take vengeance upon

per-sĕquor, cūtus and quūtus, 3, v. dep. a. and n. ( act. collat. form of the imperat. persece for perseque, Poët. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 23 fin.).

Act., to follow perseveringly, to follow after, continue to follow, pursue.

Lit.

In gen.:

ille servolum Jubet illum persequi,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 35; 4, 2, 30:

si vis persequi vestigiis,

id. Men. 4, 1, 9:

certum est persequi,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 18:

me in Asiam persequens,

id. And. 5, 4, 32:

(persequens dicit perseverationem sequentis ostendens. Persequitur enim qui non desinit sequi, Don. ad h. l.): aliquem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 91:

exercitum,

id. Phil. 3, 3, 7:

cursim,

Petr. 6:

Hortensium ipsius vestigiis,

Cic. Brut. 90, 307:

quā, aut terrā aut mari, persequar eum, qui, etc.,

id. Att. 7, 22, 2:

vestigia alicujus,

id. de Or. 1, 23, 105; Verg. A. 9, 218:

hanc persecuta mater orare incipit,

Phaedr. 1, 28, 5.—With inf. ( poet.):

atqui non ego te tigris ut aspera... frangere persequor,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 10.—

In partic.

To follow after, press upon, chase, pursue:

fugientes usque ad flumen persequuntur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 67:

bello,

id. ib. 1, 14:

deterrere hostes a persequendo,

Sall. J. 50, 6:

feras,

Ov. H. 9, 34:

beluas,

Curt. 8, 14, 26.—

To go through a place in pursuit of any thing, to search through:

omnes solitudines,

Cic. Pis. 22, 53. —

Transf., to follow up, come up with, overtake:

quo ego te ne persequi quidem possem triginta diebus,

Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 3; id. Div. 2, 72, 149:

mors et fugacem persequitur virum,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 14.—

Trop.

In gen., to follow perseveringly, to pursue any thing:

omnes vias persequar,

Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 6:

viam,

Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 4:

eas artes,

Cic. Fin. 1, 21, 72.—

In partic.

With the accessory notion of striving after, to pursue, hunt after, seek to obtain, strive after, = appetere, affectare:

quis est, qui utilia non studiosissime persequatur?

Cic. Off. 3, 28, 101:

ego mihi alios deos penates persequar,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 1, 7: Pl. Tene priusquam hinc abeo savium. Ph. Si quidem mi hercle regnum detur, numquam id potius persequar, id. Curc. 1, 3, 55:

hereditates,

Ter. And. 4, 5, 20:

hereditates aut syngraphas,

Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 18:

cujusquemodi voluptates,

id. Fin. 2, 7, 22: ego meum jus persequar, I will pursue or assert my right, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 9; Cic. Caecin. 3, 8:

persequendi juris sui potestas,

id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21:

bona tua repetere ac persequi lite atque judicio,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 13, § 32:

possumus rem nostram persequi,

id. Quint. 13, 45 fin.:

cum tribunus plebis poenas a seditioso cive per bonos viros judicio persequi vellet,

sought to obtain, id. Fam. 1, 9, 15.—

With inf., to hasten, be eager (rare):

nec scimus quam in partem ingredi persequamur,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 4.—

To follow, be a follower of; to imitate, copy after a person or thing as a guide or pattern:

si vero Academiam veterem persequamur,

Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

sectam et instituta alicujus,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 71, § 183:

ego neglectā barbarorum inscitiā te persequar,

id. Fam. 9, 3, 2; id. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

ut, quae maxime excellant in eo, quem imitabitur, ea diligentissime persequatur,

id. de Or. 2, 22, 90.—

To pursue, proceed against, prosecute; to revenge, avenge, take vengeance upon a person or thing:

aliquem bello,

Caes. B. G. 5, 1:

aliquem judicio,

Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

alicujus injurias ulcisci ac persequi,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 9; so,

injuriam,

id. Mur. 21, 44; Sall. J. 14, 23; cf. Kritz ad Sall. C. 9, 5:

mortem alicujus,

Cic. Fam. 9, 3, 2:

de persequendis inimicitiis,

Caes. B. C. 3, 83 fin.:

Trebonii mortem,

Cic. Phil. 13, 18, 39; Caes. B. G. 7, 38; Liv. 40, 11 fin.:

adulterium,

Sen. Contr. 3, 20.—

To persecute for religious belief or practice (eccl. Lat.), Tert. ad Scap. 5; Vulg. Johan. 15, 20; id. Act. 7, 52; id. Rom. 12, 14 et saep.—

To follow in writing, to take down, minute down:

celeritate scribendi, quae dicerentur persequi,

Cic. Sull. 14, 42:

multa diserte dixit, quae notarius persequi non potuit,

Sen. Apoc. 9, 2.—

To follow up with action, to follow out, perform, execute, bring about, do, accomplish, etc.:

hoc, ut dico, factis persequar,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 11:

erus quod imperavit persequi,

id. Am. 2, 1, 40:

imperium patris,

id. Stich. 1, 2, 84 sq.:

ex usu quod est, id persequar,

Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 10:

mandata,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 3:

si idem extrema persequitur qui inchoavit,

id. Prov. Cons. 8, 19:

vitam inopem et vagam,

to lead, id. Phil. 12, 7, 15.— Absol.:

sed tamen ibo et persequar,

will go and obey, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 64. —

In partic., to follow out in speech or writing, to set forth, treat of, relate, recount, describe, explain, etc.:

aliquid voce,

Cic. Planc. 23, 56:

dum rationes Persequor,

set forth, treat of, discuss the reasons, Lucr. 5, 56:

quae versibus persecutus est Ennius,

Cic. Sen. 6, 16:

philosophiam Latinis litteris,

id. Ac. 1, 3, 12:

aliquid scripturā,

id. Fam. 15, 21, 4:

obscenas voluptates,

id. N. D. 1, 40, 111:

res Hannibalis,

id. Div. 1, 24, 49:

has res in eo libro,

id. Off. 2, 24, 87:

quae persequerer, si commemorare possem sine dolore,

id. Fam. 5, 13, 3: da te in sermonem et persece Et confice, etc., Poët. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 23, 3.—

Neutr., to follow or come after:

exacta vindemia gramine persecuto,

when the grass has grown again, Pall. 3, 26, 5.

signif. (post-class.):

illa se in mare praecipitavit, ne persequeretur,

Hyg. Fab. 198 dub.—Hence, persĕquens, entis, P. a., used as subst. *

A pursuer, practiser:

flagitii,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 13.—

A revenger, avenger:

inimicitiarum persequentissimus,

Auct. Her. 2, 19, 29.

ăb, ā, abs, prep. with abl. This IndoEuropean particle (Sanscr. apa or ava, Etr. av, Gr. upo, Goth. af, Old Germ. aba, New Germ. ab, Engl. of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av), au-, a, a; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best MSS. analogous to the prep. apud, the Sanscr. api, and Gr. epi, and by the weakened form af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. The form af, weakened from ap, also very soon became obsolete. There are but five examples of it in inscriptions, at the end of the sixth and in the course of the seventh century B. C., viz.:

AF VOBEIS,

Inscr. Orell. 3114;

AF MVRO,

ib. 6601;

AF CAPVA,

ib. 3308;

AF SOLO,

ib. 589;

AF LYCO,

ib. 3036 ( afuolunt =avolant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Mull., is only a conjecture). In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; v. Cic. Or. 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab), and cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. p. 7 sq.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only oue used before all vowels and h; here and there also before some consonants, particularly l, n, r, and s; rarely before c, j, d, t; and almost never before the labials p, b, f, v, or before m, such examples as ab Massiliensibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, being of the most rare occurrence.—By changing the b of ab through v into u, the form au originated, which was in use only in the two compounds aufero and aufugio for abfero, ab-fugio; aufuisse for afuisse, in Cod. Medic. of Tac. A. 12, 17, is altogether unusual. Finally, by dropping the b of ab, and lengthening the a, ab was changed into a, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almoet exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form a- in the two compounds a-bio and a-perio, q. v.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and a, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix). From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab):

abs chorago,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl):

abs quivis,

Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

abs terra,

Cato, R. R. 51;

and in compounds: aps-cessero,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 24 (625 R.); id. ib. 3, 2, 84 (710 R): abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A. U. C. (=B. C. 54). After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te appears but rarely in later authors, as in Liv. 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12;

and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).

In space, and,

Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.

Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

fuga ab urbe turpissima,

Cic. Att. 7, 21:

ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

Verg. E. 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab ( from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit....Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde, qui cum Graccho fucrunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87; cf. Diom. p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad.—Ellipt.: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 92. —Often joined with usque:

illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

all the way from, Cic. Clu. 68, 192; v. usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from... to, Cic. N. D. 2, 19 init.; cf. ab... in:

venti a laevo latere in dextrum, ut sol, ambiunt,

Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.

Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43 fin.; so id. ib. 7, 80 fin.; Sall. J. 61; 82; 91; Liv. 2, 33, 6 al.; cf.:

ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; and:

protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

profecti a domo,

Liv. 40, 33, 2;

of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summa transmiserint,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32; so id. Fam. 15, 3, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 23; 3, 24 fin.:

classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

Liv. 8, 22, 6;

of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

id. 24, 40, 2.

Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 41; cf.:

libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

id. Att. 7, 24:

cum a vobis discessero,

id. Sen. 22:

multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 29 al. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i. e. from his house, Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 6:

so a fratre,

id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

a Pontio,

Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

ab ea,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.

Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.

Of separation:

ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

Sall. C. 40, 5:

absint lacerti ab stabulis,

Verg. G. 4, 14.—

Of distance:

quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

id. Att. 5, 16 fin.; and:

hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris Ariovisti et Caesaris aberat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 1:

terrae ab hujusce terrae, quam nos incolimus, continuatione distantes,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 164:

non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 82, 3; cf. id. lb. 1, 3, 103.—With adverbs: annos multos longinque ab domo bellum gerentes, Enn. ap. Non. 402, 3 (Trag. v. 103 Vahl.):

cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

Cic. Cael. 7, 18 fin.; cf.:

qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49, 5:

quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87; cf.:

procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

Caes. B. G. 5, 17, 1; and:

tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

Verg. E. 10, 46 (procul often also with simple abl.;

v. procul): cum esset in Italia bellum tam prope a Sicilia, tamen in Sicilia non fuit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

tam prope ab domo detineri,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6.—So in Caesar and Livy, with numerals to designate the measure of the distance:

onerariae naves, quae ex eo loco ab milibus passuum octo vento tenebatur,

eight miles distant, Caes. B. G. 4, 22, 4; and without mentioning the terminus a quo: ad castra contenderunt, et ab milibus passunm minus duobus castra posuerunt, less than two miles off or distant, id. ib. 2, 7, 3; so id. ib. 2, 5, 32; 6, 7, 3; id. B. C. 1, 65; Liv. 38, 20, 2 (for which:

duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

id. 37, 38, 5). —

To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos, parra ab dextera consuadent,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 12: clamore ab ea parte audito. on this side, Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4: Gallia Celtica attingit ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, on the side of the Sequani, i. e. their country, id. ib. 1, 1, 5:

pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

on the Italian side, Liv. 21, 35, 11:

non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

at the main entrance, Caes. B. G. 3, 25 fin.:

erat a septentrionibus collis,

on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).

Fig.

In time.

From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

Juv. 1,40:

mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

immediately after the sucrifice, Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 4:

Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

immediately after, Liv. 24, 22, 6; cf. id. 28, 33, 1; 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 al.:

ab eo magistratu,

after this office, Sall. J. 63, 5:

a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

after the greatest hope, Tac. A. 6, 50 fin. —Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adj. recens, immediately after, soon after:

ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

Cic. Att. 1, 5, 4; so Suet. Tib. 68:

confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

Liv. 30, 36, 1:

statim a funere,

Suet. Caes. 85;

and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

id. ib. 60:

protinus ab adoptione,

Vell. 2, 104, 3:

Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

soon after their time, Cic. N. D. 3, 5; so Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2; Verg. A. 6, 450 al. (v. also primum, confestim, etc.).—

Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die,

i. e. after their departure from you, Cic. Att. 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Nov[adot ], i. e. after leaving (=postquam a Carthagine profecti sunt), Liv. 21, 38, 1:

secundo Punico (bello) Scipionis classis XL. die a securi navigavit,

i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.

With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

ab hora tertia bibebatur,

from the third hour, Cic. Phil. 2, 41:

infinito ex tempore, non ut antea, ab Sulla et Pompeio consulibus,

since the consulship of, id. Agr. 2, 21, 56:

vixit ab omni aeternitate,

from all eternity, id. Div. 1, 51, 115:

cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

Nep. Att. 5, 3:

in Lycia semper a terrae motu XL. dies serenos esse,

after an earthquake, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211 al.:

centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

since the death of, Cic. Mil. 35, 98; cf.:

cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36.—Sometimes joined with usque and inde:

quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

since the time of, Cic. Vat. 8, 20:

jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

from the very beginning of, Liv. 2, 65 fin. —Hence the adverbial expressions ab initio, a principio, a primo, at, in, or from the beginning, at first; v. initium, principium, primus. Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; v. integer.—Ab... ad, from (a time)... to:

ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

Cic. Att. 7, 8, 4; cf.:

cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26, 2; and:

a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septingenti octoginta unus,

Vell. 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque:

pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

from morning to evening, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 97; id. Most. 3, 1, 3; 3, 2, 80.—Rarely ab... in: Romani ab sole orto in multum diei stetere in acie, from... till late in the day, Liv. 27, 2, 9; so Col. 2, 10, 17; Plin. 2, 31, 31, § 99; 2, 103, 106, § 229; 4, 12, 26, § 89.

Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

from an early age, from early youth, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 24; so Cic. Off. 2, 13, 44 al.:

mihi magna cum co jam inde a pueritia fuit semper famillaritas,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9; so,

a pueritia,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27 fin.; id. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

jam inde ab adulescentia,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

ab adulescentia,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

jam a prima adulescentia,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

ab ineunte adulescentia,

id. ib. 13, 21, 1; cf.

followed by ad: usque ad hanc aetatem ab incunte adulescentia,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

a primis temporibus aetatis,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

a teneris unguiculis,

from childhood, id. ib. 1, 6, 2:

usque a toga pura,

id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

jam inde ab incunabulis,

Liv. 4, 36, 5:

a prima lanugine,

Suet. Oth. 12:

viridi ab aevo,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 17 al.;

rarely of animals: ab infantia,

Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 182.—Instead of the nom. abstr. very often (like the Greek ek paioôn, etc.) with concrete substantives: a pucro, ab adulescente, a parvis, etc., from childhood, etc.:

qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 90; so,

a pausillo puero,

id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

a puero,

Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 115; id. Fam. 13, 16, 4 (twice) al.:

a pueris,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; id. de Or. 1, 1, 2 al.:

ab adulescente,

id. Quint. 3, 12:

ab infante,

Col. 1, 8, 2:

a parva virgine,

Cat. 66, 26 al. —Likewise and in the same sense with adject.: a parvo, from a little child, or childhood, Liv. 1, 39, 6 fin.; cf.:

a parvis,

Ter. And. 3, 3, 7; Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

a parvulo,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 8; id. Ad. 1, 1, 23; cf.:

ab parvulis,

Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 3:

ab tenero,

Col. 5, 6, 20;

and rarely of animals: (vacca) a bima aut trima fructum ferre incipit,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.

In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.

In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

id. ib. 1, 10, 20 al.:

quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

condicionem quam ab te peto,

id. ib. 2, 4, 87; cf.:

mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

si quid ab illo acceperis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

quae (i. e. antiquitas) quo propius aberat ab ortu et divina progenie,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

ab defensione desistere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 4:

ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

id. B. G. 7, 24, 2:

ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 117, etc.—Of distance (in order, rank, mind, or feeling):

qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

the fourth in succession from, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 46:

tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

next after him, Verg. E. 5, 49; cf.:

Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

next in rank to, Hor. S. 2, 3, 193:

quid hoc ab illo differt,

from, Cic. Caecin. 14, 39; cf.:

hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

id. Off. 2, 4, 15; and:

discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

id. Rep. 3, 9 fin. (v. the verbs differo, disto, discrepo, dissideo, dissentio, etc.):

quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

alieno a te animo fuit,

id. Deiot. 9, 24 (v. alienus). —So the expression ab re (qs. aside from the matter, profit; cf. the opposite, in rem), contrary to one's profit, to a loss, disadvantageous (so in the affirmative very rare and only ante-class.):

subdole ab re consulit,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 12; cf. id. Capt. 2, 2, 88; more frequently and class. (but not with Cicero) in the negative, non, haud, ab re, not without advantage or profit, not useless or unprofitable, adcantageous:

haut est ab re aucupis,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).

In partic.

To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

id. ib. 1, 3:

disputata ab eo,

id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

illa (i. e. numerorum ac vocum vis) maxime a Graecia vetere celebrata,

id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

ita generati a natura sumus,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf.:

pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51 al. —With intrans. verbs:

quae (i. e. anima) calescit ab eo spiritu,

is warmed by this breath, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138; cf. Ov. M. 1, 417: (mare) qua a sole collucet, Cic. Ac. 2, 105:

salvebis a meo Cicerone,

i. e. young Cicero sends his compliments to you, id. Att. 6, 2 fin.:

a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

i. e. by whose command, Nep. Milt. 2, 3:

ne vir ab hoste cadat,

Ov. H. 9, 36 al. —A substantive or adjective often takes the place of the verb (so with de, q. v.):

levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7; cf.:

a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

si calor est a sole,

id. N. D. 2, 52:

ex iis a te verbis (for a te scriptis),

id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

metu poenae a Romanis,

Liv. 32, 23, 9:

bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

id. 3, 22, 2:

ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

lassus ab equo indomito,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

Prop. 5, 1, 126:

tempus a nostris triste malis,

time made sad by our misfortunes, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 36.—Different from per:

vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

by whom and upon whose orders? Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (cf. id. ib. 34, 97: cujus consilio occisus sit, invenio; cujus manu sit percussus, non laboro); so,

ab hoc destitutus per Thrasybulum (i. e. Thrasybulo auctore),

Nep. Alc. 5, 4.—Ambiguity sometimes arises from the fact that the verb in the pass. would require ab if used in the active:

si postulatur a populo,

if the people demand it, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58, might also mean, if it is required of the people; on the contrary: quod ab eo (Lucullo) laus imperatoria non admodum exspectabatur, not since he did not expect military renown, but since they did not expect military renown from him, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2, and so often; cf. Rudd. II. p. 213. (The use of the active dative, or dative of the agent, instead of ab with the pass., is well known, Zumpt, § 419. It is very seldom found in prose writers of the golden age of Roman liter.; with Cic. sometimes joined with the participles auditus, cognitus, constitutus, perspectus, provisus, susceptus; cf. Halm ad Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71, and ad ejusdem, Cat. 1, 7 fin.; but freq. at a later period; e. g. in Pliny, in Books 2-4 of H. N., more than twenty times; and likewise in Tacitus seventeen times. Vid. the passages in Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 2, 49.) Far more unusual is the simple abl. in the designation of persons:

deseror conjuge,

Ov. H. 12, 161; so id. ib. 5, 75; id. M. 1, 747; Verg. A. 1, 274; Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; 1, 6, 2;

and in prose,

Quint. 3, 4, 2; Sen. Contr. 2, 1; Curt. 6, 7, 8; cf. Rudd. II. p. 212; Zumpt ad Quint. V. p. 122 Spalding.—Hence the adverbial phrase a se=uph heautou, sua sponte, of one's own uccord, spontaneously:

ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

(urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.

With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

pastores a Pergamide,

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

Turnus ab Aricia,

Liv. 1, 50, 3 (for which Aricinus, id. 1, 51, 1):

obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.

In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

(sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)

With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

da, puere, ab summo,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 41; so,

da ab Delphio cantharum circum, id Most. 1, 4, 33: ab eo nobis causa ordienda est potissimum,

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

coepere a fame mala,

Liv. 4, 12, 7:

cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

tail-foremost, Plin. 10, 16, 18:

a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.

With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

a foliis et stercore purgato,

Cato, R. R. 65 (66), 1:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

Ter. Heaut. 1, [p. 4] 1, 23; cf.:

Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

Liv. 21, 11, 5:

expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

haec provincia non modo a calamitate, sed etiam a metu calamitatis est defendenda,

id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14 (v. defendo):

ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

Sall. C. 32:

ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

Liv. 21, 35, 12:

ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133.

With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

el metul a Chryside,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 79; cf.:

ab Hannibale metuens,

Liv. 23, 36; and:

metus a praetore,

id. 23, 15, 7;

v. Weissenb. ad h. l.: a quo quidem genere, judices, ego numquam timui,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.

With verbs of fastening and holding:

funiculus a puppi religatus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.

Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.

Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22.

Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 26; cf. id. Aul. 2, 2, 9:

a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17; so,

a frigore laborantibus,

Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

laborare ab re frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.

Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

ab ingenio improbus,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

a me pudica'st,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

orba ab optimatibus contio,

Cic. Fl. 23, 54; ro Ov. H. 6,156: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24 fin. (v. securus):

locus copiosus a frumento,

Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2; cf.:

sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

id. Brut. 16, 63:

ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

so often in poets ab arte=arte,

artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.

In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

thrusting out the tongue in derision, Liv. 7, 10, 5:

ab honore,

id. 1, 8; so, ab ira, a spe, ab odio, v. Drak. ad Liv. 24, 30, 1: 26, 1, 3; cf. also Kritz and Fabri ad Sall. J. 31, 3, and Fabri ad Liv. 21, 36, 7.

Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

ab illo injuria,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

fulgor ab auro,

Lucr. 2, 5:

dulces a fontibus undae,

Verg. G. 2, 243.

In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1:

nonnuill ab novissimis,

id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).

In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

ab eo qui sunt,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).

To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

in Cic. only once): Pollex, servus a pedibus meus,

one of my couriers, Cic. Att. 8, 5, 1; so,

a manu servus,

a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).

The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

a peregre,

Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

a foris,

Plin. 17, 24, 37; Vulg. Gen, 7, 16; ib. Matt. 23, 27:

ab intus,

ib. ib. 7, 15:

ab invicem,

App. Herb. 112; Vulg. Matt. 25, 32; Cypr. Ep. 63, 9: Hier. Ep. 18:

a longe,

Hyg. Fab. 257; Vulg. Gen. 22, 4; ib. Matt. 26, 58:

a modo,

ib. ib. 23, 39;

Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

a sursum,

ib. Marc. 15, 38.

Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

Arsinoen, Stratum, Naupactum...fateris ab hostibus esse captas. Quibus autem hostibus? Nempe iis, quos, etc.,

Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit. Quibus? An iis, quae in juventute geruntur et viribus?

id. Sen. 6:

a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

res publica, quascumque vires habebit, ab iis ipsis, quibus tenetur, de te propediem impetrabit,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—

Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—

It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

a vitae periculo,

Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

a minus bono,

Sall. C. 2, 6:

a satis miti principio,

Liv. 1, 6, 4:

damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—

The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

aque Chao,

Verg. G. 4, 347:

aque mero,

Ov. M. 3, 631:

aque viro,

id. H. 6, 156:

aque suis,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 74 al. But:

a meque,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

abs teque,

id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

a teque,

id. ib. 8, 11, §

7: a primaque adulescentia,

id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —

A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.

In composition ab,

Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—

It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

vindĭco (on account of a supposed derivation from venum - dico, also written vendĭco), āvi, ātum, 1 (collat. form, acc. to the 3d conj., VINDICIT, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1 fin.), v. a. [vim - dico, prop. to assert authority, viz. in a case where legal possession of a thing claimed is refused; hence, transf.], to lay legal claim to a thing, whether as one's own property or for its restoration to a free condition.

Lit.: IN. IVS. DVCITO. NI IVDICATVM FACIT AVT QVIS ENDO EOM IVRE VINDICIT, i. e. eum in jure vindicat, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 45; cf., on the form of laying claim to disputed personal property, Gai Inst. 4, 16:

vindicare sponsam in libertatem,

Liv. 3, 45, 11; cf. id. 3, 48, 5; 3, 46, 7:

puellam,

id. 3, 46, 3:

ita vindicatur Virginia spondentibus propinquis,

id. 3, 46, 8.—

Transf., in gen. (freq. and class.; cf. assero).

To lay claim to as one's own, to make a claim upon, to demand, claim, arrogate, assume, appropriate a thing:

omnia non Quiritium sed sapientium jure pro suis vindicare,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 27:

videor id meo jure quodam modo vindicare,

id. Off. 1, 1, 2:

Homerum... Chii suum vindicant,

id. Arch. 8, 19:

ortūs nostri partem patria vindicat,

id. Off. 1, 7, 22:

maximam partem quasi suo jure Fortuna sibi vindicat,

id. Marcell. 2, 6:

ceterarum rerum quae sunt in oratore, partem aliquam sibi quisque vindicat,

id. Or. 19, 69:

quod neque summi imperatores... sibi umquam vindicare sunt ausi,

Quint. 1, prooem. §

14: partem oneris tui mihi vindico,

Plin. Ep. 6, 32, 2:

majestatem sibi,

id. Pan. 42, 1:

partis sibi aequas potentiae,

Suet. Tib. 50; id. Tit. 5; Sen. Ira, 3, 30, 3; id. Cons. Helv. 3, 9; id. Q. N. 1, 1, 10; Val. Max. 4, 3, 1; 5, 3, ext. 2; cf. Plin. Pan. 8, 2; Val. Max. 4, 5, 3: iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est; prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur, Tac. Agr. 27:

victoriae majore parte ad se vindicatā,

Liv. 44, 14, 8:

decus belli ad se,

id. 9, 43, 14:

tanta tamen universae Galliae consensio fuit libertatis vindicandae, ut, etc.,

should be maintained, vindicated, Caes. B. G. 7, 76:

Trasimenum pro Tarsimeno multi auctores... vindicaverunt,

have adopted, Quint. 1, 5, 13; so id. 1, 5, 26:

vindicet antiquam faciem, vultusque ferinos Detrahat,

reassume, Ov. M. 2, 523.— Poet., with inf.:

vindicat hoc Pharius dextrā gestare satelles,

Luc. 8, 675.—

To place a thing in a free condition.

In libertatem vindicare, to set free, to free, emancipate:

in libertatem rem populi,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48:

ex dominatu Ti. Gracchi in libertatem rem publicam,

id. Brut. 58, 212:

rem publicam afflictam et oppressam in veterem dignitatem ac libertatem,

i. e. to restore, id. Fam. 2, 5, 2:

Galliam in libertatem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

se et populum Romanum in libertatem,

id. B. C. 1, 22.—

To deliver, liberate, protect, defend:

te ab eo vindico et libero,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 3, § 9:

nos a verberibus, ab unco, a crucis terrore neque res gestae neque acta aetas neque vestri honores vindicabunt?

id. Rab. Perd. 5, 16:

sapientia sola nos a libidinum impetu et formidinum terrore vindicat,

id. Fin. 1, 14, 46:

quin ab hoc ignotissimo Phryge nobilissimum civem vindicetis?

id. Fl. 17, 40:

aliquem a miseriis morte,

id. Brut. 96, 329:

a molestiā,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 2:

a labore,

id. Sull. 9, 26:

domum suam a solitudine,

id. de Or. 1, 45, 199:

laudem summorum oratorum ab oblivione hominum atque a silentio,

rescue, id. ib. 2, 2, 7:

sed ab hac necessitate egregie vos fortuna vindicat,

Liv. 37, 54, 10:

corpora a putrescendo (sal),

Plin. 31, 9, 45, § 98:

ebur a carie (vetus oleum),

id. 15, 7, 7, § 32:

capillum a canitie,

id. 28, 11, 46, § 164:

se non modo ex suspitione tanti sceleris, verum etiam ex omni hominum sermone,

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

perpetienda illa fuerunt, ut se aliquando ad suos vindicaret,

might restore, id. Rab. Post. 9, 25:

quam dura ad saxa revinctam Vindicat Alcides,

sets free, Ov. M. 11, 213:

tandem absolutus vindicatusque est (reus),

Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 1.—

With respect to some wrong perpetrated (cf. ulciscor), to avenge, revenge, punish; to take vengeance on any one; make compensation for:

omnia quae vindicaris in altero, sibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 2, § 4:

maleficium in aliis vindicare,

id. Sull. 6, 19:

facinus in nullo etiam,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

dolum malum et legibus,

id. Off. 3, 15, 61. acerrime maleficia, id. Rosc. Am. 5, 12:

consensionem improborum supplicio omni,

id. Lael. 12, 43:

eam rem quam vehementer,

id. Quint. 7, 28:

Ti. Gracchi conatus perditos,

id. Off. 1, 30, 109:

necem Crassi,

Ov. F. 6, 468:

offensas ense,

id. Tr. 3, 8, 40:

fortuita non civium tantummodo sed urbium damna principis munificentia vindicat,

Vell. 2, 126, 4.— Impers. pass.:

fateor non modo in socios, sed etiam in cives militesque nostros persaepe esse severe ac vehementer vindicatum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50, § 133:

vindicandum in eos,

Sall. J. 31, 18:

vindicatum in eos, qui, etc.,

id. C. 9, 4; cf.:

in quos (Venetos) eo gravius Caesar vindicandum statuit, quo diligentius, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 3, 16.—

Transf. (after the analogy of ulcisci): vindicare se ab (de) aliquo, to revenge one's self upon one:

se ab illo,

Sen. Ben. 6, 5, 3:

se de fortunā praefationibus,

Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 14.— Pass.:

quantā saevitiā opus erat, ut Sulla de Mario vindicaretur,

Flor. 3, 21, 19.

pūnĭo or (in archaic form) poenĭo, īvi or ii, ītum, 4 (sync. imp. poenibat, Lucr. 6, 1238), v. a., and pūnĭor ( poen-), ītus, 4, v. dep. a. [poena].

To inflict punishment upon, to punish (syn.: castigo, animadverto, plecto, multo).

In act. form:

peccata punimus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 66:

punire sontes,

id. Off. 1, 24, 82:

Philemonem morte puniit,

Suet. Caes. 74:

alio punito,

id. Calig. 30:

lex omnis aut punit aut jubet, etc.,

Quint. 7, 5, 5; cf. id. 7, 1, 48.— Pass.:

tergo ac capite puniri,

Liv. 3, 55 fin.; Ov. M. 9, 778.—

In dep. form:

qui punitur aliquem,

Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88:

inimicos puniuntur,

id. Tusc. 1, 44, 107:

hominum necem,

id. Phil. 8, 2, 7:

crudelius poeniri quam erat humanitatis meae postulare,

id. Mil. 13, 33; id. Inv. 2, 27, 80; 2, 28, 83; Quint. 9, 3, 6; Gell. 20, 1, 7:

punita sum funestum praedonem,

App. M. 8, p. 207, 17.—

In indeterm. form:

ipse se puniens,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 27, 65:

prohibenda autem maxime est ira in puniendo,

id. Off. 1, 25, 89 fin. —

To take vengeance for, to avenge, revenge,= ulcisci (rare):

Graeciae fana punire,

Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 15:

iracundia est cupiditas puniendi doloris,

id. de Or. 1, 51, 220:

meam domum a judicibus puniendam putavit,

Cic. Har. Resp. 8, 16.— Dep.:

ut clarissimorum omnium crudelissimam puniretur necem,

Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 7.

pūnĭo or (in archaic form) poenĭo, īvi or ii, ītum, 4 (sync. imp. poenibat, Lucr. 6, 1238), v. a., and pūnĭor ( poen-), ītus, 4, v. dep. a. [poena].

To inflict punishment upon, to punish (syn.: castigo, animadverto, plecto, multo).

In act. form:

peccata punimus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 66:

punire sontes,

id. Off. 1, 24, 82:

Philemonem morte puniit,

Suet. Caes. 74:

alio punito,

id. Calig. 30:

lex omnis aut punit aut jubet, etc.,

Quint. 7, 5, 5; cf. id. 7, 1, 48.— Pass.:

tergo ac capite puniri,

Liv. 3, 55 fin.; Ov. M. 9, 778.—

In dep. form:

qui punitur aliquem,

Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88:

inimicos puniuntur,

id. Tusc. 1, 44, 107:

hominum necem,

id. Phil. 8, 2, 7:

crudelius poeniri quam erat humanitatis meae postulare,

id. Mil. 13, 33; id. Inv. 2, 27, 80; 2, 28, 83; Quint. 9, 3, 6; Gell. 20, 1, 7:

punita sum funestum praedonem,

App. M. 8, p. 207, 17.—

In indeterm. form:

ipse se puniens,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 27, 65:

prohibenda autem maxime est ira in puniendo,

id. Off. 1, 25, 89 fin. —

To take vengeance for, to avenge, revenge,= ulcisci (rare):

Graeciae fana punire,

Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 15:

iracundia est cupiditas puniendi doloris,

id. de Or. 1, 51, 220:

meam domum a judicibus puniendam putavit,

Cic. Har. Resp. 8, 16.— Dep.:

ut clarissimorum omnium crudelissimam puniretur necem,

Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 7.

red-do, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (old fut. reddibo = reddam, Plaut. Cas. 1, 41; id. Men. 5, 7, 49, acc. to Non. 476, 27; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 508, 9; pass. reddibitur, id. Ep. 1, 1, 22), v. a.

Lit., to give back, return, restore (freq. and class.;

syn. restituo): reddere est quod debeas ei cujus est volenti dare,

Sen. Ben. 7, 19, 2:

ut mihi pallam reddat, quam dudum dedi,

Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 109; 4, 3, 5; cf.:

potes nunc mutuam drachmam dare mihi unam, quam cras reddam tibi?

id. Ps. 1, 1, 84;

so corresp. to dare,

id. ib. 1, 1, 89; id. Stich. 4, 1, 42:

quid si reddatur illi, unde empta est,

id. Merc. 2, 3, 83; id. Men. 3, 3, 21 sq.; Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 24 sq. et saep.; cf.

the foll.: ea, quae utenda acceperis, majore mensurā, si modo possis, jubet reddere Hesiodus,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 48;

so corresp. to accipere,

id. Lael. 8, 26; 16, 58; id. Rep. 2, 5, 10; Sen. Ben. 1, 1, 13:

accipe quod nunquam reddas mihi,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 66; Verg. G. 4, 172; id. A. 8, 450 et saep.:

si quid ab omnibus conceditur, id reddo ac remitto,

I give it back and renounce it, Cic. Sull. 30, 84: Th. Redde argentum aut virginem. Ph. Quod argentum, quam tu virginem, me reposcis? Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 14:

ut (virginem) suis Restituam ac reddam,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 67;

so with restituere,

Liv. 3, 68 al.; cf.:

reddere alias tegulas, i. e. restituere,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 29: obsides, Naev. ap. Non. 474, 19; so Caes. B. G. 1, 35; 1, 36; 6, 12:

captivos,

id. ib. 7, 90; Liv. 26, 50:

ho mines,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7 al.:

corpora (mor tuorum),

Verg. A. 11, 103; cf. id. ib. 2, 543:

equos,

Cic. Rep. 4, 2, 2; Suet. Aug. 38:

suum cuique,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 136:

hereditatem mulieri,

id. Fin. 2, 18, 58:

sive paribus paria redduntur,

i. e. are set against, opposed to, id. Or. 49, 164:

nosmet ipsos nobis reddidistis,

id. Red. in Sen. 1, 1:

redditus Cyri solio Phraates,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 17:

reddas incolumem, precor,

id. ib. 1, 3, 7:

ut te reddat natis carisque,

id. S. 1, 1, 83:

redditus terris Daedalus,

Verg. A. 6, 18; cf.:

patriis aris,

id. ib. 11, 269:

oculis nostris,

id. ib. 2, 740:

tenebris,

id. ib. 6, 545:

sed jam urbi votisque publicis redditus,

Plin. Pan. 60, 1:

ex magnā desperatione saluti redditus,

Just. 12, 10, 1:

quin tu primum salutem reddis, quam dedi,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 11:

operam da, opera reddibitur tibi,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 22; so id. Men. 4, 2, 101: cum duo genera liberalitatis sint, unum dandi beneficii, alterum reddendi, demus nec ne, in nostrā potestate est;

non reddere viro bono non licet,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 48; so Sen. Ben. 1, 1 sq.; and cf. Plaut. Pers. 5, 1, 10:

redde his libertatem,

id. Poen. 5, 4, 17; so,

Lyciis libertatem ademit, Rhodiis reddidit,

Suet. Claud. 25:

patriam,

Liv. 5, 51 fin.:

sibi ereptum honorem,

Verg. A. 5, 342:

conspectum,

id. ib. 9, 262 al.:

se ipse convivio reddidit,

betook himself again to the banquet, returned, Liv. 23, 9 fin.:

quae belua reddit se catenis,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 71:

se reddidit astris,

Sil. 4, 119; so,

lux terris,

Verg. A. 8, 170:

se iterum in arma,

id. ib. 10, 684.—

Poet., with inf.:

sua monstra profundo Reddidit habere Jovi,

Stat. Th. 1, 616.—

Absol. (rare and poet.), of a river:

sic modo conbibitur, modo Redditur ingens Erasinus,

is swallowed up... reappears, Ov. M. 15, 275. —

Transf.

To give up, hand over, deliver, impart, assign; to yield, render, give, grant, bestow, pay, surrender, relinquish, resign (syn.:

trado, refero): Cincius eam mihi abs te epistulam reddidit, quam tu dederas,

Cic. Att. 1, 20, 1; so,

litteras (alicui),

id. ib. 2, 1, 1; id. Fam. 2, 17, 1:

litteras a te mihi reddidit stator tuus,

id. ib. 2, 1, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 1; 2, 20; 3, 33; Sall. C. 34, 3; cf.

mandata,

Suet. Tib. 16:

pretium alicui pro benefactis ejus,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 20:

hoccine pretii,

id. As. 1, 2, 2; cf.:

praemia debita (along with persolvere grates),

Verg. A. 2, 537:

cetera praemia (with dare),

id. ib. 9, 254:

primos honores,

id. ib. 5, 347:

gratiam alicui (for the usual referre gratiam),

Sall. J. 110, 4:

reddunt ova columbae,

Juv. 3, 202:

obligatam Jovi dapem,

Hor. C. 2, 7, 17:

o fortunata mors, quae naturae debita, pro patriā est potissimum reddita,

Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 31; cf.:

vitam naturae reddendam,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 5; so, vitam. Lucr. 6, 1198:

debitum naturae morbo,

i. e. to die by disease, Nep. Reg. 1 fin.:

lucem,

Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 35:

ultimum spiritum,

Vell. 2, 14, 2; cf. id. 2, 22, 2; 2, 35 fin.;

2, 87, 2: animam caelo,

id. ib. 123 fin.; cf.

animas (with moriuntur),

Verg. G. 3, 495:

hanc animam, vacuas in auras,

Ov. P. 2, 11, 7:

caute vota reddunto,

to pay, offer, render, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22; so,

vota,

Verg. E. 5, 75; Just. 11, 10, 10:

tura Lari,

Tib. 1, 3, 34:

liba deae,

Ov. F. 6, 476:

fumantia exta,

Verg. G. 2, 194; Tac. H. 4, 53; cf.:

graves poenas,

i. e. to suffer, Sall. J. 14, 21:

promissa viro,

Verg. A. 5, 386 al.:

tibi ego rationem reddam?

will render an account, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 6; so,

rationem,

id. Trin. 2, 4, 114; Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 38;

v. ratio: animam a pulmonibus respirare et reddere,

to give off, exhale, id. N. D. 2, 54, 136; cf.:

ut tibiae sonum reddunt,

give forth, Quint. 11, 3, 20; so,

sonum,

id. 9, 4, 40; 66; Sen. Ep. 108; Hor. A. P. 348:

vocem,

Verg. A. 3, 40; 7, 95; 8, 217 (with mugiit); Hor. A. P. 158:

stridorem,

Ov. M. 11, 608:

murmura,

id. ib. 10, 702:

flammam,

Plin. 37, 2, 11, § 36 et saep.; so,

alvum,

Cels. 2, 12, 2:

bilem,

id. 7, 23:

sanguinem,

to vomit, Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 6 (just before:

sanguinem rejecit): urinam,

Plin. 8, 42, 66, § 165:

calculum,

id. 28, 15, 61, § 217:

catulum partu,

Ov. M. 15, 379; cf.

so of parturition,

id. ib. 10, 513; id. H. 16, 46:

fructum, quem reddunt praedia,

yield, produce, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 75; Ov. P. 1, 5, 26; Col. 2, 16, 2; Pall. Febr. 9, 4; Plin. 18, 9, 20, § 87; cf. Tib. 2, 6, 22; Quint. 12, 10, 25:

generi nostro haec reddita est benignitas,

is imparted to, Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 27; cf.: nulla quies est [p. 1539] Reddita corporibus primis, Lucr. 2, 96. — Hence, poet., redditum esse, in gen., = factum esse, esse:

una superstitio, superis quae reddita divis,

which is given, belongs to the gods, Verg. A. 12, 817:

quibus et color et sapor una reddita sunt cum odore,

Lucr. 2, 681; cf. id. 2, 228 Munro ad loc.; Juv. 1, 93; Orell. ad Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 216:

neque iis petentibus jus redditur,

is dispensed, granted, Caes. B. G. 6, 13:

alicui jus,

Quint. 11, 2, 50; cf.:

alicui testimonium reddere industriae,

id. 11, 1, 88:

quod reliquum vitae virium, id ferro potissimum reddere volebant,

to yield, sacrifice, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

quibus ille pro meritis... jura legesque reddiderat,

had conferred upon it the power of self-jurisdiction, Caes. B. G. 7, 76; cf Liv. 9, 43, 23 Drak.:

Lanuvinis sacra sua reddita,

id. 8, 14:

conubia,

to bestow, grant, id. 4, 5:

peccatis veniam,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 75:

nomina facto vera,

to call by the right name, Ov. Tr. 3, 6, 36.— Hence,

Jurid. t. t.:

judicium,

to appoint, grant, fix the time for a trial, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 57; Caes. B. C. 2, 18; Quint. 7, 4, 43; Tac. A. 1, 72:

jus,

to administer justice, pronounce sentence, id. ib. 6, 11; 13, 51; id. H. 3, 68; id. G. 12; Suet. Vit. 9 et saep.—

To give up, yield, abandon to one that which has not been taken away, but only threatened or in danger:

Thermitanis urbem, agros legesque suas reddere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 90 ( = relinquere, id. ib. 2, 2, 36, §

88): Orestis leges suae redditae,

left undisturbed, Liv. 33, 34, 6; 9, 43, 23 (cf. restituere); 29, 21, 7.—

To give back, pay back; hence, to take revenge for, punish, inflict vengeance for:

per eum stare quominus accepta ad Cannas redderetur hosti clades,

Liv. 24, 17, 7:

reddidit hosti cladem,

id. 24, 20, 2:

redditaque aequa Cannensi clades,

id. 27, 49, 5.—

To give back in speech or writing, i. e.

To translate, render (syn.:

converto, transfero): cum ea, quae legeram Graece, Latine redderem,

Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 155:

verbum pro verbo,

id. Opt. Gen. 5:

verbo verbum,

Hor. A. P. 133; cf. Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 54.—

To repeat, declare, report, narrate, recite, rehearse (freq. in Quint.):

ut quae secum commentatus esset, ea sine scripto verbis iisdem redderet, quibus cogitasset,

Cic. Brut. 88, 301; cf. Quint. 10, 6, 3:

sive paria (verba) paribus redduntur, sive opponuntur contraria,

Cic. Or. 49, 164:

reddere quae restant,

id. Brut. 74, 258:

tertium actum de pastionibus,

Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 1:

nomina per ordinem audita,

Quint. 11, 2, 23:

causas corruptae eloquentiae,

id. 8, 6, 76:

quid cuique vendidissent,

id. 11, 2, 24:

dictata,

to repeat, rehearse, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 14; id. S. 2, 8, 80:

carmen,

to recite, deliver, id. C. 4, 6, 43:

cum talia reddidit hospes,

Ov. M. 6, 330; Lucr. 2, 179:

causam,

id. F. 1, 278:

insigne exemplum suo loco,

Tac. H. 4, 67.—

To answer, reply ( poet.):

veras audire et reddere voces,

Verg. A. 1, 409; 6, 689:

Aeneas contra cui talia reddit,

id. ib. 10, 530;

2, 323: auditis ille haec placido sic reddidit ore,

id. ib. 11, 251 et saep.; cf.

responsa,

id. G. 3, 491:

responsum,

Liv. 38, 9; 3, 60; Verg. A. 6, 672.—

To give back or render a thing according to its nature or qualities; to represent, imitate, express, resemble ( poet. and in post - Aug. prose):

quas hominum reddunt facies,

Lucr. 6, 812:

faciem locorum,

Ov. M. 6, 122; 7, 752:

lux aemula vultum Reddidit,

gave back, reflected, Stat. Achill. 2, 191:

formam alicujus,

Sil. 3, 634:

et qui te nomine reddet Silvius Aeneas,

Verg. A. 6, 768; cf.:

jam Phoebe toto fratrem cum redderet orbe,

Luc. 1, 538:

paternam elegantiam in loquendo,

Quint. 1, 1, 6; 6, 3, 107; cf.:

odorem croci saporemque,

i. e. to smell and taste like saffron, Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 177:

imaginem quandam uvae,

id. 34, 12, 32, § 123:

flammam excellentis purpurae et odorem maris,

id. 35, 6, 27, § 46:

Apelleā redditus arte Mentor,

Mart. 11, 10, 2.—

To give back, return a thing changed in some respect:

senem illum Tibi dedo ulteriorem lepide ut lenitum reddas,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 31; cf.:

quas tu sapienter mihi reddidisti opiparas opera tua,

id. Poen. 1, 1, 4.— Hence, in gen.,

To make or cause a thing to be or appear something or somehow; to render (very freq. and class.; cf.:

facio, redigo): reddam ego te ex ferā fame mansuetem,

Plaut. As. 1, 2, 19; id. Capt. 4, 2, 42:

eam (servitutem) lenem reddere,

id. ib. 2, 5, 1: tutiorem et opulentiorem vitam reddere, Cic. Rep. 1, 2, 3:

haec itinera infesta reddiderat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 79:

aliquem insignem,

Verg. A. 5, 705:

obscuraque moto Reddita forma lacu est,

dimmed by the disturbance of the water, Ov. M. 3, 476:

homines ex feris et immanibus mites reddidit et mansuetos,

Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2: omnes Catilinas Acidinos postea reddidit, has made all the Catilines seem to be Acidini, i. e. patriots, in comparison with himself, id. Att. 4, 3, 3:

aliquid perfectum,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 109:

aliquid effectum,

to accomplish, id. Ps. 1, 3, 152; 1, 5, 116; 5, 2, 14:

omne transactum,

id. Capt. 2, 2, 95:

actum,

id. Trin. 3, 3, 90:

dictum ac factum,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 12.— With ut and subj.:

hic reddes omnia Quae sunt certa ei consilia incerta ut sient,

Ter. And. 2, 3, 15.— Pass. = fieri scripsit fasciculum illum epistularum totum sibi aquā madidum redditum esse, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 4; Just. 16, 4, 6; 22, 7, 2:

per sudorem corpus tantum imbecillius redditur,

Cels. 3, 3, 19; cf. Just. 29, 4, 3; 42, 5, 4; 44, 1, 10; Flor. 3, 5, 17; Val. Max. 4, 3 prooem.; Lact. 4, 26, 33.