real life

vīta, ae ( gen. sing. vitaï, Lucr. 1, 415; 2, 79; 3, 396), f. [vivo; Sanscr. gīv, to live; Gr. bios, life], life.

Lit.

In gen.:

tribus rebus animantium vita tenetur, cibo, potione, spiritu,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134:

dare, adimere vitam alicui,

id. Phil. 2, 3, 5:

necessaria praesidia vitae,

id. Off. 1, 17, 58:

in liberos vitae necisque potestatem habere,

Caes. B. G. 6, 19:

exiguum vitae curriculum,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 30:

ego in vitā meā nullā umquam voluptate tantā sum adfectus, etc.,

id. Att. 5, 20, 6:

vitam agere honestissime,

id. Phil. 9, 7, 15; cf.:

degere miserrimam,

id. Sull. 27, 75:

vitam in egestate degere,

id. Rosc. Am. 49, 144:

tutiorem vivere,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 118:

profundere pro aliquo,

id. Phil. 14, 11, 30 fin.:

amittere per summum dedecus,

id. Rosc. Am. 11, 30:

auferre alicui,

id. Sen. 19, 71:

in vitā manere,

id. Fam. 5, 15, 3:

in vitā diutius esse,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 5:

e vitā discedere,

id. Fam. 2, 2; cf.

cedere,

id. Brut. 1, 4:

vitā cedere,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35:

de vitā decedere,

id. Rab. Perd. 11:

vitā se privare,

id. de Or. 3, 3, 9:

vitā aliquem expellere,

id. Mur. 16, 34:

si vita suppetet,

id. Fin. 1, 4, 11: si mihi vita contigerit, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1:

ne ego hodie tibi bonam vitam feci,

a pleasant life, Plaut. Pers. 4, 8, 3:

bonam vitam dare,

id. Cas. 4, 4, 21; cf.

, on the other hand: malae taedia vitae,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 31.—

In partic., life, as a period of time = aetas (post-Aug.):

ii quadragensimum annum vitae non excedunt,

Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 195; 7, 2, 2, § 30; 7, 49, 50, § 160:

periit anno vitae septimo et quinquagesimo,

Suet. Vit. 18:

septem et triginta annos vitae explevit,

Tac. A. 2, 88 fin.; Val. Max. 4, 1, 6; 8, 13, ext. 7; Gell. 15, 7, 1; Hier. in Dan. 6, 1.— Plur.:

nec vero, si geometrae et grammatici... omnem suam vitam in singulis artibus consumpserint, sequitur, ut plures quasdam vitas ad plura discenda desideremus,

Quint. 12, 11, 20; cf. also in the foll.—

Transf.

A living, support, subsistence (Plautinian;

syn. victus): vitam sibi repperire,

Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 9; cf.:

neque illi concedam quicquam de vitā meā,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 76.—

A life, i. e. a way or mode of life (class.): vita hominis [p. 1999] ex ante factis spectabitur, Auct. Her. 2, 3, 4:

vita rustica honestissima atque suavissima,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 17, 48:

hanc usus, vita, mores respuit,

id. Mur. 35, 74; cf.:

inquirendo in utriusque vitam et mores,

Liv. 40, 16, 2; so (with mores) Ov. H. 17, 172 Ruhnk.:

neque ante philosophiam patefactam hac de re communis vita dubitavit,

nor was it doubted in common life, Cic. Div. 1, 39, 86:

vita, victusque communis,

social life, id. Off. 1, 17, 58; cf.:

omni vitā atque victu excultus,

id. Brut. 25, 95.— Plur.:

inspicere, tamquam in speculum, in vitas omnium,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 61; cf.:

per omnium vitas amicitia serpit,

Cic. Leal. 23, 87:

(Minos) vitas et crimina discit,

Verg. A. 6, 433. —

Life, real life (opp. fancy or fiction):

ex quo est illud e vitā ductum ab Afranio,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 20, 45:

de vitā hominum mediā sumptum,

Gell. 2, 23, 12:

nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 60.—

Like our life, to denote a very dear object:

certe tu vita es mihi,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 24; cf. Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 33.—Hence, mea vita, or simply vita, my life, as a term of endearment, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 6; Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 3; 14, 4, 1; Prop. 1, 2, 1; 2, 20 (3, 13), 17.—

The living, i. e. mankind, the world; like Gr. bios ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

rura cano, rurisque deos, his vita magistris Desuevit quernā pellere glande famem,

Tib. 2, 1, 37:

agnoscat mores vita legatque suos,

Mart. 8, 3, 20:

verum falsumne sit, vita non decrevit,

Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 48:

alias in tumultu vita erat,

id. 13, 13, 27, § 89.—

A life, i. e. a course of life, career, as the subject of biography: in hoc exponemus libro de vitā (al. vitam) excellentium imperatorum, Nep. praef. § 8; id. Epam. 4 fin.:

vitae memoriam prosā oratione composuit,

Suet. Claud. 1 fin.:

propositā vitae ejus velut summā,

id. Aug. 9:

referam nunc interiorem ac familiarem ejus vitam,

id. ib. 61; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 368:

qui vitas resque gestas clarorum hominum memoriae mandaverunt,

Gell. 1, 3, 1.—

The duration of life (in plants, etc.), duration:

arborum immensa,

Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 234; 16, 44, 90, § 241; Pall. 12, 7, 17.—

An existence, a being, of spirits in the infernal regions:

tenues sine corpore vitae,

Verg. A. 6, 292; cf. id. ib. 12, 952.

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vērĭtas, ātis, f. [verus], truth, truthfulness, verity; the true or real nature, reality (always abstract; cf.: verum, vera).

In gen.:

veritas, per quam immutata ea, quae sunt aut ante fuerunt aut futura sunt, dicuntur,

Cic. Inv. 2, 53, 162:

veritatem patefacere,

id. Sull. 16, 45:

argumentatio... in quā perspicuam omnibus veritatem continet adsumptio,

id. Inv. 1, 36, 65:

veritatis cultores, fraudis inimici,

id. Off. 1, 30, 109:

o magna vis veritatis, quae... facile se per se ipsa defendat,

id. Cael. 26, 63:

nescio quo modo verum est quod in Andriā (1, 1, 41) familiaris meus dicit: obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit... veritatem aspernere,

id. Lael. 24, 89:

nihil ad veritatem (loqui),

id. ib. 25, 91:

in omni re vincit imitationem veritas,

id. de Or. 3, 57, 215:

simplex ratio veritatis,

id. ib. 1, 53, 229.—

In partic.

Reality, real life, esp. of the likeness of life in works of art:

non intellegit Canachi signa rigidiora esse, quam ut imitentur veritatem,

Cic. Brut. 18, 70:

ut mutum in simulacrum ex animali exemplo veritas transferatur,

id. Inv. 2, 1, 3:

oratores sunt veritatis ipsius actores,

id. de Or. 3, 56, 214: haec tria genera exornationum perraro sumenda sunt, cum in veritate dicemus, in reality, i. e. in the forum, not for practice merely, Auct. Her. 4, 22, 32: vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat, according to truth or reality, Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 29:

salus omnium nostrum non veritate solum, sed etiam famā nititur,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 1, § 2:

res et veritas,

id. de Or. 1, 17, 77:

exploranda est veritas,

Phaedr. 3, 10, 5.—

Nature, the truth of nature:

sic enim se profecto res habet, ut numquam perfecte veritatem casus imitetur,

Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

habere in se omnes numeros veritatis,

id. ib.; cf.:

ut, quicquid accidat, id ex aeternā veritate causarumque continuatione fluxisse dicatis,

id. N. D. 1, 20, 55.—

Consule veritatem, i. e. the etymology, = to etumon, Cic. Or. 48, 159; so Quint. 1, 6, 32; 1, 7, 8.—

Of character, truth, rectitude, integrity:

in tuam fidem, veritatem, misericordiam confugit,

Cic. Quint. 2, 10:

sint veritatis et virtutis magistri,

id. Rep. 3, 3, 4:

spes obtinendae veritatis,

id. Deiot. 2, 5:

judiciorum religionem veritatemque perfringere,

id. Verr 1, 1, 3: si ad illam summam veritatem legitimum jus exegeris, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1:

rustica Veritas,

truth, integrity, Mart. 10, 72, 11; cf. Plin. Pan. 84, 1.—

Plur. (rare):

veritates fortiter dicere,

Gell. 18, 7, 4.

căpĭtālis, e, adj. [caput].

Relating to or belonging to the head. In this signif. extant only in the subst. capital, a headdress of priests, Varr. L. L. 5, § 130 Müll.; but, capital linteum quoddam, quo in sacrificiis utebantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 48 ib. —

Transf.

Relating to life, by which life is endangered, capital:

periculum,

peril of life, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 81; id. Rud. 2, 3, 19:

caedis,

id. Most. 2, 2, 44:

morbus,

endangering life, dangerous, Gell. 16, 13, 5.—

Esp. freq. as jurid. t. t. of those crimes which are punishable by death or by the loss of civil rights, capital, v. Dig. 21, 1, 23, § 2; 48, 1, 2:

accusare aliquem rei capitalis,

of a capital crime, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 68:

qui in vinculis essent damnati rei capitalis,

id. Sen. 12, 42:

cui rei capitalis dies dicta sit,

Liv. 3, 13, 4:

reus rerum capitalium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 39, § 95:

manifesti rerum capitalium,

Sall. C. 52 fin.:

rerum capitalium condemnati,

id. ib. 36, 2:

damnati,

Tac. A. 1, 21 fin.:

in rerum capitalium quaestionibus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 68:

crimen,

id. ib. 2, 5, 9, § 23; Tac. A. 3, 60: facinora, Cic. poët. N. D. 1, 6, 13; cf.

flagitia,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 5:

maleficia,

Dig. 48, 8, 18 pr.:

judex rei capitalis,

Quint. 7, 3, 33; Curt. 6, 8, 25; Cic. Dom. 30, 78:

capitalium rerum vindices,

Sall. C. 55 al.:

fraudem admittere,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 26:

causae,

Quint. 8, 3, 14:

judicia,

id. 4, 1, 57:

noxa,

Liv. 3, 55, 5:

poenā afficere aliquem,

Suet. Caes. 48:

condemnare,

id. Dom. 14:

animadversione punire,

id. Aug. 24:

supplicio incesta coërcere,

id. Dom. 8:

capitale nullum exemplum vindictae,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

supplicium,

Curt. 3, 2, 17:

capitalis locus ubl si quid violatum. est, caput violatoris expiatur,

Fest. p. 50:

judicium trium virorum capitalium,

who had charge of the prisons and of executions, Cic. Or. 46, 156; Liv. 39, 14, 10; 25, 1, 10; cf. id. 32, 26, 17; and the joke of Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2.—Also subst.: căpĭtal (postAug. sometimes căpĭtāle, as also in poorer MSS. of earlier authors), plur. capitalia, a death ( real or civil), banishment, etc., in consequence of crime:

capital = facinus quod capitis poenā luitur,

Fest. p. 37: capital kephalikê timôria, Vet. Gloss.

Capital facere, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 16; id. Merc. 3, 4, 26: scimus capital esse irascier, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 38, 17:

quique non paruerit capital esto,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 21; id. Inv. 2, 31, 96:

praesidio decedere apud Romanos capital esse,

Liv. 24, 37, 9 Gronov.; Mel. 1, 9, 7 Tzschuck; Curt. 8, 4, 17; 8, 9, 34; Quint. 9, 2, 67:

degredi viā capital leges fecere,

Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 63; 10, 23, 31, § 62; Just. 2, 7, 8; Suet. Calig. 24 Oud. and Wolf; Sil. 13, 155; cf. Front. 4, 6, 3 Oud.—

Capitale:

capitale est obicere anteacta,

Quint. 9, 2, 67; Tac. Agr. 2.—

Plur.:

capitalia: capitalia vindicanto,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6:

capitalia ausi plerique,

Liv. 26, 40, 17; Suet. Tib. 58.—

Trop.:

inimicus,

a mortal enemy, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 57:

hostis,

a deadly enemy, Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

adversarius,

id. Fin. 4, 12, 31:

odium,

id. Lael. 1, 2:

ira,

Hor. S. 1, 7, 13:

inimicitiae,

Dig. 17, 1, 23, § 25:

minae, Cod. 2, 20, 7: oratio,

very pernicious, dangerous, Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73:

capitalis et pestifer Antonii reditus,

id. Phil. 4, 1, 3:

totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior quam eorum, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

nulla capitalior pestis quam, etc.,

id. Sen. 12, 39.—

That is at the head, chief, first in something, pre-eminent, distinguished (rare): capitale vocamus Ingenium sollers (as we often use capital), Ov. F. 3, 839:

Siculus ille (sc. Philistus) capitalis, creber, acutus, etc.,

a writer of the first rank, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 4: jocus, a capital joke, Treb. XXX. Tyrann. 10. — Comp.:

hoc autem erat capitalior, quod, etc.,

more important, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 170.—Hence, adv.: căpĭtālĭter, mortally, capitally:

lacessere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 4:

odisse,

mortally, Amm. 21, 16, 11.—Esp.,

As judicial t. t., of punishments, capitally, so as to affect life or citizenship, Cod. Th. 3, 14, 1; Veg. Mil. 2, 22.

căpĭtālis, e, adj. [caput].

Relating to or belonging to the head. In this signif. extant only in the subst. capital, a headdress of priests, Varr. L. L. 5, § 130 Müll.; but, capital linteum quoddam, quo in sacrificiis utebantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 48 ib. —

Transf.

Relating to life, by which life is endangered, capital:

periculum,

peril of life, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 81; id. Rud. 2, 3, 19:

caedis,

id. Most. 2, 2, 44:

morbus,

endangering life, dangerous, Gell. 16, 13, 5.—

Esp. freq. as jurid. t. t. of those crimes which are punishable by death or by the loss of civil rights, capital, v. Dig. 21, 1, 23, § 2; 48, 1, 2:

accusare aliquem rei capitalis,

of a capital crime, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 68:

qui in vinculis essent damnati rei capitalis,

id. Sen. 12, 42:

cui rei capitalis dies dicta sit,

Liv. 3, 13, 4:

reus rerum capitalium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 39, § 95:

manifesti rerum capitalium,

Sall. C. 52 fin.:

rerum capitalium condemnati,

id. ib. 36, 2:

damnati,

Tac. A. 1, 21 fin.:

in rerum capitalium quaestionibus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 68:

crimen,

id. ib. 2, 5, 9, § 23; Tac. A. 3, 60: facinora, Cic. poët. N. D. 1, 6, 13; cf.

flagitia,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 5:

maleficia,

Dig. 48, 8, 18 pr.:

judex rei capitalis,

Quint. 7, 3, 33; Curt. 6, 8, 25; Cic. Dom. 30, 78:

capitalium rerum vindices,

Sall. C. 55 al.:

fraudem admittere,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 26:

causae,

Quint. 8, 3, 14:

judicia,

id. 4, 1, 57:

noxa,

Liv. 3, 55, 5:

poenā afficere aliquem,

Suet. Caes. 48:

condemnare,

id. Dom. 14:

animadversione punire,

id. Aug. 24:

supplicio incesta coërcere,

id. Dom. 8:

capitale nullum exemplum vindictae,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

supplicium,

Curt. 3, 2, 17:

capitalis locus ubl si quid violatum. est, caput violatoris expiatur,

Fest. p. 50:

judicium trium virorum capitalium,

who had charge of the prisons and of executions, Cic. Or. 46, 156; Liv. 39, 14, 10; 25, 1, 10; cf. id. 32, 26, 17; and the joke of Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2.—Also subst.: căpĭtal (postAug. sometimes căpĭtāle, as also in poorer MSS. of earlier authors), plur. capitalia, a death ( real or civil), banishment, etc., in consequence of crime:

capital = facinus quod capitis poenā luitur,

Fest. p. 37: capital kephalikê timôria, Vet. Gloss.

Capital facere, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 16; id. Merc. 3, 4, 26: scimus capital esse irascier, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 38, 17:

quique non paruerit capital esto,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 21; id. Inv. 2, 31, 96:

praesidio decedere apud Romanos capital esse,

Liv. 24, 37, 9 Gronov.; Mel. 1, 9, 7 Tzschuck; Curt. 8, 4, 17; 8, 9, 34; Quint. 9, 2, 67:

degredi viā capital leges fecere,

Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 63; 10, 23, 31, § 62; Just. 2, 7, 8; Suet. Calig. 24 Oud. and Wolf; Sil. 13, 155; cf. Front. 4, 6, 3 Oud.—

Capitale:

capitale est obicere anteacta,

Quint. 9, 2, 67; Tac. Agr. 2.—

Plur.:

capitalia: capitalia vindicanto,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6:

capitalia ausi plerique,

Liv. 26, 40, 17; Suet. Tib. 58.—

Trop.:

inimicus,

a mortal enemy, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 57:

hostis,

a deadly enemy, Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

adversarius,

id. Fin. 4, 12, 31:

odium,

id. Lael. 1, 2:

ira,

Hor. S. 1, 7, 13:

inimicitiae,

Dig. 17, 1, 23, § 25:

minae, Cod. 2, 20, 7: oratio,

very pernicious, dangerous, Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73:

capitalis et pestifer Antonii reditus,

id. Phil. 4, 1, 3:

totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior quam eorum, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

nulla capitalior pestis quam, etc.,

id. Sen. 12, 39.—

That is at the head, chief, first in something, pre-eminent, distinguished (rare): capitale vocamus Ingenium sollers (as we often use capital), Ov. F. 3, 839:

Siculus ille (sc. Philistus) capitalis, creber, acutus, etc.,

a writer of the first rank, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 4: jocus, a capital joke, Treb. XXX. Tyrann. 10. — Comp.:

hoc autem erat capitalior, quod, etc.,

more important, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 170.—Hence, adv.: căpĭtālĭter, mortally, capitally:

lacessere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 4:

odisse,

mortally, Amm. 21, 16, 11.—Esp.,

As judicial t. t., of punishments, capitally, so as to affect life or citizenship, Cod. Th. 3, 14, 1; Veg. Mil. 2, 22.

căpĭtālis, e, adj. [caput].

Relating to or belonging to the head. In this signif. extant only in the subst. capital, a headdress of priests, Varr. L. L. 5, § 130 Müll.; but, capital linteum quoddam, quo in sacrificiis utebantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 48 ib. —

Transf.

Relating to life, by which life is endangered, capital:

periculum,

peril of life, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 81; id. Rud. 2, 3, 19:

caedis,

id. Most. 2, 2, 44:

morbus,

endangering life, dangerous, Gell. 16, 13, 5.—

Esp. freq. as jurid. t. t. of those crimes which are punishable by death or by the loss of civil rights, capital, v. Dig. 21, 1, 23, § 2; 48, 1, 2:

accusare aliquem rei capitalis,

of a capital crime, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 68:

qui in vinculis essent damnati rei capitalis,

id. Sen. 12, 42:

cui rei capitalis dies dicta sit,

Liv. 3, 13, 4:

reus rerum capitalium,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 39, § 95:

manifesti rerum capitalium,

Sall. C. 52 fin.:

rerum capitalium condemnati,

id. ib. 36, 2:

damnati,

Tac. A. 1, 21 fin.:

in rerum capitalium quaestionibus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 68:

crimen,

id. ib. 2, 5, 9, § 23; Tac. A. 3, 60: facinora, Cic. poët. N. D. 1, 6, 13; cf.

flagitia,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 5:

maleficia,

Dig. 48, 8, 18 pr.:

judex rei capitalis,

Quint. 7, 3, 33; Curt. 6, 8, 25; Cic. Dom. 30, 78:

capitalium rerum vindices,

Sall. C. 55 al.:

fraudem admittere,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 26:

causae,

Quint. 8, 3, 14:

judicia,

id. 4, 1, 57:

noxa,

Liv. 3, 55, 5:

poenā afficere aliquem,

Suet. Caes. 48:

condemnare,

id. Dom. 14:

animadversione punire,

id. Aug. 24:

supplicio incesta coërcere,

id. Dom. 8:

capitale nullum exemplum vindictae,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18:

supplicium,

Curt. 3, 2, 17:

capitalis locus ubl si quid violatum. est, caput violatoris expiatur,

Fest. p. 50:

judicium trium virorum capitalium,

who had charge of the prisons and of executions, Cic. Or. 46, 156; Liv. 39, 14, 10; 25, 1, 10; cf. id. 32, 26, 17; and the joke of Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2.—Also subst.: căpĭtal (postAug. sometimes căpĭtāle, as also in poorer MSS. of earlier authors), plur. capitalia, a death ( real or civil), banishment, etc., in consequence of crime:

capital = facinus quod capitis poenā luitur,

Fest. p. 37: capital kephalikê timôria, Vet. Gloss.

Capital facere, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 16; id. Merc. 3, 4, 26: scimus capital esse irascier, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 38, 17:

quique non paruerit capital esto,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 21; id. Inv. 2, 31, 96:

praesidio decedere apud Romanos capital esse,

Liv. 24, 37, 9 Gronov.; Mel. 1, 9, 7 Tzschuck; Curt. 8, 4, 17; 8, 9, 34; Quint. 9, 2, 67:

degredi viā capital leges fecere,

Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 63; 10, 23, 31, § 62; Just. 2, 7, 8; Suet. Calig. 24 Oud. and Wolf; Sil. 13, 155; cf. Front. 4, 6, 3 Oud.—

Capitale:

capitale est obicere anteacta,

Quint. 9, 2, 67; Tac. Agr. 2.—

Plur.:

capitalia: capitalia vindicanto,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6:

capitalia ausi plerique,

Liv. 26, 40, 17; Suet. Tib. 58.—

Trop.:

inimicus,

a mortal enemy, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 57:

hostis,

a deadly enemy, Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

adversarius,

id. Fin. 4, 12, 31:

odium,

id. Lael. 1, 2:

ira,

Hor. S. 1, 7, 13:

inimicitiae,

Dig. 17, 1, 23, § 25:

minae, Cod. 2, 20, 7: oratio,

very pernicious, dangerous, Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73:

capitalis et pestifer Antonii reditus,

id. Phil. 4, 1, 3:

totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior quam eorum, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

nulla capitalior pestis quam, etc.,

id. Sen. 12, 39.—

That is at the head, chief, first in something, pre-eminent, distinguished (rare): capitale vocamus Ingenium sollers (as we often use capital), Ov. F. 3, 839:

Siculus ille (sc. Philistus) capitalis, creber, acutus, etc.,

a writer of the first rank, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 4: jocus, a capital joke, Treb. XXX. Tyrann. 10. — Comp.:

hoc autem erat capitalior, quod, etc.,

more important, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 170.—Hence, adv.: căpĭtālĭter, mortally, capitally:

lacessere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 4:

odisse,

mortally, Amm. 21, 16, 11.—Esp.,

As judicial t. t., of punishments, capitally, so as to affect life or citizenship, Cod. Th. 3, 14, 1; Veg. Mil. 2, 22.