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Hydra, ae, f., = Hudra [kindred with Sanscr. udri; Ang.-Sax. oter, otor; Engl. and Germ. Otter; cf. also the Gr. enudris], the water-serpent killed by Hercules near the Lernean Lake, the Hydra, with seven heads; as fast as one of them was cut off two sprang up in its stead; it is also called Echidna:

Lernaea pestis, Hydra,

Lucr. 5, 27; Ov. M. 9, 192; Hor. C. 4, 4, 61; id. Ep. 2, 1, 10; Hyg. Fab. 30; 34; 151. As identified with Echidna, the mother of Cerberus, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22.—Prov.:

vide ne in istis duobus generibus hydra tibi sit et pellis, Hercules autem et alia opera majora, in illis rebus, quas praetermittis, relinquantur,

i. e. the easiest, the least important, Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 71.—

Deriv. Hydraeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Hydra:

germen,

Mart. Cap. 7, 237.—

Transf.

The constellation of the Water-snake, also called Anguis, Cic. Arat. 214 (also id. N. D. 2, 44, 114); Hyg. Astr. 2, 40; 3, 39.—

Acc. to Verg., a hydra with fifth heads, that keeps watch at the gates of the Lower World, Verg. A. 6, 576.

Hydra, ae, f., = Hudra [kindred with Sanscr. udri; Ang.-Sax. oter, otor; Engl. and Germ. Otter; cf. also the Gr. enudris], the water-serpent killed by Hercules near the Lernean Lake, the Hydra, with seven heads; as fast as one of them was cut off two sprang up in its stead; it is also called Echidna:

Lernaea pestis, Hydra,

Lucr. 5, 27; Ov. M. 9, 192; Hor. C. 4, 4, 61; id. Ep. 2, 1, 10; Hyg. Fab. 30; 34; 151. As identified with Echidna, the mother of Cerberus, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22.—Prov.:

vide ne in istis duobus generibus hydra tibi sit et pellis, Hercules autem et alia opera majora, in illis rebus, quas praetermittis, relinquantur,

i. e. the easiest, the least important, Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 71.—

Deriv. Hydraeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Hydra:

germen,

Mart. Cap. 7, 237.—

Transf.

The constellation of the Water-snake, also called Anguis, Cic. Arat. 214 (also id. N. D. 2, 44, 114); Hyg. Astr. 2, 40; 3, 39.—

Acc. to Verg., a hydra with fifth heads, that keeps watch at the gates of the Lower World, Verg. A. 6, 576.

quaestor (old orthogr., QVAISTOR, Epit. of the Scipios, et saep.), ōris, m. [contr. from quaesitor, from quaero], a quætor, the title of a class of Roman magistrates, some of whom had charge of the pecuniary affairs of the State, while others conducted certain criminal trials (but only, it would seem, as delegates or commissioners of the people):

quaestores a quaerendo, qui conquirerent publicas pecunias et maleficia, quae triumviri capitales nunc conquirunt: ab his postea, qui quaestionum judicia exercent, quaestores dicti,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 81 Müll.:

et quia de capite civis Romani injussu populi non erat lege permissum consulibus jus dicere, propterea quaestores constituebantur a populo, qui capitalibus rebus praeessent: hique appellabantur quaestores parricidii, quorum etiam meminit lex duodecim tabularum,

Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 23; cf.: parricidii quaestores appellabantur, qui solebant creari causā rerum capitalium quaerendarum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 221 Müll. (cf. Fest. p. 258, 31). But they were commonly called simply quaestores, Liv. 2, 41, 11; 3, 24, 3; Cic. Rep. 2, 35, 60.— As a standing magistracy, the quæstors were treasurers of State, treasurers. They distributed their duties among themselves by lot, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 13, § 34; id. Mur. 8, 18. Of these the quaestor urbanus or aerarii, who remained at Rome, took charge of the treasury, of the [p. 1503] public revenues and expenditures, of the standards deposited in the aerarium, etc., Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 2; Cic. Har. Resp. 20, 43; id. Verr. 1, 4, 11; Liv. 7, 23; 26, 47; Val. Max. 5, 1, 1; Tac. A. 13, 28. The quæstors appointed as assistants to the consuls or prætors for the provinces, called quaestores provinciales or militares, provided for the payment and provisioning of the troops, collected the imposts, and, in the absence of the governor, acted in his stead, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 19, 61; id. Planc. 11, 28; id. Sen. 10, 32; Liv. 26, 47. Service in the higher offices of State began with the quæstorship, the lowest of them which conferred a seat in the Senate, to which no one was legally eligible before the age of twenty-five, Tac. A. 11, 22. Augustus instituted a new sort of quæstors, quaestores candidati or principis (Caesaris), who conveyed the imperial messages to the Senate, Plin. Ep. 7, 16, 2; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 43, 3:

oratio principis per quaestorem ejus audita est,

Tac. A. 16, 27; Dig. 1, 13, 1; cf. candidatus, 2. The emperor Constantine appointed quaestores palatii or chancellors, Cod. Th. 1, 8; 6, 9; 7, 62, 32; Cassiod. Var. 6, 5;

called QVAESTOR INTRA PALATIVM,

Inscr. Orell. 1188.—

Trop.:

quaestor non imperii, sed doloris mei,

Cic. Red. in Sen. 14, 35 (bracketed as dub. by B. and K.).

vĭcis (as a gen.; the nom. does not occur), vicem, vice; in plur., vices (nom. and acc.) and vicibus (dat. and abl.), f. [cf. Gr. eikô, to yield; root Wik-; v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 135], change, interchange, alternation, alternate or reciprocal succession, vicissitude (the gen. not ante-Aug.; the other cases class.).

Lit.

In gen. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; for which, in class. prose, vicissitudo).

Sing.: ignotus juvenum coetus alternā vice Inibat alacris, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 214 P. (Trag. v. 151 Vahl.):

hac vice sermonum,

conversation, Verg. A. 6, 535:

vice sermonis,

Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 79; cf. in the foll. b:

deus haec fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice,

Hor. Epod. 13, 8:

solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favoni,

id. C. 1, 4, 1:

commoti Patres vice fortunarum humanarum,

Liv. 7, 31, 6: dum Nox vicem peragit, performs the exchange, i. e. alternales with day, Ov. M. 4, 218:

ridica contingens vitem mutuā vice sustinetur et sustinet,

Col. 4, 16:

versā vice,

reversely, Dig. 43, 29, 3; App. Dogm. Plat. p. 32, 6; id. Flor. p. 363; Just. 6, 5, 11 al.—

Plur.:

plerumque gratae divitibus vices Mundaeque parvo sub Lare pauperum Cenae,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 13:

et interrogandi se ipsum et respondendi sibi solent esse non ingratae vices,

Quint. 9, 2, 14:

loquendi,

id. 6, 4, 11; Ov. P. 2, 10, 35:

ipsius lectionis taedium vicibus levatur,

Quint. 1, 12, 4:

habet has vices condicio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur,

Plin. Pan. 5 fin.:

spatium diei noctis excipiunt vices,

Phaedr. 2, 8, 10:

haec quoque non perstant... Quasque vices peragant... docebo,

what vicissitudes they undergo, Ov. M. 15, 238:

mutat terra vices,

renews her changes, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3:

perque vicis modo Persephone! modo Filia! clamat,

alternately, Ov. F. 4, 483; so,

per vicis,

id. M. 4, 40; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23:

per vices annorum,

i. e. every other year, id. 12, 14, 30, § 54:

cur vicibus factis convivia ineant,

alternately, by turns, Ov. F. 4, 353.—

Adverb.: in vicem (also freq. one word, invĭcem; and less freq. vicem, in vices, or per vices), by turns, alternately, one after the other, mutually, reciprocally.

In vicem: bibenda aqua: postero die etiam vinum: deinde in vicem alternis diebus modo aqua modo vinum, Cels. 3, 2 med.:

reliqui, qui domi manserunt, se atque alios alunt: hi rursus in vicem anno post in armis sunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1:

propter vicinitatem simul eramus invicem,

Cic. Att. 5, 10, 5; Quint. 11, 3, 168:

multis invicem casibus victi victoresque,

Liv. 2, 44, 12:

non comisantium in vicem more jam diu vivimus inter nos,

id. 40, 9, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.:

in vicem inter se gratantes,

id. 9, 43, 17:

inque vicem tua me, te mea forma capit,

Ov. H. 17, 180; id. M. 6, 631; 8, 473; Verg. G. 3, 188; Hor. S. 1, 3, 141 al.—

Vicem:

ut unus fasces haberet, et hoc insigne regium suam cujusque vicem, per omnes iret,

Liv. 3, 36, 3; cf. id. 1, 9, 15.—

In vices ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

inque vices illum tectos qui laesit amores, Laedit amore pari,

Ov. M. 4, 191; 12, 161; Tac. G. 26 Halm.—

Per vices (post-Aug. and very rare):

quod ipsum imperari per vices optimum est,

Quint. 2, 4, 6 Halm.—

In partic.

A time, turn (late Lat.; cf. Orell. ad Hor. C. 4, 14, 13):

ager tertiā vice arabitur,

Pall. 10, 1:

tribus per diem vicibus,

id. 1, 3 fin.; cf.:

tesserulas in medium vice suā quisque jaciebamus,

Gell. 18, 13, 1:

vice quādam,

once, Sid. Ep. 7, 1; Aus. Pan. Grat. Aug. 4.—

Reciprocal behavior or conduct, i. e. return, requital, reciprocal service, recompense, remuneration, retaliation (rare but class.):

recito praedicationem amplissimi beneficii, vicem officii praesentis,

Cic. Sest. 4, 10:

tanto proclivius est injuriae quam beneficio vicem exsolvere,

Tac. H. 4, 3; Prop. 1, 13, 10:

redde vicem meritis,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 23:

non poteris ipsa referre vicem,

id. A. A. 1, 370; cf.:

dejecit acer plus vice simplici (i. e. non tantam solum cladem illis intulit quantam ipsi dederant, sed duplum, Schol.),

Hor. C. 4, 14, 13 Orell. ad loc.— Plur.:

spernentem sperne, sequenti Redde vices,

Ov. M. 14, 36:

neque est ullus affectus... qui magis vices exigat,

Plin. Pan. 85, 3.—

The changes of fate, fate, hap, lot, condition, fortune, misfortune:

mihi uni necesse erit et meam et aliorum vicem pertimescere?

Cic. Dom. 4, 8:

indignando et ipse vicem ejus,

Liv. 40, 23, 1:

tacite gementes tristem fortunae vicem,

Phaedr. 5, 1, 6; cf.:

vicem suam conquestus est,

Suet. Aug. 66:

convertere humanam vicem,

Hor. Epod. 5, 88:

publicā vice commoveri,

Quint. 11, 1, 42; cf. id. 4, 1, 33.— Plur.:

fors et Debita jura vicesque superbae Te maneant ipsum,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 32:

testor in occasu vestro nec tela nec ullas Vitavisse vices Danaūm,

dangers, contests, Verg. A. 2, 433.—

Transf., the position, place, room, stead, post, office, duty of one person or thing as assumed by another (the usual signif. of the word):

heredum causa justissima est: nulla est enim persona, quae ad vicem ejus, qui e vitā emigrarit, propius accedat,

Cic. Leg. 2, 19, 48:

ego succedens in vicem imperii tui,

Liv. 38, 48, 7:

ipse in locum vicemque consulis provolat,

id. 3, 18, 9:

postquam (Juppiter) te dedit, qui erga omne humanum genus vice suā fungereris,

stand in the place of, represent, Plin. Pan. 80, 6:

fungar vice cotis,

Hor. A. P. 304:

per speciem alienae fungendae vicis opes suas firmavit,

Liv. 1, 41, 6:

ne sacra regiae vicis desererentur,

id. 1, 20, 2:

vestramque meamque vicem explete,

Tac. A. 4, 8 fin.:

cujus... ego vicem debeo inplere,

Plin. Ep. 6, 6, 6:

(Manus) adverbiorum atque pronominum obtinent vicem,

Quint. 11, 3, 87:

in ordine vicis suae,

Vulg. Luc. 1, 8.— Plur.: non ad suum pertinere officium rati, quando divisae professionum vices essent, Quint. Inst. prooem. § 4.—

Adverb.

Vicem, with the gen. or a pers. pron., in the place of, instead of, on account of, for, for the sake of:

eri vicem meamque,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 3, 11:

qui hodie sese excruciari meam vicem possit pati,

id. Most. 2, 1, 8; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 24:

vos respondetote istinc istarum vicem,

id. Rud. 3, 5, 34:

tuam vicem saepe doleo,

Cic. Fam. 12, 23, 3:

suam vicem indignantem magistratu abisse,

Liv. 2, 31, 11: remittimus hoc tibi, ne nostram vicem irascaris. id. 34, 32, 6:

sollicito consuli... eorum vicem quos, etc.,

id. 44, 3, 5:

rex, vicem eorum quos ad tam manifestum periculum miserat,

Curt. 7, 11, 20:

maestus non suam vicem, sed propter, etc.,

id. 7, 2, 5: cum Pompeius aedem Victoriae dedicaturus foret, cujus gradus vicem theatri essent, Tiro Tull. ap. [p. 1987] Gell. 10, 1, 7:

quoniam res familiaris obsidis vicem esse apud rempublicam videbatur,

Gell. 16, 10, 11.—

Sometimes in a more general sense, after the manner of, like:

Sardanapali vicem in suo lectulo mori,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 7: ceteri vicem pecorum obtruncabantur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 497, 26; cf. the foll.—

Vice, instead of, for, on account of:

in pane salis vice utuntur nitro,

Plin. 31, 10, 46, § 115:

temonis vice trahitur,

Col. 6, 2, 7:

murum urbi cocto latere circumdedit, harenae vice bitumine interstrato,

Just. 1, 2, 7:

exanimes vice unius,

Liv. 1, 25, 6:

senatus vice populi,

Just. Inst. 1, 2, 5.—

In a more general sense (cf. the preced. numbers), after the manner of, like:

jactari se passa fluctu algae vice,

Plin. 9, 45, 68, § 147:

moveri periclitantium vice possumus,

Quint. 6, 2, 35:

diebus ac noctibus vice mundi circumagi,

Suet. Ner. 31:

quaeque dixerat, oracli vice accipiens,

Tac. A. 6, 21 fin.:

ut deorum vice mortuos honorarent,

like gods, Lact. 4, 28 fin.:

vice navium,

App. de Deo Socr. p. 47, 22:

vice pecudum occidi,

Lact. 5, 10, 6:

vice imbellium proculcati,

Dict. Cret. 3, 24.—

In vicem, instead of, for, in place of:

potest malleolus protinus in vicem viviradicis conseri,

Col. 3, 14, 3:

defatigatis in vicem integri succedunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 85:

in omnium vicem regni unius insatiabilis amor Successit,

Liv. 40, 8, 18:

missis in vicem eorum quinque milibus sociorum,

id. 31, 11, 3; Col. 5, 6, 1; so dat. vici, Quint. Decl. 6, 4.—

Ad vicem, instead of, for:

ad tegularum et imbricum vicem,

Plin. 36, 22, 44, § 159:

ad vicem solis cinis calidus subjectus,

Pall. 4, 10 fin.; 3, 28;

very rarely, ad invicem,

Veg. Vet. 2, 7 fin. —

In a more general sense (cf. in the preced. numbers a. and b.), after the manner of, like:

majores natu a majoribus colebantur ad deum prope ad parentum vicem,

Gell. 2, 15, 1.