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  • 1 homo

    hŏmo, ĭnis (archaic form hemonem hominem dicebant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 100 Müll.; cf. humanus init., and nēmo, from nĕ-hĕmo: homōnem, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 683 P. = [p. 860] Ann. v. 141 Vahl.:

    hŏmōnes,

    Naev. 1, 1), comm. [root in humus, Gr. chamai; cf. Germ. -gam in Bräutigam; O. H. Germ. gomo; Goth. guma; Old Engl. goom; Engl. groom; cf. also Gr. epichthonioi; Hebr. Adam], a human being, man.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    animal hoc providum, sagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis et consilii quem vocamus hominem, praeclara quadam condicione generatum esse a summo deo, etc.,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 22; cf.

    , on the natural history of man,

    Plin. 7 praef. sq.; § 5 sq.: decem hominibus vitam eripis, indictā causā, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 25 (24), 12: dum quidem unus homo Romanus toga superescit, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 302 Müll. (Ann. v. 486 Vahl.); cf.: unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 313 ib.): navus repertus homo Graio patre Graius homo rex, id. ap. Fest. p. 169 Müll. (Ann. v. 183 ib.):

    homo jam grandior,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 15:

    homo amicus nobis... homo antiqua virtute ac fide,

    id. Ad. 3, 3, 86 sq.; cf.:

    bonus homo et nobis amicus,

    Cic. Fam. 16, 18 fin.: quid est, quod homo masculus lubentius videre debeat bella uxore? Varr. ap. Non. 248, 16:

    infelix,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 169:

    homo omni doctrina eruditus,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 5, 13; cf.:

    homo summā prudentiā, multā etiam doctrinā,

    id. Fam. 3, 7, 5:

    de hujus hominis (i. e. Pompei) felicitate, etc.,

    id. de Imp. Pomp. 16, 47:

    iners atque inutilis,

    id. Off. 3, 6, 31; cf.:

    contemptus et abjectus,

    id. Agr. 2, 34, 93:

    insulsus,

    id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15; cf.

    also: hominum homo stultissime,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 10:

    quid hoc homine faciatis?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 16, § 42:

    consulere generi hominum,

    the human race, mankind, id. Rep. 3, 12:

    genus hominum,

    id. ib. 2, 26; id. de Or. 1, 9, 36; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 7 et saep. (more freq., genus humanum; v. humanus and genus); cf.:

    natura hominem conciliat homini... hominum coetus et celebrationes,

    Cic. Off. 1, 4, 12:

    placet Stoicis, quae in terris gignantur, ad usum hominum omnia creari, homines autem hominum causa esse generatos,

    id. ib. 1, 7, 22:

    homines plurimum hominibus et prosunt et obsunt,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 17: is dictus popularibus olim, Qui tum vivebant homines, Enn. ap. Cic. Brut. 15, 58 (Ann. v. 308 Vahl.):

    homines Romani,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    lege conciliati homines cum dis putandi sunt,

    id. Leg. 1, 7, 23:

    pro deum atque hominum fidem!

    Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 16 et saep.: divumque hominumque pater, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 65 Müll. (Ann. v. 566 Vahl.); so, id. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4 (Ann. v. 567) and ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 254); but homo, sing., is used of the human race, mankind (= homines, genus humanum), when it has no predicate joined with it:

    qua haud scio an quidquam melius sit homini datum,

    Cic. Lael. 6, 20; 3, 11:

    taces, Monstrum hominis?

    Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 29; cf.:

    odium illud hominis impuri,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 1, 1:

    quid hoc sit hominis?

    Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 26; cf.:

    quid illuc hominus est?

    Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 17;

    in addresses: nisi caves tu homo, etc.,

    id. Heaut. 5, 3, 1:

    tu homo adigis me ad insaniam,

    id. Ad. 1, 2, 31.—In apposition:

    mares homines,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 32:

    amanti homini adulescenti,

    id. Trin. 1, 2, 94; cf.:

    filius homo adulescens,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 52;

    v. adulescens: verberare hominem senem,

    id. Ad. 4, 2, 23:

    servom hominem,

    id. Phorm. 2, 1, 62:

    oculi hominis histrionis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 193:

    nemo homo,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 29; cf.:

    ut homo nemo velit nisi hominis similis esse,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 78;

    v. nemo. —Of females: mater, cujus ea stultitia est, ut eam nemo hominem appellare possit,

    Cic. Clu. 70, 199:

    quae (Io) bos ex homine est,

    Ov. F. 5, 620; Juv. 6, 284:

    dulcissimum ab hominis camelinum lac,

    Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 123: homines feminae (opp. mares homines), Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 3.—
    2.
    Prov.
    a.
    Quot homines, tot sententiae, many men, many minds, i. e. every one has his own opinion, Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 14; Cic. Fin. 1, 5, 15.—
    b.
    Ut homo est, ita morem geras, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 77 (but in Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 36 spurious, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).—
    c.
    Homines, dum docent, discunt, Sen. Ep. 7, 8 fin. —
    d.
    Aiunt homines plus in alieno negotio videre quam in suo, the lookers-on see farther in the game than the players, id. ib. 109, 16. —
    e.
    Homo nulli coloris, neither fish nor flesh, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 99.—
    f.
    Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 25; cf.:

    homo ego sum, homo tu es,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 46.—
    g.
    Lupus homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 88.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Pregn., in a good or a bad sense.
    a.
    In a good sense (cf. vir), a man, as a reasonable or moral being:

    homo es, qui me emunxisti mucidum,

    Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 57:

    si homo esset, eum potius legeret,

    Cic. Att. 2, 2, 2:

    nox te expolivit hominemque reddidit,

    id. de Or. 2, 10, 40:

    si vis homo esse,

    id. Att. 4, 15, 2:

    homines visi sumus,

    id. ib. 13, 52, 2:

    nos quod simus, quod habeamus, quod homines existimemur, id omne abs te habere,

    id. Fam. 7, 29, 1:

    si tu sis homo,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 11:

    et tu illum tuom, si esses homo, sineres, etc.,

    if you had a man's sense, id. ib. 1, 2, 27:

    exuens hominem ex homine,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35: cum Socrates Alcibiadi persuasisset, eum nihil hominis esse, that he was nothing of a man (i. e. in no respect such as a man should be), id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77:

    (Nero) dicebat se quasi hominem tandem habitare coepisse,

    like a human being, Suet. Ner. 31:

    me hominem inter homines voluit esse,

    Petr. 39. —
    b.
    In a bad sense, a man, as a weak, mortal being, subject to error, of low condition (rare):

    fateor me saepe peccasse, nam et homo sum et adhuc juvenis,

    Petr. 130: cf.

    homines sumus, non dei,

    id. 75:

    (Demosthenes, Homerus) summi sunt, homines tamen,

    Quint. 10, 1, 25.—In fem.: quae si hoc tempore non diem suum obiisset, paucis post annis tamen ei moriendum fuit, quoniam homo nata fuerat, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4.—Also of servants (as distinguished from a free Roman): homo P. Quinti, Quintus's man, i. e. his slave, servant, Cic. Quint. 19, 61:

    vinum familiae... Saturnalibus et Compitalibus in singulos homines congios,

    Cato, R. R. 57, 2; Cat. 10, 16.—
    2.
    In opp. to a woman, a man (anteand post-class., and very rare):

    mi homo et mea mulier, vos saluto,

    Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 57; Lact. 2, 12; Dig. 48, 19, 38.—
    * 3.
    In milit. lang., homines, opp. to cavalry, foot-soldiers, infantry:

    capti homines equitesque producebantur,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 39, 5; cf. vir. —
    4.
    Homo novus, v. novus.—
    5.
    Bodies, corpses:

    jam pigritia singulos sepeliendi promisce acervatos cumulos hominum urebant,

    Liv. 5, 48, 3.—
    6.
    Particular phrases.
    a.
    Paucorum hominum esse, to have but few intimates, be choice in one's company: (Maecenas) paucorum hominum et mentis bene sanae. Hor. S. 1, 9, 44:

    homo est Perpaucorum hominum,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 19.— Hence, comically, of the favorite but rare fish, acipenser: Scipio vide, quid agas: acipenser iste paucorum hominum est, Cic. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12 (see the anecdote in connection).—
    b.
    Inter homines esse (agere).
    (α).
    To be among the living, to be alive, to live (very rare):

    Hercules numquam abiisset ad deos, nisi cum inter homines esset, eam sibi viam munivisset,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 32:

    inter homines esse desinere,

    i. e. to die, Dig. 31, 1, 59; so,

    agere inter homines desinere,

    Tac. A. 15, 74 fin.:

    ab hominibus ereptus est,

    Dig. 31, 1, 58.—
    (β).
    To see the world, be among men:

    iste homo qui numquam inter homines fuerit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 76.—
    II.
    Transf., esp. in familiar lang., the man, the fellow, instead of the pron. he, his, him:

    haben argentum ab homine?

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 65:

    ibi homo coepit me obsecrare, ut, etc.,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 30:

    itast homo,

    id. Ad. 1, 2, 63:

    dixit, se senatui roganti de Marcello ne hominis quidem causa negaturum,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 3:

    ei medico imperasti, ut venas hominis incideret,

    id. Pis. 34, 83:

    tantum esse in homine sceleris,

    id. Sest. 9, 22 Halm.; 41, 89; id. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 62:

    persuasit homini,

    Nep. Dat. 10, 3:

    aut insanit homo aut versus facit,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 117:

    agnoscit hominem Caesar,

    Phaedr. 2, 5, 19 Burm. ad loc.; al.—
    B.
    Hic homo, this man, = I, myself (ante-class. and poet.):

    hunc hominem velles si tradere,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 47:

    solus hic homo est, qui sciat, etc.,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 33:

    tibi verba, huic homini verbera,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 114 (cf. hic, G.).

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  • 2 homō

        homō inis, m and f    a human being, man, person: Monstrum hominis, T.: grandior, T.: doctrinā eruditus: hominum homo stultissime, T.: genus hominum: more hominum evenit, ut, etc., as usual, T.: homo'st Perpaucorum hominum, associates, T.: cum inter homines esset, was alive: qui numquam inter homines fuerit, saw the world: nec vox hominem sonat, i. e. mortal, V.: ut eam nemo hominem appellare possit: Quae (Io) bos ex homine est, O.: dic ipsa, ‘homo sum,’ Iu.— Collect., man, the human race, mankind: quā haud scio ad quidquam melius sit homini datum.— Pleonast., in addresses: nisi caves tu homo, etc., fellow, T.: tu homo adigis me ad insaniam, T.— In apposition: filius homo adulescens, T.: servom hominem, T.: oculi hominis histrionis.—Prov.: Quot homines, tot sententiae, many men, many minds, T.: Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto, T.—A man, reasonable creature, lord of creation: si homo esset, eum potius legeret: nox te expolivit hominemque reddidit: homines visi sumus: si esses homo, if you had a man's sense, T.: nihil hominis esse, nothing of a man.—A man, servant: homo P. Quincti, Quintus's man.—Plur., foot-soldiers, infantry (opp. cavalry): homines equitesque, Cs.— Plur, bodies, corpses: cumulos hominum urebant, L.—The man, fellow, creature, he, this one (colloq. for a pron dem.): ibi homo coepit me obsecrare, Ut, etc., T.: itast homo, T.: venas hominis incidere: persuasit homini, N.
    * * *
    man, human being, person, fellow

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  • 3 aetas

    aetas, ātis, f. [contr. from the anteclass. aevitas from aevum, q. v.; Prisc. 595 P.; cf. Welsh oet] ( gen. plur. aetatum;

    but freq. also aetatium,

    Liv. 1, 43; 9, 17; 26, 9; cf. Oud. ad Suet. Aug. 31; Vell. 2, 89; Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2; Gell. 14, 1).
    I.
    The period of life, time of life, life, age (divided, acc. to Varr. ap. Censor. 14, into pueritia, from birth to the 15th year; adulescentia, from that time to the 30th; juventus, to the 45th; the age of the seniores, to the 60th; and, finally, senectus, from that time till death. Others make a different division, v. Flor. 1 prooem.; Isid. Orig. 11, 2; Gell. 10, 28; 15, 20):

    a primo tempore aetatis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 13:

    prima aetas,

    id. Off. 2, 13:

    ineuntis aetatis inscientia,

    id. ib. 1, 34;

    so 2, 13: flos aetatis,

    the bloom of life, id. Phil. 2, 2; Liv. 21; Suet. Caes. 49; so,

    bona aetas,

    Cic. Sen. 14; and poet. in the plur.:

    ambo florentes aetatibus,

    Verg. E. 7, 4: quamquam aetas senet, satis habeo tamen virium, ut te arā arceam, Pac. ap. Prisc. 1, 10; id. ap. Non. 159, 19:

    mala aetas,

    old age, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 6; and absol.: aetas, aevitas = senectus, old age, SI MORBVS AEVITASVE VITIVM ESCIT, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25: aetate ( through age) non quis obtuerier, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 154; 1, 3, 130; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 5:

    sed ipse morbo atque aetate confectus,

    Sall. J. 9:

    graves aetate,

    Liv. 7, 39.—Sometimes also absol. = adulescentia, youth:

    fui ego illā aetate et feci illa omnia,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 4; id. Most. 5, 2, 27:

    damna, dedecora aetas ipsius pertulit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12:

    tua autem aetas (of his son),

    id. Off. 2, 13:

    (mulier) non formā, non aetate, non opibus maritum invenerit,

    Tac. G. 19:

    expers belli propter aetatem,

    Suet. Aug. 8: aetas consularis, the legal age for the consulship, i. e. the 43d year, Cic. Phil. 5, 17:

    id aetatis jam sumus,

    we have now reached that time of life, id. Fam. 6, 20, 3.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In gen., the lifetime of man, without reference to its different stages; life, Enn. ap. Gell. 18, 2, 16:

    aetas acta honeste et splendide,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 25:

    gerere,

    id. Fam. 4, 5 al.:

    tempus aetatis,

    id. Sen. 19:

    aetatem consumere in studio aliquo,

    id. Off. 1, 1:

    conterere in litibus,

    id. Leg. 1, 20:

    degere omnem in tranquillitate,

    id. Fin. 2, 35; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 53 al.—In Ov. M. 12, 188, aetas = centum annos.—
    B.
    A space of time, an age, generation, time:

    heroicae aetates,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7:

    haec aetas,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 5; id. Rep. 1, 1:

    alia,

    id. Lael. 27, 101 Beier:

    nostrā aetate,

    in our times, Quint. 1, 4, 20:

    cum primis aetatis suae comparabatur,

    Nep. Iphicr. 1; Vell. 1, 16:

    incuriosa suorum aetas,

    Tac. Agr. 1:

    omnia fert aetas,

    time, Verg. E. 9, 51; so Hor. C. 4, 9, 10:

    crastina aetas,

    the morrow, Stat. Th. 3, 562. — Of the four ages of the world ( the golden age, silver age, etc.), Ov. M. 1, 89 sq.; v. aureus, argenteus, etc.—
    C.
    Abstr. pro concreto, the time or period of life, for the man himself, the age, for the men living in it (mostly poet., and in prose after the Aug. per.; cf.

    saeculum): sibi inimicus magis quam aetati tuae, i. e. tibi,

    Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 1:

    vae aetati tuae,

    id. Capt. 4, 2, 105:

    quid nos dura refugimus Aetas?

    Hor. C. 1, 35, 34:

    impia,

    id. Epod. 16, 9:

    veniens,

    Ov. F. 6, 639:

    omnis aetas currere obviam,

    Liv. 27, 51:

    omnis sexus, omnis aetas,

    Tac. A. 13, 16:

    innoxiam liberorum aetatem miserarentur, i. e. innocentes liberos,

    id. H. 3, 68:

    sexum, aetatem, ordinem omnem,

    Suet. Calig. 4.—
    D.
    Also of things without life, e. g. of wine, its age: bibite Falernum hoc: annorum quadraginta est. Bene, inquit, aetatem fert, it keeps well, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 2, 3; Plin. 23, 1, 20, § 33; 15, 2, 3, § 7.—So of buildings:

    aetates aedificiorum,

    Dig. 30, 58.—
    E.
    Aetatem, a dverb. (ante-class.).
    1.
    = semper, perpetuo, through the whole of life, during lifetime, continually:

    ut aetatem ambo nobis sint obnoxii,

    Plaut. As. 2, 2, 18:

    at tu aegrota, si lubet, per me aetatem quidem,

    id. Curc. 4, 3, 22:

    Quid, malum, me aetatem censes velle id adsimularier,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 38.—
    2.
    = diu, longo tempore, an age, a long time, a long while:

    an abiit jam a milite? Jamdudum aetatem,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 8:

    quod solis vapor aetatem non posse videtur efficere,

    what the heat of the sun cannot perhaps effect for years, Lucr. 6, 236.—
    F.
    In aetate, adverb. (ante-class.).
    1.
    At times, sometimes, now and then, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 2.—
    2.
    At any time, always, ever, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 61.

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  • 4 vir

    vĭr, vĭri ( gen. plur. virūm, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 251 P., or Ann. v. 280 Vahl.; id. ap. Fest. p. 257 Müll., or Ann. v. 394 Vahl.; Verg. A. 6, 553 al.), m. [Sanscr. vira, hero; the root is in O. H. Germ. weralt; Angl.Sax. veruld; Engl. world, i. e. age or generation of men], a male person, a man (opp. femina; cf. mas).
    I.
    In gen.:

    virum me natam vellem,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 9:

    deque viro factus (mirabile') femina,

    Ov. M. 3, 326:

    ambiguus fuerit modo vir, modo femina Sithon,

    id. ib. 4, 280:

    mulier conjuncta viro,

    Lucr. 5, 1012:

    vir mulierque,

    Tib. 2, 2, 2:

    sapientissimorum nostrae civitatis virorum disputatio,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 8, 13:

    vir prudens,

    id. ib. 1, 12, 18:

    clari viri,

    id. Fam. 6, 6, 12:

    vir clarus et honoratus,

    id. Sen. 7, 22:

    praestantior,

    id. ib. 23, 84:

    bonus et sapiens et legibus parens,

    id. Fin. 3, 19, 64; cf. id. Off. 3, 15, 64;

    v. bonus: optimi (opp. homines improbi),

    id. Cael. 5, 12:

    fortis,

    id. Fin. 3, 8, 29; id. Rep. 1, 3, 5:

    turpissimus,

    Sall. J. 85, 42:

    nefandus,

    Verg. A. 4, 498.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    A man as related to a woman, a husband, maritus (very freq.):

    is (Juppiter) amare occepit Alcumenam clam virum,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 107; 111; 134; 1, 3, 4; Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 1:

    quem (vultum) dicitur Xanthippe praedicare solita in viro suo fuisse,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 15, 31; id. Verr. 5, 31, 82; id. Cael. 13, 32; id. Fam. 7, 23, 4; Liv. 1, 46, 6; Hor. C. 2, 18, 28; 3, 3, 68; id. S. 1, 2, 127 al.; Ov. M. 1, 146; Petr. 111; Quint. 5, 10, 62; 5, 11, 28; 7, 1, 28; Suet. Aug. 69; id. Calig. 25; id. Claud. 29; id. Ner. 35; id. Dom. 22 al.— Transf., of animals, the male, mate, etc., Verg. E. 7, 7; Ov. M. 1, 660; Mart. 3, 93, 11; Sol. 23.—
    B.
    A man (opp. a boy):

    pueri hoc possunt, viri non potuerunt?

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 34:

    ex toto non sic pueri ut viri curari debent,

    Cels. 3, 7 fin.:

    pueroque viroque,

    Ov. M. 13, 397:

    neque eos (pueros) prius in urbem redire, quam viri facti essent, statuit,

    Just. 3, 3, 7:

    cum essem parvulus... quando factus sum vir, etc.,

    Vulg. 1 Cor. 13, 11.—
    C.
    Pregn., a man, a man of courage, principle, or honor, one who deserves the name of a man: Marius rusticanus vir, sed plane vir, cum secaretur, vetuit se alligari... Ita et tulit dolorem, ut vir;

    et, ut homo, majorem ferre sine causā necessariā noluit,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 53; cf. id. Fam. 5, 17, 3:

    cum is jam se corroboravisset ac vir inter viros esset,

    id. Cael. 5, 11:

    te oro, te colligas virumque praebeas,

    id. Fam. 5, 18, 1: si vir esse volet, praeclara sunodia, id. Att. 10, 7, 2:

    tum viro et gubernatore opus est,

    Liv. 24, 8, 1; 1, 41, 3; 1, 46, 6;

    2, 38, 6 et saep.: si quid in Flacco viri est, Non feret,

    Hor. Epod. 15, 12.—
    D.
    In milit. lang.
    1.
    In gen., like our man, for soldier (syn. miles):

    dispertiti viri, dispertiti ordines,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 65; cf.:

    boat Caelum fremitu virum,

    id. ib. 1, 1, 78: vir [p. 1995] unus cum viro congrediendo, T. Manlius, M. Valerius, quantum Gallicam rabiem vinceret Romana virtus, docuerunt, Liv. 38, 17, 8.—
    2.
    In partic., as opposed to the cavalry, a foot-soldier (syn. pedes):

    equites virique,

    Liv. 21, 27, 1:

    magnā voce trahens equitemque virosque,

    Sil. 9, 559:

    passim turmaeque virique, etc.,

    Petr. 123.—Hence, prov.: equis viris, or viris equisque, with horse and foot, i. e. with might and main; v. equus.—
    E.
    With emphasis in place of a pronoun of reference, is, ille, etc.:

    fletusque et conploratio fregere tandem virum,

    Liv. 2, 40, 9:

    hae tantae viri virtutes,

    id. 21, 4, 9; Sall. J. 9, 3.—
    F.
    Distributively, each man, every man:

    vir virum legit, of choosing a senator,

    Suet. Aug. 35:

    vir cum viro congrediaris,

    Liv. 22, 14, 14: legitque virum vir, singled out (in battle), Verg. A. 11, 632 (an imitation of Hom. Il. 4, 472: anêr d andr ednopalizen):

    cum vir virum legisset,

    i. e. a companion in battle, Liv. 9, 39, 5; cf.

    , in a sarcastic transfer-: ille (Clodius), qui semper secum scorta, semper exoletos, semper lupas ducebat, tum neminem, nisi ut virum a viro lectum esse diceres,

    Cic. Mil. 21, 55.—
    G.
    Human beings ( poet. homines, opp. pecudes), Ov. M. 1, 286; cf. Verg. A. 6, 553.—
    H.
    Manhood, virility ( poet. and very rare):

    ut relicta sensit sibi membra sine viro,

    Cat. 63, 6:

    ferro mollita juventus Atque exsecta virum,

    Luc. 10, 134.

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  • 5 anima

    ănĭma, ae, f. ( gen. animāï, Lucr. 1, 112; 3, 150 et saep.; cf. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 12; Lachm. ad Lucr. 1, 29; dat. and abl. plur. regul. animis, Cic. Fam. 14, 14; Lact. Inst. 6, 20, 19; 7, 2, 1; Arn. 2, 18; 2, 30; 2, 33; Aug. Civ. Dei, 13, 18; 13, 19; id. Ver. Relig. 22, 43:

    animabus, only in eccl. and later Lat.,

    Vulg. Exod. 30, 12; ib. Psa. 77, 18; ib. Matt. 11, 29; ib. Heb. 13, 17 et saep.; Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 34; id. Anim. 33 al.; Aug. Civ. Dei, 19, 23; Prud. c. Symm. 1, 531; Aus. Rer. Odyss. 11; Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 136 al.; Neue, Formenl. I. p. 29) [v. animus], pr. that which blows or breathes; hence,
    I.
    Lit., air, a current of air, a breeze, wind (mostly poet.):

    ne quid animae forte amittat dormiens,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 23 sq.: vela ventorum animae immittere, Att. ap. Non. p. 234, 9 (Trag. Rel. p. 137 Rib.):

    aurarum leves animae,

    Lucr. 5, 236:

    prece quaesit Ventorum pavidus paces animasque secundas,

    he anxiously implores a lull in the winds and a favoring breeze, id. 5, 1229:

    impellunt animae lintea,

    Hor. C. 4, 12, 2:

    Ne dubites quin haec animaï turbida sit vis,

    Lucr. 6, 693: Quantum ignes animaeque [p. 121] valent (of the wind in the workshop of Vulcan), Verg. A. 8, 403.—Also of a flame of fire (blowing like the air): noctilucam tollo, ad focum fero, inflo; anima reviviscit, Varr. ap. Non. p. 234, 5.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In gen., the air, as an element, like fire, water, and earth (mostly poet.): aqua, terra, anima et sol, Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 1, 4, 1:

    qui quattuor ex rebus posse omnia rentur, Ex igni, terrā atque animā, procrescere et imbri,

    Lucr. 1, 715:

    ut, quem ad modum ignis animae, sic anima aquae, quodque anima aquae, id aqua terrae proportione redderet. Earum quattuor rerum etc.,

    Cic. Tim. 5:

    utrum (animus) sit ignis, an anima, an sanguis,

    id. Ac. 2, 39, 124:

    si anima est (animus), fortasse dissipabitur,

    id. Tusc. 1, 1, 24; 1, 25, 6:

    si deus aut anima aut ignis est, idem est animus hominis,

    id. ib. 1, 26, 65:

    animus ex inflammatā animā constat, ut potissimum videri video Panaetio,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 42:

    Semina terrarumque animaeque,

    Verg. E. 6, 32.—
    B.
    The air inhaled and exhaled, breath (concr.); while spiritus denotes orig. breathing (abstr.; very freq. in prose and poetry); cf. Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136:

    excipiat animam eam, quae ducta sit spiritu,

    Plaut. As. 5, 2, 44:

    animam compressi, aurem admovi,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 28 Ruhnk.:

    animam recipe,

    take breath, id. Ad. 3, 2, 26:

    cum spiritus ejus (sc. Demosthenis) esset angustior, tantum continendā animā in dicendo est assecutus, ut, etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 261:

    ne circuitus ipse verborum sit longior quam vires atque anima patiatur,

    id. ib. 3, 49, 191; 3, 46, 181; id. N. D. 2, 54, 136: fetida anima nasum oppugnat, Titin. ap. Non. p. 233, 5 (Com. Rel. p. 136 Rib.); Caecil. ib. 9:

    qui non modo animum integrum, sed ne animam quidem puram conservare potuisset,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 58: animas et olentia Medi Ora fovent illo, with this the Medes correct their breath, etc., Verg. G. 2, 134:

    respiramen iterque Eripiunt animae,

    Ov. M. 12, 143; cf. id. F. 1, 425:

    animae gravitas,

    bad smell of the breath, Plin. 20, 9, 35, § 91; cf. id. 11, 37, 72, § 188; 22, 25, 64, § 132 al.:

    artavit clusitque animam,

    Luc. 4, 370; so Tac. A. 6, 50:

    spes illorum abominatio animae,

    Vulg. Job, 11, 20.—Of breath exhaled:

    inspirant graves animas,

    Ov. M. 4, 498.— Of the air breathed into a musical instrument, a breath of air, Varr. ap. Non. p. 233. 13.—Since air is a necessary condition of life,
    C.
    1.. The vital principle, the breath of life:

    animus est, quo sapimus, anima, quā vivimus,

    Non. p. 426, 27 (hence anima denotes the animal principle of life, in distinction from animus, the spiritual, reasoning, willing principle; very freq. in Lucr. and class.): Mater est terra, ea parit corpus, animam aether adjugat, Pac. ap. Non. p. 75, 11 (Trag. Rel. p. 88 Rib.):

    tunc cum primis ratione sagaci, Unde anima atque animi constet natura, videndum,

    whence spring life and the nature of the mind, Lucr. 1, 131; 3, 158 sq.; so id. 3, 417 sq.; 3, 565; 3, 705; 2, 950; 4, 922; 4, 944; 4, 959; 6, 798; 6, 1223;

    6, 1233 et saep.: deus totus est sensuus, totus visuus, totus audituus, totus animae, totus animi, totus sui,

    Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 14 Jan:

    quaedam (animantia) animum habent, quaedam tantum animam,

    Sen. Ep. 58:

    anima omnis carnis in sanguine est,

    Vulg. Lev. 17, 14 al. —Hence,
    2.
    In gen., life:

    cum anima corpus liquerit,

    Att. Trag. Rel. p. 214 Rib.:

    Animae pauxillulum in me habet,

    Naev. Com. Rel. p. 14 Rib.: Date ferrum, quī me animā privem, Enn. ap. Non. p. 474, 31 (Trag. Rel. p. 37 Rib.): me dicabo atque animam devōvo (i. e. devovero) hostibus, Att. ap. Non. p. 98, 12 (Trag. Rel. p. 283 Rib.):

    conficit animam vis volneris,

    Att. Trag. Rel. p. 209 Rib.:

    adimere animam,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 137; so id. Men. 5, 5, 7:

    exstinguere,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 16:

    relinquere,

    id. ib. 3, 4, 52:

    edere,

    Cic. Sest. 38:

    de vestrā vitā, de conjugum vestrarum ac liberorum animā judicandum est,

    id. Cat. 4, 9, 18:

    si tibi omnia sua praeter animam tradidit,

    id. Rosc. Am. 50:

    libertas et anima nostra in dubio est,

    Sall. C. 52, 6:

    pauci, quibus relicta est anima, clausi in tenebris, etc.,

    id. J. 14, 15; cf.

    retinere,

    id. ib. 31, 20:

    de manu viri et fratris ejus requiram animam hominis,

    Vulg. Gen. 9, 5; ib. Matt. 2, 20; ib. 1 Cor. 14, 7:

    animam agere,

    to give up the ghost, to die, Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19;

    so also efflare,

    to expire, id. ib.; id. Mil. 18 fin.; Suet. Aug. 99; so,

    exhalare,

    Ov. M. 15, 528; and, exspirare, id. ib. 5, 106 (cf. in Gr. thumon apopneein, psuchên ekpneein, bion apopsuchein, etc.):

    deponere,

    Nep. Hann. 1, 3:

    ponere,

    Vulg. Joan. 10, 17; 13, 27:

    amittere,

    Lucr. 6, 1233:

    emittere,

    Nep. Epam. 9, 3 Br. (so in Gr. aphienai tên psuchên):

    proicere,

    Verg. A. 6, 436:

    purpuream vomit ille animam, said of a wounded man,

    id. ib. 9, 349.—In Vulg. Matt. 16, 25 and 26, anima in v. 25 seems to pass to the higher meaning, soul, (cf. infra, II. D.) in v. 26, as hê psuchê in the original also can do.— Poet.:

    anima amphorae,

    the fumes of wine, Phaedr. 3, 1: Ni ego illi puteo, si occepso, animam omnem intertraxero, draw up all the life of that well, i. e. draw it dry, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 41.— Trop.:

    corpus imperii unius praesidis nutu, quasi animā et mente, regeretur,

    Flor. 4, 3:

    accentus quasi anima vocis est,

    Pompon. p. 67 Lind.—Prov.: animam debere, to owe life itself, of one deeply in debt:

    quid si animam debet?

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 56 (Graecum proverbium: kai autên tên psuchên opheilei, Don.).—Metaph., applied to plants and other things possessing organic life, Sen. Ep. 58; so Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 152; 31, 1, 1, § 3; 14, 1, 3, § 16 al.—
    3.
    Meton., a creature endowed with anima, a living being: ova parere solet genu' pennis condecoratum, non animam, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, 10, 18:

    hi (deos) fibris animāque litant,

    Stat. Th. 2, 246; Vulg. Gen. 2, 7; ib. Josh. 11, 11; ib. Luc. 9, 56; ib. Act. 2, 43 et saep.:

    animae rationis expertes,

    Lact. 3, 8.—So esp. of men (as we also say souls for persons; poet. or in post-Aug. prose):

    egregias animas, quae sanguine nobis Hanc patriam peperere suo, etc.,

    Verg. A. 11, 24:

    animae quales nec candidiores, etc.,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 41; Luc. 5, 322:

    vos Treveri et ceterae servientium animae,

    ministering spirits, Tac. H. 4, 32.—So in enumerations in eccl. Lat.:

    hos genuit Jacob sedecim animas,

    Vulg. Gen. 46, 18; 46, 22; ib. Act. 2, 41; 7, 14.—Of slaves (eccl. Lat.):

    merces animarum hominum,

    Vulg. Apoc. 18, 13 (after the use of hê psuchê and). —Hence, also, souls separated from the body, the shades of the Lower World, manes: Unde (ex Averno) animae excitantur, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

    tu pias laetis animas reponis Sedibus,

    Hor. C. 1, 10, 17; cf. id. S. 1, 8, 29:

    animamque sepulcro Condimus,

    Verg. A. 3, 67; Ov. M. 7, 612; so id. ib. 8, 488; 10, 41; 14, 411; 15, 158; Suet. Caes. 88; so,

    vita: tenuīs sine corpore vitas volitare,

    Verg. A. 6, 292.—So in eccl. Lat. of departed spirits:

    timete eum, qui potest animam et corpus perdere in Gehennam,

    Vulg. Matt. 10, 28 bis:

    non derelinques animam meam in Inferno,

    ib. Act. 2, 27; ib. Apoc. 6, 9; 20, 4.—
    4.
    As expressive of love:

    vos, meae carissimae animae,

    my dearest souls, Cic. Fam. 14, 14; 14, 18:

    Pro quā non metuam mori, Si parcent animae fata superstiti,

    the dear surviving life, Hor. C. 3, 9, 12; cf.:

    animae dimidium meae,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 8:

    meae pars animae,

    id. ib. 2, 17, 5.—
    D.
    Sometimes for animus, as the rational soul of man.
    a.
    The mind as the seat of thought (cf. animus, II. A.):

    anima rationis consiliique particeps,

    Cic. N.D.1, 31, 87:

    causa in animā sensuque meo penitus affixa atque insita,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 53:

    ingenii facinora, sicut anima, immortalia sunt,

    Sall. J. 2, 2.—So often in eccl. Lat.:

    ad te Domine, levavi animam meam,

    Vulg. Psa. 24, 1; 102, 1; 118, 129:

    magnificat anima mea Dominum,

    ib. Luc. 1, 46; ib. Act. 15, 24 al.—
    b.
    As the seat of feeling (cf. animus, II. B.): sapimus animo, fruimur animā: sine animo anima est debilis, Att. ap. Non. p. 426, 29 (Trag. Rel. p. 175 Rib.):

    desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus,

    Vulg. Psa. 41, 2:

    tristis est anima mea,

    ib. Matt. 26, 38; ib. Joan. 10, 27 et saep.—
    E.
    For consciousness (cf. animus, II. A. 3. and conscientia, II. A.):

    cum perhibetur animam liquisse,

    Lucr. 3, 598; in this phrase animus is more common.

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  • 6 aetās

        aetās ātis （ gen plur. -tum; sometimes -tium, L.), f    [for older aevitas], the life of man, age, lifetime, years: amicitia cum aetate adcrevit, T.: acta aetas honeste: expectemus Tartessiorum regis aetatem, i. e. a life as long: satis aetatis habere, to be old enough: aetatis quod reliquum est meae, the rest of my life: vix ullum discrimen aetatis, L.: tertia, i. e. century, O.—Age, time of life: dum aetas prohibebit (sc. te scire), T.: ab ineunte aetate, from his entrance into life: prima, childhood: puerilis, Cs.: aetatis flos, youthful vigor: cuius aetas a senatorio gradu longe abesset, i. e. youth: propter aetatem eius, Cs.: qui aliquid aetatis habebant, i. e. the youth: quarta, i. e. the fourth year, V.: respice aetatem tuam (i. e. senectutem), T.: iam adfectus aetate: morbo atque aetate confectus, S.: exactā aetate, in old age, L.: aetatis excusatio, plea of age, Cs.: id aetatis duo filii, of that age: cum id aetatis filio: cum illud esset aetatis: ad hoc aetatis a pueritiā, S. — Of plants: adolescit frondibus aetas, V.—Of sheep: par aetas, haedi, O.—Meton., a space of time, age, period, generation, time: heroicae aetates: aetas succedit aetati: nec ulla umquam aetas: aetatis suae primi, N.: Veniet lustris labentibus aetas, cum, etc., V.: prior, O.: crastina, the future, H.—Of the four ages of the world (the golden age, silver age, etc.), O.—Time, the flight of time, advancing age: te aetas mitigabit: fugerit invida aetas, H.: omnia fert aetas, V.— Men of an age: cum vestrā etiam aetate, with young men: vos, acrior aetas, O iuvenes, O.: militaris fere aetas omnis, L. — The age, men of the age: nos dura Aetas, H.: Inventum omnis quem credidit aetas, etc., V.—In acc. of time: me aetatem censes velle, etc., forever? T.: an abiit iam a milite? Iam dudum, aetatem, an age, T.
    * * *
    lifetime, age, generation; period; stage, period of life, time, era

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  • 7 lux

    lux, lūcis (adverb. abl. luce, luci, and lucu, and in these old forms also used as m.; v. infra; in Plaut. lux is usually m.; Brix ad Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 11), f. [luceo], light.
    I.
    Lit.
    1.
    In gen., the light of the sun and other heavenly bodies:

    cum id solis luce videatur clarius,

    Cic. Div. 1, 3, 6; id. Tusc. 1, 37, 90; id. Cat. 1, 3; id. Cael. 9:

    per umbras Stella facem ducens multā cum luce cucurrit,

    Verg. A. 2, 694: a lucifero donec lux occidat, till sunset, Juv, 13, 158. — The light, splendor, brightness of shining bodies:

    viridi cum luce zmaragdi,

    Lucr. 4, 1126:

    luce coruscus ahenā,

    Verg. A. 2, 470:

    lucem non fundentes gemmae,

    Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 94:

    ferri,

    Stat. Th. 8, 124.—
    2.
    In partic., the light of day, daylight, day:

    diurna,

    Lucr. 6, 848:

    Metellus cum primā luce in campum currebat,

    Cic. Att. 4, 3, 4:

    ante lucem,

    id. de Or. 2, 64, 259:

    primā luce ad eum accurrit,

    at daybreak, dawn of day, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:

    luce sub ipsā,

    on the very verge of day, Verg. G. 4, 490:

    in luci,

    by day, Lucr. 4, 233:

    luce reversā,

    Juv. 6, 312.—Hence,
    b.
    In abl. adverb.: luce, luci, and (ante-class.) lucu, by daylight, in the daytime:

    ut luce palam in foro saltet,

    Cic. Off. 3, 24, 93; so,

    luce,

    id. Pis. 10, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 36, 48; Verg. A. 9, 153 al.:

    nocte ac luce,

    Juv. 15, 43:

    ut veniamus luci,

    Plaut. Cas. 4, 2, 7:

    cum luci simul,

    id. Merc. 2, 1, 31:

    luci claro,

    id. Aul. 4, 10, 18; cf. Non. 210, 9:

    quis audeat luci,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 10, 25:

    quodsi luce quoque canes latrent,

    id. Rosc. Am. 20, 56; Liv. 35, 4, 5:

    cum primo lucu ibo hinc,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 55:

    cum primo luci,

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 49.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    The heavenly bodies:

    illae, quae fulgent luces,

    Cic. Arat. 96.—
    2.
    A day:

    centesima lux est ab interitu P. Clodii,

    Cic. Mil. 35, 98:

    longiore luce ad id certamen nobis opus est,

    Liv. 3, 2:

    anxia nocte, anxia luce gemit,

    Ov. M. 2, 806:

    crastina,

    Verg. A. 10, 244:

    natali die mihi dulcior haec lux,

    Juv. 12, 1:

    septima quaeque lux,

    id. 14, 105; cf.:

    natura volvente vices et lucis et anni,

    id. 13, 88. —Hence, poet.:

    lux aestiva,

    summer, Verg. G. 4, 52:

    lux brumalis,

    winter, Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 39.—
    3.
    Life:

    qui ab Orco mortuom me reducem in lucem feceris,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 4, 12:

    corpora luce carentum,

    i. e. of the dead, Verg. G. 4, 255; Sil. 13, 473; cf.:

    simul atque editi in lucem sumus,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 2.—
    4.
    An eye, the eyesight:

    effossae squalent vestigia lucis,

    Stat. Th. 11, 585:

    damnum lucis ademptae,

    Ov. M. 14, 197.—
    5.
    A light, of an eminent man to whom all eyes turn:

    Luce nihil gestum, nihil est Diomede remoto,

    Ov. M. 13, 100.—Of a beloved person:

    o lux salve candida,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 34.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    The sight of all men, the public view, the public, the world:

    nec vero ille in luce modo, atque in oculis civium magnus sed intus domique praestantior,

    Cic. Sen. 4, 12: Isocrates forensi luce caruit, id. Brut. 8, 32:

    familiam abjectam et obscu ram e tenebris in lucem vocare,

    id. Deiot. 11, 30:

    res occultas aperire in lucemque proferre,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 62.—
    B.
    Light, encouragement, help, succor:

    lux quaedam videbatur oblata, non modo regno, sed etiam regni timore sublato,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 40:

    civibus lucem ingenii et consilii porrigere,

    id. de Or. 1, 40, 184; cf.:

    lucem adferre rei publicae,

    id. Manil. 12, 33.—
    C.
    A light, an ornament:

    hanc urbem, lucem orbis terrarum,

    Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 11:

    genus sine luce,

    undistinguished, obscure, Sil. 8, 248.—
    D.
    Light, illustration, elucidation:

    historia testis temporum, lux veritatis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 36.—
    E.
    That which enlightens, the source of illumination: ratio quasi quaedam lux lumenque vitae. Cic. Ac. 2, 8, 26; cf.:

    ego sum lux mundi,

    Vulg. John, 8, 12; id. ib. 12, 26.

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  • 8 parvissime

    parvus, a, um, adj. (usual, irreg. comp. and sup.: mĭnor, mĭnĭmus.— Comp.:

    volantum parviores,

    Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 26.— Sup.: rictus parvissimus, Varr. ap. Non. 456, 10:

    parvissima corpora,

    Lucr. 1, 615; 621; 3, 199: minerrimus pro minimo dixerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 122 Müll.:

    minimissimus,

    Arn. 5, n. 8) [kindr. with paucus and Gr. pauros; cf., also, parum, parcus], little, small, petty, puny, inconsiderable (cf.: exiguus, minutus, brevis; in class. prose parvus is not used, like brevis, of stature, v. Auct. Her. 4, 33, 45).
    I.
    Posit.:

    in parvis aut mediocribus rebus,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 84:

    quam parva sit terra, etc.,

    id. Rep. 1, 17, 26; cf. id. ib. 6, 16, 16:

    commoda parva ac mediocria,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 1:

    in parvum quendam et angustum locum concludi,

    id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:

    beneficium non parvum,

    id. Caecin. 10, 26:

    parvi pisciculi,

    id. N. D. 2, 48, 123:

    haec parva et infirma sunt,

    id. Clu. 34, 94:

    si parva licet componere magnis,

    Verg. G. 4, 176:

    merces,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 86:

    sucus,

    Plin. 21, 31, 105, § 178 et saep.:

    liberi,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37;

    so of children: salutaria appetant parvi,

    the little ones, id. Fin. 3, 5, 16:

    parva soror,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 15; cf.:

    memini quae plagosum mihi parvo Orbilium dictare,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 70:

    operosa parvus Carmina fingo,

    a little man, id. C. 4, 2, 31; Suet. Aug. 48:

    a parvis didicimus: si in jus vocat, etc.,

    when little, in childhood, Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

    puer in domo a parvo eductus,

    from infancy, Liv. 1, 39 fin. —Of time, little, short, brief:

    parvae consuetudinis Causa,

    slight, short, Ter. And. 1, 1, 83; cf.:

    in parvo tempore,

    Lucr. 5, 106:

    nox,

    Luc. 4, 476:

    vita,

    id. 6, 806:

    parvam fidem habere alicui,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 117:

    hic onus horret, Ut parvis animis et parvo corpore majus,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 39:

    homo parvo ingenio,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 29:

    parvum carmen,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 257:

    hoc opus, hoc studium parvi properemus et ampli,

    both small and great, id. ib. 1, 3, 28.—With ref. to value or consequence, little, small, low, mean, etc.:

    meam erus esse operam deputat parvi pretii,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 1:

    nil parvom aut humili modo, Nil mortale loquar,

    Hor. C. 3, 25, 17:

    et magnis parva mineris Falce recisurum simili te,

    id. S. 1, 3, 122:

    pretio parvo vendere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 134:

    parvi sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi,

    of little value, id. Off. 1, 22, 76:

    parvi refert abs te jus dici diligenter, nisi, etc.,

    it matters little, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 20.—Hence, parvi facere, aestimare, ducere, pendere, etc., to esteem lightly, care little for:

    parvi ego illos facio,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 41:

    parvi aestimo, si ego hic peribo,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 24:

    quia parvi id duceret,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24: nequam hominis ego parvi pendo gratiam, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 29.—So, in abl.:

    signa abs te diligenter parvoque curata sunt,

    Cic. Att. 1, 3, 2; so,

    quanti emptus? parvo,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 156:

    parvo stat magna potentia nobis,

    Ov. M. 14, 493:

    parvo contentus esse possum,

    with little, Cic. Att. 12, 19, 1; cf.:

    vivitur parvo bene,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 13:

    possim contentus vivere parvo,

    Tib. 1, 1, 25:

    agricolae prisci, fortes parvoque beati,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 139:

    necessarium est parvo assuescere,

    Sen. Ep. 123, 3: parvo, as an abl. of measure, with comp. (rarely;

    perh. not ante-Aug.): ita ut parvo admodum plures caperentur,

    a very little more, Liv. 10, 45, 11:

    parvo brevius,

    Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168:

    haud parvo junior,

    Gell. 13, 2, 2.—So in designating time:

    parvo post,

    Plin. 16, 25, 42, § 103:

    parvo post tempore,

    Vulg. 2 Macc. 11, 1.—Of stature (late Lat. for brevis):

    Zacchaeus staturā parvus erat,

    Aug. Serm. 113, 3; id. in Psa. 143, 1.
    II.
    Comp.: mĭnor, us [cf. Gr. minus, minuthô], less, lesser, smaller, inferior:

    quod in re majore valet, valeat in minore,

    Cic. Top. 4, 23:

    si ea pecunia non minor esset facta,

    id. Leg. 2, 20, 51:

    Hibernia dimidio minor quam Britannia,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13:

    minus praedae quam speraverant fuit,

    a smaller quantity, less, Liv. 4, 51:

    sociis dimidio minus quam civibus datum,

    id. 41, 13 fin.:

    calceus... si minor (pede), uret,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 43:

    neve minor, neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula,

    less than five acts, id. A. P. 189:

    genibus minor,

    i. e. down upon his knees, on his bended knees, id. Ep. 1, 12, 28; cf.:

    minor in certamine longo,

    worsted, id. ib. 1, 10, 35:

    numero plures, virtute et honore minores,

    inferior, id. ib. 2, 1, 183.— Absol.: minor, inferior in rank:

    praevalidi ad injurias minorum elati,

    Tac. A. 15, 20; Ov. P. 4, 7, 49; cf.:

    sapiens uno minor est Jove,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 106:

    minor capitis, i. e. capiti deminutus,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 42: et sunt notitiā multa minora tuā, too trivial, = leviora, Ov. Tr. 2, 214:

    dies sermone minor fuit,

    too short for, id. P. 2, 10, 37:

    infans Et minor igne rogi,

    too young for, Juv. 15, 140.—With abl. of measure, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 117:

    ut uno minus teste haberet?

    id. ib. 2, 1, 57, §

    149: bis sex Herculeis ceciderunt, me minus uno, Viribus,

    i. e. eleven, Ov. M. 12, 554.—Of age:

    qui minor est natu,

    younger, Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    aliquot annis minor natu,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 61:

    aetate minor,

    Ov. M. 7, 499:

    minor uno mense,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 40:

    filia minor Ptolemaei regis,

    the younger daughter, Caes. B. C. 3, 112:

    minor viginti annis,

    less than twenty years old, under twenty years of age, Dig. 30, 99, 1.— With gen.:

    minor quam viginti quinque annorum natu, Praetor,

    Dig. 4, 4, 1; id. ib. 50, 2, 6:

    si pupilla minor quam viripotens nupserit,

    id. ib. 36, 2, 30.—So, absol.: minor, a person under age (under five-and-twenty), a minor:

    De minoribus,

    Dig. 4, tit. 4:

    si minor negotiis majoris intervenerit,

    ib. 4, 4, 24:

    si minor praetor vel consul jus dixerit, valebit,

    ib. 42, 1, 57.— Poet., children, Sil. 2, 491.—Also, descendants, posterity, = posteri:

    nunc fama, minores Italiam dixisse ducis de nomine gentem,

    Verg. A. 1, 532; so id. ib. 733; Prop. 2, 15, 47; Sil. 16, 44:

    minorum gentium, v. gens.—In specifications of value: vendo meum non pluris quam ceteri, fortasse etiam minoris,

    cheaper, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 51:

    minoris pallium addicere placuit,

    Petr. 14: omnia minoris aestimare, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 2:

    (fidem suam) non minoris quam publicam ducebat,

    Sall. J. 32, 5.—
    (β).
    Poet., with acc. respect.:

    frontemque minor truncam amnis Acarnan,

    Sil. 3, 42; Val. Fl. 1, 582.—
    (γ).
    Poet., with inf.:

    tanto certare minor,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 313:

    heu Fatis Superi certare minores!

    Sil. 5, 76.
    III.
    Sup.: mĭnĭmus, a, um (whence a new sup.:

    minimissimus digitorum,

    Arn. 5, 160; 166; cf., in the Gr., elachistotatos, from elachistos), very small, very little; least, smallest, etc.:

    cum sit nihil omnino in rerum naturā minimum, quod dividi nequeat,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

    minimae tenuissimaeque res,

    id. de Or. 1, 37, 169:

    minima pars temporis,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 70:

    quā minima altitudo fluminis erat,

    id. B. G. 1, 8:

    in maximā fortunā minima licentia est,

    Sall. C. 51, 13:

    vitia,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 69:

    minimus digitulus,

    the little finger, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 15; so,

    minimus digitus,

    Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 251.—Of age: minimus natu horum omnium, the youngest, Cic. de Or. 2, 14, 58:

    ex his omnibus natu minimus,

    id. Clu. 38, 107:

    Hiempsal, qui minimus ex illis erat,

    Sall. J. 11, 3:

    minimus filius,

    Just. 42, 5, 6.—In specifications of value:

    deos minimi facit,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 35: Pe. Quanti emi potest minimo? Ep. Ad quadraginta fortasse eam posse emi minimo minis, id. Ep. 2, 2, 110: Crispinus minimo me provocat, for a trifle (in a wager), Hor. S. 1, 4, 14 (minimo provocare dicuntur hi qui in responsione plus ipsi promittunt quam exigunt ab adversario, Schol.).—Prov.:

    minima de malis,

    of evils choose the least, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 105.—

    With a negation emphatically: non minimo discrimine, i. e. maximo,

    Suet. Aug. 25:

    res non minimi periculi,

    id. ib. 67:

    ut nihil, ne pro minimis quidem, debeant,

    Liv. 6, 41. —With gen.:

    minimum firmitatis minimumque virium,

    Cic. Lael. 13, 46:

    minimum pedibus itineris confectum,

    Liv. 44, 5:

    unde minimum periculi erat,

    id. 27, 15.— As adv. absol.:

    praemia apud me minimum valent,

    very little, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 11; cf. Quint. 5, 10, 56:

    minimum distantia miror,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 72:

    dormiebat minimum,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11:

    medica secatur sexies per annos: cum minimum, quater,

    at least, Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 146:

    quam minimum credula postero (diei),

    as little as possible, Hor. C. 1, 11, 8:

    ita fiunt omnes partes minimum octoginta et una,

    at least, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 12:

    quae (comprehensio) ex tribus minimum partibus constat,

    Quint. 5, 10, 5:

    in quo non minimum Aetolorum operā regii fugati atque in castra compulsi sunt,

    chiefly, particularly, Liv. 33, 6, 6:

    eae omnia novella sata corrumpunt, non minimum vites,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 18.—Hence, adv.
    A.
    Posit.: parvē, a little, slightly (very rare), Vitr. 9, 6.—
    B.
    Comp.: mĭnus, less:

    aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,

    too little... too much, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:

    ne quid plus minusve faxit,

    id. Phorm. 3, 3, 21 (v. plus, under multus):

    cum habeas plus, Pauperiem metuas minus,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 93:

    ne mea oratio, si minus de aliquo dixero, ingrata: si satis de omnibus, infinita esse videatur,

    Cic. Sest. 50, 108:

    metus ipsi per se minus valerent, nisi, etc.,

    id. Div. 2, 72, 150:

    minus multi,

    not so many, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 138:

    minus multum et minus bonum vinum,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2:

    ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur,

    less good, not so good, Sall. C. 2, 6:

    quia Libyes quam Gaetuli minus bellicosi,

    Sall. J. 18, 12:

    minus diu vivunt,

    Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 141.—Rarely with comp.:

    minus admirabilior,

    Flor. 4, 2, 46 Duker: quare milites Metelli sauciabantur multo minus, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1; cf. Ov. M. 12, 554:

    civilem admodum inter initia ac paulo minus quam privatum egit,

    little less so than, nearly as much so as, Suet. Tib. 26:

    dimidio minus,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 3.—With quam:

    nec illa minus aut plus quam tu sapiat,

    Plaut. As. 4, 1, 28:

    minus quam aequom erat feci,

    id. Aul. 3, 2, 10:

    respondebo tibi minus fortasse vehementer, quam abs te sum provocatus,

    Cic. Planc. 30, 72.—With atque:

    qui peccas minus atque ego?

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 96.—And elliptically, without a particle of comparison:

    minus quindecim dies sunt, quod, etc.,

    less than fifteen days, not yet fifteen days, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 1:

    madefactum iri minus XXX. diebus Graeciam sanguine,

    Cic. Div. 1, 32, 68:

    minus quinquennium est, quod prodiere,

    Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 104:

    cecidere duo milia haud minus peditum,

    Liv. 42, 6:

    cum centum et quinquaginta non minus adessent,

    id. 42, 28; Varr. R. R. 2, 2 fin.:

    ut ex suā cujusque parte ne minus dimidium ad Trebonium perveniret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, § 123:

    ut antequam baccae legantur, ne minus triduum serenum fuerit,

    Col. 12, 38, 6.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Non (haud) minus quam (atque), not less than, no less than, quite as:

    exanimatus evolat ex senatu, non minus perturbato animo atque vultu, quam si, etc.,

    Cic. Sest. 12, 28:

    existumans non minus me tibi quam liberos carum fore,

    Sall. J. 10, 1:

    non minus nobis jucundi atque illustres sunt ii dies, quibus conservamur quam illi quibus nascimur,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Quint. 2, 4, 8; 3, 7, 20:

    laudibus haud minus quam praemio gaudent militum animi,

    Liv. 2, 60:

    haud minus ac jussi faciunt,

    Verg. A. 3, 561.—
    b.
    Non (neque) minus, equally, and as well, also: haec res [p. 1311] non minus me male habet quam te, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 30: quae hominibus non minus quam liberi cara esse debent, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 3; Ov. H. 19, 86:

    neque minus assiduis fessa choreis,

    also, Prop. 1, 3, 3.—
    c.
    Nihil minus, in replies, as a strong negation, by no means, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 45: Py. At tu apud nos hic mane, Dum redeat ipsa. Ch. Nihil minus, id. ib. 3, 3, 29:

    nihil profecto minus,

    Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81; cf.: quid? a Tranione servo? Si. Multo id minus, Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 20.—
    d.
    Minus minusque, minus et (ac) minus, less and less: mihi jam minus minusque obtemperat. Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 33:

    jam minus atque minus successu laetus equorum,

    Verg. A. 12, 616; Hor. C. 1, 25, 6:

    minus et minus,

    Ov. P. 2, 8, 73; id. H. 2, 129:

    minus ac minus,

    Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 26.—
    3.
    Transf., in a softened negation, not at all, by no means, not:

    quod intellexi minus,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 11:

    nonnumquam ea quae praedicta sunt, minus eveniunt,

    Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24.—Esp.:

    si minus: monebo, si quem meministi minus,

    Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 19:

    Syracusis, si minus supplicio affici, at custodiri oportebat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, § 69:

    quod si assecutus sum, gaudeo: sin minus, hoc me tamen consolor quod, etc.,

    id. Fam. 7, 1, 6 et saep.; so,

    minus formido ne exedat,

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 45. —
    b.
    Quo minus, also written as one word, quominus, that not, from, after verbs of hindering, preventing, as impedio, recuso, deterreo, etc., Ter. And. 1, 2, 26:

    si te infirmitas valetudinis tenuit, quo minus ad ludos venires,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 1; 7, 1, 6:

    hiemem credo prohibuisse, quo minus de te certum haberemus, quid ageres,

    id. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

    deterrere aliquem, quo minus, etc.,

    id. Tusc. 1, 38, 91:

    stetisse per Trebonium, quo minus oppido potirentur, videbatur,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 13 fin.; Quint. 12, 1, 16;

    v. also quo. —Ante-class. also in the reverse order, minus quo: ne vereatur, minus jam quo redeat domum,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 8.—
    C.
    Sup., in two forms, parvissime (post-class.), and minime (class.), least, very little.
    1.
    par-vissĭmē:

    memorare aliquid,

    very briefly, with very few words, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 38. —
    2.
    mĭnĭmē, least of all, in the smallest degree, least, very little:

    cum minime vellem, minimeque opus fuit,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 42:

    cum minime videbamur, tum maxime philosophabamur,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6; id. Or. 66, 222:

    mihi placebat Pomponius maxime, vel dicam minime displicebat,

    id. Brut. 57, 207:

    quod in miserrimis rebus minime miserum putabis, id facies,

    id. Fam. 14, 13:

    quod minime ad eos mercatores saepe commeant,

    very rarely, Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 3; Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 322.—Strengthened by quam:

    si non decore, at quam minime dedecore facere possimus,

    as little as possible, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114; by omnium and gentium:

    ad te minime omnium pertinebat,

    id. Rosc. Am. 34, 96:

    minime gentium,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 77:

    heus, inquit, puer, arcesse Pamphilam,... illa exclamat, Minime gentium,

    not for any thing in the world, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 11; id. Ad. 3, 2, 44.—
    B.
    In partic.
    a.
    For minimum, saltem, at least:

    is morbus erit longissimus minimeque annuus,

    Cels. 2, 8 fin. Targ.:

    pedes decem vel minime novem,

    Col. 1, 6, 6:

    sed id minime bis anno arari debet,

    id. 5, 9, 12; id. Arb. 16, 3.—
    b.
    In replies, as an emphatic negative, by no means, not at all, not in the least, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 50: Ba. Sed cessas? Pa. Minime equidem:

    nam hodie, etc.,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 16: M. An tu haec non credis? A. Minime vero, Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 10: num igitur peccamus? Minime vos quidem. id. Att. 8, 9, 2:

    minime, minime hercle vero!

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 23; so in discourse: minime multi (= quam paucissimi). Ter. Eun. prol. 2: minume irasci decet. Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 27; Sall. C. 51, 13.—Strengthened by gentium (cf.supra): Nau. Meriton' hoc meo videtur factum? De. Minime gentium, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 44.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > parvissime

  • 9 parvus

    parvus, a, um, adj. (usual, irreg. comp. and sup.: mĭnor, mĭnĭmus.— Comp.:

    volantum parviores,

    Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 26.— Sup.: rictus parvissimus, Varr. ap. Non. 456, 10:

    parvissima corpora,

    Lucr. 1, 615; 621; 3, 199: minerrimus pro minimo dixerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 122 Müll.:

    minimissimus,

    Arn. 5, n. 8) [kindr. with paucus and Gr. pauros; cf., also, parum, parcus], little, small, petty, puny, inconsiderable (cf.: exiguus, minutus, brevis; in class. prose parvus is not used, like brevis, of stature, v. Auct. Her. 4, 33, 45).
    I.
    Posit.:

    in parvis aut mediocribus rebus,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 84:

    quam parva sit terra, etc.,

    id. Rep. 1, 17, 26; cf. id. ib. 6, 16, 16:

    commoda parva ac mediocria,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 1:

    in parvum quendam et angustum locum concludi,

    id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:

    beneficium non parvum,

    id. Caecin. 10, 26:

    parvi pisciculi,

    id. N. D. 2, 48, 123:

    haec parva et infirma sunt,

    id. Clu. 34, 94:

    si parva licet componere magnis,

    Verg. G. 4, 176:

    merces,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 86:

    sucus,

    Plin. 21, 31, 105, § 178 et saep.:

    liberi,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37;

    so of children: salutaria appetant parvi,

    the little ones, id. Fin. 3, 5, 16:

    parva soror,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 15; cf.:

    memini quae plagosum mihi parvo Orbilium dictare,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 70:

    operosa parvus Carmina fingo,

    a little man, id. C. 4, 2, 31; Suet. Aug. 48:

    a parvis didicimus: si in jus vocat, etc.,

    when little, in childhood, Cic. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

    puer in domo a parvo eductus,

    from infancy, Liv. 1, 39 fin. —Of time, little, short, brief:

    parvae consuetudinis Causa,

    slight, short, Ter. And. 1, 1, 83; cf.:

    in parvo tempore,

    Lucr. 5, 106:

    nox,

    Luc. 4, 476:

    vita,

    id. 6, 806:

    parvam fidem habere alicui,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 117:

    hic onus horret, Ut parvis animis et parvo corpore majus,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 39:

    homo parvo ingenio,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 29:

    parvum carmen,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 257:

    hoc opus, hoc studium parvi properemus et ampli,

    both small and great, id. ib. 1, 3, 28.—With ref. to value or consequence, little, small, low, mean, etc.:

    meam erus esse operam deputat parvi pretii,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 1:

    nil parvom aut humili modo, Nil mortale loquar,

    Hor. C. 3, 25, 17:

    et magnis parva mineris Falce recisurum simili te,

    id. S. 1, 3, 122:

    pretio parvo vendere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 134:

    parvi sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi,

    of little value, id. Off. 1, 22, 76:

    parvi refert abs te jus dici diligenter, nisi, etc.,

    it matters little, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 20.—Hence, parvi facere, aestimare, ducere, pendere, etc., to esteem lightly, care little for:

    parvi ego illos facio,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 41:

    parvi aestimo, si ego hic peribo,

    id. Capt. 3, 5, 24:

    quia parvi id duceret,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 24: nequam hominis ego parvi pendo gratiam, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 29.—So, in abl.:

    signa abs te diligenter parvoque curata sunt,

    Cic. Att. 1, 3, 2; so,

    quanti emptus? parvo,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 156:

    parvo stat magna potentia nobis,

    Ov. M. 14, 493:

    parvo contentus esse possum,

    with little, Cic. Att. 12, 19, 1; cf.:

    vivitur parvo bene,

    Hor. C. 2, 16, 13:

    possim contentus vivere parvo,

    Tib. 1, 1, 25:

    agricolae prisci, fortes parvoque beati,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 139:

    necessarium est parvo assuescere,

    Sen. Ep. 123, 3: parvo, as an abl. of measure, with comp. (rarely;

    perh. not ante-Aug.): ita ut parvo admodum plures caperentur,

    a very little more, Liv. 10, 45, 11:

    parvo brevius,

    Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 168:

    haud parvo junior,

    Gell. 13, 2, 2.—So in designating time:

    parvo post,

    Plin. 16, 25, 42, § 103:

    parvo post tempore,

    Vulg. 2 Macc. 11, 1.—Of stature (late Lat. for brevis):

    Zacchaeus staturā parvus erat,

    Aug. Serm. 113, 3; id. in Psa. 143, 1.
    II.
    Comp.: mĭnor, us [cf. Gr. minus, minuthô], less, lesser, smaller, inferior:

    quod in re majore valet, valeat in minore,

    Cic. Top. 4, 23:

    si ea pecunia non minor esset facta,

    id. Leg. 2, 20, 51:

    Hibernia dimidio minor quam Britannia,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 13:

    minus praedae quam speraverant fuit,

    a smaller quantity, less, Liv. 4, 51:

    sociis dimidio minus quam civibus datum,

    id. 41, 13 fin.:

    calceus... si minor (pede), uret,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 43:

    neve minor, neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula,

    less than five acts, id. A. P. 189:

    genibus minor,

    i. e. down upon his knees, on his bended knees, id. Ep. 1, 12, 28; cf.:

    minor in certamine longo,

    worsted, id. ib. 1, 10, 35:

    numero plures, virtute et honore minores,

    inferior, id. ib. 2, 1, 183.— Absol.: minor, inferior in rank:

    praevalidi ad injurias minorum elati,

    Tac. A. 15, 20; Ov. P. 4, 7, 49; cf.:

    sapiens uno minor est Jove,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 106:

    minor capitis, i. e. capiti deminutus,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 42: et sunt notitiā multa minora tuā, too trivial, = leviora, Ov. Tr. 2, 214:

    dies sermone minor fuit,

    too short for, id. P. 2, 10, 37:

    infans Et minor igne rogi,

    too young for, Juv. 15, 140.—With abl. of measure, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 117:

    ut uno minus teste haberet?

    id. ib. 2, 1, 57, §

    149: bis sex Herculeis ceciderunt, me minus uno, Viribus,

    i. e. eleven, Ov. M. 12, 554.—Of age:

    qui minor est natu,

    younger, Cic. Lael. 9, 32:

    aliquot annis minor natu,

    id. Ac. 2, 19, 61:

    aetate minor,

    Ov. M. 7, 499:

    minor uno mense,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 40:

    filia minor Ptolemaei regis,

    the younger daughter, Caes. B. C. 3, 112:

    minor viginti annis,

    less than twenty years old, under twenty years of age, Dig. 30, 99, 1.— With gen.:

    minor quam viginti quinque annorum natu, Praetor,

    Dig. 4, 4, 1; id. ib. 50, 2, 6:

    si pupilla minor quam viripotens nupserit,

    id. ib. 36, 2, 30.—So, absol.: minor, a person under age (under five-and-twenty), a minor:

    De minoribus,

    Dig. 4, tit. 4:

    si minor negotiis majoris intervenerit,

    ib. 4, 4, 24:

    si minor praetor vel consul jus dixerit, valebit,

    ib. 42, 1, 57.— Poet., children, Sil. 2, 491.—Also, descendants, posterity, = posteri:

    nunc fama, minores Italiam dixisse ducis de nomine gentem,

    Verg. A. 1, 532; so id. ib. 733; Prop. 2, 15, 47; Sil. 16, 44:

    minorum gentium, v. gens.—In specifications of value: vendo meum non pluris quam ceteri, fortasse etiam minoris,

    cheaper, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 51:

    minoris pallium addicere placuit,

    Petr. 14: omnia minoris aestimare, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 2:

    (fidem suam) non minoris quam publicam ducebat,

    Sall. J. 32, 5.—
    (β).
    Poet., with acc. respect.:

    frontemque minor truncam amnis Acarnan,

    Sil. 3, 42; Val. Fl. 1, 582.—
    (γ).
    Poet., with inf.:

    tanto certare minor,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 313:

    heu Fatis Superi certare minores!

    Sil. 5, 76.
    III.
    Sup.: mĭnĭmus, a, um (whence a new sup.:

    minimissimus digitorum,

    Arn. 5, 160; 166; cf., in the Gr., elachistotatos, from elachistos), very small, very little; least, smallest, etc.:

    cum sit nihil omnino in rerum naturā minimum, quod dividi nequeat,

    Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

    minimae tenuissimaeque res,

    id. de Or. 1, 37, 169:

    minima pars temporis,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 70:

    quā minima altitudo fluminis erat,

    id. B. G. 1, 8:

    in maximā fortunā minima licentia est,

    Sall. C. 51, 13:

    vitia,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 69:

    minimus digitulus,

    the little finger, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 15; so,

    minimus digitus,

    Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 251.—Of age: minimus natu horum omnium, the youngest, Cic. de Or. 2, 14, 58:

    ex his omnibus natu minimus,

    id. Clu. 38, 107:

    Hiempsal, qui minimus ex illis erat,

    Sall. J. 11, 3:

    minimus filius,

    Just. 42, 5, 6.—In specifications of value:

    deos minimi facit,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 35: Pe. Quanti emi potest minimo? Ep. Ad quadraginta fortasse eam posse emi minimo minis, id. Ep. 2, 2, 110: Crispinus minimo me provocat, for a trifle (in a wager), Hor. S. 1, 4, 14 (minimo provocare dicuntur hi qui in responsione plus ipsi promittunt quam exigunt ab adversario, Schol.).—Prov.:

    minima de malis,

    of evils choose the least, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 105.—

    With a negation emphatically: non minimo discrimine, i. e. maximo,

    Suet. Aug. 25:

    res non minimi periculi,

    id. ib. 67:

    ut nihil, ne pro minimis quidem, debeant,

    Liv. 6, 41. —With gen.:

    minimum firmitatis minimumque virium,

    Cic. Lael. 13, 46:

    minimum pedibus itineris confectum,

    Liv. 44, 5:

    unde minimum periculi erat,

    id. 27, 15.— As adv. absol.:

    praemia apud me minimum valent,

    very little, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 11; cf. Quint. 5, 10, 56:

    minimum distantia miror,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 72:

    dormiebat minimum,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 11:

    medica secatur sexies per annos: cum minimum, quater,

    at least, Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 146:

    quam minimum credula postero (diei),

    as little as possible, Hor. C. 1, 11, 8:

    ita fiunt omnes partes minimum octoginta et una,

    at least, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 12:

    quae (comprehensio) ex tribus minimum partibus constat,

    Quint. 5, 10, 5:

    in quo non minimum Aetolorum operā regii fugati atque in castra compulsi sunt,

    chiefly, particularly, Liv. 33, 6, 6:

    eae omnia novella sata corrumpunt, non minimum vites,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 18.—Hence, adv.
    A.
    Posit.: parvē, a little, slightly (very rare), Vitr. 9, 6.—
    B.
    Comp.: mĭnus, less:

    aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,

    too little... too much, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:

    ne quid plus minusve faxit,

    id. Phorm. 3, 3, 21 (v. plus, under multus):

    cum habeas plus, Pauperiem metuas minus,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 93:

    ne mea oratio, si minus de aliquo dixero, ingrata: si satis de omnibus, infinita esse videatur,

    Cic. Sest. 50, 108:

    metus ipsi per se minus valerent, nisi, etc.,

    id. Div. 2, 72, 150:

    minus multi,

    not so many, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 138:

    minus multum et minus bonum vinum,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2:

    ita imperium semper ad optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur,

    less good, not so good, Sall. C. 2, 6:

    quia Libyes quam Gaetuli minus bellicosi,

    Sall. J. 18, 12:

    minus diu vivunt,

    Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 141.—Rarely with comp.:

    minus admirabilior,

    Flor. 4, 2, 46 Duker: quare milites Metelli sauciabantur multo minus, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1; cf. Ov. M. 12, 554:

    civilem admodum inter initia ac paulo minus quam privatum egit,

    little less so than, nearly as much so as, Suet. Tib. 26:

    dimidio minus,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 3.—With quam:

    nec illa minus aut plus quam tu sapiat,

    Plaut. As. 4, 1, 28:

    minus quam aequom erat feci,

    id. Aul. 3, 2, 10:

    respondebo tibi minus fortasse vehementer, quam abs te sum provocatus,

    Cic. Planc. 30, 72.—With atque:

    qui peccas minus atque ego?

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 96.—And elliptically, without a particle of comparison:

    minus quindecim dies sunt, quod, etc.,

    less than fifteen days, not yet fifteen days, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 1:

    madefactum iri minus XXX. diebus Graeciam sanguine,

    Cic. Div. 1, 32, 68:

    minus quinquennium est, quod prodiere,

    Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 104:

    cecidere duo milia haud minus peditum,

    Liv. 42, 6:

    cum centum et quinquaginta non minus adessent,

    id. 42, 28; Varr. R. R. 2, 2 fin.:

    ut ex suā cujusque parte ne minus dimidium ad Trebonium perveniret,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, § 123:

    ut antequam baccae legantur, ne minus triduum serenum fuerit,

    Col. 12, 38, 6.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Non (haud) minus quam (atque), not less than, no less than, quite as:

    exanimatus evolat ex senatu, non minus perturbato animo atque vultu, quam si, etc.,

    Cic. Sest. 12, 28:

    existumans non minus me tibi quam liberos carum fore,

    Sall. J. 10, 1:

    non minus nobis jucundi atque illustres sunt ii dies, quibus conservamur quam illi quibus nascimur,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2; Quint. 2, 4, 8; 3, 7, 20:

    laudibus haud minus quam praemio gaudent militum animi,

    Liv. 2, 60:

    haud minus ac jussi faciunt,

    Verg. A. 3, 561.—
    b.
    Non (neque) minus, equally, and as well, also: haec res [p. 1311] non minus me male habet quam te, Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 30: quae hominibus non minus quam liberi cara esse debent, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 3; Ov. H. 19, 86:

    neque minus assiduis fessa choreis,

    also, Prop. 1, 3, 3.—
    c.
    Nihil minus, in replies, as a strong negation, by no means, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 45: Py. At tu apud nos hic mane, Dum redeat ipsa. Ch. Nihil minus, id. ib. 3, 3, 29:

    nihil profecto minus,

    Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81; cf.: quid? a Tranione servo? Si. Multo id minus, Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 20.—
    d.
    Minus minusque, minus et (ac) minus, less and less: mihi jam minus minusque obtemperat. Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 33:

    jam minus atque minus successu laetus equorum,

    Verg. A. 12, 616; Hor. C. 1, 25, 6:

    minus et minus,

    Ov. P. 2, 8, 73; id. H. 2, 129:

    minus ac minus,

    Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 26.—
    3.
    Transf., in a softened negation, not at all, by no means, not:

    quod intellexi minus,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 11:

    nonnumquam ea quae praedicta sunt, minus eveniunt,

    Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24.—Esp.:

    si minus: monebo, si quem meministi minus,

    Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 19:

    Syracusis, si minus supplicio affici, at custodiri oportebat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, § 69:

    quod si assecutus sum, gaudeo: sin minus, hoc me tamen consolor quod, etc.,

    id. Fam. 7, 1, 6 et saep.; so,

    minus formido ne exedat,

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 45. —
    b.
    Quo minus, also written as one word, quominus, that not, from, after verbs of hindering, preventing, as impedio, recuso, deterreo, etc., Ter. And. 1, 2, 26:

    si te infirmitas valetudinis tenuit, quo minus ad ludos venires,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 1; 7, 1, 6:

    hiemem credo prohibuisse, quo minus de te certum haberemus, quid ageres,

    id. Fam. 12, 5, 1:

    deterrere aliquem, quo minus, etc.,

    id. Tusc. 1, 38, 91:

    stetisse per Trebonium, quo minus oppido potirentur, videbatur,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 13 fin.; Quint. 12, 1, 16;

    v. also quo. —Ante-class. also in the reverse order, minus quo: ne vereatur, minus jam quo redeat domum,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 8.—
    C.
    Sup., in two forms, parvissime (post-class.), and minime (class.), least, very little.
    1.
    par-vissĭmē:

    memorare aliquid,

    very briefly, with very few words, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 38. —
    2.
    mĭnĭmē, least of all, in the smallest degree, least, very little:

    cum minime vellem, minimeque opus fuit,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 42:

    cum minime videbamur, tum maxime philosophabamur,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 3, 6; id. Or. 66, 222:

    mihi placebat Pomponius maxime, vel dicam minime displicebat,

    id. Brut. 57, 207:

    quod in miserrimis rebus minime miserum putabis, id facies,

    id. Fam. 14, 13:

    quod minime ad eos mercatores saepe commeant,

    very rarely, Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 3; Cic. de Or. 2, 79, 322.—Strengthened by quam:

    si non decore, at quam minime dedecore facere possimus,

    as little as possible, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114; by omnium and gentium:

    ad te minime omnium pertinebat,

    id. Rosc. Am. 34, 96:

    minime gentium,

    Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 77:

    heus, inquit, puer, arcesse Pamphilam,... illa exclamat, Minime gentium,

    not for any thing in the world, Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 11; id. Ad. 3, 2, 44.—
    B.
    In partic.
    a.
    For minimum, saltem, at least:

    is morbus erit longissimus minimeque annuus,

    Cels. 2, 8 fin. Targ.:

    pedes decem vel minime novem,

    Col. 1, 6, 6:

    sed id minime bis anno arari debet,

    id. 5, 9, 12; id. Arb. 16, 3.—
    b.
    In replies, as an emphatic negative, by no means, not at all, not in the least, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 50: Ba. Sed cessas? Pa. Minime equidem:

    nam hodie, etc.,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 16: M. An tu haec non credis? A. Minime vero, Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 10: num igitur peccamus? Minime vos quidem. id. Att. 8, 9, 2:

    minime, minime hercle vero!

    Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 23; so in discourse: minime multi (= quam paucissimi). Ter. Eun. prol. 2: minume irasci decet. Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 27; Sall. C. 51, 13.—Strengthened by gentium (cf.supra): Nau. Meriton' hoc meo videtur factum? De. Minime gentium, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 44.

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  • 10 saeculum

    saecŭlum ( poet., esp. Lucretian, saeclum; less correctly sēcŭlum, sēclum), i, n. dim. [etym. dub.; perh. root si- = sa-; Gr. saô, to sift; Lat. sero, satus; whence Saturnus, etc.; hence, orig.], a race, breed, generation (freq. in Lucr.; very rare in later writers; usu. in plur.):

    saecla propagare,

    Lucr. 1, 21; cf. id. 2, 173; 5, 850:

    nec toties possent generatim saecla referre Naturam parentum,

    id. 1, 597:

    saecla animantum,

    i. e. animals, id. 2, 78; 5, 855:

    hominum,

    id. 1, 467; 5, 339; 6, 722:

    ferarum,

    id. 2, 995; 3, 753; 4, 413; 4, 686; cf.:

    silvestria ferarum,

    id. 5, 967:

    serpentia ferarum,

    id. 6, 766:

    mortalia,

    id. 5, 805; 5, 982; 5, 1238:

    bucera (with lanigerae pecudes),

    id. 5, 866; 6, 1245; cf.:

    vetusta cornicum (with corvorum greges),

    id. 5, 1084:

    aurea pavonum,

    id. 2, 503:

    totisque expectent saecula ripis,

    i. e. the shades of the infernal regions, Stat. Th. 11, 592.— Sing.:

    et muliebre oritur patrio de semine saeclum,

    the female sex, women, Lucr. 4, 1223; so,

    muliebre,

    id. 5, 1020; 2, 10 sq.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Like genea.
    1.
    The ordinary lifetime of the human species, a lifetime, generation, age (of thirty-three years; class.; esp. freq. in signif. 2. infra; cf. Schoem. ad Cic. N. D. 1, 9, 21):

    cum ad idem, unde semel profecta sunt, cuncta astra redierint... tum ille vere vertens annus appellari potest: in quo vix dicere audeo, quam multa saecula hominum teneantur,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24 Mos.:

    cum ex hac parte saecula plura numerentur,

    Liv. 9, 18:

    quorum (Socratis atque Epicuri) aetates non annis sed saeculis scimus esse disjunctas,

    Hier. Vit. Cler. 4, p. 262; cf. Censor. de Die Nat. 17; Auct. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 508; id. E. 4, 5.—
    (β).
    Esp., the lifetime or reign of a ruler:

    illustrari saeculum suum ejusmodi exemplo arbitrabatur,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 6:

    digna saeculo tuo,

    id. ib. 10, 1, 2.—
    2.
    The human race living in a particular age, a generation, an age, the times: serit arbores quae alteri saeculo prosient, Caecil. ap. Cic. Sen. 7, 24:

    in id saeculum Romuli cecidit aetas, cum jam plena Graecia poëtarum esset,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 18 (for which:

    quorum aetas cum in eorum tempora incidisset,

    id. Or. 12, 39):

    saeculorum reliquorum judicium,

    id. Div. 1, 19, 36:

    ipse fortasse in hujus saeculi errore versor,

    id. Par. 6, 3, 50; cf.:

    hujus saeculi insolentia,

    id. Phil. 9, 6, 23; and: o [p. 1614] nostri infamia saecli, Ov. M. 8, 97; cf.

    also: novi ego hoc saeculum, moribus quibus siet,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 6; so,

    hujus saecli mores,

    id. Truc. prol. 13; and:

    hoccine saeclum! o scelera! o genera sacrilega, o hominem impurum!

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 6; cf. id. Eun. 2, 2, 15:

    nec mutam repertam esse dicunt mulierem ullo in saeculo,

    Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 7:

    Cato rudi saeculo litteras Graecas didicit,

    Quint. 12, 11, 23; so,

    rude,

    id. 2, 5, 23:

    grave ne rediret Saeculum Pyrrhae,

    Hor. C. 1, 2, 6:

    primo statim beatissimi saeculi ortu,

    Tac. Agr. 3; so,

    beatissimum,

    id. ib. 44:

    felix et aureum,

    id. Or. 12; Quint. 8, 6, 24:

    aureum,

    Sen. Contr. 2, 17; Lact. 5, 6, 13; cf.:

    aurea saecula,

    Verg. A. 6, 792; Ov. A. A. 2, 277:

    his jungendi sunt Diocletianus aurei parens saeculi, et Maximianus, ut vulgo dicitur, ferrei,

    Lampr. Elag. 35:

    ceteri, qui dii ex hominibus facti esse dicuntur, minus eruditis hominum saeculis fuerunt (with Romuli aetas),

    Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 18; cf.:

    res publica constituta non unā hominum vitā sed aliquot saeculis et aetatibus,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 2:

    perpetuā saeculorum admiratione celebrantur,

    Quint. 11, 1, 13:

    fecunda culpae saecula,

    Hor. C. 3, 6, 17:

    ferro duravit saecula,

    id. Epod. 16, 65; cf.:

    sic ad ferrum venistis ab auro, Saecula,

    Ov. M. 15, 261.—
    3.
    The spirit of the age or times: nemo illic vitia ridet;

    nec corrumpere et corrumpi saeculum vocatur,

    Tac. G. 19.—
    B.
    The utmost lifetime of man, a period of a hundred years, a century:

    saeclum spatium annorum centum vocārunt,

    Varr. L. L. 6, 2, § 11 Müll.; cf. Fest. s. v. saeculares, p. 328 ib.; Censor. de Die Nat. 17:

    cum (Numa) illam sapientiam constituendae civitatis duobus prope saeculis ante cognovit, quam eam Graeci natam esse senserunt,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 37, 154:

    saeculo festas referente luces,

    Hor. C. 4, 6, 42; cf.:

    multa virum durando saecula vincit,

    Verg. G. 2, 295.—
    2.
    For an indefinitely long period, an age; plur. (so mostly):

    (Saturni stella) nihil immutat sempiternis saeculorum aetatibus, quin eadem iisdem temporibus efficiat,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52:

    aliquot saeculis post,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 73:

    cum aliquot saecula in Italiā viguisset,

    id. Univ. 1; so,

    tot,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 55, § 122; id. Ac. 2, 5, 15:

    quot,

    Quint. 12, 11, 22:

    multa,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 20; 6, 26, 29; id. de Or. 2, 5, 21; id. Cat. 2, 5, 11; id. Fam. 11, 14, 3:

    plurima,

    id. Rep. 3, 9, 14:

    sexcenta,

    id. Fat. 12, 27:

    omnia,

    id. Lael. 4, 15; id. Phil. 2, 22, 54:

    ex omni saeculorum memoriā,

    id. ib. 4, 1, 3:

    vir saeculorum memoriā dignus,

    Quint. 10, 1, 104; cf.:

    ingeniorum monumenta, quae saeculis probarentur,

    id. 3, 7, 18:

    facto in saecula ituro,

    to future ages, to posterity, Sil. 12, 312; so Plin. Pan. 55, 1:

    in famam et saecula mitti,

    Luc. 10, 533: tarda gelu saeclisque effeta senectus, with (many) years, Verg. A. 8, 508.— Sing.:

    propemodum saeculi res in unum diem cumulavit,

    Curt. 4, 16, 10:

    longo putidam (anum) saeculo,

    Hor. Epod. 8, 1:

    ut videri possit saeculo prior,

    Quint. 10, 1, 113.—Esp. (eccl. Lat.), the following phrases are used to express forever, to all eternity, endlessly, without end:

    in saeculum,

    Vulg. Exod. 21, 6; id. Dan. 3, 89:

    in saeculum saeculi,

    id. Psa. 36, 27; id. 2 Cor. 9, 9:

    in saecula,

    id. Ps. 77, 69; id. Rom. 1, 25:

    in saecula saeculorum,

    Tert. ad Uxor. 1, 1; Ambros. Hexaëm. 3, 17, 72; Vulg. Tob. 9, 11; id. Rom. 16, 27; id. Apoc. 1, 6 et saep.—
    C.
    Like the biblical, aiôn, the world, worldliness (eccl. Lat.):

    immaculatus ab hoc saeculo,

    Vulg. Jacob. 1, 27: et servientem corpori Absolve vinclis saeculi, Prud. steph. 2, 583; so id. Cath. 5, 109; Paul. Nol. Ep. 23, 33 fin. —
    D.
    Heathenism (eccl. Lat.):

    saeculi exempla,

    Tert. Exhort. ad Cast. 13 (al. saecularia).

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  • 11 Acheruns

    Ăchĕruns, untis, m. [v. Acheron] (f., Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 2; cf. Non. 191, 24; poet. in Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; the u for o, as in Enn. and Lucr. frundes for frondes, acc. Gr. Acherunta, Lucr. 4, 170; 6, 251); a form much used by ante-class. poets, esp. by Plaut.,
    I.
    For Acheron no. II. B.: adsum atque advenio Acherunte, poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 245;

    si ab Acherunte veniam,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 26; so Lucr. 3, 37; 628 al.—And with the ending i (as in Karthagini):

    si neque hic neque Acherunti sum, ubi sum?

    Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 21; so id. Capt. 3, 5, 31; 5, 4, 1. —Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron; said of a corrupt, abandoned man, in Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 12:

    Acheruntis ostium, disparagingly of bad land,

    id. Trin. 2, 4, 124:

    mittere aliquem Acheruntem,

    to kill one, id. Cas. 2, 8, 12; and:

    abire ad Acheruntem,

    to die, id. Poen. prol. 71:

    ulmorum Acheruns, jestingly of a slave, upon whose back rods had been broken,

    id. Am. 4, 2, 9 (cf. Capt. 3, 4, 117).—Hence, Ăchĕruntĭcus, a, um, adj., belonging to, or fit for, Acheruns, or the Lower World:

    regiones,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21:

    senex,

    i. e. with one foot in the grave, id. Merc. 2, 2, 19; id. Mil. 3, 1, 33.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Acheruns

  • 12 Acherunticus

    Ăchĕruns, untis, m. [v. Acheron] (f., Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 2; cf. Non. 191, 24; poet. in Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; the u for o, as in Enn. and Lucr. frundes for frondes, acc. Gr. Acherunta, Lucr. 4, 170; 6, 251); a form much used by ante-class. poets, esp. by Plaut.,
    I.
    For Acheron no. II. B.: adsum atque advenio Acherunte, poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 245;

    si ab Acherunte veniam,

    Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 26; so Lucr. 3, 37; 628 al.—And with the ending i (as in Karthagini):

    si neque hic neque Acherunti sum, ubi sum?

    Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 21; so id. Capt. 3, 5, 31; 5, 4, 1. —Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron; said of a corrupt, abandoned man, in Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 12:

    Acheruntis ostium, disparagingly of bad land,

    id. Trin. 2, 4, 124:

    mittere aliquem Acheruntem,

    to kill one, id. Cas. 2, 8, 12; and:

    abire ad Acheruntem,

    to die, id. Poen. prol. 71:

    ulmorum Acheruns, jestingly of a slave, upon whose back rods had been broken,

    id. Am. 4, 2, 9 (cf. Capt. 3, 4, 117).—Hence, Ăchĕruntĭcus, a, um, adj., belonging to, or fit for, Acheruns, or the Lower World:

    regiones,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21:

    senex,

    i. e. with one foot in the grave, id. Merc. 2, 2, 19; id. Mil. 3, 1, 33.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Acherunticus

  • 13 barathrum

    bărā̆thrum, i, n., = barathron, an abyss, chasm, a deep pit, the Lower World (mostly poet; cf.

    vorago),

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 12:

    o barathrum ubi nunc es? ut ego te usurpem lubens (words of one in despair),

    id. Bacch. 1, 2, 41; Lucr. 3, 966; Cat. 68, 108; 68, 117; 95, 5.—Esp., of the infernal regions:

    ferri in barathrum,

    Lucr. 6, 606:

    imus barathri gurges (Charybdis),

    Verg. A. 3, 421; 8, 245; Sil. 9, 497:

    poena barathri,

    Val. Fl. 2, 86; a pit made by art, a deep dungeon, Vitr. 10, 22, 11.—
    B.
    Trop.: quid enim differt, barathrone Dones quidquid habes, an numquam utare paratis? thou throwest into the abyss, i. e. squanderest, Hor. S. 2, 3, 166.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Jocosely or satirically, a maw (as insatiable), Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 29; Mart. 1, 88, 4.—Hence Horace calls a greedy man barathrum macelli, an abyss, gulf of the provision market, Ep. 1, 15, 31.—
    B.
    In mal. part., Mart. 3, 81, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > barathrum

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