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jūris-dictĭo, ōnis (in tmesi:

jurisque dictio,

Liv. 41, 9; and separately: juris dictio), f. [2. jus-dictio], administration of justice, jurisdiction.

Lit.:

jurisdictionem confeceram,

Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3: absolvere, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 1.—

Transf.

Legal authority, jurisdiction, power:

ut sub vestrum jus, jurisdictionem, potestatem urbes subjungeretis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 36:

libera,

Suet. Calig. 16:

praetorum,

Gai. Inst. 1, 6.—

In gen., authority, control:

quae ruant urbes, quae oriantur, jurisdictio mea est,

it is mine to determine, Sen. Clem. 1, 1, 2; a place where justice was administered, an assize town (post-Aug.):

mediterraneae jurisdictiones,

Plin. 5, 28, 29, § 105.

mŏdĕrāmen, ĭnis, n. [id.], a means of managing or governing, e. g. a rudder, helm ( poet. and in post-class. prose).

Lit.

Innixus moderamine navis, Ov. M. 15, 726; so in plur., id. ib. 3, 644.—

Management, direction, control:

equorum,

Ov. M. 2, 48.—

Trop.: rerum, the helm, i. e. the management of affairs, the government of the state, Ov. M. 6, 677; also, a means of moderating, mitigating, controlling: verum serenitas nostra certum moderamen invenit, Cod. Th. 11, 30, 64.

mŏdĭfĭco, āre, 1, v. n. and a. [modusfacio].

Neutr., to limit, set limits to:

alicui in aliquā re intercedere aut modificare,

Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4, 3 Mai.—

Act., to control, regulate:

vitalis motus,

Aug. de Music. 6, 17, 58.— Pass. reflex., to observe due measure, keep within bounds, to be moderate:

modificari in sumptibus,

App. Doctr. Plat. p. 18, 37.—Class. only in part. perf. mŏdĭfĭcātus, a, um, measured off, measured:

verba modificata,

Cic. Part. Or. 5, 17:

membra modificata,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

corpora... modificata utriusque rei participatione,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 47, 7.—

Melodious:

luseiniarum querelae,

Sid. Ep. 9, 2.

pĕcūlĭum, ii, n. [pecus], lit., property in cattle; hence, as in early times all property consisted of cattle, in gen., property.

Lit.

In gen.:

peculi sui prodigi (servi),

Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 19:

cupiditas peculii,

Cic. Par. 5, 2 fin.:

cura peculi,

Verg. E. 1, 33 Serv.; Hor. A. P. 330.—

In partic., private property.

What the master of the house saves and lays by, money laid by, savings, Dig. 32, 1, 77.—

What a wife owns as her independent property, and over which her husband has no control, a private purse, paraphernalia, Dig. 23, 3, 9, § 3.—

That which is given by a father or master to his son, daughter, or slave, as his or her private property:

frugi sum, nec potest peculium enumerari,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 91:

adimere servis peculium,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 17; 1, 17, 5:

filii,

Liv. 2, 41; cf. Sen. Ep. 11, 1:

Juliam uxorem peculio concesso a patre praebitisque annuis, fraudavit,

Suet. Tib. 50:

cultis augere peculia servis,

fees, Juv. 3, 189.—

Castrense, the private property of a son acquired by military service, with the consent of his father (profecticium), or by inheritance through his mother (adventicium); then called quasi castrense, Dig. 49, 17, 5 sqq.; Paul. Sent. 3, 4; cf. Dig. 37, 6, 1.—

= membrum virile, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 92; id. Most. 1, 3, 96; Petr. S. 8; Lampr. Elag. 9; cf. peculiatus.—

Trop., that which belongs to one's self, one's own. —Of a letter:

sine ullo ad me peculio veniet?

without any thing for myself, Sen. Ep. 12, 9.—Of the people of lsrael:

erunt mihi, in die quā ego facio, in peculium,

Vulg. Mal. 3, 17.

pĕnĕs, prep. with acc. [from the root pa- of pasco, v. Penates], with, in the possession or power of; connected only with names of persons, and freq. foll. its case (class.).

Chiefly to denote possession: virtus omnia in se habet;

omnia assunt bona, quem penes est virtus,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 21; id. Capt. 2, 1, 37; cf. id. Truc. 5, 9:

agri, quorum penes Cn. Pompeium omne judicium et potestas debet esse,

Cic. Agr. 2, 19, 52; cf.:

penes quem est potestas,

id. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

eloquentia non modo eos ornat, penes quos est, sed, etc.,

id. Or. 41, 142; id. Brut. 74, 258:

quod penes eos summam victoriae constare intellegebant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 21 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 87:

si volet usus, Quem penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi,

Hor. A. P. 72: me penes est [p. 1329] unum vasti custodia mundi, Ov. F. 1, 119. —So, penes se esse, have control of one's self (en heautôi einai):

penes te es?

Hor. S. 2, 3, 273 (for which:

apud se esse,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 48).—

Transf., with, in, in the presence or power of, in the house of, without the notion of possession:

sine dote, cum ejus rem penes me habeam domi,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 5:

thesaurum tuum Me esse penes,

id. ib. 5, 2, 22; id. Truc. 1, 1, 4; id. Aul. 4, 4, 27:

isthaec jam penes vos psaltria'st?

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 34:

hi (servi) centum dies penes accusatorem cum fuissent,

Cic. Mil. 22, 60; Caes. B. C. 1, 76, 4:

si penes servum tabulae fuerint,

Dig. 43, 5, 3:

penes regem, noli velle videri sapiens,

Vulg. Ecclus. 7, 5:

mentis causa malae est penes te,

Juv. 14, 226.—Rarely with an abstract object: plures ejus rei causas afferebat, potissimam penes incuriam virorum feminarumque, the principal ( cause) consisted in the indifference, etc., Tac. A. 4, 16.

per-pĕtĭor, pessus, 3, v. dep. n. and a. [patior], to bear steadfastly, suffer with firmness or patience; to stand out, abide, endure (class.): animus aeger neque pati neque perpeti potis est, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 3, 5 (Trag. v. 260 Vahl.):

o multa dictu gravia, perpessu aspera, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 8, 20: facile omnes perpetior ac perfero,

id. de Or. 2, 19, 77:

mendicitatem,

id. Fin. 5, 11, 32:

dolorem,

id. ib. 1, 14, 48:

affirmavi quidvis me potius perpessurum, quam, etc.,

id. Fam. 2, 16, 3:

casus illi perpetienti erat voluptarius,

id. Fin. 2, 20, 65:

mihi omnia potius perpetienda esse duco, quam, etc.,

id. Agr. 2, 3, 6:

dolorem asperum et difficilem perpessu,

id. Fin. 4, 26, 72: audax omnia perpeti Gens humana, i. e. to dare, brave every consequence, Hor. C. 1, 3, 25; Prop. 3, 22, 15:

fulmina, noctem, imbres... Perpetimur Danai,

Ov. M. 14, 472.—With object-clause:

aliam tecum esse equidem facile possim perpeti,

Plaut. As. 5, 1, 17:

neque me perpetiar probri Falso insimulatam,

id. Am. 3, 2, 6; id. Trin. 3, 2, 35; Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 3:

exscindine domos Perpetiar,

Verg. A. 12, 644:

non tamen hanc sacro violari pondere pinum Perpetiar,

Ov. M. 3, 622.—With inf.: perpetiar memorare, i. e. will collect or control myself so as, etc., Ov. M. 14, 466.—

Transf., of abstract things, to endure, put up with, etc.:

vehementius quam gracilitas mea perpeti posset,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 15.

Phăĕthon (dissyl.: fulmine Phaethon, Varr. ap. Quint. 1, 5, 18), ontis, m., = Phaethôn (the shining one).

Son of Helios and Clymene, who, having obtained from his father permission to drive the sun's chariot for a day, lost control of the steeds, and was struck down by a thunderbolt of Jupiter, to prevent his setting the earth on fire, Cic. Off. 3, 25, 94; id. N. D. 3, 31, 76; cf.:

Phaëthontem orbi terrarum educare,

Suet. Calig. 11; Ov. M. 2, 47 sq.; Verg. A. 10, 189.—

An epithet of the sun ( poet.), Verg. A. 5, 105; Sil. 6, 3.—Hence,

Phăĕ-thontēus, a, um, adj., = Phaethonteios, of or belonging to Phaëthon, Phaëthontean ( poet.):

ignes,

Ov. M. 4, 246:

Padus (because Phaëthon is said to have fallen into the Padus),

Mart. 10, 12, 2:

favilla, i. e. fulmen,

Stat. Th. 1, 221: umbra, i. e. of the poplar (because the sisters of Phaëthon were changed into poplars), Mart. 6, 15, 1.—

Phăĕthontĭas, ădis, f., = Phaethontias, a Phaëthontiad, i. e. a sister of Phaëthon. They wept for their brother, and were changed into poplars (acc. to others, into alders), while their tears were converted into amber:

Phaëthontiadum silva sororum,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 185; Verg. E. 6, 62; cf. Ov. M. 2, 340 sqq.—

Phăĕthentis, ĭdis, f., = Phaethontis, subst., i. q. Phaëthontias, a Phaëthontiad, a sister of Phaëthon ( poet.), Avien. Arat. 792.—As adj., of or belonging to Phaëthon, Phaëthontian: gutta, amber (into which the tears of Phaëthon's sisters were said to be converted), Mart. 4, 32, 1.—

Phăĕthontĭus, a, um, adj., = Phaethontios.

Of or belonging to Phaëthon, Phaëthontian:

fabula,

Stat. S. 2, 4, 9:

amnis, i.e. Padus (v. Phaëthonteus),

Sil. 7, 149. —

Of or belonging to the sun:

ora,

the sun's disk, Sil. 10, 110.