serva

nascor, nātus, nasci (ante-class., and in poets of the class. period also gnatus, v. under P. a. B.; part. fut. nasciturus, Pall. Jun. 7, § 8; Vulg. Judic. 13, 8), 3, v. dep. [from gnascor, gnatus, root gen, whence gigno; cf. Gr. gennaô], to be born, to be begotten (of or by male or female).

Lit.; constr. with ex or de and abl., or with abl. alone; rarely with ab and abl.

With ex and abl. (esp. with name or other appellation of the mother):

cum ex utrāque (uxore) filius natus esset,

Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 183:

cujus ex filiā natus est Sestius,

id. Fam. 13, 8, 1:

Servius Tullius ex serva Tarquiniensi natus,

id. Rep. 2, 21, 37:

ex hac feminā debuit nasci, qui, etc.,

Sen. ad Helv. 16, 6:

natam sibi ex Poppaeā filiam,

Tac. A. 15, 23 init.:

ex Thetide natus,

Quint. 3, 7, 11:

ex Urbiniā natus,

id. 7, 2, 5:

Alexandri filius natus ex Barsine,

Just. 13, 2, 7; cf.:

negantis (Domitii) quidquam ex se et Agrippinā nisi detestabile nasci potuisse,

Suet. Ner. 6:

quod ex nobis natos liberos appellamus, idcirco Cerere nati nominati sunt Liber et Libera,

Cic. N. D. 2, 24, 62; cf.:

convinces facile ex te esse natum, nam tui similis est probe,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 7:

ex militibus Romanis et Hispanis mulieribus natos se memorantes,

Liv. 43, 3, 2;

very rarely with a designation of the father, and only with pronouns: ex hoc Domitius nascitur,

Suet. Ner. 4 init.:

Neoptolemus ex quo nata est Olympias,

Just. 17, 3, 14:

ex quo nasci nepotes deceat,

Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 2:

illum ex me natum,

Val. Max. 5, 10 ext. 3; cf.:

quod tibi filiolus vel filia nascitur ex me,

Juv. 9, 83.—

With de and abl.:

de tigride natus,

Ov. M. 9, 612; cf.:

de stirpe dei nasci,

id. ib. 11, 312:

de pellice natus,

id. ib. 4, 422:

natus de muliere,

Vulg. Job, 14, 1; 15, 14. —

With abl. (so usually with proper names;

and with general designations of parents, family, etc.): quos omnes Erebo et Nocte natos ferunt,

Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44:

Hercules Jove natus,

id. ib. 3, 16, 42:

Nilo natus,

id. ib. 3, 16, 42:

nascetur Oedipus Lao,

id. Fat. 13, 30:

patre Marte,

id. Rep. 2, 2, 4:

Paulo,

id. Off. 1, 33, 121:

privignus Poppaeā natus,

Suet. Ner. 55:

Ascanius Creusā matre natus,

Liv. 1, 3, 2: Junia, Vell. 2, 127, 4:

amplissimā familiā nati adulescentes,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37, 1:

honestis parentibus,

Quint. 1, 11, 85; Sen. Contr. 7, 21, 1:

Mela quibus Gallio et Seneca parentibus natus,

Tac. A. 16, 17:

deus deo natus,

Liv. 1, 16, 3:

imperioso patre,

id. 7, 4, 5; 9, 1, 12: Assaraco natus Capus, Enn. ap. Philarg. ad Verg. G. 3, 35 (Ann. v. 31 Vahl.):

patre certo nasci,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 46:

Apolline natus,

Ov. M. 15, 639: natus deā, son of a goddess, i. e. Achilles, id. M. 12, 86; so,

natus deā,

of Æneas, Verg. A. 1, 582:

matre Musā natus,

Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 45:

nascetur pulcrā Trojanus origine Caesar,

Verg. A. 1, 286.—

With ab and abl.:

generari et nasci a principibus,

Tac. H. 1, 16:

et qui nascentur ab illo,

Verg. G. 1, 434.—

In other constrr.:

post homines natos,

since men have lived, Cic. Phil. 11, 1, 1:

post genus hominum natum,

id. Balb. 10, 26:

in miseriam nascimur,

id. Tusc. 1, 5, 9:

aves omnes in pedes nascuntur,

with the feet foremost, Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 149:

ad homines nascendos vim hujus numeri (septenarii) pertinere,

to the formation of man in the womb, Gell. 3, 10, 7:

homo nascitur ad laborem,

i. e. it is his nature to suffer it, Vulg. Job, 5, 7.—

Transf., to rise, take beginning, derive origin, spring forth, grow, be found: O fortunatam natam me consule Romam, Cic. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 24; and ap. Juv. 10, 122:

humi nascentia fraga,

Verg. E. 3, 92:

cum nata fuerint folia,

Vulg. Marc. 13, 28:

nascitur ibi plumbum album in mediterraneis regionibus,

is found, produced, Caes. B. G. 5, 12:

onyx nascitur circa Thebas Aegyptias,

Plin. 36, 8, 12, § 61:

ex palude nascitur amnis,

rises, id. 36, 26, 65, § 190:

nascere, praeque diem veniens age, Lucifer, almum,

rise, Verg. E. 8, 17:

unde nigerrimus Auster Nascitur,

id. G. 3, 278:

nascens luna,

Hor. C. 3, 23, 2; id. S. 2, 4, 30:

nascentia templa,

newly built, Mart. 6, 4, 3:

Circaeis nata forent an Lucrinum ad saxum... ostrea,

Juv. 4, 140.— To rise, be formed (of a hill):

ab eo flumine collis nascebatur,

Caes. B. G. 2, 18; cf.:

nascitur altera moles,

Sil. 3, 530. —

Trop.

To arise, spring forth, proceed from, be produced:

scribes ad me, ut mihi nascatur epistulae argumentum,

Cic. Fam. 16, 22, 2:

nulla tam detestabilis pestis est, quae non homini ab homine nascatur,

id. Off. 2, 5, 16:

fateor ea me studiose secutum ex quibus vera gloria nasci posset,

id. Fam. 15, 4, 13:

facinus natum a cupiditate,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 82; id. Font. 16, 37:

visus ei dicitur draco... dicere quo illa loci nasceretur,

id. Div. 2, 66, 135:

strumae nascuntur maxime in cervice,

Cels. 5, 28, 7; 7, 12, 1 fin.; 7, 6, 4 fin.:

onychem in Arabiae tantum montibus nasci putavere,

Plin. 36, 7, 12, § 59:

frumenta nata sunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 63, § 147:

ex quo uno haec omnia nata et profecta esse concedit,

id. Quint. 28, 85; id. Agr 2, 33, 90:

profectio nata a timore defectionis,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43:

querelae verae nascuntur pectore ab imo,

Cat. 64, 198:

omnis obligatio vel ex contractu nascitur vel ex delicto,

Gai. Inst. 3, 88 sq. —With ut:

ex hoc nascitur ut,

hence it follows that, Cic. Fin. 3, 19, 63; Sen. Ep. 74, 11.—

Esp., of the spiritual renewal of a religious experience, to be regenerated, born again (eccl. Lat.):

quod natum est ex spiritu, spiritus est,

Vulg. Johan. 3, 6:

nasci denuo,

id. ib. 3, 7:

natus ex Deo,

id. 1 Johan. 3, 9, etc.—Hence, P. a.

nascens, entis, arising, beginning, nascent, infant, immature:

ante Periclem et Thucydidem, qui non nascentibus Athenis, sed jam adultis fuerunt, littera nulla est, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 7, 27:

eloquentiam pueris induunt adhuc nascentibus,

Petr. 4:

(vitulus) vexat nascenti robora cornu,

Juv. 12, 9.—

Subst.: nascentia, ĭum, n., organic bodies, esp. plants, Vitr. 5, 1, 3; 5, 8, 1.—

nātus, a, um, P. a., born; hence,

Subst.: nātus ( gnātus), i, m., a son; and nāta ( gnāta), ae, f. (dat. and abl. pl. natabus, where ambiguity is to be avoided, Plaut. ap. Prisc. p. 733 P.; Inscr. Orell. 7421; Phocas, p. 1707 P.; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 29), a daughter; in plur.: nati (gnati), children, offspring:

caritas, quae est inter natos et parentes,

Cic. Lael. 8, 27:

bellum prope inter parentes natosque,

Liv. 1, 23, 1; cf. id. 5, 40, 3:

cum pecore et gnatis,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 115:

et trepidae matres pressere ad pectora natos,

Verg. A. 7, 518: mihi ausculta, nate, pueros jube cremarier, Enn. [p. 1188] ap. Non. 246, 11 (Trag. v. 329 Vahl.); Hor. S. 1, 3, 43:

natam conlocare alicui,

Plaut. Aul. Arg. 1, 15: o gnata, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 46 Vahl.):

si quis gnatam pro mutā devovet agnā,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 219; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 199: Hectoris natum de muro jactarier, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 10, § 70 Müll. (Trag. v. 130 Vahl.); so, Nerei natae, id. ap. Prisc. p. 733 P. (Trag. v. 135 Vahl.):

maxima natarum Priami,

Verg. A. 1, 654; Ov. M. 13, 661.—Esp. in the phrase natus nemo, not a human being, nobody (Plautine for nemo mortalis):

tamquam si natus nemo in aedibus habitet,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 55 Lorenz ad loc.; id. ib. 2, 2, 20:

nato nemini,

id. Cas. 2, 4, 15; id. Ps. 1, 3, 63.—

Adj.

Natus alicui rei or ad aliquam rem, born, made, destined, designed, intended, produced by nature for any thing.

With dat. (class.):

me credo huic esse natum rei, ferundis miseriis,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 6:

non sibi se soli natum meminerit, sed patriae, sed suis,

Cic. Fin. 2, 14, 45:

natus huic imperio,

id. Cael. 24, 59:

gurges atque helluo natus abdomini suo, non laudi atque gloriae,

id. Pis. 17, 41:

Judaei et Syri, nationes natae servituti,

id. Prov. Cons. 5, 10. —

With ad (class.):

vir ad omnia summa natus,

Cic. Brut. 68, 239:

natus ad haec tempora,

id. Phil. 12, 4, 9:

ad dicendum natus aptusque,

id. de Or. 1, 22, 99:

ad haudem et ad decus nati, suscepti, instituti sumus,

id. Fin. 5, 22, 63:

ad hoc unum natus,

id. Or. 28, 99:

ut ad cursum equus, ad arandum bos, ad indagandum canis, sic homo ad intellegendum et agendum natus est,

id. Fin. 2, 13, 40:

natus ad sacra Cithaeron,

Ov. M. 2, 223:

canor mulcendas natus ad aures,

id. ib. 5, 561.—

With inf. ( poet.):

quid meruere boves, animal... natum tolerare labores,

Ov. M. 15, 120: sentes tantummodo laedere natae, id. de Nuce, 113.—

With in and acc. ( poet.):

nati in usum laetitiae scyphi,

Hor. C. 1, 27, 1; Ov. M. 14, 99; 15, 117.—

With propter (rare):

apros, animal propter convivia natum,

Juv. 1, 141.—

Formed or constituted by nature in any manner:

alius ager bene natus, alius male,

Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 1:

sarmenta male nata,

Col. 4, 24, 7:

ita natus locus est,

Liv. 9, 2:

inculti versūs et male nati,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 233.—

Pro re natā, or (ante- and post-class.) e re natā, under the present circumstances, according to the state of affairs, as matters are:

ut in his pro re natā non incommode possint esse,

Cic. Att. 7, 14, 3:

Antonii colloquium cum heroibus nostris pro re natā non incommodum,

id. ib. 14, 6, 1;

7, 8, 2: e re natā melius fieri haud potuit, quam factum est,

Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 8; App. M. 4, p. 143, 38.—

With a specification of time, so old, of the age of, etc.:

eques Romanus annos prope XC. natus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 62:

annos natus unum et viginti,

id. de Or. 3, 20, 74:

cum annos ad quinquaginta natus esset,

id. Clu. 40, 110:

cum quinque et viginti natus annos dominatum occupavisset,

id. Tusc. 5, 20, 57:

Cato annos quinque et octoginta natus excessit e vitā,

id. Brut. 20, 80; in inscr. ANNORVM NATVS, etc., Inscr. Mon. Scip. n. 7;

Inscr. Marini Atti, p. 564.— Sometimes, in order to specify the age more exactly, major or minor, without or with quam, is added: annos nata est sedecim non major,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 23:

minor quinque et viginti annis natus,

Nep. Han. 3, 2:

minor triginta annis natus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122:

homo annos natus major quadraginta,

over forty years old, Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 49:

Dionysius major annos sexaginta natus decessit,

Nep. Reg. 2, 3:

cum liberis majoribus quam quindecim annos natis,

Liv. 45, 32, 3:

minorem quam annos sex, majorem quam annos decem natam, negarunt capi fas esse,

Gell. 1, 12, 1.—For major, minor, sometimes with plus, minus (ante-class.):

plus triginta annis natus sim,

Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 1:

annos sexaginta natus es aut plus,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11; cf.:

non amplius novem annos natus,

Nep. Han. 2, 3.— Act. collat. form: nasco, ĕre, to be born, etc.:

ubi germen nascere coeperit,

Cato, R. R. 151 fin.

obscūrĭtas, ātis, f. [obscurus], a being dark, darkness, obscurity.

Lit. (perh. only post-Aug.):

latebrarum,

Tac. H. 3, 11:

atra,

Plin. 2, 18, 16, § 79:

visūs,

dimness, id. 23, 1, 20, § 35:

oculorum,

id. 37, 3, 12, § 51. —

Trop. (class.), obscurity, indistinctness, uncertainty:

ut oratio, quae lumen adhibere rebus debet, ea obscuritatem et tenebras afferat,

Cic. de Or. 3, 13, 50:

Pythagorae,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

obscuritas fit etiam vet is ab usu remotis,

Quint. 8, 2, 12:

in eā obscuritate ac dubitatione omnium,

uncertainty, Cic. Clu. 27, 73:

rerum,

id. Fin. 2, 5, 15:

naturae,

id. Div. 1, 18, 35.—In plur.:

quo pertinent obscuritates et aenigmata somniorum,

Cic. Div. 2, 64, 132: obscuritates non adsignemus culpae scribentium, sed inscientiae non adsequentium, Caecil. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 5:

obscuritatibus involutum,

Arn. 1, 38.—

Of rank, obscurity, lowliness, meanness: quorum prima aetas propter humilitatem et obscuritatem, in hominum ignoratione versatur. Cic. Off. 2, 13, 45:

sordes et obscuritatem Vitellianarum partium perstringemus,

Tac. H. 1, 84:

generis,

Flor. 3, 1, 13:

nec obscuritas inhibuit (Servium Tullium), quamvis matre servā creatum,

id. 1, 6, 1.

ōcĭor, ōcĭus ( sup. ocissimus), adj. comp. [kindr. with Gr. ôkus, Sanscr. ācu, from the root ac, sharp; cf.: acer, acutus, akôkê], swifter, fleeter ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit.:

et ventis, et fulminis ocior alis,

Verg. A. 5, 319; 10, 248:

ocior cervis, Ocior Euro,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 23; 24:

aurā,

id. ib. 1, 2, 48;

2, 20, 13: fugit ocior aurā,

Ov. M. 1, 502:

verbere,

Luc. 1, 230:

Tigris ocior remeat,

Plin. 8, 18, 25, § 66:

ociore ambitu,

id. 2, 8, 6, § 39:

ociore spatio,

id. 2, 19, 17, § 81.—

Transf., of time, quicker, sooner, earlier; sup.:

ficorum ocissima senectus,

Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 130:

pira,

the soonest ripe, id. 15, 15, 16, § 53:

venenum,

id. 27, 2, 2, § 4.—Hence, adv.: ōcĭ-ter; comp. ōcĭus; sup. ocissĭme (old collat. form oxime, Paul. ex Fest. p. 195 Müll.); quickly, swiftly, speedily (class. only in the comp. and sup.; cf.: ocius secundae collationis et deinde tertiae ocissime frequentata sunt, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 181 Müll.).

Posit. (ante- and post-class.): ociter serva cives, Enn. ap. Non. 277, 21, acc. to Vahl. ad Enn. Trag. v. 1:

profer ociter,

App. M. 1, p. 113, 32; p. 125, 8.—

Comp., more quickly or speedily, sooner, etc.:

idque ocius faciet, si, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29:

ut ocius ad tuum pervenias,

id. Quint. 13, 43:

recreantur ocius,

id. Tusc. 4, 14, 32: omnium Versatur urna, serius ocius Sors exitura, sooner or later, Hor. C. 2, 3, 26:

angulus iste feret piper et tus ocius uvā,

sooner than, rather than, id. Ep. 1, 14, 23:

ocius illud extorquebis,

i. e. more easily, Juv. 6, 53.—

Sometimes the comp. is used in gen. for quickly, speedily:

sequere hac me ocius, Ter Heaut. 4, 7, 4: gladio occursat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

nemon' oleum fert ocius?

quickly, Hor. S. 2, 7, 34; Juv. 14, 252; Verg. A. 5, 828:

heus Phaedrome, exi, exi, exi, inquam, ocius,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 26.—

Sup., very quickly or speedily: ocissime nos liberi possumus fieri, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 181 Müll.:

quam ocissume ad provinciam accedat,

as speedily as possible, Sall. J. 25, 5:

ferre,

Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 87:

sanant ulcera,

id. 34, 10, 22, § 100.

ōcĭor, ōcĭus ( sup. ocissimus), adj. comp. [kindr. with Gr. ôkus, Sanscr. ācu, from the root ac, sharp; cf.: acer, acutus, akôkê], swifter, fleeter ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit.:

et ventis, et fulminis ocior alis,

Verg. A. 5, 319; 10, 248:

ocior cervis, Ocior Euro,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 23; 24:

aurā,

id. ib. 1, 2, 48;

2, 20, 13: fugit ocior aurā,

Ov. M. 1, 502:

verbere,

Luc. 1, 230:

Tigris ocior remeat,

Plin. 8, 18, 25, § 66:

ociore ambitu,

id. 2, 8, 6, § 39:

ociore spatio,

id. 2, 19, 17, § 81.—

Transf., of time, quicker, sooner, earlier; sup.:

ficorum ocissima senectus,

Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 130:

pira,

the soonest ripe, id. 15, 15, 16, § 53:

venenum,

id. 27, 2, 2, § 4.—Hence, adv.: ōcĭ-ter; comp. ōcĭus; sup. ocissĭme (old collat. form oxime, Paul. ex Fest. p. 195 Müll.); quickly, swiftly, speedily (class. only in the comp. and sup.; cf.: ocius secundae collationis et deinde tertiae ocissime frequentata sunt, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 181 Müll.).

Posit. (ante- and post-class.): ociter serva cives, Enn. ap. Non. 277, 21, acc. to Vahl. ad Enn. Trag. v. 1:

profer ociter,

App. M. 1, p. 113, 32; p. 125, 8.—

Comp., more quickly or speedily, sooner, etc.:

idque ocius faciet, si, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 6, 26, 29:

ut ocius ad tuum pervenias,

id. Quint. 13, 43:

recreantur ocius,

id. Tusc. 4, 14, 32: omnium Versatur urna, serius ocius Sors exitura, sooner or later, Hor. C. 2, 3, 26:

angulus iste feret piper et tus ocius uvā,

sooner than, rather than, id. Ep. 1, 14, 23:

ocius illud extorquebis,

i. e. more easily, Juv. 6, 53.—

Sometimes the comp. is used in gen. for quickly, speedily:

sequere hac me ocius, Ter Heaut. 4, 7, 4: gladio occursat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

nemon' oleum fert ocius?

quickly, Hor. S. 2, 7, 34; Juv. 14, 252; Verg. A. 5, 828:

heus Phaedrome, exi, exi, exi, inquam, ocius,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 26.—

Sup., very quickly or speedily: ocissime nos liberi possumus fieri, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 181 Müll.:

quam ocissume ad provinciam accedat,

as speedily as possible, Sall. J. 25, 5:

ferre,

Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 87:

sanant ulcera,

id. 34, 10, 22, § 100.

păter, tris (old gen PATRVS. Inscr Corp. Lat. 1469; dat PATRE, ib 182), m. [Sanscr. root pā, to nourish, protect; Lat. pasco; hence, Zend, patar, protector; Gr. patêr; Sanscr pitri; Engl. father; Germ. Vater], a father, sire.

Lit. Aes. Ehem, pater mi, tu hic eras? De Tuus hercle vero et animo et patura pater, Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 3:

patre certo nasci,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 46:

Servius Tullius captivā Corniculanā natus, patre nullo, matre servā,

i. e. by an unknown father, Liv. 4, 3:

SI PATER FILIVM TER VENVM DVIT FILIVS A PATRE LIBER ESTO, Lex XII. Tab.: CORNELIVS SCIPIO BARBATVS GNAIVOD PATRE PROGNATVS, Epit. of the Scipios: ego a patre ita eram deductus,

by my father, Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

aliquem patris loco colere debere,

id. Phil. 2, 38, 99.—

Transf.

The father as head and rep resentative of the household, esp., paterfamilias and paterfamiliae:

pauci milites patresque familiae recepti,

Caes. B. C. 2, 44:

quemeunque patrem familiae arripuissetis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 43; v. familia.—

In plur.: patres, fathers, forefathers:

patrum nostrorum aetas,

Cic. Or. 5, 18:

memoria patrum,

id. de Or. 1, 40, 181:

apud patres nostros,

id. Off. 3, 11, 47:

patres majoresque nostri,

id. Div. in Caecil. 21, 69:

Dominus Deus patrum vestrorum, Vulg Exod 3, 15: descenderunt patres tui in Aegyptum,

id. Deut. 10, 22.—So in sing (eccl. Lat.): dixitque Jacob;

Deus patris mei Abraham, etc.,

Vulg. Gen. 32, 9: quod juravit ad Abra. [p. 1314] ham patrem nostrūm, id. Luc. 1, 73.—

PATRES for parentes, parents, Inscr. Grut. 707, 5; 656, 2; 692, 1; 704, 1.—

As a title of honor, father. —Of a deity, esp. of Jupiter: divum pater atque hominum rex, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 179 Vahl.); cf.: pater optime Olimpi, id. ap. Oros. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 198 ib.):

ipse pater mediā nimborum in nocte coruscā Fulmina molitur dextrā,

Verg. G. 1, 328:

Gradivumque patrem Geticis qui praesidet arvis,

id. A. 3, 35:

pater Lemnius,

i. e. Vulcan, id. ib. 8, 454:

Bacche pater,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 13; cf.

Lenaeus,

i. e. Bacchus, Verg. G. 2, 7:

pater Silvane,

Hor. Epod. 2, 21: Quirine pater, Enn. ap. Non. 120, 1 (Ann. v. 121 Vahl.): pater Tiberine, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 55 ib.); of the Tiber, Liv. 2, 10:

Apenninus,

Verg. A. 12, 703 Wagner:

pater Aeneas,

id. ib. 1, 699.—Of the creative or generative powers of nature as deities:

pater Aether,

Lucr. 1, 250: aequoreus, i. e. Ocean, Col. poët. 10, 200.—As an honorable designation applied to senators:

principes, qui appellati sunt propter caritatem patres,

Cic. Rep. 2, 8, 14:

patres ab honore patriciique progenies eorum appellati,

Liv. 1, 8.—Hence, patres = patricii, opp. to plebeii:

quā re ad patres censeo revertare: plebeii quam fuerint importuni, vides,

Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 3 fin.:

patres conscripti, v. conscribo: pater patrum, pater sacrorum, pater nomimus, the title given to the high-priest of Mithras,

Inscr. Grut. 28, 2; 315, 5; 1102, 2; Inscr. Orell. 5059: patratus, v. h. v. under patro, P. a.—Of the founder of a school:

Zeno, pater Stoicorum,

Cic. N. D. 3, 9, 23;

of a teacher, as a source or creator: Isocrates pater eloquentiae,

Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 10:

Herodotus pater historiae,

id. Leg. 1, 1, 5: pater patriae, the father of his country, of Cicero, Cic. Pis. 3, 6:

quem Q. Catulus, quem multi alii saepe in senatu patrem patriae nominarant,

id. Sest. 57, 121; cf.:

Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit,

Juv. 8, 245.—So of Marius:

C. Marium quem vere patrem patriae... possumus dicere,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 27;

of Trajan, and other emperors: at tu etiam nomen patris patriae recusabas,

Plin. Pan. 21; cf. Sen. Clem. 1, 14, 2; Suet. Caes. 76; id. Tib. 26; id. Ner. 8; cf.

also: pater senatūs,

Tac. A. 11, 25; Ov. F. 2, 127; id. Tr. 2, 39; 181; id. P. 1, 1, 36:

pater orbis,

id. F. 3, 72; Stat. S. 1, 4, 95; 4, 8, 20.—As a term of respect:

pater Aeneas,

Verg. A. 5, 348;

esp., to an old man,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 36; Verg. A. 5, 521; so id. ib. 533.—

In eccl. Lat., the Supreme Being, God:

sicut enim Pater habet vitam in semet ipso,

Vulg. Joan. 5, 26:

confiteor tibi, Pater Domine caeli et terrae,

id. Luc. 10, 21:

Pater caelestis,

id. Matt. 5, 48; 18, 35:

Pater vester qui in caelis est,

id. ib. 23, 9:

Pater noster, qui es in caelis,

id. ib. 6, 9:

adorabunt Patrem,

id. Joan. 4, 23; id. Act. 1, 7 saep.—

Pater cenae, the host, Hor. S. 2, 8, 7:

misericordiarum,

Vulg. 2 Cor. 1, 3. —Hence, by way of opposition, *

Pater esuritionum, the father of hunger-pains, said of a very poor man who suffers from hunger, Cat. 21, 1.—

Of animals, sire:

virque paterque gregis,

Ov. A. A. 1, 522; Petr. 133 fin.; Col. 6, 37, 4.

per-pĕtŭus, a, um, adj. ( comp. perpetuior, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 601 P.; sup. perpetuissimus, id. ib.) [peto], continuing throughout, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted; constant, universal, general, entire, whole, perpetual (syn.:

continuus, assiduus): sulcos perpetuos ducere,

Cato, R. R. 33:

quin aedes totae perpetuae ruant,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 67:

agmen,

Cic. Pis. 22, 51:

munitiones,

Caes. B. C. 3, 44:

palus,

id. B. G. 7, 26:

milites disposuit perpetuis vigiliisque stationibusque,

id. B. C. 1, 21:

perpetuis soliti patres considere mensis,

Verg. A. 7, 176:

vescitur Aeneas... perpetui tergo bovis,

id. ib. 8, 182:

Apenninus perpetuis jugis ab Alpibus tendens ad Siculum fretum,

Plin. 3, 5, 7, § 48:

tractus,

id. 6, 20, 23, § 73:

oratio perpetua (opp. altercatio),

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 8; cf. Liv. 4, 6:

disputatio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 16; id. Top. 26, 97:

quaestiones perpetuae hoc adulescente constitutae sunt,

a standing commission, a permanent tribunal for criminal investigation, id. Brut. 27, 105: perpetua historia, a continuous or general history, id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

colere te usque perpetuom diem,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 78:

diem perpetuum in laetitiā degere,

this whole day, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 5:

triduum,

id. ib. 4, 1, 4:

biennium,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 12:

ignis Vestae perpetuus ac sempiternus,

Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 18:

lex perpetua et aeterna,

id. N. D. 1, 15, 40:

stellarum perennes cursus atque perpetui,

id. ib. 2, 21, 55. stabilis et perpetua permansio, id. Inv. 2, 54, 164:

voluntas mea perpetua et constans in rem publicam,

id. Phil. 13, 6, 13:

formido,

Verg. E. 4, 14:

assidua et perpetua cura,

Cic. Fam. 6, 13, 2:

perpetui scrinia Sili,

of the immortal Silius, Mart. 6, 64, 10.—As subst.: perpĕtŭum, i, n., the abiding, permanent (opp. temporale), Lact. 2, 8, 68.—Hence: in perpetuum (sc. tempus), for all time, forever, in perpetuity, constantly: mulier repperit odium ocius Suā inmunditiā, quam in perpetuom ut placeat munditia sua. Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 6:

serva tibi in perpetuom amicum me,

id. Capt. 2, 3, 81:

in perpetuum comprimi,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 30; id. Agr. 2, 21, 55:

obtinere aliquid in perpetuum,

id. Rosc. Am. 48, 139:

non in perpetuum irascetur,

Vulg. Psa. 102, 9 et saep.—So, in perpetuum modum = perpetuo, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 5.—

In partic.

That holds constantly and universally, universal, general:

perpetui juris et universi generis quaestio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 141:

nec arbitror perpetuum quicquam in hoc praecipi posse,

Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 19:

ne id quidem perpetuum est,

does not always hold good, Cels. 2, 10: illud in quo quasi certamen est controversiae... id ita dici placet, ut traducatur ad perpetuam quaestionem, to a general principle, [p. 1352] Cic. Or. 36, 126.—

In augury: perpetua fulmina, perpetual lighlnings, i. e. whose prognostics refer to one's whole life, Sen. Q. N. 2, 47, 1.—

In gram.:

perpetuus modus,

the infinitive mood, Diom. p. 331 P. —Hence, adv., in three forms, perpetuo (class.), perpetuum ( poet.), and perpetue (late Lat.).

perpĕtŭō, constantly, uninterruptedly, perpetually, always, forever, utterly, hopelessly:

perpetuon' valuisti?

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 15:

metuo ne technae meae perpetuo perierint,

id. Most. 3, 1, 23:

dico ut perpetuo pereas,

id. Pers. 2, 4, 10; so,

perpetuo perire,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 13:

opinionem retinere,

Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 2:

loquens,

id. Ac. 2, 19, 63:

sub imperio esse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31; Ov. M. 10, 97.—

perpĕtŭum, constantly, uninterruptedly, perpetually:

uti,

Stat. S. 1, 1, 99.—

perpĕtŭē, constantly, Cassiod. in Psa. 62, 4.

per-pĕtŭus, a, um, adj. ( comp. perpetuior, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 601 P.; sup. perpetuissimus, id. ib.) [peto], continuing throughout, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted; constant, universal, general, entire, whole, perpetual (syn.:

continuus, assiduus): sulcos perpetuos ducere,

Cato, R. R. 33:

quin aedes totae perpetuae ruant,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 67:

agmen,

Cic. Pis. 22, 51:

munitiones,

Caes. B. C. 3, 44:

palus,

id. B. G. 7, 26:

milites disposuit perpetuis vigiliisque stationibusque,

id. B. C. 1, 21:

perpetuis soliti patres considere mensis,

Verg. A. 7, 176:

vescitur Aeneas... perpetui tergo bovis,

id. ib. 8, 182:

Apenninus perpetuis jugis ab Alpibus tendens ad Siculum fretum,

Plin. 3, 5, 7, § 48:

tractus,

id. 6, 20, 23, § 73:

oratio perpetua (opp. altercatio),

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 8; cf. Liv. 4, 6:

disputatio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 16; id. Top. 26, 97:

quaestiones perpetuae hoc adulescente constitutae sunt,

a standing commission, a permanent tribunal for criminal investigation, id. Brut. 27, 105: perpetua historia, a continuous or general history, id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

colere te usque perpetuom diem,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 78:

diem perpetuum in laetitiā degere,

this whole day, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 5:

triduum,

id. ib. 4, 1, 4:

biennium,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 12:

ignis Vestae perpetuus ac sempiternus,

Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 18:

lex perpetua et aeterna,

id. N. D. 1, 15, 40:

stellarum perennes cursus atque perpetui,

id. ib. 2, 21, 55. stabilis et perpetua permansio, id. Inv. 2, 54, 164:

voluntas mea perpetua et constans in rem publicam,

id. Phil. 13, 6, 13:

formido,

Verg. E. 4, 14:

assidua et perpetua cura,

Cic. Fam. 6, 13, 2:

perpetui scrinia Sili,

of the immortal Silius, Mart. 6, 64, 10.—As subst.: perpĕtŭum, i, n., the abiding, permanent (opp. temporale), Lact. 2, 8, 68.—Hence: in perpetuum (sc. tempus), for all time, forever, in perpetuity, constantly: mulier repperit odium ocius Suā inmunditiā, quam in perpetuom ut placeat munditia sua. Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 6:

serva tibi in perpetuom amicum me,

id. Capt. 2, 3, 81:

in perpetuum comprimi,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 30; id. Agr. 2, 21, 55:

obtinere aliquid in perpetuum,

id. Rosc. Am. 48, 139:

non in perpetuum irascetur,

Vulg. Psa. 102, 9 et saep.—So, in perpetuum modum = perpetuo, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 5.—

In partic.

That holds constantly and universally, universal, general:

perpetui juris et universi generis quaestio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 141:

nec arbitror perpetuum quicquam in hoc praecipi posse,

Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 19:

ne id quidem perpetuum est,

does not always hold good, Cels. 2, 10: illud in quo quasi certamen est controversiae... id ita dici placet, ut traducatur ad perpetuam quaestionem, to a general principle, [p. 1352] Cic. Or. 36, 126.—

In augury: perpetua fulmina, perpetual lighlnings, i. e. whose prognostics refer to one's whole life, Sen. Q. N. 2, 47, 1.—

In gram.:

perpetuus modus,

the infinitive mood, Diom. p. 331 P. —Hence, adv., in three forms, perpetuo (class.), perpetuum ( poet.), and perpetue (late Lat.).

perpĕtŭō, constantly, uninterruptedly, perpetually, always, forever, utterly, hopelessly:

perpetuon' valuisti?

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 15:

metuo ne technae meae perpetuo perierint,

id. Most. 3, 1, 23:

dico ut perpetuo pereas,

id. Pers. 2, 4, 10; so,

perpetuo perire,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 13:

opinionem retinere,

Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 2:

loquens,

id. Ac. 2, 19, 63:

sub imperio esse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31; Ov. M. 10, 97.—

perpĕtŭum, constantly, uninterruptedly, perpetually:

uti,

Stat. S. 1, 1, 99.—

perpĕtŭē, constantly, Cassiod. in Psa. 62, 4.

per-pĕtŭus, a, um, adj. ( comp. perpetuior, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 601 P.; sup. perpetuissimus, id. ib.) [peto], continuing throughout, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted; constant, universal, general, entire, whole, perpetual (syn.:

continuus, assiduus): sulcos perpetuos ducere,

Cato, R. R. 33:

quin aedes totae perpetuae ruant,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 67:

agmen,

Cic. Pis. 22, 51:

munitiones,

Caes. B. C. 3, 44:

palus,

id. B. G. 7, 26:

milites disposuit perpetuis vigiliisque stationibusque,

id. B. C. 1, 21:

perpetuis soliti patres considere mensis,

Verg. A. 7, 176:

vescitur Aeneas... perpetui tergo bovis,

id. ib. 8, 182:

Apenninus perpetuis jugis ab Alpibus tendens ad Siculum fretum,

Plin. 3, 5, 7, § 48:

tractus,

id. 6, 20, 23, § 73:

oratio perpetua (opp. altercatio),

Cic. Att. 1, 16, 8; cf. Liv. 4, 6:

disputatio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 16; id. Top. 26, 97:

quaestiones perpetuae hoc adulescente constitutae sunt,

a standing commission, a permanent tribunal for criminal investigation, id. Brut. 27, 105: perpetua historia, a continuous or general history, id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

colere te usque perpetuom diem,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 78:

diem perpetuum in laetitiā degere,

this whole day, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 5:

triduum,

id. ib. 4, 1, 4:

biennium,

id. Hec. 1, 2, 12:

ignis Vestae perpetuus ac sempiternus,

Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 18:

lex perpetua et aeterna,

id. N. D. 1, 15, 40:

stellarum perennes cursus atque perpetui,

id. ib. 2, 21, 55. stabilis et perpetua permansio, id. Inv. 2, 54, 164:

voluntas mea perpetua et constans in rem publicam,

id. Phil. 13, 6, 13:

formido,

Verg. E. 4, 14:

assidua et perpetua cura,

Cic. Fam. 6, 13, 2:

perpetui scrinia Sili,

of the immortal Silius, Mart. 6, 64, 10.—As subst.: perpĕtŭum, i, n., the abiding, permanent (opp. temporale), Lact. 2, 8, 68.—Hence: in perpetuum (sc. tempus), for all time, forever, in perpetuity, constantly: mulier repperit odium ocius Suā inmunditiā, quam in perpetuom ut placeat munditia sua. Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 6:

serva tibi in perpetuom amicum me,

id. Capt. 2, 3, 81:

in perpetuum comprimi,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 30; id. Agr. 2, 21, 55:

obtinere aliquid in perpetuum,

id. Rosc. Am. 48, 139:

non in perpetuum irascetur,

Vulg. Psa. 102, 9 et saep.—So, in perpetuum modum = perpetuo, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 5.—

In partic.

That holds constantly and universally, universal, general:

perpetui juris et universi generis quaestio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 141:

nec arbitror perpetuum quicquam in hoc praecipi posse,

Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 19:

ne id quidem perpetuum est,

does not always hold good, Cels. 2, 10: illud in quo quasi certamen est controversiae... id ita dici placet, ut traducatur ad perpetuam quaestionem, to a general principle, [p. 1352] Cic. Or. 36, 126.—

In augury: perpetua fulmina, perpetual lighlnings, i. e. whose prognostics refer to one's whole life, Sen. Q. N. 2, 47, 1.—

In gram.:

perpetuus modus,

the infinitive mood, Diom. p. 331 P. —Hence, adv., in three forms, perpetuo (class.), perpetuum ( poet.), and perpetue (late Lat.).

perpĕtŭō, constantly, uninterruptedly, perpetually, always, forever, utterly, hopelessly:

perpetuon' valuisti?

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 15:

metuo ne technae meae perpetuo perierint,

id. Most. 3, 1, 23:

dico ut perpetuo pereas,

id. Pers. 2, 4, 10; so,

perpetuo perire,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 13:

opinionem retinere,

Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 2:

loquens,

id. Ac. 2, 19, 63:

sub imperio esse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31; Ov. M. 10, 97.—

perpĕtŭum, constantly, uninterruptedly, perpetually:

uti,

Stat. S. 1, 1, 99.—

perpĕtŭē, constantly, Cassiod. in Psa. 62, 4.

rē-spondĕo, di, sum, 2, v. a.

Lit., to promise a thing in return for something else; to offer or present in return. So, only in a few examples, the phrase par pari (dat.) respondere, to return like for like: par pari respondes dicto, you return tit for tat with your tongue (syn. refero), Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 41; cf.: istuc serva; et verbum verbo par pari ut respondeas, Ter Phorm. 1, 4, 35; and:

paria paribus respondimus,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 23.— Pass.: provide, si cui quid debetur, ut sit, unde par pari respondeatur, i. e. that there be wherewithal to meet the demand, Atticus ap. Cic. Att. 16, 7, 6; cf. also under II. A. 1, the lusus verbb. with spondeo; and II. B. init. —

In a more general signification.

To answer, reply, respond (either to a question, or to any statement or remark, and either in a friendly or hostile signif.); constr. aliquid alicui, ad, adversus, contra aliquem ( aliquid).

In gen.

Lit.: Th. Aliud te rogo. Tr. Aliud ergo nunc tibi respondeo, Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 70; cf. id. Merc. 1, 2, 73.— Absol.:

prius respondes, quam rogo,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 119:

eā legatione Papirius auditā... respondit,

Liv. 9, 14, 2; 27, 40, 8; 33, 38, 7; Nep. Milt. 1, 4:

ille appellatus respondit,

Caes. B. G. 5, 36; 5, 41; Cic. Leg. 3, 13, 30; id. Verr. 2, 4, 62, § 138; id. Fam. 3, 6, 2; 5, 2, 8; 7, 24, 2;

9, 14, 2. — So usu. of an oral answer: tibi non rescribam, sed respondeam,

Sen. Ep. 67, 2;

but also of writing: epistulae,

Cic. Att. 9, 9, 1 et saep.; v. infra:

ab his sermo oritur, respondet Laelius,

Cic. Lael. 1, 5; Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 28: olli respondit rex Albaï Longaï, Enn. ap. Fortun. p. 2691 P. (Ann. v. 34 Vahl.):

cui orationi Caepionis ore respondit Aelius,

Cic. Brut. 46, 169:

criminibus,

id. Planc. 2, 4:

supremae tuae paginae,

id. Att. 6, 2, 1:

cui opinioni,

Quint. 4, 4, 1:

tam aequae postulationi,

id. 7, 1, 47 al.:

summā constantiā ad ea, quae quaesita erant, respondebat,

Cic. Phil. 1, 1, 2; cf.:

arbitrabar me satis respondisse ad id quod quaesierat Laelius,

id. Rep. 2, 39, 65:

nec absurde adversus utrosque respondisse visus est,

Liv. 35, 50; 8, 32:

adversus haec imperator respondit,

id. 30, 31; 33, 35 fin. — With acc. of neutr. pron.:

illud respondere cogam,

to make answer to that, Cic. Cael. 28, 67; cf. id. Vatin. 7, 18; 17, 41:

multa contra patronos venuste testis saepe respondet,

Quint. 5, 7, 31; 5, 7, 24; cf.:

accipe, quid contra juvenis responderit,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 233.— With object-clause:

respondent, bello se et suos tutari posse,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 59; id. Curc. 2, 3, 54; id. Mil. 2, 2, 23; id. Merc. 5, 2. 102 al. —Introducing a direct answer:

cum dixisset, Quid agis, Grani? respondit, Immo vero tu, Druse, quid agis!

Cic. Planc. 14, 33; id. Att. 5, 21, 12; id. Inv. 1, 31, 51; id. Tusc. 5, 19, 56.— In impers. perf.:

postquam mihi responsum est, abeo, etc.,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 57; cf. id. Mil. 4, 2, 93: quid nunc renunciem abs te responsum? Ter. Heaut. 4, 8, 18:

sic existimet: Responsum non dictum esse, quia laesit prior,

id. Eun. prol. 6.— In plur.:

multa ejus et in senatu et in foro vel provisa prudenter vel acta constanter vel responsa acute ferebantur,

Cic. Lael. 2, 6.— In the sup.:

(haec) quam brevia responsu,

Cic. Clu. 59 fin. — In a lusus verbb. with spondeo: Er. Sponden' tu istud? He. Spondeo. Er. At ego, tuum tibi advenisse filium, respondeo, and in return I promise you, i. e. assure you, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 119; cf.:

fideiussores, qui salvam rempublicam fore responderunt, etc.,

promised, gave assurance, Dig. 50, 1, 17 fin. —

Trop., to answer, respond, reply to, re-echo, resound, etc.:

saxa et solitudines voci respondent,

Cic. Arch. 8, 19;

respondent flebile ripae,

Ov. M. 11, 53; and:

respondentia tympana,

Stat. Achill. 2, 175: urbes coloniarum respondebunt Catilinae tumulis silvestribus, will give an answer to, i. e. will prove a match for, Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24.—

In partic.

Of lawyers, priests, oracles, etc., to give an opinion, advice, decision, response:

quaeris, num juris consultus (sit)? quasi quisquam sit, qui sibi hunc falsum de jure respondisse dicat,

Cic. Planc. 25, 62; so,

de jure,

id. Brut. 30, 113; cf.:

de jure consulentibus respondere,

id. Mur. 4, 9;

in a like signif., also simply jus,

id. Leg. 1, 4, 12:

facultas respondendi juris,

id. ib. 2, 12, 29; id. de Or. 1, 45, 198; Plin. Ep. 6, 15, 3 al.; cf.:

civica jura,

Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 24; and:

quae consuluntur, minimo periculo respondentur, etc.,

Cic. Mur. 13, 28; id. Brut. 89, 306. — Absol., Dig. 2, 14, 7; and so very freq. of the jurists in the Digests;

v. responsum: pater Roscii ad haruspices retulit: qui responderunt, nihil illo puero clarius fore,

Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79:

cum ex prodigiis haruspices respondissent,

Sall. C. 47, 2; Liv. 27, 37; 31, 5; 5, 54; Vell. 2, 24, 3:

responsum est,

Suet. Aug. 94, 97:

deliberantibus Pythia respondit, ut moenibus ligneis se munirent,

gave advice, Nep. Them. 2, 6; cf. Just. 11, 11, § 11:

possumus seniores amici quiete respondere,

to give advice, Tac. A. 14, 54 fin. —

Of the answering of a person summoned when his name is called; hence, meton., to appear: citatus neque respondit neque excusatus est, Varr. ap. Gell. 11, 1, 4; cf.:

cives, qui ad nomina non respondissent,

Liv. 7, 4:

quia Romae non respondebant,

id. 39, 18; Val. Max. 6, 3, 4; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Ner. 44; Hor. S. 1, 9, 36 (vadato, dat., i.e. ei qui eum vadatus erat; v. vador); Dig. 3, 3, 35; 41, 1, 14 et saep.—

Esp., to appear before a tribunal, to answer an accusation, meet a charge, etc.:

perfectus in exsilium Tubulus est nec respondere ausus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 54:

Verrem alterā actione responsurum non esse,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 1, § 1:

nemo Epaminondam responsurum putabat,

Nep. Epam. 8, 1.—

Transf., in gen., to appear, be present:

ipsi (sc. paeon et herous) se offerent et respondebunt non vocati,

Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 191:

verba (with res se ostendent),

Quint. 10, 3, 9:

ut ii, qui debent, non respondeant ad tempus,

Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2; cf.:

podagra ad tempus (with venit ad horam),

Sen. Q. N. 3, 16, 1:

sanguis per menstrua,

Cels. 4, 4, 5.—

To answer to; to meet, agree, accord, or correspond with a thing; constr. usually with dat. or absol.:

ut omnia omnibus paribus paria respondeant,

Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 50:

ut horum auctoritatibus illorum orationi, qui dissentiunt, respondere posse videamur,

id. Imp. Pomp. 23, 68:

ut verba verbis quasi demensa et paria respondeant,

id. Or. 12, 38; and:

respondent extrema primis, media utrisque, omnia omnibus,

id. Fin. 5, 28, 83: (Aristoteles dicit) illam artem (sc. rhetoricam) quasi ex alterā parte respondere dialecticae, that it corresponds to, i. e. forms the counterpart of, id. Or. 32, 114:

aedificare alteram porticum quae Palatio responderet,

id. Har. Resp. 23, 49; cf.

of a locality: contra elata mari respondet Gnosia tellus,

i. e. lies opposite, Verg. A. 6, 23:

Pachyni pulsata Ionio respondent saxa profundo,

Sil. 14, 73:

est mihi magnae curae, ut ita erudiatur (Lucullus), ut et patri et Caepioni nostro et tibi tam propinquo respondeat,

Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 8: satis Graecorum [p. 1582] gloriae responderunt, id. Tusc. 1, 2, 3:

tua virtus opinioni hominum,

id. Fam. 2, 5, 2; id. Lael. 16, 56:

fortuna meis optatis,

id. Fam. 2, 1, 2; cf.:

seges votis,

Verg. G. 1, 47:

arma Caesaris non responsura lacertis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 48:

favor meritis,

id. ib. 2, 1, 9:

ne prior officio quisquam respondeat,

id. S. 2, 6, 24:

par fama labori,

id. ib. 2, 8, 66:

fructus labori,

Ov. F. 4, 641:

non mihi respondent veteres in carmine vires,

id. H. 15, 197 al.:

familiam nemo speciosiorem producet, sed hominibus non respondet,

he does not pay his debts, Sen. Ep. 87, 6:

amori amore respondere,

i. e. to return it, repay it, Cic. Fam. 15, 21, 4; cf.:

Quinti fratris liberalitati subsidiis amicorum,

id. Att. 4, 3, 6:

qui ex vico ortus est, eam patriam intellegitur habere, cui reipublicae vicus ille respondet,

to which it belongs, Dig. 50, 1, 30.—

In mal. part.: mulieribus,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 17.—With ad:

respondere ad parentum speciem,

resemble, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 9:

deformentur directiones, ut longitudines ad regulam et lineam, altitudines ad perpendiculum, anguli ad normam respondentes exigantur,

Vitr. 7, 3; cf.:

structuram ad perpendiculum respondere oportet,

Plin. 36, 22, 51, § 172:

quia non tota ad animum responderat (villa),

Suet. Caes. 48:

ad spem eventus respondit,

Liv. 28, 6.—With dat.:

Papirio quoque brevi ad spem eventus respondit,

Liv. 9, 15.— With ex:

quicquid non ex voluntate respondet, iram provocat,

Sen. Ep. 47, 19:

speculum quocumque obvertimus oris, Res sibi respondent simili formā atque colore,

i. e. correspond, are reflected, Lucr. 4, 167.— Absol.:

sidera respondent in aquā,

Lucr. 4, 213:

quia raro verba belle respondeant,

Quint. 6, 3, 48: medicus aliquid oportet inveniat, quod non ubique fortasse, sed saepius tamen etiam respondeat, may answer, be suitable, Cels. praef.—

To return, make a return, yield:

frumenta quando cum quarto responderint (sc. colono),

have returned, yielded, Col. 3, 3, 4; cf. with abl. and dat.:

humus cum est repetita cultu, magno fenore colono respondet,

id. 2, 1, 3:

vitis, nisi praepingui solo, non respondet,

id. 3, 2, 11; cf.:

metalla plenius responsura fodienti,

Sen. Ep. 23, 5.—Hence, rēspon-sum, i, n., an answer, reply, response (equally freq. in sing. and plur.).

In gen.:

suis postulatis responsa exspectare,

Caes. B. C. 1, 5 fin.:

haec paucis diebus ex illius ad nostra responsa responsis intellegentur, quorsum evasura sint,

Cic. Att. 7, 17, 4:

responsum senatūs,

Liv. 7, 31:

sine responso legatos dimisit,

id. 9, 38:

nullo ab nostris dato responso,

Caes. B. G. 5, 58:

responsum dedisti tantis de rebus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 40; 2, 4, 39, § 85; so,

dare responsum,

Liv. 5, 32, 8; Val. Max. 9, 5, ext. 3; Curt. 3, 12, 9; Liv. 3, 50, 12:

reddere alicui,

Cic. Planc. 14, 34; cf.:

triste redditum,

Liv. 9, 16:

ferre (ab aliquo),

to receive, Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 19; Caes. B. G. 6, 4 fin.:

referre (ab aliquo),

to deliver, Cic. Att. 7, 17, 2; Hirt. B. G. 8, 23; Liv. 37, 6:

elicere,

Quint. 5, 7, 20:

petere,

Hor. C. S. 55:

responsum accipere,

Liv. 5, 36, 4; Just. 12, 2, 8:

responsum non fuit in eis,

Vulg. Jer. 5, 13.—

In partic. (acc. to II. A. 2.), an answer, reply of a lawyer, priest, oracle, etc.; an opinion, response, oracle:

cum responsumque ab eo (Crasso) verum magis, quam ad suam rem accommodatum abstulisset, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 1, 56, 239:

res judicatae, decreta, responsa,

id. ib. 2, 27, 116; id. Mur. 13, 29.—

The responsa prudentium, or authoritative opinions of leading lawyers, were an important source of the Roman law,

Just. Inst. 1, 2, 8 Sandars ad loc.:

haruspicum responsa,

Cic. Cat. 3, 4, 9; cf. Quint. 5, 10, 30; Ov. M. 3, 340; 527:

legatus a Delphis Romam rediit, responsumque ex scripto recitavit,

Liv. 23, 11; cf. id. 1, 56; Quint. 3, 7, 11; 5, 7, 35; Tac. H. 1, 10; 4, 65 al.; Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 65; Ter. And. 4, 2, 15; Verg. A. 7, 86 et saep.—

In eccl. Lat.: responsum Dei, ab angelo, etc.,

Vulg. Mich. 3, 7; id. Luc. 2, 26; id. Act. 10, 22.

servĭo, īvi and ii, ītum, 4 ( imperf. servibas, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 50; fut. servibo, id. Men. 5, 9, 42; id. Merc. 3, 2, 3; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 45:

servibit,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 76; id. Trin. 2, 2, 27), v. n. (once pass., v. I. B. infra) [servus], to be a servant or slave, to serve, be in service (freq. and class.).

Lit.

Absol.: Ha. Quid tu, servusne es, an liber? Ps. Nunc quidem etiam servio, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 16:

nunc qui minus servio, quam si forem serva nata?

id. Rud. 1, 3, 37:

in liberatā terrā liberatores ejus servire,

Liv. 34, 50:

per centum annos,

id. 39, 37, 5:

an addictus, quem lex servire, donec solverit, jubet, servus sit,

Quint. 7, 3, 26:

qui Libertate caret, Serviet aeternum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 41:

servire liberaliter,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 11:

serviet utiliter (captivus),

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 70 et saep.:

servire juste (opp. injuste imperare),

Cic. Rep. 3, 18, 28; id. Phil. 6, 7, 19:

vincti per centum annos servistis,

Liv. 39, 37:

servit vetus hostis Cantaber, serā domitus catenā,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 21.—

With dat. of the person to whom service is rendered, to be enslaved to, to serve:

justum est, tuos tibi servos tuo arbitratu serviat,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 71:

lenoni,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 33:

servitum tibi me abducito, ni fecero,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 105:

venire in eum locum, ubi parendum alteri et serviendum sit,

Cic. Rab. Post. 8, 22; cf.:

sive regi sive optimatibus serviant,

id. Rep. 1, 35, 55:

ut hoc populorum intersit, utrum comi domino an aspero serviant, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 33, 50:

Athenas victas Lacedaemoniis servire pati,

Nep. Alcib. 9, 4:

minata, Servitura suo Capitolia nostra Canopo,

Ov. M. 15, 827.—

With apud:

tam ille apud nos servit, quam ego nunc hic apud te servio,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 62:

filius meus illi apud vos servit captus in Alide,

id. ib. 2, 2, 80:

hoc pacto apud te serviam,

id. Aul. 1, 1, 12:

apud lenonem,

id. Poen. 4, 2, 87:

si quis apud nos servisset, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 182.—

With homogeneous object:

servitutem: qui in servitute est eo jure, quo servus, aut, ut antiqui dixerunt, qui servitutem servit,

Quint. 7, 3, 26:

tu usque a puero servitutem servivisti in Alide,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 12:

quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit,

Cic. Top. 6, 29; id. Mur. 29, 61:

qui (cives) servitutem servissent,

Liv. 40, 18, 7; 45, 15, 5: neque erile negotium plus curat quam si non servitutem [p. 1683] serviat, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 2; 3, 1, 150 (not servitute, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).—So with dat. of person:

me servitutem servire huic homini optumo,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 31; id. Aul. 4, 1, 6; id. Rud. 3, 4, 42; cf.:

sed is privatam servitutem servit illi an publicam?

id. Capt. 2, 2, 84 (v. infra, II.):

ego haud diu: ab ineunte adulescentiā tuis servivi servitutem imperiis,

id. Trin. 2, 2, 21; and with apud:

apud hunc servitutem servio,

id. Mil. 2, 1, 17.—

Pass. (perh. only in the foll. passage):

adsuescamus... servis paucioribus serviri,

Sen. Tranq. 9, 3.—

In gen., with dat. of object (a person or thing), to be devoted or subject to; to be of use or service to; to serve for, be fit or useful for; to do a service to, to comply with, gratify, humor, accommodate; to have respect to, to regard or care for; to consult, aim at, to accommodate one's self to, etc. (so esp. freq. in Cic.; cf.:

pareo, appareo, ministro): tibi servio atque audiens sum imperii,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 25; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 48:

quoniam sibi (rei publicae) servissem semper, numquam mihi... ut jam mihi servirem, consulerem meis,

id. Planc. 38, 92; cf.:

servire populo,

id. ib. 4, 11; id. Fin. 5, 9, 27 et saep.:

cum is, qui imperat aliis, servit ipse nulli cupiditati,

id. Rep. 1, 34, 52; cf.:

cum homines cupiditatibus iis, quibus ceteri serviunt, imperabunt,

id. Lael. 22, 82:

aetati hujus,

id. Fin. 5, 9, 27:

mori alicujus,

Nep. Them. 1, 3:

semper aut belli aut pacis serviit artibus,

Vell. 1, 13, 3:

amori aliorum flagitiosissime,

Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 8:

auribus alicujus,

Caes. B. C. 2, 27:

bello,

id. B. G. 7, 34:

brevitati,

Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327:

commodis alicujus,

id. Rep. 1, 4, 8; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 24; id. Inv. 2, 45, 132:

rei publicae commodis,

id. Div. in Caecil. 20, 64; cf.:

compendio suo privato,

Caes. B. C. 3, 32:

constantiae,

Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 5:

dignitati (with consulere rei publicae),

id. Sest. 10, 23:

dolori meo,

id. ib. 6, 14:

existimationi,

id. Verr. 1, 10, 29; id. Att. 5, 11, 5:

famae,

id. ib. 5, 10, 2:

gloriae,

id. Tusc. 5, 3, 9:

gravitati vocum aut suavitati,

id. Or. 54, 182:

vel honori multorum vel periculo (with obedire tempori),

id. Brut. 69, 242:

indulgentiae,

id. Cael. 32, 79:

iracundiae (with parere dolori),

id. Prov. Cons. 1, 2:

laudi et gloriae,

id. Cat. 1, 9, 23:

laudi existimationique,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 2, § 5:

numeris (orationis),

id. Or. 52, 176:

oculis civium,

id. Phil. 8, 10, 29:

pecuniae,

id. Tusc. 5, 3, 9:

personae,

id. Off. 3, 29, 106:

petitioni,

id. Verr. 1, 9, 24:

posteritati,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35:

rei familiari,

id. Rosc. Am. 15, 43; cf.

rei,

Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 27:

rumori,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 14; Caes. B. G. 4, 5 fin.:

tempori,

Cic. Sest. 6, 14; id. Tusc. 3, 27, 66; id. Att. 8, 3, 6; 10, 7, 1:

utilitati salutique,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, § 27:

valetudini,

id. Fam. 16, 18, 1:

vectigalibus,

id. de Or. 2, 40, 171:

venustati vel maxime,

id. ib. 2, 78, 316;

2, 80, 327: verbis praecedentibus,

Quint. 9, 4, 63.— Pass. impers.:

ut communi utilitati serviatur,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31:

concisum est ita, ut non brevitati servitum sit, sed magis venustati,

id. de Or. 2, 80, 327.—

With homogeneous object (cf. supra, I. d):

ab ineunte adulescentiā Tuis servivi servitutem imperiis et praeceptis, pater... Meum animum tibi servitutem servire aequom censui,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 21 sqq.—

Transf., of things.

In gen., to help, assist, be serviceable to, be useful for (post-Aug.):

ut totus truncus alienigenis surculis serviat,

Col. 4, 29, 14; cf.:

tabularia debent servire gallinis,

id. 6, 3, 2:

chartis serviunt calami,

Plin. 16, 36, 64, § 157:

candelae luminibus et funeribus serviunt,

id. 16, 37, 70, § 178:

eademque materia et cibis et probris serviat,

id. 33, 12, 54, § 152:

laetor quod domus aliquando C. Cassi, serviet domino non minori,

Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 8.—

Esp., jurid. t. t., of buildings, lands, etc., to be subject to a servitude:

praedia, quae serviebant,

Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 9; so,

aedes,

id. Off. 3, 16, 67:

neque servire quandam earum aedium partem in mancipi lege dixisset,

id. de Or. 1, 39, 178:

eodem numero (incorporalium) sunt et jura praediorum urbanorum et rusticorum, quae etiam servitutes vocantur,

Gai. Inst. 2, 14 fin.; Paul. Sent. 1, 17; cf. Dig. 8, 2, 20, §§ 3 and 5; 8, 6, 8, § 1 al.; and v. servitus, II. B., and servus, II.

sur-rĭpĭo ( subr-), rĭpŭi (rŭpŭi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 46; id. Men. 5, 5, 38;

v. Ritschl, Proleg. p. xcv.), reptum, 3 (sync. forms: surpite,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 283:

surpere,

Lucr. 2, 314:

surpuit,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 8; id. ib. 3, 5, 102;

5, 4, 14: surpuerit,

id. Trin. 4, 3, 16:

surpuerat,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 20; perf. subj. surrepsit for surripuerit, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 62), v. a. and n. [rapio], to snatch or take away secretly, to withdraw privily, to steal, pilfer, purloin (class.).

Lit.:

qui vasa ex privato sacro surripuerit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 18, 55:

ex ejus custodiā filium,

id. Dom. 25, 66: libros servus. id. Fam. 13, 77, 3:

puerum (servos),

Plaut. Capt. prol. 8; cf.

surreptus (puer),

id. Poen. 4, 2, 80; 5, 2, 98:

filius ex patriā,

id. ib. 5, 4, 77:

sacram coronam Jovis,

id. Men. 5, 5, 38:

de mille fabae modiis unum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 55:

mappam praetori surpuit,

Mart. 12, 29, 10.—Of literary theft:

qui a Naevio vel sumpsisti multa, si fateris, vel, si negas, surripuisti,

Cic. Brut. 19, 76:

Ennium hoc ait Homero surripuisse, Ennio Vergilium,

Sen. Ep. 108, 34:

non surripiendi causā, sed palam imitandi,

id. Suas. 3, 7:

surrupuisti te mihi dudum de foro,

i. e. you have stolen away from me, Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 26; cf. id. Mil. 2, 3, 62:

quae (puella) se surpuerat mihi,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 20:

unum me surpite morti,

id. S. 2, 3, 283.— Absol.:

quare, Si quidvis satis est, perjuras, surripis, aufers Undique?

Hor. S. 2, 3, 127. —

Trop.:

virtus, quae nec eripi nec surripi potest,

Cic. Par. 6, 3, 51:

aut occulte surripi aut impune eripi,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

surripiendum aliquid putavi spatii,

id. Att. 5, 16, 1:

motus quoque surpere debent,

Lucr. 2, 314:

crimina oculis patris,

Ov. H. 11, 66:

diem,

id. P. 4, 2, 40:

tempus quod adhuc subripiebatur, collige et serva,

Sen. Ep. 1, 1.

sur-rĭpĭo ( subr-), rĭpŭi (rŭpŭi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 46; id. Men. 5, 5, 38;

v. Ritschl, Proleg. p. xcv.), reptum, 3 (sync. forms: surpite,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 283:

surpere,

Lucr. 2, 314:

surpuit,

Plaut. Capt. prol. 8; id. ib. 3, 5, 102;

5, 4, 14: surpuerit,

id. Trin. 4, 3, 16:

surpuerat,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 20; perf. subj. surrepsit for surripuerit, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 62), v. a. and n. [rapio], to snatch or take away secretly, to withdraw privily, to steal, pilfer, purloin (class.).

Lit.:

qui vasa ex privato sacro surripuerit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 18, 55:

ex ejus custodiā filium,

id. Dom. 25, 66: libros servus. id. Fam. 13, 77, 3:

puerum (servos),

Plaut. Capt. prol. 8; cf.

surreptus (puer),

id. Poen. 4, 2, 80; 5, 2, 98:

filius ex patriā,

id. ib. 5, 4, 77:

sacram coronam Jovis,

id. Men. 5, 5, 38:

de mille fabae modiis unum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 55:

mappam praetori surpuit,

Mart. 12, 29, 10.—Of literary theft:

qui a Naevio vel sumpsisti multa, si fateris, vel, si negas, surripuisti,

Cic. Brut. 19, 76:

Ennium hoc ait Homero surripuisse, Ennio Vergilium,

Sen. Ep. 108, 34:

non surripiendi causā, sed palam imitandi,

id. Suas. 3, 7:

surrupuisti te mihi dudum de foro,

i. e. you have stolen away from me, Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 26; cf. id. Mil. 2, 3, 62:

quae (puella) se surpuerat mihi,

Hor. C. 4, 13, 20:

unum me surpite morti,

id. S. 2, 3, 283.— Absol.:

quare, Si quidvis satis est, perjuras, surripis, aufers Undique?

Hor. S. 2, 3, 127. —

Trop.:

virtus, quae nec eripi nec surripi potest,

Cic. Par. 6, 3, 51:

aut occulte surripi aut impune eripi,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

surripiendum aliquid putavi spatii,

id. Att. 5, 16, 1:

motus quoque surpere debent,

Lucr. 2, 314:

crimina oculis patris,

Ov. H. 11, 66:

diem,

id. P. 4, 2, 40:

tempus quod adhuc subripiebatur, collige et serva,

Sen. Ep. 1, 1.

tam-quam and tanquam, adv., as much as, so as, just as, like as, as if, as it were, so to speak, etc.

In gen.: Sa. Esne tu huic amicus? To. Tamquam di omnes, qui caelum colunt, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 32: Cu. Serva me. Ph. Tamquam me et genium meum, id. Curc. 5, 2, 29: Ge. Nostin' ejus natum Phaedriam? Da. Tamquam te, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 14:

quod video tibi etiam novum accidisse tamquam mihi,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 5:

tenebrae ibi erant tamquam nox,

Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 8: Si. Quālibet perambula aedes oppido tamquam tuas. Th. Tamquam? id. Most. 3, 2, 122:

inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 61:

repente te tamquam serpens e latibulis intulisti,

Cic. Vatin. 2, 4:

ficta omnia celeriter tamquam flosculi decidunt,

id. Off. 2, 12, 43:

sensus in capite tamquam in arce mirifice conlocati sunt, nam oculi tamquam speculatores altissimum locum obtinent,

id. N. D. 2, 56, 140:

sic tamquam pilam rapiunt inter se rei publicae statum tyranni ab regibus,

id. Rep. 1, 44, 68; 1, 24, 38; id. Sen. 23, 83; id. Lael. 16, 59:

commenti sunt, se de terrā tamquam hos ex arvis musculos exstitisse,

id. Rep. 3, 15, 25.—

Esp.

With a corresp. sic or ita:

apud eum ego sic Ephesi fui, quotienscumque fui, tamquam domi meae,

Cic. Fam. 13, 69, 1:

neve te obrui tamquam fluctu, sic magnitudine negotii sinas,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4:

ut, tamquam poetae boni solent, sic tu diligentissimus sis,

id. ib. 1, 1, 16, §

46: tamquam levia quaedam vina nihil valent in aquā, sic Stoicorum ista magis gustata quam potata delectant,

id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13:

sic ex corporis totius naturā et figurā varios motus cieri tamquam in cantu sonos,

id. ib. 1, 10, 19:

sic tamquam,

id. Brut. 18, 71 Orell. N. cr.:

si potis est, tamquam philosophorum habent disciplinae Vocabula, parasiti ita ut Gnathonici vocentur,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 32:

ex vitā ita discedo, tamquam ex hospitio, non tamquam e domo,

Cic. Sen. 23, 84; cf. also: tamquam, ita, in the foll.—

With si, in a hypothetical comparison, as if, just as if, etc. (always with subj.):

tamquam si claudus sim, cum fusti est ambulandum,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 21:

curabitur, Tamquam si intus nemo natus in aedibus habitet,

id. Most. 2, 1, 55:

tamquam si emeris me argento, liber servibo tibi,

id. Men. 5, 9, 42:

qui tamquam si offusa rei publicae sempiterna nox esset, ita ruebant in tenebris,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 91; id. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 2:

qui, tamquam si arma militis inspiciunda sunt, ita probet armatum,

id. Caecin. 21, 61:

ut istum, tamquam si esset consul, salutarent,

id. Phil. 2, 41, 106; id. Div. 2, 64, 131:

ita me audias, tamquam si mihi quiritanti intervenisses,

Liv. 40, 9, 7:

tamquam si tua res agatur,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 7:

Plancum... sic condemnit, tamquam si illi aqua et igni interdictum sit,

id. Phil. 6, 4, 10.—Without verb:

id cum dixerat, universi, tamquam si deo, libentes parebant,

Gell. 15, 22, 6.—

Sometimes tamquam alone, without si, is joined immediately to a conditional clause of comparison, as if, just as if:

tamquam clausa sit Asia, sic nihil perfertur ad nos,

Cic. Fam. 12, 9, 1:

tamquam ceteris non sit habitura quod largiatur,

id. Inv. 2, 1, 3:

M. Atilium Captum in Africa commemorat, tamquam M. Atilius ad Africam offenderit, etc.,

Liv. 28, 43, 17; 45, 23, 12; 10, 34, 5; 29, 22, 1: quod a quibusdam sic accipi potest, tamquam haec sententia priori diversa sit, Quint. 2, 3, 10; 2, 1, 12:

qui ita dicunt, tamquam inter duas leges quaeratur,

id. 7, 4, 42; Cic. Brut. 1, 5:

tamquam regum arcanis interesset, omnia scit,

Liv. 41, 24, 3:

tamquam de regno dimicaretur, ita concurrerunt,

id. 40, 6, 6:

tamquam non idem ubique di immortales sint, sed, etc.,

id. 42, 3, 9:

ceteri, tamquam ita necesse sit, sequuntur,

Quint. 12, 10, 5:

tamquam nesciamus,

Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 154; Petr. 106.—

For instance, for example (post-Aug.):

quaedam secunda... tamquam tormentorum patientia, etc.,

Sen. Ep. 66, 5; 65, 8; id. Contr. 1, praef. § 23;

1, 8, 14: ut non aliquos progeneret, tamquam piros silvestres et prunos,

Col. 3, 11, 5; Front. Aquaed. 87.

Tarquĭnĭi, ōrum, m., a very ancient and important town of Etruria, now Trachina, Liv. 1, 34; 1, 47; 2, 4; 26, 3; 27, 4; Cic. Rep. 2, 19, 34.—Hence,

Tarquĭ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tarquinii, Tarquinian. —As subst.: Tarquĭ-nĭus, ii, m., Tarquin, the name of the fifth king of Rome, who came from Tarquinii, Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 35 sq.; Liv. 1, 34 sq.; and of his descendants, esp. the last Roman king, Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46; 2, 29, 51; Liv. 1, 46 sq.; Ov. F. 2, 687; Hor. C. 1, 12, 35; id. S. 1, 6, 13; Verg. A. 8, 646.—Hence,

Tarquĭ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the family of the Tarquins, Tarquinian:

nomen,

Liv. 1, 47:

factio,

id. 2, 18.—

Tar-quĭnĭensis, e, adj., of or belonging to the town of Tarquinii, Tarquinian: ager, Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50; id. Caecin. 4, 11; cf. absol.:

in Tarquiniensi,

in the district of Tarquinii, Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 1:

lacus,

Plin. 2, 95, 96, § 209:

fundus,

Val. Max. 5, 3, 3:

serva,

Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37.—As subst.: Tarquĭnĭenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Tarquinii, the Tarquinians, Liv. 2, 6 sq.; 5, 16; 7, 12 sq.; Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52.

Tarquĭnĭi, ōrum, m., a very ancient and important town of Etruria, now Trachina, Liv. 1, 34; 1, 47; 2, 4; 26, 3; 27, 4; Cic. Rep. 2, 19, 34.—Hence,

Tarquĭ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tarquinii, Tarquinian. —As subst.: Tarquĭ-nĭus, ii, m., Tarquin, the name of the fifth king of Rome, who came from Tarquinii, Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 35 sq.; Liv. 1, 34 sq.; and of his descendants, esp. the last Roman king, Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46; 2, 29, 51; Liv. 1, 46 sq.; Ov. F. 2, 687; Hor. C. 1, 12, 35; id. S. 1, 6, 13; Verg. A. 8, 646.—Hence,

Tarquĭ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the family of the Tarquins, Tarquinian:

nomen,

Liv. 1, 47:

factio,

id. 2, 18.—

Tar-quĭnĭensis, e, adj., of or belonging to the town of Tarquinii, Tarquinian: ager, Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50; id. Caecin. 4, 11; cf. absol.:

in Tarquiniensi,

in the district of Tarquinii, Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 1:

lacus,

Plin. 2, 95, 96, § 209:

fundus,

Val. Max. 5, 3, 3:

serva,

Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37.—As subst.: Tarquĭnĭenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Tarquinii, the Tarquinians, Liv. 2, 6 sq.; 5, 16; 7, 12 sq.; Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52.

Tarquĭnĭi, ōrum, m., a very ancient and important town of Etruria, now Trachina, Liv. 1, 34; 1, 47; 2, 4; 26, 3; 27, 4; Cic. Rep. 2, 19, 34.—Hence,

Tarquĭ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tarquinii, Tarquinian. —As subst.: Tarquĭ-nĭus, ii, m., Tarquin, the name of the fifth king of Rome, who came from Tarquinii, Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 35 sq.; Liv. 1, 34 sq.; and of his descendants, esp. the last Roman king, Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46; 2, 29, 51; Liv. 1, 46 sq.; Ov. F. 2, 687; Hor. C. 1, 12, 35; id. S. 1, 6, 13; Verg. A. 8, 646.—Hence,

Tarquĭ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the family of the Tarquins, Tarquinian:

nomen,

Liv. 1, 47:

factio,

id. 2, 18.—

Tar-quĭnĭensis, e, adj., of or belonging to the town of Tarquinii, Tarquinian: ager, Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50; id. Caecin. 4, 11; cf. absol.:

in Tarquiniensi,

in the district of Tarquinii, Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 1:

lacus,

Plin. 2, 95, 96, § 209:

fundus,

Val. Max. 5, 3, 3:

serva,

Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37.—As subst.: Tarquĭnĭenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Tarquinii, the Tarquinians, Liv. 2, 6 sq.; 5, 16; 7, 12 sq.; Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52.