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  • 1 malo

    mālo, mālui, malle (old forms, mavolo for malo, Plaut. As. 5, 1, 18; id. Curc. 2, 3, 41; id. Poen. 1, 2, 88; 90; id. Rud. 5, 3, 57; Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 25:

    mavolunt for malunt, Naev. ap. Fest. s. v. stuprum, p. 317 Müll.: mavoluit for maluit,

    Petr. S. p. 77:

    mavelim for malim,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 27; id. Aul. 4, 5, 1; id. Capt. 3, 3, 1; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 18; id. Men. 5, 1, 20; id. Mil. 4, 8, 46; id. Merc. 4, 3, 21; 5, 4, 48; id. Poen. 1, 1, 23; 4, 2, 5; 5, 2, 31; id. Pers. 1, 1, 4; id. Rud. 2, 7, 12; id. Truc. 2, 2, 22; 2, 4, 68; 4, 2, 29; 30; 33: mavelis for malis, id. Capt. 2, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 2, 8:

    mavelit for malit,

    id. Trin. 2, 2, 25:

    mavellem for mallem,

    id. Am. 1, 3, 14; id. Curc. 4, 2, 26; id. Bacch. 2, 2, 21; 3, 3, 48; 4, 9, 125; id. Mil. 2, 2, 16; id. Ps. 1, 1, 128; 4, 5, 6; id. Poen. 3, 3, 37:

    mavolet for malet,

    id. As. 1, 1, 108), v. a. [magis - volo], to choose rather, to prefer.
    I.
    In gen., constr. with acc. of the person or thing, with an object-clause, or with subj. (class.).
    (α).
    With acc. of the person or thing (rare): bonos et senatum malet, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 2:

    ambigua, ancipitia malebat,

    Tac. H. 2, 86:

    quin omnia malit,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 61:

    quod mallem,

    which I would prefer, Ov. Tr. 2, 239; id. H. 21, 35:

    malo, Malo Venusinam quam te,

    Juv. 6, 167:

    ridenda poëmata malo, quam te,

    id. 10, 124; 14, 153.—In late Lat. also with acc. and dat.:

    ut me aliis omnibus mallet,

    App. Mag. 73, p. 321, 10.—
    (β).
    With object-clause (usu. class. constr.): seseque ii perire mavolunt ibidem, quam, etc., Naev. ap. Fest. p. 317 Müll.; Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll.; Cic. Off. 1, 19, 65:

    Cato jam servire quam pugnare mavult,

    id. Att. 7, 15, 2:

    maluit illum esse deum,

    Hor. S. 1, 8, 3; Cic. Att. 13, 22, 3; id. Div. 2, 57, 118:

    judicium prius de probro quam de re maluit fieri,

    id. Quint. 2, 9:

    praetextam sumere mavis, an esse, etc.,

    Juv. 10, 99.—
    (γ).
    With nom. and inf.:

    esse quam videri bonus malebat,

    Sall. C. 54, 5:

    unde fit ut malim fraterculus esse gigantis,

    Juv. 4, 98.—
    (δ).
    With subj. (mostly poet.):

    mallem... cognoscerem,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 14:

    mallem divitias mihi dedisses, Quam, etc.,

    Cat. 24, 4:

    fabula sit mavult, quam sine amore deus,

    Tib. 2, 3, 32:

    malo pater tibi sit Thersites,

    Juv. 8, 269.—Sometimes with comp. abl. instead of quam ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    nullos his mallem ludos spectasse,

    rather than these, Hor. S. 2, 8, 79:

    ne dubitaret armis incruentas conditiones malle,

    to choose rather than arms, prefer to arms, Tac. A. 12, 46.—Sometimes followed pleonastically by potius:

    se ab omnibus desertos potius quam abs to defensos esse malunt,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21:

    an ille Uticae potius, quam Romae, cum alienis esse quam cum suis maluisset?

    id. Lig. 2, 5; id. Cat. ap. Fam. 15, 5, 2; Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 13, A, 3.—Also by quam:

    qui magis vere vincere, quam diu imperare malit,

    Liv. 22, 34 fin. —Strengthened by multo or haud paulo:

    meo judicio multo stare malo, quam aliorum,

    much rather, Cic. Att. 12, 21, 5:

    haud paulo hunc animum malim quam, etc.,

    id. Tusc. 1, 42, 99.—
    II.
    In partic., to be more favorable to one:

    in hac re malo universae Asiae et negotiatoribus,

    Cic. Att. 2, 16, 4:

    quamquam illi omnia malo, quam mihi,

    i. e. would rather he had them, id. Planc. 24, 59.—Hence, mālens, entis, P. a., preferring (late Lat.), Hier. in Matt. 2, ad 14, 4; Aug. c. Jul. 4, 14, 68.

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  • 2 potis

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 3 potissimum

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 4 potissimus

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 5 potissume

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 6 potissumum

    pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr. pŏte), adj. ( comp. pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup. pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. posis, husband; des-potês, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri].
    I.
    Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces theoi dunatoi, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4:

    nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21.—Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can:

    at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12:

    at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,

    Verg. A. 11, 148:

    quod nunquam potis est sejungi,

    Lucr. 1, 452:

    nec potis est cerni,

    id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24:

    qui potis est?

    how is it possible? id. 72, 7.—With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.):

    duae plus satis dare potis sunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17:

    quid pastores potis sint,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2.—Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13.—Form pote:

    si non aliud pote est,

    Cat. 43, 16. Without est:

    nec devitari letum pote,

    Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876:

    nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,

    id. R. R. 2, 2:

    nec eniti remis pote,

    Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46:

    qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,

    Pers. 1, 56:

    in te dici pote, Id, quod,

    Cat. 98, 1:

    nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,

    id. 67, 11:

    hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,

    be it impossible or possible, id. 76, 16:

    quid pote simplicius?

    what can be more simple? Mart. 9, 16, 2:

    nihil pote supra,

    nothing could exceed it, Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 11; Auct. ap. Cic. Brut. 46, 172; Cic. Att. 13, 38, 1:

    quantum pote,

    as soon as possible, id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.):

    aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,

    App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.—
    II.
    Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.).
    A.
    Of persons:

    numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95:

    quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?

    id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2:

    itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,

    id. Lael. 5, 19:

    Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,

    Liv. 26, 31, 4:

    at tu, qui potior nunc es,

    happier in love, preferred, Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69):

    ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,

    Dig. 18, 1, 34.—
    B.
    Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important:

    nulla potior serenda,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 15:

    sucus,

    Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158:

    novistine locum potiorem rure beato?

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14:

    sententia,

    id. Epod. 16, 17:

    mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19:

    illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,

    Sall. J. 67, 3:

    nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,

    I had nothing more important, nothing more urgent to do, Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9:

    illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,

    id. de Or. 3, 22, 82:

    semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 8.— Subst.:

    ut probetis potiora,

    Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.—
    III.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important.
    A.
    Of persons ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9:

    tantis potissimus umbris,

    Stat. Th. 4, 627:

    potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,

    Tac. A. 14, 65.—
    B.
    Of things (class.):

    utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17:

    cura,

    Stat. S. 4, 4, 20:

    nobilitas,

    Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25:

    opusculum,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10:

    causa,

    Tac. A. 4, 16.—Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.
    A.
    Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62:

    sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?

    Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2:

    nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68.— With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11:

    Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 45.—When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.:

    perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,

    rather than, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

    in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317:

    privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,

    id. Ac. 2, 1, 3:

    scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,

    id. Att. 5, 6, 2:

    nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,

    Liv. 8, 7, 17:

    per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,

    id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16.— So with quam ut:

    se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,

    Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7.—But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used:

    dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,

    Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. —In an inverted order:

    quam potius,

    Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12.—Sometimes potius is to be supplied:

    tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26:

    tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,

    Nep. Dat. 8, 1.—Pleon., with words which already express comparison.— Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19:

    Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,

    Cic. Lig. 2, 5:

    favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,

    Dig. 50, 17, 167.—
    2.
    Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.:

    efficiet enim ratio ut... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

    quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

    id. Sen. 11, 35:

    erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113:

    Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,

    id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.—
    B.
    Sup.: pŏtissĭmē ( pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum ( pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.).—Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6.—Form potissimum:

    responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23:

    exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,

    Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4:

    nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,

    id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11:

    tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 43:

    quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?

    Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.

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  • 7 quam

    quam (archaic form quamde or quande:

    quamde pro quam usos esse antiquos, cum multi veteres testimonio sunt, tum Ennius... et Lucretius (1, 640),

    Fest. p. 261 Müll.; cf. Enn. Ann. v. 29, and v. 139 Vahl. So, too, Naev. ap. Fest. s. v. topper, p. 352 Müll.), adv. [qui], in what manner, how, how much, as much as:

    quam nihil praetermittis in consilio dando! quam nihil tamen, quod tibi placeat, explicas!

    Cic. Att. 9, 2, A, 1:

    ut se accusari nolunt! quam cupiunt laudari!

    id. Fin. 5, 22, 61:

    quam multa, quam paucis!

    id. Fam. 11, 24, 1:

    quam sint morosi, intellegi potest,

    id. ib. 7, 15, 1:

    quam vellet, cunctaretur,

    id. Div. 1, 26, 56:

    memoriā tenetis, quam valde universi admurmurarint,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41:

    quam quisque potest,

    as much as each one can, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 75:

    quam potuit,

    as far as he was able, Val. Max. 4, 1, 5.—With possum and a sup.:

    concede huc ab isto, quam potest longissime,

    as far as possible, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 81:

    quam possunt mollissime,

    as gently as possible, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129.—Also without possum:

    quam maximas, quam primum, quam saepissime gratias agere,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 6, 5:

    ut quam angustissime Pompeium contineret,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 45.— With posit. (post-Aug.):

    tum Manlius... quam poterat clarā voce denuntiavit,

    Val. Max. 6, 4, 1; 3, 2, 1 ext.; 4, 5, 1:

    dixi de philosophiā quam breviter potui,

    Lact. 3, 17, 1:

    tusa cribrataque vino, quam possit excellenti,

    as excellent as possible, Plin. 20, 24, 100, § 264; 18, 28, 68, § 274.—
    B.
    In dependent clauses, indirect questions, etc.:

    est fidei nostrae, declarare, quam memores simus,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 11, 29:

    scio, quam timida sit ambitio,

    id. Mil. 16, 42:

    quam id ratum sit, tu judicabis,

    id. Att. 6, 1, 7:

    id quam injustum esset, non videbat,

    id. Off. 3, 21, 82:

    dici non potest quam sim disputatione tuā delectatus,

    id. Tusc. 2, 4, 10; id. N. D. 2, 20, 52; id. Ac. 2, 17, 52; id. Fin. 1, 11, 37; 1, 20, 65; 5, 12, 35; id. Verr. 2, 1, 18, § 47; 2, 1, 21, § 52; 2, 4, 44, § 98:

    videte quam iniqui sint,

    Sall. J. 85, 25; 62, 9:

    ut sentias quam vile sit corpus,

    Liv. 2, 12, 3; 24, 5, 2; Nep. Timoth. 4, 2.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    In comparisons, as, than.
    1.
    With tam:

    tam ego ante fui liber, quam gnatus tuos,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 60; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 11:

    si era me sciat tam socordem esse quam sum,

    id. Cist. 4, 2, 5:

    tua est imago: tam consimilis est, quam potest,

    id. Men. 5, 9, 4:

    tam esse clemens tyrannus quam rex importunus potest,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 33, 50; id. Div. 1, 6, 10 et saep.; v. tam.—
    2.
    With ellipsis of corresp. tam:

    homo non, quam isti sunt, gloriosus,

    not so celebrated as those, Liv. 35, 49:

    claris majoribus, quam vetustis,

    rather than, Tac. A. 4, 61.—
    3.
    With sup. and a corresp. tam, by how much the more, the more: quam acerbissima olea oleum facies, tam oleum optimum erit, the bitterer the olives, the better will be the oil, Cato, R. R. 65, 1:

    quam paucissimos reliqueris, tam optimi fiunt,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 9:

    quam quisque pessume fecit, tam maxume tutus est,

    Sall. J. 31, 14.—
    4.
    With magis:

    quam magis... tam magis,

    the more... the more, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 5.—With tam omitted:

    quam magis exhausto spumaverit ubere mulctra, Laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis,

    Verg. G. 3, 309.— With the second magis omitted:

    quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 6.—

    In the reverse order: tam magis... quam magis,

    the more... the more, Verg. A. 7, 787. —
    5.
    With tanto:

    quam magis... tanto magis,

    the more... the more, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 19; so Lucr. 6, 460.—
    6.
    With a double comp.:

    ne libentius haec in illum evomere videar, quam verius,

    with more freedom than truth, Cic. Mil. 29, 78:

    non acrior quam pertinacior impetus Romanorum,

    Liv. 31, 35:

    discrimen me occupavit, meliore hostium quam meo tempore,

    Curt. 7, 7, 9.—
    7.
    Tam... quam, with the comp. for the posit., so... as:

    per dexteram te istam oro non tam in bellis et proeliis, quam in promissis et fide firmiorem,

    Cic. Deiot. 3, 8.—
    8.
    After comparatives or words of comparison, than:

    nobis nihil est tlmendum magis quam ille consul,

    Cic. Att. 7, 9, 3:

    his igitur, quam physicis potius credendum existimas?

    id. Div. 2, 16, 37; Cassius ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 1; Cic. Pis. 26, 62:

    majorem pecuniam praetori polliceri, quam quantam hic dedisset,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 29, § 70; id. de Or. 1, 36, 167:

    qui plures milites eorum occidisset, quam quot superessent,

    Liv. 35, 12.—So after verbs which imply comparison, verbs of preference, excellence, etc.; after praestat, Caes. B. G. 7, 17, 4; after malo:

    esse quam videri bonus malebat,

    Sall. C. 54, 5:

    an est quod ego malim quam?

    Cic. Par. 1; after statuo, Nep. Dat. 8, 1; after probo, Tac. A. 1, 58; after volo ( = boulomai ê), Liv. 3, 68, 11; 25, 29, 6.— Rarely quantus is used to strengthen quam, after comp.:

    de re majore quam quanta ea esset,

    Liv. 30, 23, 2:

    implere homines certioris spei, quam quantam fides promissi humani subicere solet,

    id. 26, 19, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.;

    22, 2, 19.— But quam is often omitted after plus, minus, amplius, etc., without changing the case: minus duo milia hominum effugerunt,

    Liv. 24, 16, 4:

    plus partem dimidiam hominum caesam,

    id. 36, 40, 5; cf. id. 29, 25, 2:

    cum decem haud plus milibus militum,

    id. 28, 1, 5:

    ut hoc nostrum desiderium ne plus sit annuum,

    Cic. Att. 5, 1, 1:

    ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,

    id. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:

    plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 45; Prop. 2, 19, 18 (3, 17, 32); v. Zumpt, Gram. § 485.—
    9.
    With sic ( poet.):

    quam multā grandine nimbi Culminibus crepitant, sic densis ictibus heros pulsat, etc.,

    Verg. A. 5, 458.— With sic omitted, Verg. A. 6, 309 sqq.—
    10.
    After aeque, so much... as:

    nihil aeque eos terruit, quam robur ac color imperatoris,

    Liv. 28, 26.—
    11.
    After contra, otherwise... than, not so... as:

    contra faciunt, quam professi sunt,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11.— So after secus:

    ne me secus honore honestes quam ego te,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 50. —
    12.
    After alius, with a preceding negative, not otherwise than, no other than:

    nil aliud agens quam ut, etc.,

    nothing else than, Liv. 44, 27, 12:

    neque aliud totā urbe agi quam bellum apparari,

    id. 4, 26, 12; Nep. Hann. 10, 1:

    ob nullam aliam causam, quam ne,

    from no other cause than, Liv. 45, 25; 34, 2, 12. — Rarely with alius affirmatively (for ac):

    ipse me paulum in aliā quam prius habuerim opinione nunc esse confiteor,

    Quint. 3, 6, 63. —
    13.
    After aliter, otherwise than:

    ne aliter, quam ego velim, meum laudet ingenium,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, § 24:

    ne aliter quam si, etc.,

    Col. 4, 2, 2.—
    14.
    After supra:

    saepe supra feret, quam fieri possit,

    more than, Cic. Or. 40, 139.—
    15.
    After ultra:

    ultra, quam satis est, producitur,

    farther than, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 26.—
    16.
    After diversum, otherwise than:

    pransus quoque atque potus diversum valent quam indicant,

    something altogether different from what, Quint. 1, 4, 29; cf., after advorsum, only Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 139 Brix ad loc.—
    17.
    After words denoting number or quantity, which serve for comparison: dimidium tributi quam quod regibus ferre soliti erant, populo Romano pendere, the half of what, half as much as, Liv. 45, 18:

    multiplex, quam pro numero, damnum est,

    too great for, greater than, id. 7, 8:

    ferramenta duplicia, quam numerus servorum exigit,

    twice as many as, Col. 1, 8, 8.—So, too, after designations of time:

    die vigesimā, quam creatus erat, dictaturā se abdicavit,

    on the twentieth day after, Liv. 6, 29: tabellarii venerunt post diem sextum, quam a vobis discesserant, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 1:

    postridie venissemus, quam... fuissemus,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 3, 9:

    postero die quam illa erant acta,

    id. de Or. 2, 3, 12:

    saeculis multis ante... inventa sunt, quam, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 21. —
    18.
    After the sup.:

    bellum gerere cum tyranno, quam qui unquam, saevissimo et violentissimo in suos,

    the most cruel that ever was, Liv. 34, 32.—
    19.
    So with rel. and sup. after tam:

    tam gratum mihi id erit, quam quod gratissimum,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 3:

    tam sum amicus rei publicae quam qui maxime,

    id. ib. 5, 2, 6:

    ego sum tam mitis, quam qui lenissimus,

    id. Sull. 31, 87.—
    20.
    Sometimes with magis or potius to be supplied, more... than:

    tacita mulier semper, quam loquens,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70 dub.:

    pacem quam bellum probabam,

    Tac. A. 1, 58. —
    B.
    In mere intensive expressions, exceedingly, very, quite, indeed:

    admodum quam saevos est,

    very cruel indeed, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 43:

    nimis quam formido, ne, etc.,

    id. Most. 2, 2, 79:

    nimis quam cupio,

    id. Capt. 1, 2, 17:

    quam familiariter,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 109: nam suos valde quam paucos habet, very few indeed, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 3:

    mire quam,

    Cic. Att. 1, 11, 3:

    sane quam refrixit,

    id. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 5.

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  • 8 mālō

        mālō māluī, mālle (old māvolō for mālō, T.)    [magis+volo], to choose rather, prefer: sicut ego malo: Quid est quod mihi malim quam, etc., T.: omnia malle quam victi abire, S.: pacem quam bellum, S.: quin omnia malit, H.: acceptā iniuriā ignoscere quam persequi malebant, S.: rem obtinere, Cs.: quae cum audire mallem quam videre: nisi mavis Carpere pensum, H.: Mori me, T.: homines peccare quam deos: esse quam videri bonus malebat, S.: fraterculus esse gigantis, Iu.: Sis licet felix ubicumque mavis (sc. felix esse), H.: hos mallem secum milites eduxisset: Byblida mavult vocem sororem, ctc., O.: Nullos his mallem ludos spectasse, rather than these, H.: se ab omnibus desertos potius quam abs te defensos esse malunt: mature vincere quam diu imperare, L.: de flumine Quam ex fonticulo sumere, H.: meo iudicio multo stare malo quam omnium reliquorum, much rather.—To incline, prefer, be more favorable: in hac re malo universae Asiae: quamquam illi omnia malo quam mihi, i. e. would rather he had them.
    * * *
    malle, malui, - V
    prefer; incline toward, wish rather

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  • 9 quam

        quam adv.    [qui].—Relat., in what manner, to what degree, how greatly, how, how much: nescis quam doleam, T.: vide, quam te amarit is: declaravit quam odisset senatum: docebat, quam veteres quamque iustae causae intercederent, Cs.: ut sentias quam vile sit corpus, L.: Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis, H.: ut nobis tempus quam diu diceremus praestitueres: mire quam illius loci cogitatio delectat (i. e. mirum est, quam, etc.), wonderfully.—Interrog., how?: quam avidum in pecuniis (hunc fuisse censetis)?: quam multis custodibus opus erit?: quam longe est hinc in saltum vestrum?—In exclamations, how! how very!: quam cupiunt laudari!: quam terribilis aspectu (incedebat)!: quam nihil praetermittis in consilio dando!: Quam paene regna Proserpinae vidimus! H. —Esp., in comparisons, in what degree, as: nihil est tam populare quam bonitas: quid est oratori tam necessarium quam vox?: tam diu requiesco, quam diu ad te scribo: tam esse clemens tyrannus, quam rex importunus potest: quam quisque pessume fecit, tam maxume tutus est, S.: tam sum amicus rei p. quam qui maxime: Non verbis dici potest Tantum quam navigare incommodumst, T.: maria aspera iuro Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam ne, etc., V.: intentis, non ab irā tantum, quam quod urbs videbatur, etc., L.: dimidium tributi quam quod regibus ferre soliti erant, half as much tribute as, etc., L.: nihil aeque eos terruit, quam robur imperatoris, L.: quam multā grandine nimbi crepitant, sic ictibus heros Creber pulsat, V.—With ellips. of tam, as much as, to the extent that, as... as: quam voletis multi dicent, as many of you as choose: quam diu vixit, all his life: quam diu tu voles, as long as you will: non militum fiduciā quam iuventutis, not so much, L.: tyrannus, quam qui umquam, saevissimus, never surpassed in cruelty, L.: Huc turba ruebat... Quam multa cadunt folia, as numerous as, V. —With sup. and possum or (old) queo: ut te redimas captum quam queas Minumo, at the lowest price you can, T.: quam plurimos potest equites educit, S.: quam maximis potest itineribus pervenit, Cs.: quam maxime possem, contenderem, to the utmost of my power.—With sup. and ellips. of possum, in the highest degree, as... as possible, extremely, very: quam minimum spati daretur, the shortest time possible, Cs.: quam plurimo vendere, at the highest price: ut quam primum accederet, as soon as possible: quam primum, forthwith, V. —Colloq.: quam familiariter, very, T.—Implying difference of degree (after a comp. or word of comparison), than: acrior quam ego sum: omnia sunt citius facta quam dixi: nec diutius vixit quam locuta est: ut aditus non magis nobilitati quam virtuti pateret: istas tu partīs potius quam defectionem vocas?: Nec tibi grata minus pietas... Quam fuit illa Iovi, O.: se temere magis quam satis caute inferre, L.: non locuta est ferocius quam poculum inpavide hausit, L.: speciem gloriae vehementius quam caute appetebat, Ta.: maiorem pecuniam polliceri, quam quantam hic dedisset: ne libentius haec evomere videar quam verius, with more satisfaction than accuracy: pestilentia minacior quam perniciosior, more threatening than destructive, L.: turbavit ordinem non acrior quam pertinacior impetus, L.: quid hoc fieri turpius potest, quam eum... labi: ne aliter, quam ego velim, meum laudet ingenium, otherwise than as I wished: quis antea, quis esset, quam cuius gener esset, audivit? sooner... than: pridie quam a me tu coactus eo profitere, on the day before. virtus nihil aliud est quam in se perfecta natura: nil aliud agens quam ut, etc., with no other purpose than, etc., L.: saepe supra feret, quam fieri possit, more than: ultra quam satis est, producitur.—Praegn., after verbs implying preference or superiority, rather than: praestare omnīs perferre acerbitates, quam non civibus parentarent, Cs.: si eligere commodissimum quodque, quam sese uni vellent addicere: esse quam videri bonus malebat, S.: malae rei se quam nullius duces esse volunt, L.: statuit congredi quam refugere, N.—After expressions of time, later than, after that, after: die vicensimo quam creatus erat dictaturā se abdicavit, L.: anno trecentesimo altero quam condita Roma erat, L.
    * * *
    I
    how, how much; as, than

    quam + superlative -- as... as possible

    II
    how, than

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  • 10 que

    quĕ (lengthened in arsis by the poets, like the Gr. te:

    Faunique Satyrique,

    Ov. M. 1, 193; 4, 10; 5, 484; Verg. A. 3, 91 al.), conj. enclitic [kindr. with Gr. te, ke, and Sanscr. ca, the same], a copulative particle affixed to the word it annexes. According to Dräger (Hist. Synt. Th. 3, p. 32), it is, in archaic and official language, preferred to et, from which it is distinguished by denoting a closer connection. It is used,
    I.
    Singly, to effect,
    A.
    Co-ordination of words,
    1.
    Of cognate meaning:

    fames sitisque,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37:

    augeri amplificarique,

    id. ib. 1, 11, 38:

    admirabilis incredibilisque,

    id. ib. 3, 22, 74:

    fuga pavorque,

    Liv. 29, 25:

    cibus victusque,

    id. 2, 35:

    concilium coetusque,

    Cic. Sen. 23, 84:

    res rationesque,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 4:

    blandimenta voluptatis otiique,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

    extremum summumque supplicium,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 169:

    imperio auspicioque,

    Curt. 5, 1, 1:

    carus acceptusque,

    Sall. J. 12, 3:

    jus fasque,

    Liv. 8, 5. —

    Esp. in phrases like longe longeque,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 21, 68; Hor. S. 1, 6, 18:

    longe multumque,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 40:

    saepe diuque,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 1. — With comp.:

    plus plusque,

    Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 10:

    magis magisque,

    id. Ps. 4, 7, 116:

    minus minusque,

    id. Aul. prol. 18; with personal and possessive pronouns:

    me meosque,

    Plaut. Bacch. 8, 4, 6:

    ipse meique,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 65;

    and in archaic formulae: potes pollesque,

    Liv. 1, 24:

    vivunt vigentque,

    id. 25, 38. —
    2.
    Of contrasted meaning:

    jus nefasque,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 87: longe lateque, Naev. ap. Non. p. 503:

    cominus eminusque,

    Liv. 31, 24:

    ultro citroque,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66, § 170:

    terrā marique,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 25:

    ferro ignique,

    Cic. Phil. 11, 14, 37:

    pace belloque,

    Liv. 2, 1:

    belli domique,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 230:

    domi ferisque,

    Sall. J. 85, 3:

    tempus locusque,

    Liv. 1, 9:

    parvis magnisque,

    Plaut. Ps. 771:

    floribus coronisque,

    flowers loose and bound up, Curt. 4, 4, 5. —
    B.
    Adding a detail or explanation (not in Cic.).
    1.
    General:

    fratres consanguineosque,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 33:

    largitiones temeritatisque invitamenta,

    Liv. 2, 42:

    ad tempus non venit, metusque rem impediebat,

    Sall. J. 70, 5:

    a fallaci equitum specie agasonibusque,

    Liv. 7, 15, 7: Graeco peregrinoque sermone, Just. praef. 1. —
    2.
    Special to general:

    arma tantum ferrumque in dextris,

    Liv. 5, 42, 8. —
    3.
    General to special:

    nostra consilia quaeque in castris gerantur,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 17:

    obsides daturos quaeque imperasset facturos,

    id. ib. 4, 27:

    regno fortunisque omnibus expulit,

    Sall. J. 14, 2:

    Baliares levemque armaturam,

    Liv. 21, 55.—
    C.
    Introducing an explanatory clause, and so (Liv.):

    fretusque his animis Aeneas,

    Liv. 1, 2:

    Sabinusque,

    id. 1, 45. —
    D.
    In an answer (very rare):

    Ain heri nos adventisse huc? Aio, adveniensque ilico me salutasti,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 167.—
    E.
    Equivalent to quoque only in hodieque (not before Velleius):

    quae hodieque appellatur Ionia,

    Vell. 1, 4, 3:

    quae hodieque celebres sunt,

    id. 2, 8, 3:

    in Abydi gymnasio colitur hodieque,

    Plin. 2, 58, 59, § 150:

    et hodieque reliquiae durant,

    id. 8, 45, 70, § 176:

    sunt clari hodieque,

    Quint. 10, 1, 94. —
    F.
    Connecting final member of a clause:

    fauste, feliciter, prospereque,

    Cic. Mur. 1, 1 fin.:

    ab honore, famā fortunisque,

    id. ib. 1, 1 fin.:

    pacem, tranquillitatem, otium concordiamque afferat,

    id. ib. 1, 1. —
    G.
    In transition to a new subject or thought:

    quoniamque ea natura esset hominis,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 20, 67:

    discriptioque sacerdotum nullum justae religionis genus praetermittit,

    id. Leg. 2, 12, 30; v. Madv. ad. Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 73.—
    II.
    Repeated, que... que.
    A.
    Both... and (not in Cæs., once in Cic.; v. Zumpt, Gram. § 338), co-ordinating,
    1.
    Similar notions:

    quasque incepistis res, quasque inceptabitis,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 7:

    risusque jocosque,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 98.—
    2.
    Contrasted notions:

    meque teque,

    Asin. 3, 2, 31: mores veteresque novosque tenentem, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4, 4:

    mittuntque feruntque,

    Ov. M. 12, 495:

    noctesque diesque,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 51.—
    3.
    Esp. when one or both of the words are pronouns:

    seque remque publicam curabant,

    Sall. C. 9, 3:

    quique in urbe erant, quosque acciverant,

    Liv. 1, 55:

    quique exissent, quique ibi mansissent,

    id. 25, 22.—
    B.
    Que... que, and... and, the first que referring to a previous clause: singulasque res definimus, circumscripteque [p. 1509] complectimur, Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 147.—
    III.
    More than twice.
    1.
    Que... que... que:

    quod mihique eraeque filiaeque erili est,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 3:

    regnaque tristia, Divosque mortalesque turbas regit,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 46.—
    2.
    Four times, Sil. 2, 444;

    five times,

    Verg. G. 3, 344;

    seven times,

    Ov. M. 9, 691.—
    IV.
    Followed by other conjunctions.
    1.
    Que... et (not in Cic., Cæs., Suet., or Nep.):

    peregrique et domi,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 5:

    deus, qui quae nos gerimus auditque et videt,

    id. Capt. 2, 2, 63:

    seque et oppidum tradat,

    Sall. J. 26, 1:

    illosque et Sullam,

    id. ib. 104, 1:

    signaque et ordines,

    Liv. 2, 59; 1, 43, 2 Weissenb. ad loc.:

    legatique et tribuni,

    id. 29, 22:

    in formulam jurisque et dicionis,

    id. 26, 24:

    omnes gentesque et terrae,

    id. 21, 30, 2 (v. Fabri ad loc.):

    Arpinique et Romani,

    id. 24, 47:

    seque et arma,

    Curt. 8, 4, 15:

    seque et delatores,

    Tac. Agr. 42.—
    2.
    Que... et... et:

    Romanique et Macedones et socii,

    Liv. 44, 29:

    seque et arma et equos,

    Tac. Agr. 18:

    seque et domum et pacem,

    id. A. 1, 4; 12, 37. —
    3.
    Que... ac (rare, not earlier than Verg.):

    satisque ac super,

    Ov. M. 4, 429:

    minusque ac minus,

    Liv. 26, 17:

    oculisque ac mente turbatus,

    id. 7, 26:

    posuitque domos atque horrea fecit,

    Verg. G. 1, 182:

    seque ac liberos suos,

    Tac. H. 3, 63:

    opibusque atque honoribus,

    id. ib. 4, 34. —
    4.
    Que... ac... et:

    in quos seque ac conjuges et liberos condunt,

    Curt. 5, 6, 17. —
    5.
    Que... et... ac, Liv. 35, 41. —
    V.
    Following a conjunction, et... que: paratissimi et ab exercitu reliquisque rebus, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, a, 5:

    id et singulis universisque honori fuisse,

    Liv. 4, 2 (Weissenb. et id);

    occasionally in Cic. (through negligence, acc. to Madvig): igitur et Epaminondas... Themistoclesque,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 4:

    officia et servata praetermissaque,

    id. Ac. 1, 10, 37.—
    VI.
    Que nearly equivalent to autem, sed..., but (not in Cæs.):

    studio ad rempublicam latus sum ibique multa mihi advorsa fuere,

    but there, Sall. C. 3, 3.—Mostly after a negative:

    Socrates nec patronum quaesivit nec judicibus supplex fuit, adhibuitque liberam contumaciam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71; id. Cat. 2, 13, 28 fin.:

    qui non temere movendam rem tantam expectandosque ex Hispaniā legatos censerent,

    Liv. 21, 6, 7:

    quae neque dant flammas lenique vapore cremantur,

    Ov. M. 2, 811.—
    VII.
    Que is usually appended to the first word of the phrase, but to a noun rather than to a monosyllabic preposition governing it, unless the preposition is repeated:

    de provinciāque,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:

    per vimque,

    id. Phil. 5, 4, 10; cf.:

    ab iisque,

    id. Tusc. 5, 33, 94:

    sub occasumque solis,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 11.—

    Exceptions are to be found, especially in Liv.: proque ignoto,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 10:

    exque eo tempore,

    Cic. Off. 2, 23, 80; 1, 34, 122:

    inque eam rem,

    id. Rosc. Am. 39, 114:

    inque eo exercitu,

    id. Sest. 18, 41:

    inque eam rem,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 36; Liv. 10, 37, 15; 40, 57, 5; Tac. A. 15, 45:

    cumque eis,

    Sall. C. 6, 1:

    proque,

    Liv. 4, 26, 9; 6, 26, 5; 30, 18, 2:

    deque praedā,

    id. 23, 11, 3:

    perque,

    id. 1, 49, 5; 3, 6, 7; 5, 36, 7:

    transque,

    id. 22, 41, 7:

    aque,

    Ov. Am. 2, 14, 30:

    eque,

    Verg. E. 7, 13; Val. Max. 1, 5, 3:

    exque eo,

    Cels. 7, 27:

    perque somnum,

    id. 2, 5.—And where the same preposition is repeated que is regularly joined to it:

    haec de se, deque provinciā,

    Liv. 26, 28, 3; 22, 59, 16; 29, 23, 10; 31, 5, 4;

    38, 35, 7: de matrimonio Agrippinae, deque Neronis adoptione,

    Suet. Claud. 43 init.:

    per senectutem tuam, perque eam, quam, etc.,

    Plaut. As. 1, 1, 3. —

    Where the preposition is dissyllabic it regularly takes the que: interque eos,

    Liv. 2, 20, 8; 5, 49, 7:

    sine scutis sineque ferro,

    Cic. Caecin. 23, 64. —

    It is rarely annexed to the second word of the clause, when the first word is an adverb: tantos tam praecipitisque casus,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 4, 13:

    tanto tam immensoque campo,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 124 al.—In class. Latin que is not appended to hic, sic, nunc, huc, etc. (v. Madv. ad. Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 40):

    hucque et illuc,

    Tac. A. 13, 37; 15, 38: tuncque id. ib. 6, 7 (1);

    14, 15.—Que is often misplaced by the poets, especially by Tibullus and Propertius in the latter part of the pentameter: Messallam terrā dum sequiturque mari,

    Tib. 1, 3, 56:

    ferratam Danaes transiliamque domum,

    Prop. 2, 16, 11.

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  • 11 sententia

        sententia ae, f    [SENT-], a way of thinking, opinion, judgment, sentiment, thought, notion, purpose, determination, decision, will, desire: de hac re eius sententia, T.: sententiae atque opinionis meae volui esse participes: adhuc in hac sum sententiā, ut, etc.: variis dictis sententiis, quarum pars censebant, etc., Cs.: locos ac sententias huius disputationis tradere, extracts and leading thoughts: si honestatem tueri ac retinere sententia est, if one's purpose be: stat sententia tradere, etc., she is resolved, O.: sic stat sententia, O.: de cognatorum sententiā manu missi, according to the wish: de omnium sententiā pronuntiatum, unanimously: quod quem umquam de suā sententiā facere ausum? on his own responsibility, L.—Prov.: Quot homines, tot sententiae, many men, many minds, T.—Abl. with pron poss. or genit.: errat longe meā quidem sententiā, in my judgment, T.— With ex: Istuc tibi ex sententiā tuā obtigisse laetor, to your satisfaction, T.: ex meā sententiā rem p. gessimus, as I wished: evenisse ex sententiā? satisfactorily, T.: ex sententiā navigasse, prosperously.—Esp., in taking an oath: (maiores) iurare ex sui animi sententiā quemque voluerunt, to the best of his knowledge and belief, i. e. conscientiously: ex mei animi sententiā, inquit, ut non deseram, etc., without mental reservation, L.: Ex tui animi sententiā tu uxorem habes? Non hercule, inquit, ex mei animi sententiā, in all sincerity...? no, not to suit me.—An official determination, decision, sentence, judgment, vote: quos priores sententiam rogabat: factum est senatūs consultum in meam sententiam: decerni cunctis sententiis, unanimously: victos paucis sententiis, by a small majority, L.: meae partes exquirendae magis sententiae quam dandae sunt, i. e. my office is to put the question rather than to vote, L.: in eam sententiam ire, to support the resolution, L.: omnibus sententiis absolvi (in a conference of judges): sententiam dicere, pronounce judgment. —Sense, meaning, intent, signification, idea, notion: oratione quam sententiā lenior, in language than in meaning: quod dicitur habet hanc, ut opinor, sententiam: cuius praecepti tanta vis, tanta sententia est, ut, etc., such depth of meaning.—A thought expressed, sentence, period: dum de singulis sententiis breviter disputo: Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, etc., H.— An aphorism, apophthegm, maxim, axiom, saying: selectae brevesque sententiae: sapientibus sententiis ornata oratio.
    * * *
    opinion, feeling, way of thinking; thought, meaning, sentence/period; purpose

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  • 12 acies

    ăcĭēs, ēi, f. [v. 2. acer] ( gen. acii and [p. 23] acie, like dii and die, facii and facie, fr. dies, facies, Cn. Mat. ap. Gell. 9, 14; Caes. B. G. 2, 23; Sall. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 208, or Sall. Fragm. ed. Kritz. p. 118; cf. Prisc. p. 780 P.), a sharp edge or point.
    I.
    Lit., of a sword, dagger, sickle, etc.:

    gladiorum,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 11: Vulg. Heb. 11, 34:

    securium,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 113:

    falcis,

    Verg. G. 2, 365:

    hastae,

    Ov. M. 3, 107:

    ferri,

    Plin. 7, 15, 13.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of the sense or faculty of sight,
    a.
    Keenness of look or glance, sharpness of vision or sight: oculorum, Lucil. ap. Non. 34, 32; cf. Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 4; Lucr. 1, 324;

    also acies alone,

    id. 2, 420; and in plur., id. 4, 693:

    ne vultum quidem atque aciem oculorum ferre potuisse,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

    pupula ad te dirigit aciem,

    Cat. 63, 56:

    tanta tenuitas, ut fugiat aciem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 22:

    bonum incolumis acies, misera caecitas,

    id. Fin. 5, 28, 84; so ib. 4, 24; Verg. A. 12, 558 al.—Hence,
    b.
    Concr., the pupil of the eye, Lucr. 3, 411; cf.

    with 414: acies ipsa, quā cernimus, quae pupula vocatur,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 57:

    in Albania gigni quosdam glaucā oculorum acie,

    Plin. 7, 2, 2 (cf. ib.: glaucis oculis); and poet. (as pars pro toto) for the eye, Lucr. 3, 363; 4, 249; 281; 358;

    720: huc geminas nunc flecte acies,

    Verg. A. 6, 789; 12, 658 (hence the word is also used in the plur., cf. below, 2.).—
    c.
    A looking at an object with fixed attention, look, aim:

    ad eam rem habeo omnem aciem,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 38.—On the contr., prima acie, at the first glance, Lucr. 2, 448 (cf. primo aspectu, Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 98).—
    2.
    In milit. lang., the front of an army (conceived of as the edge of a sword), line of battle, battle-array.
    a.
    In abstr. (cf. Vitr. praef. 1. 7, p. 154 Rod.):

    quibus ego si aciem exercitus nostri ostendero,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

    aciem instruere,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 22:

    dirigere,

    id. ib. 6, 8:

    extra aciem procurrere,

    id. B. C. 1, 55:

    statuit non proeliis, neque in acie, sed alio more bellum gerendum,

    Sall. J. 54; cf. Liv. 5, 41, 4;

    also of the arrangement of ships for a naval engagement,

    Nep. Hann. 11; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 58.—Hence, metaph.
    b.
    The battlearray; in concr., an army drawn up in order of battle: acies est instructa a nobis decem cohortium, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30:

    hostium acies cernebatur,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 62: altera pars acii vitassent fluminis undas, Matius ap. Gell. 9, 14 (as transl. of Il. 21 init.):

    dubitavit acie pars, Sall. Fragm. l. l.: stabit ante aciem,

    Vulg. Deut. 20, 2; 1 Par. 12, 33:

    prima acies hastati erant,

    the van, the first line, Liv. 8, 8:

    tertiam aciem laborantibus subsidio mittere,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 52: ab novissima acie, from the rear:

    ante signa procedere,

    Liv. 8, 10:

    dextra acies (= dextrum cornu),

    the right wing, Liv. 27, 48, 8:

    agmina magis quam acies pugnabant,

    in marching order, rather than in order of battle, id. 25, 34 (acies is here, and in similar cases, considered as the sing. used collectively; v. Oud. and Herz. Caes. B. G. 7, 62; yet the plur. is more than probable). Rarely of cavalry, Liv. 8, 39; Vell. 2, 112.— Poet.: acies Vulcania, of a long line of fire, Verg. A. 10, 408.—
    c.
    The action of the troops drawn up in battlearray, a battle, engagement, = pugna: in acie celebri objectans vitam, Pac. ap. Non. 234, 25; Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 4: mea facta in acie obliti, Att. ap. Non. 502, 1:

    in acie Pharsalica,

    Cic. Lig. 3; so id. Fam. 6, 3:

    in acie vincere,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 29:

    dimicare,

    ib. 7, 64:

    copias in aciem ducere,

    Liv. 31, 34:

    producere in aciem,

    Nep. Milt. 5:

    excedere acie,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 41; Liv. 31, 17:

    direxerunt aciem contra eos,

    Vulg. Gen. 14, 8; 2 Par. 18, 33.—
    3.
    Acies ferri, steel, Plin. 34, 14, 41.—
    4.
    Poet., sheen, brightness:

    obtunsa stellarum,

    Verg. G. 1, 395.
    II.
    Fig.
    A.
    (Acc. to I. B.) (like acumen.) Acuteness of the mind, sharpness, force, power (so very often in Cicero, but always with the gen. mentis, animi, ingenii):

    (cum animus) exacuerit illam, ut oculorum, sic ingenii aciem ad bona eligenda, etc.,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 60; so,

    ingenii,

    id. Ac. 2, 39, 122:

    mentis,

    id. N. D. 2, 17, 45; id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73:

    animi,

    id. Sen. 23, 83; id. Phil. 12, 2; Vell. 2, 118, 4; cf.:

    rerum diversitas aciem intentionis abrumpit,

    Flor. 1 prol., § 3.—
    B.
    A verbal contest, disputation, discussion, debate:

    orationis aciem contra conferam,

    Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 20: ad philosophos me revocas, qui in aciem non saepe prodeunt, Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 60:

    nos jam in aciem dimicationemque veniamus,

    id. Or. 13 fin.; cf. id. Opt. Gen. Or. 5, 17; Quint. 2, 10, 8; 6, 4, 17; 10, 1, 29.

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  • 13 ocior

    ōcĭor, ōcĭus ( sup. ocissimus), adj. comp. [kindr. with Gr. ôkus, Sanscr. ācu, from the root ac, sharp; cf.: acer, acutus, akôkê], swifter, fleeter ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
    I.
    Lit.:

    et ventis, et fulminis ocior alis,

    Verg. A. 5, 319; 10, 248:

    ocior cervis, Ocior Euro,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 23; 24:

    aurā,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 48;

    2, 20, 13: fugit ocior aurā,

    Ov. M. 1, 502:

    verbere,

    Luc. 1, 230:

    Tigris ocior remeat,

    Plin. 8, 18, 25, § 66:

    ociore ambitu,

    id. 2, 8, 6, § 39:

    ociore spatio,

    id. 2, 19, 17, § 81.—
    II.
    Transf., of time, quicker, sooner, earlier; sup.:

    ficorum ocissima senectus,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 130:

    pira,

    the soonest ripe, id. 15, 15, 16, § 53:

    venenum,

    id. 27, 2, 2, § 4.—Hence, adv.: ōcĭ-ter; comp. ōcĭus; sup. ocissĭme (old collat. form oxime, Paul. ex Fest. p. 195 Müll.); quickly, swiftly, speedily (class. only in the comp. and sup.; cf.: ocius secundae collationis et deinde tertiae ocissime frequentata sunt, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 181 Müll.).
    A.
    Posit. (ante- and post-class.): ociter serva cives, Enn. ap. Non. 277, 21, acc. to Vahl. ad Enn. Trag. v. 1:

    profer ociter,

    App. M. 1, p. 113, 32; p. 125, 8.—
    B.
    Comp., more quickly or speedily, sooner, etc.:

    idque ocius faciet, si, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29:

    ut ocius ad tuum pervenias,

    id. Quint. 13, 43:

    recreantur ocius,

    id. Tusc. 4, 14, 32: omnium Versatur urna, serius ocius Sors exitura, sooner or later, Hor. C. 2, 3, 26:

    angulus iste feret piper et tus ocius uvā,

    sooner than, rather than, id. Ep. 1, 14, 23:

    ocius illud extorquebis,

    i. e. more easily, Juv. 6, 53.—
    2.
    Sometimes the comp. is used in gen. for quickly, speedily:

    sequere hac me ocius, Ter Heaut. 4, 7, 4: gladio occursat,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

    nemon' oleum fert ocius?

    quickly, Hor. S. 2, 7, 34; Juv. 14, 252; Verg. A. 5, 828:

    heus Phaedrome, exi, exi, exi, inquam, ocius,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 26.—
    C.
    Sup., very quickly or speedily: ocissime nos liberi possumus fieri, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 181 Müll.:

    quam ocissume ad provinciam accedat,

    as speedily as possible, Sall. J. 25, 5:

    ferre,

    Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 87:

    sanant ulcera,

    id. 34, 10, 22, § 100.

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  • 14 ociter

    ōcĭor, ōcĭus ( sup. ocissimus), adj. comp. [kindr. with Gr. ôkus, Sanscr. ācu, from the root ac, sharp; cf.: acer, acutus, akôkê], swifter, fleeter ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
    I.
    Lit.:

    et ventis, et fulminis ocior alis,

    Verg. A. 5, 319; 10, 248:

    ocior cervis, Ocior Euro,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 23; 24:

    aurā,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 48;

    2, 20, 13: fugit ocior aurā,

    Ov. M. 1, 502:

    verbere,

    Luc. 1, 230:

    Tigris ocior remeat,

    Plin. 8, 18, 25, § 66:

    ociore ambitu,

    id. 2, 8, 6, § 39:

    ociore spatio,

    id. 2, 19, 17, § 81.—
    II.
    Transf., of time, quicker, sooner, earlier; sup.:

    ficorum ocissima senectus,

    Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 130:

    pira,

    the soonest ripe, id. 15, 15, 16, § 53:

    venenum,

    id. 27, 2, 2, § 4.—Hence, adv.: ōcĭ-ter; comp. ōcĭus; sup. ocissĭme (old collat. form oxime, Paul. ex Fest. p. 195 Müll.); quickly, swiftly, speedily (class. only in the comp. and sup.; cf.: ocius secundae collationis et deinde tertiae ocissime frequentata sunt, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 181 Müll.).
    A.
    Posit. (ante- and post-class.): ociter serva cives, Enn. ap. Non. 277, 21, acc. to Vahl. ad Enn. Trag. v. 1:

    profer ociter,

    App. M. 1, p. 113, 32; p. 125, 8.—
    B.
    Comp., more quickly or speedily, sooner, etc.:

    idque ocius faciet, si, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29:

    ut ocius ad tuum pervenias,

    id. Quint. 13, 43:

    recreantur ocius,

    id. Tusc. 4, 14, 32: omnium Versatur urna, serius ocius Sors exitura, sooner or later, Hor. C. 2, 3, 26:

    angulus iste feret piper et tus ocius uvā,

    sooner than, rather than, id. Ep. 1, 14, 23:

    ocius illud extorquebis,

    i. e. more easily, Juv. 6, 53.—
    2.
    Sometimes the comp. is used in gen. for quickly, speedily:

    sequere hac me ocius, Ter Heaut. 4, 7, 4: gladio occursat,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

    nemon' oleum fert ocius?

    quickly, Hor. S. 2, 7, 34; Juv. 14, 252; Verg. A. 5, 828:

    heus Phaedrome, exi, exi, exi, inquam, ocius,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 26.—
    C.
    Sup., very quickly or speedily: ocissime nos liberi possumus fieri, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 181 Müll.:

    quam ocissume ad provinciam accedat,

    as speedily as possible, Sall. J. 25, 5:

    ferre,

    Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 87:

    sanant ulcera,

    id. 34, 10, 22, § 100.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > ociter

  • 15 arō

        arō āvī, ātus, āre    [2 AR-], to plough, till: terram: in fundo, T.: piger optat arare caballus (i. e. rather than carry a rider), H. — Prov.: arare litus, to waste labor, O. — In gen., to cultivate: quae homines arant, navigant, etc., i. e. success in agriculture, etc., S.: quicquid arat Apulus, obtains by cultivation, H.: in Siciliā.—Of a ship, to plough: aequor, V.: aquas, O.—Of Alecto: frontem rugis, V.
    * * *
    arare, aravi, aratus V TRANS
    plow, till, cultivate; produce by plowing, grow; furrow, wrinkle

    Latin-English dictionary > arō

  • 16 ōcius

        ōcius adv. comp., with sup. ōcissimē    [neut. of ocior], more quickly, more speedily, sooner: idque ocius faciet, si, etc.: recreantur ocius: serius ocius Sors exitura, sooner or later, H.: Angulus iste feret tus ocius uvā, rather than, H.: ocius illud extorquebis, i. e. more easily, Iu.: ocius omnes Imperio pārent, on the spot, V.—In commands, the quicker the better, immediately: move te oro ocius, make haste, T.: nemon' oleum fert ocius? H.: quam ocissume accedat, as fast as possible, S.

    Latin-English dictionary > ōcius

  • 17 osseus

        osseus adj.    [2 os], of bone, bony: manus, Iu.
    * * *
    ossea, osseum ADJ
    bone-, made/consisting of bone; bone-like; bone rather than flesh, emaciated

    Latin-English dictionary > osseus

  • 18 ūsus

        ūsus ūs, m    [1 AV-], use, practice, employment, exercise, enjoyment: virtus in usu sui tota posita est; usus autem eius, etc.: rerum necessarium, Cs.—Poet., use, wear: Ferreus adsiduo consumitur anulus usu, O.: silices tenuantur ab usu, O.— Use, practice, exercise: usu cottidiano efficiunt, uti, etc., Cs.: adsiduus usus uni rei deditus: rerum maximarum.—In law, in the phrase, usus et fructus (late, ususfructus), the use and enjoyment, usufruct: usus enim eius fundi et fructus testamento viri fuerat Caesenniae.— Use, experience, discipline, acquired skill, training: Da. provinciam Cepisti duram. Ge. mi usus venit, hoc scio, i. e. I know it by experience, T.: quid enim abest huic homini?... ususne rerum? experience in affairs?: usum in re p. magnum habere: nullius usūs existimari, Cs.: nauticarum rerum, Cs.: aut belli usum aut studia volgi amissurus, S.: usu sapientiāque praestantes, N.: seris venit usus ab annis, O.— Use, habit, usage, custom, practice: usum loquendi populo concessi: usum belli habere, Cs.: (vitulos) ad studium atque usum formabis agrestem, V.: cadent vocabula, si volet usus, H.— Intercourse, familiarity, association, intimacy, society: domesticus: in tanto usu nostro tantāque amicitiā: ut insinuaret se in quam maxime familiarem usum, L.: nec longo cognitus usu, O.— Use, usefulness, value, utility, benefit, profit, advantage: levis fructus, exiguus usus: propter lini inopiam atque eius usūs inscientiam, Cs.: naves non eundem usum celeritatis habebant, capacity, Cs.: Natis in usum laetitiae scyphis Pugnare, service, H.: Quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne trahat nos, H.: plures quam quot satis in usum erant ignes, L.: (pars Numidiae) specie quam usu potior, better in appearance rather than in real value, S.— As dat predic.: ea, quae sunt usui ad armandas navīs, which are of use, Cs.: esse mihi magno usui, of great service: peritos legum ad condenda nova iura usui fore credebant, L.—In the phrase, ex usu, advantageous, serviceable, useful: declararent, utrum proelium ex usu esset necne, Cs.: quod ex usu rei p. sit.— Use, occasion, need, want, necessity: illum usum provinciae supplere: quae belli usūs poscunt, suppeditare, L.—In phrases with sum, there is need, it is necessary, it becomes requisite, there is occasion: An quoiquamst usus homini, se ut cruciet? is it necessary for any man to torture himself? T.: equitum impetum, cum adesset usus, sustinere, Cs.: de ceteris studiis alio loco dicemus, si usus fuerit, if there shall be occasion: navīs, quibus usus non est, omnīs praecidisse: quibus (navibus) consuli usus non esset, L.: nunc viribus usus, V.: Non usus factost mihi nunc hunc intro sequi, i. e. it does not suit me, etc., T.: alii offerunt se, si quo usus operae sit, L.—In phrases with venio, it becomes necessary, occasion arises: Non usus veniet, spero, T.: ut, si usus veniat, suum quisque locum teneat, if occasion should arise, Cs. —In the phrase, usu venit, it happens, it occurs, it befalls: idem mihi usu venit in causā optimā: si id culpā senectutis accideret, eadem mihi usu venirent: id quod usu venerat, actually occurred, N.: quod haec de Vercingetorige usu ventura opinione perceperat, Cs.: usu venire ut abhorreant, etc.
    * * *
    use, enjoyment; experience, skill, advantage; custom

    Latin-English dictionary > ūsus

  • 19 fideicommissum

    bequest in form of request rather than command to heir (to act/pass on); trust

    Latin-English dictionary > fideicommissum

  • 20 Ad hominem

    • Appealing to a person's physical and emotional urges, rather than her or his intellect

    Latin Quotes (Latin to English) > Ad hominem

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