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  • 1 cognosco

    co-gnosco, gnōvi, gnĭtum, 3 ( tempp. perff. contr. cognosti, Ter. And. 3, 4, 7:

    cognostis,

    id. Hec. prol. 8:

    cognoram,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 143; Cat. 66, 26:

    cognoro,

    Cic. Att. 7, 20, 2; id. Fam. 2, 11, 2 fin.: cognorim, Cael. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 9, A, 1:

    cognoris,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 35; Lucr. 6, 534:

    cognorit,

    Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 11:

    cognosses,

    Cic. Fl. 21, 51; Cat. 91, 3:

    cognossent,

    Nep. Lys. 4 fin.:

    cognosse,

    Lucr. 1, 331; Cat. 90, 3; Ov. M. 15, 4 al.; v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 532; 2, 535), v. a. [nosco].
    I.
    To become thoroughly acquainted with (by the senses or mentally), to learn by inquiring, to examine, investigate, perceive, see, understand, learn; and, in tempp. perff. (cf. nosco) to know (very freq. in all periods and species of composition); constr. with acc., with acc. and inf., or a rel.-clause as object, and with ex, ab, the abl. alone, or per, with the source, etc., of the information, and with de.
    A.
    By the senses:

    credit enim sensus ignem cognoscere vere,

    Lucr. 1, 697; 6, 194; Enn. Ann. ap. Pers. 6, 9 (v. 16 Vahl.); cf.:

    doctas cognoscere Athenas,

    Prop. 1, 6, 13; so,

    regiones,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 7:

    domos atque villas,

    Sall. C. 12, 3:

    Elysios campos, etc.,

    Tib. 3, 5, 23:

    totum amnem,

    Verg. A. 9, 245:

    sepulcra,

    Suet. Calig. 3:

    Aegyptum proficisci cognoscendae antiquitatis,

    Tac. A. 2, 59; cf. Nep. Att. 18, 1:

    infantem,

    Suet. Calig. 13:

    si quid dignum cognitu,

    worth seeing, Suet. Aug. 43 rem, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 275, 22:

    ab iis Caesar haec dicta cognovit, qui sermoni interfuerunt,

    Caes. B. C 3, 18 fin.:

    si tantus amor casus cognoscere nostros.. Incipiam, Verg A. 2, 10: verum, quod institui dicere, miserias cognoscite sociorum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 27, § 65:

    aliquid et litteris et nuntiis cognoscere,

    id. Fam. 1, 5, 1; 14, 5, 1; 14, 6 init.:

    iter ex perfugis,

    Sall. C. 57, 3; id. J. 112, 1 al:

    per exploratores cognovit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 22; 5, 49; 2, 11;

    7, 16: deditio per nuntios cognita,

    Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 22 Gerl.:

    de Marcelli salute, Cic Fam. 4, 4, 3: de Bruto,

    id. Att. 5, 21, 10;

    Sall J. 73, 1: his (quibus) rebus cognitis very freq. in the historians,

    Caes. B G. 1, 19, 1, 33; 2, 17; 4, 30 et saep., so in abl. absol. cognito, vivere Ptolemaeum, Liv. 33, 41, 5, so id. 37, 13, 5, 44, 28, 4 al.; v. Zumpt, Gram. § 647.—
    b.
    Like the Engl. to know, the Heb. (v. Gesen. Lex. s. h. v 3), and the Gr. gignôskô (v. Lidd. and Scott, under the word, III.), euphem of sexual intercourse, Ov. H. 6, 133 aliquam adulterio, Just 5, 2, 5, 22, 1, 13: cognita, Cat 61, 147; Tac. H 4, 44.—
    B.
    Mentally, to become acquainted with, learn, recognize, know:

    nihil certum sciri, nihil plane cognosci et percipi possit,

    Cic. de Or 1, 51, 222, Lucr 2, 840;

    quod Di vitiaci fratris summum in populum Romanum studium cognoverat,

    Caes. B. G 1, 19; cf. Sall. C. 51, 16 quem tu, cum ephebum Temni cognosses, Cic. Fl. 21, 51 et saep.: id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse, knew by their weapons and insignia (diff. from ex and ab aliquo, to learn from any one, v ab), Caes. B G. 1, 22; Ov. P 2, 10, 1; Phaedr. 4, 21, 22.—With acc. and inf: nunc animam quoque ut in membris cognoscere possis esse, Lucr 3, 117; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25: cum paucitatem mililum ex castrorum exiguitate cognosceret, Caes B G. 4, 30: aetatem eorum ex dentibus, Varr R. R. 2, 8 fin.:

    sed Metello jam antea experimentis cognitum erat, genus Numidarum infidum... esse,

    Sall. J 46, 3 al. —With acc. and part.:

    aliter ac sperarat rempublicam se habentem,

    Nep. Ham. 2, 1.—With rel.- clause:

    tandem cognosti qui siem, Ter And. 3, 4, 7: id socordiāne an casu acciderit, parum cognovi,

    Sall. J. 79, 5 al. —
    II.
    To recognize that which is already known, acknowledge, identify (rare for agnosco): vereor, ne me quoque, cum domum ab Ilio cessim revertero, Praeter canem cognoscat nemo, Varr. ap. Non. p. 276, 9:

    eum haec cognovit Myrrhina,

    Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 32:

    primum ostendimus Cethego signum: cognovit,

    Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 10; cf.:

    sigilla, ova,

    id. Ac. 2, 26, 86; Lucr. 2, 349:

    pecus exceptum est, quod intra dies XXX. domini cognovissent,

    to identify, Liv. 24, 16, 5; cf.:

    ut suum quisque per triduum cognitum abduceret,

    id. 3, 10, 1; Ov. F. 2, 185:

    video et cognosco signum,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 45:

    faciem suam,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 508:

    cognito regis corpore,

    Just. 2, 6, 20:

    mores,

    Ov. P. 3, 2, 105.—So esp., to identify a person before a tribunal:

    cum eum Syracusis amplius centum cives Romani cognoscerent,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 14; 2, 5, 28, § 72.—
    III.
    With the access. idea of individual exertion (cf. Gr. gignôskô), to seek or strive to know something, to inquire into, to investigate, examine (so freq. only as a jurid. and milit. t. t.):

    accipe, cognosce signum,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 31.
    A.
    Jurid. t. t., to examine a case in law, to investigate judicially (cf. cognitio):

    Verres adesse jubebat, Verres cognoscebat, Verres judicabat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 10, § 26; cf. Quint. 4, 2, 21; Dig. 13, 4, 4 al.—So absol.:

    si judicas, cognosce,

    Sen. Med. 194.—With acc.:

    causam,

    Quint. 4, 1, 3; cf. id. 11, 1, 77 Spald. N. cr.:

    causas,

    Cic. Off. 2, 23, 82; id. Verr. 2, 2, 48, § 118. COGNITIONES, Inscr. Orell. 3042.—With de:

    de agro Campano,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 19, 53:

    de Caesaris actis,

    id. Att. 16, 16 B, 8:

    de hereditate,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 7, § 19:

    hac de re,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 10, § 27; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 85; 7, 4, 35; 8, 3, 62 al.; Suet. Aug. 55; 93; id. Tib. 33; id. Calig. 38 al.:

    super aliquā re,

    Dig. 23, 2, 13:

    familiae herciscundae, i. e. ex actione familiae herciscundae,

    ib. 28, 5, 35; cf. ib. 27, 2, 2.—
    2.
    Transf., of critics and the criticising public:

    cognoscere atque ignoscere, Quae veteres factitarunt, si faciunt novi,

    Ter. Eun. prol. 42; cf. id. Hec. prol. 3 and 8.—And of private persons in gen.:

    et cognoscendi et ignoscendi dabitur peccati locus,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 6.—
    B.
    Milit. t. t., to reconnoitre, to act the part of a scout:

    qualis esset natura montis et qualis in circuitu ascensus, qui cognoscerent, misit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 21 al— Also merely to inquire into, examine:

    numerum tuorum militum reliquiasque,

    Cic. Pis. 37, 91 (al. recognoscere).—Hence, *
    1.
    cognoscens, entis, P. a., acquainted with:

    cognoscens sui,

    Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25. —Subst. in jurid. lang., one who investigates judicially Inscr Orell 3151; 3185.—
    * Adv.: cognoscenter, with knowledge, distinctly:

    ut cognoscenter te videam,

    Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 22.—
    2.
    cognĭtus, a, um, P. a., known, acknowledged, approved. res penitus perspectae planeque cognitae, Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 108, cf. id. ib 1, 20, 92; id. Fam. 1, 7, 2. dierum ratio pervulgata et cognita, id. Mur 11, 25:

    homo virtute cognitā et spectatā fide,

    id. Caecin. 36, 104.—With dat.:

    mihi Galba, Otho, Vitellius nec beneficio nec injuriā cogniti,

    Tac. H. 1, 1, so Plin. 12, 21, 45, § 99.— Comp.:

    cognitiora, Ov Tr. 4, 6, 28. cognitius,

    id. M. 14, 15.— Sup.:

    cognitissima,

    Cat. 4, 14.

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  • 2 nosco

    nosco, nōvi, nōtum, 3 (old form, GNOSCO, GNOVI, GNOTVM, acc. to Prisc. p. 569 P.; inf. pass. GNOSCIER, S. C. de Bacch.; cf. GNOTV, cognitu, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96 Müll.: GNOT (contr. for gnovit) oiden, epiginôskei; GNOTV, gnôsin, diagnôsin, Gloss. Labb.—Contr. forms in class. Lat. are nosti, noram, norim. nosse; nomus for novimus: nomus ambo Ulixem, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 382 P., or Trag. v. 199 Vahl.), v. a. [for gnosco, from the root gno; Gr. gignôskô, to begin to know], to get a knowledge of, become acquainted with, come to know a thing (syn.: scio, calleo).
    I.
    Lit.
    1. (α).
    Tempp. praes.:

    cum igitur, nosce te, dicit, hoc dicit, nosce animum tuum,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 52: Me. Sauream non novi. Li. At nosce sane, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 58; cf.: Ch. Nosce signum. Ni. Novi, id. Bacch. 4, 6, 19; id. Poen. 4, 2, 71:

    (Juppiter) nos per gentes alium alia disparat, Hominum qui facta, mores, pietatem et fidem noscamus,

    id. Rud. prol. 12; id. Stich. 1, 1, 4:

    id esse verum, cuivis facile est noscere,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 8:

    ut noscere possis quidque,

    Lucr. 1, 190; 2, 832; 3, 124; 418; 588; Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64: deus ille, quem mente noscimus, id. N. D. 1, 14, 37.— Pass.:

    EAM (tabulam) FIGIER IOVBEATIS, VBEI FACILVMED GNOSCIER POTISIT, S. C. de Bacch.: forma in tenebris nosci non quita est, Ter Hec. 4, 1, 57 sq.: omnes philosophiae partes tum facile noscuntur, cum, etc.,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 4, 9: philosophiae praecepta noscenda, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 3, 14:

    nullique videnda, Voce tamen noscar,

    Ov. M. 14, 153:

    nec noscitur ulli,

    by any one, id. Tr. 1, 5, 29:

    noscere provinciam, nosci exercitui,

    by the army, Tac. Agr. 5.—
    (β).
    Temppperf., to have become acquainted with, to have learned, to know:

    si me novisti minus,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 47:

    Cylindrus ego sum, non nosti nomen meum?

    id. Men. 2, 2, 20:

    novi rem omnem,

    Ter. And. 4, 4, 50:

    qui non leges, non instituta... non jura noritis,

    Cic. Pis. 13, 30:

    plerique neque in rebus humanis quidquam bonum norunt, nisi, etc.,

    id. Lael. 21, 79:

    quam (virtutem) tu ne de facie quidem nosti,

    id. Pis. 32, 81; id. Fin. 2, 22, 71:

    si ego hos bene novi,

    if I know them well, id. Rosc. Am. 20 fin.: si Caesarem bene novi, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B, 2:

    Lepidum pulchre noram,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 1:

    si tuos digitos novi,

    id. Att. 5, 21, 13:

    res gestas de libris novisse,

    to have learned from books, Lact. 5, 19, 15:

    nosse Graece, etc. (late Lat. for scire),

    Aug. Serm. 45, 5; 167, 40 al.:

    ut ibi esses, ubi nec Pelopidarum—nosti cetera,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 28, 2; Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 11.—
    2.
    To examine, consider:

    ad res suas noscendas,

    Liv. 10, 20:

    imaginem,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 29.—So esp., to take cognizance of as a judge:

    quae olim a praetoribus noscebantur,

    Tac. A. 12, 60.—
    II.
    Transf., in the tempp. praes.
    A.
    In gen., to know, recognize (rare; perh. not in Cic.): hau nosco tuom, I know your ( character, etc.), i. e. I know you no longer, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 44:

    nosce imaginem,

    id. Ps. 4, 2, 29; id. Bacch. 4, 6, 19:

    potesne ex his ut proprium quid noscere?

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 89; Tac. H. 1, 90.—
    B.
    In partic., to acknowledge, allow, admit of a reason or an excuse (in Cic.):

    numquam amatoris meretricem oportet causam noscere, Quin, etc.,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 18:

    illam partem excusationis... nec nosco, nec probo,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 1; cf.:

    quod te excusas: ego vero et tuas causas nosco, et, etc.,

    id. Att. 11, 7, 4:

    atque vereor, ne istam causam nemo noscat,

    id. Leg. 1, 4, 11.—
    III.
    Transf. in tempp. perf.
    A.
    To be acquainted with, i. e. to practise, possess:

    alia vitia non nosse,

    Sen. Q. N. 4 praef. § 9.—
    B.
    In mal. part., to know (in paronomasia), Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 13; id. Pers. 1, 3, 51.—
    IV.
    (Eccl. Lat.) Of religious knowledge:

    non noverant Dominum,

    Vulg. Judic. 2, 12; ib. 2 Thess. 1, 8:

    Jesum novi, Paulum scio,

    I acknowledge, ib. Act. 19, 15.—Hence, nōtus, a, um, P. a., known.
    A.
    Lit.:

    nisi rem tam notam esse omnibus et tam manifestam videres,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 58, 134:

    ejusmodi res ita notas, ita testatas, ita manifestas proferam,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 34, §

    85: fingi haec putatis, quae patent, quae nota sunt omnibus, quae tenentur?

    id. Mil. 28, 76:

    noti atque insignes latrones,

    id. Phil. 11, 5, 10:

    habere omnes philosophiae notos et tractatos locos,

    id. Or. 33, 118:

    facere aliquid alicui notum,

    id. Fam. 5, 12, 7:

    tua nobilitas hominibus litteratis est notior, populo obscurior,

    id. Mur. 7, 16:

    nullus fuit civis Romanus paulo notior, quin, etc.,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 19:

    vita P. Sullae vobis populoque Romano notissima,

    Cic. Sull. 26, 72:

    nulli nota domus sua,

    Juv. 1, 7.—
    (β).
    With gen. ( poet.):

    notus in fratres animi paterni,

    Hor. C. 2, 2, 6: noti operum Telchines. Stat. Th. 2, 274:

    notusque fugarum, Vertit terga,

    Sil. 17, 148.—
    (γ).
    With subj.-clause:

    notum est, cur, etc.,

    Juv. 2, 58.—
    (δ).
    With inf. ( poet.):

    Delius, Trojanos notus semper minuisse labores,

    Sil. 12, 331.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Subst.: nōti, acquaintances, friends:

    de dignitate M. Caelius notis ac majoribus natu... respondet,

    Cic. Cael. 2, 3:

    hi suos notos hospitesque quaerebant,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 74, 5; Hor. S. 1, 1, 85; Verg. Cir. 259.—
    b.
    In a bad sense, notorious:

    notissimi latronum duces,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 14, 1:

    integrae Temptator Orion Dianae,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 70; Ov. M. 1, 198:

    Clodia, mulier non solum nobilis sed etiam nota,

    Cic. Cael. 13, 31; cf. id. Verr. 1, 6, 15:

    moechorum notissimus,

    Juv. 6, 42.—
    B.
    Transf., act., knowing, that knows: novi, [p. 1217] notis praedicas, to those that know, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 39.

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  • 3 noti

    nosco, nōvi, nōtum, 3 (old form, GNOSCO, GNOVI, GNOTVM, acc. to Prisc. p. 569 P.; inf. pass. GNOSCIER, S. C. de Bacch.; cf. GNOTV, cognitu, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96 Müll.: GNOT (contr. for gnovit) oiden, epiginôskei; GNOTV, gnôsin, diagnôsin, Gloss. Labb.—Contr. forms in class. Lat. are nosti, noram, norim. nosse; nomus for novimus: nomus ambo Ulixem, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 382 P., or Trag. v. 199 Vahl.), v. a. [for gnosco, from the root gno; Gr. gignôskô, to begin to know], to get a knowledge of, become acquainted with, come to know a thing (syn.: scio, calleo).
    I.
    Lit.
    1. (α).
    Tempp. praes.:

    cum igitur, nosce te, dicit, hoc dicit, nosce animum tuum,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 52: Me. Sauream non novi. Li. At nosce sane, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 58; cf.: Ch. Nosce signum. Ni. Novi, id. Bacch. 4, 6, 19; id. Poen. 4, 2, 71:

    (Juppiter) nos per gentes alium alia disparat, Hominum qui facta, mores, pietatem et fidem noscamus,

    id. Rud. prol. 12; id. Stich. 1, 1, 4:

    id esse verum, cuivis facile est noscere,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 8:

    ut noscere possis quidque,

    Lucr. 1, 190; 2, 832; 3, 124; 418; 588; Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64: deus ille, quem mente noscimus, id. N. D. 1, 14, 37.— Pass.:

    EAM (tabulam) FIGIER IOVBEATIS, VBEI FACILVMED GNOSCIER POTISIT, S. C. de Bacch.: forma in tenebris nosci non quita est, Ter Hec. 4, 1, 57 sq.: omnes philosophiae partes tum facile noscuntur, cum, etc.,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 4, 9: philosophiae praecepta noscenda, id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 3, 14:

    nullique videnda, Voce tamen noscar,

    Ov. M. 14, 153:

    nec noscitur ulli,

    by any one, id. Tr. 1, 5, 29:

    noscere provinciam, nosci exercitui,

    by the army, Tac. Agr. 5.—
    (β).
    Temppperf., to have become acquainted with, to have learned, to know:

    si me novisti minus,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 47:

    Cylindrus ego sum, non nosti nomen meum?

    id. Men. 2, 2, 20:

    novi rem omnem,

    Ter. And. 4, 4, 50:

    qui non leges, non instituta... non jura noritis,

    Cic. Pis. 13, 30:

    plerique neque in rebus humanis quidquam bonum norunt, nisi, etc.,

    id. Lael. 21, 79:

    quam (virtutem) tu ne de facie quidem nosti,

    id. Pis. 32, 81; id. Fin. 2, 22, 71:

    si ego hos bene novi,

    if I know them well, id. Rosc. Am. 20 fin.: si Caesarem bene novi, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B, 2:

    Lepidum pulchre noram,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 1:

    si tuos digitos novi,

    id. Att. 5, 21, 13:

    res gestas de libris novisse,

    to have learned from books, Lact. 5, 19, 15:

    nosse Graece, etc. (late Lat. for scire),

    Aug. Serm. 45, 5; 167, 40 al.:

    ut ibi esses, ubi nec Pelopidarum—nosti cetera,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 28, 2; Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 11.—
    2.
    To examine, consider:

    ad res suas noscendas,

    Liv. 10, 20:

    imaginem,

    Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 29.—So esp., to take cognizance of as a judge:

    quae olim a praetoribus noscebantur,

    Tac. A. 12, 60.—
    II.
    Transf., in the tempp. praes.
    A.
    In gen., to know, recognize (rare; perh. not in Cic.): hau nosco tuom, I know your ( character, etc.), i. e. I know you no longer, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 44:

    nosce imaginem,

    id. Ps. 4, 2, 29; id. Bacch. 4, 6, 19:

    potesne ex his ut proprium quid noscere?

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 89; Tac. H. 1, 90.—
    B.
    In partic., to acknowledge, allow, admit of a reason or an excuse (in Cic.):

    numquam amatoris meretricem oportet causam noscere, Quin, etc.,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 18:

    illam partem excusationis... nec nosco, nec probo,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 1; cf.:

    quod te excusas: ego vero et tuas causas nosco, et, etc.,

    id. Att. 11, 7, 4:

    atque vereor, ne istam causam nemo noscat,

    id. Leg. 1, 4, 11.—
    III.
    Transf. in tempp. perf.
    A.
    To be acquainted with, i. e. to practise, possess:

    alia vitia non nosse,

    Sen. Q. N. 4 praef. § 9.—
    B.
    In mal. part., to know (in paronomasia), Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 13; id. Pers. 1, 3, 51.—
    IV.
    (Eccl. Lat.) Of religious knowledge:

    non noverant Dominum,

    Vulg. Judic. 2, 12; ib. 2 Thess. 1, 8:

    Jesum novi, Paulum scio,

    I acknowledge, ib. Act. 19, 15.—Hence, nōtus, a, um, P. a., known.
    A.
    Lit.:

    nisi rem tam notam esse omnibus et tam manifestam videres,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 58, 134:

    ejusmodi res ita notas, ita testatas, ita manifestas proferam,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 34, §

    85: fingi haec putatis, quae patent, quae nota sunt omnibus, quae tenentur?

    id. Mil. 28, 76:

    noti atque insignes latrones,

    id. Phil. 11, 5, 10:

    habere omnes philosophiae notos et tractatos locos,

    id. Or. 33, 118:

    facere aliquid alicui notum,

    id. Fam. 5, 12, 7:

    tua nobilitas hominibus litteratis est notior, populo obscurior,

    id. Mur. 7, 16:

    nullus fuit civis Romanus paulo notior, quin, etc.,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 19:

    vita P. Sullae vobis populoque Romano notissima,

    Cic. Sull. 26, 72:

    nulli nota domus sua,

    Juv. 1, 7.—
    (β).
    With gen. ( poet.):

    notus in fratres animi paterni,

    Hor. C. 2, 2, 6: noti operum Telchines. Stat. Th. 2, 274:

    notusque fugarum, Vertit terga,

    Sil. 17, 148.—
    (γ).
    With subj.-clause:

    notum est, cur, etc.,

    Juv. 2, 58.—
    (δ).
    With inf. ( poet.):

    Delius, Trojanos notus semper minuisse labores,

    Sil. 12, 331.—
    2.
    In partic.
    a.
    Subst.: nōti, acquaintances, friends:

    de dignitate M. Caelius notis ac majoribus natu... respondet,

    Cic. Cael. 2, 3:

    hi suos notos hospitesque quaerebant,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 74, 5; Hor. S. 1, 1, 85; Verg. Cir. 259.—
    b.
    In a bad sense, notorious:

    notissimi latronum duces,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 14, 1:

    integrae Temptator Orion Dianae,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 70; Ov. M. 1, 198:

    Clodia, mulier non solum nobilis sed etiam nota,

    Cic. Cael. 13, 31; cf. id. Verr. 1, 6, 15:

    moechorum notissimus,

    Juv. 6, 42.—
    B.
    Transf., act., knowing, that knows: novi, [p. 1217] notis praedicas, to those that know, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 39.

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  • 4 nōscō

        nōscō nōvī (2d pers. often nōstī, nōstis; subj. nōrim, for nōverim; plup. nōram, nōssem, for nōveram, nōvissem), nōtus, ere    [GNA-], to get knowledge of, become acquainted with, come to know, learn, discern: nosce te... nosce animum tuum: Id esse verum, quoivis facile est noscere, T.: deus, quem mente noscimus: omnes philosophiae partes tum facile noscuntur, cum, etc.: nec noscitur ulli, by any one, O.: noscere provinciam, nosci exercitui, by the army, Ta.: Iam nosces, ventosa ferat cui gloria fraudem, learn, V.—In perf. stem, to have become acquainted with, have learned, know, understand: Novi omnem rem, T.: plerisque notus erat, atque eos noverat, S.: qui non leges, non iura noritis: si ego hos bene novi, know them well: si tuos digitos novi: noris nos, you know me, I think, H.: nec iungere tauros Aut conponere opes norant, V.: Hortos mercarier noram, H.— To examine, consider: ad res suas noscendas, L.— To know, recognize: nosco crinīs incanaque menta Regis, V.: potesne ex his ut proprium quid noscere? H.— To acknowledge, allow, admit: illam partem excusationis: tuas causas.
    * * *
    noscere, novi, notus V TRANS
    get to know; learn, find out; become cognizant of/acquinted/familar with; examine, study, inspect; try (case); recognize, accept as valid/true; recall

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  • 5 cōgnōscō

        cōgnōscō gnōvī (often contr., cōgnōstī, cōgnōrō, cōgnōsse, etc.), gnitus, ere    [com- + (g)nōscō], to become acquainted with, acquire knowledge of, ascertain, learn, perceive, understand ; perf., to know: regiones, Cs.: domūs atque villas, S.: amnem, V.: quam (antiquitatem) habuit cognitam, N.: casūs nostros, V.: miserias sociorum: quis sim, ex eo, S.: per exploratores montem teneri, Cs.: furto postridie cognito: quibus (scriptis) cognitis, after reading, N.: id se a Gallicis armis cognovisse, knew by their weapons, Cs.: fide cognitā, tested, N.: ab his, non longe oppidum abesse, Cs.: sed Metello experimentis cognitum erat, genus infidum esse, S.: quem plane perditum cognorat: vos fortīs, S.: aliter ac sperarat rem p. se habentem, N.: alqm magni animi: alqm paratissimo animo: tandem qui siem, T.: id socordiāne an casu acciderit, S.: cognito, vivere Ptolemaeum, L.—Poet.: casus multis hic cognitus, experienced by, Iu. — Supin. acc.: promissa eius cognitum ex praesentibus inisit, S.—Supin. abl.: pleraque digna cognitu. — To recognize, acknowledge, identify: in eā re utilitatem meam, T.: alii, ne cognoscerentur, ad necem rapiebantur: inter ceteras Veturiam, L.: ostendimus Cethego signum, cognovit: signa sua, S.: cognoscenti similis fuit, seemed to recognize him, O.: pecus exceptum est, quod cognovissent, identified, L.: neque currentem se cognoscit, is like himself, V.: eum Syracusis, to identify.—To seek to know, inquire into, investigate, examine: Verres cognoscebat, Verres iudicabat: accusationem causamque: numerum militum: de agro Campano: de hereditate.—To criticise, appreciate: ut neque spectari neque cognosci (fabula) potuerit, T.: et cognoscendi et ignoscendi peccati locus, T. — To reconnoitre, spy, act as scout: qualis esset natura montis, qui cognoscerent, misit, Cs.
    * * *
    cognoscere, cognovi, cognitus V TRANS
    become acquainted with/aware of; recognize; learn, find to be; inquire/examine

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  • 6 discō

        discō didicī, —, ere    [DIC-], to learn, learn to know, acquire, become acquainted with: litteras: ius civile: dialectica ab aliquo: id de me, T.: virtutem ex me, V.: quae illi litteris, ego militando didici, S.: per laborem usum militiae, S.: omnīs crimine ab uno, V.: unde ius civile discatur: quae (artes) non sine otio discuntur: Pater esse disce ab illis, T.: senatui parere: miseris succurrere, V.: iustitiam et non temnere divos, V.: Litavicum ad sollicitandos Aeduos profectum, Cs.: nihil esse foedius servitute: quid sit vivere, T.: hoc quam nihil sit: quantum in Etruriā belli esset, L: Unde sit infamis, O.: qui discunt, pupils, Cs.: illo discendi causā proficisci, to study, Cs.: voluntas discendi: discebant fidibus antiqui (sc. canere).—Poet., of things, to be taught: Nec discet mentiri lana colores, V.— To study for acting, present, produce (on the stage): has partīs, T.: Novas (fabulas), T.
    * * *
    discere, didici, - V
    learn; become acquainted with; acquire knowledge of

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  • 7 disco

    disco, dĭdĭci, 3 ( part. fut.: sic disciturum, etc., App. ap. Prisc. p. 887 P.), v. a. [from the root da-, Gr. dedaôs, daênai; dak-, cf. doceo, doctus, Gr. didaskô], to learn, to learn to know, to become acquainted with, etc. (for syn. cf.: capio, percipio, concipio, comprehendo, intellego, cognosco, nosco, agnosco, animadverto, calleo, scio—very freq. in all periods and sorts of writing).
    (α).
    With acc.:

    litteras Graecas senex didici,

    Cic. de Sen. 8, 26; id. Tusc. 1, 13, 29: so,

    litteras,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 22:

    jus civile,

    id. Mur. 9, 19; 10, 23:

    litteras apud aliquem,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 10, 2:

    dialectica ab aliquo,

    id. Ac. 2, 30, 98:

    artem ab aliquo,

    Quint. 3, 1, 10 et saep.:

    aliquid de aliquo,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 31:

    virtutem ex me, fortunam ex aliis,

    Verg. A. 12, 435; cf. Quint. 12, 8, 6 al.:

    fabularum similia,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 36:

    artes,

    id. ib. 2, 21:

    palaestram,

    Quint. 5, 10, 121:

    affectum,

    id. 1, 11, 2:

    inde vocabula prima,

    Lucr. 5, 1042:

    elementa prima,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 26:

    dulces querelas,

    Lucr. 5, 1384; cf.

    preces,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 133 et saep.:

    me peritus Discet Iber,

    Hor. C. 2, 20, 20; cf.:

    quem (Augustum) didicere Vindelici,

    id. ib. 4, 14, 8:

    omnes crimine ab uno,

    Verg. A. 2, 66 et saep.— Pass.:

    dum est, unde jus civile discatur,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45; cf.

    jus,

    Quint. 12, 3, 9:

    Crassus, quod disci potuit de jure didicit,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 143:

    tot artibus discendis,

    Quint. 12, 11, 9 et saep.—
    (β).
    With inf. or acc. and inf.:

    pueri qui nare discunt,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 9:

    rapere et clepere,

    Cic. Rep. 4, 5 (ap. Non. 20, 15):

    Latine loqui,

    Sall. J. 101, 6:

    nobis ignoscere,

    Quint. 11, 2, 45:

    assem in partes diducere,

    Hor. A. P. 326:

    bene ferre magnam fortunam,

    id. C. 3, 27, 75 et saep.:

    bene ubi quod consilium discimus accidisse, etc.,

    Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 15:

    discit, Litavicum ad sollicitandos Haeduos profectum,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 54:

    animadverti et didici ex tuis litteris te omnibus in rebus habuisse rationem, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 5; id. Ac. 2, 30 fin.:

    deos didici securum agere aevum,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 101 et saep.—
    (γ).
    With relat. clause:

    plures discent, quemadmodum haec fiant, quam quemadmodum his resistatur,

    Cic. Lael. 12, 41:

    quantum in Etruria belli esset,

    Liv. 10, 25:

    patriae quid debeat, etc.,

    Hor. A. P. 312 et saep.—
    (δ).
    Absol.:

    disces tu quidem a principe hujus aetatis philosophorum, et disces quamdiu voles,

    Cic. Off. 1, 1, 2:

    didicit,

    i. e. oratory, id. Brut. 71, 249; Caes. B. G. 6, 14, 4; Quint. 1, 12, 14 al.:

    discendi aut visendi causa maria transmittere,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 3; so,

    discendi causa,

    id. ib. 1, 10; id. Off. 2, 1, 4; Caes. B. G. 6, 13 fin. al.:

    se ita a patribus majoribusque suis didicisse, ut, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 13, 6. —Ellipt.:

    discebant fidibus antiqui, sc. canere,

    Cic. de Sen. 8 fin. (cf.:

    docere fidibus,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 3:

    scire fidibus,

    Ter. Eun. 1, 5, 53).—
    b.
    Transf., of inanimate subjects:

    manus,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 159:

    nec varios discet mentiri lana colores,

    Verg. E. 4, 42:

    arbores,

    Plin. H. N. 16 prooem.—
    c.
    To teach = docere (late Lat., cf. manthanein, and Eng. learn):

    falsa discentes,

    Amm. 14, 1.

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  • 8 inspicio

    inspĭcĭo, spexi, spectum, 3, v. a. [inspecio], to look into; to look at, inspect; to consider, contemplate, examine (class.).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    intro inspice,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 72:

    inspicere tanquam in speculum, in vitas omnium,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 61:

    cum Romam inspexerit Eos,

    Ov. F. 4, 389:

    inspice quid portem,

    id. Tr. 3, 1, 9:

    faciem,

    Juv. 1, 97:

    ranarum viscera,

    id. 3, 45:

    ea est procul inspicientibus natura loci, ut,

    Just. 4, 1:

    libros,

    Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 1:

    leges,

    Cic. Balb. 14, 32:

    aurum inspicere, ne subruptum siet,

    to examine whether, Plaut. Aul. prol. 39.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    To look at, inspect a thing with reference to its value, etc.: te hoc orare jussit, Ut sibi liceret inspicere has aedes. Si. Non sunt venales, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 65:

    candelabrum,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64; cf.:

    praedium suum,

    id. Fam. 9, 7, 2:

    venalem domum,

    Suet. Oth. 6:

    ludorum sumptus,

    Ov. Tr. 2, 509.—
    2.
    To inspect, examine:

    morbum,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 15:

    arma, viros, equos, cum cura,

    Liv. 44, 1, 6:

    arma militis,

    Cic. Caecin. 21, 61.—
    3.
    To examine, spy out:

    domos,

    Verg. A. 2, 47.—
    II.
    Trop., to consider, examine, become acquainted with, comprehend, perceive:

    res sociorum,

    to inspect their affairs, examine into their conduct, Liv. 21, 6, 3:

    aliquem a puero,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 44:

    quem diliges ut ego, si ut ego propius inspexeris,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 15, 3:

    est aliquis, qui se inspici, aestimari fastidiat,

    Liv. 6, 41, 2:

    sententiam mulieris,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 51:

    querelam,

    Petr. 15:

    rationes,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 57, 1:

    aes alienum,

    Liv. 6, 27, 8:

    fidem,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 26:

    an possit fieri,

    Mart. 1, 55, 6:

    quid expediat, quid deceat,

    Quint. 11, 1, 8 al.

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  • 9 disco

    to learn, become acquainted with.

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  • 10 nosco

    to become acquainted with, get to know.

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  • 11 adgnosco

    agnosco ( adgn-; also adn-; cf. Wagn. Orthog. Verg. p. 407), nōvi, nitum (like cognĭtum from cognosco; cf. pejĕro and dejĕro from jūro), 3, v. a. [ad, intens. -gnosco, nosco] ( part. perf. agnōtus, Pac. ap. Prisc. p. 887 P.; part. fut. act. agnoturus, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 31; cf. Diom. 383 P.; class.; used very freq. by Cicero).
    I.
    As if to know a person or thing well, as having known it before, to recognize: agnoscere always denotes a subjective knowledge or recognition; while cognoscere designates an objective perception; another distinction v. in II.): in turbā Oresti cognitā agnota est soror, was recognized by Orestes as his sister, Pac. ap. Prisc. 887 P.:

    virtus cum se extollit et ostendit suum lumen et idem aspexit agnovitque in alio,

    and when she has perceived the same in another, and has recognized it, Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

    id facillime accipiunt animi, quod agnoscunt,

    Quint. 8, 3, 71:

    cum se collegit (animus) atque recreavit, tum agnoscit illa reminiscendo,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 58:

    quod mihi de filiā gratularis, agnosco humanitatem tuam,

    id. Fam. 1, 7 (cf. on the contr. id. ib. 5, 2, where Cic., speaking of himself, says: Cognosce nunc humanitatem meam, learn from this, etc.):

    nomine audito extemplo agnovere virum,

    Liv. 7, 39:

    veterem amicum,

    Verg. A. 3, 82:

    matrem,

    id. ib. 1, 405: Figulum in patriam suam venisse atque ibi agnosci, and is there recognized (by those who had already known him), Quint. 7, 2, 26:

    formas quasdam nostrae pecuniae agnoscunt,

    Tac. G. 5:

    agnoscent Britanni suam causam,

    id. Agr. 32:

    nitorem et altitudinem horum temporum agnoscimus,

    id. Or. 21:

    quam (tunicam) cum agnovisset pater,

    Vulg. Gen. 37, 33.—
    B.
    Transf., as a result of this knowledge or recognition, to declare, announce, allow, or admit a thing to be one's own, to acknowledge, own: qui mihi tantum tribui dicis, quantum ego nec agnosco ( neither can admit as due to me) nec postulo, Cic. Lael. 9:

    natum,

    Nep. Ages. 1, 4:

    Aeacon agnoscit summus prolemque fatetur Juppiter esse suam,

    Ov. M. 13, 27 (cf. in Pandects, 25, Tit. 3:

    de agnoscendis vel alendis liberis): an me non agnoscetis ducem?

    will you not acknowledge me as your general? Liv. 6, 7:

    agnoscere bonorum possessionem,

    to declare the property as one's own, to lay claim to it, Dig. 26, 8, 11 (cf. agnitio, I.):

    agnoscere aes alienum,

    ib. 28, 5, 1:

    facti gloriam,

    Cic. Mil. 14 fin.:

    susciperem hoc crimen, agnoscerem, confiterer,

    id. Rab. Perd. 6:

    fortasse minus expediat agnoscere crimen quam abnuere,

    Tac. A. 6, 8:

    sortilegos,

    Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132: et ego ipse me non esse verborum admodum inopem agnosco, and I myself confess, allow, etc., id. Fam. 4, 4:

    id ego agnovi meo jussu esse factum,

    id. ib. 5, 20, 3: carmina spreta exolescunt;

    si irascare, agnita videntur,

    Tac. A. 4, 34.—
    II.
    To understand, recognize, know, perceive by, from, or through something:

    ut deum agnoscis ex operibus ejus, sic ex memoriā rerum et inventione, vim divinam mentis agnoscito,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 70; id. Planc. 14, 35:

    ex fructu arbor agnoscitur,

    Vulg. Matt. 12, 33:

    inde agnosci potest vis fortunae,

    Vell. 2, 116, 3.—Also, absol.: Augusti laudes agnoscere possis, you can recognize the praises of Augustus, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 29:

    accipio agnoscoque deos,

    Verg. A. 12, 260 (cf. accipio):

    agniti dempsere sollicitudinem,

    Tac. H. 2, 68:

    Germanicus, quo magis agnosceretur, detraxerat tegimen,

    id. A. 2, 21:

    terram non agnoscebant,

    Vulg. Act. 27, 39.—In gen., to become acquainted with, to know; to perceive, apprehend, understand, discern, remark, see:

    quin puppim flectis, Ulixe, Auribus ut nostros possis agnoscere cantus,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49 (as transl. of Hom. Od. 12, 185, Nêa katastêson, hina nôïterên op akousêis):

    haec dicta sunt subtilius ab Epicuro quam ut quivis ea possit agnoscere,

    understand, id. N. D. 1, 18, 49; Verg. A. 10, 843; Phaedr. 2, 5, 19:

    alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19.

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  • 12 adnosco

    agnosco ( adgn-; also adn-; cf. Wagn. Orthog. Verg. p. 407), nōvi, nitum (like cognĭtum from cognosco; cf. pejĕro and dejĕro from jūro), 3, v. a. [ad, intens. -gnosco, nosco] ( part. perf. agnōtus, Pac. ap. Prisc. p. 887 P.; part. fut. act. agnoturus, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 31; cf. Diom. 383 P.; class.; used very freq. by Cicero).
    I.
    As if to know a person or thing well, as having known it before, to recognize: agnoscere always denotes a subjective knowledge or recognition; while cognoscere designates an objective perception; another distinction v. in II.): in turbā Oresti cognitā agnota est soror, was recognized by Orestes as his sister, Pac. ap. Prisc. 887 P.:

    virtus cum se extollit et ostendit suum lumen et idem aspexit agnovitque in alio,

    and when she has perceived the same in another, and has recognized it, Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

    id facillime accipiunt animi, quod agnoscunt,

    Quint. 8, 3, 71:

    cum se collegit (animus) atque recreavit, tum agnoscit illa reminiscendo,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 58:

    quod mihi de filiā gratularis, agnosco humanitatem tuam,

    id. Fam. 1, 7 (cf. on the contr. id. ib. 5, 2, where Cic., speaking of himself, says: Cognosce nunc humanitatem meam, learn from this, etc.):

    nomine audito extemplo agnovere virum,

    Liv. 7, 39:

    veterem amicum,

    Verg. A. 3, 82:

    matrem,

    id. ib. 1, 405: Figulum in patriam suam venisse atque ibi agnosci, and is there recognized (by those who had already known him), Quint. 7, 2, 26:

    formas quasdam nostrae pecuniae agnoscunt,

    Tac. G. 5:

    agnoscent Britanni suam causam,

    id. Agr. 32:

    nitorem et altitudinem horum temporum agnoscimus,

    id. Or. 21:

    quam (tunicam) cum agnovisset pater,

    Vulg. Gen. 37, 33.—
    B.
    Transf., as a result of this knowledge or recognition, to declare, announce, allow, or admit a thing to be one's own, to acknowledge, own: qui mihi tantum tribui dicis, quantum ego nec agnosco ( neither can admit as due to me) nec postulo, Cic. Lael. 9:

    natum,

    Nep. Ages. 1, 4:

    Aeacon agnoscit summus prolemque fatetur Juppiter esse suam,

    Ov. M. 13, 27 (cf. in Pandects, 25, Tit. 3:

    de agnoscendis vel alendis liberis): an me non agnoscetis ducem?

    will you not acknowledge me as your general? Liv. 6, 7:

    agnoscere bonorum possessionem,

    to declare the property as one's own, to lay claim to it, Dig. 26, 8, 11 (cf. agnitio, I.):

    agnoscere aes alienum,

    ib. 28, 5, 1:

    facti gloriam,

    Cic. Mil. 14 fin.:

    susciperem hoc crimen, agnoscerem, confiterer,

    id. Rab. Perd. 6:

    fortasse minus expediat agnoscere crimen quam abnuere,

    Tac. A. 6, 8:

    sortilegos,

    Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132: et ego ipse me non esse verborum admodum inopem agnosco, and I myself confess, allow, etc., id. Fam. 4, 4:

    id ego agnovi meo jussu esse factum,

    id. ib. 5, 20, 3: carmina spreta exolescunt;

    si irascare, agnita videntur,

    Tac. A. 4, 34.—
    II.
    To understand, recognize, know, perceive by, from, or through something:

    ut deum agnoscis ex operibus ejus, sic ex memoriā rerum et inventione, vim divinam mentis agnoscito,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 70; id. Planc. 14, 35:

    ex fructu arbor agnoscitur,

    Vulg. Matt. 12, 33:

    inde agnosci potest vis fortunae,

    Vell. 2, 116, 3.—Also, absol.: Augusti laudes agnoscere possis, you can recognize the praises of Augustus, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 29:

    accipio agnoscoque deos,

    Verg. A. 12, 260 (cf. accipio):

    agniti dempsere sollicitudinem,

    Tac. H. 2, 68:

    Germanicus, quo magis agnosceretur, detraxerat tegimen,

    id. A. 2, 21:

    terram non agnoscebant,

    Vulg. Act. 27, 39.—In gen., to become acquainted with, to know; to perceive, apprehend, understand, discern, remark, see:

    quin puppim flectis, Ulixe, Auribus ut nostros possis agnoscere cantus,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49 (as transl. of Hom. Od. 12, 185, Nêa katastêson, hina nôïterên op akousêis):

    haec dicta sunt subtilius ab Epicuro quam ut quivis ea possit agnoscere,

    understand, id. N. D. 1, 18, 49; Verg. A. 10, 843; Phaedr. 2, 5, 19:

    alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19.

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  • 13 agnosco

    agnosco ( adgn-; also adn-; cf. Wagn. Orthog. Verg. p. 407), nōvi, nitum (like cognĭtum from cognosco; cf. pejĕro and dejĕro from jūro), 3, v. a. [ad, intens. -gnosco, nosco] ( part. perf. agnōtus, Pac. ap. Prisc. p. 887 P.; part. fut. act. agnoturus, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 31; cf. Diom. 383 P.; class.; used very freq. by Cicero).
    I.
    As if to know a person or thing well, as having known it before, to recognize: agnoscere always denotes a subjective knowledge or recognition; while cognoscere designates an objective perception; another distinction v. in II.): in turbā Oresti cognitā agnota est soror, was recognized by Orestes as his sister, Pac. ap. Prisc. 887 P.:

    virtus cum se extollit et ostendit suum lumen et idem aspexit agnovitque in alio,

    and when she has perceived the same in another, and has recognized it, Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

    id facillime accipiunt animi, quod agnoscunt,

    Quint. 8, 3, 71:

    cum se collegit (animus) atque recreavit, tum agnoscit illa reminiscendo,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 58:

    quod mihi de filiā gratularis, agnosco humanitatem tuam,

    id. Fam. 1, 7 (cf. on the contr. id. ib. 5, 2, where Cic., speaking of himself, says: Cognosce nunc humanitatem meam, learn from this, etc.):

    nomine audito extemplo agnovere virum,

    Liv. 7, 39:

    veterem amicum,

    Verg. A. 3, 82:

    matrem,

    id. ib. 1, 405: Figulum in patriam suam venisse atque ibi agnosci, and is there recognized (by those who had already known him), Quint. 7, 2, 26:

    formas quasdam nostrae pecuniae agnoscunt,

    Tac. G. 5:

    agnoscent Britanni suam causam,

    id. Agr. 32:

    nitorem et altitudinem horum temporum agnoscimus,

    id. Or. 21:

    quam (tunicam) cum agnovisset pater,

    Vulg. Gen. 37, 33.—
    B.
    Transf., as a result of this knowledge or recognition, to declare, announce, allow, or admit a thing to be one's own, to acknowledge, own: qui mihi tantum tribui dicis, quantum ego nec agnosco ( neither can admit as due to me) nec postulo, Cic. Lael. 9:

    natum,

    Nep. Ages. 1, 4:

    Aeacon agnoscit summus prolemque fatetur Juppiter esse suam,

    Ov. M. 13, 27 (cf. in Pandects, 25, Tit. 3:

    de agnoscendis vel alendis liberis): an me non agnoscetis ducem?

    will you not acknowledge me as your general? Liv. 6, 7:

    agnoscere bonorum possessionem,

    to declare the property as one's own, to lay claim to it, Dig. 26, 8, 11 (cf. agnitio, I.):

    agnoscere aes alienum,

    ib. 28, 5, 1:

    facti gloriam,

    Cic. Mil. 14 fin.:

    susciperem hoc crimen, agnoscerem, confiterer,

    id. Rab. Perd. 6:

    fortasse minus expediat agnoscere crimen quam abnuere,

    Tac. A. 6, 8:

    sortilegos,

    Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132: et ego ipse me non esse verborum admodum inopem agnosco, and I myself confess, allow, etc., id. Fam. 4, 4:

    id ego agnovi meo jussu esse factum,

    id. ib. 5, 20, 3: carmina spreta exolescunt;

    si irascare, agnita videntur,

    Tac. A. 4, 34.—
    II.
    To understand, recognize, know, perceive by, from, or through something:

    ut deum agnoscis ex operibus ejus, sic ex memoriā rerum et inventione, vim divinam mentis agnoscito,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 70; id. Planc. 14, 35:

    ex fructu arbor agnoscitur,

    Vulg. Matt. 12, 33:

    inde agnosci potest vis fortunae,

    Vell. 2, 116, 3.—Also, absol.: Augusti laudes agnoscere possis, you can recognize the praises of Augustus, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 29:

    accipio agnoscoque deos,

    Verg. A. 12, 260 (cf. accipio):

    agniti dempsere sollicitudinem,

    Tac. H. 2, 68:

    Germanicus, quo magis agnosceretur, detraxerat tegimen,

    id. A. 2, 21:

    terram non agnoscebant,

    Vulg. Act. 27, 39.—In gen., to become acquainted with, to know; to perceive, apprehend, understand, discern, remark, see:

    quin puppim flectis, Ulixe, Auribus ut nostros possis agnoscere cantus,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49 (as transl. of Hom. Od. 12, 185, Nêa katastêson, hina nôïterên op akousêis):

    haec dicta sunt subtilius ab Epicuro quam ut quivis ea possit agnoscere,

    understand, id. N. D. 1, 18, 49; Verg. A. 10, 843; Phaedr. 2, 5, 19:

    alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19.

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  • 14 praenosco

    prae-nosco, ĕre, v. a., to learn or become acquainted with beforehand, to foreknow (class.):

    futura,

    Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82; Suet. Ner. 56; Plin. 18, 24, 56, § 206:

    promissum sibi caelum,

    Ov. F. 3, 159:

    venturum caeli laborem,

    Stat. Th. 3, 490:

    rerum fata,

    Sil. 3, 7:

    omina,

    id. 16, 124; Vulg. Gen. 15, 13 (but in Plaut. As. 1, 1, 46, the correct reading is: in pretio sumus, acc. to Fleck. and Ussing).

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  • 15 pernosco

    per-nosco, ōvi, ōtum, 3, v. a.
    I.
    To examine thoroughly:

    pernoscite, Furtumne factum existimetis, an, etc.,

    Ter. Ad. prol. 12.—Hence, in perf., to have examined or discerned, to know thoroughly, to become thoroughly acquainted with, to get a correct knowledge of:

    ingenium avidi haud pernoram hospitis,

    Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 42:

    facta pernovit probe,

    id. Aul. 3, 5, 29:

    pernovi equidem ingenium tuum ingenuom admodum,

    id. Trin. 3, 2, 39.—
    II.
    To learn thor [p. 1350] oughly, become fully acquainted with:

    hominum mores ex corpore, oculis, vultu, etc., pernoscere,

    Cic. Fat. 5, 10:

    motus animorum sunt penitus oratori pernoscendi,

    id. de Or. 1, 5, 17.—Hence, pernōtus, a, um, P. a., thoroughly known, well known:

    pugil ob eximiam virtutem virium regi pernotus et gratus,

    Curt. 9, 7, 16; Mel. 2, 3; Min. Fel. Oct. 14, 4.

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  • 16 per-nōscō

        per-nōscō nōvī, nōtus, ere,     to examine thoroughly: pernoscite, Furtumne factum existimetis, T.—To learn thoroughly, become fully acquainted with: non satis alqm, T.: rem cognoscite, Ut pernoscatis, etc., T.: motūs animorum sunt oratori pernoscendi: iuris Naturam, H.

    Latin-English dictionary > per-nōscō

  • 17 percallesco

    per-callesco, callŭi, 3, v. inch. n. and a. *
    I.
    Neutr., to become very hardened, very callous:

    civitatis patientia percalluerat,

    Cic. Mil. 28, 76.—
    II.
    Act., to get a good knowledge of; in perf., to be well acquainted with, to know well, be well versed in:

    usum rerum,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 34, 137; so,

    disciplinas Stoicas et dialecticas,

    Gell. 1, 22, 7:

    leges,

    id. 20, 1, 20:

    quinque et viginti gentium linguas,

    id. 17, 17, 2.

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  • 18 percognosco

    per-cognosco, nōvi, nĭtum, 3, v. a., to become perfectly acquainted with:

    aliquem,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 50 (Speng. pergnovi).— Hence, percognĭtus, a, um, P. a., well known:

    lex naturae non ignota, etsi nondum percognita,

    Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116:

    Germania,

    id. 4, 14, 28, § 98; 37, 3, 11, § 45.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > percognosco

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