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  • 1 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.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > aetas

  • 2 cantherius

    canthērĭus or cantērĭus, ii, m. [perh. kanthêlios, a beast of burden].
    I.
    A gelding, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 15; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 46 Müll.; Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 21; id. Capt. 4, 2, 34; Cic. N. D. 3, 5, 11; id. Fam. 9, 18, 4; Sen. Ep. 87, 9.—
    B.
    An ass, mule, Tert. Apol. 16; id. ad Nat. 1, 14.—Prov.: minime, sis, cantherium in fossam, put the hack in the ditch, when it is useless, Liv. 23, 47, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.—
    II.
    Meton.
    A.
    A man impotent through age, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 83.—
    B.
    In architecture, a spar under the roof, a rafter, Fr. chevron, Vitr. 4, 2.—
    C.
    In the lang. of vine-dressing, a pole furnished with cross-pieces for supporting the vine, a trellis, Col. 4, 12, 1; 4, 4, 14; 11, 3, 62.—
    D.
    Among veterinary surgeons, a kind of frame for suspending sick horses, Veg. 3, 47, 3.

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  • 3 ab

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

    AF VOBEIS,

    Inscr. Orell. 3114;

    AF MVRO,

    ib. 6601;

    AF CAPVA,

    ib. 3308;

    AF SOLO,

    ib. 589;

    AF LYCO,

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

    abs chorago,

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

    abs quivis,

    Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

    abs terra,

    Cato, R. R. 51;

    and in compounds: aps-cessero,

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

    and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

    id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).
    I.
    In space, and,
    II.
    Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.
    I.
    Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

    Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

    fuga ab urbe turpissima,

    Cic. Att. 7, 21:

    ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

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

    illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

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

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

    Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.
    b.
    Sometimes with names of cities and small islands, or with domus (instead of the usual abl.), partie., in militnry and nautieal language, to denote the marching of soldiers, the setting out of a flcet, or the departure of the inhabitants from some place:

    oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

    quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

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

    ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

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

    protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

    id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

    profecti a domo,

    Liv. 40, 33, 2;

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

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

    classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

    Liv. 8, 22, 6;

    of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

    Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

    legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

    id. 24, 40, 2.
    c.
    Sometimes with names of persons or with pronouns: pestem abige a me, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 50 Vahl.):

    Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

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

    libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

    Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

    Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

    id. Att. 7, 24:

    cum a vobis discessero,

    id. Sen. 22:

    multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

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

    so a fratre,

    id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

    a Pontio,

    Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

    ab ea,

    Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.
    B.
    Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.
    1.
    Of separation:

    ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

    abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

    tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

    Sall. C. 40, 5:

    absint lacerti ab stabulis,

    Verg. G. 4, 14.—
    2.
    Of distance:

    quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

    Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

    nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

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

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

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

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

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

    non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

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

    cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

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

    qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

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

    quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

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

    procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

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

    tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

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

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

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

    tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

    id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

    tam prope ab domo detineri,

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

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

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

    duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

    id. 37, 38, 5). —
    3.
    To denote the side or direction from which an object is viewed in its local relations,=a parte, at, on, in: utrum hacin feriam an ab laeva latus? Enn. ap. Plaut. Cist. 3, 10 (Trag. v. 38 Vahl.); cf.:

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

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

    pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

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

    non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

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

    erat a septentrionibus collis,

    on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).
    II.
    Fig.
    A.
    In time.
    1.
    From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

    Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

    Juv. 1,40:

    mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

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

    Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

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

    ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

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

    ab eo magistratu,

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

    a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

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

    ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

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

    confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

    Liv. 30, 36, 1:

    statim a funere,

    Suet. Caes. 85;

    and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

    id. ib. 60:

    protinus ab adoptione,

    Vell. 2, 104, 3:

    Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

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

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

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

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

    i. e. after its having been built, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 192. —Hence the poct. expression: ab his, after this (cf. ek toutôn), i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ov. M. 3, 273; 4, 329; 8, 612; 9, 764.
    2.
    With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

    ab hora tertia bibebatur,

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

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

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

    vixit ab omni aeternitate,

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

    cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

    Nep. Att. 5, 3:

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

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

    centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

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

    cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

    id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

    ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

    since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

    diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

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

    quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

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

    jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

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

    ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

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

    cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

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

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

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

    pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

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

    qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

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

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

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

    a pueritia,

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

    jam inde ab adulescentia,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

    ab adulescentia,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

    jam a prima adulescentia,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

    ab ineunte adulescentia,

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

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

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

    a primis temporibus aetatis,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

    a teneris unguiculis,

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

    usque a toga pura,

    id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

    jam inde ab incunabulis,

    Liv. 4, 36, 5:

    a prima lanugine,

    Suet. Oth. 12:

    viridi ab aevo,

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

    rarely of animals: ab infantia,

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

    qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

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

    a pausillo puero,

    id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

    a puero,

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

    a pueris,

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

    ab adulescente,

    id. Quint. 3, 12:

    ab infante,

    Col. 1, 8, 2:

    a parva virgine,

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

    a parvis,

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

    a parvulo,

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

    ab parvulis,

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

    ab tenero,

    Col. 5, 6, 20;

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

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.
    B.
    In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.
    1.
    In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

    suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

    qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

    hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

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

    quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

    Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

    condicionem quam ab te peto,

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

    mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

    si quid ab illo acceperis,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

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

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

    ab defensione desistere,

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

    ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

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

    ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

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

    qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

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

    tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

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

    Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

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

    quid hoc ab illo differt,

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

    hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

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

    discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

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

    quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

    alieno a te animo fuit,

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

    subdole ab re consulit,

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

    haut est ab re aucupis,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

    non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

    Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

    a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

    Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

    ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

    id. ib. 1, 3:

    disputata ab eo,

    id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

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

    id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

    ita generati a natura sumus,

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

    pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

    Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

    niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

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

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

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

    salvebis a meo Cicerone,

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

    a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

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

    ne vir ab hoste cadat,

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

    levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

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

    a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

    id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

    si calor est a sole,

    id. N. D. 2, 52:

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

    id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

    metu poenae a Romanis,

    Liv. 32, 23, 9:

    bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

    id. 3, 22, 2:

    ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

    id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

    lassus ab equo indomito,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

    Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

    Prop. 5, 1, 126:

    tempus a nostris triste malis,

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

    vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

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

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

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

    si postulatur a populo,

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

    deseror conjuge,

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

    and in prose,

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

    ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

    Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

    (urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.
    b.
    With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

    pastores a Pergamide,

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

    Turnus ab Aricia,

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

    obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

    Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.
    c.
    In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

    (sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

    id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)
    d.
    With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

    da, puere, ab summo,

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

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

    Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

    coepere a fame mala,

    Liv. 4, 12, 7:

    cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

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

    a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.
    e.
    With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

    a foliis et stercore purgato,

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

    tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

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

    Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

    Liv. 21, 11, 5:

    expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

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

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

    ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

    Sall. C. 32:

    ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

    Liv. 21, 35, 12:

    ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

    Cic. Sest. 64, 133.
    f.
    With verbs of expecting, fearing, hoping, and the like, ab =a parte, as, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 4: cum eadem metuam ab hac parte, since I fear the same from this side; hence, timere, metuere ab aliquo, not, to be afraid of any one, but, to fear something (proceeding from) from him:

    el metul a Chryside,

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

    ab Hannibale metuens,

    Liv. 23, 36; and:

    metus a praetore,

    id. 23, 15, 7;

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

    Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

    postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

    you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.
    g.
    With verbs of fastening and holding:

    funiculus a puppi religatus,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

    cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

    Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.
    h.
    Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

    a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

    Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.
    i.
    Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

    id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 22.
    j.
    Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

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

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

    a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

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

    a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

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

    a frigore laborantibus,

    Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

    laborare ab re frumentaria,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.
    k.
    Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

    ab ingenio improbus,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

    a me pudica'st,

    id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

    orba ab optimatibus contio,

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

    locus copiosus a frumento,

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

    sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

    id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

    ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

    id. Brut. 16, 63:

    ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

    Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

    so often in poets ab arte=arte,

    artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.
    l.
    In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

    linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

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

    ab honore,

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

    ab illo injuria,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

    fulgor ab auro,

    Lucr. 2, 5:

    dulces a fontibus undae,

    Verg. G. 2, 243.
    n.
    In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

    scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

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

    nonnuill ab novissimis,

    id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).
    o.
    In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

    qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

    ab eo qui sunt,

    id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

    nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

    id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).
    p.
    To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

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

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

    a manu servus,

    a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).
    q.
    The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

    a peregre,

    Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

    a foris,

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

    ab intus,

    ib. ib. 7, 15:

    ab invicem,

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

    a longe,

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

    a modo,

    ib. ib. 23, 39;

    Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

    Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

    a sursum,

    ib. Marc. 15, 38.
    ► a.
    Ab is not repeated like most other prepositions (v. ad, ex, in, etc.) with pron. interrog. or relat. after subst. and pron. demonstr. with ab:

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

    Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

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

    id. Sen. 6:

    a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

    id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

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

    id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—
    b.
    Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—
    c.
    It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

    a vitae periculo,

    Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

    a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

    id. Arch. 6, 12:

    a minus bono,

    Sall. C. 2, 6:

    a satis miti principio,

    Liv. 1, 6, 4:

    damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

    Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—
    d.
    The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

    aque Chao,

    Verg. G. 4, 347:

    aque mero,

    Ov. M. 3, 631:

    aque viro,

    id. H. 6, 156:

    aque suis,

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

    a meque,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

    abs teque,

    id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

    a teque,

    id. ib. 8, 11, §

    7: a primaque adulescentia,

    id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —
    e.
    A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.
    III.
    In composition ab,
    1.
    Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—
    2.
    It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

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  • 4 agō

        agō ēgī, āctus (old inf pass. agier), ere    [1 AG-], to put in motion, move, lead, drive, tend, conduct: bos Romam acta, L.: capellas, V.: pecus visere montīs, H.: ante se Thyum, N.: in exsilium, L.: Iris nubibus acta, borne on, V.: alqm in crucem, to crucify: Illum aget Fama, will carry, H.: quo hinc te agis? whither are you going? T.: se primus agebat, strode in front, V.: capellas potum, V.—Prov.: agas asellum, i. e. if you can't afford an ox, drive an ass. — Pass., to go, march: quo multitudo agebatur, L.: citius agi vellet agmen, march on quicker, L.: raptim agmine acto, L.— Esp., to drive away, carry off, steal, rob, plunder: pecoris praedas, S.; freq. with ferre, to rob, plunder: ferre agere plebem plebisque res, L.: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, L.—To chase, pursue, hunt: apros, V.: cervum, V. — Fig.: dum haec crimina agam ostiatim, track out from house to house: ceteros ruerem, agerem, T.: palantīs Troas, V.—To move, press, push forward, advance, bring up: multa undique portari atque agi, Cs.: vineis ad oppidum actis, pushed forward, Cs.: moles, Cu.: cloaca maxima sub terram agenda, to be carried under ground, L.: cuniculos ad aerarium, drive: per glaebas radicibus actis, O.: pluma in cutem radices egerit, struck deep root, O.: vera gloria radices agit: tellus Fissa agit rimas, opens in fissures, O.: in litus navīs, beached, L.: navem, to steer, H.: currūs, to drive, O.: per agmen limitem ferro, V.: vias, make way, V.: (sol) amicum Tempus agens, bringing the welcome hour (of sunset), H.—To throw out, stir up: spumas ore, V.: spumas in ore: se laetus ad auras Palmes agit, shoots up into the air, V.—Animam agere, to expire: nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus; cf. et gestum et animam ageres, i. e. exert yourself in gesturing and risk your life. — Fig., to lead, direct, guide: (poëmata), animum auditoris, H.— To move, impel, excite, urge, prompt, induce, rouse, drive: quae te Mens agit in facinus? O.: ad illa te, H.: eum praecipitem: viros spe praedae diversos agit, leads astray, S.: bonitas, quae nullis casibus agitur, N.: quemcunque inscitia veri Caecum agit, blinds, H.: quibus actus fatis, V.: seu te discus agit, occupies, H.: nos exquirere terras, V.: desertas quaerere terras agimur, V. — To pursue for harm, persecute, disturb, vex, attack, assail: reginam stimulis, V.: agentia verba Lycamben, H.: diris agam vos, H.: quam deus ultor agebat, O.—To pursue, carry on, think, reflect, deliberate, treat, represent, exhibit, exercise, practise, act, perform, deliver, pronounce: nihil, to be idle: omnia per nos, in person: agendi tempus, a time for action: industria in agendo: apud primos agebat, fought in the van, S.: quae continua bella agimus, are busy with, L.: (pes) natus rebus agendis, the metre appropriate to dramatic action, H.: Quid nunc agimus? what shall we do now? T.: quid agam, habeo, i. e. I know what to do, T.: quid agitur? how are you? T.: quid agis, dulcissime rerum? i. e. how are you? H.: vereor, quid agat Ino, what is to become of: quid agis? what do you mean? nihil agis, it is of no use, T.: nihil agis, dolor, quamvis, etc.: cupis abire, sed nihil agis, usque tenebo, you cannot succeed, H.: ubi blanditiis agitur nihil, O.—Esp., hoc or id agere, to give attention to, mind, heed: hocine agis, an non? are you attending? T.: id quod et agunt et moliuntur, their purpose and aim: qui id egerunt, ut gentem conlocarent, etc., aimed at this: sin autem id actum est, ut, etc., if it was their aim: summā vi agendum esse, ut, etc., L.: certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur, it was planned, N.: Hoc age, ne, etc., take care, H.: alias res agis, you are not listening, T.: aliud agens ac nihil eius modi cogitans, bent on other plans: animadverti eum alias res agere, paid no attention: vides, quam alias res agamus, are otherwise occupied: populum aliud nunc agere, i. e. are indifferent.—To perform, do, transact: ne quid negligenter: suum negotium, attend to his own business: neque satis constabat, quid agerent, what they were at, Cs.: agentibus divina humanaque consulibus, busy with auspices and affairs, L.: per litteras agere, quae cogitas, carry on, N.: (bellum) cum feminis, Cu.: conventum, to hold an assize: ad conventūs agendos, to preside at, Cs.: census actus eo anno, taken, L.— Of public transactions, to manage, transact, do, discuss, speak, deliberate: quae (res) inter eos agi coeptae, negotiations begun, Cs.: de condicionibus pacis, treat, L.: quorum de poenā agebatur, L.— Hence, agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people on a law or measure (cf. agere ad populum, to propose, bring before the people): cum populo de re p.—Of a speaker or writer, to treat, discuss, narrate: id quod agas, your subject: bella per quartum iam volumen, L.: haec dum agit, during this speech, H.—In law, to plead, prosecute, advocate: lege agito, go to law, T.: causam apud iudices: aliter causam agi, to be argued on other grounds: cum de bonis et de caede agatur, in a cause relating to, etc.: tamquam ex syngraphā agere cum populo, to litigate: ex sponso egit: agere lege in hereditatem, sue for: crimen, to press an accusation: partis lenitatis et misericordiae, to plead the cause of mercy: ii per quos agitur, the counsel: causas, i. e. to practise law: me agente, while I am counsel: ii apud quos agitur, the judges; hence, of a judge: rem agere, to hear: reos, to prosecute, L.: alqm furti, to accuse of theft. —Pass., to be in suit, be in question, be at stake: non capitis eius res agitur, sed pecuniae, T.: aguntur iniuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum.—To represent, act, perform, of an orator: cum dignitate.—Of an actor: fabulam, T.: partīs, to assume a part, T.: Ballionem, the character of: gestum agere in scena, appear as actors: canticum, L. — Fig.: lenem mitemque senatorem, act the part of, L.: noluit hodie agere Roscius: cum egerunt, when they have finished acting: triumphum, to triumph, O.: de classe populi R. triumphum, over, etc.: ex Volscis et ex Etruriā, over, etc., L.: noctu vigilias, keep watch: alta silentia, to be buried in silence, O.: arbitria victoriae, to exercise a conqueror's prerogative, Cu.: paenitentiam, to repent, Cu.: oblivia, to forget, O.: gratias (poet. grates) agere, to give thanks, thank: maximas tibi gratias: alcui gratias quod fecisset, etc., Cs.: grates parenti, O. — Of time, to spend, pass, use, live through: cum dis aevom: securum aevom, H.: dies festos, celebrate: ruri vitam, L.: otia, V.: quartum annum ago et octogesimum, in my eightyfourth year: ver magnus agebat orbis, was experiencing, V.— Pass: mensis agitur hic septimus, postquam, etc., going on seven months since, T.: bene acta vita, well spent: tunc principium anni agebatur, L.: melior pars acta (est) diei, is past, V. — Absol, to live, pass time, be: civitas laeta agere, rejoiced, S.—Meton., to treat, deal, confer, talk with: quae (patria) tecum sic agit, pleads: haec inter se dubiis de rebus, V.: Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut, etc., tried to persuade C., N.: agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit, L.—With bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with, treat or use well or ill: praeclare cum eis: facile est bene agere cum eis.— Pass impers., to go well or ill with one, be well or badly off: intelleget secum esse actum pessime: in quibus praeclare agitur, si, etc., who are well off, if, etc.—Poet.: Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur, will be treated, V.— Pass, to be at stake, be at hazard, be concerned, be in peril: quasi mea res minor agatur quam tua, T.: in quibus eorum caput agatur: ibi rem frumentariam agi cernentes, L.: si sua res ageretur, if his interests were involved: agitur pars tertia mundi, is at risk, O.: non agitur de vectigalibus, S.—Praegn., to finish, complete, only pass: actā re ad fidem pronius est, after it is done, L.: iucundi acti labores, past: ad impediendam rem actam, an accomplished fact, L.— Prov.: actum, aiunt, ne agas, i. e. don't waste your efforts, T.: acta agimus: Actum est, it is all over, all is lost, T.: iam de Servio actum rati, L.: acta haec res est, is lost, T.: tantā mobilitate sese Numidae agunt, behave, S.: ferocius agunt equites, L.: quod nullo studio agebant, because they were careless, Cs.: cum simulatione agi timoris iubet, Cs.—Imper. as interj, come now, well, up: age, da veniam filio, T.: en age, rumpe moras, V.: agite dum, L.: age porro, tu, cur, etc.? age vero, considerate, etc.: age, age, iam ducat: dabo, good, T.: age, sit ita factum.
    * * *
    agere, egi, actus V
    drive, urge, conduct; spend (time w/cum); thank (w/gratias); deliver (speech)

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  • 5 rumpo

    rumpo, rūpi, ruptum ( inf. paragog. rumpier, Afran. Com. 127), 3, v. a. [root rup], to break, burst, tear, rend, rive, rupture; to break asunder, burst in pieces, force open, etc. (very freq. and class.; a favorite word of the Aug. poets; cf. frango).
    I.
    Lit.: SI MEMBRVM RVPIT NI CVM EO PACIT TALIO ESTO, Lex XII. Tab. ap. Fest. S. V. TALIO, p. 274; and ap. Gell. 20, 1, 14; cf. Cato ap. Prisc. p. 710 P.:

    vincula,

    Lucr. 3, 83; Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 8; id. Tusc. 1, 30, 74; Prop. 4, 10, 4; Verg. A. 10, 233 al.:

    catenas,

    Prop. 3, 13, 11; Hor. S. 2, 7, 70; Ov. Am. 3, 11, 3:

    frena pudoris,

    Prop. 4, 18, 3:

    obstantia claustra,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 9:

    teretes plagas (aper),

    id. C. 1, 1, 28:

    pontem,

    to break down, Liv. 7, 9; cf.:

    rupti torrentibus pontes,

    Quint. 2, 13, 16:

    montem aceto (Hannibal),

    Juv. 10, 153:

    Alpes,

    Sil. 11, 135:

    arcum,

    Phaedr. 3, 14, 10:

    plumbum (aqua),

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 20:

    carinam (sinus Noto remugiens),

    id. Epod. 10, 20:

    tenta cubilia tectaque,

    id. ib. 12, 12:

    vestes,

    Ov. M. 6, 131; cf.:

    tenues a pectore vestes,

    id. A. A. 3, 707:

    sinus pariterque capillos,

    id. M. 10, 722:

    linum ruptum aut turbata cera,

    Quint. 12, 8, 13:

    praecordia ferro,

    to penetrate, Ov. M. 6, 251; 5, 36; cf.:

    guttura cultro,

    to cut, id. ib. 15, 465:

    colla securi,

    id. ib. 12, 249:

    nubem (vis venti),

    to sunder, rive, Lucr. 6, 432:

    fulmen nubes rumpit,

    Sen. Q. N. 2, 58, 1:

    spiritus rumpit nubes,

    id. ib. 2, 54, 3:

    ruptae nubes et in pronum solutae,

    id. ib. 5, 12, 1:

    caelum,

    Sil. 3, 196:

    polum,

    id. 1, 135: turbo ruptus, breaking or bursting forth, Verg. A. 2, 416 et saep.:

    tuā causā rupi ramices,

    burst, ruptured, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 30:

    suos ramices,

    id. Poen. 3, 1, 37:

    inflatas vesiculas,

    Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33:

    pectora fremitu (leones),

    Lucr. 3, 297:

    illius immensae ruperunt horrea messes,

    filled to repletion, Verg. G. 1, 49; Col. 10, 307:

    frugibus rupta congestis horrea,

    Sid. 1, 6:

    ilia,

    Cat. 11, 20; 80, 7; Verg. E. 7, 26; cf. with a personal object:

    rupit Iarbitam Timagenis aemula lingua, Dum, etc.,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 15.—Esp. reflexively, to burst or split one ' s self, to burst, split, etc.:

    me rupi causā currendo tuā,

    Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 43; id. Capt. prol. 14; Lucil. ap. Non. 88, 11; 382, 23:

    ut me ambulando rumperet,

    Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 21:

    non, si te ruperis, Par eris,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 319.— Mid.: ego misera risu clandestino rumpier, to burst, split, Afran. ap. Non. 382, 21 (Com. Rel. p. 154 Rib.); so,

    frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis,

    Verg. E. 8, 71:

    quā (licentiā audacium) ante rumpebar, nunc ne movear quidem,

    could have burst, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 1:

    et inflatas rumpi vesiculas,

    id. Div. 2, 14, 33; cf.:

    rumpantur iniqui, Vicimus,

    Prop. 1, 8, 27:

    miser Rumperis (sc. irā) et latras,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 136: rumpere viam, iter, etc., to force a passage, make one ' s way by force: ferro rumpenda per hostes Est via, a passage must be burst or forced through, Verg. A. 10, 372; cf.:

    eo nisi corporibus armisque rupere cuneo viam,

    Liv. 2, 50:

    rupta via,

    Quint. 9, 4, 63:

    viam igne,

    Stat. Th. 8, 469:

    iter ferro,

    Sil. 4, 196 (with reserare viam);

    15, 782: Alpes,

    id. 11, 135:

    rupto sonuit sacer aequore Titan,

    Val. Fl. 2, 37:

    cursus,

    id. ib. 1, 3; Sil. 7, 568 et saep.:

    rumpere media agmina,

    to burst through, break through, Verg. A. 12, 683; cf.:

    proelia misso equo,

    Prop. 3, 11, 64 (4, 10, 62):

    ruptā mersum caput obruit undā,

    Ov. M. 11, 569:

    mediam aciem,

    Liv. 26, 5:

    pugnantibus acies rumpenda,

    Just. 1, 6, 11:

    ordines,

    Liv. 6, 13:

    aditus,

    Verg. A. 2, 494:

    parvos hiatus,

    Sil. 5, 616:

    fontem,

    to break open, cause to break forth, Ov. M. 5, 257:

    fontes abyssae magnae,

    Vulg. Gen. 7, 11: se rumpere, to break out, burst forth ( = erumpere):

    ubi sub lucem densa inter nubila sese Diversi rumpent radii,

    Verg. G. 1, 446:

    tantus se nubibus imber Ruperat,

    id. A. 11, 548:

    unde altus primum se erumpit Enipeus,

    id. G. 4, 368; so,

    rumpi, in mid. force: dum amnes ulli rumpuntur fontibus,

    id. ib. 3, 428:

    alicui reditum,

    to cut off, Hor. Epod. 13, 15.— Absol.: offendit, fregit, rumpit, icit poculo, wounds, Afran. ap. Non. 124, 6 (Com. Rel. p. 173 Rib.); so, si quis rumpet occidetve insciens ne fraus esto, an ancient form of rogation in Liv. 22, 10, 5; cf. Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 17. —
    II.
    Trop., to break, violate, destroy, annul, make void, interrupt, etc.:

    hunc quisquam... foedera scientem neglexisse, violasse, rupisse dicere audebit?

    Cic. Balb. 5, 13; so,

    foedera,

    Lucr. 2, 254; Auct. Her. 4, 14, 20; Liv. 9, 1; 21, 10; Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 35:

    foedus,

    Liv. 3, 25, 5; 42, 40, 3:

    imperium,

    Curt. 10, 2, 15; Tac. A. 13, 36; id. H. 3, 19:

    sacramenti religionem,

    Liv. 28, 27:

    reverentiam sacramenti,

    Tac. H. 1, 12:

    fidem induciarum, pacis, etc.,

    Liv. 9, 40 fin.; 24, 29; Verg. G. 4, 213; Flor. 4, 2, 16:

    jus gentium,

    Liv. 4, 17:

    hostium jus et sacra legationis et fas gentium,

    Tac. A. 1, 42:

    rogationes vos rogatas rumpitis,

    Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 24:

    edicta,

    Hor. C. 4, 15, 22:

    decreta,

    Ov. M. 15, 780:

    leges,

    Luc. 4, 175:

    constat, agnascendo rumpi testamentum,

    is made void, Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 241; cf.:

    jura testamentorum ruptorum aut ratorum,

    id. ib. 1, 38, 173:

    nuptias,

    Hor. C. 1, 15, 7:

    amores,

    Verg. A. 4, 292:

    condiciones pacis,

    Vell. 2, 48, 5:

    obsequium,

    Suet. Galb. 16:

    fata aspera,

    Verg. A. 6, 882:

    fati necessitatem humanis consiliis,

    Liv. 1, 42:

    ne me e somno excitetis et rumpatis visum,

    break in upon, interrupt, Cic. Rep. 6, 12, 12; so,

    somnum,

    Verg. A. 7, 458; cf. Sen. Ep. 51, 12:

    sacra,

    Verg. A. 8, 110:

    carmina,

    Tib. 2, 3, 20:

    novissima verba,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 539:

    ut vero amplexus fessi rupere supremos,

    Val. Fl. 5, 32:

    strepitu silentia rumpi,

    Lucr. 4, 583:

    silentia (verbis),

    Verg. A. 10, 64; Ov. M. 1, 208; 11, 598; Hor. Epod. 5, 85; Val. Fl. 3, 509; Plin. Pan. 55, 4:

    diutinum silentium,

    App. M. 10, p. 239, 14:

    taciturnitatem,

    Tac. A. 1, 74:

    patientiam,

    Suet. Tib. 24:

    en age, segnes Rumpe moras,

    break off, end delay, Verg. G. 3, 43; so,

    rumpe moras,

    id. A. 4, 569; 9, 13; Ov. M. 15, 583 Bach, N. cr.; Val. Fl. 1, 306; Mart. 2, 64, 9; Plin. Ep. 5, 11, 2; cf.:

    rumpunt moras,

    Luc. 1, 264:

    otia,

    Verg. A. 6, 813.— Poet.: rumpit has imo pectore voces, breaks forth, breaks out in, gives vent to, utters, etc., Verg. A. 11, 377; so,

    vocem,

    id. ib. 2, 129; 3, 246; Sil. 8, 301; Tac. A. 6, 20:

    questus,

    Verg. A. 4, 553; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 249:

    gemitum,

    Sil. 4, 458.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rumpo

  • 6 medius

    mĕdĭus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. madhya, the same; Gr. mesos; Angl. - Sax. midd; Germ. Mitte; cf. dimidius, meridies (medi-), etc.], that is in the middle or midst, mid, middle (class.).
    I.
    Adj.
    A.
    Lit.:

    terra complexa medium mundi locum,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18; cf. id. ib. 6, 17, 17:

    medium mundi locum petere,

    id. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:

    versus aeque prima, et media, et extrema pars attenditur,

    id. de Or. 3, 50, 192:

    ultimum, proximum, medium tempus,

    id. Prov. Cons. 18, 43:

    in foro medio,

    in the midst of the forum, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 14; Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 6; cf.:

    medio foro,

    in the open forum, Suet. Claud. 18 al.:

    in solio medius consedit,

    sat in the middle, Ov. F. 3, 359; Verg. A. 7, 169:

    considit scopulo medius,

    id. G. 4, 436:

    concilio medius sedebat,

    Ov. M. 10, 144:

    ignes,

    Verg. A. 12, 201:

    medio tempore,

    in the meantime, meanwhile, Suet. Caes. 76: vinum novum, vetus, medium, i. e. neither old nor new, Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 31, 14:

    cum plenus fluctu medius foret alveus,

    full to the middle, Juv. 12, 30.—With dat.:

    Peloponnesii Megaram, mediam Corintho Athenisque urbem, condidere,

    midway between Corinth and Athens, Vell. 1, 2, 4.—With abl.:

    si medius Polluce et Castore ponar,

    between, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 13.—With inter:

    cum inter bellum et pacem medium nihil sit,

    there is no medium, no middle course between, Cic. Phil. 8, 1, 4:

    inter quos numeros duo medii inveniuntur (sc. numeri),

    Mart. Cap. 7, § 737.—With gen.:

    locus medius regionum earum,

    half-way between, Caes. B. G. 4, 19:

    locus medius juguli summique lacerti,

    between, Ov. M. 6, 409; 5, 564:

    et medius juvenum ibat,

    id. F. 5, 67:

    medius silentūm,

    Stat. Th. 4, 683.—With ex:

    medius ex tribus,

    Sall. J. 11, 3:

    medium arripere aliquem,

    to seize one by the middle, around the body, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 18:

    juvenem medium complectitur,

    Liv. 23, 9, 9:

    Alcides medium tenuit,

    held him fast by the middle, Luc. 4, 652:

    medium ostendere unguem,

    to point with the middle finger, Juv. 10, 53.—
    2.
    Transf., half (ante- and postclass.):

    hieme demunt cibum medium,

    half their food, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 9:

    scrupulum croci,

    Pall. Jan. 18: aurum... Italicis totum, medium provincialibus reddidit, Capitol. Anton. Pius, 4 fin. —
    B.
    Trop., of the middle, not very great or small, middling, medial, moderate.
    1.
    Of age:

    aetatis mediae vir,

    of middle age, Phaedr. 2, 2, 3.—
    2.
    Of plans, purposes, etc.:

    nihil medium, nec spem nec curam, sed immensa omnia volventes animo,

    Liv. 2, 49, 5:

    medium quiddam tenere,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 9.—
    3.
    Of intellect:

    eloquentiā medius,

    middling, tolerable, Vell. 2, 29, 2:

    ingenium,

    moderate, Tac. H. 1, 49.—
    4.
    Undetermined, undecided:

    medios esse,

    i. e. neutral, Cic. Att. 10, 8, 4:

    medium se gerere,

    Liv. 2, 27:

    se dubium mediumque partibus praestitit,

    Vell. 2, 21, 1; cf.:

    responsum,

    indefinite, ambiguous, Liv. 39, 39: vocabula, that can be taken in a good or bad sense, ambiguous, Gell. 12, 9, 1. —
    5.
    Indifferent, not imperative: officium, a duty which is not distinctly enjoined by the moral law, but is sustained by preponderant reasoning:

    medium officium id esse dicunt (Graeci) quod cur factum sit, ratio probabilis reddi possit,

    Cic. Off. 1, 3, 8; cf.:

    ex quo intellegitur, officium medium quiddam esse, quod neque in bonis ponatur neque in contrariis,

    id. Fin. 3, 17, 58; cf.

    sqq. and Madv. ad loc.: artes,

    which in themselves are neither good nor bad, indifferent, Quint. 2, 20, 1.—
    6.
    Intermediate:

    medium erat in Anco ingenium, et Numae et Romuli memor,

    of a middle kind, resembling each in some degree, Liv. 1, 32, 4:

    nihil habet ista res (actoris) medium, sed aut lacrimas meretur aut risum,

    Quint. 6, 1, 45:

    ille jam paene medius adfectus est ex amoribus et desideriis amicorum,

    Quint. 6, 2, 17.—Hence, as subst.: mĕdĭus, i, m., one who stands or comes between, a mediator:

    medium sese offert,

    as a mediator, Verg. A. 7, 536:

    pacator mediusque Syphax,

    Sil. 16, 222:

    pacis eras mediusque belli,

    arbiter, Hor. C. 2, 19, 28; cf.:

    nunc mediis subeant irrita verba deis,

    oaths in which the gods were called upon to be mediators, Ov. R. Am. 678.—
    7.
    Central, with ex or in:

    ex factione media consul,

    fully committed to it, Sall. H. 3, 61, 8;

    so (nearly = intimus), viros fortīs et magnanimos eosdem bonos et simplicīs... esse volumus: quae sunt ex media laude justititiae,

    these qualities are clearly among those which make uprightness praiseworthy, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63:

    partitiones oratoriae, quae e media illa nostra Academia effloruerunt,

    id. Part. Or. 40, 139:

    ingressio e media philosophia repetita est,

    id. Or. 3, 11; id. Leg. 2, 21, 53:

    in medio maerore et dolore,

    id. Tusc. 4, 29, 63; id. Q. Fr. 2, 15, 1:

    in media dimicatione,

    the hottest of the fight, Suet. Aug. 10; cf.:

    in medio ardore certaminis,

    Curt. 8, 4, 27:

    in media solitudine,

    the most profound, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2:

    in mediis divitiis,

    in abundant wealth, id. Vit. Beat. 26, 1:

    in medio robore virium,

    Liv. 28, 35, 6:

    in medio ardore belli,

    id. 24, 45, 4:

    in media reipublicae luce,

    the full blaze of public life, Quint. 1, 2, 18:

    media inter pocula,

    Juv. 8, 217.—Hence,
    II.
    Subst.: mĕdĭum, ii, n., the middle, midst.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    Of space (very rare in Cic.):

    in medio aedium sedens,

    Liv. 1, 57, 9:

    maris,

    id. 31, 45, 11; for which, without in, medio aedium eburneis sellis sedere, id. 5, 41, 2:

    medio viae ponere,

    id. 37, 13, 10:

    in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis, saepe in medio adesse,

    Sall. J. 45, 2; for which, without in, medio sextam legionem constituit, Tac. A. 13, 38:

    medio montium porrigitur planities,

    id. ib. 1, 64:

    medio stans hostia ad aras,

    Verg. G. 3, 486:

    medio tutissimus ibis,

    Ov. M. 2, 137:

    in medium geminos immani pondere caestus Projecit,

    Verg. A. 5, 401:

    in medium sarcinas coniciunt,

    Liv. 10, 36, 1; 13:

    equitatus consulem in medium acceptum, armis protegens, in castra reduxit,

    id. 21, 46, 9.— Trop.:

    tamquam arbiter honorarius medium ferire voluisse,

    to cut through the middle, Cic. Fat. 17, 39:

    intacta invidiā media sunt, ad summa ferme tendit,

    Liv. 45, 35.—
    2.
    Of time:

    diei,

    Liv. 27, 48:

    medio temporis,

    in the meantime, meanwhile, Tac. A. 13, 28; cf.:

    nec longum in medio tempus, cum,

    the interval, Verg. A. 9, 395; Ov. M. 4, 167; Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 13.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    The midst of all, the presence of all, the public, the community (class.):

    in medio omnibus palma est posita, qui artem tractant musicam,

    lies open to all, Ter. Phorm. prol. 16:

    tabulae sunt in medio,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 42, § 104:

    rem totam in medio ponere,

    publicly, id. ib. 2, 1, 11, §

    29: ponam in medio sententias philosophorum,

    id. N. D. 1, 6, 13:

    dicendi ratio in medio posita,

    lies open to all, id. de Or. 1, 3, 12:

    rem in medium proferre,

    to publish, make known, id. Fam. 15, 27, 6: vocare in medium, before the public, before a public tribunal:

    rem in medium vocare coeperunt,

    id. Clu. 28, 77:

    in medio relinquere,

    to leave it to the public, leave it undecided, id. Cael. 20, 48; Sall. C. 19, 16: pellere e medio, to expel, reject, Enn. ap. Cic. Mur. 14, 30 (Ann. v. 272 Vahl.); Cic. Off. 3, 8, 37:

    cum jacentia verba sustulimus e medio,

    adopt words from the people, common words, id. de Or. 3, 45, 177; cf.: munda sed e medio consuetaque verba puellae Scribite, Ov. A. A. 3, 479: tollere de medio, to do away with, abolish:

    litteras,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 71, § 176: tollere de medio, to put out of the way, cut off, destroy:

    hominem,

    id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

    de medio removere,

    to put out of sight, id. ib. 8, 23: e medio excedere or abire, to leave the world, to die:

    e medio excessit,

    she is dead, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 74:

    ea mortem obiit, e medio abiit,

    id. ib. 5, 8, 30:

    tollite lumen e medio,

    Juv. 9, 106: recedere de medio, to go away, retire, withdraw:

    cur te mihi offers? recede de medio,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:

    in medio esse,

    to be present, Ter. Ad. 3, 5, 32:

    in medium venire or procedere,

    to appear, come forward, show one's self in public, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 71, § 175: in medium, before the public, for the public, for the community:

    communes utilitates in medium afferre,

    id. Off. 1, 7, 22:

    consulere in medium,

    to care for the public good, for the good of all, Verg. A. 11, 335;

    so opp. separantem suas res a publicis,

    Liv. 24, 22, 14 sq.; 26, 12, 7:

    quaerere,

    to make acquisitions for the use of all, Verg. G. 1, 127: cedere, to fall or devolve to the community, Tac. H. 4, 64:

    conferre laudem,

    i. e. so that all may have a share of it, Liv. 6, 6:

    dare,

    to communicate for the use of all, Ov. M. 15, 66:

    in medium conferre, in gaming,

    to put down, put in the pool, Suet. Aug. 71: in medio, for sub dio, in the open air:

    scorpios fugari posse, si aliqui ex eis urantur in medio,

    Pall. 1, 35, 12.—
    2.
    A half (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

    scillae medium conterunt cum aqua,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 7:

    scrobem ad medium completo,

    Col. Arb. 4, 5.—Hence,
    III.
    Adv.: mĕdĭē, in the middle, in a middling degree, moderately, tolerably (except once in Tac. only post-class.):

    qui noluerant medie,

    kept quiet, remained neutral, Tac. H. 1, 19:

    nec plane optimi, nec oppido deterrimi sunt, sed quasi medie morati,

    App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 22, 23; Eutr. 7, 13; Lact. 6, 15 fin.:

    ortus medie humilis,

    Aur. Vict. Caes. 20.—
    2.
    Indefinitely, Ambros. in Luc. 8, 17, 34.

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  • 7 exigō

        exigō ēgī, āctus, ere    [ex + ago], to drive out, push forth, thrust out, take out, expel: reges ex civitate: hostem e campo, L.: post reges exactos: easdem (uxores), divorce, T.: suam (uxorem), turn out of the house: exigit Hebrus aquas, pours into the sea, O.: exactum ensem Fregit, by the thrust, O.: ensem per medium iuvenem, V.: (hasta) Cervice exacta est, passed through, O.— To drive away, hiss off (the stage): (fabulae) exigendae vobis, T. — To require, enforce, exact, demand, collect: ad pecunias exigendas legatos misimus: acerbissime pecuniae exigebantur: nomina sua: peditum numerum a civitatibus, Cs.: viam, demand the construction of: auspiciorum adhuc fides exigitur, further confirmation, Ta.— To export: agrorum fructūs, L.— To set right: ad perpendiculum columnas, set precisely upright.—Fig., to require, demand, claim, exact, insist: magis quam rogare: a teste veritatem: ius iurandum, L.: Has exegit gloria poenas, has cost, Iu.: de volnere poenas, O.: a violatoribus piacula, L.: ex te ut responderes: id ipsum, ut pereat, O.: a quoquam ne peieret, Iu.: in exigendo non acerbus.—Of time, to lead, spend, pass, complete, finish, close: cum maerore graviorem vitam, S.: exactā aetate mori, after a long life: hanc saepe exactā aetate usurpasse vocem, in old age, L.: per exactos annos, at the end of every year, H.: tribus exactis ubi quarta accesserit aestas, V.: spatiis exegit quattuor annum, O.— To conduct, superintend: aedīs privatas velut publicum opus, L.— To bring to an end, conclude, finish, complete: monumentum, H.: opus, O.: His demum exactis, V.— To determine, ascertain, find out: sociisque exacta referre, discoveries, V.: Non prius exactā ratione saporum, before he has ascertained, H.: non tamen exactum, quid agat, O.— To weigh, try, prove, measure, examine, adjust, estimate, consider: ad vestras leges, quae Lacedaemone fiunt, estimate by the standard of, etc., L.: cultu ad luxuriam exacto, directed, Cu.: ad caelestia ritūs humanos, O.— To consider, deliberate on, take counsel upon: tempus secum, V.: talia secum, O.: non satis exactum, quid agam.
    * * *
    exigere, exegi, exactus V
    drive out, expel; finish; examine, weigh

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  • 8 māximus

        māximus    [1 MAC-].—Of size, large, great, big, high, tall, long, broad, extensive, spacious: fons, S.: aedificium: urbs: solitudines, S.: simulacrum facere maius: oppidum non maximum maximis locis decoravit: aquae magnae fuerunt, inundations, L.: Maior (belua) dimidio, by half, H.: maior videri (Scylla), statelier, V.: Calceus pede maior, too large for, H.: onus parvo corpore maius, H.—Of number or quantity, great, large, abundant, considerable, much: numerus frumenti: copia pabuli, Cs.: maiorem pecuniam polliceri: tibi praeda cedat Maior an illi, i. e. the victor's spoils, H.: populus, V.: tribunorum pars maior, the majority, L.: turba clientium maior, more numerous, H.: maximum pondus auri: Si maiorem feci rem, increased my estate, H.—Of value, great, large, considerable: magni preti servi: ager preti maioris, T.: magna munera et maiora promissa, S.: cuius auctoritas magni habebatur, was highly esteemed, Cs.: qui auctoritatem magni putet, esteems highly: quem tu Non magni pendis, H.: multo maioris vēnire, dearer, Ph.: quorum longe maximi consilia fuerunt, most valuable: haec te semper fecit maxumi, prized most highly, T.: conduxit non magno domum, at no high price: magno illi ea cunctatio stetit, cost him dear, L.—Of force, strong, powerful, vehement, loud: manu magnā euntem Inpulit, V.: magnā voce confiteri: strenitus, H.—Of time, great, long, extended: annum, V.: annum, i. e. the Platonic cycle of the heavens.—Early, high, long past: iam magno natu, aged, N.: magno natu non sufficientibus viribus, through old age, L.: maximo natu filius, N.: maior patria, original, Cu.—Of persons, aged, old, advanced ; only in comp. and sup, elder, eldest: omnes maiores natu, elders, Cs.: maior natu quam Plautus: frater suus maior natu, elder, L.: maximus natu ex iis, the oldest, L.: ex duobus filiis maior, Cs.: Maior Neronum, the elder, H.: (homo) annos natus maior quadraginta, more than forty years old: annos natast sedecim, non maior, T.: non maior annis quinquaginta, L.— Plur m. as subst: maiores, the fathers, ancestors, ancients, men of old: maiores vestri: nostri: more maiorum.—Fig., great, noble, grand, mighty, important, weighty, momentous: rebus maximis gestis: missi magnis de rebus, important business, H.: in agro maiora opera: causa, weighty: omen, significant, V.: spectaculum, impressive, H.: aliquid invadere magnum, enterprise, V.: haud magna memoratu res est, L.—As subst n.: id magnum est, a great thing: magna di curant, parva neglegunt: maiora audere, V.: ad maiora properat oratio: magnum loqui, loftily, H.: Omnia magna loquens, of everything magnificent, H.—Of rank or station, great, high, eminent, powerful: potestas: dignitas: di, Enn. ap. C.: rex Olympi, V.: maximus Ilioneus, V.: maiorum ne quis amicus, one of your great friends, H.: Iuppiter optimus maximus: pontifex maximus, chief: maioribus uti, associate with superiors, H.—Of mind or character, great, elevated, noble, lofty: vir acris animi magnique: magno animo est: vir magnus: Cato magnus habetur, S.: magnus hoc bello Themistocles fuit, N.: invidiā maior, above, H.: maior reprensis, greater than those criticised, H.: nebulo, thorough-paced, T.: fur. —In force or degree, great, severe, strong, intense: morbi: dolor, Cs.: minae: amor, V.: gemitus luctusque: quid potuere maius? more heinous, H.: Mari virtutem in maius celebrare, magnify, S.: his in maius etiam acceptis, L.: incerta in maius vero ferri solent, be exaggerated, L.— Proud, boastful, lofty, assuming: nobis ut res dant sese, ita magni atque humiles sumus, T.: lingua, H.: verba, V.

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  • 9 bibo

    1.
    bĭbo, bĭbi (post-class. part. fut. bĭbĭtūrus, Hier. Isa. 8, 25, 8; Vulg. Matt. 20, 22; id. Act. 23, 12; Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 1, 1; part. perf. bĭbĭtus, a, um, Cael. Aur. Chron. 4, 3, 60; Capitol. Ver. 5, 3; Aem. Mac. c. de Porro; Plin. Val. 2, 18; inf. apocop. biber, Cato, Titin., and Fannii Annal. ap. Charis. p. 99), 3, v. a. [root bi; Gr. pi-, pinô, pepôka; whence Lat. poto, as if from po; Sanscr. pī; Slav. piti; Lith. pota], to drink (usually from thirst, a natural want; poto, to drink from passion, habit, etc.; but poto is occasionally used of water, etc., e. g. Plin. 11, 37, 68, § 179; cf.:

    bibere naturae est, potare luxuriae,

    Isid. Diff. 1. 74; and the partt. potus and potatus are regularly used instead of the partt. of bibo).
    I.
    With acc.
    1.
    Of the liquid drunk:

    per aestatem boves aquam bonam et liquidam bibant semper curato,

    Cato, R. R. 73:

    jejunus heminam bibito,

    id. ib. 126:

    si voles vinum Choum bibere, licebit bibas,

    id. ib. 48: eapse merum condidicit bibere;

    foribus dat aquam quam bibant,

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 4:

    vicit vinum quod bibi,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 1:

    Darius in fugā cum aquam turbidam bibisset,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97:

    patrono malo suadebat ut mulsum frigidum biberet,

    id. de Or. 2, 70, 282:

    viveret, nisi illud (i. e. venenum) bibisset,

    Quint. 8, 5, 31:

    bibo aquam,

    id. 6, 3, 93:

    cur apud te vinum aetate tuā vetustius bibitur?

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 17, 2:

    nisi Hy. mettia mella Falerno Ne biberis diluta,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 15:

    et Veientani bibitur faex crassa rubelli,

    Mart. 1, 103, 9:

    lac bibere,

    to suck, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 22; id. M. 9, 377; 9, 615.—Also nutricem bibere (i. e. lac de nutrice), App. M. 2, p. 115, 29.— Poet.;

    Caecubam... Tu bibes uvam (i. e. vinum),

    Hor. C. 1, 20, 10:

    in usu radix tantum duabus drachmis bibenda (i. e. sucus radicis),

    Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 67.—
    2.
    Pocula or cyathos bibere.
    (α).
    Poet., = vinum (cf. pinein kratêras):

    tristia cum multo pocula felle bibat,

    Tib. 1, 5, 50:

    ipse bibebam Sobria suppositā pocula victor aquā,

    id. 1, 6, 28:

    plura pocula = plus vini,

    id. 1, 9, 59; so,

    nomismata and aera,

    id. 1, 26, 3.—
    (β).
    Of the number of cups drunk at a merry-making: vide quot cyathos bibimus: St. Tot quot digiti sunt tibi in manu, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 24.—Esp. of the custom of drinking names, i. e. as many cups as there are letters in a name proposed; the number is frequently expressed by fractional parts of the as (uncia = a cyathus;

    quincunx = 5 cyathi, etc.): quincunces et sex cyathos bessemque bibamus, Gaius ut fiat, Julius, et Proculus,

    Mart. 11, 36, 7:

    crebros ergo licet bibas trientes,

    id. 1, 106, 8:

    diluti bibis unciam Falerni,

    id. v. 3 (cf. with potare:

    sextantes et deunces,

    id. 12, 28).—Hence, nomen bibere, Julium, etc., bibere:

    ut jugulem curas, nomen utrumque bibam,

    Mart. 8, 57, 26:

    Laevia sex cyathis, septem Justina bibatur, Quinque Lycas, Lyde quattuor, Ida tribus,

    id. 1, 71, 1 sq.:

    Astyanacta bibes,

    id. 8, 6, 16.—
    3.
    Fluvium, undam, pruinas bibere ( poet.).
    (α).
    = aquam ex flumine bibere:

    priusquam Pabula gustassent Trojae Xanthumque bibissent,

    Verg. A. 1, 473:

    jam crassus torrens bibitur tamen,

    Stat. Th. 4, 821:

    puram bibis amnibus undam,

    Claud. Laud. Herc. 74.—
    (β).
    Trop., to arrive at the region of the river:

    non illum nostri possunt mutare labores, Nec si... Hebrumque bibamus Sithoniasque nives... subeamus (i. e. si Thraciam adeamus),

    Verg. E. 10, 65:

    ante... Aut Ararim Parthus bibet, aut Germania Tigrim Quam, etc.,

    sooner will the Parthians come to Germany, or the Germans to the country of the Parthians, id. ib. 1, 63:

    turbaque Phasiacam Graia bibistis aquam,

    Ov. H. 12, 10.—Hence,
    (γ).
    Qui flumen bibunt, = the inhabitants of the country through which the river passes:

    qui Tiberim Fabarimque bibunt,

    Verg. A. 7, 715:

    qui profundum Danubium bibunt,

    Hor. C. 4, 15, 21:

    qui Nilum ex ipso protinus ore bibunt,

    Mart. 7, 88, 6:

    populosque bibentes Euphraten,

    Luc. 8, 213:

    qui te, Nile, bibit, Claud. Prob. et Olybr. 38.—So of an inland sea: caesamque bibens Maeotin Alanus,

    Claud. in Rufin. 1, 812.—Of a single person:

    extremum Tanaim si biberes, Lyce,

    Hor. C. 3, 10, 1.—Similarly, montium pruinas bibere, of the rivers fed by a mountain range:

    amniumque... quicunque Odrysias bibunt pruinas,

    Mart. 10, 7, 2: fluvios qui... Alpinasque bibunt de more pruinas, Claud. Prob. et Olybr. 255.—
    4.
    Bibere aquas, to be drowned:

    neu bibat aequoreas naufragus hostis aquas,

    Ov. H. 7, 62.— Transf., of ships, to founder, to be wrecked: o utinam... Argo funestas pressa bibisset aquas! Ov. Am. 2, 11, 6.—
    5.
    Sanguinem or cruorem bibere.
    (α).
    Sanguinem, in a figurative sense, = sanguinem sitire:

    cujus sanguinem (Antonium) non bibere censeatis? (sitire, animo bibere),

    Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10.—
    (β).
    Cruorem bibere, to draw blood, to kill:

    hasta virgineum alte bibit acta cruorem,

    Verg. A. 11, 803; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 78.—
    6.
    Transf. to things other than liquids.
    a.
    Of concrete things: dixit et ardentes avido bibit ore favillas, breathed in, drew in (of the sparks of a funeral pyre), Mart. 1, 42, 5:

    vigilandae noctes et fuligo lucubrationum bibenda,

    inhale, Quint. 11, 3, 23.—
    b.
    Figuratively, of abstract things.
    (α).
    = cupideaudire, legere:

    pugnas et exactos tyrannos... bibit aure vulgus,

    eagerly listens to, Hor. C. 2, 13, 32:

    incipe: suspensis auribus ista bibam,

    Prop. 3, 4, 8: hinc ille justitiae haustus bibat, imbibe (by reading) the love of justice, Quint. 12, 2, 31: illa divino fruitur sermone parentis, maternosque bibit mores, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 231.—
    (β).
    To imbibe, be affected with:

    infelix Dido, longumque bibebat amorem,

    Verg. A. 1, 749:

    totisque novum bibit ossibus ignem,

    the fire of love, Stat. Achill. 1, 303.—
    (γ).
    To draw out, exhaust: nudae illae artes omnem sucum ingenii bibunt, Quint. prooem. 24.—
    c.
    To swallow, i. e. forget:

    quamquam ego vinum bibo, mandata hau consuevi simul bibere una,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 1, 3. —
    7.
    Transf., of inanim. subjects, to absorb liquids, draw, imbibe them:

    id si feceris metreta oleum non bibet,

    Cato, R. R. 100. —So trop.:

    claudite jam rivos... sat prata biberunt,

    Verg. E. 3, 111:

    inriguumque bibant violaria fontem,

    id. G. 4, 32:

    quae (terra) bibit humorem,

    absorbs moisture, id. ib. 2, 218:

    amphora fumum bibere instituta,

    Hor. C. 3, 8, 11:

    mista bibunt molles lacrimis unguenta favillae,

    Ov. F. 3, 561:

    tunc bibit irriguus fertilis hortus aquas,

    Tib. 2, 1, 44:

    lanarum nigrae nullum colorem bibunt,

    take no color, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193; so,

    candorem (i. e. colorem candidum) bibere,

    id. 31, 11, 47, § 123: arcus bibit (aquas) and nubes bibunt (aquas), the rainbow, the clouds draw water (according to a popular belief among the ancients):

    cur bibit arcus aquas?

    Prop. 3, 5 (4, 4), 32:

    et bibit ingens Arcus,

    Verg. G. 1, 380.—And, jestingly, of an old woman given to drink: ecce autem, bibit arcus;

    hercle, credo, hodie pluet,

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 39 (44):

    unde aures nubesque bibunt atque imbrifer arcus,

    Stat. Th. 9, 405.—So with object understood:

    bibite, festivae fores,

    with reference to the wine spilled, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 88:

    palma toto anno bibere amat, i. e. aquam,

    Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 28.—
    II.
    Absol. (the obj. acc. understood).
    a.
    Sc. aquam:

    nec sitis est exstincta priusquam vita bibendo (of those seized by the plague),

    Ov. M. 7, 569.—
    b.
    Of liquids in general:

    numquam sitiens biberat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97:

    edendi mihi erit bibendique finis desideria naturae restinguere,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 5:

    ut nec bibant sine ambitione, nec edant,

    id. ib. 12, 5:

    conducit inter cibos bibere,

    Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 41:

    vino debemus homines quod soli animalium non sitientes bibimus,

    id. 23, 1, 23, § 42.—
    c.
    Esp. of wine:

    es, bibe, animo obsequere mecum,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 82:

    quamquam illud est dulce, esse et bibere,

    id. Trin. 2, 1, 37:

    jam diu factum postquam bibimus: nimis diu sicci sumus,

    id. Pers. 5, 2, 45; id. Poen. 4, 2, 13:

    decet luxuriosum bibendo mori,

    Quint. 8, 5, 23:

    ut jejuni biberent,

    Plin. 14, 28 med. — Pass. impers. bibitur, they drink, he drinks, people drink:

    dies noctisque estur, bibitur,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 78:

    ab tertiā horā bibebatur, ludebatur, vomebatur,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 41, 104:

    bibitur usque eo dum de solio ministretur,

    id. Pis. 27, 67.—
    III.
    With adverbs or adverbial phrases.
    a.
    Of manner:

    jucundius bibere,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97; id. Att. 13, 52, 1:

    large,

    Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105:

    fit invitatio ut Graeco more biberetur, i. e. propinando,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66.—
    b.
    With num. adv. denoting the number of cups:

    jam bis bibisse oportuit,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 122:

    sic ago, semel bibo,

    id. Rud. 3, 6, 46:

    plus quam deciens, Sextiliane, bibis,

    Mart. 1, 26, 10:

    quare bis deciens, Sextiliane bibis?

    id. 1, 11, 2.—
    IV.
    With abl. or prep. and abl.
    1.
    Of the liquid, river, etc.:

    de eo vino... bibito ante cenam,

    Cato, R. R. 114: a fonte bibatur... [p. 236] an lacu, Mart. 9, 99, 9:

    ab amne,

    id. 12, 11:

    ex aquā,

    Prop. 2, 30, 32:

    ex fonte,

    id. 4, 4, 14.—
    2.
    Of the vessel.
    (α).
    Abl.:

    gemmā, i. e. poculo ex gemmā facto,

    Verg. G. 2, 506:

    caelato = e poculo caelato,

    Juv. 12, 47:

    conchā,

    id. 6, 304:

    fictilibus,

    id. 10, 25:

    testā,

    Mart. 3, 82, 3:

    vitro,

    id. 1, 37, 2; 4, 85, 1:

    ossibus humanorum capitum,

    Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 12.—And bibere understood:

    poscunt majoribus poculis, i. e. bibi,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66.—
    (β).
    With ex: ex solido auro, L. Varius ap. Macr. 6, 1:

    e gemmā,

    Prop. 3, 3, 26.—
    (γ).
    With in:

    hac licet in gemmā bibas,

    Mart. 14, 120:

    in Priami calathis,

    id. 8, 6, 16:

    in auro,

    Sen. Thyest. 453:

    in argento potorio,

    Dig. 34, 12, 21:

    in ossibus capitum,

    Flor. 3, 4, 2.—
    V.
    Particular phrases.
    1.
    Bibe si bibis = bibe nunc, si omnino bibere vis, a formula urging to drink, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 33; 5, 4, 51 (cf.:

    age, si quid agis,

    id. ib. 5, 4, 35).—
    2.
    Dare bibere, to give to drink, a Grecism, perh. only in the foll. passages: date illi biber, Titin ap. Charis. p. 99 P. (Com. Rel. v. 78 Rib.):

    jubebat biber dari, Fann. Ann. ib: bibere da usque plenis cantharis,

    Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 40 (45):

    quod jussi ei dari bibere,

    Ter. And. 3, 2, 4; cf.:

    ut Jovi bibere ministraret,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65:

    ut bibere sibi juberet dari,

    Liv. 40, 47, 5: cf.: dare with subj.:

    tum vos date bibat tibicini,

    Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 16.—And with rel. and subj.:

    nimium dabat quod biberem,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 19:

    dat aquam quam bibant,

    id. Curc. 1, 3, 4.—
    3.
    Prov.:

    aut bibat aut abeat, taken from the Greek banquets, in which the chairman (arbiter bibendi,

    Hor. C. 2, 7, 25) could demand unconditional submission to the drinking laws (ê pithi, ê apithi), Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 118.
    2.
    bĭbo, ōnis, m. [1. bibo], a tippler, drunkard, Firm. Math. 5, 4 fin. —
    II.
    Esp., a kind of worm bred in wine, Afran. ap. Isid. Orig. 12, 8, 16 (Com. Rel. v. 406 Rib.; al. bibiones).

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  • 10 C

    C, c, n. indecl., or f., the third letter of the Latin alphabet; corresponded originally in sound to the Greek G (which in inscrr., esp. in the Doric, was frequently written like the Latin C; v. O. Müll. Etrusk. 2, p. 295); hence the old orthography: LECIONES, MACISTRATOS, EXFOCIONT, [pu]CNANDOD, PVC[nad], CARTACINIENSI, upon the Columna rostrata, for legiones, magistratos, effugiunt, pugnando, pugnā, Carthaginiensi; and the prænomina Gaius and Gnaeus, even to the latest times, were designated by C. and Cn., while Caeso or Kaeso was written with K; cf. the letter G. Still, even as early as the time of the kings, whether through the influence of the Tuscans, among whom G sounded like K, or of the. Sabines, whose language was kindred with that of the Tuscans, the C seems to have been substituted for K; hence even Consul was designated by Cos., and K remained in use only before a, as in Kalendae; k. k. for calumniae causā, INTERKAL for intercalaris, MERK for mercatus, and in a few other republican inscrr., because by this vowel K was distinguished from Q, as in Gr. Kappa from Koppa, and in Phœnician Caph from Cuph, while C was employed like other consonants with e. Q was used at the beginning of words only when u, pronounced like v, followed, as Quirites from Cures, Tanaquil from Thanchufil, Thanchfil, ThankWil; accordingly, C everywhere took the place of Q, when that accompanying labial sound was lost, or u was used as a vowel; so in the gentile name of Maecenas Cilnius, from the Etrusk. Cvelne or Cfelne (O. Müll. Etrusk. 1, p. 414 sq.); so in coctus, cocus, alicubi, sicubi; in relicŭŭs (four syl.) for reliquus (trisyl.): AECETIA = AEQITIA, i. q. aequitas (V. AECETIA), etc., and as in the Golden Age cujus was written for quojus, and cui for quoi (corresponding to cum for quom); thus, even in the most ancient period, quor or cur was used together with [p. 257] quare, cura with quaero, curia with Quiris, as inversely inquilinus with incola, and in S. C. Bacch. OQVOLTOD = occulto. Hence, at the end of words que, as well as ce in hic, sic, istic, illic, was changed to c, as in ac for atque, nec for neque, nunc, tunc, donec for numque, tumque, dumque; and in the middle of words it might also pass into g. as in negotium and neglego, cf. necopinus. Since C thus gradually took the place of K and Q, with the single exception that our kw was throughout designated by qu, it was strange that under the emperors grammarians began again to write k instead of c before a, though even Quint. 1, 7, 10, expressed his displeasure at this; and they afterwards wrote q before u, even when no labial sound followed, as in pequnia, or merely peqnia, for pecunia; cf. the letters Q and U. About the beginning of the sixth century of the city the modified form G was introduced for the flat guttural sound, and C thenceforth regularly represented the hard sound = our K. The use of aspirates was unknown to the Romans during the first six centuries, hence the letter C also represents the Gr. X, as BACA and BACANALIBVS, for Baccha and Bacchanalibus (the single C instead of the double, as regularly in the most ancient times); cf. also schizô with scindo, and poluchroos with pulcer. But even in the time of Cicero scheda came into use for scida, and pulcher for pulcer; so also the name of the Gracchi was aspirated, as were the name Cethegus and the word triumphus, which, however, in the song of the Arval brothers, is TRIVMPVS; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 160, and the letter P. About this time the use of aspirates became so common, in imitation of Greek, that Catullus wrote upon it an epigram (84), which begins with the words: Cho mmoda dicebat, si quando commoda vellet; and in Monum. Ancyr. inchoo is used for the orig. incoho, acc. to which the ancient Romans also employed cohors for chors (v. cohors).On account of the near relationship of c and g, as given above, they are very often interchanged, esp. when connected with liquids: Cygnus, Progne, Gnidus, Gnossus, from kuknos, Proknê, Knidos, Knôssos (even when n was separated from c by a vowel, as in Saguntum for Zakunthos, or absorbed by an s, as in vigesimus and trigesimus for vicensimus and tricensimus); mulgeo for mulceo, segmen from seco, gummi for commi (kommi); gurgulio for curculio, grabatus for krabatos, so that amurca was also written for amurga, from amorgê, as inversely conger for gonger, from gongros; but also with other letters; cf. mastruca and mastruga, misceo and misgô, mugio and mukaomai, gobius and kôbios, gubernator and kubernêtês. Not less freq. is the interchange of c and t, which is noticed by Quint. Inst. 1, 11, 5, and in accordance with which, in composition, d or t before qu, except with que, became c, as acquiro, nequicquam, iccirco for idcirco, ecquis for etquis, etc. Hence is explained the rejection of c before t, as in Lutatius for Luctatius, and the arbitrariness with which many names were written with cc or tt for ct, as Vettones for Vectones; Nacca or Natta for Nacta (from the Gr. gnaptô). It would be erroneouś to infer, from the varied orthography of the names' Accius, Attius, and Actius, or Peccius, Pettius, and Pectius, a hissing pronunciation of them; for as the Romans interchange the terminations icius and itius, and the orthography fetialis and fecialis, indutiae and induciae, with one another, they also wrote Basculi or Bastuli, anclare or antlare, etc. Ci for ti does not appear till an African inscr. of the third century after Christ, and not often before Gallic inscrr. and documents of the seventh century; ti for ci is not certainly found before the end of the fourth century; and ci before a vowel does not appear to have been pronounced as sh, except provincially, before the sixth or seventh century; cf. Roby, Gr. bk. 1, ch. 7; and so in gen., Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 33 sqq. C is sometimes interchanged with p: columba, palumbes; coquus, popa, popina (cf. in Gr. koteros; Sanscr. katara; poteros; Lat. uter). C is sometimes dropped in the middle of a word: luna for luc-na, lumen for luc-men; so also at the beginning of a word: uter for cuter; Sanscr. katara, v. supra.As an abbreviation, C designates Gaius, and reversed, O, Gaia; cf. Quint. 1, 7, 28. As a numeral, C = centum, and upon voting tablets = condemno, Ascon. Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. the letter A fin.;

    hence it is called littera tristis (opp. A = absolvo, which is called littera salutaris),

    Cic. Mil. 6, 15 Moeb.

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  • 11 c

    C, c, n. indecl., or f., the third letter of the Latin alphabet; corresponded originally in sound to the Greek G (which in inscrr., esp. in the Doric, was frequently written like the Latin C; v. O. Müll. Etrusk. 2, p. 295); hence the old orthography: LECIONES, MACISTRATOS, EXFOCIONT, [pu]CNANDOD, PVC[nad], CARTACINIENSI, upon the Columna rostrata, for legiones, magistratos, effugiunt, pugnando, pugnā, Carthaginiensi; and the prænomina Gaius and Gnaeus, even to the latest times, were designated by C. and Cn., while Caeso or Kaeso was written with K; cf. the letter G. Still, even as early as the time of the kings, whether through the influence of the Tuscans, among whom G sounded like K, or of the. Sabines, whose language was kindred with that of the Tuscans, the C seems to have been substituted for K; hence even Consul was designated by Cos., and K remained in use only before a, as in Kalendae; k. k. for calumniae causā, INTERKAL for intercalaris, MERK for mercatus, and in a few other republican inscrr., because by this vowel K was distinguished from Q, as in Gr. Kappa from Koppa, and in Phœnician Caph from Cuph, while C was employed like other consonants with e. Q was used at the beginning of words only when u, pronounced like v, followed, as Quirites from Cures, Tanaquil from Thanchufil, Thanchfil, ThankWil; accordingly, C everywhere took the place of Q, when that accompanying labial sound was lost, or u was used as a vowel; so in the gentile name of Maecenas Cilnius, from the Etrusk. Cvelne or Cfelne (O. Müll. Etrusk. 1, p. 414 sq.); so in coctus, cocus, alicubi, sicubi; in relicŭŭs (four syl.) for reliquus (trisyl.): AECETIA = AEQITIA, i. q. aequitas (V. AECETIA), etc., and as in the Golden Age cujus was written for quojus, and cui for quoi (corresponding to cum for quom); thus, even in the most ancient period, quor or cur was used together with [p. 257] quare, cura with quaero, curia with Quiris, as inversely inquilinus with incola, and in S. C. Bacch. OQVOLTOD = occulto. Hence, at the end of words que, as well as ce in hic, sic, istic, illic, was changed to c, as in ac for atque, nec for neque, nunc, tunc, donec for numque, tumque, dumque; and in the middle of words it might also pass into g. as in negotium and neglego, cf. necopinus. Since C thus gradually took the place of K and Q, with the single exception that our kw was throughout designated by qu, it was strange that under the emperors grammarians began again to write k instead of c before a, though even Quint. 1, 7, 10, expressed his displeasure at this; and they afterwards wrote q before u, even when no labial sound followed, as in pequnia, or merely peqnia, for pecunia; cf. the letters Q and U. About the beginning of the sixth century of the city the modified form G was introduced for the flat guttural sound, and C thenceforth regularly represented the hard sound = our K. The use of aspirates was unknown to the Romans during the first six centuries, hence the letter C also represents the Gr. X, as BACA and BACANALIBVS, for Baccha and Bacchanalibus (the single C instead of the double, as regularly in the most ancient times); cf. also schizô with scindo, and poluchroos with pulcer. But even in the time of Cicero scheda came into use for scida, and pulcher for pulcer; so also the name of the Gracchi was aspirated, as were the name Cethegus and the word triumphus, which, however, in the song of the Arval brothers, is TRIVMPVS; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 160, and the letter P. About this time the use of aspirates became so common, in imitation of Greek, that Catullus wrote upon it an epigram (84), which begins with the words: Cho mmoda dicebat, si quando commoda vellet; and in Monum. Ancyr. inchoo is used for the orig. incoho, acc. to which the ancient Romans also employed cohors for chors (v. cohors).On account of the near relationship of c and g, as given above, they are very often interchanged, esp. when connected with liquids: Cygnus, Progne, Gnidus, Gnossus, from kuknos, Proknê, Knidos, Knôssos (even when n was separated from c by a vowel, as in Saguntum for Zakunthos, or absorbed by an s, as in vigesimus and trigesimus for vicensimus and tricensimus); mulgeo for mulceo, segmen from seco, gummi for commi (kommi); gurgulio for curculio, grabatus for krabatos, so that amurca was also written for amurga, from amorgê, as inversely conger for gonger, from gongros; but also with other letters; cf. mastruca and mastruga, misceo and misgô, mugio and mukaomai, gobius and kôbios, gubernator and kubernêtês. Not less freq. is the interchange of c and t, which is noticed by Quint. Inst. 1, 11, 5, and in accordance with which, in composition, d or t before qu, except with que, became c, as acquiro, nequicquam, iccirco for idcirco, ecquis for etquis, etc. Hence is explained the rejection of c before t, as in Lutatius for Luctatius, and the arbitrariness with which many names were written with cc or tt for ct, as Vettones for Vectones; Nacca or Natta for Nacta (from the Gr. gnaptô). It would be erroneouś to infer, from the varied orthography of the names' Accius, Attius, and Actius, or Peccius, Pettius, and Pectius, a hissing pronunciation of them; for as the Romans interchange the terminations icius and itius, and the orthography fetialis and fecialis, indutiae and induciae, with one another, they also wrote Basculi or Bastuli, anclare or antlare, etc. Ci for ti does not appear till an African inscr. of the third century after Christ, and not often before Gallic inscrr. and documents of the seventh century; ti for ci is not certainly found before the end of the fourth century; and ci before a vowel does not appear to have been pronounced as sh, except provincially, before the sixth or seventh century; cf. Roby, Gr. bk. 1, ch. 7; and so in gen., Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 33 sqq. C is sometimes interchanged with p: columba, palumbes; coquus, popa, popina (cf. in Gr. koteros; Sanscr. katara; poteros; Lat. uter). C is sometimes dropped in the middle of a word: luna for luc-na, lumen for luc-men; so also at the beginning of a word: uter for cuter; Sanscr. katara, v. supra.As an abbreviation, C designates Gaius, and reversed, O, Gaia; cf. Quint. 1, 7, 28. As a numeral, C = centum, and upon voting tablets = condemno, Ascon. Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. the letter A fin.;

    hence it is called littera tristis (opp. A = absolvo, which is called littera salutaris),

    Cic. Mil. 6, 15 Moeb.

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  • 12 cardo

    cardo, ĭnis, m. [cf. kradê, a swing; kradainô, to swing, wave; Sanscr. kurd, a spring, a leap; old Germ. hrad, lively, and Germ. reit in bereit, ready] (f., Gracch. ap. Prisc. p. 683 P.; Graius ap. Non. p. 202, 20; cf. infra in Vitr.), the pivot and socket, upon which a door was made to swing at the lintel and the threshold, the hinge of a door or gate, Enn. Trag. 119 Vahl.:

    paene ecfregisti foribus cardines,

    Plaut. Am. 4, 2, 6; id. As. 2, 3, 8:

    postis a cardine vellit Aeratos,

    Verg. A. 2, 480:

    cardo stridebat,

    id. ib. 1, 449; cf. id. Cir. 222:

    num muttit cardo?

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 94:

    immoti,

    Plin. 16, 43, 84, § 230:

    singuli,

    id. 36, 15, 24, § 117:

    facili patuerunt cardine valvae,

    Juv. 4, 63:

    versato cardine Thisbe Egreditur,

    opening the door, Ov. M. 4, 93; cf. Verg. A. 3, 448:

    nec strepitum verso Saturnia cardine fecit,

    Ov. M. 14, 782 al. —
    B.
    Meton.
    1.
    Cardines, in mechanics, beams that were fitted together; and specifically, cardo masculus, a tenon, Vitr. 9, 6, and cardo femina, a socket, a mortise, id. 9, 6:

    cardo securiclatus,

    axeshaped tenon, a dovetail, id. 10, 15, 3.— Hence,
    b.
    In garlands, the place where the two ends meet, Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 18.—
    2.
    In astron., the point about which something turns, a pole. So of the North pole:

    caeli,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4:

    mundi,

    Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 89; cf.: extremusque adeo duplici de cardine vertex Dicitur esse polus, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 41, 105; Ov. P. 2, 10, 45; Stat. Th. 1, 349:

    cardo glacialis ursae,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 1139:

    Arctoae cardo portae,

    Stat. Th. 7, 35;

    hence anal. to this, with the agrimensores,

    the line limiting the field, drawn through from north to south, Plin. 18, 33, 76, § 326; 17, 22, 35, § 169; cf. Fest. s. v. decimanus, p. 71 Müll., and accordingly the mountain Taurus is called cardo, i. e. line or limit, Liv. 37, 54, 23; cf. id. 40, 18, 8; 41, 1, 3.—Of the four cardinal points of the world, Quint. 12, 10, 67; so, Hesperius Eous, Luc. 5, 71; Stat. Th. 1, 157:

    occiduus,

    Luc. 4, 672:

    medius,

    id. 4, 673.— Of the earth as the centre of the universe, acc. to the belief of the ancients, Plin. 2, 64, 64, § 160; 2, 9, 6, § 44.—Of the intersection of inclined surfaces:

    reperiuntur (aquae)... quodam convexitatis cardine aut montium radicibus,

    Plin. 31, 3, 26, § 43.—Of the summer solstice:

    anni,

    Plin. 18, 28, 68, § 264; and so of the epochs of the different seasons:

    temporum,

    id. 18, 25, 58, § 218; 18, 25, 59, § 220.—Hence, of the time of life:

    extremus,

    old age, Luc. 7, 381.—
    II.
    Trop., that on which every thing else turns or depends, the chief point or circumstance (so not before the Aug. per.):

    haud tanto cessabit cardine rerum,

    at such a turn of affairs, so great a crisis, in so critical a moment, decisive, Verg. A. 1, 672 (hoc est in articulo, Serv.; cf. Isid. Orig. 15, 7, 6; Gr. akmê):

    fatorum in cardine summo,

    Stat. Th. 10, 853: litium. Quint. 12, 8, 2:

    causae,

    id. 5, 12, 3:

    satellitem in quo totius dominationis summa quasi quodam cardine continetur,

    Val. Max. 3, 3, ext. 5:

    unum eligamus in quo est summum ac principale, in quo totius sapientiae cardo versatur,

    Lact. 3, 7, 6.

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  • 13 ebibo

    ē-bĭbo, bi, bĭtum, 3, v. a., to drink up, drain (not in Cic. or Caes.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    quid comedent? quid ebibent?

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 14;

    so with comedere,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 20; id. Ps. 5, 2, 11;

    hirneam vini,

    id. Am. 1, 1, 276:

    poculum,

    id. Curc. 2, 3, 80:

    ubera lactantia,

    Ov. M. 6, 342 et saep.:

    elephantos dracones,

    i. e. to suck their blood, Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34; cf.

    sanguinem,

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 65:

    cum vino simitu imperium,

    to drink up, forget through drinking, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 84 (cf. in the simplex:

    bibere mandata,

    id. Pers. 2, 1, 3, v. bibo).— Poet.: invenies illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos, to drink the age of Nestor (i. e. to drink as many glasses as equal the years of Nestor), Ov. F. 3, 533. —
    B.
    Transf., of inanimate things, to suck in, draw in, absorb:

    (fretum) peregrinos amnes,

    Ov. M. 8, 837; cf. Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71:

    saniem (lana),

    id. 9, 38, 62.—
    II.
    In gen., to waste in drink, squander, Hor. S. 2, 3, 122. —
    III.
    Trop., to exhaust, remove, take away:

    spiritum meum,

    Vulg. Job, 6, 4.

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  • 14 mulceo

    mulcĕo, si, sum (rarely mulctum), 2, v. a. [Sanscr. root marc, take hold of; Gr. marptô, marptis; cf. mulco], to stroke; to touch or move lightly (syn. palpo; poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
    I.
    Lit.:

    manu mulcens barbam,

    Ov. F. 1, 259:

    caput,

    Quint. 11, 3, 158:

    vitulum,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 341:

    colla,

    id. M. 10, 118:

    mulcebant Zephyri flores,

    rustle through, id. ib. 1, 108:

    aura mulcet rosas,

    Prop. 4 (5), 7, 60:

    virgā mulcere capillos,

    to touch lightly, Ov. M. 14, 295:

    aristas,

    id. F. 5, 161:

    mulcere alternos (pueros) et corpora fingere linguā,

    Verg. A. 8, 634:

    aëra motu,

    Lucr. 4, 136:

    aethera pennis,

    to move, Cic. Arat. 88: mulserat huc navem compulsam fluctibu' pontus, had wafted hither, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 870 P. (Ann. v. 257 Vahl.).—
    B.
    Transf., to make sweet or pleasant:

    pocula succis Lyaei,

    Sil. 7, 169. —
    II.
    Trop., to soothe, soften, appease, allay; to caress, flatter, delight, etc. (syn.:

    blandior. placo, lenio, sedo): mulcentem tigres, of Orpheus,

    Verg. G. 4, 510:

    aliquem dictis,

    id. A. 5, 464:

    fluctūs,

    id. ib. 1, 66:

    iras,

    id. ib. 7, 755:

    jure,

    Vell. 2, 117, 3.— To alleviate, mitigate:

    variā vulnera mulcet ope,

    alleviates the pain of his wounds, Ov. F. 5, 401:

    dolores nervorum,

    Plin. 22, 24, 50, § 107:

    os stomachumque,

    id. 22, 24, 51, § 110:

    ebrietatem,

    id. 21, 20, 81, § 138:

    lassitudinem,

    id. 37, 5, 16, § 63:

    corpora fessa,

    Ov. M. 11, 625: aliquem laudibus, to flatter, Pac. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. Mulciber, p. 144 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 109 Rib.):

    puellas carmine,

    to delight, Hor. C. 3, 11, 24:

    animos admiratione,

    Quint. 1, 10, 9:

    aures figmentis verborum novis,

    to delight, Gell. 20, 9, 1.—Hence, mulsus, a, um, P. a.
    A.
    Adj., mixed with honey; sweet as honey, honey-sweet (post-Aug.):

    mulsa (sc. aqua),

    honey-water, hydromel, Col. 12, 12, 3:

    acetum,

    vinegar and honey mixed together, honey-vinegar, Cato, R. R. 157, 6:

    lac,

    Plin. 10, 22, 27, § 52:

    mulsa pira,

    Col. 5, 10, 18.— Trop., of words, etc., sweet as honey, honeyed (Plautin.):

    ut mulsa dicta dicis!

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 34:

    loqui,

    id. Poen. 1, 2, 112.—
    B. 1.
    mulsa, ae, f., a term of endearment, my sweetheart, my honey (Plautin.):

    age, mulsa mea,

    Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 14; id. Cas. 2, 6, 20.—
    2.
    mulsum, i, n. (sc. vinum), honey-wine, mead, i. e. wine mixed or made with honey (class.):

    commisce mulsum,

    Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 7; id. Bacch. 4, 9, 48:

    frigidum,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 282:

    aceti, for mulsum acetum,

    honeyvinegar, Ser. Samm. 49, 714.

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  • 15 Nestor

    Nestor, ŏris (Gr. acc. Nestora, Hor. C. 1, 15, 22), m., = Nestôr, a son of Neleus, and king of Pylus, famous among the heroes before Troy for his wisdom and eloquence. He is said to have lived through three generations of men:

    ipsi Agamemnoni, regi regum, fuit honestum, habere aliquem in consiliis capiendis Nestorem,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 2; cf. id. Sen. 10, 31; id. Tusc. 5, 3, 7:

    licet eloquio fidum quoque Nestora vincat,

    Ov. M. 13, 63; Prop. 2, 10, 46 (3, 5, 30); cf. Hor. C. 2, 9, 13; Tib. 4, 1, 49.—Nestoris aetas, the age of Nestor, prov. for a long life, Mart. 2, 64, 3; cf. id. 7, 96, 7; 5, 58, 5 al.:

    vivat Pacuvius, quaeso, vel Nestora totum,

    i. e. a whole life of Nestor, Juv. 12, 128.—Hence,
    II.
    Nestŏrĕus, a, um, adj., of Nestor:

    senecta,

    Mart. 9, 30, 1; Stat. S. 1, 3, 110.

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  • 16 Nestoreus

    Nestor, ŏris (Gr. acc. Nestora, Hor. C. 1, 15, 22), m., = Nestôr, a son of Neleus, and king of Pylus, famous among the heroes before Troy for his wisdom and eloquence. He is said to have lived through three generations of men:

    ipsi Agamemnoni, regi regum, fuit honestum, habere aliquem in consiliis capiendis Nestorem,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 2; cf. id. Sen. 10, 31; id. Tusc. 5, 3, 7:

    licet eloquio fidum quoque Nestora vincat,

    Ov. M. 13, 63; Prop. 2, 10, 46 (3, 5, 30); cf. Hor. C. 2, 9, 13; Tib. 4, 1, 49.—Nestoris aetas, the age of Nestor, prov. for a long life, Mart. 2, 64, 3; cf. id. 7, 96, 7; 5, 58, 5 al.:

    vivat Pacuvius, quaeso, vel Nestora totum,

    i. e. a whole life of Nestor, Juv. 12, 128.—Hence,
    II.
    Nestŏrĕus, a, um, adj., of Nestor:

    senecta,

    Mart. 9, 30, 1; Stat. S. 1, 3, 110.

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  • 17 obligo

    ob-lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    To bind or tie around, to bind or fasten to any thing (very rare):

    obligatus corio,

    bound in a leathern sack, Auct. Her. 1, 13, 23:

    articulis muscus obligatus,

    bound upon, Plin. 26, 11, 66, § 105: cibum ovis, to bind or unite with eggs, Apic. 4, 2:

    amylo spisso obligare,

    id. 2, 2; 8, 2.—
    B.
    To bind together, bind up (rare):

    pecua ad hanc collo in crumena ego obligata defero,

    Plaut. Truc. 5, 1, 64: age obliga, obsigna cito, tie up (the letter, in order to seal it), id. Bacch. 4, 4, 96:

    manipulos,

    Col. 11, 2, 40.—
    C.
    To bind up, bandage, swathe (class., esp. of wounds):

    crus fractum,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 3, 9:

    vulnus,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57; cf.:

    medicum requirens, a quo obligetur,

    to bind up his wounds, id. Tusc. 2, 16, 38; Suet. Vit. 2:

    venas,

    to bandage the veins, Tac. A. 6, 9:

    surculum libro,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 2:

    oculos,

    Sen. Ira, 3, 11, 4:

    ore obligato obsignatoque simulacrum,

    Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 65.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to bind, oblige, put under an obligation, make liable, etc. (cf.:

    obstringo, devincio): aliquem obligare militiae secundo sacramento,

    bind by a second oath, swear in again, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36:

    vadem tribus milibus aeris,

    to bind in the sum of, Liv. 3, 13:

    voti sponsio, quā obligamur deo,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 41; Liv. 9, 11:

    se nexu,

    Cic. Mur. 2, 3: se in acta cujusquam, Tib. ap. Suet. Tib. 67:

    se chirographo ad aliquid,

    Dig. 30, 103:

    aliquem sibi liberalitate,

    to bind to one's self, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 3:

    obligabis me,

    will oblige me, lay me under an obligation, Plin. Ep. 4, 4, 2; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5:

    obligari foedere,

    Liv. 38, 33: pro amicis alicui obligari, to lay one's self under obligation, i. e. to solicit favors, Plin. Ep. 10, 3, 1:

    obligor ipse tamen,

    Ov. M. 9, 248:

    obligatus ei nihil eram,

    was under no obligation to him, Cic. Fam. 6, 11, 1:

    me obligatum tibi fore,

    id. Att. 13, 18:

    obligati sunt interrogatum,

    Amm. 28, 4, 10.— Poet.:

    Prometheus obligatus aliti,

    devoted, condemned to, Hor. Epod. 17, 67:

    ergo obligatam redde Jovi dapem,

    vowed, due, id. C. 2, 7, 17:

    obligor, ut tangam laevi fera litora Ponti,

    am compelled, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 83.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To render liable through guilt, to make guilly:

    cum populum Romanum scelere obligāsses,

    Cic. Dom. 8, 20:

    votis caput,

    Hor. C. 2, 8, 5:

    se scelere,

    Suet. Caes. 42: se furti, Scaev. ap. Gell. 7, 15, 2.— Pass., to be guilty of, to commit an offence:

    est enim periculum, ne aut neglectis iis impiā fraude, aut susceptis anili superstitione obligemur,

    Cic. Div. 1, 4, 7; cf.:

    lege Corneliā testamentariā obligatur,

    offends against, Dig. 8, 10, 30.—
    2.
    Jurid. t. t.
    a.
    To bind, engage one (cf. obligatio, II. B.):

    obligandi, solvendi sui causā,

    Dig. 2, 13, 6, § 3:

    se obligare,

    ib. 4, 2, 7, § 1; 21, 1, 25, § 9.—
    b.
    To pledge, pawn, mortgage a thing:

    magistratui bona ejus obligantur,

    Vitr. 10 praef.:

    omnia praedia fratri,

    Suet. Vesp. 4:

    omnia bona sua pignori,

    Dig. 20, 4, 21:

    nam fundi et aedis obligatae sunt ob amoris praedium,

    has a mortgage on it, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 4:

    aedes pignori,

    Dig. 39, 2, 44:

    obligata praedia,

    Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 9.—
    (β).
    Transf., beyond the jurid. sphere:

    obligare fidem suam,

    to pledge one's word, Cic. Phil. 5, 18, 51.—
    3.
    To impede, restrain, embarrass: judicio districtum atque obligatum esse, Cic. Verr. 1, 9, 24.—Hence, oblĭ-gātus, a, um, P. a., bound, obliged:

    iisdem (officiis) me tibi obligatum fore,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 18, 2.— Comp.:

    quanto quis melior et probior, tanto mihi obligatior abit,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 8:

    ipsi obligati sunt,

    ensnared, embarrassed, Vulg. Psa. 19, 9.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > obligo

  • 18 oblivio

    oblīvĭo, ōnis, f. [obliviscor].
    I.
    Lit., a being forgotten, forgetfulness, oblivion (class.):

    oblivio veteris belli,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4 init.:

    laudem alicujus ab oblivione atque a silentio vindicare,

    to rescue from oblivion, id. de Or. 2, 2, 7:

    meam tuorum erga me meritorum memoriam nulla umquam delebit oblivio,

    id. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

    dare aliquid oblivioni,

    to consign to oblivion, Liv. 1, 31, 3:

    oblivione obruere,

    Cic. Brut. 15, 60; for which (late Lat.): oblivioni tradere, Aug. Civ. Dei, 18, 31, 2; Hier. in Psa. 68, 1 al.:

    omnes ejus injurias voluntariā quādam oblivione contriveram,

    had consigned to oblivion, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 20:

    in oblivionem negoti venire,

    to forget, id. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 79:

    satius erat ista in oblivionem ire,

    to be forgotten, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 7 init.:

    in oblivionem diuturnitate adduci,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 54:

    capit me oblivio alicujus rei,

    I forget something, id. Off. 1, 8, 26:

    per oblivionem,

    through forgetfulness, Suet. Caes. 28:

    in oblivione est,

    is forgotten, Vulg. Luc. 12, 6.—In plur.:

    carpere lividas Obliviones,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 34; Gell. 9, 5, 6; Quint. Decl. 306.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Subject., a forgetting, forgetfulness (post-Aug.):

    in eo (Claudio) mirati sunt homines et oblivionem et inconsiderantiam,

    Suet. Claud. 39, Tac. A. 11, 38.—
    B.
    Concr
    1.
    Oblivio litterarum, a poet. designation of Orbilius Pupillus, a grammarian, who lost his memory in his old age, Bibacul. ap. Suet. Gram. 9.—
    2.
    Flumen Oblivionis, an appellation of the river Limia, in Hispania Tarraconensis, acc. to the Gr. ho tês lêthês, Mel. 3, 1, 8; Flor. 2, 17, 12; called flumen Oblivio, Liv Epit. 55.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > oblivio

  • 19 persona

    persōna, ae, f [acc. to Gabius Bassus ap. Gell. 5, 7, 1 sq., from per-sŏno, to sound through, with the second syllable lengthened].
    I.
    A mask, esp. that used by players, which covered the whole head, and was varied according to the different characters to be represented (syn. larva), Gell. 5, 7, 1:

    personam tragicam forte vulpis viderat,

    Phaedr. 1, 7, 1:

    personam capiti detrahere,

    Mart. 3, 43, 4:

    persona adicitur capiti,

    Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 59. The masks were usually made of clay:

    cretea persona,

    Lucr. 4, 297, cf. Mart. 14, 176, 1. And sometimes of the bark of wood:

    oraque corticibus sumunt horrenda cavatis,

    Verg. G. 2, 387: ut tragicus cantor ligno tegit ora cavato, Prud. adv Symm. 2, 646. The opening for the mouth was very large:

    personae pallentis hiatum formidat infans,

    Juv. 3, 175:

    personis uti primus coepit Roscius Gallus praecipuus histrio, quod oculis obversis erat, nec satis decorus in personis nisi parasitus pronunciabat,

    Diom. p. 486 P. Heads with such masks were used as ornaments for water-spouts, fountains, etc.:

    Butades figulus primus personas tegularum extremis imbricibus imposuit, quae inter initia prostypa vocavit,

    Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 152:

    personae, e quarum rostris aqua salire solet,

    Dig. 19, 1, 17 fin.: mulier nempe ipsa videtur, non personā loqui, a mask, a masked person, Juv 3, 96.—
    II.
    Transf., a personage, character, part, represented by an actor:

    parasiti persona,

    Ter. Eun. prol. 26 sq.:

    sub personā militis,

    Gell. 13, 22, 11:

    (tragici) nihil ex personā poëtae dixerunt,

    Vell. 1, 3, 2.—Hence,
    B.
    Also, transf. beyond the scenic lang., in gen., the part or character which any one sustains in the world (class.):

    (ego), qui non heroum veteres casus fictosque luctus velim imitari atque adumbrare dicendo, neque actor sim alienae personae, sed auctor meae,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 47, 194:

    quam magnum est personam in re publicā tueri principis,

    id. Phil. 8, 10, 29:

    personam sustinere,

    id. Pis. 11, 24:

    personam, quam mihi tempus et res publica imposuit,

    imposed upon me, id. Sull. 3, 8; cf.:

    agenda est persona quam mihi miles imposuit,

    Vop. Prob. 10, 7; Macr. S. 2, 7, 17:

    partes lenitatis et misericordiae semper egi libenter: illam vero gravitatis severitatisque personam non appetivi, sed a re publicā mihi impositam sustinui,

    Cic. Mur. 3, 6:

    petitoris personam capere, accusatoris deponere,

    id. Quint. 13, 46:

    personam suscipere,

    id. de Or. 1, 37, 169:

    gravissimam personam sustinere,

    id. Pis. 29, 71:

    personam tenere,

    id. de Or. 3, 14, 54:

    personam gerere,

    id. Off. 1, 32, 115:

    abjectā quaestoriā personā comitisque assumptā,

    id. Planc. 41, 100:

    fateantur in Maeandrii personā esse expressam speciem civitatis,

    id. Fl. 22, 53:

    id Cicero suā ipsā personā frequentissime praecipit,

    in his own name, Quint. 10, 5, 2:

    cetera quae sunt a me in secundo libro de Oratore per Antonii personam disputata,

    Cic. Fam 7, 32, 2 B. and K. (dub.;

    al. ex personā): ex tuā personā enumerare possis, ut, etc.,

    id. Inv. 1, 52, 99:

    nihil ex personā poëtae disserunt,

    Vell. 1, 3, 2; 1, 3, 3; so Col. 12, 3, 5; Gell. 10, 22, 1; Lact. Epit. 48, 7:

    sub personā Paridis,

    Suet. Dom. 10: so Gell. 10, 22, 24; 13, 22, 11:

    alienam personam ferre,

    Liv. 3, 36: non hominibus tantum, [p. 1356] sed et rebus persona demenda est et reddenda facies sua, Sen. Ep. 24, 13:

    hanc personam induisti: agenda est,

    Sen. Ben. 2, 17, 2.—Hence,
    2.
    A human being who performs any function, plays any part, a person, personage:

    ut mea persona semper aliquid videretur habere populare,

    Cic. Att. 8, 11, D, §

    7: ecquae pacifica persona desideretur,

    id. ib. 8, 12, 4:

    hujus Staleni persona, populo jam nota atque perspecta,

    id. Clu. 29, 78; id. Fam. 6, 6, 10:

    induxi senem disputantem, quia nulla videbatur aptior persona,

    id. Lael. 1, 4:

    Laelii persona,

    id. ib. 1, 4:

    certis personis et aetatibus,

    to people of a certain standing and of a certain age, Suet. Caes. 43:

    minoribus quoque et personis et rebus,

    to persons and things of less importance, id. Tib. 32; id. Aug. 27:

    nulla distantia personarum,

    Vulg. Deut. 1, 17:

    personarum acceptio,

    id. 2 Par. 19, 7; cf. id. Gal. 2, 6 al.:

    ipse suā lege damnatus, cum, substituta filii personā, amplius quingentorum jugerum possideret,

    Plin. 18, 3, 4, § 17:

    denique haec fuit altera persona Thebis, sed tamen secunda, ita ut proxima esset Epaminondae,

    the second chief personage, Nep. Pelop. 4, 3.—
    (β).
    So of persons, opp. to things and actions:

    ut rerum, ut personarum dignitates ferunt,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 53.—
    (γ).
    Law t. t., a being having legal rights and obligations (including the state, etc.; not including slaves; cf. Sandars ad Just. Inst. introd. § 37;

    1, 3 prooem.): omne jus quo utimur, vel ad personas pertinet vel ad res vel ad actiones,

    Dig. 1, 5, 1; Just. Inst. 1, 3 prooem.—
    (δ).
    A human being in gen., a person (post-Aug. and rare):

    continuantes unum quodque (praenomen) per trinas personas,

    Suet. Ner. 1:

    cum dira et foedior omni Crimine persona est,

    Juv. 4, 15.—
    3.
    In the grammarians, a person:

    quom item personarum natura triplex esset, qui loqueretur, ad quem, de quo,

    Varr. L. L. 8, § 20 Müll.; so id. ib. 9, 24, § 32 et saep.

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