prōdĭgus

pollūcĕo, xi, ctum, 2, v. a. [old prep. port = Gr. proti, pros, and liceor; root licof linquo; Gr. leipô; cf. licet].

Lit., in relig. lang., to place upon the altar as a sacrifice to the deity, to offer, offer up:

Jovi dapali culignam vini quantumvis polluceto... cum pollucere oportebit, sic facies, etc.,

Cato, R. R. 132: polluxi tibi iam publicando epulo Herculis decumas, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 874 P. (Com. Rel. p. 9 Rib.):

decumam partem Herculi,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 80: pisces, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20:

pollucere merces (quas cuivis deo) liceat, sunt far, polenta, vinum, panis fermentalis, ficus passa, suilla, bubula, agnina, casei, ovilla, alica, sesama et oleum, pisces quibus est squama praeter scarum: Herculi autem omnia esculenta, potulenta,

Fest. p. 253 Müll.—

Transf.

To serve up as a dish: non ego sum pollucta pago, I am no dish for the village (like the Engl. saying, I am meat for your master), Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 11.—

To entertain, to treal with a thing (ante- and post-class.).

Lit., jocosely:

polluctus virgis servus,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 37.—

Trop., to cause to share in or partake of, Arn. 5, 164.—Hence,

pol-luctum, i, n., the thing offered, an offering; also, a sacrificial banquet:

polluctum quod a porricendo est fictum. Cum enim ex mercibus libamenta porrecta sunt Herculi in aram, tum polluctum est,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll.: ad polluctum emere, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20:

polluctum Herculis,

Macr. S. 2, 12 fin.; Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 63.—

polluctē, adv., with rich offerings, sumptuously, magnificently: pollucte prodigus, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. prodegeris, p. 229 Müll. (dub.).

pollūcĕo, xi, ctum, 2, v. a. [old prep. port = Gr. proti, pros, and liceor; root licof linquo; Gr. leipô; cf. licet].

Lit., in relig. lang., to place upon the altar as a sacrifice to the deity, to offer, offer up:

Jovi dapali culignam vini quantumvis polluceto... cum pollucere oportebit, sic facies, etc.,

Cato, R. R. 132: polluxi tibi iam publicando epulo Herculis decumas, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 874 P. (Com. Rel. p. 9 Rib.):

decumam partem Herculi,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 80: pisces, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20:

pollucere merces (quas cuivis deo) liceat, sunt far, polenta, vinum, panis fermentalis, ficus passa, suilla, bubula, agnina, casei, ovilla, alica, sesama et oleum, pisces quibus est squama praeter scarum: Herculi autem omnia esculenta, potulenta,

Fest. p. 253 Müll.—

Transf.

To serve up as a dish: non ego sum pollucta pago, I am no dish for the village (like the Engl. saying, I am meat for your master), Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 11.—

To entertain, to treal with a thing (ante- and post-class.).

Lit., jocosely:

polluctus virgis servus,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 37.—

Trop., to cause to share in or partake of, Arn. 5, 164.—Hence,

pol-luctum, i, n., the thing offered, an offering; also, a sacrificial banquet:

polluctum quod a porricendo est fictum. Cum enim ex mercibus libamenta porrecta sunt Herculi in aram, tum polluctum est,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll.: ad polluctum emere, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20:

polluctum Herculis,

Macr. S. 2, 12 fin.; Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 63.—

polluctē, adv., with rich offerings, sumptuously, magnificently: pollucte prodigus, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. prodegeris, p. 229 Müll. (dub.).

prō̆-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out or forth, to shed copiously, to cause to flow (class.).

Lit.:

sanguinem suum profundere omnem cupit, dummodo profusum hujus ante videat,

Cic. Clu. 6, 18:

sanguinem pro patriā,

id. Fin. 2, 19, 60; 2, 30, 97:

vim lacrimarum,

id. Rep. 6, 14, 14:

lacrimas oculis,

Verg. A. 12, 154; Ov. M. 9, 679; 7, 91; Sen. Med. 541:

sanguinem ex oculis,

Plin. 10, 60, 79, § 164:

aquam,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 29:

vinum,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 92:

vina deo tamquam sitienti,

Lact. 2, 4, 13; 6, 1, 5:

aquas sub mensas,

Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 26. —With se, to burst or gush forth:

lacrimae se subito profuderunt,

Cic. Ac. 11, 7, 6.—

Transf.

To stretch at full length, to prostrate ( poet.):

cum somnus membra profudit,

Lucr. 4, 757:

praecipites profusae in terram,

id. 6, 744.—Mid.: profusus, abjectus jacens. Pacuvius: profusus gemitu, murmure, stretched at full length, Paul. ex Fest. p. 228 Müll. (Trag. Rel. v. 321 Rib.). —

To pour or cast out, bring forth, produce (class.): posticā parte profudit, Lucil. ap. Non. 217, 16:

(puerum) ex alvo matris natura profudit,

Lucr. 5, 225:

sonitus,

id. 6, 401:

ignes,

id. 6, 210:

omnia ex ore,

id. 6, 6:

pectore voces,

to pour forth, utter, Cat. 64, 202:

vocem,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 56:

clamorem,

id. Fl. 6, 15; id. Leg. 1, 8, 25:

voces,

Cat. 64, 202:

vitia,

Suet. Tib. 42:

dolorem,

Vop. Aur. 1:

palmites,

Col. 5, 5, 17.—

With se, to pour forth, rush forth or out; of bees:

cum se nova profundent examina,

Col. 9, 3;

of archers: omnis multitudo sagittariorum se profudit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 93;

of luxuriant plants: ea, quae se nimium profuderunt,

have shot out, sent out shoots, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88:

profundit se supra modum numerus palmitum,

Col. 7, 24, 4.—

Trop., to cast or throw away:

ventis verba profundere,

Lucr. 4, 931:

quae si non profundere ac perdere videbor,

Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 17.—

In partic.

In a bad sense, spend uselessly; to lavish, dissipate, squander:

profundat, perdat, pereat,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 54; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 67, § 155:

patrimonia,

id. Cat. 2, 5, 10:

pecunias in res,

id. Off. 2, 16, 55.—

In a good sense, to spend, sacrifice:

non modo pecuniam, sed vitam etiam profundere pro patriā,

Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84.—

Esp., of life, to yield, give up:

animam,

Cic. Marc. 10, 32:

si pateretur natura, vel denas animas profundere praestabat in pugnā, quam, etc.,

Amm. 26, 10, 13:

spiritum in acie,

Val. Max. 6, 3, 3.—

To pour out, vent; to expend, exert, employ; to set forth, show, explain:

odium in aliquem,

Cic. Pis. 7, 16:

omnes profudi vires animi atque ingenii mei,

id. Att. 1, 18, 2:

res universas,

to set forth, explain, id. Ac. 2, 27, 87.—

With se, to pour itself forth, i. e. to rush forth, break out:

voluptates cum inclusae diutius, subito se nonnumquam profundunt atque eiciunt universae,

Cic. Cael. 31, 75:

si totum se ille in me profudisset,

had wholly poured himself out to me, had been liberal, id. Att. 7, 3, 3:

in questus flebiles sese in vestibulo curiae profuderunt,

Liv. 23, 20, 5.—Hence, prŏ-fūsus, a, um, P. a.

Lit., spread out, extended, hanging down (ante- and postclass.):

cauda profusa usque ad calces,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5.— Comp.:

equi coma et cauda profusior,

longer, Pall. 4, 13.—

Trop.

Lavish, extravagant, profuse (class.; cf.

prodigus): perditus ac profusus nepos,

Cic. Quint. 12, 40:

reus,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 20.—With gen.:

alieni appetens, sui profusus,

lavish of his own, Sall. C. 5, 4.—With in and abl.:

simul ad jacturam temporis ventum est, profusissimi in eo, cujus unius honesta avaritia est,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 3, 2.—Of things abstr. and concr.:

profusis sumptibus vivere,

Cic. Quint. 30, 93:

profusa luxuria in aedificiis,

Vell. 2, 33, 4.—

In a good sense, liberal ( poet.):

mens profusa,

Stat. S. 3, 1, 91:

homo,

Mart. 8, 38, 11.—

Costly, expensive:

amare profusas epulas,

Cic. Mur. 36, 76:

convivia,

Suet. Tit. 7.—

Immoderate, excessive, extravagant:

profusa hilaritas,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 7, 15:

genus jocandi,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103:

cupido,

Tac. H. 1, 52.— Sup.:

profusissima libido,

Suet. Claud. 53.— Adv.: prŏfūsē.

Lit., lavishly, extravagantly, profusely (post-Aug.):

aedes profuse exstructa,

at an immoderate expense, Suet. Aug. 72.— Sup.:

festos et solemnes dies profusissime celebrabat,

Suet. Aug. 75.—

Trop.

In disorder, confusedly:

consul obstitit profuse tendentibus suis in castra,

Liv. 10, 36.—

Immoderately, excessively:

profuse prolixeque laudare,

Gell. 5, 1, 2.— Comp.:

eo profusius sumptui deditus erat,

Sall. C. 13, 5.

spargo, si, sum, 3 (old inf. spargier, Hor. C. 4, 11, 8), v. a. [Sanscr. root sparç, to touch, sprinkle; M. H. Germ. Sprengen; cf. Gr. speirô], to strew, throw here and there, cast, hurl, or throw about, scatter; to bestrew; to sprinkle, spatter, wet; to bespatter, bedew, moisten, etc. (freq. and class.; syn. sero).

Lit., in gen.:

semen,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 18, 50:

semina,

id. Div. 1, 3, 6; Quint. 1, 3, 5; 2, 9, 3; Ov. M. 5, 647:

humi, mortalia semina, dentes,

id. ib. 3, 105:

per humum, nova semina, dentes,

id. ib. 4, 573:

vipereos dentes in agros,

id. ib. 7, 122:

nummos populo de Rostris,

Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 16:

venena,

id. Cat. 2, 10, 23:

nuces,

Verg. E. 8, 30:

flores,

id. A. 6, 884; Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 14:

rosas,

id. C. 3, 19, 22:

frondes,

id. ib. 3, 18, 14: hastati spargunt hastas, cast or hurl about, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 287 Vahl.): hastas, id. ap. Macr. 6, 4:

tela,

Verg. A. 12, 51; Ov. M. 12, 600:

harenam pedibus,

Verg. E. 3, 87; id. A. 9, 629 et saep.— Absol.: sagittarius cum funditore utrimque spargunt, hurl, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1.—

Esp., of liquids, to sprinkle, scatter:

umorem passim toto terrarum in orbi,

Lucr. 6, 629:

cruorem,

id. 2, 195:

per totam domum aquas,

Hor. Epod. 5, 26 et saep.—

Transf., to bestrew, strew, scatter upon:

spargite humum foliis,

bestrew, strew, Verg. E. 5, 40; so,

virgulta fimo pingui,

id. G. 2, 347:

molā caput salsā,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 200:

gruem sale multo,

id. ib. 2, 8, 87:

(jus) croco,

id. ib. 2, 4, 68:

umerum capillis,

id. C. 3, 20, 14:

tempora canis,

Ov. M. 8, 567 al. —

To besprinkle, sprinkle, moisten, wet, etc.: saxa spargens tabo, sanie et sanguine atro, sprinkling, wetting, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107; id. Pis. 19, 43 (Trag. v. 414 Vahl.):

aras sanguine multo quadrupedum,

Lucr. 5, 1202:

aram immolato agno,

Hor. C. 4, 11, 8:

ora genasque lacrimis,

Lucr. 2, 977:

debitā lacrimā favillam amici,

Hor. C. 2, 6, 23:

corpus fluviali lymphā,

Verg. A. 4, 635:

proximos umore oris,

Quint. 11, 3, 56 et saep.:

anguis aureis maculis sparsus,

sprinkled over, spotted, flecked, Liv. 41, 21, 13:

sparsā, non convolutā canitie,

Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 55:

capreoli sparsis etiam nunc pellibus albo,

Verg. E. 2, 41:

tectum nitidius, aure aut coloribus sparsum,

covered over, Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 2; cf.:

priscis sparsa tabellis Livia Porticus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 71: sparso ore, adunco naso, with a spotty or freckled face, * Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 18.— Absol.: exi, Dave, Age, sparge: mundum esse hoc vestibulum volo, sprinkle, * Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 18, 12, 4: verrite aedes, spargite, Titin. ap. Charis. p. 183 P. (Com. Rel. p. 130 Rib.):

qui verrunt, qui spargunt,

Cic. Par. 5, 2, 37.—

To scatter, separate, disperse, divide, spread out (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose for the class. dispergere, dissipare):

omnibus a rebus... Perpetuo fluere ac mitti spargique necesse est Corpora,

Lucr. 6, 922:

res sparsas et vage disjectas diligenter eligere,

Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3:

(aper) spargit canes,

Ov. M. 8, 343:

corpora,

id. ib. 7, 442:

sparsus silebo,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 1394:

sparsam tempestate classem vidit,

Liv. 37, 13:

sparsi per vias speculatores,

id. 9, 23:

exercitum spargi per provincias,

Tac. H. 3, 46 fin.:

(natura) sparsit haec (cornua) in ramos,

Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 123:

fulgentes radios in orbem (gemma),

id. 37, 10, 67, § 181:

(Sicoris) Spargitur in sulcos,

Luc. 4, 142:

spargas tua prodigus,

you dissipate, squander, waste, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 195: stare et spargere sese hastis, scatter, disperse, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 154 Vahl.):

se in fugam passim spargere, Liv 33, 15, 15: saepe solet scintilla suos se spargere in ignes (shortly before, dissilire and dividi),

Lucr. 4, 606:

Rhenus ab septentrione in lacus, ab occidente in amnem Mosam se spargit,

Plin. 4, 15, 29, § 101:

magnum ab Argis Alciden,

to separate, part, Val. Fl. 5, 488:

sparsis consumptisque fratribus bello intestinae discordiae,

Just. 27, 3, 1.—

Trop.

In gen., to distribute, spread abroad, spread, extend:

animos in corpora humana,

Cic. Sen. 21, 77:

omnia spargere ac disseminare,

id. Arch. 12, 30:

sparserat Argolicas nomen vaga Fama per urbes Theseos,

Ov. M. 8, 267:

genera enim tractamus in species multas sese spargentia,

Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 45:

spargit legiones, nova cottidie bello semina ministrat,

Tac. H. 2, 76:

vestigia fugae,

Curt. 5, 13, 18.—

In partic.

Of speech, to intersperse, interpose, insert a word or words; of a report or rumor, to spread or noise abroad, to circulate, report (so perh. not ante-Aug.;

syn. dissemino): cum vigilans Quartae esto partis Ulixes Audieris heres: Ergo nunc Dama sodalis Nusquam est? etc.... Sparge subinde,

break in with, Hor. S. 2, 5, 103; cf.

' libris actorum spargere gaudes Argumenta viri,

Juv. 9, 84; Quint. 8, 3, 53:

spargere voces In vulgum ambiguas,

Verg. A. 2, 98:

suspitiones,

Quint. 7, 2, 12:

in parentes crimina,

id. 9, 2, 80:

fama spargitur,

Stat. Th. 9, 33.— Pass. impers., with obj.-clause:

spargebatur insuper, Albinum insigne regis et Jubae nomen usurpare,

Tac. H. 2, 58 fin. —

Pregn., of time:

satis multum temporis sparsimus,

wasted, consumed aimlessly, Sen. Ep. 19, 1.—Hence, sparsus, a, um, P. a., spread open or out:

sparsior racemus,

Plin. 16, 34, 62, § 146: uberior Nilo, generoso sparsior istro, Ven. Vit. S. Mart. 1, 129.

spargo, ĭnis, f. [1. spargo], a sprinkling, spray: salis, Ven. Ep. ad Felic. 3.

sperno, sprēvi, sprētum, 3 ( perf. sync. sprērunt, Prud. Dittoch. 31), v. a. [root spar-, to part; Sanscr. spar-itar, enemy; cf. Lat. parcus; Germ. sperren], to sever, separate, remove (syn.: segrego, separo; perh. only in the foll. passages): jus atque aequom se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

nunc spes, opes auxiliaque a me segregant spernuntque se,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 2 Brix ad loc.:

ille illas spernit segregatque ab se omnis extra te unam,

id. Mil. 4, 6, 17 Lorenz ad loc.—

Transf., subject., to despise, contemn, reject, scorn, spurn (the class. signif.; esp. freq. after the Aug. period; syn.: contemnere, despicere; pro nihilo putare, etc.;

opp. colere): meam speciem spernat (a little later: se contemnit),

Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 20: spernitur orator bonus, horridus miles amatur, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 273 Vahl.):

non respondit, nos sprevit et pro nihilo putavit,

Cic. Phil. 13, 9, 21; id. Rep. 1, 43, 67:

cum spernerentur ab iis, a quibus essent coli soliti,

id. Sen. 3, 7:

sperni ab iis veteres amicitias, indulgeri novis,

id. Lael. 15, 54; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 98:

me animo non spernis,

Verg. E. 3, 74:

comitemne sororem Sprevisti moriens,

id. A. 4, 678:

quis tam inimicus nomini Romano est, qui Ennii Medeam spernat,

Cic. Fin. 1, 2, 4:

veritas auspiciorum spreta est,

id. N. D. 2, 3, 9:

aliorum judicia,

id. Or. 13, 41:

prodigus et stultus donat quae spernit et odit,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 20 et saep.:

doctrina deos spernens,

Liv. 10, 40, 10:

conscientia spretorum (deorum),

id. 21, 63, 7; 30, 40, 5:

ab eo quoque spretum consulis imperium est,

id. 41, 10, 9; so,

imperium,

id. 8, 30, 11:

litteras praetoris,

id. 30, 24, 3:

consilium,

Ov. M. 6, 30; Curt. 3, 2, 18:

voluptates,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 55:

dulces amores,

id. C. 1, 9, 16:

cibum vilem,

id. S. 2, 2, 15:

(genus orationis) spretum et pulsum foro,

Cic. Or. 13, 42:

haudquaquam spernendus auctor,

Liv. 30, 45, 5; cf. Col. 1, 1, 4:

haud spernendos falsi tituli testes,

Liv. 4, 20, 11:

neque morum spernendus,

Tac. A. 14, 40:

spernens dotis,

App. Mag. p. 332.— Poet. with inf.:

nec partem solido demere de die Spernit,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 21:

obsequio deferri spernit aquarum,

Ov. M. 9, 117.

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