stripe

Murena (old form Muraena), ae, f., = muraina.

The murena, a fish of which the ancients were very fond, Plin. 9, 55, 81, § 171:

muraenam exdorsua,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 2; id. Pers. 1, 3, 30; Juv. 5, 99.—

Transf., a black stripe in the shape of this fish, a black vein in the table-tops of citron-wood, Plin. 13, 15, 30, § 98.

Murena, ae, f. (ante-class form Muraena, but without class. authority), a Roman surname in the gens Licinia, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 10; Col. 8, 16.—So,

L. Licinius Murena, who was defended by Cicero, in an oration still extant, against the charge of ambitus, Cic. Mur. 7, 15, etc.—

A. Terentus Varro Murena, an intimate friend of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 16, 12, 6; 13, 22, 1.—

L. Licinius Varro Murena, brother-in-law of Mæcenas, Hor. S. 1, 5, 38.—Hence, Mū-renĭānus ( Mūraen-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Murænd, Murænian: oratio, i. e. that pronounced by Cicero on behalf of L. Licinius Murena, Mart. Cap. 5, 172, § 525.

Murena (old form Muraena), ae, f., = muraina.

The murena, a fish of which the ancients were very fond, Plin. 9, 55, 81, § 171:

muraenam exdorsua,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 2; id. Pers. 1, 3, 30; Juv. 5, 99.—

Transf., a black stripe in the shape of this fish, a black vein in the table-tops of citron-wood, Plin. 13, 15, 30, § 98.

Murena, ae, f. (ante-class form Muraena, but without class. authority), a Roman surname in the gens Licinia, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 10; Col. 8, 16.—So,

L. Licinius Murena, who was defended by Cicero, in an oration still extant, against the charge of ambitus, Cic. Mur. 7, 15, etc.—

A. Terentus Varro Murena, an intimate friend of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 16, 12, 6; 13, 22, 1.—

L. Licinius Varro Murena, brother-in-law of Mæcenas, Hor. S. 1, 5, 38.—Hence, Mū-renĭānus ( Mūraen-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Murænd, Murænian: oratio, i. e. that pronounced by Cicero on behalf of L. Licinius Murena, Mart. Cap. 5, 172, § 525.

Murena (old form Muraena), ae, f., = muraina.

The murena, a fish of which the ancients were very fond, Plin. 9, 55, 81, § 171:

muraenam exdorsua,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 2; id. Pers. 1, 3, 30; Juv. 5, 99.—

Transf., a black stripe in the shape of this fish, a black vein in the table-tops of citron-wood, Plin. 13, 15, 30, § 98.

Murena, ae, f. (ante-class form Muraena, but without class. authority), a Roman surname in the gens Licinia, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 10; Col. 8, 16.—So,

L. Licinius Murena, who was defended by Cicero, in an oration still extant, against the charge of ambitus, Cic. Mur. 7, 15, etc.—

A. Terentus Varro Murena, an intimate friend of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 16, 12, 6; 13, 22, 1.—

L. Licinius Varro Murena, brother-in-law of Mæcenas, Hor. S. 1, 5, 38.—Hence, Mū-renĭānus ( Mūraen-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Murænd, Murænian: oratio, i. e. that pronounced by Cicero on behalf of L. Licinius Murena, Mart. Cap. 5, 172, § 525.

Murena (old form Muraena), ae, f., = muraina.

The murena, a fish of which the ancients were very fond, Plin. 9, 55, 81, § 171:

muraenam exdorsua,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 2; id. Pers. 1, 3, 30; Juv. 5, 99.—

Transf., a black stripe in the shape of this fish, a black vein in the table-tops of citron-wood, Plin. 13, 15, 30, § 98.

Murena, ae, f. (ante-class form Muraena, but without class. authority), a Roman surname in the gens Licinia, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 10; Col. 8, 16.—So,

L. Licinius Murena, who was defended by Cicero, in an oration still extant, against the charge of ambitus, Cic. Mur. 7, 15, etc.—

A. Terentus Varro Murena, an intimate friend of Cicero, Cic. Fam. 16, 12, 6; 13, 22, 1.—

L. Licinius Varro Murena, brother-in-law of Mæcenas, Hor. S. 1, 5, 38.—Hence, Mū-renĭānus ( Mūraen-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Murænd, Murænian: oratio, i. e. that pronounced by Cicero on behalf of L. Licinius Murena, Mart. Cap. 5, 172, § 525.

offĕrŭmenta ( obf-), ae, f. [id.], a present; comically, of a stripe, cut:

offerumentas in tergo habere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 48.

offĕrŭmenta, ōrum, n. [id.], offerings: offerumenta dicebant quae offerebant (sc. dis), Paul. ex Fest. p. 188 Müll.

offĕrŭmenta ( obf-), ae, f. [id.], a present; comically, of a stripe, cut:

offerumentas in tergo habere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 48.

offĕrŭmenta, ōrum, n. [id.], offerings: offerumenta dicebant quae offerebant (sc. dis), Paul. ex Fest. p. 188 Müll.

pecten, ĭnis, m. [pecto], a comb.

Prop., for the hair, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 18; Ov. Am. 1, 14, 15:

deducit pectine crines,

id. M. 4, 311; 12, 409; Petr. 126; Spart. Hadr. 26.—

Transf., of things resembling a comb.

The reed or sley of a weaver's loom:

arguto tenues percurrens pectine telas,

Verg. A. 7, 14; Ov. F. 3, 819; cf. id. M. 6, 58; Varr. L. L. 5, 23, § 113.—

The weaver's art, weaving:

victa est Pectine Niliaco jam Babylonis acus,

Mart. 14, 150, 2.—

An instrument for heckling flax or combing wool, a comb, card, heckle, Juv. 9, 30; Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 77; Claud. Eutr. 2, 382.—

A rake:

tonsam raro pectine verrit humum,

Ov. R. Am. 191; Plin. 18, 30, 72, § 297; Col. 2, 20.—

A clasping of the hands in distress, Ov. M. 9, 299.—Of the mingling of the oars of two vessels:

mixtis obliquo pectine remis,

Luc. 3, 609 dub. (al. pectore).—

Pecten dentium, a row of teeth, Prud. steph. 10, 934.—

A stripe or vein in wood, Plin. 16, 38, 73, § 185.—

The hair of the pubes, Juv. 6, 370; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 26.—Also, the sharebone, Cels. 8, 1.—

A kind of dance:

Amazonius,

Stat. Achill. 2, 156.—

An instrument with which the strings of the lyre were struck:

jamque eadem digitis, jam pectine pulsat eburno,

Verg. A. 6, 647 Serv.; Juv. 6, 382.—

Transf.

A lyre, Val. Fl. 3, 159.—

A poem or song:

dum canimus sacras alterno pectine Nonas,

i. e. in distichs, Ov. F. 2, 121.—

A kind of shell-fish, a scallop:

pectinibus patulis jactat se molle Tarentum,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 34; Plin. 9, 33, 51, § 101; 9, 51, 74, § 160; 11, 37, 52, § 139; 11, 51, 112, § 267; 32, 11, 53, § 150.—

Pecten Veneris, a plant, perh. Venus's comb, needle-weed, Plin. 24, 19, 114, § 175.

vĭa ( vĕa, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14), ae ( gen. sing. vias, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P., or Ann. v. 421 Vahl.; viāï, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16, or Ann. v. 209 ib.; Lucr. 1, 406; 1, 659; 2, 249 et saep.; dat. plur. VIEIS, Inscr. Lat. 206, 50), f. [Sanscr. vah-āmi, bring, lead; Gr. ochos, ochêma, vehicle; Germ. Wagen; Engl. wagon; from this root are also veho, vexo, etc.], a way, in the most general sense (for men, beasts, or carriages, within or without a city), a highway, road, path, street.

Lit.

In gen.:

viae latitudo ex lege duodecim tabularum in porrectum octo pedes habet, in anfractum, id est ubi flexum est, sedecim,

Dig. 8, 3, 8:

Romam in montibus positam et convallibus, non optimis viis, angustissimis semitis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

et modo quae fuerat semita, facta via est,

Mart. 7, 61, 4:

aut viam aut semitam monstret,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 30:

mi opsistere in viā,

id. Curc. 2, 3, 5:

ire in viā,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 42:

omnibus viis notis semitisque essedarios ex silvis emittebat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 19 (opp. semita), id. ib. 7, 8; Liv. 44, 43, 1; cf.:

decedam ego illi de viā,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 80; cf. id. Curc. 2, 3, 8:

paulum ad dexteram de viā declinavi,

Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 5:

decedere viā,

Suet. Tib. 31:

aestuosa et pulverulenta via,

Cic. Att. 5, 14, 1:

quā (viā) Sequanis invitis propter angustias ire non poterant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 9:

cursare huc illuc viā deterrimā,

Cic. Att. 9, 9, 2:

in viam se dare,

to set out on a journey, id. Fam. 14, 12:

te neque navigationi neque viae committere,

id. ib. 16, 4, 1:

tu abi tuam viam,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 88:

milites monuit, viā omnes irent, nec deverti quemquam paterentur,

along the highway, Liv. 25, 9, 4.—In a double sense:

ire publicā viā,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 35.—Prov.: qui sibi semitam non sapiunt, alteri monstrant viam, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132 (Trag. v. 358 Vahl.):

de viā in semitam degredi,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 40:

totā errare viā,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14.—

In partic., as the name of a particular street or road:

tres ergo viae, a supero mari Flaminia, ab infero Aurelia, media Cassia,

Cic. Phil. 12, 9, 22:

Via Appia,

id. Mil. 6, 15; id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 6;

v. Appius: Via Campana,

Suet. Aug. 94;

v. Campania: Sacra Via, in Rome, in the fourth region,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 47 Müll.; Fest. p. 290 ib.; Cic. Planc. 7, 17; Hor. Epod. 4, 7; 7, 8:

Via Sacra,

id. S. 1, 9, 1;

also written as one word, SACRAVIA,

Inscr. Grut. 638, 7; 1033, 1; cf. Charis. p. 6 P.; Diom. p. 401 ib. (v. sacer, I. A.); cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 219 sq.— Hence, Sacrăvĭenses, ĭum, m., those dwelling on the Sacra Via, Fest. s. v. October equus, p. 178 Müll.—

Transf.

Abstr., like our way, for march, journey (syn. iter):

cum de viā languerem,

Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 12:

nisi de viā fessus esset,

id. Ac. 1, 1, 1: tridui via, a three days' march or journey, Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

bidui,

id. ib. 6, 7; Cic. Div. 1, 15, 27:

longitudo viae,

Liv. 37, 33, 3:

flecte viam velis,

Verg. A. 5, 28:

tum via tuta maris,

Ov. M. 11, 747:

feci Longa Pherecleā per freta puppe vias,

id. H. 16, 22:

ne inter vias praeterbitamus, metuo,

by the way, on the road, Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 43; Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 1; Turp. ap. Non. p. 538, 8 et saep.—

In gen., a way, passage, channel, pipe, etc.; thus, a lane in a camp, Caes. B. G. 5, 49; a passage between the seats of a theatre, Mart. 5, 14, 8; Tert. Spect. 3; of the veins:

omnes ejus (sanguinis) viae,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 137; of the chyle ducts:

quaedam a medio intestino usque ad portas jecoris ductae et directae viae,

id. ib.; the windpipe, Ov. M. 15, 344; 14, 498; a cleft through which any thing penetrates, Verg. G. 2, 79; cf. Ov. M. 11, 515; the path or track of an arrow, Verg. A. 5, 526; a stripe in a party-colored fabric, Tib. 2, 3, 54 et saep.—

Trop.

In gen., a way, method, mode, manner, fashion, etc., of doing any thing, course (cf. modus):

vitae,

Cic. Fl. 42, 105; id. Agr. 1, 9, 27; id. Sest. 67, 140; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 26; Sen. Brev. Vit. 9, 5; Lact. Epit. 67, 12:

via vivendi,

Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118:

rectam vitae viam sequi,

id. ib.:

Socrates hanc viam ad gloriam proximam dicebat esse,

id. ib. 2, 12, 43:

haec ad aeternam gloriam via est,

Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 18:

haec una via omnibus ad salutem visa est,

Liv. 36, 27, 8:

invenire viam ad mortem,

Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 12:

totidem ad mortem viae sunt,

Sen. Contr. 1, 8, 6:

cum eum hortarer ut eam laudis viam rectissimam esse duceret,

Cic. Brut. 81, 281: haec est una via laudis, id. Sest. 65, 137:

totam ignoras viam gloriae,

id. Phil. 1, 14, 33:

quae tum promptissima mortis via, exsolvit venas,

Tac. A. 16, 17:

habeo certam viam atque rationem, quā omnes illorum conatus investigare et consequi possim,

Cic. Verr. 1, 16, 48:

defensionis ratio viaque,

id. ib. 2, 5, 1, §

4: non tam justitiae quam litigandi tradunt vias,

id. Leg. 1, 6, 18:

docendi via,

id. Or. 32, 114:

optimarum artium vias tradere,

id. Div. 2, 1, 1:

(di) non... nullas dant vias nobis ad significationum scientiam,

id. ib. 2, 49, 102:

rectam instas viam,

i. e. you speak correctly, truly, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 41.—Adverb.: rectā viā, directly:

ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28.—

Pregn. (cf. ratio), the right way, the true method, mode, or manner:

ingressu'st viam, i. e. rectam,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 273:

in omnibus quae ratione docentur et viā, primum constituendum est, quid quidque sit, etc.,

rationally and methodically, Cic. Or. 33, 116:

ut ratione et viā procedat oratio,

id. Fin. 1, 9, 29.—Adverb.: viā, rightly, properly (opp. to wandering out of the way):

ipsus eam rem secum reputavit viā,

Ter. And. 2, 6, 11:

viā et arte dicere,

Cic. Brut. 12, 46. —

Viam perficere, i. e. to attain an end, Just. Inst. proöem. 1.

verber, ĕris (nom., dat., and acc. sing. do not occur, and the sing. in gen. very rarely; Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 476), n., a lash, whip, scourge, rod (syn.: scutica, flagrum),

Lit. (rare; perh. not in Cic., but cf. in II. B.).

Plur.: Tr. Quid me fiet nunc jam? Th. Verberibus caedere, lutum, pendens, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 45:

verberibus caedere,

id. Pers. 2, 3, 17; Ter. And. 1, 2, 28:

adulescentem nudari jubet verberaque adferri,

Liv. 8, 28, 4:

verbera saetosa movebat arator,

Prop. 4 (5), 1, 25; Verg. A. 5, 147; Quint. Decl. 19, 3.—

Sing.:

illi instant verbere torto,

Verg. G. 3, 106:

Phoebus equos stimuloque domans et verbere Saevit,

Ov. M. 2, 399:

conscendit equos Gradivus et ictu Verberis increpuit,

id. ib. 14, 821:

pecora verbere domantur,

Sen. Const. 12, 3;

of a top: volitans sub verbere turbo,

Verg. A. 7, 378.—

Transf.

Concr., a thong of a sling and other similar missile weapons ( poet.;

syn. lorum),

Verg. G. 1, 309; Sil. 1, 314; Luc. 3, 469.—

Abstr., a lashing, scourging, flogging, etc. (class.; syn. plaga).

Lit.

Plur.:

dignus es verberibus multis,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 71:

tibi erunt parata verba, huic homini verbera,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 115:

mitto vincla, mitto carcerem, mitto verbera, mitto secures,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 24, § 59:

aliquem vinculis ac verberibus atque omni supplicio excruciare,

id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11; id. Phil. 11, 2, 5; id. Rep. 1, 38, 59; 2, 37, 62; id. Fin. 5, 20, 55; id. Tusc. 3, 27, 64; XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6; Quint. 1, 3, 15; 4, 2, 113; 11, 1, 40; 11, 3, 90; 11, 3, 117; Hor. S. 1, 3, 121:

cum positā stares ad verbera veste,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 19:

saeva,

id. ib. 1, 13, 18:

tergum foedum vestigiis verberum,

Liv. 2, 23, 7:

post verbere,

Stat. Th. 2, 143; 2, 172.—

Sing.:

percutimur caput conversae verbere virgae,

Ov. M. 14, 300; Sen. Herc. Fur. 801.—

Of inanim. things, a stripe, stroke, blow (mostly [p. 1972] poet.).

Plur.:

turgentis caudae,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 49:

ventorum,

Lucr. 5, 957; 6, 115:

radiorum (solis),

id. 5, 485; 5, 1104:

aquarum,

Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 288.—Of the strokes of oars:

puppis Verberibus senis agitur,

Luc. 3, 536; Sil. 11, 493; cf. Ov. H. 18, 23.—

Sing.:

remorum in verbere perstant,

Ov. M. 3, 662:

trementes Verbere ripae,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 24:

adverso siderum,

Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 33.—

Trop., plur., lashes, strokes:

contumeliarum verbera subire,

Cic. Rep. 1, 5, 9:

verbera linguae,

i. e. chidings, Hor. C. 3, 12, 3 (cf.:

verberari verbis, convicio, etc., under verbero): fortunae verbera,

the strokes of fate, Gell. 13, 27, 4.

vĭa ( vĕa, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14), ae ( gen. sing. vias, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P., or Ann. v. 421 Vahl.; viāï, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16, or Ann. v. 209 ib.; Lucr. 1, 406; 1, 659; 2, 249 et saep.; dat. plur. VIEIS, Inscr. Lat. 206, 50), f. [Sanscr. vah-āmi, bring, lead; Gr. ochos, ochêma, vehicle; Germ. Wagen; Engl. wagon; from this root are also veho, vexo, etc.], a way, in the most general sense (for men, beasts, or carriages, within or without a city), a highway, road, path, street.

Lit.

In gen.:

viae latitudo ex lege duodecim tabularum in porrectum octo pedes habet, in anfractum, id est ubi flexum est, sedecim,

Dig. 8, 3, 8:

Romam in montibus positam et convallibus, non optimis viis, angustissimis semitis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

et modo quae fuerat semita, facta via est,

Mart. 7, 61, 4:

aut viam aut semitam monstret,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 30:

mi opsistere in viā,

id. Curc. 2, 3, 5:

ire in viā,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 42:

omnibus viis notis semitisque essedarios ex silvis emittebat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 19 (opp. semita), id. ib. 7, 8; Liv. 44, 43, 1; cf.:

decedam ego illi de viā,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 80; cf. id. Curc. 2, 3, 8:

paulum ad dexteram de viā declinavi,

Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 5:

decedere viā,

Suet. Tib. 31:

aestuosa et pulverulenta via,

Cic. Att. 5, 14, 1:

quā (viā) Sequanis invitis propter angustias ire non poterant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 9:

cursare huc illuc viā deterrimā,

Cic. Att. 9, 9, 2:

in viam se dare,

to set out on a journey, id. Fam. 14, 12:

te neque navigationi neque viae committere,

id. ib. 16, 4, 1:

tu abi tuam viam,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 88:

milites monuit, viā omnes irent, nec deverti quemquam paterentur,

along the highway, Liv. 25, 9, 4.—In a double sense:

ire publicā viā,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 35.—Prov.: qui sibi semitam non sapiunt, alteri monstrant viam, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132 (Trag. v. 358 Vahl.):

de viā in semitam degredi,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 40:

totā errare viā,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14.—

In partic., as the name of a particular street or road:

tres ergo viae, a supero mari Flaminia, ab infero Aurelia, media Cassia,

Cic. Phil. 12, 9, 22:

Via Appia,

id. Mil. 6, 15; id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 6;

v. Appius: Via Campana,

Suet. Aug. 94;

v. Campania: Sacra Via, in Rome, in the fourth region,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 47 Müll.; Fest. p. 290 ib.; Cic. Planc. 7, 17; Hor. Epod. 4, 7; 7, 8:

Via Sacra,

id. S. 1, 9, 1;

also written as one word, SACRAVIA,

Inscr. Grut. 638, 7; 1033, 1; cf. Charis. p. 6 P.; Diom. p. 401 ib. (v. sacer, I. A.); cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 219 sq.— Hence, Sacrăvĭenses, ĭum, m., those dwelling on the Sacra Via, Fest. s. v. October equus, p. 178 Müll.—

Transf.

Abstr., like our way, for march, journey (syn. iter):

cum de viā languerem,

Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 12:

nisi de viā fessus esset,

id. Ac. 1, 1, 1: tridui via, a three days' march or journey, Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

bidui,

id. ib. 6, 7; Cic. Div. 1, 15, 27:

longitudo viae,

Liv. 37, 33, 3:

flecte viam velis,

Verg. A. 5, 28:

tum via tuta maris,

Ov. M. 11, 747:

feci Longa Pherecleā per freta puppe vias,

id. H. 16, 22:

ne inter vias praeterbitamus, metuo,

by the way, on the road, Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 43; Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 1; Turp. ap. Non. p. 538, 8 et saep.—

In gen., a way, passage, channel, pipe, etc.; thus, a lane in a camp, Caes. B. G. 5, 49; a passage between the seats of a theatre, Mart. 5, 14, 8; Tert. Spect. 3; of the veins:

omnes ejus (sanguinis) viae,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 137; of the chyle ducts:

quaedam a medio intestino usque ad portas jecoris ductae et directae viae,

id. ib.; the windpipe, Ov. M. 15, 344; 14, 498; a cleft through which any thing penetrates, Verg. G. 2, 79; cf. Ov. M. 11, 515; the path or track of an arrow, Verg. A. 5, 526; a stripe in a party-colored fabric, Tib. 2, 3, 54 et saep.—

Trop.

In gen., a way, method, mode, manner, fashion, etc., of doing any thing, course (cf. modus):

vitae,

Cic. Fl. 42, 105; id. Agr. 1, 9, 27; id. Sest. 67, 140; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 26; Sen. Brev. Vit. 9, 5; Lact. Epit. 67, 12:

via vivendi,

Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118:

rectam vitae viam sequi,

id. ib.:

Socrates hanc viam ad gloriam proximam dicebat esse,

id. ib. 2, 12, 43:

haec ad aeternam gloriam via est,

Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 18:

haec una via omnibus ad salutem visa est,

Liv. 36, 27, 8:

invenire viam ad mortem,

Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 12:

totidem ad mortem viae sunt,

Sen. Contr. 1, 8, 6:

cum eum hortarer ut eam laudis viam rectissimam esse duceret,

Cic. Brut. 81, 281: haec est una via laudis, id. Sest. 65, 137:

totam ignoras viam gloriae,

id. Phil. 1, 14, 33:

quae tum promptissima mortis via, exsolvit venas,

Tac. A. 16, 17:

habeo certam viam atque rationem, quā omnes illorum conatus investigare et consequi possim,

Cic. Verr. 1, 16, 48:

defensionis ratio viaque,

id. ib. 2, 5, 1, §

4: non tam justitiae quam litigandi tradunt vias,

id. Leg. 1, 6, 18:

docendi via,

id. Or. 32, 114:

optimarum artium vias tradere,

id. Div. 2, 1, 1:

(di) non... nullas dant vias nobis ad significationum scientiam,

id. ib. 2, 49, 102:

rectam instas viam,

i. e. you speak correctly, truly, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 41.—Adverb.: rectā viā, directly:

ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28.—

Pregn. (cf. ratio), the right way, the true method, mode, or manner:

ingressu'st viam, i. e. rectam,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 273:

in omnibus quae ratione docentur et viā, primum constituendum est, quid quidque sit, etc.,

rationally and methodically, Cic. Or. 33, 116:

ut ratione et viā procedat oratio,

id. Fin. 1, 9, 29.—Adverb.: viā, rightly, properly (opp. to wandering out of the way):

ipsus eam rem secum reputavit viā,

Ter. And. 2, 6, 11:

viā et arte dicere,

Cic. Brut. 12, 46. —

Viam perficere, i. e. to attain an end, Just. Inst. proöem. 1.

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