scrīptus

ā-verto (arch. - vorto; in MSS. also abverto; cf. ab init.), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn something away from a place, to avert, turn off, remove, etc. (opp. adverto).

Lit.

In gen.

Constr. aliquem ab or with the simple abl.; the limit designated by in with acc. (more rarely by ad):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76: Jup. Te volo, uxor, conloqui. Quor ted avortisti? Alc. Est ita ingenium meum:

Inimicos semper osa sum optuerier,

id. Am. 3, 2, 18:

(M. Lepidus) Antonio diadema Caesari imponente se avertit,

Cic. Phil. 5, 14; id. Balb. 5, 11:

aliquid ab oculis,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 141:

nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

turn off, id. ib. 2, 60, 152; so Liv. 41, 11, 3: quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, had turned aside their march from Caes. B. G. 1, 16 et saep.:

locis seminis ic tum,

Lucr. 4, 1273:

Italiā Teucrorum regem,

Verg. A. 1, 42:

a ceteris omnium in se oculos,

Liv. 2, 5, 6:

in comitiorum disceptationem ab lege certamen,

id. 3, 24, 9:

ab hominibus ad deos preces,

id. 6, 20, 10: se alicui, instead of ab aliquo. Col. 6, 37, 10.—And poet. with acc.:

quo regnum Italiae Libycas averteret oras,

Verg. A. 4, 106. —With dat.:

Quod mihi non patrii poterant avertere amici,

Prop. 4, 24, 9; so Val. Fl. 3, 491.—Also without an antecedent ab (since this is included in the verb) with in with acc.:

in fugam classem, Liv 22, 19, 11: dissipatos in fugam,

id. 34, 15, 2; hence absol.:

mille acies avertit avertetque (sc. in fugam),

put to flight, id. 9, 19, 17.—

Pass. in mid. signif. with the acc., in the Greek manner, to turn away from:

equus fontes avertitur,

Verg. G. 3, 499 (cf. the Gr. apostrephesthai to hudôr, and aversari):

oppositas impasta avertitur herbas,

Stat. Th. 6, 192; Petr. 124, 248.—

As v. n. avertere = se avertere, to turn one's self away, to retire:

ob eam causam huc abs te avorti,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 83:

ecce avortit,

id. ib. 2, 2, 50:

dixit et avertens roseā cervice refulsit,

Verg. A. 1, 402:

tum prora avertit,

id. ib. 1, 104:

avertit et ire in Capitolium coepit,

Gell. 4, 18, 4 al. —

To take away, drive away, carry off, steal, embezzle, to appropriate to one ' s self:

pecuniam publicam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4:

compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse,

Tac. H. 1, 53:

aliquid domum tuam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19:

praedam omnem domum avertebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59:

intellexistis innumerabilem frumenti numerum per triennium aversum a re publicā esse ereptumque aratoribus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 69 fin.:

auratam Colchis pellem,

to carry off, Cat. 64, 5:

quattuor a stabulis tauros,

Verg. A. 8, 208:

avertere praedas,

id. ib. 10, 78:

carā pisces avertere mensā,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 37.—

Trop.

To turn, divert a person from a course of action, purpose, etc.:

accusandi terrores et minae populi opinionem a spe adipiscendi avertunt,

Cic. Mur. 21:

avertant animos a spe recuperandae arcis,

Liv. 9, 24, 11:

qui mentem optimi viri a defensione meae salutis averterant,

Cic. Sest. 31:

ut nec vobis averteretur a certamine animus,

Liv. 1, 28, 5:

animum a pietate,

id. 7, 5, 7:

aliquem ab incepto avertit,

id. 23, 18, 9:

a philosophiā,

Suet. Ner. 52.—

Aliquem, to turn away from one in feeling, i. e. to make averse or disinclined to, to alienate, estrange:

legiones abducis a Bruto. Quas? nempe eas, quas ille a C. Antonii scelere avertit et ad rem publicam suā auctoritate traduxit,

Cic. Phil. 10, 3:

ipse Pompeius totum se ab ejus (sc. Caesaris) amicitiā averterat,

had quite alienated himself from, Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

civitates ab alicujus amicitiā,

id. ib. 3, 79:

popularium animos,

Sall. J. 111, 2:

futurum, uti totius Galliae animi a se averterentur,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

nobis mentem deorum,

Cat. 64, 406.—Hence, āver-sus, a, um, P. a.

Turned off or away: aversum hostem videre nemo potuit, turned away, i. e. turned in flight, Caes. B. G. 1, 26; hence, backwards, behind, back ( = a tergo; opp. adversus), distant:

et adversus et aversus impudicus es,

before and behind, Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256:

canities homini semper a priori parte capitis, tum deinde ab aversā,

Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; 11, 52, 113, § 272: ne aversos nostros aggrederentur, fall upon our troops in the rear, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

ne aversi ab hoste circumvenirentur,

from behind, in the rear, Caes. B. G. 2, 26:

aversos proterere,

id. B. C. 2, 41: aversi vulnerantur, Auct. B. Alex. 30;

32: aversum ferro transfixit,

Nep. Dat. 11, 5:

aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit,

backwards, Liv. 1, 7, 5 (cf. Prop. 5, 9, 12:

Aversos caudā traxit in antra boves): aversa hosti porta,

Tac. A. 1, 66:

scribit in aversā Picens epigrammata chartā,

upon the back of the paper, Mart. 8, 62 (cf. Juv. 1, 6: liber scriptus in tergo), and so al.— Trop.:

milites aversi a proelio,

withdrawn from the battle, Caes. B. C. 2, 12. — Subst.: āversum, i, n., the hinder or back part, the back (as subst. only in the plur.):

per aversa castrorum receptus est,

Vell. 2, 63 Ruhnk.:

per aversa urbis fugam dederat,

Liv. 5, 29, 4: ad aversa insulae, id. [p. 215] 37, 27, 2:

aversa montis,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 41: aversa Indiae, the back or remoter parts of India, id. 37, 8, 33, § 110.—So in adverb. phrase: in aversum, backwards:

Cetera animalia in aversum posterioribus pedibus quam prioribus,

Plin. 11, 45, 101, § 248 (Jan, in diversum):

collum circum agit (lynx) in aversum,

id. 11, 47, 107, § 256 (Jan, in aversum se; Sillig, in adversum). —

Disinclined, alienated, unfavorable, opposed, hostile, averse; constr. with ab, with dat., or absol.

With ab (so most frequently in Cicero):

aversus a Musis,

Cic. Arch. 9, 20:

aversus a vero,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

turbidi animorum motus, aversi a ratione, et inimicissimi mentis vitaeque tranquillae,

id. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

Quintus aversissimo a me animo fuit,

id. Att. 11, 5 fin.; Col. 11, 1, 14:

aversissimus ab istis prodigiis sum,

Sen. Ep. 50.—

With dat.:

aversus mercaturis,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 107:

vilicus aversus contubernio,

Col. 12, 1, 2:

defensioni aversior,

Quint. 7, 1, 11 (but acc. to the MSS., adversior seems here to deserve the preference; so Halm; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad h. l.).—

Absol.:

aversa deae mens,

Verg. A. 2, 170:

aversa voluntas,

id. ib. 12, 647:

aversos soliti componere amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

aversus animus,

Tac. H. 4, 80 et saep.:

vultus aversior,

Sen. Ira, 2, 24:

aversi animis,

Tac. A. 14, 26.— Adv. not used.

effĭgĭes, ēi (ante-class. form nom.:

effĭgĭa,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 7; Afran. ap. Non. 493, 2; Inscr. Orell. 7416 l.— Nom. plur.:

effigiae,

Lucr. 4, 105.— Acc. plur.:

effigias,

id. 4, 42 and 85), f. [effingo, I.], an (artistic) copy, imitation of an object (in concreto— for syn. cf.: imago, pictura, simulacrum, signum, statua, tabula).

(Class.) With the accessory idea of resemblance obtained by imitation, a likeness, portrait, image, effigy.

Lit.:

formarum,

Lucr. 4, 105; cf. id. ib. 42 and 85: Veneris, * Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 7; cf.:

deus effigies hominis et imago,

Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 103:

quandam effigiem spirantis mortui,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1; cf. also: simulacrum deae (Veneris) non effigie humana, Tac. H. 2, 3 fin.; and:

quam satus Iapeto... Finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum,

Ov. M. 1, 83:

vix convenire videretur, quem ipsum hominem cuperent evertere, ejus effigiem simulacrumque servare,

his mere effigy, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 65 fin.:

effigiem Xanthi Trojamque videtis,

Verg. A. 3, 497; of shades, ghosts:

effigiem nullo cum corpore falsi finxit apri,

Ov. M. 14, 358; Sil. 13, 778; cf.:

effigies, immo umbrae hominum,

Liv. 21, 40, 9;

of the shade of a deceased person in a dream,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 4;

or in the lower world,

Sil. 13, 779. —

Adv.: in or ad effigiem or effigie, after the likeness of, in the form of, like, Sil. 5, 5; Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 62; 21, 5, 11, § 23.—

Trop. (a favorite expression of Cic.):

perfectae eloquentiae speciem animo videmus, effigiem auribus quaerimus,

its imitation, Cic. Or. 3 (v. the passage in connection); cf.:

consiliorum ac virtutum effigiem relinquere,

id. Arch. 12, 30:

Sex. Peducaeus reliquit effigiem et humanitatis et probitatis suae filium,

the image, id. Fin. 2, 18, 58; cf. id. Tusc. 3, 2; id. de Or. 1, 43, 193; Liv. 26, 41; 1, 56:

ad effigiem justi imperii scriptus,

the ideal, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8:

ut res ipsas rerum effigies notaret,

id. de Or. 2, 86 fin.; cf.

effingo, I. B.: ostensus est in alia effigie,

appeared in another form, Vulg. Marc. 16, 12.—

Poet. and in post-Aug. prose, in gen., the plastic (less freq. the pictorial) representation of an object, an image, statue, portrait: saxea ut effigies bacchantis, * Cat. 64, 61; Verg. A. 2, 167; 184; 3, 148; 7, 177; Hor. S. 1, 8, 30; Ov. H. 20, 239; Tac. A. 1, 74; 6, 2; id. H. 5, 9 al.; Quint. 6, 1, 32; cf. id. 12, 10, 5; Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 7; Vulg. Sap. 15, 4.

inscriptus, a, um, Part., from inscribo.

in-scriptus, a, um, adj.

Unwritten:

unde et illa divisio est, alia esse scripta, alia inscripta,

Quint. 3, 6, 36; 7, 4, 36.—

Not marked or entered at the custom-house, contraband:

inscriptum pecus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 16.—

Concerning which nothing is written (in the statutes): maleficium, Sen. praef. 3 Excerpt. Controv.

pŏpŭlāris (sync. poplāris, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 36), e, adj. [1. populus], of or belonging to the people, proceeding from or designed for the people.

In gen.:

populares leges,

i. e. laws instituted by the people, Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

accessus,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25:

coetus,

id. Ac. 2, 2, 6:

munus,

a donation to the people, id. Off. 2, 16, 56:

popularia verba usitata,

id. ib. 2, 10, 35; cf.:

ad usum popularem atque civilem disserere,

id. Leg. 3, 6, 14:

dictio ad vulgarem popularemque sensum accommodata,

id. de Or. 1, 23, 108:

oratio philosophorum... nec sententiis nec verbis instructa popularibus,

id. Or. 19, 64:

popularis oratio,

id. ib. 44, 151:

populari nomine aliquid appellare,

Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 48:

laudes,

in the mouths of the people, Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 6:

admiratio,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 2:

honor,

Cic. Dom. 18:

ventus,

popular favor, id. Clu. 47, 130 init.:

aura,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 20:

civitas,

democracy, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 200 (opp. regia civitas, monarchy):

popularia sacra sunt, ut ait Labeo, quae omnes cives faciunt nec certis familiis attributa sunt,

Fest. p.253 Müll.—

Subst.: pŏpŭlārĭa, ĭum, n. (sc. subsellia), the seats of the people in the theatre, the common seats, Suet. Claud. 25; id. Dom. 4 fin. —

In partic.

Of or belonging to the same people or country, native, indigenous (as an adj. rare):

Sappho puellis de popularibus querentem vidimus,

Hor. C. 2, 13, 25:

flumina,

of the same district, Ov. M. 1, 577:

oliva,

native, id. ib. 7, 498.—

As subst.: pŏpŭlāris, is, comm. (freq. and class.).

Masc., a countryman, fellow-countryman:

redire ad suos populares, Naev. ap. Fest. s. v. stuprum, p. 317 Müll.: o mi popularis, salve,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 79:

o populares,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 1; id. Ad. 2, 1, 1:

popularis ac sodalis suus,

Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

ego vero Solonis, popularis tui, ut puto, etiam mei, legem neglegam (for Cicero had also lived in Athens),

id. Att. 10, 1, 2:

popularis alicujus definiti loci (opp. civis totius mundi),

id. Leg. 1, 23, 61:

non populares modo,

Liv. 29, 1:

cum turbā popularium,

Just. 43, 1, 6: quae res indicabat populares esse.—

Fem.:

mea popularis opsecro haec est?

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 35; 4, 4, 36; 4, 8, 4 al.; Sall. J. 58, 4:

tibi popularis,

Ov. M. 12, 191.—

Transf.

Of animals and plants of the same region:

leaena, Ov. lb. 503: (glires) populares ejusdem silvae (opp. alienigenae, amne vel monte discreti),

Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 224:

populares eorum (prunorum) myxae,

id. 15, 13, 12, § 43.—

Of persons of the same condition, occupation, tastes, etc., a companion, partner, associate, accomplice, comrade: meus popularis Geta, fellow (i. e. a slave), Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 1:

populares conjurationis,

Sall. C. 24, 1; 52, 14:

sceleris,

id. ib. 22, 1: invitis hoc nostris popularibus dicam, the men of our school, i. e. the Stoics, Sen. Vit. Beat. 13.—

In a political signification, of or belonging to the people, attached or devoted to the people (as opposed to the nobility), popular, democratic:

res publica ex tribus generibus illis, regali et optumati et populari confusa modice,

Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 41 (ap. Non. 342, 31):

homo maxime popularis,

Cic. Clu. 28, 77:

consul veritate non ostentatione popularis,

id. Agr. 1, 7, 23: animus vere popularis, saluti populi consulens, id. Cat. 4, 5, 9:

ingenium,

Liv. 2, 24:

sacerdos, i. e. Clodius, as attached to the popular party,

Cic. Sest. 30, 66:

vir,

Liv. 6, 20: homo, of the common people (opp. rex), Vulg. Sap. 18, 11. —Hence, subst.: pŏpŭlāres, ĭum, m., the people's party, the democrats (opp. optimates, the aristocrats):

duo genera semper in hac civitate fuerunt... quibus ex generibus alteri se populares, alteri optimates et haberi et esse voluerunt. Quia ea quae faciebant, multitudini jucunda esse volebant, populares habebantur,

Cic. Sest. 45, 96:

qui populares habebantur,

id. ib. 49, 105:

ex quo evenit, ut alii populares, alii studiosi optimi cujusque videantur,

id. Off. 1, 25, 85.—

Acceptable to the people, agreeable to the multitude, popular:

dixi in senatu me popularem consulem futurum. Quid enim est tam populare quam pax?

Cic. Agr. 2, 4, 9:

potest nihil esse tam populare quam id quod ego consul popularis adfero, pacem, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 37, 102:

quo nihil popularius est,

Liv. 7, 33, 3:

populare gratumque audientibus,

Plin. Paneg. 77, 4.—

Of or belonging to the citizens (as opposed to the soldiery):

quique rem agunt duelli, quique populare auspicium,

Cic. Leg.2, 8; cf.Amm. 14, 10; usually as subst.: popŭlāris, is, m., a citizen (post-class.):

multa milia et popularium et militum,

Capitol. Ant. Phil. 17; Dig. 1, 12, 1 fin.:

popularibus militibusque,

Juv. 26, 3, 5; Amm. 22, 2.—

Belonging to or fit for the common people; hence, common, coarse, mean, bad: sal. Cato, R. R. 88:

pulli (apium),

Col. 9, 11, 4: popularia agere, to play coarse tricks, Laber. ap. Non. 150, 25.—Hence, adv.: pŏpŭlārĭter.

After the manner of the common people, i. e. commonly, coarsely, vulgarly, Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

loqui,

id. Fin. 2, 6, 17:

scriptus liber (opp. limatius),

id. ib. 5, 5, 12.—

In a popular manner, popularly, democratically:

agere,

Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73:

conciones seditiose ac populariter excitatae,

id. Clu. 34, 93:

occidere quemlibet populariter,

to win popularity, Juv. 3, 37.

pŏpŭlāris (sync. poplāris, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 36), e, adj. [1. populus], of or belonging to the people, proceeding from or designed for the people.

In gen.:

populares leges,

i. e. laws instituted by the people, Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

accessus,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25:

coetus,

id. Ac. 2, 2, 6:

munus,

a donation to the people, id. Off. 2, 16, 56:

popularia verba usitata,

id. ib. 2, 10, 35; cf.:

ad usum popularem atque civilem disserere,

id. Leg. 3, 6, 14:

dictio ad vulgarem popularemque sensum accommodata,

id. de Or. 1, 23, 108:

oratio philosophorum... nec sententiis nec verbis instructa popularibus,

id. Or. 19, 64:

popularis oratio,

id. ib. 44, 151:

populari nomine aliquid appellare,

Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 48:

laudes,

in the mouths of the people, Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 6:

admiratio,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 2:

honor,

Cic. Dom. 18:

ventus,

popular favor, id. Clu. 47, 130 init.:

aura,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 20:

civitas,

democracy, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 200 (opp. regia civitas, monarchy):

popularia sacra sunt, ut ait Labeo, quae omnes cives faciunt nec certis familiis attributa sunt,

Fest. p.253 Müll.—

Subst.: pŏpŭlārĭa, ĭum, n. (sc. subsellia), the seats of the people in the theatre, the common seats, Suet. Claud. 25; id. Dom. 4 fin. —

In partic.

Of or belonging to the same people or country, native, indigenous (as an adj. rare):

Sappho puellis de popularibus querentem vidimus,

Hor. C. 2, 13, 25:

flumina,

of the same district, Ov. M. 1, 577:

oliva,

native, id. ib. 7, 498.—

As subst.: pŏpŭlāris, is, comm. (freq. and class.).

Masc., a countryman, fellow-countryman:

redire ad suos populares, Naev. ap. Fest. s. v. stuprum, p. 317 Müll.: o mi popularis, salve,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 79:

o populares,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 1; id. Ad. 2, 1, 1:

popularis ac sodalis suus,

Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 118:

ego vero Solonis, popularis tui, ut puto, etiam mei, legem neglegam (for Cicero had also lived in Athens),

id. Att. 10, 1, 2:

popularis alicujus definiti loci (opp. civis totius mundi),

id. Leg. 1, 23, 61:

non populares modo,

Liv. 29, 1:

cum turbā popularium,

Just. 43, 1, 6: quae res indicabat populares esse.—

Fem.:

mea popularis opsecro haec est?

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 35; 4, 4, 36; 4, 8, 4 al.; Sall. J. 58, 4:

tibi popularis,

Ov. M. 12, 191.—

Transf.

Of animals and plants of the same region:

leaena, Ov. lb. 503: (glires) populares ejusdem silvae (opp. alienigenae, amne vel monte discreti),

Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 224:

populares eorum (prunorum) myxae,

id. 15, 13, 12, § 43.—

Of persons of the same condition, occupation, tastes, etc., a companion, partner, associate, accomplice, comrade: meus popularis Geta, fellow (i. e. a slave), Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 1:

populares conjurationis,

Sall. C. 24, 1; 52, 14:

sceleris,

id. ib. 22, 1: invitis hoc nostris popularibus dicam, the men of our school, i. e. the Stoics, Sen. Vit. Beat. 13.—

In a political signification, of or belonging to the people, attached or devoted to the people (as opposed to the nobility), popular, democratic:

res publica ex tribus generibus illis, regali et optumati et populari confusa modice,

Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 41 (ap. Non. 342, 31):

homo maxime popularis,

Cic. Clu. 28, 77:

consul veritate non ostentatione popularis,

id. Agr. 1, 7, 23: animus vere popularis, saluti populi consulens, id. Cat. 4, 5, 9:

ingenium,

Liv. 2, 24:

sacerdos, i. e. Clodius, as attached to the popular party,

Cic. Sest. 30, 66:

vir,

Liv. 6, 20: homo, of the common people (opp. rex), Vulg. Sap. 18, 11. —Hence, subst.: pŏpŭlāres, ĭum, m., the people's party, the democrats (opp. optimates, the aristocrats):

duo genera semper in hac civitate fuerunt... quibus ex generibus alteri se populares, alteri optimates et haberi et esse voluerunt. Quia ea quae faciebant, multitudini jucunda esse volebant, populares habebantur,

Cic. Sest. 45, 96:

qui populares habebantur,

id. ib. 49, 105:

ex quo evenit, ut alii populares, alii studiosi optimi cujusque videantur,

id. Off. 1, 25, 85.—

Acceptable to the people, agreeable to the multitude, popular:

dixi in senatu me popularem consulem futurum. Quid enim est tam populare quam pax?

Cic. Agr. 2, 4, 9:

potest nihil esse tam populare quam id quod ego consul popularis adfero, pacem, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 37, 102:

quo nihil popularius est,

Liv. 7, 33, 3:

populare gratumque audientibus,

Plin. Paneg. 77, 4.—

Of or belonging to the citizens (as opposed to the soldiery):

quique rem agunt duelli, quique populare auspicium,

Cic. Leg.2, 8; cf.Amm. 14, 10; usually as subst.: popŭlāris, is, m., a citizen (post-class.):

multa milia et popularium et militum,

Capitol. Ant. Phil. 17; Dig. 1, 12, 1 fin.:

popularibus militibusque,

Juv. 26, 3, 5; Amm. 22, 2.—

Belonging to or fit for the common people; hence, common, coarse, mean, bad: sal. Cato, R. R. 88:

pulli (apium),

Col. 9, 11, 4: popularia agere, to play coarse tricks, Laber. ap. Non. 150, 25.—Hence, adv.: pŏpŭlārĭter.

After the manner of the common people, i. e. commonly, coarsely, vulgarly, Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

loqui,

id. Fin. 2, 6, 17:

scriptus liber (opp. limatius),

id. ib. 5, 5, 12.—

In a popular manner, popularly, democratically:

agere,

Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73:

conciones seditiose ac populariter excitatae,

id. Clu. 34, 93:

occidere quemlibet populariter,

to win popularity, Juv. 3, 37.

sĕnectus, a, um, adj. [senex], aged, very old.

Adj. (rare, and mostly anteclass.):

senecta aetas,

Plaut. Am. 4, 2, 12; id. Trin. 1, 2, 5; id. Aul. 2, 2, 75; id. Cas. 2, 3, 23; 2, 3, 41; id. Merc. 5, 4, 25; Lucr. 5, 886; 5, 896; Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 11, 165:

membris exire senectis,

Lucr. 3, 772: corpus, Sall. ap. Prisc. p. 869 (H. 4, 63 Dietsch): aetas, id. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 11, 165 (H. inc. lib. 115 Dietsch).—

Subst.: sĕ-necta, ae, f., old age, extreme age, senility (freq., though mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; cf. 2. senectus).

In abstr.: prospiciendum ergo in senectā: nunc adulescentia est, Lucil. ap. Non. 492, 23; Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 55, 184 (Trag. v. 393 Vahl.; v. Vahl. N. cr. ad h. 1.); Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 60 (opp. aetatula); id. Trin. 2, 3, 7; id. Mil. 3, 1, 29; * Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 31; Caecil. ap. Cic. Sen. 8, 25; Lucr. 4, 1256; Liv. 2, 40, 6; 6, 8, 2; 24, 4, 2; 28, 16, 12; 38, 53, 9; Cat. 64, 217; Tib. 1, 4, 31; 1, 8, 42; 1, 10, 40 al.; Prop. 1, 19, 17; 2, 13 (3, 5), 47; 3, 5 (4, 4), 24; 3, 19 (4, 18), 15; Verg. G. 1, 186; 3, 96; id. A. 6, 114 al.; Hor. C. 1, 31, 19; 2, 6, 6; 2, 14, 3; id. Ep. 2, 2, 211; Ov. M. 3, 347; 6, 37; 6, 500;

6, 675 et saep. al.: in senectā,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 5 Müll.;

so in prose,

Petr. 132, 10; Plin. 7, 50, 51, § 167; 8, 32, 50, § 116; 16, 27, 51, § 117 et saep.; Tac. A. 3, 23; 3, 55; 4, 41; 4, 58 fin.; 13, 33; 14, 65 al.; Suet. Aug. 79; id. Ner. 40; id. Galb. 4, 17; id. Gram. 11; Vulg. Psa. 70, 18 al.—

In the elder Pliny, concr. ( = 2. senectus, II.), the old skin, slough of a serpent, cast off annually:

serpentes senectam exuendo, etc.,

Plin. 20, 23, 95, § 254; 28, 11, 48, § 174; 30, 8, 22, § 69.—

An old man, Sil. 8, 6; cf. id. 7, 178.

sĕnectūs, ūtis,f. [senex].

Old age, extreme age, senility (freq. and class.; only in sing.): adulescentia (tua) senectuti dedecoramentum (fuit), senectus rei publicae flagitium, C. Gracch. ap. Isid. Orig. 2, 21, 4; cf.:

quasi qui adulescentiam florem aetatis, senectutem occasum vitae velit definire,

Cic. Top. 7, 32:

ut in Catone Majore, qui est scriptus ad te de senectute... ut tum ad senem senex de senectute, sic, etc.,

id. Lael. 1, 4 sq.; cf. id. Sen. 1 sqq.:

T. Aufidius, qui vixit ad summam senectutem,

id. Brut. 48, 179:

cum esset summā senectute et perditā valetudine,

id. Phil. 8, 10, 31:

confecti homines senectute,

id. Fin. 5, 11, 33:

ted optestor per senectutem tuam,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 3:

ibi fovebo senectutem meam,

id. Stich. 4, 1, 62; Ter. And. 5, 3, 16; id. Ad. 5, 3, 47; id. Hec. 1, 2, 44 al.; Caecil. ap. Cic. Sen. 8, 25; Lucr. 1, 414; Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 4; 5, 8, 10; id. Fin. 5, 11, 32; id. de Or. 1, 60, 255 et saep.; Cat. 108, 1; Tib. 2, 2, 19; Verg. G. 3, 67; id. A. 5, 416; 6, 304; 7, 440; Ov. M. 14, 143; Luc. 1, 343; 2, 128; Stat. S. 3, 3, 156; Tac. A. 1, 4; 6, 31; 12, 40;

14, 40: dum virent genua, Et decet, obductā solvatur fronte senectus,

the moroseness of old age, Hor. Epod. 13, 5; cf.:

quae vos tam foeda senectus corripuit, fregitque animos?

Val. Fl. 6, 283.—Of style; only trop., and hence with quasi:

cum ipsa oratio jam nostra canesceret haberetque suam quandam maturitatem et quasi senectutem,

Cic. Brut. 2, 8:

plena litteratae senectutis oratio,

id. ib. 76, 265.—Of inanim. things (for vetustas; only poet. and very rare):

vos (tabellae) cariosa senectus Rodat,

Ov. Am. 1, 12, 29:

vini veteris,

Juv. 5, 34; 13, 214.— Prov.: aquilae senectus, v. aquila.—

Transf.

Personified, the goddess of old age, Old Age:

tristis Senectus,

Verg. A. 6, 275.—

Old age, i. e. old men:

senectus semper agens aliquid,

Cic. Sen. 8, 26; cf. id. ib. 14, 48; cf.:

aequari adulescentes senectae suae impatienter indoluit,

Tac. A. 4, 17.—

Gray hairs:

temporibus geminis canebat sparsa senectus,

Verg. A. 5, 416. —

The old skin, slough, cast off yearly by serpents and other animals:

Theophrastus auctor est, anguis modo et stelliones senectutem exuere eamque protinus devorare,

Plin. 8, 31, 49, § 111; 9, 30, 50, § 95; 30, 7, 19, § 57; 30, 9, 23, § 81; cf. senecta, supra, II. B.

tergum, i ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose also tergus, ŏris), n. ( masc.:

familiarem tergum,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 53; cf. Non. 227, 23) [cf. Gr. trachêlos, neck; perh. root trechô, to run], the back of men or beasts (syn. dor sum).

Lit.

Form tergum:

dabitur pol supplicium mihi de tergo vestre,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 75:

vae illis virgis miseris quae hodie in tergo morientur meo,

id. Capt 3, 4, 117: manibus ad tergum rejectis, Asin ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3:

boum terga,

id. N D. 2, 63, 159; cf. tergo poenae pendere Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 6:

tergo ac capite puniri, Liv 3, 55, 14.—Of cranes eaeque in tergo praevolantium Colla reponunt,

Cic. N. D. 2 49, 125. —

Of the dolphin, Ov F 2, 113.— Of the crocodile: ejus terga cataphracta,

Amm. 22, 15, 16.—

Form tergus aurea quam molli tergore vexit ovis, Prop. 2, 26 (3, 21), 6:

ut equa facilem sui tergoris ascensum praebeat,

Col. 6, 37, 10.—

Transf.

The back or hinder part, the back, rear,

Esp. in the phrases terga vertere or dare, to turn the back, pregn., for to take to flight, to flee: omnes hostes terga verterunt;

neque prius fugere destiterunt, quam, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 53; so,

terga vertere,

id. ib. 3, 19; 3, 21; id. B. C. 3, 63;

and even of a single person: terga vertit,

Sen. Ep. 22, 7:

qui plures simul terga dederant, etc., Liv 22, 29, 5: terga dare,

id. 36, 38, 4:

inter duas acies Etrusci, cum in vicem his atque illis terga darent,

id. 2, 51, 9; Ov. M. 13, 224:

terga fugae praebere,

id. ib. 10, 706:

terga praestare (fugae),

Tac. Agr 37; Juv. 15, 75. — Trop. jam felicior aetas Terga dedit, tremuloque gradu venit aegra senectus, Ov M. 14, 143.—

In gen.:

inflexo mox dare terga genu,

i. e. yield to the burden, Prop. 3, 9 (4, 8), 6: praebere Phoebo [p. 1859] terga, to sun itself, Ov. M. 4, 715:

concurrit ex insidiis versisque in Lucretium Etruscis terga caedit,

the rear, Liv. 2, 11, 9; Flor. 4, 12, 7:

terga Parthorum dicam,

the flight, Ov. A. A. 1, 209:

terga collis,

Liv. 25, 15, 12; cf.:

terga vincentium,

Tac. Agr. 37:

summi plena jam margine libri Scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes,

written on the back, Juv. 1, 6:

retro atque a tergo,

behind one, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49; cf.:

a tergo, a fronte, a lateribus tenebitur,

id. Phil. 3, 13, 32:

ut a tergo Milonem adorirentur,

behind, id. Mil. 10, 29; 21, 56; id. Verr 2, 5, 38, § 98:

tumultum hostilem a tergo accepit,

Sall. J. 58, 4; Caes. B. G 7, 87; Curt. 3, 1, 19; 3, 8, 27; 8, 5, 1:

post tergum hostium legionem ostenderunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 62:

ne nostros post tergum adorirentur,

id. B. C. 3, 44:

Germani post tergum clamore audito,

id. B. G. 4, 15:

post tergum hostem relinquere,

id. ib. 4, 22:

qui jam post terga reliquit Sexaginta annos,

has left behind him, has passed, Juv. 13, 16:

omnia jam diutino bello exhausta post tergum sunt,

Curt. 4, 14, 11:

omnia, quae post tergum erant, strata,

id. 3, 10, 7:

tot amnibus montibusque post tergum objectis,

id. 4, 13, 7.—

The back of any thing spread out horizontally, as land or water, i. e. the surface ( poet.):

proscisso quae suscitat aequore terga,

Verg. G. 1, 97:

crassa,

id. ib. 2, 236:

amnis,

Ov. P. 1, 2, 82; Claud. B. G. 338; Luc. 5, 564; 9, 341.—

(Pars pro toto.) The body of an animal ( poet.).

Form tergum:

(serpens) Squamea convolvens sublato pectore terga,

Verg. G. 3, 426;

so of a serpent,

id. A. 2, 208; Petr 89;

of Cerberus,

Verg. A. 6, 422:

horrentia centum Terga suum,

i. e. a hundred head of swine, id. ib. 1, 635:

nigrantis terga juvencos,

id. ib. 6, 243:

perpetui tergo bovis,

id. ib. 8, 183.—

Form tergus:

resecat de tergore (suis) partem,

of a chine of bacon, Ov. M. 8, 649:

diviso tergore (juvenci),

Phaedr. 2, 1, 11:

squalenti tergore serpens,

Sil. 3, 209.—

The covering of the back, the skin, hide, leather, etc. (in this signif. tergus freq. occurs; syn.: pellis, corium).

Form tergum:

taurino quantum possent circumdare tergo,

ox-hide, Verg. A. 1, 368:

ferre novae nares taurorum terga recusant,

Ov. A. A. 2, 655.—

Form tergus:

tergora deripiunt costis et viscera nudant,

Verg. A. 1, 211; so Cels. 7, 25, 1; 8, 1 med.:

durissimum dorso tergus,

Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 30; cf. id. 9, 35, 53, § 105; Col. 7, 4 fin. —

Transf., a thing made of hide or leather.

Form tergum: venti bovis inclusi tergo, i. e. in a bag made of a bull ' s hide, Ov. M. 14, 225; 15, 305:

et feriunt molles taurea terga manus,

i. e. tymbals, id. F. 4, 342; so id. ib. 4, 212:

Idae terga,

Stat. Th. 8, 221:

pulsant terga,

id. Achill. 2, 154: rupit Terga novena boum, i. e. the nine thicknesses of bull ' s hide, Ov. M. 12, 97:

tergum Sulmonis,

Verg. A. 9, 412; 10, 482; 10, 718;

hence even: per linea terga (scuti),

id. ib. 10, 784 (v. the passage in connection):

duroque intendere bracchia tergo, i. e. cestus,

id. ib. 5, 403; so id. ib. 5, 419.—

Form tergus:

gestasset laevā taurorum tergora septem,

a shield covered with seven layers of hide, Ov. M. 13, 347:

Martis tergus Geticum,

Mart. 7, 2, 2.