sepultura

con-tĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to cover, to cover up or over (freq. and class.).

In gen.

Lit., aliquem or aliquid aliquā re:

coria centonibus,

Caes. B. C. 2, 10; so,

locum linteis,

Liv. 10, 38, 5: capita scutis, Auct. B. Afr. 47 fin.; cf.:

caput glauco amictu,

Verg. A. 12, 885:

se corbe,

Cic. Sest. 38, 82:

spoliis contectum juvenis corpus,

Liv. 8, 7, 22; cf.:

pelle contectus,

Suet. Ner. 29:

corpus ejus (tumulus),

Cic. Arch. 10, 24; cf.

thus of burying: eos uno tumulo,

Liv. 26, 25, 13; Curt. 7, 9, 21; Val. Fl. 5, 58:

humo,

Ov. H. 16, 274:

corpus Galbae humili sepulturā,

Tac. H. 1, 49:

in privatis ejus hortis, omnia nebulā,

Liv. 40, 22, 4; Suet. Ner. 31.—Rarely with in and abl.:

in aliquo ramorum contexu contegi,

Tac. G. 46; cf. id. H. 1, 49 supra.—

Trop.:

quidam servili habitu, alii fide clientium contecti,

covered, protected, Tac. H. 3, 73.—

In partic.

With the access. idea of preservation (cf. condo), to preserve, keep:

cum arma omnia reposita contectaque essent,

Caes. B. C. 2, 14.—More freq.,

With the access. idea of concealment, to conceal by covering, to cover, hide, conceal.

Of corporeal objects:

eas partes corporis contexit atque abdidit, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 35, 126.—

Of abstr. objects:

factam injuriam illi miserae,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 41:

libidines fronte et supercilio, non pudore et temperantiā,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8:

aperire et recludere contecta victricium partium vulnera,

Tac. H. 2, 77:

contegendis quae prima aetas et summa fortuna expeterent,

id. A. 13, 13; Cod. Th. 7, 4, 21.

in-sĕpultus, a, um, adj. [2. in-sepultus], unburied (class.):

acervi civium,

Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 11:

membra,

Hor. Epod. 5, 99:

insepultos projecit,

Liv. 29, 9, 10. —

Transf., without burial:

mors,

Sen. Tranq. 14: sepultura, a burial without the customary funeral rites, and therefore undeserving the name of a burial (imitation of the Gr. taphos ataphos), Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5 (but sepulta is the true reading, id. ib. 14, 12, 33 B. and K.).

posco, pŏposci, 3 (old perf. peposci, Val. Antias ap. Gell. 7, 9, 9), v. inch. a. [for porc-scere; Sanscr. root parkh- prakh-, to ask; cf.: precor, procus, procax], to ask for urgently; to beg, demand, request, desire (syn.: flagito, postulo, peto).

In gen., constr. usually with aliquid, aliquem ( sibi): aliquid ab aliquo; also with a double acc., with ut, with inf., or with acc. and inf., or wholly absol.:

poscere est secundum Varronem, quotiens aliquid pro merito nostro deposcimus: petere vero est cum aliquid humiliter et cum precibus postulamus,

Serv. Verg. A. 9, 194.

With acc.:

posco atque adeo flagito crimen,

Cic. Planc. 19, 48; cf. id. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 71:

argentum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 20, § 44;

2, 3, 34, § 78: pugnam,

Liv. 2, 45, 6: nec mi aurum posco, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 200 Vahl.):

si quid poscam,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 5, 10:

pulvinos,

Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 29; id. Planc. 19, 48:

vades poposcit,

id. Rep. 2, 36, 61; cf.:

audaciae partes Roscii sibi poposcerunt,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 13, 35:

peccatis veniam poscentem (preceded by postulare),

Hor. S. 1, 3, 75.—

With ab:

fac, ut audeat Tibi credere omnia, abs te petere et poscere,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 53: diem a praetore peposcit, Val. Antias ap. Gell. 7, 9, 9:

abs te litteras,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 16, § 36; 2, 2, 47, § 117:

tutorem ab aliquo,

Suet. Aug. 94:

bibere a me poscis,

Vulg. Joann. 4, 9.—

With a double acc.:

parentes pretium pro sepulturā liberum poscere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 7:

magistratum nummos,

id. ib. 2, 1, 17, §

44: aliquem causam disserendi,

id. Tusc. 3, 3, 7:

claves portarum magistratus,

Liv. 27, 24, 8:

non ita creditum Poscis Quintilium deos,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 12:

cur me in decursu lampada poscis?

Pers. 6, 61:

poscenti vos rationem,

Vulg. 1 Pet. 3, 15.—Hence, pass.: poscor aliquid, I am asked for something, something is asked or demanded of me ( poet. and in post-class. prose):

gravidae posceris exta bovis,

they ask you for the entrails, Ov. F. 4, 670; cf.:

poscor meum Laelapa,

they demand of me my Lœlaps, id. M. 7, 771:

nec tantum segetes alimentaque debita dives Poscebatur humus,

id. ib. 1, 138:

quod rationem pecuniae posceretur,

Gell. 4, 18, 12; to be called upon or invoked to inspire a poet or to sing:

aversus Apollo Poscitur invitā verba pigenda lyrā,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 76 (better reading poscis ab); cf. absol. Palilia poscor: Non poscor frustra;

si favet alma Pales,

Ov. F. 4, 721; so,

poscimur Aonides,

Ov. M. 5, 333:

poscimur,

Hor. C. 1, 32, 1.—

With ut:

poscimus, ut cenes civiliter,

Juv. 5, 112:

poscimus ut sit, etc.,

id. 7, 71; Tac. H. 2, 39: poposcit, ut haec ipsa quaestio diligentius tractaretur, Aug. Civ. Dei, 2, 21.—

With inf. or acc. and inf. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

poscat sibi fabula credit,

Hor. A. P. 339; cf.:

immolare Fauno, Seu poscat agnā sive malit haedo,

id. C. 1, 4, 12:

esse sacerdotes delubraque vestra tueri Poscimus,

Ov. M. 8, 708:

contraque occurrere poscunt,

Val. Fl. 4, 194; Pers. 1, 128; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 151.—In prose:

ego vero te etiam morari posco inter voluptates,

Sen. Contr. 1, 8; Arn. 7, p. 254. So, too, perh. (acc. to Stephanus's conjecture):

vos fallere poscunt,

Rutil. Lup. Fig. 2, 19, p. 181 Frotsch.—

Ellipt.:

poscunt majoribus poculis, sc. bibere,

they challenge to drink from larger goblets, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66.—

Absol., to beg, be a beggar:

improbus es, cum poscis, ait. Sed pensio clamat, posce,

Juv. 9, 63 sq. —

Of inanimate and abstract subjects, to demand, require, need:

quod res poscere videbatur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

cum usus poscit,

id. ib. 4, 2: quod negotium poscebat, Sail J. 56, 1; 70, 3; Quint. 11, 3, 162 et saep.—

In partic.

To demand for punishment, to ask the surrender of: accusant [p. 1403] ii, quos populus poscit, Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 13; cf.:

hujus tantae cladis auctor Annibal poscitur,

Flor. 2, 6, 7:

nec poscitur auctor,

Sil. 2, 44:

poscendum poenae juvenem jubebat,

id. 1, 677; so Liv. 9, 26.—

In gen., to call one (ante-class. and poet.):

clamore hominem posco,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 5:

gemitu Alciden,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 1887.— Pass.: ego poscor Olympo ( dat. of agent), Olympus calls me, summons me to the combat, Verg. A. 8, 533:

poscimur,

Ov. M. 2, 144.—

In partic., to call upon, invoke:

supplex tua numina posco,

Verg. A. 1, 666.—

In selling.

To ask, demand for a thing, to offer at a price:

tanti quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22: pro reliquis (libris) idem pretium poposcit, Varr. ap. Lact. 1, 6, 10.—

To ask, bid, offer a price for a thing:

agite licemini. Qui cenā poscit? ecqui poscit prandio?

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 68; id. Merc. 2, 3, 101; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 88.—

To demand one's hand, ask in marriage:

eam si jubes, frater, tibi me poscere, poscam,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 38:

filiam tuam mihi uxorem posco,

id. ib. 2, 2, 42:

tibi permittam, posce, duce,

id. Trin. 2, 2, 103:

sine dote posco tuam sororem filio,

id. ib. 2, 4, 98:

tuam sororem uxorem alicui,

id. ib. 2, 4, 49.

prō-miscŭus (collat. form prōmis-cŭs, Gell. 11, 16, 8; 16, 13, 4; Liv. 5, 13, 7; prob. also ante-class.; v. below the adv. promiscam), a, um, adj. [misceo].

Lit., mixed, not separate or distinct, without distinction, in common, indiscriminate, promiscuous (as adj. not in Cic. or Cæs.):

opera promiscua,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 138: conubia, i. e. between patricians and plebeians, Liv 4, 2; cf.:

consulatum promiscuum patribus ac plebi facere,

id. 7, 21. multitudo, of patricians and plebeians, Tac. A. 12, 7:

vulgus,

Vulg. Exod. 12, 38:

promiscua omnium generum caedes,

Liv. 2, 30 fin.:

sepultura,

Tac. A. 16, 16 fin.:

jus,

id. ib. 4, 16:

spectaculum,

to which all are admitted without distinction, id. ib. 14, 14:

divina atque humana promiscua habere,

Sall. C. 12, 2:

privatae et promiscuae copiae,

common, general, public, Tac. H. 1, 66:

promiscuos feminarum concubitus permittere,

Just. 3, 4, 5. —With object-clause:

muta ista et inanima (sc. tecta) intercidere ac reparari promiscua sunt,

may be destroyed and restored again, Tac. H. 1, 84 fin. —In neutr. absol.:

in promiscuo licentiam atque improbitatem esse voluit,

to be universal, Liv. 29, 17; 34, 44; 40, 51:

nec arma in promiscuo, sed clausa sub custode,

i. e. in every man's hands, Tac. G. 44.—

In partic., in gram., epicene:

promiscuum nomen, i. e. epicoenum,

Quint. 1, 4, 24.—

Transf., common, usual (very rare and not ante-Aug.):

promiscua ac vilia mercari,

Tac. G. 5 fin.:

varia promiscaque cogitatio,

Gell. 11, 16, 8 (al. promiscua):

opinionis tam promiscae errores,

id. 16, 13, 4.—Hence, adv., in three forms.

Form prōmiscam (acc. form from promiscus), in common, indiscriminately, promiscuously (ante-class.): promiscam dicebant pro promiscue, Paul. ex Fest. p. 224 Müll.:

ut meā laetitiā laetus promiscam siet,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 5, 11: cetera promiscam voluit communia haberi, Varr. ap. Non. 361, 25.—

Form prōmiscē, in common, indiscriminately, indifferently (post-class.), Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 72 B. and K.; Cic. Font. 6, 12; Liv. 3, 47, 5 Weissenb.: indistincte atque promisce annotare, Gell. praef. § 2;

7, 3, 52: promisce atque indefinite largiri,

id. 2, 24, 7:

verbo uti,

id. 10, 21, 2.—

Form prōmiscŭē (the class. form), in common, promiscuously: (mares et feminae) promiscue in fluminibus perluuntur, * Caes. B. G. 6, 21 fin.:

promiscue puberes atque negotiatores interficere,

Sall. J. 26, 3:

promiscue toto quam proprie parvā frui parte (Campi Martii) malletis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 31, 85; id. Font. 6, 22; Liv. 5, 55; Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 130 al.

sŭprēmĭtas, ātis, f. [supremus], the highest extreme (late Lat.).

The last of life, death:

sepultura, qui supremitatis ho nor est,

Amm. 31, 13, 17.—

The highest honor:

supremitates et praeeminentias adire,

Claud. Mam. Stat. Anim. 2, 13.