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to cause to drop

  • 1 stillo

    stillo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a [stilla].
    I.
    Neutr., to drop, drip, trickle, distil (mostly poet.; syn. roro).
    A.
    Lit.:

    vas, unde stillet lente aqua,

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

    gutta (dulcedinis) in cor,

    Lucr. 4, 1060:

    umorem, quasi igni cera super calido tabescens multa liquescat,

    id. 6, 515:

    cruor ferro,

    Prop. 2, 8, 26 (2, 8 b, 26 (10)):

    unguenta capillo,

    Tib. 1, 7, 51:

    de viridi ilice mella,

    Ov. M. 1, 112:

    ros,

    id. ib. 11, 57:

    hammoniaci lacrima stillat m harenis,

    Plin. 12, 23, 49, § 107.—
    B.
    Transf., of things which drop or drop with a liquid:

    saxa guttis manantibu' stillent,

    Lucr. 6, 943 ' paenula multo nimbo, Juv. 5, 79:

    coma Syrio rore,

    Tib. 3, 4, 28:

    sanguine sidera,

    Ov. Am. 1, 8, 11; cf.

    ' arbor sanguineis roribus,

    Luc. 7, 837; Sen. Thyest 1061—Without abl.: umida saxa, super viridi stillantia musco, Lucr. 5, 951: ille, qui stillantem prae se pugionem tulit, * Cic. Phil. 2, 12, 30:

    uva,

    Mart. 10, 56, 5; Vulg. Job, 16, 21.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    stillantes voces,

    words that ooze out drop by drop, Calp. Ecl. 6, 23; cf.:

    orationem stillare,

    Sen. Ep. 40, 3:

    plumis stillare diem,

    to be full, to abound in, Stat. Th. 3, 537.—
    II.
    Act., to cause to drop, let fall in drops, to drop, distil: stillabit amicis Ex oculis rorem, * Hor. A. P. 429:

    coctam caepam cum adipe anserino,

    Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 40:

    stillata De ramis electra,

    dropped, distilled, Ov. M. 2, 364:

    stillata cortice myrrha,

    id. ib. 10, 501;

    acre malum stillans ocellus,

    Juv. 6, 109.—
    B.
    Trop., to drop, instil:

    cum facilem stillavit in aurem Exiguum de veneno,

    Juv. 3, 123.

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  • 2 cadō

        cadō cecidī, casūrus, ere    [CAD-], to fall, fall down, descend: lucrumae cadunt gaudio, T.: (apes) praecipites cadunt, V.: caelo ceciderunt sereno Fulgura, V.: a mento cadit manus, O.: de manibus arma cecidissent: vela cadunt, are furled, V.: Altius atque cadant imbres, from a greater height, V.—To fall, fall down, fall prostrate, fall over: ne ille ceciderit, has had a fall, T.: velut si prolapsus cecidisset, L.: prolapsa in volnus moribunda cecidit, L.: in pectus pronus, O.: casura moenia Troum, O.: casurae arces, V.—Of heavenly bodies, to set, go down, fall, sink: iuxta solem cadentem, V.: quā (nocte) Orion cadit, H.: oriens mediusve cadensve Phoebus, O.: primis cadentibus astris, fading, i. e. at dawn, V.—To fall off, fall away, fall out, drop off, be shed: barba, V.: Prima (folia) cadunt, H.: gregibus lanae cadunt, O.: poma ramis, O.: elapsae manibus cecidere tabellae, O.—Of a stream, to fall, empty itself: in sinum maris, L.—Of dice, to be thrown, fall, turn up: illud, quod cecidit forte, T.—Of shadows, to be thrown, fall (poet.): cadunt de montibus umbrae, V.—To fall dead, fall, die, be slain: in acie: Civili acie, O.: pauci de nostris cadunt, Cs.: plures Saguntini cadebant quam Poeni, L.: ante diem, prematurely, V.: suo Marte (i. e. suā manu), O.: iustā Morte, H.: femineo Marte, O.: a tanto viro, O.: a centurione, Ta.: In pio officio, O.: in patriā cadendum est, we must perish.—Of victims, to be slain, be offered, be sacrificed, fall (poet.): Multa tibi cadet hostia, V.: Si tener cadit haedus, H.: Victima vota cadit, O.—Of a woman, to yield, Tb. —Fig., to come, fall under, fall, be subject, be exposed: sub sensum: in conspectum, to become visible: si regnum ad servitia caderet, into servile hands, L.: sub imperium Romanorum: in deliberationem: in suspicionem alicuius, N.—To belong, be in accordance, agree, refer, be suitable, apply, fit, suit, become: non cadit in hos mores ista suspitio: cadit ergo in bonum virum mentiri?: Heu, cadit in quemquam tantum scelus? V.: sub eandem rationem.—Of time, to fall upon: in alienissimum tempus: in hanc aetatem.— To fall due: in eam diem cadere nummos.—To befall, fall to the lot of, happen, come to pass, occur, result, turn out, fall out: mihi peropportune: insperanti mihi cecidit, ut, etc.: Sunt quibus ad portas cecidit custodia sorti, V.: Ut illis... voluptas cadat, H.: verba cadentia, uttered at random, H.: verba si Graeco fonte cadent, be derived from, H.: verebar quorsum id casurum esset, how it would turn out: praeter opinionem, N.: si quid adversi caderet, L.: fortuito in melius casura, Ta.: curare Quo promissa cadent, how fulfilled, H.: Vota cadunt, are fulfilled, Tb.: tibi pro vano benigna cadant, Pr.: Quo res cumque cadent, V.: si non omnia caderent secunda, Cs.: ut inrita promissa eius caderent, L.: libertas in servitutem cadit: in hunc hominem ista suspitio: ad inritum cadens spes, turning out to be vain, L.—To lose strength, fall, perish, be overthrown, drop, decline, vanish, decay, cease: cadentem rem p. fulcire: tua laus pariter cum re p. cecidit: virtute Neronis Armenius cecidit, H.: non tibi ira cecidit, L.: animus, to fail. L.: cadere animis, to lose courage: cecidere illis animi, O.— To fail (in speaking), falter: orator cadet.—Causā cadere, to lose the cause: cadere in iudicio: Ut cecidit fortuna Phrygum, O.— Of the countenance or features: tibi tamen oculi, voltus, verba cecidissent, i. e. expressed terror.— Of words: Multa renascentur, quae iam cecidere, fallen into disuse, H.—Of theatrical representations, to fail, be condemned: cadat an recto stet fabula talo, H.—Of the wind, to abate, subside, die away: cadit Eurus, O.: venti vis omnis cecidit, L.—Of words and clauses, to be terminated, end, close: verba melius in syllabas longiores cadunt: similiter cadentia, having the same endings.
    * * *
    cadere, cecidi, casus V INTRANS
    fall, sink, drop, plummet, topple; be slain, die; end, cease, abate; decay

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  • 3 rōrō

        rōrō āvī, ātus, āre    [ros], to drop dew, scatter dew: (Aurora) toto rorat in orbe, O.: Cum rorare Tithonia coniunx Coeperit, O.: tellus roratā mane pruinā, besprinkled, O.— To drop, trickle, drip, distil: pocula rorantia: rorant pennaeque sinūsque, shed moisture, O.: ora dei madidā barbā, O.: rorabant sanguine vepres, V.: quam Roratis lustravit aquis, with sprinkled waters, O.
    * * *
    rorare, roravi, roratus V
    cause dew, drip; be moist

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  • 4 stīllō

        stīllō āvī, ātus, āre    [stilla], to make drops, give drops, drop, distil, drip: stillantem pugionem ferre: paenula multo nimbo, Iu.: Sanguine sidera, O.: Ex oculis rorem, H.: stillata cortice myrrha, O.: acre malum stillans ocellus, Iu.—Of liquids, to fall in drops, drop, trickle: de viridi ilice mella, O.: ros, O.—Fig., to instil, whisper, breathe: stillavit in aurem Exiguum de veneno, Iu.: litterae quae mihi quiddam quasi animulae stillarunt.
    * * *
    stillare, stillavi, stillatus V
    fall in drops; drip; cause to drip; pour in drops

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  • 5 cado

    cădo, cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3 ( part. pres. gen. plur. cadentūm, Verg. A. 10, 674; 12, 410), v. n. [cf. Sanscr. çad-, to fall away].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In an extended sense, to be driven or carried by one ' s weight from a higher to a lower point, to fall down, be precipitated, sink down, go down, sink, fall (so mostly poet.; in prose, in place of it, the compounds decĭdo, occĭdo, excĭdo, etc.; cf. also ruo, labor;

    opp. surgo, sto): tum arbores in te cadent,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 25: (aves) praecipites cadunt in terram aut in aquam, fall headlong to the earth or into the water, Lucr. 6, 745; cf. id. 6, 828;

    imitated by Verg.: (apes) praecipites cadunt,

    Verg. G. 4, 80:

    nimbus, Ut picis e caelo demissum flumen, in undas Sic cadit, etc.,

    Lucr. 6, 258:

    cadit in terras vis flammea,

    id. 2, 215; so with in, id. 2, 209; 4, 1282; 6, 1006; 6, 1125; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64:

    in patrios pedes,

    Ov. F. 2, 832.—With a different meaning:

    omnes plerumque cadunt in vulnus,

    in the direction of, towards their wound, Lucr. 4, 1049; cf.:

    prolapsa in vulnus moribunda cecidit,

    Liv. 1, 58, 11:

    cadit in vultus,

    Ov. M. 5, 292:

    in pectus,

    id. ib. 4, 579.—Less freq. with ad:

    ad terras,

    Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 216:

    ad terram,

    Quint. 5, 10, 84.—The place from which is designated by ab, ex, de:

    a summo cadere,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 15:

    a mento cadit manus,

    Ov. F. 3, 20:

    aves ab alto,

    Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 112:

    ut cadat (avis) e regione loci,

    Lucr. 6, 824:

    ex arbore,

    Plin. 17, 20, 34, § 148; Dig. 50, 16, 30, § 4; 18, 1, 80, § 2:

    cecidisse de equo dicitur,

    Cic. Clu. 62, 175:

    cadere de equo,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 125 (for which Cæsar, Nepos, and Pliny employ decidere):

    de manibus arma cecidissent,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 21; cf.:

    de manibus civium delapsa arma ipsa ceciderunt,

    id. Off. 1, 22, 77:

    cadunt altis de montibus umbrae,

    Verg. E. 1, 84:

    de caelo,

    Lucr. 5, 791; Ov. M. 2, 322:

    de matre (i. e. nasci),

    Claud. in Rufin. 1, 92.—With per:

    per inane profundum,

    Lucr. 2, 222:

    per aquas,

    id. 2, 230:

    per salebras altaque saxa,

    Mart. 11, 91; cf.:

    imbre per indignas usque cadente genas,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 18.—With the adverb altius: altius atque cadant summotis nubibus imbres, and poured forth from a greater height, etc., Verg. E. 6, 38.—And absol.:

    folia nunc cadunt,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 24; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12; Lucr. 6, 297:

    ut pluere in multis regionibus et cadere imbres,

    id. 6, 415:

    cadens nix,

    id. 3, 21; 3, 402:

    velut si prolapsus cecidisset,

    Liv. 1, 56, 12: quaeque ita concus [p. 259] sa est, ut jam casura putetur, Ov. P. 2, 3, 59:

    cadentem Sustinuisse,

    id. M. 8, 148:

    saepius, of epileptics,

    Plin. Val. 12, 58:

    casuri, si leviter excutiantur, flosculi,

    Quint. 12, 10, 73.—
    2.
    Esp.
    a.
    Of heavenly bodies, to decline, set (opp. orior), Ov. F. 1, 295:

    oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem,

    Verg. A. 4, 480; 8, 59; Tac. G. 45:

    soli subjecta cadenti arva,

    Avien. Descr. Orb. 273; cf. Tac. Agr. 12:

    quā (nocte) tristis Orion cadit,

    Hor. Epod. 10, 10:

    Arcturus cadens,

    id. C. 3, 1, 27.—
    b.
    To separate from something by falling, to fall off or away, fall out, to drop off, be shed, etc.:

    nam tum dentes mihi cadebant primulum,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 57:

    dentes cadere imperat aetas,

    Lucr. 5, 671; Sen. Ep. 12, 3; 83, 3:

    pueri qui primus ceciderit dens,

    Plin. 28, 4, 9, § 41:

    barba,

    Verg. E. 1, 29:

    quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo Lapsa cadunt folia,

    id. A. 6, 310; cf. Cat. 11, 22; Hor. A. P. 61:

    lanigeris gregibus Sponte suā lanae cadunt,

    Ov. M. 7, 541:

    saetae,

    id. ib. 14, 303:

    quadrupedibus pilum cadere,

    Plin. 11, 39, 94, § 231:

    poma,

    Ov. M. 7, 586:

    cecidere manu quas legerat, herbae,

    id. ib. 14, 350:

    elapsae manibus cecidere tabellae,

    id. ib. 9, 571:

    et colus et fusus digitis cecidere remissis,

    id. ib. 4, 229.—
    c.
    Of a stream, to fall, empty itself:

    amnis Aretho cadit in sinum maris,

    Liv. 38, 4, 3; 38, 13, 6; 44, 31, 4:

    flumina in pontum cadent,

    Sen. Med. 406:

    flumina in Hebrum cadentia,

    Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 50:

    tandem in alterum amnem cadit,

    Curt. 6, 4, 6.—
    d.
    Of dice, to be thrown or cast; to turn up:

    illud, quod cecidit forte,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 23 sq.; Liv. 2, 12, 16.—
    e.
    Alicui (alicujus) ad pedes, to fall at one ' s feet in supplication, etc. (post-class. for abicio, proicio), Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 19; Eutr. 4, 7; Aug. Serm. 143, 4; Vulg. Joan. 11, 32 al.—
    f.
    Super collum allcujus, to embrace (late Lat.), Vulg. Luc. 15, 20.—
    B.
    In a more restricted sense.
    1.
    To fall, to fall down, drop, fall to, be precipitated, etc.; to sink down, to sink, settle (the usual class. signif. in prose and poetry):

    cadere in plano,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 17 sq.:

    deorsum,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89:

    uspiam,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12:

    Brutus, velut si prolapsus cecidisset,

    Liv. 1, 56, 12; cf. id. 5, 21, 16; 1, 58, 12:

    dum timent, ne aliquando cadant, semper jacent,

    Quint. 8, 5, 32:

    sinistrā manu sinum ad ima crura deduxit (Caesar), quo honestius caderet,

    Suet. Caes. 82:

    cadere supinus,

    id. Aug. 43 fin.:

    in pectus pronus,

    Ov. M. 4, 579:

    cadunt toti montes,

    Lucr. 6, 546:

    radicitus exturbata (pinus) prona cadit,

    Cat. 64, 109:

    concussae cadunt urbes,

    Lucr. 5, 1236:

    casura moenia Troum,

    Ov. M. 13, 375; id. H. 13, 71:

    multaque praeterea ceciderunt moenia magnis motibus in terris,

    Lucr. 6, 588: languescunt omnia membra;

    bracchia palpebraeque cadunt,

    their arms and eyelids fall, id. 4, 953; 3, 596; so,

    ceciderunt artus,

    id. 3, 453:

    sed tibi tamen oculi, voltus, verba cecidissent,

    Cic. Dom. 52, 133; cf.:

    oculos vigiliā fatigatos cadentesque in opere detineo,

    Sen. Ep. 8, 1:

    patriae cecidere manus,

    Verg. A. 6, 33:

    cur facunda parum decoro Inter verba cadit lingua silentio?

    Hor. C. 4, 1, 36:

    cecidere illis animique manusque,

    Ov. M. 7, 347; Val. Fl. 1, 300; cf. II. F. infra.—
    2.
    In a pregn. signif. (as in most langg., to fall in battle, to die), to fall so as to be unable to rise, to fall dead, to fall, die (opp. vivere), Prop. 2 (3), 28, 42 (usu. of those who die in battle;

    hence most freq. in the histt.): hostes crebri cadunt,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 79 sq.:

    aut in acie cadendum fuit aut in aliquas insidias incidendum,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 3; Curt. 4, 1, 28; Ov. M. 7, 142:

    ut cum dignitate potius cadamus quam cum ignominiā serviamus,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 35:

    pauci de nostris cadunt,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 15; id. B. C. 3, 53:

    optimus quisque cadere aut sauciari,

    Sall. J. 92, 8; so id. C. 60, 6; id. J. 54, 10; Nep. Paus. 1, 2; id. Thras. 2, 7; id. Dat. 1, 2; 6, 1; 8, 3; Liv. 10, 35, 15 and 19; 21, 7, 10; 23, 21, 7; 29, 14, 8; Tac. G. 33; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 27; Ov. M. 7, 142:

    per acies,

    Tac. A. 1, 2:

    pro patriā,

    Quint. 2, 15, 29:

    ante diem,

    Verg. A. 4, 620:

    bipenni,

    Ov. M. 12, 611:

    ense,

    Val. Fl. 1, 812.—Not in battle:

    inque pio cadit officio,

    Ov. M. 6, 250.—With abl. of means or instrument:

    suoque Marte (i. e. suā manu) cadunt,

    Ov. M. 3, 123; cf. Tac. A. 3, 42 fin.:

    suā manu cecidit,

    fell by his own hand, id. ib. 15, 71:

    exitu voluntario,

    id. H. 1, 40:

    muliebri fraude cadere,

    id. A. 2, 71: cecidere justā Morte Centauri, cecidit tremendae Flamma Chimaerae, Hor. C. 4, 2, 14 sq.:

    manu femineā,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 1179:

    femineo Marte,

    Ov. M. 12, 610.—With abl. of agent with ab:

    torqueor, infesto ne vir ab hoste cadat,

    should be slain by, Ov. H. 9, 36; so id. M. 5, 192; Suet. Oth. 5:

    a centurione volneribus adversis tamquam in pugnā,

    Tac. A. 16, 9.—And without ab:

    barbarae postquam cecidere turmae Thessalo victore,

    Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; imitated by Claudian, IV. Cons. Hon. 89; Grat. Cyn. 315.—
    b.
    Of victims, to be slain or offered, to be sacrificed, to fall ( poet.):

    multa tibi ante aras nostrā cadet hostia dextrā,

    Verg. A. 1, 334:

    si tener pleno cadit haedus anno,

    Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; Tib. 1, 1, 23; 4, 1, 15; Ov. M. 7, 162; 13, 615; id. F. 4, 653.—
    3.
    In mal. part., = succumbo, to yield to, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 104; Tib. 4, 10, 2; Sen. Contr. 1, 3, 7.—
    4.
    Matre cadens, just born ( poet.), Val. Fl. 1, 355; cf. of the custom of laying the new-born child at the father's feet: tellure cadens. Stat. S. 1, 2, 209; 5, 5, 69.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To come or fall under, to fall, to be subject or exposed to something (more rare than its compound incidere, but class.); constr. usually with sub or in, sometimes with ad:

    sub sensus cadere nostros,

    i. e. to be perceived by the senses, Lucr. 1, 448:

    sub sensum,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 48: in cernendi sensum. id. Tim. 3:

    sub oculos,

    id. Or. 3, 9:

    in conspectum,

    to become visible, id. Tusc. 1, 22, 50:

    sub aurium mensuram,

    id. Or. 20, 67:

    sponte suā (genus humanum) cecidit sub leges artaque jura,

    subjected itself to law and the force of right, Lucr. 5, 1146; so id. 3, 848:

    ad servitia,

    Liv. 1, 40, 3:

    utrorum ad regna,

    Lucr. 3, 836; so,

    sub imperium dicionemque Romanorum,

    Cic. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2):

    in potestatem unius,

    id. Att. 8, 3, 2:

    in cogitationem,

    to suggest itself to the thoughts, id. N. D. 1, 9, 21:

    in hominum disceptationem,

    id. de Or. 2, 2, 5:

    in deliberationem,

    id. Off. 1, 3, 9:

    in offensionem alicujus,

    id. N. D. 1, 30, 85:

    in morbum,

    id. Tusc. 1, 32, 79:

    in suspitionem alicujus,

    Nep. Paus. 2, 6:

    in calumniam,

    Quint. 9, 4, 57:

    abrupte cadere in narrationem,

    id. 4, 1, 79:

    in peccatum,

    Aug. in Psa. 65, 13.—
    B.
    In gen.: in or sub aliquem or aliquid, to belong to any object, to be in accordance with, agree with, refer to, be suitable to, to fit, suit, become (so esp. freq. in philos. and rhet. lang.):

    non cadit in hos mores, non in hunc pudorem, non in hanc vitam, non in hunc hominem ista suspitio,

    Cic. Sull. 27, 75:

    cadit ergo in bonum virum mentiri, emolumenti sui causā?

    id. Off. 3, 20, 81; so id. Cael. 29, 69; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    haec Academica... in personas non cadebant,

    id. Att. 13, 19, 5:

    qui pedes in orationem non cadere quī possunt?

    id. Or. 56, 188:

    neque in unam formam cadunt omnia,

    id. ib. 11, 37; 57, 191; 27, 95; id. de Or. 3, 47, 182; Quint. 3, 7, 6; 4, 2, 37; 4, 2, 93; 6, prooem. § 5; 7, 2, 30 and 31; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 82:

    heu, cadit in quemquam tantum scelus?

    Verg. E. 9, 17; Cic. Or. 27, 95; 11, 37; Quint. 3, 5, 16; 3, 6, 91; 5, 10, 30; 6, 3, 52; 7, 2, 31; 9, 1, 7;

    9, 3, 92: hoc quoque in rerum naturam cadit, ut, etc.,

    id. 2, 17, 32:

    in iis rebus, quae sub eandem rationem cadunt,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Quint. 8, 3, 56.—
    C.
    To fall upon a definite time (rare):

    considera, ne in alienissimum tempus cadat adventus tuus,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 14, 4:

    in id saeculum Romuli cecidit aetas, cum, etc.,

    id. Rep. 2, 10, 18.—Hence, in mercantile lang., of payments, to fall due: in eam diem cadere ( were due) nummos, qui a Quinto debentur, Cic. Att. 15, 20, 4.—
    D.
    (Acc. to I. 1. e.) Alicui, to fall to one (as by lot), fall to one ' s lot, happen to one, befall; and absol. (for accidere), to happen, come to pass, occur, result, turn out, fall out (esp. in an unexpected manner; cf. accido; very freq. in prose and poetry).
    1.
    Alicui:

    nihil ipsis jure incommodi cadere possit,

    Cic. Quint. 16, 51:

    hoc cecidit mihi peropportune, quod, etc.,

    id. de Or. 2, 4, 15; id. Att. 3, 1:

    insperanti mihi, cecidit, ut, etc.,

    id. de Or. 1, 21, 96; id. Att. 8, 3, 6; id. Mil. 30, 81:

    mihi omnia semper honesta et jucunda ceciderunt,

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

    sunt, quibus ad portas cecidit custodia sorti,

    Verg. G. 4, 165:

    haec aliis maledicta cadant,

    Tib. 1, 6, 85:

    neu tibi pro vano verba benigna cadunt,

    Prop. 1, 10, 24:

    ut illis... voluptas cadat dura inter saepe pericla,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 40: verba cadentia, uttered at random, id. Ep. 1, 18, 12.—
    2.
    Ab sol., Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.;

    Cic. Leg.2, 13, 33: verebar quorsum id casurum esset,

    how it would turn out, id. Att. 3, 24:

    aliorsum vota ceciderunt,

    Flor. 2, 4, 5:

    cum aliter res cecidisset ac putasses,

    had turned out differently from what was expected, Cic. Fam. 5, 19, 1:

    sane ita cadebat ut vellem,

    id. Att. 3, 7, 1; id. Div. 2, 52, 107; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3; Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 73, Nep. Milt. 2, 5 Dähne:

    cum, quae tum maxime acciderant, casura praemonens, a furioso incepto eos deterreret,

    Liv. 36, 34, 3; 22, 40, 3; 35, 13, 9; 38, 46, 6; Plin. Pan. 31, 1; Tac. A. 2, 80; 6, 8; Suet. Tib. 14 al.; Verg. A. 2, 709:

    ut omnia fortiter fiant, feliciter cadant,

    Sen. Suas. 2, p. 14:

    multa. fortuito in melius casura,

    Tac. A. 2, 77.—With adj.:

    si non omnia caderent secunda,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 73:

    vota cadunt, i.e. rata sunt,

    are fulfilled, realized, Tib. 2, 2, 17 (diff. from Prop. 1, 17, 4; v. under F.).—
    3.
    With in and acc.: nimia illa libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit (cf. metaballei), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.—Esp.: in (ad) irritum or cassum, to be frustrated, fail, be or remain fruitless:

    omnia in cassum cadunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; Lucr. 2, 1166:

    ad irritum cadens spes,

    Liv. 2, 6, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 26:

    in irritum,

    id. A. 15, 39; cf. with irritus, adj.:

    ut irrita promissa ejus caderent,

    Liv. 2, 31, 5:

    haud irritae cecidere minae,

    id. 6, 35, 10.—
    E.
    To fall, to become less (in strength, power, worth, etc.), to decrease, diminish, lessen:

    cadunt vires,

    Lucr. 5, 410:

    mercenarii milites pretia militiae casura in pace aegre ferebant,

    Liv. 34, 36, 7.—More freq. in an extended signif. (acc. to I. B. 2.),
    F. 1.
    In gen.: pellis item cecidit, vestis contempta ferina. declined in value, Lucr. 5, 1417:

    turpius est enim privatim cadere (i. e. fortunis everti) quam publice,

    Cic. Att. 16, 15, 6; so id. Fam. 6, 10, 2:

    atque ea quidem tua laus pariter cum re publicā cecidit,

    id. Off. 2, 13, 45:

    tanta civitas, si cadet,

    id. Har. Resp. 20, 42:

    huc cecidisse Germanici exercitus gloriam, ut, etc.,

    Tac. H. 3, 13:

    non tibi ingredienti fines ira cecidit?

    Liv. 2, 40, 7; Pers. 5, 91:

    amicitia nec debilitari animos aut cadere patitur,

    Cic. Lael. 7, 23:

    animus,

    to fail, Liv. 1, 11, 3; Ov. M. 11, 537; cf. id. ib. 7, 347:

    non debemus ita cadere animis, etc.,

    to lose courage, be disheartened, Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 4:

    tam graviter,

    id. Off. 1, 21, 73; cf. Sen. Ep. 8, 3.—Esp., to fail in speaking:

    magnus orator est... minimeque in lubrico versabitur, et si semel constiterit numquam cadet,

    Cic. Or. 28, 98:

    alte enim cadere non potest,

    id. ib. —So in the lang. of the jurists, causā or formulā, to lose one ' s cause or suit:

    causā cadere,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 19, 57; so id. de Or. 1, 36, 166 sq.; id. Fam. 7, 14, 1; Quint. 7, 3, 17; Luc. 2, 554; Suet. Calig. 39:

    formulā cadere,

    Sen. Ep. 48, 10; Quint. 3, 6, 69.—With in:

    ita quemquam cadere in judicio, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Mur. 28, 58.—Also absol.:

    cadere,

    Tac. H. 4, 6; and:

    criminibus repetundarum,

    id. ib. 1, 77:

    conjurationis crimine,

    id. A. 6, 14:

    ut cecidit Fortuna Phrygum,

    Ov. M. 13, 435:

    omniaque ingrato litore vota cadunt, i. e. irrita sunt,

    remain unfulfilled, unaccomplished, Prop. 1, 17, 4 (diff. from Tib. 2, 2, 17; v. above, D. 2.); cf.:

    at mea nocturno verba cadunt zephyro,

    Prop. 1, 16, 34:

    multa renascentur, quae jam cecidere, cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula,

    to fall into disuse, grow out of date, Hor. A. P. 70 —Hence of theatrical representations, to fall through, to fail, be condemned (opp. stare, to win applause;

    the fig. derived from combatants): securus cadat an recto stet fabula talo,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176.— Impers.. periculum est, ne cadatur, Aug. Don. Persev. 1.—
    2.
    Esp. of the wind (opp. surgo), to abate, subside, die away, etc.:

    cadit Eurus et umida surgunt Nubila,

    Ov. M. 8, 2:

    ventus premente nebulā cecidit,

    Liv. 29, 27, 10:

    cadente jam Euro,

    id. 25, 27, 11:

    venti vis omnis cecidit,

    id. 26, 39, 8:

    ubi primum aquilones ceciderunt,

    id. 36, 43, 11; cf.:

    sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor,

    Verg. A. 1, 154:

    ventosi ceciderunt murmuris aurae,

    id. E. 9, 58; id. G. 1, 354 Serv. and Wagn.—
    G.
    Rhet. and gram. t. t. of words, syllables, clauses, etc., to be terminated, end, close:

    verba melius in syllabas longiores cadunt,

    Cic. Or. 57, 194; 67, 223: qua (littera [p. 260] sc. m) nullum Graece verbum cadit, Quint. 12, 10, 31:

    plerique censent cadere tantum numerose oportere terminarique sententiam,

    Cic. Or. 59, 199; so id. Brut. 8, 34:

    apto cadens oratio,

    Quint. 9, 4, 32:

    numerus opportune cadens,

    id. 9, 4, 27:

    ultima syllaba in gravem vel duas graves cadit semper,

    id. 12, 10, 33 Spald.: similiter cadentia = omoioptôta, the ending of words with the same cases or verbal forms, diff. from similiter desinentia = omoioteleuta, similar endings of any kind, Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206; id. Or. 34, 135; Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28; Quint. 9, 4, 42; cf. id. 9, 4, 18; 9, 3, 78; 9, 3, 79; 1, 7, 23; Aquil. Rom. Figur. §§ 25 and 26.

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  • 6 immittō (in-m-)

        immittō (in-m-) īsī, īssus, ere,    to send in, let in, throw into, admit, introduce: immissus in urbem: servos ad spoliandum fanum: corpus in undas, O.: in terram (navem), stranded, L.: canalibus aqua inmissa, Cs.: feraces plantae immittuntur, are engrafted, V.: lentum filis immittitur aureum, is interwoven, O.: nais inmittitur undis, plunges into, O.: inmittor harenae, reach, O.: immissa (tigna) in flumen defigere, driven down, Cs.: immissi alii in alios rami, intertwined, L.—To send against, let loose, set on, cause to attack, incite: servi in tecta nostra immissi: completas navīs taedā in classem, Cs.: immittebantur illi canes: in medios se hostīs, threw himself.—To discharge, project, throw at, cast among: pila in hostīs, Cs.: Lancea costis inmissa, penetrating, O.: coronam caelo, hurls to, O.—To let go, let loose, relax, slacken, drop: immissis frenis, V.: inmissos hederā conlecta capillos, flowing, O.—Fig., to install, put in possession: in mea bona quos voles.—To inflict: iniuriam in alqm: fugam Teucris, struck with panic, V.—To instigate, suborn: a Cicerone inmissus, S.—To admit, commit: corrector inmittit ipse senarium, lets escape him.

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  • 7 lacrima

        lacrima (old, lacruma), ae, f     a tear: cito exarescit lacrima: lacrimam dare ignoto, shed a tear for, O.: homini lacrimae cadunt gaudio, he sheds tears of joy, T.: lacrimis oculos suffusa nitentīs, her eyes moistened with tears, V.: neque prae lacrimis iam loqui possum, cannot speak for tears: lacrimas vix tenere, restrain: multis cum lacrimis obsecrare, Cs.: lacrimis opplet os lotum sibi, T.: lacrimas mitte, away with tears, T.: lacrimas profundere: ciere, to cause to flow, V.: lacrimas excussit mihi, forced from me, T.: quis talia fando Temperet a lacrimis, V.: his lacrimis vitam damus, (moved) by this lament, V.—Prov.: hinc illae lacrimae, T.: inde irae et lacrimae, Iu.—A tear, gum-drop (from plants): Narcissi, V., O.
    * * *
    tear; exuded gum/sap; bit of lead; quicksilver from ore; weeping (pl.); dirge

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  • 8 nīl

        nīl n indecl.    [ne+hilum], nothing: nihil est agri culturā melius: nihil ad celeritatem sibi reliqui fecerunt, i. e. exerted themselves to the utmost, Cs.: sui nihil deperdere, of what they had, Cs.: nil sanguinis, no drop of blood, O.: nil sui, nothing proper, O.: tecum nil rei nobis est, we have nothing to do with you, T.: nihil exspectatione vestrā dignum dico: victor, quo nihil erat moderatius: sin mecum in hac prolusione nihil fueris, of no account: nihil hominis esse, a worthless fellow.—Prov.: Nil nimis, i. e. don't be extravagant, T.— Acc adverb., not at all, in no respect, not a whit: nihil se eā re commoveri, Cs.: coniecturā nihil opus est: nihil ad plebis causam inclinati, L.: Nil nostri miserere? V.: nihil sane, nisi, etc., for no reason, but, etc.: nil ad me attinet, T.: nihil ad Persium, in comparison with.—In phrases: nihil agis dolor! you effect nothing: misere cupis abire; sed nil agis, no, you don't! H.: nihil non ad rationem dirigebat, everything: nihil non adroget armis, H.: non nihil est profectum, somewhat: haud nihil, T.: nihil quidquam egregium adsequi, nothing at all: nihil unum insigne, L.: Tu, quantus quantu's, nil nisi sapientia es, are nothing but wisdom, T.: amare nihil aliud est, nisi diligere, etc.: nihil aliud nisi de hoste cogitare, only: nihil tibi deest praeter voluntatem, nothing except: nihil praeterquam, only, exclusively, L.: nihil aliud quam prendere prohibito, L.: nihil aliud quam in populationibus res fuit, L.: nihil praetermisi... quin Pompeium a Caesaris coniunctione avocarem, I have omitted nothing that might separate: nihil moror, quo minus decemviratu abeam, L.: nihil est, quod adventum nostrum extimescas, you have no cause to fear: nihil est, cur adventibus te offerre gestias: nihil excogitem, quam ob rem necesse sit? etc.: nihil fuit in Catulis, ut putares, etc.: Dic aliquid dignum promissis; incipe—nil est, to no purpose, H.: nihil est, quod pocula laudes, in vain, V.: cadit in virum bonum mentiri? nihil profecto minus, by no means.
    * * *
    nothing; no; trifle/thing not worth mentioning; nonentity; nonsense; no concern

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  • 9 sub-mittō (summ-)

        sub-mittō (summ-) mīsī, missus, ere,    to let down, put down, lower, sink, drop: se ad pedes, L.: latus in herbā, O.: poplitem in terrā, O.—Of animals, to keep for breeding, cause to breed: (pullos) in spem gentis, V.: vitulos pecori habendo, V.— To let grow: crinem barbamque, Ta.—To breed, produce: non Monstrum submisere Colchi Maius, H.—To provide a substitute for, supersede: huic vos non summittetis?—To send privately, despatch secretly: iste ad pupillae matrem summittebat, sent a secret message: alqm, qui moneret, etc.—To send as aid, furnish for support, supply as reinforcement, help with, yield: cohortes equitibus praesidio, Cs.: laborantibus, Cs.: Vinea summittit capreas non semper edules, H.—Fig., to lower, make lower, reduce, moderate: multum summittere, to moderate the voice (of an actor): furorem, control, V.—To lower, let down, bring down, humble, yield, surrender: se in amicitiā, condescend: se in humilitatem causam dicentium, stoop, L.: facilitas summittentis se, readiness to subordinate himself, L.: ad calamitates animos, bow, L.: animos amori, surrender, V.: se culpae, O.

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  • 10 deicio

    deicere, dejeci, dejectus V TRANS
    throw/pour/jump/send/put/push/force/knock/bring down; cause to fall/drop; hang; overthrow, bring down, depose; kill, destroy; shoot/strike down; fell (victim); unhorse; let fall; shed; purge/evacuate bowel; dislodge/rout; drive/throw out

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  • 11 dejicio

    dejicere, dejeci, dejectus V TRANS
    throw/pour/jump/send/put/push/force/knock/bring down; cause to fall/drop; hang; overthrow, bring down, depose; kill, destroy; shoot/strike down; fell (victim); unhorse; let fall; shed; purge/evacuate (bowel); dislodge/rout; drive/throw ou

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  • 12 demitto

    dē-mitto, mīsi, missum, 3, v. a., to send down; to drop; to let, sink, or bring down; to cause to hang or fall down; to lower, put down, let fall (freq. and class.).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    picis e caelo demissum flumen,

    Lucr. 6, 257; cf.:

    caelo imbrem,

    Verg. G. 1, 23:

    caelo ancilia,

    Liv. 5, 54 et saep.:

    barbam malis,

    Lucr. 5, 673:

    latum clavum pectore,

    Hor. S. 1, 6, 28; cf.:

    monilia pectoribus,

    Verg. A. 7, 278:

    laenam ex humeris,

    id. ib. 4, 263: Maia genitum demittit ab alto, Verg. A. 1, 297; cf.:

    ab aethere currum, Ov M. 7, 219: e muro sporta,

    Sall. Hist. 2, 53:

    aliquem in sporta per murum,

    Vulg. 2 Cor. 11, 33:

    taleam (sc. in terram),

    to put into the ground, plant, Cato R. R. 45, 2;

    arbores altius,

    Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 81:

    puteum alte in solido,

    i. e. to sink deep, Verg. G. 2, 231:

    triginta pedes in terram turrium fundamenta,

    Curt. 5, 1, 31:

    arbusta certo demittunt tempore florem,

    Lucr. 5, 670:

    demisit nardini amphoram cellarius (i. e. deprompsit),

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 12:

    fasces,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 31; cf. id. ib. 1, 40:

    cibos (sc. in alvum),

    Quint. 10, 1, 19; cf. Ov. M. 8, 835.—Naut. t. t., to lower, demittere antennas, Sall. Hist. 4, 41 Dietsch.;

    Auct. B. Alex. 45, 2: cornua (i.e. antennas),

    Ov. M. 11, 482; cf.:

    effugit hibernas demissa antenna procellas,

    id. Tr. 3, 4, 9:

    arma, classem, socios Rheno,

    Tac. A. 1, 45 fin.; cf.: farinam doliis secundā aquā Volturni fluminis, Frontin. Strat. 3, 14, 2;

    and pecora secundā aquā,

    id. ib. 3, 14, 4:

    manum artifices demitti infra pectus vetant,

    Quint. 11, 3, 112; cf.

    brachia,

    id. 2, 13, 9:

    frontem (opp. attolli),

    id. 11, 3, 78:

    supercilia (opp. allevari), ib. § 79: aures,

    Hor. Od. 2, 13, 34; cf.

    auriculas,

    id. S. 1, 9, 20:

    caput,

    Ov. M. 10, 192:

    crinem,

    id. ib. 6, 289:

    demisso capite,

    Vulg. Job 32, 6 al.:

    aliquos per funem,

    Verg. A. 2, 262; Hor. A. P. 461:

    vestem,

    id. S. 1, 2, 95; cf.

    tunicam,

    id. ib. 25:

    stolam,

    id. ib. 99 et saep.; often in a violent manner, to cast down, to cast, throw, thrust, plunge, drive, etc.:

    equum in flumen,

    Cic. Div. 1, 33, 73; cf.:

    equos a campo in cavam viam,

    Liv. 23, 47:

    aliquem in carcerem,

    Liv. 34, 44 fin.; cf. Sall. C. 55, 4:

    aliquem ad imos Manes,

    Verg. A. 12, 884:

    hostem in ovilia,

    Hor. Od. 4, 4, 10:

    gladium in jugulum,

    Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 28; cf.:

    ferrum in ilia,

    Ov. M. 4, 119:

    sublicas in terram,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 49, 4; cf.:

    huc stipites,

    id. ib. 7, 73, 3 and 6:

    huc caementa,

    Hor. Od. 3, 1, 35:

    nummum in loculos,

    to put, id. Ep. 2, 1, 175:

    calculum atrum in urnam,

    Ov. M. 15, 44:

    milia sex nummum in arcam nummariam,

    Nov. Com. v. 108 Rib.: caput ad fornicem Fabii, to bow, stoop, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 267: tunicam ad talos, Varr. ap. Non. 286, 19; cf. Cic. Clu. 40, 111; Quint. 5, 13, 39 et saep.:

    quove velim magis fessas demittere naves,

    Verg. A. 5, 29; cf.:

    navem secundo amni Scodam,

    Liv. 44, 31.— Poet. with dat.:

    corpora Stygiae nocti tormentis,

    Ov. M. 3, 695; cf.:

    aliquem neci,

    Verg. A. 2, 85:

    aliquem Orco,

    id. ib. 2, 398; Hor. Od. 1, 28, 11:

    aliquem umbris,

    Sil. 11, 142:

    ferrum jugulo,

    Ov. H. 14, 5:

    ferrum lacubus,

    id. M. 12, 278:

    offa demittitur faucibus boum,

    Plin. 27, 11, 76, § 101.—
    b.
    Se, or in the pass. form with middle signif., to let one's self down, stoop, descend:

    (venti vortex) ubi se in terras demisit,

    Lucr. 6, 446:

    se inguinibus tenus in aquam calidam,

    Cels. 1, 3:

    se ad aurem alicujus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30; cf.:

    cum se demittit ob assem,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 64:

    concava vallis erat, qua se demittere rivi Assuerant,

    Ov. M. 8, 334 al.:

    nonullae (matres familias) de muris per manus demissae,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 47, 6.— Prov.: demitti de caelo, or simply caelo, to be sent down from heaven, i. e. to be of celestial origin, Liv. 10, 8, 10; Quint. 1, 6, 16.—
    B.
    Esp., milit. t. t.
    1.
    To send, bring, or lead down soldiers into a lower place:

    in loca plana agmen demittunt,

    Liv. 9, 27; cf.:

    agmen in vallem infimam,

    id. 7, 34:

    equites Numidas in inferiorem campum,

    id. 27, 18:

    agmen in Thessaliam,

    id. 32, 13; 38, 2: exercitum in planitiem, Frontin. Strat. 1, 2, 7 al.; and without in:

    agmen,

    Liv. 9, 2:

    levem armaturam,

    id. 22, 28 al.:

    cum se major pars agminis in magnam convallem demisisset,

    had descended, Caes. B. G. 5, 32 fin.;

    so with se,

    id. ib. 6, 40, 6; 7, 28, 2; id. B. C. 1, 79, 4; Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 4 al.—
    2.
    Arma demittere, in making a military salute: armis demissis salutationem more militari faciunt, with grounded arms, Auct. B. Afr. 85, 6. —
    II.
    Trop., to cast down, let sink, etc.:

    demisere oculos omnes gemitumque dedere,

    Ov. M. 15, 612; cf.:

    vultu demisso,

    Vulg. Isa. 49, 23:

    demissis in terram oculis,

    Liv. 9, 38, 13;

    also in sleep: cadit inscia clavo Dextera, demittitque oculos,

    Val. Fl. 3, 41:

    vultum,

    Val. Max. 8, 14, 5; Curt. 6, 32, 1:

    vultum animumque metu,

    Ov. M. 7, 133; cf.

    vultus,

    id. ib. 10, 367; Liv. 2, 58. hoc in pectus tuum demitte, impress this deeply on your mind, Sall. J. 102 fin.; cf.:

    eas voces in pectora animosque,

    Liv. 34, 50; and:

    dolor hoc altius demissus, quo minus profiteri licet,

    Just. 8, 5, 11: cum in eum casum me fortuna demisisset, ut, etc., had reduced, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 2:

    dignitatem in discrimen,

    Liv. 3, 35:

    vim dicendi ad unum auditorem (opp. supra modum sermonis attolli),

    Quint. 1, 2, 31; to engage in, enter upon, embark in, meddle with:

    me penitus in causam,

    Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; cf.:

    me in res turbulentissimas,

    id. Fam. 9, 1, 2: cogita ne te eo demittas, unde, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16 fin.:

    se in comparationem,

    Suet. Rhet. 6:

    se in adulationem,

    to descend to, Tac. A. 15, 73:

    se usque ad servilem patientiam,

    id. ib. 14, 26:

    se ad minora illa,

    Quint. 1 prooem. § 5: re in secunda tollere animos et in mala demittere, to let it sink, i. e. to be disheartened, Lucil. ap. Non. 286, 7; cf.:

    si vicerint, efferunt se laetitia: victi debilitantur animosque demittunt,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42; so,

    animos (with contrahere),

    id. Tusc. 4, 6 fin.; and:

    animum (with contrahere),

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, § 4:

    mentes,

    Verg. A. 12, 609 (desperant, sicut e contra sperantes aliquid erigunt mentes, Serv.); and with abl.:

    ne se admodum animo demitterent,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 29.—In geom., t. t., to let fall a line, Vitr. 3, 5, 5.—Hence, dēmissus, a, um, P. a., brought down, lowered.
    A.
    Lit.
    1.
    Of localities, sunken, low-lying, low (cf. dejectus, P. a., no. I.):

    campestribus ac demissis locis,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 72, 3; cf.:

    loca demissa ac palustria,

    id. B. C. 3, 49, 5.—
    2.
    Of other things, drooping, falling, hanging down:

    demissis umeris esse,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 22 Ruhnk.:

    tremulus, labiis demissis,

    with flabby lips, id. ib. 2, 3, 44:

    demisso capite discedere,

    Cic. Clu. 21, 58; cf.:

    tristes, capite demisso,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 32:

    demisso vultu,

    with downcast looks, Sall. C. 31, 7.— Poet. in Gr. constr.:

    Dido vultum demissa,

    Verg. A. 1, 561.—Also deep:

    demissa vulnera,

    Sen. Ep. 67 fin. —
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    Downcast, dejected, dispirited, low (freq.):

    erigebat animum jam demissum,

    Cic. Clu. 21, 58:

    esse fracto animo et demisso,

    id. Fam. 1, 9, 16:

    (homines) animo demisso atque humili,

    id. Font. 11; cf. id. Tusc. 2, 21:

    demisso animo fuit,

    Sall. J. 98 al.:

    demissa voce loqui,

    Verg. A. 3, 320.—In the comp.:

    nihilo demissiore animo causa ipse pro se dicta,

    Liv. 4, 44.— Transf. to the person:

    quis P. Sullam nisi moerentem, demissum afflictumque vidit?

    Cic. Sull. 26 fin.:

    videsne illum demissum?

    id. Mur. 21, 45; Quint. 1, 3, 10 al.— Comp.:

    orator in ornamentis et verborum et sententiarum demissior,

    Cic. Or. 24, 81.—
    2.
    Lowly, humble, unassuming, shy, retiring (opp. elatus, lofty, proud):

    ea omnia, quae proborum, demissorum, non acrium sunt, valde benevolentiam conciliant,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 182; cf.:

    multum demissus homo,

    Hor. S. 1, 3, 57:

    sit apud vos modestiae locus, sit demissis hominibus perfugium, sit auxilium pudori,

    Cic. Mur. 40, 87.—
    3.
    Rarely of external condition, humble, poor:

    qui demissi in obscuro vitam habent (opp. qui magno imperio praediti in excelso aetatem habent),

    Sall. C. 51, 12.—
    4.
    Poet., and in Tacitus, of genealogical descent, descended, derived, sprung:

    ab alto Demissum genus Aenea,

    Hor. S. 2, 5, 63; so Verg. G. 3, 35: id. A. 1, 288; Stat. Th. 2, 613; Tac. A. 12, 58.— Sup. does not occur. — Adv.: dēmisse.
    1.
    Lit., low:

    hic alte, demissius ille volabat,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 23.—
    2.
    Trop., humbly, modestly, abjectly, meanly:

    non est ausus elate et ample loqui, cum humiliter demisseque sentiret,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 24:

    suppliciter demisseque respondere,

    id. Fl. 10, 21:

    se tueri,

    id. Att. 2, 18, 3.— Sup.: haec quam potest demississime atque subjectissime exponit, * Caes. B. C. 1, 84 fin.

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  • 13 lacrima

    lā̆crĭma (archaic lacrŭma, not lacryma, lachryma; old form dacrĭma, freq. in Livius Andronicus, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 68 Müll.; v. the letter D), ae, f. [dacru-ma, kindred with Gr. dakru; Sanscr. asru for dasru; Goth. tah-ja; Engl. tear; Germ. Zaehre; cf. the Sanscr. root dans and Gr. dak-nô, to bite], a tear.
    I.
    Lit.: meae in quem lacrumae guttatim cadunt, Enn. ap. Non. 116, 1 (Trag. v. 238 Vahl.):

    miserae,

    id. ib. (Trag. v. 168 id.):

    lacrimas effundere,

    Lucr. 1, 125:

    cito arescit lacrima, praesertim in alienis malis,

    Cic. Part. Or. 17, 57:

    lacrimas dare ignoto,

    to shed a tear, to weep for, Ov. M. 11, 720:

    lacrumas mi haec, quom video, eliciunt, quia, etc.,

    Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 13:

    ut mi excivisti lacrumas,

    id. Cist. 1, 1, 113:

    homini lacrumae cadunt quasi puero gaudio,

    tears fall from his eyes for joy, he sheds tears of joy, Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 20:

    lacrimis oculos suffusa nitentes,

    her brilliant eyes moistened with tears, Verg. A. 1, 228:

    neque prae lacrimis jam loqui possum,

    cannot speak for tears, Cic. Mil. 38, 105; cf. id. Planc. 41, 99:

    lacrimas non tenere,

    not withhold tears, not restrain them, id. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:

    tradere se lacrimis et tristitiae,

    id. Fam. 5, 14:

    lacrimis confici,

    id. ib. 14, 4:

    multis cum lacrimis obsecrare,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20:

    manantibus prae gaudio lacrimis,

    shedding tears of joy, Curt. 7, 8, 5:

    lacrimis semper paratis,

    Juv. 6, 273:

    lacrumae confictae dolis,

    Ter. And. 3, 3, 26:

    diu cohibitae lacrimae prorumpunt,

    tears long restrained break forth, Plin. Ep. 3, 16:

    fatiscere in lacrimas,

    to dissolve in tears, Val. Fl. 3, 395:

    lacrumis opplet os totum sibi,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 65:

    lacrimas effundere,

    to shed, Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:

    profundere,

    id. Font. 17, 38:

    fundere,

    Vulg. Jud. 14, 16:

    mittere,

    to let flow, Sen. Ep. 76, 20;

    but lacrimas mitte,

    away with tears, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 27:

    lacrimae siccentur protinus,

    Juv. 16, 27:

    dare,

    Verg. A. 4, 370:

    ciere,

    to cause to flow, id. ib. 6, 468:

    movere,

    Quint. 4, 2, 77:

    commovere,

    Curt. 5, 5, 7:

    cohibere,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 5:

    per lacrimas effundere bilem,

    Juv. 5, 159:

    ciere,

    Verg. A. 6, 468:

    lacrumas excussit mihi,

    forced from me, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 115:

    quis talia fando temperet a lacrimis,

    Verg. A. 2, 6:

    abstersis lacrimis,

    Curt. 5, 5, 8:

    absterget Deus omnem lacrymam ab oculis,

    Vulg. Apoc. 7, 17.—Prov.:

    hinc illae lacrumae,

    Ter. And. 1, 1, 99; imitated by Cic. Cael. 25, 61, and Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 41; cf.:

    inde irae et lacrimae,

    Juv. 1, 168.—
    II.
    Transf., a tear or gum-drop which exudes from plants:

    narcissi,

    Verg. G. 4, 160:

    arborum,

    Plin. 11, 6, 5, § 14; 21, 5, 11, § 24;

    vitium,

    id. 23 praef. 3, § 3; Col. 10, 103.

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  • 14 nihil

    nĭhil, or (ante-class. and post-Aug.) contr. nīl, n. indecl.; and nĭhĭlum, or contr. nīlum, i, n. [ne-hilum, not the least; v. hilum].
    I.
    nĭhil, nothing:

    nihil est agriculturā melius, nihil uberius,

    Cic. Off. 1, 42, 151:

    de re publicā nihil loquebantur,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 4.—
    (β).
    Nihil agere, to accomplish nothing:

    nil agis,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 134:

    nihil agis dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61:

    nihil ergo agebat Q. Maximus? nihil L. Paulus? ceteri senes nihil agebant?

    id. Sen. 6, 15; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; Hor. S. 1, 9, 15; Luc. 7, 809; Vell. 2, 66, 3.—In like manner, nihil per aliquem (sc. agere):

    nihil per Senatum, multa et magna per populum et absente populo et invito,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6; Tac. Agr. 19.—
    (γ).
    Of persons:

    victor, quo nihil erat moderatius,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2:

    ita tibi persuadeas, mihi te carius nihil fuisse,

    id. ib. 14, 3, 5:

    nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

    id. Part. 17, 57; Tac. H. 1, 79; Nep. Alcib. 1, 1.—
    (δ).
    Nihil, nec.. nec (without destroying the negation):

    nihil me nec subterfugere voluisse reticendo, nec obscurare dicendo,

    Cic. Clu. 1, 1; v. neque.—
    (ε).
    Nihil non, everything:

    nihil non ad rationem dirigebat,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

    nihil non arroget armis,

    Hor. A. P. 122; Nep. Att. 19, 3.—
    (ζ).
    Non nihil and haud nihil, something, somewhat:

    non nihil, ut in tantis malis, est profectum,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 2:

    non nihil me consolatur, cum recordor,

    id. ib. 4, 14, 2:

    haud nihil,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13:

    haud nihil ambigam,

    I may be somewhat in doubt, Liv. 1, 3.—
    (η).
    Nihil quidquam or nihil unum, nothing whatever, nothing at all:

    nil ego tibi hodie consili quicquam dabo,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 113:

    sine studio nihil quidquam egregium nemo umquam assequetur,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 30, 134:

    Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis dona dedit,

    Liv. 41, 20, 7:

    si nihil aliud,

    if there were nothing else, id. 3, 19, 7; 30, 35, 8.—
    (θ).
    With gen.:

    nihil mali,

    Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

    nihil novi,

    id. Fam. 2, 14, 1:

    nihil humanarum rerum,

    id. Red. Quir. 5, 1:

    nihil est lucri quod me hodie facere mavelim, quam,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 18.—Adjectives also, of the second declension as well as of the third, are not unfrequently joined to nihil in the same case, as nihil honestum, lautum, forte, illustre:

    nihil exspectatione vestrā dignum dico,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 137.—
    (ι).
    Nihil, or mhil aliud, with nisi, quam, praeter, praeterquam, etc., nothing else than, nothing except, nothing but:

    tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40:

    amare nihil aliud est, nisi eum ipsum diligere, quem ames,

    Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

    si nihil aliud fecerunt, nisi rem detulerunt, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 37, 108:

    ut nihil aliud, quam de hoste cogitet,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:

    nihil tibi deest praeter voluntatem,

    nothing except, id. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

    puto te existimare, me ex his miseriis nihil aliud quaerere, nisi ut homines intellegant, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 16:

    qui nihil praeterquam de vitā cogitarent, Auct. B. Alex. 8.—Sometimes, in this connection, elliptically: Herdonius, si nihil aliud, hostem se fatendo prope denuntiavit, ut, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 19, 6:

    si nihil aliud, vulneribus certe ferrum hostile hebetarent,

    id. 30, 35, 8:

    illā quidem nocte nihil praeterquam vigilatum est in urbe,

    id. 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 83.—Hence, as adv.: nihil aliud quam, only:

    nihil aliud quam prendere prohibito,

    Liv. 2, 29, 4:

    is intromissus in castra nihil aliud quam hoc narrāsse fertur,

    id. 2, 32, 8:

    nihil aliud quam in populationibus res fuit,

    id. 2, 49, 9 al. —
    (κ).
    Nihil... quin or quominus, nothing whereby: nihil praetermisi... quin Pompeium a Caesaris conjunctione avocarem, I have omitted nothing that might separate, Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 23:

    nihil moror, quominus decemviratu abeam,

    Liv. 3, 54:

    nihil facere oportet, quominus excedat, etc.,

    Cels. 3, 27, 4.—
    (λ).
    Nihil est quod, cur, quamobrem, etc., there is no reason why I ( you, etc.) need not:

    nihil est jam, quod tu mihi succenseas,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 46:

    nihil est, quod adventum nostrum extimescas,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 4:

    sed ego nunc nil est, cur me morer,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 102:

    nihil est, cur advenientibus te offerre gestias,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 20, 1:

    nihil excogitem, quamobrem Oppianico damnari necesse sit?

    id. Clu. 26, 70.—
    (μ).
    Nihil est, ut, there is nothing that:

    nihil fuit in Catulis, ut eos exquisito judicio putares uti litterarum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133.—
    (ν).
    Nihil est, it is of no use, to no purpose, in vain:

    at ego ab hac puerum reposcam, ne mox infitias eat. Nihil est. Nam ipsa haec ultro, ut factum est, fecit omnem rem palam,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 76: at nihil est, ignotum ad illum mittere: operam luseris. id. Capt. 2, 2, 94; Hor. S. 2, 3, 6.—In a question:

    usque adeo nihil est, quod nostra infantia caelum hausit Aventini?

    Juv. 3, 84.—
    (ο).
    Nihil ad me (sc. pertinet):

    recte an secus, nihil ad nos: aut si ad nos, nihil ad hoc tempus,

    Cic. Pis. 28, 68; cf. Ter. And. 1, 2, 16; also, nihil ad, nothing to, nothing in comparison with:

    nihil ad Persium,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 25; id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:

    nihil ad tuum equitatum, Caesar, sed ex eis, quos habuit, electos,

    id. Deiot. 8, 24.—
    (π).
    Nihil minus, nothing less so, i. e. by no means, not at all:

    cadit ergo in virum bonum mentiri, fallere? nihil minus,

    Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81:

    an Gallos existimatis hic versari animo demisso atque humili? nihil vero minus,

    id. Font. 11, 23.—
    (ρ).
    Nihil dum, nothing as yet:

    quamquam nihil dum audieramus, nec ubi esses, nec, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 2; id. Att. 7, 12, 4.—
    (σ).
    Nihil mihi cum illo est, I have nothing to do with him:

    tecum nihil rei nobis Demipho est,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 74; Ov. F 2, 308.—
    (τ).
    Nihil esse, to be nothing or nobody, to have no power, to be of no use, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47; id. Fam. 7, 27, 2; 7, 33, 1; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14:

    aliquem nihil putare,

    to esteem meanly, Cic. Sest. 53, 114 (B. and K. nihili):

    accepimus eum nihil hominis esse,

    a worthless fellow, id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77; but de Attio Dionysio nihil puto esse, nothing about him, i. e. no news of him, id. Fam. 12, 30, 5.—
    (υ).
    Aut nihil aut paulum, little or nothing (Gr. oligon ê ouden):

    aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna,

    Cat. 68, 131.—
    B.
    Adverb.
    1.
    Not (as a strengthened non), in nothing, in no respect, not at all:

    me nihil poenitet,

    Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 63; id. Mil. 4, 2, 16:

    conjecturā nihil opus est,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107; Ter. And. 4, 1, 14:

    beneficio isto legis nihil utitur,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 61:

    de fratre nihil ego te accusavi,

    id. Fam. 14, 1, 4:

    Thebani nihil moti sunt,

    Liv. 42, 46; 3, 65; 6, 38; 49; Sall. C. 16, 5:

    nihil miror,

    Quint. 2, 17, 15; 6, 1, 38.—
    2.
    To no purpose, in vain:

    herele hanc quidem Nihil tu amassis: mihi haec desponsa est,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 16.—
    3.
    For no reason: quorsum tandem aut cur ista quaeris? M Nihil sane, nisi ne nimis diligenter anquiras, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 4. —
    II.
    nĭhĭlum, i (contr. form nīlum, Lucr. 1, 159; Hor. S. 1, 5, 67), n., nothing:

    erit aliquid, quod aut ex nihilo oriatur, aut in nihilum subito occidat,

    Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37:

    ut de nihilo quippiam fiat,

    id. Fat. 9, 18:

    interire in nihilum,

    id. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

    venire ad nihilum,

    id. Fam. 11, 12, 1:

    ad nihilum recidere,

    id. Phil. 7, 8, 27: quam mihi ista pro nihilol id. Att. 14, 9, 1:

    aliquid pro nihilo putare,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 16, § 40.—
    (β).
    Nihili, of no value, worthless:

    quem putamus esse non hili, dicimus nihili,

    Varr. L. L. 10, § 81 Müll.; cf.: nihili, qui nec hili quidem est. Paul. ex Fest. p. 175 Müll.:

    unde is nihili? ubi fuisti?

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 29: nihili est autem suum Qui officium facere immemor est. id. Ps. 4, 7, 2:

    homo nihili factus,

    unmanned, id. Mil. 5, 16.—Hence, nihili pendere or facere, to esteem as nothing, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 4; id. Ps. 4, 7, 1; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 14.—
    (γ).
    De nihilo, for nothing, without cause or reason, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 17:

    mali rem exempli esse, de nihilo hospites corripi,

    Liv. 34, 61; 30, 29.—
    (δ).
    Nihilo, with compp., by nothing, no: nihilo pluris, quam si, etc., no more than if, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 21:

    nihilo minus,

    id. Men. 5, 5, 49:

    Phaedriae esse nilo minus amicum quam Antiphoni,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 7 (but minus nihilo, less than nothing, id. ib. 3, 3, 2):

    nihilo benevolentior,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4:

    nihilo major,

    id. ib. 6, 3, 4:

    nihilo tamen setius,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 4 and 7:

    nihil segnius,

    Liv. 6, 38.—Esp. as adv.: nĭhĭlō mĭnus, or, in one word, nĭhĭlōmĭnus, none the less, no less, nevertheless, notwith standing.
    1.
    In gen.:

    minus dolendum fuit re non perfectā, sed puniendum certe nihilo minus,

    Cic. Mil. 7, 19; id. Phil. 5, 9, 26; Quint. 8, 3, 85.—
    2.
    With si, etsi, quamvis, quamquam, ut, etc.:

    in iis rebus, quae nihilo minus, ut ego absim, confici possunt,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 2, 2:

    nihilo minus eloquentiae studendum est, etsi ea quidam perverse abutuntur,

    id. Inv. 1, 4, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17:

    alia sunt, quae quamvis nolit accidere, nihilominus laudat,

    Sen. Ep. 66, 44:

    si nihil fiet, nihilominus, etc.,

    Cato, R. R. 39, 2.—
    3.
    Strengthened by tamen:

    nihilominus ego hoc faciam tamen,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 10; Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17.—
    (ε).
    Nihilo aliter, no otherwise:

    ego isti nihilo sum aliter ac fui,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 45.—
    B.
    Transf., adverb., for non, not, by no means:

    nihilum metuenda timere,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 53. —
    III.
    nīl, nothing, no (rare and mostly poet.;

    in Cic. not at all): nil intra est oleam, nil extra est in nuce durum,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 31; id. C. 4, 4, 73:

    nil sanguinis,

    no drop of blood, Ov. M. 13, 266:

    nil sui,

    nothing proper, id. ib. 3, 435; Vulg. Prov. 10, 2 (in Caes. B. G. 5, 29, the true reading is nihil):

    hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade,

    such a trifle, Pers. 1, 122.—
    B.
    Transf. as adv., not at all, by no means:

    nil opus est verbis,

    Lucr. 5, 263:

    ut nil umor abundet,

    id. 5, 265; 1, 266:

    nil pictis timidus navita puppibus Fidit,

    Hor. C. 1, 14, 14.—
    IV.
    nīlum, abl. nīlo, nothing (Lucretian):

    ad nilum revorti,

    Lucr. 1, 237; so id. 1, 673; 791; 797; 2, 756;

    864: nil igitur fieri de nilo posse,

    id. 1, 205; 266.

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  • 15 nihilo minus

    nĭhil, or (ante-class. and post-Aug.) contr. nīl, n. indecl.; and nĭhĭlum, or contr. nīlum, i, n. [ne-hilum, not the least; v. hilum].
    I.
    nĭhil, nothing:

    nihil est agriculturā melius, nihil uberius,

    Cic. Off. 1, 42, 151:

    de re publicā nihil loquebantur,

    id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 4.—
    (β).
    Nihil agere, to accomplish nothing:

    nil agis,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 134:

    nihil agis dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61:

    nihil ergo agebat Q. Maximus? nihil L. Paulus? ceteri senes nihil agebant?

    id. Sen. 6, 15; id. Rosc. Am. 45, 131; Hor. S. 1, 9, 15; Luc. 7, 809; Vell. 2, 66, 3.—In like manner, nihil per aliquem (sc. agere):

    nihil per Senatum, multa et magna per populum et absente populo et invito,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6; Tac. Agr. 19.—
    (γ).
    Of persons:

    victor, quo nihil erat moderatius,

    Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 2:

    ita tibi persuadeas, mihi te carius nihil fuisse,

    id. ib. 14, 3, 5:

    nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

    id. Part. 17, 57; Tac. H. 1, 79; Nep. Alcib. 1, 1.—
    (δ).
    Nihil, nec.. nec (without destroying the negation):

    nihil me nec subterfugere voluisse reticendo, nec obscurare dicendo,

    Cic. Clu. 1, 1; v. neque.—
    (ε).
    Nihil non, everything:

    nihil non ad rationem dirigebat,

    Cic. Brut. 37, 140:

    nihil non arroget armis,

    Hor. A. P. 122; Nep. Att. 19, 3.—
    (ζ).
    Non nihil and haud nihil, something, somewhat:

    non nihil, ut in tantis malis, est profectum,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 2, 2:

    non nihil me consolatur, cum recordor,

    id. ib. 4, 14, 2:

    haud nihil,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 13:

    haud nihil ambigam,

    I may be somewhat in doubt, Liv. 1, 3.—
    (η).
    Nihil quidquam or nihil unum, nothing whatever, nothing at all:

    nil ego tibi hodie consili quicquam dabo,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 113:

    sine studio nihil quidquam egregium nemo umquam assequetur,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 30, 134:

    Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis dona dedit,

    Liv. 41, 20, 7:

    si nihil aliud,

    if there were nothing else, id. 3, 19, 7; 30, 35, 8.—
    (θ).
    With gen.:

    nihil mali,

    Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:

    nihil novi,

    id. Fam. 2, 14, 1:

    nihil humanarum rerum,

    id. Red. Quir. 5, 1:

    nihil est lucri quod me hodie facere mavelim, quam,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 18.—Adjectives also, of the second declension as well as of the third, are not unfrequently joined to nihil in the same case, as nihil honestum, lautum, forte, illustre:

    nihil exspectatione vestrā dignum dico,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 137.—
    (ι).
    Nihil, or mhil aliud, with nisi, quam, praeter, praeterquam, etc., nothing else than, nothing except, nothing but:

    tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40:

    amare nihil aliud est, nisi eum ipsum diligere, quem ames,

    Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

    si nihil aliud fecerunt, nisi rem detulerunt, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 37, 108:

    ut nihil aliud, quam de hoste cogitet,

    id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:

    nihil tibi deest praeter voluntatem,

    nothing except, id. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

    puto te existimare, me ex his miseriis nihil aliud quaerere, nisi ut homines intellegant, etc.,

    id. ib. 2, 16:

    qui nihil praeterquam de vitā cogitarent, Auct. B. Alex. 8.—Sometimes, in this connection, elliptically: Herdonius, si nihil aliud, hostem se fatendo prope denuntiavit, ut, etc.,

    Liv. 3, 19, 6:

    si nihil aliud, vulneribus certe ferrum hostile hebetarent,

    id. 30, 35, 8:

    illā quidem nocte nihil praeterquam vigilatum est in urbe,

    id. 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 83.—Hence, as adv.: nihil aliud quam, only:

    nihil aliud quam prendere prohibito,

    Liv. 2, 29, 4:

    is intromissus in castra nihil aliud quam hoc narrāsse fertur,

    id. 2, 32, 8:

    nihil aliud quam in populationibus res fuit,

    id. 2, 49, 9 al. —
    (κ).
    Nihil... quin or quominus, nothing whereby: nihil praetermisi... quin Pompeium a Caesaris conjunctione avocarem, I have omitted nothing that might separate, Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 23:

    nihil moror, quominus decemviratu abeam,

    Liv. 3, 54:

    nihil facere oportet, quominus excedat, etc.,

    Cels. 3, 27, 4.—
    (λ).
    Nihil est quod, cur, quamobrem, etc., there is no reason why I ( you, etc.) need not:

    nihil est jam, quod tu mihi succenseas,

    Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 46:

    nihil est, quod adventum nostrum extimescas,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 4:

    sed ego nunc nil est, cur me morer,

    Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 102:

    nihil est, cur advenientibus te offerre gestias,

    Cic. Fam. 6, 20, 1:

    nihil excogitem, quamobrem Oppianico damnari necesse sit?

    id. Clu. 26, 70.—
    (μ).
    Nihil est, ut, there is nothing that:

    nihil fuit in Catulis, ut eos exquisito judicio putares uti litterarum,

    Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133.—
    (ν).
    Nihil est, it is of no use, to no purpose, in vain:

    at ego ab hac puerum reposcam, ne mox infitias eat. Nihil est. Nam ipsa haec ultro, ut factum est, fecit omnem rem palam,

    Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 76: at nihil est, ignotum ad illum mittere: operam luseris. id. Capt. 2, 2, 94; Hor. S. 2, 3, 6.—In a question:

    usque adeo nihil est, quod nostra infantia caelum hausit Aventini?

    Juv. 3, 84.—
    (ο).
    Nihil ad me (sc. pertinet):

    recte an secus, nihil ad nos: aut si ad nos, nihil ad hoc tempus,

    Cic. Pis. 28, 68; cf. Ter. And. 1, 2, 16; also, nihil ad, nothing to, nothing in comparison with:

    nihil ad Persium,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 25; id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:

    nihil ad tuum equitatum, Caesar, sed ex eis, quos habuit, electos,

    id. Deiot. 8, 24.—
    (π).
    Nihil minus, nothing less so, i. e. by no means, not at all:

    cadit ergo in virum bonum mentiri, fallere? nihil minus,

    Cic. Off. 3, 20, 81:

    an Gallos existimatis hic versari animo demisso atque humili? nihil vero minus,

    id. Font. 11, 23.—
    (ρ).
    Nihil dum, nothing as yet:

    quamquam nihil dum audieramus, nec ubi esses, nec, etc.,

    Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 2; id. Att. 7, 12, 4.—
    (σ).
    Nihil mihi cum illo est, I have nothing to do with him:

    tecum nihil rei nobis Demipho est,

    Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 74; Ov. F 2, 308.—
    (τ).
    Nihil esse, to be nothing or nobody, to have no power, to be of no use, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 47; id. Fam. 7, 27, 2; 7, 33, 1; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14:

    aliquem nihil putare,

    to esteem meanly, Cic. Sest. 53, 114 (B. and K. nihili):

    accepimus eum nihil hominis esse,

    a worthless fellow, id. Tusc. 3, 32, 77; but de Attio Dionysio nihil puto esse, nothing about him, i. e. no news of him, id. Fam. 12, 30, 5.—
    (υ).
    Aut nihil aut paulum, little or nothing (Gr. oligon ê ouden):

    aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna,

    Cat. 68, 131.—
    B.
    Adverb.
    1.
    Not (as a strengthened non), in nothing, in no respect, not at all:

    me nihil poenitet,

    Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 63; id. Mil. 4, 2, 16:

    conjecturā nihil opus est,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 37, 107; Ter. And. 4, 1, 14:

    beneficio isto legis nihil utitur,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 61:

    de fratre nihil ego te accusavi,

    id. Fam. 14, 1, 4:

    Thebani nihil moti sunt,

    Liv. 42, 46; 3, 65; 6, 38; 49; Sall. C. 16, 5:

    nihil miror,

    Quint. 2, 17, 15; 6, 1, 38.—
    2.
    To no purpose, in vain:

    herele hanc quidem Nihil tu amassis: mihi haec desponsa est,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 16.—
    3.
    For no reason: quorsum tandem aut cur ista quaeris? M Nihil sane, nisi ne nimis diligenter anquiras, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 4. —
    II.
    nĭhĭlum, i (contr. form nīlum, Lucr. 1, 159; Hor. S. 1, 5, 67), n., nothing:

    erit aliquid, quod aut ex nihilo oriatur, aut in nihilum subito occidat,

    Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37:

    ut de nihilo quippiam fiat,

    id. Fat. 9, 18:

    interire in nihilum,

    id. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

    venire ad nihilum,

    id. Fam. 11, 12, 1:

    ad nihilum recidere,

    id. Phil. 7, 8, 27: quam mihi ista pro nihilol id. Att. 14, 9, 1:

    aliquid pro nihilo putare,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 16, § 40.—
    (β).
    Nihili, of no value, worthless:

    quem putamus esse non hili, dicimus nihili,

    Varr. L. L. 10, § 81 Müll.; cf.: nihili, qui nec hili quidem est. Paul. ex Fest. p. 175 Müll.:

    unde is nihili? ubi fuisti?

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 29: nihili est autem suum Qui officium facere immemor est. id. Ps. 4, 7, 2:

    homo nihili factus,

    unmanned, id. Mil. 5, 16.—Hence, nihili pendere or facere, to esteem as nothing, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 4; id. Ps. 4, 7, 1; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 14.—
    (γ).
    De nihilo, for nothing, without cause or reason, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 17:

    mali rem exempli esse, de nihilo hospites corripi,

    Liv. 34, 61; 30, 29.—
    (δ).
    Nihilo, with compp., by nothing, no: nihilo pluris, quam si, etc., no more than if, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 21:

    nihilo minus,

    id. Men. 5, 5, 49:

    Phaedriae esse nilo minus amicum quam Antiphoni,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 7 (but minus nihilo, less than nothing, id. ib. 3, 3, 2):

    nihilo benevolentior,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4:

    nihilo major,

    id. ib. 6, 3, 4:

    nihilo tamen setius,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 4 and 7:

    nihil segnius,

    Liv. 6, 38.—Esp. as adv.: nĭhĭlō mĭnus, or, in one word, nĭhĭlōmĭnus, none the less, no less, nevertheless, notwith standing.
    1.
    In gen.:

    minus dolendum fuit re non perfectā, sed puniendum certe nihilo minus,

    Cic. Mil. 7, 19; id. Phil. 5, 9, 26; Quint. 8, 3, 85.—
    2.
    With si, etsi, quamvis, quamquam, ut, etc.:

    in iis rebus, quae nihilo minus, ut ego absim, confici possunt,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 2, 2:

    nihilo minus eloquentiae studendum est, etsi ea quidam perverse abutuntur,

    id. Inv. 1, 4, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17:

    alia sunt, quae quamvis nolit accidere, nihilominus laudat,

    Sen. Ep. 66, 44:

    si nihil fiet, nihilominus, etc.,

    Cato, R. R. 39, 2.—
    3.
    Strengthened by tamen:

    nihilominus ego hoc faciam tamen,

    Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 10; Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 17.—
    (ε).
    Nihilo aliter, no otherwise:

    ego isti nihilo sum aliter ac fui,

    Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 45.—
    B.
    Transf., adverb., for non, not, by no means:

    nihilum metuenda timere,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 53. —
    III.
    nīl, nothing, no (rare and mostly poet.;

    in Cic. not at all): nil intra est oleam, nil extra est in nuce durum,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 31; id. C. 4, 4, 73:

    nil sanguinis,

    no drop of blood, Ov. M. 13, 266:

    nil sui,

    nothing proper, id. ib. 3, 435; Vulg. Prov. 10, 2 (in Caes. B. G. 5, 29, the true reading is nihil):

    hoc ridere meum, tam nil, nulla tibi vendo Iliade,

    such a trifle, Pers. 1, 122.—
    B.
    Transf. as adv., not at all, by no means:

    nil opus est verbis,

    Lucr. 5, 263:

    ut nil umor abundet,

    id. 5, 265; 1, 266:

    nil pictis timidus navita puppibus Fidit,

    Hor. C. 1, 14, 14.—
    IV.
    nīlum, abl. nīlo, nothing (Lucretian):

    ad nilum revorti,

    Lucr. 1, 237; so id. 1, 673; 791; 797; 2, 756;

    864: nil igitur fieri de nilo posse,

    id. 1, 205; 266.

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  • 16 submisse

    sum-mitto ( subm-), mīsi, missum, 3, v. a.
    I.
    With the force of sub predominating (mostly poet. and in post- Aug. prose; cf. subicio).
    1.
    In gen.
    a.
    To set, put, or place under or below:

    singuli agni binis nutricibus submittuntur: nec quicquam subtrahi submissis expedit,

    Col. 7, 4, 3:

    vaccas tauris (for breeding),

    Pall. Jul. 4:

    vaccas in feturam,

    id. ib. 4, 1:

    equas alternis annis,

    id. Mart. 13, 6:

    canterium vitibus,

    Col. 4, 14, 1.—
    b.
    To send or put forth below, or from below, to cause to spring forth, to send up, produce, raise:

    tellus submittit flores,

    puls forth, produces, Lucr. 1, 8: fetus (tellus), id. 1, 193:

    pabula pascendis equis (tellus),

    Luc. 4, 411:

    quo colores (humus formosa),

    Prop. 1, 2, 9; cf. poet.: non monstrum summisere Colchi Majus, did not produce (from the sowing of the dragon's teeth), Hor. C. 4, 4, 63:

    summissas tendunt alta ad Capitolia dextras,

    upraised, Sil. 12, 640; so,

    palmas,

    id. 4, 411:

    manus,

    Sen. Oedip. 226; cf.

    in a Gr. construction: summissi palmas,

    Sil. 1, 673.—
    2.
    In partic., an econom. t. t., of animals or plants, to bring up, rear, raise; to let grow, not kill or cut off (cf. alo):

    arictes,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 18; 2, 3, 4; 2, 3, 8:

    tauros,

    Verg. E. 1, 46:

    pullos equorum,

    id. G. 3, 73:

    vitulos,

    id. ib. 3, 159; Col. 7, 9, 4; Dig. 7, 1, 70:

    materiam vitis constituendae causā,

    Col. Arb. 5, 1:

    frutices in semen,

    id. ib. 11, 3, 36; 4, 31, 2; 4, 14, 3;

    3, 10, 15: prata in faenum,

    to let grow for hay, Cato, R. R. 8, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 49, 1; Col. 11, 2, 27.—
    3.
    Trop.
    (α).
    To put in the place of, substitute for, supersede (rare):

    huic vos non summittetis? hunc diutius manere patiemini?

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8:

    interim tamen, quamdiu summittantur et suppleantur capita quae demortua sunt,

    Dig. 7, 1, 70, § 1:

    necesse habebit alios fetus summittere,

    ib. 7, 1, 70, §§ 2 and 5.—
    (β).
    To cherish, court:

    aetatem omnem in stipite conteres submittendo,

    Amm. 14, 6, 13.—
    B.
    To let down, lower, sink, drop, = demittere (class. and freq., esp. in the trop. sense).
    1.
    Lit.:

    se ad pedes,

    Liv. 45, 7:

    se patri ad genua,

    Suet. Tib. 20:

    latus in herbā,

    Ov. M. 3, 23:

    caput in herbā,

    id. ib. 3, 502; cf.

    verticem,

    id. ib. 8, 638:

    genu,

    id. ib. 4, 340; Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 3; cf.:

    poplitem in terrā,

    Ov. M. 7, 191:

    aures (opp. surrigere),

    Plin. 10, 48, 67, § 132:

    oculos,

    Ov. F. 3, 372:

    faciem,

    Suet. Calig. 36; cf. id. Aug. 79:

    fasces,

    Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 112; cf. Cic. Brut. 6, 22:

    capillum,

    to let grow, Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 14; Sen. Cons. ad Pol. 36, 5:

    crinem barbamque,

    Tac. G. 31; Suet. Caes. 67; id. Aug. 23; id. Calig. 47.—Mid.:

    Tiberis aestate summittitur,

    sinks, falls, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 12.—
    2.
    Trop., to lower, let down, make lower, reduce, moderate, etc.:

    ut ii, qui superiores sunt, summittere se debent in amicitiā: sic quodammodo inferiores extollere,

    condescend, Cic. Lael. 20, 72:

    tributim summisi me et supplicavi,

    id. Planc. 10, 24:

    summittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium,

    Liv. 38, 52, 2:

    summittere se in privatum fastigium,

    id. 27, 31, 6:

    ut in actoribus Graecis fieri videmus, saepe illum, qui est secundarum aut tertiarum partium, cum possit aliquanto clarius dicere, quam ipse primarium, multum summittere, ut ille princeps quam maxime excellat,

    to moderate his efforts, restrain himself, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 48:

    inceptum frustra submitte furorem,

    Verg. A. 12, 832: orationem tam summittere quam attollere decet, to sink, i. e. speak in a plain style, Plin. Ep. 3, 13, 4:

    ut illud lene aut ascendit ad fortiora aut ad tenuiora summittitur,

    Quint. 12, 10, 67; cf.:

    quando attollenda vel summittenda sit vox,

    id. 1, 8, 1:

    (soni) cum intentione summittendā sunt temperandi,

    id. 11, 3, 42: (praeceptorem) summittentem se ad mensuram discentis, accommodating his instructions to the capacity, etc., id. 2, 3, 7:

    ad calamitates animos,

    to submit, bow, Liv. 23, 25: animum periculo, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 3:

    animos amori,

    to surrender, Verg. A. 4, 414:

    se temporibus,

    Sen. Tranq. An. 4, 1:

    verba summittere,

    to speak humbly, id. Ep. 11, 7; id. Vit. Beat. 17, 1:

    alicui se,

    to yield precedence, Just. 13, 2, 3:

    se culpae,

    i. e. to commit, Ov. H. 4, 151:

    furorem,

    to put down, quell, Verg. A. 12, 832:

    neque enim pudor sed aemuli pretia submittunt,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 21:

    proinde ne submiseris te,

    be not disheartened, Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6.—With dat.:

    nimis videtur submisisse temporibus se Athenodorus,

    yielded, Sen. Tranq. An. 4, 1:

    neutri fortunae se submittere,

    id. Ep. 66, 6:

    animum saevienti fortunae,

    Tac. A. 2, 72:

    ut ei aliquis se submitteret,

    accept his sovereignty, Just. 13, 2, 3.
    II.
    The signif. of the verb predominating, to send or despatch secretly, provide secretly:

    summittebat iste Timarchidem, qui moneret eos, si, etc.,

    secretly despatched, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69.— Absol.:

    iste ad pupillae matrem summittebat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 105:

    summissis consularibus viris, qui peierarent,

    suborned, Suet. Ner. 28 init. —
    B.
    In gen., to send, send off, despatch, supply (class.):

    summittit cohortes equitibus praesidio,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 58:

    subsidium alicui,

    id. ib. 2, 6; so,

    subsidium,

    id. ib. 2, 25; 4, 26; id. B. C. 1, 43:

    auxilium laborantibus,

    id. ib. 7, 85: quoad exercitus huc summittatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 6; Juv. 1, 36:

    sibi destinatum in animo esse, imperium alicui,

    to transfer, resign, Liv. 6, 6, 7:

    vinea summittit capreas non semper edules,

    furnishes, supplies, Hor. S. 2, 4, 43. —Hence, summissus ( subm-), a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.).
    A.
    Lit., let down, lowered, low (very rare):

    scutis super capita densatis, stantibus primis, secundis submissioribus,

    stooping lower, Liv. 44, 9, 6:

    Caelicolae Summisso humiles intrarunt vertice postes,

    Ov. M. 8, 638:

    bracchia,

    id. P. 3, 1, 150; Col. 6, 30, 5:

    capillo summissiore,

    hanging lower down, Suet. Tib. 68:

    purpura,

    Quint. 11, 3, 159:

    oculi,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145.—
    B.
    Trop. (class. and freq.).
    1.
    Of the voice or of speech in gen., low, soft, gentle, calm, not vehement (syn.:

    lenis, suppressus): et contentā voce atrociter dicere et summissa leniter,

    Cic. Or. 17, 56:

    vox (with lenis),

    Quint. 11, 3, 63; Ov. M. 7, 90 al.:

    murmur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 45:

    oratio placida, summissa, lenis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 183; so,

    oratio,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 19; Quint. 11, 1, 9. — Comp.:

    lenior atque summissior oratio,

    Quint. 11, 1, 64:

    (sermo) miscens elata summissis,

    id. 11, 3, 43:

    actio,

    id. 7, 4, 27. — Transf., of an orator:

    forma summissi oratoris,

    Cic. Or. 26, 90; so (with humilis) id. ib. 23, 76:

    in prooemiis plerumque summissi,

    Quint. 9, 4, 138.—
    2.
    Of character or disposition.
    a.
    In a bad sense, low, mean, grovelling, abject (syn. abjectus):

    videndum est, ne quid humile, summissum, molle, effeminatum, fractum abjectumque faciamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 30, 64:

    vivere neque summissum et abjectum, neque se efferentem,

    id. Off. 1, 34, 124:

    adulatio,

    Quint. 11, 1, 30. —
    b.
    In a good sense, humble, submissive (syn.:

    humilis, supplex): submissi petimus terram,

    Verg. A. 3, 93:

    causae reorum,

    Quint. 11, 3, 154:

    civitates calamitate summissiores,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 31, 2:

    preces,

    Luc. 8, 594; cf.:

    summissa precatur,

    Val. Fl. 7, 476:

    tristem viro summissus honorem Largitur vitae,

    yielding, overcome, Stat. Th. 1, 662.—The sup. seems not to occur.—Hence, subst.: summissa, ōrum, n. (acc. to I. A. 3. supra), substitutes (sc. capita), Dig. 7, 1, 70, § 5. —
    2.
    (Sc. verba.) Calm passages, quiet sayings:

    summissa, qualia in epilogis sunt,

    Quint. 9, 4, 137.— Adv.: sum-missē ( subm-).
    1.
    Of speech, softly, gently, calmly, not loudly or harshly:

    dicere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 215.— Comp., Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 212 (opp. contentius):

    sciscitari,

    Petr. 105 fin. —
    2.
    Of character, calmly, quietly, modestly, humbly, submissively:

    alicui summisse supplicare,

    Cic. Planc. 5, 12:

    scribere alicui,

    Tac. H. 3, 9 fin.:

    loqui (opp. aspere),

    Quint. 6, 5, 5:

    agere (opp. minanter),

    Ov. A. A. 3, 582.— Comp.:

    summissius se gerere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90:

    dolere,

    Claud. B. Gild. 247.—No sup.

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  • 17 submitto

    sum-mitto ( subm-), mīsi, missum, 3, v. a.
    I.
    With the force of sub predominating (mostly poet. and in post- Aug. prose; cf. subicio).
    1.
    In gen.
    a.
    To set, put, or place under or below:

    singuli agni binis nutricibus submittuntur: nec quicquam subtrahi submissis expedit,

    Col. 7, 4, 3:

    vaccas tauris (for breeding),

    Pall. Jul. 4:

    vaccas in feturam,

    id. ib. 4, 1:

    equas alternis annis,

    id. Mart. 13, 6:

    canterium vitibus,

    Col. 4, 14, 1.—
    b.
    To send or put forth below, or from below, to cause to spring forth, to send up, produce, raise:

    tellus submittit flores,

    puls forth, produces, Lucr. 1, 8: fetus (tellus), id. 1, 193:

    pabula pascendis equis (tellus),

    Luc. 4, 411:

    quo colores (humus formosa),

    Prop. 1, 2, 9; cf. poet.: non monstrum summisere Colchi Majus, did not produce (from the sowing of the dragon's teeth), Hor. C. 4, 4, 63:

    summissas tendunt alta ad Capitolia dextras,

    upraised, Sil. 12, 640; so,

    palmas,

    id. 4, 411:

    manus,

    Sen. Oedip. 226; cf.

    in a Gr. construction: summissi palmas,

    Sil. 1, 673.—
    2.
    In partic., an econom. t. t., of animals or plants, to bring up, rear, raise; to let grow, not kill or cut off (cf. alo):

    arictes,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 18; 2, 3, 4; 2, 3, 8:

    tauros,

    Verg. E. 1, 46:

    pullos equorum,

    id. G. 3, 73:

    vitulos,

    id. ib. 3, 159; Col. 7, 9, 4; Dig. 7, 1, 70:

    materiam vitis constituendae causā,

    Col. Arb. 5, 1:

    frutices in semen,

    id. ib. 11, 3, 36; 4, 31, 2; 4, 14, 3;

    3, 10, 15: prata in faenum,

    to let grow for hay, Cato, R. R. 8, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 49, 1; Col. 11, 2, 27.—
    3.
    Trop.
    (α).
    To put in the place of, substitute for, supersede (rare):

    huic vos non summittetis? hunc diutius manere patiemini?

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8:

    interim tamen, quamdiu summittantur et suppleantur capita quae demortua sunt,

    Dig. 7, 1, 70, § 1:

    necesse habebit alios fetus summittere,

    ib. 7, 1, 70, §§ 2 and 5.—
    (β).
    To cherish, court:

    aetatem omnem in stipite conteres submittendo,

    Amm. 14, 6, 13.—
    B.
    To let down, lower, sink, drop, = demittere (class. and freq., esp. in the trop. sense).
    1.
    Lit.:

    se ad pedes,

    Liv. 45, 7:

    se patri ad genua,

    Suet. Tib. 20:

    latus in herbā,

    Ov. M. 3, 23:

    caput in herbā,

    id. ib. 3, 502; cf.

    verticem,

    id. ib. 8, 638:

    genu,

    id. ib. 4, 340; Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 3; cf.:

    poplitem in terrā,

    Ov. M. 7, 191:

    aures (opp. surrigere),

    Plin. 10, 48, 67, § 132:

    oculos,

    Ov. F. 3, 372:

    faciem,

    Suet. Calig. 36; cf. id. Aug. 79:

    fasces,

    Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 112; cf. Cic. Brut. 6, 22:

    capillum,

    to let grow, Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 14; Sen. Cons. ad Pol. 36, 5:

    crinem barbamque,

    Tac. G. 31; Suet. Caes. 67; id. Aug. 23; id. Calig. 47.—Mid.:

    Tiberis aestate summittitur,

    sinks, falls, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 12.—
    2.
    Trop., to lower, let down, make lower, reduce, moderate, etc.:

    ut ii, qui superiores sunt, summittere se debent in amicitiā: sic quodammodo inferiores extollere,

    condescend, Cic. Lael. 20, 72:

    tributim summisi me et supplicavi,

    id. Planc. 10, 24:

    summittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium,

    Liv. 38, 52, 2:

    summittere se in privatum fastigium,

    id. 27, 31, 6:

    ut in actoribus Graecis fieri videmus, saepe illum, qui est secundarum aut tertiarum partium, cum possit aliquanto clarius dicere, quam ipse primarium, multum summittere, ut ille princeps quam maxime excellat,

    to moderate his efforts, restrain himself, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 48:

    inceptum frustra submitte furorem,

    Verg. A. 12, 832: orationem tam summittere quam attollere decet, to sink, i. e. speak in a plain style, Plin. Ep. 3, 13, 4:

    ut illud lene aut ascendit ad fortiora aut ad tenuiora summittitur,

    Quint. 12, 10, 67; cf.:

    quando attollenda vel summittenda sit vox,

    id. 1, 8, 1:

    (soni) cum intentione summittendā sunt temperandi,

    id. 11, 3, 42: (praeceptorem) summittentem se ad mensuram discentis, accommodating his instructions to the capacity, etc., id. 2, 3, 7:

    ad calamitates animos,

    to submit, bow, Liv. 23, 25: animum periculo, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 3:

    animos amori,

    to surrender, Verg. A. 4, 414:

    se temporibus,

    Sen. Tranq. An. 4, 1:

    verba summittere,

    to speak humbly, id. Ep. 11, 7; id. Vit. Beat. 17, 1:

    alicui se,

    to yield precedence, Just. 13, 2, 3:

    se culpae,

    i. e. to commit, Ov. H. 4, 151:

    furorem,

    to put down, quell, Verg. A. 12, 832:

    neque enim pudor sed aemuli pretia submittunt,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 21:

    proinde ne submiseris te,

    be not disheartened, Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6.—With dat.:

    nimis videtur submisisse temporibus se Athenodorus,

    yielded, Sen. Tranq. An. 4, 1:

    neutri fortunae se submittere,

    id. Ep. 66, 6:

    animum saevienti fortunae,

    Tac. A. 2, 72:

    ut ei aliquis se submitteret,

    accept his sovereignty, Just. 13, 2, 3.
    II.
    The signif. of the verb predominating, to send or despatch secretly, provide secretly:

    summittebat iste Timarchidem, qui moneret eos, si, etc.,

    secretly despatched, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69.— Absol.:

    iste ad pupillae matrem summittebat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 105:

    summissis consularibus viris, qui peierarent,

    suborned, Suet. Ner. 28 init. —
    B.
    In gen., to send, send off, despatch, supply (class.):

    summittit cohortes equitibus praesidio,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 58:

    subsidium alicui,

    id. ib. 2, 6; so,

    subsidium,

    id. ib. 2, 25; 4, 26; id. B. C. 1, 43:

    auxilium laborantibus,

    id. ib. 7, 85: quoad exercitus huc summittatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 6; Juv. 1, 36:

    sibi destinatum in animo esse, imperium alicui,

    to transfer, resign, Liv. 6, 6, 7:

    vinea summittit capreas non semper edules,

    furnishes, supplies, Hor. S. 2, 4, 43. —Hence, summissus ( subm-), a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.).
    A.
    Lit., let down, lowered, low (very rare):

    scutis super capita densatis, stantibus primis, secundis submissioribus,

    stooping lower, Liv. 44, 9, 6:

    Caelicolae Summisso humiles intrarunt vertice postes,

    Ov. M. 8, 638:

    bracchia,

    id. P. 3, 1, 150; Col. 6, 30, 5:

    capillo summissiore,

    hanging lower down, Suet. Tib. 68:

    purpura,

    Quint. 11, 3, 159:

    oculi,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145.—
    B.
    Trop. (class. and freq.).
    1.
    Of the voice or of speech in gen., low, soft, gentle, calm, not vehement (syn.:

    lenis, suppressus): et contentā voce atrociter dicere et summissa leniter,

    Cic. Or. 17, 56:

    vox (with lenis),

    Quint. 11, 3, 63; Ov. M. 7, 90 al.:

    murmur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 45:

    oratio placida, summissa, lenis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 183; so,

    oratio,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 19; Quint. 11, 1, 9. — Comp.:

    lenior atque summissior oratio,

    Quint. 11, 1, 64:

    (sermo) miscens elata summissis,

    id. 11, 3, 43:

    actio,

    id. 7, 4, 27. — Transf., of an orator:

    forma summissi oratoris,

    Cic. Or. 26, 90; so (with humilis) id. ib. 23, 76:

    in prooemiis plerumque summissi,

    Quint. 9, 4, 138.—
    2.
    Of character or disposition.
    a.
    In a bad sense, low, mean, grovelling, abject (syn. abjectus):

    videndum est, ne quid humile, summissum, molle, effeminatum, fractum abjectumque faciamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 30, 64:

    vivere neque summissum et abjectum, neque se efferentem,

    id. Off. 1, 34, 124:

    adulatio,

    Quint. 11, 1, 30. —
    b.
    In a good sense, humble, submissive (syn.:

    humilis, supplex): submissi petimus terram,

    Verg. A. 3, 93:

    causae reorum,

    Quint. 11, 3, 154:

    civitates calamitate summissiores,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 31, 2:

    preces,

    Luc. 8, 594; cf.:

    summissa precatur,

    Val. Fl. 7, 476:

    tristem viro summissus honorem Largitur vitae,

    yielding, overcome, Stat. Th. 1, 662.—The sup. seems not to occur.—Hence, subst.: summissa, ōrum, n. (acc. to I. A. 3. supra), substitutes (sc. capita), Dig. 7, 1, 70, § 5. —
    2.
    (Sc. verba.) Calm passages, quiet sayings:

    summissa, qualia in epilogis sunt,

    Quint. 9, 4, 137.— Adv.: sum-missē ( subm-).
    1.
    Of speech, softly, gently, calmly, not loudly or harshly:

    dicere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 215.— Comp., Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 212 (opp. contentius):

    sciscitari,

    Petr. 105 fin. —
    2.
    Of character, calmly, quietly, modestly, humbly, submissively:

    alicui summisse supplicare,

    Cic. Planc. 5, 12:

    scribere alicui,

    Tac. H. 3, 9 fin.:

    loqui (opp. aspere),

    Quint. 6, 5, 5:

    agere (opp. minanter),

    Ov. A. A. 3, 582.— Comp.:

    summissius se gerere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90:

    dolere,

    Claud. B. Gild. 247.—No sup.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > submitto

  • 18 summissa

    sum-mitto ( subm-), mīsi, missum, 3, v. a.
    I.
    With the force of sub predominating (mostly poet. and in post- Aug. prose; cf. subicio).
    1.
    In gen.
    a.
    To set, put, or place under or below:

    singuli agni binis nutricibus submittuntur: nec quicquam subtrahi submissis expedit,

    Col. 7, 4, 3:

    vaccas tauris (for breeding),

    Pall. Jul. 4:

    vaccas in feturam,

    id. ib. 4, 1:

    equas alternis annis,

    id. Mart. 13, 6:

    canterium vitibus,

    Col. 4, 14, 1.—
    b.
    To send or put forth below, or from below, to cause to spring forth, to send up, produce, raise:

    tellus submittit flores,

    puls forth, produces, Lucr. 1, 8: fetus (tellus), id. 1, 193:

    pabula pascendis equis (tellus),

    Luc. 4, 411:

    quo colores (humus formosa),

    Prop. 1, 2, 9; cf. poet.: non monstrum summisere Colchi Majus, did not produce (from the sowing of the dragon's teeth), Hor. C. 4, 4, 63:

    summissas tendunt alta ad Capitolia dextras,

    upraised, Sil. 12, 640; so,

    palmas,

    id. 4, 411:

    manus,

    Sen. Oedip. 226; cf.

    in a Gr. construction: summissi palmas,

    Sil. 1, 673.—
    2.
    In partic., an econom. t. t., of animals or plants, to bring up, rear, raise; to let grow, not kill or cut off (cf. alo):

    arictes,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 18; 2, 3, 4; 2, 3, 8:

    tauros,

    Verg. E. 1, 46:

    pullos equorum,

    id. G. 3, 73:

    vitulos,

    id. ib. 3, 159; Col. 7, 9, 4; Dig. 7, 1, 70:

    materiam vitis constituendae causā,

    Col. Arb. 5, 1:

    frutices in semen,

    id. ib. 11, 3, 36; 4, 31, 2; 4, 14, 3;

    3, 10, 15: prata in faenum,

    to let grow for hay, Cato, R. R. 8, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 49, 1; Col. 11, 2, 27.—
    3.
    Trop.
    (α).
    To put in the place of, substitute for, supersede (rare):

    huic vos non summittetis? hunc diutius manere patiemini?

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8:

    interim tamen, quamdiu summittantur et suppleantur capita quae demortua sunt,

    Dig. 7, 1, 70, § 1:

    necesse habebit alios fetus summittere,

    ib. 7, 1, 70, §§ 2 and 5.—
    (β).
    To cherish, court:

    aetatem omnem in stipite conteres submittendo,

    Amm. 14, 6, 13.—
    B.
    To let down, lower, sink, drop, = demittere (class. and freq., esp. in the trop. sense).
    1.
    Lit.:

    se ad pedes,

    Liv. 45, 7:

    se patri ad genua,

    Suet. Tib. 20:

    latus in herbā,

    Ov. M. 3, 23:

    caput in herbā,

    id. ib. 3, 502; cf.

    verticem,

    id. ib. 8, 638:

    genu,

    id. ib. 4, 340; Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 3; cf.:

    poplitem in terrā,

    Ov. M. 7, 191:

    aures (opp. surrigere),

    Plin. 10, 48, 67, § 132:

    oculos,

    Ov. F. 3, 372:

    faciem,

    Suet. Calig. 36; cf. id. Aug. 79:

    fasces,

    Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 112; cf. Cic. Brut. 6, 22:

    capillum,

    to let grow, Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 14; Sen. Cons. ad Pol. 36, 5:

    crinem barbamque,

    Tac. G. 31; Suet. Caes. 67; id. Aug. 23; id. Calig. 47.—Mid.:

    Tiberis aestate summittitur,

    sinks, falls, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 12.—
    2.
    Trop., to lower, let down, make lower, reduce, moderate, etc.:

    ut ii, qui superiores sunt, summittere se debent in amicitiā: sic quodammodo inferiores extollere,

    condescend, Cic. Lael. 20, 72:

    tributim summisi me et supplicavi,

    id. Planc. 10, 24:

    summittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium,

    Liv. 38, 52, 2:

    summittere se in privatum fastigium,

    id. 27, 31, 6:

    ut in actoribus Graecis fieri videmus, saepe illum, qui est secundarum aut tertiarum partium, cum possit aliquanto clarius dicere, quam ipse primarium, multum summittere, ut ille princeps quam maxime excellat,

    to moderate his efforts, restrain himself, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 48:

    inceptum frustra submitte furorem,

    Verg. A. 12, 832: orationem tam summittere quam attollere decet, to sink, i. e. speak in a plain style, Plin. Ep. 3, 13, 4:

    ut illud lene aut ascendit ad fortiora aut ad tenuiora summittitur,

    Quint. 12, 10, 67; cf.:

    quando attollenda vel summittenda sit vox,

    id. 1, 8, 1:

    (soni) cum intentione summittendā sunt temperandi,

    id. 11, 3, 42: (praeceptorem) summittentem se ad mensuram discentis, accommodating his instructions to the capacity, etc., id. 2, 3, 7:

    ad calamitates animos,

    to submit, bow, Liv. 23, 25: animum periculo, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 3:

    animos amori,

    to surrender, Verg. A. 4, 414:

    se temporibus,

    Sen. Tranq. An. 4, 1:

    verba summittere,

    to speak humbly, id. Ep. 11, 7; id. Vit. Beat. 17, 1:

    alicui se,

    to yield precedence, Just. 13, 2, 3:

    se culpae,

    i. e. to commit, Ov. H. 4, 151:

    furorem,

    to put down, quell, Verg. A. 12, 832:

    neque enim pudor sed aemuli pretia submittunt,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 21:

    proinde ne submiseris te,

    be not disheartened, Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6.—With dat.:

    nimis videtur submisisse temporibus se Athenodorus,

    yielded, Sen. Tranq. An. 4, 1:

    neutri fortunae se submittere,

    id. Ep. 66, 6:

    animum saevienti fortunae,

    Tac. A. 2, 72:

    ut ei aliquis se submitteret,

    accept his sovereignty, Just. 13, 2, 3.
    II.
    The signif. of the verb predominating, to send or despatch secretly, provide secretly:

    summittebat iste Timarchidem, qui moneret eos, si, etc.,

    secretly despatched, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69.— Absol.:

    iste ad pupillae matrem summittebat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 105:

    summissis consularibus viris, qui peierarent,

    suborned, Suet. Ner. 28 init. —
    B.
    In gen., to send, send off, despatch, supply (class.):

    summittit cohortes equitibus praesidio,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 58:

    subsidium alicui,

    id. ib. 2, 6; so,

    subsidium,

    id. ib. 2, 25; 4, 26; id. B. C. 1, 43:

    auxilium laborantibus,

    id. ib. 7, 85: quoad exercitus huc summittatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 6; Juv. 1, 36:

    sibi destinatum in animo esse, imperium alicui,

    to transfer, resign, Liv. 6, 6, 7:

    vinea summittit capreas non semper edules,

    furnishes, supplies, Hor. S. 2, 4, 43. —Hence, summissus ( subm-), a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.).
    A.
    Lit., let down, lowered, low (very rare):

    scutis super capita densatis, stantibus primis, secundis submissioribus,

    stooping lower, Liv. 44, 9, 6:

    Caelicolae Summisso humiles intrarunt vertice postes,

    Ov. M. 8, 638:

    bracchia,

    id. P. 3, 1, 150; Col. 6, 30, 5:

    capillo summissiore,

    hanging lower down, Suet. Tib. 68:

    purpura,

    Quint. 11, 3, 159:

    oculi,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145.—
    B.
    Trop. (class. and freq.).
    1.
    Of the voice or of speech in gen., low, soft, gentle, calm, not vehement (syn.:

    lenis, suppressus): et contentā voce atrociter dicere et summissa leniter,

    Cic. Or. 17, 56:

    vox (with lenis),

    Quint. 11, 3, 63; Ov. M. 7, 90 al.:

    murmur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 45:

    oratio placida, summissa, lenis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 183; so,

    oratio,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 19; Quint. 11, 1, 9. — Comp.:

    lenior atque summissior oratio,

    Quint. 11, 1, 64:

    (sermo) miscens elata summissis,

    id. 11, 3, 43:

    actio,

    id. 7, 4, 27. — Transf., of an orator:

    forma summissi oratoris,

    Cic. Or. 26, 90; so (with humilis) id. ib. 23, 76:

    in prooemiis plerumque summissi,

    Quint. 9, 4, 138.—
    2.
    Of character or disposition.
    a.
    In a bad sense, low, mean, grovelling, abject (syn. abjectus):

    videndum est, ne quid humile, summissum, molle, effeminatum, fractum abjectumque faciamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 30, 64:

    vivere neque summissum et abjectum, neque se efferentem,

    id. Off. 1, 34, 124:

    adulatio,

    Quint. 11, 1, 30. —
    b.
    In a good sense, humble, submissive (syn.:

    humilis, supplex): submissi petimus terram,

    Verg. A. 3, 93:

    causae reorum,

    Quint. 11, 3, 154:

    civitates calamitate summissiores,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 31, 2:

    preces,

    Luc. 8, 594; cf.:

    summissa precatur,

    Val. Fl. 7, 476:

    tristem viro summissus honorem Largitur vitae,

    yielding, overcome, Stat. Th. 1, 662.—The sup. seems not to occur.—Hence, subst.: summissa, ōrum, n. (acc. to I. A. 3. supra), substitutes (sc. capita), Dig. 7, 1, 70, § 5. —
    2.
    (Sc. verba.) Calm passages, quiet sayings:

    summissa, qualia in epilogis sunt,

    Quint. 9, 4, 137.— Adv.: sum-missē ( subm-).
    1.
    Of speech, softly, gently, calmly, not loudly or harshly:

    dicere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 215.— Comp., Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 212 (opp. contentius):

    sciscitari,

    Petr. 105 fin. —
    2.
    Of character, calmly, quietly, modestly, humbly, submissively:

    alicui summisse supplicare,

    Cic. Planc. 5, 12:

    scribere alicui,

    Tac. H. 3, 9 fin.:

    loqui (opp. aspere),

    Quint. 6, 5, 5:

    agere (opp. minanter),

    Ov. A. A. 3, 582.— Comp.:

    summissius se gerere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90:

    dolere,

    Claud. B. Gild. 247.—No sup.

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  • 19 summitto

    sum-mitto ( subm-), mīsi, missum, 3, v. a.
    I.
    With the force of sub predominating (mostly poet. and in post- Aug. prose; cf. subicio).
    1.
    In gen.
    a.
    To set, put, or place under or below:

    singuli agni binis nutricibus submittuntur: nec quicquam subtrahi submissis expedit,

    Col. 7, 4, 3:

    vaccas tauris (for breeding),

    Pall. Jul. 4:

    vaccas in feturam,

    id. ib. 4, 1:

    equas alternis annis,

    id. Mart. 13, 6:

    canterium vitibus,

    Col. 4, 14, 1.—
    b.
    To send or put forth below, or from below, to cause to spring forth, to send up, produce, raise:

    tellus submittit flores,

    puls forth, produces, Lucr. 1, 8: fetus (tellus), id. 1, 193:

    pabula pascendis equis (tellus),

    Luc. 4, 411:

    quo colores (humus formosa),

    Prop. 1, 2, 9; cf. poet.: non monstrum summisere Colchi Majus, did not produce (from the sowing of the dragon's teeth), Hor. C. 4, 4, 63:

    summissas tendunt alta ad Capitolia dextras,

    upraised, Sil. 12, 640; so,

    palmas,

    id. 4, 411:

    manus,

    Sen. Oedip. 226; cf.

    in a Gr. construction: summissi palmas,

    Sil. 1, 673.—
    2.
    In partic., an econom. t. t., of animals or plants, to bring up, rear, raise; to let grow, not kill or cut off (cf. alo):

    arictes,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 18; 2, 3, 4; 2, 3, 8:

    tauros,

    Verg. E. 1, 46:

    pullos equorum,

    id. G. 3, 73:

    vitulos,

    id. ib. 3, 159; Col. 7, 9, 4; Dig. 7, 1, 70:

    materiam vitis constituendae causā,

    Col. Arb. 5, 1:

    frutices in semen,

    id. ib. 11, 3, 36; 4, 31, 2; 4, 14, 3;

    3, 10, 15: prata in faenum,

    to let grow for hay, Cato, R. R. 8, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 49, 1; Col. 11, 2, 27.—
    3.
    Trop.
    (α).
    To put in the place of, substitute for, supersede (rare):

    huic vos non summittetis? hunc diutius manere patiemini?

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 4, 8:

    interim tamen, quamdiu summittantur et suppleantur capita quae demortua sunt,

    Dig. 7, 1, 70, § 1:

    necesse habebit alios fetus summittere,

    ib. 7, 1, 70, §§ 2 and 5.—
    (β).
    To cherish, court:

    aetatem omnem in stipite conteres submittendo,

    Amm. 14, 6, 13.—
    B.
    To let down, lower, sink, drop, = demittere (class. and freq., esp. in the trop. sense).
    1.
    Lit.:

    se ad pedes,

    Liv. 45, 7:

    se patri ad genua,

    Suet. Tib. 20:

    latus in herbā,

    Ov. M. 3, 23:

    caput in herbā,

    id. ib. 3, 502; cf.

    verticem,

    id. ib. 8, 638:

    genu,

    id. ib. 4, 340; Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 3; cf.:

    poplitem in terrā,

    Ov. M. 7, 191:

    aures (opp. surrigere),

    Plin. 10, 48, 67, § 132:

    oculos,

    Ov. F. 3, 372:

    faciem,

    Suet. Calig. 36; cf. id. Aug. 79:

    fasces,

    Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 112; cf. Cic. Brut. 6, 22:

    capillum,

    to let grow, Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 14; Sen. Cons. ad Pol. 36, 5:

    crinem barbamque,

    Tac. G. 31; Suet. Caes. 67; id. Aug. 23; id. Calig. 47.—Mid.:

    Tiberis aestate summittitur,

    sinks, falls, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 12.—
    2.
    Trop., to lower, let down, make lower, reduce, moderate, etc.:

    ut ii, qui superiores sunt, summittere se debent in amicitiā: sic quodammodo inferiores extollere,

    condescend, Cic. Lael. 20, 72:

    tributim summisi me et supplicavi,

    id. Planc. 10, 24:

    summittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium,

    Liv. 38, 52, 2:

    summittere se in privatum fastigium,

    id. 27, 31, 6:

    ut in actoribus Graecis fieri videmus, saepe illum, qui est secundarum aut tertiarum partium, cum possit aliquanto clarius dicere, quam ipse primarium, multum summittere, ut ille princeps quam maxime excellat,

    to moderate his efforts, restrain himself, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 48:

    inceptum frustra submitte furorem,

    Verg. A. 12, 832: orationem tam summittere quam attollere decet, to sink, i. e. speak in a plain style, Plin. Ep. 3, 13, 4:

    ut illud lene aut ascendit ad fortiora aut ad tenuiora summittitur,

    Quint. 12, 10, 67; cf.:

    quando attollenda vel summittenda sit vox,

    id. 1, 8, 1:

    (soni) cum intentione summittendā sunt temperandi,

    id. 11, 3, 42: (praeceptorem) summittentem se ad mensuram discentis, accommodating his instructions to the capacity, etc., id. 2, 3, 7:

    ad calamitates animos,

    to submit, bow, Liv. 23, 25: animum periculo, Brut. et Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 3:

    animos amori,

    to surrender, Verg. A. 4, 414:

    se temporibus,

    Sen. Tranq. An. 4, 1:

    verba summittere,

    to speak humbly, id. Ep. 11, 7; id. Vit. Beat. 17, 1:

    alicui se,

    to yield precedence, Just. 13, 2, 3:

    se culpae,

    i. e. to commit, Ov. H. 4, 151:

    furorem,

    to put down, quell, Verg. A. 12, 832:

    neque enim pudor sed aemuli pretia submittunt,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 21:

    proinde ne submiseris te,

    be not disheartened, Sen. Cons. Marc. 5, 6.—With dat.:

    nimis videtur submisisse temporibus se Athenodorus,

    yielded, Sen. Tranq. An. 4, 1:

    neutri fortunae se submittere,

    id. Ep. 66, 6:

    animum saevienti fortunae,

    Tac. A. 2, 72:

    ut ei aliquis se submitteret,

    accept his sovereignty, Just. 13, 2, 3.
    II.
    The signif. of the verb predominating, to send or despatch secretly, provide secretly:

    summittebat iste Timarchidem, qui moneret eos, si, etc.,

    secretly despatched, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69.— Absol.:

    iste ad pupillae matrem summittebat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 105:

    summissis consularibus viris, qui peierarent,

    suborned, Suet. Ner. 28 init. —
    B.
    In gen., to send, send off, despatch, supply (class.):

    summittit cohortes equitibus praesidio,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 58:

    subsidium alicui,

    id. ib. 2, 6; so,

    subsidium,

    id. ib. 2, 25; 4, 26; id. B. C. 1, 43:

    auxilium laborantibus,

    id. ib. 7, 85: quoad exercitus huc summittatis, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 6; Juv. 1, 36:

    sibi destinatum in animo esse, imperium alicui,

    to transfer, resign, Liv. 6, 6, 7:

    vinea summittit capreas non semper edules,

    furnishes, supplies, Hor. S. 2, 4, 43. —Hence, summissus ( subm-), a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.).
    A.
    Lit., let down, lowered, low (very rare):

    scutis super capita densatis, stantibus primis, secundis submissioribus,

    stooping lower, Liv. 44, 9, 6:

    Caelicolae Summisso humiles intrarunt vertice postes,

    Ov. M. 8, 638:

    bracchia,

    id. P. 3, 1, 150; Col. 6, 30, 5:

    capillo summissiore,

    hanging lower down, Suet. Tib. 68:

    purpura,

    Quint. 11, 3, 159:

    oculi,

    Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145.—
    B.
    Trop. (class. and freq.).
    1.
    Of the voice or of speech in gen., low, soft, gentle, calm, not vehement (syn.:

    lenis, suppressus): et contentā voce atrociter dicere et summissa leniter,

    Cic. Or. 17, 56:

    vox (with lenis),

    Quint. 11, 3, 63; Ov. M. 7, 90 al.:

    murmur,

    Quint. 11, 3, 45:

    oratio placida, summissa, lenis,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 183; so,

    oratio,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 19; Quint. 11, 1, 9. — Comp.:

    lenior atque summissior oratio,

    Quint. 11, 1, 64:

    (sermo) miscens elata summissis,

    id. 11, 3, 43:

    actio,

    id. 7, 4, 27. — Transf., of an orator:

    forma summissi oratoris,

    Cic. Or. 26, 90; so (with humilis) id. ib. 23, 76:

    in prooemiis plerumque summissi,

    Quint. 9, 4, 138.—
    2.
    Of character or disposition.
    a.
    In a bad sense, low, mean, grovelling, abject (syn. abjectus):

    videndum est, ne quid humile, summissum, molle, effeminatum, fractum abjectumque faciamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 30, 64:

    vivere neque summissum et abjectum, neque se efferentem,

    id. Off. 1, 34, 124:

    adulatio,

    Quint. 11, 1, 30. —
    b.
    In a good sense, humble, submissive (syn.:

    humilis, supplex): submissi petimus terram,

    Verg. A. 3, 93:

    causae reorum,

    Quint. 11, 3, 154:

    civitates calamitate summissiores,

    Hirt. B. G. 8, 31, 2:

    preces,

    Luc. 8, 594; cf.:

    summissa precatur,

    Val. Fl. 7, 476:

    tristem viro summissus honorem Largitur vitae,

    yielding, overcome, Stat. Th. 1, 662.—The sup. seems not to occur.—Hence, subst.: summissa, ōrum, n. (acc. to I. A. 3. supra), substitutes (sc. capita), Dig. 7, 1, 70, § 5. —
    2.
    (Sc. verba.) Calm passages, quiet sayings:

    summissa, qualia in epilogis sunt,

    Quint. 9, 4, 137.— Adv.: sum-missē ( subm-).
    1.
    Of speech, softly, gently, calmly, not loudly or harshly:

    dicere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 215.— Comp., Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 212 (opp. contentius):

    sciscitari,

    Petr. 105 fin. —
    2.
    Of character, calmly, quietly, modestly, humbly, submissively:

    alicui summisse supplicare,

    Cic. Planc. 5, 12:

    scribere alicui,

    Tac. H. 3, 9 fin.:

    loqui (opp. aspere),

    Quint. 6, 5, 5:

    agere (opp. minanter),

    Ov. A. A. 3, 582.— Comp.:

    summissius se gerere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90:

    dolere,

    Claud. B. Gild. 247.—No sup.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > summitto

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