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    rectō, adv., v. rego, P. a. fin.

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    rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
    I.
    Lit.:

    deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

    manus una (navem) regit,

    Lucr. 4, 903:

    onera navium velis,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

    arte ratem,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.

    clavum,

    Verg. A. 10, 218:

    te ventorum regat pater,

    Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:

    vela,

    Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:

    coërcet et regit beluam,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:

    equum,

    Liv. 35, 11:

    equos,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.

    quadrupedes,

    id. M. 2, 86:

    spumantia ora (equi),

    id. ib. 8, 34:

    frena,

    id. P. 4, 12, 24:

    equi impotentes regendi,

    Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:

    currus,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:

    rege tela per auras,

    Verg. A. 9, 409:

    tela per viscera Caesaris,

    Luc. 7, 350; cf.:

    missum jaculum,

    Ov. M. 7, 684:

    sagittas nusquam,

    Luc. 7, 515:

    regens tenui vestigia filo,

    Cat. 64, 113; cf.:

    Daedalium iter lino duce,

    Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:

    caeca filo vestigia,

    Verg. A. 6, 30:

    diverso flamina tractu,

    Ov. M. 1, 59:

    gressus,

    Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
    B.
    In partic., jurid. t. t.:

    regere fines,

    to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
    II.
    Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
    A.
    In gen.:

    Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

    domum,

    id. ib. 1, 39, 61:

    rem consilio,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:

    belli fera munera Mavors regit,

    Lucr. 1, 33; cf.

    bella,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:

    omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:

    alicujus animum atque ingenium,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:

    animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),

    Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:

    mores,

    Ov. M. 15, 834:

    animos dictis,

    Verg. A. 1, 153:

    animum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

    ut me ipse regam,

    id. ib. 1, 1, 27:

    consilia senatus,

    Quint. 12, 1, 26:

    valetudines principis,

    Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:

    valetudinem arbitratu suo,

    Suet. Tib. 68 al.:

    neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,

    Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:

    jam regi leges, non regere,

    Liv. 10, 13:

    utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:

    vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,

    Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:

    Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,

    Tac. H. 3, 50:

    nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:

    quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?

    Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,

    rem publicam,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 41;

    1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,

    id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;

    2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:

    Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,

    id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

    Frisios,

    Tac. A. 4, 72:

    populos imperio,

    Verg. A. 6, 851:

    imperiis Italiam,

    id. ib. 4, 230:

    legiones,

    Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.

    cohortes,

    id. H. 4, 12:

    exercitum,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:

    domum,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:

    diva, quae regis Antium,

    Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:

    Diana, quae silentium regis,

    id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:

    animi partes consilio,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:

    ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,

    id. ib. 2, 23, 43:

    rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,

    id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:

    Tiberio regente,

    Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:

    stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,

    Quint. 3, 8, 47:

    quo regente,

    Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:

    Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,

    i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
    2.
    To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):

    errantem regere,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 57:

    rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
    I.
    P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:

    contemptus regentium,

    Tac. A. 12, 54:

    in obsequium regentis,

    id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:

    vita regentis,

    Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:

    excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:

    in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),

    Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
    II.
    rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
    A.
    Lit., of horizontal direction:

    pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),

    Lucr. 4, 439:

    sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,

    id. 2, 249 Munro:

    rectā regione iter instituere,

    Liv. 21, 31:

    India, rectā regione spatiosa,

    Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:

    ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:

    via,

    id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.

    platea,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:

    porta,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:

    ostium,

    id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:

    ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),

    Lucr. 4, 93:

    cursus hinc in Africam,

    Liv. 26, 43:

    saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:

    recto flumine,

    Verg. A. 8, 57:

    recto ad Iberum itinere,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:

    ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,

    Verg. A. 8, 209:

    recto grassetur limite miles,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 477:

    velut rectae acies concurrissent,

    in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,

    acies,

    id. 35, 28:

    qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,

    Quint. 8, 3, 9:

    hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:

    adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,

    Sen. Const. 5, 5:

    rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,

    id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:

    oculi,

    Suet. Aug. 16; cf.

    acies,

    Ov. M. 2, 776:

    lumen,

    Luc. 9, 638:

    vultus,

    Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:

    ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,

    in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

    saxa,

    perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:

    rectae prope rupes,

    id. 38, 20:

    truncus,

    Ov. M. 7, 640:

    ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:

    caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,

    Quint. 11, 3, 69:

    homines,

    straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,

    Quintia,

    id. 86, 1:

    puella,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:

    senectus,

    Juv. 3, 26:

    iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,

    does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:

    vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,

    Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:

    crus Rectius,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:

    rectior coma,

    smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:

    longā trabe rectior exstet,

    Ov. M. 3, 78:

    crura,

    Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:

    rectissima linea,

    Quint. 3, 6, 83:

    via,

    id. 12, 2, 27. —
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):

    ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:

    rectā viā depelli,

    Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;

    so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,

    Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:

    recta consilia dare,

    Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:

    quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:

    quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,

    id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:

    sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,

    id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:

    (oratio) recta an ordine permutato,

    id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:

    per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),

    id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:

    recto ac justo proelio dimicare,

    Liv. 35, 4 fin.:

    rectarum cenarum consuetudo,

    a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,

    cena,

    Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:

    recta,

    Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:

    domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),

    Sen. Ep. 100, 6:

    nominibus rectis expendere nummos,

    i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):

    absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,

    suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:

    rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:

    quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,

    id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

    aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,

    Quint. 6, 3, 89:

    cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,

    id. 8, 5, 6;

    so (opp. durum et incomptum),

    id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:

    mutare aliquid a recto,

    id. 2, 13, 11:

    recta et vera loquere,

    i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:

    qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,

    Quint. 10, 5, 12:

    ea plerumque recta sunt,

    id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:

    rectior divisio,

    Quint. 7, 2, 39:

    si quid novisti rectius istis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:

    rectissima ratio,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):

    honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,

    Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:

    nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,

    id. Lael. 22, 82;

    so with honestum,

    id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:

    (opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:

    recta consilia (opp. prava),

    Liv. 1, 27:

    in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),

    Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:

    curvo dignoscere rectum,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:

    mens sibi conscia recti,

    Verg. A. 1, 604:

    fidem rectumque colebat,

    Ov. M. 1, 90:

    recta ingenia (opp. perversa),

    Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:

    in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,

    Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:

    animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

    natura,

    id. S. 1, 6, 66:

    ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:

    judex,

    Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.

    auditor,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:

    vir rectus et sanctus,

    id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:

    beatus judicii rectus,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:

    rectum est gravitatem retinere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
    b.
    In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;

    opp. obliqui casus),

    Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
    A.
    rectā,
    B.
    rectō,
    C.
    rectē.
    A.
    rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):

    hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:

    jam ad regem rectā me ducam,

    id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:

    tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,

    id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:

    Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,

    Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
    B.
    rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):

    appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,

    Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
    C. 1.
    Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):

    vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,

    Cato, R. R. 33, 4:

    sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:

    satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,

    Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
    2.
    Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):

    recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:

    fecisti edepol et recte et bene,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;

    so with commode,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:

    recte et sapienter facit,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:

    recte atque ordine factum,

    Cic. Quint. 7, 28:

    recte atque ordine facere,

    id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;

    v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:

    recte atque in loco constare,

    id. Mur. 12, 26:

    recte factum,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:

    seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:

    seu recte seu perperam facere,

    Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:

    recte dictum (opp. absurde),

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:

    recte concludere (opp. vitiose),

    Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:

    recte factum (opp. turpiter),

    Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:

    recte rationem tenes,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:

    hercle quin tu recte dicis,

    id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:

    non recte judicas de Catone,

    Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:

    rectissime quidem judicas,

    id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:

    tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:

    monere,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:

    admonere recte,

    id. Men. 5, 9, 33:

    suis amicis recte res suas narrare,

    properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:

    hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,

    consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:

    aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,

    duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:

    alicui recte dare epistulam,

    correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:

    cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,

    safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,

    sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,

    id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:

    alicui suam salutem recte committere,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:

    si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,

    goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:

    ludi recte facti,

    id. 36, 2:

    ver sacrum non esse recte factum,

    id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:

    valere,

    id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:

    apud matrem recte est,

    i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,

    recte esse,

    id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:

    recte sit oculis tuis,

    Gell. 13, 30, 11:

    olivetum recte putare,

    properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:

    solet illa recte sub manus succedere,

    well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:

    recte cavere,

    to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:

    deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,

    well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,

    vortere,

    id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

    alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,

    Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:

    nec recte loqui alicui,

    id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:

    nec recte dicere in aliquem,

    id. As. 1, 3, 3;

    and simply nec recte dicere,

    id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:

    ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:

    hic tibi erit rectius,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:

    rectius bella gerere,

    Liv. 3, 2 fin.:

    non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
    b.
    With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:

    locus recte ferax,

    Cato, R. R. 44:

    salvus sum recte,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:

    morata recte,

    id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:

    oneratus recte,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:

    non recte vinctus est,

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
    c.
    Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
    B.
    So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:

    rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,

    i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,

    in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!

    Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rectum

  • 4 regens

    rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
    I.
    Lit.:

    deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

    manus una (navem) regit,

    Lucr. 4, 903:

    onera navium velis,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

    arte ratem,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.

    clavum,

    Verg. A. 10, 218:

    te ventorum regat pater,

    Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:

    vela,

    Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:

    coërcet et regit beluam,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:

    equum,

    Liv. 35, 11:

    equos,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.

    quadrupedes,

    id. M. 2, 86:

    spumantia ora (equi),

    id. ib. 8, 34:

    frena,

    id. P. 4, 12, 24:

    equi impotentes regendi,

    Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:

    currus,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:

    rege tela per auras,

    Verg. A. 9, 409:

    tela per viscera Caesaris,

    Luc. 7, 350; cf.:

    missum jaculum,

    Ov. M. 7, 684:

    sagittas nusquam,

    Luc. 7, 515:

    regens tenui vestigia filo,

    Cat. 64, 113; cf.:

    Daedalium iter lino duce,

    Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:

    caeca filo vestigia,

    Verg. A. 6, 30:

    diverso flamina tractu,

    Ov. M. 1, 59:

    gressus,

    Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
    B.
    In partic., jurid. t. t.:

    regere fines,

    to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
    II.
    Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
    A.
    In gen.:

    Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

    domum,

    id. ib. 1, 39, 61:

    rem consilio,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:

    belli fera munera Mavors regit,

    Lucr. 1, 33; cf.

    bella,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:

    omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:

    alicujus animum atque ingenium,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:

    animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),

    Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:

    mores,

    Ov. M. 15, 834:

    animos dictis,

    Verg. A. 1, 153:

    animum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

    ut me ipse regam,

    id. ib. 1, 1, 27:

    consilia senatus,

    Quint. 12, 1, 26:

    valetudines principis,

    Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:

    valetudinem arbitratu suo,

    Suet. Tib. 68 al.:

    neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,

    Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:

    jam regi leges, non regere,

    Liv. 10, 13:

    utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:

    vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,

    Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:

    Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,

    Tac. H. 3, 50:

    nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:

    quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?

    Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,

    rem publicam,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 41;

    1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,

    id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;

    2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:

    Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,

    id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

    Frisios,

    Tac. A. 4, 72:

    populos imperio,

    Verg. A. 6, 851:

    imperiis Italiam,

    id. ib. 4, 230:

    legiones,

    Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.

    cohortes,

    id. H. 4, 12:

    exercitum,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:

    domum,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:

    diva, quae regis Antium,

    Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:

    Diana, quae silentium regis,

    id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:

    animi partes consilio,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:

    ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,

    id. ib. 2, 23, 43:

    rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,

    id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:

    Tiberio regente,

    Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:

    stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,

    Quint. 3, 8, 47:

    quo regente,

    Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:

    Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,

    i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
    2.
    To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):

    errantem regere,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 57:

    rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
    I.
    P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:

    contemptus regentium,

    Tac. A. 12, 54:

    in obsequium regentis,

    id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:

    vita regentis,

    Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:

    excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:

    in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),

    Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
    II.
    rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
    A.
    Lit., of horizontal direction:

    pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),

    Lucr. 4, 439:

    sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,

    id. 2, 249 Munro:

    rectā regione iter instituere,

    Liv. 21, 31:

    India, rectā regione spatiosa,

    Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:

    ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:

    via,

    id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.

    platea,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:

    porta,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:

    ostium,

    id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:

    ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),

    Lucr. 4, 93:

    cursus hinc in Africam,

    Liv. 26, 43:

    saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:

    recto flumine,

    Verg. A. 8, 57:

    recto ad Iberum itinere,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:

    ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,

    Verg. A. 8, 209:

    recto grassetur limite miles,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 477:

    velut rectae acies concurrissent,

    in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,

    acies,

    id. 35, 28:

    qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,

    Quint. 8, 3, 9:

    hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:

    adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,

    Sen. Const. 5, 5:

    rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,

    id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:

    oculi,

    Suet. Aug. 16; cf.

    acies,

    Ov. M. 2, 776:

    lumen,

    Luc. 9, 638:

    vultus,

    Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:

    ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,

    in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

    saxa,

    perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:

    rectae prope rupes,

    id. 38, 20:

    truncus,

    Ov. M. 7, 640:

    ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:

    caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,

    Quint. 11, 3, 69:

    homines,

    straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,

    Quintia,

    id. 86, 1:

    puella,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:

    senectus,

    Juv. 3, 26:

    iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,

    does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:

    vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,

    Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:

    crus Rectius,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:

    rectior coma,

    smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:

    longā trabe rectior exstet,

    Ov. M. 3, 78:

    crura,

    Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:

    rectissima linea,

    Quint. 3, 6, 83:

    via,

    id. 12, 2, 27. —
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):

    ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:

    rectā viā depelli,

    Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;

    so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,

    Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:

    recta consilia dare,

    Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:

    quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:

    quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,

    id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:

    sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,

    id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:

    (oratio) recta an ordine permutato,

    id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:

    per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),

    id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:

    recto ac justo proelio dimicare,

    Liv. 35, 4 fin.:

    rectarum cenarum consuetudo,

    a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,

    cena,

    Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:

    recta,

    Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:

    domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),

    Sen. Ep. 100, 6:

    nominibus rectis expendere nummos,

    i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):

    absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,

    suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:

    rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:

    quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,

    id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

    aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,

    Quint. 6, 3, 89:

    cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,

    id. 8, 5, 6;

    so (opp. durum et incomptum),

    id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:

    mutare aliquid a recto,

    id. 2, 13, 11:

    recta et vera loquere,

    i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:

    qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,

    Quint. 10, 5, 12:

    ea plerumque recta sunt,

    id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:

    rectior divisio,

    Quint. 7, 2, 39:

    si quid novisti rectius istis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:

    rectissima ratio,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):

    honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,

    Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:

    nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,

    id. Lael. 22, 82;

    so with honestum,

    id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:

    (opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:

    recta consilia (opp. prava),

    Liv. 1, 27:

    in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),

    Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:

    curvo dignoscere rectum,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:

    mens sibi conscia recti,

    Verg. A. 1, 604:

    fidem rectumque colebat,

    Ov. M. 1, 90:

    recta ingenia (opp. perversa),

    Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:

    in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,

    Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:

    animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

    natura,

    id. S. 1, 6, 66:

    ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:

    judex,

    Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.

    auditor,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:

    vir rectus et sanctus,

    id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:

    beatus judicii rectus,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:

    rectum est gravitatem retinere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
    b.
    In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;

    opp. obliqui casus),

    Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
    A.
    rectā,
    B.
    rectō,
    C.
    rectē.
    A.
    rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):

    hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:

    jam ad regem rectā me ducam,

    id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:

    tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,

    id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:

    Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,

    Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
    B.
    rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):

    appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,

    Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
    C. 1.
    Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):

    vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,

    Cato, R. R. 33, 4:

    sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:

    satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,

    Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
    2.
    Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):

    recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:

    fecisti edepol et recte et bene,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;

    so with commode,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:

    recte et sapienter facit,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:

    recte atque ordine factum,

    Cic. Quint. 7, 28:

    recte atque ordine facere,

    id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;

    v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:

    recte atque in loco constare,

    id. Mur. 12, 26:

    recte factum,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:

    seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:

    seu recte seu perperam facere,

    Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:

    recte dictum (opp. absurde),

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:

    recte concludere (opp. vitiose),

    Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:

    recte factum (opp. turpiter),

    Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:

    recte rationem tenes,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:

    hercle quin tu recte dicis,

    id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:

    non recte judicas de Catone,

    Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:

    rectissime quidem judicas,

    id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:

    tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:

    monere,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:

    admonere recte,

    id. Men. 5, 9, 33:

    suis amicis recte res suas narrare,

    properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:

    hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,

    consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:

    aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,

    duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:

    alicui recte dare epistulam,

    correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:

    cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,

    safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,

    sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,

    id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:

    alicui suam salutem recte committere,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:

    si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,

    goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:

    ludi recte facti,

    id. 36, 2:

    ver sacrum non esse recte factum,

    id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:

    valere,

    id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:

    apud matrem recte est,

    i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,

    recte esse,

    id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:

    recte sit oculis tuis,

    Gell. 13, 30, 11:

    olivetum recte putare,

    properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:

    solet illa recte sub manus succedere,

    well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:

    recte cavere,

    to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:

    deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,

    well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,

    vortere,

    id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

    alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,

    Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:

    nec recte loqui alicui,

    id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:

    nec recte dicere in aliquem,

    id. As. 1, 3, 3;

    and simply nec recte dicere,

    id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:

    ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:

    hic tibi erit rectius,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:

    rectius bella gerere,

    Liv. 3, 2 fin.:

    non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
    b.
    With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:

    locus recte ferax,

    Cato, R. R. 44:

    salvus sum recte,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:

    morata recte,

    id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:

    oneratus recte,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:

    non recte vinctus est,

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
    c.
    Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
    B.
    So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:

    rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,

    i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,

    in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!

    Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > regens

  • 5 rego

    rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
    I.
    Lit.:

    deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

    manus una (navem) regit,

    Lucr. 4, 903:

    onera navium velis,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 13:

    arte ratem,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.

    clavum,

    Verg. A. 10, 218:

    te ventorum regat pater,

    Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:

    vela,

    Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:

    coërcet et regit beluam,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:

    equum,

    Liv. 35, 11:

    equos,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.

    quadrupedes,

    id. M. 2, 86:

    spumantia ora (equi),

    id. ib. 8, 34:

    frena,

    id. P. 4, 12, 24:

    equi impotentes regendi,

    Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:

    currus,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:

    rege tela per auras,

    Verg. A. 9, 409:

    tela per viscera Caesaris,

    Luc. 7, 350; cf.:

    missum jaculum,

    Ov. M. 7, 684:

    sagittas nusquam,

    Luc. 7, 515:

    regens tenui vestigia filo,

    Cat. 64, 113; cf.:

    Daedalium iter lino duce,

    Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:

    caeca filo vestigia,

    Verg. A. 6, 30:

    diverso flamina tractu,

    Ov. M. 1, 59:

    gressus,

    Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
    B.
    In partic., jurid. t. t.:

    regere fines,

    to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
    II.
    Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
    A.
    In gen.:

    Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:

    domum,

    id. ib. 1, 39, 61:

    rem consilio,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:

    belli fera munera Mavors regit,

    Lucr. 1, 33; cf.

    bella,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:

    omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:

    alicujus animum atque ingenium,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:

    animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),

    Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:

    mores,

    Ov. M. 15, 834:

    animos dictis,

    Verg. A. 1, 153:

    animum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:

    ut me ipse regam,

    id. ib. 1, 1, 27:

    consilia senatus,

    Quint. 12, 1, 26:

    valetudines principis,

    Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:

    valetudinem arbitratu suo,

    Suet. Tib. 68 al.:

    neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,

    Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:

    jam regi leges, non regere,

    Liv. 10, 13:

    utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,

    Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:

    vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,

    Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:

    Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,

    Tac. H. 3, 50:

    nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:

    quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?

    Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,

    rem publicam,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 41;

    1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,

    id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;

    2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:

    Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,

    id. ib. 1, 27, 43:

    Frisios,

    Tac. A. 4, 72:

    populos imperio,

    Verg. A. 6, 851:

    imperiis Italiam,

    id. ib. 4, 230:

    legiones,

    Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.

    cohortes,

    id. H. 4, 12:

    exercitum,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:

    domum,

    Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:

    diva, quae regis Antium,

    Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:

    Diana, quae silentium regis,

    id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:

    animi partes consilio,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:

    ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,

    id. ib. 2, 23, 43:

    rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,

    id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:

    Tiberio regente,

    Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:

    stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,

    Quint. 3, 8, 47:

    quo regente,

    Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:

    Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,

    i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
    2.
    To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):

    errantem regere,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 57:

    rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
    I.
    P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:

    contemptus regentium,

    Tac. A. 12, 54:

    in obsequium regentis,

    id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:

    vita regentis,

    Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:

    excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,

    Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:

    in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),

    Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
    II.
    rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
    A.
    Lit., of horizontal direction:

    pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),

    Lucr. 4, 439:

    sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,

    id. 2, 249 Munro:

    rectā regione iter instituere,

    Liv. 21, 31:

    India, rectā regione spatiosa,

    Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:

    ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:

    via,

    id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.

    platea,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:

    porta,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:

    ostium,

    id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:

    ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),

    Lucr. 4, 93:

    cursus hinc in Africam,

    Liv. 26, 43:

    saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:

    recto flumine,

    Verg. A. 8, 57:

    recto ad Iberum itinere,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:

    ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,

    Verg. A. 8, 209:

    recto grassetur limite miles,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 477:

    velut rectae acies concurrissent,

    in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,

    acies,

    id. 35, 28:

    qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,

    Quint. 8, 3, 9:

    hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,

    Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:

    adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,

    Sen. Const. 5, 5:

    rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,

    id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:

    oculi,

    Suet. Aug. 16; cf.

    acies,

    Ov. M. 2, 776:

    lumen,

    Luc. 9, 638:

    vultus,

    Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:

    ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,

    in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

    saxa,

    perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:

    rectae prope rupes,

    id. 38, 20:

    truncus,

    Ov. M. 7, 640:

    ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:

    caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,

    Quint. 11, 3, 69:

    homines,

    straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,

    Quintia,

    id. 86, 1:

    puella,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:

    senectus,

    Juv. 3, 26:

    iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,

    does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:

    vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,

    Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:

    crus Rectius,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:

    rectior coma,

    smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:

    longā trabe rectior exstet,

    Ov. M. 3, 78:

    crura,

    Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:

    rectissima linea,

    Quint. 3, 6, 83:

    via,

    id. 12, 2, 27. —
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):

    ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:

    rectā viā depelli,

    Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;

    so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,

    Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:

    recta consilia dare,

    Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:

    quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:

    quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,

    id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:

    sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,

    id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:

    (oratio) recta an ordine permutato,

    id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:

    per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),

    id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:

    recto ac justo proelio dimicare,

    Liv. 35, 4 fin.:

    rectarum cenarum consuetudo,

    a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,

    cena,

    Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:

    recta,

    Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:

    domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),

    Sen. Ep. 100, 6:

    nominibus rectis expendere nummos,

    i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):

    absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,

    suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:

    rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:

    quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,

    id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:

    aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,

    Quint. 6, 3, 89:

    cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,

    id. 8, 5, 6;

    so (opp. durum et incomptum),

    id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:

    mutare aliquid a recto,

    id. 2, 13, 11:

    recta et vera loquere,

    i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:

    qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,

    Quint. 10, 5, 12:

    ea plerumque recta sunt,

    id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:

    rectior divisio,

    Quint. 7, 2, 39:

    si quid novisti rectius istis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:

    rectissima ratio,

    Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):

    honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,

    Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:

    nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,

    id. Lael. 22, 82;

    so with honestum,

    id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:

    (opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,

    Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:

    recta consilia (opp. prava),

    Liv. 1, 27:

    in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),

    Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:

    curvo dignoscere rectum,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:

    mens sibi conscia recti,

    Verg. A. 1, 604:

    fidem rectumque colebat,

    Ov. M. 1, 90:

    recta ingenia (opp. perversa),

    Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:

    in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,

    Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:

    animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:

    natura,

    id. S. 1, 6, 66:

    ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:

    judex,

    Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.

    auditor,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:

    vir rectus et sanctus,

    id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:

    beatus judicii rectus,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:

    rectum est gravitatem retinere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
    b.
    In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;

    opp. obliqui casus),

    Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
    A.
    rectā,
    B.
    rectō,
    C.
    rectē.
    A.
    rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):

    hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:

    jam ad regem rectā me ducam,

    id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:

    tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,

    id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:

    Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,

    Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
    B.
    rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):

    appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,

    Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
    C. 1.
    Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):

    vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,

    Cato, R. R. 33, 4:

    sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:

    satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,

    Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
    2.
    Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):

    recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:

    fecisti edepol et recte et bene,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;

    so with commode,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:

    recte et sapienter facit,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:

    recte atque ordine factum,

    Cic. Quint. 7, 28:

    recte atque ordine facere,

    id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;

    v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:

    recte atque in loco constare,

    id. Mur. 12, 26:

    recte factum,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:

    seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:

    seu recte seu perperam facere,

    Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:

    recte dictum (opp. absurde),

    Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:

    recte concludere (opp. vitiose),

    Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:

    recte factum (opp. turpiter),

    Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:

    recte rationem tenes,

    Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:

    hercle quin tu recte dicis,

    id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:

    non recte judicas de Catone,

    Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:

    rectissime quidem judicas,

    id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:

    tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:

    monere,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:

    admonere recte,

    id. Men. 5, 9, 33:

    suis amicis recte res suas narrare,

    properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:

    hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,

    consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:

    aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,

    duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:

    alicui recte dare epistulam,

    correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:

    cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,

    safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,

    sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,

    id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:

    alicui suam salutem recte committere,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:

    si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,

    goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:

    ludi recte facti,

    id. 36, 2:

    ver sacrum non esse recte factum,

    id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:

    valere,

    id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:

    apud matrem recte est,

    i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,

    recte esse,

    id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:

    recte sit oculis tuis,

    Gell. 13, 30, 11:

    olivetum recte putare,

    properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:

    solet illa recte sub manus succedere,

    well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:

    recte cavere,

    to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:

    deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,

    well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,

    vortere,

    id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

    alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,

    Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:

    nec recte loqui alicui,

    id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:

    nec recte dicere in aliquem,

    id. As. 1, 3, 3;

    and simply nec recte dicere,

    id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:

    ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:

    hic tibi erit rectius,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:

    rectius bella gerere,

    Liv. 3, 2 fin.:

    non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
    b.
    With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:

    locus recte ferax,

    Cato, R. R. 44:

    salvus sum recte,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:

    morata recte,

    id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:

    oneratus recte,

    id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:

    non recte vinctus est,

    Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
    c.
    Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
    B.
    So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:

    rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,

    i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,

    in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!

    Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rego

  • 6 rēctus

        rēctus adj. with comp. and sup.    [P. of rego], in a straight line, straight, upright, direct, undeviating: rectā regione iter instituere, L.: India, rectā regione spatiosa, Cu.: hinc in pistrinum rectā proficisci viā, T.: huc ex Africā cursus, L.: lineae, perpendicular: saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant, horizontal, Cs.: recto litore, directly along the shore, V.: ad Iberum iter, Cs.: ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis, V.: recto grassetur limite miles, O.: velut rectae acies concurrissent, i. e. front to front, L.: pugna, regular, L.: saxa, steep, L.: rectae prope rupes, L.: truncus, O.: puella, H.: senectus, Iu.: iterque Non agit in rectum, directly forward, O.: crus Rectius, H.: longā trabe rectior exstet, O.—Fig., direct, right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. C.: ut rectā viā rem narret, T.: quae sint in artibus recta ac prava diiudicare: est lex nihil aliud nisi recta ratio: rectum est gravitatem retinere: nominibus rectis expendere nummos, i. e. on good securities, H.: si quid novisti rectius istis, H.: rectissima studia.— Morally right, just, conscientious, virtuous, upright: a rectā conscientiā discedere: animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus, H.: Caesar: quid rectius fuerit, dicere non est necesse: ob rectissimum facinus.
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    recta -um, rectior -or -us, rectissimus -a -um ADJ
    right, proper; straight; honest

    Latin-English dictionary > rēctus

  • 7 genus

    1.
    gĕnus, ĕris, n. [= genos, root GEN, gigno, gens], birth, descent, origin; and concr., a race, stock, etc. (cf.: familia, gens, stirps).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.: bono genere gnati, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17; cf.:

    ii, qui nobili genere nati sunt,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 180:

    amplissimo genere natus,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 12, 4:

    genere regio natus,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 33:

    C. Laelius, cum ei quidam malo genere natus diceret, indignum esse suis majoribus, at hercule, inquit, tu tuis dignus,

    id. de Or. 2, 71, 286:

    genere et nobilitate et pecunia sui municipii facile primus,

    id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15:

    esse genere divino,

    id. Rep. 2, 2:

    contempsisti L. Murenae genus, extulisti tuum,

    id. Mur. 7, 15:

    hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia,

    id. Leg. 2, 1, 3; cf. id. Brut. 58, 212; id. Rep. 1, 18:

    adulescens, cujus spei nihil praeter genus patricium deesset,

    Liv. 6, 34, 11:

    in famam generis ac familiae,

    Quint. 3, 11, 12; 5, 10, 24:

    genus Lentulorum,

    id. 6, 3, 67:

    Atys, genus unde Atii duxere Latini,

    Verg. A. 5, 568:

    fortuna non mutat genus,

    Hor. Epod. 4, 6:

    virginem plebei generis petiere juvenes, alter virgini genere par, alter, etc.,

    Liv. 4, 9, 4:

    qui sibi falsum nomen imposuerit, genus parentesve finxerit, etc.,

    Plaut. Sent. 5, 25, 11.— Plur.:

    summis gnati generibus,

    Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 20.—
    B.
    In partic., birth, for high or noble birth (mostly poet.):

    cum certi propter divitias aut genus aut aliquas opes rem publicam tenent, est factio,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 14: pol mihi fortuna magis nunc defit quam genus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 394 Vahl.):

    et genus et virtus, nisi cum re vilior alga est,

    Hor. S. 2, 5, 8; cf.:

    et genus et formam regina pecunia donat,

    id. Ep. 1, 6, 37:

    non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te Restituet pietas,

    id. C. 4, 7, 23:

    jactes et genus et nomen inutile,

    id. ib. 1, 14, 13; cf.:

    cui genus et quondam nomen natique fuissent,

    Verg. A. 5, 621:

    nunc jam nobis patribus vobisque plebei promiscuus consulatus patet, nec generis, ut ante, sed virtutis est praemium,

    Liv. 7, 32, 14; cf. id. 4, 4, 7.
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Like gens and stirps, a descendant, offspring, child; and collect., descendants, posterity, race ( poet.): neve tu umquam in gremium extollas liberorum ex te genus, Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155 (Trag. v. 347 Vahl.):

    credo equidem, genus esse deorum,

    Verg. A. 4, 12:

    Uraniae genus, Hymen,

    i. e. her son, Cat. 61, 2:

    audax Iapeti,

    i. e. his son Prometheus, Hor. C. 1, 3, 27:

    Jovis,

    i. e. Perseus, Ov. M. 4, 609; cf. also Prop. 2, 2, 9; Hor. C. 2, 14, 18:

    genus Adrasti,

    i. e. Diomede, grandson of Adrastus, Ov. F. 6, 433;

    so of a grandson,

    id. M. 2, 743; cf.

    nepotum,

    Hor. C. 3, 17, 4:

    Tantali genus,

    id. ib. 2, 18, 37:

    Danai,

    id. ib. 2, 14, 18:

    Messi clarum genus Osci,

    id. S. 1, 5, 54:

    ab alto Demissum genus Aenea,

    i. e. Octavianus, as the adopted son of Julius Cœsar, id. ib. 2, 5, 63:

    sive neglectum genus et nepotes Respicis auctor,

    i. e. the Romans, id. C. 1, 2, 35; cf. ib. 3, 6, 18:

    regium genus,

    id. ib. 2, 4, 15. —
    B.
    Of an assemblage of objects (persons, animals, plants, inanimate or abstract things) which are related or belong together in consequence of a resemblance in natural qualities; a race, stock, class, sort, species, kind (in this signif. most freq. in all periods and kinds of writing).
    1.
    In gen.
    a.
    Of living things: ne genus humanum temporis longinquitate occideret, propter hoc marem cum femina esse coniunctum, Cic. ap. Col. 12, 1 (Fragm. Cic. 1, 5 Baiter):

    quod ex infinita societate generis humani ita contracta res est, etc.,

    of the human race, Cic. Lael. 5, 20; cf. id. Rep. 1, 2 fin.:

    o deorum quicquid in caelo regit Terras et humanum genus,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 2;

    for which: consulere generi hominum,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 12; cf.:

    cum omni hominum genere,

    id. ib. 2, 26; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 7:

    solivagum genus,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 25: potens vir cum inter sui corporis homines tum etiam ad plebem, quod haudquaquam inter id genus contemptor ejus habebatur, i. e. among the Plebeians, Liv. 6, 34, 5: Graium genus, the Grecian race, Enn. ap. Prob. ad Verg. E. 6, 31 (Ann. v. 149 Vahl.):

    virtus est propria Romani generis atque seminis,

    Cic. Phil. 4, 5, 13; cf. id. Ac. 2, 27, 86:

    Ubii, paulo quam sunt ejusdem generis et ceteris humaniores,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 3, 3; cf.

    also: impellit alios (Aeduos) iracundia et temeritas, quae maxime illi hominum generi est innata,

    race of men, id. ib. 7, 42, 2; so, like gens, of nations, peoples, tribes: ferox, Sall. Fragm. ap. Arus. Mess. s. v. insolens, p. 241 Lind. (Hist. 1, 14 Gerl.); Liv. 34, 7, 6:

    implacidum (Genauni),

    Hor. C. 4, 14, 10:

    durum ac velox (Ligures),

    Flor. 2, 3, 4:

    omne in paludes diffugerat,

    id. 3, 10, 14:

    Graecorum,

    Cic. Fl. 4, 9:

    Numidarum,

    Liv. 30, 12, 18:

    genus omne nomenque Macedonum,

    id. 13, 44, 6; Nep. Reg. 2:

    Italici generis multi mortales,

    Sall. J. 47, 1:

    Illyriorum,

    Liv. 27, 32, 4; 27, 48, 10; 42, 47 fin.:

    Scytharum,

    Just. 2, 3, 16; Tac. H. 2, 4; Suet. Ner. 37; Vell. 2, 118, 1.—In plur.:

    conventus is, qui ex variis generibus constaret,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 36, 1:

    olim isti fuit generi quondam quaestus apud saeclum prius... est genus hominum, qui se primos esse omnium rerum volunt,

    class of men, profession, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 15 and 17:

    firmi et stabiles et constantes (amici), cujus generis est magna penuria,

    Cic. Lael. 17, 62:

    saepius genus ejus hominis (sc. procuratoris rei publicae) erit in reliqua nobis oratione tractandum,

    id. Rep. 2, 29 fin.; cf.:

    genus aliud tyrannorum,

    id. ib. 1, 44:

    judicum genus et forma,

    id. Phil. 5, 5, 13:

    istius generis asoti,

    id. Fin. 2, 8, 23; cf.:

    omnium ejus generis poëtarum haud dubie proximus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 85:

    liberrimum hominum,

    id. 10, 12, 2, § 22:

    irritabile vatum,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 102:

    hoc omne (ambubajarum, etc.),

    id. S. 1, 2, 2:

    hominum virile, muliebre,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35:

    equidem fabulam et fictam rem ducebam esse, virorum omne genus in aliqua insula conjuratione muliebri ab stirpe sublatum esse,

    Liv. 34, 2, 3:

    cedat consulari generi praetorium,

    Cic. Planc. 6, 15:

    ad militare genus = ad milites,

    Liv. 24, 32, 2:

    alia militaris generis turba,

    id. 44, 45, 13:

    castellani, agreste genus,

    id. 34, 27, 9 Weissenb. ad loc.— Sing. with plur. predicate:

    Ministrantibus sibi omni genere turpium personarum,

    Capitol. Ver. 4.—In plur.:

    eorum hominum... genera sunt duo,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 13, 1:

    tria auditorum,

    Quint. 3, 4, 6.— Repeated in the relative-clause:

    duo genera semper in hac civitate fuerunt... quibus ex generibus,

    Cic. Sest. 45, 96.—In the acc., of description (v. Roby's Gram. 2, p. 42 sq.):

    quot et quod genus pastores habendi,

    of what kind, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 1:

    quod genus ii sunt, etc.,

    Auct. Her. 2, 30, 48; cf. in the foll.—
    (β).
    Of animals, plants, etc.: genus altivolantum, the race of birds, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 84 Vahl.); cf.: genu' pennis condecoratum, id. Fragm. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 59:

    lanigerum, id. Fragm. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. Cyprio, p. 59 Müll.: squamigerum,

    Lucr. 1, 162; cf.

    piscium,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 9:

    silvestre,

    Lucr. 5, 1411:

    omne ferarum,

    id. 5, 1338:

    acre leonum,

    id. 5, 862:

    malefici generis plurima animalia,

    Sall. J. 17, 6:

    diversum confusa genus panthera camelo,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 195:

    animantūm propagare genus,

    to propagate the race, Lucr. 1, 195:

    ad genus faciendum,

    Just. 2, 9 fin.:

    juxta genus suum,

    Vulg. Gen. 1, 11 saep.— Plur.:

    quae vero et quam varia genera bestiarum vel cicurum vel ferarum!

    Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 99:

    piscium genera,

    Quint. 5, 10, 21.—In the acc., of description:

    porticus avibus omne genus oppletae,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11:

    pascuntur omne genus objecto frumento,

    id. ib. 3, 6:

    boves et id genus pecua,

    App. M. 2, p. 115, 4; id. Flor. p. 37. —
    b.
    Of inanim. and abstr. things, kind, sort, description, class, order, character:

    genus ullum materiaï,

    Lucr. 2, 304:

    cum is (sol) quoque efficiat, ut omnia floreant et in suo quaeque genere pubescant,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 15, 41:

    naves omni genere armorum ornatissimae,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14, 2:

    cibi genus,

    id. ib. 4, 1, 9:

    cum omni genere commeatus,

    Liv. 30, 36, 2:

    frugum,

    id. 38, 15, 9:

    hoc sphaerae genus,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 14:

    hoc triplex rerum publicarum genus,

    id. ib. 2, 23:

    regale civitatis,

    id. ib.; cf.:

    totum regiae civitatis,

    id. ib. 2, 29:

    novum imperii,

    id. ib. 2, 32:

    ipsum istud genus orationis exspecto,

    id. ib. 1, 24 fin.; cf.: dulce orationis, id. Or. 13, 42:

    qua re esset hoc bellum genere ipso necessarium,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 10, 27; cf.:

    genus hoc erat pugnae, quo, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 48, 4:

    potestas annua (consulum) genere ipso ac jure regia,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 32:

    genus vitae... genus aetatis,

    id. Off. 1, 32, 117:

    optimum emendandi,

    Quint. 10, 4, 2:

    dicendi,

    Cic. Off. 1, 1, 3; Quint. 8, 3, 56; 12, 10, 69:

    simplex rectumque loquendi,

    id. 9, 3, 3:

    omnis generis tormenta,

    Liv. 32, 16, 10:

    praeda ingens omnis generis,

    id. 27, 5, 9; so,

    omnis generis, with tela,

    id. 38, 26, 4;

    with naves,

    id. 34, 8, 5;

    with eloquentia,

    id. 39, 40, 7, etc.—Repeated in the relative-clause:

    erat haec (ratio) ex eodem genere, quod ego maxime genus ex sociorum litteris reperire cupiebam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183.—In plur.:

    Caesar haec genera munitionis instituit,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 72, 1:

    disserere de generibus et de rationibus civitatum,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 11; cf. id. ib. 1, 26;

    28: genera juris institutorum, morum consuetudinumque describere,

    id. ib. 3, 10:

    genera furandi,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 7, § 18.—In the acc., of description: omne, hoc, id, quod genus, for omnis, ejus, hujus, cujus generis, of every, of this, of which kind:

    sub urbe hortum omne genus, coronamenta omne genus,

    Cato, R. R. 8, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 29, 1:

    omne genus simulacra feruntur,

    Lucr. 4, 735:

    si hoc genus rebus non proficitur,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 23; id. L. L. 9, § 110 Müll.; Lucr. 6, 917 and Hor. S. 2, 6, 44:

    in id genus verbis,

    Varr. L. L. 10, § 79; 8, 7, 108, § 17:

    in id genus libris,

    Gell. 3, 8, 1:

    scis me ante orationes aut aliquid id genus solitum scribere,

    Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3:

    vitanda sunt illa, quae propinqua videntur: quod genus, fidentiae contrarium est diffidentia, etc.,

    for example, id. Inv. 2, 54, 165; so ib. 2, 52, 157; 2, 54, 162; 2, 57, 172; Lucr. 4, 271; 6, 1058:

    lege jus est id quod populi jussu sanctum est, quod genus: ut in jus eas cum voceris,

    Auct. Her. 2, 13, 19; cf.

    ib. sqq.— In gen.: i. q. res or aliquid: ut in omni genere hujus populi (Graeci) consuetudinem videretur imitatus,

    in all respects, in everything, Cic. Rep. 2, 20; cf.:

    innumerabiles res sunt, in quibus te quotidie in omni genere desiderem,

    id. Q. Fr. 2, 2 fin.:

    incredibile est, quam me in omni genere delectarit,

    id. Att. 16, 5, 2:

    medici assiduitas et tota domus in omni genere diligens,

    id. ib. 12, 33, 2;

    7, 1, 2: qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est, is ineptus dicitur,

    in any respect whatever, id. de Or. 2, 4, 17:

    qua de re et de hoc genere toto pauca cognosce,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 4.—Adverb.: in genus, in general, generally:

    sermones in genus communes,

    Gell. 4, 1 fin. —
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    In philos. lang., opp. partes, and comprising them within itself, a general term, logical genus:

    genus est id, quod sui similes communione quadam, specie autem differentes, duas aut plures complectitur partes,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 189; cf.: genus est, quod plures partes amplectitur, ut animal;

    pars est, quae subest generi, ut equus. Sed saepe eadem res alii genus, alii pars est: nam homo animalis pars est, Thebani aut Trojani genus,

    id. de Inv. 1, 22, 32: genus est, quod partes aliquas amplectitur, ut cupiditas;

    pars est, quae subest generi, ut cupiditati amor, avaritia,

    id. ib. 1, 28, 42; cf.

    also: genus est notio ad plures differentias pertinens,

    id. Top. 7, 31:

    nec vero sine philosophorum disciplina genus et speciem cujusque rei cernere neque eam definiendo explicare nec tribuere in partes possumus, etc.,

    id. Or. 4, 16; cf. ib. 33, 117:

    formae dicendi specie dispares, genere laudabiles,

    id. de Or. 3, 9, 34:

    perturbationes sunt genere quatuor, partibus plures,

    id. Tusc. 3, 11, 24; cf. ib. 5, 25, 71:

    et conjuncta quaeremus, et genera et partes generibus subjectas, et similitudines, etc.,

    id. de Or. 2, 39, 166;

    opp. species and pars,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 3.—
    b.
    In gram., gender: transversi sunt (ordines) qui ab recto casu obliqui declinantur, ut albus, albi, albo;

    directi sunt, qui ab recto casu in rectos declinantur, ut albus, alba, album. Transversorum ordinum partes appellantur casus, directorum genera: utrisque inter se implicatis forma,

    Varr. L. L. 10, § 22 Müll.:

    quod ad verborum temporalium rationem attinet, cum partes sint quatuor: temporum, personarum, generum, divisionum, etc.,

    ib. 9, § 95:

    in nominibus tria genera,

    Quint. 1, 4, 23:

    barbarismum fieri per numeros aut genera,

    id. 1, 5, [p. 811] 16;

    9, 3, 6: in verbis quoque quis est adeo imperitus, ut ignoret genera et qualitates, etc.,

    id. 1, 4, 27.
    2.
    gĕnus, ūs, v. genu.

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  • 8 talus

    tālus, i, m. [from tax-lus; root tak-, tvak-; cf. Gr. tassô, whence taxus; cf. taxillus], the ankle, ankle-bone; of animals, the pastern-bone, knuckle-bone (syn. calx).
    I.
    Lit., Ov. M. 4, 343; Cels. 8, 1 fin.; 8, 7 fin.; 8, 22; Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 253; Ov. M. 8, 808:

    talum expellere,

    to dislocate, Mart. 8, 75, 3:

    extorsisse,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 24, 1.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    The heel:

    purpura ad talos demissa,

    Cic. Clu. 40, 111; Hor. S. 1, 2, 29 and 99; cf. id. ib. 1, 9, 11:

    talos a vertice pulcher ad imos,

    id. Ep. 2, 2, 4:

    summaque vix talos contigit unda meos,

    Ov. Am. 3, 6, 6:

    nudus,

    Juv. 7, 16.— Poet.: securus, cadat an recto stet fabula talo, whether it stands or falls, i. e. whether it succeeds or fails, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176; cf.: tibi recto vivere talo Ars dedit, i. e. to act well, conduct one ' s self well, Pers. 5, 104.—
    B.
    A die (orig. made from the knuckle-bones of certain animals) of an oblong shape, rounded at the ends, and marked only on the other four sides (cf. alea);

    while the tesserae were cubes, and marked on all six sides. Four tali were used in playing, but only three tesserae: ad pilam se aut ad talos se aut ad tesseras conferunt,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 58; id. Sen. 16, 58; Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 75; 2, 3, 79; id. Capt. 1, 1, 5; Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23; 2, 21, 48; id. Fin. 3, 16, 54; Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71; Prop. 4 (5), 8, 45; Hor. C. 1, 4, 18; id. S. 2, 3, 171; 2, 7, 17; cf. Becker, Gallus, 3, p. 253 sq.

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  • 9 trames

    trāmĕs, ĭtis, m. [akin to trans, and Gr. terma, goal].
    I.
    Lit., a cross - way, sideway, by-path, foot-path (cf. semita): domum ire coepi tramite, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 62 Müll.:

    egressus est non viis, sed tramitibus, paludatus,

    Cic. Phil. 13, 9, 19:

    in Apennini tramitibus,

    id. ib. 12, 11, 26:

    per tramites occulte perfugeret,

    Sall. C. 57, 1:

    per tramites occultos,

    id. J. 48, 2:

    transvorsis tramitibus transgressus,

    Liv. 2, 39, 3; Suet. Caes. 31:

    per devios tramites refugiens,

    id. Aug. 16; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 44; 3 (4), 22, 24; Verg. A. 11, 515 al. —
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Poet., in gen., a way, path, road, course, flight:

    cito decurrit tramite virgo,

    Verg. A. 5, 610:

    facili jam tramite sistam,

    id. ib. 6, 676: palantes error certo de tramite pellit. Hor. S. 2, 3, 49; Ov. F. 3, 13; id. M. 10, 53; Sen. Ep. 84, 13; Stat. Th. 2, 48:

    trames aquae immensae,

    a channel, Vulg. Ecclus. 24, 41.—
    * 2.
    Branches of a family, Gell. 13, 19, 15.—
    II.
    Trop., a way of life, way, course, method, manner: (Epicurus) viam monstravit, tramite parvo Qua possemus ad id recto contendere cursu, Lucr. 6, 27:

    ab aequitatis recto tramite deviare,

    Amm. 22, 10, 2:

    augustissimus ad immortalitatis praemium,

    Lact. 5, 18, 11 al.

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  • 10 cadō

        cadō cecidī, casūrus, ere    [CAD-], to fall, fall down, descend: lucrumae cadunt gaudio, T.: (apes) praecipites cadunt, V.: caelo ceciderunt sereno Fulgura, V.: a mento cadit manus, O.: de manibus arma cecidissent: vela cadunt, are furled, V.: Altius atque cadant imbres, from a greater height, V.—To fall, fall down, fall prostrate, fall over: ne ille ceciderit, has had a fall, T.: velut si prolapsus cecidisset, L.: prolapsa in volnus moribunda cecidit, L.: in pectus pronus, O.: casura moenia Troum, O.: casurae arces, V.—Of heavenly bodies, to set, go down, fall, sink: iuxta solem cadentem, V.: quā (nocte) Orion cadit, H.: oriens mediusve cadensve Phoebus, O.: primis cadentibus astris, fading, i. e. at dawn, V.—To fall off, fall away, fall out, drop off, be shed: barba, V.: Prima (folia) cadunt, H.: gregibus lanae cadunt, O.: poma ramis, O.: elapsae manibus cecidere tabellae, O.—Of a stream, to fall, empty itself: in sinum maris, L.—Of dice, to be thrown, fall, turn up: illud, quod cecidit forte, T.—Of shadows, to be thrown, fall (poet.): cadunt de montibus umbrae, V.—To fall dead, fall, die, be slain: in acie: Civili acie, O.: pauci de nostris cadunt, Cs.: plures Saguntini cadebant quam Poeni, L.: ante diem, prematurely, V.: suo Marte (i. e. suā manu), O.: iustā Morte, H.: femineo Marte, O.: a tanto viro, O.: a centurione, Ta.: In pio officio, O.: in patriā cadendum est, we must perish.—Of victims, to be slain, be offered, be sacrificed, fall (poet.): Multa tibi cadet hostia, V.: Si tener cadit haedus, H.: Victima vota cadit, O.—Of a woman, to yield, Tb. —Fig., to come, fall under, fall, be subject, be exposed: sub sensum: in conspectum, to become visible: si regnum ad servitia caderet, into servile hands, L.: sub imperium Romanorum: in deliberationem: in suspicionem alicuius, N.—To belong, be in accordance, agree, refer, be suitable, apply, fit, suit, become: non cadit in hos mores ista suspitio: cadit ergo in bonum virum mentiri?: Heu, cadit in quemquam tantum scelus? V.: sub eandem rationem.—Of time, to fall upon: in alienissimum tempus: in hanc aetatem.— To fall due: in eam diem cadere nummos.—To befall, fall to the lot of, happen, come to pass, occur, result, turn out, fall out: mihi peropportune: insperanti mihi cecidit, ut, etc.: Sunt quibus ad portas cecidit custodia sorti, V.: Ut illis... voluptas cadat, H.: verba cadentia, uttered at random, H.: verba si Graeco fonte cadent, be derived from, H.: verebar quorsum id casurum esset, how it would turn out: praeter opinionem, N.: si quid adversi caderet, L.: fortuito in melius casura, Ta.: curare Quo promissa cadent, how fulfilled, H.: Vota cadunt, are fulfilled, Tb.: tibi pro vano benigna cadant, Pr.: Quo res cumque cadent, V.: si non omnia caderent secunda, Cs.: ut inrita promissa eius caderent, L.: libertas in servitutem cadit: in hunc hominem ista suspitio: ad inritum cadens spes, turning out to be vain, L.—To lose strength, fall, perish, be overthrown, drop, decline, vanish, decay, cease: cadentem rem p. fulcire: tua laus pariter cum re p. cecidit: virtute Neronis Armenius cecidit, H.: non tibi ira cecidit, L.: animus, to fail. L.: cadere animis, to lose courage: cecidere illis animi, O.— To fail (in speaking), falter: orator cadet.—Causā cadere, to lose the cause: cadere in iudicio: Ut cecidit fortuna Phrygum, O.— Of the countenance or features: tibi tamen oculi, voltus, verba cecidissent, i. e. expressed terror.— Of words: Multa renascentur, quae iam cecidere, fallen into disuse, H.—Of theatrical representations, to fail, be condemned: cadat an recto stet fabula talo, H.—Of the wind, to abate, subside, die away: cadit Eurus, O.: venti vis omnis cecidit, L.—Of words and clauses, to be terminated, end, close: verba melius in syllabas longiores cadunt: similiter cadentia, having the same endings.
    * * *
    cadere, cecidi, casus V INTRANS
    fall, sink, drop, plummet, topple; be slain, die; end, cease, abate; decay

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  • 11 cursus

        cursus ūs, m    [1 CEL-], a running, course, way, march, passage, voyage, journey: cursum quom institeris, T.: navium, Cs.: ingressus, cursus, accubitio: cursu cum aequalibus certare, S.: cursu contingere metam, H.: se cursu miratur in ipso, O.: quique pedum cursu valet, V.: huc magno cursu intenderunt, at full speed, Cs.: cursu Troas agebat, V.: cursu in hostem feruntur, advance at a run, L.: cursum in medios dedit, rushed, V.: effuso cursu, L.: eodem cursu contendere, right onward, Cs.: tam brevi tempore tantos cursūs conficere: cursum direxit, quo tendebat, N.: iterare cursūs relictos, H.: Hunc morem cursūs docuit, sort of race, V.: Cursibus decernere, in racing, V.: Quo cursu deserta petiverit, flight, V.: in hoc medio cursu, i. e. half-way across, Cs.: secundissimo vento cursum tenere.—Of things, a course, way, flow: stellarum: mutata suos flumina cursūs, movement, V.: Cursibus obliquis fluens, O. — A passage: cursum exspectare, i. e. a fair wind.—Poet.: et vi cursus in altum Vela vocet, V.—Fig., a course, progress, direction, way, passage, access, succession: rerum: vitae: quem dederat cursum fortuna, V.: temporum: continuus proeliorum, Ta.: vocis per omnīs sonos: invectus contexere cursu, i. e. in a breath, Iu.: In cursu meus dolor est, i. e. is permanent, O.: recto depellere cursu, from virtue, H.
    * * *
    running; speed/zeal; charge, onrush; forward movement/march; revolution (wheel); course/direction, line of advance, orbit; voyage/passage; race; career; series; lesson

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  • 12 dē-pellō

        dē-pellō pulī, pulsus, ere,    to drive out, drive away, remove, expel, put out, put off, turn aside: venientem in forum virum vi: de Falerno Anseres: eum de provinciā, N.: alqm urbe, to banish, Ta.: ab aris et focis ferrum flammamque: tantam molem a cervicibus nostris: frenum ore, H.: tela, avert: depulerant Aurorae lumina noctem, O.: quo solemus ovium depellere fetūs, to drive down, V.—In war, to drive out, expel, dislodge: defensores vallo, Cs.: inde vi depelli, S.: ex his regionibus praesidia, N. — To thrust out, remove, displace: principes depulsi loco: iterum ab eodem gradu depulsus est, N.—To wean: a lacte agnos, V.: depulsi haedi, V.: lacte depulsus leo, H.—Fig., to avert, put away, drive off, remove: cibo fames depulsa est: frigus, H.: morbos, Cs.: pestem augurio, V.: mortem fratri, O.: ab se mortem opinione mortis: ratibus taedas, V.: curas vino, Tb.: crimen: auditiones falsas, Ta.—To depose, remove: alqm tribunatu: alqm senatu, Ta.: alqm de provinciā, N.—To deter, divert, dissuade, drive, force: alqm de susceptā causā: de spe depulsus: magnā spe depulsus, L.: sibi turpitudinem: te ex illā ratione esse depulsum: Caesar a superioribus consiliis depulsus, Cs.: aliquam recto cursu, H.

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  • 13 grassor

        grassor ātus, ārī, dep. intens.    [gradior], to go, move, go about: recto limite, O.— To loiter, idle, riot: iuventus grassans in Subura, L.: per omnia scelera, L.—Fig., to go, proceed, act, move: ad gloriam virtutis viā, S.: aliā viā, L.: consilio grassandum ratus, L.: cupidine atque irā, be actuated by, S.: obsequio, make approaches obsequiously, H.: crudelitas in captā urbe grassata est, Cu.— To advance, take measures, make an attack: ferro grassatur cupido, Iu.: in te hac viā, L.: in possessionem agri, L.
    * * *
    grassari, grassatus sum V DEP
    march on, advance; roam in search of victims, prowl; proceed; run riot

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  • 14 pallidus

        pallidus adj. with comp.    [2 PAL-], pale, pallid, colorless: ut pallidus omnis Cenā desurgat dubiā, H.: hospes pallidior statuā, Ct.: (Dido) morte futurā, V.: recto voltu et pallidus, i. e. well or sick, Iu.: Pallida mors, causing paleness: pallida sedi, in terror, O.: inmundo pallida mitra situ, unseemly, Pr.: in lentā Naïde, love-sick, O.
    * * *
    pallida, pallidum ADJ
    pale, yellow-green

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  • 15 sēcūrus

        sēcūrus adj. with comp.    [2 se+cura].—Of persons, free from care, careless, unconcerned, untroubled, fearless, quiet, easy, composed: ut securus bellum Nabidi inferam, L.: securus Temnum proficiscitur: securae peragebant otia gentes, O.: Ceres natā receptā, relieved of anxiety, O.: de linguā Latinā securi es animi: securior ab Samnitibus, L.: Romani securi pro salute de gloriā certabant, Ta.: futuri, O.: pelagi atque mei, unconcerned about, V.: poenae, H.: odi, Ta.: periculi, Cu.: cadat an recto stet fabula talo, H.: ne quis errore labatur vestrūm, L.— Free from care, untroubled, tranquil, serene, cheerful, bright: aevom, H.: Otia, V.: summa malorum, careless, O.: holus, i. e. a peaceful meal, H.: latices, driving away care, V.: vota repulsae, safe against, O.— Free from danger, safe, secure: nullum locum securum esse sinere, L.: mare, Ta.: materia, Ta.— Easy, off-hand, summary: castrensis iurisdictio, Ta.
    * * *
    secura, securum ADJ
    secure, safe, untroubled, free from care

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  • 16 tālus

        tālus ī, m    [TEC-], an ankle, ankle-bone, pasternbone, knuckle-bone: taloque tenus vestigia tinguit, O.: prodibant tubere tali, O.— The heel: ad talos demissa purpura: talos a vertice pulcher ad imos, H.: Securus, cadat an recto stet fabula talo, i. e. succeeds or fails, H.— A die (often made of bone; it had rounded ends, and four sides marked successively 1, 3, 6, 4): ad talos se aut ad tesseras conferunt: talos nucesque Ferre sinu laxo, H.
    * * *
    ankle, ankle/pastern bone; sheep knucklebone (marked far dice); dice game (pl.)

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  • 17 truncus

        truncus ī, m    [1 truncus].—Of a tree, the stem, stock, bole, trunk: arborum trunci, Cs.: quid interest inter hominem et truncum? etc.: enodes trunci, V.: inlapsus cerebro, H.: acernus, O.— The trunk, body: corporis: recto se attollere trunco, O.: iacet ingens litore truncus, V.—Fig., a stock, blockhead, dunce, dolt: qui potest esse in eius modi trunco sapientia?— A trunk, stem: quae (stirpes aegritudinis) ipso trunco everso omnes elegendae sunt.
    * * *

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  • 18 A

    1.
    A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to the a, a of the other Indo-. European languages:

    A primum est: hinc incipiam, et quae nomina ab hoc sunt, Lucil. ap. Terent. Scaur. p. 2255 P.: sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

    ne in A quidem atque S litteras exire temere masculina Graeca nomina recto casu patiebantur,

    Quint. 1, 5, 61.
    II.
    The sound of the A is short or long in every part of the word; as, ăb, păter, ită; ā, māter, frustrā. During a short period (between about 620 and 670 A. U. C. = from 134 to 84 B.C.) long a was written aa, probably first by the poet L. Attius, in the manner of the Oscan language; so we find in Latin inscriptions: AA. CETEREIS (i.e.a ceteris), CALAASI, FAATO, HAACE, MAARCIVM, PAAPVS, PAASTORES, VAARVS; and in Greek writing, MAAPKOPs PsIOS MAAPKEAAOS, KOINTON MAAPKION (like Osc. aasas = Lat. āra, Osc. Paapi = Lat. Pāpius, Osc. Paakul = Lat. Pāculus, Pācullus, Pācuvius, etc.), v. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 28 sq., and cf. Mommsen, Unterital. Dialekte, p. 210 sq. (The Umbrian language has gone a step farther, and written long a by aha, as Aharna, Naharcom, trahaf, etc.; cf. Aufrecht and Kirchhoff, Umbrische Sprachdenkm. p. 76 sq.) Vid. also the letters E and U.
    III.
    In etymological and grammatical formation of words, short a very often (sometimes also long a) is changed into other vowels.
    A.
    Short a is changed,
    1.
    , into long a —
    a.
    In consequence of the suppression of the following consonants at the end or in the middle of the word: ŭb, ā; vădis, vūs; ăg-, ăg-men, exāmen; tăg-, contūmino; căd-, cāsus. Hence also in the abl. sing. of the first decl., and in the particles derived from it. in consequence of the suppression of the original ablat. end. - d: PRAEDAD (Col. Rostr.), praedā; SENTENTIAD (S. C. de Bacch.), sententiā; EXTBAD (ib.), extrā; SVPRAD (ib.), suprā. —Hence,
    b.
    In perfect forms: scăb-o, scābi; căveo, cūvi; făv-eo, fāvi; păv-eo, pāvi (for scăbui, căvui, făvui, păvui).
    c.
    In other forms: ăgo, ambūges; păc-, păc-iscor, pâcis (pâx); săg-ax, sūgus, sāga; măc-er, mâcero; făg- (phagein), fūgus. (Contrary to analogy, ă remains short in dănunt, from dă-in-unt, V. Ritschl, l.l.p. 17.)
    2.
    Short a is changed into é or ē—
    a.
    Into é.
    (α).
    Most frequently in the second part of compounds, particularly before two consonants: facio, confectus; jacio, conjectus; rapio, dereptus; dăm-, damno, condemno; fāl-, fallo, fefelli; măn-, mando, commendo; scando, ascendo; ăp-, aptus, ineptus; ăr-, ars, iners, sollers; ăn-, annus, perennis; căpio, auceps; căput, triceps; ăgo, remex; jăcio, objex. And thus in Plautus, according to the best MSS., dispenno, dispessus from pando, compectus from compăciscor, anteceptus from capio (on the other hand, in Vergil, according to the best MS., aspurgo, attractare, deiractare, kept their a unchanged).
    (β).
    Sometimes ă is changed into ĕ also before one consonant (but in this case it is usually changed into ĭ; v. infra, 3. a. a.): grădior, ingrĕdior; pătior, perpĕtior; părio, repĕrio; păro, vitupĕro; ăp-, coepi (i. e. co-ŭpi); căno, tubicĕn, tibicĕn; in the reduplicated carcĕr (from carcar) farfŏrus (written also farfārus); and so, according to the better MSS., aequipĕro from păro, and defĕtigo from fătigo.
    (γ).
    In words taken from the Greek: talanton, talŏntum; phalara, phalŏrae; sisaron, sisŏr (but, according to the best MSS., cumŭra from kamara, not camŏra).
    b.
    Short a is changed to ē in some perfect forms: ăgo, ēgi; fūcio, féci; jăci, jĕci; frag-, frango, frēgi; căpio, cēpi, and păg-, pango, pēgi (together with pepĭgi and panxi, v. pango).
    3.
    Short a is changed to ĭ, a (most frequently in the second part of compounds)
    (α).
    before one consonant: ăgo, abĭgo; făcio, confĭcio; cădo, concĭdo; sălio, assĭlio; răpio, abrĭpio; păter, Juppĭter (in Umbrian lang. unchanged, Jupater), Marspĭter; Diespĭter, Opĭter; rătus, irrĭtus; ămicus, inìmicus (but ŭ remains unchanged in adŭmo, impătiens, and in some compounds of a later period of Roman literature, as praejacio, calefacio, etc.). —
    (β).
    Sometimes also before two consonants (where it is usually changed into ĕ; v. supra, 2. a. b.): tăg-, tango, contingo; păg-, pango, compingo (unchanged in some compounds, as peragro, desacro, depango, obcanto, etc.).
    b.
    ă is changed into ĭ in the reduplicated perfect forms: cădo, cecĭdi; căno, cecĭni; tăg-, tango, tetĭgi; păg-, pango, pepĭgi.
    c.
    Likewise in some roots which have ă: păg-, pignus; străg- (strangulo, strangô), stringo.
    d.
    In words taken from the Greek: mêchanê, machĭna; patanê, patĭna; bukanê, bucĭna; trutanê, trutĭna; balaneion, balĭneum; Katana, Catĭna (written also Catana); Akragas, Agrĭgentum.
    4.
    Short a is changed into short or long o.
    a.
    Into ŏ: scăbo, scobs; păr, pars, portio; dăm-, dŏmo; Fabii, Fŏvii (v. Paul. ex Fest. p. 87); marmaron, marmŏr; Mars, redupl. Marmar, Marmor (Carm. Fratr. Arv.).
    b.
    Into ō: dă-, dōnum, dōs; ăc-, ăcuo, ōcior (v. this art.).
    5.
    Short a is changed into ŭ —
    a.
    In the second part of compounds, particularly before l, p, and b: calco, inculco; salsus, insulsus; salto, exsulto; capio, occŭpo; răpio, surrupio and surruptus (also written surripio and surreptus); tăberna, contŭbernium; —before other consonants: quătio, conoŭtio; as, decussis; Mars, Mamŭrius, Mamŭralia; and once also condumnari (Tab. Bant. lin. 8, immediately followed by condemnatus, v. Klenze, Philol. Abhandl. tab. I., and Mommsen, Unterital. Dial. p. 149).
    b.
    In words of Greek origin: Hekabê, Hecŭba; skutalê, scutŭla; kraipalê, crapŭla; passalos, pessŭlus; aphlaston, aplustre; thriambos, triumphus.
    c.
    ă is perhaps changed into ŭ in ulciscor, compared with alc-, ulexô (arc-, arceo).
    B.
    Long a is sometimes changed into ē or ō.
    1.
    Into é: hālo, anhélo; fās-, féstus, profēstus; nām, némpe.
    2.
    Into ō: gnā-, gnārus, ignārus, ignōro. (But in general long a remains unchanged in composition: lābor, delūbor; gnàvus, ignūnus; fàma, infūmis.)
    IV.
    Contrary to the mode of changing Greek a into Latin e, i, o, u (v. supra), Latin a has sometimes taken the place of other Greek vowels in words borrowed from the Greek, as: lonchê, lancea; kulix, călix; Ganumêoês, Caiāmitus.
    V.
    The repugnance of the Latin Language to the Greek combined vowels ao has caused the translocation of them in Alumento for Daomeoôn (Paul. ex Fest. p. 18 Müll.).— Greek a is suppressed in Hercules from Hêraklês (probably in consequence of the inserted u; in late Latin we find Heracla and Heracula, cf. Ritschl, in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, vol. 12, p. 108).
    VI.
    Latin ă was early combined with the vowels i and u, forming the diphthongs ai and au; by changing the i into e, the diphthong ai soon became ae. So we find in the oldest inscriptions: AIDE, AIDLLIS, AIQVOM, GNAIVOD, HAICE, DVELONAI, TABELAI, DATAI, etc., which soon gave place to aedem, aedilis, aequom, Gnaeo, haec, Bellonae, tabellae, datae, etc. (the Col. Rostr. has PRAESENTE, PRAEDAD, and the S. C. de Bacch. AEDEM. The triphthong aei, found in CONQVAEISIVEI (?), is very rare; Miliar. Popil. lin. 11, v. Ritschl, l. l. p. 21). In some poets the old gen. sing. of the first decl. (- ai) is preserved, but is dissyllabic, āī. So in Ennius: Albūī Longūī, terrūī frugiferāī, frondosāī, lunāī, viāī; in Vergil: aulāī, aurāī, aquāī, pictāī; in Ausonius: herāī.
    B.
    ue as well as au are changed into other vowels.
    1.
    The sound of ae, e, and oe being very similar, these vowels are often interchanged in the best MSS., So we find caerimonia and cerimonia, caepa and cēpa, saeoulum and séculum; scaena and scēna; caelum and coelum, haedus and hoedus, macstus and moestus; cena, coena, and caena, etc.
    2.
    In composition and reduplications ae becomes í: aequus, iníquus; quaero, inquíro; laedo, illído; taedet, pertisum (noticed by Cic.); aestumo, exístumo; cuedo, cecídi, concído, homicida.
    3.
    ae is also changed into í in a Latinized word of Greek origin: Achaios (AchaiWos), Achíous.
    4.
    The diphthong au is often changed to ó and ú (the latter particularly in compounds): caudex, códex; Claudius, Clodius; lautus, lotus; plaustrum, plōstrum; plaudo, plōdo, explōdo; paululum, pōlulum; faux, suffōco; si audes (acc. to Cic. or acc. to others, si audies), sódes, etc.; claudo, inclūdo; causa, accūso. Hence in some words a regular gradation of au, o, u is found: claudo, clōdicare, clúdo; raudus, ródus, rúdus; caupo, cópa, cūpa; naugae, nōgae (both forms in the MSS. of Plautus), nūgae; fraustra, frode, frude (in MSS. of Vergil); cf. Ritschl, in Wintercatalog 1854-55, and O. Ribbeck, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. vol. 77, p. 181 sq.—The change of au into oē and ō appears only in audio, (oboedio) obēdio.
    5.
    Au sometimes takes the place of av-: faveo, fautum, favitor, fautor; navis, navita, nauta; avis, auceps, auspex. So Latin aut corresponds to Sanscr. avo. (whence - vā, Lat. - ve), Osc. avti, Umbr. ute, ote; and so the Lat. preposition ab, through av, becomes au in the words aufero and aufugio (prop. av-fero, av-fugio, for ab-fero, ab-fugio). Vid. the art. ab init.
    VII.
    In primitive roots, which have their kindred forms in the sister-languages of the Latin, the original a, still found in the Sanscrit, is in Latin either preserved or more frequently changed into other vowels.
    A.
    Original a preserved: Sanscr. mātri, Lat. màter; S. bhrātri, L. fràter; S. nāsā, L. nàsus and nàris; S. ap, L. aqua; S. apa, L. ab; S. nāma, L. năm; S. ćatur, [p. 2] L. quattuor (in Greek changed: thettares); S. capūla, L. căput (in Greek changed: kephalê, etc.).
    B.
    Original a is changed into other Latin vowels—
    1.
    Into e: S. ad, L. ed (ĕdo); S. as, L. es (esse); S. pat, L. pet (peto); S. pād, L. pĕd (pès); S. dant, L. dent (dens); S. ǵan, L. gen (gigno); S. mā, L. mè-tior; S. saptan, L. septem; S. daśan, L. decem; S. śata, L. centum; S. aham, L. ŏgo; S. pāra, L. per; S. paśu, L. pŏcus; S. asva, L. ŏquus, etc.
    2.
    Into i: S. an-, a- (neg. part.), L. in-: S. ana (prep.), L. in; S. antar, L. inter; S. sama, L. similis; S. agni, L. ignis; S. abhra, L. imber; S. panéa, L. quinque, etc.
    3.
    Into o: S. avi, L. ŏvi (ovis); S. vać, L. vōc (voco); S. pra, L. pro; S. pā, L. po (pŏtum); S. nāma, L. nōmen; S. api, L. ŏb; S. navan, L. nŏvem; S. nava, L. nŏvus, etc.
    4.
    Into u: S. marmara, L. murmur.
    5.
    Into ai, ae: S. prati, L. (prai) prae; S. śaśpa, L. caespes.
    6.
    Into different vowels in the different derivatives: S. mā, L. mê-tior, mŏdus; S. praó, L. prŏcor, prŏcus; S. vah, L. vĕho, via.
    C.
    Sometimes the Latin has preserved the original a, while even the Sanscrit has changed it: Lat. pa-, pater, Sanscr. pd, pitri.
    2.
    As an abbreviation A. usually denotes the praenomen Aulus; A. A. = Auli duo, Inscr. Orell. 1530 (but A. A. = Aquae Aponi, the modern Abano, ib. 1643 sq.; 2620; 3011). The three directors of the mint were designated by III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F. (i. e. auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo), ib. 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 al.;

    so also A. A. A.,

    ib. 3441 (cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 13 fin., and v. the art. Triumviri); A. D. A. agris dandis adsignandis, and A. I. A. agris judicandis adsignandis; A. O. amico optimo; A. P. a populo or aediliciae potestatis; A. P. R. aerario populi Romani. —Upon the voting tablets in judicial trials A. denoted absoluo; hence A. is called littera salutaris, Cic. Mil. 6, 15; v. littera. In the Roman Comitia A. (= antiquo) denoted the rejection of the point in question; v. antiquo. In Cicero's Tusculan Disputations the A. designated one of the disputants = adulescens or auditor, opp. to M. for magister or Marcus (Cicero); but it is to be remarked that the letters A and M do not occur in the best MSS. of this treatise; cf. edd. ad Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 9.—In dates A. D. = ante diem; v. ante; A. U. C. = anno urbis conditae; A. P. R. C. anno post Romam conditam.
    3.
    a, prep.=ab, v. ab.
    4.
    ā, interj.=ah, v. ah.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > A

  • 19 a

    1.
    A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to the a, a of the other Indo-. European languages:

    A primum est: hinc incipiam, et quae nomina ab hoc sunt, Lucil. ap. Terent. Scaur. p. 2255 P.: sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit,

    Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

    ne in A quidem atque S litteras exire temere masculina Graeca nomina recto casu patiebantur,

    Quint. 1, 5, 61.
    II.
    The sound of the A is short or long in every part of the word; as, ăb, păter, ită; ā, māter, frustrā. During a short period (between about 620 and 670 A. U. C. = from 134 to 84 B.C.) long a was written aa, probably first by the poet L. Attius, in the manner of the Oscan language; so we find in Latin inscriptions: AA. CETEREIS (i.e.a ceteris), CALAASI, FAATO, HAACE, MAARCIVM, PAAPVS, PAASTORES, VAARVS; and in Greek writing, MAAPKOPs PsIOS MAAPKEAAOS, KOINTON MAAPKION (like Osc. aasas = Lat. āra, Osc. Paapi = Lat. Pāpius, Osc. Paakul = Lat. Pāculus, Pācullus, Pācuvius, etc.), v. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 28 sq., and cf. Mommsen, Unterital. Dialekte, p. 210 sq. (The Umbrian language has gone a step farther, and written long a by aha, as Aharna, Naharcom, trahaf, etc.; cf. Aufrecht and Kirchhoff, Umbrische Sprachdenkm. p. 76 sq.) Vid. also the letters E and U.
    III.
    In etymological and grammatical formation of words, short a very often (sometimes also long a) is changed into other vowels.
    A.
    Short a is changed,
    1.
    , into long a —
    a.
    In consequence of the suppression of the following consonants at the end or in the middle of the word: ŭb, ā; vădis, vūs; ăg-, ăg-men, exāmen; tăg-, contūmino; căd-, cāsus. Hence also in the abl. sing. of the first decl., and in the particles derived from it. in consequence of the suppression of the original ablat. end. - d: PRAEDAD (Col. Rostr.), praedā; SENTENTIAD (S. C. de Bacch.), sententiā; EXTBAD (ib.), extrā; SVPRAD (ib.), suprā. —Hence,
    b.
    In perfect forms: scăb-o, scābi; căveo, cūvi; făv-eo, fāvi; păv-eo, pāvi (for scăbui, căvui, făvui, păvui).
    c.
    In other forms: ăgo, ambūges; păc-, păc-iscor, pâcis (pâx); săg-ax, sūgus, sāga; măc-er, mâcero; făg- (phagein), fūgus. (Contrary to analogy, ă remains short in dănunt, from dă-in-unt, V. Ritschl, l.l.p. 17.)
    2.
    Short a is changed into é or ē—
    a.
    Into é.
    (α).
    Most frequently in the second part of compounds, particularly before two consonants: facio, confectus; jacio, conjectus; rapio, dereptus; dăm-, damno, condemno; fāl-, fallo, fefelli; măn-, mando, commendo; scando, ascendo; ăp-, aptus, ineptus; ăr-, ars, iners, sollers; ăn-, annus, perennis; căpio, auceps; căput, triceps; ăgo, remex; jăcio, objex. And thus in Plautus, according to the best MSS., dispenno, dispessus from pando, compectus from compăciscor, anteceptus from capio (on the other hand, in Vergil, according to the best MS., aspurgo, attractare, deiractare, kept their a unchanged).
    (β).
    Sometimes ă is changed into ĕ also before one consonant (but in this case it is usually changed into ĭ; v. infra, 3. a. a.): grădior, ingrĕdior; pătior, perpĕtior; părio, repĕrio; păro, vitupĕro; ăp-, coepi (i. e. co-ŭpi); căno, tubicĕn, tibicĕn; in the reduplicated carcĕr (from carcar) farfŏrus (written also farfārus); and so, according to the better MSS., aequipĕro from păro, and defĕtigo from fătigo.
    (γ).
    In words taken from the Greek: talanton, talŏntum; phalara, phalŏrae; sisaron, sisŏr (but, according to the best MSS., cumŭra from kamara, not camŏra).
    b.
    Short a is changed to ē in some perfect forms: ăgo, ēgi; fūcio, féci; jăci, jĕci; frag-, frango, frēgi; căpio, cēpi, and păg-, pango, pēgi (together with pepĭgi and panxi, v. pango).
    3.
    Short a is changed to ĭ, a (most frequently in the second part of compounds)
    (α).
    before one consonant: ăgo, abĭgo; făcio, confĭcio; cădo, concĭdo; sălio, assĭlio; răpio, abrĭpio; păter, Juppĭter (in Umbrian lang. unchanged, Jupater), Marspĭter; Diespĭter, Opĭter; rătus, irrĭtus; ămicus, inìmicus (but ŭ remains unchanged in adŭmo, impătiens, and in some compounds of a later period of Roman literature, as praejacio, calefacio, etc.). —
    (β).
    Sometimes also before two consonants (where it is usually changed into ĕ; v. supra, 2. a. b.): tăg-, tango, contingo; păg-, pango, compingo (unchanged in some compounds, as peragro, desacro, depango, obcanto, etc.).
    b.
    ă is changed into ĭ in the reduplicated perfect forms: cădo, cecĭdi; căno, cecĭni; tăg-, tango, tetĭgi; păg-, pango, pepĭgi.
    c.
    Likewise in some roots which have ă: păg-, pignus; străg- (strangulo, strangô), stringo.
    d.
    In words taken from the Greek: mêchanê, machĭna; patanê, patĭna; bukanê, bucĭna; trutanê, trutĭna; balaneion, balĭneum; Katana, Catĭna (written also Catana); Akragas, Agrĭgentum.
    4.
    Short a is changed into short or long o.
    a.
    Into ŏ: scăbo, scobs; păr, pars, portio; dăm-, dŏmo; Fabii, Fŏvii (v. Paul. ex Fest. p. 87); marmaron, marmŏr; Mars, redupl. Marmar, Marmor (Carm. Fratr. Arv.).
    b.
    Into ō: dă-, dōnum, dōs; ăc-, ăcuo, ōcior (v. this art.).
    5.
    Short a is changed into ŭ —
    a.
    In the second part of compounds, particularly before l, p, and b: calco, inculco; salsus, insulsus; salto, exsulto; capio, occŭpo; răpio, surrupio and surruptus (also written surripio and surreptus); tăberna, contŭbernium; —before other consonants: quătio, conoŭtio; as, decussis; Mars, Mamŭrius, Mamŭralia; and once also condumnari (Tab. Bant. lin. 8, immediately followed by condemnatus, v. Klenze, Philol. Abhandl. tab. I., and Mommsen, Unterital. Dial. p. 149).
    b.
    In words of Greek origin: Hekabê, Hecŭba; skutalê, scutŭla; kraipalê, crapŭla; passalos, pessŭlus; aphlaston, aplustre; thriambos, triumphus.
    c.
    ă is perhaps changed into ŭ in ulciscor, compared with alc-, ulexô (arc-, arceo).
    B.
    Long a is sometimes changed into ē or ō.
    1.
    Into é: hālo, anhélo; fās-, féstus, profēstus; nām, némpe.
    2.
    Into ō: gnā-, gnārus, ignārus, ignōro. (But in general long a remains unchanged in composition: lābor, delūbor; gnàvus, ignūnus; fàma, infūmis.)
    IV.
    Contrary to the mode of changing Greek a into Latin e, i, o, u (v. supra), Latin a has sometimes taken the place of other Greek vowels in words borrowed from the Greek, as: lonchê, lancea; kulix, călix; Ganumêoês, Caiāmitus.
    V.
    The repugnance of the Latin Language to the Greek combined vowels ao has caused the translocation of them in Alumento for Daomeoôn (Paul. ex Fest. p. 18 Müll.).— Greek a is suppressed in Hercules from Hêraklês (probably in consequence of the inserted u; in late Latin we find Heracla and Heracula, cf. Ritschl, in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, vol. 12, p. 108).
    VI.
    Latin ă was early combined with the vowels i and u, forming the diphthongs ai and au; by changing the i into e, the diphthong ai soon became ae. So we find in the oldest inscriptions: AIDE, AIDLLIS, AIQVOM, GNAIVOD, HAICE, DVELONAI, TABELAI, DATAI, etc., which soon gave place to aedem, aedilis, aequom, Gnaeo, haec, Bellonae, tabellae, datae, etc. (the Col. Rostr. has PRAESENTE, PRAEDAD, and the S. C. de Bacch. AEDEM. The triphthong aei, found in CONQVAEISIVEI (?), is very rare; Miliar. Popil. lin. 11, v. Ritschl, l. l. p. 21). In some poets the old gen. sing. of the first decl. (- ai) is preserved, but is dissyllabic, āī. So in Ennius: Albūī Longūī, terrūī frugiferāī, frondosāī, lunāī, viāī; in Vergil: aulāī, aurāī, aquāī, pictāī; in Ausonius: herāī.
    B.
    ue as well as au are changed into other vowels.
    1.
    The sound of ae, e, and oe being very similar, these vowels are often interchanged in the best MSS., So we find caerimonia and cerimonia, caepa and cēpa, saeoulum and séculum; scaena and scēna; caelum and coelum, haedus and hoedus, macstus and moestus; cena, coena, and caena, etc.
    2.
    In composition and reduplications ae becomes í: aequus, iníquus; quaero, inquíro; laedo, illído; taedet, pertisum (noticed by Cic.); aestumo, exístumo; cuedo, cecídi, concído, homicida.
    3.
    ae is also changed into í in a Latinized word of Greek origin: Achaios (AchaiWos), Achíous.
    4.
    The diphthong au is often changed to ó and ú (the latter particularly in compounds): caudex, códex; Claudius, Clodius; lautus, lotus; plaustrum, plōstrum; plaudo, plōdo, explōdo; paululum, pōlulum; faux, suffōco; si audes (acc. to Cic. or acc. to others, si audies), sódes, etc.; claudo, inclūdo; causa, accūso. Hence in some words a regular gradation of au, o, u is found: claudo, clōdicare, clúdo; raudus, ródus, rúdus; caupo, cópa, cūpa; naugae, nōgae (both forms in the MSS. of Plautus), nūgae; fraustra, frode, frude (in MSS. of Vergil); cf. Ritschl, in Wintercatalog 1854-55, and O. Ribbeck, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. vol. 77, p. 181 sq.—The change of au into oē and ō appears only in audio, (oboedio) obēdio.
    5.
    Au sometimes takes the place of av-: faveo, fautum, favitor, fautor; navis, navita, nauta; avis, auceps, auspex. So Latin aut corresponds to Sanscr. avo. (whence - vā, Lat. - ve), Osc. avti, Umbr. ute, ote; and so the Lat. preposition ab, through av, becomes au in the words aufero and aufugio (prop. av-fero, av-fugio, for ab-fero, ab-fugio). Vid. the art. ab init.
    VII.
    In primitive roots, which have their kindred forms in the sister-languages of the Latin, the original a, still found in the Sanscrit, is in Latin either preserved or more frequently changed into other vowels.
    A.
    Original a preserved: Sanscr. mātri, Lat. màter; S. bhrātri, L. fràter; S. nāsā, L. nàsus and nàris; S. ap, L. aqua; S. apa, L. ab; S. nāma, L. năm; S. ćatur, [p. 2] L. quattuor (in Greek changed: thettares); S. capūla, L. căput (in Greek changed: kephalê, etc.).
    B.
    Original a is changed into other Latin vowels—
    1.
    Into e: S. ad, L. ed (ĕdo); S. as, L. es (esse); S. pat, L. pet (peto); S. pād, L. pĕd (pès); S. dant, L. dent (dens); S. ǵan, L. gen (gigno); S. mā, L. mè-tior; S. saptan, L. septem; S. daśan, L. decem; S. śata, L. centum; S. aham, L. ŏgo; S. pāra, L. per; S. paśu, L. pŏcus; S. asva, L. ŏquus, etc.
    2.
    Into i: S. an-, a- (neg. part.), L. in-: S. ana (prep.), L. in; S. antar, L. inter; S. sama, L. similis; S. agni, L. ignis; S. abhra, L. imber; S. panéa, L. quinque, etc.
    3.
    Into o: S. avi, L. ŏvi (ovis); S. vać, L. vōc (voco); S. pra, L. pro; S. pā, L. po (pŏtum); S. nāma, L. nōmen; S. api, L. ŏb; S. navan, L. nŏvem; S. nava, L. nŏvus, etc.
    4.
    Into u: S. marmara, L. murmur.
    5.
    Into ai, ae: S. prati, L. (prai) prae; S. śaśpa, L. caespes.
    6.
    Into different vowels in the different derivatives: S. mā, L. mê-tior, mŏdus; S. praó, L. prŏcor, prŏcus; S. vah, L. vĕho, via.
    C.
    Sometimes the Latin has preserved the original a, while even the Sanscrit has changed it: Lat. pa-, pater, Sanscr. pd, pitri.
    2.
    As an abbreviation A. usually denotes the praenomen Aulus; A. A. = Auli duo, Inscr. Orell. 1530 (but A. A. = Aquae Aponi, the modern Abano, ib. 1643 sq.; 2620; 3011). The three directors of the mint were designated by III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F. (i. e. auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo), ib. 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 al.;

    so also A. A. A.,

    ib. 3441 (cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 13 fin., and v. the art. Triumviri); A. D. A. agris dandis adsignandis, and A. I. A. agris judicandis adsignandis; A. O. amico optimo; A. P. a populo or aediliciae potestatis; A. P. R. aerario populi Romani. —Upon the voting tablets in judicial trials A. denoted absoluo; hence A. is called littera salutaris, Cic. Mil. 6, 15; v. littera. In the Roman Comitia A. (= antiquo) denoted the rejection of the point in question; v. antiquo. In Cicero's Tusculan Disputations the A. designated one of the disputants = adulescens or auditor, opp. to M. for magister or Marcus (Cicero); but it is to be remarked that the letters A and M do not occur in the best MSS. of this treatise; cf. edd. ad Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 9.—In dates A. D. = ante diem; v. ante; A. U. C. = anno urbis conditae; A. P. R. C. anno post Romam conditam.
    3.
    a, prep.=ab, v. ab.
    4.
    ā, interj.=ah, v. ah.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > a

  • 20 apo

    ăpo (or ăpio, Isid. Orig. 19, 30), ĕre, v. a. [cf.: haptô, apiscor, apex].
    I.
    A.. To fasten, attach, join, bind, tie to (syn.: ligo, adligo, jungo, conjungo, recto): comprehendere antiqui vinculo apere dicebant, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. apex, p. 18 Müll.; cf. apex; used only in part. perf. pass. aptus (the P. a. v. infra):

    uteri terrae radicibus apti,

    fastened to the earth, Lucr. 5, 808 (Lachm., terram and apti = adepti):

    bracchia validis ex apta lacertis,

    united with the strong shoulders, id. 4, 829:

    gladium e lacunari setā equinā aptum demitti jussit,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62:

    linguam vinclis de pectore imo aptis moveri,

    Gell. 1, 15.—
    B.
    Trop.: ex aliquā re (like pendere ex aliquā re), depending upon, arising from (so only in Cic.):

    rerum causae aliae ex aliis aptae et necessitate nexae,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 25, 70:

    honestum, ex quo aptum est officium,

    id. Off. 1, 18, 60; id. Fin. 2, 14, 47:

    ex quā re (sc. virtute) una vita omnis apta sit,

    id. Ac. 2, 10, 31:

    causa ex aeternis causis apta,

    id. Fat. 15, 34:

    cui viro ex se apta sunt omnia, etc.,

    id. Tusc. 5, 12, 36 (as transl. of Plat. Menex. p. 302: Hotôi gar andri eis heauton anêrtêtai panta, etc.); cf. id. Fam. 5, 13.—Once also with pendere:

    non ex verbis aptum pendere jus,

    Cic. Caecin. 18.—Also without ex:

    vitā modicā et aptā virtute perfrui,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 56:

    rudentibus apta fortuna,

    id. Tusc. 5, 14, [p. 138] 40.—
    II.
    A.. Joined, bound, or tied together, connected:

    aptum conexum et colligatum significat,

    Non. p. 234, 32 (so most freq. in Lucr.):

    conjugio corporis atque animae consistimus uniter apti,

    Lucr. 3, 846; 5, 555; 5, 558:

    genus... validis aptum per viscera nervis,

    bound together by the strong band of the sinews, id. 5, 928:

    quae memorare queam inter se singlariter apta,

    id. 6, 1067 al.:

    facilius est apta dissolvere quam dissipata conectere,

    Cic. Or. 71, 235:

    quā ex conjunctione caelum ita aptum est, ut, etc.,

    id. Tim. 5:

    qui tam certos caeli motus, tamque omnia inter se conexa et apta viderit,

    id. N. D. 2, 38, 97; Gell. 6, 2. —
    B.
    Trop.:

    omnia inter se apta et conexa,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 19, 53:

    apta inter se et cohaerentia,

    id. N. D 3, 1, 4:

    efficiatur aptum illud, quod fuerit antea diffiuens ac solutum,

    id. Or. 70, 233.— Poet., with abl., endowed, furnished, or ornamented with something: fides alma, apta pinnis, furnished with wings, winged, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 29, 105:

    stellis fulgentibus apta caeli domus,

    the abode of heaven studded with glittering stars, Lucr. 6, 357 (cf. id. 5, 1205: stellis micantibus aethera fixum);

    imitated by Verg.: caelum stellis fulgentibus aptum,

    Verg. A. 11, 202, and:

    axis stellis ardentibus aptus,

    id. ib. 4, 482:

    veste signis ingentibus aptā,

    Lucr. 5, 1428:

    magis apta figura,

    id. 2, 814: lucus opacus teneris fruticibus aptus, Varr. ap. Non. p. 235, 9:

    Tyrio prodeat apta sinu,

    Tib. 1, 9, 70.—Hence,
    III.
    aptus, a, um, P. a., pr., fitted to something; hence, suited, suitable, proper, apposite, fit, appropriate, adapted, conformable to (cf. accommodatus and appositus, 2.).
    A.
    In gen.: aptus is, qui convenienter alicui junctus est, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. apex, p. 18 Müll. (so most freq. after the Cic. per.); constr. with ad or dat.; of persons always with dat.
    (α).
    With ad:

    ossa habent commissuras ad stabilitatem aptas,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 139:

    in pulmonibus inest raritas quaedam ad hauriendum spiritum aptissima,

    id. ib. 2, 55, 136:

    locus ad insidias aptior,

    id. Mil. 20:

    calcei habiles et apti ad pedem,

    id. de Or. 1, 54, 231:

    castra ad bellum ducendum aptissima,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 37; so Vulg. 1 Par. 7, 40; ib. 2 Par. 26, 13:

    aptum ad proelium,

    ib. 1 Reg. 14, 52:

    fornices in muro erant apti ad excurrendum,

    Liv. 36, 23, 3 al. —
    (β).
    With dat.:

    non omnia rebus sunt omnibus apta,

    Lucr. 6, 961:

    aliis alias animantibus aptas Res,

    id. 6, 773:

    initia apta et accommodata naturae,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 17, 46:

    quod verum, simplex sincerumque sit, id esse naturae hominis aptissimum,

    id. Off. 1, 4, 13:

    haec genera dicendi aptiora sunt adulescentibus,

    id. Brut. 95, 223; so id. ib. 62, 326; id. Tusc. 1, 36, 87; id. Or. 22, 1 al.:

    quod aetati tuae esset aptissimum,

    id. Off. 1, 2, 4; so Nep. Att. 16, 1:

    apta dies sacrificio,

    Liv. 1, 45:

    venti aptiores Romanae quam suae classi,

    id. 25, 37 al.:

    notavi portus puppibus aptos,

    Ov. M. 3, 596; 4, 160:

    armis apta magis tellus,

    Prop. 4, 22, 19:

    aptum equis Argos,

    Hor. C. 1, 7, 9:

    apta vinculo conjugali,

    Vulg. Ruth, 1, 12; ib. Luc. 9, 62:

    aptus amicis,

    Hor. S. 2, 5, 43 et saep.— Other constrr.:
    (γ).
    With in (cf. Rudd. II. p. 96, n. 60):

    in quod (genus pugnae) minime apti sunt,

    Liv. 38, 21:

    formas deus aptus in omnes,

    apt for, easily changed into, Ov. M. 14, 765:

    in ceteros apta usus,

    Vulg. Deut. 20, 20:

    vasa apta in interitum,

    ib. Rom. 9, 22.—
    (δ).
    With qui (cf. Zumpt, §

    568): nulla videbatur aptior persona, quae de illā aetate loqueretur,

    Cic. Am. 1, 4:

    est mihi, quae lanas molliat, apta manus,

    Ov. H. 3, 70.—
    (ε).
    Poet., with inf:

    (Circe) apta cantu veteres mutare figuras,

    Tib. 4, 1, 63:

    aetas mollis et apta regi,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 10.— Esp. freq.,
    (ζ).
    Absol., Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 235, 16:

    amor,

    Prop. 4, 22, 42:

    saltus,

    Ov. M. 2, 498:

    ars,

    Tib. 1, 7, 60:

    apta oscula,

    Tib. 1, 4, 54; Ov. H. 15, 132:

    lar aptus,

    an extensive, satisfying possession, Hor. C. 1, 12, 43.—So in prose:

    aptus exercitus,

    an army good in fight, ready for battle, Liv. 10, 25:

    tempus aptum,

    the right time, id. 35, 19; so Vulg. Eccli. 20, 6 al.—
    B.
    Esp., in rhet., of the fitness, appropriateness of discourse:

    quid aptum sit, hoc est quid maxime decens in oratione,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 210; so apta oratio, which has the appropriate rhet. fulness and periodic rounding: numerosa et apta oratio, id. Or. 50, 168; cf. id. ib. 50, 70; so id. Brut. 17, 68:

    Thucydides verbis aptus et pressus,

    exact and brief in expression, id. de Or. 2, 13, 56.—Hence, aptē, adv., closely, fitly, suitably, nicely, rightly.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Absol.:

    atque ita apte cohaeret (mundi corpus), ut etc.,

    Cic. Tim. 5: altera est nexa cum superiore et inde apteque pendens, id. ap. Non. p. 235, 18:

    capiti apte reponere,

    Liv. 1, 34, 8.—
    B.
    With ad:

    apte convenire ad pedem,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 14, 46.— Sup.,
    C.
    With inter:

    ut inter se quam aptissime cohaereant extrema (verba) cum primis etc.,

    Cic. Or. 44, 149.—
    II.
    Trop., fitly, suitably, properly, duly, rightly.
    A.
    Absol.:

    facile judicabimus, quid eorum apte fiat,

    Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146:

    quod est oratoris proprium, apte, distincte, ornate dicere,

    id. ib. 1, 1, 2:

    apte et quiete ferre,

    id. ib. 4, 17, 38:

    non equite apte locato,

    Liv. 4, 37, 8:

    Qui doceant, apte quid tibi possit emi,

    Ov. Am. 1, 8, 88:

    nec aliter imperium apte regi potest,

    Curt. 8, 8, 13:

    floribus compositis apte et utiliter,

    Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 46. — Comp.:

    qualia aptius suis referentur locis,

    Plin. 2, 62, 62, § 153:

    Aptius haec puero, quam tibi, dona dabis,

    Mart. 13, 26.—
    B.
    With dat.:

    si quid exierit numeris aptius,

    Quint. 10, 12, 26.— Sup.:

    seruntur Parilibus tamen aptissime,

    Plin. 19, 3, 24, § 69.—
    C.
    With ad:

    (ut) ad rerum dignitatem apte et quasi decore (loquamur),

    Cic. de Or. 1, 32, 144:

    spolia ducis hostium caesi suspensa fabricato ad id apte ferculo gerens,

    Liv. 1, 10, 5.

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