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to mark the pauses in discourse

  • 1 distinguo

    di-stinguo, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a. [root in Sanscr. tegami, to be sharp; Gr. stizô, stigma; Lat. stimulus stilus, in-stigare, etc.]. —Prop., to separate by points; hence, in gen.,
    I. A.
    Lit. (very rare, and almost exclusively poet.):

    onus inclusum numero eodem,

    Ov. M. 1, 47:

    crinem docta manu,

    i. e. to arrange, Sen. Troad. 884; cf.

    meton.: caput acu,

    Claud. Nupt. Hon. 284.—Of countries:

    qui locus Bithyniam et Galatis,

    Amm. 25, 10.—Far more freq. and class. (not in Caes.),
    B.
    Trop., to distinguish, discriminate, = discernere.
    1.
    In gen.:

    ea (crimina) distinguere ac separare,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 41; cf.

    with dividere,

    id. Pis. 28, 69:

    servos numero,

    id. Caecin. 20; so,

    cadentes guttas intervallis,

    id. de Or. 3, 48, 186:

    oratorum genera aetatibus,

    id. Brut. 19:

    status familiarum agnationibus,

    id. Leg. 1, 7 fin.:

    qua via ambigua distinguantur, ostendit,

    id. Fin. 1, 7; id. Brut. 41, 152; id. Or. 4, 16; cf.

    secernenda,

    id. Top. 7, 31:

    genera causarum,

    Quint. 4, 2, 68 et saep.:

    fortes ignavosque,

    Tac. H. 3, 27:

    veri similia ab incredibilibus dijudicare et distinguere,

    Cic. Part. 40; cf.:

    vera somnia a falsis,

    id. Div. 2, 61:

    Vargulam a Crasso,

    id. de Or. 2, 60, 244:

    artificem ab inscio,

    id. Ac. 2, 7, 22:

    voluntatem a facto,

    Liv. 45, 24:

    thesin a causa,

    Quint. 3, 5, 11 et saep.:

    vero falsum,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 29:

    simiarum genera caudis inter se,

    Plin. 8, 54, 80.— Pass. impers.:

    quid inter naturam et rationem intersit, non distinguitur,

    Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 26; cf.: malus arborem significet an hominem non bonum, apice distinguitur, Quint. 1, 7, 2:

    nuntiatum Claudio perisse Messalinam, non distincto sua an aliena manu,

    Tac. A. 11, 38.—
    2.
    In partic.
    (α).
    In rhet. and gram., to mark the pauses in discourse, to punctuate:

    puer ut sciat, quo loco versum distinguere debeat,

    Quint. 1, 8, 1; cf.:

    eam (orationem) distinguent atque concident,

    id. 11, 2, 27; and:

    incidit has (sc. voces) et distinxit in partes,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 2 Mos.:

    distinctio est silentii nota, etc.,

    Diom. p. 432 P.—
    (β).
    To end, terminate:

    contationem,

    App. M. 2, p. 127 fin.
    II.
    To set off, decorate, adorn (most freq. in the P. a.).
    A.
    Lit.:

    racemos purpureo colore,

    Hor. C. 2, 5, 11; so,

    poma vario colore,

    Ov. Nux, 31:

    aurum gemmarum nitor,

    Sen. Med. 573; cf. Plin. 37, 10, 62, § 171.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    orationem variare et distinguere quasi quibusdam verborum sententiarumque insignibus,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 36;

    so of discourse,

    id. Inv. 2, 15, 49 (with illustrare); id. de Or. 2, 13; Liv. 9, 17:

    voluptatem (with variare),

    Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 38; cf.:

    coenam comoedis,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9.—Hence, distinctus, a, um, P. a.
    A.
    (Acc. to I.) Separated, separate, distinct:

    urbs delubris distincta spatiisque communibus,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 26: Romana acies distinctior, ex pluribus partibus constans, Liv. 9, 19:

    Hesiodus circa CXX. annos distinctus ab Homeri aetate,

    Vell. 1, 7:

    concentus ex distinctis sonis,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 42; cf. id. ib. 6, 18:

    distinctos dignitatis gradus non habebat (civitas),

    id. ib. 1, 27 fin. —
    2.
    Of discourse, properly divided:

    oratio,

    Quint. 11, 3, 35. —
    B.
    (Acc. to II.) Decorated, adorned:

    pocula gemmis distincta,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 27:

    distinctum et ornatum caelum astris,

    id. N. D. 2, 37 fin.:

    lyra gemmis et dentibus Indis,

    Ov. M. 11, 167:

    herbae innumeris floribus,

    id. ib. 5, 266:

    retia maculis,

    id. H. 5, 19.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    oratio et ornata et artificio quodam et expolitione distincta,

    id. de Or. 1, 12;

    so of discourse,

    Quint. 5, 14, 33; and transf., of the speaker himself: utroque genere creber et distinctus Cato, Cic. Brut. 17 fin.; cf. in comp., Tac. Or. 18.— Adv.: distincte.
    1.
    (Acc. to I.) Distinctly, clearly:

    articulatim distincteque dicere,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 36; id. Or. 28 fin.:

    scribere,

    id. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

    designare,

    Plin. Pan. 88, 6.—In the comp.:

    enuntiare,

    id. Ep. 7, 13.— Sup.:

    distinctissime persuadere,

    Cassiod. Complex ad Ephes. 3.—
    2.
    (Acc. to II.) Elegantly, handsomely:

    qui distincte, qui explicate, qui abundanter, qui illuminate et rebus et verbis dicunt,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 53; cf. id. Off. 1, 1, 2:

    distinctius,

    Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > distinguo

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