tango

at-trecto ( adt-, Weissenb., Halm; att-, Ritschl, Rib., Kayser), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [tracto], to touch, handle, freq. in an unlawful manner (syn.: contrecto, tracto, tango, palpo).

Lit.:

Ne me attrecta,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 45:

aliquem nimium familiariter attr ectare,

id. Rud. 2, 4, 6:

uxorem alicujus attrectare,

Cic. Cael. 8 fin.; Suet. Ner. 26 (cf. contrecto):

signum Junonis adtrecta re,

Liv. 5, 22:

patrios penates attrectare,

Verg. A. 2, 719:

feralia adtrectare,

Tac. A. 1, 62 fin.:

libros contaminatis manibus,

Cic. Har. Resp. 13: alienam rem, Sabin. Jus Civ. ap. Gell. 11, 16, 20:

si attrectaverit me pater,

Vulg. Gen. 27, 12.— To feel after, grope for (eccl. Lat.):

quasi absque oculis parietem attrectavimus,

Vulg. Isa. 59, 10.—

Trop.: Facilis est illa occursatio et blanditia popularis; aspicitur, non attrectatur;

procul apparet, non excutitur (the figure is derived from paintings or other works of art),

it is looked at, not touched, Cic. Planc. 12 Wund.—Also, to appropriate to one's self:

regias etiam adtrectamus gazas,

Liv. 34, 4, 2:

fasces securesque,

id. 28, 24:

indecorum, adtrectare quod non obtineret,

Tac. A. 3, 52.— To feel after, seek to find (eccl. Lat.):

quaerere Deum, si forte attrectent eum,

Vulg. Act. 17, 27.

con-tāmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [from stem tag, tango].

Orig., to bring into contact, touch.

In gen. (very rare):

manus quibus contaminatur,

Tert. Apol. 17; cf.: contaminare, contingere, Gloss. ap. Mai, Auct. Class. VI. p. 518 a.—

To bring into union, to mingle, blend together, unite. So twice in Ter. of the blending of parts of different comedies into one whole:

multas Graecas fabulas,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 17; id. And. prol. 16; cf. upon this Grauert, Analekten. p. 116 sq.—

To deteriorate by mingling, corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute (something by something; very freq., esp. in the trop. signif., and in Cic.; not in Quint.).

Lit.:

deam Syriam urinā,

Suet. Ner. 56:

lacus (connected with spurcare aquas),

Dig. 47, 11, 1:

spiritum,

Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—Of unnatural vice:

ingenuos,

Petr. 108, 3.—

Trop.:

gaudium aegritudine aliquā,

to mar, efface, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 4:

se humanis vitiis (joined with se inquinare domesticis vitiis atque flagitiis),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72:

sanguinem suum lege (Canuleia),

Liv. 4, 1, 2:

gentes, i. e. by adoption into a plebeian family,

Cic. Dom. 13, 35:

ordines neglegentiā,

Suet. Vesp. 9:

veritatem aliquo mendacio,

Cic. Sull. 16, 45:

mentem omni scelere,

Liv. 40, 13, 4; cf.:

aliquem scelere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; and:

se sanguine,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 29:

sese maleficio,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

se ipsos ac domos suas nefanda praeda,

Liv. 29, 18, 8 al. —In part. perf.:

contaminati facinore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43; so,

tot parricidiis,

Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15:

multis flagitiis,

id. Clu. 35, 97:

omnibus probris,

Suet. Aug. 65; id. Vit. 4:

judicia vitio paucorum (joined with corrupta),

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70:

verbum assiduo usu,

Gell. 2, 6, 25.—Hence, contāmĭnā-tus, a, um, P. a., stained with guilt, polluted, contaminated, impure, vile, defiled:

se ut consceleratos contaminatosque ab ludis abactos esse,

Liv. 2, 37, 9; cf.:

pars civitatis, velut contaminata,

id. 4, 4, 6:

superstitio,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194 al. —So several times of incontinence, * Hor. C. 1, 37, 9:

flos aetatis,

Suet. Caes. 49:

paene omnibus membris,

id. Ner. 29.— Sup.: homo sceleribus [p. 445] flagitiisque contaminatissimus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14; id. Dom. 9, 23.—Subst.

contāmĭnāti, ōrum, m., abandoned youths, Tac. A. 15, 37.—

contāmĭ-nāta, ōrum, n., adulterated things:

ut anteponantur... integra contaminatis,

Cic. Top. 18, 69.— Comp. and adv. not in use.

con-tāmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [from stem tag, tango].

Orig., to bring into contact, touch.

In gen. (very rare):

manus quibus contaminatur,

Tert. Apol. 17; cf.: contaminare, contingere, Gloss. ap. Mai, Auct. Class. VI. p. 518 a.—

To bring into union, to mingle, blend together, unite. So twice in Ter. of the blending of parts of different comedies into one whole:

multas Graecas fabulas,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 17; id. And. prol. 16; cf. upon this Grauert, Analekten. p. 116 sq.—

To deteriorate by mingling, corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute (something by something; very freq., esp. in the trop. signif., and in Cic.; not in Quint.).

Lit.:

deam Syriam urinā,

Suet. Ner. 56:

lacus (connected with spurcare aquas),

Dig. 47, 11, 1:

spiritum,

Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—Of unnatural vice:

ingenuos,

Petr. 108, 3.—

Trop.:

gaudium aegritudine aliquā,

to mar, efface, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 4:

se humanis vitiis (joined with se inquinare domesticis vitiis atque flagitiis),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72:

sanguinem suum lege (Canuleia),

Liv. 4, 1, 2:

gentes, i. e. by adoption into a plebeian family,

Cic. Dom. 13, 35:

ordines neglegentiā,

Suet. Vesp. 9:

veritatem aliquo mendacio,

Cic. Sull. 16, 45:

mentem omni scelere,

Liv. 40, 13, 4; cf.:

aliquem scelere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; and:

se sanguine,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 29:

sese maleficio,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

se ipsos ac domos suas nefanda praeda,

Liv. 29, 18, 8 al. —In part. perf.:

contaminati facinore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43; so,

tot parricidiis,

Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15:

multis flagitiis,

id. Clu. 35, 97:

omnibus probris,

Suet. Aug. 65; id. Vit. 4:

judicia vitio paucorum (joined with corrupta),

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70:

verbum assiduo usu,

Gell. 2, 6, 25.—Hence, contāmĭnā-tus, a, um, P. a., stained with guilt, polluted, contaminated, impure, vile, defiled:

se ut consceleratos contaminatosque ab ludis abactos esse,

Liv. 2, 37, 9; cf.:

pars civitatis, velut contaminata,

id. 4, 4, 6:

superstitio,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194 al. —So several times of incontinence, * Hor. C. 1, 37, 9:

flos aetatis,

Suet. Caes. 49:

paene omnibus membris,

id. Ner. 29.— Sup.: homo sceleribus [p. 445] flagitiisque contaminatissimus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14; id. Dom. 9, 23.—Subst.

contāmĭnāti, ōrum, m., abandoned youths, Tac. A. 15, 37.—

contāmĭ-nāta, ōrum, n., adulterated things:

ut anteponantur... integra contaminatis,

Cic. Top. 18, 69.— Comp. and adv. not in use.

con-tāmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [from stem tag, tango].

Orig., to bring into contact, touch.

In gen. (very rare):

manus quibus contaminatur,

Tert. Apol. 17; cf.: contaminare, contingere, Gloss. ap. Mai, Auct. Class. VI. p. 518 a.—

To bring into union, to mingle, blend together, unite. So twice in Ter. of the blending of parts of different comedies into one whole:

multas Graecas fabulas,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 17; id. And. prol. 16; cf. upon this Grauert, Analekten. p. 116 sq.—

To deteriorate by mingling, corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute (something by something; very freq., esp. in the trop. signif., and in Cic.; not in Quint.).

Lit.:

deam Syriam urinā,

Suet. Ner. 56:

lacus (connected with spurcare aquas),

Dig. 47, 11, 1:

spiritum,

Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—Of unnatural vice:

ingenuos,

Petr. 108, 3.—

Trop.:

gaudium aegritudine aliquā,

to mar, efface, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 4:

se humanis vitiis (joined with se inquinare domesticis vitiis atque flagitiis),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72:

sanguinem suum lege (Canuleia),

Liv. 4, 1, 2:

gentes, i. e. by adoption into a plebeian family,

Cic. Dom. 13, 35:

ordines neglegentiā,

Suet. Vesp. 9:

veritatem aliquo mendacio,

Cic. Sull. 16, 45:

mentem omni scelere,

Liv. 40, 13, 4; cf.:

aliquem scelere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; and:

se sanguine,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 29:

sese maleficio,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

se ipsos ac domos suas nefanda praeda,

Liv. 29, 18, 8 al. —In part. perf.:

contaminati facinore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43; so,

tot parricidiis,

Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15:

multis flagitiis,

id. Clu. 35, 97:

omnibus probris,

Suet. Aug. 65; id. Vit. 4:

judicia vitio paucorum (joined with corrupta),

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70:

verbum assiduo usu,

Gell. 2, 6, 25.—Hence, contāmĭnā-tus, a, um, P. a., stained with guilt, polluted, contaminated, impure, vile, defiled:

se ut consceleratos contaminatosque ab ludis abactos esse,

Liv. 2, 37, 9; cf.:

pars civitatis, velut contaminata,

id. 4, 4, 6:

superstitio,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194 al. —So several times of incontinence, * Hor. C. 1, 37, 9:

flos aetatis,

Suet. Caes. 49:

paene omnibus membris,

id. Ner. 29.— Sup.: homo sceleribus [p. 445] flagitiisque contaminatissimus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14; id. Dom. 9, 23.—Subst.

contāmĭnāti, ōrum, m., abandoned youths, Tac. A. 15, 37.—

contāmĭ-nāta, ōrum, n., adulterated things:

ut anteponantur... integra contaminatis,

Cic. Top. 18, 69.— Comp. and adv. not in use.

con-tingo, tĭgi, tactum, 3, v. a. and n. [tango], to touch on all sides. to touch, take hold of, seize (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).

Lit.

In gen.:

facile cibum terrestrem rostris,

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:

funem manu,

Verg. A. 2, 239; cf. Ov. M. 2, 151:

munera Cerealia dextrā,

id. ib. 11, 122:

undas pede,

id. ib. 2, 457:

focos ore tremente,

id. Tr. 1, 3, 44:

terram osculo,

Liv. 1, 56, 12:

ora nati sacro medicamine,

Ov. M. 2, 123; cf. id. ib. 14, 607:

montes suo igni (sol),

Lucr. 4, 407; cf. Cat. 64, 408, and Suet. Ner. 6:

cibos sale modico,

to sprinkle, Cels. 2, 24: sidera comā ( poet. designation for a very great height), Ov. F. 3, 34; cf.:

nubes aërio vertice (Taurus),

Tib. 1, 7, 15: summa sidera plantis, to reach the stars (a poet. designation of great prosperity), Prop. 1, 8, 43:

mitem taurum,

Ov. M. 2, 860; cf. id. ib. 8, 423:

glebam,

id. ib. 11, 111:

paene terram (luna),

Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91:

caules (vitis),

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

dextras consulum (as a friendly greeting or congratulation),

Liv. 28, 9, 6; so,

manum,

Vell. 2, 104, 5; 2, 107, 4.—

With partic. access. ideas.

To eat, partake of, taste ( poet.):

neque illinc Audeat esuriens dominus contingere granum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 113:

cibos ore,

Ov. M. 5, 531:

aquas,

id. ib. 15, 281:

fontem,

id. ib. 3, 409.—

To touch impurely (very rare):

corpus corpore,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 204.—

To touch, i. e. to be near, neighboring, or contiguous, to border upon, to reach, extend to; with acc., dat., or inter se; with acc.:

Helvi, qui fines Arvernorum contingunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 7 fin.:

turri adactā et contingente vallum,

id. ib. 5, 43; cf.:

in saltu Vescino Falernum contingente agrum,

Liv. 10, 21, 8:

praesidium coloniarum Illyricum contingentium,

Suet. Aug. 25. —With dat.:

ut radices montis ex utrāque parte ripae fluminis contingant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38.—With inter se:

ut (milites) contingant inter se atque omnem munitionem expleant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21; cf. id. B. G. 7, 23.—

With the idea of motion, to reach something by moving, to attain to, reach, come to, arrive at, meet with, etc. (mostly poet.); with acc.:

optatam metam cursu,

Hor. A. P. 412:

Ephyren pennis,

Ov. M. 7, 392:

Italiam,

Verg. A. 5, 18:

fines Illyricos,

Ov. M. 4, 568:

Creten,

id. ib. 8, 100:

Cadmeïda arcem,

id. ib. 6, 217:

rapidas Phasidos undas,

id. ib. 7, 6:

auras,

to come into the air, id. ib. 15, 416 al.:

avem ferro,

to hit, Verg. A. 5, 509; cf. Ov M. 8, 351: ullum mortalem (vox mea), id. id. 2, 578; cf.

thus aures,

id. ib. 1, 211; and aures fando, with the acc. and inf., id. ib. 15, 497: aevi florem, to come to or reach the flower of age, Lucr. 1, 565.—

Trop.

In gen., to touch, to seize upon, affect (rare). multitudo agrestium, quos in aliquā suā fortunā publica quoque contingebat cura, Liv. 22, 10, 8:

contactus nullis ante cupidinibus,

Prop. 1, 1, 2:

quam me manifesta libido contigit!

Ov. M. 9, 484: animum curā. Val. Fl. 7, 173; cf.:

aliquem (curā), contacti simili sorte,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 78. —Far more freq.,

In partic.

(Acc. to I. B. 2.) To touch with pollution, to pollute, stain, defile, etc.; so generally in part. perf. (as a verb. finit. the kindr. contamino was in use):

(Gallos) contactos eo scelere velut injectā rabie ad arma ituros,

Liv. 21, 48, 3; so,

contacta civitas rabie duorum juvenum,

id. 4, 9, 10:

omnes eā violatione templi,

id. 29, 8, 11 (for which id. 29, 18, 8:

nefandà praedā se ipsos ac domos contaminare suas): plebs regiā praedā,

id. 2, 5, 2; cf. id. 4, 15, 8:

equi candidi et nullo mortali opere contacti,

Tac. G. 10: dies (sc. Alliensis) religione, [p. 450] Liv. 6, 28, 6:

pectora vitiis,

Tac. Or. 12.—Once absol.:

contactus ensis,

Sen. Hippol. 714.—

(Acc. to I. B. 3.) With aliquem aliquā re or only aliquem, to be connected with or related to, to concern:

ut quisque tam foede interemptos aut propinquitate aut amicitiā contingebat,

Liv. 25, 8, 2:

aliquem sanguine ac genere,

id. 45, 7, 3; 24, 22, 14:

aliquem artissimo gradu,

Suet. Aug. 4:

domum Caesarum nullo gradu,

id. Galb. 2; cf. absol.:

deos (i. e. Maecenatem et Augustum) quoniam propius contingis,

have more ready access to the great, Hor. S. 2, 6, 52:

Sabinum modico usu,

to have little intercourse with, Tac. A. 4, 68:

multis in Italiā contactis gentibus Punici belli societate,

Liv. 31, 8, 11; cf.:

si crĭmine contingantur,

have part in, Dig. 11, 4, 1:

haec consultatio Romanos nihil contingit,

concerns not, Liv. 34, 22, 12; cf.:

quae (causa) nihil eo facto contingitur,

id. 40, 14, 9.—

(Acc. to I. B. 4.) To attain to, reach, arrive at something, to come to (very rare):

quam regionem cum superavit animus naturamque sui similem contigit et agnovit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43.—

With and without dat. of person; of occurrences, to happen to one, to befall, fall to one's lot, to succeed in, obtain a thing; and absol., to happen, fall to, turn out, come to pass (so most freq. in all perr. and species of composition; in gen., of favorable, but sometimes of indifferent, or even adverse occurrences).

With dat.:

cui tam subito tot contigerint commoda,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 3:

haec tot propter me gaudia illi contigisse laetor,

id. Hec. 5, 3, 35:

quod isti (Crasso) contigit uni,

Cic. de Or. 2, 56, 228; 1, 35, 164; id. Off. 1, 43, 153; id. Fam. 5, 21, 1; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1; Caes. B. G. 1, 43; Quint. 10, 1, 115; 12, 11, 29; Suet. Caes. 35; id. Calig. 3, 10 et saep.; Ov. M. 3, 321; 11, 268; 15, 443; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 46; 1, 4, 10; 1, 17, 9 et saep.:

cum tanto plura bene dicendi exempla supersint quam illis contigerunt,

Quint. 10, 2, 28: quam mihi maxime hic hodie contigerit malum, Enn. ap. Non. p. 268, 12:

quod (sc. servitus) potentibus populis saepe contigit,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15; id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:

cum miseri animi essent, quod plerisque contingeret,

id. N. D. 1, 11, 27; id. Phil. 14, 8, 24; id. Fam. 5, 16, 5; id. Sen. 19, 71; id. Off. 2, 14, 50; 2, 19, 65; id. Fam. 11, 16, 2 al.: quoties ipsi testatori aliquid contingit, a misfortune befalls, etc., Dig. 28, 3, 6:

si quid ei humanitus contigerit,

ib. 34, 4, 30 fin. (cf. ib. § 2: sive in viā aliquid mihi humanitus acciderit, and v. 2. accido, II. B.).— Impers. with inf.:

non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 36:

mihi Romae nutriri atque doceri,

id. ib. 2, 2, 41:

mihi recusare principatum,

Vell. 2, 124, 2:

mihi cognoscere (eos),

Quint. 12, 11, 3; 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25; 6, 1, 4 al.—And, at the same time, a dat. of the predicate (post-class. and rare):

quo tempore mihi fratrique meo destinari praetoribus contigit,

Vell. 2, 124, 4:

maximo tibi et civi et duci evadere contigit,

Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 2 (in Ov. M. 11, 220, the better read. is nepotem); cf. Haase in Reisig. Lect. p. 794 sq.—With ut:

volo hoc oratori contingat, ut, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 84, 290; id. Off. 1, 1, 3; id. Phil. 5, 18, 49; Quint. 11, 2, 51 al. —

With acc. (very rare):

sors Tyrrhenum contigit,

fell upon Tyrrhenus, Vell. 1, 1 fin.:

Italiam palma frugum,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 109.—

Absol. (very freq.):

hanc mi expetivi, contigit,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 13:

magis adeo id facilitate quam aliā ullā culpā meā contigit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15:

quod si nulla contingit excusatio,

Quint. 11, 1, 81:

ubi quid melius contingit et unctius,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 44 et saep.—With abl.:

quia memoria atque actio naturā non arte contingant,

Quint. 3, 3, 4; so id. 1, 1, 33; 2, 2, 11 al.—With ex:

gratia, quae continget ex sermone puro atque dilucido,

Quint. 11, 1, 53; so id. 8, 3, 70:

ex eādem brassicā contingunt aestivi autumnalesque cauliculi,

arise, spring, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 138 al.:

nihil horum nisi in complexu loquendi serieque contingit,

Quint. 1, 5, 3.—With inf.:

fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget,

Hor. A. P. 51; Quint. 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25:

concitare invidiam, etc.... liberius in peroratione contingit,

id. 6, 1, 14.—With ut:

quod nunquam opinatus fui... id contigit, ut salvi poteremur domi,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 32; so Quint. 4, 1, 7; 9, 3, 72; 11, 2, 39.

con-tingo ( - tinguo), ĕre, v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.).

Lit.:

oras, pocula circum mellis liquore,

Lucr. 1, 938:

semina rerum colore,

id. 2, 755:

lac parco sale,

to sprinkle, Verg. G. 3, 403:

tonsum corpus amurcā,

id. ib. 3, 448. —

Trop.:

musaeo contingens cuncta lepore,

Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.

con-tingo, tĭgi, tactum, 3, v. a. and n. [tango], to touch on all sides. to touch, take hold of, seize (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).

Lit.

In gen.:

facile cibum terrestrem rostris,

Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122:

funem manu,

Verg. A. 2, 239; cf. Ov. M. 2, 151:

munera Cerealia dextrā,

id. ib. 11, 122:

undas pede,

id. ib. 2, 457:

focos ore tremente,

id. Tr. 1, 3, 44:

terram osculo,

Liv. 1, 56, 12:

ora nati sacro medicamine,

Ov. M. 2, 123; cf. id. ib. 14, 607:

montes suo igni (sol),

Lucr. 4, 407; cf. Cat. 64, 408, and Suet. Ner. 6:

cibos sale modico,

to sprinkle, Cels. 2, 24: sidera comā ( poet. designation for a very great height), Ov. F. 3, 34; cf.:

nubes aërio vertice (Taurus),

Tib. 1, 7, 15: summa sidera plantis, to reach the stars (a poet. designation of great prosperity), Prop. 1, 8, 43:

mitem taurum,

Ov. M. 2, 860; cf. id. ib. 8, 423:

glebam,

id. ib. 11, 111:

paene terram (luna),

Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91:

caules (vitis),

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

dextras consulum (as a friendly greeting or congratulation),

Liv. 28, 9, 6; so,

manum,

Vell. 2, 104, 5; 2, 107, 4.—

With partic. access. ideas.

To eat, partake of, taste ( poet.):

neque illinc Audeat esuriens dominus contingere granum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 113:

cibos ore,

Ov. M. 5, 531:

aquas,

id. ib. 15, 281:

fontem,

id. ib. 3, 409.—

To touch impurely (very rare):

corpus corpore,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 204.—

To touch, i. e. to be near, neighboring, or contiguous, to border upon, to reach, extend to; with acc., dat., or inter se; with acc.:

Helvi, qui fines Arvernorum contingunt,

Caes. B. G. 7, 7 fin.:

turri adactā et contingente vallum,

id. ib. 5, 43; cf.:

in saltu Vescino Falernum contingente agrum,

Liv. 10, 21, 8:

praesidium coloniarum Illyricum contingentium,

Suet. Aug. 25. —With dat.:

ut radices montis ex utrāque parte ripae fluminis contingant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38.—With inter se:

ut (milites) contingant inter se atque omnem munitionem expleant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21; cf. id. B. G. 7, 23.—

With the idea of motion, to reach something by moving, to attain to, reach, come to, arrive at, meet with, etc. (mostly poet.); with acc.:

optatam metam cursu,

Hor. A. P. 412:

Ephyren pennis,

Ov. M. 7, 392:

Italiam,

Verg. A. 5, 18:

fines Illyricos,

Ov. M. 4, 568:

Creten,

id. ib. 8, 100:

Cadmeïda arcem,

id. ib. 6, 217:

rapidas Phasidos undas,

id. ib. 7, 6:

auras,

to come into the air, id. ib. 15, 416 al.:

avem ferro,

to hit, Verg. A. 5, 509; cf. Ov M. 8, 351: ullum mortalem (vox mea), id. id. 2, 578; cf.

thus aures,

id. ib. 1, 211; and aures fando, with the acc. and inf., id. ib. 15, 497: aevi florem, to come to or reach the flower of age, Lucr. 1, 565.—

Trop.

In gen., to touch, to seize upon, affect (rare). multitudo agrestium, quos in aliquā suā fortunā publica quoque contingebat cura, Liv. 22, 10, 8:

contactus nullis ante cupidinibus,

Prop. 1, 1, 2:

quam me manifesta libido contigit!

Ov. M. 9, 484: animum curā. Val. Fl. 7, 173; cf.:

aliquem (curā), contacti simili sorte,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 78. —Far more freq.,

In partic.

(Acc. to I. B. 2.) To touch with pollution, to pollute, stain, defile, etc.; so generally in part. perf. (as a verb. finit. the kindr. contamino was in use):

(Gallos) contactos eo scelere velut injectā rabie ad arma ituros,

Liv. 21, 48, 3; so,

contacta civitas rabie duorum juvenum,

id. 4, 9, 10:

omnes eā violatione templi,

id. 29, 8, 11 (for which id. 29, 18, 8:

nefandà praedā se ipsos ac domos contaminare suas): plebs regiā praedā,

id. 2, 5, 2; cf. id. 4, 15, 8:

equi candidi et nullo mortali opere contacti,

Tac. G. 10: dies (sc. Alliensis) religione, [p. 450] Liv. 6, 28, 6:

pectora vitiis,

Tac. Or. 12.—Once absol.:

contactus ensis,

Sen. Hippol. 714.—

(Acc. to I. B. 3.) With aliquem aliquā re or only aliquem, to be connected with or related to, to concern:

ut quisque tam foede interemptos aut propinquitate aut amicitiā contingebat,

Liv. 25, 8, 2:

aliquem sanguine ac genere,

id. 45, 7, 3; 24, 22, 14:

aliquem artissimo gradu,

Suet. Aug. 4:

domum Caesarum nullo gradu,

id. Galb. 2; cf. absol.:

deos (i. e. Maecenatem et Augustum) quoniam propius contingis,

have more ready access to the great, Hor. S. 2, 6, 52:

Sabinum modico usu,

to have little intercourse with, Tac. A. 4, 68:

multis in Italiā contactis gentibus Punici belli societate,

Liv. 31, 8, 11; cf.:

si crĭmine contingantur,

have part in, Dig. 11, 4, 1:

haec consultatio Romanos nihil contingit,

concerns not, Liv. 34, 22, 12; cf.:

quae (causa) nihil eo facto contingitur,

id. 40, 14, 9.—

(Acc. to I. B. 4.) To attain to, reach, arrive at something, to come to (very rare):

quam regionem cum superavit animus naturamque sui similem contigit et agnovit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43.—

With and without dat. of person; of occurrences, to happen to one, to befall, fall to one's lot, to succeed in, obtain a thing; and absol., to happen, fall to, turn out, come to pass (so most freq. in all perr. and species of composition; in gen., of favorable, but sometimes of indifferent, or even adverse occurrences).

With dat.:

cui tam subito tot contigerint commoda,

Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 3:

haec tot propter me gaudia illi contigisse laetor,

id. Hec. 5, 3, 35:

quod isti (Crasso) contigit uni,

Cic. de Or. 2, 56, 228; 1, 35, 164; id. Off. 1, 43, 153; id. Fam. 5, 21, 1; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1; Caes. B. G. 1, 43; Quint. 10, 1, 115; 12, 11, 29; Suet. Caes. 35; id. Calig. 3, 10 et saep.; Ov. M. 3, 321; 11, 268; 15, 443; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 46; 1, 4, 10; 1, 17, 9 et saep.:

cum tanto plura bene dicendi exempla supersint quam illis contigerunt,

Quint. 10, 2, 28: quam mihi maxime hic hodie contigerit malum, Enn. ap. Non. p. 268, 12:

quod (sc. servitus) potentibus populis saepe contigit,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15; id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:

cum miseri animi essent, quod plerisque contingeret,

id. N. D. 1, 11, 27; id. Phil. 14, 8, 24; id. Fam. 5, 16, 5; id. Sen. 19, 71; id. Off. 2, 14, 50; 2, 19, 65; id. Fam. 11, 16, 2 al.: quoties ipsi testatori aliquid contingit, a misfortune befalls, etc., Dig. 28, 3, 6:

si quid ei humanitus contigerit,

ib. 34, 4, 30 fin. (cf. ib. § 2: sive in viā aliquid mihi humanitus acciderit, and v. 2. accido, II. B.).— Impers. with inf.:

non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 36:

mihi Romae nutriri atque doceri,

id. ib. 2, 2, 41:

mihi recusare principatum,

Vell. 2, 124, 2:

mihi cognoscere (eos),

Quint. 12, 11, 3; 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25; 6, 1, 4 al.—And, at the same time, a dat. of the predicate (post-class. and rare):

quo tempore mihi fratrique meo destinari praetoribus contigit,

Vell. 2, 124, 4:

maximo tibi et civi et duci evadere contigit,

Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 2 (in Ov. M. 11, 220, the better read. is nepotem); cf. Haase in Reisig. Lect. p. 794 sq.—With ut:

volo hoc oratori contingat, ut, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 84, 290; id. Off. 1, 1, 3; id. Phil. 5, 18, 49; Quint. 11, 2, 51 al. —

With acc. (very rare):

sors Tyrrhenum contigit,

fell upon Tyrrhenus, Vell. 1, 1 fin.:

Italiam palma frugum,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 109.—

Absol. (very freq.):

hanc mi expetivi, contigit,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 13:

magis adeo id facilitate quam aliā ullā culpā meā contigit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15:

quod si nulla contingit excusatio,

Quint. 11, 1, 81:

ubi quid melius contingit et unctius,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 44 et saep.—With abl.:

quia memoria atque actio naturā non arte contingant,

Quint. 3, 3, 4; so id. 1, 1, 33; 2, 2, 11 al.—With ex:

gratia, quae continget ex sermone puro atque dilucido,

Quint. 11, 1, 53; so id. 8, 3, 70:

ex eādem brassicā contingunt aestivi autumnalesque cauliculi,

arise, spring, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 138 al.:

nihil horum nisi in complexu loquendi serieque contingit,

Quint. 1, 5, 3.—With inf.:

fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget,

Hor. A. P. 51; Quint. 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25:

concitare invidiam, etc.... liberius in peroratione contingit,

id. 6, 1, 14.—With ut:

quod nunquam opinatus fui... id contigit, ut salvi poteremur domi,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 32; so Quint. 4, 1, 7; 9, 3, 72; 11, 2, 39.

con-tingo ( - tinguo), ĕre, v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.).

Lit.:

oras, pocula circum mellis liquore,

Lucr. 1, 938:

semina rerum colore,

id. 2, 755:

lac parco sale,

to sprinkle, Verg. G. 3, 403:

tonsum corpus amurcā,

id. ib. 3, 448. —

Trop.:

musaeo contingens cuncta lepore,

Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.

E, e, indecl. n. or (sc. littera) fem., a vowel corresponding to both the e and the ê of the Greeks, Ter. Maur. p. 2386 P.; Aus. Idyll. de Litter. Monos. 3 and 4; Mart. Cap. 3, § 235. Its sound varied; short e being sounded sometimes like Engl. e in men (so in pater, inter, etc.), sometimes more nearly like short i, as in Engl. pin (so in famelia, mereto, Menerva, etc.); whence, in the literary language, it passed, in a large class of words, into ĭ (familia, merito, etc.), though retained in the popular speech, and oft. in inscriptions. Long e also varied in sound, often resembling the diphthong ae, with which it is constantly confounded in MSS. and inscrr. (cf. raeda and reda; saeculum and seculum; ceteri and caeteri, etc.), and often approaching the sound of ī (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 324 sqq.). The short e in Latin is the least emphatic of all the vowels; hence, it not only took the place of other vowels in changes of words where the sounds became weakened, and in the vulgar language where the vowel sounds were less sharply distinguished, but frequently took the place of a final syllable ending in a consonant, and was sometimes, especially at the end of words, rejected.

The transition of ă into ĕ (which took place especially before two consonants, whereas usually ă passed into ĭ in open syllables, v. art. A.) is seen in the compounds refello, commendo, ineptus, confercio, incestus, perpetior, etc. In some words the orthography is unsettled, as in the compounds of spargo, which are written sometimes aspergo, conspergo, dispergo, etc., and sometimes aspargo, conspargo, dispargo, etc.; as along with dispando the vulgar form dispenno also occurs. So in all the verbal reduplications, as cĕcidi, cĕcini, pĕperi, pĕpigi, tĕtigi; pĕperci, fĕfelli; dĕdi and stĕti (from cado, cano, pario, pango, tango, parco, fallo, DA and STA), whereas the vowels i, o, u remain unchanged in reduplication (bĭbi; mŏmordi; tŭtudi; for the anomalous forms in Gell. 7, 9, are certainly Graecized). As along with pĕpĭgi there also arose by syncope (in the Lat. lang. a predominating element in the formation of words) the perfect pēgi; so we may explain the perfect forms cēpi, fēci, jēci, frēgi, and ēgi, as syncopated from cĕcĭpi, fĕfĭci, jĕjĭci, frĕfĭgi, and ĕïgi (this last analogously with dēgo, from dēĭgo).

For i stands ĕ

in the neuter forms of the adjectives in is (acre, agreste, facile, etc.).—

In the nominative forms: aedes, apes, canes, etc. (for aedis, apis, canis, etc. v. h. vv.).—

In the dative forms: morte, jure dicundo, Dijove, Victore, etc. (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 192 sq.; and Quint. 1, 4, 17). —

In the nominatives in es, whose genitive has ĭtis.—

In the nominatives from stems ending in c, b, p, t, n, etc., as, pollex, caelebs, princeps, comes, flumen, from pollic-, caelib-, princip-, comit-, flumin-; and

In the old and partly vulgar manner of writing and pronouncing: CEPET, EXEMET, NAVEBOS (Colum. Rostr.), FVET, DEDET, TEMPESTATEBVS, TIBE (Epit. of the Scipios), COMPROMESISE (S. C. de Bacch.), MENERVA, MAGESTER, HERE, VEA, VELLA, etc. (Quint. 1, 4, 8, and 17; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46). In the earliest period (before Plautus) ĕ was found in many words in which ĭ afterwards took its place; as: semul, fuet, mereto, tempestatebus, etc.—

It is prob. too that the abl. ĕ of the third declension proceeded from ī (or id); cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 239 sqq.; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 241 sq.

It less freq. happens that o and u pass over into ĕ, as vello, ocellus, verto, vertex, vester, compared with vulsi, oculus, vorto, vortex, voster: generis from genus, societas from socius, etc.; and even for long u we have ĕ in dejĕro and pejĕro, from jūro.

The stem vowel o is weakened to ĕ in the vocative of nouns in us of the second declension; ĕ also represents o in the perf. and in pass. forms, such as scripsere, conabare, conabere, from scripserunt, conabaris, conaberis; in the future forms attinge, dice, facie, recipie, from attingam, dicam, faciam, recipiam (see under dico init.); in the forms mage, pote, from magis, potis, etc.; it is inserted for euphony in the nom. of many nouns and adjj whose stems end in r preceded by a mute, as ager, aper, liber, aeger, ruber, sacer, etc.

The vowel e is suppressed in the imperatives dic, duc, fac, fer, in the anteclass infinitive biber (from bibere); in the vocative of the second declension of nouns in ius, as Gai, geni, fili, canteri, columbari, mantuari, volturi, mi (cf. Freund in Jahn's Neue Jahrbüch, 1835, vol. 13, p. 148 sq.), in enclitic particles often, as: hic, haec, hoc, for hice, etc.; so, illaec, sic, nunc, nec, ac, etc.: viden, potin: quin, for quine, etc., and as an initial in the present forms of the verb esse (sum, sumus, sunt; sim, etc., for esum, esumus, esunt, esim, etc.). But the forms facul, simul, Bacchanal, etc., are not apocopated. Even a radical ĕ sometimes drops out when a prefix or suffix is taken; so, gigno, for gigeno: malignus, for maligenus: gnatus, for genatus.

The long e interchanges most freq. with the diphthongs ae and oe (q. v.); yet it sometimes also took the place of ā, as in anhēlo, from hālo, and in the rustic bēlo, for bālo; and likewise of ī, as LEBER, SPECA, AMECVS, for līber, spīca, amīcus (Quint. Inst. l. l.; Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2; Paul. ex Fest. p. 15, 6 Müll.); and in words borrowed from the Greek, as chorēa, Darēus, along with Academīa, Alexandrīa; see the letter I.

As an abbreviation, E (mostly in connection with other abbreviations) signifies egregius, equus, eques, erexit, evocatus, etc.; e. g. E. M. V. = egregiae memoriae vir; E. Q. R. = eques Romanus; EE. QQ. RR. = equites Romani; E. P. = equo publico; E. M. D. S. P. E. = e monitu de sua pecunia erexit, etc.

e.. praep., out of, from, v. ex.

E, e, indecl. n. or (sc. littera) fem., a vowel corresponding to both the e and the ê of the Greeks, Ter. Maur. p. 2386 P.; Aus. Idyll. de Litter. Monos. 3 and 4; Mart. Cap. 3, § 235. Its sound varied; short e being sounded sometimes like Engl. e in men (so in pater, inter, etc.), sometimes more nearly like short i, as in Engl. pin (so in famelia, mereto, Menerva, etc.); whence, in the literary language, it passed, in a large class of words, into ĭ (familia, merito, etc.), though retained in the popular speech, and oft. in inscriptions. Long e also varied in sound, often resembling the diphthong ae, with which it is constantly confounded in MSS. and inscrr. (cf. raeda and reda; saeculum and seculum; ceteri and caeteri, etc.), and often approaching the sound of ī (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 324 sqq.). The short e in Latin is the least emphatic of all the vowels; hence, it not only took the place of other vowels in changes of words where the sounds became weakened, and in the vulgar language where the vowel sounds were less sharply distinguished, but frequently took the place of a final syllable ending in a consonant, and was sometimes, especially at the end of words, rejected.

The transition of ă into ĕ (which took place especially before two consonants, whereas usually ă passed into ĭ in open syllables, v. art. A.) is seen in the compounds refello, commendo, ineptus, confercio, incestus, perpetior, etc. In some words the orthography is unsettled, as in the compounds of spargo, which are written sometimes aspergo, conspergo, dispergo, etc., and sometimes aspargo, conspargo, dispargo, etc.; as along with dispando the vulgar form dispenno also occurs. So in all the verbal reduplications, as cĕcidi, cĕcini, pĕperi, pĕpigi, tĕtigi; pĕperci, fĕfelli; dĕdi and stĕti (from cado, cano, pario, pango, tango, parco, fallo, DA and STA), whereas the vowels i, o, u remain unchanged in reduplication (bĭbi; mŏmordi; tŭtudi; for the anomalous forms in Gell. 7, 9, are certainly Graecized). As along with pĕpĭgi there also arose by syncope (in the Lat. lang. a predominating element in the formation of words) the perfect pēgi; so we may explain the perfect forms cēpi, fēci, jēci, frēgi, and ēgi, as syncopated from cĕcĭpi, fĕfĭci, jĕjĭci, frĕfĭgi, and ĕïgi (this last analogously with dēgo, from dēĭgo).

For i stands ĕ

in the neuter forms of the adjectives in is (acre, agreste, facile, etc.).—

In the nominative forms: aedes, apes, canes, etc. (for aedis, apis, canis, etc. v. h. vv.).—

In the dative forms: morte, jure dicundo, Dijove, Victore, etc. (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 192 sq.; and Quint. 1, 4, 17). —

In the nominatives in es, whose genitive has ĭtis.—

In the nominatives from stems ending in c, b, p, t, n, etc., as, pollex, caelebs, princeps, comes, flumen, from pollic-, caelib-, princip-, comit-, flumin-; and

In the old and partly vulgar manner of writing and pronouncing: CEPET, EXEMET, NAVEBOS (Colum. Rostr.), FVET, DEDET, TEMPESTATEBVS, TIBE (Epit. of the Scipios), COMPROMESISE (S. C. de Bacch.), MENERVA, MAGESTER, HERE, VEA, VELLA, etc. (Quint. 1, 4, 8, and 17; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46). In the earliest period (before Plautus) ĕ was found in many words in which ĭ afterwards took its place; as: semul, fuet, mereto, tempestatebus, etc.—

It is prob. too that the abl. ĕ of the third declension proceeded from ī (or id); cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 239 sqq.; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 241 sq.

It less freq. happens that o and u pass over into ĕ, as vello, ocellus, verto, vertex, vester, compared with vulsi, oculus, vorto, vortex, voster: generis from genus, societas from socius, etc.; and even for long u we have ĕ in dejĕro and pejĕro, from jūro.

The stem vowel o is weakened to ĕ in the vocative of nouns in us of the second declension; ĕ also represents o in the perf. and in pass. forms, such as scripsere, conabare, conabere, from scripserunt, conabaris, conaberis; in the future forms attinge, dice, facie, recipie, from attingam, dicam, faciam, recipiam (see under dico init.); in the forms mage, pote, from magis, potis, etc.; it is inserted for euphony in the nom. of many nouns and adjj whose stems end in r preceded by a mute, as ager, aper, liber, aeger, ruber, sacer, etc.

The vowel e is suppressed in the imperatives dic, duc, fac, fer, in the anteclass infinitive biber (from bibere); in the vocative of the second declension of nouns in ius, as Gai, geni, fili, canteri, columbari, mantuari, volturi, mi (cf. Freund in Jahn's Neue Jahrbüch, 1835, vol. 13, p. 148 sq.), in enclitic particles often, as: hic, haec, hoc, for hice, etc.; so, illaec, sic, nunc, nec, ac, etc.: viden, potin: quin, for quine, etc., and as an initial in the present forms of the verb esse (sum, sumus, sunt; sim, etc., for esum, esumus, esunt, esim, etc.). But the forms facul, simul, Bacchanal, etc., are not apocopated. Even a radical ĕ sometimes drops out when a prefix or suffix is taken; so, gigno, for gigeno: malignus, for maligenus: gnatus, for genatus.

The long e interchanges most freq. with the diphthongs ae and oe (q. v.); yet it sometimes also took the place of ā, as in anhēlo, from hālo, and in the rustic bēlo, for bālo; and likewise of ī, as LEBER, SPECA, AMECVS, for līber, spīca, amīcus (Quint. Inst. l. l.; Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2; Paul. ex Fest. p. 15, 6 Müll.); and in words borrowed from the Greek, as chorēa, Darēus, along with Academīa, Alexandrīa; see the letter I.

As an abbreviation, E (mostly in connection with other abbreviations) signifies egregius, equus, eques, erexit, evocatus, etc.; e. g. E. M. V. = egregiae memoriae vir; E. Q. R. = eques Romanus; EE. QQ. RR. = equites Romani; E. P. = equo publico; E. M. D. S. P. E. = e monitu de sua pecunia erexit, etc.

e.. praep., out of, from, v. ex.

G, g, indecl. n. or (on account of littera) f., had originally no place in the Latin alphabet: both the sharp and the flat guttural mutes, our k and g sounds, being represented by C; hence on the Columna Rostrata LECIONES, MACISTRATOS, EXFOCIONT, (pu)CNANDOD, PVCN(ad), CARTACINIENSIS, for legiones, etc.; hence, too, the archaic form ACETARE for agitare (v. Paul. ex Fest. p. 23 Müll. N. cr.), and the still common abbreviation of the names Gaius and Gneus in C and Cn.—At a later period (acc. to Plut. Qu. Rom. p. 277 D and 278 E, by means of a freedman of Spurius Carvilius Ruga, about the beginning of the second Punic war) a slight graphic alteration was made in the C, which introduced into the Roman orthography the letter G (on the old monuments C); thus we have in the S. C. de Bacchanal.: MAGISTER, MAGISTRATVM, FIGIER, GNOSCIER, AGRO; on the other hand, the orthography GNAIVOD PATRE PROGNATVS on the first Epitaph of the Scipios, which dates before that time, indicates either incorrectness in the copying or a later erection of the monument. When Greek words are written in Latin letters and vice versa, G always corresponds to G. Its sound was always hard, like Engl. g in gate, at least until the sixth century A. D.As an initial, g, in pure Latin words, enters into consonantal combination only with l and r; and therefore in words which, from their etymology, had the combination gn, the g was rejected in the classical period, and thus arose the class. forms nascor, natus, nosco, novi, notus, narus, navus, from the original gnascor, gnatus, gnosco, etc. (cf. the English gnaw, gnat, gnarr, etc., where the g has become silent); whereas in compounds the g again is often retained: cognatus, cognosco, ignarus, ignavus.—An initial g is dropped in lac (kindred to GALACT, gala), likewise in anser (kindred to Germ. Gans; Sanscr. hansa; Greek chên).As a medial, g combines with l, m, n, r, although it is sometimes elided before m in the course of formation; so in examen for exagmen from agmen; in contamino for contagmino (from con-TAG, tango). Before s the soft sound of g passes into the hard sound of c, and becomes blended with the s into x (v. the letter X); though sometimes the g (or c) is elided altogether, as in mulsi from mulgeo, indulsi from indulgeo; cf.: sparsus, mersus, tersus, etc. So too before t, as indultum from indulgeo. The medial g is often dropped between two vowels, and compensated for by lengthening the preced. vowel: māior from măgior, pulēium from pulēgium, āio from ăgio (root AG, Sanscr. ah, to say; cf. nego). Likewise the medial g is dropped in lēvis for legvis, Sanscr. laghn, fava for fagva, fruor for frugvor, flamma for flagma, stimulus for stigmulus, examen for exagmen; jumentum, from root jug-: sumen from sug-; cf.: umor, flamen, etc.As a final, g was only paragogic, acc. to Quint. 1, 7, 13, in the obsolete VESPERVG (for vesperu, analogous with noctu; v. Spald. ad loc.). Etymologically, g corresponds to an original Indo - European g or gh, or is weakened from c, k. Thus it stands where in Greek we have:

g, as ago, agô; ager, agros; argentum, arguros; genus, genos; fulgeo, phlegô, and so very commonly;

ch (usually before r, or in the middle of a word): ango, anchô; rigo, brechô; gratus, chairô, etc.;

k: viginti, eikosi; gubernator, kubernêtês; gummi, kommi, etc.—By assimilation, g was produced from b and d in oggero, suggero, aggero, etc., from obgero, sub-gero, ad-gero, etc.As an abbreviation, G denotes Galliarum, Gallica, gemina, Germania, genius, etc.; and sometimes Gaius (instead of the usual C); v. Inscr. Orell. 467; 1660; 4680:

G.P.R.F. genio populi Romani feliciter,

Inscr. Orell. 4957; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 76 sqq.; Roby, Lat. Gr. 1, 38 sqq.

G, g, indecl. n. or (on account of littera) f., had originally no place in the Latin alphabet: both the sharp and the flat guttural mutes, our k and g sounds, being represented by C; hence on the Columna Rostrata LECIONES, MACISTRATOS, EXFOCIONT, (pu)CNANDOD, PVCN(ad), CARTACINIENSIS, for legiones, etc.; hence, too, the archaic form ACETARE for agitare (v. Paul. ex Fest. p. 23 Müll. N. cr.), and the still common abbreviation of the names Gaius and Gneus in C and Cn.—At a later period (acc. to Plut. Qu. Rom. p. 277 D and 278 E, by means of a freedman of Spurius Carvilius Ruga, about the beginning of the second Punic war) a slight graphic alteration was made in the C, which introduced into the Roman orthography the letter G (on the old monuments C); thus we have in the S. C. de Bacchanal.: MAGISTER, MAGISTRATVM, FIGIER, GNOSCIER, AGRO; on the other hand, the orthography GNAIVOD PATRE PROGNATVS on the first Epitaph of the Scipios, which dates before that time, indicates either incorrectness in the copying or a later erection of the monument. When Greek words are written in Latin letters and vice versa, G always corresponds to G. Its sound was always hard, like Engl. g in gate, at least until the sixth century A. D.As an initial, g, in pure Latin words, enters into consonantal combination only with l and r; and therefore in words which, from their etymology, had the combination gn, the g was rejected in the classical period, and thus arose the class. forms nascor, natus, nosco, novi, notus, narus, navus, from the original gnascor, gnatus, gnosco, etc. (cf. the English gnaw, gnat, gnarr, etc., where the g has become silent); whereas in compounds the g again is often retained: cognatus, cognosco, ignarus, ignavus.—An initial g is dropped in lac (kindred to GALACT, gala), likewise in anser (kindred to Germ. Gans; Sanscr. hansa; Greek chên).As a medial, g combines with l, m, n, r, although it is sometimes elided before m in the course of formation; so in examen for exagmen from agmen; in contamino for contagmino (from con-TAG, tango). Before s the soft sound of g passes into the hard sound of c, and becomes blended with the s into x (v. the letter X); though sometimes the g (or c) is elided altogether, as in mulsi from mulgeo, indulsi from indulgeo; cf.: sparsus, mersus, tersus, etc. So too before t, as indultum from indulgeo. The medial g is often dropped between two vowels, and compensated for by lengthening the preced. vowel: māior from măgior, pulēium from pulēgium, āio from ăgio (root AG, Sanscr. ah, to say; cf. nego). Likewise the medial g is dropped in lēvis for legvis, Sanscr. laghn, fava for fagva, fruor for frugvor, flamma for flagma, stimulus for stigmulus, examen for exagmen; jumentum, from root jug-: sumen from sug-; cf.: umor, flamen, etc.As a final, g was only paragogic, acc. to Quint. 1, 7, 13, in the obsolete VESPERVG (for vesperu, analogous with noctu; v. Spald. ad loc.). Etymologically, g corresponds to an original Indo - European g or gh, or is weakened from c, k. Thus it stands where in Greek we have:

g, as ago, agô; ager, agros; argentum, arguros; genus, genos; fulgeo, phlegô, and so very commonly;

ch (usually before r, or in the middle of a word): ango, anchô; rigo, brechô; gratus, chairô, etc.;

k: viginti, eikosi; gubernator, kubernêtês; gummi, kommi, etc.—By assimilation, g was produced from b and d in oggero, suggero, aggero, etc., from obgero, sub-gero, ad-gero, etc.As an abbreviation, G denotes Galliarum, Gallica, gemina, Germania, genius, etc.; and sometimes Gaius (instead of the usual C); v. Inscr. Orell. 467; 1660; 4680:

G.P.R.F. genio populi Romani feliciter,

Inscr. Orell. 4957; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 76 sqq.; Roby, Lat. Gr. 1, 38 sqq.

intĕger, tēgra, tēgrum (long e in intēgri, intēgros, etc., Lucr. 1, 927; Verg. E. 4, 5; Hor. S. 2, 2, 113 al.), adj. [2. in and root tag-, tango], untouched, unhurt, unchanged.

Lit.

Undiminished, whole, entire, complete, perfect:

integer et plenus thensaurus,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 12, 13:

exercitus,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 148:

annus,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 8:

quarum (sublicarum) pars inferior integra remanebat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 35:

integris bonis exulare,

Suet. Caes. 42:

nec superstes Integer,

Hor. C. 2, 17, 7:

puer malasque comamque Integer,

with beard, and hair on his head, Stat. Th. 8, 487:

signa (litterarum),

unbroken, Cic. Cat. 3, 3, 6.— Adv.: ad integrum, wholly, entirely:

corpore carens,

Macr. Som. Scip. 1, 5. —

Unimpaired, uninjured, unhurt, unwounded, unmutilated, unexhausted, sound, fresh, vigorous.

Absol.:

adulescens cum sis, tum, cum est sanguis integer,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 7:

aetas,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 45:

cum recentes atque integri defessis successissent,

Caes. B. C. 3, 94;

so opp. defessi,

id. B. G. 7, 41;

opp. defatigati,

id. ib. 7, 48; 5, 16; id. B. C. 3, 40:

integris viribus repugnare,

id. B. G. 3, 4:

si ad quietem integri iremus, opp. onustus cibo et vino,

Cic. Div. 1, 29:

integra valetudo,

id. Fin. 2, 20, 64:

integrum se salvumque velle,

id. ib. 2, 11, 33:

omnibus rebus integros incolumesque esse,

id. Fam. 13, 4:

florentes atque integri,

id. Planc. 35:

integros pro sauciis arcessere,

Sall. C. 60, 4;

so opp. saucius,

Cic. Mur. 25, 50:

Horatius,

Liv. 1, 25:

nasus,

Juv. 15, 56; 10, 288;

so opp. truncus,

Plin. 7, 11, 10. §

50: cecidit Cethegus integer, et jacuit Catilina cadavere toto,

not mutilated, Juv. 10, 288:

opes, opp. accisae,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 113:

mulier aetate integra,

in the flower of her age, Ter. And. 1, 1, 45:

corpora sana et integri sanguinis,

Quint. 8 praef. § 19;

tantum capite integro (opp. transfigurato),

unchanged, Suet. Ner. 46:

quam integerrimis corporibus cibum offerre,

free from fever, Cels. 3, 4:

antequam ex toto integer fiat,

id. ib.:

integra aetate ac valetudine,

Suet. Tib. 10. —

With gen.:

integer aevi sanguis (= integri aevi sanguis, i. e. juvenilis vigor),

Verg. A. 2, 638; 9, 255; Ov. M. 9, 441:

integer annorum,

Stat. Th. 1, 415 (cf. II. A. infra): deos aevi integros, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 255 (Trag. v. 440 Vahl.). —

With abl.:

fama et fortunis integer,

Sall. H 2, 41, 5:

copiis integra (regio),

id. ib. 1, 95:

neque aetate neque corpore integer,

Suet. Aug. 19: pectore maturo fuerat puer integer aevo, Ped. Albin. 3, 5:

dum vernat sanguis, dum rugis integer annus,

Prop. 4 (5), 5, 59.—

With a ( ab) and abl. (rare):

a populi suffragiis integer,

i. e. who has not been rejected, Sall. H. 1, 52 D.:

cohortes integrae ab labore,

Caes. B. G. 3, 26:

gens integra a cladibus belli,

Liv. 9, 41, 8.—

Esp. in phrase ad or in integrum (sc. statum), to a former condition or state:

potius quam redeat ad integrum haec eadem oratio,

i. e. to have the same story over again, Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 8:

quod te absente hic filius egit restitui in integrum aequum est,

id. Phorm. 2, 4, 11:

quos ego non idcirco esse arbitror in integrum restitutos,

Cic. Clu. 36, 98; id. Fl. 32, 79:

(judicia) in integrum restituit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 1, 4. —

Not worn, fresh, new, unused:

ad integrum bellum cuncta parare,

Sall. J. 73, 1:

consilia,

id. ib. 108, 2:

pugnam edere,

Liv. 8, 9, 13.—Hence, esp. adv.: de integro, ab integro, ex integro, anew, afresh:

ut mihi de integro scribendi causa non sit,

Cic. Att. 13, 27; id. Clu. 60, 167:

acrius de integro obortum est bellum,

Liv. 21, 8, 2:

relata de integro res ad senatum,

id. 21, 6, 5:

columnam efficere ab integro novam,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo,

Verg. E. 4, 5:

recipere ex integro vires,

Quint. 10, 3, 20:

navibus ex integro fabricatis,

Suet. Aug. 16.—

Untainted, fresh, sweet:

ut anteponantur integra contaminatis,

Cic. Top. 18, 69:

fontes,

Hor. C. 1, 26, 6:

sapor,

id. S. 2, 4, 54:

aper, opp. vitiatus,

id. ib. 2, 2, 91.—

Not before attempted, fresh:

ex integra Graeca integram comoediam Hodie sum acturus,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 4:

alias ut uti possim causa hac integra,

this pretext as a fresh one, id. Hec. 1, 2, 5:

eum Plautus locum reliquit integrum,

not treated, not imitated, id. Ad. prol. 9.

Trop.

Blameless, irreproachable, spotless, pure, honest, virtuous:

cum illo nemo neque integrior esset in civitate, neque sanctior,

Cic. de Or. 1, 53:

(homines) integri, innocentes, religiosi,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 4, § 7:

integerrima vita,

id. Planc. 1:

incorrupti atque integri testes,

id. Fin. 1, 21:

vitae,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 1:

integer urbis,

not spoiled by the city, untainted with city vices, Val. Fl. 2, 374:

vir a multis vitiis integer, Sen. de Ira, 1, 18, 3.— Of female chastity: loquere filiam meam quis integram stupraverit,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 47:

narratque, ut virgo ab se integra etiam tum siet,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 70:

quibus liberos conjugesque suas integras ab istius petulantia conservare non licitum est,

Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 14:

virgines,

Cat. 61, 36.—

Of the mind or disposition.

Free from passion or prejudice, unbiassed, impartial: integrum se servare, to keep one's self neutral, Cic. Att. 7, 26, 2:

arbiter,

Juv. 8, 80:

scopulis surdior Icari Voces audit, adhuc integer,

untouched with love, heart-whole, Hor. C. 3, 7, 21:

bracchia et vultum teretesque suras Integer laudo,

id. ib. 2, 4, 21.—

Healthy, sound, sane, unimpaired:

animi,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 220:

mentis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 65; cf.

mens,

id. C. 1, 31, 18:

a conjuratione,

without complicity in, Tac. A. 15, 52:

integrius judicium a favore et odio,

Liv. 45, 37, 8.—

New to a thing, ignorant of it:

rudem me discipulum, et integrum accipe,

Cic. N. D. 3, 3:

suffragiis integer,

Sall. H. 1, 52 Dietsch—

In which nothing has yet been done, undecided, undetermined:

integram rem et causam relinquere,

Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13:

rem integram ad reditum suum jussit esse,

id. Off. 2, 23, 82:

integram omnem causam reservare alicui,

id. Fam. 13, 4, 2:

ea dicam, quae ipsi, re integra saepe dixi,

id. Mur. 21:

ut quam integerrima ad pacem essent omnia,

Caes. B. C. 1, 85:

offensiones,

not yet cancelled, Tac. A. 3, 24:

integrum est mihi,

it is still in my power, I am at liberty, Cic. Att. 15, 23:

loquor de legibus promulgatis, de quibus est integrum vobis,

id. Phil. 1, 10:

non est integrum, Cn. Pompeio consilio jam uti tuo,

id. Pis. 24:

ei ne integrum quidem erat, ut, etc.,

id. Tusc. 5, 21, 62. —

So, integrum dare,

to grant full power, to leave at liberty, Cic. Part. 38. — Adv.: intĕgrē.

Lit., wholly, entirely:

mutare,

Tac. H. 1, 52.—

Trop.

Irreproachably, honestly, justly:

incorrupte atque integre judicare,

Cic. Fin. 1, 9:

in amicorum periculis caste integreque versatus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 1. — Comp.: quid dici potest integrius, quid incorruptius, Cic. Mil. 22.— Sup.:

Asiam integerrime administravit,

Suet. Vesp. 4:

procuratione integerrime functus,

Plin. Ep. 7, 25. —

Purely, correctly:

integre et ample et ornate dicere,

Cic. Opt. Gen. 4, 12:

proprie atque integre loqui,

Gell. 7, 11, 2.

mĕl, mellis ( abl. sing. melli, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 20.— Gen. and dat. plur. obsol. acc. to Prisc. p. 744 P.), n. [Gr. meli, honey; melissa, bee; cf. mulsus], honey.

Lit.:

hoc est melli dulci dulcius,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 20 (Spengel, dulce):

villa abundat lacte, caseo, melle,

Cic. Sen. 16, 56; cf. Plin. 11, 14, 14, § 33:

roscida mella,

Verg. E. 4, 30:

mellis vindemia,

Col. 9, 15, 1.—

Trop., honey for sweetness, pleasantness:

poëtica mella,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 44:

hoc juvat et melli est,

is pleasant, id. S. 2, 6, 32.—Of sweetness, pleasantness of speech:

Nestoreum mel, Auct. Pan. ad Pison. 64: Homerici senis mella,

Plin. Ep. 4, 3, 3.—

Prov.: quia te tango, mel mihi videor lingere,

it seems to me as sweet as honey, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 21:

mella petere in medio flumine,

of a vain search, Ov. A. A. 1, 748. —As a term of endearment, darling, sweet, honey:

meum mel, meum cor,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 157; 173; id. Curc. 1, 3, 8; id. Trin. 2, 1, 18: Sempronium, mel ac delicias tuas, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 1.

mĕl, mellis ( abl. sing. melli, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 20.— Gen. and dat. plur. obsol. acc. to Prisc. p. 744 P.), n. [Gr. meli, honey; melissa, bee; cf. mulsus], honey.

Lit.:

hoc est melli dulci dulcius,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 20 (Spengel, dulce):

villa abundat lacte, caseo, melle,

Cic. Sen. 16, 56; cf. Plin. 11, 14, 14, § 33:

roscida mella,

Verg. E. 4, 30:

mellis vindemia,

Col. 9, 15, 1.—

Trop., honey for sweetness, pleasantness:

poëtica mella,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 44:

hoc juvat et melli est,

is pleasant, id. S. 2, 6, 32.—Of sweetness, pleasantness of speech:

Nestoreum mel, Auct. Pan. ad Pison. 64: Homerici senis mella,

Plin. Ep. 4, 3, 3.—

Prov.: quia te tango, mel mihi videor lingere,

it seems to me as sweet as honey, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 21:

mella petere in medio flumine,

of a vain search, Ov. A. A. 1, 748. —As a term of endearment, darling, sweet, honey:

meum mel, meum cor,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 157; 173; id. Curc. 1, 3, 8; id. Trin. 2, 1, 18: Sempronium, mel ac delicias tuas, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 1.

ob-tingo ( opt-), tĭgi, 3, v. a. and n. [tango].

Act., to touch, strike: mustulentus aestus nares obtigit, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 415, 16. (The same fragm., ib. 64, 2, has attigit.)—

Neutr., to fall to one's lot (syn.: accidit, evenit, contingit): naufragio res contigit. Nempe ergo haud Fortuna obtigit, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36:

nullus est, quoi non invideant rem secundam obtingere,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 14:

dies mihi adversus,

id. Men. 5, 5, 1:

mihi propter te hoc optigit,

id. Capt. 3, 5, 88:

quod cuique obtigit, id quisque teneat,

Cic. Off. 1, 7, 21:

mihi obtinget sors,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 21; cf.:

cum tibi aquaria provincia sorte obtigisset,

Cic. Vatin. 5, 12:

cum optatissimum nuntium accepissem, te mihi quaestorem obtigisse,

id. Fam. 2, 19, 1; id. Div. 2, 17, 38: quam mihi obtigisse dicis spartan, numquam deseram, id. Att. 1, 20:

omnia, quae hominibus forte obtigerunt,

Quint. 3, 7, 13: quae (vox, latus, etc.) si modica obtigerunt, possunt ratione ampliari, id. praef. § 27.—With ut:

cum ei (L. Paulo), bellum ut cum rege Perse gereret, obtigisset,

it had fallen to his lot, Cic. Div. 1, 46, 103.—

Of events, to happen, befall, occur (in this sense accidere, contingere, evenire, etc., are more common): eloquere, ut haec res obtigit de filiā, has happened, taken place, turned out:

id quom optigerat,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 20; id. Rud. 4, 6, 7:

istuc tibi ex sententiā tuā obtigisse, laetor,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 5:

hoc confiteor jure Mi obtigisse,

id. And. 3, 5, 2:

praeter spem,

id. Phorm. 2, 1, 9:

si quid obtigerit, aequo animo paratoque moriar,

if any thing should happen to me, Cic. Cat. 4, 2, 3 —In plur.:

exoptata obtingent,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 136.

ob-tingo ( opt-), tĭgi, 3, v. a. and n. [tango].

Act., to touch, strike: mustulentus aestus nares obtigit, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 415, 16. (The same fragm., ib. 64, 2, has attigit.)—

Neutr., to fall to one's lot (syn.: accidit, evenit, contingit): naufragio res contigit. Nempe ergo haud Fortuna obtigit, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36:

nullus est, quoi non invideant rem secundam obtingere,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 14:

dies mihi adversus,

id. Men. 5, 5, 1:

mihi propter te hoc optigit,

id. Capt. 3, 5, 88:

quod cuique obtigit, id quisque teneat,

Cic. Off. 1, 7, 21:

mihi obtinget sors,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 21; cf.:

cum tibi aquaria provincia sorte obtigisset,

Cic. Vatin. 5, 12:

cum optatissimum nuntium accepissem, te mihi quaestorem obtigisse,

id. Fam. 2, 19, 1; id. Div. 2, 17, 38: quam mihi obtigisse dicis spartan, numquam deseram, id. Att. 1, 20:

omnia, quae hominibus forte obtigerunt,

Quint. 3, 7, 13: quae (vox, latus, etc.) si modica obtigerunt, possunt ratione ampliari, id. praef. § 27.—With ut:

cum ei (L. Paulo), bellum ut cum rege Perse gereret, obtigisset,

it had fallen to his lot, Cic. Div. 1, 46, 103.—

Of events, to happen, befall, occur (in this sense accidere, contingere, evenire, etc., are more common): eloquere, ut haec res obtigit de filiā, has happened, taken place, turned out:

id quom optigerat,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 20; id. Rud. 4, 6, 7:

istuc tibi ex sententiā tuā obtigisse, laetor,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 5:

hoc confiteor jure Mi obtigisse,

id. And. 3, 5, 2:

praeter spem,

id. Phorm. 2, 1, 9:

si quid obtigerit, aequo animo paratoque moriar,

if any thing should happen to me, Cic. Cat. 4, 2, 3 —In plur.:

exoptata obtingent,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 136.

per-tingo, ĕre, v. a. [tango], to stretch out, reach, extend to a certain point (rare; not in Cic.; often confounded in MSS. with pertineo).

Lit.:

collis in immensum pertingens,

Sall. J. 48, 3 Dietsch and Kritz:

montis Apennini jugum mediā curvaturā prope tangens oras maris Hadriani pertingit circumitionibus contra fretum,

Vitr. 2, 10, 1:

infortunatam pertingens cespite Trojam,

Avien. Descr. Orb. 986:

turris, cujus culmen pertingat ad caelum,

Vulg. Gen. 11, 4; id. 2 Par. 28, 9 al. (but in Lucr. 4, 277, the correct read. is perterget, v. Lachm. ad h. l.).—

Trop., to reach, attain:

ad sapientiam Zenonis pertingere,

Front. p. 255.

prae-tango, no perf., tactum, 3, v. a., to touch beforehand or previously (postclass.).

Lit., Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 7, 81:

leviter oleo Hispano praetactus,

id. ib. 4, 3, 22.—

Transf., to attack; of violent diseases:

praetacta nervositas,

Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 10, 71:

praetacta membra,

id. ib. 2, 11, 79.