slackened

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

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

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

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

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

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

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

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

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

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

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

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

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

tela,

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

auxilium castris apertis,

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

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

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

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

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

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

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

In partic.

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

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

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

se,

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

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

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

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

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

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

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

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

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

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

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

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

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

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

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

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

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

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

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

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

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

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

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

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

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

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

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

in laetitiam,

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

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

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

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

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

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

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

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

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

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

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

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

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

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

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

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

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

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

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

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

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

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

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

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

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

vastare,

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

effusius praedari,

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

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

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

vivere,

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

affluant opes,

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

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

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

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

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

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

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

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

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

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

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

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

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

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

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

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

tela,

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

auxilium castris apertis,

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

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

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

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

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

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

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

In partic.

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

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

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

se,

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

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

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

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

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

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

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

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

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

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

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

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

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

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

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

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

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

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

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

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

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

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

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

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

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

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

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

in laetitiam,

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

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

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

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

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

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

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

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

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

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

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

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

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

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

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

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

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

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

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

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

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

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

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

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

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

vastare,

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

effusius praedari,

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

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

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

vivere,

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

affluant opes,

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

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

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

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

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

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

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

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

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

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

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

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

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

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

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

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

tela,

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

auxilium castris apertis,

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

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

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

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

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

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

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

In partic.

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

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

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

se,

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

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

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

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

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

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

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

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

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

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

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

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

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

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

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

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

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

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

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

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

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

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

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

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

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

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

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

in laetitiam,

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

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

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

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

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

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

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

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

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

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

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

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

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

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

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

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

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

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

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

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

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

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

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

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

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

vastare,

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

effusius praedari,

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

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

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

vivere,

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

affluant opes,

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

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

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

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).

Lit.

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. —

In partic.

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. —

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.—

To ingraft:

trunci resecantur, et... deinde feraces plantae immittuntur,

Verg. G. 2, 80.—

Aliquem in bona alicujus, to install, put in possession, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 142.—

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.

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).

Lit.

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. —

In partic.

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. —

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.—

To ingraft:

trunci resecantur, et... deinde feraces plantae immittuntur,

Verg. G. 2, 80.—

Aliquem in bona alicujus, to install, put in possession, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 142.—

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.

laxus, a, um, adj. [cf. languidus, languor, lactes], wide, loose, open; spacious, roomy; opp. adstrictus (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).

Lit.: laxius agmen, Sall. ap. Non. 235, 16:

casses,

Verg. G. 4, 247:

circli,

id. ib. 3, 166:

sinus,

Tib. 1, 6, 18:

toga,

id. 1, 6, 40; 2, 3, 78; cf.:

in pede calceus haeret,

wide, loose, Hor. S. 1, 3, 32:

nuces Ferre sinu laxo,

id. ib. 2, 3, 171:

qua satis laxo spatio equi permitti possent,

Liv. 10, 5; so,

spatium,

wide, roomy, Sen. Ep. 88 med.; cf.:

laxior domus,

Vell. 2, 81:

janua,

open, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 77:

compages,

Verg. A. 1, 122:

mulier,

Mart. 11, 21:

habenae,

Cic. Lael. 13 (v. under II.); Verg. A. 1, 63:

frena,

Ov. Am. 3, 4, 16; cf.:

qui jam contento, jam laxo fune laborat,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 20:

arcus,

slackened, unbent, unstrung, Verg. A. 11, 874:

laxo meditantur arcu cedere campis,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 23:

opes,

large, great, Mart. 2, 30, 4.—

Trop.:

laxissimas habenas habere amicitiae,

very wide, loose, Cic. Lael. 13, 45: si bellum cum eo hoste haberemus, in quo neglegentiae laxior locus esset, greater latitude or scope, Liv. 24, 8; cf.:

laxius imperium,

less strict, more indulgent, Sall. J. 64:

annona,

i. e. reduced, cheap, Liv. 2, 52:

caput,

relaxed, disordered from drinking, Pers. 3, 58:

vox,

pronounced broad, Gell. 13, 20, 12:

laxioribus verbis dicere aliquid,

prolix, diffuse, id. 16, 1, 3.—Of time:

diem statuo satis laxam,

sufficiently distant, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16:

tempus sibi et quidem laxius postulavit,

Plin. Ep. 4, 9 med. —Hence, adv.: laxē, widely, spaciously, loosely.

Lit.:

vis sideris laxe grassantis,

Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 217:

distans,

id. 13, 4, 7, § 33:

aurum laxius dilatatur,

id. 33, 3, 19, § 61:

Mercurii stella laxissime vagatur,

id. 2, 16, 13, § 66:

medio suspendit vincula ponto, Et laxe fluitare sinit,

loosely, freely, Luc. 4, 450:

manus vincire,

loosely, Liv. 9, 10, 7.—

Trop.:

laxius proferre diem,

to put farther off, Cic. Att. 13, 14, 1; cf.:

volo laxius (sc. rem curari),

id. ib. 15, 20, 4:

de munere pastorum alii angustius, alii laxius constituere solent,

a greater number, more, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 10:

in hostico laxius rapto suetis vivere artiores in pace res erant,

more unrestrictedly, more freely, Liv. 28, 24, 6:

Romanos remoto metu laxius licentiusque futuros,

be more relaxed in discipline, more negligent, disorderly, Sall. J. 85.