spoken

āmēn [ ; Gr. amên] (eccl. Lat.).

Adj., true, faithful: (tu Deus) fecisti mirabilia, cogitationes fideles, amen (Heb. = verity), Vulg. Isa. 25, 1.—

Subst., truth, faith fulness:

qui benedictus est, benedicetur in Deo amen,

in the God of faithfulness, Vulg. Isa. 65, 16: haec dicit Amen (Gr. ho Amên), He that is True, ib. Apoc. 3, 14.—

Most freq. adv.

Prop., to confirm words spoken by one's self or another, So be it; Fr. Ainsi soit-il; LXX. genoito, Amen:

et respondebit omnis populus, Amen,

Vulg. Deut. 27, 15; 5, 22 et saep.:

Gratia vobiscum, Amen,

ib. 2 Tim. 4, 21:

cui (Deo) honor et gloria in saecula saeculorum, Amen,

ib. Rom. 16, 27 et saep. —

In gen., truly, surely, verily; very freq. in the phrase. Amen dico vobis, Vulg. Matt. 5, 18 al.; ib. Marc. 3, 28 al.; ib. Luc. 4, 24 al.;

and in St. John: Amen, amen dico vobis,

ib. Joan. 1, 51 al. (The a is long in Aus. Eph. ap. Orat. fin., and Prud. Cath. 4, 72, but short in Paul. Nol. Poëm. 17 ad Nicet. 117.)

caedo, cĕcīdi (in MSS. freq. caecīdi, v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 460), caesum, 3, v. a. [root cīd- for scid-; cf. scindo; Gr. schizô].

Lit.

In gen.

To cut, hew, lop, cut down, fell, cut off, cut to pieces: caesa abiegna trabes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75 (Trag. v. 281 Vahl.):

frondem querneam caedito,

Cato, R. R. 5, 8:

arbores,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; Ov. M. 9, 230:

robur,

Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86; Ov. M. 8, 769:

lignum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3. 63: silvam, Varr ap. Non. p. 272, 5; Lucr. 5, 1265; Caes. B. G. 3, 29; Ov. M. 8, 329; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.; Pall. Mai, 4, 1:

nemus,

Ov. M. 2, 418; cf. id. ib. 1, 94; 9, 230; 9, 374;

14, 535: harundinem,

Dig. 7, 1, 59, § 2:

arboris auctum,

Lucr. 6, 167:

comam vitis,

Tib. 1, 7, 34:

faenum,

Col. 2, 18, 1:

murus latius quam caederetur ruebat,

Liv. 21, 11, 9:

caesis montis fodisse medullis,

Cat. 68, 111; so,

caedi montis in marmora,

Plin. 12, prooem. §

2: lapis caedendus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

silicem,

id. Div. 2, 41, 85:

marmor,

Dig. 24, 3, 7, § 13:

toga rotunda et apte caesa,

cut out, Quint. 11, 3, 139: caedunt securibus umida vina, with axes they cut out the wine (formerly liquid, now frozen), Verg. G. 3, 364: volutas, to carve or hollow out volutes, Vitr. 3, 3: tineae omnia caedunt, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 272, 14.—

Prov.:

ut vineta egomet caedam mea,

i. e. carry my own hide to market, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 220 (proverbium in eos dicitur, qui sibi volentes nocent, Schol. Crucq.; cf. Tib. 1, 2, 98; Verg. A. 5, 672).—

Ruta caesa; v ruo, P. a.—

In gen., to strike upon something, to knock at, to beat, strike, cudgel, etc.:

ut lapidem ferro quom caedimus evolat ignis,

strike upon with iron, Lucr. 6, 314:

caedere januam saxis,

Cic. Verr 2, 1, 27, § 69:

silicem rostro,

Liv. 41, 13, 1:

vasa dolabris,

Curt. 5, 6, 5:

femur, pectus, frontem,

Quint. 2, 12, 10; cf. id. 11, 3, 123 al.:

verberibus,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 45; so Ter. And. 1, 2, 28:

pugnis,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, [p. 262] 43:

aliquem ex occulto,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 17:

at validis socios caedebant dentibus apri,

they fell with their strong tusks upon their own party, Lucr. 5, 1325; cf. Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 71:

virgis ad necem caedi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69; Hor. S. 1, 2, 42:

populum saxis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 128:

ferulā aliquem,

id. ib. 1, 3, 120:

flagris,

Quint. 6, 3, 25:

aliquem loris,

Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 24; Suet. Ner. 26; 49; id. Dom. 8:

caeduntur (agrestes) inter potentium inimicitias,

Sall. H. Fragm. 3, 61, 27 Dietsch:

nudatos virgis,

Liv. 2, 5, 8:

hastilibus caedentes terga trepidantium,

id. 35, 5, 10:

servum sub furcā caesum medio egerat circo, i.e. ita ut simul caederet,

id. 2, 36, 1.—

Prov.:

stimulos pugnis caedere,

to kick against the pricks, to aggravate a danger by foolish resistance, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 55.—

Trop.:

in judicio testibus caeditur,

is pressed, hard pushed, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 3.—

Pregn.

(Cf. cado, I. B. 2.) To strike mortally, to kill, murder:

ille dies, quo Ti. Gracchus est caesus,

Cic. Mil. 5, 14:

P. Africanus de Tiberio Graccho responderat jure caesum videri,

id. de Or. 2, 25, 106; id. Off. 2, 12, 43:

caeso Argo,

Ov. M. 2, 533; 5, 148; 12, 113; 12, 590; 12, 603; Suet. Caes. 76 al. — Poet., transf. to the blood shed in slaying:

caeso sparsuros sanguine flammam,

Verg. A. 11, 82.—Esp. freq.,

In milit. lang., to slay a single enemy; or, when a hostile army as a whole is spoken of, to conquer with great slaughter, to cut to pieces, vanquish, destroy (cf. Oud., Wolf, and Baumg.Crus. upon Suet. Vesp. 4):

exercitus caesus fususque,

Cic. Phil. 14, 1, 1:

Romani insecuti (hostem), caedentes spoliantesque caesos, castra regia diripiunt,

Liv. 32, 12, 10; 2, 47, 9:

infra arcem caesi captique multi mortales,

id. 4, 61, 6; 22, 7, 2 and 9; Quint. 12, 10, 24; Suet. Aug. 21; 23; id. Vesp. 4:

Indos,

Curt. 9, 5, 19:

passim obvios,

id. 5, 6, 6:

praesidium,

id. 4, 5, 17:

propugnatores reipublicae,

Quint. 12, 10, 24:

caesus (hostis) per calles saltusque vagando circumagatur,

Liv. 44, 36, 10 Kreyss.:

consulem exercitumque caesum,

id. 22, 56, 2:

legio-nes nostras cecidere,

id. 7, 30, 14; so Nep. Dat. 6, 4; Tac. Agr. 18; Suet. Claud. 1.— And poet., the leader is put for the army:

Pyrrhum et ingentem cecidit Antiochum Hannibalemque dirum,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 36.—In poet. hypallage:

caesi corporum acervi (for caesorum),

Cat. 64, 359.—

To slaughter animals, esp. for offerings, to kill, slay, sacrifice:

caedit greges armentorum,

Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31:

boves,

Ov. M. 15, 141:

deorum mentes caesis hostiis placare,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194:

caesis victimis,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1; Liv. 8, 6, 11; 10, 7, 10; 45, 7, 1; Tac. A. 2, 75; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Calig. 14; id. Ner. 25; id. Oth. 8; id. Galb. 18; id. Claud. 25; Just. 11, 5, 6 al.; Verg. A. 5, 96; Hor. Epod. 2, 59; Ov.M.13, 637; Juv. 6, 48; 6, 447; 8, 156; 12, 3 al.: inter caesa et porrecta; v. porricio.—

Hence, since security for a person was anciently given by the deposit of sheep belonging to him, which were slaughtered in case of forfeiture, leg. t. t.: pignus caedere (or concidere), to declare the for feiture of a security, to confiscate a pledge: non tibi illa sunt caedenda, si L. Crassum vis coërcere, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 4.—

In mal. part. ( = concido; cf.:

jam hoc, caede, concide: nonne vobis verba depromere videtur ad omne genus nequitiae accommodata?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155); Cat. 56, 7; Auct. Priap. 25, 10; Tert. Pall. 4.—

Trop.: caedere sermones, a Grecism, acc. to Prisc. 18, p. 1118 P., = koptein ta rhêmata, to chop words, chat, talk, converse, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 1; cf. Non. p. 272, 13, and Prisc. p. 1188 P.:

oratio caesa,

i. e. asyndeton, Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26; Aquil. Rom. §§ 18 and 19; Mart. Cap. 5; § 528.—Hence, caesum, i, n.; subst. in gram. synon. with comma, a stop, pause, comma, Mart. Cap. 5, § 527; Aquil. Rom. § 19; Fortun. Art. Rhet. 3, 10.

caedo, cĕcīdi (in MSS. freq. caecīdi, v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 460), caesum, 3, v. a. [root cīd- for scid-; cf. scindo; Gr. schizô].

Lit.

In gen.

To cut, hew, lop, cut down, fell, cut off, cut to pieces: caesa abiegna trabes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75 (Trag. v. 281 Vahl.):

frondem querneam caedito,

Cato, R. R. 5, 8:

arbores,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; Ov. M. 9, 230:

robur,

Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86; Ov. M. 8, 769:

lignum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3. 63: silvam, Varr ap. Non. p. 272, 5; Lucr. 5, 1265; Caes. B. G. 3, 29; Ov. M. 8, 329; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.; Pall. Mai, 4, 1:

nemus,

Ov. M. 2, 418; cf. id. ib. 1, 94; 9, 230; 9, 374;

14, 535: harundinem,

Dig. 7, 1, 59, § 2:

arboris auctum,

Lucr. 6, 167:

comam vitis,

Tib. 1, 7, 34:

faenum,

Col. 2, 18, 1:

murus latius quam caederetur ruebat,

Liv. 21, 11, 9:

caesis montis fodisse medullis,

Cat. 68, 111; so,

caedi montis in marmora,

Plin. 12, prooem. §

2: lapis caedendus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

silicem,

id. Div. 2, 41, 85:

marmor,

Dig. 24, 3, 7, § 13:

toga rotunda et apte caesa,

cut out, Quint. 11, 3, 139: caedunt securibus umida vina, with axes they cut out the wine (formerly liquid, now frozen), Verg. G. 3, 364: volutas, to carve or hollow out volutes, Vitr. 3, 3: tineae omnia caedunt, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 272, 14.—

Prov.:

ut vineta egomet caedam mea,

i. e. carry my own hide to market, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 220 (proverbium in eos dicitur, qui sibi volentes nocent, Schol. Crucq.; cf. Tib. 1, 2, 98; Verg. A. 5, 672).—

Ruta caesa; v ruo, P. a.—

In gen., to strike upon something, to knock at, to beat, strike, cudgel, etc.:

ut lapidem ferro quom caedimus evolat ignis,

strike upon with iron, Lucr. 6, 314:

caedere januam saxis,

Cic. Verr 2, 1, 27, § 69:

silicem rostro,

Liv. 41, 13, 1:

vasa dolabris,

Curt. 5, 6, 5:

femur, pectus, frontem,

Quint. 2, 12, 10; cf. id. 11, 3, 123 al.:

verberibus,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 45; so Ter. And. 1, 2, 28:

pugnis,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, [p. 262] 43:

aliquem ex occulto,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 17:

at validis socios caedebant dentibus apri,

they fell with their strong tusks upon their own party, Lucr. 5, 1325; cf. Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 71:

virgis ad necem caedi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69; Hor. S. 1, 2, 42:

populum saxis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 128:

ferulā aliquem,

id. ib. 1, 3, 120:

flagris,

Quint. 6, 3, 25:

aliquem loris,

Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 24; Suet. Ner. 26; 49; id. Dom. 8:

caeduntur (agrestes) inter potentium inimicitias,

Sall. H. Fragm. 3, 61, 27 Dietsch:

nudatos virgis,

Liv. 2, 5, 8:

hastilibus caedentes terga trepidantium,

id. 35, 5, 10:

servum sub furcā caesum medio egerat circo, i.e. ita ut simul caederet,

id. 2, 36, 1.—

Prov.:

stimulos pugnis caedere,

to kick against the pricks, to aggravate a danger by foolish resistance, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 55.—

Trop.:

in judicio testibus caeditur,

is pressed, hard pushed, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 3.—

Pregn.

(Cf. cado, I. B. 2.) To strike mortally, to kill, murder:

ille dies, quo Ti. Gracchus est caesus,

Cic. Mil. 5, 14:

P. Africanus de Tiberio Graccho responderat jure caesum videri,

id. de Or. 2, 25, 106; id. Off. 2, 12, 43:

caeso Argo,

Ov. M. 2, 533; 5, 148; 12, 113; 12, 590; 12, 603; Suet. Caes. 76 al. — Poet., transf. to the blood shed in slaying:

caeso sparsuros sanguine flammam,

Verg. A. 11, 82.—Esp. freq.,

In milit. lang., to slay a single enemy; or, when a hostile army as a whole is spoken of, to conquer with great slaughter, to cut to pieces, vanquish, destroy (cf. Oud., Wolf, and Baumg.Crus. upon Suet. Vesp. 4):

exercitus caesus fususque,

Cic. Phil. 14, 1, 1:

Romani insecuti (hostem), caedentes spoliantesque caesos, castra regia diripiunt,

Liv. 32, 12, 10; 2, 47, 9:

infra arcem caesi captique multi mortales,

id. 4, 61, 6; 22, 7, 2 and 9; Quint. 12, 10, 24; Suet. Aug. 21; 23; id. Vesp. 4:

Indos,

Curt. 9, 5, 19:

passim obvios,

id. 5, 6, 6:

praesidium,

id. 4, 5, 17:

propugnatores reipublicae,

Quint. 12, 10, 24:

caesus (hostis) per calles saltusque vagando circumagatur,

Liv. 44, 36, 10 Kreyss.:

consulem exercitumque caesum,

id. 22, 56, 2:

legio-nes nostras cecidere,

id. 7, 30, 14; so Nep. Dat. 6, 4; Tac. Agr. 18; Suet. Claud. 1.— And poet., the leader is put for the army:

Pyrrhum et ingentem cecidit Antiochum Hannibalemque dirum,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 36.—In poet. hypallage:

caesi corporum acervi (for caesorum),

Cat. 64, 359.—

To slaughter animals, esp. for offerings, to kill, slay, sacrifice:

caedit greges armentorum,

Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31:

boves,

Ov. M. 15, 141:

deorum mentes caesis hostiis placare,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194:

caesis victimis,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1; Liv. 8, 6, 11; 10, 7, 10; 45, 7, 1; Tac. A. 2, 75; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Calig. 14; id. Ner. 25; id. Oth. 8; id. Galb. 18; id. Claud. 25; Just. 11, 5, 6 al.; Verg. A. 5, 96; Hor. Epod. 2, 59; Ov.M.13, 637; Juv. 6, 48; 6, 447; 8, 156; 12, 3 al.: inter caesa et porrecta; v. porricio.—

Hence, since security for a person was anciently given by the deposit of sheep belonging to him, which were slaughtered in case of forfeiture, leg. t. t.: pignus caedere (or concidere), to declare the for feiture of a security, to confiscate a pledge: non tibi illa sunt caedenda, si L. Crassum vis coërcere, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 4.—

In mal. part. ( = concido; cf.:

jam hoc, caede, concide: nonne vobis verba depromere videtur ad omne genus nequitiae accommodata?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155); Cat. 56, 7; Auct. Priap. 25, 10; Tert. Pall. 4.—

Trop.: caedere sermones, a Grecism, acc. to Prisc. 18, p. 1118 P., = koptein ta rhêmata, to chop words, chat, talk, converse, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 1; cf. Non. p. 272, 13, and Prisc. p. 1188 P.:

oratio caesa,

i. e. asyndeton, Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26; Aquil. Rom. §§ 18 and 19; Mart. Cap. 5; § 528.—Hence, caesum, i, n.; subst. in gram. synon. with comma, a stop, pause, comma, Mart. Cap. 5, § 527; Aquil. Rom. § 19; Fortun. Art. Rhet. 3, 10.

con-clūdo, si, sum, 3 ( part. perf. solecist. conclausa semina, Col. 3, 12, 2), v. a., to shut up closely, to close up, enclose, confine.

Prop. (class. in prose and poetry), constr. with in and acc., with adv. and absol. (not with in and abl., for the true read., Cic. Univ. 3 fin., is inclusit):

in vincla bestiam nequissimam,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 18; cf.:

bestias delectationis causā,

Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 56 Madv.:

eos concludit, magnam hominum multitudinem,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54:

quia enim in caveā si forent Conclussi itidem ut pulli gallinacei,

Plaut. Curc. 3, 80:

conclusam hic habeo uxorem saevam,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 17:

aliquem in fenestram,

Plaut. Cas. 1, 44:

me in cellam cum illā,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 13; cf.:

in aediculam,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 21:

illum aliquo,

Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 25:

locum sulco,

Verg. A. 1, 425:

at tu conclusas hircinis follibus auras... imitare,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 19:

piscina conclusa porticibus,

Suet. Ner. 31:

Tigris et Euphrates Mesopotamiam ab utroque latere concludunt,

Curt. 5, 1, 15:

vulnera cerā,

Val. Fl. 1, 479:

venti procella conclusa,

Lucr. 6, 125:

concluso loco,

id. 4, 458:

primordia conclusa,

id. 3, 569:

suave locus voci resonat conclusus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 76:

conclusa aqua (opp.: profluens amnis),

Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20; cf.:

longe aliam esse navigationem concluso mari atque in vastissimo,

Caes. B. G. 3, 9:

coagmentis ad centrum respondentibus fornices concluduntur,

Vitr. 6, 8, 4:

statio conclusa atque munita,

Dig. 50, 16, 59.—

Humorously:

non placet qui amicos intra dentis conclusos habet,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 64.—

Trop.

To include, compress, restrain, comprise:

omnia fere, quae sunt conclusa nunc artibus, dispersa et dissipata quondam fuerunt,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187:

fortuna tot res, in unum conclusit diem,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 17:

ut ab illā excludar, huc concludar,

i. e. I shall be fettered by this marriage, id. And. 2, 3, 12 (ex ferarum translatione concludar dixit, Don.); id. Hec. 4, 4, 80:

concludere jus civile in parvum et angustum locum,

Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 17; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; id. Caes. 22, 63:

uno hoc volumine vitam excellentium virorum complurium,

Nep. Epam. 4 fin.; cf.:

in hanc formulam omnia judicia,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

eidem et infinitam largitionem remittebas et eundem in angustissimam formulam sponsionis concludebas?

id. ib. 4, 12:

istum locum in unam speciem,

Quint. 6, 2, 1.—

(Cf. claudo, I. B.) To end, close, conclude:

facinus natum a cupiditate, auctum per stuprum, crudelitate perfectum atque conclusum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 82:

(ancipites variique casus) exitu notabili concluduntur,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 5:

provincia in quā laus equitatis, integritatis, facilitatis ad extremum ludorum voluptate concluditur,

id. Mur. 20, 41:

vitam,

Aug. Serm. 322.—Esp., of letters, speech, the written or spoken treatment of any subject, etc.:

epistulam,

Cic. Att. 9, 10, 5:

crimen decumanum,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 163:

ad illa redeamus eaque ipsa concludamus aliquando,

id. Lael. 26, 109:

perorationem,

id. Or. 35, 122.—

In rhet., of discourse, to close rhythmically, to round off:

verborum ordinem alias aliā terminatione,

Cic. Or. 59, 200:

sententias,

id. ib. 69, 230; cf. id. Brut. 8, 34: concludam si potero Latine;

Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes,

id. Fin. 2, 32, 105:

sensum non expleto numero,

Quint. 9, 4, 122; cf. id. 9, 4, 123 and 125:

verbum acuto tenore (just before: acuto sono finiant),

id. 1, 5, 26:

versum,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 40.—

In philos. t. t., to conclude, infer, make an inference, to argue, demonstrate; with acc.:

singulas argumentationes,

Cic. Or. 35, 122; cf.

argumentum,

id. Ac. 2, 14, 44; Quint. 5, 13, 60:

argumentum ratione,

Cic. Or. 40, 137:

quomodo efficiatur concludaturque ratio,

id. Fin. 1, 7, 22: id quod concludere illi velint, non effici ex propositis, nec esse consequens, id. de Or. 2, 53, 215:

ex rebus concessis concludi quod velis,

id. Fin. 2, 1, 3.—With acc. and inf.:

deinde concludebas, summum malum esse dolorem, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 2, 19, 63; cf. id. Ac. 2, 26, 83.— Absol.:

concludere hoc modo: si sunt di, etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 49, 101:

ea sumunt ad concludendum, quorum iis nihil conceditur,

id. ib. 2, 49, 103; Quint. 3, 9, 2; 5, 10, 3; 10, 1, 106; 12, 2, 25.—Hence, P. a.: con-clūsus, a, um, confined, closed, in comp.:

locus conclusior,

Hyg. Astr. 4, 14.— Subst.: conclūsum, i, n. (acc. to II. D.), a conclusion in a syllogism, Cic. Fin. 3, 8, 27.— Advv.

conclūdenter, by consequence, consequently, Boëth. Arist. Elench. Soph. 1, 10, p. 744.—

conclūsē (acc. to II. C.), with periods rhetorically rounded, harmoniously:

concluse apteque dicere,

Cic. Or. 53, 177.

con-clūdo, si, sum, 3 ( part. perf. solecist. conclausa semina, Col. 3, 12, 2), v. a., to shut up closely, to close up, enclose, confine.

Prop. (class. in prose and poetry), constr. with in and acc., with adv. and absol. (not with in and abl., for the true read., Cic. Univ. 3 fin., is inclusit):

in vincla bestiam nequissimam,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 18; cf.:

bestias delectationis causā,

Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 56 Madv.:

eos concludit, magnam hominum multitudinem,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54:

quia enim in caveā si forent Conclussi itidem ut pulli gallinacei,

Plaut. Curc. 3, 80:

conclusam hic habeo uxorem saevam,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 17:

aliquem in fenestram,

Plaut. Cas. 1, 44:

me in cellam cum illā,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 13; cf.:

in aediculam,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 21:

illum aliquo,

Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 25:

locum sulco,

Verg. A. 1, 425:

at tu conclusas hircinis follibus auras... imitare,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 19:

piscina conclusa porticibus,

Suet. Ner. 31:

Tigris et Euphrates Mesopotamiam ab utroque latere concludunt,

Curt. 5, 1, 15:

vulnera cerā,

Val. Fl. 1, 479:

venti procella conclusa,

Lucr. 6, 125:

concluso loco,

id. 4, 458:

primordia conclusa,

id. 3, 569:

suave locus voci resonat conclusus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 76:

conclusa aqua (opp.: profluens amnis),

Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20; cf.:

longe aliam esse navigationem concluso mari atque in vastissimo,

Caes. B. G. 3, 9:

coagmentis ad centrum respondentibus fornices concluduntur,

Vitr. 6, 8, 4:

statio conclusa atque munita,

Dig. 50, 16, 59.—

Humorously:

non placet qui amicos intra dentis conclusos habet,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 64.—

Trop.

To include, compress, restrain, comprise:

omnia fere, quae sunt conclusa nunc artibus, dispersa et dissipata quondam fuerunt,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187:

fortuna tot res, in unum conclusit diem,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 17:

ut ab illā excludar, huc concludar,

i. e. I shall be fettered by this marriage, id. And. 2, 3, 12 (ex ferarum translatione concludar dixit, Don.); id. Hec. 4, 4, 80:

concludere jus civile in parvum et angustum locum,

Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 17; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; id. Caes. 22, 63:

uno hoc volumine vitam excellentium virorum complurium,

Nep. Epam. 4 fin.; cf.:

in hanc formulam omnia judicia,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

eidem et infinitam largitionem remittebas et eundem in angustissimam formulam sponsionis concludebas?

id. ib. 4, 12:

istum locum in unam speciem,

Quint. 6, 2, 1.—

(Cf. claudo, I. B.) To end, close, conclude:

facinus natum a cupiditate, auctum per stuprum, crudelitate perfectum atque conclusum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 82:

(ancipites variique casus) exitu notabili concluduntur,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 5:

provincia in quā laus equitatis, integritatis, facilitatis ad extremum ludorum voluptate concluditur,

id. Mur. 20, 41:

vitam,

Aug. Serm. 322.—Esp., of letters, speech, the written or spoken treatment of any subject, etc.:

epistulam,

Cic. Att. 9, 10, 5:

crimen decumanum,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 163:

ad illa redeamus eaque ipsa concludamus aliquando,

id. Lael. 26, 109:

perorationem,

id. Or. 35, 122.—

In rhet., of discourse, to close rhythmically, to round off:

verborum ordinem alias aliā terminatione,

Cic. Or. 59, 200:

sententias,

id. ib. 69, 230; cf. id. Brut. 8, 34: concludam si potero Latine;

Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes,

id. Fin. 2, 32, 105:

sensum non expleto numero,

Quint. 9, 4, 122; cf. id. 9, 4, 123 and 125:

verbum acuto tenore (just before: acuto sono finiant),

id. 1, 5, 26:

versum,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 40.—

In philos. t. t., to conclude, infer, make an inference, to argue, demonstrate; with acc.:

singulas argumentationes,

Cic. Or. 35, 122; cf.

argumentum,

id. Ac. 2, 14, 44; Quint. 5, 13, 60:

argumentum ratione,

Cic. Or. 40, 137:

quomodo efficiatur concludaturque ratio,

id. Fin. 1, 7, 22: id quod concludere illi velint, non effici ex propositis, nec esse consequens, id. de Or. 2, 53, 215:

ex rebus concessis concludi quod velis,

id. Fin. 2, 1, 3.—With acc. and inf.:

deinde concludebas, summum malum esse dolorem, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 2, 19, 63; cf. id. Ac. 2, 26, 83.— Absol.:

concludere hoc modo: si sunt di, etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 49, 101:

ea sumunt ad concludendum, quorum iis nihil conceditur,

id. ib. 2, 49, 103; Quint. 3, 9, 2; 5, 10, 3; 10, 1, 106; 12, 2, 25.—Hence, P. a.: con-clūsus, a, um, confined, closed, in comp.:

locus conclusior,

Hyg. Astr. 4, 14.— Subst.: conclūsum, i, n. (acc. to II. D.), a conclusion in a syllogism, Cic. Fin. 3, 8, 27.— Advv.

conclūdenter, by consequence, consequently, Boëth. Arist. Elench. Soph. 1, 10, p. 744.—

conclūsē (acc. to II. C.), with periods rhetorically rounded, harmoniously:

concluse apteque dicere,

Cic. Or. 53, 177.

con-clūdo, si, sum, 3 ( part. perf. solecist. conclausa semina, Col. 3, 12, 2), v. a., to shut up closely, to close up, enclose, confine.

Prop. (class. in prose and poetry), constr. with in and acc., with adv. and absol. (not with in and abl., for the true read., Cic. Univ. 3 fin., is inclusit):

in vincla bestiam nequissimam,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 18; cf.:

bestias delectationis causā,

Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 56 Madv.:

eos concludit, magnam hominum multitudinem,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54:

quia enim in caveā si forent Conclussi itidem ut pulli gallinacei,

Plaut. Curc. 3, 80:

conclusam hic habeo uxorem saevam,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 17:

aliquem in fenestram,

Plaut. Cas. 1, 44:

me in cellam cum illā,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 13; cf.:

in aediculam,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 21:

illum aliquo,

Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 25:

locum sulco,

Verg. A. 1, 425:

at tu conclusas hircinis follibus auras... imitare,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 19:

piscina conclusa porticibus,

Suet. Ner. 31:

Tigris et Euphrates Mesopotamiam ab utroque latere concludunt,

Curt. 5, 1, 15:

vulnera cerā,

Val. Fl. 1, 479:

venti procella conclusa,

Lucr. 6, 125:

concluso loco,

id. 4, 458:

primordia conclusa,

id. 3, 569:

suave locus voci resonat conclusus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 76:

conclusa aqua (opp.: profluens amnis),

Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20; cf.:

longe aliam esse navigationem concluso mari atque in vastissimo,

Caes. B. G. 3, 9:

coagmentis ad centrum respondentibus fornices concluduntur,

Vitr. 6, 8, 4:

statio conclusa atque munita,

Dig. 50, 16, 59.—

Humorously:

non placet qui amicos intra dentis conclusos habet,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 64.—

Trop.

To include, compress, restrain, comprise:

omnia fere, quae sunt conclusa nunc artibus, dispersa et dissipata quondam fuerunt,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187:

fortuna tot res, in unum conclusit diem,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 17:

ut ab illā excludar, huc concludar,

i. e. I shall be fettered by this marriage, id. And. 2, 3, 12 (ex ferarum translatione concludar dixit, Don.); id. Hec. 4, 4, 80:

concludere jus civile in parvum et angustum locum,

Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 17; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; id. Caes. 22, 63:

uno hoc volumine vitam excellentium virorum complurium,

Nep. Epam. 4 fin.; cf.:

in hanc formulam omnia judicia,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

eidem et infinitam largitionem remittebas et eundem in angustissimam formulam sponsionis concludebas?

id. ib. 4, 12:

istum locum in unam speciem,

Quint. 6, 2, 1.—

(Cf. claudo, I. B.) To end, close, conclude:

facinus natum a cupiditate, auctum per stuprum, crudelitate perfectum atque conclusum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 82:

(ancipites variique casus) exitu notabili concluduntur,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 5:

provincia in quā laus equitatis, integritatis, facilitatis ad extremum ludorum voluptate concluditur,

id. Mur. 20, 41:

vitam,

Aug. Serm. 322.—Esp., of letters, speech, the written or spoken treatment of any subject, etc.:

epistulam,

Cic. Att. 9, 10, 5:

crimen decumanum,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 163:

ad illa redeamus eaque ipsa concludamus aliquando,

id. Lael. 26, 109:

perorationem,

id. Or. 35, 122.—

In rhet., of discourse, to close rhythmically, to round off:

verborum ordinem alias aliā terminatione,

Cic. Or. 59, 200:

sententias,

id. ib. 69, 230; cf. id. Brut. 8, 34: concludam si potero Latine;

Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes,

id. Fin. 2, 32, 105:

sensum non expleto numero,

Quint. 9, 4, 122; cf. id. 9, 4, 123 and 125:

verbum acuto tenore (just before: acuto sono finiant),

id. 1, 5, 26:

versum,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 40.—

In philos. t. t., to conclude, infer, make an inference, to argue, demonstrate; with acc.:

singulas argumentationes,

Cic. Or. 35, 122; cf.

argumentum,

id. Ac. 2, 14, 44; Quint. 5, 13, 60:

argumentum ratione,

Cic. Or. 40, 137:

quomodo efficiatur concludaturque ratio,

id. Fin. 1, 7, 22: id quod concludere illi velint, non effici ex propositis, nec esse consequens, id. de Or. 2, 53, 215:

ex rebus concessis concludi quod velis,

id. Fin. 2, 1, 3.—With acc. and inf.:

deinde concludebas, summum malum esse dolorem, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 2, 19, 63; cf. id. Ac. 2, 26, 83.— Absol.:

concludere hoc modo: si sunt di, etc.,

Cic. Div. 2, 49, 101:

ea sumunt ad concludendum, quorum iis nihil conceditur,

id. ib. 2, 49, 103; Quint. 3, 9, 2; 5, 10, 3; 10, 1, 106; 12, 2, 25.—Hence, P. a.: con-clūsus, a, um, confined, closed, in comp.:

locus conclusior,

Hyg. Astr. 4, 14.— Subst.: conclūsum, i, n. (acc. to II. D.), a conclusion in a syllogism, Cic. Fin. 3, 8, 27.— Advv.

conclūdenter, by consequence, consequently, Boëth. Arist. Elench. Soph. 1, 10, p. 744.—

conclūsē (acc. to II. C.), with periods rhetorically rounded, harmoniously:

concluse apteque dicere,

Cic. Or. 53, 177.

dexter, tĕra, tĕrum, and more freq. tra, trum ( dat. plur. fem.: dextrabus manibus, Liv. Andron. ap. Non. 493, 20.— Comp. dextĕrĭor; sup. dextĭmus), adj. [dex-ter, root dek-, Gr. dekomai, whence daktulos, digitus; cf. Germ. Finger, from fangen; cf. also Sanscr. dakshinas, on the right hand, and Gr. dex-ios], to the right, on the right side, right (opp. laevus, sinister).

Prop.:

ut ante oculos fuerit qui dexter hic idem nunc sit laevus,

Lucr. 4, 302:

manus,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 49; 50; id. Capt. 2, 3, 82; Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46:

pars membrorum (opp. laeva),

Lucr. 4, 293:

umeri,

Caes. B. G. 7, 50, 2:

latus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 6; Ov. M. 13, 730 et saep.:

cornu,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 5; Caes. B. G. 1, 52, 2; 2, 23, 4 et saep.:

ala,

Liv. 31, 21:

acies,

id. 27, 48 et saep.: dextrarum tibiarum genus est, quae dextra tenentur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 74, 5 Müll. et saep.:

dextra ejus (fluminis) accolunt Deximontani,

Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 99.— Comp. in signification = dexter, but spoken of two only:

in dexteriore parte, opp. sinisteriore,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 34 Müll.; so,

pars, opp. laeva,

Ov. M. 7, 241:

rota, opp. sinisterior,

id. ib. 2, 138:

armus,

id. ib. 12, 303:

umerus,

Suet. Claud. 7:

latus,

id. Galb. 21: cornu, Galba ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3 et saep.— Sup.: dextimus, a, um, an ancient and rare form, in signif. i. q. dexter: dextima via, Varr. ap. Non. 94, 30:

apud dextimos,

Sall. J. 100, 2.—

Trop. (perh. not in ante-Aug. prose).

Handy, dexterous, skilful; opportune, proper, suitable, fitting:

rem ita dexter egit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 8, 36:

et Marius scriptis dexter in omne genus,

Ov. Pont. 4, 16, 24:

quis rebus dexter modus,

Verg. A. 4, 294:

tempus,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 18.—

(Since the Greeks regarded an omen on the right as favorable) favorable, propitious, fortunate: dextra auspicia prospera, Paul. ex Fest. p. 74, 4 Müll.; cf.

omen,

Val. Fl. 1, 245:

dexter adi,

Verg. A. 8, 302; cf.:

dexter ac volens assit (numen),

Quint. 4 prooem. 5:

Jove,

Pers. 5, 114:

sidere,

Stat. S. 3, 4, 63 et saep.—Hence,

dis-sĕro, sēvi (serui, poet. ap. Macr. S. 2, 14, 12), sĭtum, 3, v. a., to scatter seed, to sow here and there, to sow (rare):

Caeciliana (lactuca) mense Januario recte disseritur,

Col. 11, 3, 26:

semina in areolas,

id. 11, 2, 30; cf.:

res in arcas (olitor),

Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll.:

dissita pars animae per totum corpus,

Lucr. 3, 143; cf. id. ib. 377; 4, 888.—

To fix in the earth at intervals, to plant here and there:

taleae mediocribus intermissis spatiis disserebantur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 73 fin.

dis-sĕro, rŭi, rtum ( part. perf. disserta, first in Hier. in Isa. 4, 11; class. form dĭsertus, as a P. a., is very freq.; v. under P. a.), 3, v. a.— Lit., to set forth in order, arrange distinctly; hence, to examine, argue, discuss; or (more freq.) to speak, discourse, treat of a thing (good prose and very freq., esp. in Cic. and Quint.—cf.: disputo, discepto).

With acc. (so in Cic., and usually only with pronouns, but in Tac. also freq. with nominal subjects):

idonea mihi Laelii persona visa est, quae de amicitia ea ipsa dissereret, quae disputata ab eo meminisset Scaevola,

Cic. Lael. 1, 4; cf. id. de Sen. 21, 78:

nihil de ea re,

Tac. A. 1, 6:

seditiosa de aliqua re,

id. ib. 3, 40:

permulta de eloquentia cum Antonio,

Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 13; cf.:

haec cum ipsis philosophis,

id. ib. 1, 13, 57:

quae inter me et Scipionem de amicitia disserebantur,

id. Lael. 10, 33:

qui haec nuper disserere coeperunt, cum corporibus simul animos interire,

id. ib. 4, 13:

haec subtilius,

id. ib. 5, 18:

aliquid pluribus verbis in senatu,

id. Fam. 12, 7; cf. Sall. J. 30 fin.:

ea, quae disputavi,

Cic. N. D. 3, 40, 95; cf. id. Fat. 5; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 23:

ea lege, qua credo omnibus in rebus disserendis utendum esse,

id. Rep. 1, 24:

pauci bona libertatis incassum disserere,

Tac. A. 1, 4; cf. id. ib. 6, 34; id. H. 3, 81:

cujus negotii initium, ordinem, finem curatius disseram,

id. A. 2, 27; cf. id. H. 2, 2 fin.:

paucis instituta majorum domi militiaeque, quomodo rem publicam habuerint, etc., disserere,

Sall. C. 5 fin. Kritz.; for the latter constr. with a rel. clause, cf. Quint. praef. § 22, and 1, 10, 22; and with acc. and inf.:

malunt disserere, nihil esse in auspiciis, quam quid sit ediscere,

Cic. Div. 1, 47, 105; id. Fin. 4, 1, 2 al.—

With de:

Scipio triduum disseruit de re publica,

Cic. Lael. 4, 14; so id. Rep. 1, 23 fin. et saep.; cf.

also: consuetudo de omnibus rebus in contrarias partes disserendi,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 9:

de Scripturis,

Vulg. Act. 17, 2 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

ut inter quos disseritur, conveniat, quid sit id, de quo disseratur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 1 fin. —Less freq. for de, super aliqua re, Gell. 19, 1, 19.—

Absol.:

ut memini Catonem anno ante quam est mortuus mecum et cum Scipione disserere,

Cic. Lael. 3, 11; so,

cum aliquo,

id. Rep. 1, 21:

ita disseruit: duas esse vias, etc.,

id. Tusc. 1, 30:

in disserendo rudes,

id. Rep. 1, 8; cf. id. ib. 3, 16; Quint. 12, 1, 35; 12, 2, 25 al.:

causa disserendi,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 3 fin.:

ratio disserendi,

id. Fat. 1; cf. id. Fin. 1, 7; id. Ac. 1, 8, 30; and:

ars bene disserendi,

id. de Or. 2, 38:

adhibita disserendi elegantia,

id. ib. 2, 2 fin.; cf.:

disserendi subtilitas,

id. de Or. 1, 15, 68 et saep. —Hence, dĭsertus, a, um (for dissertus. Cf.:

difficultas laborque discendi disertam negligentiam reddidit. Malunt enim disserere, nihil esse in auspiciis, quam quid sit ediscere,

Cic. Div. 1, 47, 105; and: disertus a disserendo dictus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 72, 15), P. a., skilful in speaking on a subject; clear, methodical in speaking; well-spoken, fluent (less than eloquens, eloquent:

disertos cognosse me nonnullos, eloquentem adhuc neminem, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 1, 21; and id. Or. 5, 18; cf. also: facundus, loquax, dicax).

Prop.:

disertorum oratione delenitus... utilitates non a sapientibus et fortibus viris sed a disertis et ornate dicentibus esse constitutae,

Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 36; cf. id. Phil. 2, 39 fin.; id. Rep. 1, 3; Quint. 2, 3, 7 et saep.; Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 19; id. A. P. 370; Ov. M. 13, 228; id. Tr. 3, 11, 21; Mart. 9, 12, 16 et saep.—Cf. also, ora, Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 20; and poet., Arpi, because within its limits Cicero was born, Mart. 4, 55:

leporum disertus puer,

Cat. 12, 9:

callidus et disertus homo,

i. e. sagacious, shrewd, Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 10.— Comp., Cic. de Or. 3, 32, 129 (with eloquentior).— Sup., Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 111; id. de Or. 1, 54, 231; id. Brut. 91, 315; Cat. 49, 1.—

Transf., of discourse:

illam orationem disertam sibi et oratoriam videri, fortem et virilem non videri,

Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 231; cf.

historia,

id. Brut. 26:

epilogus,

id. Att. 4, 15, 4:

verba,

Ov. Pont. 3, 5, 8 al.; Quint. 1, 8, 4; cf. id. 2, 11, 5; 8 prooem. § 24; 8, 2, 21.— Comp.:

sententia,

Sen. Ep. 21.— Sup.:

litterae,

Cic. Att. 7, 2 fin.—Adv., clearly, expressly, distinctly; eloquently.

dĭserte, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 31; Afran. ap. Non. 509, 23; Liv. 21, 19 Fabri ad loc.; id. 42, 25, 4 al.; Cic. de Or. 1, 10 fin.; id. Tusc. 5, 9, 24; id. Att. 4, 1, 6; id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 10; Quint. 12, 1, 30; [p. 595] Tac. Or. 9, 26.—

dĭsertim, Liv. Andr., Att. Trag. v. 350 Rib. (ap. Non. 509, 25 sq.); Titin. Com. v. 150 Rib. (ap. Non. ib.); Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 87.—

Comp., Mart. 3, 38.—

Sup., Liv. 39, 28; Quint. 6, 2, 26.

dŏmus, ūs and i, 2d and 4th decl., f. [Sanscr. damas, house; Gr. root dem-ô, to build, whence domos, des-potês for demspotês; cf. Germ. Zimmer; Eng. timber, etc.], a house, home (for syn. cf. aedes, casa, domicilium, habitatio; mansio, sedes, tectum, tugurium; aedificium, moles). —Forms of the cases.

Nom.:

domus,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 206; id. Bacch. 3, 1, 6 al.; Ter. And. 5, 3, 20; id. Eun. 5, 9, 8 al.; Cic. Lael. 27, 103; id. Rep. 1, 43; 3, 9 et saep.—

Gen., in the comic poets only the ante-class. form domi:

haud quod tui me neque domi distaedeat,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 5:

commeminit domi,

id. Trin. 4, 3, 20; cf.:

domi focique fac vicissim ut memineris,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 45:

domi cupio (i.q. cupidus sum),

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 22; acc. to Don. Ter. l. l.: decora domi, Caecil. ap. Don. l. l.: conviva domi, Afran. ap. Non. 337, 23. But since Varro (except as infra, 2.):

domūs,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 162 Müll. (twice); Cat. 64, 246; Verg. G. 4, 209; id. A. 1, 356; 4, 318; 645; 6, 27; 53; 81; Hor. C. 4, 12, 6; id. S. 2, 5, 108; Ov. M. 2, 737; Stat. S. 5, 2, 77; Suet. Caes. 81 et saep. The uncontr. form domuis, Varr. ap. Non. 491, 22; and Nigidius, acc. to Gell. 4, 16, 1; the form domos, used by Augustus exclusively, acc. to Suet. Aug. 87 (or domuos, acc. to Ritschl; v. Neue Formenl. 1, 362; cf. SENATVOS from senatus in the S. C. de Bacan.).—

Dat.:

domo,

Cato R. R. 134, 2; 139; 141, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 13 (ex conj. Lachm.; also Lucr. 5, 1267);

much more freq. domui,

Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 8; Quint. 1, 10, 32; 7, 1, 53 Spald. and Zumpt N. cr.; Tac. H. 4, 68; Ov. M. 4, 66; id. Tr. 1, 2, 101; 3, 12, 50; id. Pont. 1, 2, 108; 3, 1, 75.—

Acc.:

domum,

Plaut. Aul. prol. 3; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 54; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 90; Cic. Rep. 1, 39; 2, 5; 6, 19; 23; 26 et saep.—Apoc. form do = dô (for dôma): endo suam do, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 436 P.; and ap. Aus. Idyll. 12, 18 (Ann. v. 563 ed. Vahl.).—

Voc.: domus, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 39, 139; id. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 102; 3, 58, 217; Nov. ap. Non. 510; Verg. A. 2, 241.—

Abl., usually domo, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 27; id. Curc. 1, 3, 53 et saep.; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 18; Cic. Rep. 2, 4; id. Off. 1, 39, 139 (four times) et saep.:

domu,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 48; Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 45; id. Verr. 2, 5, 49, § 128; Inscr. Grut. 599, 8; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 5.—

Nom., only domus, Verg. G. 4, 481; Liv. 3, 32, 2; 42, 1, 10; Suet. Ner. 38.—

Gen.: domorum ( poet.), Lucr. 1, 354; 489 saep.; Verg. G. 4, 159; id. A. 2, 445;

usually domuum,

Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 88; 8, 57, 82, § 221; Tac. A. 3, 24; 6, 45; Juv. 3, 72; Sen. Ep. 122, 9; Dig. 33, 2, 32, § 2 et saep.—

Dat. and abl., only domibus, Varr. L. L. 5, § 160 Müll.; Caes. B. G. 6, 11, 2; id. B. C. 3, 42 fin.; Quint. 9, 4, 4; Tac. A. 3, 6; id. H. 1, 4; id. G. 46; Verg. G. 2, 443; Hor. C. 1, 22, 22; id. S. 2, 6, 71 et saep.—

Acc. usually domos, Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 19; Lucr. 1, 18; 6, 241; Cic. Rep. 1, 13 (twice); Caes. B. G. 1, 30, 3; id. B. C. 3, 82, 4; Sall. C. 12, 3 and 4; Verg. G. 1, 182 et saep. The MSS. often vary between domos and domus; cf. Beier Cic. Off. 2, 18, 64; Drak. Liv. 3, 29, 5; Oud. Suet. Claud. 25; so Verg. A. 1, 140; id. G 4, 446 al. The form domus is certain, Att. ap. Gell. 14, 1, 34; Quadrig. ib. 17, 2, 5; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 4, § 7; Liv. 45, 1, 10.—

Adverbial forms.

Domi (also domui in good MSS. of Cic. Cat. 2, 6, 13; id. Tusc. 1, 22, 51; id. Mil. 7, 16; id. Att. 12, 25, 1; id. Off. 3, 26, 99; and Auct. Her. 4, 30, 41; 4, 54, 67;

v. Neue, Formenl. 1, 540),

at home, in the house, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 12 et saep; Ter. And. 3, 2, 34 et saep.; Cic. Lael. 1, 2; id. Rep. 1, 13; id. Fin. 5, 15, 42 et saep.; Verg. E. 3, 33; Hor. S. 1, 1, 67; id. Ep. 1, 5, 3 et saep.; cf.

opp. foris,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 33; id. Merc. 3, 4, 2 (twice); Cic. Phil. 2, 11, 26; Sall. C. 52, 21 et saep.:

meae domi,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 18; id. Most. 1, 3, 34; id. Mil. 2, 2, 3; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 15; and in the order domi meae, Cato ap. Charis. p. 101 P.; Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 36; [p. 610] Cic. Fam. 10, 25 fin.:

tuae domi,

id. ib. 4, 7, 4:

suae domi,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 43;

and in the order domi suae,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 50; Cic. Mil. 7; id. Caecin. 4, 10; Quint. 1, 1, 22 al.:

nostrae domi,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9; id. Poen. 4, 2, 16; Cic. Tusc. 5, 39;

and in the order domi nostrae,

Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 18; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 2:

alienae domi,

id. Tusc. 1, 22, 51; id. Fam. 4, 7, 4; id. Dom. 40, 105:

domi Caesaris,

id. Att. 1, 12, 3; 2, 7, 3 Orell. N. cr.:

istius domi (educatus),

id. Quint. 5, 21; cf.:

domi illius (fuisti),

id. Div. in Caecil. 18, 58; id. Cluent. 60, 165:

cujus domi fueras,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 42: id. Phil. 2, 14, 35; 2, 19, 48; id. Fam. 9, 3 fin. —

Domum, home, homewards, to the house, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 40 et saep.; Ter. And. 1, 5, 20 et saep.; Cic. Lael. 3, 12; id. Verr. 1, 9, 25; id. Ac. 1, 3 et saep.; Verg. E. 1, 36; 10, 77 et saep.:

domum meam,

Cic. Att. 1, 1, 3; id. Fam. 9, 19:

domum suam,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 31; Cic. Rep. 1, 14; 2, 9; id. Rosc. Am. 18 fin.; Caes. B. G. 2, 10, 4 al.:

domum regiam (comportant),

Sall. J. 76 fin.:

Pomponii domum (venisse),

Cic. Off. 3, 31, 112:

domum Roscii,

id. Rosc. Com. 9, 26:

cujusdam hominis nobilis domum,

id. Or. in Toga Cand. p. 521 ed. Orell.:

domum reditio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 5:

domum concursus,

id. B. C. 1, 53.—When more persons than one are spoken of, the plur. is freq. used:

domos,

Liv. 3, 5; 27, 51; 28, 2; Curt. 9, 8, 1 al.:

domos nostras,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 19:

domos suas,

Sall. J. 66, 3; and: suas domos, Liv 2, 7; but the sing. also:

Suebi domum reverti coeperunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 54.—Sometimes also with in and acc.:

rex in domum se recepit,

Liv. 44, 45:

in domos atque in tecta refugere,

id. 26, 10:

cur non introeo in nostram domum?

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 253; id. Capt. 4, 4, 3:

venisse in M. Laecae domum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 4; cf. Caes. B. C. 2, 18, 2; and Suet. Vesp. 5.—

Domo.

From home, out of the house, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 4; id. Stich. 1, 1, 29; id. Trin. 4, 3, 3; id. Mil. 4, 2, 7 et saep.; Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 19; id. Phorm. 4, 1, 20; Cic. Rep. 1, 12; id. Fl. 6, 14; id. Or. 26, 89 et saep.—

For domi, at home, in the house (rare):

domo sibi quaerere remedium,

Cic. Clu. 9, 27:

haec ubi domo nascuntur,

Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 2:

domo se tenere,

Nep. Epam. 10, 3:

domo abditus,

Suet. Caes. 20 tabulae domo asservantur, App. Apol. p. 541.—With in:

in domo furtum factum ab eo, qui domi fuit,

Quint. 5, 10, 16:

rem quam e villa mea surripuit, in domo mea ponat,

Sen. Const. Sap. 7 med.:

in domo sua facere mysteria,

Nep. Alcib. 3 fin.:

quid illuc clamoris obsecro in nostra domo est?

Plaut. Cas. 3, 4, 29; id. Ps. 1, 1, 82; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 26:

educatus in domo Pericli,

Nep. Alcib. 2; so,

in domo ejus,

id. Lys. 3, 5; Tac. A. 4, 21.—

In colloq. lang.: domi habere aliquid, to have a thing at home, i. e. to have it about one, to have in abundance, to be provided with it, to have or know it one's self:

domi habet animum falsiloquum... Domi dolos, domi delenifica facta, domi fallacias,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 36 sq.:

domi habuit unde disceret,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 59 Ruhnk. In a like sense:

id quidem domi est,

Cic. Att. 10, 14, 2; cf. Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 4: sed quid ego nunc haec ad te, cujus domi nascuntur? glauk eis Athênas, Cic. Fam. 9, 3 fin. —

Poet. transf., any sort of building or abode. So of the labyrinth, Verg. A. 6, 27;

of a sacred grotto,

id. ib. 6, 81;

of the abode of the gods,

id. ib. 10, 1; 101; Ov. M. 4, 736; 6, 269 al.;

of the winds,

Verg. G. 1, 371; Ov. M. 1, 279;

of animals,

Verg. G. 2, 209; id. A. 5, 214; Stat. Th. 1, 367;

of birds,

Verg. A. 8, 235;

of Danaë's prison,

Prop. 2, 20, 12 (3, 13, 12 M.);

of the tomb: marmorea,

Tib. 3, 2, 22;

the same, DOMVS AETERNA,

Inscr. Orell. 1174; 4525 sq.:

AETERNALIS,

ib. 4518 (cf. in Heb. for the grave, Eccl. 12, 5); and:

CERTA,

ib. 4850;

of the body, as the dwelling of the soul,

Ov. M. 15, 159; 458 et saep.

Meton.

In a wider sense, one's native place, country, home. M. Su. Siculus sum Syracusanus. M. So. Ea domus et patria est mihi, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 10;

so (with patria),

id. Merc. 3, 4, 68; Verg. A. 7, 122; also with patria as an adjective, Plaut. Merc. 5, 1, 2; Ov. M. 11, 269; cf. also Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 41; Verg. A. 5, 638; Ov. M. 13, 227 al.: domi aetatem agere, opp. patriă procul, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6; cf. Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 75; id. Capt. 2, 1, 3; id. Poen. 5, 2, 6; Caes. B. G. 1, 18, 6; 1, 20, 2; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 17; id. Q. Fr. 2, 14 fin.; Sall. C. 17, 4; id. J. 8, 1 et saep.:

legiones reveniunt domum,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 33; so id. ib. 52; Cic. Fam. 7, 5; Caes. B. C. 1, 34, 3; Liv. 23, 20 al.:

ut (Galli) domo emigrent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 14:

qui genus? unde domo?

Verg. A. 8, 114; 10, 183.—Hence, the phrases belli domique, and domi militiaeque, in war and peace, v. bellum and militia;

and cf.: noster populus in pace et domi imperat... in bello sic paret, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 40.—

A household, family, race (cf. the Gr. oikos, and the Heb., v. Gesen. Lex. s. h. v. 7):

domus te nostra tota salutat,

Cic. Att. 4, 12; id. Fam. 13, 46; Liv. 3, 32; Quint. 7, 1, 53 (twice); Tac. A. 3, 55; id. Agr. 19; Suet. Aug. 25; Verg. A. 1, 284; 3, 97:

tota domus duo sunt,

Ov. M. 8, 636; id. F. 4, 544; Hor. C. 1, 6, 8; 3, 6, 26; Vulg. Matt. 10, 6 et saep.—Hence,

In philos lang., a philosophical school, sect, Cic. Ac. 1, 4; Sen. Ep. 29 fin.; id. Ben. 5, 15.

for, fātus, 1, v. defect. (the forms in use are fatur, fantur, fabor, fabitur; part. perf. fatus; perf. fatus sum or eram; imper. fare, poet.; inf. fari; and parag. farier, Verg. A. 11, 242; gerund. fandi, fando; sup. fatu; part. praes. fans, fantis, fantem; for praes. faris, v. Diom. p. 375;

fantur,

Varr. L. L. 6, 7, § 52; Paul. Diac. p. 88, 11; imperf. subj. farer, August. Conf. 1, 8), n. and a. [Sanscr. bhā-mi, appear; bhās, shine; bhāsh, speak; Gr. pha-, phainô, and phêmi; Lat. fama, fas, fax, facies, favilla, etc.; cf.: facetus, focus, v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 297 sq.; Corss. Ausspr. 1, 420 sqq.], to speak, say (mostly poet.; cf.:

quaedam vetera etiam necessario interim sumuntur, ut fari,

Quint. 8, 3, 27; syn.: loquor, dico, perhibeo; inquam. aio).

In gen.

Neutr.: fatur is, qui primum homo significabilem ore mittit vocem. Ab eo ante quam id faciant, pueri dicuntur infantes;

cum id faciant, jam fari,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 52 Müll.; cf.:

filius Croesi, cum jam per aetatem fari posset, infans erat,

Gell. 5, 9, 1:

non enim eram infans, qui non farer,

Aug. Conf. 1, 8:

nescios fari pueros,

Hor. C. 4, 6, 18:

cum primum fari coepisset,

Suet. Aug. 94:

tum ad eos is deus, qui omnia genuit, fatur: haec vos, etc.,

Cic. Univ. 11; Val. Fl. 3, 616:

Venulus dicto parens ita farier infit,

Verg. A. 11, 242:

praetor qui tum fatus est, si, etc.,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 30 Müll.:

sic fatus validis ingentem viribus hastam contorsit,

Verg. A. 2, 50:

meum ingenium fans atque infans tu nondum edidicisti,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 1, 7:

coram data copia fandi,

Verg. A. 1, 520: fandi doctissima Cymodocea, id. ib. 10, 225:

quae mollissima fandi Tempora,

id. ib. 4, 293:

quid fando tua tela manusque Demoror?

Stat. Th. 1, 655:

his fando si nuntius exstitit oris,

Val. Fl. 4, 170.—Fando, for famā, rumore, report, hearsay:

neque fando umquam accepit quisquam, etc.,

by report, by hearsay, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 41; cf.:

ne fando quidem auditum est, crocodilum aut ibim violatum ab Aegyptio,

Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 82; Verg. A. 2, 81; Ov. M. 15, 497, Sil. 10, 484:

haud mollia fatu,

Verg. A. 12, 25:

lapis fatu dignissimus,

Sol. 3: famino, dicito, Paul. ex Fest. p. 87, 10 (cf. praefor and fruor init.).—

With acc.:

(animus) dementit deliraque fatur,

Lucr. 3, 464:

qui sapere et fari possit, quae sentiat,

Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 9: fabitur hoc aliquis, Cic. Poët. ap. Gell. 15, 6, 3:

vix ea fatus eram,

Verg. A. 2, 323:

dehinc talia fatur,

id. ib. 1, 256:

cui talia fanti,

id. ib. 6, 46; cf.:

haec fantem,

Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 65:

quis talia fando temperet a lacrimis?

Verg. A. 2, 6.—

With interrog. clauses:

fare age, quid venias,

Verg. A. 6, 389; cf.:

sed te qui vivum casus, age fare vicissim Attulerint,

id. ib. 6, 531:

fare, an patriam spes ulla videndi,

Val. Fl. 5, 552.—

In partic.

To utter in prophecy, to foretell, predict: Venus quem fata docet fari, divinum pectus habere, Enn. ap. Prob. Verg. E. 6, 31 (Ann. v. 19 ed. Vahl.); cf.: fatis fandis, id. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66 (Trag. v. 80 ib.):

fabor enim, quando haec te cura remordet, Longius et volvens fatorum arcana movebo,

Verg. A. 1, 261. Cf. also in the foll.—

To sing in verse, to celebrate:

Tarpeium nemus et Tarpeiae turpe sepulcrum Fabor,

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 2.

signif.: Fasti dies sunt, in quibus jus fatur, Suet. ap. Prisc. p. 793 P.— Hence, fandus, a, um, P. a., that may be spoken or uttered, right (opp. to nefandus, wrong):

omnia fanda, nefanda malo permixta furore,

Cat. 64, 406:

respersae fando nefandoque sanguine arae, i. e. with blood both of sacrifice and of murder,

Liv. 10, 41, 3; cf.:

at sperate deos memores fandi atque nefandi,

Verg. A. 1, 543:

non fanda timemus,

Luc. 1, 634:

inexpleto non fanda piacula busto,

id. 2, 176.

lā̆brum, i, n. [root lab, as in labium; v. lambo], a lip.

Lit.:

cape cultrum ac seca digitum vel nasum vel labrum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 39:

apes, quas dixisti in labris Platonis consedisse pueri,

Cic. Div. 2, 31, 66:

vide ut discidit labrum,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 20:

labrum superius,

the upper lip, Caes. B. G. 5, 14:

(poculis) labra admovere,

Verg. E. 3, 43:

labra movere,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 60; Juv. 13, 114:

sive puer furens impressit memorem dente labris notam,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 12:

haec ego mecum Compressis agito labris,

id. S. 1, 4, 137:

labra distorquere,

Quint. 1, 11, 9:

labra male porrigere, scindere, adstringere, diducere, replicare, in latus trahere,

id. 11, 3, 81: labra labris conserere, to kiss, Cn. Matius ap. Gell. 20, 9, 2:

labra labellis ferrummare,

to kiss, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 25; so,

labra ad labella adjungere,

id. Ps. 5, 1, 14:

labra valgiter commovere,

Petr. 26:

viscantur labra mariti,

Juv. 6, 466.—

Prov.:

linere alicui labra,

to deceive one, Mart. 3, 42, 2:

non in pectore, sed in labris habere bonitatem,

Lact. 3, 16, 4:

primis or primoribus labris gustare, or attingere aliquid,

to get a slight taste of, to get only a superficial knowledge of a thing, Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 20:

quae ipsi rhetores ne primoribus quidem labris attigissent,

id. de Or. 1, 19, 87:

multos vidi qui primoribus labris gustassent genus hoc vitae,

id. Cael. 12, 28:

non a summis labris venire,

not to be lightly spoken, Sen. Ep. 10, 3: similem habent labra lactucam, a saying of M. Crassus when he saw an ass eating thistles, and which may be rendered, like lips, like lettuce; meaning, like has met its like, Hier. Ep. 7, 5.—

Transf.

An edge, margin, brim (of a vessel, a ditch, etc.):

ut ejus fossae solum tantundem pateret, quantum summa labra distarent,

Caes. B. G. 7, 72:

extra duplex vallum fossae circumdedit, interiore labro murum objecit,

Liv. 37, 37, 11:

labra doliorum,

Cato, R. R. 107, 1:

fontis,

Plin. 31, 2, 19, § 28:

lilium resupinis per ambitum labris,

id. 21, 5, 11, § 23; 17, 22, 35, § 168.—

Poet., a trench, Aus. de Clar. Urb. 5, 9.—

Labrum Venerium, a plant growing by rivers, Plin. 25, 13, 108, § 171;

called also labrum Veneris,

Ser. Samm. 1038.

lābrum, i, n. [for lavabrum, q. v.], a basin, a tub for bathing; a vat for treading out grapes:

labrum si in balineo non est,

Cic. Fam. 14, 20:

marmoreo labro aqua exundat,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 20:

splendentia,

Verg. A. 12, 417:

aëna,

id. ib. 8, 22:

marmorea duo labra ante fornicem posuit,

Liv. 37, 3, 7:

unda labris nitentibus instat,

Stat. S. 1, 5, 49:

eluacrum,

Cato, R. R. 11:

lupinarium,

id. ib.:

olearium,

id. ib. 13; Col. 12, 50, 10 sq.; cf.: spumat plenis vindemia labris, in the full vats or vessels, Verg. G. 2, 6;

of a tub or basin for bathing,

Vitr. 5, 10, 4;

of a fountain,

Dig. 19, 1, 15.—

Poet. transf., a bath:

nec Dryades, nec nos videamus labra Dianae,

Ov. F. 4, 761; cf. id. Ib. 481; id. H. 21, 178.

līber, ĕra, ĕrum (old form, loebesum et loebertatem antiqui dicebant liberum et libertatem. Ita Graeci loibên et leibein, Paul. ex Fest. p. 121 Müll.; cf. 2. Liber), adj. [Gr. root liph-, liptô, to desire; cf. Sanscr. lub-dhas, desirous; Lat. libet, libido], that acts according to his own will and pleasure, is his own master; free, unrestricted, unrestrained, unimpeded, unshackled; independent, frank, open, bold (opp. servus, servilis).

In gen.; constr. absol., with ab, the abl., and poet. also with gen.

Absol.:

dictum est ab eruditissimis viris, nisi sapientem liberum esse neminem. Quid est enim libertas? Potestas vivendi ut velis,

Cic. Par. 5, 1, 33:

an ille mihi liber, cui mulier imperat, cui leges imponit, praescribit, jubet, vetat? etc.,

id. ib. 5, 2, 36:

ad scribendi licentiam liber,

id. N. D. 1, 44, 123:

agri immunes ac liberi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 166:

integro animo ac libero causam defendere,

unprejudiced, unbiased, id. Sull. 31, 86:

liberi ad causas solutique veniebant,

not under obligations, not bribed, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78 § 192; cf.:

libera lingua,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 9:

cor liberum,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 43:

vocem liberam mittere adversus aliquem,

Liv. 35, 32, 6:

libera verba animi proferre,

Juv. 4, 90: judicium [p. 1057] audientium relinquere integrum ac liberum, Cic. Div. 2, 72, 150:

aliquid respuere ingenuo liberoque fastidio,

id. Brut. 67, 236:

libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio,

id. Fin. 1, 10, 33:

tibi uni vexatio direptioque sociorum impunita fuit ac libera,

id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

pars quaestionum vaga et libera et late patens,

id. de Or. 2, 16, 67:

liberum arbitrium eis populo Romano permittente,

Liv. 31, 11 fin.; cf. id. 37, 1, 5:

mandata,

full powers, unlimited authority, id. 37, 56; 38, 8:

fenus,

unlimited, id. 35, 7: custodia, free custody (i. e. confinement to a house or to a town), id. 24, 45; Vell. 1, 11, 1;

v. custodia, II.: legatio, v. legatio: suffragia,

the right of voting freely, Juv. 8, 211:

locus,

free from intruders, undisturbed, secure, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 49; 3, 2, 25; id. Cas. 3, 2, 4: aedes, a free house, free dwelling (assigned to the use of ambassadors of friendly nations during their stay in Rome), Liv. 30, 17 fin.; 35, 23; 42, 6:

lectulus,

i. e. not shared with a wife, Cic. Att. 14, 13, 5: toga ( poet. for virilis toga), a man's (prop. of one who is his own master), Ov. F. 3, 771:

vestis,

id. ib. 3, 777:

libera omnia sibi servare,

to reserve to one's self full liberty, Plin. Ep. 1, 5.— Comp.:

hoc liberiores et solutiores sumus, quod, etc.,

Cic. Ac. 2, 3, 8:

est finitimus oratori poëta, numeris astrictior paulo, verborum licentia liberior,

id. de Or. 1, 16, 70:

liberiores litterae,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1:

amicitia remissior esse debet et liberior et dulcior,

freer, more unrestrained, more cheerful, id. Lael. 18 fin.:

paulo liberior sententia,

Quint. 4, 2, 121:

liberior in utramque partem disputatio,

id. 7, 2, 14:

fusiores liberioresque numeri,

id. 9, 4, 130:

officia liberiora plenioraque,

id. 6, 1, 9:

(flumina) campo recepta Liberioris aquae,

freer, less impeded, Ov. M. 1, 41; cf.:

(Tiberinus) campo liberiore natat,

freer, opener, id. F. 4, 292:

liberiore frui caelo,

freer, opener, id. M. 15, 301.— Sup.:

liberrimum hominum genus, comici veteres tradunt, etc.,

the frankest, most free-spoken, Quint. 12, 2, 22; cf.:

liberrime Lolli,

most frank, most ingenuous, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 1:

indignatio,

id. Epod. 4, 10.—

Free or exempt from, void of; with ab:

Mamertini vacui, expertes, soluti ac liberi fuerunt ab omni sumptu, molestia, munere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23; cf.:

(consul) solutus a cupiditatibus, liber a delictis,

id. Agr. 1, 9, 27:

ab observando homine perverso liber,

id. Att. 1, 13, 2:

liber a tali irrisione Socrates, liber Aristo Chius,

id. Ac. 2, 39, 123:

ab omni animi perturbatione liber,

id. Off. 1, 20, 67; id. N. D. 2, 21, 55:

loca abdita et ab arbitris libera,

id. Att. 15, 16, B:

libera a ferro crura,

Ov. P. 1, 6, 32:

animus liber a partibus rei publicae,

Sall. C. 4.—

With abl.:

animus omni liber curā et angore,

free from, without, Cic. Fin. 1, 15:

animus religione,

Liv. 2, 36:

animus cogitationibus aliis,

Quint. 11, 2, 35:

mens omnibus vitiis,

id. 12, 1, 4; cf.:

liberis odio et gratia mentibus,

id. 5, 11, 37:

omni liber metu,

Liv. 7, 34:

liber invidia,

Quint. 12, 11, 7:

equus carcere,

Ov. Am. 2, 9, 20.—

With gen. ( poet.):

liber laborum,

Hor. A. P. 212:

fati gens Lydia,

Verg. A. 10, 154:

curarum,

Luc. 4, 384. — Comp.:

liberior campi,

having a wider space, Stat. S. 4, 2, 24.—

Liberum est, with subject-clause:

quam (opinionem) sequi magis probantibus liberum est,

it is free, permitted, allowable, Quint. 6, 3, 112; Plin. Ep. 1, 8:

dies eligere certos liberum erat,

Plin. 30, 2, 6, § 16.—So in abl. absol.:

libero, quid firmaret mutaretve,

Tac. A. 3, 60.

In partic.

Free, in a social point of view, not a slave (opp. servus;

also to ingenuus): neque vendendam censes quae libera est,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 40; cf. id. ib. v. 28:

dis habeo gratiam quom aliquot affuerunt liberae, because slaves were not permitted to testify,

id. And. 4, 4, 32; opp. ingenuus, free-born:

quid ea? ingenuan' an festucā facta e servā liberast?

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 14:

in jure civili, qui est matre liberā, liber est,

Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 45; id. Caecin. 36, 96:

si neque censu, neque vindictā, nec testamento liber factus est (servus), non est liber,

id. Top. 2, 10:

quae (assentatio) non modo amico, sed ne libero quidem digna est,

of a freeman, id. Lael. 24, 89; Quint. 11, 1, 43:

liberorum hominum alii ingenui sunt, alii libertini,

Gai. Inst. 1, 10; cf. sqq.: ex ancilla et libero jure gentium servus nascitur, id. ib. 1, 82; cf. § 85; Paul. Sent. 2, 24, 1 sqq.—

Free, in a political point of view;

said both of a people not under monarchical rule and of one not in subjection to another people,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48; cf.:

ut ex nimia potentia principum oritur interitus principum, sic hunc nimis liberum populum libertas ipsa servitute afficit,

id. ib. 1, 44, 68:

liber populus,

id. ib. 3, 34, 46:

(Demaratus) vir liber ac fortis,

democratic, republican, fond of liberty, id. ib. 2, 19, 34:

civitates liberae atque immunes,

free from service, Liv. 37, 55:

provinciae civitatesque liberae,

Suet. Vesp. 8:

libera ac foederata oppida,

id. Calig. 3:

Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit,

Juv. 8, 244.—

In a bad sense, esp. with reference to sensual pleasure, unbridled, unchecked, unrestrained, licentious:

quam liber harum rerum multarum siet (Juppiter),

Plaut. Am. prol. 105:

adulescens imprudens et liber,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 40; cf.:

sit adulescentia liberior,

somewhat freer, Cic. Cael. 18, 42:

amores soluti et liberi,

id. Rep. 4, 4, 4:

consuetudo peccandi,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 76, § 177.—Hence, adv.: lībĕrē, freely, unrestrictedly, without let or hinderance; frankly, openly, boldly:

qui nihil dicit, nihil facit, nihil cogitat denique, nisi libenter ac libere,

Cic. Par. 5, 1, 34:

animus somno relaxatus solute movetur et libere,

id. Div. 2, 48, 100:

respirare,

id. Quint. 11, 39:

constanter et libere (me gessi),

id. Att. 4, 16, 9:

consilium dare,

id. Lael. 13, 44:

aliquid magis accusatorie quam libere dixisse,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 176:

omnia libere fingimus et impune,

Quint. 6, 1, 43:

ut ingredi libere (oratio), non ut licenter videatur errare,

Cic. Or. 23, 77.— Comp.:

liberius vivendi fuit potestas,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 23:

loqui,

Cic. Planc. 13, 33:

fortius liberiusque defendere,

Quint. 12, 1, 21:

liberius si Dixero quid,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 103:

maledicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 37:

longius et liberius exseritur digitus,

Quint. 11, 3, 92; cf. id. 11, 3, 97:

ipsaque tellus Omnia liberius, nullo poscente, ferebat,

freely, of itself, spontaneously, Verg. G. 1, 127.

līber, ĕri ( gen. plur. liberūm, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 9; Turp. ap. Non. 495, 26; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 15, § 40; 2, 1, 30, § 77; Tac. A. 2, 38; 3, 25 saep.; cf. Cic. Or. 46, 155;

but also: liberorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 76; 2, 5, 42, § 109), m. [1. liber], a child.

Sing. (post-class. and rare):

si quis maximam portionem libero relinquat,

Cod. Just. 3, 28, 33; 5, 9, 8 fin.; Quint. Decl. 2, 8.—

Plur., children (freq.; but in class. Lat. only of children with reference to their parents: pueri = children in general, as younger than adulescentes; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 657 sq.).

Lit.: liberorum genus, Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155 (Trag. v. 347 Vahl.): liberorum sibi quaesendum gratia, id. ap. Fest. p. 258 Müll. (Trag. v. 161 Vahl.):

cum conjugibus et liberis,

Cic. Att. 8, 2, 3:

eum ex C. Fadii filiā liberos habuisse,

id. ib. 16, 11, 1:

liberos procreare,

id. Tusc. 5, 37, 109:

suscipere liberos,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 161:

per liberos te precor,

Hor. Epod. 5, 5:

dulces,

id. ib. 2, 40:

parvuli,

Quint. 2, 15, 8;

opp. parentes,

id. 11, 1, 82; 3, 7, 18; 26; 6, 1, 18; 6, 5 al.: mater quae liberos, quasi oculos (amisit), orba est, Sulp. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 182 Müll.: jus trium liberorum, under the emperors, a privilege enjoyed by those who had three legitimate children (it consisted in the permission to fill a public office before one's twenty-fifth year, and in freedom from personal burdens); this privilege was sometimes also bestowed on those who had fewer than three children, or even none at all; also of one child:

non est sine liberis, cui vel unus filius unave filia est,

Dig. 50, 16, 148; Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 6; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 15; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 99; id. And. 5, 3, 20; Cic. Phil. 1, 1, 2; id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 33; id. Verr. 2, 1, 15, § 40; ib. 30, § 76 Zumpt; cf. also Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5:

neque ejus legendam filiam (virginem Vestalem)... qui liberos tres haberet,

Gell. 1, 12, 8:

uxores duxerant, ex quibus plerique liberos habebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110, 2.—Of grandchildren and great-grandchildren:

liberorum appellatione nepotes et pronepotes ceterique qui ex his descendunt, continentur,

Dig. 50, 16, 220; cf.:

liberi usque ad trinepotem, ultra hos posteriores vocantur,

ib. 38, 10, 10, § 7:

habitus sis in liberum loco,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 15, § 40.—

Esp.

Of sons (opp. daughters):

procreavit liberos septem totidemque filias,

Hyg. Fab. 9.—

Of children in gen. = pueri:

praecepta Chrysippi de liberorum educatione,

Quint. 1, 11, 17; cf.: Catus aut de liberis educandis, the title of a book by Varro, v. Gell. 4, 19, 2; Macr. S. 3, 6, 5.—

Transf., of animals, young:

liberis orbas oves,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 38.—Comically:

quaerunt litterae hae sibi liberos: alia aliam scandit,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 23.

Līber, ĕri (Sabine collat. form, loebasius, acc. to Serv. Verg. G. 1, 7; cf. 1. liber, and libertas init.), m. [Gr. leibô, to pour; loibê, a drink - offering; Lat. libare], an old Italian deity, who presided over planting and fructification; afterwards identified with the Greek Bacchus:

hunc dico Liberum Semelā natum, non eum, quem nostri majores auguste sancteque Liberum cum Cerere et Libera consecraverunt. Sed quod ex nobis natos liberos appellamus, idcirco Cerere nati nominati sunt Liber et Libera: quod in Libera servant, in Libero non item,

Cic. N. D. 2, 24, 62; cf. Serv. Verg. G. 1, 5; Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 19:

tertio (invocabo) Cererem et Liberum, quod horum fructus maxime necessarii ad victum: ab his enim cibus et potio venit e fundo,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 5:

Liber et alma Ceres,

Verg. G. 1, 7:

ex aede Liberi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 128;

in a pun with 1. liber,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 46; cf. id. Curc. 1, 2, 21; id. Stich. 5, 4, 17; so in a pun with liber, free:

quiaque adeo me complevi flore Liberi, Magis libera uti lingua collibitum est mihi,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 8; cf.:

salve, anime mi, lepos Liberi, ut veteris ego sum cupida, etc.,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 3.— Connected with pater:

sic factum, ut Libero patri repertori vitis hirci immolarentur,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 19:

Romulus et Liber pater,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 5:

per vestigia Liberi patris,

Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 39:

patre favente Libero fetis palmitibus,

Col. 3, 21, 3:

Libero patri in monte res divina celebratur,

Macr. S. 1, 18, 4.—

Meton., wine:

illud, quod erat a deo donatum, nomine ipsius dei nuncupabant: ut cum fruges Cererem appellamus, vinum autem Liberum: ex quo illud Terentii (Eun. 4, 5, 6): sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60:

Liberum et Cererem pro vino et pane,

Quint. 8, 6, 24; cf. also Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 4 supra:

sed pressum Calibus ducere Liberum Si gestis, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 14:

condita cum verax aperit praecordia Liber,

id. S. 1, 4, 89.

lĭber, bri, m. [Gr. lepein, to peel; lepos, lepis; cf. lobos], the inner bark or rind of a tree.

Lit.

In gen.:

obducuntur libro aut cortice trunci,

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

colligatae libris (arundines),

Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 4:

udoque docent (germen) inolescere libro,

Verg. G. 2, 77:

natam libro et silvestri subere clausam,

id. A. 11, 554; id. E. 10, 67:

quam denso fascia libro,

Juv. 6, 263.—

Esp., because the ancients used the bark or rind of trees to write upon; usually the thin rind of the Egyptian papyrus, on which the books of the Greeks and Romans were usually written (v. Dict. of Antiq. p. 587 sq.):

antea non fuisse chartarum usum. In palmarum foliis primo scriptitatum, dein quarundam arborum libris,

Plin. 13, 11, 21, § 69.—Hence,

Transf.

Paper, parchment, or rolls of any substance used to write upon (cf.:

charta, membrana): quasi quom in libro scribuntur calamo litterae,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 131.—

Most freq. a book, work, treatise:

Demetrii liber de concordia,

Cic. Att. 8, 12, 6:

quas (sententias) hoc libro exposui,

id. Lael. 1, 3; cf. id. ib. 1, 5:

dixi in eo libro, quem de rebus rusticis scripsi,

id. de Sen. 15, 54:

libros pervolutare,

id. Att. 5, 12, 2:

evolvere,

id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24:

volvere,

id. Brut. 87, 298:

legere,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 8:

edere,

id. Fat. 1, 1:

libri confectio,

id. de Sen. 1, 1:

tempus ad libros vacuum,

id. Rep. 1, 9, 14:

cujus (Platonis) in libris,

id. ib. 1, 10, 16:

in Graecorum libris,

id. ib. 2, 11, 21:

librum, si malus est, nequeo laudare,

Juv. 3, 41:

actorum libri,

the official gazette, id. 9, 84; cf. 2, 136; and v. Dict. Antiq. s. v. Acta.—

In partic.

A division of a work a look:

tres libri perfecti sunt de Natura Deorum,

Cic. Div. 2, 1, 3:

hi tres libri (de Officiis),

id. Off. 3, 33, 121:

sermo in novem libros distributus,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 1:

dictum est in libro superiore,

id. Off. 2, 13, 43 [p. 1058] sicut superiore libro continetur, Quint. 11, 1, 1:

versus de libro Ennii annali sexto,

id. 6, 3, 86:

liber primus, secundus, tertius, etc.,

id. 8, 1, 2; 10, 2, 20; 11, 1, 4 al. —Sometimes, in this latter case, liber is omitted:

in T. Livii primo,

Quint. 9, 2, 37:

in tertio de Oratore,

id. 9, 1, 26:

legi tuum nuper quartum de Finibus,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 32.—

In relig. or pub. law lang., a religious book, scriptures; a statute - book, code:

decemviris adire libros jussis,

i. e. the Sibylline books, Liv. 34, 55; 21, 62; 25, 12:

se cum legeret libros, recordatum esse, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11:

ut in libris est Etruscorum,

id. Div. 2, 23, 50; id. Att. 9, 9, 3:

caerimoniarum,

rituals, Tac. A. 3, 38.—

A list, catalogue, register, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 71, § 167.—

A letter, epistle, Nep. Lys. 4, 2; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5.—

A rescript, decree (post-Aug.):

liber principis severus et tamen moderatus,

Plin. Ep. 5, 14, 8.

līber, ĕra, ĕrum (old form, loebesum et loebertatem antiqui dicebant liberum et libertatem. Ita Graeci loibên et leibein, Paul. ex Fest. p. 121 Müll.; cf. 2. Liber), adj. [Gr. root liph-, liptô, to desire; cf. Sanscr. lub-dhas, desirous; Lat. libet, libido], that acts according to his own will and pleasure, is his own master; free, unrestricted, unrestrained, unimpeded, unshackled; independent, frank, open, bold (opp. servus, servilis).

In gen.; constr. absol., with ab, the abl., and poet. also with gen.

Absol.:

dictum est ab eruditissimis viris, nisi sapientem liberum esse neminem. Quid est enim libertas? Potestas vivendi ut velis,

Cic. Par. 5, 1, 33:

an ille mihi liber, cui mulier imperat, cui leges imponit, praescribit, jubet, vetat? etc.,

id. ib. 5, 2, 36:

ad scribendi licentiam liber,

id. N. D. 1, 44, 123:

agri immunes ac liberi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 166:

integro animo ac libero causam defendere,

unprejudiced, unbiased, id. Sull. 31, 86:

liberi ad causas solutique veniebant,

not under obligations, not bribed, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78 § 192; cf.:

libera lingua,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 9:

cor liberum,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 43:

vocem liberam mittere adversus aliquem,

Liv. 35, 32, 6:

libera verba animi proferre,

Juv. 4, 90: judicium [p. 1057] audientium relinquere integrum ac liberum, Cic. Div. 2, 72, 150:

aliquid respuere ingenuo liberoque fastidio,

id. Brut. 67, 236:

libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio,

id. Fin. 1, 10, 33:

tibi uni vexatio direptioque sociorum impunita fuit ac libera,

id. Cat. 1, 7, 18:

pars quaestionum vaga et libera et late patens,

id. de Or. 2, 16, 67:

liberum arbitrium eis populo Romano permittente,

Liv. 31, 11 fin.; cf. id. 37, 1, 5:

mandata,

full powers, unlimited authority, id. 37, 56; 38, 8:

fenus,

unlimited, id. 35, 7: custodia, free custody (i. e. confinement to a house or to a town), id. 24, 45; Vell. 1, 11, 1;

v. custodia, II.: legatio, v. legatio: suffragia,

the right of voting freely, Juv. 8, 211:

locus,

free from intruders, undisturbed, secure, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 49; 3, 2, 25; id. Cas. 3, 2, 4: aedes, a free house, free dwelling (assigned to the use of ambassadors of friendly nations during their stay in Rome), Liv. 30, 17 fin.; 35, 23; 42, 6:

lectulus,

i. e. not shared with a wife, Cic. Att. 14, 13, 5: toga ( poet. for virilis toga), a man's (prop. of one who is his own master), Ov. F. 3, 771:

vestis,

id. ib. 3, 777:

libera omnia sibi servare,

to reserve to one's self full liberty, Plin. Ep. 1, 5.— Comp.:

hoc liberiores et solutiores sumus, quod, etc.,

Cic. Ac. 2, 3, 8:

est finitimus oratori poëta, numeris astrictior paulo, verborum licentia liberior,

id. de Or. 1, 16, 70:

liberiores litterae,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1:

amicitia remissior esse debet et liberior et dulcior,

freer, more unrestrained, more cheerful, id. Lael. 18 fin.:

paulo liberior sententia,

Quint. 4, 2, 121:

liberior in utramque partem disputatio,

id. 7, 2, 14:

fusiores liberioresque numeri,

id. 9, 4, 130:

officia liberiora plenioraque,

id. 6, 1, 9:

(flumina) campo recepta Liberioris aquae,

freer, less impeded, Ov. M. 1, 41; cf.:

(Tiberinus) campo liberiore natat,

freer, opener, id. F. 4, 292:

liberiore frui caelo,

freer, opener, id. M. 15, 301.— Sup.:

liberrimum hominum genus, comici veteres tradunt, etc.,

the frankest, most free-spoken, Quint. 12, 2, 22; cf.:

liberrime Lolli,

most frank, most ingenuous, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 1:

indignatio,

id. Epod. 4, 10.—

Free or exempt from, void of; with ab:

Mamertini vacui, expertes, soluti ac liberi fuerunt ab omni sumptu, molestia, munere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 10, § 23; cf.:

(consul) solutus a cupiditatibus, liber a delictis,

id. Agr. 1, 9, 27:

ab observando homine perverso liber,

id. Att. 1, 13, 2:

liber a tali irrisione Socrates, liber Aristo Chius,

id. Ac. 2, 39, 123:

ab omni animi perturbatione liber,

id. Off. 1, 20, 67; id. N. D. 2, 21, 55:

loca abdita et ab arbitris libera,

id. Att. 15, 16, B:

libera a ferro crura,

Ov. P. 1, 6, 32:

animus liber a partibus rei publicae,

Sall. C. 4.—

With abl.:

animus omni liber curā et angore,

free from, without, Cic. Fin. 1, 15:

animus religione,

Liv. 2, 36:

animus cogitationibus aliis,

Quint. 11, 2, 35:

mens omnibus vitiis,

id. 12, 1, 4; cf.:

liberis odio et gratia mentibus,

id. 5, 11, 37:

omni liber metu,

Liv. 7, 34:

liber invidia,

Quint. 12, 11, 7:

equus carcere,

Ov. Am. 2, 9, 20.—

With gen. ( poet.):

liber laborum,

Hor. A. P. 212:

fati gens Lydia,

Verg. A. 10, 154:

curarum,

Luc. 4, 384. — Comp.:

liberior campi,

having a wider space, Stat. S. 4, 2, 24.—

Liberum est, with subject-clause:

quam (opinionem) sequi magis probantibus liberum est,

it is free, permitted, allowable, Quint. 6, 3, 112; Plin. Ep. 1, 8:

dies eligere certos liberum erat,

Plin. 30, 2, 6, § 16.—So in abl. absol.:

libero, quid firmaret mutaretve,

Tac. A. 3, 60.

In partic.

Free, in a social point of view, not a slave (opp. servus;

also to ingenuus): neque vendendam censes quae libera est,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 40; cf. id. ib. v. 28:

dis habeo gratiam quom aliquot affuerunt liberae, because slaves were not permitted to testify,

id. And. 4, 4, 32; opp. ingenuus, free-born:

quid ea? ingenuan' an festucā facta e servā liberast?

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 14:

in jure civili, qui est matre liberā, liber est,

Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 45; id. Caecin. 36, 96:

si neque censu, neque vindictā, nec testamento liber factus est (servus), non est liber,

id. Top. 2, 10:

quae (assentatio) non modo amico, sed ne libero quidem digna est,

of a freeman, id. Lael. 24, 89; Quint. 11, 1, 43:

liberorum hominum alii ingenui sunt, alii libertini,

Gai. Inst. 1, 10; cf. sqq.: ex ancilla et libero jure gentium servus nascitur, id. ib. 1, 82; cf. § 85; Paul. Sent. 2, 24, 1 sqq.—

Free, in a political point of view;

said both of a people not under monarchical rule and of one not in subjection to another people,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48; cf.:

ut ex nimia potentia principum oritur interitus principum, sic hunc nimis liberum populum libertas ipsa servitute afficit,

id. ib. 1, 44, 68:

liber populus,

id. ib. 3, 34, 46:

(Demaratus) vir liber ac fortis,

democratic, republican, fond of liberty, id. ib. 2, 19, 34:

civitates liberae atque immunes,

free from service, Liv. 37, 55:

provinciae civitatesque liberae,

Suet. Vesp. 8:

libera ac foederata oppida,

id. Calig. 3:

Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit,

Juv. 8, 244.—

In a bad sense, esp. with reference to sensual pleasure, unbridled, unchecked, unrestrained, licentious:

quam liber harum rerum multarum siet (Juppiter),

Plaut. Am. prol. 105:

adulescens imprudens et liber,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 40; cf.:

sit adulescentia liberior,

somewhat freer, Cic. Cael. 18, 42:

amores soluti et liberi,

id. Rep. 4, 4, 4:

consuetudo peccandi,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 76, § 177.—Hence, adv.: lībĕrē, freely, unrestrictedly, without let or hinderance; frankly, openly, boldly:

qui nihil dicit, nihil facit, nihil cogitat denique, nisi libenter ac libere,

Cic. Par. 5, 1, 34:

animus somno relaxatus solute movetur et libere,

id. Div. 2, 48, 100:

respirare,

id. Quint. 11, 39:

constanter et libere (me gessi),

id. Att. 4, 16, 9:

consilium dare,

id. Lael. 13, 44:

aliquid magis accusatorie quam libere dixisse,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 176:

omnia libere fingimus et impune,

Quint. 6, 1, 43:

ut ingredi libere (oratio), non ut licenter videatur errare,

Cic. Or. 23, 77.— Comp.:

liberius vivendi fuit potestas,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 23:

loqui,

Cic. Planc. 13, 33:

fortius liberiusque defendere,

Quint. 12, 1, 21:

liberius si Dixero quid,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 103:

maledicere,

id. ib. 2, 8, 37:

longius et liberius exseritur digitus,

Quint. 11, 3, 92; cf. id. 11, 3, 97:

ipsaque tellus Omnia liberius, nullo poscente, ferebat,

freely, of itself, spontaneously, Verg. G. 1, 127.

līber, ĕri ( gen. plur. liberūm, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 9; Turp. ap. Non. 495, 26; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 15, § 40; 2, 1, 30, § 77; Tac. A. 2, 38; 3, 25 saep.; cf. Cic. Or. 46, 155;

but also: liberorum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 76; 2, 5, 42, § 109), m. [1. liber], a child.

Sing. (post-class. and rare):

si quis maximam portionem libero relinquat,

Cod. Just. 3, 28, 33; 5, 9, 8 fin.; Quint. Decl. 2, 8.—

Plur., children (freq.; but in class. Lat. only of children with reference to their parents: pueri = children in general, as younger than adulescentes; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 657 sq.).

Lit.: liberorum genus, Enn. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155 (Trag. v. 347 Vahl.): liberorum sibi quaesendum gratia, id. ap. Fest. p. 258 Müll. (Trag. v. 161 Vahl.):

cum conjugibus et liberis,

Cic. Att. 8, 2, 3:

eum ex C. Fadii filiā liberos habuisse,

id. ib. 16, 11, 1:

liberos procreare,

id. Tusc. 5, 37, 109:

suscipere liberos,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 161:

per liberos te precor,

Hor. Epod. 5, 5:

dulces,

id. ib. 2, 40:

parvuli,

Quint. 2, 15, 8;

opp. parentes,

id. 11, 1, 82; 3, 7, 18; 26; 6, 1, 18; 6, 5 al.: mater quae liberos, quasi oculos (amisit), orba est, Sulp. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 182 Müll.: jus trium liberorum, under the emperors, a privilege enjoyed by those who had three legitimate children (it consisted in the permission to fill a public office before one's twenty-fifth year, and in freedom from personal burdens); this privilege was sometimes also bestowed on those who had fewer than three children, or even none at all; also of one child:

non est sine liberis, cui vel unus filius unave filia est,

Dig. 50, 16, 148; Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 6; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 15; id. Heaut. 1, 1, 99; id. And. 5, 3, 20; Cic. Phil. 1, 1, 2; id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 33; id. Verr. 2, 1, 15, § 40; ib. 30, § 76 Zumpt; cf. also Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5:

neque ejus legendam filiam (virginem Vestalem)... qui liberos tres haberet,

Gell. 1, 12, 8:

uxores duxerant, ex quibus plerique liberos habebant,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110, 2.—Of grandchildren and great-grandchildren:

liberorum appellatione nepotes et pronepotes ceterique qui ex his descendunt, continentur,

Dig. 50, 16, 220; cf.:

liberi usque ad trinepotem, ultra hos posteriores vocantur,

ib. 38, 10, 10, § 7:

habitus sis in liberum loco,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 15, § 40.—

Esp.

Of sons (opp. daughters):

procreavit liberos septem totidemque filias,

Hyg. Fab. 9.—

Of children in gen. = pueri:

praecepta Chrysippi de liberorum educatione,

Quint. 1, 11, 17; cf.: Catus aut de liberis educandis, the title of a book by Varro, v. Gell. 4, 19, 2; Macr. S. 3, 6, 5.—

Transf., of animals, young:

liberis orbas oves,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 38.—Comically:

quaerunt litterae hae sibi liberos: alia aliam scandit,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 23.

Līber, ĕri (Sabine collat. form, loebasius, acc. to Serv. Verg. G. 1, 7; cf. 1. liber, and libertas init.), m. [Gr. leibô, to pour; loibê, a drink - offering; Lat. libare], an old Italian deity, who presided over planting and fructification; afterwards identified with the Greek Bacchus:

hunc dico Liberum Semelā natum, non eum, quem nostri majores auguste sancteque Liberum cum Cerere et Libera consecraverunt. Sed quod ex nobis natos liberos appellamus, idcirco Cerere nati nominati sunt Liber et Libera: quod in Libera servant, in Libero non item,

Cic. N. D. 2, 24, 62; cf. Serv. Verg. G. 1, 5; Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 19:

tertio (invocabo) Cererem et Liberum, quod horum fructus maxime necessarii ad victum: ab his enim cibus et potio venit e fundo,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 5:

Liber et alma Ceres,

Verg. G. 1, 7:

ex aede Liberi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 128;

in a pun with 1. liber,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 46; cf. id. Curc. 1, 2, 21; id. Stich. 5, 4, 17; so in a pun with liber, free:

quiaque adeo me complevi flore Liberi, Magis libera uti lingua collibitum est mihi,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 8; cf.:

salve, anime mi, lepos Liberi, ut veteris ego sum cupida, etc.,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 3.— Connected with pater:

sic factum, ut Libero patri repertori vitis hirci immolarentur,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 19:

Romulus et Liber pater,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 5:

per vestigia Liberi patris,

Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 39:

patre favente Libero fetis palmitibus,

Col. 3, 21, 3:

Libero patri in monte res divina celebratur,

Macr. S. 1, 18, 4.—

Meton., wine:

illud, quod erat a deo donatum, nomine ipsius dei nuncupabant: ut cum fruges Cererem appellamus, vinum autem Liberum: ex quo illud Terentii (Eun. 4, 5, 6): sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60:

Liberum et Cererem pro vino et pane,

Quint. 8, 6, 24; cf. also Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 4 supra:

sed pressum Calibus ducere Liberum Si gestis, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 14:

condita cum verax aperit praecordia Liber,

id. S. 1, 4, 89.

lĭber, bri, m. [Gr. lepein, to peel; lepos, lepis; cf. lobos], the inner bark or rind of a tree.

Lit.

In gen.:

obducuntur libro aut cortice trunci,

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

colligatae libris (arundines),

Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 4:

udoque docent (germen) inolescere libro,

Verg. G. 2, 77:

natam libro et silvestri subere clausam,

id. A. 11, 554; id. E. 10, 67:

quam denso fascia libro,

Juv. 6, 263.—

Esp., because the ancients used the bark or rind of trees to write upon; usually the thin rind of the Egyptian papyrus, on which the books of the Greeks and Romans were usually written (v. Dict. of Antiq. p. 587 sq.):

antea non fuisse chartarum usum. In palmarum foliis primo scriptitatum, dein quarundam arborum libris,

Plin. 13, 11, 21, § 69.—Hence,

Transf.

Paper, parchment, or rolls of any substance used to write upon (cf.:

charta, membrana): quasi quom in libro scribuntur calamo litterae,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 131.—

Most freq. a book, work, treatise:

Demetrii liber de concordia,

Cic. Att. 8, 12, 6:

quas (sententias) hoc libro exposui,

id. Lael. 1, 3; cf. id. ib. 1, 5:

dixi in eo libro, quem de rebus rusticis scripsi,

id. de Sen. 15, 54:

libros pervolutare,

id. Att. 5, 12, 2:

evolvere,

id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24:

volvere,

id. Brut. 87, 298:

legere,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 8:

edere,

id. Fat. 1, 1:

libri confectio,

id. de Sen. 1, 1:

tempus ad libros vacuum,

id. Rep. 1, 9, 14:

cujus (Platonis) in libris,

id. ib. 1, 10, 16:

in Graecorum libris,

id. ib. 2, 11, 21:

librum, si malus est, nequeo laudare,

Juv. 3, 41:

actorum libri,

the official gazette, id. 9, 84; cf. 2, 136; and v. Dict. Antiq. s. v. Acta.—

In partic.

A division of a work a look:

tres libri perfecti sunt de Natura Deorum,

Cic. Div. 2, 1, 3:

hi tres libri (de Officiis),

id. Off. 3, 33, 121:

sermo in novem libros distributus,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 1:

dictum est in libro superiore,

id. Off. 2, 13, 43 [p. 1058] sicut superiore libro continetur, Quint. 11, 1, 1:

versus de libro Ennii annali sexto,

id. 6, 3, 86:

liber primus, secundus, tertius, etc.,

id. 8, 1, 2; 10, 2, 20; 11, 1, 4 al. —Sometimes, in this latter case, liber is omitted:

in T. Livii primo,

Quint. 9, 2, 37:

in tertio de Oratore,

id. 9, 1, 26:

legi tuum nuper quartum de Finibus,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 32.—

In relig. or pub. law lang., a religious book, scriptures; a statute - book, code:

decemviris adire libros jussis,

i. e. the Sibylline books, Liv. 34, 55; 21, 62; 25, 12:

se cum legeret libros, recordatum esse, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11:

ut in libris est Etruscorum,

id. Div. 2, 23, 50; id. Att. 9, 9, 3:

caerimoniarum,

rituals, Tac. A. 3, 38.—

A list, catalogue, register, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 71, § 167.—

A letter, epistle, Nep. Lys. 4, 2; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5.—

A rescript, decree (post-Aug.):

liber principis severus et tamen moderatus,

Plin. Ep. 5, 14, 8.