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resign one's occupation to another

  • 1 lampas

    lampăs, ădis (late Lat. also lampă-da, ae, Jul. Val. Rer. G. Alex. 3, 28:

    lampadarum,

    Vulg. Ezech. 1, 13), f., = lampas, a light, torch, flambeau (mostly poet.; cf.: lucerna, lychnus, laterna).
    I.
    Lit.:

    lampades ardentes,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 86: illatae lampades, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 41:

    lampadas igniferas,

    Lucr. 2, 25:

    vidi argenteum Cupidinem cum lampade,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 47, § 115:

    pinguis,

    Ov. M. 4, 403:

    pingues lampades,

    Lucr. 4, 403:

    ardens,

    Verg. A. 9, 535:

    Salmoneus, dum flammas Jovis imitatur, lampada quassans,

    id. ib. 6, 587:

    lampadibus densum rapuit funale coruscis,

    with torches, Ov. M. 12, 247; Vulg. Exod. 20, 18:

    lampas ignis,

    id. Gen. 15, 17.—Used at weddings, a wedding-torch:

    tene hane lampadem,

    Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 17; Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 9. —Hence, poet.:

    lampade primā,

    at her wedding, Stat. S. 4, 8, 59; cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 4.—
    B.
    Esp., a lamp:

    ferreae lampades,

    Col. 12, 18, 5:

    aënea,

    Juv. 3, 285:

    praecinctae lampades auro,

    Ov. H. 14, 25:

    accipere oleum cum lampadibus,

    Vulg. Matt. 25, 4.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    From the Grecian torch-race (which consisted in keeping the torch burning during the race and handing it, still lighted, to the next one), are borrowed the expressions: lampada tradere alicui, to give or resign one's occupation to another:

    nunc cursu lampada tibi trado,

    now it is your turn, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 9:

    quasi cursores, vitai lampada tradunt,

    i. e. they finish their course, die, Lucr. 2, 79:

    qui prior es, cur me in decursu lampada poscis?

    i. e. do you wish to succeed to my estate while I am yet alive? Pers. 6, 61.—
    B.
    In gen., splendor, brightness, lustre:

    aeterna mundl,

    Lucr. 5, 402; cf.:

    rosea sol alte lampade lucens,

    id. 5, 610:

    Phoebeae lampadis instar,

    the light of the sun, the sun, Verg. A. 3, 637:

    postera cum primā lustrabat lampade terras Orta dies,

    the first beams of light, first rays of dawn, id. ib. 7, 148.—
    C.
    Hence, poet., like lumen, for day:

    octavoque fere candenti lumine solis Aut etiam nonā reddebant lampade vitam,

    on the ninth day, Lucr. 6, 1198;

    so of the moonlight: decima lampas Phoebes,

    Val. Fl. 7, 366; cf.:

    cum se bina formavit lampade Phoebe,

    i. e. after two moons, Nemes. Cyn. 130:

    lampade Phoebes sub decima,

    the tenth month, Val. Fl. 7, 366.—
    D.
    A meteor resembling a torch:

    emicant et faces, non nisi cum decidunt visae. Duo genera earum: lampades vocant plane faces, alterum bolidas,

    Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96; cf. Sen. Q. N. 1, 15:

    nunc sparso lumine lampas emicuit caelo,

    Luc. 1, 532; 10, 502.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > lampas

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