satis-facio

haud or haut (in the form hau, before consonants, several times in Plautus acc. to the Cod. Ambros., and in Inscr. Orell. 4848: HEIC. EST. SEPVLCRVM. HAV. PVLCRVM. PVLCRAI. FEMINAE; also Tac. A. 2, 36; 6, 43 (49), Nipperdey, Ritter; hence, also hauscio = haud scio; cf. Ritschl, prol. ad Plaut. Trin. p. 99 sq. and p. 325), adv. [perh. orig. hau = ou, v. Ritschl l. l. But cf. Hand, Turs. III. 15.—Acc. to Corss. Ausspr. 1, 205, haud = pronom. stem ho + au (Sanscr. ava, away) + de, as in unde, etc.], a subjective and intensive negative particle, not at all, by no means; in class. prose most freq. with adverbs; rarely with adjectives, pronouns, or verbs (the last construction in Cic. only in the formulae: haud scio an, and haud dubito; in Caes. it occurs but once; v. also Krebs, Antibarb. p. 516).

With advv.:

hau longe,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 13:

hau longe abesse oportet,

id. Am. 1, 1, 166:

haut sane diu est,

it is but a very little while ago, id. Merc. 3, 1, 44:

haud sane commodum,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 8:

haud sane intellego, quidnam sit, quod laudandum putat,

Cic. Off. 2, 2, 5; cf.

also: rem haud sane difficilem admirari videmini,

id. de Sen. 2, 4:

haud sane facile,

id. ib. 23, 83:

facio quod manifesto moechi haud ferme solent,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 40: haud ferme Ter. And. 3, 1, 2:

haud ita jussi,

id. ib. 5, 4, 52:

haud ita est,

id. Phorm. 2, 1, 35; cf.:

eia, haud sic decet,

id. Eun. 5, 9, 35; id. Ad. 3, 4, 7:

haut aliter esse duco,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 2:

aliter hau dicetis,

id. Most. 1, 2, 15:

haud aliter censeo,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 5; cf.

also: ac veluti lupus... Haud aliter Rutulo, muros et castra tuenti, Ignescunt irae,

Verg. A. 9, 65; v. aliter;

and cf. also secus: nam ego hau diu apud hunc servitutem servio,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 17 Ritschl, N. cr.:

haud diu est,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 67; cf.:

scies hau multo post,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 12; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 39:

haud paulo plus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3:

haud minus aegre patior,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 5:

haud minus,

Liv. 2, 60, 3:

Getae praetorii praefecto haud satis fidebant,

Tac. A. 11, 33:

sed haud facile dixerim, cur, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3 fin.; so,

haud facile,

Sall. J. 17, 2; id. C. 13, 5; cf.:

eorum animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

id. ib. 14, 5:

haud cito,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 89: haud temere est, quod tu tristi cum corde gubernas, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 329 (Ann. v. 473 Vahl.):

haud temere est visum,

Verg. A. 9, 375:

familiaris accipiere faxo hau familiariter,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 199:

haud stulte sapis,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 82:

haud commode,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 20:

consul haud dubie jam victor,

Sall. J. 102, 1:

Vergilius haud dubie proximus,

Quint. 10, 1, 85:

dubie: mihi hau saepe eveniunt tales hereditates,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 33:

morbus haud saepe quemquam superat,

Sall. J. 17, 6:

haud cunctanter,

Suet. Tit. 6. For the connection with dum and quamquam, v. infra fin. —

With adjj.:

id esse hau perlonginquom,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 76:

in aetate hau bonum'st,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 61: haut doctis dictis certantes, sed male dictis, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 274 Vahl.): ille vir haut magna cum re, id. ap. Cic. de Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 342 ib.):

hau mala'st mulier,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 42:

conveni hodie hominem haud impurum,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4:

anus haud impura,

id. Heaut. 4, 1, 16:

servum haud illiberalem praebes te,

id. Ad. 5, 5, 5:

haud mediocris vir,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

haut consimili ingenio,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 50:

compendium haut aetati optabile,

id. ib. 1, 2, 51:

hau permultum attulit,

id. ib. 2, 3, 86:

haud mirabile est,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 8:

bene dicere haut absurdum est,

Sall. C. 3, 1; cf.:

ingenium ejus haut absurdum,

id. ib. 25, 5:

haud ignotae belli artes,

Liv. 21, 1, 2:

annus haud dubiis consulibus,

id. 4, 8;

v. dubius and dubium: certe extrema linea Amare haud nihil est,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13.—

With pronn.:

haut quisquam quaeret, qui siem,

no one certainly, Plaut. Am. prol. 130:

eum salutat magis haut quiquam quam canem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 48; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 25; cf.:

faxo haut quicquam sit morae,

id. Am. 3, 3, 17; Ter. And. 2, 1, 36:

hic se ipsus fallit, haud ego,

id. ib. 3, 2, 15; cf.:

haud pol me quidem,

id. Hec. 2, 3, 5.—

With verbs: Ni. Etiam dimidium censes (eum attulisse)? Ch. Non edepol scio:

Verum haut opinor,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 88:

hauscio, quid eo opus sit,

id. ib. 5, 2, 15:

hau nosco tuum,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 44:

ne ego cum illo pignus haut ausim dare,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 133:

quod dixi semel, hau mutabo,

id. ib. 5, 2, 85; cf.: haud muto factum, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:

hau moror,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 30: philosophari est mihi necesse; nam omnino haut placet, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 1, 1 (cf. id. de Or. 2, 38, 156; id. Rep. 1, 18; Gell. 5, 15 fin.;

Trag. v. 417 Vahl.): pol me hau paenitet,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 72:

facit ille, quod vulgo hau solent,

id. ib. 1, 1, 30:

ego faxo hau dicet nactam, quem deluserit,

id. Bacch. 3, 4, 7; 4, 8, 23:

nae ille haud scit, quam, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 10; cf. id. ib. 4, 4, 25:

tum ille haud dubitavit, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15:

quod somno supererit, haud deerit,

Quint. 10, 3, 26:

haud erit, ut merito immortalis possit haberi,

it cannot be, Lucr. 3, 715;

v. sum: quem (Drusum) haud fratris interitu trucem quam remoto aemulo aequiorem sibi sperabat,

not so much... as, Tac. A. 3, 8.—For the phrase haud scio an (in Plautus hauscio an), see an; cf. also, haud scio, -ne: idque adeo haud scio, mirandumne sit, etc., * Caes. B. G. 5, 54, 5: Am. Exspectatusne advenio? So. Hau vidi magis exspectatum, I never saw any one welcomer, ironically, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 47; so,

hau vidi magis,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 29; id. Poen. 1, 1, 13.—Pleonastic with another negative:

neque ego haut committam, ut, si peccatum siet, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 114:

neque ille haud obiciet mihi, Pedibus sese provocatum,

id. Ep. 5, 1, 57:

post si quis vellet te, haut nevelles dividi?

id. Aul. 2, 4, 7.—Ellipt.: Al. Quid istuc est, mi vir, negoti, quod tu tam subito domo Abeas? Ju. Edepol haut quod tui me neque domi distaedeat, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 5.—Hence,

Esp., joined with dum and quaquam.

haud dum, or, as one word, haud-dum, an intensive nondum, not at all as yet, not yet (very rare):

concilione... Pro Superi! Ausonius miles sedet? armaque tantum Hauddum sumpta viro?

Sil. 2, 332; Liv. 2, 52; 10, 6; 25; 22, 12; 28, 2; 33, 11 al.—

haud quāquam, or, as one word, haudquāquam, by no means whatever, not at all (class.): haudquaquam quemquam semper Fortuna secuta est, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 299 Vahl.):

haudquaquam etiam cessant,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 1:

haudquaquam id est difficile Crasso,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 143:

haudquaquam hercle mirandum est esse, etc.,

id. ib. 3, 22, 82:

haudquaquam boni est, ratione vinctum velle dissolvere,

id. Univ. 11:

homo prudens et gravis, haudquaquam eloquens,

id. de Or. 1, 9, 38:

accedat huc suavitas quaedam oportet sermonum atque morum haudquaquam mediocre condimentum amicitiae,

id. Lael. 18, 66:

haudquaquam par gloria,

Sall. C. 3, 2:

haudquaquam certamine ambiguo,

Liv. 7, 26, 8:

tibi has, miserabilis Orpheus Haudquaquam ob meritum, poenas, ni Fata resistant, Suscitat,

Verg. G. 4, 455:

haudquaquam dictis violentia Turni flectitur,

id. A. 12, 45 al.

haud or haut (in the form hau, before consonants, several times in Plautus acc. to the Cod. Ambros., and in Inscr. Orell. 4848: HEIC. EST. SEPVLCRVM. HAV. PVLCRVM. PVLCRAI. FEMINAE; also Tac. A. 2, 36; 6, 43 (49), Nipperdey, Ritter; hence, also hauscio = haud scio; cf. Ritschl, prol. ad Plaut. Trin. p. 99 sq. and p. 325), adv. [perh. orig. hau = ou, v. Ritschl l. l. But cf. Hand, Turs. III. 15.—Acc. to Corss. Ausspr. 1, 205, haud = pronom. stem ho + au (Sanscr. ava, away) + de, as in unde, etc.], a subjective and intensive negative particle, not at all, by no means; in class. prose most freq. with adverbs; rarely with adjectives, pronouns, or verbs (the last construction in Cic. only in the formulae: haud scio an, and haud dubito; in Caes. it occurs but once; v. also Krebs, Antibarb. p. 516).

With advv.:

hau longe,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 13:

hau longe abesse oportet,

id. Am. 1, 1, 166:

haut sane diu est,

it is but a very little while ago, id. Merc. 3, 1, 44:

haud sane commodum,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 8:

haud sane intellego, quidnam sit, quod laudandum putat,

Cic. Off. 2, 2, 5; cf.

also: rem haud sane difficilem admirari videmini,

id. de Sen. 2, 4:

haud sane facile,

id. ib. 23, 83:

facio quod manifesto moechi haud ferme solent,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 40: haud ferme Ter. And. 3, 1, 2:

haud ita jussi,

id. ib. 5, 4, 52:

haud ita est,

id. Phorm. 2, 1, 35; cf.:

eia, haud sic decet,

id. Eun. 5, 9, 35; id. Ad. 3, 4, 7:

haut aliter esse duco,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 2:

aliter hau dicetis,

id. Most. 1, 2, 15:

haud aliter censeo,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 5; cf.

also: ac veluti lupus... Haud aliter Rutulo, muros et castra tuenti, Ignescunt irae,

Verg. A. 9, 65; v. aliter;

and cf. also secus: nam ego hau diu apud hunc servitutem servio,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 17 Ritschl, N. cr.:

haud diu est,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 67; cf.:

scies hau multo post,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 12; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 39:

haud paulo plus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3:

haud minus aegre patior,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 5:

haud minus,

Liv. 2, 60, 3:

Getae praetorii praefecto haud satis fidebant,

Tac. A. 11, 33:

sed haud facile dixerim, cur, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3 fin.; so,

haud facile,

Sall. J. 17, 2; id. C. 13, 5; cf.:

eorum animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

id. ib. 14, 5:

haud cito,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 89: haud temere est, quod tu tristi cum corde gubernas, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 329 (Ann. v. 473 Vahl.):

haud temere est visum,

Verg. A. 9, 375:

familiaris accipiere faxo hau familiariter,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 199:

haud stulte sapis,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 82:

haud commode,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 20:

consul haud dubie jam victor,

Sall. J. 102, 1:

Vergilius haud dubie proximus,

Quint. 10, 1, 85:

dubie: mihi hau saepe eveniunt tales hereditates,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 33:

morbus haud saepe quemquam superat,

Sall. J. 17, 6:

haud cunctanter,

Suet. Tit. 6. For the connection with dum and quamquam, v. infra fin. —

With adjj.:

id esse hau perlonginquom,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 76:

in aetate hau bonum'st,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 61: haut doctis dictis certantes, sed male dictis, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 274 Vahl.): ille vir haut magna cum re, id. ap. Cic. de Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 342 ib.):

hau mala'st mulier,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 42:

conveni hodie hominem haud impurum,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4:

anus haud impura,

id. Heaut. 4, 1, 16:

servum haud illiberalem praebes te,

id. Ad. 5, 5, 5:

haud mediocris vir,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

haut consimili ingenio,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 50:

compendium haut aetati optabile,

id. ib. 1, 2, 51:

hau permultum attulit,

id. ib. 2, 3, 86:

haud mirabile est,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 8:

bene dicere haut absurdum est,

Sall. C. 3, 1; cf.:

ingenium ejus haut absurdum,

id. ib. 25, 5:

haud ignotae belli artes,

Liv. 21, 1, 2:

annus haud dubiis consulibus,

id. 4, 8;

v. dubius and dubium: certe extrema linea Amare haud nihil est,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13.—

With pronn.:

haut quisquam quaeret, qui siem,

no one certainly, Plaut. Am. prol. 130:

eum salutat magis haut quiquam quam canem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 48; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 25; cf.:

faxo haut quicquam sit morae,

id. Am. 3, 3, 17; Ter. And. 2, 1, 36:

hic se ipsus fallit, haud ego,

id. ib. 3, 2, 15; cf.:

haud pol me quidem,

id. Hec. 2, 3, 5.—

With verbs: Ni. Etiam dimidium censes (eum attulisse)? Ch. Non edepol scio:

Verum haut opinor,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 88:

hauscio, quid eo opus sit,

id. ib. 5, 2, 15:

hau nosco tuum,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 44:

ne ego cum illo pignus haut ausim dare,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 133:

quod dixi semel, hau mutabo,

id. ib. 5, 2, 85; cf.: haud muto factum, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:

hau moror,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 30: philosophari est mihi necesse; nam omnino haut placet, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 1, 1 (cf. id. de Or. 2, 38, 156; id. Rep. 1, 18; Gell. 5, 15 fin.;

Trag. v. 417 Vahl.): pol me hau paenitet,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 72:

facit ille, quod vulgo hau solent,

id. ib. 1, 1, 30:

ego faxo hau dicet nactam, quem deluserit,

id. Bacch. 3, 4, 7; 4, 8, 23:

nae ille haud scit, quam, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 10; cf. id. ib. 4, 4, 25:

tum ille haud dubitavit, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15:

quod somno supererit, haud deerit,

Quint. 10, 3, 26:

haud erit, ut merito immortalis possit haberi,

it cannot be, Lucr. 3, 715;

v. sum: quem (Drusum) haud fratris interitu trucem quam remoto aemulo aequiorem sibi sperabat,

not so much... as, Tac. A. 3, 8.—For the phrase haud scio an (in Plautus hauscio an), see an; cf. also, haud scio, -ne: idque adeo haud scio, mirandumne sit, etc., * Caes. B. G. 5, 54, 5: Am. Exspectatusne advenio? So. Hau vidi magis exspectatum, I never saw any one welcomer, ironically, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 47; so,

hau vidi magis,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 29; id. Poen. 1, 1, 13.—Pleonastic with another negative:

neque ego haut committam, ut, si peccatum siet, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 114:

neque ille haud obiciet mihi, Pedibus sese provocatum,

id. Ep. 5, 1, 57:

post si quis vellet te, haut nevelles dividi?

id. Aul. 2, 4, 7.—Ellipt.: Al. Quid istuc est, mi vir, negoti, quod tu tam subito domo Abeas? Ju. Edepol haut quod tui me neque domi distaedeat, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 5.—Hence,

Esp., joined with dum and quaquam.

haud dum, or, as one word, haud-dum, an intensive nondum, not at all as yet, not yet (very rare):

concilione... Pro Superi! Ausonius miles sedet? armaque tantum Hauddum sumpta viro?

Sil. 2, 332; Liv. 2, 52; 10, 6; 25; 22, 12; 28, 2; 33, 11 al.—

haud quāquam, or, as one word, haudquāquam, by no means whatever, not at all (class.): haudquaquam quemquam semper Fortuna secuta est, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 299 Vahl.):

haudquaquam etiam cessant,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 1:

haudquaquam id est difficile Crasso,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 143:

haudquaquam hercle mirandum est esse, etc.,

id. ib. 3, 22, 82:

haudquaquam boni est, ratione vinctum velle dissolvere,

id. Univ. 11:

homo prudens et gravis, haudquaquam eloquens,

id. de Or. 1, 9, 38:

accedat huc suavitas quaedam oportet sermonum atque morum haudquaquam mediocre condimentum amicitiae,

id. Lael. 18, 66:

haudquaquam par gloria,

Sall. C. 3, 2:

haudquaquam certamine ambiguo,

Liv. 7, 26, 8:

tibi has, miserabilis Orpheus Haudquaquam ob meritum, poenas, ni Fata resistant, Suscitat,

Verg. G. 4, 455:

haudquaquam dictis violentia Turni flectitur,

id. A. 12, 45 al.

haud or haut (in the form hau, before consonants, several times in Plautus acc. to the Cod. Ambros., and in Inscr. Orell. 4848: HEIC. EST. SEPVLCRVM. HAV. PVLCRVM. PVLCRAI. FEMINAE; also Tac. A. 2, 36; 6, 43 (49), Nipperdey, Ritter; hence, also hauscio = haud scio; cf. Ritschl, prol. ad Plaut. Trin. p. 99 sq. and p. 325), adv. [perh. orig. hau = ou, v. Ritschl l. l. But cf. Hand, Turs. III. 15.—Acc. to Corss. Ausspr. 1, 205, haud = pronom. stem ho + au (Sanscr. ava, away) + de, as in unde, etc.], a subjective and intensive negative particle, not at all, by no means; in class. prose most freq. with adverbs; rarely with adjectives, pronouns, or verbs (the last construction in Cic. only in the formulae: haud scio an, and haud dubito; in Caes. it occurs but once; v. also Krebs, Antibarb. p. 516).

With advv.:

hau longe,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 13:

hau longe abesse oportet,

id. Am. 1, 1, 166:

haut sane diu est,

it is but a very little while ago, id. Merc. 3, 1, 44:

haud sane commodum,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 8:

haud sane intellego, quidnam sit, quod laudandum putat,

Cic. Off. 2, 2, 5; cf.

also: rem haud sane difficilem admirari videmini,

id. de Sen. 2, 4:

haud sane facile,

id. ib. 23, 83:

facio quod manifesto moechi haud ferme solent,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 40: haud ferme Ter. And. 3, 1, 2:

haud ita jussi,

id. ib. 5, 4, 52:

haud ita est,

id. Phorm. 2, 1, 35; cf.:

eia, haud sic decet,

id. Eun. 5, 9, 35; id. Ad. 3, 4, 7:

haut aliter esse duco,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 2:

aliter hau dicetis,

id. Most. 1, 2, 15:

haud aliter censeo,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 5; cf.

also: ac veluti lupus... Haud aliter Rutulo, muros et castra tuenti, Ignescunt irae,

Verg. A. 9, 65; v. aliter;

and cf. also secus: nam ego hau diu apud hunc servitutem servio,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 17 Ritschl, N. cr.:

haud diu est,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 67; cf.:

scies hau multo post,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 12; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 39:

haud paulo plus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3:

haud minus aegre patior,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 5:

haud minus,

Liv. 2, 60, 3:

Getae praetorii praefecto haud satis fidebant,

Tac. A. 11, 33:

sed haud facile dixerim, cur, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3 fin.; so,

haud facile,

Sall. J. 17, 2; id. C. 13, 5; cf.:

eorum animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

id. ib. 14, 5:

haud cito,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 89: haud temere est, quod tu tristi cum corde gubernas, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 329 (Ann. v. 473 Vahl.):

haud temere est visum,

Verg. A. 9, 375:

familiaris accipiere faxo hau familiariter,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 199:

haud stulte sapis,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 82:

haud commode,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 20:

consul haud dubie jam victor,

Sall. J. 102, 1:

Vergilius haud dubie proximus,

Quint. 10, 1, 85:

dubie: mihi hau saepe eveniunt tales hereditates,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 33:

morbus haud saepe quemquam superat,

Sall. J. 17, 6:

haud cunctanter,

Suet. Tit. 6. For the connection with dum and quamquam, v. infra fin. —

With adjj.:

id esse hau perlonginquom,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 76:

in aetate hau bonum'st,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 61: haut doctis dictis certantes, sed male dictis, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 274 Vahl.): ille vir haut magna cum re, id. ap. Cic. de Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 342 ib.):

hau mala'st mulier,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 42:

conveni hodie hominem haud impurum,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4:

anus haud impura,

id. Heaut. 4, 1, 16:

servum haud illiberalem praebes te,

id. Ad. 5, 5, 5:

haud mediocris vir,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

haut consimili ingenio,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 50:

compendium haut aetati optabile,

id. ib. 1, 2, 51:

hau permultum attulit,

id. ib. 2, 3, 86:

haud mirabile est,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 8:

bene dicere haut absurdum est,

Sall. C. 3, 1; cf.:

ingenium ejus haut absurdum,

id. ib. 25, 5:

haud ignotae belli artes,

Liv. 21, 1, 2:

annus haud dubiis consulibus,

id. 4, 8;

v. dubius and dubium: certe extrema linea Amare haud nihil est,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13.—

With pronn.:

haut quisquam quaeret, qui siem,

no one certainly, Plaut. Am. prol. 130:

eum salutat magis haut quiquam quam canem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 48; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 25; cf.:

faxo haut quicquam sit morae,

id. Am. 3, 3, 17; Ter. And. 2, 1, 36:

hic se ipsus fallit, haud ego,

id. ib. 3, 2, 15; cf.:

haud pol me quidem,

id. Hec. 2, 3, 5.—

With verbs: Ni. Etiam dimidium censes (eum attulisse)? Ch. Non edepol scio:

Verum haut opinor,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 88:

hauscio, quid eo opus sit,

id. ib. 5, 2, 15:

hau nosco tuum,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 44:

ne ego cum illo pignus haut ausim dare,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 133:

quod dixi semel, hau mutabo,

id. ib. 5, 2, 85; cf.: haud muto factum, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:

hau moror,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 30: philosophari est mihi necesse; nam omnino haut placet, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 1, 1 (cf. id. de Or. 2, 38, 156; id. Rep. 1, 18; Gell. 5, 15 fin.;

Trag. v. 417 Vahl.): pol me hau paenitet,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 72:

facit ille, quod vulgo hau solent,

id. ib. 1, 1, 30:

ego faxo hau dicet nactam, quem deluserit,

id. Bacch. 3, 4, 7; 4, 8, 23:

nae ille haud scit, quam, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 10; cf. id. ib. 4, 4, 25:

tum ille haud dubitavit, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15:

quod somno supererit, haud deerit,

Quint. 10, 3, 26:

haud erit, ut merito immortalis possit haberi,

it cannot be, Lucr. 3, 715;

v. sum: quem (Drusum) haud fratris interitu trucem quam remoto aemulo aequiorem sibi sperabat,

not so much... as, Tac. A. 3, 8.—For the phrase haud scio an (in Plautus hauscio an), see an; cf. also, haud scio, -ne: idque adeo haud scio, mirandumne sit, etc., * Caes. B. G. 5, 54, 5: Am. Exspectatusne advenio? So. Hau vidi magis exspectatum, I never saw any one welcomer, ironically, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 47; so,

hau vidi magis,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 29; id. Poen. 1, 1, 13.—Pleonastic with another negative:

neque ego haut committam, ut, si peccatum siet, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 114:

neque ille haud obiciet mihi, Pedibus sese provocatum,

id. Ep. 5, 1, 57:

post si quis vellet te, haut nevelles dividi?

id. Aul. 2, 4, 7.—Ellipt.: Al. Quid istuc est, mi vir, negoti, quod tu tam subito domo Abeas? Ju. Edepol haut quod tui me neque domi distaedeat, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 5.—Hence,

Esp., joined with dum and quaquam.

haud dum, or, as one word, haud-dum, an intensive nondum, not at all as yet, not yet (very rare):

concilione... Pro Superi! Ausonius miles sedet? armaque tantum Hauddum sumpta viro?

Sil. 2, 332; Liv. 2, 52; 10, 6; 25; 22, 12; 28, 2; 33, 11 al.—

haud quāquam, or, as one word, haudquāquam, by no means whatever, not at all (class.): haudquaquam quemquam semper Fortuna secuta est, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 299 Vahl.):

haudquaquam etiam cessant,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 1:

haudquaquam id est difficile Crasso,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 143:

haudquaquam hercle mirandum est esse, etc.,

id. ib. 3, 22, 82:

haudquaquam boni est, ratione vinctum velle dissolvere,

id. Univ. 11:

homo prudens et gravis, haudquaquam eloquens,

id. de Or. 1, 9, 38:

accedat huc suavitas quaedam oportet sermonum atque morum haudquaquam mediocre condimentum amicitiae,

id. Lael. 18, 66:

haudquaquam par gloria,

Sall. C. 3, 2:

haudquaquam certamine ambiguo,

Liv. 7, 26, 8:

tibi has, miserabilis Orpheus Haudquaquam ob meritum, poenas, ni Fata resistant, Suscitat,

Verg. G. 4, 455:

haudquaquam dictis violentia Turni flectitur,

id. A. 12, 45 al.

haud or haut (in the form hau, before consonants, several times in Plautus acc. to the Cod. Ambros., and in Inscr. Orell. 4848: HEIC. EST. SEPVLCRVM. HAV. PVLCRVM. PVLCRAI. FEMINAE; also Tac. A. 2, 36; 6, 43 (49), Nipperdey, Ritter; hence, also hauscio = haud scio; cf. Ritschl, prol. ad Plaut. Trin. p. 99 sq. and p. 325), adv. [perh. orig. hau = ou, v. Ritschl l. l. But cf. Hand, Turs. III. 15.—Acc. to Corss. Ausspr. 1, 205, haud = pronom. stem ho + au (Sanscr. ava, away) + de, as in unde, etc.], a subjective and intensive negative particle, not at all, by no means; in class. prose most freq. with adverbs; rarely with adjectives, pronouns, or verbs (the last construction in Cic. only in the formulae: haud scio an, and haud dubito; in Caes. it occurs but once; v. also Krebs, Antibarb. p. 516).

With advv.:

hau longe,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 2, 13:

hau longe abesse oportet,

id. Am. 1, 1, 166:

haut sane diu est,

it is but a very little while ago, id. Merc. 3, 1, 44:

haud sane commodum,

Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 8:

haud sane intellego, quidnam sit, quod laudandum putat,

Cic. Off. 2, 2, 5; cf.

also: rem haud sane difficilem admirari videmini,

id. de Sen. 2, 4:

haud sane facile,

id. ib. 23, 83:

facio quod manifesto moechi haud ferme solent,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 40: haud ferme Ter. And. 3, 1, 2:

haud ita jussi,

id. ib. 5, 4, 52:

haud ita est,

id. Phorm. 2, 1, 35; cf.:

eia, haud sic decet,

id. Eun. 5, 9, 35; id. Ad. 3, 4, 7:

haut aliter esse duco,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 2:

aliter hau dicetis,

id. Most. 1, 2, 15:

haud aliter censeo,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 5; cf.

also: ac veluti lupus... Haud aliter Rutulo, muros et castra tuenti, Ignescunt irae,

Verg. A. 9, 65; v. aliter;

and cf. also secus: nam ego hau diu apud hunc servitutem servio,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 17 Ritschl, N. cr.:

haud diu est,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 67; cf.:

scies hau multo post,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 12; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 39:

haud paulo plus,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 3:

haud minus aegre patior,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 5:

haud minus,

Liv. 2, 60, 3:

Getae praetorii praefecto haud satis fidebant,

Tac. A. 11, 33:

sed haud facile dixerim, cur, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3 fin.; so,

haud facile,

Sall. J. 17, 2; id. C. 13, 5; cf.:

eorum animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

id. ib. 14, 5:

haud cito,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 89: haud temere est, quod tu tristi cum corde gubernas, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 329 (Ann. v. 473 Vahl.):

haud temere est visum,

Verg. A. 9, 375:

familiaris accipiere faxo hau familiariter,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 199:

haud stulte sapis,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 82:

haud commode,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 20:

consul haud dubie jam victor,

Sall. J. 102, 1:

Vergilius haud dubie proximus,

Quint. 10, 1, 85:

dubie: mihi hau saepe eveniunt tales hereditates,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 33:

morbus haud saepe quemquam superat,

Sall. J. 17, 6:

haud cunctanter,

Suet. Tit. 6. For the connection with dum and quamquam, v. infra fin. —

With adjj.:

id esse hau perlonginquom,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 76:

in aetate hau bonum'st,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 61: haut doctis dictis certantes, sed male dictis, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 274 Vahl.): ille vir haut magna cum re, id. ap. Cic. de Sen. 1, 1 (Ann. v. 342 ib.):

hau mala'st mulier,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 42:

conveni hodie hominem haud impurum,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 4:

anus haud impura,

id. Heaut. 4, 1, 16:

servum haud illiberalem praebes te,

id. Ad. 5, 5, 5:

haud mediocris vir,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31:

haut consimili ingenio,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 50:

compendium haut aetati optabile,

id. ib. 1, 2, 51:

hau permultum attulit,

id. ib. 2, 3, 86:

haud mirabile est,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 8:

bene dicere haut absurdum est,

Sall. C. 3, 1; cf.:

ingenium ejus haut absurdum,

id. ib. 25, 5:

haud ignotae belli artes,

Liv. 21, 1, 2:

annus haud dubiis consulibus,

id. 4, 8;

v. dubius and dubium: certe extrema linea Amare haud nihil est,

Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13.—

With pronn.:

haut quisquam quaeret, qui siem,

no one certainly, Plaut. Am. prol. 130:

eum salutat magis haut quiquam quam canem,

id. ib. 2, 2, 48; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 25; cf.:

faxo haut quicquam sit morae,

id. Am. 3, 3, 17; Ter. And. 2, 1, 36:

hic se ipsus fallit, haud ego,

id. ib. 3, 2, 15; cf.:

haud pol me quidem,

id. Hec. 2, 3, 5.—

With verbs: Ni. Etiam dimidium censes (eum attulisse)? Ch. Non edepol scio:

Verum haut opinor,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 88:

hauscio, quid eo opus sit,

id. ib. 5, 2, 15:

hau nosco tuum,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 44:

ne ego cum illo pignus haut ausim dare,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 133:

quod dixi semel, hau mutabo,

id. ib. 5, 2, 85; cf.: haud muto factum, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:

hau moror,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 30: philosophari est mihi necesse; nam omnino haut placet, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 1, 1 (cf. id. de Or. 2, 38, 156; id. Rep. 1, 18; Gell. 5, 15 fin.;

Trag. v. 417 Vahl.): pol me hau paenitet,

Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 72:

facit ille, quod vulgo hau solent,

id. ib. 1, 1, 30:

ego faxo hau dicet nactam, quem deluserit,

id. Bacch. 3, 4, 7; 4, 8, 23:

nae ille haud scit, quam, etc.,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 10; cf. id. ib. 4, 4, 25:

tum ille haud dubitavit, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 15:

quod somno supererit, haud deerit,

Quint. 10, 3, 26:

haud erit, ut merito immortalis possit haberi,

it cannot be, Lucr. 3, 715;

v. sum: quem (Drusum) haud fratris interitu trucem quam remoto aemulo aequiorem sibi sperabat,

not so much... as, Tac. A. 3, 8.—For the phrase haud scio an (in Plautus hauscio an), see an; cf. also, haud scio, -ne: idque adeo haud scio, mirandumne sit, etc., * Caes. B. G. 5, 54, 5: Am. Exspectatusne advenio? So. Hau vidi magis exspectatum, I never saw any one welcomer, ironically, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 47; so,

hau vidi magis,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 29; id. Poen. 1, 1, 13.—Pleonastic with another negative:

neque ego haut committam, ut, si peccatum siet, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 114:

neque ille haud obiciet mihi, Pedibus sese provocatum,

id. Ep. 5, 1, 57:

post si quis vellet te, haut nevelles dividi?

id. Aul. 2, 4, 7.—Ellipt.: Al. Quid istuc est, mi vir, negoti, quod tu tam subito domo Abeas? Ju. Edepol haut quod tui me neque domi distaedeat, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 5.—Hence,

Esp., joined with dum and quaquam.

haud dum, or, as one word, haud-dum, an intensive nondum, not at all as yet, not yet (very rare):

concilione... Pro Superi! Ausonius miles sedet? armaque tantum Hauddum sumpta viro?

Sil. 2, 332; Liv. 2, 52; 10, 6; 25; 22, 12; 28, 2; 33, 11 al.—

haud quāquam, or, as one word, haudquāquam, by no means whatever, not at all (class.): haudquaquam quemquam semper Fortuna secuta est, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 299 Vahl.):

haudquaquam etiam cessant,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 1:

haudquaquam id est difficile Crasso,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 143:

haudquaquam hercle mirandum est esse, etc.,

id. ib. 3, 22, 82:

haudquaquam boni est, ratione vinctum velle dissolvere,

id. Univ. 11:

homo prudens et gravis, haudquaquam eloquens,

id. de Or. 1, 9, 38:

accedat huc suavitas quaedam oportet sermonum atque morum haudquaquam mediocre condimentum amicitiae,

id. Lael. 18, 66:

haudquaquam par gloria,

Sall. C. 3, 2:

haudquaquam certamine ambiguo,

Liv. 7, 26, 8:

tibi has, miserabilis Orpheus Haudquaquam ob meritum, poenas, ni Fata resistant, Suscitat,

Verg. G. 4, 455:

haudquaquam dictis violentia Turni flectitur,

id. A. 12, 45 al.

offĭcĭum, ii, n. [for opificium, opus and facio], qs. that which one does for another, a service, whether of free will or of (external or moral) necessity (class.; cf.: studium, beneficium, meritum, munus).

A voluntary service, a kindness, favor, courtesy, rendered to one whose claim to it is recognized;

while beneficium is a service rendered where there is no claim: officium esse filii, uxoris, earum personarum, quas necessitudo suscitat et ferre opem jubet,

Sen. Ben. 3, 18, 1.

In gen.:

altera sententia est, quae definit amicitiam paribus officiis ac voluntatibus,

Cic. Lael. 16, 58:

odiosum sane genus hominum officia exprobrantium,

id. ib. 20, 71:

nihil est vicissitudine studiorum officiorumque jucundius,

id. ib. 14, 49: filicem cum officio vicini decidere, so as to do him a service, Col. 2, 14, 6:

summo officio praeditus homo,

exceedingly obliging, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51, § 135. —

In partic.

A ceremonial observance, ceremony, attendance (on a festive or solemn occasion;

mostly post-Aug.): officio togae virilis interfui,

Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 2:

sine solenni officio,

Suet. Claud. 2:

per sollenne nuptiarum celeberrimo officio deductum ad se,

id. Ner. 28; cf. id. Claud. 26:

ad officium venire,

id. Calig. 25:

relicto statim novorum consulum officio,

id. Caes. 50:

in officio salutationis,

id. Aug. 27:

vitans praeter navigantium officia,

id. Tib. 12:

officia prosequentium,

id. Caes. 71:

quod supremis in matrem officiis defuisset,

at the payment of the last offices, at the funeral, Tac. A. 5, 2:

officium cras Primo sole mihi peragendum in valle Quirini,

a ceremonial visit, Juv. 2, 133 sq.; 3, 239.—

In mal. part., compliance, favor, Prop. 3, 15, 24; Ov. Am. 1, 10, 46; 3, 7, 24; cf.

virile,

Theod. Prisc. 2, 11:

puerile,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 5; Petr. 140.—

In gen., an obligatory service, an obligation, duty, function, part, office (so most freq. in prose and poetry of all periods):

nulla vitae pars neque publicis neque privatis neque forensibus neque domesticis in rebus, neque si tecum agas quid, neque, si cum altero contrahas, vacare oflicio potest: in eoque et colendo sita vitae est honestas omnis et in neglegendo turpitudo, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 2, 4 sq.: perfectum officium rectum opinor vocemus, quod Graeci katorthôma: hoc autem commune kathêkon vocant, id. ib. 1, 3, 8;

an id doles, quia illi suum officium non colunt, quom tu tuum facis?

Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 34; id. ib. 1, 1, 39; id. Pers. 4, 4, 66:

meminisse officium suum,

to remember one's duty, id. Trin. 3, 2, 71.—Also, subject., a sense of duty:

si quis aegre ferat nihil in se esse virtutis, nihil officii, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 28, 61:

quicquid in eum judicii officiique contuleris,

id. Fam. 10, 1 fin.:

intellegere, utrum apud eos pudor atque officium an timor valeret,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 14:

suum facere,

to do one's duty, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 44:

omnibus officiis amicitiae servatis,

observe all the obligations of friendship, Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:

exsequi,

id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

fungi officio,

id. Fam. 3, 8, 3:

satisfacere officio,

to perform, id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47:

officium suum deserere,

to disregard one's duty, not perform it, id. Off. 1, 9, 28:

discedere ab officio,

id. ib. 1, 10, 32:

deesse officio suo,

id. Fam. 7, 3, 1:

officii duxit,

considered it his duty, Suet. Tib. 11.—Of animals:

canes funguntur officiis luporum,

act the part of, Auct. Her. 4, 34, 46.—Of things:

neque pes neque mens satis suum officium facit,

Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 3: officium corporis, the function or property of a body, Lucr. 1, 336 and 362.—

In partic.

Lit., an official duty, a service, employment, business (class.):

toti officio maritimo M. Bibulus praepositus cuncta administrabat,

naval service, Caes. B. C. 3, 5 fin.; 3, 8:

celeriter equitatus ad cotidianum itineris officium revertitur,

id. ib. 1, 80:

confecto legationis officio,

id. ib. 3, 103:

destringor officio,

Plin. Ep. 7, 15, 1:

officium (scribae),

Nep. Eum. 1, 5.—

Transf., an office, appointment (post-Aug.).

Laboriosissimum et maximum, office, Plin. Pan. 91:

nova officia excogitavit,

Suet. Aug. 37; cf.:

novum officium instituit a voluptatibus,

id. Tib. 42:

obligationes, quae non propriis viribus consistunt, neque officio judicis, neque praetoris imperio neque legis potestate confirmantur,

Dig. 44, 7, 27:

qui ex officio pro aliis interveniunt,

by virtue of their office, ib. 21, 1, 31, § 14:

ministerii,

Vulg. Exod. 28, 35:

sacerdotum,

id. Num. 7, 8.—

Transf., in concr.

The officials or attendants on a magistrate = officialium corpus (post-class.):

sub praetextu adventus officiorum vel militum,

Dig. 1, 18, 6; 21, 2, 74:

deponere aliquid apud officium,

ib. 2, 4. 17: officia palatina, officers at the imperial court, Treb. Poll. Gall. 17, 8.—

An office or court of a magistrate:

ipse me Regulus convenit in praetoris officio,

Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 11.

parvus, a, um, adj. (usual, irreg. comp. and sup.: mĭnor, mĭnĭmus.— Comp.:

volantum parviores,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 26.— Sup.: rictus parvissimus, Varr. ap. Non. 456, 10:

parvissima corpora,

Lucr. 1, 615; 621; 3, 199: minerrimus pro minimo dixerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 122 Müll.:

minimissimus,

Arn. 5, n. 8) [kindr. with paucus and Gr. pauros; cf., also, parum, parcus], little, small, petty, puny, inconsiderable (cf.: exiguus, minutus, brevis; in class. prose parvus is not used, like brevis, of stature, v. Auct. Her. 4, 33, 45).

Posit.:

in parvis aut mediocribus rebus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 84:

quam parva sit terra, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 17, 26; cf. id. ib. 6, 16, 16:

commoda parva ac mediocria,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 1:

in parvum quendam et angustum locum concludi,

id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:

beneficium non parvum,

id. Caecin. 10, 26:

parvi pisciculi,

id. N. D. 2, 48, 123:

haec parva et infirma sunt,

id. Clu. 34, 94:

si parva licet componere magnis,

Verg. G. 4, 176:

merces,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 86:

sucus,

Plin. 21, 31, 105, § 178 et saep.:

liberi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37;

so of children: salutaria appetant parvi,

the little ones, id. Fin. 3, 5, 16:

parva soror,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 15; cf.:

memini quae plagosum mihi parvo Orbilium dictare,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 70:

operosa parvus Carmina fingo,

a little man, id. C. 4, 2, 31; Suet. Aug. 48:

a parvis didicimus: si in jus vocat, etc.,

when little, in childhood, Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

puer in domo a parvo eductus,

from infancy, Liv. 1, 39 fin. —Of time, little, short, brief:

parvae consuetudinis Causa,

slight, short, Ter. And. 1, 1, 83; cf.:

in parvo tempore,

Lucr. 5, 106:

nox,

Luc. 4, 476:

vita,

id. 6, 806:

parvam fidem habere alicui,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 117:

hic onus horret, Ut parvis animis et parvo corpore majus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 39:

homo parvo ingenio,

Plin. Ep. 6, 29:

parvum carmen,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 257:

hoc opus, hoc studium parvi properemus et ampli,

both small and great, id. ib. 1, 3, 28.—With ref. to value or consequence, little, small, low, mean, etc.:

meam erus esse operam deputat parvi pretii,

Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 1:

nil parvom aut humili modo, Nil mortale loquar,

Hor. C. 3, 25, 17:

et magnis parva mineris Falce recisurum simili te,

id. S. 1, 3, 122:

pretio parvo vendere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 134:

parvi sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi,

of little value, id. Off. 1, 22, 76:

parvi refert abs te jus dici diligenter, nisi, etc.,

it matters little, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 20.—Hence, parvi facere, aestimare, ducere, pendere, etc., to esteem lightly, care little for:

parvi ego illos facio,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 41:

parvi aestimo, si ego hic peribo,

id. Capt. 3, 5, 24:

quia parvi id duceret,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24: nequam hominis ego parvi pendo gratiam, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 29.—So, in abl.:

signa abs te diligenter parvoque curata sunt,

Cic. Att. 1, 3, 2; so,

quanti emptus? parvo,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 156:

parvo stat magna potentia nobis,

Ov. M. 14, 493:

parvo contentus esse possum,

with little, Cic. Att. 12, 19, 1; cf.:

vivitur parvo bene,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 13:

possim contentus vivere parvo,

Tib. 1, 1, 25:

agricolae prisci, fortes parvoque beati,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 139:

necessarium est parvo assuescere,

Sen. Ep. 123, 3: parvo, as an abl. of measure, with comp. (rarely;

perh. not ante-Aug.): ita ut parvo admodum plures caperentur,

a very little more, Liv. 10, 45, 11:

parvo brevius,

Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168:

haud parvo junior,

Gell. 13, 2, 2.—So in designating time:

parvo post,

Plin. 16, 25, 42, § 103:

parvo post tempore,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 11, 1.—Of stature (late Lat. for brevis):

Zacchaeus staturā parvus erat,

Aug. Serm. 113, 3; id. in Psa. 143, 1.

Comp.: mĭnor, us [cf. Gr. minus, minuthô], less, lesser, smaller, inferior:

quod in re majore valet, valeat in minore,

Cic. Top. 4, 23:

si ea pecunia non minor esset facta,

id. Leg. 2, 20, 51:

Hibernia dimidio minor quam Britannia,

Caes. B. G. 5, 13:

minus praedae quam speraverant fuit,

a smaller quantity, less, Liv. 4, 51:

sociis dimidio minus quam civibus datum,

id. 41, 13 fin.:

calceus... si minor (pede), uret,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 43:

neve minor, neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula,

less than five acts, id. A. P. 189:

genibus minor,

i. e. down upon his knees, on his bended knees, id. Ep. 1, 12, 28; cf.:

minor in certamine longo,

worsted, id. ib. 1, 10, 35:

numero plures, virtute et honore minores,

inferior, id. ib. 2, 1, 183.— Absol.: minor, inferior in rank:

praevalidi ad injurias minorum elati,

Tac. A. 15, 20; Ov. P. 4, 7, 49; cf.:

sapiens uno minor est Jove,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 106:

minor capitis, i. e. capiti deminutus,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 42: et sunt notitiā multa minora tuā, too trivial, = leviora, Ov. Tr. 2, 214:

dies sermone minor fuit,

too short for, id. P. 2, 10, 37:

infans Et minor igne rogi,

too young for, Juv. 15, 140.—With abl. of measure, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 117:

ut uno minus teste haberet?

id. ib. 2, 1, 57, §

149: bis sex Herculeis ceciderunt, me minus uno, Viribus,

i. e. eleven, Ov. M. 12, 554.—Of age:

qui minor est natu,

younger, Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

aliquot annis minor natu,

id. Ac. 2, 19, 61:

aetate minor,

Ov. M. 7, 499:

minor uno mense,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 40:

filia minor Ptolemaei regis,

the younger daughter, Caes. B. C. 3, 112:

minor viginti annis,

less than twenty years old, under twenty years of age, Dig. 30, 99, 1.— With gen.:

minor quam viginti quinque annorum natu, Praetor,

Dig. 4, 4, 1; id. ib. 50, 2, 6:

si pupilla minor quam viripotens nupserit,

id. ib. 36, 2, 30.—So, absol.: minor, a person under age (under five-and-twenty), a minor:

De minoribus,

Dig. 4, tit. 4:

si minor negotiis majoris intervenerit,

ib. 4, 4, 24:

si minor praetor vel consul jus dixerit, valebit,

ib. 42, 1, 57.— Poet., children, Sil. 2, 491.—Also, descendants, posterity, = posteri:

nunc fama, minores Italiam dixisse ducis de nomine gentem,

Verg. A. 1, 532; so id. ib. 733; Prop. 2, 15, 47; Sil. 16, 44:

minorum gentium, v. gens.—In specifications of value: vendo meum non pluris quam ceteri, fortasse etiam minoris,

cheaper, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 51:

minoris pallium addicere placuit,

Petr. 14: omnia minoris aestimare, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 2:

(fidem suam) non minoris quam publicam ducebat,

Sall. J. 32, 5.—

Poet., with acc. respect.:

frontemque minor truncam amnis Acarnan,

Sil. 3, 42; Val. Fl. 1, 582.—

Poet., with inf.:

tanto certare minor,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 313:

heu Fatis Superi certare minores!

Sil. 5, 76.

Sup.: mĭnĭmus, a, um (whence a new sup.:

minimissimus digitorum,

Arn. 5, 160; 166; cf., in the Gr., elachistotatos, from elachistos), very small, very little; least, smallest, etc.:

cum sit nihil omnino in rerum naturā minimum, quod dividi nequeat,

Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

minimae tenuissimaeque res,

id. de Or. 1, 37, 169:

minima pars temporis,

Caes. B. C. 1, 70:

quā minima altitudo fluminis erat,

id. B. G. 1, 8:

in maximā fortunā minima licentia est,

Sall. C. 51, 13:

vitia,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 69:

minimus digitulus,

the little finger, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 15; so,

minimus digitus,

Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 251.—Of age: minimus natu horum omnium, the youngest, Cic. de Or. 2, 14, 58:

ex his omnibus natu minimus,

id. Clu. 38, 107:

Hiempsal, qui minimus ex illis erat,

Sall. J. 11, 3:

minimus filius,

Just. 42, 5, 6.—In specifications of value:

deos minimi facit,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 35: Pe. Quanti emi potest minimo? Ep. Ad quadraginta fortasse eam posse emi minimo minis, id. Ep. 2, 2, 110: Crispinus minimo me provocat, for a trifle (in a wager), Hor. S. 1, 4, 14 (minimo provocare dicuntur hi qui in responsione plus ipsi promittunt quam exigunt ab adversario, Schol.).—Prov.:

minima de malis,

of evils choose the least, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 105.—

With a negation emphatically: non minimo discrimine, i. e. maximo,

Suet. Aug. 25:

res non minimi periculi,

id. ib. 67:

ut nihil, ne pro minimis quidem, debeant,

Liv. 6, 41. —With gen.:

minimum firmitatis minimumque virium,

Cic. Lael. 13, 46:

minimum pedibus itineris confectum,

Liv. 44, 5:

unde minimum periculi erat,

id. 27, 15.— As adv. absol.:

praemia apud me minimum valent,

very little, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 11; cf. Quint. 5, 10, 56:

minimum distantia miror,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 72:

dormiebat minimum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11:

medica secatur sexies per annos: cum minimum, quater,

at least, Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 146:

quam minimum credula postero (diei),

as little as possible, Hor. C. 1, 11, 8:

ita fiunt omnes partes minimum octoginta et una,

at least, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 12:

quae (comprehensio) ex tribus minimum partibus constat,

Quint. 5, 10, 5:

in quo non minimum Aetolorum operā regii fugati atque in castra compulsi sunt,

chiefly, particularly, Liv. 33, 6, 6:

eae omnia novella sata corrumpunt, non minimum vites,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 18.—Hence, adv.

Posit.: parvē, a little, slightly (very rare), Vitr. 9, 6.—

Comp.: mĭnus, less:

aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,

too little... too much, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:

ne quid plus minusve faxit,

id. Phorm. 3, 3, 21 (v. plus, under multus):

cum habeas plus, Pauperiem metuas minus,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 93:

ne mea oratio, si minus de aliquo dixero, ingrata: si satis de omnibus, infinita esse videatur,

Cic. Sest. 50, 108:

metus ipsi per se minus valerent, nisi, etc.,

id. Div. 2, 72, 150:

minus multi,

not so many, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 138:

minus multum et minus bonum vinum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2:

ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur,

less good, not so good, Sall. C. 2, 6:

quia Libyes quam Gaetuli minus bellicosi,

Sall. J. 18, 12:

minus diu vivunt,

Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 141.—Rarely with comp.:

minus admirabilior,

Flor. 4, 2, 46 Duker: quare milites Metelli sauciabantur multo minus, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1; cf. Ov. M. 12, 554:

civilem admodum inter initia ac paulo minus quam privatum egit,

little less so than, nearly as much so as, Suet. Tib. 26:

dimidio minus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 3.—With quam:

nec illa minus aut plus quam tu sapiat,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 28:

minus quam aequom erat feci,

id. Aul. 3, 2, 10:

respondebo tibi minus fortasse vehementer, quam abs te sum provocatus,

Cic. Planc. 30, 72.—With atque:

qui peccas minus atque ego?

Hor. S. 2, 7, 96.—And elliptically, without a particle of comparison:

minus quindecim dies sunt, quod, etc.,

less than fifteen days, not yet fifteen days, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 1:

madefactum iri minus XXX. diebus Graeciam sanguine,

Cic. Div. 1, 32, 68:

minus quinquennium est, quod prodiere,

Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 104:

cecidere duo milia haud minus peditum,

Liv. 42, 6:

cum centum et quinquaginta non minus adessent,

id. 42, 28; Varr. R. R. 2, 2 fin.:

ut ex suā cujusque parte ne minus dimidium ad Trebonium perveniret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, § 123:

ut antequam baccae legantur, ne minus triduum serenum fuerit,

Col. 12, 38, 6.—

In partic.

Non (haud) minus quam (atque), not less than, no less than, quite as:

exanimatus evolat ex senatu, non minus perturbato animo atque vultu, quam si, etc.,

Cic. Sest. 12, 28:

existumans non minus me tibi quam liberos carum fore,

Sall. J. 10, 1:

non minus nobis jucundi atque illustres sunt ii dies, quibus conservamur quam illi quibus nascimur,

Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Quint. 2, 4, 8; 3, 7, 20:

laudibus haud minus quam praemio gaudent militum animi,

Liv. 2, 60:

haud minus ac jussi faciunt,

Verg. A. 3, 561.—

Non (neque) minus, equally, and as well, also: haec res [p. 1311] non minus me male habet quam te, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 30: quae hominibus non minus quam liberi cara esse debent, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 3; Ov. H. 19, 86:

neque minus assiduis fessa choreis,

also, Prop. 1, 3, 3.—

Nihil minus, in replies, as a strong negation, by no means, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 45: Py. At tu apud nos hic mane, Dum redeat ipsa. Ch. Nihil minus, id. ib. 3, 3, 29:

nihil profecto minus,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81; cf.: quid? a Tranione servo? Si. Multo id minus, Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 20.—

Minus minusque, minus et (ac) minus, less and less: mihi jam minus minusque obtemperat. Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 33:

jam minus atque minus successu laetus equorum,

Verg. A. 12, 616; Hor. C. 1, 25, 6:

minus et minus,

Ov. P. 2, 8, 73; id. H. 2, 129:

minus ac minus,

Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 26.—

Transf., in a softened negation, not at all, by no means, not:

quod intellexi minus,

Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 11:

nonnumquam ea quae praedicta sunt, minus eveniunt,

Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24.—Esp.:

si minus: monebo, si quem meministi minus,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 19:

Syracusis, si minus supplicio affici, at custodiri oportebat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, § 69:

quod si assecutus sum, gaudeo: sin minus, hoc me tamen consolor quod, etc.,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 6 et saep.; so,

minus formido ne exedat,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 45. —

Quo minus, also written as one word, quominus, that not, from, after verbs of hindering, preventing, as impedio, recuso, deterreo, etc., Ter. And. 1, 2, 26:

si te infirmitas valetudinis tenuit, quo minus ad ludos venires,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 1; 7, 1, 6:

hiemem credo prohibuisse, quo minus de te certum haberemus, quid ageres,

id. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

deterrere aliquem, quo minus, etc.,

id. Tusc. 1, 38, 91:

stetisse per Trebonium, quo minus oppido potirentur, videbatur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 13 fin.; Quint. 12, 1, 16;

v. also quo. —Ante-class. also in the reverse order, minus quo: ne vereatur, minus jam quo redeat domum,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 8.—

Sup., in two forms, parvissime (post-class.), and minime (class.), least, very little.

par-vissĭmē:

memorare aliquid,

very briefly, with very few words, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 38. —

mĭnĭmē, least of all, in the smallest degree, least, very little:

cum minime vellem, minimeque opus fuit,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 42:

cum minime videbamur, tum maxime philosophabamur,

Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6; id. Or. 66, 222:

mihi placebat Pomponius maxime, vel dicam minime displicebat,

id. Brut. 57, 207:

quod in miserrimis rebus minime miserum putabis, id facies,

id. Fam. 14, 13:

quod minime ad eos mercatores saepe commeant,

very rarely, Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 3; Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 322.—Strengthened by quam:

si non decore, at quam minime dedecore facere possimus,

as little as possible, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114; by omnium and gentium:

ad te minime omnium pertinebat,

id. Rosc. Am. 34, 96:

minime gentium,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 77:

heus, inquit, puer, arcesse Pamphilam,... illa exclamat, Minime gentium,

not for any thing in the world, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 11; id. Ad. 3, 2, 44.—

In partic.

For minimum, saltem, at least:

is morbus erit longissimus minimeque annuus,

Cels. 2, 8 fin. Targ.:

pedes decem vel minime novem,

Col. 1, 6, 6:

sed id minime bis anno arari debet,

id. 5, 9, 12; id. Arb. 16, 3.—

In replies, as an emphatic negative, by no means, not at all, not in the least, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 50: Ba. Sed cessas? Pa. Minime equidem:

nam hodie, etc.,

Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 16: M. An tu haec non credis? A. Minime vero, Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 10: num igitur peccamus? Minime vos quidem. id. Att. 8, 9, 2:

minime, minime hercle vero!

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 23; so in discourse: minime multi (= quam paucissimi). Ter. Eun. prol. 2: minume irasci decet. Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 27; Sall. C. 51, 13.—Strengthened by gentium (cf.supra): Nau. Meriton' hoc meo videtur factum? De. Minime gentium, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 44.

parvus, a, um, adj. (usual, irreg. comp. and sup.: mĭnor, mĭnĭmus.— Comp.:

volantum parviores,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 26.— Sup.: rictus parvissimus, Varr. ap. Non. 456, 10:

parvissima corpora,

Lucr. 1, 615; 621; 3, 199: minerrimus pro minimo dixerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 122 Müll.:

minimissimus,

Arn. 5, n. 8) [kindr. with paucus and Gr. pauros; cf., also, parum, parcus], little, small, petty, puny, inconsiderable (cf.: exiguus, minutus, brevis; in class. prose parvus is not used, like brevis, of stature, v. Auct. Her. 4, 33, 45).

Posit.:

in parvis aut mediocribus rebus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 84:

quam parva sit terra, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 17, 26; cf. id. ib. 6, 16, 16:

commoda parva ac mediocria,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 1:

in parvum quendam et angustum locum concludi,

id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:

beneficium non parvum,

id. Caecin. 10, 26:

parvi pisciculi,

id. N. D. 2, 48, 123:

haec parva et infirma sunt,

id. Clu. 34, 94:

si parva licet componere magnis,

Verg. G. 4, 176:

merces,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 86:

sucus,

Plin. 21, 31, 105, § 178 et saep.:

liberi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37;

so of children: salutaria appetant parvi,

the little ones, id. Fin. 3, 5, 16:

parva soror,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 15; cf.:

memini quae plagosum mihi parvo Orbilium dictare,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 70:

operosa parvus Carmina fingo,

a little man, id. C. 4, 2, 31; Suet. Aug. 48:

a parvis didicimus: si in jus vocat, etc.,

when little, in childhood, Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

puer in domo a parvo eductus,

from infancy, Liv. 1, 39 fin. —Of time, little, short, brief:

parvae consuetudinis Causa,

slight, short, Ter. And. 1, 1, 83; cf.:

in parvo tempore,

Lucr. 5, 106:

nox,

Luc. 4, 476:

vita,

id. 6, 806:

parvam fidem habere alicui,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 117:

hic onus horret, Ut parvis animis et parvo corpore majus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 39:

homo parvo ingenio,

Plin. Ep. 6, 29:

parvum carmen,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 257:

hoc opus, hoc studium parvi properemus et ampli,

both small and great, id. ib. 1, 3, 28.—With ref. to value or consequence, little, small, low, mean, etc.:

meam erus esse operam deputat parvi pretii,

Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 1:

nil parvom aut humili modo, Nil mortale loquar,

Hor. C. 3, 25, 17:

et magnis parva mineris Falce recisurum simili te,

id. S. 1, 3, 122:

pretio parvo vendere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 134:

parvi sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi,

of little value, id. Off. 1, 22, 76:

parvi refert abs te jus dici diligenter, nisi, etc.,

it matters little, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 20.—Hence, parvi facere, aestimare, ducere, pendere, etc., to esteem lightly, care little for:

parvi ego illos facio,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 41:

parvi aestimo, si ego hic peribo,

id. Capt. 3, 5, 24:

quia parvi id duceret,

Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24: nequam hominis ego parvi pendo gratiam, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 29.—So, in abl.:

signa abs te diligenter parvoque curata sunt,

Cic. Att. 1, 3, 2; so,

quanti emptus? parvo,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 156:

parvo stat magna potentia nobis,

Ov. M. 14, 493:

parvo contentus esse possum,

with little, Cic. Att. 12, 19, 1; cf.:

vivitur parvo bene,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 13:

possim contentus vivere parvo,

Tib. 1, 1, 25:

agricolae prisci, fortes parvoque beati,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 139:

necessarium est parvo assuescere,

Sen. Ep. 123, 3: parvo, as an abl. of measure, with comp. (rarely;

perh. not ante-Aug.): ita ut parvo admodum plures caperentur,

a very little more, Liv. 10, 45, 11:

parvo brevius,

Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168:

haud parvo junior,

Gell. 13, 2, 2.—So in designating time:

parvo post,

Plin. 16, 25, 42, § 103:

parvo post tempore,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 11, 1.—Of stature (late Lat. for brevis):

Zacchaeus staturā parvus erat,

Aug. Serm. 113, 3; id. in Psa. 143, 1.

Comp.: mĭnor, us [cf. Gr. minus, minuthô], less, lesser, smaller, inferior:

quod in re majore valet, valeat in minore,

Cic. Top. 4, 23:

si ea pecunia non minor esset facta,

id. Leg. 2, 20, 51:

Hibernia dimidio minor quam Britannia,

Caes. B. G. 5, 13:

minus praedae quam speraverant fuit,

a smaller quantity, less, Liv. 4, 51:

sociis dimidio minus quam civibus datum,

id. 41, 13 fin.:

calceus... si minor (pede), uret,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 43:

neve minor, neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula,

less than five acts, id. A. P. 189:

genibus minor,

i. e. down upon his knees, on his bended knees, id. Ep. 1, 12, 28; cf.:

minor in certamine longo,

worsted, id. ib. 1, 10, 35:

numero plures, virtute et honore minores,

inferior, id. ib. 2, 1, 183.— Absol.: minor, inferior in rank:

praevalidi ad injurias minorum elati,

Tac. A. 15, 20; Ov. P. 4, 7, 49; cf.:

sapiens uno minor est Jove,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 106:

minor capitis, i. e. capiti deminutus,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 42: et sunt notitiā multa minora tuā, too trivial, = leviora, Ov. Tr. 2, 214:

dies sermone minor fuit,

too short for, id. P. 2, 10, 37:

infans Et minor igne rogi,

too young for, Juv. 15, 140.—With abl. of measure, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 117:

ut uno minus teste haberet?

id. ib. 2, 1, 57, §

149: bis sex Herculeis ceciderunt, me minus uno, Viribus,

i. e. eleven, Ov. M. 12, 554.—Of age:

qui minor est natu,

younger, Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

aliquot annis minor natu,

id. Ac. 2, 19, 61:

aetate minor,

Ov. M. 7, 499:

minor uno mense,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 40:

filia minor Ptolemaei regis,

the younger daughter, Caes. B. C. 3, 112:

minor viginti annis,

less than twenty years old, under twenty years of age, Dig. 30, 99, 1.— With gen.:

minor quam viginti quinque annorum natu, Praetor,

Dig. 4, 4, 1; id. ib. 50, 2, 6:

si pupilla minor quam viripotens nupserit,

id. ib. 36, 2, 30.—So, absol.: minor, a person under age (under five-and-twenty), a minor:

De minoribus,

Dig. 4, tit. 4:

si minor negotiis majoris intervenerit,

ib. 4, 4, 24:

si minor praetor vel consul jus dixerit, valebit,

ib. 42, 1, 57.— Poet., children, Sil. 2, 491.—Also, descendants, posterity, = posteri:

nunc fama, minores Italiam dixisse ducis de nomine gentem,

Verg. A. 1, 532; so id. ib. 733; Prop. 2, 15, 47; Sil. 16, 44:

minorum gentium, v. gens.—In specifications of value: vendo meum non pluris quam ceteri, fortasse etiam minoris,

cheaper, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 51:

minoris pallium addicere placuit,

Petr. 14: omnia minoris aestimare, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 2:

(fidem suam) non minoris quam publicam ducebat,

Sall. J. 32, 5.—

Poet., with acc. respect.:

frontemque minor truncam amnis Acarnan,

Sil. 3, 42; Val. Fl. 1, 582.—

Poet., with inf.:

tanto certare minor,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 313:

heu Fatis Superi certare minores!

Sil. 5, 76.

Sup.: mĭnĭmus, a, um (whence a new sup.:

minimissimus digitorum,

Arn. 5, 160; 166; cf., in the Gr., elachistotatos, from elachistos), very small, very little; least, smallest, etc.:

cum sit nihil omnino in rerum naturā minimum, quod dividi nequeat,

Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

minimae tenuissimaeque res,

id. de Or. 1, 37, 169:

minima pars temporis,

Caes. B. C. 1, 70:

quā minima altitudo fluminis erat,

id. B. G. 1, 8:

in maximā fortunā minima licentia est,

Sall. C. 51, 13:

vitia,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 69:

minimus digitulus,

the little finger, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 15; so,

minimus digitus,

Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 251.—Of age: minimus natu horum omnium, the youngest, Cic. de Or. 2, 14, 58:

ex his omnibus natu minimus,

id. Clu. 38, 107:

Hiempsal, qui minimus ex illis erat,

Sall. J. 11, 3:

minimus filius,

Just. 42, 5, 6.—In specifications of value:

deos minimi facit,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 35: Pe. Quanti emi potest minimo? Ep. Ad quadraginta fortasse eam posse emi minimo minis, id. Ep. 2, 2, 110: Crispinus minimo me provocat, for a trifle (in a wager), Hor. S. 1, 4, 14 (minimo provocare dicuntur hi qui in responsione plus ipsi promittunt quam exigunt ab adversario, Schol.).—Prov.:

minima de malis,

of evils choose the least, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 105.—

With a negation emphatically: non minimo discrimine, i. e. maximo,

Suet. Aug. 25:

res non minimi periculi,

id. ib. 67:

ut nihil, ne pro minimis quidem, debeant,

Liv. 6, 41. —With gen.:

minimum firmitatis minimumque virium,

Cic. Lael. 13, 46:

minimum pedibus itineris confectum,

Liv. 44, 5:

unde minimum periculi erat,

id. 27, 15.— As adv. absol.:

praemia apud me minimum valent,

very little, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 11; cf. Quint. 5, 10, 56:

minimum distantia miror,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 72:

dormiebat minimum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11:

medica secatur sexies per annos: cum minimum, quater,

at least, Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 146:

quam minimum credula postero (diei),

as little as possible, Hor. C. 1, 11, 8:

ita fiunt omnes partes minimum octoginta et una,

at least, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 12:

quae (comprehensio) ex tribus minimum partibus constat,

Quint. 5, 10, 5:

in quo non minimum Aetolorum operā regii fugati atque in castra compulsi sunt,

chiefly, particularly, Liv. 33, 6, 6:

eae omnia novella sata corrumpunt, non minimum vites,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 18.—Hence, adv.

Posit.: parvē, a little, slightly (very rare), Vitr. 9, 6.—

Comp.: mĭnus, less:

aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,

too little... too much, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:

ne quid plus minusve faxit,

id. Phorm. 3, 3, 21 (v. plus, under multus):

cum habeas plus, Pauperiem metuas minus,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 93:

ne mea oratio, si minus de aliquo dixero, ingrata: si satis de omnibus, infinita esse videatur,

Cic. Sest. 50, 108:

metus ipsi per se minus valerent, nisi, etc.,

id. Div. 2, 72, 150:

minus multi,

not so many, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 138:

minus multum et minus bonum vinum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2:

ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur,

less good, not so good, Sall. C. 2, 6:

quia Libyes quam Gaetuli minus bellicosi,

Sall. J. 18, 12:

minus diu vivunt,

Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 141.—Rarely with comp.:

minus admirabilior,

Flor. 4, 2, 46 Duker: quare milites Metelli sauciabantur multo minus, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1; cf. Ov. M. 12, 554:

civilem admodum inter initia ac paulo minus quam privatum egit,

little less so than, nearly as much so as, Suet. Tib. 26:

dimidio minus,

Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 3.—With quam:

nec illa minus aut plus quam tu sapiat,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 28:

minus quam aequom erat feci,

id. Aul. 3, 2, 10:

respondebo tibi minus fortasse vehementer, quam abs te sum provocatus,

Cic. Planc. 30, 72.—With atque:

qui peccas minus atque ego?

Hor. S. 2, 7, 96.—And elliptically, without a particle of comparison:

minus quindecim dies sunt, quod, etc.,

less than fifteen days, not yet fifteen days, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 1:

madefactum iri minus XXX. diebus Graeciam sanguine,

Cic. Div. 1, 32, 68:

minus quinquennium est, quod prodiere,

Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 104:

cecidere duo milia haud minus peditum,

Liv. 42, 6:

cum centum et quinquaginta non minus adessent,

id. 42, 28; Varr. R. R. 2, 2 fin.:

ut ex suā cujusque parte ne minus dimidium ad Trebonium perveniret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, § 123:

ut antequam baccae legantur, ne minus triduum serenum fuerit,

Col. 12, 38, 6.—

In partic.

Non (haud) minus quam (atque), not less than, no less than, quite as:

exanimatus evolat ex senatu, non minus perturbato animo atque vultu, quam si, etc.,

Cic. Sest. 12, 28:

existumans non minus me tibi quam liberos carum fore,

Sall. J. 10, 1:

non minus nobis jucundi atque illustres sunt ii dies, quibus conservamur quam illi quibus nascimur,

Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Quint. 2, 4, 8; 3, 7, 20:

laudibus haud minus quam praemio gaudent militum animi,

Liv. 2, 60:

haud minus ac jussi faciunt,

Verg. A. 3, 561.—

Non (neque) minus, equally, and as well, also: haec res [p. 1311] non minus me male habet quam te, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 30: quae hominibus non minus quam liberi cara esse debent, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 3; Ov. H. 19, 86:

neque minus assiduis fessa choreis,

also, Prop. 1, 3, 3.—

Nihil minus, in replies, as a strong negation, by no means, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 45: Py. At tu apud nos hic mane, Dum redeat ipsa. Ch. Nihil minus, id. ib. 3, 3, 29:

nihil profecto minus,

Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81; cf.: quid? a Tranione servo? Si. Multo id minus, Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 20.—

Minus minusque, minus et (ac) minus, less and less: mihi jam minus minusque obtemperat. Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 33:

jam minus atque minus successu laetus equorum,

Verg. A. 12, 616; Hor. C. 1, 25, 6:

minus et minus,

Ov. P. 2, 8, 73; id. H. 2, 129:

minus ac minus,

Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 26.—

Transf., in a softened negation, not at all, by no means, not:

quod intellexi minus,

Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 11:

nonnumquam ea quae praedicta sunt, minus eveniunt,

Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24.—Esp.:

si minus: monebo, si quem meministi minus,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 19:

Syracusis, si minus supplicio affici, at custodiri oportebat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, § 69:

quod si assecutus sum, gaudeo: sin minus, hoc me tamen consolor quod, etc.,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 6 et saep.; so,

minus formido ne exedat,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 45. —

Quo minus, also written as one word, quominus, that not, from, after verbs of hindering, preventing, as impedio, recuso, deterreo, etc., Ter. And. 1, 2, 26:

si te infirmitas valetudinis tenuit, quo minus ad ludos venires,

Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 1; 7, 1, 6:

hiemem credo prohibuisse, quo minus de te certum haberemus, quid ageres,

id. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

deterrere aliquem, quo minus, etc.,

id. Tusc. 1, 38, 91:

stetisse per Trebonium, quo minus oppido potirentur, videbatur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 13 fin.; Quint. 12, 1, 16;

v. also quo. —Ante-class. also in the reverse order, minus quo: ne vereatur, minus jam quo redeat domum,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 8.—

Sup., in two forms, parvissime (post-class.), and minime (class.), least, very little.

par-vissĭmē:

memorare aliquid,

very briefly, with very few words, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 38. —

mĭnĭmē, least of all, in the smallest degree, least, very little:

cum minime vellem, minimeque opus fuit,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 42:

cum minime videbamur, tum maxime philosophabamur,

Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6; id. Or. 66, 222:

mihi placebat Pomponius maxime, vel dicam minime displicebat,

id. Brut. 57, 207:

quod in miserrimis rebus minime miserum putabis, id facies,

id. Fam. 14, 13:

quod minime ad eos mercatores saepe commeant,

very rarely, Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 3; Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 322.—Strengthened by quam:

si non decore, at quam minime dedecore facere possimus,

as little as possible, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114; by omnium and gentium:

ad te minime omnium pertinebat,

id. Rosc. Am. 34, 96:

minime gentium,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 77:

heus, inquit, puer, arcesse Pamphilam,... illa exclamat, Minime gentium,

not for any thing in the world, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 11; id. Ad. 3, 2, 44.—

In partic.

For minimum, saltem, at least:

is morbus erit longissimus minimeque annuus,

Cels. 2, 8 fin. Targ.:

pedes decem vel minime novem,

Col. 1, 6, 6:

sed id minime bis anno arari debet,

id. 5, 9, 12; id. Arb. 16, 3.—

In replies, as an emphatic negative, by no means, not at all, not in the least, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 50: Ba. Sed cessas? Pa. Minime equidem:

nam hodie, etc.,

Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 16: M. An tu haec non credis? A. Minime vero, Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 10: num igitur peccamus? Minime vos quidem. id. Att. 8, 9, 2:

minime, minime hercle vero!

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 23; so in discourse: minime multi (= quam paucissimi). Ter. Eun. prol. 2: minume irasci decet. Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 27; Sall. C. 51, 13.—Strengthened by gentium (cf.supra): Nau. Meriton' hoc meo videtur factum? De. Minime gentium, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 44.

rūmor, ōris, m. [cf. Gr. ôruô, to howl; orumagdos, din; Sanscr. root ru-, roar; ravas, uproar; Lat.: raucus, rudo].

Lit., the talk of the many, whether relating facts or expressing opinions.

Common talk, unauthenticated report, hearsay, rumor (the prevalent and class. signif.; used equally in sing. and plur.; syn.: fama, sermo); absol., or with a mention of its purport.

Absol.: est hoc Gallicae consuetudinis, uti mercatores in oppidis vulgus circumsistat, quibusque ex regionibus veniant quasque ibi res cognoverint, pronuntiare cogant. His rumoribus atque auditionibus permoti de summis saepe rebus consilia ineunt, quorum eos e vestigio poenitere necesse est;

cum incertis rumoribus serviant, et plerique ad voluntatem eorum ficta respondeant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 5; cf.:

aliquid rumore ac famā accipere... falsis rumoribus terreri,

id. ib. 6, 20:

multa rumor perferet,

Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1; cf.

also, in the description of the house of Fame, in Ovid: mixtaque cum veris passim commenta vagantur Milia rumorum confusaque verba volutant,

Ov. M. 12, 55 (v. the passage in its connection):

rumoribus mecum pugnas,

Cic. N. D. 3, 5, 9:

rumores Africanos excipere,

id. Deiot. 9, 25:

senatus vulgi rumoribus exagitatus,

Sall. C. 29, 1:

multa rumor fingebat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 53:

addunt et affingunt rumoribus Galli, quod res poscere videbatur,

id. B. G. 7, 1:

frigidus a Rostris manat per compita rumor,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 50 et saep. —

With the purport of the rumor introduced by an object- or relative-clause; by de, rarely by gen.

Postquam populi rumorem intelleximus, Studiose expetere vos Plautinas fabulas, etc., Plaut. Cas. prol. 11: cum interea rumor venit, Datum iri gladiatores; populus convolat, etc., Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 31; id. Heaut. prol. 16:

crebri ad eum rumores afferebantur litterisque item Labieni certior fiebat, omnes Belgas contra populum Romanum conjurare, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 2, 1:

meum gnatum rumor est amare,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 14; cf.:

rem te valde bene gessisse rumor erat,

Cic. Fam. 1, 8, 7; id. Att. 16, 5, 1:

serpit hic rumor: Scis tu illum accusationem cogitare? etc.,

id. Mur. 21, 45:

crebro vulgi rumore lacerabatur, tamquam viros et insontes ob invidiam aut metum exstinxisset,

Tac. A. 15, 73:

subdito rumore, tamquam Mesopotamiam invasurus,

id. ib. 6, 36.—

With de:

nihil perfertur ad nos praeter rumores de oppresso Dolabellā,

Cic. Fam. 12, 9, 1:

de Aeduorum defectione rumores afferebantur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 59:

de vitā imperatoris dubii rumores allati sunt,

Liv. 28, 24:

graves de te rumores,

Cic. Deiot. 9, 25:

exstinctis rumoribus de auxiliis legionum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 60 fin. —

With gen. (very rare):

cenae rumor,

Suet. Aug. 70:

belli civilis rumores,

Tac. H. 3, 45: rumor prostratae regi pudicitiae Suet. Caes. 2.—

Common or general opinion, current report, the popular voice; and objectively, fame, reputation (less freq. but class.):

famam atque rumores pars altera consensum civitatis et velut publicum testimonium vocat: altera sermonem sine ullo certo auctore dispersum, cui malignitas initium dederit, incrementum credulitas,

Quint. 5, 3, 1; cf.:

adversus famam rumoresque hominum si satis firmus steteris, etc.,

Liv. 22, 39:

qui erit rumor populi, si id feceris?

Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 18:

totam opinionem (populi) parva nonnumquam commutat aura rumoris,

Cic. Mur. 17, 35: rumoribus adversa in pravitatem, secunda in casum, fortunam in temeritatem, declinando corrumpebant, with their slanders, misrepresentations, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 385, 3:

quos rumor asperserat, ii, etc.,

Curt. 10, 31, 18:

rumorem quendam et plausum popularem esse quaesitum,

Cic. Clu. 47, 131:

rumori servire,

Plaut. Trin, 3, 2, 14; cf. in the lusus verbb. with rumen: ego rumorem parvi facio, dum sit rumen qui impleam, Pompon. ap. Non. 18, 15:

omnem infimae plebis rumorem affectavit,

Tac. H. 2, 91:

Marcellus adverso rumore esse,

Liv. 27, 20:

flagret rumore malo cum Hic atque ille,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 125; Tac. H. 2, 93 fin.: invidiam alicui concitare secundo populi rumore, with the concurring or favorable judgment, with the approbation, Fenest. ap. Non. 385, 17; so, rumore secundo, Suev. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1; old poet in Cic. Div. 1, 16, 29; Verg. A. 8, 90; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 9; cf.:

aliquid accipere secundo rumore,

Tac. A. 3, 29:

claro apud volgum rumore erat,

id. ib. 15, 48.—

Transf., a murmuring, murmur of a stream:

amoena fluenta Subterlabentis tacito rumore Mosellae,

Aus. Mos. 22.

signĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1 ( dep. collat. form signĭfĭcor, acc. to Gell. 18, 12, 10, without an example), v. a. [signum-facio].

In gen., to show by signs; to show, point out, express, publish, make known, indicate; to intimate, notify, signify, etc. (freq. and class.; syn.: monstro, declaro, indico).

With acc.:

aliquid alicui,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 5:

hoc mihi significasse et annuisse visus est,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 91, § 213:

quae significari ac declarari volemus,

id. de Or. 3, 13, 49:

gratulationem,

id. Att. 4, 1, 5:

stultitiam,

id. Agr. 2, 12, 30:

deditionem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

timorem fremitu et concursu,

id. ib. 4, 14:

vir, quem ne inimicus quidem satis in appellando significare poterat,

Cic. Font. 17, 39 (13, 29):

aliquid per gestum,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 36 et saep.— With two acc. (rare):

ut eorum ornatus in his regem neminem significaret,

Nep. Ages. 8, 2; id. Them. 2, 7.—

With object clause: hoc tibi non significandum solum, sed etiam [p. 1697] declarandum arbitror, nihil mihi esse potuisse tuis litteris gratius, Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 2; cf. id. Mil. 2, 4:

provocationem a regibus fuisse significant nostri augurales,

id. Rep. 2, 31, 54:

se esse admodum delectatos,

id. ib. 3, 30, 42:

omnes voce significare coeperunt, sese, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 2, 13; 4, 3; cf.:

hoc significant, sese ad statuas tuas pecuniam contulisse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 60, § 148.—

With rel. or interrog.-clause:

neque unde, nec quo die datae essent (litterae), aut quo tempore te exspectarem, significabant,

Cic. Fam. 2, 19, 1:

nutu significat, quid velit,

Ov. M. 3, 643:

(anseres et canes) aluntur in Capitolio, ut significent, si fures venerint, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 56:

significare coeperunt, ut dimitterentur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 86.—

With de:

significare de fugā Romanis coeperunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 26:

est aliquid de virtute significatum tuā,

Cic. Planc. 21, 52.—

Absol.:

diversae state... Neve inter vos significetis,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 14:

significare inter sese coeperunt,

Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 122:

ut quam maxime significem,

id. Tusc. 2, 20, 46:

ut fumo atque ignibus significabatur,

Caes. B. G. 2, 7 fin.:

ubi major atque illustrior incidit res, clamore per agros regionesque significant,

id. ib. 7, 3.—

In partic.

To betoken, prognosticate, foreshow, portend, mean (syn. praedico):

futura posse a quibusdam significari,

Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2:

quid haec tanta celeritas festinatioque significat?

id. Rosc. Am. 34, 97:

quid sibi significent, trepidantia consulit exta,

Ov. M. 15, 576; cf.:

quid mihi significant ergo mea visa?

id. ib. 9, 495:

significet placidos nuntia fibra deos,

Tib. 2, 1, 25:

quae fato manent, quamvis significata, non vitantur,

Tac. H. 1, 18.—

To betoken a change of weather (post-Aug.):

ventus Africus tempestatem significat, etc.,

Col. 11, 2, 4 sq.:

serenos dies (luna),

Plin. 18, 35, 79, § 348:

imbrem (occasus Librae),

id. ib. 26, 66, § 246.— Absol.:

terreni ignes proxime significant,

Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 357.—

To call, name:

quod Antoninum filium suum ipse significari voluit,

Capitol. Gord. 16.—

To mean, import, signify; of words:

carere hoc significat, egere eo, quod habere velis, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

multa verba aliud nunc ostendunt, aliud ante significabant, ut hostis,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 3 Müll.;

9, § 85 ib.: videtis hoc uno verbo unde significare res duas, et ex quo et a quo loco,

Cic. Caecin. 30, 88.—Of a fable:

haec significat fabula dominum videre plurimum,

Phaedr. 2, 8, 27; 4, 10, 16.— Hence, signĭfĭcans, antis, P. a., in rhet. lang., of speech, full of meaning, expressive, significant; graphic, distinct, clear:

locorum dilucida et significans descriptio,

Quint. 9, 2, 44:

verba,

id. 11, 1, 2; cf. id. 4, 2, 36; 4, 2, 8, prooem. §

31: demonstratio,

Plin. 8, 40, 61, § 147.— Transf., of orators:

Atticos esse lucidos et significantes,

Quint. 12, 10, 21.— Comp.:

quo nihil inveniri possit significantius,

Quint. 8, 2, 9; 8, 6, 6.— Sup.:

significantissimum vocabulum,

Gell. 1, 15, 17.— Adv.: signĭfĭcanter, clearly, distinctly, expressly, significantly, graphically:

breviter ac significanter ordinem rei protulisse,

Quint. 11, 1, 53:

rem indicare (with proprie),

id. 12, 10, 52:

dicere (with ornate),

id. 1, 7, 32.— Comp.:

apertius, significantius dignitatem alicujus defendere,

Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 3:

narrare,

Quint. 10, 1, 49:

disponere,

id. 3, 6, 65:

appellare aliquid (with consignatius),

Gell. 1, 25, 8:

dicere (with probabilius),

id. 17, 2, 11.— Sup., Pseudo Quint. Decl. 247.

signĭfĭco, āvi, ātum, 1 ( dep. collat. form signĭfĭcor, acc. to Gell. 18, 12, 10, without an example), v. a. [signum-facio].

In gen., to show by signs; to show, point out, express, publish, make known, indicate; to intimate, notify, signify, etc. (freq. and class.; syn.: monstro, declaro, indico).

With acc.:

aliquid alicui,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 5:

hoc mihi significasse et annuisse visus est,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 91, § 213:

quae significari ac declarari volemus,

id. de Or. 3, 13, 49:

gratulationem,

id. Att. 4, 1, 5:

stultitiam,

id. Agr. 2, 12, 30:

deditionem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

timorem fremitu et concursu,

id. ib. 4, 14:

vir, quem ne inimicus quidem satis in appellando significare poterat,

Cic. Font. 17, 39 (13, 29):

aliquid per gestum,

Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 36 et saep.— With two acc. (rare):

ut eorum ornatus in his regem neminem significaret,

Nep. Ages. 8, 2; id. Them. 2, 7.—

With object clause: hoc tibi non significandum solum, sed etiam [p. 1697] declarandum arbitror, nihil mihi esse potuisse tuis litteris gratius, Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 2; cf. id. Mil. 2, 4:

provocationem a regibus fuisse significant nostri augurales,

id. Rep. 2, 31, 54:

se esse admodum delectatos,

id. ib. 3, 30, 42:

omnes voce significare coeperunt, sese, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 2, 13; 4, 3; cf.:

hoc significant, sese ad statuas tuas pecuniam contulisse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 60, § 148.—

With rel. or interrog.-clause:

neque unde, nec quo die datae essent (litterae), aut quo tempore te exspectarem, significabant,

Cic. Fam. 2, 19, 1:

nutu significat, quid velit,

Ov. M. 3, 643:

(anseres et canes) aluntur in Capitolio, ut significent, si fures venerint, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 56:

significare coeperunt, ut dimitterentur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 86.—

With de:

significare de fugā Romanis coeperunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 26:

est aliquid de virtute significatum tuā,

Cic. Planc. 21, 52.—

Absol.:

diversae state... Neve inter vos significetis,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 14:

significare inter sese coeperunt,

Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 122:

ut quam maxime significem,

id. Tusc. 2, 20, 46:

ut fumo atque ignibus significabatur,

Caes. B. G. 2, 7 fin.:

ubi major atque illustrior incidit res, clamore per agros regionesque significant,

id. ib. 7, 3.—

In partic.

To betoken, prognosticate, foreshow, portend, mean (syn. praedico):

futura posse a quibusdam significari,

Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2:

quid haec tanta celeritas festinatioque significat?

id. Rosc. Am. 34, 97:

quid sibi significent, trepidantia consulit exta,

Ov. M. 15, 576; cf.:

quid mihi significant ergo mea visa?

id. ib. 9, 495:

significet placidos nuntia fibra deos,

Tib. 2, 1, 25:

quae fato manent, quamvis significata, non vitantur,

Tac. H. 1, 18.—

To betoken a change of weather (post-Aug.):

ventus Africus tempestatem significat, etc.,

Col. 11, 2, 4 sq.:

serenos dies (luna),

Plin. 18, 35, 79, § 348:

imbrem (occasus Librae),

id. ib. 26, 66, § 246.— Absol.:

terreni ignes proxime significant,

Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 357.—

To call, name:

quod Antoninum filium suum ipse significari voluit,

Capitol. Gord. 16.—

To mean, import, signify; of words:

carere hoc significat, egere eo, quod habere velis, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

multa verba aliud nunc ostendunt, aliud ante significabant, ut hostis,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 3 Müll.;

9, § 85 ib.: videtis hoc uno verbo unde significare res duas, et ex quo et a quo loco,

Cic. Caecin. 30, 88.—Of a fable:

haec significat fabula dominum videre plurimum,

Phaedr. 2, 8, 27; 4, 10, 16.— Hence, signĭfĭcans, antis, P. a., in rhet. lang., of speech, full of meaning, expressive, significant; graphic, distinct, clear:

locorum dilucida et significans descriptio,

Quint. 9, 2, 44:

verba,

id. 11, 1, 2; cf. id. 4, 2, 36; 4, 2, 8, prooem. §

31: demonstratio,

Plin. 8, 40, 61, § 147.— Transf., of orators:

Atticos esse lucidos et significantes,

Quint. 12, 10, 21.— Comp.:

quo nihil inveniri possit significantius,

Quint. 8, 2, 9; 8, 6, 6.— Sup.:

significantissimum vocabulum,

Gell. 1, 15, 17.— Adv.: signĭfĭcanter, clearly, distinctly, expressly, significantly, graphically:

breviter ac significanter ordinem rei protulisse,

Quint. 11, 1, 53:

rem indicare (with proprie),

id. 12, 10, 52:

dicere (with ornate),

id. 1, 7, 32.— Comp.:

apertius, significantius dignitatem alicujus defendere,

Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 3:

narrare,

Quint. 10, 1, 49:

disponere,

id. 3, 6, 65:

appellare aliquid (with consignatius),

Gell. 1, 25, 8:

dicere (with probabilius),

id. 17, 2, 11.— Sup., Pseudo Quint. Decl. 247.

testis, is, comm. ( neutr. form:

caelum teste vocat,

Alcim. 6, 576), one who attests any thing (orally or in writing), a witness (cf. superstes):

testes vinctos attines,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 63:

pluris est oculatus testis unus quam auriti decem,

id. ib. 2, 6, 8:

deos absentes testes memoras,

id. Merc. 3, 4, 42:

vosque, dii, testes facio,

Liv. 1, 59, 1:

deos hominesque se testes facere,

id. 34, 11, 8:

deūm, quos testes foederum invocabant consules,

id. 8, 6, 1:

ut manus ad caelum tendens deos testes ingrati animi Magnetum invocaret,

id. 35, 31, 13; 39, 51, 12; 41, 25, 4; Curt. 4, 10, 33:

apud me ut apud bonum judicem argumenta plus quam testes valent,

Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 59:

si negem... quo me teste convinces?

id. Phil. 2, 4, 8:

satis idonei testes et conscii,

id. Font. 7, 16; so,

cupidi, conjurati et ab religione remoti,

id. ib. 10, 21:

religiosus,

id. Vatin. 1, 1:

incorrupti atque integri,

id. Fin. 1, 21, 71:

graves, leves,

id. Quint. 23, 75:

locupletissimi,

id. Brut. 93, 322 et saep.:

dabo tibi testis nec nimis antiquos nec ullo modo barbaros,

id. Rep. 1, 37, 58; so,

testes dare in aliquam rem,

id. Quint. 23, 75:

proferre,

id. Balb. 18, 41:

adhibere,

id. Fin. 2, 21, 67:

citare in aliquam rem,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 59, §146:

ut iis testibus in summā pecuniae uteretur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 105; cf. id. B. G. 1, 14:

testibus uti,

Cic. Verr. 1, 18, 55; Quint. 5, 7, 9; 9, 2, 98. — With dependent-clause:

testis faciet ilico, Vendidisse me,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

iis utimini testibus appropinquare eorum adventum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77, cf. id. B. C. 3, 90. — Fem.:

Venus Cyrenensis, testem te testor mihi,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 51:

teste deā,

Ov. H. 16 (17), 124:

nutrix testis fida doloris,

Sen. Oct. 76:

musa mea,

Ov. P. 3, 9, 50:

inductā teste in senatu, Haec, inquit, etc.,

Suet. Claud. 40.—Of things:

sidera sunt testes et matutina pruina,

Prop. 2, 9, 41:

quid debeas, o Roma Neronibus, Testis Metaurum flumen et Hasdrubal Devictus, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 38:

testis mecum est anulus,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 49.—

Transf., an eye-witness, spectator, i. q. arbiter (rare; cf.

also conscius): facies bona teste caret,

Ov. A. A. 3, 398:

puduitque gementem, Illo teste mori,

Luc. 9, 887:

ac lunā teste moventur,

Juv. 6, 311.

testis, is, m., a testicle, Plaut. Mil. 5, 28; 5, 33:

dexter asini testis in vino potus,

Plin. 28, 19, 80, § 261:

testes pecori ad crura decidui,

id. 11, 49, 110, § 263; so in plur., Lucil. ap. Non. 235, 5; Hor. S. 1, 2, 45.—In a pun, with 1. testis:

quod amas, amato testibus praesentibus,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 31:

magnis testibus ista res agetur,

Auct. Priap. 2: cf.

integritatis,

Phaedr. 3, 11, 5. [p. 1864]