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1 inchoō

inchoō āvī, ātus, āre, to begin, commence: signum ab alio incohatum absolvere: initium sedis ab saltu, Ta.: Stygio regi aras, i. e. begins to sacrifice, V.: spem longam, entertain, H.—Of a writer or speaker, to essay to treat, open, begin to discuss, propose: res attigit hic versibus atque incohavit: alqd mihi nuper de oratoribus: nil altum, V.: incohante Caesare de, etc., Ta.
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inchoare, inchoavi, inchoatus V

begin/start (work); set going, establish; draft/sketch/outline; enter upon

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2 incoho

incohare, incohavi, incohatus V

begin/start (work); set going, establish; draft/sketch/outline; enter upon

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3 proficīscor

proficīscor fectus, ī, dep. [proficio], to set forward, set out, start, go, march, depart: fortasse tu profectus alio fueras, were going somewhere else, T.: cum in Italiam proficisceretur, was about to start, Cs.: Ut proficiscentem docui te, H.: ad dormiendum, go to sleep: subsidio Lacedaemoniis, N.: in pugnam, Cs.: in expeditionem, S.: contra quosdam barbaros, N.: domum, T.: Romam, S.: Circeios, L.: ab urbe, set out, Cs.: ex castris, break up, Cs.: de Formiano.—With supin. acc.: praedatum in agrum Campanum, L.—Fig., to go on, come, proceed: proficiscemur ad reliqua.— To set out, begin, commence, start: ut inde oratio mea proficiscatur, unde, etc.: a philosophiā profectus scripsit historiam.— To come forth, spring, arise, proceed, originate: cum omnia officia a principiis naturae proficiscantur: quaecumque a me ornamenta in te proficiscentur, i. e. you shall receive from me: ut plura a parente proficisci non potuerint, N.: qui a Zenone profecti sunt, Zeno's disciples: genus a Pallante profectum, V.
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proficisci, profectus sum V DEP

depart, set out; proceed

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4 proficiscor

prŏfĭciscor, fectus, 3, v. dep. n. [profacio, facesso, faciscor; orig., to make, i. e. put one's self forward; hence], to set out, start, go, march, travel, depart, etc. (class.; cf. progredior).
I.
Lit.:
proficisci ad dormiendum,
to go to sleep, Cic. Div. 2, 58, 119:
ad somnum,
id. ib. 1, 30, 62:
ad sedes inquirendas,
Just. 3, 4, 10:
pabulatum frumentatumque,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 10:
subsidio alicui,
Nep. Iph. 2, 5:
ad bellum,
Caes. B. G. 6, 29; Liv. 4, 45 sq.; Nep. Alc. 4, 1:
ad eam domum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, § 69:
Puteolos,
id. Ac. 2, 31:
in Illyricum,
Caes. B. G. 3, 7:
in pugnam,
id. B. C. 3, 99:
in bellum,
Just. 2, 11, 9; Gell. 17, 9, 8:
in expeditionem,
Sall. J. 103, 4:
in Volscos,
Liv. 2, 30; 2, 62; Just. 1, 6, 10:
in exercitum,
Plaut. Am. 5, 2, 7:
hinc in pistrinum rectā viā,
Ter. And. 3, 4, 21:
contra quosdam barbaros, Nep Eum 3, 5: Cyprum,
Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 16:
Corinthum,
id. Hec. 1, 2, 11:
domum,
id. Phorm. 5, 6, 20:
Genabum,
Caes. B. G. 7, 1:
Romam,
Sall. C. 34, 1:
domos,
Liv. 2, 14:
Circeios,
id. 2, 39: jussit proficisci exilium quovis gentium, Att. ap. Non. 185, 6 (Trag. Rel. v 599 Rib.): Jovinus eadem loca profectus, Amm 27, 8, 2.—With supine:
porro proficiscor quaesitum,
Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 98.— Absol.:
proficisci,
to make a journey, Dig. 17, 2, 52:
ab urbe,
to set out, depart, Caes. B. G. 1, 7:
ab Antio,
Liv. 2, 33:
ex castris,
to break up, Caes. B. C. 1, 78:
e castris,
id. ib. 1, 12:
domo,
Sall. J. 79, 4; Liv. 2, 26; 2, 4:
portu,
id. 9, 26:
regno,
Just. 37, 3, 4:
Athenis,
Nep. Milt. 1, 5:
de Formiano,
Cic. Att. 2, 8, 2.—
B.
Transf., to be going or about to go, to intend to go to a place, to start (ante-class.):
potin' ut me ire, quo profectus sum, sinas?
Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 2:
tu profectus alio fueras, Ter Eun. 2, 2, 49: cum proficisceretur,
Caes. B. G. 3, 1; Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 1; 2, 2, 20.—
II.
Trop.
A.
In gen., to go, come, proceed:
nunc proficiscemur ad reliqua,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 5, § 10.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To set out, begin, commence:
ut inde oratio mea proficiscatur, unde, etc.,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 4:
cum omnis haec quaestio ab eo proficiscatur,
id. Fin. 5, 8, 23;
a philosophiā profectus Xenophon scripsit historiam,
id. de Or. 2, 14, 58:
ei proficiscendum est ab omni mundo,
id. Fin. 3, 22, 73.—
2.
To come forth, spring, arise, proceed, originate:
cum omnia officia a principiis naturae proficiscantur, ab iisdem necesse est proficisci ipsam sapientiam,
Cic. Fin. 3, 7, 23; 1, 12, 42; 3, 6, 22:
falsis initiis profecta,
id. ib. 1, 21, 72:
ex medicinā nihil oportet putare proficisci, nisi quod ad corporis utilitatem spectet,
id. Inv. 1, 38, 68: quaecumque a me ornamenta ad te proficiscentur, shall pass from me to you, i. e. you shall receive from me, id. Fam. 2, 19, 2: omnia quae a me profecta sunt in te, tibi accidisse gratissime, all you have received from me, id. ib. 3, 1, 1:
ut plura a parente proficisci non potuerint,
Nep. Att. 9, 4:
qui a Zenone profecti sunt,
who have proceeded from him, his disciples, Cic. Div 1, 3, 5; cf.:
omnes ab Aristotele profecti,
id. ib. 1, 35, 61.—So, to express descent ( poet.):
Tyriā de gente profecti,
Ov. M. 3, 35; Verg. A. 8, 51.— Act. collat. form prŏfĭcisco, ĕre, to set out, go, etc. (anteclass.):
priusquam proficisco,
Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 19; hortatur hominem, quam primum proficisceret, Turp. ap. Non. 471, 2.

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5 moventer

mŏvĕo, mōvi, mōtum, 2 ( sync., mōstis for movistis, Mart. 3, 67, 1;
mōrunt for moverunt,
Sil. 14, 141), v. a. and n. [Sanscr. mīv, set in motion; Gr. ameibô, change; cf.: momentum, mutare].
I.
Act., to move, stir, set in motion; to shake, disturb, remove, etc. (syn.: cieo, agito, ago, molior).
A.
Lit.:
movit et ad certos nescia membra modos,
Tib. 1, 7, 38:
ut festis matrona moveri jussa diebus,
to dance, Hor. A. P. 232: moveri Cyclopa, to represent a Cyclop by dancing (gesticulating), id. Ep. 2, 2, 125:
et fila sonantia movit,
struck, Ov. M. 10, 89:
citharam cum voce,
id. ib. 5, 112:
tympana,
id. H. 4, 48; to disturb:
novis Helicona cantibus,
Manil. Astron. 1, 4:
signum movere loco,
to move from the place, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 77:
os,
Cels. 8, 2:
gradum,
i. e. to go forward, advance, Sen. Thyest. 420: se, to move or bestir one's self:
move ocius te,
Ter. And. 4, 3, 16:
praecepit eis, ne se ex eo loco moverent,
not to stir from the spot, Liv. 34, 20; Caes. B. G. 3, 15: castra, to break up, remove:
postero die castra ex eo loco movent,
Caes. B. G. 1, 15;
ellipt. without castra: postquam ille Canusio moverat,
Cic. Att. 9, 1, 1:
movisse a Samo Romanos audivit,
Liv. 37, 28, 4.— Pass. reflex.:
priusquam hostes moverentur,
Liv. 37, 19, 18:
hostem statu,
to drive from his position, dislodge, id. 30, 18:
aliquem possessione,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116:
heredes,
to eject, id. Off. 3, 19, 76:
tribu centurionem,
to turn out, expel, id. de Or. 2, 67, 272; so,
aliquem de senatu,
id. Clu. 43, 122;
the same also without senatu,
Hor. S. 1, 6, 20:
senatorio loco,
to degrade, Liv. 39, 42, 6:
ex agro,
Cic. Fam. 13, 5, 2:
move abs te moram,
remove, cast off, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 10:
consulem de sententiā,
to cause to recede, to dissuade, Liv. 3, 21:
litteram,
to take away, Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74.—Prov.:
omnis terras, omnia maria movere,
to turn the world upside down, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2.—
2.
Transf.
a.
To excite, occasion, cause, promote, produce; to begin, commence, undertake:
exercitatione sudor movetur,
is promoted, produced, Cels. 2, 17:
alvum,
Cato, R. R. 115:
dolorem,
id. ib. 7, 4:
lacrimas,
to cause, Quint. 6, 1, 26:
fletum populo,
Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228:
risum,
id. ib. 2, 62, 281:
alicui exspectationem,
id. Att. 2, 14, 1:
indignationem,
Liv. 4, 50, 1:
misericordiam,
Cic. de Or. 2, 69, 278:
suspicionem,
id. Part. 33, 114:
ego istaec moveo, aut curo?
begin, commence, Ter. And. 5, 4, 18:
bellum,
Cic. Off. 1, 11, 37; Liv. 23, 48, 6:
jam pugna se moverat,
was going on, Curt. 8, 14, 6:
cantūs,
Verg. A. 10, 163:
tantum decus,
begin, Manil. Astron. 1, 42; cf. Verg. A. 7, 45:
nominis controversiam,
to begin, Tac. Dial. 25 init.; cf. Cels. 3, 3, § 25; Dig. 37, 10, 4:
litem,
ib. 4, 3, 33:
actionem,
ib. 19, 1, 10:
mentionem rei,
to make mention, Liv. 28, 11, 9:
sacra,
Val. Fl. 3, 540:
movere ac moliri aliquid,
to undertake any thing that excites disturbance, Liv. 23, 39:
ne quid moveretur,
id. 35, 13.—
b.
To shake, to cause to waver, to alter:
alicujus sententiam,
to change, cause to waver, Cic. Att. 7, 3, 6:
sententiam regis,
Liv. 35, 42, 6.—
c.
To present, offer an oblation:
ferctum Jovi moveto,
Cato, R. R. 134.—
d.
To disturb, concern, trouble, torment one:
men moveat cimex Pantilius?
Hor. S. 1, 10, 78:
Armeniosne movet, Romana potentia cujus Sit ducis?
Luc. 7, 282; cf. Val. Fl. 7, 131. intoleranda vis aestūs omnium ferme corpora movit, Liv. 25, 26:
strepitu fora vestra,
Juv. 2, 52.—
e.
Of plants, to put forth:
si se gemmae nondum moveant,
do not yet appear, Col. 11, 2, 26: de palmite gemma movetur, [p. 1169] is produced, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 13.—
f.
To exert, exercise:
inter principia condendi hujus operis, movisse numen ad indicandam tanti imperii molem traditur deos,
Liv. 1, 55, 3 (cf.:
se movere, I. A. supra): artis opem,
Ov. F. 6, 760.—
g.
= mutare, to change, transform:
quorum Forma semel mota est,
Ov. M. 8, 729:
nihil motum antiquo probabile est,
Liv. 34, 54, 8.—
h.
In mal. part., Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 43.—
B.
Trop., to move, affect, excite, inspire:
ut pulcritudo corporis movet oculos et delectat,
charms, Cic. Off. 1, 28, 98:
quae me causae moverint,
id. Att. 11, 5, 1:
fere fit, quibus quisque in locis miles inveteravit, uti multum earum regionum consuetudine moveatur,
is much affected, influenced, Caes. B. C. 1, 44:
aliquem ad bellum,
to stir up, excite, Liv. 35, 12, 5:
movet feroci juveni animum conploratio sororis,
stirs his anger, id. 1, 26, 3; cf. id. 21, 38, 3; 23, 31, 11:
numina Dianae,
to irritate, provoke, Hor. Epod. 17, 3:
multa movens animo,
to revolve, ponder, meditate, Verg. A. 3, 34:
moverat plebem oratio consulis,
had stirred, made an impression on, Liv. 3, 20:
judicum animos,
Quint. 6, 2, 1:
acutule moveri,
keenly affected, Aug. Conf. 3, 7: neque illud me movet, quod, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, A. 2:
affectus,
Quint. 6, 1, 7:
moveor etiam ipsius loci insolentiā,
Cic. Deiot. 2, 5:
nil moveor lacrimis,
Prop. 3, 23, 25 (4, 25, 5):
absiste moveri,
be not disturbed, Verg. A. 6, 399:
quos sectis Bellona lacertis Saeva movet,
inspires, Luc. 1, 565 (al. monet):
ut captatori moveat fastidia,
excites nausea in, Juv. 10, 202.—
II.
Neutr., to move itself, move (very rare):
terra dies duodequadraginta movit,
an earthquake, Liv. 35, 40, 7; 40, 59, 7.—In pass.:
reptile quod movetur,
which moves itself, Vulg. Gen. 1, 26 saep.—Hence,
A.
mŏvens, entis, P. a., movable (class.): ex eā praedā, quae rerum moventium sit, movable things (as clothes, arms, furniture), Liv. 5, 25, 6:
voluptas,
that consists in motion, Cic. Fin. 2, 10, 31:
furtum rerum moventium,
Gell. 11, 18, 13.— Plur. subst.:
quaedam quasi moventia,
motives, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 68.—Hence, adv.: mŏventer, movingly, affectingly (late Lat.), Schol. Bob. ad Cic. Mil. 7, n. 4.—
B.
mōtus, a, um, P. a., moved, affected, disturbed ( poet. and in post-class. prose):
Ithaci digressu mota Calypso,
Prop. 1, 15, 9:
dictis,
Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 23:
precibus,
Curt. 6, 5, 23.

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6 moveo

mŏvĕo, mōvi, mōtum, 2 ( sync., mōstis for movistis, Mart. 3, 67, 1;
mōrunt for moverunt,
Sil. 14, 141), v. a. and n. [Sanscr. mīv, set in motion; Gr. ameibô, change; cf.: momentum, mutare].
I.
Act., to move, stir, set in motion; to shake, disturb, remove, etc. (syn.: cieo, agito, ago, molior).
A.
Lit.:
movit et ad certos nescia membra modos,
Tib. 1, 7, 38:
ut festis matrona moveri jussa diebus,
to dance, Hor. A. P. 232: moveri Cyclopa, to represent a Cyclop by dancing (gesticulating), id. Ep. 2, 2, 125:
et fila sonantia movit,
struck, Ov. M. 10, 89:
citharam cum voce,
id. ib. 5, 112:
tympana,
id. H. 4, 48; to disturb:
novis Helicona cantibus,
Manil. Astron. 1, 4:
signum movere loco,
to move from the place, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 77:
os,
Cels. 8, 2:
gradum,
i. e. to go forward, advance, Sen. Thyest. 420: se, to move or bestir one's self:
move ocius te,
Ter. And. 4, 3, 16:
praecepit eis, ne se ex eo loco moverent,
not to stir from the spot, Liv. 34, 20; Caes. B. G. 3, 15: castra, to break up, remove:
postero die castra ex eo loco movent,
Caes. B. G. 1, 15;
ellipt. without castra: postquam ille Canusio moverat,
Cic. Att. 9, 1, 1:
movisse a Samo Romanos audivit,
Liv. 37, 28, 4.— Pass. reflex.:
priusquam hostes moverentur,
Liv. 37, 19, 18:
hostem statu,
to drive from his position, dislodge, id. 30, 18:
aliquem possessione,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116:
heredes,
to eject, id. Off. 3, 19, 76:
tribu centurionem,
to turn out, expel, id. de Or. 2, 67, 272; so,
aliquem de senatu,
id. Clu. 43, 122;
the same also without senatu,
Hor. S. 1, 6, 20:
senatorio loco,
to degrade, Liv. 39, 42, 6:
ex agro,
Cic. Fam. 13, 5, 2:
move abs te moram,
remove, cast off, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 10:
consulem de sententiā,
to cause to recede, to dissuade, Liv. 3, 21:
litteram,
to take away, Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74.—Prov.:
omnis terras, omnia maria movere,
to turn the world upside down, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2.—
2.
Transf.
a.
To excite, occasion, cause, promote, produce; to begin, commence, undertake:
exercitatione sudor movetur,
is promoted, produced, Cels. 2, 17:
alvum,
Cato, R. R. 115:
dolorem,
id. ib. 7, 4:
lacrimas,
to cause, Quint. 6, 1, 26:
fletum populo,
Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228:
risum,
id. ib. 2, 62, 281:
alicui exspectationem,
id. Att. 2, 14, 1:
indignationem,
Liv. 4, 50, 1:
misericordiam,
Cic. de Or. 2, 69, 278:
suspicionem,
id. Part. 33, 114:
ego istaec moveo, aut curo?
begin, commence, Ter. And. 5, 4, 18:
bellum,
Cic. Off. 1, 11, 37; Liv. 23, 48, 6:
jam pugna se moverat,
was going on, Curt. 8, 14, 6:
cantūs,
Verg. A. 10, 163:
tantum decus,
begin, Manil. Astron. 1, 42; cf. Verg. A. 7, 45:
nominis controversiam,
to begin, Tac. Dial. 25 init.; cf. Cels. 3, 3, § 25; Dig. 37, 10, 4:
litem,
ib. 4, 3, 33:
actionem,
ib. 19, 1, 10:
mentionem rei,
to make mention, Liv. 28, 11, 9:
sacra,
Val. Fl. 3, 540:
movere ac moliri aliquid,
to undertake any thing that excites disturbance, Liv. 23, 39:
ne quid moveretur,
id. 35, 13.—
b.
To shake, to cause to waver, to alter:
alicujus sententiam,
to change, cause to waver, Cic. Att. 7, 3, 6:
sententiam regis,
Liv. 35, 42, 6.—
c.
To present, offer an oblation:
ferctum Jovi moveto,
Cato, R. R. 134.—
d.
To disturb, concern, trouble, torment one:
men moveat cimex Pantilius?
Hor. S. 1, 10, 78:
Armeniosne movet, Romana potentia cujus Sit ducis?
Luc. 7, 282; cf. Val. Fl. 7, 131. intoleranda vis aestūs omnium ferme corpora movit, Liv. 25, 26:
strepitu fora vestra,
Juv. 2, 52.—
e.
Of plants, to put forth:
si se gemmae nondum moveant,
do not yet appear, Col. 11, 2, 26: de palmite gemma movetur, [p. 1169] is produced, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 13.—
f.
To exert, exercise:
inter principia condendi hujus operis, movisse numen ad indicandam tanti imperii molem traditur deos,
Liv. 1, 55, 3 (cf.:
se movere, I. A. supra): artis opem,
Ov. F. 6, 760.—
g.
= mutare, to change, transform:
quorum Forma semel mota est,
Ov. M. 8, 729:
nihil motum antiquo probabile est,
Liv. 34, 54, 8.—
h.
In mal. part., Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 43.—
B.
Trop., to move, affect, excite, inspire:
ut pulcritudo corporis movet oculos et delectat,
charms, Cic. Off. 1, 28, 98:
quae me causae moverint,
id. Att. 11, 5, 1:
fere fit, quibus quisque in locis miles inveteravit, uti multum earum regionum consuetudine moveatur,
is much affected, influenced, Caes. B. C. 1, 44:
aliquem ad bellum,
to stir up, excite, Liv. 35, 12, 5:
movet feroci juveni animum conploratio sororis,
stirs his anger, id. 1, 26, 3; cf. id. 21, 38, 3; 23, 31, 11:
numina Dianae,
to irritate, provoke, Hor. Epod. 17, 3:
multa movens animo,
to revolve, ponder, meditate, Verg. A. 3, 34:
moverat plebem oratio consulis,
had stirred, made an impression on, Liv. 3, 20:
judicum animos,
Quint. 6, 2, 1:
acutule moveri,
keenly affected, Aug. Conf. 3, 7: neque illud me movet, quod, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, A. 2:
affectus,
Quint. 6, 1, 7:
moveor etiam ipsius loci insolentiā,
Cic. Deiot. 2, 5:
nil moveor lacrimis,
Prop. 3, 23, 25 (4, 25, 5):
absiste moveri,
be not disturbed, Verg. A. 6, 399:
quos sectis Bellona lacertis Saeva movet,
inspires, Luc. 1, 565 (al. monet):
ut captatori moveat fastidia,
excites nausea in, Juv. 10, 202.—
II.
Neutr., to move itself, move (very rare):
terra dies duodequadraginta movit,
an earthquake, Liv. 35, 40, 7; 40, 59, 7.—In pass.:
reptile quod movetur,
which moves itself, Vulg. Gen. 1, 26 saep.—Hence,
A.
mŏvens, entis, P. a., movable (class.): ex eā praedā, quae rerum moventium sit, movable things (as clothes, arms, furniture), Liv. 5, 25, 6:
voluptas,
that consists in motion, Cic. Fin. 2, 10, 31:
furtum rerum moventium,
Gell. 11, 18, 13.— Plur. subst.:
quaedam quasi moventia,
motives, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 68.—Hence, adv.: mŏventer, movingly, affectingly (late Lat.), Schol. Bob. ad Cic. Mil. 7, n. 4.—
B.
mōtus, a, um, P. a., moved, affected, disturbed ( poet. and in post-class. prose):
Ithaci digressu mota Calypso,
Prop. 1, 15, 9:
dictis,
Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 23:
precibus,
Curt. 6, 5, 23.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > moveo
7 agitō

agitō āvī, ātus, āre, freq. [ago], to set in violent motion, drive onward, move, impel, urge: (Harena) magnā vi agitata, S.: greges, drive to pasture, V.: equum, V.: iugales (dracones), O.: (triremem) in portu agitari iubet, rowed about, N. — To hunt, chase, pursue: aquila alias avīs agitans: dammas, O.: cervos in retia, O. — Fig., to drive, urge forward, press, support, insist on: agrariam legem: hoc unum agitare, esse, etc., keep pressing this one point: pacem an bellum, S.—To attend, keep, celebrate: Dionysia, T.: festos dies. — To observe, obey, carry out, exercise: praecepta parentis mei, S.: secreta consilia, L.—Of time, to pass, spend vitam sine cupiditate, S.: apud aquam noctem, S. — Absol, to live, abide, be: varius atque incertus agitabat, S.: pro muro dies noctīsque, remain, S. —To move to and fro, stir, agitate, shake, disturb, toss: corpora huc et illuc, S.: hastam, brandish, O.: scintilla agitata (ventis), fanned, O.: habenas manibus, wield, O.: caput, nod, O.: mare ventorum vi agitari: freta incipiant agitata tumescere, V.: Zephyris agitata Tempe, H.: agitata numina Troiae, tossed on the sea, V.: agitantia fumos Nubila, tossing up spray, O. — Fig., to stir, rouse, agitate, stimulate, excite, goad: hunc, T.: plebem, L.: mens agitat molem, animates, V. — To vex, disquiet, disturb, distress: nationes: Furiis agitatus Orestes, V.: rebus agitatis, in times of disorder: metu atque libidine divorsus agitabatur, was distracted by, S.: te agitet cupido, H.: fidem aut gentīs, to disturb the loyalty, etc., V. — To insult, scoff, rail at, deride, revile: rem militarem: mea fastidia verbis, H.: (poemata) expertia frugis, H.: ea belle agitata ridentur, neatly mocked. — To prosecute, occupy oneself with, engage in, keep going, stir: cuncta, keep active, S.: mutas artes, V.: iocos, O.: eo modo agitabat, ut, etc., so conducted himself, S.: scaenis agitatus Orestes, i. e. represented, V.—To pursue, consider, deliberate on, meditate: secum multum, S.: haec mecum, H.: in animo bellum, L.: agitare coepit, si posset, etc., L.: ut mente agitaret, bellum renovare, N. — To discuss, debate, sift, investigate: oratori omnia tractata, agitata, i. e. sifted, discussed: omnia ex tabulis, by the accounts: senatus de secessione plebis agitat, L. — Impers: Romae de facto agitari, there were discussions, S.
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agitare, agitavi, agitatus V

stir/drive/shake/move about; revolve; live; control, ride; consider, pursue

Latin-English dictionary > agitō
8 moveō

moveō mōvī, mōtus, ēre [1 MV-], to move, stir, set in motion, shake, disturb, remove: tanti oneris turrim, Cs.: matrona moveri iussa, to dance, H.: moveri Cyclopa, represent by action, H.: membra ad modos, Tb.: fila sonantia movit, struck, O.: moveri sedibus huic urbi melius est: loco motus cessit, driven back, Cs.: move ocius te, bestir thyself, T.: neque se in ullam partem, attach, Cs.: se ex eo loco, stir from the spot, L.: caput, i. e. threaten with, H.: castra ex eo loco, break up, Cs.: hostem statu, dislodge, L.: heredes, eject: tribu centurionem, expel: signiferos loco, degrade, Cs.: Omne movet urna nomen, H.: senatorio loco, degrade, L.: Verba loco, cancel, H.: consulem de sententiā, dissuade, L.: litteram, to take away: movet arma leo, gives battle, V.: quo sidere moto, at the rising of, O.—Prov.: omnīs terras, omnia maria movere, move heaven and earth (of great exertions).—Of the soil, to stir, plough, break up, open: iugera, V.: mota terra, O.— To disturb, violate: triste bidental, H.: Dianae non movenda numina, inviolable, H.— To remove oneself, betake oneself, move, be moved, be stirred (sc. se): terra dies duodequadraginta movit, there was an earthquake, L.: movisse a Samo Romanos audivit, L.: voluptas movens, i. e. in motion.—To excite, occasion, cause, promote, produce, begin, commence, undertake: fletum populo: mihi admirationem: indignationem, L.: suspicionem: iam pugna se moverat, was going on, Cu.: cantūs, V.: mentionem rei, make mention, L.: priusquam movere ac moliri quicquam posset, make any disturbance, L. — To shake, cause to waver, alter, change: meam sententiam.— To disturb, concern, trouble, torment: moveat cimex Pantilius? H.: voltum movetur, changes countenance, V.: vis aestūs omnium ferme corpora movit, L.: venenum praecordia movit, O.: strepitu fora, Iu.— To stir, produce, put forth: de palmite gemma movetur, O.— To exert, exercise: movisse numen ad alqd deos, L.: artis opem, O. — To change, transform: quorum Forma semel mota est, O.: nihil motum ex antiquo, i. e. change in traditional custom, L.—Fig., to move, influence, affect, excite, inspire: nil nos dos movet, T.: beneficiis moveri, Cs.: moveri civitas coepit, S.: ut pulcritudo corporis movet oculos et delectat, charms: animos ad bellum, instigate, L.: feroci iuveni animum, stir, L.: Vestrā motus prece, H.: moverat plebem oratio consulis, had stirred, L.: absiste moveri, be not disturbed, V.: ut captatori moveat fastidia, excites nausea in, Iu.— To revolve, meditate, ponder: Multa movens animo, V.
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movere, movi, motus V

move, stir, agitate, affect, provoke, disturb;

movere se -- dance

Latin-English dictionary > moveō
9 immitto

immitto ( inm-), īsi, issum, 3 ( perf. sync. immisti, Sil. 17, 354), v. a. [in-mitto], to send or let into a place, to introduce, admit, to send or despatch against, to let loose at, discharge at, to cast or throw into (freq. and class.; cf. intromitto, induco, introduco).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
servos ad spoliandum fanum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 101; cf.:
servi in tecta nostra cum facibus immissi,
id. Att. 14, 10, 1; id. Sest. 36, 78:
magna vis hominum simul immissa,
Liv. 2, 5, 3:
equitatu immisso (in agmen hostium),
Caes. B. G. 7, 40, 4:
armaturam levem in stationes,
Liv. 40, 48, 2; 21, 8, 8:
corpus in undas,
Ov. H. 2, 133:
artificem mediis flammis,
id. M. 6, 615:
completas naves taeda et pice in Pomponianam classem immisit,
let loose, Caes. B. C. 3, 101, 2; so ib. § 5; cf.:
navem in terram,
Liv. 30, 25, 8: repente equum immisi ad eam legionem, urged, spurred, Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:
si effrenatos in eos equos immittitis,
Liv. 40, 40, 5:
pila in hostes,
Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 6:
tela,
id. B. C. 3, 92, 2:
telum ex manu,
Dig. 9, 2, 52:
canalibus aqua immissa,
Caes. B. C. 2, 10, 6:
aquam ex fullonicis in fundum vicini,
Dig. 39, 3, 3:
cloacam privatam in publicum,
ib. 43, 23, 1; and:
puram aquam in alvum,
Cels. 2, 12:
haec (tigna) cum machinationibus immissa in flumen defixerat,
had driven into, Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4:
bipedales trabes,
id. ib. §
6: tigna (in parietem),
Dig. 8, 5, 8; 43, 25, 3:
coronam caelo,
hurls it to the sky, Ov. M. 8, 179:
lentum filis immittitur aurum,
is inserted, interwoven, id. ib. 6, 68:
circa oneratas veste cervices laticlaviam immiserat mappam,
put on, put around, Petr. 32, 2:
dexteraque immissis da mihi signa rotis,
let loose, swiftly driven, Prop. 3, 9, 58; cf.:
immissis pars caeca et concita frenis Arietat in portas,
slackened, Verg. A. 11, 889:
habenas,
id. ib. 5, 662; Ov. M. 1, 280; cf.
rudentes,
let go, let loose, Plin. Ep. 8, 4, 5:
Codrus in medios se immisit hostes,
threw himself, Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 116; Liv. 9, 4, 10:
se in hostium manum multitudinemque,
Cic. Font. 17, 38; cf.:
immisit in armatas hostium copias,
id. Par. 1, 2, 12:
offirmastin' occultare, quo te inmittas,
whither you are going, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 40. —
B.
In partic.
1.
To send against (secretly or hostilely), to set on, incite, instigate, suborn (mostly post-Aug.):
alii Tarquinium a Cicerone immissum aiebant,
Sall. C. 48, 8:
fratrem Tiberium inopinantem repente immisso tribuno militum interemit,
Suet. Calig. 23; cf. Tac. A. 3, 16:
immissis qui monerent,
id. ib. 4, 54:
Suillium accusandis utrisque immittit,
id. ib. 11, 1:
ad cujus rei probationem immittet indices,
Just. 32, 2:
invidia et a dissimilibus delator inmissus,
Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 3. —
2.
To let grow unrestrained or wild:
ea vitis immittitur ad uvas pariendas,
Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 3:
cupressus immittitur in perticas asseresve,
Plin. 16, 33, 60, § 141:
pro densitate arborum immissorumque aliorum in alios ramorum,
grown together, interwoven, Liv. 40, 22, 3: penitus immissis radicibus niti, deeply planted or sunk, Quint. 1, 3, 5: barba immissa et intonso capillo, etc., overgrown, hanging down, Sisenn. ap. Non. 130, 8; so,
barba immissa,
Verg. A. 3, 593; Ov. M. 12, 351; Quint. 12, 3, 12:
immissi capilli,
Ov. F. 1, 503; id. M. 5, 338; 6, 168; cf.
, in a Greek construction: Phleias immissus patrios de vertice crines,
Val. Fl. 1, 412.—
3.
To ingraft:
trunci resecantur, et... deinde feraces plantae immittuntur,
Verg. G. 2, 80.—
4.
Aliquem in bona alicujus, to install, put in possession, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 142.—
II.
Trop.:
aliquid in aures,
to listen to, Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 14; but without in:
ne tu quod istic fabuletur auris inmittas tuas,
id. Capt. 3, 4, 16: verba suis immittere figuris, to accommodate its modes of thought to the words, Manil. 1, 24:
jactam et immissam a te nefariam in me injuriam semper duxi,
Cic. Par. 4, 1, 28:
hic corrector in eo ipso loco, quo reprehendit, immittit imprudens ipse senarium,
lets escape him, id. Or. 56, 190:
si nihil extrinsecus accidit, quod corpus ejus in aliquam valetudinem immitteret,
threw into some sickness, Dig. 1, 21, 14, § 2:
immisitque fugam Teucris atrumque timorem,
instilled, infused, Verg. A. 9, 719:
vires alicui,
Val. Fl. 7, 353:
amorem,
Sen. Herc. Oet. 554.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > immitto
10 inmitto

immitto ( inm-), īsi, issum, 3 ( perf. sync. immisti, Sil. 17, 354), v. a. [in-mitto], to send or let into a place, to introduce, admit, to send or despatch against, to let loose at, discharge at, to cast or throw into (freq. and class.; cf. intromitto, induco, introduco).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen.:
servos ad spoliandum fanum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 101; cf.:
servi in tecta nostra cum facibus immissi,
id. Att. 14, 10, 1; id. Sest. 36, 78:
magna vis hominum simul immissa,
Liv. 2, 5, 3:
equitatu immisso (in agmen hostium),
Caes. B. G. 7, 40, 4:
armaturam levem in stationes,
Liv. 40, 48, 2; 21, 8, 8:
corpus in undas,
Ov. H. 2, 133:
artificem mediis flammis,
id. M. 6, 615:
completas naves taeda et pice in Pomponianam classem immisit,
let loose, Caes. B. C. 3, 101, 2; so ib. § 5; cf.:
navem in terram,
Liv. 30, 25, 8: repente equum immisi ad eam legionem, urged, spurred, Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:
si effrenatos in eos equos immittitis,
Liv. 40, 40, 5:
pila in hostes,
Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 6:
tela,
id. B. C. 3, 92, 2:
telum ex manu,
Dig. 9, 2, 52:
canalibus aqua immissa,
Caes. B. C. 2, 10, 6:
aquam ex fullonicis in fundum vicini,
Dig. 39, 3, 3:
cloacam privatam in publicum,
ib. 43, 23, 1; and:
puram aquam in alvum,
Cels. 2, 12:
haec (tigna) cum machinationibus immissa in flumen defixerat,
had driven into, Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 4:
bipedales trabes,
id. ib. §
6: tigna (in parietem),
Dig. 8, 5, 8; 43, 25, 3:
coronam caelo,
hurls it to the sky, Ov. M. 8, 179:
lentum filis immittitur aurum,
is inserted, interwoven, id. ib. 6, 68:
circa oneratas veste cervices laticlaviam immiserat mappam,
put on, put around, Petr. 32, 2:
dexteraque immissis da mihi signa rotis,
let loose, swiftly driven, Prop. 3, 9, 58; cf.:
immissis pars caeca et concita frenis Arietat in portas,
slackened, Verg. A. 11, 889:
habenas,
id. ib. 5, 662; Ov. M. 1, 280; cf.
rudentes,
let go, let loose, Plin. Ep. 8, 4, 5:
Codrus in medios se immisit hostes,
threw himself, Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 116; Liv. 9, 4, 10:
se in hostium manum multitudinemque,
Cic. Font. 17, 38; cf.:
immisit in armatas hostium copias,
id. Par. 1, 2, 12:
offirmastin' occultare, quo te inmittas,
whither you are going, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 40. —
B.
In partic.
1.
To send against (secretly or hostilely), to set on, incite, instigate, suborn (mostly post-Aug.):
alii Tarquinium a Cicerone immissum aiebant,
Sall. C. 48, 8:
fratrem Tiberium inopinantem repente immisso tribuno militum interemit,
Suet. Calig. 23; cf. Tac. A. 3, 16:
immissis qui monerent,
id. ib. 4, 54:
Suillium accusandis utrisque immittit,
id. ib. 11, 1:
ad cujus rei probationem immittet indices,
Just. 32, 2:
invidia et a dissimilibus delator inmissus,
Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 3. —
2.
To let grow unrestrained or wild:
ea vitis immittitur ad uvas pariendas,
Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 3:
cupressus immittitur in perticas asseresve,
Plin. 16, 33, 60, § 141:
pro densitate arborum immissorumque aliorum in alios ramorum,
grown together, interwoven, Liv. 40, 22, 3: penitus immissis radicibus niti, deeply planted or sunk, Quint. 1, 3, 5: barba immissa et intonso capillo, etc., overgrown, hanging down, Sisenn. ap. Non. 130, 8; so,
barba immissa,
Verg. A. 3, 593; Ov. M. 12, 351; Quint. 12, 3, 12:
immissi capilli,
Ov. F. 1, 503; id. M. 5, 338; 6, 168; cf.
, in a Greek construction: Phleias immissus patrios de vertice crines,
Val. Fl. 1, 412.—
3.
To ingraft:
trunci resecantur, et... deinde feraces plantae immittuntur,
Verg. G. 2, 80.—
4.
Aliquem in bona alicujus, to install, put in possession, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 142.—
II.
Trop.:
aliquid in aures,
to listen to, Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 14; but without in:
ne tu quod istic fabuletur auris inmittas tuas,
id. Capt. 3, 4, 16: verba suis immittere figuris, to accommodate its modes of thought to the words, Manil. 1, 24:
jactam et immissam a te nefariam in me injuriam semper duxi,
Cic. Par. 4, 1, 28:
hic corrector in eo ipso loco, quo reprehendit, immittit imprudens ipse senarium,
lets escape him, id. Or. 56, 190:
si nihil extrinsecus accidit, quod corpus ejus in aliquam valetudinem immitteret,
threw into some sickness, Dig. 1, 21, 14, § 2:
immisitque fugam Teucris atrumque timorem,
instilled, infused, Verg. A. 9, 719:
vires alicui,
Val. Fl. 7, 353:
amorem,
Sen. Herc. Oet. 554.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > inmitto
11 rectum

rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
I.
Lit.:
deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,
Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:
manus una (navem) regit,
Lucr. 4, 903:
onera navium velis,
Caes. B. G. 3, 13:
arte ratem,
Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.
clavum,
Verg. A. 10, 218:
te ventorum regat pater,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:
vela,
Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:
coërcet et regit beluam,
Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:
equum,
Liv. 35, 11:
equos,
Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.
quadrupedes,
id. M. 2, 86:
spumantia ora (equi),
id. ib. 8, 34:
frena,
id. P. 4, 12, 24:
equi impotentes regendi,
Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:
currus,
Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:
rege tela per auras,
Verg. A. 9, 409:
tela per viscera Caesaris,
Luc. 7, 350; cf.:
missum jaculum,
Ov. M. 7, 684:
sagittas nusquam,
Luc. 7, 515:
regens tenui vestigia filo,
Cat. 64, 113; cf.:
Daedalium iter lino duce,
Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:
caeca filo vestigia,
Verg. A. 6, 30:
diverso flamina tractu,
Ov. M. 1, 59:
gressus,
Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
B.
In partic., jurid. t. t.:
regere fines,
to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
II.
Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
A.
In gen.:
Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,
Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:
domum,
id. ib. 1, 39, 61:
rem consilio,
Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:
belli fera munera Mavors regit,
Lucr. 1, 33; cf.
bella,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:
omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,
Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:
alicujus animum atque ingenium,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:
animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),
Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:
mores,
Ov. M. 15, 834:
animos dictis,
Verg. A. 1, 153:
animum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:
ut me ipse regam,
id. ib. 1, 1, 27:
consilia senatus,
Quint. 12, 1, 26:
valetudines principis,
Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:
valetudinem arbitratu suo,
Suet. Tib. 68 al.:
neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,
Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:
jam regi leges, non regere,
Liv. 10, 13:
utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:
vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,
Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:
Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,
Tac. H. 3, 50:
nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,
Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
B.
Transf.
1.
To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:
quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?
Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,
rem publicam,
id. ib. 1, 26, 41;
1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;
2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,
id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:
Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 27, 43:
Frisios,
Tac. A. 4, 72:
populos imperio,
Verg. A. 6, 851:
imperiis Italiam,
id. ib. 4, 230:
legiones,
Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.
cohortes,
id. H. 4, 12:
exercitum,
Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:
domum,
Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:
diva, quae regis Antium,
Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:
Diana, quae silentium regis,
id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:
animi partes consilio,
Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:
ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,
id. ib. 2, 23, 43:
rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,
id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:
Tiberio regente,
Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:
stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,
Quint. 3, 8, 47:
quo regente,
Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:
Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,
i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
2.
To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):
errantem regere,
Caes. B. C. 3, 57:
rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,
Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
I.
P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:
contemptus regentium,
Tac. A. 12, 54:
in obsequium regentis,
id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:
vita regentis,
Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:
excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,
Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:
in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),
Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
II.
rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
A.
Lit., of horizontal direction:
pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),
Lucr. 4, 439:
sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,
id. 2, 249 Munro:
rectā regione iter instituere,
Liv. 21, 31:
India, rectā regione spatiosa,
Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:
ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:
via,
id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.
platea,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:
porta,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:
ostium,
id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:
ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),
Lucr. 4, 93:
cursus hinc in Africam,
Liv. 26, 43:
saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,
Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:
recto flumine,
Verg. A. 8, 57:
recto ad Iberum itinere,
Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:
ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,
Verg. A. 8, 209:
recto grassetur limite miles,
Ov. Tr. 2, 477:
velut rectae acies concurrissent,
in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,
acies,
id. 35, 28:
qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,
Quint. 8, 3, 9:
hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:
adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,
Sen. Const. 5, 5:
rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,
id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:
oculi,
Suet. Aug. 16; cf.
acies,
Ov. M. 2, 776:
lumen,
Luc. 9, 638:
vultus,
Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:
ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,
in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:
saxa,
perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:
rectae prope rupes,
id. 38, 20:
truncus,
Ov. M. 7, 640:
ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,
Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:
caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,
Quint. 11, 3, 69:
homines,
straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,
Quintia,
id. 86, 1:
puella,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:
senectus,
Juv. 3, 26:
iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,
does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:
vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,
Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:
crus Rectius,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:
rectior coma,
smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:
longā trabe rectior exstet,
Ov. M. 3, 78:
crura,
Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:
rectissima linea,
Quint. 3, 6, 83:
via,
id. 12, 2, 27. —
B.
Trop.
1.
In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):
ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:
rectā viā depelli,
Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;
so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,
Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:
recta consilia dare,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:
quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,
Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:
quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,
id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:
sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,
id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:
(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,
id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:
per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),
id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:
recto ac justo proelio dimicare,
Liv. 35, 4 fin.:
rectarum cenarum consuetudo,
a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,
cena,
Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:
recta,
Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:
domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),
Sen. Ep. 100, 6:
nominibus rectis expendere nummos,
i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):
absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,
suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:
rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:
quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:
aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,
Quint. 6, 3, 89:
cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,
id. 8, 5, 6;
so (opp. durum et incomptum),
id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:
mutare aliquid a recto,
id. 2, 13, 11:
recta et vera loquere,
i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:
qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,
Quint. 10, 5, 12:
ea plerumque recta sunt,
id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:
rectior divisio,
Quint. 7, 2, 39:
si quid novisti rectius istis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:
rectissima ratio,
Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
2.
In partic.
a.
Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):
honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,
Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:
nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,
id. Lael. 22, 82;
so with honestum,
id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:
(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:
recta consilia (opp. prava),
Liv. 1, 27:
in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),
Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:
curvo dignoscere rectum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:
mens sibi conscia recti,
Verg. A. 1, 604:
fidem rectumque colebat,
Ov. M. 1, 90:
recta ingenia (opp. perversa),
Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:
in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,
Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:
animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:
natura,
id. S. 1, 6, 66:
ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,
Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:
judex,
Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.
auditor,
Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:
vir rectus et sanctus,
id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:
beatus judicii rectus,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:
rectum est gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
b.
In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;
opp. obliqui casus),
Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
A.
rectā,
B.
rectō,
C.
rectē.
A.
rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):
hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:
jam ad regem rectā me ducam,
id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:
tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,
id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:
Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,
Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
B.
rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):
appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,
Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
C.
rectē.
1.
Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):
vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,
Cato, R. R. 33, 4:
sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,
Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:
satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,
Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
2.
Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):
recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:
fecisti edepol et recte et bene,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;
so with commode,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:
recte et sapienter facit,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:
recte atque ordine factum,
Cic. Quint. 7, 28:
recte atque ordine facere,
id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;
v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:
recte atque in loco constare,
id. Mur. 12, 26:
recte factum,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:
seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:
seu recte seu perperam facere,
Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:
recte dictum (opp. absurde),
Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:
recte concludere (opp. vitiose),
Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:
recte factum (opp. turpiter),
Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:
recte rationem tenes,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:
hercle quin tu recte dicis,
id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:
non recte judicas de Catone,
Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:
rectissime quidem judicas,
id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:
tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,
Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:
monere,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:
admonere recte,
id. Men. 5, 9, 33:
suis amicis recte res suas narrare,
properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:
hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,
consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:
aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,
duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:
alicui recte dare epistulam,
correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:
cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,
safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,
sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,
id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:
alicui suam salutem recte committere,
Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:
si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,
goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:
ludi recte facti,
id. 36, 2:
ver sacrum non esse recte factum,
id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:
valere,
id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:
apud matrem recte est,
i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,
recte esse,
id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:
recte sit oculis tuis,
Gell. 13, 30, 11:
olivetum recte putare,
properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:
solet illa recte sub manus succedere,
well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:
recte cavere,
to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:
deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,
well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,
vortere,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:
alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,
Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:
nec recte loqui alicui,
id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:
nec recte dicere in aliquem,
id. As. 1, 3, 3;
and simply nec recte dicere,
id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:
ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:
hic tibi erit rectius,
Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:
rectius bella gerere,
Liv. 3, 2 fin.:
non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
b.
With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:
locus recte ferax,
Cato, R. R. 44:
salvus sum recte,
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:
morata recte,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:
oneratus recte,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:
non recte vinctus est,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
c.
Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
B.
So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:
rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,
i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,
in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!
Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rectum
12 regens

rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
I.
Lit.:
deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,
Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:
manus una (navem) regit,
Lucr. 4, 903:
onera navium velis,
Caes. B. G. 3, 13:
arte ratem,
Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.
clavum,
Verg. A. 10, 218:
te ventorum regat pater,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:
vela,
Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:
coërcet et regit beluam,
Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:
equum,
Liv. 35, 11:
equos,
Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.
quadrupedes,
id. M. 2, 86:
spumantia ora (equi),
id. ib. 8, 34:
frena,
id. P. 4, 12, 24:
equi impotentes regendi,
Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:
currus,
Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:
rege tela per auras,
Verg. A. 9, 409:
tela per viscera Caesaris,
Luc. 7, 350; cf.:
missum jaculum,
Ov. M. 7, 684:
sagittas nusquam,
Luc. 7, 515:
regens tenui vestigia filo,
Cat. 64, 113; cf.:
Daedalium iter lino duce,
Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:
caeca filo vestigia,
Verg. A. 6, 30:
diverso flamina tractu,
Ov. M. 1, 59:
gressus,
Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
B.
In partic., jurid. t. t.:
regere fines,
to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
II.
Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
A.
In gen.:
Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,
Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:
domum,
id. ib. 1, 39, 61:
rem consilio,
Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:
belli fera munera Mavors regit,
Lucr. 1, 33; cf.
bella,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:
omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,
Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:
alicujus animum atque ingenium,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:
animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),
Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:
mores,
Ov. M. 15, 834:
animos dictis,
Verg. A. 1, 153:
animum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:
ut me ipse regam,
id. ib. 1, 1, 27:
consilia senatus,
Quint. 12, 1, 26:
valetudines principis,
Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:
valetudinem arbitratu suo,
Suet. Tib. 68 al.:
neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,
Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:
jam regi leges, non regere,
Liv. 10, 13:
utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:
vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,
Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:
Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,
Tac. H. 3, 50:
nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,
Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
B.
Transf.
1.
To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:
quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?
Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,
rem publicam,
id. ib. 1, 26, 41;
1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;
2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,
id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:
Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 27, 43:
Frisios,
Tac. A. 4, 72:
populos imperio,
Verg. A. 6, 851:
imperiis Italiam,
id. ib. 4, 230:
legiones,
Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.
cohortes,
id. H. 4, 12:
exercitum,
Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:
domum,
Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:
diva, quae regis Antium,
Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:
Diana, quae silentium regis,
id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:
animi partes consilio,
Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:
ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,
id. ib. 2, 23, 43:
rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,
id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:
Tiberio regente,
Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:
stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,
Quint. 3, 8, 47:
quo regente,
Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:
Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,
i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
2.
To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):
errantem regere,
Caes. B. C. 3, 57:
rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,
Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
I.
P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:
contemptus regentium,
Tac. A. 12, 54:
in obsequium regentis,
id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:
vita regentis,
Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:
excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,
Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:
in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),
Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
II.
rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
A.
Lit., of horizontal direction:
pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),
Lucr. 4, 439:
sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,
id. 2, 249 Munro:
rectā regione iter instituere,
Liv. 21, 31:
India, rectā regione spatiosa,
Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:
ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:
via,
id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.
platea,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:
porta,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:
ostium,
id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:
ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),
Lucr. 4, 93:
cursus hinc in Africam,
Liv. 26, 43:
saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,
Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:
recto flumine,
Verg. A. 8, 57:
recto ad Iberum itinere,
Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:
ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,
Verg. A. 8, 209:
recto grassetur limite miles,
Ov. Tr. 2, 477:
velut rectae acies concurrissent,
in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,
acies,
id. 35, 28:
qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,
Quint. 8, 3, 9:
hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:
adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,
Sen. Const. 5, 5:
rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,
id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:
oculi,
Suet. Aug. 16; cf.
acies,
Ov. M. 2, 776:
lumen,
Luc. 9, 638:
vultus,
Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:
ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,
in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:
saxa,
perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:
rectae prope rupes,
id. 38, 20:
truncus,
Ov. M. 7, 640:
ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,
Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:
caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,
Quint. 11, 3, 69:
homines,
straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,
Quintia,
id. 86, 1:
puella,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:
senectus,
Juv. 3, 26:
iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,
does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:
vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,
Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:
crus Rectius,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:
rectior coma,
smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:
longā trabe rectior exstet,
Ov. M. 3, 78:
crura,
Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:
rectissima linea,
Quint. 3, 6, 83:
via,
id. 12, 2, 27. —
B.
Trop.
1.
In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):
ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:
rectā viā depelli,
Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;
so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,
Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:
recta consilia dare,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:
quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,
Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:
quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,
id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:
sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,
id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:
(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,
id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:
per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),
id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:
recto ac justo proelio dimicare,
Liv. 35, 4 fin.:
rectarum cenarum consuetudo,
a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,
cena,
Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:
recta,
Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:
domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),
Sen. Ep. 100, 6:
nominibus rectis expendere nummos,
i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):
absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,
suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:
rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:
quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:
aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,
Quint. 6, 3, 89:
cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,
id. 8, 5, 6;
so (opp. durum et incomptum),
id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:
mutare aliquid a recto,
id. 2, 13, 11:
recta et vera loquere,
i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:
qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,
Quint. 10, 5, 12:
ea plerumque recta sunt,
id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:
rectior divisio,
Quint. 7, 2, 39:
si quid novisti rectius istis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:
rectissima ratio,
Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
2.
In partic.
a.
Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):
honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,
Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:
nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,
id. Lael. 22, 82;
so with honestum,
id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:
(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:
recta consilia (opp. prava),
Liv. 1, 27:
in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),
Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:
curvo dignoscere rectum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:
mens sibi conscia recti,
Verg. A. 1, 604:
fidem rectumque colebat,
Ov. M. 1, 90:
recta ingenia (opp. perversa),
Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:
in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,
Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:
animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:
natura,
id. S. 1, 6, 66:
ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,
Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:
judex,
Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.
auditor,
Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:
vir rectus et sanctus,
id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:
beatus judicii rectus,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:
rectum est gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
b.
In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;
opp. obliqui casus),
Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
A.
rectā,
B.
rectō,
C.
rectē.
A.
rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):
hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:
jam ad regem rectā me ducam,
id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:
tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,
id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:
Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,
Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
B.
rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):
appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,
Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
C.
rectē.
1.
Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):
vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,
Cato, R. R. 33, 4:
sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,
Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:
satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,
Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
2.
Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):
recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:
fecisti edepol et recte et bene,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;
so with commode,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:
recte et sapienter facit,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:
recte atque ordine factum,
Cic. Quint. 7, 28:
recte atque ordine facere,
id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;
v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:
recte atque in loco constare,
id. Mur. 12, 26:
recte factum,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:
seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:
seu recte seu perperam facere,
Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:
recte dictum (opp. absurde),
Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:
recte concludere (opp. vitiose),
Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:
recte factum (opp. turpiter),
Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:
recte rationem tenes,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:
hercle quin tu recte dicis,
id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:
non recte judicas de Catone,
Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:
rectissime quidem judicas,
id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:
tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,
Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:
monere,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:
admonere recte,
id. Men. 5, 9, 33:
suis amicis recte res suas narrare,
properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:
hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,
consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:
aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,
duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:
alicui recte dare epistulam,
correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:
cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,
safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,
sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,
id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:
alicui suam salutem recte committere,
Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:
si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,
goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:
ludi recte facti,
id. 36, 2:
ver sacrum non esse recte factum,
id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:
valere,
id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:
apud matrem recte est,
i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,
recte esse,
id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:
recte sit oculis tuis,
Gell. 13, 30, 11:
olivetum recte putare,
properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:
solet illa recte sub manus succedere,
well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:
recte cavere,
to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:
deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,
well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,
vortere,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:
alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,
Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:
nec recte loqui alicui,
id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:
nec recte dicere in aliquem,
id. As. 1, 3, 3;
and simply nec recte dicere,
id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:
ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:
hic tibi erit rectius,
Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:
rectius bella gerere,
Liv. 3, 2 fin.:
non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
b.
With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:
locus recte ferax,
Cato, R. R. 44:
salvus sum recte,
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:
morata recte,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:
oneratus recte,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:
non recte vinctus est,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
c.
Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
B.
So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:
rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,
i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,
in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!
Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > regens
13 rego

rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
I.
Lit.:
deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,
Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:
manus una (navem) regit,
Lucr. 4, 903:
onera navium velis,
Caes. B. G. 3, 13:
arte ratem,
Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.
clavum,
Verg. A. 10, 218:
te ventorum regat pater,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:
vela,
Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:
coërcet et regit beluam,
Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:
equum,
Liv. 35, 11:
equos,
Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.
quadrupedes,
id. M. 2, 86:
spumantia ora (equi),
id. ib. 8, 34:
frena,
id. P. 4, 12, 24:
equi impotentes regendi,
Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:
currus,
Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:
rege tela per auras,
Verg. A. 9, 409:
tela per viscera Caesaris,
Luc. 7, 350; cf.:
missum jaculum,
Ov. M. 7, 684:
sagittas nusquam,
Luc. 7, 515:
regens tenui vestigia filo,
Cat. 64, 113; cf.:
Daedalium iter lino duce,
Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:
caeca filo vestigia,
Verg. A. 6, 30:
diverso flamina tractu,
Ov. M. 1, 59:
gressus,
Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
B.
In partic., jurid. t. t.:
regere fines,
to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
II.
Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
A.
In gen.:
Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,
Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:
domum,
id. ib. 1, 39, 61:
rem consilio,
Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:
belli fera munera Mavors regit,
Lucr. 1, 33; cf.
bella,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:
omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,
Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:
alicujus animum atque ingenium,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:
animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),
Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:
mores,
Ov. M. 15, 834:
animos dictis,
Verg. A. 1, 153:
animum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:
ut me ipse regam,
id. ib. 1, 1, 27:
consilia senatus,
Quint. 12, 1, 26:
valetudines principis,
Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:
valetudinem arbitratu suo,
Suet. Tib. 68 al.:
neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,
Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:
jam regi leges, non regere,
Liv. 10, 13:
utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:
vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,
Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:
Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,
Tac. H. 3, 50:
nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,
Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
B.
Transf.
1.
To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:
quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?
Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,
rem publicam,
id. ib. 1, 26, 41;
1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;
2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,
id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:
Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 27, 43:
Frisios,
Tac. A. 4, 72:
populos imperio,
Verg. A. 6, 851:
imperiis Italiam,
id. ib. 4, 230:
legiones,
Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.
cohortes,
id. H. 4, 12:
exercitum,
Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:
domum,
Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:
diva, quae regis Antium,
Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:
Diana, quae silentium regis,
id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:
animi partes consilio,
Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:
ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,
id. ib. 2, 23, 43:
rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,
id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:
Tiberio regente,
Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:
stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,
Quint. 3, 8, 47:
quo regente,
Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:
Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,
i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
2.
To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):
errantem regere,
Caes. B. C. 3, 57:
rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,
Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
I.
P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:
contemptus regentium,
Tac. A. 12, 54:
in obsequium regentis,
id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:
vita regentis,
Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:
excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,
Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:
in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),
Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
II.
rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
A.
Lit., of horizontal direction:
pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),
Lucr. 4, 439:
sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,
id. 2, 249 Munro:
rectā regione iter instituere,
Liv. 21, 31:
India, rectā regione spatiosa,
Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:
ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:
via,
id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.
platea,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:
porta,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:
ostium,
id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:
ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),
Lucr. 4, 93:
cursus hinc in Africam,
Liv. 26, 43:
saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,
Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:
recto flumine,
Verg. A. 8, 57:
recto ad Iberum itinere,
Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:
ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,
Verg. A. 8, 209:
recto grassetur limite miles,
Ov. Tr. 2, 477:
velut rectae acies concurrissent,
in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,
acies,
id. 35, 28:
qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,
Quint. 8, 3, 9:
hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:
adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,
Sen. Const. 5, 5:
rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,
id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:
oculi,
Suet. Aug. 16; cf.
acies,
Ov. M. 2, 776:
lumen,
Luc. 9, 638:
vultus,
Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:
ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,
in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:
saxa,
perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:
rectae prope rupes,
id. 38, 20:
truncus,
Ov. M. 7, 640:
ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,
Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:
caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,
Quint. 11, 3, 69:
homines,
straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,
Quintia,
id. 86, 1:
puella,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:
senectus,
Juv. 3, 26:
iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,
does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:
vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,
Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:
crus Rectius,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:
rectior coma,
smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:
longā trabe rectior exstet,
Ov. M. 3, 78:
crura,
Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:
rectissima linea,
Quint. 3, 6, 83:
via,
id. 12, 2, 27. —
B.
Trop.
1.
In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):
ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:
rectā viā depelli,
Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;
so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,
Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:
recta consilia dare,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:
quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,
Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:
quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,
id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:
sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,
id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:
(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,
id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:
per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),
id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:
recto ac justo proelio dimicare,
Liv. 35, 4 fin.:
rectarum cenarum consuetudo,
a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,
cena,
Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:
recta,
Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:
domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),
Sen. Ep. 100, 6:
nominibus rectis expendere nummos,
i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):
absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,
suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:
rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:
quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:
aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,
Quint. 6, 3, 89:
cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,
id. 8, 5, 6;
so (opp. durum et incomptum),
id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:
mutare aliquid a recto,
id. 2, 13, 11:
recta et vera loquere,
i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:
qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,
Quint. 10, 5, 12:
ea plerumque recta sunt,
id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:
rectior divisio,
Quint. 7, 2, 39:
si quid novisti rectius istis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:
rectissima ratio,
Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
2.
In partic.
a.
Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):
honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,
Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:
nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,
id. Lael. 22, 82;
so with honestum,
id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:
(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:
recta consilia (opp. prava),
Liv. 1, 27:
in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),
Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:
curvo dignoscere rectum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:
mens sibi conscia recti,
Verg. A. 1, 604:
fidem rectumque colebat,
Ov. M. 1, 90:
recta ingenia (opp. perversa),
Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:
in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,
Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:
animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:
natura,
id. S. 1, 6, 66:
ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,
Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:
judex,
Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.
auditor,
Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:
vir rectus et sanctus,
id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:
beatus judicii rectus,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:
rectum est gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
b.
In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;
opp. obliqui casus),
Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
A.
rectā,
B.
rectō,
C.
rectē.
A.
rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):
hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:
jam ad regem rectā me ducam,
id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:
tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,
id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:
Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,
Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
B.
rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):
appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,
Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
C.
rectē.
1.
Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):
vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,
Cato, R. R. 33, 4:
sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,
Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:
satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,
Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
2.
Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):
recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:
fecisti edepol et recte et bene,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;
so with commode,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:
recte et sapienter facit,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:
recte atque ordine factum,
Cic. Quint. 7, 28:
recte atque ordine facere,
id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;
v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:
recte atque in loco constare,
id. Mur. 12, 26:
recte factum,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:
seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:
seu recte seu perperam facere,
Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:
recte dictum (opp. absurde),
Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:
recte concludere (opp. vitiose),
Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:
recte factum (opp. turpiter),
Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:
recte rationem tenes,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:
hercle quin tu recte dicis,
id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:
non recte judicas de Catone,
Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:
rectissime quidem judicas,
id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:
tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,
Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:
monere,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:
admonere recte,
id. Men. 5, 9, 33:
suis amicis recte res suas narrare,
properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:
hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,
consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:
aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,
duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:
alicui recte dare epistulam,
correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:
cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,
safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,
sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,
id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:
alicui suam salutem recte committere,
Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:
si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,
goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:
ludi recte facti,
id. 36, 2:
ver sacrum non esse recte factum,
id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:
valere,
id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:
apud matrem recte est,
i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,
recte esse,
id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:
recte sit oculis tuis,
Gell. 13, 30, 11:
olivetum recte putare,
properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:
solet illa recte sub manus succedere,
well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:
recte cavere,
to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:
deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,
well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,
vortere,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:
alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,
Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:
nec recte loqui alicui,
id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:
nec recte dicere in aliquem,
id. As. 1, 3, 3;
and simply nec recte dicere,
id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:
ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:
hic tibi erit rectius,
Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:
rectius bella gerere,
Liv. 3, 2 fin.:
non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
b.
With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:
locus recte ferax,
Cato, R. R. 44:
salvus sum recte,
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:
morata recte,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:
oneratus recte,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:
non recte vinctus est,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
c.
Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
B.
So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:
rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,
i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,
in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!
Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

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