the possessor of an art

dŏmĭnus (in inscrr. sometimes written by syncop. DOMNVS), i, m. [Sanscr. damanas, he who subdues, root dam-; Gr. damaô, damnêmi, v. domo] Prop., one who has subdued or conquered; hence, a master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor, owner (cf. herus).

Prop.: quam dispari Dominare domino! Poëta ap. Cic. Off. 1, 39, 139:

nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda est, etc.,

Cic. ib. 39, 139; cf. id. Fin. 1, 18, 58:

(vilicus) consideret, quae dominus imperaverit, fiant, etc.,

Cato R. R. 5, 3 sq.;

so opp. servus,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 227; id. Mil. 3, 1, 149; Ter. Ad. 5, 6, 6; id. Eun. 3, 2, 33; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 17; id. ap. Non. 355, 19; Cic. Deiot. 11, 30; Sall. J. 31, 11 et saep.;

opp. familia,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 9;

opp. ancilla,

Cic. de Or. 2, 68, 276; and (with herus) Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 3; cf. id. Ps. 4, 7, 90 sq.; Cic. N. D. 2, 63 et saep.—Also of the master's son, the young master, Plaut. Capt. prol. 18:

siet in iis agris, qui non saepe dominos mutant... de domino bono colono melius emetur,

Cato R. R. 1, 4; cf. Cic. Att. 12, 19; id. de Sen. 16, 56; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 174; so,

rerum suarum,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11: auctionum, id. [p. 609] Quint. 5, 19:

insularum,

Suet. Caes. 41:

equi,

id. ib. 61 et saep.—

In gen., a master, lord, ruler, commander, chief, proprietor, owner (in republican Rome of public men, usually with the accessory notion, unlawful, despotic):

hujus principis populi et omnium gentium domini atque victoris,

Cic. Planc. 4 fin.; id. Off. 3, 21, 83; cf.:

quippe qui (sc. populi) domini sint legum, judiciorum, belli, pacis, foederum, capitis, uniuscujusque, pecuniae,

id. Rep. 1, 32:

di domini omnium rerum ac moderatores,

id. Leg. 2, 7; cf. id. Fin. 4, 5; id. Univ. 7:

videsne, ut de rege (sc. Tarquinio) dominus exstiterit? hic est enim dominus populi, quem Graeci tyrannum vocant, etc.,

id. Rep. 2, 26; cf. id. 1, 45; Verg. A. 4, 214.— Trop.:

liberatos se per eum dicunt gravissimis dominis, terrore sempiterno ac nocturno metu,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 21;

of the judge: qui rei dominus futurus est,

id. de Or. 2, 17, 72; poët. of the possessor of an art, Ov. M. 1, 524; 13, 138.—

Poet., sometimes as an adj.:

dominae manus,

Ov. Am. 2, 5, 30:

arae,

Stat. Th. 5, 578:

praebere caput domina venale sub hasta,

the auction spear, Juv. 3, 33.—

In partic.

With or without convivii or epuli, the master of a feast, the entertainer, host, Cic. Vatin. 13; Lucil., Varr., and Sall. ap. Non. 281, 21 sq.; Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 11, 5; Liv. 23, 8 al.—

The master of a play or of public games; the employer of players or gladiators:

quae mihi atque vobis res vortat bene Gregique huic et dominis atque conductoribus,

Plaut. As. prol. 3; Cic. Att. 2, 19, 3.—

In the period of the empire (Augustus and Tiberius declined it, Suet. Aug. 53; Tib. 27), a title of the emperors, Suet. Dom. 13; Mart. 5, 8; 10, 72; Phaedr. 2, 5, 14; Inscr. Orell. 1109; 1146 al.—

A term of endearment in addressing a lover, Ov. Am. 3, 7, 11.—

In respectful greeting, like our Sir, Sen. Ep. 3; Mart. 6, 88; Suet. Claud. 21.—

A master or assignee of a forfeited estate, Cic. Quint. 15, 50.—

Of Christ, the Lord (eccl. Lat.):

Augusti Caesaris temporibus natus est Dominus Christus,

Oros. 6, 17 fin.; Vulg. Johan. 13, 13 et saep.

hēres ( ēres, Inscr. Orell. 188 al.), ēdis (archaic acc. sing. herem, Naev. ap. Non. 486, 33; Inscr. Orell. 4379; cf. the art. ‡ herem), comm. [Sanscr. har-āmi, seize; har-anam, hand; Gr. cheir, cherês; cf. erus], an heir, heiress.

Lit.:

testamento facto mulier moritur: facit heredem ex deunce et semuncia Caecinam, ex duabus sextulis M. Fulcinium,

Cic. Caecin. 6, 17; cf.:

me nemo nisi amicus fecit heredem, etc.... aliquem palam heredem factitare,

id. Phil. 2, 16, 41:

mulier testamento fecit heredem filiam,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 43, § 111; id. Mil. 18, 48; cf. id. Rep. 3, 10, 17; Ov. H. 9, 110; Dig. 37, 7, 2; 37, 7, 9;

Ven. Fort. Carm. 8, 6, 44: in testamento Ptolemaei patris heredes erant scripti ex duobus filiis major, et ex duabus ea, quae aetate antecedebat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 108, 3:

scripserunt heredes secum M. Crassum et Q. Hortensium,

Cic. Off. 3, 18, 73:

aliquem heredem testamento relinquere,

id. Quint. 4, 14:

relictus ab eo in amplis opibus heres,

Plin. 9, 35, 59, § 122:

aliquem heredem instituere,

Cic. Clu. 7, 22; Quint. 8, 5, 17; cf.:

per leges institui uxor non poterat heres,

id. 9, 2, 74:

instituto herede abdicato,

id. 3, 6, 97:

substitutus heres erat,

id. 7, 6, 10: virgo Vestalis neque heres est cuiquam, etc., Labeo ap. Gell. 1, 12, 18:

substituere heredem,

Dig. 28, 6, 1:

heres ex parte dimidia et tertia est Capito: in sextante sunt ii, quorum, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 13, 26, 2:

ex asse heres,

sole heir, Quint. 7, 1, 20; so,

heres ex parte sexta,

Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 6:

ex dodrante,

Suet. Caes. 83:

(L. Mescinius) heres est M. Mindio fratri suo,

Cic. Fam. 13, 26, 2; so,

cur virgini Vestali sit heres, non sit matri suae?

id. Rep. 3, 10; cf.:

quem suis bonis heredem esse cupiebat,

id. Caecin. 4, 12; and: atque meis bonis omnibus ego te herem faciam, Naev. ap. Non. 486, 33;

for which: quem quis heredem suum esse voluit,

Quint. 5, 10, 74:

repentinus heres,

Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 62:

liberti heredem sequantur,

Quint. 7, 7, 9;

so the formula frequently occurring on inscriptions: HIC LOCVS, HOC MONVMENTVM HEREDEM NON SEQVITVR, USU. abbreviated H. L. or H. M. H. N. S.,

Inscr. Orell. 4379; 3926; 4455; 575; 2807; 4182; cf.

opp.: HOC MONVMENTVM HEREDEM SEQVITVR,

Inscr. Orell. 4397: heres secundus, the second heir, next heir, when the first dies: qui me secundum heredem instituerit. Cic. Fam. 13, 61, 1; cf.:

possessio heredum secundorum,

id. Inv. 2, 21, 62:

secundus,

Quint. 8, 4, 11; Hor. S. 2, 5, 48; Inscr. Orell. 3416;

also used of a female: Marcus ait: Heres ipsius secundus, de muliere loquens,

Charis. p. 79 P.: heres necessarius, a slave made heir with a grant of freedom, and compelled to assume the liabilities of the estate, Just. Inst. 1, 6, 1 Sandars:

ideo sic appellatus, quia, sive velit sive nolit, omnimodo post mortem testatoris protinus liber et heres est,

Gai. Inst. 2, 153: heres suus et necessarius, a natural heir who was in the potestas of the deceased, id. ib. 2, § 153; 156; Dig. 38, 16, 1;

opp.: heres extraneus,

Gai. Inst. 2, § 161.— Poet.:

tanti certaminis (i. e. armorum Achillis),

Ov. M. 13, 129.—

Transf.

Owner, possessor, master (ante-class.): heres apud antiquos pro domino ponebatur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 99 Müll.; cf. Just. Inst. 2, 19 fin.:

apstuli hanc, quojus heres numquam erit post hunc diem,

Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 12; cf. v. 28.—

A successor, after-growth ( poet.):

nec ullum caput est impune recisum, quin gemino cervix herede valentior esset,

of the heads of the Lernean Hydra, Ov. M. 9, 74; cf.:

alni caesae densius innumero herede prosunt,

Plin. 16, 37, 67, § 173. —

Trop. (very rare):

illa vetus Academia atque ejus heres Aristus,

Cic. Brut. 97, 332; cf.

artis,

Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 24:

laudis,

Ov. H. 9, 110:

fraudis,

id. ib. 2, 78: criminis. id. A. A. 3, 459.

sector, ōris, m. [id.], one who cuts or cuts off, a cutter (rare but class.).

Lit.:

zonarius,

a cutpurse, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 20:

collorum,

a cutthroat, Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80 (v. II.); so id. ib. 31 fin.:

feni,

a haycutter, mower, Col. 11, 1, 12.—

Publicists' t. t., a bidder, purchaser at a public sale of goods captured or confiscated by the State (cf. quadruplator):

sectores vocantur qui publica bona mercantur,

Dig. 4, 146:

cum de bonis et de caede agatur, testimonium dicturus est is, qui et sector est et sicarius: hoc est, qui et illorum ipsorum bonorum, de quibus agitur, emptor atque possessor est et eum hominem occidendum curavit, de cujus morte quaeritur,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 36, 103:

sector sis,

id. Phil. 2, 26, 65:

Pompeii (sc. bonorum),

id. ib. 13, 14, 30; Crassus ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 3:

ubique hasta et sector,

Tac. H. 1, 20:

hastae subjecit tabernas, nec sector inventus est,

Flor. 2, 6, 48; Pacat. Pan. Theod. 25, 28; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 496; cf. Ps.-Ascon. ap. Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 20, § 52, p. 172, and 2, 1, 23, §

61, p. 177 Orell.—In a double sense, with the signif. I.: nescimus per ista tempora eosdem fere sectores fuisse collorum et bonorum?

cutthroats and cutpurses, Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80. —

Trop.:

hinc rapti pretio fasces sectorque favoris Ipse sui populus,

seller of his favor, Luc. 1, 178.—

Geometrical t. t., the sector of a circle, that part of a circle included between any two radii and an arc, Boëth. Art. Geom. p. 379, 13.

sector, ātus, 1 ( inf. sectarier, Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 13; id. Rud. 1, 2, 57; Hor. S. 1, 2, 78), v. dep. freq. a. [sequor], to follow continually or eagerly, in a good or bad sense; to run after, attend, accompany; to follow after, chase, pursue (freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

equidem te jam sector quintum hunc annum,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 1, 5:

servum misi, qui sectari solet meum gnatum,

id. Ep. 3, 4, 50: Chrysogonum (servi), Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 77:

praetorem circum omnia fora,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 169:

si mercede conducti obviam candidatis issent, si conducti sectarentur,

id. Mur. 32, 67:

at sectabuntur multi,

id. ib. 33, 70:

neque te quisquam stipator Praeter Crispinum sectabitur,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 139:

equitum manus quae regem ex more sectatur,

Tac. A. 15, 2; 15, 33 fin.; Gell. 20, 6, 1 et saep.:

mulieres sectarier,

to run after, Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 13; 3, 1, 183; cf.:

desine matronas sectarier,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 78:

ipse suas sectatur oves, at filius agnos,

accompanies, guards, Tib. 1, 10, 41:

aratrum,

to follow the plough, id. 2, 3, 7: canes, to follow the hounds (that hunt on before), Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 14:

aliquem,

to run after, pursue, Plaut. Cist. 2, 2, 1: servum, Cato ap. Gell. 17, 6, 3:

homo ridicule insanus, qui ejusmodi est, ut eum pueri sectentur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, § 148:

ne scuticā dignum horribili sectere flagello,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 119:

exagitet nostros Manes sectetur et umbras, etc.,

Prop. 2, 8, 19 (2, 8 b, 19).— To visit a place gladly, to frequent:

gymnasia,

Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 6.— Absol.:

homo coepit me obsecrare, Ut sibi liceret discere id de me: sectari jussi (alluding to the train of followers who accompanied the ancient philosophers),

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 31; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 36: at sectabantur multi... Quid opus est sectatoribus? (of the train of a candidate) Cic. Mur. 34, 71.—

In partic., to pursue, chase, hunt animals: sues silvaticos in montibus, Varr. ap. Non. 555, 31:

sectaris apros,

Verg. E. 3, 75:

gallinam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 7:

simiam,

id. ib. 2, 2, 24; 2, 2, 106; 2, 3, 13 sq.;

2, 6, 25: leporem,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 106; 2, 2, 9 et saep.:

cervam videre fugere, sectari canes,

Ter. Phorm. prol. 7.—

Trop., to follow or strive after; to pursue eagerly (not freq. till after the Aug. per.; not in Cic.): quid vos hanc miseram ac tenuem sectamini praedam? * Caes. B. G. 6, 35; so,

praedam,

Tac. A. 1, 65:

facinora,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 28:

lites,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 61:

nomina tironum,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 16:

sectantem levia nervi Deficiunt,

id. A. P. 26:

gymnasia aut porticus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 6:

omnes dicendi Veneres,

Quint. 10, 1, 79; cf.:

quas figuras,

id. 9, 3, 100:

voluptatem,

id. 10, 1, 28:

eminentes virtutes,

to seek out, Tac. A. 1, 80:

contumaciam sententiarum, habitum vultumque ejus,

to seek to imitate, id. ib. 16, 22:

praecepta salubria,

Suet. Aug. 89:

commoda,

id. ib. 25:

luxuriosa convivia,

Just. 11, 10, 2:

in alienis eripiendis vitam sectari,

id. 27, 2, 8. —

With a rel. or subj.-clause, to hunt or track out, busy one's self:

mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum Sera moretur,

Hor. C. 1, 38, 3:

non ut omnia dicerem sectatus, sed ut maxime necessaria,

Quint. 1, 10, 1.

signif.:

qui vellet se a cane sectari,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 6.