. A. 3, 321:

ante omnes furor est insignis equarum,

id. G. 3, 266:

scelere ante alios immanior omnīs,

id. A. 1, 347; Liv. 5, 42:

ante alios pulcherrimus omnīs Turnus,

Verg. A. 7, 55; so Nep. Att. 3, 3; Liv. 1, 15; cf. Rudd. II. p. 82; II. p. 101; II. p. 305.—

Ante omnia.

Before all things, first of all:

alvus ante omnia ducitur,

Cels. 7, 30:

oportet autem ante omnia os nudare,

id. 8, 2:

Ante omnia instituit, ut etc.,

Suet. Ner. 32; id. Calig. 21:

Ante omnia autem, fratres, etc.,

Vulg. Jac. 5, 12; ib. 1 Petr. 4, 8.—

Comparatively, above all, especially, chiefty:

publica maestitia eo ante omnia insignis, quia matronae annum, ut parentem, eum luxerunt,

Liv. 2, 7; 7, 4:

quae natura multis et ante omnia ursis,

Plin. 8, 35, 53, § 125:

dulces ante omnia Musae,

the Muses pleasing above all things, Verg. G. 2, 475; id. E. 2, 72:

deformem et taetrum ante omnia vultum,

Juv. 10, 191.—

In entering upon the discussion of several particulars, or in adducing arguments, first of all, in the first place (similar to ac primum quidem, kai prôton men oun; cf. Spald. ad Quint. 4, 2, 4):

ante omnia quid sit rhetorice,

Quint. 2, 15, 1:

ante omnia igitur imitatio per se ipsa non sufficit,

id. 10, 2, 4; so id. 1, 2, 9; 4, 2, 40; 4, 2, 52; 5, 13, 6; 9, 1, 23.—

Of time.

Before: ANTE MERIDIEM CAVSAM CONICITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Auct. ad Her. 2, 13; cf.

Dirks. Transl. 177 sq.: ante lucem a portu me praemisisti domum,

Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 55; so Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 259; id. Inv. 2, 4, 15; Suet. Galb. 22; Vulg. Luc. 24, 22:

ante diem caupo sciet,

Juv. 9, 108:

ante brumam,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 28:

ante noctem,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 51:

pereundum erit ante lucernas,

Juv. 10, 339:

ante haec omnia,

Vulg. Luc. 21, 12.— The designation of time is often expressed paraphrastically.

By a person who lived at the time:

jam ante Socratem,

before the time of, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 44:

qui honos togato habitus ante me est nemini,

before me, before my time, id. Cat. 4, 3:

ante Jovem nulli subigebant arva coloni,

Verg. G. 1, 125:

vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi,

Hor. C. 4, 9, 25:

ante Helenam,

id. S. 1, 3, 107:

ante se,

Tac. H. 1, 50:

quod ante eum nemo,

Suet. Caes. 26 al. —

By other objects pertaining to a particular time: ante hoc factum, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 64:

ante has meas litteras,

i. e. before the receipt of this letter, Cic. Fam. 13, 17:

per hunc castissimum ante regiam injuriam sanguinem juro,

Liv. 1, 59:

ante mare et terras, et quod tegit omnia, caelum,

Ov. M. 1, 5:

ante sidus fervidum,

Hor. Epod. 1, 27:

ante cibum,

id. S. 1, 10, 61, and Juv. 6, 428:

Hoc discunt omnes ante alpha et beta,

before their A B C, id. 14, 209:

cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?

Verg. A. 11, 424:

Tecum prius ergo voluta Haec ante tubas,

Juv. 1, 169.—Also by the designation of the office of a person:

ante aedilitatem meam,

Cic. Att. 12, 17:

ante sceptrum Dictaei regis,

Verg. G. 2, 536:

ante imperium ducis,

Flor. 4, 2, 66:

relictis multis filiis et in regno et ante regnum susceptis,

Just. 2, 10.—And by the designation of office in app. to the person:

mortuus est ante istum praetorem,

Cic. Verr. 1, 45, 115:

docuerant fabulas ante hos consules,

id. Brut. 18, 73:

cum ante illum imperatorem clipeis uterentur,

Nep. Iphicr. 1, 3:

quos ante se imperatorem nemo ausus sit aspicere,

id. Epam. 8, 3.—A part. perf. or fut. pass. is freq. added to such substantives for the sake of explanation:

ante hanc urbem conditam,

before the founding of this city, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7 (opp. post urbem conditam):

non multo ante urbem captam,

id. Div. 1, 45:

ante Epaminondam natum,

Nep. Epam. 10, 4:

ante te cognitum multis orantibus opem tuli,

Sall. J. 110, 2:

ante decemviros creatos,

Liv. 3, 53 al. —

Hence particular phrases.

Ante tempus,

Before the right time:

ante tempus excitatis suis,

Liv. 31, 36.—

Before the appointed, proper, or lawful time:

factus est consul bis, primum ante tempus,

Cic. Lael. 3:

honores et ante tempus et quosdam novi generis cepit,

Suet. Aug. 26:

venisti ante tempus torquere nos?

Vulg. Matt. 8, 29 (cf. annus, II. D.).—

Ante diem, poet.,

Before the time:

Caesaribus virtus contigit ante diem,

Ov. A. A. 1, 184:

ante diem vultu gressuque superbo Vicerat aequales,

Stat. S. 2, 1, 108.—

Before the time destined by fate:

filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos,

Ov. M. 1, 148:

hic dolor ante diem Pandiona misit ad umbras,

id. ib. 6, 675; id. A. A. 3, 739:

sed misera ante diem subitoque accensa furore, etc.,

Verg. A. 4, 697 (cf. Soph. Antig. 461: ei de tou chronou prosthen thanoumai). —

Ante hunc diem, with a negative:

istunc hominem numquam audivi ante hunc diem,

never before this day, never until now, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 60; 4, 2, 7:

neque umquam ante hunc diem,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 19; 5, 4, 23:

Novum crimen et ante hunc diem inauditum ad te Q. Tubero detulit,

Cic. Lig. 1, 1 (cf. Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 17: neque eum ante usquam conspexi prius). —

Ante diem (abbrev. a. d.) with an ordinal number gives the date, not of the foregoing, but of the present day; e. g. ante diem quintum (a. d. V.) Kalendas Apriles, the fifth day before the calends of April. Orig. the ante belonged to Kalendas, and they said either, ante die quinto Kalendas (i. e. die quinto ante Kalendas), or ante diem quintum Kalendas; the latter phraseology became the prevailing one, and ante diem, being considered as one word, the prepp. in and ex could be prefixed; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 3, 12; Duker ad Liv. 27, 23; Rudd. II. p. 291; Madv. Gr. Suppl. I.; Drak. ad Liv. 45, 2, 12: me ante diem XIII. Kalendas Januarias principem revocandae libertatis fuisse, the thirteenth before the calends of January, i. e. the 20 th of Dec., Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 20: ante diem XII. Kalendas Novembres, the 21 st of Oct.: ante diem VI. Kalendas Novembres, the 27 th of Oct., id. Cat. 1, 3: ante diem VIII. Kalendas Decembres, the 24 th of Nov., id. Phil. 3, 8: a. d. IV. Id. Mart. (ante diem quartum Idus Martias), i. e. the 12 th of March, Liv. 40, 59: ante diem III. Non. Jan. M. Cicero natus est, i. e. on the 3 d of Jan., Gell. 15, 28 al.:

in ante diem quartum Kal. Dec. distulit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 8: caedem te optimatium contulisse in ante diem V. Kal. Nov., to the 28 th of Oct., id. Cat. 1, 3:

ex ante diem VII. Id. Febr.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 28, 1: nuntii venerant ex ante diem Non. Jun. usque ad prid. Kal. Sept., from the 3 d of June, Cic. Att. 3, 17:

supplicatio indicta est ante diem V. Id. Oct. cum eo die in quinque dies,

Liv. 45, 2, 12.—

Sometimes to designate the whole time until the passing moment:

ante id tempus et mari et terrā duces erant Lace daemonii,

Nep. Arist. 2, 3:

qui honos huic uni ante id tempus contigit,

id. Timoth. 2, 3:

invictus ante eam diem fuerat,

Curt. 5, 3, 22.—

Ante annos, before the destined time:

Ante suos annos occidit,

Ov. Am. 2, 2, 46:

Ante annos animumque gerens curamque virilem,

beyond his years, Verg. A. 9, 311 (cf.:

suos annos praeterire,

Sil. 4, 428; and:

annos transcendere factis,

id. 2, 348). —

Ante hoc, for antea, antehac, belongs to the later Latin:

ante hoc incognita,

Luc. 6, 116:

ante hoc domūs pars videntur,

Tac. G. 13.

Adv., of space and time (the latter most freq.).

Of space, before, in front, forwards: post me erat Aegina, ante Megara, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 9:

fluvius ab tergo, ante circaque velut ripa praeceps oram ejus omnem cingebat,

Liv. 27, 18; 22, 5:

coronatus stabit et ante calix,

Tib. 2, 5, 98:

plena oculis et ante et retro,

Vulg. Apoc. 4, 6.—Of motion (cf. supra, I. A. 1.):

si aut manibus ingrediatur quis aut non ante, sed retro,

Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35:

pallida Tisiphone morbos agit ante metumque,

Verg. G. 3, 552.—

1.. Of time, before, previously (always in reference to another past time, while ante as prep. is used in reference to the present).

With verbs:

nonne oportuit Praescīsse me ante,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 4:

id te oro, ut ante eamus,

id. ib. 3, 3, 24;

very freq. in Cic.: quod utinam illi ante accidisset,

Cic. Phil. 11, 14:

quae ante acta sunt,

id. Verr. 1, 109:

sicut ante fecimus,

Vulg. Jos. 8, 5; ib. Jud. 16, 20:

fructus omnis ante actae vitae,

Cic. Marcell. 3; so Ov. M. 12, 115, and Tac. A. 6, 16:

apud vos ante feci mentionem,

Cic. Agr. 3, 4:

faciam hoc non novum, sed ab eis ante factum,

id. Verr. 1, 55; Verg. E. 9, 63; Juv. 3, 243; 15, 320:

illud de quo ante dixi,

Cic. Sex. Rosc. 116:

quos ante dixi,

id. Off. 2, 14, 50:

ut ante dixi,

id. Imp. Pomp. 16; id. Mil. 45:

quem ad modum ante dixi,

id. Sex. Rosc. 91:

additis, quae ante deliquerant,

Tac. A. 6, 9:

filium ante sublatum brevi amisit,

id. Agr. 6; id. G. 10; id. A. 11, 7; id. H. 2, 43.—And often accomp. by jam:

acceperam jam ante Caesaris litteras, ut etc.,

Cic. Phil. 2, 49; id. Marcell. 12; id. Verr. 2, 23.—Rarely accomp. by saepe.:

ut saepe ante fecerant,

Cic. Balb. 40; id. Rab. Post. 13.—

Rarely with adjj.:

non filius ante pudicus,

Juv. 3, 111:

quos acciverat, incertum, experiens an et ante gnavos,

Tac. A. 14, 7.—

Often with substt. in the abl. or acc. for a more accurate designation of time (cf. also abhinc with the abl. and acc.; in these cases ante was considered by the ancient critics as a prep., which could also govern the abl.; cf. Charis. p. 209 P.; Serv. ad Verg. E. 1, 30. The position of ante is sometimes before and sometimes after the subst., and sometimes between the numeral and the subst.):

illos septem et multis ante saeculis Lycurgum accepimus fuisse sapientes,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7:

etsi perpaucis ante diebus (i. e. before the departure of Theophilus, of whom mention is afterwards made) dederam Q. Mucio litteras ad te,

id. Fam. 4, 9:

paucis diebus ante,

id. Phil. 2, 40:

viginti annis ante,

id. Lael. 12, 42:

voverat eam annis undecim ante,

Liv. 40, 52, 4 (cf. id. 40, 51:

quae bello Ligustico ante annis octo vovisset): optimum erit ante annum scrobes facere,

a year before, Col. 4, 2; Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 7:

Tyron urbem ante annum Trojanae cladis condiderunt,

a year before the fall of Troy, Just. 18, 3, 5:

ante quadriennium amissus es,

four years previously, Tac. Agr. 45:

aliquot ante annos,

Suet. Caes. 12; v. id. ib. 81 al.—

With the advv. multo, paulo, aliquanto, tanto, quanto, and rarely permultum:

multo ante prospexi tempestatem futuram,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

haud multo ante adventum,

Tac. Agr. 18.—And in the order ante multo:

ante multo a te didicerimus,

Cic. Sen. 2, 6:

Venisti paulo ante in senatum,

id. Cat. 1, 7, 16; id. Marcell. 7; id. Mil. 7; Tac. G. 41; id. H. 3, 68; Suet. Caes. 21; Vulg. Sap. 15, 8; ib. 2 Macc. 3, 30;

6, 29 et saep.—And in the order ante paulo: quae ante paulo perbreviter attigi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4:

profectus est aliquanto ante furorem Catilinae,

id. Sull. 20, 56 bis; id. Verr. 1, 149.—And in the order ante aliquanto: ante aliquanto quam tu natus es, Cic. Fam. [p. 129] 10, 4; id. Vatin. 25; id. Verr. 2, 46:

tanto ante praedixeras,

id. Phil. 2, 33:

quod si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 34; 5, 78, 89; id. Cat. 3, 17; id. de Or. 1, 7, 26; so Quint. 2, 4, 28:

quanto ante providerit,

Cic. Sest. 8:

permultum ante certior factus eram litteris,

id. Fam. 3, 11; cf. Prisc. p. 1191 P.—

Followed by quam (written also as one word, antequam; the form prius quam was more freq. in archaic Latin), sooner than; before.

With ind. pres.:

ante quam doceo id factum non esse, libet mihi,

Cic. Quinct. 48:

ante quam ad sententiam redeo, de me pauca dicam,

id. Cat. 4, 20; id. Mil. 7; id. Deiot. 7; id. Clu. 6.—

With ind. perf.:

memini Catonem anno ante quam est mortuus mecum disserere,

Cic. Lael. 3, 11:

anno ipso ante quam natus est Ennius,

id. Brut. 18, 72:

ante aliquanto quam tu natus es,

id. Fam. 10, 3:

neque ante dimisit eum quam fidem dedit,

Liv. 39, 10:

ante quam ille est factus inimicus,

Cic. Phil. 12, 9.—

Rarely with fut. perf.:

ante provinciam sibi decretam audiet quam potuerit tempus ei rei datum suspicari,

Cic. Phil. 11, 24:

neque defatigabor ante quam... percepero,

id. de Or. 3, 36, 145.—

With subj. pres.:

ante quam veniat in Pontum, litteras ad Cn. Pompeium mittet,

Cic. Agr. 2, 53:

hac lege ante omnia veniunt, quam gleba una ematur,

id. ib. 2, 71; id. Sest. 15; id. Phil. 1, 1; Verg. E. 1, 60 sqq.; Vulg. Gen. 11, 4; ib. 4 Reg. 2, 9; ib. Matt. 6, 8.—

With subj. imperf.:

Romae et ad urbem, ante quam proficisceretur, quaerere coepit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 167:

qui (sol) ante quam se abderet, fugientem vidit Antonium,

id. Phil. 14, 27; 8, 1; id. Verr. 4, 147; Vulg. Gen. 2, 5; 13, 10; ib. Matt. 1, 18; ib. Joan. 8, 58.—

With subj. perf.:

ante vero quam sit ea res adlata, laetitiā frui satis est,

Cic. Phil. 14, 1:

domesticum malum opprimit ante quam prospicere potueris,

id. Verr. 1, 39; id. Sull. 44; id. Planc. 40:

nec ante vincere desierint quam Rubro mari inclusis quod vincerent defuerit,

Liv. 42, 52:

nec ante (barbam capillumque) dempserit quam vindicāsset,

Suet. Caes. 67.—

With subj. pluperf.:

se ante quam eam uxorem duxisset domum, sperāsse etc.,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 71:

qui ante quam de meo adventu audire potuissent, in Macedoniam perrexi,

Cic. Planc. 98:

ut consul ante fieret, quam ullum alium magistratum capere licuisset,

id. Imp. Pomp. 62; id. Quinct. 9; id. Verr. 2, 55; 2, 171.—

With inf.:

dici vix potest quam multa sint quae respondeatis ante fieri oportere, quam ad hanc rationem devenire,

Cic. Quinct. 54.—

With part.:

armati nullum ante finem pugnae quam morientes fecerunt,

Liv. 21, 15, 4 (on the use of these different constructions, v. Roby, §§ 1671, 1462, 1672 etc.; Draeger, Hist. Synt. II. pp. 589 sqq.;

and esp. Fischer, Gr. § 621). —In the poets sometimes with quam before ante: Respice item quam nil ad nos anteacta vetustas Temporis aeterni fuerit, quam nascimur ante,

Lucr. 3, 972:

Non ego signatis quicquam mandare tabellis, Ne legat id nemo quam meus ante, velim,

Tib. 4, 7, 8; Mart. 9, 36, 6.—Also in the poets sometimes pleon. ante—prius—quam:

sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat Ante, pudor, quam te violo aut tua jura resolvo,

Verg. A. 4, 24; so,

prius—quam— ante: Aut prius infecto deposcit praemia cursu, Septima quam metam triverit ante rota?

Prop. 3, 20, 25.—

For the designation of order, foll. by tum, deinde, etc., first, in the first place (only in later Lat. for the class. primum):

ut ante caput, deinde reliqua pars auferatur,

Cels. 7, 29:

et ante dicam de his, quae, etc.: tum, etc.,

id. 5, 26:

ante tonderi... deinde... tum, etc.,

id. 6, 6, 8; so Plin. 34, 13, 34, § 131 dub.—

Very rarely used as adj. (in imitation of the Greek):

neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum,

earlier, previous ills, Verg. A. 1, 198 (cf. tôn paros kakôn, Soph. O. T. 1423):

ille elegit, qui recipit ante meliorem,

Quint. Decl. 1, 14; cf. Liv. 24, 82, 5 (on this use of the adv., v. Kritz ad Sall. J. 76, 5).

In composition.

Of space, before, in front of, forwards: antepono, antefigo, antefero, antemitto.—

Fig. of preference, before, above: antepono.—

Of degree, before, above, more: antepotens, antepollens—

In designations of time only with adjj. and advv.: antelucanus, antemeridianus, antehac, antelucio.With verbs, ante is more correctly written separately: ante actus, ante factus, ante gestus, ante paro, etc., although editions differ in this respect. V. more upon this word in Hand, Turs. I. pp. 361-390, and pp. 394-402.

ar-rīdĕo ( adr-, Lachm., B. and K., Halm, K. and H.; arr-, Fleck., Merk., Weissenb.), rīsi, rīsum, 2, v. n., to laugh at or with, to smile at or upon, especially approvingly.

Lit., constr. absol. or with dat., more rarely with acc.; also pass. —

Absol.:

si non arriderent, dentis ut restringerent,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 26:

oportet lenam probam arridere Quisquis veniat, blandeque alloqui,

id. Truc. 2, 1, 14:

cum quidam familiaris (Dionysii) jocans dixisset: huic (juveni) quidem certe vitam tuam committis, adrisissetque adulescens, utrumque jussit interfici,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 60:

Hic cum adrisisset ipse Crassus,

id. de Or. 2, 56, 229; id. Rep. 6, 12 fin.; Tac. Or. 42 fin.:

Cum risi, arrides,

Ov. M. 3, 459:

Cum adrisissent, discessimus,

Tac. Or. 42; so * Vulg. Dan. 14, 6.—

With dat.:

Tum mi aedes quoque arridebant,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 55:

si dentibus adrident,

Hor. A. P. 101:

nulli laedere os, arridere omnibus,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 10; id. Eun. 2, 2, 19:

vix notis familiariter arridere,

Liv. 41, 20.—

With acc.:

video quid adriseris,

Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 79: Cn. Flavius id adrisit, laughed at this, Piso ap. Gell. 6, 9 fin.: vos nunc alloquitur, vos nunc adridet ocellis, Val. Cato Dir. 108.—

Pass.:

si adriderentur, esset id ipsum Atticorum,

Cic. Opt. Gen. 4, 11 (B. and K., riderentur). —

Trop.

Subject., to be favorable, kindly disposed to one:

cum tempestas adridet,

Lucr. 2, 32:

et quandoque mihi Fortunae adriserit hora,

Petr. 133, 3, 12.—

Object. (i. e. in reference to the effect produced), to be pleasing to, to please:

inhibere illud tuum, quod valde mihi adriserat, vehementer displicet,

Cic. Att. 13, 21:

quibus haec adridere velim,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 89.

bĕnignus, a, um, adj. [as if benigenus, from bonus genus, anal. with malignus and privignus], of a good kind or nature, beneficent, kind.

Of feeling or deportment towards others, kind, good, friendly, pleasing, favorable, benignant:

nam generi lenonio, Numquam ullus deus tam benignus fuit qui fuerit propitius,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 34:

benignus et lepidus et comis,

Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 39:

boni et benigni,

id. Phorm. 5, 2, 2:

comes, benigni, faciles, suaves homines esse dicuntur,

Cic. Balb. 16, 36:

Apelles in aemulis benignus,

Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 88;

id. praef. § 21: divi,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 52:

numen,

id. ib. 4, 4, 74; cf. Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 34 al.—

Of things, friendly, favorable, pleasant, mild:

animus,

Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 22:

oratio,

Cic. Off. 2, 14, 48:

sociorum comitas vultusque benigni,

Liv. 9, 6, 8; 30, 14, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 20:

verba,

Prop. 1, 10, 24:

benigniora verba,

Liv. 21, 19, 11.—In the jurists, interpretatio, a mild, favorable interpretation (opp. dura, which follows the strictness of the letter; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31 sq.), Dig. 39, 5, 16:

semper in dubiis benigniora praeferenda sunt,

ib. 50, 17, 56:

benignior sententia,

ib. 37, 6, 8.—

Poet., = faustus, lucky, propitious, favorable:

dies,

Stat. S. 5, 1, 108:

nox,

id. Th. 10, 216.—

More freq. of action, beneficent, obliging, that gives or imparts freely, liberal, bounteous, etc.:

erga te benignus fui, atque opera mea Haec tibi sunt servata,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 33; id. Trin. 3, 3, 12; 2, 4, 58:

fortuna... Nunc mihi, nunc alii benigna,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 52:

qui benigniores volunt esse, quam res patitur, peccant,

Cic. Off. 1, 14, 44:

qui liberalis benignusque dicitur,

id. Leg. 1, 18, 48:

facilius in timore benigni quam in victoriā grati reperiuntur,

id. ad Brut. 1, 15, 8.— Poet., with gen.:

vini somnique benignus,

a hard drinker and a lover of sleep, Hor. S. 2, 3, 3.—Opp. to bonae frugi = prodigus, prodigal, lavish:

est benignus potius quam bonae frugi,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 20.—

Of things (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose; cf. malignus), yielding liberally, abundant, fruitful, fertile, copious, rich: et magnas messes terra benigna daret, Tib [p. 233] 3, 3, 6:

ager,

Ov. Am. 1, 10, 56:

tellus,

Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 1:

vepres,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 8:

cornu,

id. C. 1, 17, 15:

egens benignae Tantalus semper dapis,

id. Epod. 17, 66:

ingenī Benigna vena est,

id. C. 2, 18, 10:

praeda,

Ov. F. 5, 174:

benigna materia gratias agendi Romanis,

Liv. 42, 38, 6: quem (ordinem) persequi longa est magis quam benigna materia, fruitful, or suitable for exhibition, Mel. prooem. § 1;

so Seneca: primus liber.. benigniorem habuit materiem,

Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 1:

ipse materiā risūs benignissima,

id. Const. 18, 1 (cf. also in Gr. aphthonos):

aestivam sermone benigno tendere noctem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 11 (sermone multo et liberali et largo, Lamb.):

benignissimum inventum, i. e. beneficentissimum,

Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 11. —Hence, adv.: bĕnignē (ante-class. collat. form bĕnignĭter).

In a friendly manner, kindly, benevolently, courteously, benignly:

benigne et amice facere,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 109:

me benignius Omnes salutant quam salutabant prius,

id. Aul. 1, 2, 36:

ecquid ego possiem Blande dicere aut benigne facere,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 24:

viam monstrare,

courteously, politely, Cic. Balb. 16, 36:

salutare,

id. Phil. 13, 2, 4:

audire,

id. Clu. 3, 8:

polliceri,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 3:

servire alicui,

Cat. 76, 3:

respondere,

Sall. J. 11, 1; Liv. 27, 4, 7:

milites adpellare,

Sall. J. 96, 2:

habere,

id. ib. 113, 2:

alloqui,

Liv. 1, 28, 1:

audire aliquem,

id. 1, 9, 4:

excipere aliquem,

id. 2, 35, 6; 21, 19, 7; Tac. A. 1, 57:

arma capere,

readily, willingly, Liv. 3, 26, 1:

audire,

Suet. Aug. 89.—In the ante-class. form benigniter, Titin. ap. Non. p. 510, 13, and Prisc. p 1010 P.—

Mildly, indulgently (in jurid. Lat.):

in poenalibus causis benignius interpretandum est,

Dig. 50, 17, 155; ib. 44, 7, 1, § 13:

benignissime rescripserunt,

ib. 37, 14, 4.—

Benigne dicis, or absol. benigne, used in colloquial lang. in thanking one for something, both when it is taken and when it is refused (the latter a courtly formula like the Gr. ainô se, zêlô se, kalôs, kallista; cf. recte), you are very kind, I thank you very much, am under great obligation; no, I thank you.

In receiving: As. Peregre cum advenis, cena detur. Di. Benigne dicis, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 27; Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 62.—

In declining:

frumentum, inquit, me abs te emere oportet. Optime. Modium denario. Benigne ac liberaliter: nam ego ternis HS non possum vendere, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 85, § 196:

dic Ad cenam veniat.. Benigne Respondet. Neget ille mihi? etc.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 62; id. ib. 1, 7, 16 Schmid.—

Abundantly, liberally, freely, generously:

pecuniam praebere,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 37; id. Aul. 4, 4, 20; Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 1; Cic. Off. 2, 15, 52 and 53; Sall. J. 68, 3; Liv. 9, 31, 5; 9, 32. 2:

benignius Deprome quadrimum,

Hor. C. 1, 9, 6:

paulo benignius ipsum Te tractare voles,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 11. —

Benigne facere alicui = bene facere, to do a favor, to show favor, Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 24 Ruhnk.; Cat. 73, 3:

qui plurimis in istā provinciā benigne fecisti,

Cic. Fam. 13, 67, 1; id. Off. 1, 14, 42; id. Inv. 1, 55, 109; Liv. 4, 14, 5; 28, 39, 18; Gell. 17, 5, 10 al.; cf. Rutil. Lup. p. 127 Ruhnk. (175 Frotscher).

cor (ŏ, e. g. Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 28; id. P. 1, 3, 32), cordis ( gen. plur. cordium, Vulg. Jer. 4, 4, and 1 Cor. 4, 5; acc. to Fragm. Bob. Nom. et Pron. p. 132, also cordum, but without example), n. [kindr. with Sanscr. hrid; Gr. kardia; Germ. Herz; Engl. heart], the heart (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).

Lit., the heart, as the chief source of the circulation of the blood, and so of life, Cels. 4, 1; cf. Plin. 11, 37, 69. §§

181 and 182: cor tineosum, opinor, habeo,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 62:

num igitur censes, ullum animal, quod sanguinem habeat, sine corde esse posse?

Cic. Div. 1, 52, 119:

cordis globus aut oculi,

Lucr. 4, 119 et saep.— Also for the Greek kardia, the cardiac extremity of the stomach, Lucr. 6, 1150; Hor. S. 2, 3, 28; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 161.—

Meton. (pars pro toto; cf. caput, II.), a person:

lecti juvenes, fortissima corda,

Verg. A. 5, 729:

aspera,

id. ib. 10, 87.—Of animals:

canum,

Lucr. 5, 864.—A term of endearment, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 154 (cf. corculum).—

Trop.

The heart, as the seat of feeling, emotion, etc., heart, soul, feeling ( poet.):

videas corde amare inter se,

from the heart, cordially, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 60:

aliquem amare corde atque animo suo,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 75:

facinus magnum timido cordi credere,

id. Ps. 2, 1, 3:

neque meo Cordi quomquam esse cariorem hoc Phaedriā,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 121:

corde tremit,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 8:

cura ex corde excessit,

Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 12:

cor meum spes laudis percussit,

Lucr. 1, 922:

spectantis tangere querelā,

Hor. A. P. 98:

nequeunt expleri corda tuendo Terribilis oculos,

Verg. A. 8, 265; cf. id. ib. 9, 55:

curis acuere mortalia corda,

id. G. 1, 123; 1, 330; id. A. 1, 302.—

Cordi est alicui, it lies at one's heart, it pleases, is pleasing, agreeable, or dear: quod tibi magnopere cordi est, mihi vehementer displicet, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 88, 32; 89, 1:

utut erga me est meritus, mihi cordi est tamen,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 110; Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:

uterque utriquest cordi,

id. Phorm. 5, 3, 17:

idque eo mihi magis est cordi, quod, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 4, 15; id. Quint. 30, 93; id. Or. 16, 53; Liv. 1, 39, 4; 8, 7, 6; Hor. C. 1, 17, 14 al.; Cato ap. Macr. S. 3, 5 fin. —With inf.:

facere aliquid,

Plaut. Most. 1, 4, 10:

exstinguere vestigia urbis, etc.,

Liv. 28, 20, 7:

subigi nos,

id. 9, 1, 4 al. —

Cordi habere aliquid, to have at heart, to lay great stress upon, to value (post-class.), Gell. 2, 29, 20; 17, 19, 6; 18, 7, 3.—

Acc. to the ancients (cf. Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18) as the seat of wisdom, understanding, heart, mind, judgment, etc. (most freq. in ante-class. poets): quem (Hannibalem) esse meum cor Suasorem summum et studiosum robore belli, Enn. ap. Gell. 7, 2, 9 (Ann. 374 Vahl.):

Ego atque in meo corde, si est quod mihi cor, Eam rem volutavi,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 3 dub. (bracketed by Ritschl):

quantum ego nunc corde conspicio meo,

id. Ps. 3, 1, 3:

quicquam sapere corde,

id. Mil. 2, 3, 65; Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 7; Lucr. 1, 737; 5, 1107:

nec enim sequitur, ut cui cor sapiat, ei non sapiat palatus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24 Madv.; cf. id. ib. 2, 28, 91:

stupor cordis,

id. Phil. 3, 6, 16: cor Zenodoti, Fur. Bib. ap. Suet. Gram. 11; cf.:

cor Enni,

Pers. 6, 10; cf., in a play on the meaning, I. A.: si pecudi cor defuisset, Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 77 fin.

făvōrābĭlis, e, adj. [favor].

Favored, in favor, popular, beloved (not anteAug.; perh. first in Vell.; v. the follg.): Luculli et Metelli triumphum invidia Pompeii apud optimum quemque fecit favorabilem, [p. 732] Vell. 2, 34, 2; cf.

reditus,

id. 2, 40, 2:

oratio,

Tac. A. 2, 37; cf.

eloquentia,

Quint. 12, 10, 74:

quid invidiosum, favorabile, etc.... sit,

id. 6, 1, 11; cf. id. 11, 1, 42:

facilis ac favorabilis causa,

id. 12, 6, 6; cf. id. 5, 10, 113; 4, 3, 9:

in civitate minime favorabili natus,

Tac. Or. 7:

facere aliquem favorabilem,

Plin. Ep. 4, 9 fin.:

aliquis,

Sen. Clem. 10; Suet. Calig. 4; Flor. 4, 4, 4.—

Winning favor, pleasing, agreeable (rare):

est enim jucunda auribus ac favorabilis elcquentia,

Quint. 12, 10, 74:

oratio,

Tac. A. 12, 6; 2, 36.— Comp.:

favorabilius et tutius,

Plin. Ep. 5, 13, 3:

favorabiliores fieri,

Plin. 20, 8, 30, § 74.—Hence, făvōrābĭlĭter, adv., with applause or approbation, favorably:

in aliquem laetum ac plausibilem locum quam maxime possint favorabiliter excurrere,

Quint. 4, 3, 1; Suet. Ner. 7.— Comp.:

favorabilius,

Dig. 18, 7, 9; 40, 4, 10.

festīvus, a, um, adj. [1. festus; lit., feast-like, belonging to a feast; hence], lively, gay, festive, joyous, gladsome, merry (syn.: lepidus, urbanus, salsus, facetus).

Lit. (ante- and post-class.): festivum festinant diem, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 401 (Trag. v. 434 ed. Vahl.):

ludi,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 1, 3; cf.

alea,

Gell. 18, 13, 1:

locus,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 5; id. Poen. 5, 1, 9:

facinus lepidum et festivum,

id. ib. 1, 2, 95:

hospitium in lepido loco,

id. ib. 3, 3, 82; cf.:

festivissimum convivium,

Just. 38, 8 fin. —

Subst.: festīvum, i, n., festive jollity, festivity:

in vindemiarum festivo,

Lampr. Heliog. 11.—

Transf.

In gen., agreeable, pleasing, handsome, pretty:

luculenta atque festiva femina,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 12; cf. id. Ep. 5, 1, 17:

nonne igitur sunt ista festiva?

Cic. Par. 5, 2, 38:

aedes festivissimae,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 93:

area parvula sed festiva,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 4:

copia librorum,

Cic. Att. 2, 6, 1:

opera,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 108. —

In partic.

Of behavior, character, etc., jovial, jocose, agreeable, dear:

quod te isti facilem et festivum putant,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 29:

puer,

Cic. Att. 1, 12 fin.; cf.:

quibus (pueris) nihil potest esse festivius,

id. Fam. 6, 4, 3:

filius,

id. Fl. 36, 91:

homo,

id. Phil. 5, 5, 13; id. de Or. 2, 68, 277. —

As a term of endearment:

o mi pater festivissime!

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 26; so,

festivum caput!

id. ib. 2, 3, 8.—

Of speech, humorous, pleasant, witty:

dulcis et facetus festivique sermonis,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 108:

poëma facit ita festivum, ita concinnum, ita elegans, nihil ut fieri possit argutius,

id. Pis. 29, 70:

oratio,

id. de Or. 3, 25, 100:

acroama,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 22, § 49; Quint. 6, 3, 39.— Hence, adv., in two forms, festīve (class.) and festīvĭter (ante- and post-class.).

Joyously, gayly, cheerfully:

loco in festivo sumus festive accepti,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 9.—

Transf.

Agreeably, pleasantly, delightfully: o domus parata pulchrae familiae festiviter! Naev. ap. Non. 510, 16. —

Humorously, facetiously, wittily.

Form festive:

agere fabellam,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 16, 3:

crimen contexere,

id. Deiot. 6, 19:

dissolvere argumentum,

id. Div. 2, 15, 35:

aliquid odorari,

id. Att. 4, 14, 2:

tradere elementa loquendi,

id. Ac. 2, 28, 92. As a particle of assent:

quare bene et praeclare quamvis nobis saepe dicatur: belle et festive nimium saepe nolo,

Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 101.—

Form festiviter: Epictetus severe simul ac festiviter sejunxit a vero Stoico, qui esset akôlutos, Gell. 1, 2, 7:

respondere,

id. 1, 22, 6.— Sup.: decorare festum festivissime, Poët. ap. Charis. 2, p. 180 P. (Rib. Fragm. Trag. Inc. 223).

festīvus, a, um, adj. [1. festus; lit., feast-like, belonging to a feast; hence], lively, gay, festive, joyous, gladsome, merry (syn.: lepidus, urbanus, salsus, facetus).

Lit. (ante- and post-class.): festivum festinant diem, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 401 (Trag. v. 434 ed. Vahl.):

ludi,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 1, 3; cf.

alea,

Gell. 18, 13, 1:

locus,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 5; id. Poen. 5, 1, 9:

facinus lepidum et festivum,

id. ib. 1, 2, 95:

hospitium in lepido loco,

id. ib. 3, 3, 82; cf.:

festivissimum convivium,

Just. 38, 8 fin. —

Subst.: festīvum, i, n., festive jollity, festivity:

in vindemiarum festivo,

Lampr. Heliog. 11.—

Transf.

In gen., agreeable, pleasing, handsome, pretty:

luculenta atque festiva femina,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 12; cf. id. Ep. 5, 1, 17:

nonne igitur sunt ista festiva?

Cic. Par. 5, 2, 38:

aedes festivissimae,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 93:

area parvula sed festiva,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 4:

copia librorum,

Cic. Att. 2, 6, 1:

opera,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 108. —

In partic.

Of behavior, character, etc., jovial, jocose, agreeable, dear:

quod te isti facilem et festivum putant,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 29:

puer,

Cic. Att. 1, 12 fin.; cf.:

quibus (pueris) nihil potest esse festivius,

id. Fam. 6, 4, 3:

filius,

id. Fl. 36, 91:

homo,

id. Phil. 5, 5, 13; id. de Or. 2, 68, 277. —

As a term of endearment:

o mi pater festivissime!

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 26; so,

festivum caput!

id. ib. 2, 3, 8.—

Of speech, humorous, pleasant, witty:

dulcis et facetus festivique sermonis,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 108:

poëma facit ita festivum, ita concinnum, ita elegans, nihil ut fieri possit argutius,

id. Pis. 29, 70:

oratio,

id. de Or. 3, 25, 100:

acroama,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 22, § 49; Quint. 6, 3, 39.— Hence, adv., in two forms, festīve (class.) and festīvĭter (ante- and post-class.).

Joyously, gayly, cheerfully:

loco in festivo sumus festive accepti,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 9.—

Transf.

Agreeably, pleasantly, delightfully: o domus parata pulchrae familiae festiviter! Naev. ap. Non. 510, 16. —

Humorously, facetiously, wittily.

Form festive:

agere fabellam,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 16, 3:

crimen contexere,

id. Deiot. 6, 19:

dissolvere argumentum,

id. Div. 2, 15, 35:

aliquid odorari,

id. Att. 4, 14, 2:

tradere elementa loquendi,

id. Ac. 2, 28, 92. As a particle of assent:

quare bene et praeclare quamvis nobis saepe dicatur: belle et festive nimium saepe nolo,

Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 101.—

Form festiviter: Epictetus severe simul ac festiviter sejunxit a vero Stoico, qui esset akôlutos, Gell. 1, 2, 7:

respondere,

id. 1, 22, 6.— Sup.: decorare festum festivissime, Poët. ap. Charis. 2, p. 180 P. (Rib. Fragm. Trag. Inc. 223).

grātus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. har-jami, love, desire; Gr. chairô, charma, charis].

Pass., beloved, dear, acceptable, pleasing, agreeable (syn.: acceptus, jucundus, optatus, dulcis, blandus, suavis; in this signif. in ante-Aug. prose, viz. in Cic. and Cæs., only of things; gratiosus, mostly of persons).

Of things:

non ille (amor tuus) quidem mihi ignotus, sed tamen gratus et optatus: dicerem jucundus, nisi id verbum in omne tempus perdidissem,

Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 1; cf.:

illud tamen dicam, mihi id, quod fecisti, esse gratissimum. Tale enim tuum judicium non potest mihi non summe esse jucundum. Quod cum ita sit, esse gratum necesse est,

id. ib. 13, 8, 2:

ista veritas, etiam si jucunda non est, mihi tamen grata est,

id. Att. 3, 24, 2; cf. also: cujus officia jucundiora licet saepe mihi fuerint, numquam tamen gratiora, id. Fam. 4, 6, 1:

quae omnia mihi jucunda, hoc extremum etiam gratum fuit,

id. ib. 10, 3, 1;

so corresp. or connected with jucundus,

id. ib. 1, 17, 6; id. Rosc. Am. 18, 51; id. Cat. 4, 1, 1; Plin. 26, 3, 8, § 14; Plin. Ep. 5, 3, 1; 8, 23, 5:

quid est, quod aut populo Romano gratius esse debeat aut sociis exterisque nationibus optatius esse possit,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 3, 7; so with optatus cf. above, the passage Cic. Fam. 5, 15, 1: quod approbaris, id gratum acceptumque habendum. id. Tusc. 5, 15, 45; cf.:

mihi pol grata acceptaque hujus est benignitas,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 49; Cat. 96, 1:

munus eorum gratum acceptumque esse,

Nep. Hann. 7;

rarely in the contrary order: quorum mihi Dona accepta et grata habeo, tuaque ingrata,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 56: Tox. Credidi gratum fore Beneficium meum apud te. Do. Immo equidem gratiam tibi habeo, id. Pers. 4, 7, 8; cf.:

grata tibi esse mea officia non miror: cognovi enim te gratissimum omnium, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 5, 11, 1:

quam multi, ut Galli, ut Poeni homines immolare et pium et diis immortalibus gratissimum esse duxerunt!

Cic. Rep. 3, 9; cf. Caes. B. G. 6, 16, 5; Cic. ap. Non. 398, 28 (Rep. 6, 2 Mos.); cf. in comp.:

sedere in his scholis gratius erat quam ire per solitudines, etc.,

Plin. 26, 2, 6, § 11; cf.

also: hedera est gratissima Baccho,

Ov. F. 3, 767:

dapibus supremi Grata testudo Jovis,

Hor. C. 1, 32, 14:

eoque erat cujusque gratior in re publica virtus, quod, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 2, 34 fin.; 2, 35:

o diva, gratum quae regis Antium,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 1; cf.:

grato sub antro,

id. ib. 1, 5, 3:

locus,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 46:

tempus,

id. ib. 2, 2, 198:

hora,

id. ib. 1, 4, 14:

dies,

id. C. 4, 5, 7:

lux,

id. S. 1, 5, 39:

nox,

id. Carm. Sec. 23:

carmina,

id. C. 1, 15, 14; 3, 11, 23:

artes,

id. ib. 4, 13, 22:

error mentis,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 140:

protervitas,

id. C. 1, 19, 7 et saep.:

feceris, si de re publica quid sentias explicaris, nobis gratum omnibus,

will do us all a favor, Cic. Rep. 1, 21 fin.; cf.:

quamobrem utrique nostrum gratum admodum feceris,

id. Lael. 4, 16:

quod si eum interfecerit, multis sese nobilibus gratum esse facturum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 20:

quapropter gratissimum mihi feceris, si curaris, ut, etc.... Hoc mihi gratius facere nihil potes,

a very great favor... no greater favor, Cic. Fam. 13, 44:

is adulescens ita locatus est, ut, quae rebus grata erant, gratiora verbis faceret,

Liv. 45, 13, 13:

gratum elocuta consiliantibus Junone divis,

something pleasant, Hor. C. 3, 3, 17.—

Of living beings.

With dat.:

Herophile Phoebo grata,

Tib. 2, 5, 68; cf.:

vates diis gratissima,

Ov. F. 1, 585; and:

superis deorum gratus (Mercurius) et imis,

Hor. C. 1, 10, 20:

donec gratus eram tibi,

id. ib. 3, 9, 1; cf. Prop. 1, 2, 31:

gratus Alexandro regi Magno fuit ille Choerilus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 232; Suet. Caes. 27:

cui (Maecenati) cum se gratum et acceptum in modum amici videret,

id. Gramm. 21:

filio ejus Fausto gratissimus fuit,

id. ib. 12:

(cervus) gratus erat tibi,

Ov. M. 10, 121.—

Absol.:

olim gratus eram,

Prop. 1, 12, 7; Hor. C. 4, 6, 21:

conviva,

id. S. 2, 2, 119:

comitum gratissime,

Ov. M. 14, 221; cf.:

juvenum gratissime Crantor,

id. ib. 12, 367:

o mihi de fratris longe gratissime natis,

id. ib. 12, 586:

quaestor consulibus suis non minus jucundus et gratus quam usui fuit,

Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 5.—Hence, subst.: grātus, i, m., a favorite, darling:

quam (classem) non amicorum sed gratorum appellabat,

Suet. Tib. 46 fin.

Act., thankful, grateful; thankworthy, deserving or procuring thanks (beneficii memor):

cognovi te gratissimum omnium: nec enim tu mihi habuisti modo gratiam, verum etiam cumulatissime retulisti,

Cic. Fam. 5, 11, 1; cf. id. Leg. 1, 18, 49:

quamquam gratiarum actionem a te non desiderabam, cum te re ipsa atque animo scirem esse gratissimum, tamen, etc.,

id. Fam. 10, 19, 1:

si bene de me meritis gratum me praebeo, etc.,

id. Planc. 38, 91 (v. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 508); cf.:

ut grati ac memores beneficii esse videantur,

id. Agr. 2, 8, 21:

Hegesaratus, magnis meis beneficiis ornatus in consulatu suo, memor et gratus fuit,

id. Fam. 13, 25; cf. also id. Att. 9, 11, A, 3:

tu quam gratus erga me fueris, ipse existimare potes,

id. Fam. 5, 5, 2; cf.: ut quam gratissimus erga te esse cognoscerer, id. ib. 1, 5, 1; Quint. 11, 2, 12: gratiorem me esse in te, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 1:

si quod adest gratum juvat,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 13; id. C. 1, 12, 39:

laudo vos, Quirites, cum gratissimis animis prosequimini nomen clarissimi adolescentis,

Cic. Phil. 4, 1, 3; cf. id. ib. 14, 11, 30, and 10, 3, 7:

tu, quamcumque deus tibi fortunaverit horam, gratā sume manu,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 23:

quod tamen nunc faciam: tum, cum gratum mihi esse potuit, nolui,

i. e. might have procured me thanks, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 21:

est istuc datum Profecto, ut grata mihi sint, quae facio, omnia,

id. Eun. 3, 1, 6 Ruhnk.; cf.:

didicisse, quam sit re pulchrum, beneficio gratum, fama gloriosum, tyrannum occidere,

productive of gratitude, Cic. Phil. 2, 46, 117:

pro quibus beneficiis vix satis gratus videar,

Sall. H. 2, 41, 5 Dietsch.— Hence, adv.: grātē.

(Acc. to I. = jucunde.) With pleasure, agreeably, willingly (rare in the class. period):

praeterita grate meminit et, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 1, 19, 62:

liberti pupillorum grate facient, si, etc.,

Dig. 26, 10, 3:

insignis haec munificentia... nec a debitoribus magis quam a creditoribus gratius excepta,

Just. 12, 11, 2:

gratissime provocari,

Macr. S. 7, 2.—

(Acc. to II.) Thankfully, gratefully (class.):

aliquid et grate et pie facere,

Cic. Planc. 41, 98; cf.:

quid pie, quid grate, quid humaniter, aut fecerit aut tulerit,

id. de Or. 2, 11, 46; Suet. Aug. 66:

natales grate numeras,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 210:

beneficium qui dat, vult accipi grate,

Sen. Ben. 2, 31:

aliquid recipere,

Suet. Ner. 22; and in sup.:

id munus inter censoria opera gratissime acceptum est,

Plin. 7, 60, 60, § 214.

laetĭtĭa, ae, f. [id.], joy, esp. unrestrained joyfulness, gladness, pleasure, delight (cf.: gaudium, hilaritas).

Lit.:

laetitia opinio recens boni praesentis, in quo efferri rectum esse videatur,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 7, 14:

laetitia dicitur exsultatio quaedam animi gaudio efferventior eventu rerum expetitarum,

Gell. 2, 27, 3:

judicium plenum laetitiae,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 243:

percipere laetitiam ex re,

id. ib. 1, 44, 197:

prae laetitia lacrumae prosuliunt mihi,

Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 13:

ut mea laetitia laetus promiscam siet,

id. Ps. 4, 5, 11:

totus in laetitiam effusus,

wholly dissolved in pleasure, Just. 12, 13, 7:

diem perpetuum in laetitia degere,

to spend joyfully, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 6:

ne me in laetitiam frustra conicias,

id. Heaut. 2, 3, 51:

laetitiae dator,

i. e. Bacchus, Verg. A. 1, 734:

efferri laetitiā,

to be transported with joy, Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 68:

exsultare,

id. Att. 14, 6, 2:

perfrui,

id. Cat. 1, 10, 26:

afficere aliquem,

id. Mil. 28, 77:

comitia me laetitiā extulerunt,

have rejoiced me exceedingly, id. Fam. 2, 10, 1:

laetitiam capere oculis,

to enjoy, id. Att. 14, 14, 1:

dare alicui,

to give delight to, id. Planc. 42, 103:

et altera traditur circensis turbae non minus similis veri laetitia,

another outbreak of joy, Liv. 45, 1, 6:

ut hanc laetitiam nec opinanti primus ei obicerem domi,

this cause of joy, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 12; cf.:

offerre laetitiam alicui,

id. Hec. 5, 3, 18.—Esp. of success in love, Prop. 1, 10, 12; 2, 6, 32.— Plur.:

quaero quoi ter trinas triplicis tribus demeritas artibus Dem laetitias,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 14: incessi omnibus laetitiis laetus, Poët. ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 9, 2.—

Transf., pleasing appearance, beauty, grace:

membrorum,

Stat. Th. 6, 571.— Luxuriance, fertility, of plants:

trunci,

Col. 4, 24, 12:

pabuli,

plenty, abundance, Just. 44, 4, 14.—Of a fruitful soil:

loci,

Col. 4, 21, 2.—Of speech, sweetness, grace:

laetitia et pulcritudo orationis,

Tac. Or. 20.

lĭbet or lŭbet, libuit (lub-) and libitum (lub-) est (in Cic. perh. only in the latter form), 2, v. n. and impers. (libeo, es, etc., as a personal verb acc. to Caper ap. Prisc. p. 922 P.) [Sanscr. root lubh, cupere, desiderare; Gr. root liph- in liptô, lips; cf. Goth. liub-s; Germ. lieb, dear; Lat. līber], it pleases, is pleasing, is agreeable: mihi, I am disposed, I like, I please, I will.— Constr. with nom. of a demonstr. or rel. pronoun, with inf. or a subject-clause as subject, or impers. without a subject, and with or without a dat.

Id (quod) libet (mihi):

quod tibi lubet, idem mihi lubet,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 138:

facite, quod vobis lubet,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34:

cui facile persuasi, mihi id, quod rogaret, ne licere quidem, non modo non libere,

Cic. Att. 14, 19, 4; cf.:

sin et poterit Naevius id quod libet et ei libebit quod non licet, quid agendum est?

id. Quint. 30, 94:

quodcumque homini accidit libere, posse retur,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 17:

ubi peregre, tibi quod libitum fuit, feceris,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 77.—Once in plur.:

cetera item, quae cuique libuissent, dilargitus est,

Suet. Caes. 20.—Without a dat.:

rogita quod lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 31:

faciat quod lubet,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 55:

nihil vident, nisi quod lubet,

id. ib. 4, 1, 30:

si quid lubet,

id. Phorm. 5, 7, 88:

quae (senectus) efficeret, ut id non liberet quod non oporteret,

Cic. de Sen. 12, 42:

illa priorum scribendi, quodcumque animo flagrante liberet, simplicitas,

Juv. 1, 152.—

With inf. or a subject-clause, with or without a dat.:

concedere aliquantisper hinc mihi intro lubet,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 158:

mihi lubet nunc venire Pseudolum,

id. ib. 4, 5, 3; Ter. And. 5, 5, 2: Qui lubitumst illi condormiscere? Lu. Oculis, opinor, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 13:

non libet mihi deplorare vitam,

Cic. de Sen. 23, 84:

quarum (orationum) alteram non libebat mihi scribere,

id. Att. 2, 7, 1:

de quo genere libitum est mihi paulo plura dicere,

id. de Or. 2, 85, 348; id. Leg. 2, 27, 69; Ter. And. 1, 5, 28.—Without a dat.: cum illuc ventum est, ire illinc lubet, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 258 Vahl.); Ter. And. 4, 5, 21:

de C. Gracchi tribunatu quid exspectem non libet augurari,

Cic. Lael. 12, 41:

qui in foro, quicum colloqui libeat, non habeant,

id. Rep. 1, 17, 28:

incoharo haec studia, vel non vacabit, vel non libebit,

Quint. 1, 12, 12; 10, 1, 13; Ter. Ad. 5, 1, 4:

ultra Sauromatas fugere hinc libet,

Juv. 2, 1: libet expectare quis impendat, etc., I should like to see who, etc., id. 12, 95.—

Absol., with or without a dat.:

ego ibo pro te, si tibi non libet,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 10:

ubiquomque libitum erit animo meo,

id. As. 1, 1, 97:

adi, si libet,

id. Pers. 5, 2, 13; Cic. Tusc. 5, 15, 45; Ter. And. 1, 3, 8:

age, age, ut libet,

id. ib. 2, 1, 10:

ut libet, as an expression of assent,

id. Heaut. 4, 4, 16; 4, 5, 32; 5, 1, 61; id. Ad. 2, 2, 38: Ch. Quid in urbe reptas villice? Ol. Lubet, Plaut. Cas. 1, 11; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 79: Pe. Qua fiducia ausus... dicere? Ep. Libuit, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 33; cf. id. Ps. 1, 3, 114.—Hence,

lĭbens ( lŭbens; LIBES, Inscr. R. N. 2598 Mommsen), entis, P. a., that does a thing willingly or with readiness, willing, with good will, with pleasure (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

studen hercle audire, nam ted ausculto lubens,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 108: Ph. Complectere. An Facio lubens, id. As. 3, 3, 25:

ego illud vero illud feci, ac lubens,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 43; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 15; id. And. 2, 1, 37: cum totius Italiae concursus facti illius gloriam [p. 1060] libens agnovisset, Cic. Mil. 14, 38.—Freq. (esp. in Cic.; Cæs. and Quint. do not use libens as an adj. at all) in the abl. absol.: me, te, etc., and animo libente or libenti, with pleasure, gladly, very willingly:

edepol me lubente facies,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 218:

me libente eripies mihi hunc errorem,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 6; id. de Or. 2, 73, 295:

libente me vero,

id. Rep. 1, 9 fin. Mos. N. cr.:

quae (res nostrae) tam libenti senatu laudarentur,

id. Att. 1, 14, 3:

cum Musis nos delectabimus animo aequo, immo vero etiam gaudenti ac libenti,

id. ib. 2, 4, 2.— Sup.:

cunctae praefecturae libentissimis animis eum recipiunt,

Caes. B. C. 1, 15, 1:

illam porticum redemptores statim sunt demoliti libentissimis omnibus,

Cic. Att. 4, 2, 5:

libentissimis Graecis,

id. Fam. 13, 65, 1:

lubentissimo corde atque animo,

Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 22:

fecit animo libentissimo populus Romanus,

Cic. Verr. 1, 9, 25.—

In partic.:

libens or libens merito (abbreviated L. M.), a formula used in paying a vow: Jovi lubens meritoque vitulor,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 1:

EX VOTO L. M.,

Inscr. Orell. 1412: V. S. L. M., i. e. votum solvit libens merito, or V. L. S., i. e. votum libens solvit, very freq. in inscriptions. —

Transf., glad, happy, joyful, cheerful, merry (ante-class.):

uti ego illos lubentiores faciam, quam Lubentia'st,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 2:

ego omnes hilaros, lubentes, laetificantes faciam ut fiant,

id. Pers. 5, 1, 8:

hilarum ac lubentem fac te in gnati nuptiis,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 38.—Hence, adv.: lĭbenter or lŭbenter, willingly, cheerfully, gladly, with pleasure, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4, 4 (Ann. v. 239 Vahl.); id. ap. Non. 15, 12 (Trag. v. 379 ib.):

cenare lubenter,

Cato, R. R. 156:

ecastor frigida non lavi magis lubenter,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 1:

ut homines te libenter studioseque audiant,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12, 39; id. Rep. 1, 18, 30:

libenter verbo utor Catonis,

id. ib. 2, 1, 3; id. Lael. 24, 89; id. Rep. 2, 38, 64:

ego tuas litteras legi libenter,

id. Fam. 3, 5, 1; id. Att. 2, 1, 1:

libenter homines id, quod volunt, credunt,

Caes. B. G. 3, 18.— Comp.:

ille adjurans, nusquam se umquam libentius (cenavisse),

with a better appetite, Cic. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Lael. 19, 68:

nihil libentius audiunt,

Quint. 7, 1, 63; 8, 2, 11:

nil umquam hac carne libentius edit,

Juv. 15, 88.— Sup.: cui ego quibuscumque rebus potero libentissime commodabo, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 275, 18: cum lubentissime edis, Favorin. ap. Gell. 15, 8, 2:

libentissime dare,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 63; id. Leg. 2, 1, 1; Sen. Ep. 30, 9.— Hence also,

lĭbĭtus, a, um, P. a.; only plur. as subst.: lĭbĭta, ōrum, n., lit., the things that please, one's pleasure, will, liking, humor (Tacitean):

sua libita exercebant,

Tac. A. 6, 1:

ad libita Caesarum,

id. ib. 12, 6:

ad libita Pallantis,

id. ib. 14, 2.