point out

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dē, adv.: of place, down, only in the phrase susque deque, q. v.

dē, prep. [perh. for ded; cf. Oscan dat, old abl. of pronom. stem da; cf. also Lith. praep. da, as far as; and the suffixes, old case-forms, -dam, -dem, -dum, -do, with the locative -de; v. Ribbeck, Beitr. z. L. v. d. Lat. Part. p. 4 sq.] (with abl., denotes the going out, departure, removal, or separating of an object from any fixed point. Accordingly, it occupies a middle place between ab, away from, which denotes a mere external departure, and ex, out of, which signifies from the interior of a thing. Hence verbs compounded with de are constr. not only with de, but quite as freq. with ab and ex; and, on the other hand, those compounded with ab and ex often have the terminus a quo indicated by de), from, away from, down from, out of, etc.

In space, lit. and trop. with verbs of motion: animam de corpore mitto, Enn. ap. Non. p. 150, 6 (Ann. v. 216 Vahl.):

aliquo quom jam sucus de corpore cessit,

Lucr. 3, 224:

(quod Ariovistus) de altera parte agri Sequanos decedere juberet,

to depart, withdraw from, Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 10; cf.:

civitati persuasit, ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent,

id. ib. 1, 2:

decedere de provincia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 49 ( = ex provincia, id. ib. 2, 2, 65, §

147): de vita decedere,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 11:

exire de vita,

id. Lael. 4, 15 (cf.:

excedere e vita,

id. ib. 3, 12):

de triclinio, de cubiculo exire,

id. de Or. 2, 65 fin.:

hamum de cubiculo ut e navicula jacere,

Plin. Ep. 9, 7, 4:

de castris procedere,

Sall. C. 61, 8 et saep.:

brassica de capite et de oculis omnia (mala) deducet,

Cato R. R. 157, 6:

de digito anulum detraho,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 38; cf.:

de matris complexu aliquem avellere atque abstrahere,

Cic. Font. 17:

nomen suum de tabula sustulit,

id. Sest. 33, 72:

ferrum de manibus extorsimus,

id. Cat. 2, 1, 2:

juris utilitas vel a peritis vel de libris depromi potest,

id. de Or. 1, 59, 252 et saep.:

... decido de lecto praeceps,

Plaut. Casin. 5, 2, 50:

de muro se deicere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 18, 3:

de sella exsilire,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30 fin.:

nec ex equo vel de muro, etc., hostem destinare,

Tert. adv. Jud. 9, p. 192:

de caelo aliquid demittere,

Lucr. 2, 1155; cf. Cato R. R. 14, 3 et saep.—

In gen., to indicate the person or place from which any thing is taken, etc., with verbs of taking away, depriving, demanding, requesting, inquiring, buying; as capere, sumere, emere, quaerere, discere, trahere, etc., and their compounds; cf.:

emere de aliquo,

Cato R. R. 1, 4:

aliquid mercari de aliquo,

Cic. Fl. 20 et saep.:

de aliquo quaerere, quid, etc.,

Cic. Att. 1, 14, 2:

saepe hoc audivi de patre,

id. de Or. 3, 33, 133; cf.:

de mausoleo exaudita vox est,

Suet. Ner. 46:

ut sibi liceret discere id de me,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 31;

so with petere, of place (class.): de vicino terra petita solo,

Ov. F. 4, 822;

so of persons (late Lat.): peto de te,

Dig. 36, 1, 57, § 2; Apul. M. 6, p. 179, 40.

To point out the place from which any thing is brought; and hence, trop., to indicate its origin, derivation, etc.: of, from: de circo astrologi, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58; so,

caupo de via Latina,

Cic. Clu. 59, 163:

nescio qui de circo maximo,

id. Mil. 24, 65:

declamator aliqui de ludo aut rabula de foro,

id. Or. 15, 47:

homo de schola atque a magistro... eruditus,

id. de Or. 2, 7, 28:

nautae de navi Alexandrina,

Suet. Aug. 98:

aliquis de ponte,

i. e. a beggar, Juv. 14, 134:

Libyca de rupe leones,

Ov. F. 2, 209:

nostro de rure corona,

Tib. 1, 1, 15:

Vaticano fragiles de monte patellas,

Juv. 6, 344 al.:

de summo loco Summoque genere eques,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 30; cf. id. Aul. prol. 28; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13:

genetrix Priami de gente vetusta,

Verg. A. 9, 284; cf. id. ib. 10, 350; Stat. S. 5, 3, 126:

de Numitore sati,

Ov. F. 5, 41:

de libris,

Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 252:

de Philocteta, id,

ib. 3, 35, 141 (cf.:

e Philocteta versus,

Quint. 3, 1, 14).

Transf., to indicate the quarter from which motion proceeds (cf. ab), from, and because motion is so often and naturally downwards, down from:

haec agebantur in conventu, palam, de sella ac de loco superiore,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40; cf. ib. 2, 2, 38:

quem ad se vocari et de tribunali citari jussit,

id. ib. 2, 5, 7:

qui nihil ex occulto, nihil de insidiis, agendum putant,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 109; cf.

de tergo plagas dare,

from behind, Plaut. Asin. 2, 2, 10; Just. 20, 5, 5:

de paupere mensa dona,

Tib. 1, 1, 37 et saep.—In jurid. Latin: de plano discutere, interloqui, cognoscere, etc., i. e. on level ground, not on the tribunal (cf. chamothen, opp. pro bêmatos, Dig. 27, 1, 13, § 10), Dig. 1, 4, 1; 1, 16, 9; 14. 3, 11 et saep.; so, de plano, off-hand, without formal consideration, Lucr. 1, 411;

v. planus.—And with pendeo, etc. (the motion in the eye transferred to the object): deque viri collo dulce pependit onus,

Ov. F. 2, 760:

lucerna de camera pendebat,

Petr. 30, 3; cf.:

et nova de gravido palmite gemma tumet,

Ov. F. 1, 152:

de qua pariens arbore nixa dea est,

leaning downwards against the tree, id. H. 21, 100.

In time.

Immediately following a given moment of time, after, directly after (very rare):

de concursu,

Lucr. 1, 384 (cf. Munro, ad loc.):

velim scire hodiene statim de auctione aut quo die venias,

Cic. Att. 12, 3:

non bonus somnus est de prandio,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 8:

de eorum verbis prosilui, etc.,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 178.—Hence, diem de die, from day to day, day after day, Liv. 5, 48:

cum is diem de die differret, dum, etc.,

id. 25, 25; cf.:

diem de die proferendo,

Just. 2, 15, 6: de die in diem, from day to day, daily (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 60, 8; 2 Pet. 2, 8; Cypr. Ep. 3, 11.

De nocte, de vigilia, etc., to designate an act which begins or takes its origin from the night-time, Engl. during or in the course of the night, at night, by night, etc.: De. Rus cras cum filio Cum primo lucu ibo hinc. Mi. Imo de nocte censeo, to-night rather, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 55: in comitium Milo de nocte venit, in the night (cf. shortly before, Milo media nocte in campum venit), Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4; cf. id. Mur. 33, 69:

vigilas tu de nocte,

id. ib. 9, 22; cf.:

de nocte evigilabat,

Suet. Vesp. 21:

ut jugulent homines, surgunt de nocte latrones,

at night, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 32;

and Hannibal surgere de nocte solitus, Frontin Strat. 4, 3, 7 et saep.: ut de nocte multa impigreque exsurrexi,

late in the night, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 10; so,

multa de nocte,

Cic. Sest. 35, 75; id. Att. 7, 4 fin. (for which multa nocte, id. Q. Fr. 2, 9); cf.

also: si de multa nocte (al. de nocte) vigilassent,

id. Att. 2, 15, 2:

Caesar mittit complures equitum turmas eo de media nocte,

Caes. B. G. 7, 45; 7, 88; so,

media de nocte,

at midnight, Suet. Calig. 26; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 91:

Caesar de tertia vigilia e castris profectus,

in the third night-watch, Caes. B. G. 1, 12:

de tertia vigilia,

id. ib. 1, 21; Liv. 9, 44 Drak.; 40, 4 al.; cf.:

de quarta vigilia,

Caes. B. G. 1, 21, 3 al.; v. vigilia. —As in this manner de nocte became adverbially = nocte, so de die was sometimes used for die or per diem:

de die potare,

by day, in the daytime, Plaut. Asin. 4, 2, 16:

epulari de die,

Liv. 23, 8; Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 8; Catull. 47, 6; Suet. Calig. 37; id. Domit. 21; cf.:

bibulus media de luce Falerni,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 34;

and in a lusus verbb. with in diem,

Cic. Phil. 2, 34 fin. —Less freq., de mense:

navigare de mense Decembri,

in December, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1 fin. —And once de tempore for tempore: ipse de tempore coenavit, Auct. B. Hisp. 33, 5.

In other relations, implying separation, departure from, etc.

To designate the whole, from which a part is taken, or of which a part is separately regarded, etc., from among, out of, from:

hominem certum misi de comitibus meis,

Cic. Att. 8, 1, 2:

gladio percussus ab uno de illis,

id. Mil. 24, 65:

si quis de nostris hominibus,

id. Flacc. 4:

quemvis de iis qui essent idonei,

id. Div. in Caecil. 4 fin.:

de tribus et decem fundis tres nobilissimi fundi,

id. Rosc. Am. 35, 99 et saep.:

accusator de plebe,

id. Brut. 34, 131:

pulsare minimum de plebe Quiritem,

Ov. Am. 1, 7, 29; cf. Liv. 7, 17:

malus poëta de populo,

Cic. Arch. 10, 25 et saep.:

partem solido demere de die,

Hor. Od. 1, 1, 20:

quantum de vita perdiderit,

Petr. 26:

praeteriine tuas de tot caelestibus aras,

Ov. Her. 21, 179; Juv. 1, 138. —

Sometimes de with abl. takes the place of the gen. partit. or gen. obj. In the best writers this occurs mainly

to avoid ambiguity where genitives would be multiplied:

ne expers partis esset de nostris bonis,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 39:

ut aliquem partem de istius impudentia reticere possim,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 32;

for greater precision:

si quae sunt de eodem genere,

id. Tusc. 4, 7, 16:

persona de mimo,

id. Phil. 2, 27, 65;

in the poets, metri gratiā:

aliquid de more vetusto,

Ov. F. 6, 309; Grat. Cyneg. 17:

laudes de Caesare,

Ov. Pont. 4, 13, 23:

cetera de genere hoc,

Hor. Sat. 1, 1, 13; Lucr. 4, 746. This circumlocution was freq. [p. 514] in comic writers and in vulgar lang., and became more common in the declining periods of the lang., so that in the Romance tongues de, di, etc., with a case represent the earlier genitive (so, conscius, conscientia, meminisse, mentionem facere, recordari, etc., de aliqua re for alicujus rei, v. h. vv.).

To indicate the property from which the costs of any thing are taken:

obsonat, potat, olet unguenta de meo,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 37; so,

de tuo,

Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 65:

de suo,

Cic. Att. 16, 16, A, 5; Suet. Caes. 19:

de nostro,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 11:

de vestro,

Liv. 6, 15, 10; cf.:

de vestris,

Ov. F. 3, 828:

de alieno,

Liv. 3, 1, 3; Just. 36, 3 fin.:

de publico,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44; Liv. 1, 20; 2, 16; 4, 60. For de tuo, once de te:

de te largitor puer,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 17.—Also in a trop. sense:

ad tua praecepta de meo nihil his novum apposivi,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 31; cf. id. Men. 1. 2, 40; Cic. Fam. 4, 3; Plin. Ep. 4, 13, 8.— Poet., to denote that out of which, or by which, one pays a penalty or suffers punishment:

has vestro de sanguine poenas datis,

Luc. 4, 805; cf.:

cum de visceribus tuis satisfacturus sis quibus debes,

Cic. Q. Frat. 1, 3, 7.

To designate the material of which any thing is made, of, out of, from:

niveo factum de marmore signum,

Ov. M. 14, 313; cf. Verg. G. 3, 13:

verno de flore corona,

Tib. 2, 1, 59:

sucus de quinquefolio,

Plin. 26, 4, 11:

cinis de fico,

Pall. 1, 35, 3 et saep.:

de templo carcerem fleri,

Cic. Phil. 5, 7; cf. Flor. 2, 6, 32:

captivum de rege facturi,

Just. 7, 2, 11; cf.:

inque deum de bove versus erat,

Ov. F. 5, 616 et saep.:

fles de rhetore consul,

Juv. 7, 197.—Cf. trop. by means of:

de eodem oleo et opera exaravi nescio quid ad te,

Cic. Att. 13, 38.—Prov.:

de nihilo nihilum,

Pers. 3, 84; cf. Lucr. 1, 157 sq.

In mental operations, to indicate the subject-matter or theme on which any mental act (thinking, considering, advising, determining, etc.; discoursing, informing, exhorting, deciding, disputing, doubting, etc.) is founded; of, about, concerning, Gr. peri:

cogitare de aliqua re, etc. (the most common signification): multa narrare de Laelio,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

dubitare de re,

id. Fam. 3, 10, 15:

de suo adventu docere,

Suet. Caes. 9:

de moribus admonere,

Sall. Cat. 5, 9 et saep.—With this, too, is connected its use,

To indicate the producing cause or reason, for, on account of, because of:

nam id nisi gravi de causa non fecisset,

Cic. Att. 7, 7, 3; cf. id. de Or. 1, 41, 186; Cael ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15; Cic. Att. 11, 3:

de quo nomine ad arbitrum adiisti, de eo ad judicium venisti,

id. Rosc. Com. 4, 12:

flebat uterque non de suo supplicio, sed pater de filii morte, de patris filius,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 76:

de labore pectus tundit,

with pain, Plaut. Casin. 2, 6, 63:

incessit passu de vulnere tardo,

Ov. M. 10, 49:

humus fervet de corpore,

id. ib. 7, 560:

facilius de odio creditur,

Tac. H. 1, 34:

quod erat de me feliciter Ilia mater,

through me, Ov. F. 3, 233 et saep.

To indicate the thing with reference to which any thing is done, with respect to, concerning:

de istac re in oculum utrumvis conquiescito,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 121: nil peccat de savio, Caec. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 11 (v. 161 Ribbeck):

credere de numero militum,

Cic. Att. 9, 1, 2:

de numero dierum fidem servare,

Caes. B. G. 6, 36; Sall. C. 50, 3:

de ceteris senatui curae fore,

id. Jug. 26, 1:

concessum ab nobilitate de consule plebeio,

Liv. 6, 42:

solem de virgine rapta consule,

Ov. F. 4, 581 et saep.—Ellipt.:

de argento somnium,

as for the money, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 50 (for which id. Heaut. 4, 2, 4: quod de argento sperem, nihil est): Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 1:

de Dionysio sum admiratus,

Cic. Att. 9, 12; id. Off. 1, 15, 47:

de me autem suscipe paullisper meas partes,

id. Fam. 3, 12, 2; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 36 et saep.:

de Samnitibus triumphare,

concerning, over, Cic. Sen. 16, 55; cf. Hor. 4, 2, 88:

de Atheniensibus victoria,

Curt. 8, 1, 33.

To indicate the thing in conformity with which any thing is done, according to, after:

secundum: DE SENATVOS SENTENTIAD, S. C. de Bac.: fecisse dicas de mea sententia,

Plaut. Bac. 4, 9, 115; cf.:

de suorum propinquorum sententia atque auctoritate fecisse dicatur,

Cic. Cael. 29: de consilii sententia Mamertinis se frumentum non imperare pronunciat, id. Verr. 2, 5, 21 al.:

de ejus consilio velle sese facere,

Ter. Ph. 3, 1, 17:

vix de mea voluntate concessum est,

Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4:

de exemplo meo ipse aedificato,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 86:

de more vetusto,

Verg. A. 11, 142; Ov. M. 7, 606:

de nomine,

id. ib. 1, 447:

patrioque vocat de nomine mensem,

id. F. 3, 77.

With adjectives to form adverbial expressions.

De integro, anew ( = ab integro, ex integro; cf.: iterum, rursus, denuo), indidemque eadem aeque oriuntur de integro, atque eodem occidunt, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 17 Müll. (v. 92 Ribb.):

ratio de integro ineunda est mihi,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 7; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 56; id. Att. 13, 27; id. Fam. 12, 30, 2 et saep. (The combination de novo appears only in the contracted form denuo, v. h. v.).—

De improviso, unexpectedly:

ubi de improviso interventum est mulieri,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 40; id. And. 2, 2, 23; id. Ad. 3, 3, 53; Caes. B. G. 2, 3; 5, 22; 5, 39 et saep.; Cic. Rosc. Am. 52, 151 et saep.—

De transverso, unexpectedly:

ecce autem de transverso L. Caesar ut veniam ad se rogat,

Cic. Att. 15, 4 fin.; Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14.

or pron. and its substantive; cf.

above multa de nocte, media de nocte, gravi de causa, etc.: qua de re,

Ter. Andr. 1, 2, 13; esp. in the judic. formula: qua de re agitur; cf. Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6; Cic. Brut. 79 fin. Also freq. after a simple relative:

quo de,

Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 41; 54, 104; 2, 11, 37:

qua de,

id. ib. 2, 23, 70 et saep.

In composition the e becomes short before a vowel, as in dĕhisco, dĕhinc, dĕorsum, and coincides with it in the poets by synaeresis; cf.: dehinc, deinde, deinceps, deorsum; sometimes contraction takes place, as in debeo, debilis, dego, demo, from dehabeo, de-habilis, de-ago, de-emo.—

Signif.

Separation, departure, removal, taking away; off, away, down, out: decedo, demigro, demeto, depromo, descendo, devolvo, derivo, deflecto, etc.; and trop. dedico, denuntio; and in a downward direction, decido, decumbo, deprimo, demergo, delabor, defluo, demitto, desido, desideo, declivis, deculco, degredior, deicio, etc.—

Cessation, removal of the fundamental idea ( = un-, de-, dis-): dearmo, deartuo, decresco, dedisco, dedecoro, dedignor, dedoceo, denascor, denormo, desum, etc.; and hence direct negation, as in dedecet, deformis, demens, etc.—

With reference to the terminus of the action: defero, defigo, demitto, etc.; hence also trop., with reference to the extent of the action, to the uttermost, to exhaustion, through. out: debacchor, debello, dedolo, delino, delibuo, etc.: defatigo, delaboro, delasso, etc.; hence freq. a mere strengthening of the fundamental idea, = valde, thoroughly, much: demiror, demitigo, etc.—

Giving a bad sense to the verb: decipio, delinquo, deludo, derideo, detestor.—

Rarely, contraction from a broad into a narrow space, together: deligo, devincio. See also Hand Turs. II. p. 183-229.

dē-monstro, āvi, ātum, 1 ( arch. inf. pass.:

demonstrarier,

Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 76), v. a., to point out, as with the finger; to indicate, designate, show (freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen. (cf.: indico, significo, ostendo): ubi habitet (mihi) demonstrarier (volo—with commonstrarier), Ter. l. l.; cf.:

itinera ipsa ita putavi esse demonstranda, ut commonstrarem tantum viam, et ut fieri solet, digitum ad fontes intenderem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 46 fin.:

non ea figura, quae digito demonstrari potest,

id. Rep. 6, 24; so,

too, aliquid digito,

Quint. 6, 3, 38:

aliquem averso pollice,

id. 11, 3, 104:

aliquid nutu vel manu,

id. 1, 5, 36:

eum volo mihi demonstretis hominem,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 16:

thesaurum mi in hisce aedibus,

id. Trin. 1, 2, 113:

itinera cum cura,

Liv. 23, 33:

unum ex iis,

Suet. Aug. 94 et saep.:

ut ante demonstrabant, quid ubique esset... item nunc, quid undique oblatum sit, ostendunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 59: demonstres ubi sint tuae tenebrae, Catull. 55, 2.— Absol.: histrio ita demonstraverat ( had gesticulated), ut bibentem natantemque faceret, Suet. Ner. 39.—

Poet. of a subject not personal:

demonstrant astra salebras,

Prop. 3, 16, 15 (4, 15, 15 M.).—

Esp., jurid. t. t.: fines, to point out the boundaries, i.e. to deliver a piece of land to the purchaser, Cic. pro Tull. § 17; Dig. 18, 1, 18; 21, 2, 45.—

Pregn., to guide by pointing out the way:

si equus ille decessit qui demonstrabat quadrigam,

Dig. 31, 1, 65, § 1.—

Trop., to designate, indicate, by speech or writing; to show, prove, demonstrate; to represent, describe; also simply to mention (in this signif. often in Caes. —for syn. cf.: monstro, commonstro, comprobo, probo, declaro).

With acc.:

Spurinna quidem cum ei rem demonstrassem et vitam tuam superiorem exposuissem, magnum periculum summae reipublicae demonstrabat, nisi, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 9, 24;

so with docere,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 50;

with ostendere,

id. Att. 1, 1, 4; Quint. 5, 12, 15 et saep.:

istius cupiditatem minasque demonstrat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 39 fin.:

si tibi nemo responsurus esset, tamen ipsam causam demonstrare non posses,

id. Div. in Caecil. 13, 43:

modum formamque (sc. navium),

Caes. B. G. 5, 1:

re demonstrata,

id. ib. 5, 38; cf.:

quibus demonstratis,

Quint. 5, 1, 3:

aliquid scripto,

id. 1, 5, 32 et saep.:

ad ea castra, quae supra demonstravimus, contendit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 83 fin.; 5, 49; so with the pron. relat., id. B. C. 3, 84, 3; 3, 89, 3:

hujus Hercyniae silvae, quae supra demonstrata est, latitudo, etc.,

id. B. G. 6, 25; cf. in pass. id. B. C. 1, 81, 2; 63 fin. —With double acc.:

quam virtutem quartam elocutionis Cicero demonstrat,

Quint. 11, 1, 1.—

With acc. and inf.:

mihi Fabius demonstravit, te id cogitasse facere,

Cic. Fam. 3, 3, 2; id. Inv. 1, 31:

demonstrant sibi praeter agri solum nihil esse reliqui,

Caes. B. G. 1, 11, 5; 2, 17, 2; 7, 41, 2 (with exponunt); 7, 43, 2 et saep.— Pass. with nom. and inf.:

altera parte imbecillitas, inopia fuisse demonstrabitur,

Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7:

si eo ipse in genere, quo arguatur, integer ante fuisse demonstrabitur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 11, 36; Hyg. Astr. 2, 14; 2, 21.—

With a relative clause:

quanta praedae faciendae facultas daretur, si, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 4, 34 fin.; Quint. 2, 4, 3; Plin. 25, 13, 106, § 169.—

Absol.:

cum esset Caesar in citeriore Gallia in hibernis, ita uti supra demonstravimus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 1:

ut supra demonstravimus,

id. ib. 5, 3;

5, 19 al.: ut ante demonstravimus,

id. ib. 2, 22;

ita ut antea demonstravimus,

id. ib. 7, 46;

and simply ut demonstravimus,

id. ib. 6, 35; id. B. C. 3, 66, 2 al.—

In attraction:

cum essent in quibus demonstravi augustiis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 15, 6:

circiter DC ejus generis, cujus supra demonstravimus naves,

id. B. G. 5, 2, 2.—

Of an inanimate subject:

quae hoc demonstrare videantur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 63:

quod proximus demonstrabit liber,

Quint. 1, 10, 49:

littera causam,

Tib. 3, 2, 27:

laus ac vituperatio quale sit quidque demonstrat,

id. 3, 4, 14 al. —

Pass. impers.:

naves XVIII., de quibus supra demonstratum est,

Caes. B. G. 4, 28; id. B. C. 1, 56, 2:

erant, ut supra demonstratum est, legiones Afranii tres,

id. ib. 1, 39; 2, 34;

and without supra,

id. ib. 3, 62:

quem a Pompeio missum in Hispaniam demonstratum est,

id. ib. 1, 38; so with an acc. and inf., id. ib. 2, 28;

2, 42, 5: ad flumen Axonam contenderunt, quod esse post nostra castra demonstratum est,

id. B. G. 2, 9, 3.

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prō-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3, v. a., to put or set forth, to set or lay out, to place before, expose to view, to display (class.).

Lit.:

proponere vexillum,

Caes. B. G. 2, 20:

pallentesque manus, sanguineumque caput,

Ov. Tr. 3, 9, 30:

i puer et citus haec aliquā propone columnā,

Prop. 3 (4), 23, 23:

aliquid venale,

to expose for sale, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 32, § 78; cf. Suet. Ner. 16:

geminum pugnae proponit honorem,

proposes, offers, Verg. A. 5, 365:

singulis diebus ediscendos fastos populo proposuit,

Cic. Mur. 11, 25:

legem in publicum,

id. Agr. 2, 5, 13:

in publico epistulam,

id. Att. 8, 9, 2; id. Pis. 36, 88:

vectigalia,

to publish, publicly advertise, Suet. Calig. 41:

oppida Romanis proposita ad copiam commeatūs,

Caes. B. G. 7, 14:

ne quid volucre proponeretur, praeter, etc.,

should be served up, Plin. 10, 50, 71, § 139 (al. poneretur).—

Trop.

To set before the eyes, to propose mentally; to imagine, conceive:

propone tibi duos reges,

Cic. Deiot. 14, 40:

aliquid sibi exemplar,

id. Univ. 2:

sibi aliquem ad imitandum,

id. de Or. 2, 22, 93:

vos ante oculos animosque vestros... Apronii regnum proponite,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 58:

eam (vitam) ante oculos vestros proponite,

id. Sull. 26, 72:

condicio supplicii in bello timiditati militis proposita,

id. Clu. 46, 129; 56, 154; 12, 42:

vim fortunae animo,

Liv. 30, 30:

spem libertatis,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 5, 15:

nihil ad scribendum,

id. Att. 5, 10, 4.—

To expose:

omnibus telis fortunae proposita est vita nostra,

Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 2:

tabernis apertis proposita omnia in medio vidit,

Liv. 6, 25, 9.—

To point out, declare, represent, report, say, relate, set forth, publish, etc. (cf.:

indico, denuntio): ut proponat, quid dicturus sit,

Cic. Or. 40, 137; id. Brut. 60, 217:

extremum illud est de iis, quae proposueram,

id. Fam. 15, 14, 6:

contione habitā, rem gestam proponit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 50:

in exemplum proponere,

Quint. 7, 1, 41; 12, 2, 27.—With de:

de Galliae Germaniaeque moribus, et quo differant eae nationes inter se,

Caes. B. G. 6, 11.—With object-clause:

quod ante tacuerat, proponit, esse nonnullos, quorum, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 17:

cui (morbo) remedia celeria faciliaque proponebantur,

were proposed, suggested, believed to be efficient, Nep. Att. 21, 2.—

To offer, propose as a reward:

Xerxes praemium proposuit, qui invenisset novam voluptatem,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 7, 20:

populo congiarium, militi donativum,

Suet. Ner. 7.—

In a bad sense, to threaten, denounce:

cui cum publicatio bonorum, exsilium, mors proponeretur,

Cic. Planc. 41, 97:

injuriae, quae propositae sunt a Catone,

id. Fam. 1, 5, b, 2:

contentiones, quae mihi proponuntur,

id. Att. 2, 19, 1:

improbis poenam,

id. Fin. 2, 17, 57:

damnationem et mortem sibi proponat ante oculos,

Liv. 2, 54, 6; Just. 16, 5, 2.—

To lay before, to propose for an answer: aliquam quaestionem, Nep Att. 20, 2:

aenigma,

Vulg. Ezech. 17, 2.—

To purpose, resolve, intend, design, determine:

consecutus id, quod animo proposuerat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 47:

cum id mihi propositum initio non fuisset,

I had not proposed it to myself, had not intended it, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6.— With inf.:

neque propositum nobis est hoc loco (laudare), etc.,

I am resolved, Cic. Brut. 6, 25.—With ut:

propositum est, non ut eloquentiam meam perspicias, sed ut,

the design is, Cic. Brut. 92, 318.—

To say or mention beforehand (post-Aug.), Col. 8, 17, 8.—

To state the first premise of a syllogism:

cum proponimus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 39, 70; 1, 40, 72.—

To impose (post-class.):

novam mihi propono dicendi legem,

Mamert. Genethl. 5.—Hence, prōpŏsĭtum, i, n.

A plan, intention, design, resolution, purpose (class.):

quidnam Pompeius propositi aut voluntatis ad dimicandum haberet,

Caes. B. C. 3, 84:

assequi,

to attain, Cic. Fin. 3, 6, 22:

est enim propositum, ut iratum efficiat judicem,

id. Part. 4, 14:

tenere,

to keep to one's purpose, Nep. Eum. 3, 5; Liv. 3, 41, 4; Caes. B. C. 1, 83; 3, 42; 64:

propositum peragere,

Nep. Att. 22, 2:

tenax propositi,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 1: in proposito manere. Suet. Gram. 24:

reprehendendi habere,

Plin. Ep. 9, 19, 7:

omne propositum operis a nobis destinati,

Quint. 2, 10, 15; 2, 19, 1; 12, 9, 14.—

The first premise of a syllogism, Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 215; Sen. Q. N. 1, 8, 4.—

An argument: nam est in proposito finis fides, Cic. Part. 3, 9.—

The main point, principal subject, theme:

a proposito declinare aliquantulum,

Cic. Or. 40, 137:

egredi a proposito ornandi causā,

id. Brut. 21, 82:

a proposito aberrare,

id. Fin. 5, 28, 83:

redire ad propositum,

id. de Or. 3, 53, 203:

ad propositum revertamur,

id. Off. 3, 9, 39:

a proposito aversus,

Liv. 2, 8, 8:

propositum totius operis,

Sen. Ep. 65, 4 sq.; 65, 8:

vitae,

Cels. 5, 26, 6:

meum,

Phaedr. 1, 5, 2:

tuum,

Sen. Ep. 68, 3.—

A way, manner, or course of life ( poet. and post-Aug.):

mutandum tibi propositum est et vitae genus,

Phaedr. prol. 3, 15:

vir proposito sanctissimus,

Vell. 2, 2, 2.

sŭb (on the form sus from subs v. infra, III.), prep. with acc. and abl. [perh. for es-ub, ens-ub, = ens (eis) and hupo; Sanscr. upa; cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 290], under.

With abl., to point out the object under which a thing is situated or takes place (Gr. hupo, with dat. or gen.), under, below, beneath, underneath.

Of space:

si essent, qui sub terrā semper habitavissent... nec tamen exissent umquam supra terram,

Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 95; Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 72:

sub aquā,

id. Cas. 2, 6, 28:

sub vestimentis,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 32; Liv. 1, 58; cf.: saepe est sub palliolo sordido sapientia, Caecil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 23, 56:

ingenium ingens Inculto latet hoc sub corpore,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 34:

sub pellibus hiemare,

Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 5; cf. Liv. 23, 18, 15:

manet sub Jove frigido Venator,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 25:

sub divo moreris,

id. ib. 2, 3, 23:

vitam sub divo agat,

id. ib. 3, 2, 5 (v. divus, II.):

sub terrā vivi demissi sunt,

Liv. 22, 57:

sub hoc jugo dictator Aequos misit,

id. 3, 28, 11:

pone (me) sub curru nimium propinqui Solis,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 21 et saep.— Trop.:

non parvum sub hoc verbo furtum latet,

Cic. Agr. 3, 3, 12.—

Transf., of lofty objects, at the foot of which, or in whose immediate neighborhood, any thing is situated, under, below, beneath, at the foot of, at, by, near, before:

sub monte consedit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48; so,

sub monte considere,

id. ib. 1, 21:

sub colle constituere,

id. ib. 7, 49:

sub montis radicibus esse,

id. ib. 7, 36 al.:

sub ipsis Numantiae moenibus,

Cic. Rep. 1, 11, 17:

est ager sub urbe,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 107; so,

sub urbe,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 26; Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 2; Hor. C. 3, 19, 4:

sub Veteribus,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 19:

sub Novis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266 Orell. N. cr.; id. Ac. 2, 22, 70 Goer. N. cr.; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 59 Müll.:

sub basilicā,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 11 et saep.— Trop.:

sub oculis domini suam probare operam studebant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 57 fin.:

omnia sub oculis erant,

Liv. 4, 28; cf. Vell. 2, 21, 3:

classem sub ipso ore urbis incendit,

Flor. 2, 15.—

Of time, in, within, during, at, by:

ne sub ipsā profectione milites oppidum irrumperent,

Caes. B. C. 1, 27:

sub decessu suo,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 49:

sub luce,

Ov. M. 1, 494; Hor. A. P. 363; Liv. 25, 24:

sub eodem tempore,

Ov. F. 5, 491:

sub somno,

Cels. 3, 18 med. al.—

In other relations, where existence under or in the immediate vicinity of any thing may be conceived.

Under, in rank or order; hence, next to, immediately after: Euryalumque Helymus sequitur;

quo deinde sub ipso Ecce volat calcemque terit jam calce Diores,

Verg. A. 5, 322.—

In gen., of subjection, domination, stipulation, influence, effect, reason, etc., under, beneath, with:

omnes ordine sub signis ducam legiones meas,

under my standards, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 71: sub armis vitam cernere, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll. (Trag. v. 297 Vahl.); so,

sub armis,

Caes. B. C. 1, 41; 1, 42:

sub sarcinis,

id. B. G. 2, 17; 3, 24:

sub onere,

id. B. C. 1, 66 et saep.—

Trop., under, subject to, in the power of; during, in the time of, upon, etc.:

sub Veneris regno vapulo, non sub Jovis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 13:

sub regno esse,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:

sub imperio alicujus esse,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 4:

sub dicione atque imperio alicujus esse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31; Auct. B. Alex. 66, 6; Sall. J. 13, 1; Nep. Con. 4, 4; id. Eum. 7, 1; cf.:

sub Corbulone Armenios pellere,

Tac. H. 3, 24: sub manu alicujus esse, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 2;

sub rege,

Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 43; Hor. C. 3, 5, 9:

sub Hannibale,

Liv. 25, 40:

sub dominā meretrice,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 25:

sub nutrice,

id. ib. 2, 1, 99:

sub judice lis est,

id. A. P. 78:

praecipua sub Domitiano miseriarum pars erat,

during the reign of, Tac. Agr. 45:

scripsit sub Nerone novissimis annis,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 5:

gnarus sub Nerone temporum,

Tac. Agr. 6; Suet. Tit. 8 et saep.:

sub vulnere,

from the effects of the wound, Ov. M. 5, 62; cf.:

sub judice,

under, id. ib. 13, 190:

nullo sub indice,

forced by no betrayer, id. ib. 13, 34.—So in certain phrases where the simple abl. is more freq.:

sub pacto abolitionis dominationem deponere,

Quint. 9, 2, 97:

sub condicione,

Liv. 6, 40, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.:

sub condicionibus,

id. 21, 12, 4:

sub eā condicione, ne cui fidem meam obstringam,

Plin. Ep. 4, 13, 11:

sub eā condicione, si esset, etc.,

id. ib. 8, 18, 4; so,

sub condicione, ut (ne, si, etc.),

Suet. Tib. 44; 13; id. Caes. 68; id. Claud. 24; id. Vit. 6:

sub specie (= specie, or per speciem): sub specie infidae pacis quieti,

Liv. 9, 45, 5; 36, 7, 12; 44, 24, 4:

sub tutelae specie,

Curt. 10, 6, 21; Sen. Ben. 1, 4, 2; cf.:

sub nomine pacis bellum latet,

Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 17:

sub alienis auspiciis rem gerere,

Val. Max. 3, 2, 6:

sub lege, ne,

Suet. Aug. 21:

sub exceptione, si,

id. Caes. 78:

sub poenā mortis,

id. Calig. 48:

servitutis,

id. Tib. 36 et saep.:

sub frigido sudore mori,

Cels. 5, 26, 31 fin. —

With acc., to point out the object under which a thing comes, goes, extends, etc. (Gr. hupo, with acc.), under, below, beneath.

Of space, usually with verbs of motion:

et datores et factores omnes subdam sub solum,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 18:

manum sub vestimenta deferre,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 78:

cum tota se luna sub orbem solis subjecisset,

Cic. Rep. 1, 16, 25:

exercitum sub jugum mittere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7; 1, 12; Sall. J. 38, 9 Dietsch ad loc.:

sub furcam ire,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 66:

sub divum rapere,

id. C. 1, 18, 13:

sub terras ire,

Verg. A. 4, 654. — Trop.:

sub judicium sapientis et delectum cadunt,

Cic. Fin. 3, 18, 61:

quae sub sensus subjecta sunt,

id. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

quod sub aurium mensuram aliquam cadat,

id. Or. 20, 67:

columbae Ipsa sub ora viri venere,

Verg. A. 6, 191:

quod sub oculos venit,

Sen. Ben. 1, 5, 6.—Rarely with verb of rest:

quidquid sub Noton et Borean hominum sumus,

Luc. 7, 364.—

Transf. (cf. supra, I. A. 2.), of lofty objects, to the foot of which, or into whose immediate neighborhood, any thing comes, or near to which it extends, under, below, beneath, to, near to, close to, up to, towards, etc.:

sub montem succedunt milites,

Caes. B. C. 1, 45:

sub ipsum murum fons aquae prorumpebat,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 41:

missi sunt sub muros,

Liv. 44, 45:

Judaei sub ipsos muros struxere aciem,

Tac. H. 5, 11; 3, 21:

aedes suas detulit sub Veliam,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 54:

arat finem sub utrumque colonus,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 35:

jactatus amnis Ostia sub Tusci,

id. ib. 2, 2, 33:

(hostem) mediam ferit ense sub alvum,

Ov. M. 12, 389:

sub orientem secutus Armenios,

Flor. 3, 5.—

Of time, denoting a close approximation.

Before, towards, about, shortly before, up to, until:

Pompeius sub noctem naves solvit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 28; so,

sub noctem,

Verg. A. 1, 662; Hor. C. 1, 9, 19; id. S. 2, 1, 9; 2, 7, 109; id. Ep. 2, 2, 169:

sub vesperum,

Caes. B. G. 2, 33; id. B. C. 1, 42:

sub lucem,

id. B. G. 7, 83; Verg. G. 1, 445:

sub lumina prima,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 33:

sub tempus edendi,

id. Ep. 1, 16, 22:

sub dies festos,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1:

sub galli cantum,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 10:

usque sub extremum brumae intractabilis imbrem,

Verg. G. 1, 211:

simulacra Visa sub obscurum noctis,

id. ib. 1, 478:

prima vel autumni sub frigora,

id. ib. 2, 321:

quod (bellum) fuit sub recentem pacem,

Liv. 21, 2, 1.—

After, immediately after, just after, immediately upon:

sub eas (litteras) statim recitatae sunt tuae,

Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 1; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 4:

sub haec dicta omnes procubuerunt,

Liv. 7, 31:

sub adventum praetoris,

id. 23, 15, 1; 23, 16, 3; 45, 10, 10:

sub hanc vocem fremitus variantis multitudinis fuit,

id. 35, 31:

sub hoc erus inquit,

hereupon, Hor. S. 2, 8, 43.—

In other relations, in which a coming under any thing may be conceived:

lepide hoc succedit sub manus negotium,

comes to hand, convenient, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 59:

sub manus succedere,

id. ib. 4, 4, 7; id. Pers. 4, 1, 2: sub manum submittere, at hand, convenient, Auct. B. Afr. 36, 1:

sub ictum venire,

Liv. 27, 18:

sub manum annuntiari,

Suet. Aug. 49 (al. sub manu; cf.

supra, I. C.): sub legum et judiciorum potestatem cadere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 55, § 144:

sub populi Romani imperium dicionemque cadere,

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

incolas sub potestatem Atheniensium redigere,

Nep. Milt. 1:

matrimonium vos sub legis superbissimae vincula conicitis,

Liv. 4, 4:

sub unum fortunae ictum totas vires regni cadere pati,

Curt. 3, 8, 2.—

In composition, the b remains unchanged before vowels and before b, d, j, l, n, s, t, v. Before m and r it is frequently, and before the remaining consonants, c, f, g, p, it is regularly assimilated. Yet here the MSS. vary, as in ob, ad, in, etc. Before some words commencing with c. p, t, it assumes the form sus, by the rejection of the b from a collateral form subs (analog. to abs); e. g. suscipio, suscito, suspendo, sustineo, sustuli, sustollo. Before s, with a following consonant, there remains merely su in the words suspicio, suspicor, suspiro; cf., however: substerno, substituo, substo, substruo al.; v. esp. Neue, Formenl. 2, 775 sqq.—

In composition, sub denotes,

Lit., a being situated or contained under, a putting or bringing under, or a going in under any thing: subaeratus, subcavus; subdo, subigo, subicio; subhaereo, subaperio; subedo.—

Hence, also, a concealing or being concealed behind something; a secret action: subnoto, surripio, suffuror, subausculto, suborno. —

Transf., a being placed or ranked under: subcenturio, subcurator, subcustos, etc.; or a being or doing any thing in a lower or inferior degree, a little, somewhat, rather, slightly: subabsurdus, subagrestis, subalbus, etc.; subaccusare, subirascor, etc.

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ostento, āvi, ātum ( inf. pass. ostentarier, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 129), 1, v. freq. a. [ostendo], to present to view, to show, exhibit (class.).

In gen.:

alicui jugula sua pro capite alicujus,

to present, offer, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 4:

aliquem,

Verg. A. 12, 479:

campos nitentes,

id. ib. 6, 678:

Sidonias opes,

id. ib. 4, 75:

passum capillum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 48:

liberos,

Suet. Aug. 34: quo res sapsa loco sese ostentat, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 325 Müll. (Ann. v. 372 Vahl.).—

In partic.

To show off with vanity or boastfulness, to display, make a display of, boast of, vaunt:

amorem tibi meum,

Cic. Fam. 10, 3, 4:

quid me ostentem,

why should I make a display of myself? id. ib. 1, 4, 3:

et prae se ferre,

id. Att. 2, 23, 3:

memoriae ostentandae causā,

Auct. Her. 2, 30, 47: clientelas, Dolabell. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 2:

triumphos suos,

Sall. J. 31, 10:

eum ipsum aliis,

id. ib. 49, 4:

se in aliis rebus,

to exhibit themselves, Cic. Cael. 28, 67:

Ambiorigem ostentant fidei faciundae causā,

Caes. B. G. 5, 41.—

To hold out or up as an example:

desine Tydiden vultuque et murmure nobis Ostentare,

Ov. M. 13, 350.—

To hold out for the purpose of offering or giving; to proffer, promise:

alterā manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat alterā,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 18:

agrum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 28, 78:

praemia,

Sall. J. 66, 1; 89, 1; cf.:

praemia modo, modo formidinem,

id. ib. 23, 1:

praedam,

id. ib. 68, 3.—

To hold out in a threatening manner; to threaten, menace:

caedem, servitutem,

Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 1:

periculum capitis,

id. Clu. 8, 25:

minas,

Liv. 2, 42.—

To show by speech or signs; to indicate, point out, signify, reveal, disclose:

(largitio) verbis ostentari potest, re verā fieri, nisi exhausto aerario, nullo pacto potest,

Cic. Agr. 2, 4, 18:

tibi me istis esse familiarem,

id. Fam. 9, 6, 2:

principem,

to reveal, Plin. Pan. 4, 7.—With rel.-clause: ostentans, quanta eos... invidia maneret showing, declaring, Suet. Caes. 14.

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dē-nŏto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

Lit., to mark, set a mark on, with chalk, color, etc.:

pedes venalium creta,

Plin. 35, 17, 58, § 199:

lineam conspicuo colore,

Col. 3, 15.—

Transf.

To mark out, point out, specify, indicate, denote, designate (rare but class.—cf. demonstro):

qui uno nuntio atque una significatione litterarum civis Romanos necandos trucidandosque denotavit,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 3, 7:

haud dubie Icilios denotante senatu,

Liv. 4, 55.—

To take note of, mark with the mind, observe accurately, denotantibus vobis ora ac metum singulorum, Tac. A. 3, 53:

cum denotandis hominum palloribus sufficeret vultus,

id. Agr. 45:

quot et quales sint nati,

id. 7, 9, 11:

cum ei res similes occurrant, quas non habeat denotatas,

Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 57; cf. Vell. 2, 70, 2.—

Trop., to stigmatize, scandalize, brand with reproach or infamy:

mollem et effeminatum omni probro,

Suet. Cal. 56 fin.:

turpia legata, quae denotandi legatarii gratia scribuntur,

Dig. 30, 54 init.:

qui gaudet iniquitate denotabitur,

Vulg. Sir. 19, 5 sq. —Hence, P. a., dēnŏtātus, marked out, conspicuous.—Comp.:

denotatior ad contumeliae morsum,

Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 19.

dē-signo or dissigno (the latter form preferred by Brambach in sense II. B. 2. infra; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16; cf. Roby, L. G. 2, p. 384), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to mark out, trace out (freq. in the Aug. per.); to describe, designate, define (for syn. cf.: nomino, appello; voco, dico; facio, coöpto, evoco, prodo, declaro, renuntio, seligo).

Lit.:

Aeneas urbem designat aratro,

Verg. A. 5, 755; cf.:

moenia fossā,

id. ib. 7, 157:

moenia sulco,

Ov. F. 4, 825; and:

oppidum sulco,

Tac. A. 12, 24.— With dat.:

finis templo Jovis,

Liv. 1, 10; cf.:

locum circo,

id. 1, 35:—vulnere frontem, to mark, Stat. Th. 6, 782; cf.:

nubila ingenti gyro,

id. ib. 1, 311.—

Transf., to delineate, design, depict, represent, sc. by embroidering, weaving, etc.:

Europen,

Ov. M. 6, 103.—Far more freq.,

Trop.

In gen., to point out, mark, denote by speech; to designate, describe, represent:

haec ab hominibus callidis animadversa ac notata, verbis designata,

Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 109; cf.:

affectus velut primis lineis designare,

Quint. 4, 2, 120; and:

aliquem aliqua oratione,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

aliquem digito,

Ov. Am. 3, 1, 19; 3, 6, 77:

decumam ex praeda,

Liv. 5, 25:

aliquem nota ignaviae,

id. 24, 16:

turpitudinem aliquam,

Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236:

quem (mundum) alio loco ipse designarit deum,

id. N. D. 1, 13, 33:

multa, quae nimiam luxuriam et victoriae fiduciam designarent,

Caes. B. C. 3, 96.—

In partic.

In a bad sense, to contrive, devise, perpetrate (syn.:

exsequi, patrare, perpetrare—very rare): quae designata sint et facta nequitia,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 66; cf.: Illa, quae antehac facta sunt, Omitto;

modo quid designavit!

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7 Donat.—In a good sense:

quid non ebrietas designat,

effect, do, accomplish, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16 Orell.—

With access. idea of arrangement, to dispose, regulate, arrange, appoint, ordain, nominate, elect, choose:

constituere et designare aliquid,

Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82:

Anaxagoras primus omnium rerum descriptionem et modum mentis infinitae vi ac ratione designari et confici voluit,

to be designed and executed, id. N. D. 1, 11; cf. id. ib. 3, 35.—Esp., to appoint to a public office:

aliquem praetorem,

Suet. Cal. 18:

Mamertinum Consulem,

Amm. 21, 12, 25:

ut ii decemviratum habeant, quos plebs designaverit: oblitus est, nullos ab plebe designari,

Cic. Agr. 2, 10 fin.:

Catilina in proximum annum consulatum petebat, sperans si designatus foret, etc.,

Sall. C. 26.—Hence,

Polit. t. t.: dēsig-nātus, elect; applied to a person elected to an office, but who has not yet entered upon it:

consul,

Cic. Fam. 11, 6; Vell. 2, 58, and the superscriptions of letters in Cic. Fam. 11, 4-8:

tribunus plebis,

id. Agr. 2, 5, 11; id. Att. 3, 13; Sall. J. 27, 2:

quaestor,

Vell. 2, 111, 3 et saep.—Also, said of the office itself:

Pompeio consulatus designatus est,

Gell. 14, 7, 1.—

Transf., expected; of a child not yet born:

designatus civis,

Cic. Clu. 11, 32.

dē-signo or dissigno (the latter form preferred by Brambach in sense II. B. 2. infra; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16; cf. Roby, L. G. 2, p. 384), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to mark out, trace out (freq. in the Aug. per.); to describe, designate, define (for syn. cf.: nomino, appello; voco, dico; facio, coöpto, evoco, prodo, declaro, renuntio, seligo).

Lit.:

Aeneas urbem designat aratro,

Verg. A. 5, 755; cf.:

moenia fossā,

id. ib. 7, 157:

moenia sulco,

Ov. F. 4, 825; and:

oppidum sulco,

Tac. A. 12, 24.— With dat.:

finis templo Jovis,

Liv. 1, 10; cf.:

locum circo,

id. 1, 35:—vulnere frontem, to mark, Stat. Th. 6, 782; cf.:

nubila ingenti gyro,

id. ib. 1, 311.—

Transf., to delineate, design, depict, represent, sc. by embroidering, weaving, etc.:

Europen,

Ov. M. 6, 103.—Far more freq.,

Trop.

In gen., to point out, mark, denote by speech; to designate, describe, represent:

haec ab hominibus callidis animadversa ac notata, verbis designata,

Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 109; cf.:

affectus velut primis lineis designare,

Quint. 4, 2, 120; and:

aliquem aliqua oratione,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

aliquem digito,

Ov. Am. 3, 1, 19; 3, 6, 77:

decumam ex praeda,

Liv. 5, 25:

aliquem nota ignaviae,

id. 24, 16:

turpitudinem aliquam,

Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236:

quem (mundum) alio loco ipse designarit deum,

id. N. D. 1, 13, 33:

multa, quae nimiam luxuriam et victoriae fiduciam designarent,

Caes. B. C. 3, 96.—

In partic.

In a bad sense, to contrive, devise, perpetrate (syn.:

exsequi, patrare, perpetrare—very rare): quae designata sint et facta nequitia,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 66; cf.: Illa, quae antehac facta sunt, Omitto;

modo quid designavit!

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7 Donat.—In a good sense:

quid non ebrietas designat,

effect, do, accomplish, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16 Orell.—

With access. idea of arrangement, to dispose, regulate, arrange, appoint, ordain, nominate, elect, choose:

constituere et designare aliquid,

Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82:

Anaxagoras primus omnium rerum descriptionem et modum mentis infinitae vi ac ratione designari et confici voluit,

to be designed and executed, id. N. D. 1, 11; cf. id. ib. 3, 35.—Esp., to appoint to a public office:

aliquem praetorem,

Suet. Cal. 18:

Mamertinum Consulem,

Amm. 21, 12, 25:

ut ii decemviratum habeant, quos plebs designaverit: oblitus est, nullos ab plebe designari,

Cic. Agr. 2, 10 fin.:

Catilina in proximum annum consulatum petebat, sperans si designatus foret, etc.,

Sall. C. 26.—Hence,

Polit. t. t.: dēsig-nātus, elect; applied to a person elected to an office, but who has not yet entered upon it:

consul,

Cic. Fam. 11, 6; Vell. 2, 58, and the superscriptions of letters in Cic. Fam. 11, 4-8:

tribunus plebis,

id. Agr. 2, 5, 11; id. Att. 3, 13; Sall. J. 27, 2:

quaestor,

Vell. 2, 111, 3 et saep.—Also, said of the office itself:

Pompeio consulatus designatus est,

Gell. 14, 7, 1.—

Transf., expected; of a child not yet born:

designatus civis,

Cic. Clu. 11, 32.

dē-signo or dissigno (the latter form preferred by Brambach in sense II. B. 2. infra; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16; cf. Roby, L. G. 2, p. 384), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to mark out, trace out (freq. in the Aug. per.); to describe, designate, define (for syn. cf.: nomino, appello; voco, dico; facio, coöpto, evoco, prodo, declaro, renuntio, seligo).

Lit.:

Aeneas urbem designat aratro,

Verg. A. 5, 755; cf.:

moenia fossā,

id. ib. 7, 157:

moenia sulco,

Ov. F. 4, 825; and:

oppidum sulco,

Tac. A. 12, 24.— With dat.:

finis templo Jovis,

Liv. 1, 10; cf.:

locum circo,

id. 1, 35:—vulnere frontem, to mark, Stat. Th. 6, 782; cf.:

nubila ingenti gyro,

id. ib. 1, 311.—

Transf., to delineate, design, depict, represent, sc. by embroidering, weaving, etc.:

Europen,

Ov. M. 6, 103.—Far more freq.,

Trop.

In gen., to point out, mark, denote by speech; to designate, describe, represent:

haec ab hominibus callidis animadversa ac notata, verbis designata,

Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 109; cf.:

affectus velut primis lineis designare,

Quint. 4, 2, 120; and:

aliquem aliqua oratione,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

aliquem digito,

Ov. Am. 3, 1, 19; 3, 6, 77:

decumam ex praeda,

Liv. 5, 25:

aliquem nota ignaviae,

id. 24, 16:

turpitudinem aliquam,

Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236:

quem (mundum) alio loco ipse designarit deum,

id. N. D. 1, 13, 33:

multa, quae nimiam luxuriam et victoriae fiduciam designarent,

Caes. B. C. 3, 96.—

In partic.

In a bad sense, to contrive, devise, perpetrate (syn.:

exsequi, patrare, perpetrare—very rare): quae designata sint et facta nequitia,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 66; cf.: Illa, quae antehac facta sunt, Omitto;

modo quid designavit!

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7 Donat.—In a good sense:

quid non ebrietas designat,

effect, do, accomplish, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16 Orell.—

With access. idea of arrangement, to dispose, regulate, arrange, appoint, ordain, nominate, elect, choose:

constituere et designare aliquid,

Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82:

Anaxagoras primus omnium rerum descriptionem et modum mentis infinitae vi ac ratione designari et confici voluit,

to be designed and executed, id. N. D. 1, 11; cf. id. ib. 3, 35.—Esp., to appoint to a public office:

aliquem praetorem,

Suet. Cal. 18:

Mamertinum Consulem,

Amm. 21, 12, 25:

ut ii decemviratum habeant, quos plebs designaverit: oblitus est, nullos ab plebe designari,

Cic. Agr. 2, 10 fin.:

Catilina in proximum annum consulatum petebat, sperans si designatus foret, etc.,

Sall. C. 26.—Hence,

Polit. t. t.: dēsig-nātus, elect; applied to a person elected to an office, but who has not yet entered upon it:

consul,

Cic. Fam. 11, 6; Vell. 2, 58, and the superscriptions of letters in Cic. Fam. 11, 4-8:

tribunus plebis,

id. Agr. 2, 5, 11; id. Att. 3, 13; Sall. J. 27, 2:

quaestor,

Vell. 2, 111, 3 et saep.—Also, said of the office itself:

Pompeio consulatus designatus est,

Gell. 14, 7, 1.—

Transf., expected; of a child not yet born:

designatus civis,

Cic. Clu. 11, 32.

signo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [signum], to set a mark upon, to mark, mark out, designate (syn.: noto, designo).

Lit.

In gen. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): discrimen non facit neque signat linea alba, Lucil. ap. Non. 405, 17:

signata sanguine pluma est,

Ov. M. 6, 670:

ne signare quidem aut partiri limite campum Fas erat,

Verg. G. 1, 126:

humum limite mensor,

Ov. M. 1, 136; id. Am. 3, 8, 42:

moenia aratro,

id. F. 4, 819:

pede certo humum,

to print, press, Hor. A. P. 159; cf.:

vestigia summo pulvere,

to mark, imprint, Verg. G. 3, 171: auratā cyclade humum, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 40:

haec nostro signabitur area curru,

Ov. A. A. 1, 39:

locum, ubi ea (cistella) excidit,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 28:

caeli regionem in cortice signant,

mark, cut, Verg. G. 2, 269:

nomina saxo,

Ov. M. 8, 539:

rem stilo,

Vell. 1, 16, 1:

rem carmine,

Verg. A. 3, 287;

for which: carmine saxum,

Ov. M. 2, 326:

cubitum longis litteris,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 7:

ceram figuris,

to imprint, Ov. M. 15, 169:

cruor signaverat herbam,

had stained, id. ib. 10, 210; cf. id. ib. 12, 125:

signatum sanguine pectus,

id. A. A. 2, 384:

dubiā lanugine malas,

id. M. 13, 754:

signata in stirpe cicatrix,

Verg. G. 2, 379:

manibus Procne pectus signata cruentis,

id. ib. 4, 15:

vocis infinitios sonos paucis notis,

Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3:

visum objectum imprimet et quasi signabit in animo suam speciem,

id. Fat. 19, 43.—

In partic.

To mark with a seal; to seal, seal up, affix a seal to a thing (usually obsignare):

accepi a te signatum libellum,

Cic. Att. 11, 1, 1:

volumina,

Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 2: locellum tibi signatum remisi, Caes. ap. Charis. p. 60 P.:

epistula,

Nep. Pel. 3, 2:

arcanas tabellas,

Ov. Am. 2, 15, 15:

signatis quicquam mandare tabellis,

Tib. 4, 7, 7:

lagenam (anulus),

Mart. 9, 88, 7:

testamentum,

Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 8 sq.; cf. Mart. 5, 39, 2:

nec nisi signata venumdabatur (terra),

Plin. 35, 4, 14, § 33.— Absol., Mart. 10, 70, 7; Quint. 5, 7, 32; Suet. Ner. 17.—

To mark with a stamp; hence,

Of money, to stamp, to coin:

aes argentum aurumve publice signanto,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6; cf.:

qui primus ex auro denarium signavit... Servius rex primus signavit aes... Signatum est nota pecudum, unde et pecunia appellata... Argentum signatum est anno, etc.,

Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 44:

argentum signatum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 63; Quint. 5, 10, 62; 5, 14, 26:

pecunia signata Illyriorum signo,

Liv. 44, 27, 9:

denarius signatus Victoriā,

Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 46:

sed cur navalis in aere Altera signata est,

Ov. F. 1, 230:

milia talentūm argenti non signati formā, sed rudi pondere,

Curt. 5, 2, 11.— Hence,

Poet.:

signatum memori pectore nomen habe,

imprinted, impressed, Ov. H. 13, 66:

(filia) quae patriā signatur imagine vultus,

i. e. closely resembles her father, Mart. 6, 27, 3.—

To stamp, i. e. to license, invest with official authority (late Lat.):

quidam per ampla spatia urbis... equos velut publicos signatis, quod dicitur, calceis agitant,

Amm. 14, 6, 16.—

Pregn., to distinguish, adorn, decorate ( poet.):

pater ipse suo superūm jam signat honore,

Verg. A. 6, 781 Heyne: caelum corona, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 273.—

Trop., to point out, signify, indicate, designate, express (rare; more usually significo, designo; in Cic. only Or. 19, 64, where dignata is given by Non. 281, 10;

v. Meyer ad loc.): translatio plerumque signandis rebus ac sub oculos subiciendis reperta est,

Quint. 8, 6, 19:

quotiens suis verbis signare nostra voluerunt (Graeci),

id. 2, 14, 1; cf.:

appellatione signare,

id. 4, 1, 2:

utrius differentiam,

id. 6, 2, 20; cf. id. 9, 1, 4; 12, 10, 16:

nomen (Caieta) ossa signat,

Verg. A. 7, 4:

fama signata loco est,

Ov. M. 14, 433:

miratrixque sui signavit nomine terras,

designated, Luc. 4, 655; cf.:

(Earinus) Nomine qui signat tempora verna suo,

Mart. 9, 17, 4:

Turnus ut videt... So signari oculis,

singled out, looked to, Verg. A. 12, 3: signare responsum, to give a definite or distinct answer, Sen. Ben. 7, 16, 1.—With rel.-clause:

memoria signat in quā regione quali adjutore legatoque fratre meo usus sit,

Vell. 2, 115.—

To distinguish, recognize:

primi clipeos mentitaque tela Adgnoscunt, atque ora sono discordia signant,

Verg. A. 2, 423; cf.:

sonis homines dignoscere,

Quint. 11, 3, 31:

animo signa quodcumque in corpore mendum est,

Ov. R. Am. 417.—

To seal, settle, establish, confirm, prescribe (mostly poet.):

signanda sunt jura,

Prop. 3 (4), 20, 15:

signata jura,

Luc. 3, 302: jura Suevis, Claud. ap. Eutr. 1, 380; cf.:

precati deos ut velint ea (vota) semper solvi semperque signari,

Plin. Ep. 10, 35 (44).—

To close, end:

qui prima novo signat quinquennia lustro,

Mart. 4, 45, 3.—Hence,

signan-ter, adv. (acc. to II. A.), expressly, clearly, distinctly (late Lat. for the class. significanter):

signanter et breviter omnia indicare,

Aus. Grat. Act. 4:

signanter et proprie dixerat,

Hier. adv. Jovin. 1, 13 fin. —

signātus, a, um, P. a.

(Acc. to I. B. 1. sealed; hence) Shut up, guarded, preserved (mostly ante- and post-class.): signata sacra, Varr. ap. Non. 397, 32: limina. Prop. 4 (5), 1, 145: Chrysidem negat signatam reddere, i. e. unharmed, intact, pure, Lucil. ap. Non. 171, 6; cf.:

assume de viduis fide pulchram, aetate signatam,

Tert. Exhort. 12.—

(Acc. to II. A.) Plain, clear, manifest (post-class. for significans):

quid expressius atque signatius in hanc causam?

Tert. Res. Carn. 13.— Adv.: signātē, clearly, distinctly (post-class.):

qui (veteres) proprie atque signate locuti sunt,

Gell. 2, 6, 6; Macr. S. 6, 7.— Comp.:

signatius explicare aliquid,

Amm. 23, 6, 1.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.