solid-e

sŏlĭdĭtas, ātis, f. [id.].

Lit., solidness, solidity (good prose), Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17; id. N. D. 1, 19, 49; 1, 38, 105; id. Univ. 5, 13; Pall. Mai, 9, 1.—

Transf. (post-Aug.).

Thickness, Pall. 1, 6, 9; id. Febr. 17, 5. —

Solidity, firmness, Vitr. 2, 6; 2, 8.— Hence, plur. concr.: soliditates, firm or solid masses, Vitr. 7, 3, 7.—

In jurid. Lat., the whole, entirety (opp. a share, part):

possessionis, etc.,

Cod. Just. 4, 52, 2; 11, 35, 2; App. Trism. p. 288 Bip.:

hereditas universorum soliditas singulorum,

Ambros. Psa. 118, Serm. 14, 41.

sŏlĭdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to make firm, dense, or solid; to make whole or sound; to strengthen, fasten together (not ante-Aug., and for the most part only in the pass.; cf.: compono, reficio, stabilio).

Lit.:

(area) cretā solidanda,

Verg. G. 1, 179:

locus fistucationibus solidetur,

Vitr. 7, 1:

terra aëre,

id. 2, 3 fin.:

aedificia sine trabibus,

Tac. A. 15, 43; cf.

muri,

id. H. 2, 19:

ossa fracta,

Plin. 28, 16, 65, § 227; Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 4; cf.:

hi (nervi) incisi solidantur,

Plin. 11, 37, 88, § 218; 24, 16, 95, § 152:

cartilago,

Cels. 8, 6:

fistulae stanno,

Plin. 34, 17, 48, § 160 et saep.— Poet.:

facies solidata veneno,

i. e. against decay, Luc. 8, 691.—

Trop.

To confirm, establish:

rem Romanam,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 33, 11: imperium Romanum ex diuturnā convulsione solidatum, Auct. Pan. ad Const. 1: illud etiam constitutione solidamus, ut, etc., establish, ordain, Cod. Th. 15, 9, 1.—

To unite:

viro uxorem unius corporis compage,

Lact. Epit. 6.—

To correct: rationes, Ps.-Ascon. ap. Cic. Verr. 1, 36.

terra (archaic tera, Varr. L. L. 5, 4, 21), ae ( gen. terras, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.: terraï, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 7 ib. (Ann. v. 479 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 212; 1, 251; 2, 1063; 3, 989 et saep.), f. [perh. Sanscr. root tarsh-, to be dry, thirsty; Lat. torreo, torris; Germ Durst; Engl. thirst; prop. the dry land], the earth, opp. to the heavens, the sea, the air, etc.; land, ground, soil (cf.: tellus, solum).

In gen.:

principio terra universa cernatur, locata in mediā sede mundi, solida et globosa et undique ipsa in sese nutibus suis conglobata, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

terra in medio mundo sita,

id. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

hunc statum esse hujus totius mundi atque naturae, rotundum ut caelum, terra ut media sit, eaque suā vi nutuque teneatur,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 178:

umbra terrae,

id. Rep. 1, 14, 22:

terrae motus,

earthquakes, id. Div. 1, 18, 35; 1, 35, 78; cf. Sen. Q. N. 6, 1, 1 sqq.; Curt. 4, 4 fin.: Plin. 2, 79, 81, § 191 sq.:

res invectae ex terrā,

Cic. Rep. 2, 5, 10:

terra continens adventus hostium denuntiat,

id. ib. 2, 3, 6:

Massilia fere ex tribus oppidi partibus mari alluitur: reliqua quarta est, quae aditum habeat a terrā,

Caes. B. C. 2, 1:

cui parti (insulae) nulla est objecta terra,

id. B. G. 5, 13:

iter terrā petere,

Cic. Planc. 40, 96; cf.:

ipse terrā eodem pergit,

Liv. 31, 16, 3:

esse in terrā atque in tuto loco,

on solid ground, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 87:

ex magnā jactatione terram videns,

Cic. Mur. 2, 4: terrā marique, by land and by water (very freq.), id. Att. 9, 1, 3; id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 56; Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 9, 2; Sall. C. 13, 3; cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

insidiae terrā marique factae,

id. Verr. 1, 2, 3;

the form et terrā et mari is also class.,

id. ib. 2, 2, 39, § 96 (B. and K. bracket the first et); 2, 5, 50, § 131; id. Mur. 15, 33; Liv. 37, 29, 5; Nep. Hann. 10, 2; id. Ham. 1, 2; id. Alcib. 1, 2; Sen. Ep 60, 2; 101, 4;

for which also: bellum terrā et mari comparat,

id. Att. 10, 4, 3:

terrā ac mari,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 2, § 4:

marique terrāque usque quāque quaeritat,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 105:

aut terrā aut mari,

id. Ps. 1, 3, 83:

mari atque terrā,

Sall. C. 53, 2:

mari ac terrā,

Flor. 2, 8, 11:

mari terrāque,

Liv. 37, 11, 9; 37, 52, 3:

natura sic ab his investigata est, ut nulla pars caelo, mari, terrā (ut poëtice loquar) praetermissa sit,

Cic. Fin. 5, 4, 9:

eorum, quae gignuntur e terrā, stirpes et stabilitatem dant iis, quae sustinent, et ex terrā sucum trahunt, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 47, 120:

num qui nummi exciderunt, ere, tibi, quod sic terram Obtuere?

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 17:

tollere saxa de terrā,

Cic. Caecin. 21, 60:

tam crebri ad terram accidebant, quam pira,

Plaut. Poen. 2, 38; so,

ad terram,

id. Capt. 4, 2, 17; id. Pers. 2, 4, 22; id. Rud. 4, 3, 71:

aliquem in terram statuere,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 18:

ne quid in terram defluat,

Cic. Lael. 16, 58:

penitus terrae defigitur arbos,

Verg. G. 2, 290; so. terrae (dat.), id. ib. 2, 318; id. A. 11, 87; Ov. M. 2, 347; Liv. 5, 51, 3; Plin. 14, 21, 27, § 133 al.:

sub terris si jura deum,

in the infernal regions, Prop. 3, 5 (4, 4), 39; cf.:

mei sub terras ibit imago,

Verg. A. 4, 654:

genera terrae,

kinds of earth, Plin. 35, 16, 53, § 191:

Samia terra,

Samian pottery clay, id. 28, 12, 53, § 194: terrae filius, son of earth, i. e. human being, Cic. Att. 1, 13, 4:

terrā orti,

natives of the soil, aborigines, autochthones, Quint. 3, 7, 26: cum aquam terramque ab Lacedaemoniis petierunt, water and earth (as a token of subjection), Liv. 35, 17, 7:

terram edere,

Cels. 2, 7, 7. —

Personified, Terra, the Earth, as a goddess;

usu. called Tellus, Magna Mater, Ceres, Cybele, etc.: jam si est Ceres a gerendo, Terra ipsa dea est et ita habetur: quae est enim alia Tellus?

Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 52; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 5; Ov. F. 6, 299; 6. 460; Hyg. Fab. 55; 140; 152; Naev. 2, 16; Suet. Tib. 75. —

In partic., a land, country, region, territory (cf.: regio, plaga, tractus): Laurentis terra, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 762 P. (Ann. v. 35 Vahl.):

terra erilis patria,

Plaut. Stich. 5. 2, 2; cf.:

in nostrā terrā in Apuliā,

id. Cas. prol. 72:

tua,

id. Men. 2, 1, 4:

mea,

Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 128:

in hac terrā,

Cic. Lael. 4, 13:

in eā terrā (sc. Sicilia),

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 106:

terra Gallia,

Caes. B. G. 1, 30:

terra Italia,

Liv. 25 7, 4 Drak. N. cr.; 29, 10, 5; 30, 32, 6; 38, 47 6; 39, 17, 2;

42, 29, 1: Africa,

id. 29, 23, 10 Hispania, id. 38, 58, 5:

Pharsalia,

id. 33, 6, 11. —In plur.:

in quascumque terras,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 9:

eae terrae,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 47:

qui terras incolunt eas, in quibus, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 16, 42:

abire in aliquas terras,

id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:

(Cimbri) alias terras petierunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77 et saep. — Esp., terrae, the earth, the world:

pecunia tanta, quanta est in terris,

in the whole earth, in the world, Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

quid erat in terris, ubi, etc.,

id. Phil. 2, 19, 48; 2, 20, 50; 2, 23, 57; id. Cael. 5, 12:

ruberes Viveret in terris te si quis avarior,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 157; Sen. Prov. 2, 9; so,

aureus hanc vitam in terris Saturnus agebat,

Verg. G. 2, 538:

terrarum cura,

id. ib. 1, 26. — Ante-class., also in terrā, in the world:

quibus nunc in terrā melius est?

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 100:

scelestiorem in terrā nullam esse alteram,

id. Cist. 4, 1, 8; id. Mil. 1, 1, 52; 2, 3, 42; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 51; id. Aul. 5, 9, 12; id. Curc. 1, 2, 51.—Hence also the phrase orbis terrarum, the world, the whole world, all nations:

quae orbem terrarum implevere famā,

Plin. 36, 36, 13, § 76:

Graecia in toto orbe terrarum potentissima,

id. 18, 7, 12, § 65:

cujus tres testes essent totum orbem terrarum nostro imperio teneri,

Cic. Balb. 6, 16; but freq. also orbis terrarum, the world, i. e. the empire of Rome:

orbis terrarum gentiumque omnium,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 33; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 36, 103;

while orbis terrae,

the globe, the earth, the world, id. Phil. 13, 15, 30; id. Fam. 5, 7, 3; id. Fl. 41, 103; id. Agr. 1, 1, 2;

but also with ref. to the Roman dominion,

id. de Or. 3, 32, 131; id. Sull. 11, 33; id. Dom. 42, 110; id. Phil. 8, 3, 10; id. Off, 2, 8, 27; id. Cat. 1, 1, 3; cf.

of the Senate: publicum orbis terrae consilium,

id. Fam. 3, 8, 4; id. Cat. 1, 4, 9; id. Phil. 3, 14, 34; 4, 6, 14; 7, 7, 19;

v. orbis: quoquo hinc asportabitur terrarum, certum est persequi,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 18: ubi terrarum esses, ne suspicabar quidem, in what country, or where in the world, Cic. Att. 5, 10, 4, so, ubi terrarum, id. Rab. Post. 13, 37:

ubicumque terrarum,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 55, § 143; id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.

terra (archaic tera, Varr. L. L. 5, 4, 21), ae ( gen. terras, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.: terraï, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 7 ib. (Ann. v. 479 Vahl.); Lucr. 1, 212; 1, 251; 2, 1063; 3, 989 et saep.), f. [perh. Sanscr. root tarsh-, to be dry, thirsty; Lat. torreo, torris; Germ Durst; Engl. thirst; prop. the dry land], the earth, opp. to the heavens, the sea, the air, etc.; land, ground, soil (cf.: tellus, solum).

In gen.:

principio terra universa cernatur, locata in mediā sede mundi, solida et globosa et undique ipsa in sese nutibus suis conglobata, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

terra in medio mundo sita,

id. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

hunc statum esse hujus totius mundi atque naturae, rotundum ut caelum, terra ut media sit, eaque suā vi nutuque teneatur,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 178:

umbra terrae,

id. Rep. 1, 14, 22:

terrae motus,

earthquakes, id. Div. 1, 18, 35; 1, 35, 78; cf. Sen. Q. N. 6, 1, 1 sqq.; Curt. 4, 4 fin.: Plin. 2, 79, 81, § 191 sq.:

res invectae ex terrā,

Cic. Rep. 2, 5, 10:

terra continens adventus hostium denuntiat,

id. ib. 2, 3, 6:

Massilia fere ex tribus oppidi partibus mari alluitur: reliqua quarta est, quae aditum habeat a terrā,

Caes. B. C. 2, 1:

cui parti (insulae) nulla est objecta terra,

id. B. G. 5, 13:

iter terrā petere,

Cic. Planc. 40, 96; cf.:

ipse terrā eodem pergit,

Liv. 31, 16, 3:

esse in terrā atque in tuto loco,

on solid ground, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 87:

ex magnā jactatione terram videns,

Cic. Mur. 2, 4: terrā marique, by land and by water (very freq.), id. Att. 9, 1, 3; id. Imp. Pomp. 19, 56; Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 9, 2; Sall. C. 13, 3; cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

insidiae terrā marique factae,

id. Verr. 1, 2, 3;

the form et terrā et mari is also class.,

id. ib. 2, 2, 39, § 96 (B. and K. bracket the first et); 2, 5, 50, § 131; id. Mur. 15, 33; Liv. 37, 29, 5; Nep. Hann. 10, 2; id. Ham. 1, 2; id. Alcib. 1, 2; Sen. Ep 60, 2; 101, 4;

for which also: bellum terrā et mari comparat,

id. Att. 10, 4, 3:

terrā ac mari,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 2, § 4:

marique terrāque usque quāque quaeritat,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 105:

aut terrā aut mari,

id. Ps. 1, 3, 83:

mari atque terrā,

Sall. C. 53, 2:

mari ac terrā,

Flor. 2, 8, 11:

mari terrāque,

Liv. 37, 11, 9; 37, 52, 3:

natura sic ab his investigata est, ut nulla pars caelo, mari, terrā (ut poëtice loquar) praetermissa sit,

Cic. Fin. 5, 4, 9:

eorum, quae gignuntur e terrā, stirpes et stabilitatem dant iis, quae sustinent, et ex terrā sucum trahunt, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 47, 120:

num qui nummi exciderunt, ere, tibi, quod sic terram Obtuere?

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 17:

tollere saxa de terrā,

Cic. Caecin. 21, 60:

tam crebri ad terram accidebant, quam pira,

Plaut. Poen. 2, 38; so,

ad terram,

id. Capt. 4, 2, 17; id. Pers. 2, 4, 22; id. Rud. 4, 3, 71:

aliquem in terram statuere,

Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 18:

ne quid in terram defluat,

Cic. Lael. 16, 58:

penitus terrae defigitur arbos,

Verg. G. 2, 290; so. terrae (dat.), id. ib. 2, 318; id. A. 11, 87; Ov. M. 2, 347; Liv. 5, 51, 3; Plin. 14, 21, 27, § 133 al.:

sub terris si jura deum,

in the infernal regions, Prop. 3, 5 (4, 4), 39; cf.:

mei sub terras ibit imago,

Verg. A. 4, 654:

genera terrae,

kinds of earth, Plin. 35, 16, 53, § 191:

Samia terra,

Samian pottery clay, id. 28, 12, 53, § 194: terrae filius, son of earth, i. e. human being, Cic. Att. 1, 13, 4:

terrā orti,

natives of the soil, aborigines, autochthones, Quint. 3, 7, 26: cum aquam terramque ab Lacedaemoniis petierunt, water and earth (as a token of subjection), Liv. 35, 17, 7:

terram edere,

Cels. 2, 7, 7. —

Personified, Terra, the Earth, as a goddess;

usu. called Tellus, Magna Mater, Ceres, Cybele, etc.: jam si est Ceres a gerendo, Terra ipsa dea est et ita habetur: quae est enim alia Tellus?

Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 52; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 5; Ov. F. 6, 299; 6. 460; Hyg. Fab. 55; 140; 152; Naev. 2, 16; Suet. Tib. 75. —

In partic., a land, country, region, territory (cf.: regio, plaga, tractus): Laurentis terra, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 762 P. (Ann. v. 35 Vahl.):

terra erilis patria,

Plaut. Stich. 5. 2, 2; cf.:

in nostrā terrā in Apuliā,

id. Cas. prol. 72:

tua,

id. Men. 2, 1, 4:

mea,

Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 128:

in hac terrā,

Cic. Lael. 4, 13:

in eā terrā (sc. Sicilia),

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 106:

terra Gallia,

Caes. B. G. 1, 30:

terra Italia,

Liv. 25 7, 4 Drak. N. cr.; 29, 10, 5; 30, 32, 6; 38, 47 6; 39, 17, 2;

42, 29, 1: Africa,

id. 29, 23, 10 Hispania, id. 38, 58, 5:

Pharsalia,

id. 33, 6, 11. —In plur.:

in quascumque terras,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 9:

eae terrae,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 47:

qui terras incolunt eas, in quibus, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 16, 42:

abire in aliquas terras,

id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:

(Cimbri) alias terras petierunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77 et saep. — Esp., terrae, the earth, the world:

pecunia tanta, quanta est in terris,

in the whole earth, in the world, Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62:

quid erat in terris, ubi, etc.,

id. Phil. 2, 19, 48; 2, 20, 50; 2, 23, 57; id. Cael. 5, 12:

ruberes Viveret in terris te si quis avarior,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 157; Sen. Prov. 2, 9; so,

aureus hanc vitam in terris Saturnus agebat,

Verg. G. 2, 538:

terrarum cura,

id. ib. 1, 26. — Ante-class., also in terrā, in the world:

quibus nunc in terrā melius est?

Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 100:

scelestiorem in terrā nullam esse alteram,

id. Cist. 4, 1, 8; id. Mil. 1, 1, 52; 2, 3, 42; id. Bacch. 5, 2, 51; id. Aul. 5, 9, 12; id. Curc. 1, 2, 51.—Hence also the phrase orbis terrarum, the world, the whole world, all nations:

quae orbem terrarum implevere famā,

Plin. 36, 36, 13, § 76:

Graecia in toto orbe terrarum potentissima,

id. 18, 7, 12, § 65:

cujus tres testes essent totum orbem terrarum nostro imperio teneri,

Cic. Balb. 6, 16; but freq. also orbis terrarum, the world, i. e. the empire of Rome:

orbis terrarum gentiumque omnium,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 33; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 36, 103;

while orbis terrae,

the globe, the earth, the world, id. Phil. 13, 15, 30; id. Fam. 5, 7, 3; id. Fl. 41, 103; id. Agr. 1, 1, 2;

but also with ref. to the Roman dominion,

id. de Or. 3, 32, 131; id. Sull. 11, 33; id. Dom. 42, 110; id. Phil. 8, 3, 10; id. Off, 2, 8, 27; id. Cat. 1, 1, 3; cf.

of the Senate: publicum orbis terrae consilium,

id. Fam. 3, 8, 4; id. Cat. 1, 4, 9; id. Phil. 3, 14, 34; 4, 6, 14; 7, 7, 19;

v. orbis: quoquo hinc asportabitur terrarum, certum est persequi,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 18: ubi terrarum esses, ne suspicabar quidem, in what country, or where in the world, Cic. Att. 5, 10, 4, so, ubi terrarum, id. Rab. Post. 13, 37:

ubicumque terrarum,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 55, § 143; id. Phil. 2, 44, 113.