springing

herba, ae, f. [old Lat. forb-ea; Gr. phorbê; Sanscr. root bhar-, to nourish], springing vegetation, grass, green stalks or blades, green crops, herbage, an herb (cf.:

gramen, faenum, caespes, glaeba): herba cubile Praebebat, multa et molli lanugine abundans,

Lucr. 5, 816:

in molli consedimus herba,

Verg. E. 3, 55:

cum ceteris in campo exercentibus in herba ipse recubuisset,

Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 287:

abicere se in herba,

id. ib. 1, 7, 28:

fusus per herbam (agricola),

Verg. G. 2, 527 al.:

invitant (Pecudes) herbae gemmantes rore recenti,

Lucr. 2, 319; so,

gemmantes rore,

id. 5, 461:

herbae rore vigentes,

id. 2, 361:

teneras per herbas Ludere,

id. 1, 260:

nova tum tellus herbas virgultaque primum Sustulit,

id. 5, 790:

ex quibusdam stirpibus et herbis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 64, 161:

corona ex asperis herbis et agrestibus,

id. Div. 1, 34, 75; cf. ib. 2, 32, 68:

quas herbas pecudes non edunt, homines edunt,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 23 sq.; cf.:

fungos, helvellas, herbas omnes ita condiunt, ut nihil possit esse suavius,

Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2:

herbis vivis et urticā,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 7:

solstitialis herba,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 36:

interim mores mali Quasi herba irrigua succreverunt uberrume,

id. Trin. 1, 1, 9:

fallax veneni,

a poisonous plant, Verg. E. 4, 24:

nulla neque amnem Libavit quadrupes, nec graminis attigit herbam,

a blade, id. ib. 5, 26; cf. Ov. M. 10, 87:

et sulcis frumenti quaereret herbam,

young crop, Verg. G. 1, 134:

novitates si spem afferunt, ut tamquam in herbis non fallacibus fructus appareat, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 19, 68; cf.:

primis segetes moriuntur in herbis,

Ov. M. 5, 4:

Ceres dominum primis fallebat in herbis,

id. F. 4, 645.—So prov.: saepe audivi, inter os atque offam multa intervenire posse; verum vero inter offam atque herbam, ibi vero longum intervallum est, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 17, 1; cf.:

sed nimium properas et adhuc tua messis in herba est,

Ov. H. 17, 263; and:

egone, qui indolem ingenii tui in germine etiam tum et in herba et in flore dilexerim, nunc frugem ipsam maturae virtutis nonne multo multoque amplius diligam?

Front. Ep. ad Anton. 1, 5 Mai.:

omnis illa laus... velut in herba vel flore praecerpta ad nullam certam et solidam pervenit frugem,

Tac. Dial. 9, 5.—Prov.: herbam dare, to own one's self beaten: herbam do cum ait Plautus, significat: victum me fateor; quod est antiquae et pastoralis vitae indicium. Nam qui in prato cursu aut viribus contendebant, cum superati erant, ex eo solo, in quo certamen erat, decerptam herbam adversario tradebant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 99 Müll.; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 128; Varr. ib.; Plin. 22, 4, 4, § 8; Att. and Afran. ap. Non. 317, 18 and 20.—

Transf., weeds, useless plants:

officiant laetis ne frugibus herbae,

Verg. G. 1, 69; 2, 251; cf. id. ib. 2, 411; Plin. 18, 30, 72, § 300.

insultātĭo, ōnis, f.

Lit., a springing or leaping over or on, Sol. 52, 20.—

Trop., insolent behavior towards any one, a scoffing, reviling, insulting, Quint. 8, 5, 11:

nihil insultatione barbarorum intolerantius,

Flor. 4, 12, 36.

ŏrĭundus, a, um, adj. [orior].

Descended, sprung from any person or place (rare but class.): o sanguen dis oriundum, Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41 (Ann. v. 117 Vahl.): Poenos Didone oriundos, id. ap. Prisc. p. 685 P. (Ann. v. 300 Vahl.):

caelesti semine,

Lucr. 2, 991: ab ingenuis, * Cic. Top. 6, 29:

ex Etruscis,

Liv. 2, 9:

liberis parentibus,

Col. 1, 3, 5:

unde oriundi sient,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 6:

quod inde oriundus erat, plebi carus,

Liv. 2, 32.—

Born, originating in, springing from:

haud repudio Carthaginem: inde sum oriundus,

I was born there, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 95:

oriundi ab Syracusis,

Liv. 24, 6:

ORIVNDVS LEPTI,

Inscr. Don. 6, 167:

ORIVNDVS GAZA,

ib. 168.—Of things:

Egone apicularum congestum opera non feram, Ex dulci oriundum?

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 11:

fluens aqua e montibus oriunda,

derived, Col. 1, 5:

Albā oriundum sacerdotium,

Liv. 1, 20, 3.

ortus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from orior, q. v. fin. B.

ortus, ūs, m. [orior].

A rising of the heavenly bodies (opp. occasus; class.): solis et lunae reliquorumque siderum ortus, obitus motusque cognoscere, Cic. Div. 1, 56, 128:

primi sub lumina solis et ortus,

Verg. A. 6, 255:

(sol) ab ortu ad occasum commeans,

from east to west, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49: solis, sunrise, i. e. the orient, the east, id. Cat. 3, 8:

tum bis ad occasum, bis se convertit ad ortus,

Ov. M. 14, 386:

nitido ab ortu,

id. ib. 2, 112:

signorum,

Verg. E. 9, 46:

ortus lucis,

Vulg. Sap. 16, 28.—

A rise, beginning, origin (cf. origo):

tribuniciae potestatis,

Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19:

juris,

id. ib. 1, 6, 20:

Favonii,

Plin. 17, 9, 8, § 57:

materno ortu,

Ov. M. 13, 148:

ab Elide ducimus ortum,

we are sprung, derive our origin, id. ib. 5, 494:

ortus nascentium,

the birth, Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91; id. Tusc. 1, 38, 91:

Cato ortu Tusculanus,

by birth, id. Leg. 2, 2, 5.—Of a river, the source:

donec venias ad fluminis ortus,

Ov. M. 11, 139.—Of plants, the springing up, growth, Lucr. 5, 211.

sĕgĕs, ĕtis, f. [etym. dub.; perh. root sag-, to fill, feed; Gr. sattô; Lat. sagmen, q. v.], a cornfield.

Lit. (freq. and class.):

partem dimidiam (stercoris) in segetem, ubi pabulum seras, invehito,

Cato, R. R. 29; cf. id. ib. 36: segetes subigere aratris, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 395, 15; Cato, R. R. 37; 155; 5, 4 (v. defrugo); id. Fragm. ap. Gell. 13, 17, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 5; 1, 29, 1; 1, 50, 1 sq.; 1, 69, 1; 2, 7, 11 al.; Lucil., Att., and Varr. ap. Non. 395, 24 sq.; Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; 1, 28, 69:

segetes secundae et uberes,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; id. Sen. 15, 54, id. Verr. 2, 3, 8, § 20:

cohortes frumentatum in proximas segetes misit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 36, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 61; Verg. G. 1, 47 Heyne; 2, 267;

4, 129: segetes occat tibi mox frumenta daturas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 161; id. C. 1, 31, 4; Col. 2, 14, 2 et saep.—

Comically: stimulorum seges,

a cudgelfield, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 6.—

Transf., the standing corn, growing corn, crop in a field (class., but not freq. till after the Aug. per.:

est eorum (rusticorum) gemmare vitis, laetas esse segetes, etc.,

Cic. Or. 24, 81; id. de Or. 3, 38, 155, is cited, merely by way of example, as used by the rustici;

syn. messis): seges grandissima atque optima,

Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 1:

culto stat seges alta solo,

Ov. A. A. 3, 102:

seges prope jam matura,

Caes. B. C. 3, 81 fin. (cf. infra, Liv. 2, 5):

antequam seges in articulum eat,

Col. 2, 12, 9:

uligo segetem enecat,

id. 2, 9, 9:

et segetis canae stantes percurrere aristas,

Ov. M. 10, 655:

producit fruges et segetem imbecillem,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 6, 6; id. Ben. 6, 4, 4.— Plur.:

segetes Collibus et campis habere,

Lucr. 5, 1371:

quid faciat laetas segetes,

Verg. G. 1, 1:

adultae segetes,

Col. 2, 9, 10:

segetes laetas excitare,

id. 2, 15, 4:

laetas segetes afferre,

id. 2, 17, 3.—With gen.:

seges farris matura messi,

Liv. 2, 5:

lini et avenae,

Verg. G. 1, 77:

leguminum,

Col. 2, 13, 3.— Poet., of men springing up out of the ground:

crescit seges clipeata virorum,

Ov. M. 3, 110; 7, 30; id. H. 12, 59 al.—Of a multitude of things crowded together, a crop, etc.:

confixum ferrea texit Telorum seges,

Verg. A. 3, 46; cf. id. ib. 7, 526, and 12, 663; so,

ferri,

Claud. in Ruf. 2, 391; cf.:

Mavortia ferri,

id. III. Cons. Hon. 135:

hystricis,

Aus. Idyll. 2 (Claud. Hystr. 12):

aëna (hydraulici organi),

Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 316:

seges osculationis,

Cat. 48, 6.—

Trop.

(Acc. to I. A.) A field, ground, soil (rare but class.): quod beneficium haud sterili in segete, rex, te obsesse intellegis, Att. ap. Non. 395, 27:

fert casiam non culta seges,

Tib. 1, 3, 61:

ubi prima paretur Arboribus seges,

Verg. G. 2, 267:

quid odisset Clodium Milo segetem ac materiem suae gloriae?

Cic. Mil. 13, 35; cf.:

videtur esse criminum seges, maledictorum materia,

Arn. 5, 172.—

(Acc. to I. B.) A crop, fruit, produce, result, profit ( poet. and very rare):

fertile pectus habes, interque Helicona colentes Uberius nulli provenit ista seges,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 12:

quae inde seges,

Juv. 7, 103:

inde seges scelerum,

Prud. Ham. 258.

stŏlo, ōnis, m., a shoot, branch, twig, or scion springing from the stock or root of a tree, a useless sucker, water-shoot:

qui (Licinius Stolo) propter diligentiam culturae Stolonum confirmavit cognomen, quod nullus in ejus fundo reperiri poterat stolo, quod effodiebat circum arbores, e radicibus, quae nascerentur e solo, quos stolones appellabant,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 9; cf.:

Stolonum Liciniae genti (cognomen): ita appellatur in ipsis arboribus fruticatio inutilis, unde et pampinatio inventa primo Stoloni dedit nomen,

Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 7; 17, 20, 34, § 150; 17, 13, 20, § 95; 17, 26, 39, § 248; 27, 13, 109, § 133.

Stŏlo, ōnis, m., a cognomen in the gens Licinia; v. 1. stolo.

stŏlo, ōnis, m., a shoot, branch, twig, or scion springing from the stock or root of a tree, a useless sucker, water-shoot:

qui (Licinius Stolo) propter diligentiam culturae Stolonum confirmavit cognomen, quod nullus in ejus fundo reperiri poterat stolo, quod effodiebat circum arbores, e radicibus, quae nascerentur e solo, quos stolones appellabant,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 9; cf.:

Stolonum Liciniae genti (cognomen): ita appellatur in ipsis arboribus fruticatio inutilis, unde et pampinatio inventa primo Stoloni dedit nomen,

Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 7; 17, 20, 34, § 150; 17, 13, 20, § 95; 17, 26, 39, § 248; 27, 13, 109, § 133.

Stŏlo, ōnis, m., a cognomen in the gens Licinia; v. 1. stolo.