root and branch

stirpĭtus, adv. [id.; cf. radicitus from radix], by the stalk, by the roots, root and branch, stock and stump (very rare).

Lit.:

arborem transferre,

Dig. 47, 7, 3, § 4. —

Transf.:

barbam forcipibus evellere,

Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—

Trop. (for the usu. radicitus), utterly:

hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus extrahere,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.

rāmus, i, m. [for rad-mus; Sanscr. root vardh, crescere; cf.: radix, radius], a branch, bough, twig (cf.: surculus, termes).

Lit.:

in quibus (arboribus) non truncus, non rami, non folia sunt denique, nisi, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 179; Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (Trag. v. 194 Vahl.):

qui praetereuntes ramum defringerent arboris,

Cic. Caecin. 21, 60:

sub ramis arboris,

Lucr. 2, 30; 5, 1393:

decidere falcibus ramos,

id. 5, 936 et saep.:

tempora cingite ramis,

Verg. A. 5, 71; 8, 286; Val. Fl. 6, 296; Hor. C. 2, 15, 9; id. S. 1, 5, 81:

ingens ramorum umbra,

Verg. G. 2, 489; id. A. 6, 808.— Poet., for a tree, Verg. A. 3, 650; for the fruit of trees, id. ib. 8, 318; in partic., for frankincense twigs, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 211. —

Transf., of things having a branching form.

A branch of a stag ' s antlers, Caes. B. G. 6, 26, 2.—

A spur of a mountain chain, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 134. —

A club, Prop. 1, 1, 13; 4 (5), 9, 15.—

= membrum virile, Nov. ap. Non. 116, 26.—

An arm or mouth of a river:

multos ignobiles ramos porrigit (Nilus),

Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 11.—

A branch or arm of the Greek letter g, used by Pythagoras as a symbol of the two paths of life, leading to virtue and vice, Aus. Idyll. 12, 9;

hence called Samii rami,

Pers. 3, 56.—

Trop., a branch:

ramos amputare miseriarum,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

fortitudo, cujus patientia et perpessio et tolerantia rami sunt,

Sen. Ep. 67, 10.—Of a branch of consanguinity, Pers. 3, 28.

virga, ae, f. [root varg; v. virgo], a slender green branch, a twig, sprout, switch, rod.

Lit.

In gen., Cato, R. R. 101; Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 4; Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 136; 24, 19, 112, § 172; Verg. G. 1, 266; Ov. M. 3, 29; 11, 109.—

In partic.

A graft, scion, set, Ov. M. 14, 630.—

A limetwig, Ov. M. 15, 474.—

A rod, switch for flogging, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 117; id. Bacch. 4, 6, 10; id. Cas. 5, 4, 24;

for governing horses, etc.: virga quā ad regendum equum usus est,

Front. 4, 5, 16; Val. Max. 3, 2, 12:

nobilis equus umbrā quoque virgae regitur,

Curt. 7, 4, 18; Mart. 9, 22, 14; cf. Luc. 4, 683; Juv. 3, 317.—Of the small rods in the fasces of the lictors, with which criminals were scourged, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 62, § 161; Plin. 7, 43, 44, § 136.—Hence, poet., for fasces, as a designation of one of the higher magistrates, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 32; Stat. S. 1, 2, 47; Mart. 8, 66, 4.—

A wand, a staff, as a support, Liv. 45, 12; Ov. F. 2, 706.—

A magic wand, Verg. A. 7, 190; Ov. M. 14, 278; 14, 295; 14, 300.—

Transf.

A stalk of the flax-plant, Plin. 19, 1, 3, § 17.—

A streak, stripe in the heavens, a water-gall, Sen. Q. N. 1, 9 and 10.—

A colored stripe in a garment:

purpureae,

Ov. A. A. 3, 269. —

A twig or branch of the ancestral tree, Juv. 8, 7.—

Genitalium, = membrum virile, Cassiod. Anim, 9.

clāva, ae, f. [root cel- of percello; cf. Gr. klaô and clades].

A knotty branch or stick, a staff, cudgel, club:

adfer duas clavas... probas,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 20; Lucr. 5, 968:

sternentes agmina clavā,

Verg. A. 10, 318; Curt. 9, 4, 3; Ov. F. 1, 575; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94; Plin. 19, 1, 3, § 18; a bar, lever, Cato, R. R. 13, 1.—As a weapon for exercising, used by young men, and esp. by soldiers, a foil, Cic. Sen. 16, 58; Veg. Mil. 1, 11.—As a badge of Hercules, Prop. 4 (5) 9, 39; Ov. H. 9, 117; id. M. 9, 114; 9, 236; * Suet. Ner. 53; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 62 Müll.—Hence, prov., clavam Herculi extorquere, for an impossible undertaking, Macr. S. 5, 3; Don. Vit. Verg.— Also Clava Herculis, a plant, otherwise called nymphea, Marc. Emp. 33.—

In the lang. of economy, a graft, scion, Pall. Mart. 10, 12 and 13; cf. clavula.

custos, ōdis, comm. [root sku-, to cover, hide, etc.; cf. scutum, keuthô, Germ. Haut, Haus, Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 353], a guard, watch, preserver, keeper, overseer, protector, defender, attendant, etc., protectress, etc., in a friendly or hostile sense (freq. and class.).

In gen.

Of living beings.

In gen.: antiqua erilis fida custos corporis, Enn. Med. ap. Non. p. 39, 2 (Trag. Rel. v. 289 Vahl.); cf. in masc.:

corporis,

a body-guard, Liv. 24, 7, 4; so plur., Nep. Dat. 9, 3; Suet. Calig. 55 al.:

Commium cum equitatu custodis loco relinquit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 6 fin.:

cum vigillis custodibusque nostris colloqui,

id. B. C. 1, 22 init.:

portae,

Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

fani,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94. custos defensorque provinciae, id. ib. 2, 5, 6, §

12: pontis,

Nep. Milt. 3, 1:

patrimonii,

Quint. 4, 2, 73:

hortorum,

Suet. Calig. 59:

gregis,

Verg. E. 10, 36:

pecuniae regiae,

Curt. 5, 1, 20: ipse pecuniae quam regni melior custos, Liv 44, 26, 12: rei publicae custos senatus, Cic. Sest. 65, 137:

templorum,

id. Dom. 55, 141:

custos ac vindex cupiditatum,

id. Agr. 2, 9, 24:

salutis suae,

Quint. 5, 11, 8; Curt. 3, 6, 1; Tac. A. 3, 14 et saep.:

his discipulis privos custodes dabo,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 76; so of teachers of youth, id. ib. 4, 3, 19; Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57; Hor. S. 1, 4, 118; id. A. P. 161; 239:

virtutis (ego) verae custos rigidusque satelles,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 17.—Freq. of the gods, etc.:

dei custodes et conservatores hujus urbis,

Cic. Sest. 24, 53; cf.:

custodi Jovi,

Suet. Dom. 5:

montium custos Diana,

Hor. C. 3, 22, 1:

rerum Caesar,

id. ib. 4, 15, 17: multae tibi tum officient res, Custodes, etc., i. e. attendants of women, eunuchs, etc., id. S. 1, 2, 98 Heind.—Of dogs, Verg. G. 3, 406; Col. 7, 12;

so of Cerberus,

Verg. A. 6, 424 al., and of the constellation Bootes, Arktophulax, Vitr. 9, 4, 1: armorum, the officer in charge of the arms in an army or fleet, Dig. 49, 16, 14, § 1; Inscr. Orell. 3630 al.—

In civil affairs, t. t., a man who took charge of the vessel into which voting tablets were put (in order to prevent false suffrages), Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 18; Cic. Agr. 2, 9, 22; id. Red. Sen. 7, 17.—

Of inanimate subjects.

Of abstract subjects:

natura Ipsaque corporis est custos et causa salutis,

Lucr. 3, 324:

haec custos dignitatis (fortitudo),

Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 33:

sapientia custos et procuratrix totius hominis,

id. Fin. 4, 7, 17; id. Off. 2, 7, 23:

leges diligentissimae pudoris custodes,

Quint. 8, 5, 19 al. —

Of receptacles, safes, e. g. of a quiver:

eburnea Telorum custos,

Ov. M. 8, 320; of an incense-box:

turis,

id. ib. 13, 703; and in husbandry, the stump of an amputated vine-branch, i. q. resex, pollex, praesidiarius or subsidiarius palmes, Col. 4, 21, 3.—

In a hostile sense.

In gen., a watch, spy:

Dumnorigi custodes ponit, ut, quae agat, quibuscum loquatur, scire possit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20 fin.:

custodem, inquit, Tullio me apponite. Quid, mihi quam multis custodibus opus erit, etc.,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 51; id. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 63; Caes. B. G. 1, 20 fin.:

num nam hic relictu's custos, Nequis, etc.,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 55; cf. v. 59; Curt. 5, 11, 2; Suet. Tib. 12 al.—

Esp., a jailer, keeper:

carceris,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 57; Nep. Eum. 11, 1; id. Alcib. 4, 4:

quem ex Mauritania rex proditionis insimulatum cum custodibus miserat,

Sall. H. 2, 25 Dietsch:

te sub custode tenebo,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 77; Tac. A. 2, 68; 3, 28; 4, 60 al.

truncus, a, um, adj [root tark-, truc-, to break, tear; cf. torqueo], maimed, mutilated, mangled, dismembered, disfigured, deprived of some of its parts (mostly poet. and perh. not ante-Aug.; syn.: mutilus, mancus).

Lit.:

trunca manu pinus regit (Polyphemum),

i. e. the trunk of a pinetree, Verg. A. 3, 659:

trunca illa et retorrida manus Mucii,

Sen. Ep. 66, 51:

nemora,

i. e. trees stripped of their branches, Stat. Th. 4, 455:

truncas mhonesto vulnere nares,

Verg. A. 6, 497:

vultus naribus auribusque,

Mart. 2, 83, 3:

frons,

deprived of its horn, Ov. M. 9, 1; 9, 86; Sil. 3, 42:

frontem lumina truncam,

deprived of its eyes, id. 9, 400:

bracchia non habuit, truncoque repandus in undas Corpore desiluit,

deprived of its limbs, Ov. M. 3, 680; cf. Just. 2, 9, 19:

puerum trunci corporis in agro Romano natum,

Liv. 41, 9, 5:

varie ex integris truncos gigni, ex truncis integros,

Plin. 7, 11, 10, § 50:

tela,

i.e. broken in pieces, Verg. A. 11, 9; cf.:

trunci enses et fractae hastae,

Stat. Th. 2, 711:

truncum lignum, i. e. hasta fracta,

Val. Fl. 6, 251: membra carmae, Ov M. 11, 560; cf.

alnus,

without oars, Val. Fl. 2, 300:

truncae atque mutilae litterae,

Gell. 17, 9, 12:

exta,

Val. Max. 1, 6, 9.—

Poet., with gen.:

animalia trunca pedum,

without feet, Verg. G. 4, 310: truncus capitis, Sil 10, 311.—

Transf.

Of things, not developed, imperfect, or wanting in their parts:

quaedam imperfecta (animalia) suisque Trunca vident numeris,

Ov. M. 1, 428:

ranae pedibus,

id. ib. 15, 376:

ipse (nanus) jactabat truncas manus,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 42—

Of members cut off:

bracchia,

Val. Fl. 4, 181:

manus,

Sen. Contr 1, 4.—

Trop., maimed, mutilated:

(Capua) urbs trunca, sine senatu, sine plebe, sine magistratibus,

Liv. 31, 29, 11:

pecus,

without a leader, Stat. Th. 5, 333:

manus vero, sine quibus trunca esset actio ac debilis, vix dici potest, quot motus habeant,

Quint. 11, 3, 85:

trunca et debilis medicina (sine rerum naturae cognitione), Cels. praef.: sermo (volucrum),

Stat. Th. 12, 478:

trunca quaedam ex Menandro,

fragments, Gell. 2, 23, 21.—Hence, subst.:

truncus, i, m., the stem, stock, bole, or trunk of a tree (without regard to its branches).

Lit.:

cibus... Per truncos ac per ramos diffunditur omnes,

Lucr. 1, 353:

quid? in arboribus, in quibus non truncus, non rami, non folia sunt denique, nisi, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 179; cf. id. Sen. 15, 52; id. N. D. 2, 47, 120; id. Lael. 13, 48; Caes. B. G. 4, 17; 7, 73, Verg. G. 2, 78; 3, 233; Hor S. 1, 8, 1; id. C. 2, 17, 27; 3, 4, 55; Ov. M. 2, 358; 8, 346; id. H. 9, 93; Col. Arb. 17, 1; Sen. Ep. 86, 17.—

Transf.

Of the human body, the trunk, the body, apart from the limbs:

status erectus et celsus, nullā mollitiā cervicum: trunco magis toto se ipse moderans,

Cic. Or. 18, 59:

nemo illum ex trunco corporis spectabat,

id. Rosc. Com. 10, 28:

recto pugnat se attollere trunco,

Ov. M. 2, 822; cf. id. ib. 7, 640:

et caput abscisum calido viventeque trunco,

Lucr. 3, 654: jacet litore truncus. Verg. A. 2, 557.—

Of a column.

The shaft, Vitr. 4, 1 med. —

The cubical trunk of a pedestal, the die or dado, Vitr. 3, 3; cf. Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 201.—

A piece cut off, as a branch of a tree for an our:

frondentes,

Val. Fl. 8, 287;

a piece of flesh for smoking (cf. trunculus),

Verg. M. 57.—

Like caudex, stipes, and the Engl. stock, for blockhead, dunce, dolt:

quī potest esse in ejusmodi trunco sapientia?

Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 84:

tamquam truncus atque stipes,

id. Pis. 9, 19. —

Trop., a trunk, stem:

quae (stirpes aegritudinis) ipso trunco everso omnes eligendae (elidendae, Kühn.) sunt,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, 83.

săgitta, ae, f. [root sagh-; v. sagio].

An arrow, shaft, bolt (freq. in prose and poetry; cf.:

telum, jaculum): cum arcum mihi et pharetram et sagittas sumpsero,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99:

confige sagittis fures thesaurarios,

id. Aul. 2, 8, 25; Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89; id. N. D. 2, 50, 126 al.:

missiles,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 16:

celeres,

id. ib. 3, 20, 9 et saep.:

sagittā Cupido cor meum transfixit,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 25; Lucr. 4, 1278; Tib. 2, 1, 81; Hor. C. 2, 8, 15; 1, 27, 12:

sagittam conicere,

Verg. A. 4, 69:

nervo aptare sagittas,

id. ib. 10, 131; Ov. M. 8, 380:

savii sagittis per cussus est,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 16 (but the better reading is: ejus saviis perculsus).—

Meton., of things of a like form.

The extreme thin part of a vine-branch or shoot, Col. 3, 10, 22; 3, 17, 2; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156. —

The herb arrow-head, Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 111.—

In late Lat., an instrument for letting blood, a lancet, Veg. 1, 22, 4; 1, 25, [p. 1617] 5; 1, 43, 3, etc.—

Sagitta, a constellation, the Arrow, Hyg. Astr. 2, 15; 3, 14; Cic. Arat. 382; Col. 11, 2, 21; Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 131; 18, 31, 74, § 309.