quispiam

* * *

* * *

autem, conj. [v. aut init. ], on the other hand, but, yet, however, nevertheless; sometimes an emphasized and (it is never found at the beginning of a clause, but after one or more words; v. fin.; like at, it joins to a preceding thought a new one, either entirely antithetical or simply different; it differs from the restricting sed in like manner with at; v. at init., and cf.: [Popilius imperator tenebat provinciam;

in cujus exercitu Catonis filius tiro militabat. Cum autem Popilio videretur unam dimittere legionem, Catonis quoque filium... dimisit. Sed cum amore pugnandi in exercitu permansisset, Cato ad Popilium scripsit, etc.],

Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36 B. and K. (most freq. in philos. lang.; rare in the histt., being used by Caes. only 59 times, by Sall. 23, and by Tac. 31; and very rare in the poets).

In joining an entirely antithetical thought, on the contrary, but = at quidem, at vero, se sê, esp. freq. with the pronouns ego, tu, ille, qui, etc.:

Ait se obligāsse crus fractum Aesculapio, Apollini autem bracchium,

Plaut. Men. 5, 3, 9:

Nam injusta ab justis impetrari non decet, Justa autem ab injustis petere insipientiast,

id. Am. prol. 35:

ego hic cesso, quia ipse nihil scribo: lego autem libentissime,

Cic. Fam. 16, 22; id. de Or. 1, 25, 115; Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 43: i sane cum illo, Phrygia;

tu autem, Eleusium, Huc intro abi ad nos,

id. Aul. 2, 5, 7; id. Capt. 2, 3, 4; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 58; id. Mil. 4, 4, 13; id. Ep. 5, 2, 7; Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 61:

mihi ad enarrandum hoc argumentumst comitas, Si ad auscultandum vostra erit benignitas. Qui autem auscultare nolit, exsurgat foras,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 3; so id. Ep. 2, 2, 95; id. Capt. 3, 4, 24:

Quid tu aïs, Gnatho? Numquid habes quod contemnas? Quid tu autem, Thraso?

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 22: e principio oriuntur omnia;

ipsum autem nullā ex re aliā nasci potest,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54.—

In joining a thought that is simply different.

In gen., on the other hand, but, moreover.

Absol., as the Gr. se:

Vehit hic clitellas, vehit hic autem alter senex,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 91:

cum Speusippum, sororis filium, Plato philosophiae quasi heredem reliquisset, duo autem praestantissimos studio atque doctrinā, Xenocratem Chalcedonium et Aristotelem Stagiritem, etc.,

Cic. Ac. 1, 4, 17; id. Off. 1, 5, 16:

Alexandrum consultum, cui relinqueret regnum, voluisse optimum deligi, judicatum autem ab ipso optimum Perdiccam, cui anulum tradidisset,

Curt. 10, 6, 16:

Atque haec in moribus. De benevolentiā autem, quam etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 46 sq.; 1, 23, 81: Sed poëtae quid quemque deceat ex personā judicabunt;

nobis autem personam imposuit natura etc.,

id. ib. 1, 28, 97; 1, 28, 98; 1, 43, 152: Quod semper movetur aeternum est;

quod autem motum adfert alicui etc.,

id. Tusc. 1, 23, 53; 1, 28, 68 sq.; 1, 30, 74; 1, 36, 87.—So sometimes when one conditional sentence is opposed to another, si—sin autem, in Gr. ei men— ei se:

Nam si supremus ille dies non exstinctionem, sed commutationem adfert loci, quid optabilius? Sin autem etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 117; 1, 49, 118 al.—In adducing an example of a rule:

Et Demosthenes autem ad Aeschinem orationem in prooemio convertit, et M. Tullius etc.,

Quint. 4, 1, 66 Spald.;

also in passing from a particular to a general thought: Et sane plus habemus quam capimus. Insatiabilis autem avaritia est etc.,

Curt. 8, 8, 12.—

Preceded by quidem, as in Gr. men—se (perh. most freq. in Cicero's philosophical works, under the influence of Greek style): Et haec quidem hoc modo;

nihil autem melius extremo,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 99:

Sed nunc quidem valetudini tribuamus aliquid, cras autem etc.,

id. ib. 1, 49, 119; id. Off. 1, 7, 24; and thus in Tac. several times, but only in Ann. and Or.: bene intellegit ceteros quidem iis niti... Marcellum autem et Crispum attulisse etc., Or. 8; 18 bis; 25; A. 3, 53; 3, 73;

4, 28.—So often in transitions from one subject to another: Ac de inferendā quidem injuriā satis dictum est. Praetermittendae autem defensionis etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 8, 27 sq.; 1, 13, 41; 1, 45, 160.—So very often in Vulg. in direct reproduction of men—se: Ego quidem baptizo vos in aquā in paenitentiam; qui autem post me etc., Matt. 3, 11; 9, 37; 13, 23; 13, 32; 17, 11 sq.; 23, 28; 25, 33; 26, 24. —

Esp.

In any kind of transition:

M. Antonius in eo libro, quem unum reliquit, disertos ait se vidisse multos, eloquentem omnino neminem. Vir autem acerrimo ingenio (sic enim fuit) multa etc.,

Cic. Or. 5, 18:

hic (pater) prout ipse amabat litteras, omnibus doctrinis, quibus puerilis aetas impertiri debet, filium erudivit: erat autem in puero summa suavitas oris,

Nep. Att. 1, 2;

also in questions: Quid autem magno opere Oppianicum metuebat, etc.,

Cic. Clu. 60, 167. Freq. several times repeated:

Expetuntur autem divitiae cum ad usus vitae necessarios, tum ad perfruendas voluptates: in quibus autem major est animus, in iis pecuniae cupiditas spectat ad opes, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 8, 24 and 25; cf. Wopkens, Lectt. Tull. pp. 53 and 122: Orbis situm dicere adgredior... Dicam autem alias plura et exactius, Mel. prooem. 2.—

In repeating a word from a previous clause, in continuing a train of thought:

admoneri me satis est: admonebit autem nemo alius nisi rei publicae tempus,

Cic. Pis. 38, 94: disces quam diu voles;

tam diu autem velle debebis, quoad etc.,

id. Off. 1, 1, 2:

nunc quod agitur, agamus: agitur autem, liberine vivamus an mortem obeamus,

id. Phil. 11, 10, 24. —So esp. in impassioned discourse, Plant. Mil. 3, 1, 84:

humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est,

id. Merc. 2, 2, 48; id. Ps. 4, 8, 1:

quot potiones mulsi! quot autem prandia!

id. Stich. 1, 3, 68; id. Ep. 5, 2, 6:

quā pulchritudine urbem, quibus autem opibus praeditam, servitute oppressam tenuit civitatem,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 57.—

Like sed, vero, igitur, etc., in resuming a train of thought interrupted by a parenthesis:

Omnino illud honestum, quod ex animo excelso magnificoque quaerimus, animi efficitur non corporis viribus: exercendum tamen corpus et ita adficiendum est, ut oboedire consilio rationique possit in exsequendis negotiis et in labore tolerando: honestum autem id, quod exquirimus, totum est positum in animi curā, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 23, 79; 1, 43, 153.—

In introducing a parenthetical clause itself: quae autem nos ut recta aut recte facta dicamus, si placet (illi autem appellant katorthômata) omnes numeros virtutis continent, Cic. Fin. 3, 7, 24:

quod vitium effugere qui volet (omnes autem velle debent) adhibebit etc.,

id. Off. 1, 6, 18; 1, 33, 120; id. Tusc. 1, 33, 80; 1, 36, 88:

In primis foedera ac leges (erant autem eae duodecim tabuiae et quaedam regiae leges) conquiri etc.,

Liv. 6, 1, 10; Curt. 4, 6, 2:

ex hoc Quodcumque est (minus est autem quam rhetoris aera) Discipuli custos praemordet,

Juv. 7, 217.—

In enumerations, for the purpose of adding an important circumstance:

magnus dicendi labor, magna res, magna dignitas, summa autem gratia,

but, and indeed, Cic. Mur. 13, 29:

animis omnes tenduntur insidiae... vel ab eā, quae penitus in omni sensu implicata insidet, imitatrix boni, voluptas, malorum autem mater omnium,

yea, the parent of all evil, id. Leg. 1, 17, 47; id. N. D. 2, 22, 58:

docet ratio mathematicorum, luna quantum absit a proxumā Mercurii stellā, multo autem longius a Veneris,

id. Div. 2, 43, 91.—

In the syllogism, to introduce the minor proposition (the assumptio or propositio minor; cf. atque, IV. 9., and atqui, II. D.), now, but; but now:

Aut hoc, aut illud: hoc autem non, igitur illud. Itemque: aut hoc, aut illud: non autem hoc: illud igitur,

Cic. Top. 14, 56:

Si lucet, lucet: lucet autem, lucet igitur,

id. Ac. 2, 30, 96:

Si dicis te mentiri verumque dicis, mentiris: dicis autem te mentiri verumque dicis: mentiris igitur,

id. ib.; id. Top. 2, 9; id. Tusc. 5, 16, 47.—

Like the Gr. se or sê in adding an emphatic question (freq. in the comic poets), but, indeed.

In gen.:

Quem te autem deum nominem?

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 126:

Perii: quid hoc autemst mali?

Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 5:

Quī istuc? Quae res te sollicitat autem?

id. Heaut. 2, 3, 10:

Quae autem divina? Vigere, sapere, invenire, meminisse,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65: Quo modo autem moveri animus ad appetendum potest, si id, quod videtur, non percipitur? pôs sê, id. Ac. 2, 8, 25:

Quo modo autem tibi placebit JOVEM LAPIDEM jurare, cum scias etc.,

id. Fam. 7, 12, 2:

Veni ad Caesarem: quis est autem Caesar?

Flor. 3, 10, 11.—So in exclamations:

Quantā delectatione autem adficerer, cum etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98.—

In questions implying rebuke, reproach: Ba. Metuo credere. Ps. Credere autem? eho, etc., Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 70: Th. Ego non tangam meam? Ch. Tuam autem, furcifer? yours do you say? yours indeed! Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 28.—

In a question where a correction is made: Num quis testis Postumum appellavit? testis autem? ( witness did I say?) num accusator? Cic. Rab. Post. 5, 10:

Alio me vocat numerosa gloria tua: alio autem? quasi vero etc.,

Plin. Pan. 28:

Quid tandem isti mali in tam tenerā insulā non fecissent? non fecissent autem? imo quid ante adventum meum non fecerunt?

Cic. Att. 6, 2; 5, 13; 7, 1: Adimas etiam Hispanias? Et si inde cessero, in Africam transcendes. Transcendes autem dico? Liv. 21, 44, 7 Weissenb.—

And in questions sed autem are sometimes both used, especially by the comic poets, but indeed, but now, like the Gr. alla—se Alla pou se boulei kathezomenoi anagnômen; Plat. Phaedr. 228 E.):

Sed autem quid si hanc hinc apstulerit quispiam Sacram urnam Veneris?

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 15;

and separated: Sed quid haec hic autem tam diu ante aedīs stetit?

id. Truc. 2, 3, 14:

Attat Phaedriae Pater venit. Sed quid pertimui autem, belua?

Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 11: Sed quid ego haec autem nequiquam ingrata revolvo? * Verg. A. 2, 101.—Once ast autem: ast autem tenui [p. 212] quae candent lumine Phatnae, Cic. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 1170 P. (IV. 2, p. 555 Orell.).—

With interjections:

Heia autem inimicos!

Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 20:

Ecce autem litigium,

but lo! id. Men. 5, 2, 34; so id. Curc. 1, 2, 41; id. Most. 2, 1, 35; id. Mil. 2, 2, 48; id. Most. 3, 1, 131; 3, 1, 146:

Ecce autem alterum,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 6 Ruhnk.:

Ecce autem subitum divortium,

Cic. Clu. 5, 14; so id. Verr. 2, 5, 34; id. Leg. 1, 2, 5; id. Rep. 1, 35, 55; id. Or. 9, 30:

Ecce autem aliud minus dubium,

Liv. 7, 35, 10:

Eccere autem capite nutat,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 52; so id. Pers. 2, 4, 29:

eccui autem non proditur [revertenti]?

Cic. Mur. 33, 68.

placed after the first word of a clause; but if several words, a subst. and prep., the verb esse with the predicate, a word with a negative, etc., together form one idea, then autem stands after the second or third word. But the poets, especially the comic poets, allow themselves greater liberty, and sometimes place this particle, without any necessity in the nature of the clause, in the third, fourth, or fifth place; but autem is never found in good writers at the beginning of a clause or sentence; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 39. See more upon this word in Hand, Turs. I. pp. 558-588.

barbărus, a, um ( gen. plur. m. barbarum, Tac. A. 14, 39; 15, 25), adj., = barbaros [cf. barrio; balo, balbus; blatio].

Prop., foreign, strange, barbarous, opp. to Greek or Roman.

In gen.:

hospes,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 25:

mixta facit Graiis barbara turba metum,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 28; Hor. C. 1, 29, 6:

reges,

id. ib. 1, 35, 11.—Hence, in Tac., in barbarum, adverb., in the manner or according to the custom of foreigners or barbarians:

civitas potens, neque in barbarum corrupta,

Tac. A. 6, 42; id. H. 5, 2.— As subst.: barbărus, i, m., a foreigner, stranger, barbarian:

sin hoc et ratio doctis et necessitas barbaris praescripsit,

Cic. Mil. 11, 30; id. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 112; 2, 5, 60, § 157:

quo neque noster adit quisquam, nec barbarus audet,

Lucr. 6, 37:

quippe simul nobis habitat discrimine nullo Barbarus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 30:

barbarorum soli prope Germani singulis uxoribus contenti,

Tac. G. 18:

barbari praestabant non modicam humanitatem,

Vulg. Act. 28, 1.—

Esp., of a particular people, in opp. to Greek or Roman or both; cf.:

Romanus Graiusque ac barbarus induperator,

Juv. 10, 138 (cf.: barbaria, barbaricus, and Fest. s. v. barbari, p. 36 Müll.).

(In the mouth of a Greek, or in opp. to Greek.) Italian, Roman, Latin (never so used by the Romans):

nam os columnatum poetae esse inaudivi barbaro (sc. Naevio) (words of the Ephesian Periplectomenes),

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 58; id. Stich. 1, 3, 40:

i, stultior es barbaro Poticio,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15: absurdum erat aut tantum barbaris casibus Graecam litteram (ph) adhibere, aut recto casu Graece loqui, Cic. Or. 48, 160.—So also,

In the mouth of a Macedonian:

cum alienigenis, cum barbaris aeternum omnibus Graecis bellum est eritque,

Liv. 31, 29, 15.—And,

In reference to the inhabitants of Pontus:

barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intellegor ulli,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 37.—

Phrygian:

tibia,

Cat. 64, 264; cf. Lucr. 4, 546 Forbig.:

sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyrae, Hac Dorium, illis barbarum,

Hor. Epod. 9, 6; Verg. A. 11, 777; Ov. M. 14, 163.—

Persian, a Persian:

solere reges barbaros Persarum ac Syrorum pluris uxores habere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 76; Nep. Milt. 7, 1; id. Them. 3, 1; 6, 2; 7, 5; Curt. 3, 11, 16; 5, 10. 2.—Thus the king of the Persians is called barbarus, Nep. Them. 4, 4; id. Con. 4, 3;

and high officers of the king, barbari,

id. Ages. 3, 1; cf.:

Romanum agmen ad similitudinem barbari incessus convertere,

Tac. A. 3, 33.—

In gen., for any hostile people (among the Romans, after the Aug. age, esp. the German tribes, as, among the Greeks, after the Persian war, the Persians):

opinio, quae animos gentium barbararum pervaserat,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 23; id. Sull. 27, 76; of the Gauls, Liv. 6, 42, 7; the Germans, Tac. H. 4, 29; 5, 14; id. A. 1, 64; Suet. Aug. 21; id. Tib. 9; id. Calig. 5; 47; 51; id. Galb. 6; id. Dom. 6; 12; Amm. 18, 2, 5:

ut sunt fluxioris fidei barbari,

id. 18, 2, 18; the Thracians, Nep. Alcib. 7, 4; Tac. A. 4, 47; 11, 51; Carthaginians, Nep. Timol. 1, 1; Cilicians, id. Thras. 4, 4; Phœnicians and Cyprians, id. Cim. 2, 3; Parthians, Suet. Vesp. 8; Tac. A. 2, 2; 13, 26; Africans, Cic. Att. 9, 7; Suet. Galb. 7; Claud. 42; Tac. A. 4, 25; Britons, id. ib. 16, 17; 12, 35; 14, 32; even of the Dassaretians, a Greek people, Liv. 31, 33, 5; while the Romans did not elsewhere use barbarus for Greek.—

Transf., foreign, strange, in mind or character.

In mind, uncultivated, ignorant; rude, unpolished:

qui aliis inhumanus ac barbarus, isti uni commodus ac disertus videretur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23:

ecqua civitas est... aut tam potens aut tam libera aut etiam tam inmanis ac barbara, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 4, 11, §

24: nationes,

Tac. H. 3, 5; Prop. 2, 16, 27:

Maroboduus... natione magis quam ratione barbarus,

Vell. 2, 108, 2.— Comp., of verses:

non sunt illa suo barbariora loco,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 72.—

Of character, wild, savage, cruel, barbarous:

neque tam barbari linguā et natione illi, quam tu naturā et moribus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 112:

immanis ac barbara consuetudo hominum immolandorum,

id. Font. 14, 31 (10, 21); id. Phil. 3, 6, 15; 13, 9, 21:

gens,

id. Sull. 27, 76:

homines,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 32, § 81:

homo,

id. ib. 2, 5, 57, §

148: pirata,

id. Rosc. Am. 50, 146:

praedones,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 55, § 122; Tib. 2, 5, 48:

tollite barbarum Morem,

Hor. C. 1, 27, 2:

Medea,

id. Epod. 5, 61:

domina,

id. C. 3, 27, 66:

libidines,

id. ib. 4, 12, 7:

ignis,

Ov. M. 14, 574:

populus,

Vulg. Psa. 113, 1.—

* Comp.:

sacra barbariora,

Ov. P. 3, 2, 78.— Sup. not in use.—Hence, adv.: barbărē.

Prop., as a foreigner would, in a foreign tongue: Demophilus scripsit;

Marcus vortit barbare,

i. e. into Latin, Plaut. As. prol. 10; id. Trin. prol. 19; cf. barbarus, I. B. 1. —

Transf.

Rudely, ignorantly, in an uncultivated way:

si grammaticum se professus quispiam barbare loqueretur,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12:

ut is, a quo insolenter quid aut minaciter aut crudeliter dictum sit, barbare locutus existimetur,

Quint. 1, 5, 9:

tota saepe theatra et omnem Circi turbam exclamasse barbare scimus,

id. 1, 6, 45.—

Rudely, roughly, barbarously, cruelly:

dulcia barbare Laedentem oscula,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 15:

ferociter et barbare facere,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 15, 2.

ē-grĕdĭor, gressus, 3 ( inf. egredier, Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 32), v. dep. n. and a.

Neutr., to go or come out, come forth (class.).

Lit.

In gen., with e or ex:

foras e fano,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 4; cf.:

e fano huc,

id. ib. 3, 2, 49:

e cubiculo,

Cic. Rep. 1, 12:

ex oppido,

Caes. B. G. 2, 13, 2; 7, 11, 7:

ex suis finibus,

id. ib. 6, 31, 4:

ex castris,

id. ib. 6, 36, 2:

e curia,

Liv. 2, 48; 7, 31 et saep.—With a or ab:

ab sese,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 78; id. Epid. 3, 2, 44; Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; id. Ph. 5, 1, 5; Suet. Claud. 23; cf.:

a nobis foras,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50. —With simple abl.:

domo,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 1:

portă,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 7; Caes. B. G. 7, 28, 3; Liv. 9, 16:

Romă,

Cic. Quint. 6, 24; Hor. S. 1, 5, 1; cf. Suet. Aug. 53; id. Tib. 40:

tabernaculo,

id. Aug. 91:

triclinio,

id. Calig. 36 et saep.; cf.:

domo foras,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 6, 5.—With adv.:

hinc,

Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 74:

intus,

id. Pers. 2, 4, 30:

unde,

Caes. B. G. 5, 37, 4 et saep.— Absol.:

placide egredere,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 1; so id. Cas. 3, 2, 6; id. Mil. 2, 6, 59; id. Poen. 3, 2, 36 sq. et saep.:

foras,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 27; id. Curc. 4, 1, 5; id. Cas. 2, 1, 15; id. Mil. 4, 1, 40; 4, 5, 16 et saep.:

obviam,

Liv. 9, 16:

per medias hostium stationes,

id. 5, 46; cf. poet.:

per Veneris res,

Lucr. 2, 437:

extra munitiones,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 9; 6, 36, 1; id. B. C. 3, 65, 4:

extra fines, terminos, cancellos,

Cic. Quint. 10, 35 sq.:

extra portam,

Liv. 3, 68; cf.: ad portam, i. e. out to the gate. id. [p. 634] 33, 47 fin.:

in vadum,

id. 8, 24 et saep.—

In an upward direction, to go up, climb, mount, ascend:

scalis egressi,

Sall. J. 60, 6 Kritz.; cf.:

ad summum montis,

id. ib. 93, 2:

in tumulum,

Liv. 26, 44:

in altitudinem,

id. 40, 22:

in vallum,

Tac. H. 3, 29:

in tectum,

id. ib. 3, 71:

in moenia,

id. ib. 4, 29:

in sublime (liquor),

Plin. 2, 42, 42, § 111:

altius,

Ov. M. 2, 136.—

In partic.

Milit. t. t.

To step out, leave:

ne quispiam ordine egrederetur,

Sall. J. 45, 2.—

To move out, march out:

e castris,

Caes. B. G. 7, 36, 7; 7, 58, 2 al.:

castris,

id. ib. 2, 11, 1; Sall. J. 91, 3.— Absol., Caes. B. C. 3, 77, 1; Sall. J. 91, 2; 106, 4; cf.

also: in pacata,

Liv. 10, 32:

ad proelium,

Caes. B. C. 2, 35, 5:

ad oppugnandum,

Sall. J. 59, 1.—

Naut. t. t.

(Ex) navi or absol., to disembark from a vessel, to land:

ex navi,

Cic. Vatin. 5, 12; Caes. B. G. 4, 26, 2; id. B. C. 3, 106, 4:

navi,

id. B. G. 4, 21, 9; Liv. 45, 13; cf.

ratibus,

Ov. M. 8, 153; and absol., Caes. B. G. 4, 23, 4; Liv. 1, 1; Ov. H. 21, 91; cf.:

in terram,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 51; Front. Strat. 2, 5, 44:

in litus,

id. ib. 1, 5, 7.—

E portu, or absol., to set sail, Cic. Att. 6, 8, 4; Quint. 10, 7, 23; Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 6.—

Trop. in speaking, to digress, depart, deviate, wander (rarely):

a proposito ornandi causa,

Cic. Brut. 21, 82; cf.:

ex quibus,

Quint. 3, 9, 4.— Absol., Quint. 4, 3, 15:

extra praescriptum,

id. 1, 1, 27.

Act., to go beyond, to pass out of, to leave (freq. in the historians, partic. since the Aug. per.; not ante-class., nor in Cic.).

Lit.:

fines,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 7:

munitiones nostras,

id. B. C. 3, 52 fin.:

flumen Mulucham,

Sall. J. 110 fin.:

urbem,

Liv. 1, 29 fin.; 3, 57 fin.; 22, 55 fin. al.:

tecta,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 8:

tentoria,

Tac. A. 1, 30; Luc. 5, 510 et saep.:

navem,

Front. Strat. 1, 12, 1 Oud. N. cr.:

portum (navis),

Quint. 4, 1, 61. —

Trop., to overstep, surpass, exceed:

per omnia fortunam hominis egressus,

Vell. 2, 40, 2; so,

vetus familia neque tamen praeturam egressa,

yet had attained no higher honor than, Tac. A. 3, 30:

quintum annum,

Quint. 6 prooem. §

6: modum,

id. 8, 6, 16; 9, 4, 146; Tac. A. 13, 2:

sexum,

id. ib. 16, 10 fin.:

clementiam majorum suasque leges,

id. ib. 3, 24:

relationem,

id. ib. 2, 38:

medios metus,

Val. Fl. 2, 277 et saep.:

tecta altitudinem moenium egressa,

Tac. H. 3, 30 fin.

grammătĭcus, a, um, adj., = grammatikos, of or belonging to grammar, grammatical:

ars,

Auct. Her. 4, 12, 17; Quint. 1, 5, 54:

possis illud grammaticum, hoc rhetoricum magis dicere,

id. 9, 3, 2:

grammaticas ambire tribus et pulpita,

the tribes of the grammarians, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 40:

cum eundem (Tuditanum) de rebus grammaticis scripsisse constet,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 36 Müll.—

Subst.

grammătĭcus, i, m., a grammarian in the more extended sense of the word, a philologist: appellatio grammaticorum Graeca consuetudine invaluit: sed initio litterati vocabantur. Cornelius quoque Nepos litteratos vulgo appellari ait eos, qui aliquid diligenter et acute scienterque possint aut dicere aut scribere: ceterum proprie sic appellandos poëtarum interpretes, qui a Graecis grammatikoi nominentur... Veteres grammatici et rhetoricam docebant, etc., Suet. Gramm. 4:

ut si grammaticum se professus quispiam barbare loquatur,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12; cf.:

grammatici custodes Latini sermonis,

Sen. Ep. 95 med.:

grammatici poëtarum explanatores sunt,

Cic. Div. 1, 51, 116; id. Att. 7, 3, 10: hanc hupallagên rhetores, metônumian grammatici vocant, id. Or. 27, 93; Quint. 10, 1, 53; 1, 8, 21; cf. in the foll. the passage Quint. 2, 1, 4, and Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187:

(Ateius) inter grammaticos rhetor, inter rhetores grammaticus,

Suet. Gramm. 10.—Prov.:

grammatici certant,

doctors disagree, Hor. A. P. 78.—

grammătĭca, ae, and gram-mătĭce, ēs (the first form in Cicero and Suet., the latter in Quint.), f., = grammatikê, grammar in the wider sense of the term, philology:

quamquam ea verba, quibus instituto veterum utimur pro Latinis, ut ipsa philosophia, ut rhetorica, dialectica, grammatica, geometria, musica, quamquam Latine ea dici poterant, tamen, quoniam usu percepta sunt, nostra ducamus,

Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 5; id. de Or. 1, 42, 187; cf.:

et grammatice (quam in Latinum transferentes litteraturam vocaverunt) fines suos norit, praesertim tantum ab hac appellationis suae paupertate, intra quam primi illi constitere, provecta: nam tenuis a fonte, assumptis poëtarum historicorumque viribus, pleno jam satis alveo fluit, cum praeter rationem recte loquendi non parum alioqui copiosam prope omnium maximarum artium scientiam amplexa sit,

Quint. 2, 1, 4; cf. id. 2, 14, 3:

grammatica,

Suet. Gramm. 1; 2; 3; 6; 8;

24 et saep.: grammatice,

Quint. 1, 4, 2 sq.; 1, 5, 1; 1, 8, 12; 1, 10, 17 et saep.—

grammătĭca, ōrum, n., grammar, philology:

in grammaticis poëtarum pertractatio, historiarum cognitio, verborum interpretatio, pronuntiandi quidam sonus,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187.— Adv.: grammă-tĭce, according to the rules of grammar, grammatically:

mihi non invenuste dici videtur, aliud esse Latine, aliud grammatice loqui,

Quint. 1, 6, 27.

grammătĭcus, i, v. 1. grammaticus, II. A.

immūto ( inm-), āvi, ātum, 1 (archaic inf. pres. pass. inmutarier, Ter. And. 1, 5, 40; id. Eun. 2, 1, 19; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 29), v. a. [in-muto], to change, alter, transform.

In gen. (class.):

ubi immutatus sum? ubi ego formam perdidi?

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 300: perscrutari... nos nostri an alieni simus;

ne clam quispiam nos imprudentis mmutaverit,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 22:

adeone homines inmutarier ex amore,

Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 19:

vultum earum,

id. Hec. 3, 3, 9:

imperio, potestate, prosperis rebus immutari,

Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.:

me aliquando immutarunt tibi,

id. Fam. 5, 8, 2: illi regi amabili Cyro subest ad immutandi animi licentiam crudelissimus ille Phalaris (v. ad), id. Rep. 1, 28:

ut ejus orbis (i. e. signiferi) unaquaeque pars alia alio modo moveat immutetque caelum,

id. Div. 2, 42, 89:

concentus immutatus aut discrepans,

id. Rep. 2, 42: temeritas filii comprobavit;

verborum ordinem immuta: fac sic: comprobavit filii temeritas, etc.,

id. Or. 63, 214:

nomen immuto,

Quint. 8, 6, 28:

cum successor aliquid immutat de institutis priorum,

Cic. Fl. 14, 33.—

In partic., in rhet.

To put, by metonymy, one word for another:

immutata (verba), in quibus pro verbo proprio subicitur aliud, quod idem significet, sumptum ex re aliqua consequenti, etc.... Ennius Horridam Africam terribili tremere tumultu cum dicit, pro Afris immutat Africam,

Cic. Or. 27, 92 sq.; id. de Or. 3, 43, 169.—

E s p.: immutata oratio, allegory, = allêgoria, Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261.

immūto ( inm-), āvi, ātum, 1 (archaic inf. pres. pass. inmutarier, Ter. And. 1, 5, 40; id. Eun. 2, 1, 19; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 29), v. a. [in-muto], to change, alter, transform.

In gen. (class.):

ubi immutatus sum? ubi ego formam perdidi?

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 300: perscrutari... nos nostri an alieni simus;

ne clam quispiam nos imprudentis mmutaverit,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 22:

adeone homines inmutarier ex amore,

Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 19:

vultum earum,

id. Hec. 3, 3, 9:

imperio, potestate, prosperis rebus immutari,

Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.:

me aliquando immutarunt tibi,

id. Fam. 5, 8, 2: illi regi amabili Cyro subest ad immutandi animi licentiam crudelissimus ille Phalaris (v. ad), id. Rep. 1, 28:

ut ejus orbis (i. e. signiferi) unaquaeque pars alia alio modo moveat immutetque caelum,

id. Div. 2, 42, 89:

concentus immutatus aut discrepans,

id. Rep. 2, 42: temeritas filii comprobavit;

verborum ordinem immuta: fac sic: comprobavit filii temeritas, etc.,

id. Or. 63, 214:

nomen immuto,

Quint. 8, 6, 28:

cum successor aliquid immutat de institutis priorum,

Cic. Fl. 14, 33.—

In partic., in rhet.

To put, by metonymy, one word for another:

immutata (verba), in quibus pro verbo proprio subicitur aliud, quod idem significet, sumptum ex re aliqua consequenti, etc.... Ennius Horridam Africam terribili tremere tumultu cum dicit, pro Afris immutat Africam,

Cic. Or. 27, 92 sq.; id. de Or. 3, 43, 169.—

E s p.: immutata oratio, allegory, = allêgoria, Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261.

lībrārĭus, a, um, adj. [libra].

Of or containing a pound, of a pound weight (post-Aug.):

frusta,

Col. 12, 53, 4:

as,

Gell. 20, 1, 31.—

Subst.

lībrārĭus, ii, m., a weight, the sixteenth part of a modius, = sextarius: sextarius aequus aequo cum librario siet, sexdecimque librarii in modio sient, Plebisc. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 246 Müll.—

lībrārĭa, ae, f., she that weighed out the wool to the female slaves, a forewoman, head-spinner, called also lanipendia, Juv. 6, 475 (by others referred to 2. librarius); Inscr. Orell. 4212.

lĭbrārĭus, a, um, adj. [3. liber], of or belonging to books:

scriba librarius,

a copyist, transcriber of books, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 14; Cic. Agr. 2, 13, 32:

libraria taberna,

a bookseller's shop, Cic. Phil. 2, 9, 21:

scriptor,

a transcriber of books, Hor. A. P. 354:

atramentum,

ink for writing books, Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 52.—Hence,

Subst.

lĭ-brārĭus, i, m.

A transcriber of books, a copyist, scribe, secretary, Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13:

librum ut tuis librariis daret,

id. Att. 12, 40, 1:

librarii mendum,

Liv. 38, 55, 8: legionis, the secretary of the legion, Inscr. ap. Grut. 365, 1; cf. Sen. Contr. 1, 7, 18; Juv. 9, 109.—

A bookseller, Sen. Ben. 7, 6, 1; Gell. 5, 4, 2; 18, 4, 1; Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 23, 4. —

(Sc. doctor.) An elementary teacher, Hier. Ep. 107, 4.—

lĭbrārĭa, ae, f.

A female scribe:

(Parcae) utpote librariae Superum archivumque custodes,

Mart. Cap. 1, § 65 (perh. also Juv. 6, 476; cf. sub 1. librarius).—

A bookseller's shop; in libraria, ego et Julius Paulus poëta consederamus, Gell. 5, 4, 1:

quispiam in libraria sedens,

id. 13, 30, 1.—

lĭbrārĭum, ii, n., a place to keep books in, a bookcase, bookchest:

exhibe librarium illud legum vestrarum,

Cic. Mil. 12, 33:

libraria omnia exurerent,

Amm. 29, 2, 4.

mĕmŏrĭa, ae, f. [memor].

The faculty of remembering, memory, recollection (class.):

ubi me fugiet memoria,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 2:

Edepol, memoria's optumad,

id. Mil. 1, 1, 45:

bona,

Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

segnis ac lenta,

Sen. Ep. 74, 1:

tenacissima,

Quint. 1, 1, 19:

Hortensius memoriā tantā fuit, ut, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 88, 301:

hoc in memoria mea penitus insedit,

id. de Or. 2, 28, 122:

in memoriam redigere,

to recall to mind, recollect, id. Fam. 1, 9, 9; so,

in memoriam reducere,

id. Inv 1, 52, 98 memoriā comprehendere, to hold in the memory, commit to memory, id. do Or. 1, 34, 154:

memoriā tenere,

id. Sen. 4, 12; Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

memoriā custodire,

Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 127:

memoriam agitare,

to exercise the memory, Quint. 1, 8, 14:

habere in memoriā,

to remember, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:

hoc est mihi in memoriā,

in my recollection, Cic. Sull. 13, 37:

deponere aliquid ex memoriā,

to forget a thing, id. ib. 6, 18:

memoriam alicujus deponere,

to forget, Caes. B. G. 1, 14:

si memoria fefellerit,

Quint. 11, 3, 127:

hoc fugit memoriam meam,

has escaped my recollection, id. 4, 5, 3:

Carthaginem excidisse de memoriā,

Liv. 29, 19, 12; cf.:

memoriā cedere,

id. 2, 33, 9:

memoriā abire,

id. 2, 4, 2 ut mea memoria est, Cic. Att. 13, 31, 4:

ex memoriā exponam,

from memory, id. Cat. 3, 6, 13.—

Memory, remembrance:

si quid faciendumst mulieri male... Ibi ei inmortalis memoriast meminisse,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 15: verterunt sese memoriae, remembrances are altered, i. e. times are changed, id. Truc. 2, 1, 10:

memoriā dign' viri,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 2:

nostrae,

id. Fam. 8, 3, 3:

memoriae prodere sermonem alicujus,

to hand down to posterity, to leave in writing, to record, id. de Or. 3, 4, 14:

memoriam prodere,

to transmit, hand down, Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

traditur memoriae, prolapsum cecidisse,

it is related, Liv. 5, 21:

vivit, vivetque per omnium saeculorum memoriam,

Vell. 2, 66, 5:

(oratio) ad memoriam laudum domesticarum,

Cic. Brut. 16, 62:

quorum memoria et recordatio jucunda sane fuit,

id. ib. 2, 9:

memoria immortalis,

Nep. Att. 11, 5.—

Transf.

The time of remembrance, period of recollection, time:

multi superiori memoriā se in alias civitates contulerunt,

in earlier times, Cic. Balb. 12, 28:

Cratippus princeps hujus memoriae philosophorum,

in our time, at the present time, id. Off. 3, 2, 5:

quod persaepe et nostrā, et patrum memoriā acci dit,

id. Font. 7, 13:

usque ad nostram memoriam,

id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54:

quod in omni memoriā est omnino inauditum,

id. Vatin. 14, 33:

post hominum memoriam,

since the memory of man, id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:

paulo supra hanc memoriam,

a little before this, a short time since, Caes. B. G. 6, 19.—

An historical account, relation, narration:

liber, quo iste omnium rerum memoriam breviter complexus est,

Cic. Brut. 3, 14:

de Magonis interitu duplex memoria prodita est,

Nep. Hann. 8, 2:

memoriam vitae prosā oratione composuit,

Suet. Claud. 1 fin. —

Concr., a written account, narrative, memoir:

quispiam ex his, qui se ad litteras memoriasque veteres dediderat,

Gell. 2, 21, 6:

in veteribus memoriis scriptum legimus,

id. 4, 6, 1; 7, 8, 1:

sine ullā pristini auctoris memoriā,

Suet. Dom. 5.—

(Eccl. Lat.) A monument, esp. a Christian church as a memorial of a saint or monument of a martyr:

in memoriā Cypriani manere,

Aug. Conf 5, 8, 3: memoriae martyrum templis deorum succedunt, id. Civ. Dei, 26, 5;

22, 8, 11 and 12 al.: memoriam sibi et suis com parare,

Inscr. Grut. 827, 8.—

Personified, the goddess of memory, = Mnemosyne, Afran. ap. Gell. 13, 8, 3:

Jovis (filias, ex memoria uxore,

Arn. 3, c. 37.

quis-quam (old form QVIQVAM, S. C. Bacch.), quaequam, quicquam or quidquam ( abl. masc. quoquam, very rare, Liv. 3, 57, 6 Weissenb. ad loc., and 34, 35, 9; Suet. Caes. 59), pron. indef., any, any one, any body, any thing, something (cf.: aliquis, ullus, quispiam).

In gen.

Adj.:

an invenire postulas quemquam cocum, nisi, etc.,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 62: nemo est indignior, quem quisquam homo aut amet [p. 1517] aut adeat, id. Bacch. 4, 3, 5:

si cuiquam generi hominum, si cuiquam ordini aratorum probatus sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17:

ubi cuiquam legationi fui impedimento,

id. Fam. 3, 10, 6. —

Subst., any man, any person, any thing; also emphatic, any person whoever, any person or thing (even the least, etc.):

sed mandare quemquam litteris cogitationes suas, qui eas nec disponere nec inlustrare possit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 3, 6:

si quisquam est timidus, is ego sum,

id. Fam. 6, 14, 1; id. Att. 14, 1, 2; Ter. Eun. prol. 1:

ne quemquam interficiant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40; Sall. J. 45, 2; Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 2:

aut enim nemo, aut, si quisquam, ille sapiens fuit,

Cic. Lael. 2, 9:

si quidquam humanorum certi est,

Liv. 5, 33:

an quisquam usquam gentium est aeque miser?

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 13:

estne quisquam omnium mortalium, de quo melius existimes tu?

Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 18:

si animadversum esset, quemquam ad hostes transfugere conari,

Nep. Ages. 6, 2:

quicquam tu illa putas fuisse decreta?

Cic. Att. 9, 5, 3:

percontans quisquamne in palatio esset,

Aur. Vict. Ep. 11. —

In partic.

Nec (neque) quisquam, and no one, and none, = nemo, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 29:

nec quisquam ex agmine tanto Audet adire virum,

Verg. A. 5, 378:

nostrum quisquam,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 47:

neque ex castris Catilinae quisquam omnium discesserat,

Sall. C. 36, 5:

neque cuiquam nostrum licuit lege uti,

id. ib. 33, 1.—

With unus, a single one:

quia nondum in quemquam unum saeviebatur,

Liv. 3, 55, 15. — Hence also, nec quisquam unus, and not a single one:

nec quisquam alterius gentis unus tantum eā arte excellit,

Liv. 28, 37; 2, 9, 8.—

Quicquam with nihil, pleonastically, nothing whatever, nothing at all:

comperiebam, nihil ad Pamphilum Quicquam attinere,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 63.—

With numquam:

quae nocet numquam cuiquam,

no man at any time, Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

numquam quidquam,

id. Tusc. 2, 12, 29. —

Quisquam as a fem., like quis (ante-class.):

nec quisquam alia mulier,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 68:

anum quemquam,

id. Rud. 2, 3, 75:

illarum neque te quisquam novit, neque, etc.,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 83.

quod, conj. [ acc. resp., from qui].

I. That, in that, because (cf.:

quia, quoniam): cum tibi agam gratias quod me vivere coëgisti,

Cic. Att. 3, 3, 1:

mirari, Cato se aiebat, quod non rideret haruspex, haruspicem cum vidisset,

id. Div. 2, 24, 51; id. Att. 1, 17, 1:

fecisti mihi pergratum, quod Serapionis librum ad me misisti,

id. ib. 2, 4, 1:

propter hanc causam, quod, etc.,

id. Verr 2, 3, 46, § 109:

quod victoribus ultro inferrent arma,

Liv. 21, 1; 8, 1:

quam quod urbes urerent,

Curt. 4, 14, 2.—

Esp.: propterea quod,

because, Ter. And. 3, 4, 5; v. propterea. —Esp. after eo (mostly post-Aug.):

eo deceptum, quod neque, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 14, 2:

eo conspectius (supplicium), quod, etc.,

Liv. 2, 5, 5; 22, 34, 5; Plin. Pan. 25, 2:

forma navium eo differt, quod, etc.,

Tac. G. 44; Quint. 8, 6, 8; Plin. 22, 25, 59, § 126; Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 7, 8; Cels. 3, 18.—

II. Wherefore, why, that:

in viam quod te des hoc tempore, nihil est,

it is not necessary that, Cic. Fam. 14, 12: magis est quod gratuler tibi quam, etc., id. Att. 16, 5, 2:

ne causae quid sit, quod te quisquam quaeritet,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 3, 14; Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 3:

hoc est quod ad vos venio,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 70:

non est quod multa loquamur,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 30.—

III. If so be that, as respects that, in case that:

quod quispiam ignem quaerat,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 3, 13 Ussing ad loc.; id. Mil. 2, 2, 7 Brix ad loc.; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 15; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 68, § 175; cf. qui, E. 1. —

IV. Though, although, albeit, even if:

si te in plateā offendero hāc post umquam, quod dicas mihi, Alium quaerebam, iter hac habui, periisti,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 33; Prop. 3 (4), 1, 49; Ov. A. A. 1, 261; id. M. 7, 705:

quod sim ligneus, ut vides, Prendam te tamen,

Auct. Priap. 6.—

V. In respect to time, since that, since (only post-Aug.; in Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146, and Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 2;

recent edd. read quom): tertius dies est, quod audivi, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 4, 27, 1.—

VI. After facere and facile est, = ut, that: facile est, quod habeant conservam in villā, Varr, R. R. 2, 10, 6: utinam dii immortales fecissent, quod ea lex etiam populo Romano esset constituta, Vitr. praef. 10.—

VII. With other particles, as si, nisi, utinam, ubi, etc., always with reference to something which precedes (very freq.), but, though, now:

quod si quis illorum legat facta, paria horum cognoscat,

Nep. Eum. 8, 3:

quod si te fors Afris praefecisset, tamen,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, § 27; 1, 1, 14, § 41:

quod nisi domi civium suorum invidiā debilitatus esset, Romanos videtur superare potuisse,

Nep. Hann. 1, 2:

quod utinam minus vitae cupidi fuissemus!

Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 1:

quod ne longiore exordio legentem fatigemus, unum quasi exemplum subiciemus,

Col. 5, 11, 13:

quod ubi ille intellexit, id agi, ut, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67:

quod cum esset animadversum, conjunctam esse flumini, protinus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 68:

quod ut hanc quoque curam determinemus, etc.,

Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 194:

peccasse se non anguntur, objurgari moleste ferunt: quod contra oportebat delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,

instead of which, whereas, Cic. Lael. 24, 90:

quod nunc,

whereas now, Lucr. 1, 221.—

VIII. With verbs of perceiving and declaring, instead of an object-clause:

scio jam, filius quod amet meus istanc meretricem,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 37; Cato ap. Plin. 29, 1, 7, § 14:

recordatus quondam super cenam, quod nihil cuiquam toto die praestitisset,

Suet. Tit. 8:

nec credit, quod, etc.,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 223:

aliqui semen ejus non obruunt, opinantes, quod a nullā ave tangatur,

Pall. 3, 24:

rem miram de ocimo Martialis affirmat, quod, etc.,

id. 5, 3:

notum facere, quod, etc.,

Dig. 25, 3, 1:

novi quod pulchra sis,

Vulg. Gen. 12, 11:

vidit lucem quod esset bona,

id. ib. 1, 4.—Esp. after illud:

videndum illud, quod, si, etc.,

Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70: illud mihi occurrit, quod, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1 fin.

► Quod, in restrictive sense, v. qui, E. 1.

quod, another orthogr. for quot, v. h. v.

rīdĭcŭlus, a, um, adj. [rideo], that excites laughter.

In a good sense, laughable, droll, funny, amusing, facetious (freq. and class.; syn.: jocularis, jocosus).

Adj.:

quamvis ridiculus est,

Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 43; cf.:

quando adbibero, alludiabo, tum sum ridiculissimus,

id. Stich. 2, 2, 58:

si ridiculum hominem quaeret quispiam,

id. ib. 1, 3, 17:

cavillator facie magis quam facetiis ridiculus,

Cic. Att. 1, 13, 2:

homines,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 121; id. de Or. 2, 54, 221; Juv. 3, 153:

mus,

a funny little mouse, Hor. A. P. 139:

inest lepos ludusque in hac comoediā: ridicula res est,

Plaut. As. prol. 14:

ridicula et jocosa res,

Cat. 56, 1 and 4:

dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus... nemo ridet,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 22; so,

dictum,

Quint. 6, 3, 6:

logos ridiculos vendo,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 68:

vultus gestusque,

Quint. 6, 3, 26 et saep.: ridiculum est, with subject-clause:

ridiculum est, te istuc me admonere,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 112; so Quint. 6, 3, 94.— Absol.:

hui, tam cito? ridiculum!

how comical! Ter. And. 3, 1, 16; so id. ib. 4, 2, 29; id. Eun. 3, 1, 62; id. Phorm. 5, 7, 8.— Poet. with inf.:

(Porcius) Ridiculus totas simul obsorbere placentas,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 24.—

rīdĭcŭ-lus, i, m., a jester, buffoon:

Gelasimo nomen mihi indidit parvo pater. Quia inde jam a pauxillo puero ridiculus fui, etc.,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 21 sq.; so id. ib. 17 and 64; [p. 1595] 4, 2, 54; id. Capt. 3, 1, 10; 17; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 13; Vulg. Hab. 1, 10.—

rīdĭcŭlum, i, or plur.: rīdĭcŭla, ōrum, n., something laughable, a laughing matter; a jest, joke, etc.: proprium materiae, de quā nunc loquimur, est ridiculum, ideoque haec tota disputatio a Graecis peri geloiou inscribitur, Quint. 6, 3, 22; cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 235 sq. (v. the whole chapter on laughter, when and how it should be excited, etc., Cic. l. l.; and:

de risu,

Quint. 6, 3):

in jaciendo mittendoque ridiculo genera plura sunt... illud admonemus, ridiculo sic usurum oratorem, ut, etc.,

Cic. Or. 26, 87:

per ridiculum dicere (opp. severe),

id. Off. 1, 37, 134:

ridiculi causā (with joco),

Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 36:

mihi solae ridiculo fuit,

I had the joke all to myself, Ter. Eun. 5, 6, 3:

quatenus sint ridicula tractanda oratori, perquam diligenter videndum est... materies omnis ridiculorum est in istis vitiis, quae, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 237 sq.; Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 2:

saepe etiam sententiose ridicula dicuntur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 286:

facetum non tantum circa ridicula consistere,

Quint. 6, 3, 19:

ridicula aut facimus aut dicimus, etc.,

id. 6, 3, 25.—

In a bad sense, laughable, silly, absurd, ridiculous (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; cf.

rideo, II. B. 2.): hujus insania, quae ridiaula est aliis, mihi tum molesta sane fuit, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, § 148:

ludibria,

Lucr. 2, 47:

qui ridiculus minus illo (es)?

Hor. S. 2, 3, 311:

stulta reprehendere facillimum est, nam per se sunt ridicula,

Quint. 6, 3, 71; cf.

(with stulta),

id. 2, 10, 6:

poëma (shortly before: inculti versus et male nati),

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 238:

pudor,

Juv. 11, 55.— Ridiculum est, with subject-clause:

est ridiculum, ad ea quae habemus nihil dicere, quaerere, quae habere non possumus,

Cic. Arch. 4, 8; so,

putare,

id. Div. in Caecil. 18, 59:

de confessis praecipere,

Quint. 5, 13, 7.— Adv.: rīdĭ-cŭlē.

(Acc. to I.) Laughably, jokingly, humorously:

rogitas,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 60; Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 46:

non modo acute, sed etiam ridicule ac facete,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 243; 2, 71, 289; id. Fam. 9, 22, 4; Domit. Mars. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 105:

ridicule magis hoc dictum quam vere,

Phaedr. 3, 4, 5.—

(Acc. to II.) Ridiculously:

insanus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, § 148; id. Rosc. Com. 6, 19.