self-confidence

fīdūcĭa, ae, f. [fido], trust, confidence, reliance, assurance (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

prope certam fiduciam salutis praebere,

Liv. 45, 8, 6; cf.:

jam de te spem habeo, nondum fiduciam,

Sen. Ep. 16:

spes atque fiducia,

Caes. B. C. 1, 20, 2:

tyrannorum vita, nimirum in qua nulla fides, nulla stabilis benevolentiae potest esse fiducia,

Cic. Lael. 15, 52:

hoc se colle Galli fiduciā loci continebant,

Caes. B. G. 7, 19, 2:

tantam habebat (Curio) suarum rerum fiduciam,

id. B. C. 2, 37, 1:

arcae nostrae fiduciam conturbare,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 5:

vitae nostrae,

Ov. M. 1, 356:

falsa'st ista tuae, mulier, fiducia formae,

Prop. 3 (4), 24, 1; Ov. H. 16, 321:

fiducia alicujus,

Cic. Verr. 1, 14, 40:

nihil est, quod in dextram aurem fiducia mei dormias,

by reason of any confidence you have in me, Plin. Ep. 4, 29, 1:

tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri?

Verg. A. 1, 132:

quae sit fiducia capto,

on what the captive relied, hoped? id. ib. 2, 75:

humanis quae sit fiducia rebus,

reliance, id. ib. 10, 152:

mirabundi, unde tanta audacia, tanta fiducia sui victis ac fugatis,

self-confidence, confidence in themselves, Liv. 25, 37, 12:

mei tergi facio haec, non tui fiducia,

i. e. at my own peril, Plaut. Most, 1, 1, 37; for which, with the pron. possess.:

mea (instead of mei) fiducia opus conduxi et meo periculo rem gero,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 100: nunc propter te tuamque pravus factus est fiduciam, reliance on you (for tuique), id. ib. 3, 3, 9:

hanc fiduciam fuisse accusatoribus falsa obiciendi,

Quint. 7, 2, 30:

praestandi, quod exigebatur, fiducia, id. prooem. § 3: nec mihi fiducia est, ut ea sola esse contendam,

id. 5, 12, 1.—

Concr.:

spes et fiducia gentis Regulus,

Sil. 2, 342; Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 1.—

In partic., for fiducia sui, self-confidence, boldness, courage:

omnes alacres et fiduciae pleni ad Alesiam proficiscuntur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 76, 5:

timorem suum sperabat fiduciam barbaris allaturum,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 10, 1:

consul ubi, quanta fiducia esset hosti sensit, etc.,

Liv. 34, 46, 5 and 8:

hostis,

id. 30, 29, 4:

nimia,

Nep. Pel. 3:

fiduciam igitur orator prae se ferat,

Quint. 5, 13, 51:

simplicitate eorum et fiduciā motus,

Suet. Claud. 25:

non quo fiducia desit (mihi),

Ov. H. 17, 37. —With a play in the meaning A. supra: Pe. Qua fiducia ausus (es) filiam meam dicere esse? Ep. Lubuit;

ea fiducia,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 32.—

Transf.

Objectively (synon. with fides, II. A.), trustiness, fidelity:

ut quod meae concreditum est Taciturnitati clam, fidei et fiduciae, Ne enuntiarem cuiquam, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 105:

ibo ad te, fretus tua, Fides, fiducia,

id. Aul. 3, 6, 50.—

Jurid. t. t., that which is intrusted to another on condition of its being returned, a deposit, pledge, security, pawn, mortgage:

si tutor fidem praestare debet, si socius, si, cui mandaris, si qui fiduciam acceperit, debet etiam procurator,

Cic. Top. 10, 42:

fiduciā acceptā... fiduciam committere alicui,

id. Fl. 21, 51:

per fiduciae rationem fraudare quempiam,

id. Caecin. 3, 7; cf.:

judicium fiduciae,

id. Rosc. Com. 6, 16; id. N. D. 3, 30, 74: reliquorum judiciorum haec verba maxime excellunt: in arbitrio rei uxoriae, MELIVS AEQVIVS;

in fiducia, VT INTER BONOS BENE AGIER, etc.,

id. Off. 3, 15, 61; cf.:

ubi porro illa formula fiduciae, VT INTER BONOS BENE AGIER OPORTET,

id. Fam. 7, 12, 2 (cf. also id. Top. 17, 66); Gai. Inst. 2, 59 sq.; Paul. Sent. 2, 13, 1 sqq.; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 443.

dif-fīdo, fīsus (post-class. perf. diffidi), 3, v. n., to distrust; to be diffident or distrustful, to despair (freq. and class.).

With dat. (so most freq.):

eum potius (corrupisse), qui sibi aliqua ratione diffideret, quam eum, qui omni ratione confideret,

Cic. Clu. 23, 63:

sibi,

Plaut. Rud. prol. 82; Cic. Prov. Cons. 16, 38:

memoriae alicujus,

id. Part. Or. 17, 59:

sibi patriaeque,

Sall. C. 31, 3:

suis rebus,

Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 5:

veteri exercitui,

Sall. J. 52, 6; 32, 5; 46, 1;

75, 1: suae atque omnium saluti,

Caes. B. G. 6, 38, 2:

summae rei,

id. B. C. 3, 94 fin.:

perpetuitati bonorum,

Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86:

ingenio meo,

id. Mur. 30, 63:

huic sententiae,

id. Tusc. 5, 1, 3: prudentiae tuae, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 6:

rei publicae,

Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 3:

illis (viris),

Ov. H. 10, 97:

caelestibus monitis,

id. M. 1, 397 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

cur M. Valerio non diffideretur,

Liv. 24, 8; so Tac. A. 15, 4.—

With a dependent clause:

antiquissimi invenire se posse, quod cuperent, diffisi sint,

Cic. Ac. 2, 3; id. Quint. 24, 77; id. Or. 1, 3; 28, 97; Caes. B. G. 6, 36; Quint. 10, 1, 126 al.; cf.:

quos diffidas sanos facere, facies,

Cato R. R. 157, 13:

quem manu superare posse diffiderent,

Nep. Alcib. 10, 4.—

With ne:

ne terras aeterna teneret,

Lucr. 5, 980.—

Rarely with abl. (after the analogy of fido and confido):

diffisus occasione,

Suet. Caes. 3 Burm. and Oud.; so,

paucitate suorum,

Front. Strat. 1, 8, 5 Oud.:

paucitate cohortium (al. paucitati),

Tac. H. 2, 23:

potestate,

Lact. 5, 20 (also Caes. B. C. 1, 12, 2, several good MSS. have voluntate; and id. ib. 3, 97, 2: eo loco, v. Oud. on the former pass.).—

Absol.:

(facis) ex confidente actutum diffidentem denuo,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 15:

jacet, diffidit, abjecit hastas,

Cic. Mur. 21, 45:

ita graviter aeger, ut omnes medici diffiderent. id, Div. 1, 25, 53: de Othone, diffido,

id. Att. 12, 43, 2 al. —Hence, diffīdens, entis, P. a., without self-confidence, diffident, anxious, Suet. Claud. 35; id. Tib. 65. — Adv.: diffīdenter, without self-confidence, diffidently (very rare): timide et diffidenter attingere aliquid, * Cic. Clu. 1, 1:

agere,

Liv. 32, 21, 8:

incedere,

Amm. 26, 7, 13.— Comp.:

timidius ac diffidentius bella ingredi,

Just. 38, 7, 4.

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confīdentĭa, ae, f. [confidens].

A firm trust in a thing, confidence (thus very rare): scapularum. Plaut. As. 3, 2, 3.—With acc. and inf.:

confidentia'st inimicos meos me posse perdere,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 73.— Absol.:

occidit spes nostra: nusquam stabulum'st confidentiae,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 3. —

As a quality or habit, self-confidence, boldness; in a good and bad sense (class.).

In a good sense (cf. fiducia): confidentia omnis orationis, Naev. ap. Non. p. 262, 24; cf.:

duas sibi res, quominus in vulgus et in foro diceret, confidentiam et vocem, defuisse,

Cic. Rep. 3, 30, 42; cf. Non. ib.; Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 2; id. Capt. 4, 2, 25; 4, 2, 32; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 9.—More freq.,

In a bad sense (cf. Cic. Tusc. 3, 7, 14, s. v. confido, P. a., B.), audacity, impudence: atrocem coërce confidentiam, Pac. ap. Non. p. 262, 10; Att. ib. 16:

at confidentiā militia militatur multo magis quam pondere,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 49; Ter. And. 5, 3, 5; id. Eun. 5, 1, 23; Cic. Fl. 4, 10; id. Phil. 2, 40, 104; Quint. 11, 3, 160 (opp. fiducia); id. 12, 5, 2; and metus, * Suet. Calig. 51.

fīdentĭa, ae, f. [fidens, from fido], confidence, self-confidence, boldness (a philosophical word of Cicero):

ejus (fortitudinis) partes sunt magnificentia, fidentia, patientia, perseverantia... fidentia est, per quam magnis et honestis in rebus multum ipse animus in se fiduciae certa cum spe collocavit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 163: fidentiae contrarium est diffidentia, et ea re vitium est;

audacia non contrarium sed oppositum est ac propinquum, et tamen vitium est,

id. ib. §

165: si fidentia, id est firma animi confisio, scientia quaedam est et opinio gravis non temere assentientis, metus quoque est diffidentia exspectati et impendentis mali,

id. Tusc. 4, 37, 80.

Fīdentĭa, ae, f., a small town in Gallia Cisalpina, between Parma and Placentia, now Borgo S. Donnino, Vell. 2, 28; Liv. Epit. 88. Its inhabitants are called Fīdentīni, Plin. 3, 15, 20, § 116; Mart. 1, 54.

fīdentĭa, ae, f. [fidens, from fido], confidence, self-confidence, boldness (a philosophical word of Cicero):

ejus (fortitudinis) partes sunt magnificentia, fidentia, patientia, perseverantia... fidentia est, per quam magnis et honestis in rebus multum ipse animus in se fiduciae certa cum spe collocavit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 163: fidentiae contrarium est diffidentia, et ea re vitium est;

audacia non contrarium sed oppositum est ac propinquum, et tamen vitium est,

id. ib. §

165: si fidentia, id est firma animi confisio, scientia quaedam est et opinio gravis non temere assentientis, metus quoque est diffidentia exspectati et impendentis mali,

id. Tusc. 4, 37, 80.

Fīdentĭa, ae, f., a small town in Gallia Cisalpina, between Parma and Placentia, now Borgo S. Donnino, Vell. 2, 28; Liv. Epit. 88. Its inhabitants are called Fīdentīni, Plin. 3, 15, 20, § 116; Mart. 1, 54.

fīdentĭa, ae, f. [fidens, from fido], confidence, self-confidence, boldness (a philosophical word of Cicero):

ejus (fortitudinis) partes sunt magnificentia, fidentia, patientia, perseverantia... fidentia est, per quam magnis et honestis in rebus multum ipse animus in se fiduciae certa cum spe collocavit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 163: fidentiae contrarium est diffidentia, et ea re vitium est;

audacia non contrarium sed oppositum est ac propinquum, et tamen vitium est,

id. ib. §

165: si fidentia, id est firma animi confisio, scientia quaedam est et opinio gravis non temere assentientis, metus quoque est diffidentia exspectati et impendentis mali,

id. Tusc. 4, 37, 80.

Fīdentĭa, ae, f., a small town in Gallia Cisalpina, between Parma and Placentia, now Borgo S. Donnino, Vell. 2, 28; Liv. Epit. 88. Its inhabitants are called Fīdentīni, Plin. 3, 15, 20, § 116; Mart. 1, 54.

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contŭmācĭa, ae, f. [contumax], perseverance in one's purpose or opinion, generally in a bad sense, arrogance, inflexibility, contumacy, obstinacy, stubbornness.

Prop.

In gen. (in good prose, and very freq.):

illa tua singularis insolentia, superbia, contumacia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 41, § 89; so,

contumacia et adrogantia,

id. Rosc. Com. 15, 44:

contumacia et ferocitas,

Suet. Vit. 2 al.:

inter abruptam contumaciam et deforme obsequium pergere iter,

Tac. A. 4, 20 fin.:

oris oculorumque illa contumacia ac superbia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 2, § 5:

adversus principem,

Tac. H. 4, 3:

parendi,

Plin. Pan. 18:

eadem in vultu,

Liv. 2, 61, 6; cf. Tac. A. 1, 24 fin.:

responsi tui,

Cic. Pis. 31, 78.— Sometimes in a good sense, firmness, constancy, self-confidence (cf. contumax):

Socrates adhibuit liberam contumaciam,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71; so,

maxima innocentiae,

Quint. Decl. 2, 5.—

Esp., jurid. t. t., an obstinate disobedience to a judicial order, an obstinate refusal to appear in court, contumacy, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 57 (65), 2:

contumacia eorum, qui jus dicenti non temperant, litis damno coërcetur,

Dig. 42, 1, 53 pr.; cf. contumax, I. B.—

Transf., of animals:

contumacia pervicax boum,

Col. 6, 2, 11.—Of inanim. things:

arborum (with fastidium),

obstinacy in growth, Plin. 16, 32, 58, § 134.

con-fīdo, fĭsus sum, 3, v. n., to trust confidently in something, confide in, rely firmly upon, to believe, be assured of (as an enhancing of sperare, Cic. Att. 6, 9, 1; Nep. Milt. 1, 1; freq. and class. in prose and poetry); constr. with abl., acc. and inf., with dat., rarely with de, ut, or absol.

With abl. (in verb. finit. very rare with personal object):

aut corporis firmitate aut fortunae stabilitate,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 14, 40:

copiā et facultate causae,

id. Rosc. Com. 1, 2; id. Tusc. 5, 3, 8:

illum, quo antea confidebant, metuunt,

id. Att. 8, 13, 2; id. Clu. 1, 1:

naturā loci,

Caes. B. G. 3, 9; 7, 68; id. B. C. 1, 58:

castrorum propinquitate,

id. ib. 1, 75 fin.; 3, 83; Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 4:

jurejurando,

Suet. Caes. 86; cf.:

neque milites alio duce plus confidere aut audere,

Liv. 21, 4, 4:

socio Ulixe,

Ov. M. 13, 240 (v. also under g).—So esp. with part. pass.:

confisus, a, um: neque Caesar opus intermittit confisus praesidio legionum trium,

Caes. B. C. 1, 42; 1, 75; 3, 106; Auct. B. Alex. 10, 5, Auct. B. G. 8, 3; 8, 15;

Auct. B. Afr. 49: tam potenti duce confisus,

Liv. 24, 5, 12; 28, 42, 12:

nullā aliā urbe,

Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 4; Lentul. ib. 12, 15, 3:

patientiā nostrā,

Plin. Pan. 68, 2:

senatus consulto,

Suet. Caes. 86.—

With acc. and inf. (so most freq. in all per.), Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 1; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 108; id. Ad. 5, 3, 40; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 69, § 177; id. Off. 3, 2, 5; id. Att. 1, 10, 2; 6, 7, 1; 6, 9, 1 al.; Caes. B. G. 1, 23 fin.; id. B. C. 2, 10; Sall. C. 17, 7; id. J. 26, 1; Nep. Milt. 1, 1; Liv. 4, 32, 6; 36, 40, 2; 44, 13, 7; Quint. 5, 12, 17; 11, 1, 92; Suet. Caes. 29; id. Oth. 10; Ov. M. 9, 256:

(venti et sol) siccare prius confidunt omnia posse Quam, etc.,

Lucr. 5, 391.—

With dat. (very freq.;

and so almost always of personal objects): me perturbasset ejus sententia, nisi vestrae virtuti constantiaeque confiderem,

Cic. Phil. 5, 1, 2; cf. id. Att. 16, 16, A, 5;

1, 9, 2: cui divinationi,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 4:

his rebus magis quam causae suae,

id. Inv. 1, 16, 22; id. Verr. 2, 2, 28, § 69; id. Sest. 64, 135; id. Mil. 23, 61; id. Fin. 1, 9, 31; Liv. 38, 48, 13:

virtuti militum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 24:

cui (peditum parti) maxime confidebat,

id. ib. 2, 40:

equitatui,

id. ib. 3, 94;

Auct. B. Afr. 60: fidei Romanae,

Liv. 21, 19, 10; 22, 18, 8; 29, 12, 1;

40, 12, 15 al.: huic legioni Caesar confidebat maxime,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40; 1, 42. —Esp. freq. with sibi, to rely on one's self, have confidence in one's self:

neque illi sibi confisi ex portā prodire sunt ausi,

Caes. B. C. 3, 7:

dum sibi uterque confideret,

id. ib. 3, 10; Cic. Fl. 1, 5; id. Clu. 23, 63; id. Har. Resp. 16, 35; id. Ac. 2, 11, 36; id. Fin. 3, 8, 29; id. Lael. 5, 17; 9, 30; id. Rep. 3, 13, 23; Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 16, 6; Auct. B. Afr. 19; Sen. Tranq. 14, 2; id. Ep. 72, 2; Liv. 4, 18, 1:

fidei legionum, Auct. B. Alex. 6, 2: suae virtuti,

Liv. 3, 67, 5; 21, 57, 12:

felicitati regis sui,

Curt. 3, 14, 4:

Graecorum erga se benevolentiae,

id. 4, 10, 16; 7, 7, 28; 7, 9, 1; 9, 2, 25; Tac. A. 1, 81; 14, 36; id. H. 1, 14; Sen. Ep. 4, 7.—Dub. whether dat. or abl. (cf. supra a): suis bonis. Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 40:

viribus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 53:

dis immortalibus,

Sall. C. 52, 28:

his amicis sociisque,

id. ib. 16, 4; id. J. 112, 2:

suis militibus,

Liv. 2, 45, 4:

quibus (rebus),

Quint. 3, 6, 8:

ostento,

Suet. Tib. 19 al. —

With de:

externis auxiliis de salute urbis confidere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 5 fin.:

de consuetudine civitatis,

Dig. 1, 3, 34; Nep. Milt. 1, 1.—

With acc.:

confisus avos,

Stat. Th. 2, 573; cf. Prisc. 18, p. 1185 P.; cf.:

nihil nimis oportet confidere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 32, 78.—

With ut, Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 7 (but in Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16, confido is prob. a gloss; v. Orell. N. cr.).—

Absol.:

non confidit,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 107: ubi legati satis confidunt, die [p. 414] constituto, Senatus utrisque datur, Sall. J. 13, 9.—

Poet. with inanim. subjects:

remis confisa minutis parvula cymba,

Prop. 1, 11, 9.—Hence, confīdens, entis, P. a. (lit. confident, trusting to something; hence with exclusive ref. to one's self), selfconfident; in a good and (more freq.) in a bad sense (class.).

In a good sense (perh. only ante-class.), bold, daring, undaunted:

decet innocentem servum atque innoxium Confidentem esse,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 8:

qui me alter est audacior homo? aut qui me confidentior?

id. Am. 1, 1, 1:

senex, ellum, confidens, catus,

Ter. And. 5, 2, 14.— Comp.:

quod est nimio confidentius,

Gell. 10, 26, 9.—

In a bad sense, shameless, audacious, impudent:

qui fortis est, idem est fidens, quoniam confidens malā consuetudine loquendi in vitio ponitur, ductum verbum a confidendo, quod laudis est, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 7, 14: improbus, confidens, nequam, malus videatur, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 262, 11; Turp. ib. p. 262, 13:

homo,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 73 (cf. Cic. Caecin. 10, 27); Cic. Phil. 7, 1, 3; * Hor. S. 1, 7, 7; Quint. 9, 3, 65; Suet. Dom. 12.— Sup.:

juvenum confidentissime,

Verg. G. 4, 445:

mendacium,

App. Mag. p. 318, 27.—Hence, adv.: confīdenter.

In a good sense, boldly, daringly:

confidenter hominem contra colloqui,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 183; 2, 2, 207; id. Capt. 3, 5, 6.— Comp.:

dicere,

Cic. Cael. 19, 44:

loqui,

id. de Or. 2, 7, 28.—

In a bad sense, audaciously, impudently, Afran. ap. Non. p. 262, 17; Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 7.— Sup.:

confidentissime resistens,

Auct. Her. 2, 5, 8 fin.

crēdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 ( pres. subj. creduam, Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 2:

creduas,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 72; id. Trin. 3, 1, 5:

creduat,

id. Bacch. 3, 4, 5; 4, 7, 6:

creduis,

id. Am. 2, 2, 49; id. Capt. 3, 4, 73:

creduit,

id. Truc. 2, 2, 52; inf. credier, id. Poen. 2, 43;

crevi for credidi,

id. Cist. 1, 1, 1), v. a. [Sanscr. crat, crad, trust, and dha-; v. 2. do].

Orig. belonging to the lang. of business, to give as a loan, to loan, lend, make or loan to any one: (vilicus) injussu domini credat nemini;

quod dominus crediderit, exigat,

Cato, R. R. 5, 4:

quibus credas male,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 20; cf.

populis,

Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4:

alicui grandem pecuniam,

id. ib. 2, 4; so,

pecunias ei,

id. Fam. 1, 7, 6; and:

pecuniae creditae,

id. Prov. Cons. 4, 7:

centum talenta,

Quint. 5, 10, 111:

solutio rerum creditarum,

Cic. Off. 2, 24, 84 et saep.—Hence,

crēdĭtum, i, n., a loan, Sall. C. 25, 4; Liv. 6, 15, 5; 6, 27, 3; 8, 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 1; Quint. 5, 10, 105; 5, 10, 117; Dig. 12, 1, 19 sq. et saep.—

Transf. beyond the circle of business (very freq. in every period and species of composition).

With the prevailing idea of intended protection, to commit or consign something to one for preservation, protection, etc., to intrust to one, = committo, commendo (cf. concredo):

ubi is obiit mortem, qui mihi id aurum credidit,

Plaut. Aul. prol. 15 (credere est servandum commendare, Non. p. 275, 9); so,

nummum,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 112 (for which id. ib. 4, 2, 115, concredere):

alicujus fidei potestatique (with committere),

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, § 27; cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 4, § 14: vitam ac fortunas meas, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 275, 8; cf. Ter. And. 1, 5, 37:

militi arma,

Liv. 2, 45, 10:

se suaque omnia alienissimis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 31:

se ponto,

Ov. M. 14, 222:

se perfidis hostibus,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 33:

se ventis,

Quint. 12, prooem. §

2: pennis se caelo,

Verg. A. 6, 15; cf. Ov. M. 2, 378:

se pugnae,

Verg. A. 5, 383 et saep.:

crede audacter quid lubet,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 118:

facinus magnum timido pectori,

id. Ps. 2, 1, 3:

illi consilia omnia,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 18:

arcanos sensus tibi,

Verg. A. 4, 422; cf.:

arcana libris,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 31:

aliquid cerae,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 67.— Poet., with in and acc.:

inque novos soles audent se germina tuto Credere,

Verg. G. 2, 333.—

With the prevailing idea of bestowing confidence, to trust to or confide in a person or thing, to have confidence in, to trust.

With dat.:

virtuti suorum satis credere,

Sall. J. 106, 3; cf. id. ib. 72, 2:

praesenti fortunae,

Liv. 45, 8, 6:

consules magis non confidere quam non credere suis militibus,

rather mistrusted their intentions than their valor, id. 2, 45, 4:

nec jam amplius hastae,

Verg. A. 11, 808:

ne nimium colori,

id. E. 2, 17:

bibulis talaribus,

Ov. M. 4, 731.—Freq. in eccl. Lat.:

Moysi et mihi,

Vulg. Johan. 5, 46:

verbis meis,

id. Luc. 1, 20.—

Esp., with in and acc. of pers., to believe in, trust in (eccl. Lat.):

hoc est ergo credere in Deum, credendo adhaerere ad bene coöperandum bona operanti Deo,

Aug. Enarr. in Psa. 77, 8:

qui fidem habet sine spe ac dilectione, Christum esse credit, non in Christum credit,

id. Serm. 144, 2:

qui credit in Filium habet vitam aeternam,

Vulg. Johan. 3, 36 et saep.—

To trust one in his declarations, assertions, etc., i. e. to give him credence, to believe:

injurato, scio, plus credet mihi, quam jurato tibi,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 284 sq.:

vin' me istuc tibi, etsi incredibile'st, credere?

Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 11:

credit jam tibi de isto,

Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 53:

cui omnium rerum ipsus semper credit,

in every thing, id. As. 2, 4, 59; cf. id. Truc. 2, 2, 52:

diu deliberandum et concoquendum est, utrum potius Chaereae injurato in suā lite, an Manilio et Luscio juratis in alieno judicio credatis,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 45.—

Mihi crede, beliere me, confide in my words, upon my word, emoi pithou, an expression of confirmation, Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 4; Cic. Cat. 1, 3, 6; id. Mur. 19, 40; 38, 82; id. de Or. 2, 17, 72; id. Off. 3, 19, 75; id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75; 1, 43, 103; id. Fin. 2, 21, 68 et saep.; Hor. S. 1, 7, 35; 2, 6, 93 al.; cf.: mihi credite, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; id. Agr. 3, 4, 16; Liv. 24, 22, 17; Ov. M. 15, 254 al.—In the same sense (but more rare in Cic.):

crede mihi,

Cic. Att. 6, 6, 1; 14, 15, 2; 11, 6, 1; id. Verr. 2, 4, 59, § 133; Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4; Ov. A. A. 1, 66; id. M. 1, 361; id. Tr. 3, 4, 25:

crede igitur mihi,

Cic. Fam. 10, 6, 2:

credite mihi,

Curt. 6, 11, 25.—

Credor in poets several times equivalent to creditur mihi:

certe credemur, ait, si verba sequatur Exitus,

Ov. F. 3, 351; so id. Tr. 3, 10, 35:

creditus accepit cantatas protinus herbas, etc.,

id. M. 7, 98; so in part., id. H. 17, 129; cf.:

(Cassandra) non umquam credita Teucris,

Verg. A. 2, 247.—

Sibi, to believe one's self, trust one's own convictions, be fully convinced:

cum multa dicta sunt sapienter et graviter, tum vel in primis, crede nobis, crede tibi,

Plin. Pan. 74:

fieri malunt alieni erroris accessio, quam sibi credere,

Min. Fel. 24, 2: non satis sibi ipsi credebant, Auct. B. Alex. 6:—

With simple reference to the object mentioned or asserted, to believe a thing, hold or admit as true: velim te id quod verum est credere, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 275, 6; cf.: credo et verum est, Afer ap. Quint. 6, 3, 94:

me miseram! quid jam credas? aut cur credas?

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 32:

quod fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt,

Caes. B. G. 3, 18; cf. Quint. 6, 2, 5:

audivi ista... sed numquam sum addictus ut crederem,

Cic. Brut. 26, 100:

ne quid de se temere crederent,

Sall. C. 31, 7:

res Difficilis ad credundum,

Lucr. 2, 1027; cf. Caes. B. G. 5, 28 et saep.— Pass.:

res tam scelesta... credi non potest,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 22, 62.— Pass. impers.:

in quo scelere, etiam cum multae causae convenisse unum in locum atque inter se congruere videntur, tamen non temere creditur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 22, 62.—

In gen. = opinor, arbitror, to be of opinion, to think, believe, suppose.

With acc.:

timeo ne aliud credam atque aliud nunties,

Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 4:

quae deserta et inhospita tesqua credis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 20:

fortem crede bonumque,

id. ib. 1, 9, 13:

quos gravissimos sapientiae magistros aetas vetus credidit,

Quint. 12, 1, 36.— Pass.:

potest... falsum aliquid pro vero credi,

Sall. C. 51, 36:

origo animi caelestis creditur,

Quint. 1, 1, 1; 8, prooem. §

24: Evander venerabilior divinitate creditā Carmentae matris,

Liv. 1, 7, 8.—

With acc. and inf. (so most freq.):

jam ego vos novisse credo, ut sit pater meus,

Plaut. Am. prol. 104:

cum reliquum exercitum subsequi crederet,

Caes. B. G. 6, 31: caelo tonantem credidimus Jovem Regnare. Hor. C. 3, 5, 1 et saep.:

victos crederes,

one would have thought, one might have imagined, Liv. 2, 43, 9; so Curt. 4, 10, 23; cf. Zumpt, Lat. Gr. § 528.— Pass.:

navis praeter creditur ire,

Lucr. 4, 389:

quem (Athin) peperisse Limnate creditur,

Ov. M. 5, 49:

creditus est optime dixisse,

Quint. 3, 1, 11; cf. id. 10, 2, 125 al.— Impers.:

credetur abesse ab eo culpam,

Quint. 11, 1, 64:

neque sine causā creditum est, stilum non minus agere cum delet,

id. 10, 4, 1 al. — So in the abl. part. pass. credito, with acc. and inf., Tac. A. 3, 14; 6, 34.—

Absol.: credo inserted, like opinor, puto, etc., and the Gr. oimai, as a considerate, polite, or ironical expression of one's opinion, I believe, as I think, I suppose, I dare say, etc.:

credo, misericors est,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 144;

so placed first,

id. Cas. 2, 6, 3; Ter. And. 2, 1, 13; Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 5; id. Sull. 4, 11; Caes. B. C. 3, 70; Sall. C. 52, 13; Liv. 4, 17, 7; Hor. S. 2, 2, 90:

Mulciber, credo, arma fecit,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 32; so id. Truc. 2, 5, 27; Caes. B. C. 2, 31; Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 7; id. Tusc. 1, 22, 52; Verg. A. 6, 368 et saep.:

aut jam hic aderit, credo hercle, aut jam adest,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 74.

fīdo, fīsus sum (ante-class. form of the fut. fidebo, Nov. ap. Non. 509, 4), 3, v. n. [root in Sanscr. bandh, unite; Gr. peithô, persuade, peisma, cable; Lat. fidus, Deus Fidius, foedus; cf.: fascis, fascia; Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 262; but Fick refers fido to root bhidh; Goth. beidan; Engl. bide, to expect; Vergl. Wört. p. 380], to trust, confide, put confidence in, rely upon a person or thing (rare; in the verb. finit. mostly poet.; but class. in the part. praes. and P. a.).

With dat.:

fidere nocti,

Verg. A. 9, 378:

fugae fidens,

id. ib. 11, 351:

pestilentiae fidens (with societate fretus),

Liv. 8, 22, 7:

taedae non bene fisa,

Ov. M. 15, 827:

qui sibi fidit,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 22; id. S. 2, 2, 108:

puer bene sibi fidens,

Cic. Att. 6, 6, 4.—

With abl.: hac (Cynosurā) fidunt duce nocturnā Phoenices in alto, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 41, 106; id. Ac. 2, 20, 66:

arcu fisi Getae,

Ov. P. 4, 9, 78:

cursu,

id. M. 7, 545:

ope equinā,

id. ib. 9, 125:

pecuniā,

Nep. Lys. 3 fin.:

prudentiā consilioque fidens,

Cic. Off. 1, 23, 81.—Doubtful, whether dat. or abl. (v. Zumpt, Gr. § 413; cf.

confido): nec nitido fidit adultero,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 20:

pictis puppibus,

id. ib. 1, 14, 15:

(Jugurtham) Mario parum fidere,

Sall. J. 112, 2:

ingenio,

Quint. 10, 7, 18; cf.:

ingenio suo,

Plin. Ep. 4, 13 fin.:

suis rebus,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 2.—

With inf.:

fidis enim manare poëtica mella Te solum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 44; Sil. 1, 432:

parum fidens pedibus contingere matrem,

Luc. 4, 615:

fisus cuncta sibi cessura pericula, Caesar,

id. 5, 577.—

Absol.: ubi fidentem fraudaveris, i. e. who trusts (you), Plaut. As. 3, 2, 15.—Hence, fīdens, entis, P.a. (lit., trusting to one's self, self-confident; hence), confident, courageous, bold:

qui fortis est, idem est fidens, qui autem est fidens, is profecto non extimescit: discrepat enim a timendo confidere,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 7, 14:

fidenti animo gradietur ad mortem,

id. ib. 1, 46, 110; cf.:

tum Calchas haec est fidenti voce locutus, id. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64: fidens animi,

Verg. A. 2, 61; Tac. A. 4, 59 fin.; so,

fidens armorum,

Luc. 9, 373.— Comp.:

Romanus, fidentior,

Amm. 16, 12 al. — Sup.: fidentissimo [p. 748] impetu acies motae, Amm. 27, 10, 12.— Adv.: fīdenter, confidently, fearlessly, boldly:

timide fortasse signifer evellebat, quod fidenter infixerat,

Cic. Div. 2, 31, 67:

agere,

id. Ac. 2, 8, 24:

confirmare,

id. de Or. 1, 56, 240; cf. id. N. D. 1, 8, 18.— Comp.:

paulo vellem fidentius te illi respondisse,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 21.— Sup.:

accedere fidentissime,

Amm. 17, 1, 9; August. Ver. Rel. 3.

ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:

tela,

i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:

auxilium castris apertis,

to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:

(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,

i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—

In partic.

With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):

omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),

Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,

se,

id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:

se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,

Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).

With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;

more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:

in laetitiam,

Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.

(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.

also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:

vastare,

Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:

effusius praedari,

id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.

vivere,

id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:

affluant opes,

Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:

tela,

i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:

auxilium castris apertis,

to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:

(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,

i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—

In partic.

With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):

omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),

Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,

se,

id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:

se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,

Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).

With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;

more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:

in laetitiam,

Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.

(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.

also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:

vastare,

Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:

effusius praedari,

id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.

vivere,

id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:

affluant opes,

Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:

tela,

i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:

auxilium castris apertis,

to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:

(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,

i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—

In partic.

With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):

omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),

Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,

se,

id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:

se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,

Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).

With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;

more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:

in laetitiam,

Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.

(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.

also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:

vastare,

Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:

effusius praedari,

id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.

vivere,

id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:

affluant opes,

Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

praesumptĭo, ōnis, f. [praesumo].

A taking beforehand, a using or enjoying in advance, anticipation:

rerum, quas assequi cupias, praesumptio ipsa jucunda est,

Plin. Ep. 4, 15, 11:

bonae famae praesumptione perfrui,

id. ib. 9, 3, 1.—

In rhet., a taking up and answering in advance, an anticipation of possible or suspected objections: mire in causis valet praesumptio, quae prolêpsis dicitur, cum id, quod obici potest, occupamus, Quint. 9, 2, 16; 9, 2, 18.—

A representing to one's self beforehand, a conception, supposition, presumption:

multum dare solemus praesumptioni omnium hominum,

Sen. Ep. 117, 5:

cum contra praesumptionem suam annis decem in obsidione tenerentur,

Just. 3, 4:

non levi praesumptione credere,

Dig. 41, 3, 44.—

In partic.

Boldness, confidence, assurance, audacity, presumption (post-class.):

illicitā praesumptione rex ad vicem sacerdotis holocaustum obtulit,

Sulp. Sev. Hist. Sacr. 1, 33:

timor fundamentum salutis, praesumptio impedimentum timoris,

Tert. Cult. Fem. 2:

cassa,

App. Mag. p. 323, 17.—

Stubbornness, obstinacy:

mirā contra plagarum dolores praesumptione munitus,

App. M. 8, p. 214, 31:

obfirmatus summā praesumptione,

id. ib. 10, p. 243, 25.—

Prejudice, Tert. Apol. 49.