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  • 1 carpō

        carpō psī, ptus, ere    [CARP-], to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather: flores, H.: rosam, V.: manibus frondes, V.: frumenta manu, V. — To take ( as nourishment), crop, pluck off, browse, graze on: gramen, V.: pabula, O.: (apis) thyma, H.: Invidia summa cacumina carpit, O.: (prandium) quod erit bellissumum, pick dainties, T.—To tear off, tear away, pluck off, pull out (poet.): inter cornua saetas, V.: vellera, to spin, V.: pensum, H.: ex collo coronas, to pull off, H. — Fig., to pluck, snatch: flosculos (orationis): luctantia oscula, to snatch, O.—To enjoy, seize, use, make use of: breve ver, O.: diem, redeem, H.: auras vitalīs, V.: quietem, V.—To gnaw at, tear, blame, censure, carp at, slander, calumniate, revile: maledico dente: militum vocibus nonnihil carpi, Cs.: alquem sermonibus, L.: opus, O.—To weaken, enfeeble, wear away, consume, destroy: regina caeco carpitur igni, V.: invidia carpit et carpitur unā, O.: Tot tuos labores, i. e. to obscure the fame of, H.—In war, to inflict injury upon, weaken, harass: agmen adversariorum, Cs.: vires Romanas, L.: extrema agminis, L. — To cut to pieces, divide: carpenda membris minutioribus oratio: in multas partīs exercitum, L.—To take apart, single out: tu non animadvertes in omnes, sed carpes ut velis: carpi paucos ad ignominiam. — To go, tread upon, pass over, navigate, sail through, take one's way. viam, V.: supremum iter (i. e. mori), H.: gyrum, to go in a circle, V.: mare, O.: Carpitur acclivis trames, O.
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    carpere, carpsi, carptus V TRANS
    seize/pick/pluck/gather/browse/tear off; graze/crop; tease/pull out/card (wool); separate/divide, tear down; carve; despoil/fleece; pursue/harry; consume/erode

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  • 2 carpo

    carpo, psi, ptum, 3 [cf.: rapio, harpazô, karpos; Engl. grab, grip, grasp].
    I.
    Lit., of plants, flowers, fruits, etc., to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather (class.; in prose and poetry, esp. in the latter very freq.; syn. decerpere).
    A.
    In gen.:

    (flos) tenui carptus ungui,

    Cat. 62, 43; Hor. C. 3, 27, 44; Ov. M. 9, 342:

    ab arbore flores,

    id. ib. 9, 380; cf.

    infra, II.: rosam, poma,

    Verg. G. 4, 134:

    violas et papavera,

    id. E. 2, 47:

    violas, lilia,

    Ov. M. 5, 392:

    frondes uncis manibus,

    id. G. 2, 366:

    plenis pomaria ramis,

    Ov. H. 4, 29:

    vindemiam de palmite,

    Verg. G. 2, 90:

    fructus,

    id. ib. 2, 501:

    frumenta manu,

    id. ib. 3, 176.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    Of animals, to take something as nourishment (cf. Burm. ad Phaedr. 1, 28, 4); first, of nourishment from plants, to crop, pluck off, browse, graze on, etc. (syn. depascere); also of flesh, to eat, devour (rare):

    alia (animalia) sugunt, alia carpunt, alia vorant, alia mandunt,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:

    carpunt gramen equi,

    Verg. A. 9, 353; id. G. 2, 201; Ov. M. 1, 299:

    herbam,

    Verg. G. 3, 296; 3, 465; Ov. M. 13, 927:

    pabula,

    id. ib. 4, 217; id. F. 4, 750:

    alimenta,

    id. M. 15, 478:

    apes carpunt ex oleā arbore ceram, e fico mel, etc.,

    gather, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 24 sq.; cf.:

    apis carpens thyma,

    Hor. C. 4, 2, 29.— Poet.:

    Invidia (personif. envy) summa cacumina carpit,

    Ov. M. 2, 792:

    nec carpsere jecur volucres,

    id. ib. 10, 43; cf. Phaedr. 1, 28, 4.—Sometimes transf., of men:

    prandium,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 52:

    carpe cibos digitis,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 755: pisces, pulles, Mart. 3, 13, 1.—Also, to carve; hence the pun in Petr. 36 fin. —
    2.
    Poet., of other things, to tear off, tear away:

    summas carpens media inter cornua saetas,

    Verg. A. 6, 245.—Of wool, to pluck; hence, poet., to spin:

    vellera,

    Verg. G. 4, 335:

    pensa,

    id. ib. 1, 390; Prop. 3 (4), 6, 16; Hor. C. 3, 27, 64:

    lana carpta,

    carded, Cels. 6, 6, 1 (hence, facete: stolidum pecus, to pluck, i. e. to fleece rich lovers, Prop. 2 (3), 16, 8; Ov. A. A. 1, 420):

    ex collo furtim coronas,

    to pull off, Hor. S. 2, 3, 256:

    crinem genasque,

    to tear, rend, lacerate, Val. Fl. 8, 7;

    so acc. to Servius's inaccurate account, in a fragment of the Twelve Tables: mulier faciem ne carpito,

    Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 606 (instead of the real words: MVLIERES. GENAS. NE. RADVNTO.; cf.

    Dirks. Fragm. XII. Tab. p. 668): artus in parva frusta,

    Sen. Thyest. 1061.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    (Acc. to I. A.) To pluck, snatch, etc.:

    ut omni ex genere orationem aucuper, et omnes undique flosculos carpam atque delibem,

    Cic. Sest. 56, 119; id. de Or. 1, 42, 191:

    atque in legendo carpsi exinde quaedam,

    Gell. 9, 4, 5: oscula, to pluck, as it were, from the lips, to snatch, Prop. 1, 20, 27; Ov. H. 11, 117 Loers. N. cr.; id. M. 4, 358; Phaedr. 3, 8, 12 al.:

    basia,

    Mart. 5, 46, 1:

    gaudia,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 661:

    dulcia,

    Pers. 5, 151:

    regni commoda carpe mei,

    Ov. F. 3, 622:

    fugitivaque gaudia carpe,

    and snatch pleasures as they fly, Mart. 7, 47, 11:

    delicias,

    Prop. 2 (3), 34, 74.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    (Acc. to I. B. 1.) In a good sense, to enjoy, use, make use of (mostly poet.;

    syn.: fruor, capio): breve ver et primos carpere flores,

    Ov. M. 10, 85 (cf.:

    flore aetatis frui,

    Liv. 21, 3, 4):

    illa mihi sedes, illic mea carpitur aetas,

    spent, lived, passed, Cat. 68, 35:

    diem,

    Hor. C. 1, 11, 8:

    honores virtutis,

    Val. Fl. 1, 177:

    auras vitales,

    Verg. A. 1, 388; cf. Sil. 3, 712:

    sub dio somnos,

    Verg. G. 3, 435:

    quietem,

    id. A. 7, 414:

    soporem,

    id. ib. 4, 522:

    noctes securas,

    Val. Fl. 5, 48; a poet. circumlocution for vivere, degere, etc.—
    b.
    In a bad sense.
    (α).
    To gnaw at or tear character or reputation, to carp at, slander, calumniate, revile:

    more hominum invident, in conviviis rodunt, in circulis vellicant: non illo inimico, sed hoc maledico dente carpunt,

    Cic. Balb. 26, 57:

    nam is carpebatur a Bibulo, Curione, Favonio,

    id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2:

    Paulum obtrectatio carpsit,

    Liv. 45, 35, 5:

    imperatorem,

    id. 44, 38, 2:

    quae non desierunt carpere maligni,

    Quint. 11, 1, 24:

    maligno sermone,

    Suet. Aug. 27:

    obliquis orationibus,

    id. Dom. 2:

    nonnihil vocibus,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 17:

    aliquem sermonibus,

    Liv. 7, 12, 12:

    sinistris sermonibus,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 5:

    Ciceronem in his,

    Quint. 9, 4, 64:

    te ficto quaestu,

    Cat. 62, 36 and 37:

    et detorquere recte facta,

    Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 6:

    famam vitamque,

    id. Pan. 53, 4; Suet. Calig. 34.—
    (β).
    To rob of strength, to weaken, enfeeble, wear away, consume; or poet., with the idea extended (cf. absumo), to consume completely, to destroy:

    vires,

    Verg. G. 3, 215; Liv. 9, 27, 6:

    quid si carpere singula (jura) et extorquere... patiemini,

    id. 34, 3, 2;

    esp. of in ward care, anxiety, longing, etc.: at regina, gravi jamdudum saucia curā, Volnus alit venis et caeco carpitur igni,

    Verg. A. 4, 2; Ov. M. 3, 490; 10, 370:

    solane perpetua maerens carpere juventā?

    Verg. A. 4, 32:

    curā carpitur ista mei,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 680:

    aegra assiduo mens carpitur aestu,

    Val. Fl. 3, 305; Lucr. 9, 744; Sil. 15, 1:

    invidia carpit et carpitur unā,

    Ov. M. 2, 781; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 5, 3:

    non ego Tot tuos patiar labores carpere lividas Obliviones,

    to wear away, Hor. C. 4, 9, 33; cf.: otia corpus alunt, animus quoque pascitur illis;

    Inmodicus contra carpit utrumque labor,

    Ov. P. 1, 4, 21 sq.:

    aras etiam templaque demolitur et obscurat oblivio, neglegit carpitque posteritas,

    Plin. Pan. 55, 9:

    totum potest excedere quod potest carpi,

    Sen. N. Q. 2, 13, 2.—So,
    (γ).
    In milit. lang., to inflict injury upon an enemy (esp. by single, repeated attacks), to weaken, harass:

    agmen adversariorum,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 63:

    hostes carpere multifariam vires Romanas,

    Liv. 3, 5, 1; 22, 32, 2; 27, 46, 6; cf. id. 3, 61, 13 infra; Weissenb. ad Liv. 22, 16, 2; Tac. A. 12, 32; Luc. 4, 156:

    novissimum agmen,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 78 fin.:

    novissimos,

    Liv. 8, 38, 6:

    extrema agminis,

    id. 6, 32, 11. —
    2.
    To separate a whole into single parts, to cut to pieces, divide (syn.: dividere, distribuere): neque semper utendum est perpetuitate, sed saepe carpenda membris minutioribus [p. 295] oratio est, Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190:

    in multas parvasque partes carpere exercitum,

    Liv. 26, 38, 2:

    summam unius belli in multa proelia parvaque,

    id. 3, 61, 13:

    Erymanthus... ab accolis rigantibus carpitur,

    is drawn off into canals, Curt. 8, 9, 410. —With a reference to the meaning
    (α).
    supra:

    si erunt plures qui ob innocentem condemnandum pecuniam acceperint, tu non animadvertes in omnis, sed carpes ut velis, et paucos ex multis ad ignominiam sortiere?

    distinguish, single out, Cic. Clu. 46, 129; cf.:

    in multorum peccato carpi paucos ad ignominiam,

    id. ib. —
    3.
    Viam, iter, etc., or with definite local substantives, terram, mare, litora, etc., to go, tread upon, pass over, navigate, sail along or through, to take or pursue one ' s way (syn. ire):

    viam,

    Verg. A. 6, 629; Hor. S. 2, 6, 93; Ov. M. 8, 208; 11, 139:

    iter,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 95; Ov. H. 18, 34; id. M. 2, 549; 10, 709:

    supremum iter = mori,

    Hor. C. 2, 17, 12:

    gyrum,

    to go in a circle, Verg. G. 3, 191:

    fugam,

    to fly, Sil. 10, 62; cf.:

    prata fugā,

    Verg. G. 3, 142:

    pede viam,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 230:

    pede iter,

    id. F. 3, 604:

    pedibus terras, pontum remis,

    Prop. 1, 6, 33:

    pede campos,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 23:

    mare,

    id. M. 11, 752:

    litora,

    id. ib. 12, 196;

    15, 507: aëra alis,

    id. ib. 4, 616; cf. Verg. G. 4, 311:

    aethera,

    Ov. M. 8, 219:

    carpitur acclivis per muta silentia trames,

    id. ib. 10, 53.

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  • 3 dēcerpō

        dēcerpō psī, ptus, ere    [de + carpo], to pluck off, tear away, break off, pluck, crop, gather: pollice florem, O.: poma manu, O.: ficum, Iu.: Undique decerpta oliva, H.: fetūs arbore, V.: oscula rostro, snatch, Ct.—Fig., to pluck off, take away: animus decerptus ex mente divinā, drawn: ne quid iocus de gravitate decerperet, detract.—To enjoy: ex re fructūs, H.: nihil sibi ex istā laude centurio decerpit.
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    decerpere, decerpsi, decerptus V TRANS
    pluck, pull/tear/snip off, pick; cull; reap/procure/gather; catch/snatch; remove

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  • 4 ala

    āla, ae, f. [for axla, contr. from axilla, Cic. Or. 45, 153; cf. anchos = ômos (Hesych.) = shoulder = O. H. Germ. Ahsala; Germ. Achsel].
    I.
    Lit., a wing, as of a bird: galli plausu premunt alas, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 26; Verg. A. 3, 226 al.: Me. Vox mihi ad aurīs advolavit. So. Ne ego homo infelix fui, qui non alas intervelli, that I did not pluck off its wings, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 170.— Poet., of the gods:

    Mors atris circumvolat alis,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 58:

    volucris Fati Tardavit alas,

    id. C. 2, 17, 25:

    bibulae Cupidinis alae,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 233:

    furvis circumdatus alis Somnus,

    Tib. 2, 1, 89:

    me jocundis Sopor impulit alis,

    Prop. 1, 3, 45:

    Madidis Notus evolat alis,

    Ov. M. 1, 264.—Of sails:

    velorum pandimus alas,

    Verg. A. 3, 520.—Of oars:

    classis centenis remiget alis,

    Prop. 4, 6, 47:

    remigium alarum,

    Verg. A. 1, 301 (cf. Hom. Od. 11, 125);

    so inversely remi is used of wings: super fluctus alarum insistere remis,

    Ov. M. 5, 558 (cf. pterois eressei, Eur. Iphig. Taur. 289; Aeschyl. Agam. 52; and cf. Lucr. 6, 743). —Of wind and lightning:

    Nisus Emicat et ventis et fulminis ocior alis,

    Verg. A. 5, 319 al. —
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In man, the upper and under part of the arm, where it unites with the shoulder; the armpit, Liv. 9, 41; 30, 34:

    aliquid sub alā portare,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 12:

    hirquinae,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 51:

    hirsutae,

    Hor. Epod. 12, 5:

    halitus oris et alarum vitia,

    Plin. 21, 20, 83, § 142:

    virus alarum et sudores,

    id. 35, 15, 52, § 185:

    sudor alarum,

    Petr. 128 (many Romans were accustomed to pluck out the hair from the armpits, Sen. Ep. 114; Juv. 11, 157; v. alipilus).—
    B.
    In animals, the hollow where the foreleg is joined to the shoulder; the shoulder - blade. —Of elephants, Plin. 11, 40, 95, § 324.—Of frogs, Plin. 9, 51, 74, § 159.—
    C.
    In trees and plants, the hollow where the branch unites with the stem, Plin. 16, 7, 10, § 29; so id. 22, 18, 21, § 45; 25, 5, 18, § 38 al.—
    D.
    In buildings, the wings, the side apartments on the right and left of the court, the side halls or porches, the colonnades; called also in Gr. ptera, Vitr. 6, 4, 137; 4, 7, 92.—
    E.
    In milit. lang., the wing of an army (thus conceived of as a bird of prey), commonly composed of the Roman cavalry and the troops of the allies, esp. their horsemen; hence, alarii in contrast with legionarii, and separated from them in enumeration, also having a leader, called praefectus alae, Tac. H. 2, 59 al.; cf. Lips. de Milit. Rom. 1, 10 Manut.; Cic. Fam. 2, 17 fin.; Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 1, 51; Smith, Dict. Antiq.; Cincius ap. Gell. 16, 4, 6; cf. Gell. 10, 9, 1:

    Alae, equites: ob hoc alae dicti, quia pedites tegunt alarum vice,

    Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 121: peditatu, equitibus atque alis cum hostium legionibus pugnavit, Cato ap. Gell. 15, 9, 5; Cic. Off. 2, 13, 45:

    dextera ala (in alas divisum socialem exercitum habebat) in primā acie locata est,

    Liv. 31, 21; Vell. 2, 117 al.—An ala, as a military division, usu. consisted of about 500 men, Liv. 10, 29.
    ► Such alae gave names to several towns, since they were either levied from them, quartered in them, or, after the expiration of their time of service, received the lands of such towns.
    —So, Ala Flaviana, Ala Nova, et saep. (cf. castrum, II. 1. fin.).

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  • 5 stringo

    stringo, inxi, ictum, 3, v. a. [root strig; Gr. strang-, to squeeze; stranx, a drop; cf. O. H. Germ. streng; Engl. strong], to draw tight, to bind or tie tight; to draw, bind, or press together, etc. (syn. ligo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    te stringam ad carnarium,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 66:

    stringit vitta comas,

    Luc. 5, 143: caesariem crinali cultu, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 85:

    stricta matutino frigore vulnera,

    Liv. 22, 51:

    pectora pigro gelu,

    Luc. 4, 652:

    strictos insedimus amnes,

    Val. Fl. 1, 414:

    mare gelu stringi et consistere,

    Gell. 17, 8, 16:

    quercus in duas partes diducta, stricta denuo et cohaesa,

    having closed together, id. 15, 16, 4:

    habenam,

    to draw tight, Stat. Th. 11, 513:

    ferrum,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 6.—
    B.
    Transf. (through the intermediate idea of drawing close), to touch, touch upon, touch lightly or slightly, to graze (syn. tango):

    litus ama, et laevas stringat sine palmula cautes,

    Verg. A. 5, 163; cf.:

    stringebat summas ales miserabilis undas,

    Ov. M. 11, 733:

    aequor (aurā),

    id. ib. 4, 136:

    metas interiore rotā,

    id. Am. 3, 2, 12:

    latus,

    Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 24:

    vestigia canis rostro,

    Ov. M. 1, 536 et saep.:

    equos,

    to stroke, Charis. 84 P.:

    tela stringentia corpus,

    i. e. slightly touching, Verg. A. 10, 331; cf. Sen. Ben. 2, 6, 1:

    coluber Dente pedem strinxit,

    Ov. M. 11, 776:

    strictus ac recreatus ex vulnere in tempus,

    Flor. 4, 12, 44.—
    2.
    To pull or strip off, to pluck off, cut off, clip off, prune, etc. (cf. destringo):

    oleam ubi nigra erit, stringito,

    Cato, R. R. 65, 1; so,

    oleam,

    Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 12:

    bacam,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 55, 2:

    quernas glandes,

    Verg. G. 1, 305:

    folia ex arboribus,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 58; Liv. 23, 30, 3:

    frondes,

    Verg. E. 9, 61; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 28:

    hordea,

    Verg. G. 1, 317:

    arbores,

    Col. 6, 3, 7:

    celeriter gladios strinxerunt,

    drew from the sheath, unsheathed, Caes. B. C. 3, 93:

    strictam aciem offerre,

    Verg. A. 6, 291:

    ensem,

    id. ib. 10, 577; so,

    gladios,

    id. ib. 12, 278; Ov. M. 7, 333:

    ensem,

    id. ib. 8, 207;

    14, 296: ferrum,

    Liv. 7, 40 al.:

    cultrum,

    id. 7, 5, 5; 3, 50, 3; and poet. transf.:

    manum,

    to bare, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 14; id. Tr. 5, 2, 30 al.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Of speech, to touch upon, treat briefly, Sil. 8, 48.—Hence, to compress, abridge:

    narrationis loco rem stringat,

    Quint. 4, 2, 128 Spald.—
    B.
    To hold in check, to rule, sway (syn. coërceo):

    quaecumque meo gens barbara nutu Stringitur, adveniat,

    Claud. B. Get. 371.—
    C.
    To waste, consume, reduce:

    praeclaram stringat malus ingluvie rem,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 8.—
    D.
    (Acc. to I. B.) To touch, move, affect; esp. to affect painfully, to wound, pain:

    atque animum patriae strinxit pietatis imago,

    Verg. A. 9, 294:

    quam tua delicto stringantur pectora nostro,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 21:

    nomen alicujus,

    id. ib. 2, 350.—
    E.
    To draw in hostility, attack with:

    in hostes stringatur iambus,

    Ov. R. Am. 377:

    bellum,

    Flor. 3, 21, 1.—Hence, strictus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), drawn together, close, strait, tight, etc.
    A.
    Lit.:

    laxaret pedem a stricto nodo,

    Liv. 24, 7, 5:

    duriora genti corpora, stricti artus,

    Tac. G. 30:

    strictissima janua,

    Ov. R. Am. 233:

    si strictior fuerit pedatura,

    Hyg. Grom. 3, 1:

    emplastrum,

    thick, Scrib. Comp. 45 fin.:

    venter,

    i. e. bound up, costive, Veg. 3, 16:

    strictior aura,

    more severe, colder, Aus. Idyll. 14, 3.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    Of language, brief, concise:

    quo minus (Aeschines) strictus est,

    Quint. 10, 1, 77:

    qui (Demosthenes) est strictior multo (quam Cicero),

    id. 12, 10, 52.—
    2.
    Of character, severe, strict:

    Catones,

    Manil. 5, 106:

    mentes,

    id. 1, 769:

    lex,

    Stat. S. 3, 5, 87.—
    3.
    Rigid, exact (law Lat.):

    restitutio stricto jure non competebat,

    Dig. 29, 2, 85; 39, 3, 3 al.— Adv.: strictē and strictim, closely, tightly:

    in foramen conicies,

    Pall. Mart. 8, 2.— Comp., Pall. 1, 6.— Sup., Gell. 16, 3, 4.—
    2.
    Fig., accurately:

    strictius interpretari,

    Dig. 8, 2, 20.

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  • 6 stringō

        stringō inxī, ictus, ere    [STRAG-], to draw tight, bind tight, compress, press together: stricta frigore volnera, L.: ferri duritiem, forge, Ct. dub.— To touch lightly, graze: laevas cautes, V.: Stringebat summas ales undas, O.: metas rotā, O.: tela stringentia corpus, V.: dente pedem, O. —Of places, to border on, touch: Scytharum gens ultima Asiae, quā Bactra sunt, stringit, Cu.— To strip off, pluck off, cut away, clip, prune: quernas glandes, V.: folia ex arboribus, Cs.: strictis foliis vivere, L.: celeriter gladios, unsheathe, Cs.: strictam aciem offerre, V.: cultrum, L.: manum, to bare, O.; cf. in hostīs stringatur iambus, be drawn (as a weapon), O.—Fig., to waste, consume, reduce: Praeclaram stringat malus ingluvie rem, H.— To touch, move, affect, injure, wound, pain: animum, V.: nomen meum, O.
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    stringere, strinxi, strictus V
    draw tight; draw; graze; strip off

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  • 7 decerpo

    dē-cerpo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a. [carpo], to pluck off, to tear, pull, or break off, to crop, gather (class.; most freq. in the poets.—Constr., usually aliquid ex aliqua re; less freq. aliquid de aliqua re).
    I.
    Lit.:

    acina de uvis decerpito,

    Cato R. R. 112, 3:

    novos flores,

    Lucr. 1, 927; 4, 3; cf.:

    undique decerptam fronti praeponere olivam,

    Hor. Od. 1, 7, 7:

    arbore pomum,

    Ov. M. 5, 536; cf. id. Pont. 3, 5, 19;

    and auricomos fetus arbore,

    Verg. A. 6, 141:

    praetenuia fila ex abietibus,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 128;

    lilia tenero ungui,

    Prop. 1, 20, 39; cf.:

    pollice florem,

    Ov. F. 5, 255;

    and aurea poma manu mea,

    id. M. 10, 649; Val. Max. 2, 8, 5:

    herbas,

    Ov. M. 1, 645:

    ficum,

    Juv. 14, 253 et saep.— Absol.:

    floret (thymum) circa solstitia, cum et apes decerpunt,

    Plin. 21, 10, 31, § 56; Catull. 64, 316.—
    II.
    Trop.:

    quae (omnia) nisi cotidie decerpantur arescunt,

    Quint. 12, 10, 79:

    humanus animus decerptus ex mente divina,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 38; cf. Quint. 4, 1, 23:

    ne quid jocus de gravitate decerperet,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 56, 229:

    quarum (materiarum) nunc facillima decerpunt,

    Quint. 10, 5, 21.— Poet.: oscula mordenti semper decerpere rostro, Catull. 68, 127 (cf.: carpo, no. II. 1);

    for which, ora puellae,

    Verg. Cop. 33 Sillig.—Hence,
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    (Acc. to carpo, no. II. 1.) To enjoy:

    ex re fructus,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 79:

    primas noctes tecum epulis,

    Pers. 5, 43:

    murmura vocis,

    Stat. Th. 6, 165:

    decus primae pugnae,

    Sil. 4, 138; cf.:

    nihil sibi ex ista laude centurio decerpit,

    Cic. Marc. 2, 7:

    mulieres,

    Vulg. Baruch, 6, 27.—
    2.
    (Acc. to carpo, no. II. 1.) To destroy:

    quae (invidia) spes tantas decerpat,

    Quint. 6 prooem. § 10; cf.:

    illibatam virginitatem,

    Sen. Contr. 1, 2 med.

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  • 8 demeto

    1.
    dē-mĕto, messŭi, messum, 3, v. a., to mow, reap, cut off, gather, crop, harvest (class.). Usually of fruits:

    tempora demetendis fructibus et percipiendis accommodata,

    Cic. de Sen. 19, 70; cf. id. N. D. 2, 62 fin.: hordeum, Cass. Hem. ap. Prisc. p. 903 P.: demesso frumento, * Caes. B. G. 4, 32, 4; so,

    frumentum,

    Liv. 34, 26:

    segetes,

    Tac. A. 14, 24; cf.:

    Galli armati alienos agros demetunt,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 15:

    demessa est terra,

    Vulg. Apoc. 14. 16.—Less freq. ( poet. or in post-Aug. prose) of other objects:

    pollice florem,

    to pluck off, Verg. A. 11, 68:

    favos,

    i. e. to cut out, take out, Col. 9, 15, 12:

    testes caudamque adultero (ferrum),

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 46; cf.:

    huic ense caput,

    to behead, Ov. M. 5, 104; and absol.:

    acies ferro demetit,

    Sil. 16, 102.
    2.
    dē-mēto, āre, v. dimeto.

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  • 9 meto

    1.
    mēto (no perf.), ātum, 1, v. a., to measure; v. metor fin.
    2.
    mĕto, messŭi (Cato ap. Prisc. p. 903 P.; Mart. Cap. 3, § 319), messum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ma-; Gr. amaô, mow, reap; amê, sickle; cf. messis, messor], to reap, mow, crop; of the vintage, to gather, gather in, collect; and poet. of the sucking of honey from flowers (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    cum est matura seges, metendum,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 3:

    sunt autem metendi genera complura,

    Col. 2, 21, 2:

    in metendo occupatos,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 32:

    pabula falce,

    to cut, cut down, Ov. H. 6, 84:

    farra,

    id. F 2, 519:

    arva,

    Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30.—Prov.:

    ut sementem feceris, ita et metes,

    as you sow, so shall you reap, Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; cf.:

    ventum seminabunt et turbinem metent,

    Vulg. Os. 8, 7:

    qui seminant iniquitatem metet mala,

    id. Prov. 22, 8:

    mihi istic nec seritur, nec metitur,

    i. e. I have no share in it, it does not concern me, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 80:

    sibi quisque ruri metit,

    every one looks out for himself, id. Most. 3, 2, 112: Tibi aras, tibi occas, tibi seris;

    tibi item metes,

    id. Merc. prol. 71.—Of the vintage, to gather, etc.:

    postremus metito,

    Verg. G. 2, 410; so,

    vindemiam,

    Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 185.—Of bees: purpureosque metunt flores, reap the flowers, i. e. gather the pollen, Verg. G. 4, 54.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In gen., to cut off, pluck off, crop ( poet.):

    virgā lilia summa metit,

    Ov. F. 2, 706:

    barbam forfice,

    Mart. 7, 95, 12:

    capillos,

    id. 10, 83, 11:

    olus,

    to cut, gather, Calp. Ecl. 2, 74:

    et ferus in silvā farra metebat aper,

    laid waste, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 40:

    ille metit barbam,

    Juv. 3, 186. —
    2.
    In partic., in battle, to mow down, cut down:

    proxima quaeque metit gladio,

    Verg. A. 10, 513:

    primosque et extremos metendo Stravit humum,

    Hor. C. 4, 14, 31 tum Vesulum ense metit rapido, Sil. 10, 147:

    agmina plura metam,

    Val. Fl. 3, 670.—So of death:

    metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 178: vita omnibus metenda, ut fruges (transl. of the Greek of Euripid.: anankaiôs d echei bion therizein), Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 25, 59.—
    B.
    To inhabit a region ( poet.):

    qui Batulum Nucrasque metunt,

    Sil. 8, 566 (cf. a like poetic transfer of the verbs colere, arare, serere, and bibere).
    3.
    Mĕto, ōnis, v Meton.

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  • 10 concerpō

        concerpō psī, —, ere    [com- + carpo], to tear in pieces, rend: epistulas: librum, L.
    * * *
    concerpere, concerpsi, concerptus V TRANS
    tear/pull in/to pieces; pluck off; tear up, rend; censure, abuse, revile

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  • 11 dēligō

        dēligō lēgī, lēctus, ere    [de + 1 lego], to choose, pick out, select, elect, designate, single out: ad eas res conficiendas deligi, Cs.: quos Romae relinqueres: ex civitate fortissimum quemque: ex legionibus fabros, Cs.: delecti Latio, V.: melimela Ad lunam delecta, H.: ordine ab omni Centum oratores, V.: sibi domicilio locum, Cs.: alqm socium sibi imperi, L.: Vertumnum socium, O.— To pick out, separate, remove: senes ac fessas aequore matres, V.
    * * *
    I
    deligare, deligavi, deligatus V TRANS
    bind fast, tie (up), fasten; make fast by tying; bandage; tie (bandage)
    II
    deligere, delegi, delectus V TRANS
    pick/pluck off, cull; choose, select, levy (soldiers), enrol; conduct a levy

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  • 12 decerpo

    to pluck off / to gather, take away

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  • 13 interlego

    inter-lĕgo, lēgi, lectum, 3, v. a., to cull or pluck off here and there ( poet. and postclass.): (in tmesi) uncis Carpendae manibus frondes, interque legendae, Verg. G. 2, 366:

    poma,

    Pall. Febr. 25, 16; id. Jun. 5, 1.

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  • 14 āvellō

        āvellō (vellī), volsus or vulsus, ere    [ab + vello], to tear away, rend off, pluck, snatch away: poma ex arboribus vi: alqd a corpore: frondes, O.: leporum avulsos armos edere, H.: avolsum umeris caput, V.: truncis corpora, O.: tibi mavis pretium avellier? H.: sibi avelli iubet spiculum.— To tear away, remove by force: ab eā sese, T.: de matris hunc complexu: ut sperem posse avelli, be separated, T.: neque avelli possunt, leave the place, V.: complexu avulsus Iuli, V.—To pluck away, rescue: hunc convitio a tanto errore.
    * * *
    I
    avellere, avelli, avolsus V TRANS
    tear/pluck/wrench away/out/off; separate by force, part; take away, wrest
    II
    avellere, avolsi, avolsus V TRANS
    tear/pluck/wrench away/out/off; separate by force, part; take away, wrest
    III
    avellere, avulsi, avulsus V TRANS
    tear/pluck/wrench away/out/off; separate by force, part; take away, wrest

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  • 15 con-vellō

        con-vellō vellī, volsus or vulsus,    to tear away, pluck up, pull off, wrest, rend: vectibus saxa turris, Cs.: gradūs Castoris: aesculum, V.: glaebam vomere, Ct.: repagula: signa, to pluck up (in decamping), L.: simulacrum e sacrario: ab humo silvam, V.: robora suā terrā, O.: Roma convolsa sedibus suis: alqd duro ferro, cut off, V.—To tear to pieces, cleave, rend, dismember, shatter, break: dapes dente, O.: Convolsum remis aequor, V.: (naves) convolsae undis, shattered, V.—Fig., to shake, shatter, destroy, overthrow, nullify: consuetudinem: si eam (opinionem) ratio convellet: rei p. statum: acta Dolabellae: fata, O.: fidem, Ta.

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  • 16 praecerpō

        praecerpō —, —, ere    [prae+carpo], to pluck beforehand, gather prematurely: messīs, O.—Fig., to take away, lessen, diminish: fructum offici tui.
    * * *
    praecerpere, praecerpsi, praecerptus V
    pluck before time; pluck or cut off; gather before it's time

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  • 17 haurio

    haurĭo, hausi, haustum, 4 (archaic imperf. hauribant, Lucr. 5, 1324; perf. subj. haurierint, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 905 P.; part. perf. haurītus, App. M. 3, p. 139; 6, p. 178; supin. hauritu, id. ib. 2, p. 121; part. fut. hauritura, Juv. in Joh. 2, 253:

    hausurus,

    Verg. A. 4, 383; Sil. 7, 584; 16, 11:

    hausturus,

    Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 1; dep. perf. foramen fama est lucem hausum, Sol. 5, 15), v. a. [perh. for haus-io; cf. hio, hisco; prop. to empty], to draw up or out, to draw (class., esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.; cf. sorbeo).
    I.
    Lit., to draw water, etc.:

    cum vidisset haustam aquam de jugi puteo, terrae motum dixit instare,

    Cic. Div. 1, 50, 112:

    palmis hausta duabus aqua,

    Ov. F. 2, 294:

    is neque limo Turbatam haurit aquam,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 60:

    ipse manus hausta victrices abluit unda,

    Ov. M. 4, 740.— Absol.:

    num igitur, si potare velit, de dolio sibi hauriendum putet?

    Cic. Brut. 83, 288. —Prov.: de faece haurire, to draw from the dregs, i. e. to choose the worst:

    tu quidem de faece hauris,

    i. e. speak of the worst orators, id. ib. 69, 244.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To drain, drink up; to spill, shed:

    ita vina ex libidine hauriuntur, atque etiam praemio invitatur ebrietas (shortly before and after, bibere),

    Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 140; cf. id. ib. § 146; and: cui non audita est obscoenae Salmacis undae Aethiopesque lacus, quos si quis faucibus hausit, Aut furit [p. 843] aut, etc., Ov. M. 15, 320 (for which:

    qui ex Clitorio lacu biberint,

    Plin. 31, 2, 13, § 16):

    quae (pocula) simul arenti sitientes hausimus ore,

    i. e. drained, emptied, drunk off, Ov. M. 14, 277; so,

    cratera,

    id. ib. 8, 680:

    spumantem pateram,

    Verg. A. 1, 738: statim me perculso ad meum sanguinem hauriendum, et spirante re publica ad ejus spolia detrahenda advolaverunt, to drain, i. e. to spill, shed, Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

    cruorem,

    Ov. M. 7, 333; 13, 331:

    nudantis cervicem jugulumque, et reliquum sanguinem jubentes haurire,

    Liv. 22, 51, 7; Lact. 5, 1, 8:

    quem (sanguinem) civiles hauserunt,

    Luc. 1, 13.—
    b.
    Of things:

    imoque a gurgite pontus Vertitur et canas alveus haurit aquas,

    draws in, lets in, Ov. F. 3, 591: jam flammae tulerint, inimicus et hauserit ensis, drunk up, i. e. their blood, Verg. A. 2, 600.—
    2.
    In gen., to tear up, pluck out, draw out, to take to one's self, take; to swallow, devour, consume, exhaust:

    (ventus) Arbusta evolvens radicibus haurit ab imis,

    Lucr. 6, 141:

    haurit arenas ungula,

    Stat. Th. 2, 46; cf.:

    humumque Effodit... terraeque immurmurat haustae,

    i. e. torn up, dug up, Ov. M. 11, 187:

    Actoridae magni rostro femur hausit adunco (= transfodit),

    tore open, id. ib. 8, 370:

    pectora ferro,

    id. ib. 8, 438:

    latus alicui,

    Lucr. 5, 1324; Ov. M. 5, 126; 9, 412; Verg. A. 10, 314; Luc. 10, 387:

    ventrem atque inguina uno alteroque ictu,

    Liv. 7, 10, 10; Sil. 5, 524:

    tum latus ejus gladio haurit,

    Curt. 7, 2, 27:

    impresso gladio jugulum ejus hausisse,

    Tac. H. 1, 41 fin.:

    lumen,

    to pluck out the eye, Ov. M. 13, 564:

    cineres haustos,

    i. e. scraped up, collected, id. ib. 8, 538; so,

    cineres,

    id. ib. 13, 425 sq.; cf. id. ib. 14, 136:

    ille cavis hausto spargit me pulvere palmis,

    id. ib. 9, 35:

    sumptum haurit ex aerario,

    draws, takes, Cic. Agr. 2, 13, 32; cf.:

    at suave est ex magno tollere acervo. Dum ex parvo nobis tantundem haurire relinquas, Cur? etc.,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 52:

    quia dentibus carent, aut lambunt cibos aut integros hauriunt,

    to swallow, Col. 8, 17, 11; cf.:

    solidos haurire cervos taurosque,

    Plin. 8, 14, 14, § 36: hausisti patrias luxuriosus opes, qs. hast swallowed up, devoured, consumed, Mart. 9, 83, 4:

    nos tellus haurit,

    Sil. 3, 654; cf.:

    sua haurire,

    Tac. A. 16, 18; 2, 8; 3, 72:

    animam recipere auramque communem haurire,

    i. e. inhale, breathe, Quint. 6 praef. §

    12: suspiratus,

    fetching a deep sigh, Ov. M. 14, 129: hauriat hunc oculis ignem crudelis ab alto Dardanus, may he swallow with his eyes, i. e. greedily look at, Verg. A. 4, 661; so,

    aliquid oculis,

    ib. 12, 946; Sil. 11, 284;

    and without oculis: caelum,

    Verg. A. 10, 899; cf.:

    lucem (primae pecudes),

    i. e. to see the light, be born, Verg. G. 2, 340:

    vocemque his auribus hausi,

    I received his voice with these ears, id. A. 4, 359; so,

    dicta auribus,

    Ov. M. 13, 787; cf.:

    oculis auribusque tantum gaudium,

    Liv. 27, 51:

    hauriri urbes terrae hiatibus,

    to be swallowed up, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 119; cf.:

    cum praealtis paludibus arma, equi haurirentur,

    Tac. H. 5, 15:

    altitudine et mollitia nivis hauriebantur,

    id. ib. 1, 79:

    hauriuntur gurgitibus,

    id. A. 1, 70:

    aggerem ac vineas incendium hausit,

    Liv. 5, 7, 3:

    cunctos incendium hausit,

    Tac. H. 4, 60:

    miratur et haurit Pectore ignes,

    imbibes, Ov. M. 10, 253; cf.:

    flammasque latentes Hausit,

    id. ib. 8, 325:

    caelo medium Sol igneus orbem Hauserat,

    i. e. had rapidly passed through, finished, Verg. G. 4, 427:

    vastum iter,

    Stat. Th. 1, 369: bracchia Cancri (Titan), Col. poët. 10, 313: cum spes arrectae juvenum exsultantiaque haurit Corda pavor pulsans, exhausts = exhaurit, Verg. G. 3, 105:

    pariter pallorque ruborque Purpureas hausere genas,

    Stat. Th. 1, 538.—
    II.
    Trop., to draw, borrow, take, drink in, derive:

    sequimur potissimum Stoicos, non ut interpretes, sed, ut solemus, e fontibus eorum judicio arbitrioque nostro, quantum quoque modo videbitur, hauriemus,

    Cic. Off. 1, 2, 6; cf.:

    fontes, unde hauriretis,

    id. de Or. 1, 46, 203:

    a fontibus potius haurire quam rivulos consectari,

    id. Ac. 1, 2, 8:

    reconditis atque abditis e fontibus haurire,

    id. de Or. 1, 3, 12:

    omnia dixi hausta e fonte naturae,

    id. Fin. 1, 21, 71:

    eodem fonte haurire laudes suas,

    id. Fam. 6, 6, 9; id. Caecin. 27, 78:

    quam (legem) non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, verum ex natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus,

    id. Mil. 4, 10 (quoted in Cic. Or. 49, 165):

    quas (artes) cum domo haurire non posses, arcessivisti ex urbe ea (i. e. Athenis), quae, etc.,

    id. Brut. 97, 332:

    ex divinitate, unde omnes animos haustos aut acceptos aut libatos haberemus,

    id. Div. 2, 11, 26; cf.:

    animos hominum quadam ex parte extrinsecus esse tractos et haustos,

    id. ib. 1, 32, 70:

    quid enim non sorbere animo, quid non haurire cogitatione, cujus sanguinem non bibere censetis?

    id. Phil. 11, 5, 10; cf.:

    libertatem sitiens hausit,

    id. Rep. 1, 43:

    voluptates undique,

    id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16:

    dolorem,

    id. Cael. 24, 59:

    calamitates,

    id. Tusc. 1, 35, 86:

    luctum,

    id. Sest. 29, 63:

    unde laboris Plus haurire mali est quam ex re decerpere fructus,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 79:

    animo spem turbidus hausit inanem,

    drank in illusive hope, Verg. A. 10, 648:

    expugnationes urbium, populationes agrorum, raptus Penatium hauserant animo,

    had thought of, intended, Tac. H. 1, 51:

    supplicia,

    to suffer, Verg. A. 4, 383:

    (Thessali) velut ex diutina siti nimis avide meram haurientes libertatem,

    indulging, revelling in, Liv. 39, 26, 7; cf.:

    studium philosophiae acriter hausisse,

    Tac. Agr. 4.

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  • 18 praecerpo

    prae-cerpo ( praecarpo, Oppius ap. Macr. S. 2, 15), psi, ptum, 3, v. a. [carpo].
    I.
    To pluck, break off, or gather before, or before the time ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    messes,

    Ov. H. 20, 143:

    germinum tenera,

    Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 177: mala citrea (opp. maturescere), Oppius ap. Macr. l. l. —
    B.
    Trop., to pluck beforehand; hence, to take away, lessen, diminish (class.):

    non praecerpo fructum officii tui,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 37, § 80:

    purpurae decus praecerptum praefloratumque,

    Plin. Pan. 58 fin.:

    gratiam novitatis,

    id. Ep. 5, 20, 8.—
    * II.
    To pluck out in front:

    jubas,

    Stat. Th. 9, 193. —
    * III.
    To make extracts from:

    Aristotelis libros,

    Gell. 2, 30, 11.

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  • 19 rapiō

        rapiō puī (old fut perf. rapsit, C.), raptus, ere    [RAP-], to seize and carry off, snatch, tear, pluck, drag, hurry away: sublimen intro hunc rape, T.: quo fessum rapitis? V.: Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, H.: sumasne pudenter An rapias, snatch, H.: ab aede rapuit funale, O.: de volnere telum, V.: commeatum in navīs rapiunt, L.: pars densa ferarum Tecta rapit, i. e. break off boughs of trees (in collecting wood), V.: in ius, drag before a court, H.: ob facinus ad supplicium, hale: alii ad necem rapiebantur: ad stuprum matres, L.: (infantes) ab ubere rapti, V.: nec variis obsita frondibus Sub divom rapiam, drag into open day, H.: Nasonis carmina rapti, i. e. torn from his home, O.— To hurry, impel, drive, cause to hasten: Quattuor hinc rapimur raedis, H.: per aequora navem, V.: ventis per aequora, O.: missos currūs, H.: arma rapiat iuventus, snatch, V.: arma, O.: bipennem dextrā, V.: rapiuntque ruuntque, hurry and bustle, V.—With pron reflex., to make haste, hasten, hurry, fly: ocius hinc te Ni rapis, H.: se ad caedem optimi cuiusque.— To carry off by force, seize, rob, ravish, plunder, ravage, lay waste, take by assault, carry by storm: spes rapiendi occaecat animos: semper rapiens, semper ebrius: raptas ad litora vertere praedas, V.: rapere omnes trahere, S.: vivere latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset: virgines, to abduct, S.: Arsit Atrides Virgine raptā, H.: Omne sacrum rapiente dextrā, H.: alii rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama, pillage and plunder, V.: castra urbesque primo impetu rapere, L.— To carry off suddenly, snatch away, destroy: improvisa leti Vis rapuit rapietque gentes, H.: rapto de fratre dolens, H.: Et labor et durae rapit inclementia mortis, i. e. hurries on, V.— To take, catch, assume: flammam, catch quickly, V.: nigrum colorem, O.: Virga... Vim rapuit monstri, imbibed, O.— To lead on hurriedly: Halesus Turno feroces Mille rapit populus, leads hastily on, V.: Nec rapit inmensos orbīs per humum, sweeps along, V.—Fig., to snatch away, carry along, hurry away: ipsae res verba rapiunt, carry along with them: (comoediam) in peiorem partem, i. e. misrepresent, T.: Si quis in adversum rapiat casusve deusve, V.: almum Quae rapit hora diem, snatches away, H.: simul tecum solacia rapta, V. — To drive, impel, carry away, precipitate, transport, ravish, captivate, overwhelm, draw irresistibly: ad divinarum rerum cognitionem curā studioque rapi: semper eo tractus est, quo libido rapuit: amentiā rapi: Furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, An culpa? H.: animum In partīs rapit varias, turns hurriedly, V.: ad quas (res) plerique inflammati aviditate rapiuntur.— To seize by violence, snatch, steal: Hippodameam raptis nanctu'st nuptiis, Enn. ap. C.: Venerem incertam, H.: sed rapiat sitiens Venerem, but may eagerly seize upon, V.— To snatch, seize quickly, hasten, precipitate: rapienda occasio, Iu.: viam, hasten, O.: ut limis rapias, quid velit, etc., may hastily note, H.: raptae prope inter arma nuptiae, L.
    * * *
    rapere, rapui, raptus V
    drag off; snatch; destroy; seize, carry off; pillage; hurry

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  • 20 legens

    1.
    lēgo, āvi, ātum (archaic perf. legassit for legaverit, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 148), 1, v. a. [lex; and therefore qs. lege creare], a publicist's and jurid. t. t.
    I.
    A publicist's t. t.
    A.
    To send with a commission or charge, to send on an embassy, send as ambassador; to depute, despatch:

    ne hoc quidem senatui relinquebas, ut legati ex ejus ordinis auctoritate legarentur,

    Cic. Vatin. 15, 35:

    hominem honestum ac nobilem legarunt ad Apronium,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 114: eos privatae rei causa legari, id. Fam. 3, 8, 4:

    juste pieque legatus venio,

    Liv. 1, 32:

    tres adulescentes in Africam legantur, qui reges adeant, etc.,

    Sall. J. 21, 4:

    quos Athenienses Romam ad senatum legaverant impetratum, etc.,

    Gell. 7, 14, 8.—
    2.
    Transf. to the commission itself (ante- and post-class.):

    quae verba legaverint Rhodii ad hostium ducem,

    what they told him through their deputies, Gell. 15, 31 in lemm. —
    b.
    Beyond the official sphere:

    quin potius, quod legatum est tibi negotium, Id curas?

    committed, intrusted, Plaut. Cas. 1, 12.—
    B.
    To appoint or choose as deputy (as the official assistant, lieutenant, of a general or governor):

    eum (Messium) Caesari legarat Appius,

    Cic. Att. 4, 15, 9:

    ego me a Pompeio legari ita sum passus, ut, etc.,

    id. ib. 4, 2, 6:

    istum legatum iri non arbitror,

    id. ib. 10, 1, 4:

    ne legaretur Gabinius Pompeio expetenti,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

    Dolabella me sibi legavit,

    chose me for his lieutenant, id. Att. 15, 11, 4:

    Calpurnius parato exercitu legat sibi homines nobiles, etc.,

    Sall. J. 28.—
    II.
    A jurid. t. t.: aliquid, to appoint by a last will or testament, to leave or bequeath as a legacy (class.):

    Numitori, qui stirpis maximus erat, regnum vetustum Silviae gentis legat,

    Liv. 1, 3: legavit quidam uxori mundum omne penumque, Lucil. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 3:

    usumfructum omnium bonorum Caesenniae legat,

    Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:

    Fabiae pecunia legata est a viro,

    id. Top. 3, 14:

    cui argentum omne legatum est,

    Quint. 5, 10, 62:

    in argento legato,

    id. 7, 2, 11.—
    B.
    Aliquid alicui ab aliquo, to leave one a legacy to be paid by the principal heir:

    uxori testamento legat grandem pecuniam a filio, si qui natus esset: ab secundo herede nihil legat,

    Cic. Clu. 12, 33:

    si paterfamilias uxori ancillarum usum fructum legavit a filio, neque a secundo herede legavit,

    id. Top. 4, 21; Quint. 7, 9, 5.—Hence,
    1.
    lēgātus, i, m.
    A.
    (Acc. to lego, I. A.) An ambassador, legate, Cic. Vatin. 15, 35:

    legatos mittere,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 35:

    ad senatum legatos de aliqua re mittere,

    id. de Or. 2, 37, 155; cf.:

    missi magnis de rebus uterque Legati,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

    legatos mittere ad indicendum bellum,

    Liv. 31, 8; Ov. M. 14, 527.—
    B.
    (Acc. to lego, I. B.).
    a.
    An official assistant given to a general or the governor of a province, a deputy, lieutenant, lieutenant-general:

    quos legatos tute tibi legasti?

    Cic. Pis. 14, 33:

    qui M. Aemilio legati fuerunt,

    id. Clu. 36, 99:

    Quintus frater meus legatus est Caesaris,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 21; id. Off. 3, 20, 79; cf.:

    Murena summo imperatori legatus L. Lucullo fuit, qua in legatione duxit exercitum, etc.,

    id. Mur. 9, 20; 14, 32:

    neque se ei legatum defuturum,

    id. Phil. 11, 7, 17; Val. Max. 5, 5, 1:

    hiberna cum legato praefectoque tradidisses,

    Cic. Pis. 35, 86:

    (Calvisius) duos legatos Uticae reliquerat,

    id. Phil. 3, 10 fin.:

    quaestorius,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 21, § 56; Caes. B. G. 2, 5 fin.:

    L. Caesar, cujus pater Caesaris erat legatus,

    id. B. C. 1, 8, 2:

    magnitudo et splendor legati,

    Liv. 38, 58, 9:

    in magna legatum quaere popina,

    Juv. 8, 172.—
    b.
    Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province by the emperor, Tac. A. 12, 40; id. Agr. 33; Suet. Vesp. 4; Spart. Hadr. 3 et saep.; cf. legatio, I. B. 2., and Orell. ad Tac. Agr. 9.—
    (β).
    Legati legionum, commanders, Suet. Tib. 19; id. Vesp. 4; cf.:

    Caesar singulis legionibus singulos legatos et quaestorem praefecit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 52; Tac. A. 2, 36; id. H. 1, 7.—Also called;

    legatus praetorius,

    Tac. Agr. 7.—
    2.
    lēgātum, i, n. (acc. to lego, II.), a bequest, legacy:

    legatum est delibatio hereditatis, qua testator ex eo, quod universum heredis foret, alicui quid collatum velit,

    Dig. 30, 116:

    Hortensii legata cognovi,

    Cic. Att. 7, 3, 9:

    reliqua legata varie dedit,

    Suet. Aug. 101; id. Tib. 48:

    legatum peto ex testamento,

    Quint. 4, 2, 6:

    jus capiendi legata alicui adimere,

    Suet. Dom. 8:

    cymbala pulsantis legatum amici,

    Juv. 9, 62:

    legatorum genera sunt quattuor,

    Gai. Inst. 2, 192; cf. sqq.
    2.
    lĕgo, lēgi, lectum ( gen. plur. part. legentum, Ov. Tr. 1. 7, 25), 3, v. a. [Gr. legô, logos, logas, etc.; Lat. legumen, di-leg-ens, neg-leg-o, etc.; cf. Germ. lesen], to bring together, to gather, collect.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    oleam,

    Cato, R. R. 144:

    nuces,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 265:

    herbas collibus,

    Ov. M. 14, 347: flores et humi nascentia fraga, [p. 1048] Verg. E. 3, 92; cf.:

    roscida mala,

    id. ib. 8, 38:

    flores in calathos,

    Ov. F. 5, 218:

    spolia caesorum,

    Liv. 5, 39:

    quos (montanos asparagos),

    Juv. 11, 69.—Of the dead who have been burned:

    ossa,

    Ov. H. 10, 150:

    homini mortuo ossa,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 60: ossa filii, Sen. de Ira, 2, 33, 6; cf. Quint. 8, 5, 21; Lact. de Mort. Persec. 21, 11:

    reliquias legerunt primores equestris ordinis,

    Suet. Aug. 100. —
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    To take out, pick out, extract, remove:

    quibusdam et radi ossa et legi... quae sine totius pernicie corporis haerere non poterant,

    Sen. Prov. 1, 3, 2:

    ossa vivis,

    id. ad Marc. 22, 3:

    ossa in capite lecta,

    id. Ben. 5, 24, 3:

    ossa e vulneribus,

    Quint. 6, 1, 30.—
    2.
    To pluck, strip, gather fruit from (a tree, etc.):

    oleam qui legerit,

    Cato, R. R. 144, 1:

    ficus non erat apta legi,

    Ov. F. 2, 254.—
    3.
    Poet.: legere fila, to wind up:

    extrema Lauso Parcae fila legunt,

    i. e. spin the last thread of life, Verg. A. 10, 815; cf.:

    quae dedit ingrato fila legenda viro,

    Ov. F. 3, 462:

    stamen,

    Prop. 4 (5), 4, 40 (42).—
    4.
    Naut. t. t.: vela legere, to draw together, furl:

    omnis navita ponto umida vela legit,

    Verg. G. 1, 373:

    vela legunt socii,

    id. A. 3, 532:

    ipse dabit tenera vela, legetque manu,

    Ov. H. 15, 215; Val. Fl. 2, 13:

    prora funem legit Argus ab alta,

    draws in, takes in, id. 1, 312:

    ancoras classis legit,

    is weighing anchor, Sen. Troad. 759.—
    5.
    To take to one's self unjustly, to carry off, steal, purloin, plunder, abstract (not in Cic.): omnia viscatis manibus leget, omnia sumet: crede mihi, auferet omnia, Lucil. ap. Non. 332 and 396, 4:

    majus esse maleficium stuprare ingenuam quam sacrum legere,

    Auct. Her. 2, 30 fin.:

    sacra divum,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 117:

    soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas,

    Verg. A. 10, 79 Serv. ad loc. (but Forbig. renders legere here as = eligere, sumere; cf. 8. infra).—
    6.
    Of places, to go, pass, or wander through ( poet.):

    nec me studiosius altera saltus Legit,

    Ov. M. 5, 579:

    pars cetera pontum Pone legit,

    sails through, Verg. A. 2, 207:

    vada dura lego,

    id. ib. 3, 706:

    freta,

    id. ib. 3, 127:

    aequora Afra,

    Ov. F. 4, 289:

    Ioniumque rapax Icariumque legit,

    id. ib. 4, 566: vestigia alicujus, to follow one's footsteps, to track or pursue him:

    subsequitur pressoque legit vestigia gressu,

    id. M. 3, 17; cf.:

    et vestigia retro Observata legit,

    Verg. A. 9, 392:

    tortos orbes,

    to wander through, id. ib. 12, 481.—
    7.
    To pass or sail by, to skirt, to coast along a shore, land, or place (mostly poet.):

    Inarimen Prochytenque legit,

    Ov. M. 14, 89; 15, 705; 709: primi litoris oram, coast along, i. e. not enter into details, Verg. G. 2, 44; id. E. 8, 7:

    navibus oram Italiae,

    Liv. 21, 51 fin.:

    oram Campaniae,

    Suet. Tib. 11; cf.

    terram,

    id. Aug. 16. —
    8.
    Pregn., to choose from a number, to pick out, single out, select, elect (class.):

    alia esse oportet forma quem tu pugno legeris,

    pick out to fight with, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 160:

    judices,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16:

    omnia, quae leget quaeque reiciet,

    id. Fin. 4, 15, 40:

    scribam,

    to elect, appoint, id. Clu. 45, 126:

    condiciones nubendi,

    id. Cael. 15:

    cives in patres,

    Liv. 23, 22:

    viros ad bella,

    Ov. M. 7, 669:

    geminasque legit de classe biremes,

    Verg. A. 8, 79: legit virum vir, each one singles out his man (of the combatants in a battle), id. ib. 11, 632:

    senatum ad modum pristinum redegit duabus lectionibus: prima ipsorum arbitratu, quo vir virum legit,

    Suet. Aug. 35; Tac. H. 1, 18: neque ejus legendam filiam (sc. virginem Vestalem) qui domicilium in Italia non haberet, At. Cap. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 8.—
    * (β).
    With inf.:

    fidissima custos Lecta sacrum justae veneri occultare pudorem,

    Stat. Th. 1, 530.
    II.
    Trop.
    * A.
    To catch up, i. e. overhear a conversation:

    nunc huc concedam, ut horum sermonem legam,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 21 (cf. sublegere, id. Mil. 4, 2. 98).—
    B.
    To catch with the eye, to view, observe, behold, survey, see.
    * 1.
    In gen.:

    tumulum capit, unde omnes longo ordine posset Adversos legere,

    Verg. A. 6, 755 Heyne ad loc.; and cf. Verg. A. 6, 34.—
    2.
    In partic., to read or peruse a writing:

    ut eos libros per te ipse legeres,

    Cic. Top. 1:

    defensionem causae,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 112:

    legi apud Clitomachum, A. Albium jocantem dixisse, etc.,

    id. Ac. 2, 45, 137:

    aliquid studiose intenteque,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 1:

    significas legisse te in quadam epistula mea, jussisse Verginium, etc.,

    id. ib. 9, 19, 1: philosophorum consultorumque opiniones, Quint. 12, 11, 17:

    liber tuus et lectus est et legitur a me diligenter,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 1:

    orationem,

    Quint. 1, 1, 6:

    aiunt multum legendum esse non multa,

    Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 15.—With a pers. obj.:

    antiquos et novos,

    Quint. 2, 5, 23:

    antiquos studiosius,

    id. 3, 6, 62:

    poëtas,

    id. 1, 4, 4. —In pass.:

    Horatius fere solus legi dignus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 96:

    si cum judicio legatur Cassius Severus,

    id. 10, 1, 116:

    dumque legar, mecum pariter tua fama legetur,

    Ov. Tr. 5, 14, 5:

    sepulcra legens,

    when reading epitaphs, Cic. de Sen. 7, 21:

    legentium plerisque,

    Liv. 1 praef. §

    4: opus nescio an minimae legentibus futurum voluptati,

    to my readers, Quint. 3, 1, 2; cf. id. 9, 4, 2; 2, 5, 3:

    nec Cynicos nec Stoica dogmata,

    Juv. 13, 121.— Absol.:

    legendi usus,

    Lact. 3, 25, 9:

    memoriam continuus legendi usus instruit,

    Macr. S. 1, 5, 1.—
    b.
    In partic.
    (α).
    To read out, read aloud, recite (esp. freq. in post-Aug. authors):

    convocatis auditoribus volumen legere, etc.,

    Cic. Brut. 51, 191: codicem pro contione, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 4, 4, 8:

    audio me male legere, dumtaxat versus, orationes enim commodius,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 34:

    obturem impune legentibus aures,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 105:

    quem vero arripuit tenet occiditque legendo,

    with recitation, id. A. P. 475:

    quis dabit historico quantum daret acta legenti,

    to read him the news, Juv. 7, 104.—
    (β).
    To find in an author or a writing:

    ut scriptum legimus,

    Cic. Deiot. 7, 19:

    legi etiam scriptum, esse avem quandam, etc.,

    id. N. D. 2. 49 init.:

    ego vero haec scripta legi,

    id. Planc. 39, 94:

    praeterea scriptum legimus, Gallos in venatibus tinguere sagittas,

    Gell. 17, 15, 7. relatum legere, Nep. praef. 1.— Pass.:

    in aliis codicibus non peccato sed peccatis legitur,

    Aug. Cont. Jul. Rel. 1, 22; id. Don. Persev. 6 init. al.—
    C.
    A publicist's t. t.: legere senatum, to read over or call off the names of senators (which was done by the censors;

    v. lectio, II. A. 2.): censores fideli concordia senatum legerunt,

    Liv. 40, 51; 9, 29; 9, 30; 9, 46; 43, 15 al.—Hence, lĕgens, entis, Part. as subst. m., a reader ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose for lector), Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 25.— Plur., Liv. praef. 4; Quint. 3, 1, 2; Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 44; Tac. A. 4, 33.—Also, lectus, a, um, P. a., chosen, picked out, selected; choice, excellent (class.): argenti lectae numeratae minae, good, i. e. of full weight, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 50; so,

    argentum,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 3:

    ut neque vir melior neque lectior femina in terris sit,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    lectissimi viri atque ornatissimi,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 6, § 15; cf. id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 29:

    uxor lectissima,

    id. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

    (verbis) lectis atque illustribus uti,

    id. de Or. 3, 37, 150:

    nihil est aliud... pulcre et oratorie dicere nisi optimis sententiis verbisque lectissimis dicere,

    id. Or. 68, 227:

    juvenum lectissime,

    Stat. S. 5, 1, 247; cf.:

    viginti lectis equitum comitatus,

    Verg. A. 9, 48.—Hence, adv.: lectē, choicely, selectly (very rare):

    ab lego lecte ac lectissime,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 36 Müll.— Comp.:

    lectius,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 54, 2 (al. lecta).

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