premō

prēlum ( prae-), i, n. [premo], a press.

A press-beam for pressing grapes, olives, etc.; also, meton., a wine-press, oil-press (class.), Cato, R. R. 31:

cola prelorum,

Verg. G. 2, 242 (prela trabes sunt, quibus uva jam calcata premitur, Serv.); Vitr. 6, 9; Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317; Dig. 19, 2, 19.—

A press for smoothing clothes:

tua collucent prela lacernis,

Mart. 2, 46, 3; cf. id. 11, 8, 5.

pressĭo, ōnis, f. [premo].

Lit., a pressing, pressing down, pressure (only in Vitruvius):

pressio cacuminis,

Vitr. 10, 8. —

Transf., the prop or fulcrum under a lever while the burden is raised, Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 6: pressio, quod Graeci hupomochlion appellant, Vitr. 10, 8.

pressūra, ae, f. [premo], a pressing, pressure (post-Aug.).

Lit.:

pressura palpebrarum,

App. M. 5, p. 166, 14.—

In partic., a pressing of wine, oil, etc.:

pressura una culeos viginti implere debet,

Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317:

oleum primae pressurae,

Col. 12, 50.—

Transf.

A pressure, burden:

levare pressuram,

App. M. 7, p. 195, 35.—

A press, throng, crowd of people:

nimia densitas pressurae,

App. M. 3, p. 130, 9.—

The downward pressure, fall, descent of water, Front. Aquaed. 18:

aquarum,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 6, 4.—

A too heavy, too long, unnatural sleep, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1 praef.—

That which is pressed out, juice ( poet.):

Corycii pressura croci, sic, etc.,

Luc. 9, 809.—

Trop., oppression, affliction, distress (eccl. Lat.):

pressuram persecutionemque perferre,

Tert. ad Uxor. 1, 5; Lact. 5, 22, 17; 4, 26, 19; Vulg. 2 Cor. 1, 4.

S, s, indecl. n. or (agreeing with littera) f.

The eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding in form to the old Greek S for S (Etruscan in a reversed form,);

in its nature a sibilant semi-vowel, whose peculiarities were much discussed by the ancients, and are even treated of in a special work by Messala, a contemporary of Augustus (Messala in libro de S littera,

Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 245).—

As an initial and medial it has a hard and sharp sound (which is softened, however, between two vowels), and is therefore joined only with the tenues (c, p, t; cf., on the contrary, the Gr. sbennumi);

and, as a medial, often written double after long vowels: caussa, cassus, divissiones (these forms, used by Cicero and Vergil, were already uncommon in Quintilian's time,

Quint. 1, 7, 20; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 283 sq.).—

As a final it had a weakened sound, and therefore not only admitted the medial b before it (plebs, urbs, abs; Arabs, chalybs, etc.; v. the letter B), but often entirely disappeared. So in the ante-class. poets down to the early years of Cicero (and also in his own poem, entitled Aratus, written in his youth), before words beginning with a consonant, to avoid position: Ratu' Romulus, Fulviu' Nobilior, gravi' Terra, est sati' bella, Hyperioni' cursum, Virgine' nam sibi, etc.; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 161; Quint. 9, 4, 38; and v. Freund, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. 1835, XIII. p. 25 sq.; less freq. before words beginning with a vowel, in which case, to avoid a hiatus, the vowel before s was also elided; vas' argenteis (for vasis argenteis) and palm' et crinibus (for palmis et crinibus); v. Cic. Or. 45, 153. So, too, in the fourth Epitaph of the Scipios (Inscr. Orell. 553), L. CORNELIO L. F. instead of CORNELIOS (cf. a similar elision of the M under that letter). Final s is also elided, and the preceding vowel either dropped with it or weakened, in the forms sat from satis, mage from magis; in the neutr. forms of adjectives of the third declension, acre, agreste, facile (v. the letter E); in the collat. forms of the sec. pers. sing. pass., fatere, fateare, fatebare, etc.; in the gen. sing. of the first, second, and fifth declensions, and in the nom. plur. of the first and second declensions (aurai for aura-is, analog. to reg is, etc.). Lastly, s disappears in the (mostly familiar) collat. forms abin', scin', viden', satin', from abisne, scisne, videsne, satisne, etc.—

As an etymological initial aspirate, s appears in many words whose Greek equivalents begin with a vowel: sal, semi-, serpo, sex, super, sus, corresp. to hals, hêmi-, herpô, hex, huper, us, etc.; si (archaic sei), sero, Segesta, corresp. to ei, ERÔ (whence eirô), Egesta. Less freq. in radical words beginning with a consonant: sculpo corresp. to gluphô, and the derivatives scruta, from grutê, and scrupedae, from kroupeza. To soften the termination, s appears in abs = ab, and ex corresp. to ek.—Very freq., on the contrary, an initial s appears in cognate forms in other languages, where corresp. Latin words have lost the s: Lat. fallo, Gr. sphallô; fungus, Gr. sphongos; fides, Gr. sphidê (comp. also nix with Engl. [p. 1609] snow, nurus with old Germ. snur, daughterin-law); cf. also cutis and scutum; cauda and root sku-, in Goth. skauts, etc.; casa and Gr. skia, skênê; cerno and Gr. krinô for skirnô, skôr, skôria; calumnia and skallô; gradior and root scra-, Germ. schreiten; parco and sparnos; penuria and spanis; pando and spaô; tego and stegô; tono and stonos; taurus and Sanscr. sthūras, Germ. Stier al.; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 277 sqq.—In the middle of a word s is dropped in at from ast.—

S is interchanged,

Most freq. with r; in partic., an original s, between two vowels, becomes r; v. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Müll.; so foederum for foedesum, plurima for plusima, meliorem for meliosem, Lares for Lases, etc.; cf. eram and sum, quaero and quaeso, nasus and naris. Appius Claudius, the censor, is said to have introduced r into the names Furius, Valerius, etc., in place of s, B.C. 312 (v. the letter R, II.).—

With d: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus; and, on the other hand, rosa, corresp. to the Gr. rhodon; cf. Schneid. Gram. 1, p. 259.—

With t: tensus and tentus, resina corresp. to rhêtinê; and, on the contrary, aggrettus for aggressus; mertare, pultare, for mersare, pulsare (perh. also assentor for assensor).—

With x; v. that letter.—

S is assimilated before f in the compounds of dis: differo, difficilis, diffluo, etc.; v. 3. dis.— On the other hand, it arises by assimilation from d, in assum, assumo, cessi, for adsum, adsumo, ced-si; from t in fassus, from fateor; from b in jussi, from jubeo; from m in pressi, from premo; from r in gessi, from gero; and dossuarius, from dorsum. —

As an abbreviation, S denotes sacrum, semis, sibi, suis, etc.; S. AS. D., sub asciā dedicavit; S. C., senatusconsultum; perh. also, sententia collegii (Inscr. Orell. 2385); S. P., sua pecunia; S. P. Q. R., Senatus Populusque Romanus, etc.

S, s, indecl. n. or (agreeing with littera) f.

The eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding in form to the old Greek S for S (Etruscan in a reversed form,);

in its nature a sibilant semi-vowel, whose peculiarities were much discussed by the ancients, and are even treated of in a special work by Messala, a contemporary of Augustus (Messala in libro de S littera,

Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 245).—

As an initial and medial it has a hard and sharp sound (which is softened, however, between two vowels), and is therefore joined only with the tenues (c, p, t; cf., on the contrary, the Gr. sbennumi);

and, as a medial, often written double after long vowels: caussa, cassus, divissiones (these forms, used by Cicero and Vergil, were already uncommon in Quintilian's time,

Quint. 1, 7, 20; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 283 sq.).—

As a final it had a weakened sound, and therefore not only admitted the medial b before it (plebs, urbs, abs; Arabs, chalybs, etc.; v. the letter B), but often entirely disappeared. So in the ante-class. poets down to the early years of Cicero (and also in his own poem, entitled Aratus, written in his youth), before words beginning with a consonant, to avoid position: Ratu' Romulus, Fulviu' Nobilior, gravi' Terra, est sati' bella, Hyperioni' cursum, Virgine' nam sibi, etc.; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 161; Quint. 9, 4, 38; and v. Freund, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. 1835, XIII. p. 25 sq.; less freq. before words beginning with a vowel, in which case, to avoid a hiatus, the vowel before s was also elided; vas' argenteis (for vasis argenteis) and palm' et crinibus (for palmis et crinibus); v. Cic. Or. 45, 153. So, too, in the fourth Epitaph of the Scipios (Inscr. Orell. 553), L. CORNELIO L. F. instead of CORNELIOS (cf. a similar elision of the M under that letter). Final s is also elided, and the preceding vowel either dropped with it or weakened, in the forms sat from satis, mage from magis; in the neutr. forms of adjectives of the third declension, acre, agreste, facile (v. the letter E); in the collat. forms of the sec. pers. sing. pass., fatere, fateare, fatebare, etc.; in the gen. sing. of the first, second, and fifth declensions, and in the nom. plur. of the first and second declensions (aurai for aura-is, analog. to reg is, etc.). Lastly, s disappears in the (mostly familiar) collat. forms abin', scin', viden', satin', from abisne, scisne, videsne, satisne, etc.—

As an etymological initial aspirate, s appears in many words whose Greek equivalents begin with a vowel: sal, semi-, serpo, sex, super, sus, corresp. to hals, hêmi-, herpô, hex, huper, us, etc.; si (archaic sei), sero, Segesta, corresp. to ei, ERÔ (whence eirô), Egesta. Less freq. in radical words beginning with a consonant: sculpo corresp. to gluphô, and the derivatives scruta, from grutê, and scrupedae, from kroupeza. To soften the termination, s appears in abs = ab, and ex corresp. to ek.—Very freq., on the contrary, an initial s appears in cognate forms in other languages, where corresp. Latin words have lost the s: Lat. fallo, Gr. sphallô; fungus, Gr. sphongos; fides, Gr. sphidê (comp. also nix with Engl. [p. 1609] snow, nurus with old Germ. snur, daughterin-law); cf. also cutis and scutum; cauda and root sku-, in Goth. skauts, etc.; casa and Gr. skia, skênê; cerno and Gr. krinô for skirnô, skôr, skôria; calumnia and skallô; gradior and root scra-, Germ. schreiten; parco and sparnos; penuria and spanis; pando and spaô; tego and stegô; tono and stonos; taurus and Sanscr. sthūras, Germ. Stier al.; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 277 sqq.—In the middle of a word s is dropped in at from ast.—

S is interchanged,

Most freq. with r; in partic., an original s, between two vowels, becomes r; v. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Müll.; so foederum for foedesum, plurima for plusima, meliorem for meliosem, Lares for Lases, etc.; cf. eram and sum, quaero and quaeso, nasus and naris. Appius Claudius, the censor, is said to have introduced r into the names Furius, Valerius, etc., in place of s, B.C. 312 (v. the letter R, II.).—

With d: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus; and, on the other hand, rosa, corresp. to the Gr. rhodon; cf. Schneid. Gram. 1, p. 259.—

With t: tensus and tentus, resina corresp. to rhêtinê; and, on the contrary, aggrettus for aggressus; mertare, pultare, for mersare, pulsare (perh. also assentor for assensor).—

With x; v. that letter.—

S is assimilated before f in the compounds of dis: differo, difficilis, diffluo, etc.; v. 3. dis.— On the other hand, it arises by assimilation from d, in assum, assumo, cessi, for adsum, adsumo, ced-si; from t in fassus, from fateor; from b in jussi, from jubeo; from m in pressi, from premo; from r in gessi, from gero; and dossuarius, from dorsum. —

As an abbreviation, S denotes sacrum, semis, sibi, suis, etc.; S. AS. D., sub asciā dedicavit; S. C., senatusconsultum; perh. also, sententia collegii (Inscr. Orell. 2385); S. P., sua pecunia; S. P. Q. R., Senatus Populusque Romanus, etc.

sup-prĭmo ( subp-), pressi, pressum, 3, v. a. [premo], to press down or under.

In gen., so rarely and only as a naut. t. t., to sink, send to the bottom a vessel:

quattuor (naves) suppressae,

Liv. 22, 19, 12; so,

naves,

id. 28, 30, 11; 37, 11, 11; Just. 2, 9, 13. —

In partic. (class.).

To hold or keep back; to check, stop, put a stop to; to detain, restrain, suppress (syn.: reprimo, repello, sisto).

Lit.:

hostem nostros insequentem,

Caes. B. C. 1, 45:

iter,

id. ib. 1, 66:

aerii cursūs habenas,

Ov. M. 6, 709:

lora manu,

id. Am. 1, 13, 10:

fugam,

id. M. 11, 777:

sanguinem,

Cels. 2, 10 fin.; 5, 26, 22; Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 113:

alvum,

i. e. to close, make costive, Cels. 2, 12, 2:

ventrem,

id. 4, 19:

fontes,

Ov. M. 15, 280; id. P. 4, 2, 18:

lacrimas,

Prop. 3, 10 (4, 9), 8; Albin. 1, 427:

vocem,

let fall, Ov. M 1, 715:

partem ultimam vocis In medio sono,

id. ib. 5, 193:

si jam deficiam, subpressaque lingua palate Vix instillato restituenda mero, etc.,

id. Tr. 3, 3, 21.—

Trop.:

aegritudinem supprimere nec pati manare longius,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 31, 75:

stultiloquium,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 24:

impetum militum,

Liv. 31, 18, 7; 7, 24, 3:

iram,

id. 2, 35, 2; Ov. P. 1, 8, 69:

querelas,

id. F. 4, 83; Petr. 91:

furorem,

id. 71:

fletum,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 113:

dolorem altā mente,

Luc. 6, 228. —

To keep from publicity, keep to one ' s self; to keep back, conceal, suppress (syn.: abscondo, celo).

Lit.:

quae (HS DC) reticuit atque suppressit,

Cic. Clu. 36, 99:

pecuniam,

id. ib. 25, 68;

26, 71: nummos,

id. ib. 27, 75:

elaborata abscondere atque supprimere,

Plin. 25, 1, 1, § 1:

quae (senatusconsulta) antea arbitrio consulum supprimebantur vitiabanturque,

Liv. 3, 55, 13:

testamentum,

Suet. Calig. 16:

libros,

id. Gram. 8 fin.:

alienam ancillam,

to harbor secretly, Dig. 47, 2, 84:

adulterii foeditate suppressā,

Amm. 16, 8, 6.—

Trop.:

ejus decreti suppressa fama est,

Liv. 5, 1, 7:

famam coërcitam,

Tac. H. 1, 17 fin.:

indicium conjurationis,

Curt. 6, 8, 8:

nomen Vespasiani,

Tac. H. 2, 96.—Hence, suppres-sus, a, um, P. a., held back, kept in, i. e., *

Short:

mentum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 3.—

Of the voice, subdued, low:

suppressā voce dicere (opp. magnā voce dicere),

Cic. Sull. 10, 30:

murmur,

Val. Fl. 5, 470.— Comp.:

erit ut voce sic etiam oratione suppressior,

Cic. Or. 25, 85.—Hence, suppres-sē, adv.; in comp.:

suppressius,

in a subdued voice, Aug. Ord. 1, 23.

sup-prĭmo ( subp-), pressi, pressum, 3, v. a. [premo], to press down or under.

In gen., so rarely and only as a naut. t. t., to sink, send to the bottom a vessel:

quattuor (naves) suppressae,

Liv. 22, 19, 12; so,

naves,

id. 28, 30, 11; 37, 11, 11; Just. 2, 9, 13. —

In partic. (class.).

To hold or keep back; to check, stop, put a stop to; to detain, restrain, suppress (syn.: reprimo, repello, sisto).

Lit.:

hostem nostros insequentem,

Caes. B. C. 1, 45:

iter,

id. ib. 1, 66:

aerii cursūs habenas,

Ov. M. 6, 709:

lora manu,

id. Am. 1, 13, 10:

fugam,

id. M. 11, 777:

sanguinem,

Cels. 2, 10 fin.; 5, 26, 22; Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 113:

alvum,

i. e. to close, make costive, Cels. 2, 12, 2:

ventrem,

id. 4, 19:

fontes,

Ov. M. 15, 280; id. P. 4, 2, 18:

lacrimas,

Prop. 3, 10 (4, 9), 8; Albin. 1, 427:

vocem,

let fall, Ov. M 1, 715:

partem ultimam vocis In medio sono,

id. ib. 5, 193:

si jam deficiam, subpressaque lingua palate Vix instillato restituenda mero, etc.,

id. Tr. 3, 3, 21.—

Trop.:

aegritudinem supprimere nec pati manare longius,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 31, 75:

stultiloquium,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 24:

impetum militum,

Liv. 31, 18, 7; 7, 24, 3:

iram,

id. 2, 35, 2; Ov. P. 1, 8, 69:

querelas,

id. F. 4, 83; Petr. 91:

furorem,

id. 71:

fletum,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 113:

dolorem altā mente,

Luc. 6, 228. —

To keep from publicity, keep to one ' s self; to keep back, conceal, suppress (syn.: abscondo, celo).

Lit.:

quae (HS DC) reticuit atque suppressit,

Cic. Clu. 36, 99:

pecuniam,

id. ib. 25, 68;

26, 71: nummos,

id. ib. 27, 75:

elaborata abscondere atque supprimere,

Plin. 25, 1, 1, § 1:

quae (senatusconsulta) antea arbitrio consulum supprimebantur vitiabanturque,

Liv. 3, 55, 13:

testamentum,

Suet. Calig. 16:

libros,

id. Gram. 8 fin.:

alienam ancillam,

to harbor secretly, Dig. 47, 2, 84:

adulterii foeditate suppressā,

Amm. 16, 8, 6.—

Trop.:

ejus decreti suppressa fama est,

Liv. 5, 1, 7:

famam coërcitam,

Tac. H. 1, 17 fin.:

indicium conjurationis,

Curt. 6, 8, 8:

nomen Vespasiani,

Tac. H. 2, 96.—Hence, suppres-sus, a, um, P. a., held back, kept in, i. e., *

Short:

mentum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 3.—

Of the voice, subdued, low:

suppressā voce dicere (opp. magnā voce dicere),

Cic. Sull. 10, 30:

murmur,

Val. Fl. 5, 470.— Comp.:

erit ut voce sic etiam oratione suppressior,

Cic. Or. 25, 85.—Hence, suppres-sē, adv.; in comp.:

suppressius,

in a subdued voice, Aug. Ord. 1, 23.

trībŭlo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [tribulum].

Lit., to press: Thlibô tribulo, presso, premo. Gloss, Philox.; Cato. R. R. 23, 4.—

Trop., to oppress, afflict (eccl. Lat.):

in omnibus tribulemur,

Tert. adv. Gnost. 13 med.; Ambros. Serm. 22, n. 1; Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 1, 11.