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1 nocte

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.
I.
Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):
ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,
Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:
negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,
in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,
id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:
dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,
id. ib. 3, 2, 3:
Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,
id. Att. 4, 3, 4:
omni nocte dieque,
Juv. 3, 105:
de nocte,
by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:
multā de nocte profectus est,
late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:
vigilare de nocte,
id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):
multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,
id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:
ad multam noctem pugnatum est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 26:
sub noctem naves solvit,
id. B. C. 1, 28:
noctes et dies urgeri,
night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:
qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,
id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—
(β).
Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,
hac noctu,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:
noctu hac,
id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):
senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,
Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;
v. lux): in sereno noctu,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—
2.
In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—
B.
Transf.
1.
That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):
omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,
nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—
2.
Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:
talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,
Stat. Th. 10, 219:
abrupere oculi noctem,
id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—
3.
In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:
nox vidua,
Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—
4.
Death ( poet.):
omnes una manet nox,
Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:
jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 16:
in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,
Verg. A. 10, 746.—
5.
Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:
quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,
Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:
carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,
Sen. Ep. 82, 16:
taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,
Lucr. 4, 172:
imber Noctem hiememque ferens,
Verg. A. 3, 194:
venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,
Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:
veteris sub nocte cupressi,
the shadow, id. 1, 774.—
6.
Blindness:
perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,
Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —
7.
The shades below, the infernal regions:
descendere nocti,
Sil. 13, 708:
noctis arbiter,
i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—
II.
Trop.
A.
Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:
doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,
Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:
rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,
id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:
nox ingens scelerum,
Luc. 7, 571.—
B.
Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):
quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,
Ov. M. 6, 472.—
2.
Obscurity, unintelligibility:
mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,
Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.
(α).
Form nocte (rare but class.):
luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,
Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:
in campum nocte venire,
Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:
in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,
Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:
nec nocte nec interdiu,
id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:
velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,
Quint. 7 prol. 3.—
(β).
Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):
noctuque et diu,
Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:
continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,
Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:
quā horā, noctu an interdiu,
Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:
nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,
Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:
noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:
noctu ad oppidum respicientes,
id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:
noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,
Sall. J. 12, 4:
noctu profugere,
id. ib. 106, 2:
dum noctu stertit,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:
noctu litigare,
Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—
(γ).
Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:
hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,
Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > nocte
2 Nox

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.
I.
Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):
ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,
Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:
negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,
in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,
id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:
dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,
id. ib. 3, 2, 3:
Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,
id. Att. 4, 3, 4:
omni nocte dieque,
Juv. 3, 105:
de nocte,
by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:
multā de nocte profectus est,
late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:
vigilare de nocte,
id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):
multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,
id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:
ad multam noctem pugnatum est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 26:
sub noctem naves solvit,
id. B. C. 1, 28:
noctes et dies urgeri,
night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:
qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,
id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—
(β).
Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,
hac noctu,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:
noctu hac,
id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):
senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,
Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;
v. lux): in sereno noctu,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—
2.
In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—
B.
Transf.
1.
That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):
omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,
nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—
2.
Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:
talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,
Stat. Th. 10, 219:
abrupere oculi noctem,
id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—
3.
In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:
nox vidua,
Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—
4.
Death ( poet.):
omnes una manet nox,
Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:
jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 16:
in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,
Verg. A. 10, 746.—
5.
Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:
quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,
Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:
carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,
Sen. Ep. 82, 16:
taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,
Lucr. 4, 172:
imber Noctem hiememque ferens,
Verg. A. 3, 194:
venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,
Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:
veteris sub nocte cupressi,
the shadow, id. 1, 774.—
6.
Blindness:
perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,
Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —
7.
The shades below, the infernal regions:
descendere nocti,
Sil. 13, 708:
noctis arbiter,
i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—
II.
Trop.
A.
Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:
doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,
Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:
rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,
id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:
nox ingens scelerum,
Luc. 7, 571.—
B.
Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):
quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,
Ov. M. 6, 472.—
2.
Obscurity, unintelligibility:
mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,
Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.
(α).
Form nocte (rare but class.):
luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,
Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:
in campum nocte venire,
Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:
in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,
Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:
nec nocte nec interdiu,
id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:
velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,
Quint. 7 prol. 3.—
(β).
Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):
noctuque et diu,
Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:
continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,
Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:
quā horā, noctu an interdiu,
Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:
nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,
Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:
noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:
noctu ad oppidum respicientes,
id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:
noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,
Sall. J. 12, 4:
noctu profugere,
id. ib. 106, 2:
dum noctu stertit,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:
noctu litigare,
Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—
(γ).
Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:
hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,
Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Nox
3 nox

nox, noctis (collat. form of the abl. noctu; v. in the foll.: nox, adverb. for nocte; v. fin.), f. (once masc. in Cato; v. infra, I.) [Sanscr. nak, naktis, night; Gr. nux; Germ. Nacht; Engl. night; from root naç; cf. neco, nekus], night.
I.
Lit.: hinc nox processit stellis ardentibus apta, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 343 Vahl.):
ipsa umbra terrae soli officiens noctem efficit,
Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49:
negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,
in a day and a night, in twenty-four hours, id. ib. 2, 9, 24 (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
quod serenā nocte subito candens et plena luna defecisset,
id. Rep. 1, 15, 23:
dinumerationibus noctium ac dierum,
id. ib. 3, 2, 3:
Milo mediā nocte in campum venit,
id. Att. 4, 3, 4:
omni nocte dieque,
Juv. 3, 105:
de nocte,
by night, Cic. Mur. 33, 69:
multā de nocte profectus est,
late at night, id. Att. 7, 4, 2; and:
vigilare de nocte,
id. Mur. 9, 22 (v. de, I. B. 2.):
multā nocte veni ad Pompeium,
id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:
qui ad multam noctem vigilāssem,
id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:
ad multam noctem pugnatum est,
Caes. B. G. 1, 26:
sub noctem naves solvit,
id. B. C. 1, 28:
noctes et dies urgeri,
night and day, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; cf.:
qui (scrupulus) se dies noctesque stimulat,
id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6 et saep. (v. dies, I. B. 2.):
concubiā nocte visum esse in somnis ei, etc.,
id. Div. 1, 27, 57 (v. concubius).—
(β).
Abl. noctu: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 153 Vahl.); so,
hac noctu,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1. 116:
noctu hac,
id. Mil. 2, 4, 28: noctu concubiā, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 169 Vahl.):
senatus de noctu convenire, noctu multā domum dimitti, Quadrig. ib.: ergo noctu futura, cum media esse coeperit, auspicium Saturnaliorum erit,
Macr. S. 1, 4 fin. —Once masc. (as in cum primo lucu;
v. lux): in sereno noctu,
Cato, R. R. 156, 3.—
2.
In partic., personified: Nox, the goddess of Night, the sister of Erebus, and by him the mother of Æther and Hemera, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. prooem.; Verg. A. 5, 721; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 250; Tib. 2, 1, 87; 3, 4 17; Ov. F. 1, 455; Val. Fl. 3, 211; Stat. Th. 2, 59 et saep.—
B.
Transf.
1.
That which takes place or is done at night, nightdoings, night-work ( poet. and in post-class. prose):
omnis et insanā semita nocte sonat,
nocturnal noise, a revelling by night, Prop. 5, 8, 60; Val. Fl. 2, 219.—Hence, Noctes Atticae, the title of a work of Gellius, which he wrote at Athens by night, Gell. praef.—
2.
Sleep, a dream ( poet.): pectore noctem Accipit, [p. 1221] Verg. A. 4, 530:
talia vociferans noctem exturbabat,
Stat. Th. 10, 219:
abrupere oculi noctem,
id. ib. 9, 599; Sil. 3, 216.—
3.
In mal. part., Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 21; id. As. 1, 3, 42; Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Hor. Epod. 15, 13; Stat. Th. 1, 69; Just. 12, 3 et saep.; cf.:
nox vidua,
Cat. 6, 7; Ov. H. 19, 69.—
4.
Death ( poet.):
omnes una manet nox,
Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:
jam te premet nox fabulaeque Manes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 16:
in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem,
Verg. A. 10, 746.—
5.
Darkness, obscurity, the gloom of tempest:
quae lucem eriperet et quasi noctem quandam rebus offunderet,
Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6:
carcer infernus et perpetuā nocte oppressa regio,
Sen. Ep. 82, 16:
taetrā nimborum nocte coörtā,
Lucr. 4, 172:
imber Noctem hiememque ferens,
Verg. A. 3, 194:
venturam melius praesagit navita noctem,
Prop. 4, 10, 5 (mortem, Müll.).—Hence, poet., of clouds of missiles, Luc. 7, 520; Val. Fl. 7, 598:
veteris sub nocte cupressi,
the shadow, id. 1, 774.—
6.
Blindness:
perpetuāque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus,
Ov. M. 7, 2: ego vero non video, nox oboritur, Sen. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 43: vultus perpetuā nocte coöpertus, Ps.-Quint. Decl. 1, 6. —
7.
The shades below, the infernal regions:
descendere nocti,
Sil. 13, 708:
noctis arbiter,
i. e. Pluto, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 55.—
II.
Trop.
A.
Darkness, confusion, gloomy condition:
doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse,
Cic. Brut. 96, 330; cf.:
rei publicae offusa sempiterna nox esset,
id. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:
nox ingens scelerum,
Luc. 7, 571.—
B.
Mental darkness, ignorance ( poet.):
quantum mortalia pectora caecae Noctis habent,
Ov. M. 6, 472.—
2.
Obscurity, unintelligibility:
mei versus aliquantum noctis habebunt,
Ov. Ib. 63.— Hence, adv.: nocte, noctū (cf. diu), and nox, in the night, at night, by night.
(α).
Form nocte (rare but class.):
luce noctem, nocte lucem exspectatis,
Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48:
in campum nocte venire,
Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4 (shortly after:
in Comitium Milo de nocte venit): nec discernatur, interdiu nocte pugnent,
Liv. 8, 34 fin.; so id. 21, 32, 10; cf.:
nec nocte nec interdiu,
id. 1, 47; Juv. 3, 127, 198:
velut nocte in ignotis locis errans,
Quint. 7 prol. 3.—
(β).
Form noctu (so most freq.): ob Romam noctu legiones ducere coepit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 179 Müll. (Ann. v. 295 Vahl.):
noctuque et diu,
Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 5; so, noctu diuque, Titin. and Sall. Hist. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 185 P.; cf.: nec noctu nec diu, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 98, 27:
continuum diu noctuque iter properabant,
Tac. A. 15, 12 fin.:
quā horā, noctu an interdiu,
Auct. Her. 2, 4, 7; cf.:
nonnumquam interdiu, saepius noctu,
Caes. B. G. 1, 8 fin.:
noctu ambulabat in publico Themistocles,
Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:
noctu ad oppidum respicientes,
id. Div. 1, 32, 69; id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:
noctu Jugurthae milites introducit,
Sall. J. 12, 4:
noctu profugere,
id. ib. 106, 2:
dum noctu stertit,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27:
noctu litigare,
Juv. 6, 35; 605; 14, 306.—
(γ).
Form nox (cf. pernox, and the Gr. nuktos, only ante-class.): SI NOX FVRTVM FACTVM SIT, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 med.:
hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox,
Lucil. Sat. 3, 22: quin tu hic manes? Arg. Nox si voles manebo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 7 Ussing (al. mox); cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 22 Brix, Krit. Anh. and Ritschl, ed. 2: si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P. (Ann. v. 412 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 12, 1.

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4 reduco

rĕ-dūco, xi, ctum, 3 (rēduco or redduco, Lucr. 1, 228; 4, 992; 5, 133; old imp. redduce, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 29), v. a.
I.
To lead or bring back, to conduct back (very freq. and class.; syn. redigo).
A.
Lit.
1.
In gen.
a.
Of living objects:
reducam te ubi fuisti,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 106:
hunc ex Alide huc reducimus,
id. ib. 5, 4, 17; cf.:
aliquem ex errore in viam,
id. Ps. 2, 3, 2:
aliquem de exsilio,
Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 9; id. Att. 9, 14, 2; cf.:
ab exsilio,
Quint. 5, 11, 9:
socios a morte,
Verg. A. 4, 375:
Silenium ad parentes,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 86; so,
ad aliquem,
Cic. Off. 3, 22, 86; Caes. B. G. 6, 32; id. B. C. 1, 24; 2, 38 fin.; cf.:
a pastu vitulos ad tecta,
Verg. G. 4, 434:
reduci in carcerem,
Cic. Att. 4, 6, 2:
in Italiam,
Caes. B. C. 3, 18:
reducere uxorem,
to take again to wife, marry again, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 31; 43; 3, 5, 51; 4, 4, 12 sq. al.; Nep. Dion, 6, 2; Suet. Dom. 3; 13; cf.:
uxorem in matrimonium,
id. ib. 8:
regem,
to restore to the throne, to reinstate, Cic. Rab. Post. 8, 19; id. Fam. 1, 2, 1; 1, 7, 4; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 3 (v. reductio):
possum excitare multos reductos testes liberalitatis tuae,
i. e. who have been brought back by your generosity, id. Rab. Post. 17, 47; cf.: cum in Italiam reductus existimabor, Pomp. ap. Caes. B. C. 3, 18, 4. —
b.
With inanimate objects, to draw back, bring back:
(falces) tormentis introrsus reducebant,
Caes. B. G. 7, 22:
reliquas munitiones ab eā fossā pedes CCCC. reduxit,
id. ib. 7, 22; cf.
turres,
id. ib. 7, 24 fin.: calculum, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 170, 30:
in jaculando bracchia,
Quint. 10, 3, 6:
sinum dextrā usque ad lumbos,
id. 11, 3, 131:
ad pectora remos,
Ov. M. 11, 461; Verg. A. 8, 689:
clipeum,
to draw back, Ov. M. 12, 132:
gladium (opp. eduxit),
Gell. 5, 9, 3:
auras naribus,
Lucr. 4, 990 al.:
furcillas hibernatum in tecta,
Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 6. — Poet.:
solem reducit,
Verg. A. 1, 143; so,
diem (Aurora),
id. G. 1, 249:
lucem (Aurora),
Ov. M. 3, 150:
noctem die labente (Phoebus),
Verg. A. 11, 914:
aestatem,
id. G. 3, 296:
hiemes,
Hor. C. 2, 10, 15:
febrim,
id. S. 2, 3, 294:
somnum (cantus),
id. C. 3, 1, 21 al.:
umbram,
to make the shadow move backwards, Vulg. 4 Reg. 20, 11.—
2.
In partic.
a.
Reducere aliquem domum (opp. deducere), to conduct or accompany one home, Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 19:
(P. Scipio) cum senatu dimisso domum reductus ad vesperum est a patribus conscriptis,
Cic. Lael. 3, 12; cf. Liv. 4, 24; cf.:
quos Elea domum reducit Palma,
Hor. C. 4, 2, 17.—So, without domum:
in ludum (puellulam) ducere et reducere,
Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 36:
aliquem ad suam villam,
Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 1:
bene comitati per forum reducuntur,
Quint. 12, 8, 3:
quantā reduci Regulus solet turbā,
Mart. 2, 74, 2: assurgi, deduci, reduci, Cic. Sen. 18, 63.—
b.
In milit. lang., to draw off, withdraw troops:
vastatis omnibus eorum agris Caesar exercitum reduxit,
Caes. B. G. 3, 29 fin.:
legiones reduci jussit,
id. B. C. 3, 46; so,
exercitum (copias, legiones suas, etc.),
id. B. G. 6, 29; 7, 68; id. B. C. 2, 28 fin.; Liv. 5, 5; Front. Strat. 2, 3, 1; 5; 2, 5, 13 sq.:
suos incolumes,
Caes. B. G. 5, 22; Front. Strat. 1, 1, 11; 5, 13:
legiones ex Britanniā,
Caes. B. G. 4, 38:
a munitionibus,
id. ib. 7, 88:
ab oppugnatione,
id. ib. 5, 26 fin.:
in castra,
id. ib. 1, 49 fin.; 1, 50; 2, 9;
4, 34 et saep.: in hiberna,
id. ib. 6, 3:
in Treviros, etc.,
id. ib. 5, 53; 7, 9 fin.; Liv. 43, 20:
intra fossam,
Caes. B. C. 1, 42; cf.:
ab radicibus collis intra munitiones,
id. B. G. 7, 51 fin. — Absol. (like duco and educo):
instituit reducere,
to march back, Front. Strat. 1, 4, 5 and 8.—
c.
To recall to the stage a player:
a magno Pompeio magni theatri dedicatione anus pro miraculo deducta,
Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 158.—
B.
Trop., to bring back, restore, replace:
ad divitias,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 17:
animum aegrotum ad misericordiam,
Ter. And. 3, 3, 27:
aliquem in gratiam,
id. ib. 5, 4, 45; Cic. Clu. 36, 101:
in gratiam cum aliquo,
id. Rab. Post. 8, 19; Liv. 10, 5 fin.; Quint. 5, 11, 19; cf.: ut Caesarem et Pompeium perfidiā hominum distractos rursus in pristinam concordiam reducas, Balbus ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 1:
aliquem ad officium sanitatemque,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 40, § 98:
propinquum ad officium,
Nep. Dat. 2, 3:
judices ad justitiam,
Quint. 6, 1, 46:
legiones veterem ad morem,
Tac. A. 11, 18:
meque ipse reduco A contemplatu,
withdraw myself, Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 65:
verba paulum declinata ad veritatem,
Quint. 1, 6, 32:
judicatio est ad eum statum reducenda,
id. 7, 3, 35:
reducere in memoriam quibus rationibus unam quamque partem confirmāris,
Cic. Inv. 1, 52, 98; cf.:
in memoriam gravissimi luctūs,
Plin. Ep. 3, 10, 2:
dolorem in animum judicantium,
Quint. 11, 1, 54:
vocem in quendam sonum aequabilem,
Auct. Her. 3, 12, 21:
verborum facilitatem in altum,
Quint. 10, 7, 28:
haec benignā in sedem vice,
Hor. Epod. 13, 7 sq.:
tu spem reducis mentibus anxiis Viresque,
id. C. 3, 21, 17:
diem et convivia mente re duxit,
has recalled to mind, Sil. 8, 136:
vel instituere vel reducere ejusmodi exemplum, etc.,
to introduce again, restore, Plin. Ep. 4, 29, 3; so,
habitum vestitumque pristinum,
Suet. Aug. 40:
morem transvectionis post longam intercapedinem,
id. ib. 38. — To bring back, restore to the right path:
scire est liberum Ingenium et animum, quo vis illos tu die Redducas,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44.—
II.
After the Aug. period, sometimes with the idea of ducere predominating, for the usual redigere (q. v. II.).
* A.
To bring or get out, to produce a certain quantity:
LX. pondo panis e modio (milii) reducunt,
Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 54.—
B.
To bring, make, reduce to some shape, quality, condition, etc. (rare;
usually redigere): aliquid in formam,
Ov. M. 15, 381:
faecem in summum,
to bring up, raise, Col. 12, 19, 4:
excrescentes carnes in ulceribus ad aequalitatem efficacissime reducunt (just before, redigit),
Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 113:
cicatrices ad colorem,
id. 27, 12, 82, § 106:
corpus sensim ad maciem,
id. 24, 8, 30, § 46:
ulcera ac scabiem jumentorum ad pilum,
id. 22, 22, 32, § 72.— Hence, rĕ-ductus, a, um, P. a., drawn back, withdrawn; of place, retired, remote, distant, lonely.
A.
Lit.:
inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos,
Verg. G. 4, 420; id. A. 1, 161; so,
vallis,
id. ib. 6, 703; Hor. C. 1, 17, 17; id. Epod. 2, 11.—
B.
Trop.:
virtus est medium vitiorum et utrimque reductum,
from either extreme, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 9.—
In painting: alia eminentiora, alia reductiora fecerunt,
less prominent, Quint. 11, 3, 46: producta et reducta (bona), a transl. of the Gr. proêgmena kai apoproêgmena of the Stoics, things to be preferred and those to be deferred, Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 90.— Sup. and adv. do not occur.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > reduco
5 De asini vmbra disceptare

• To argue about the shadow of an ass. (petty things for petty mind)

Latin Quotes (Latin to English) > De asini vmbra disceptare
6 Gloria virtutis umbra

• Glory (is) the shadow of virtue

Latin Quotes (Latin to English) > Gloria virtutis umbra
7 umbra

umbra ae, f a shade, shadow: terrae: colles... adferunt umbram vallibus: noctis se condidit umbris, V.: pampineae, of vines, V.: Falce premes umbram, i. e. prune the foliage, V.—Prov.: qui umbras timet, is afraid of shadows.—A shaded place, place protected from the sun, shade: Umbra loco deerat, i. e. trees, O.: Pompeiā spatiere sub umbrā, in the Pompeian portico, O.: vacuā tonsoris in umbrā, in the cool barber's shop, H.: rhetorica, i. e. the rhetorician's school, Iu.—In painting, a dark place, shade, shadow: quam multa vident pictores in umbris et in eminentiā.—Of the dead, a shade, ghost: Pulvis et umbra sumus, H.: Cornea (porta), quā veris facilis datur exitus umbris, V.: Umbrarum rex, i. e. Pluto, O.: matris agitabitur umbris, O.—A shadow, attendant, companion: cum Servilio Vibidius, quas Maecenas adduxerat umbras, H.—A grayling, umber (a fish): corporis umbrae Liventis, O.—Fig., a shadow, trace, image, appearance, outline, semblance, pretence, pretext: civitatis: umbras falsae gloriae consectari: umbrae hominum, fame frigore evecti, L.: Mendax pietatis, O.—A shelter, cover, protection: umbra et recessus: sub umbrā vestri auxilii latere, L.—Rest, leisure: docere in umbrā atque otio: ignava Veneris, O.: cedat umbra soli, i. e. repose to exertion.
* * *

umbrae N F

shade; ghost; shadow

Latin-English dictionary > umbra
8 umbra

umbra, ae, f. [etym. dub.; Curt. compares Sanscr. ambara, an encircling], a shade, shadow.
I.
Lit.:
cum usque quaque umbra est, tamen Sol semper hic est,
Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 79:
illa platanus, cujus umbram secutus est Socrates,
Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28:
fiebat, ut incideret luna in eam metam, quae esset umbra terrae, etc.,
id. Rep. 1, 14, 22; cf. id. Div. 2, 6, 17:
colles... afferunt umbram vallibus,
id. Rep. 2, 6, 11:
nox Involvens umbrā magnā terramque polumque,
Verg. A. 2, 251:
spissis noctis se condidit umbris,
id. ib. 2, 621:
majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae,
id. E. 1, 84; 5, 70:
pampineae,
id. ib. 7, 58:
certum est mihi, quasi umbra, quoquo ibis tu, te persequi,
Plaut. Cas. 1, 4; cf. id. Most. 3, 2, 82.—Prov.: umbras timere, to be afraid of shadows, i. e. to fear without cause, Cic. Att. 15, 20, 4:
umbram suam metuere,
Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 2, 9:
ipse meas solus, quod nil est, aemulor umbras,
Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 19.—
B.
Transf.
1.
In painting, the dark part of a painting, shade, shadow:
quam multa vident pictores in umbris et in eminentiā, quae nos non videmus!
Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 20; so (opp. lumen) Plin. 35, 5, 11, § 29; 35, 11, 40, § 131; 33, 3, 57, § 163.—
2.
A shade, ghost of a dead person ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.:
Manes, Lemures): nos ubi decidimus, Quo dives Tullus et Ancus, Pulvis et umbra sumus,
Hor. C. 4, 7, 16:
ne forte animas Acherunte reamur Effugere aut umbras inter vivos volitare,
Lucr. 4, 38; cf.:
cornea (porta), quā veris facilis datur exitus umbris,
Verg. A. 6, 894; Tib. 3, 2, 9; Verg. A. 5, 734; Hor. C. 2, 13, 30; id. S. 1, 8, 41; Plin. 30, 2, 6, § 18; Suet. Calig. 59 al.:
Umbrarum rex,
i. e. Pluto, Ov. M. 7, 249; so,
dominus,
id. ib. 10, 16.— In the plur. umbrae, of a single dead person:
matris agitabitur umbris,
Ov. M. 9, 410; 8, 476; 6, 541; Verg. A. 6, 510; 10, 519 al.—
3.
Like the Greek skia, an uninvited guest, whom an invited one brings with him (cf. parasitus), Hor. S. 2, 8, 22; id. Ep. 1, 5, 28; Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 27; so, of an attendant:
luxuriae,
Cic. Mur. 6, 13.—
4.
A shade, shady place, that which gives a shade or shadow (as a tree, house, tent, etc; poet.);
of trees: nudus Arboris Othrys erat nec habebat Pelion umbras,
Ov. M. 12, 513; so id. ib. 10, 88; 10, 90; 14, 447; Verg. G. 1, 157, id. E. 9, 20; 5, 5; Sil. 4, 681:
Pompeiā spatiabere cultus in umbrā,
i. e. in the Pompeian portico, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 75; so,
Pompeia,
Ov. A. A. 1, 67; 3, 387:
vacuā tonsoris in umbrā,
in the cool barber's shop, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 50:
studia in umbrā educata,
in the closet, study, Tac. A. 14, 53; cf.:
rhetorica,
i. e. the rhetorician's school, Juv. 7, 173:
dum roseis venit umbra genis,
i. e. down, beard, Stat. Th. 4, 336; cf.: dubia lanuginis, Claud. Nupt. Pall. et Celer. 42: nunc umbra nudata sua jam tempora moerent, i. e. of hair, Petr. poët. 109: summae cassidis umbra, i. e. the plume or crest, Stat. Th. 6, 226:
sed non erat illi Arcus et ex umeris nullae fulgentibus umbrae,
i. e. quivers, id. S. 3, 4, 30.—
5.
A fish, called also sciaena; a grayling, umber: Salmo thymallus, Linn.; Enn. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 7 Vahl.); Varr. L. L. 5, § 77 Müll.; Ov. Hal. 111; Col. 8, 16, 8; Aus. Idyll. 10, 90.—
II.
Trop., like the Engl. shadow or shade.
A.
Opp. to substance or reality, a trace, obscure sign or image, faint appearance, imperfect copy or representation, semblance, pretence (cf. simulacrum):
veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus, umbrā et imaginibus utimur,
Cic. Off. 3, 17, 69:
umbra et imago civitatis,
id. Rep. 2, 30, 53:
umbra et imago equitis Romani,
id. Rab. Post. 15, 41: o hominem amentem et miserum, qui ne umbram quidem umquam tou kalou viderit! id. Att. 7, 11, 1:
in quo ipsam luxuriam reperire non potes, in eo te umbram luxuriae reperturum putas?
id. Mur. 6, 13: in comoediā maxime claudicamus... vix levem consequimur umbram, Quint. 10, 1, 100:
sub umbrā foederis aequi servitutem pati,
Liv. 8, 4, 2:
umbras falsae gloriae consectari,
Cic. Pis. 24, 57:
umbra es amantum magis quam amator,
Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 31:
mendax pietatis umbra,
Ov. M. 9, 459:
libertatis,
Luc. 3, 146:
belli,
Sil. 15, 316:
umbras quasdam veritatis habere,
Plin. 30, 2, 6, § 17; Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 273.—
B.
Shelter, cover, protection:
umbra et recessus,
Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 101:
umbrā magni nominis delitescunt,
Quint. 12, 10, 15:
umbra vestri auxilii tegi possumus,
Liv. 7, 30, 18:
sub umbrā auxilii vestri latere volunt,
id. 32, 21, 31:
sub umbrā Romanae amicitiae latebant,
id. 34, 9, 10:
morum vitia sub umbrā eloquentiae primo latebant,
Just. 5, 2, 7.—
C.
Rest, leisure:
ignavā Veneris cessamus in umbrā,
Ov. Am. 2, 18, 3; Albin. Ob. Maec. 98.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > umbra
9 adumbratus

ăd-umbro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bring a shadow over a thing, to cast a shadow on, to shade or overshadow by something.
I.
In gen.
A.
Lit., constr.:
aliquid aliqua re (so only in later authors): palmeis tegetibus vineas,
Col. 5, 5:
adumbrantur stramentis uvae,
id. 11, 2, 61.—
B.
Trop.:
ut notae quoque litterarum, non adumbratae comarum praesidio, totae ad oculos legentium accederent,
Petr. Sat. 105.—
II.
Esp. in painting, to shade, to represent an object with the due mingling of light and shade, skiagrapheô (therefore not of the sketch in shadow, as the first outline of a figure, but of a picture already fully sketched, and only wanting the last touches for its completion):
quis pictor omnia, quae in rerum natura sunt, adumbrare didicit?
Quint. 7, 10, 9:
Quod pictor adumbrare non valuit, casus imitatus est,
Val. Max. 8, 11 fin. —
B.
Fig.
1.
To represent a thing in the appropriate manner:
quo in genere orationis utrumque oratorem cognoveramus, id ipsum sumus in eorum sermone adumbrare conati,
Cic. de Or. 3, 4; 2, 47; id. Fin. 5, 22: rerum omnium quasi adumbratas intellegentias animo ac mente concipere, i. e. preconceptions, innate ideas, Gr. prolêpseis, id. Leg. 1, 20.—
2.
To represent a thing only in outline, and, consequently, imperfectly: cedo mihi istorum adumbratorum deorum lineamenta atque formas, these semblances, outlines of deities (of the gods of Epicurus), Cic. N. D. 1, 27:
consectatur nullam eminentem effigiem virtutis, sed adumbratam imaginem gloriae,
imperfectly represented, id. Tusc. 3, 2.—Hence, ădumbrātus, a, um, P. a.
A.
Delineated only in semblance, counterfeited, feigned, false:
comitia (opp. vera),
Cic. Agr. 2, 12, 31:
indicium,
id. Sull. 18 fin.:
Aeschrio, Pippae vir adumbratus,
id. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 77: laetitia, * Tac. A. 4, 31.—Also,
B.
Devised in darkness, dark, secret:
fallaciae,
Amm. 14, 11.— Comp., sup., and adv. not used.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > adumbratus
10 adumbro

ăd-umbro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bring a shadow over a thing, to cast a shadow on, to shade or overshadow by something.
I.
In gen.
A.
Lit., constr.:
aliquid aliqua re (so only in later authors): palmeis tegetibus vineas,
Col. 5, 5:
adumbrantur stramentis uvae,
id. 11, 2, 61.—
B.
Trop.:
ut notae quoque litterarum, non adumbratae comarum praesidio, totae ad oculos legentium accederent,
Petr. Sat. 105.—
II.
Esp. in painting, to shade, to represent an object with the due mingling of light and shade, skiagrapheô (therefore not of the sketch in shadow, as the first outline of a figure, but of a picture already fully sketched, and only wanting the last touches for its completion):
quis pictor omnia, quae in rerum natura sunt, adumbrare didicit?
Quint. 7, 10, 9:
Quod pictor adumbrare non valuit, casus imitatus est,
Val. Max. 8, 11 fin. —
B.
Fig.
1.
To represent a thing in the appropriate manner:
quo in genere orationis utrumque oratorem cognoveramus, id ipsum sumus in eorum sermone adumbrare conati,
Cic. de Or. 3, 4; 2, 47; id. Fin. 5, 22: rerum omnium quasi adumbratas intellegentias animo ac mente concipere, i. e. preconceptions, innate ideas, Gr. prolêpseis, id. Leg. 1, 20.—
2.
To represent a thing only in outline, and, consequently, imperfectly: cedo mihi istorum adumbratorum deorum lineamenta atque formas, these semblances, outlines of deities (of the gods of Epicurus), Cic. N. D. 1, 27:
consectatur nullam eminentem effigiem virtutis, sed adumbratam imaginem gloriae,
imperfectly represented, id. Tusc. 3, 2.—Hence, ădumbrātus, a, um, P. a.
A.
Delineated only in semblance, counterfeited, feigned, false:
comitia (opp. vera),
Cic. Agr. 2, 12, 31:
indicium,
id. Sull. 18 fin.:
Aeschrio, Pippae vir adumbratus,
id. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 77: laetitia, * Tac. A. 4, 31.—Also,
B.
Devised in darkness, dark, secret:
fallaciae,
Amm. 14, 11.— Comp., sup., and adv. not used.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > adumbro
11 Caeci

1.
caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
I.
Act., not seeing, blind.
A.
Lit.:
Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:
traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,
id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:
catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,
Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:
si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,
Quint. 4, 1, 42:
caecum corpus,
the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:
perdices caecae impetu,
Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:
gigni,
Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
2.
Prov.:
ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:
apparet id quidem etiam caeco,
even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:
caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,
Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
B.
Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):
o pectora caeca!
Lucr. 2, 14:
non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,
Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.
casus,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15:
caecus atque amens tribunus,
id. Sest. 7, 17:
caecum me et praecipitem ferri,
id. Planc. 3, 6:
mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,
id. Clu. 70, 199:
cupidine,
Sall. J. 25, 7:
amentiā,
Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:
quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:
amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,
id. ib. 1, 3, 39:
mens,
Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:
caecus ad has belli artes,
Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:
caecus animi,
Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:
fati futuri,
ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
2.
Meton. of the passions themselves:
caeca honorum cupido,
Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:
ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,
Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:
exspectatio,
id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
amor,
Ov. F. 2, 762:
amor sui,
Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:
festinatio,
Liv. 22, 39, 22:
furor,
Hor. Epod. 7, 13:
caeca et sopita socordia,
Quint. 1, 2, 5:
ambitio,
Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
3.
Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:
in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,
Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:
caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,
id. Lig. 1, 3:
caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,
Verg. A. 4, 209:
caeca regens filo vestigia,
id. ib. 6, 30:
ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,
Liv. 40, 10, 1:
et caeco flentque paventque metu,
Ov. F. 2, 822:
lymphatis caeco pavore animis,
Tac. H. 1, 82:
cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,
Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:
timor,
Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
C.
Transf.
1.
Of plants, without buds or eyes:
rami,
Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
2.
Of the large intestine:
intestinum,
the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
II.
Pass., that cannot be seen, or trop., that cannot be known, invisible, concealed, hidden, secret, obscure, dark.
A.
Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;
2, 713: vallum caecum,
Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,
fossae,
covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:
in vada caeca ferre,
Verg. A. 1, 536:
fores,
private, id. ib. 2, 453:
spiramenta,
id. G. 1, 89:
colubri,
Col. 10, 231:
ignis,
Lucr. 4, 929:
venenum,
id. 6, 822:
tabes,
Ov. M. 9, 174:
viae,
blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:
insidiae armaque,
Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:
saxa,
Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:
vulnus,
a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;
but also,
a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.
in the same sense, ictus,
Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):
caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,
Ov. M. 12, 492:
caecum domūs scelus,
Verg. A. 1, 356.—
B.
Trop.:
caecas exponere causas,
Lucr. 3, 317:
improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,
lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,
venti potestas,
id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:
caeca et clandestina natura,
Lucr. 1, 779:
res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,
Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:
obscurum atque caecum,
id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:
fata,
Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:
sors,
id. S. 2, 3, 269:
tumultus,
secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:
amor,
id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:
stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,
Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
2.
By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:
murmur,
Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,
clamor,
Val. Fl. 2, 461:
mugitusterrae,
Sen. Troad. 171.—
III.
Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
A.
Lit.:
nox,
Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:
caligo,
Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:
tenebrae,
Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;
3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,
Sil. 7, 350:
latebrae,
Lucr. 1, 409:
iter,
Ov. M. 10, 456:
loca,
Prop. 1, 19, 8:
cavernae,
Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:
latus,
Verg. A. 2, 19:
cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,
Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,
domus,
without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:
parietes,
Verg. A. 5, 589:
pulvis,
id. ib. 12, 444:
carcer,
id. ib. 6, 734:
sardonyches,
not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:
smaragdi,
id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
B.
Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
quod temere fit caeco casu,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:
eventus,
Verg. A. 6, 157:
caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,
Col. 1, 5, 6; so,
dolores,
Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:
crimen,
that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):
verum in caeco esse,
Manil. 4, 304.—

* Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
2.
Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

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12 caecum

1.
caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
I.
Act., not seeing, blind.
A.
Lit.:
Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:
traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,
id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:
catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,
Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:
si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,
Quint. 4, 1, 42:
caecum corpus,
the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:
perdices caecae impetu,
Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:
gigni,
Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
2.
Prov.:
ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:
apparet id quidem etiam caeco,
even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:
caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,
Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
B.
Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):
o pectora caeca!
Lucr. 2, 14:
non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,
Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.
casus,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15:
caecus atque amens tribunus,
id. Sest. 7, 17:
caecum me et praecipitem ferri,
id. Planc. 3, 6:
mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,
id. Clu. 70, 199:
cupidine,
Sall. J. 25, 7:
amentiā,
Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:
quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:
amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,
id. ib. 1, 3, 39:
mens,
Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:
caecus ad has belli artes,
Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:
caecus animi,
Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:
fati futuri,
ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
2.
Meton. of the passions themselves:
caeca honorum cupido,
Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:
ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,
Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:
exspectatio,
id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
amor,
Ov. F. 2, 762:
amor sui,
Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:
festinatio,
Liv. 22, 39, 22:
furor,
Hor. Epod. 7, 13:
caeca et sopita socordia,
Quint. 1, 2, 5:
ambitio,
Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
3.
Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:
in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,
Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:
caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,
id. Lig. 1, 3:
caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,
Verg. A. 4, 209:
caeca regens filo vestigia,
id. ib. 6, 30:
ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,
Liv. 40, 10, 1:
et caeco flentque paventque metu,
Ov. F. 2, 822:
lymphatis caeco pavore animis,
Tac. H. 1, 82:
cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,
Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:
timor,
Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
C.
Transf.
1.
Of plants, without buds or eyes:
rami,
Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
2.
Of the large intestine:
intestinum,
the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
II.
Pass., that cannot be seen, or trop., that cannot be known, invisible, concealed, hidden, secret, obscure, dark.
A.
Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;
2, 713: vallum caecum,
Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,
fossae,
covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:
in vada caeca ferre,
Verg. A. 1, 536:
fores,
private, id. ib. 2, 453:
spiramenta,
id. G. 1, 89:
colubri,
Col. 10, 231:
ignis,
Lucr. 4, 929:
venenum,
id. 6, 822:
tabes,
Ov. M. 9, 174:
viae,
blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:
insidiae armaque,
Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:
saxa,
Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:
vulnus,
a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;
but also,
a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.
in the same sense, ictus,
Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):
caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,
Ov. M. 12, 492:
caecum domūs scelus,
Verg. A. 1, 356.—
B.
Trop.:
caecas exponere causas,
Lucr. 3, 317:
improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,
lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,
venti potestas,
id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:
caeca et clandestina natura,
Lucr. 1, 779:
res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,
Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:
obscurum atque caecum,
id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:
fata,
Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:
sors,
id. S. 2, 3, 269:
tumultus,
secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:
amor,
id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:
stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,
Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
2.
By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:
murmur,
Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,
clamor,
Val. Fl. 2, 461:
mugitusterrae,
Sen. Troad. 171.—
III.
Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
A.
Lit.:
nox,
Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:
caligo,
Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:
tenebrae,
Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;
3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,
Sil. 7, 350:
latebrae,
Lucr. 1, 409:
iter,
Ov. M. 10, 456:
loca,
Prop. 1, 19, 8:
cavernae,
Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:
latus,
Verg. A. 2, 19:
cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,
Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,
domus,
without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:
parietes,
Verg. A. 5, 589:
pulvis,
id. ib. 12, 444:
carcer,
id. ib. 6, 734:
sardonyches,
not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:
smaragdi,
id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
B.
Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
quod temere fit caeco casu,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:
eventus,
Verg. A. 6, 157:
caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,
Col. 1, 5, 6; so,
dolores,
Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:
crimen,
that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):
verum in caeco esse,
Manil. 4, 304.—

* Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
2.
Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > caecum
13 Caecus

1.
caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
I.
Act., not seeing, blind.
A.
Lit.:
Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:
traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,
id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:
catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,
Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:
si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,
Quint. 4, 1, 42:
caecum corpus,
the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:
perdices caecae impetu,
Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:
gigni,
Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
2.
Prov.:
ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:
apparet id quidem etiam caeco,
even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:
caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,
Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
B.
Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):
o pectora caeca!
Lucr. 2, 14:
non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,
Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.
casus,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15:
caecus atque amens tribunus,
id. Sest. 7, 17:
caecum me et praecipitem ferri,
id. Planc. 3, 6:
mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,
id. Clu. 70, 199:
cupidine,
Sall. J. 25, 7:
amentiā,
Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:
quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:
amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,
id. ib. 1, 3, 39:
mens,
Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:
caecus ad has belli artes,
Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:
caecus animi,
Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:
fati futuri,
ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
2.
Meton. of the passions themselves:
caeca honorum cupido,
Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:
ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,
Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:
exspectatio,
id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
amor,
Ov. F. 2, 762:
amor sui,
Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:
festinatio,
Liv. 22, 39, 22:
furor,
Hor. Epod. 7, 13:
caeca et sopita socordia,
Quint. 1, 2, 5:
ambitio,
Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
3.
Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:
in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,
Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:
caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,
id. Lig. 1, 3:
caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,
Verg. A. 4, 209:
caeca regens filo vestigia,
id. ib. 6, 30:
ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,
Liv. 40, 10, 1:
et caeco flentque paventque metu,
Ov. F. 2, 822:
lymphatis caeco pavore animis,
Tac. H. 1, 82:
cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,
Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:
timor,
Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
C.
Transf.
1.
Of plants, without buds or eyes:
rami,
Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
2.
Of the large intestine:
intestinum,
the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
II.
Pass., that cannot be seen, or trop., that cannot be known, invisible, concealed, hidden, secret, obscure, dark.
A.
Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;
2, 713: vallum caecum,
Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,
fossae,
covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:
in vada caeca ferre,
Verg. A. 1, 536:
fores,
private, id. ib. 2, 453:
spiramenta,
id. G. 1, 89:
colubri,
Col. 10, 231:
ignis,
Lucr. 4, 929:
venenum,
id. 6, 822:
tabes,
Ov. M. 9, 174:
viae,
blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:
insidiae armaque,
Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:
saxa,
Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:
vulnus,
a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;
but also,
a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.
in the same sense, ictus,
Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):
caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,
Ov. M. 12, 492:
caecum domūs scelus,
Verg. A. 1, 356.—
B.
Trop.:
caecas exponere causas,
Lucr. 3, 317:
improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,
lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,
venti potestas,
id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:
caeca et clandestina natura,
Lucr. 1, 779:
res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,
Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:
obscurum atque caecum,
id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:
fata,
Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:
sors,
id. S. 2, 3, 269:
tumultus,
secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:
amor,
id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:
stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,
Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
2.
By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:
murmur,
Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,
clamor,
Val. Fl. 2, 461:
mugitusterrae,
Sen. Troad. 171.—
III.
Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
A.
Lit.:
nox,
Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:
caligo,
Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:
tenebrae,
Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;
3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,
Sil. 7, 350:
latebrae,
Lucr. 1, 409:
iter,
Ov. M. 10, 456:
loca,
Prop. 1, 19, 8:
cavernae,
Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:
latus,
Verg. A. 2, 19:
cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,
Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,
domus,
without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:
parietes,
Verg. A. 5, 589:
pulvis,
id. ib. 12, 444:
carcer,
id. ib. 6, 734:
sardonyches,
not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:
smaragdi,
id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
B.
Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
quod temere fit caeco casu,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:
eventus,
Verg. A. 6, 157:
caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,
Col. 1, 5, 6; so,
dolores,
Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:
crimen,
that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):
verum in caeco esse,
Manil. 4, 304.—

* Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
2.
Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

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14 caecus

1.
caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
I.
Act., not seeing, blind.
A.
Lit.:
Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:
traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,
id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:
catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,
Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:
si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,
Quint. 4, 1, 42:
caecum corpus,
the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:
perdices caecae impetu,
Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:
gigni,
Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
2.
Prov.:
ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:
apparet id quidem etiam caeco,
even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:
caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,
Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
B.
Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):
o pectora caeca!
Lucr. 2, 14:
non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,
Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.
casus,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15:
caecus atque amens tribunus,
id. Sest. 7, 17:
caecum me et praecipitem ferri,
id. Planc. 3, 6:
mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,
id. Clu. 70, 199:
cupidine,
Sall. J. 25, 7:
amentiā,
Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:
quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:
amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,
id. ib. 1, 3, 39:
mens,
Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:
caecus ad has belli artes,
Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:
caecus animi,
Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:
fati futuri,
ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
2.
Meton. of the passions themselves:
caeca honorum cupido,
Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:
ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,
Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:
exspectatio,
id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
amor,
Ov. F. 2, 762:
amor sui,
Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:
festinatio,
Liv. 22, 39, 22:
furor,
Hor. Epod. 7, 13:
caeca et sopita socordia,
Quint. 1, 2, 5:
ambitio,
Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
3.
Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:
in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,
Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:
caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,
id. Lig. 1, 3:
caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,
Verg. A. 4, 209:
caeca regens filo vestigia,
id. ib. 6, 30:
ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,
Liv. 40, 10, 1:
et caeco flentque paventque metu,
Ov. F. 2, 822:
lymphatis caeco pavore animis,
Tac. H. 1, 82:
cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,
Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:
timor,
Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
C.
Transf.
1.
Of plants, without buds or eyes:
rami,
Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
2.
Of the large intestine:
intestinum,
the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
II.
Pass., that cannot be seen, or trop., that cannot be known, invisible, concealed, hidden, secret, obscure, dark.
A.
Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;
2, 713: vallum caecum,
Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,
fossae,
covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:
in vada caeca ferre,
Verg. A. 1, 536:
fores,
private, id. ib. 2, 453:
spiramenta,
id. G. 1, 89:
colubri,
Col. 10, 231:
ignis,
Lucr. 4, 929:
venenum,
id. 6, 822:
tabes,
Ov. M. 9, 174:
viae,
blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:
insidiae armaque,
Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:
saxa,
Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:
vulnus,
a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;
but also,
a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.
in the same sense, ictus,
Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):
caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,
Ov. M. 12, 492:
caecum domūs scelus,
Verg. A. 1, 356.—
B.
Trop.:
caecas exponere causas,
Lucr. 3, 317:
improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,
lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,
venti potestas,
id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:
caeca et clandestina natura,
Lucr. 1, 779:
res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,
Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:
obscurum atque caecum,
id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:
fata,
Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:
sors,
id. S. 2, 3, 269:
tumultus,
secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:
amor,
id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:
stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,
Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
2.
By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:
murmur,
Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,
clamor,
Val. Fl. 2, 461:
mugitusterrae,
Sen. Troad. 171.—
III.
Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
A.
Lit.:
nox,
Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:
caligo,
Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:
tenebrae,
Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;
3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,
Sil. 7, 350:
latebrae,
Lucr. 1, 409:
iter,
Ov. M. 10, 456:
loca,
Prop. 1, 19, 8:
cavernae,
Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:
latus,
Verg. A. 2, 19:
cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,
Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,
domus,
without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:
parietes,
Verg. A. 5, 589:
pulvis,
id. ib. 12, 444:
carcer,
id. ib. 6, 734:
sardonyches,
not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:
smaragdi,
id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
B.
Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
quod temere fit caeco casu,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:
eventus,
Verg. A. 6, 157:
caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,
Col. 1, 5, 6; so,
dolores,
Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:
crimen,
that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):
verum in caeco esse,
Manil. 4, 304.—

* Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
2.
Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

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15 cecus

1.
caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
I.
Act., not seeing, blind.
A.
Lit.:
Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:
traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,
id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:
catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,
Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:
si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,
Quint. 4, 1, 42:
caecum corpus,
the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:
perdices caecae impetu,
Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:
gigni,
Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
2.
Prov.:
ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:
apparet id quidem etiam caeco,
even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:
caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,
Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
B.
Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):
o pectora caeca!
Lucr. 2, 14:
non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,
Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.
casus,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15:
caecus atque amens tribunus,
id. Sest. 7, 17:
caecum me et praecipitem ferri,
id. Planc. 3, 6:
mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,
id. Clu. 70, 199:
cupidine,
Sall. J. 25, 7:
amentiā,
Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:
quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:
amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,
id. ib. 1, 3, 39:
mens,
Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:
caecus ad has belli artes,
Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:
caecus animi,
Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:
fati futuri,
ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
2.
Meton. of the passions themselves:
caeca honorum cupido,
Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:
ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,
Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:
exspectatio,
id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
amor,
Ov. F. 2, 762:
amor sui,
Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:
festinatio,
Liv. 22, 39, 22:
furor,
Hor. Epod. 7, 13:
caeca et sopita socordia,
Quint. 1, 2, 5:
ambitio,
Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
3.
Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:
in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,
Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:
caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,
id. Lig. 1, 3:
caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,
Verg. A. 4, 209:
caeca regens filo vestigia,
id. ib. 6, 30:
ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,
Liv. 40, 10, 1:
et caeco flentque paventque metu,
Ov. F. 2, 822:
lymphatis caeco pavore animis,
Tac. H. 1, 82:
cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,
Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:
timor,
Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
C.
Transf.
1.
Of plants, without buds or eyes:
rami,
Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
2.
Of the large intestine:
intestinum,
the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
II.
Pass., that cannot be seen, or trop., that cannot be known, invisible, concealed, hidden, secret, obscure, dark.
A.
Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;
2, 713: vallum caecum,
Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,
fossae,
covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:
in vada caeca ferre,
Verg. A. 1, 536:
fores,
private, id. ib. 2, 453:
spiramenta,
id. G. 1, 89:
colubri,
Col. 10, 231:
ignis,
Lucr. 4, 929:
venenum,
id. 6, 822:
tabes,
Ov. M. 9, 174:
viae,
blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:
insidiae armaque,
Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:
saxa,
Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:
vulnus,
a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;
but also,
a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.
in the same sense, ictus,
Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):
caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,
Ov. M. 12, 492:
caecum domūs scelus,
Verg. A. 1, 356.—
B.
Trop.:
caecas exponere causas,
Lucr. 3, 317:
improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,
lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,
venti potestas,
id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:
caeca et clandestina natura,
Lucr. 1, 779:
res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,
Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:
obscurum atque caecum,
id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:
fata,
Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:
sors,
id. S. 2, 3, 269:
tumultus,
secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:
amor,
id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:
stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,
Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
2.
By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:
murmur,
Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,
clamor,
Val. Fl. 2, 461:
mugitusterrae,
Sen. Troad. 171.—
III.
Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
A.
Lit.:
nox,
Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:
caligo,
Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:
tenebrae,
Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;
3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,
Sil. 7, 350:
latebrae,
Lucr. 1, 409:
iter,
Ov. M. 10, 456:
loca,
Prop. 1, 19, 8:
cavernae,
Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:
latus,
Verg. A. 2, 19:
cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,
Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,
domus,
without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:
parietes,
Verg. A. 5, 589:
pulvis,
id. ib. 12, 444:
carcer,
id. ib. 6, 734:
sardonyches,
not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:
smaragdi,
id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
B.
Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
quod temere fit caeco casu,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:
eventus,
Verg. A. 6, 157:
caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,
Col. 1, 5, 6; so,
dolores,
Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:
crimen,
that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):
verum in caeco esse,
Manil. 4, 304.—

* Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
2.
Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

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16 coecus

1.
caecus (not coecus; sometimes in MSS. cēcus), a, um, adj. [akin to skia, skotos; Sanscr. khāyā, shadow], having no light, devoid of light.
I.
Act., not seeing, blind.
A.
Lit.:
Appius, qui caecus annos multos fuit,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 112:
traditum est enim Homerum caecum fuisse,
id. ib. 5, 39, 114; Lucr. 5, 839:
catuli, qui jam dispecturi sunt, caeci aeque et hi qui modo nati,
Cic. Fin. 4, 23, 64:
si facie miserabili senis, caeci, infantis,
Quint. 4, 1, 42:
caecum corpus,
the blind part of the body, the back, Sall. J. 107, 1:
perdices caecae impetu,
Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 102:
gigni,
Vell. 1, 5, 2.—
2.
Prov.:
ut si Caecus iter monstrare velit,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 4:
apparet id quidem etiam caeco,
even a blind man can see that, Liv. 32, 34, 3:
caecis hoc, ut aiunt, satis clarum est,
Quint. 12, 7, 9.—
B.
Trop., mentally or morally blind, blinded (freq. in prose and poetry):
o pectora caeca!
Lucr. 2, 14:
non solum ipsa Fortuna caeca est, sed eos etiam plerumque efficit caecos, quos complexa est,
Cic. Lael. 15, 54; cf.
casus,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15:
caecus atque amens tribunus,
id. Sest. 7, 17:
caecum me et praecipitem ferri,
id. Planc. 3, 6:
mater caeca crudelitate et scelere,
id. Clu. 70, 199:
cupidine,
Sall. J. 25, 7:
amentiā,
Cic. Har. Resp. 23, 48:
quem mala stultitia Caecum agit,
Hor. S. 2, 3, 44:
amatorem amicae Turpia decipiunt caecum vitia,
id. ib. 1, 3, 39:
mens,
Tac. Agr. 43.—With ad:
caecus ad has belli artes,
Liv. 21, 54, 3.—With gen.:
caecus animi,
Quint. 1, 10, 29; Gell. 12, 13, 4:
fati futuri,
ignorant of, Luc. 2, 14; cf. Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 138.— Subst.: Caeci, ōrum, m., the blind people, i.e. the people of Chalcedon, according to the oracle at Delphi. Tac. A. 12, 63; cf. Plin. 5, 32, 43, § 149. —
2.
Meton. of the passions themselves:
caeca honorum cupido,
Lucr. 3, 59; Ov. M. 3, 620:
ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,
Cic. Inv. 1, 2, 2; id. Pis. 24, 57:
exspectatio,
id. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
amor,
Ov. F. 2, 762:
amor sui,
Hor. C. 1, 18, 14:
festinatio,
Liv. 22, 39, 22:
furor,
Hor. Epod. 7, 13:
caeca et sopita socordia,
Quint. 1, 2, 5:
ambitio,
Sen. Ben. 7, 26, 4.—
3.
Pregn., blind, i.e. at random, vague, indiscriminate, aimless:
in hac calumniā timoris et caecae suspitionis tormento,
Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:
caeco quodam timore... quaerebant aliquem ducem,
id. Lig. 1, 3:
caecique in nubibus ignes Terrificant animos,
Verg. A. 4, 209:
caeca regens filo vestigia,
id. ib. 6, 30:
ne sint caecae, pater, exsecrationes tuae,
Liv. 40, 10, 1:
et caeco flentque paventque metu,
Ov. F. 2, 822:
lymphatis caeco pavore animis,
Tac. H. 1, 82:
cervus... Caeco timore proximam villam petit,
Phaedr. 2, 8, 3:
timor,
Ov. Am. 1, 4, 42.—
C.
Transf.
1.
Of plants, without buds or eyes:
rami,
Plin. 16, 30, 54, § 125; cf. caeco and oculus. —
2.
Of the large intestine:
intestinum,
the cœcum, Cels. 4, 1, 28; 4, 14, 1.—
II.
Pass., that cannot be seen, or trop., that cannot be known, invisible, concealed, hidden, secret, obscure, dark.
A.
Lit.: sunt igitur venti nimirum corpora caeca, winds are accordingly bodies, although invisible, Lucr. 1, 278; 1, 296; 1, 329;
2, 713: vallum caecum,
Caes. B. C. 1, 28; cf.: caecum vallum dicitur, in quo praeacuti pali terrae affixi herbis vel frondibus occuluntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 44 Müll.; so,
fossae,
covered, Col. 2, 2, 9; Pall. Mai, 3. 1:
in vada caeca ferre,
Verg. A. 1, 536:
fores,
private, id. ib. 2, 453:
spiramenta,
id. G. 1, 89:
colubri,
Col. 10, 231:
ignis,
Lucr. 4, 929:
venenum,
id. 6, 822:
tabes,
Ov. M. 9, 174:
viae,
blind ways, Tib. 2, 1, 78:
insidiae armaque,
Ov. F 2, 214; cf. Sil. 5, 3:
saxa,
Verg. A. 3, 706; 5, 164:
vulnus,
a secret wound, Lucr. 4, 1116;
but also,
a wound upon the back, Verg. A. 10, 733; cf.
in the same sense, ictus,
Liv. 34, 14, 11; Sil. 9, 105 (cf.: caecum corpus, the back, I. A. supra):
caeca manus, i.e. abscondita,
Ov. M. 12, 492:
caecum domūs scelus,
Verg. A. 1, 356.—
B.
Trop.:
caecas exponere causas,
Lucr. 3, 317:
improba navigii ratio, tum caeca jacebat,
lay still concealed, id. 5, 1004; so,
venti potestas,
id. 3, 248; 3, 270: fluctus, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 449, 10:
caeca et clandestina natura,
Lucr. 1, 779:
res caecae et ab aspectūs judicio remotae,
Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357:
obscurum atque caecum,
id. Agr. 2, 14, 36:
fata,
Hor. C. 2, 13, 16:
sors,
id. S. 2, 3, 269:
tumultus,
secret conspiracies, Verg. G. 1, 464:
amor,
id. ib. 3, 210; cf.:
stimulos in pectore caecos Condidit,
Ov. M. 1, 726. In Plaut. once, prob. taken from the vulgar lang.: caecā die emere, upon a concealed ( pay-) day, i.e. to purchase on credit (opp. oculata dies, i.e. for ready money): Ca. Pereo inopiā argentariā. Ba. Emito die caecā hercle olivom, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67.—
2.
By poet. license, transf. to the hearing:
murmur,
Verg. A. 12, 591 (as we, by a similar meton., say a hollow sound; cf. on the other hand, in Gr. tuphlos ta ôta); so,
clamor,
Val. Fl. 2, 461:
mugitusterrae,
Sen. Troad. 171.—
III.
Neutr., that obstructs the sight, or trop., the perception; dark, gloomy, thick, dense, obscure.
A.
Lit.:
nox,
Cic. Mil. 19, 50; Lucr. 1, 1108; Cat. 68, 44; Ov. M. 10, 476; 11, 521:
caligo,
Lucr. 3, 305; 4, 457; Cat. 64, 908; Verg. A. 3, 203; 8, 253:
tenebrae,
Lucr. 2, 54; 2, 746; 2, 798; 3, 87; 6, 35;
3, 87: silentia, i.e. nox,
Sil. 7, 350:
latebrae,
Lucr. 1, 409:
iter,
Ov. M. 10, 456:
loca,
Prop. 1, 19, 8:
cavernae,
Ov. M. 15, 299; Sil. 7, 372:
latus,
Verg. A. 2, 19:
cubiculum si fenestram non habet, dicitur caecum,
Varr. L. L. 9, § 58 Müll.; so,
domus,
without windows, Cic. Or. 67, 224:
parietes,
Verg. A. 5, 589:
pulvis,
id. ib. 12, 444:
carcer,
id. ib. 6, 734:
sardonyches,
not transparent, opaque, Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 86:
smaragdi,
id. 37, 5, 18, § 68: acervus (of chaos), chaotic, confused, Ov M. 1, 24; Col. 4, 32, 4' chaos, Sen. Med. 741, Sil. 11, 456.—
B.
Trop., uncertain, doubtful: obscurā spe et caecā exspectatione pendere, i.e. of an uncertain consequence or result, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66:
quod temere fit caeco casu,
id. Div. 2, 6, 15. cursus (Fortunae), Luc. 2, 567:
eventus,
Verg. A. 6, 157:
caeci morbi, quorum causas ne medici quidem perspicere queunt,
Col. 1, 5, 6; so,
dolores,
Plin. 29, 2, 10, § 38; 29, 3, 13, § 55:
crimen,
that cannot be proved, Liv. 45, 31, 11.— Subst.: caecum, i, n., uncertainty, obscurity ( poet.):
verum in caeco esse,
Manil. 4, 304.—

* Comp., Hor. S. 1, 2, 91.— Sup. and adv. not in. use.
2.
Caecus, i, m.; agnomen of Appius Claudius Crassus, as being blind, Cic. Brut. 14, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 11; Cic. Sen. 6, 16.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > coecus
17 meta

mēta, ae, f. [root ma-, measure, whence Gr. metron; Lat. manus, mane, etc. (q. v.), properly, that which marks a measured space, hence], any mark at a boundary or limit, esp.,
I.
The conical columns set in the ground at each end of the Roman Circus, the goal, turning-post:
metaque fervidis Evitata rotis,
Hor. C. 1, 1, 5:
aut prius infecto deposcit praemia cursu Septima quam metam triverit ante rota,
Prop. 3, 20, 25; cf.:
et modo lora dabo, modo verbere terga notabo, Nunc stringam metas interiore rotā,
Ov. Am. 3, 2, 11; Suet. Caes. 39:
petra in metae maxime modum erecta est, cujus ima spatiosiora sunt, altiora in artius coëunt, summa in acutum cacumen exsurgunt,
i. e. in the shape of a cone, Curt. 8, 39, 6; cf. III. 3. infra).—
II.
Any goal or winning-post, the mark, goal, in any contest of speed:
optatam cursu contingere metam, of a footrace,
Hor. A. P. 412:
metam tenere, in a boatrace,
Verg. A. 5, 159.—
2.
Trop. (because of the danger to drivers of striking the goal, and breaking their oars), a critical point, place of danger:
fama adulescentis paulum haesit ad metas, notitiā novā mulieris,
broke down, failed, at the critical point, Cic. Cael. 31.—
III.
Transf., an end, period, extremity, boundary, limit:
longarum haec meta viarum,
Verg. A. 3, 714:
ad metas aevi pervenire,
id. ib. 10, 472:
metam tangere vitae,
Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 1:
ad metam properare,
id. A. A. 2, 727:
ultima,
id. Am. 3, 15, 2:
hic tibi mortis erant metae,
Verg. A. 12, 546:
ad quas metas naturae sit perveniendum usu,
i. e. extremes, Varr. L. L. 8, 16, 31:
quando illa (luna) incurrat in umbram terrae, quae est meta noctis, eam obscurari necesse est,
the limit, measure of night, Cic. Div. 2, 6, 17 (but v. 3. below, fin. and the passage there cited from Pliny): sol ex aequo metā distabat utrāque, equally far from both ends of his course, i. e. at noon, Ov. M. 3, 145:
intercalariis mensibus interponendis ita dispensavit (Numa), ut vices uno anno ad metam eandem solis unde orsi essent... dies congruerent,
Liv. 1, 19, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.:
metae Marsicae, = fines Marsorum,
Mart. Cap. 4, § 331 Kapp:
pares horarum metas, tam antemeridialium quam postremarum, manifestant,
id. 6, § 600.—
2.
A turning-point in one's course:
praestat Trinacrii metas lustrare Pachyni,
to sail around the promontory of Pachynus, Verg. A. 3, 429.—
3.
Of any thing resembling in shape the meta of the Circus; any thing of a conical or pyramidal form, a cone, pyramid (class.);
of a conical hill: ipse collis est in modum metae, in acutum cacumen a fundo satis lato fastigatus,
Liv. 37, 27:
buxus in metas emittitur,
into cones, Plin. 16, 16, 28, § 70:
in metas foenum exstruere,
in ricks, haycocks, Col. 2, 18, 2:
lactantes,
conical cheeses, Mart. 1, 44, 7:
lactis,
id. 3, 58, 35:
meta sudans,
a conical stone on a fountain, dripping with water, Sen. Ep. 56, 4: meta molendaria, or molendinaria, that part of the upper millstone which projects downward and grinds the corn (the upper part is the catillus, q. v.); = Gr. onos aletês, Dig. 33, 7, 18, § 5:
metas molendinarias rotare,
Amm. 17, 4, 15:
si minor materia quam lux, metae existere effigiem,
i. e. if the solid body be smaller than the light, its shadow will be conical, Plin. 2, 11, 8, § 51 (cf. the context).

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > meta
18 simulacrum

sĭmŭlācrum, i, n. [simulo], an image formed in the likeness of a thing, a likeness, image, form, representation, semblance (class.; syn.: imago, effigies, signum).
I.
Lit., of images formed by art, reflected in a mirror, or seen in a dream; of apparitions, visions, etc. (the latter mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
A.
Of images formed by art, esp. of statues of the gods, an image, figure, portrait, effigy, statue, etc.:
alicujus effigiem simulacrumque servare,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 65, § 159; cf.:
statuas et imagines, non animorum simulacra sed corporum... relinquere,
id. Arch. 12, 30:
Helenae se pingere simulacrum velle dixit (Zeuxis),
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1; cf. id. Fam. 5, 12, 7:
delubra magnifica humanis consecrata simulacris,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 14;
but cf.: simulacrum deae non effigie humanā,
Tac. H. 2, 3:
deorum simulacra sanctissima,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 3;
so of the images of the gods,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 185; Caes. B. G. 6, 16; 6, 17; id. B. C. 2, 5; 3, 105; Tac. H. 2, 3; id. A. 12, 22 al.:
tueri aras simulacraque divom,
Lucr. 5, 75; 5, 308:
et bene facta deum frangit simulacra,
id. 6, 419; Verg. A. 2, 172; Ov. M. 10, 694; 15, 658 al.; cf.:
Herculis simulacrum,
Liv. 9, 44 fin.: simulacra oppidorum, Cic. Pis. 25, 60; cf.
pugnarum,
Liv. 41, 28, 10:
Balbum in triumpho omnium gentium urbiumque nomina ac simulacra duxisse,
Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 36; cf.
also: simulacrum celebrati diei pingere,
Liv. 24, 16 fin.:
montium, fluviorum,
Tac. A. 2, 41.— Poet., of the Trojan horse, Verg. A. 2, 232 (for which, effigies, id. ib. 2, 184).—
b.
Adverb.: ad or per simulacrum (like ad similitudinem, formam), in the form of, after the pattern of:
aurata aedes ad simulacrum templi Veneris collocata,
Suet. Caes. 84:
ad simulacrum ignium ardens Pharus,
id. Flor. 4, 2, 88; cf.:
ad simulacrum caelestium siderum,
id. ib. 1, 2, 3:
digiti per litterarum simulacra ducuntur,
Sen. Ep. 94, 51.—
B.
An image, form, shade, phantom seen in a mirror, in a dream, etc.; analogous to the Gr. eidôlon:
quaecunque apparent nobis simulacra,
Lucr. 4, 99; cf.:
per aquas, quae nunc rerum simulacra videmus,
id. 1, 1060:
quid frustra simulacra fugacia (in aquā visa) captas?
Ov. M. 3, 432. —Of the shades or ghosts of the departed:
quaedam simulacra modis pallentia miris,
Lucr. 1, 123 (cf. Verg. G. 1, 477 infra); cf.:
est via declivis (in Tartarum)... umbrae recentes Descendunt illac simulacraque functa sepulcris,
Ov. M. 4, 435; so id. ib. 10, 14:
simulacra cara parentis,
id. ib. 14, 112; cf. Verg. A. 2, 772:
ut bibere in somnis sitiens cum quaerit... laticum simulacra petit, etc.,
Lucr. 4, 1099; cf.:
(canes) Expergefacti secuntur inania saepe Cervorum simulacra,
id. 4, 995:
simulacra inania somni,
Ov. H. 9, 39:
vana (noctis),
id. Am. 1, 6, 9:
simulacra modis pallentia miris Visa sub obscurum noctis,
Verg. G. 1, 477; Sil. 3, 650 al.; cf.:
ne vacua mens audita simulacra et inanes sibi metus fingeret,
Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7.—
2.
In the philosoph. lang. of Lucret. (like the Gr. eidôlon and the Lat. spectrum), the form or image of an object of sense or thought presented to the mind; a representation, idea, conception, Lucr. 2, 112; 4, 130; 4, 149 sq.—
3.
Of mnemonic signs, types, or emblems:
ut res ipsas rerum effigies notaret atque ut locis pro cerā, simulacris pro litteris uteremur,
Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 354.—
4.
A description, a portraiture of character:
non inseram simulacrum viri copiosi (Catonis), quae dixerit referendo,
Liv. 45, 25.—
5.
A likeness or similitude:
diu disputavi, Hominem quojus rei Similem esse arbitrarer simulacrumque habere: Id repperi jam exemplum, etc.,
Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 6.—
II.
In partic., with the predominant idea of mere imitation (opp. to that which is original or real), a shadow, semblance, appearance, etc.:
simulacrum aliquod ac vestigium civitatis,
Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 1; cf.:
simulacra virtutis,
id. Off. 1, 15, 46; and:
haec simulacra sunt auspiciorum, auspicia nullo modo,
id. Div. 2, 33, 71:
libertatis,
Tac. A. 1, 77:
belli simulacra cientes,
i.e. mock-fights, sham-fights, Lucr. 2, 41; 2, 324:
pugnaeque cient simulacra sub armis,
Verg. A. 5, 585; 5, 674; Sil. 16, 529; 7, 119; cf.:
simulacrum navalis pugnae,
Liv. 26, 51, 6; 35, 26, 2:
quibusdam pugnae simulacris ad verum discrimen aciemque justam consuescimus,
Quint. 2, 10, 8; so,
ludicrum pugnae,
Liv. 40, 9:
decurrentis exercitūs,
id. 44, 9:
vindemiae,
Tac. A. 11, 31:
civilitatis particulae,
Quint. 2, 15, 25:
inania,
id. 10, 5, 17.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > simulacrum
19 imago

ĭmāgo, ĭnis, f. [cf. imitor], an imitation, copy of a thing, an image, likeness (i. e. a picture, statue, mask, an apparition, ghost, phantom; the latter only poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: simulacrum, effigies, statua, sigillum): imago ab imitatione dicta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 112 Müll.; cf.: imago dicitur quasi imitago, Porphyr. Hor. C. 1, 12, 4.
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen., a representation, likeness (usu. of a person), statue, bust, picture:
Spartiates Agesilaus neque pictam neque fictam imaginem suam passus est esse... unus Xenophontis libellus in eo rege laudando facile omnes imagines omnium statuasque superavit,
Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7:
Demosthenes, cujus nuper inter imagines tuas ac tuorum imaginem ex aere vidi,
id. Or. 31, 110:
Epicuri in poculis et in anulis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3: hominis imaginem gypso e facie ipsa primus omnium expressit ceraque in eam formam gypsi infusa emendare instituit Lysistratus Sicyonius, Plin. 35, 12, 44, § 153:
Africani,
Cic. Rep. 6, 10:
mulieris,
Quint. 7, 7, 5:
Antigoni,
id. 2, 13, 12:
depictam in tabula sipariove imaginem rei,
id. 6, 1, 32:
si in tabula mea aliquis pinxerit velut imaginem,
Gai. Inst. 2, 78:
cereae,
Hor. Epod. 17, 76; id. S. 1, 8, 43:
ut dignus venias hederis et imagine macra,
Juv. 7, 29:
hoc tibi sub nostra breve carmen imagine vivat,
Mart. 9, 1:
epistula atque imago me certum fecit,
i. e. the image on the seal, the signet, Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 35; 4, 2, 29; 4, 7, 105:
nunc amici anne inimici sis imago, Alcesime, mihi, sciam,
i. e. will act like a friend, Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 1.—
2.
A phantom, ghost, apparition:
infelix simulacrum atque ipsius umbra Creusae Visa mihi ante oculos et nota major imago,
Verg. A. 2, 773; cf.:
et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit imago,
shade, spirit, Verg. A. 4, 654; Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 6; cf. id. ib. 1:
non vanae redeat sanguis imagini,
Hor. C. 1, 24, 15:
(somnus) Vanum nocturnis fallit imaginibus,
Tib. 3, 4, 56; cf. Hor. C. 3, 27, 40; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Calig. 50:
te videt in somnis, tua sacra et major imago humana turbat pavidum,
Juv. 13, 221:
quid natum totiens falsis Ludis imaginibus?
phantoms, Verg. A. 1, 408:
ubique pavor et plurima mortis imago,
id. ib. 2, 369; cf.:
repetitaque mortis imago,
Ov. M. 10, 726:
lurida mortis imago,
Petr. 123, v. 257:
varia pereuntium forma et omni imagine mortium,
Tac. H. 3, 28:
caesorum insepultorumque,
id. A. 1, 62:
supremorum (i. e. funeris) imago,
id. H. 4, 45.— Poet.:
genitiva (with forma),
natural shape, figure, Ov. M. 3, 331; so,
rudis et sine imagine tellus (= informis),
shapeless, id. ib. 1, 87.—
B.
In partic., an ancestral image of a distinguished Roman (of one who had been aedile, praetor, or consul; usually made of wax, and placed in the atrium of a Roman house, and carried in funeral processions.—
(α).
In plur.: obrepsisti ad honores errore hominum, commendatione fumosarum imaginum, quarum simile habes nihil praeter colorem, of smoky (i. e. old) ancestral images, Cic. Pis. 1, 1; cf. Sen. Ben. 3, 28, 1; Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 6:
si quid deliquero, nullae sunt imagines, quae me a vobis deprecentur,
no ancestors of distinction, Cic. Agr. 2, 36, 100; cf.:
quia imagines non habeo et quia mihi nova nobilitas est,
Sall. J. 85, 25:
qui imagines familiae suae consecuti sunt,
Cic. Agr. 2, 1, 1:
homo veteris prosapiae ac multarum imaginum,
Sall. J. 85, 10:
majorum imagines,
id. ib. 5, 5; Suet. Vesp. 1:
multis in familia senatoriis imaginibus,
id. Aug. 4:
esto beata, funus atque imagines Ducant triumphales tuum,
Hor. Epod. 8, 11:
qui stupet in titulis et imaginibus,
id. S. 1, 6, 17; Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 6 sqq.; Prop. 2, 13, 19; Suet. Vesp. 19.—
(β).
In sing. (rare):
jus imaginis,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 36:
imaginis ornandae causa,
id. Sest. 8, 19:
vir honoratissimae imaginis futurus ad posteros,
Liv. 3, 58, 2:
clarum hac fore imagine Scaptium,
would become an aristocrat, id. 3, 72, 4, v. Weissenb. ad loc.:
Tunc Cotta ne imago Libonis exsequias posterorum comitaretur censuit,
Tac. A. 2, 32.
II.
Transf., a reverberation of sound, an echo (mostly poet.):
(mellaria facere oportet) potissimum ubi non resonent imagines,
Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 12:
concava pulsu Saxa sonant, vocisque offensa resultat imago,
Verg. G. 4, 50; cf. Sil. 14, 365:
alternae deceptus imagine vocis: Huc coëamus ait... Coëamus retulit Echo,
Ov. M. 3, 385:
cujus recinit jocosa Nomen imago,
Hor. C. 1, 12, 4; so,
jocosa Vaticani montis,
id. ib. 1, 20, 8:
vaga,
Val. Fl. 3, 596.
III.
Trop.
A.
In gen., an image or likeness of a thing formed in the mind, a conception, thought, imagination, idea:
Scipionis memoriam atque imaginem sibi proponere,
Cic. Lael. 27, 102:
magnam partem noctium in imagine tua vigil exigo,
Plin. Ep. 7, 5, 1:
Verginium cogito, Verginium video, Verginium jam vanis imaginibus audio,
id. ib. 2, 1, 12: imagines, quae eidôla nominant, quorum incursione non solum videmus, sed etiam cogitamus, Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 21; cf.:
imagines extrinsecus in animos nostros per corpus irrumpere,
id. Ac. 2, 40, 125: plena sunt imaginum omnia, nulla species cogitari potest nisi pulsu imaginum, etc.; id. Div. 2, 67, 137 sq.: unum aliquem te ex barbatis illis, exemplum imperii veteris, imaginem antiquitatis, columen rei publicae diceres intueri, an image of the olden time, id. Sest. 8, 19; cf.:
expressam imaginem vitae quotidianae videre,
id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47:
quidnam illi consules dictatoresve facturi essent, qui proconsularem imaginem tam saevam ac trucem fecerint, i. e. by cruelty in office,
Liv. 5, 2, 9:
naturae... urbis et populi,
Cic. Rep. 2, 39 fin.:
justitiae,
Quint. 2, 20, 6:
virtutis,
id. 10, 2, 15:
similitudines ad exprimendas rerum imagines compositae,
id. 8, 3, 72: illae rerum imagines, quas vocari phantasias indicavimus, id. 10, 7, 15:
conscripta formantur imagine templa,
plans, Stat. S. 3, 1, 117:
scipione determinata prius templi imagine in solo,
Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 15:
tua, pater Druse, imago,
memory, Tac. A. 1, 13:
magna illic imago tristium laetorumque,
recollection, id. ib. 2, 53:
si te nulla movet tantae pietatis imago,
Verg. A. 6, 405.—
B.
In partic.
1.
In rhet., a figurative representation, similitude, comparison:
comparabile est, quod in rebus diversis similem aliquam rationem continet. Ejus partes sunt tres: imago, collatio, exemplum. Imago est oratio demonstrans corporum aut naturarum similitudinem, etc.,
Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49; cf.:
imago est formae cum forma cum quadam similitudine collatio,
Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62; Sen. Ep. 59, 92; Quint. 6, 1, 28; Hor. S. 2, 3, 320; id. Ep. 1, 7, 34.—
2.
With the idea predominating of mere imitation, in opp. to what is original or real, a mere form, image, semblance, appearance, shadow:
consectatur nullam eminentem effigiem virtutis, sed adumbratam imaginem gloriae,
Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 3:
nos veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus: umbra et imaginibus utimur,
id. Off. 3, 17, 69; cf.:
non in umbra et imagine civitatis, etc.,
id. Rep. 2, 30; and:
umbram equitis Romani et imaginem videtis,
id. Rab. Post. 15, 41:
haec ars tota dicendi, sive artis imago quaedam est et similitudo, habet hanc vim, ut, etc.,
id. de Or. 2, 87, 356:
judiciorum,
only the appearance of courts, id. Sest. 13, 30; cf.:
imaginem rei publicae nullam reliquissent,
id. Agr. 2, 32, 88:
his quoque imaginibus juris spretis,
Liv. 41, 8, 10:
imaginem retinendi largiendive penes nos, vim penes Parthos,
Tac. A. 15, 14:
habitu et ore ad exprimendam imaginem honesti exercitus,
the pretence, id. ib. 16, 32; 6, 27; id. H. 1, 84; 3, 70:
qui faciem eloquentiae, non imaginem praestaret,
id. Or. 34:
nec imagine rerum, sed rebus incendit,
Quint. 10, 1, 16:
in falsa rerum imagine detineri,
id. 10, 5, 17; cf.:
nullo quippe alio vincis discrimine, quam quod illi (hermae) marmoreum caput est, tua vivit imago,
Juv. 8, 55.—
3.
A representative: non in effigies mutas divinum (Augusti) spiritum transfusum;
sed imaginem veram, caelesti sanguine ortam, intellegere discrimen, etc.,
Tac. A. 4, 52.—
4.
That which suggests or recalls something by resemblance, a reminder:
me consolatur recordatio meorum temporum, quorum imaginem video in rebus tuis,
Cic. Fam. 1, 6, 2:
a Corbulone petierat, ne quam imaginem servitii Tiridates perferret,
nothing to suggest slavery, Tac. A. 15, 31; cf.:
moriar, si praeter te quemquam reliquum habeo, in quo possim imaginem antiquae et vernaculae festivitatis adgnoscere,
Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 2.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > imago
20 dioptra

dĭoptra, ae, f., = dioptra, an optical instrument to measure the height of places, Vitr. 8, 6;
for measuring the sun's shadow,
Plin. 2, 69, 69, § 176.

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