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1 celebrō
celebrō āvī, ātus, āre [celeber], to frequent, throng, crowd, fill: viae multitudine legatorum celebrabantur: genus spectaculi omni frequentiā hominum: alqm magistratum, Tb.: silvas, O.: coetum celebrate faventes, V.—To do frequently, practise, engage in, reiterate, dwell upon, repeat: ad eas artes celebrandas: modus transferendi verbi, quem iucunditas celebravit, made frequent: popularem potestatem, kept in the foreground, L.: seria ac iocos cum aliquo, L.—To celebrate, solemnize, keep: festos dies: (dies) celebratus per omnem Africam, S.: natales, H.: coniugia, V.: exsequias, L.: totā celebrante Siciliā sepultus est, N. —To fill with, cause to resound: contiones convicio cantorum: ripas carmine, O.: cuius nuntiis celebrantur aures meae, i. e. are filled. — To make known, publish abroad, proclaim: factum esse consulem Murenam: quod vocibus maledictisque celebratum est.—To honor, praise, celebrate with praise, celebrate in song: Caesaris laudes: fortuna res cunctas celebrat, S.: talia carminibus, V.: se remque p. haec faciundo, to make renowned, S.: victoriam famā, Ta.* * *celebrare, celebravi, celebratus V TRANScelebrate/perform; frequent; honor/glorify; publicize/advertise; discuss/bandy -
2 con-celebrō
con-celebrō āvī, ātus, āre, to attend in numbers, frequent, celebrate, solemnize: funus, L.: at rem concelebrandam putavit: dapes, O. — To honor, praise: genium choreis, Tb.—To prosecute eagerly: studia per otium.—To publish, proclaim, celebrate: virtutis concelebrandae causā: famā victoriam, Cs. -
3 exerceō
exerceō uī, itus, ēre [ex + arceo], to drive, keep busy, keep at work, oversee, work, agitate: taures, V.: te exercebo hodie, keep agoing, T.: (Maeandros) Incertas exercet aquas, O.: vomere collīs, V.: rura bubus, H.: humum in messem, V.: agros, Ta.: telas (aranea), O.: arva exercenda, Ta.: undas Exercet Auster, H.: diem, i. e. employ in labor, V.—Fig., to engage busily, occupy, employ, exercise, train, discipline: quid te exercuit Pammenes? copias, Cs.: exercendae memoriae gratiā: in bello alqm: in gramineis membra palaestris, V.: vocem et virīs in hoc: Litibus linguas, O.: exerceri in venando: se in his dictionibus: se genere venationis, Cs.: cui (Iovi) se exercebit, in whose honor: ceteris in campo exercentibus: exercendi consuetudo, of exercising ourselves: pueros exercendi causā producere, L.— To practise, follow, exercise, employ oneself about, make use of, ply: medicinae exercendae causā: artem, H.: palaestras, V.: arma, V.: vanos in aëra morsūs, O.: acies pueriles, mock fights, Iu. — To follow up, follow out, prosecute, carry into effect, practise, administer: iudicium: latam legem, L.: imperia, V.: cum illo inimicitias, S.: odium in prole, O.: facilitatem animi: avaritiam in socios, L.: acerrume victoriam nobilitatis in plebem, S.: foede victoriam in captis, L.: odium, O.: pacem et hymenaeos, solemnize, V. — To disturb, disquiet, vex, plague: me vehementer: te exercent numinis irae, V.: animos hominum, S.: simultates et exercuerunt eum et ipse exercuit eas, L.: toto exerceor anno, O.: curis exercita corpora, O.* * *exercere, exercui, exercitus Vexercise, train, drill, practice; enforce, administer; cultivate -
4 celebro
cĕlē̆bro, āvi, ātum, v. a. [id.].I.To go to a place or person in great numbers or often, to frequent, to fill (syn. frequento;b.class.): deūm delubra festis diebus,
Lucr. 5, 1167:viam,
Cic. Cael. 14, 34; id. Sest. 63, 131:domum alicujus,
id. Mur. 34, 70:atria,
Ov. M. 1, 172:silvas,
id. ib. 10, 703:tecta,
id. ib. 4, 444:forum,
id. ib. 4, 144; cf.:forum maxime celebratum,
Sall. J. 47, 1:Penates, i. e. domum redire,
Tib. 1, 3, 33:me magistrum,
id. 1, 4, 75.—Of a desired action (cf. celeber, B.), to do something frequently or in multitudes, to practise, engage in, say, use, employ, repeat, = frequento, etc.:c.intro abite atque haec cito celebrate,
i. e. in company, all together, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 36:ad eas artes, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus, celebrandas inter nosque recolendas,
Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2:cognitionem exercitationemque,
id. ib. 3, 28, 110:genus divinationis,
id. Div. 1, 2, 3; cf.:celebratum genus mortis,
a kind of death suffered by many, Tac. H. 2, 49 fin.:necessitatem,
Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 155:jurisdictionem,
Liv. 6, 32, 1:popularem potestatem,
id. 2, 42, 6:iambum,
Quint. 10, 1, 96:seria ac jocos cum aliquo,
Liv. 1, 4, 9.—Aliquid aliquā re, to fill up with something:II.contiones suas convicio cantorum,
Cic. Sest. 55, 118:ripas carmine,
Ov. M. 2, 252 (cf.:concelebrant ripas,
Lucr. 2, 345):cujus litteris, famā, nuntiis celebrantur aures cottidie meae,
i. e. are filled, full, Cic. Prov. Cons. 9, 22.— Poet.: juvenes multo sermone, to talk much with [p. 309] them, Tib. 1, 6, 17.—Meton.A.To go in great numbers to a celebration; hence, in gen., to celebrate, solemnize, keep a festival:B.festos dies,
Cic. Arch. 6, 13; cf.:is (dies) festus celebratusque per omnem Africam,
Sall. J. 66, 2; Cic. Pis. 22, 51; id. Cat. 3, 10, 23; Liv. 10, 37, 12; Tac. A. 15, 53; Suet. Aug. 75; id. Tib. 65 init.; Hor. S. 2, 2, 61; Ov. M. 4, 4:convivium omnium sermone laetitiāque,
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66; Liv. 40, 14, 2; Tac. A. 4, 59; cf.coetum,
Verg. A. 1, 735:conjugia,
id. ib. 7, 555; cf.nuptias,
Liv. 36, 11, 2; cf.:solemnia nuptiarum,
Tac. A. 11, 26 fin.:officium nuptiarum,
Suet. Claud. 26; and poet.:taedas jugales Thetidis,
Cat. 64, 302:annua sacra,
Verg. A. 8, 173; cf. id. ib. 5, 598 and 603: funus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 117; cf.exsequias,
Liv. 25, 17, 5; 37, 22, 2:diem natalem Vitellii,
Tac. H. 2, 95; Lact. 1, 20, 6; Plin. Ep. 10, 102 (103):natales,
id. ib. 6, 30, 1; Tac. A. 6, 18; and absol.:totā celebrante Siciliā sepultus est,
Nep. Timol. 5 fin. —To honor, praise, celebrate the praises of a person or thing, to celebrate in song (syn.:C.colere, laudare, illustrare): laus, quae non poetarum carminibus, non annalium monumentis celebratur,
Cic. Rab. Post. 16, 43; cf. id. Planc. 39, 93:vestrum egressum ornando atque celebrando,
id. Pis. 13, 31:fortuna res cunctas ex libidine magis quam ex vero celebrat obscuratque,
Sall. C. 8, 1:talia carminibus,
Verg. A. 8, 303:nomen alicujus scriptis,
Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 1:facta pro maxumis,
Sall. C. 8, 3:domestica facta,
Hor. A. P. 287: se remque publicam haec faciundo, to make renowned, Sall J. 85, 36: Mari virtutem in majus ( = epi to meizon kosmein), id. ib. 73, 5:augereque aliquem,
id. ib. 86, 3: honores alicujus, celebrate one ' s honor, Verg. A. 12, 840:memoriam,
Tac. H. 1, 78:victoriam ingenti fama,
id. Agr. 39 al.:virum aut heroa lyrā, etc.,
Hor. C. 1, 12, 2:sepulcrum hominum conventu et epulis,
Cic. Fl. 38, 95:memoriam nominis epulis,
id. Fin. 2, 31, 103:litora ludis,
Verg. A. 3, 280:sententiam magno assensu,
Tac. A. 15, 22:mortem funere censorio,
id. ib. 6, 27:aliquem admiratione,
id. H. 2, 71:obsequio,
id. A. 16, 33:funere publico,
id. ib. 6, 11 fin. —Without the access. idea of extolling, in gen., to make something known, to publish abroad, proclaim:I.quibus in locis factum esse consulem Murenam nuntii litteraeque celebrassent,
Cic. Mur. 41, 89:quod vocibus maledictisque celebratum est,
id. Cael. 3, 6:quā re celebratā,
id. Div. 1, 17, 31.— cĕlĕbrā-tus, a, um, P. a.(Acc. to I. a.) Frequented, much visited:B.forum rerum venalium totius regni maxime celebratum,
Sall. J. 47, 1.—(Acc. to I. b.) Customary, usual, frequent:II.tritum atque celebratum,
Cic. Fl. 27, 65:celebratum est usque in proverbium,
Quint. 1, 10, 21:schemata,
id. 9, 2, 92:usus anuli celebratior,
Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 28:verbum celebratius,
Gell. 17, 2, 25 (cf. id. 17, 2, 25, § 17: verbum crebrius, and id. 17, 2, 25, § 18: verbum creberrimum).—(Acc. to II. A.) Solemn, festive, brilliant:B.dies celebratior,
Ov. M. 7, 430:supplicatio celebratior,
Liv. 3, 63, 5.—(Acc. to II. B.) Known, celebrated, famous:loci famā celebrati,
Tac. A. 2, 54:quo Actiacae victoriae memoria celebratior in posterum esset,
Suet. Aug. 18.— Adv., v. celebriter. -
5 concelebro
con-cĕlē̆bro, āvi, ātum, 1, v..a. (a strengthened celebro; rare but class.).I.To resort to in multitudes or frequently, to frequent:b. c.variae volucres loca aquarum Concelebrant,
Lucr. 2, 345:convivia et passim et tributim,
Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 11, 44. —Aliquid aliquā re, or absol., to fill, animate, enliven, cause to abound with any thing:II.suavi cantu concelebra omnem hanc Plateam hymenaeo,
Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 2:levia carmina cantu,
Lucr. 5, 1381:alma Venus quae terras concelebras,
who hast filled with life, id. 1, 4.—Meton.A.To celebrate a solemnity in great numbers, to celebrate, solemnize:B.diem natalem,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 32; cf.:dies carnificum,
id. As. 2, 2, 45:funus,
Liv. 8, 7, 22:at jam quoque rem (sc. triumphum) populus Romanus omnium studio omni visendam et concelebrandam putavit,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 21, 61 Orell. N. cr.:spectaculum, etc.,
Liv. 1, 9, 7:dapes,
Ov. F 4, 354.—To honor, praise, extol:C.genium choreis,
Tib. 1, 7, 49.—To publish abroad, make known:summae virtutis concelebrandae causā Graii... monumentum statuerunt,
Cic. Inv. 2, 23, 70:rumorem,
Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 13, 50: multis indu locis sermonibu' concelebrarunt, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 275, 2:famā ac litteris victoriam,
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6 exerceo
ex-ercĕo, ŭi, itum, 2, v. a. [arceo], to drive on, keep busy, keep at work; to oversee, superintend; with an inanimate object, to work, work at, employ one's self about a thing.I.Lit. (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose):II.quod in opere faciundo operae consumis tuae, Si sumas in illis (servis) exercendis, plus agas,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 22; cf.:homines qui agrum colunt, et qui eos exercent praepositive sunt his, quorum in numero sunt vilici et monitores,
who oversee them, Dig. 33, 7, 8:exercete, viri, tauros,
Verg. G. 1, 210:i sane, ego te exercebo hodie, ut dignus es,
keep agoing, exercise, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 48:corpora assiduo varioque exercita motu, etc.,
driven, impelled, Lucr. 2, 97; cf. id. 4, 862; 2, 120; and:exercita cursu Flumina (with fontes liquidi),
Verg. G. 3, 529 Wagn.:(Maeandros) Incertas exercet aquas,
Ov. M. 8, 165:exercere feras,
to drive, hunt, Dig. 7, 1, 62: Mi. Gestiunt pugni mihi. So. Si in me exercituru's, quaeso in parietem ut primum domes, to let loose, set them at me, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 168:litus arant Rutulosque exercent vomere colles,
work, till, Verg. A. 7, 798:solum presso sub vomere,
id. G. 2, 356:rura bubus,
Hor. Epod. 2, 3:humum in messem,
Verg. G. 1, 219:vineas, arbusta, campos (with curare),
Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 16:agrum multis arationibus,
Pall. Jan. 13, 2:pinguia culta,
Verg. A. 10, 142:ferrum vasto in antro (Cyclopes),
id. ib. 8, 424:telas (aranea),
Ov. M. 6, 145 al.; cf.: neque arva nobis aut metalla aut portus sunt, quibus exercendis reservemur, Tac. Agr. 31.— Poet.:ut possint (aratores), sole reducto, Exercere diem,
i. e. employ the day in labor, perform their day's work, Verg. A. 10, 808.Trop. (freq. and class.).A. (α).Aliquem or aliquid ( in aliqua re, ad aliquid, aliqua re, etc.):(β).me adolescentem multos annos in studio ejusdem laudis (Hortensius) exercuit,
Cic. Brut. 64, 230:quod genus belli esse potest, in quo illum non exercuerit fortuna rei publicae,
id. de Imp. Pomp. 10, 28:a Diodoto studiosissime in dialectica exercebar,
id. Brut. 90, 309; cf. id. de Or. 1, 57, 244:hanc (animi vim) tu exerce in optimis rebus,
id. Rep. 6, 26:haec aetas (juvenum) exercenda in labore patientiaque et animi et corporis,
id. Off. 1, 34, 122:animos in armis,
Ov. Am. 1, 8, 41:in gramineis exercent membra palaestris,
Verg. A. 6, 642:vocem et vires in hoc,
Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 149 et saep.:Aristoteles adolescentes... ad copiam rhetorum in utramque partem exercuit,
id. Or. 14, 46:ad hanc te amentiam natura peperit, voluntas exercuit,
id. Cat. 1, 10, 25:facultatem dicendi his exercuerunt,
Quint. 2, 4, 41:ingenium multiplici variaque materia,
id. 2, 4, 20:linguas litibus,
Ov. M. 6, 375 et saep.—With simple acc.:quid te exercuit Pammenes?
Cic. Brut. 97, 332:Induciomarus copias cogere, exercere coepit,
to exercise, drill, Caes. B. G. 5, 55, 3:juventutis exercendae causa,
id. ib. 6, 23, 6:ingenium nostrum,
Auct. Her. 3, 21, 34:corpus,
Cic. de Off. 1, 23, 79:exercendae memoriae gratia,
id. de Sen. 11, 38:exercendi stili,
Quint. 10, 5, 15:exercendus est spiritus,
id. 11, 3, 54 et saep.—With se, or pass. in mid. force; and in part. praes. and gerund., to exercise or train one's self, to practise:B.si ad hoc unum est natus aut in hoc solo se exercuit, etc.,
Cic. Or. 28, 99:se vehementissime in his subitis dictionibus,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152:se in consultationibus,
id. Att. 9, 4, 3:sese ad cursuram,
Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 5:se ad velitationem,
id. Rud. 2, 6, 41:sese quotidianis commentationibus,
Cic. Brut. 71, 249:se genere pugnae,
Caes. B. G. 1, 48, 4:se genere venationis,
id. ib. 6, 28, 3:se saliendo,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 25:cur non in utrumque protinus locum se exerceant?
Quint. 4, 2, 29 Zumpt N. cr.:Jovem Olympium, eum ipsum, cui se exercebit, implorabit,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 40:cum athletas se exercentes in curriculo videret,
id. de Sen. 9, 27; so,ad virtutem,
Vulg. 1 Tim. 4, 7.—Mid.: ut exerceamur in venando,
Cic. N. D. 2, 64, 161:ut in utrumque locum simul exerceamur,
Quint. 5, 13, 50:faciunt idem, cum exercentur, athletae,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 56:Ciceronis pueri amant inter se, discunt, exercentur,
id. Att. 6, 1, 12:ne aliter exerceri velint,
Quint. 3, 8, 70:in mandatis tuis exercebor,
Vulg. Psa. 118, 15.— Act. part. in mid. force:cum, ceteris in campo exercentibus, in herba ipse recubuisset,
Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 287; so,ipsique dictata exercentibus darent,
Suet. Caes. 26:spectavit assidue et exercentes ephebos,
id. Aug. 98; cf.:si ludicra exercendi aut venandi consuetudine adamare solemus,
of exercising ourselves, Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 69, v. Madv. ad h. l.—To practise, follow, exercise any employment; to employ one's self about, to make use of any thing:2.medicinae exercendae causa,
Cic. Clu. 63, 178:hoc civile quod vocant eatenus exercuerunt, quoad populum praestare voluerunt,
id. Leg. 1, 4, 14:rhetoricen,
Quint. 2, 1, 3; 2, 15, 27:eloquentiam,
id. 1, 4, 6:artem,
id. 3, 6, 18; cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 44:exercere atque exigere vectigalia,
Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 6, 16:cauponam vel stabulum,
Dig. 4, 9, 1, § 5:navem,
ib. 14, 1, 1:auri, argenti, sulphuris, etc.... fodinas,
ib. 7, 1, 13, § 5:negotiationem per libertos,
ib. 26, 7, 58:commercium turis,
Plin. 12, 14, 30, § 54:arma,
Verg. A. 4, 87:arma contra patriam,
Tac. A. 11, 16:gymnasia et otia et turpes amores,
id. ib. 6, 1:acies pueriles,
batiles in sport, Juv. 15, 60:pharetram et arcum,
Val. Fl. 3, 161:vocem (with clamare),
Plaut. Poen. prol. 13.—To follow up, follow out, prosecute, carry into effect, practise, administer:C.judicium,
Cic. Arch. 12, 32:latam legem,
Liv. 4, 51, 4:Tiberius exercendas leges esse respondit,
Tac. A. 1, 72: [p. 684] legem praecipue sumptuariam, Suet. Caes. 43; id. Tib. 58:quaestionem inter sicarios,
Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 54:regnum,
Plin. 10, 21, 24, § 47; cf.imperia,
Verg. G. 2, 370:crudelitatem non solum in vivo sed etiam in mortuo,
Cic. Phil. 11, 3, 8:inimicitias,
id. Div. in Caecil. 4, 13; cf.:graves inimicitias cum aliquo,
Sall. C. 49, 2:gratiam aut inimicitias in tanta re,
id. ib. 51, 16:jurgia, discordia, simultates cum hostibus,
id. ib. 9, 2:cui exercita cum Pisone amicitia,
Tac. A. 1, 14:licentiam,
id. ib. 13, 47:amicitiam,
id. ib. 15, 60:odium,
id. ib. 13, 37:odium in aliquo,
Ov. M. 9, 275 et saep.:facilitatem et lenitudinem animi,
Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88:juris aequabilitatem,
id. ib.; cf.justitiam,
Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 10:scelus, libidinem, avaritiam in socios,
Liv. 29, 17, 13; cf.:avaritiam (juvenes) exercere jubentur,
Juv. 14, 108:foede victoriam in captis,
Liv. 6, 22, 4:acerrume victoriam nobilitatis in plebem,
Sall. J. 16, 2:foede et crudeliter victoriam,
id. C. 38:amores ad aliquem,
Cat. 68, 69:pacem et hymenaeos,
to celebrate, solemnize, Verg. A. 4, 99:nomen patris,
to bear his name, Plin. Pan. 21, 4 et saep.—Pregn., to disturb, disquiet, vex, plague (the figure being taken from the baiting of wild beasts):A.meos casus, in quibus me fortuna vehementer exercuit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 3:nunc me reliquiae vestrae exercent,
id. Fam. 12, 4, 1:non te nullius exercent numinis irae,
Verg. G. 4, 453:aliquem odiis,
id. A. 4, 622 et saep.:te de praedio Oviae exerceri, moleste fero,
Cic. Att. 13, 22, 4:ergo exercentur poenis,
Verg. A, 6, 739:hominum vitam curis,
Lucr. 5, 1424:ambitio animos hominum exercet,
Sall. C. 11, 1:simultates nimio plures et exercuerunt eum et ipse exercuit eas,
Liv. 39, 40, 9.—In the part. perf.:nate, Iliacis exercite fatis,
Verg. A. 3, 182:Venus exercita curis,
id. ib. 5, 779; cf.:curis exercita corpora,
Ov. M. 7, 634:adversis probitas exercita rebus,
id. Tr. 5, 5, 49: habere aliquem exercitum, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 6, 4.—Hence, exercĭ-tus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II. C.).Vexed, harassed:B.scito nihil tam exercitum esse nunc Romae quam candidatos omnibus iniquitatibus,
Cic. Att. 1, 11, 2:Tiberius tantis rebus,
Tac. A. 4, 11.— Hence,Vexatious, severe:C.quid magis sollicitum, magis exercitum dici potest?
Cic. Mil. 2, 5:finem tam exercitae militiae orabant,
Tac. A. 1, 35:dura hiems, exercita aestas,
id. ib. 1, 17:aestas (with inquieta),
Plin. Ep. 7, 2, 2:infantiam pueritiamque habuit laboriosam et exercitam,
Suet. Tib. 6 init. —Disciplined:(miles) exercitatus et vetus ob eam rem fortior (opp. rudis et inexercitatus),
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38:mirum in modum juventus,
Flor. 1, 3, 2:proprio in metu, qui exercitam quoque eloquentiam debilitat,
Tac. A. 3, 67:militia,
id. ib. 3, 20:ad omne flagitium,
id. ib. 14, 2:ingenium adulatione,
id. H. 4, 4:Graeca doctrina ore tenus,
id. A. 15, 45.— Comp. and sup.: exercitiorem, exercitissimum (dicebant antiqui), Paul. ex Fest. p. 81, 8 Müll. — Adv.: exercĭtē, in a practised manner; in comp.:cogitare,
App. M. 11, p. 272, 6.
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