to pass through one

per-cōlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to strain through, to filter, percolate.

Lit.:

tum vinum percolato, polentam abicito,

Cato, R. R. 108; Cels. 6, 9; Col. 12, 41, 2; Plin. 31, 6, 37, § 70.—

Transf., in gen., to cause to pass through:

umor per terras percolatur,

passes through, Lucr. 2, 475: cibos et potiones, to pass through one, i. e. to swallow and digest, Sen. Q. N. praef. §

3: terra bibula crebros imbros percolat atque transmittit,

Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 110.

per-cŏlo, cŏlŭi, cultum, 3, v. a.

Lit.

To cultivate, of the soil; hence, to inhabit:

Eleusiniam glebam,

App. M. 11, 2, p. 257.—

To perfect, finish:

incohata percolui,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 41.—

Transf.

To cleanse:

os curā,

App. Mag. 8.—

To deck, beautify, adorn:

aliquid eloquentiā,

Tac. Agr. 10.—

To honor greatly, to revere, reverence:

si patrem percoles,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 4:

conjugem liberosque,

Tac. A. 4, 68:

multos praefecturis et procurationibus, plerosque senatorii ordinis honore,

id. H. 2, 82:

deos,

Sol. 22, 7:

dei numen in uxoris laboribus percolens,

App. M. 6, 15, p. 179:

Aegyptii cerimoniis me propriis percolentes appellant Isidem,

id. ib. 11. 5, p. 259:

initia Cereris,

celebrate, Aur. Vict. Caes. 14, 4:

funus,

id. ib. 20, 30.—

To persecute, pursue, cultivate:

vestras disciplinas studiosius,

App. Flor. 4, 18, p. 361:

cumulata habent quae sedulo percolunt,

id. Deo Soc. 22, p. 54.—Hence, percultus, a, um, P. a.:

femina perculta,

highly adorned, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 22.

dē-curro, cŭcurri or curri (cf.:

decucurrit,

Caes. B. G. 2, 21; Tac. A. 2, 7; Suet. Ner. 11:

decucurrerunt,

Caes. B. G. 2, 19, 7; Petr. 64, 3:

decucurrerat,

Liv. 1, 12:

decucurrisse,

id. 25, 17; also,

decurrerunt,

id. 26, 51; 38, 8:

decurrēre,

Verg. A. 4, 153; 11, 189:

decurrisset,

Liv. 33, 26), cursum, 3, v. n. and (with homogeneous objects, viam, spatium, trop. aetatem, etc.) a., to run down from a higher point; to flow, move, sail, swim down; to run over, run through, traverse (class. and very freq.). —

Lit.

In gen.

Neutr.:

de tribunali decurrit,

Liv. 4, 50: Laocoon ardens [p. 524] summa decurrit ab arcs, Verg. A. 2, 41; cf.:

ab agro Lanuvino,

Hor. Od. 3, 27, 3; for which merely with the abl.:

altā decurrens arce,

Verg. A. 11, 490; cf.:

jugis,

id. ib. 4, 153:

Caesar ad cohortandos milites decucurrit,

Caes. B. G. 2, 21; Suet. Ner. 11:

ad naves decurrunt,

Caes. B. C. 1, 28, 3; cf.:

ad mare,

Liv. 41, 2:

ego puto te bellissime cum quaestore Mescinio decursurum (viz., on board ship),

Cic. Fam. 16, 4, 3; cf.:

tuto mari,

to sail, Ov. M. 9, 591:

celeri cymbā,

id. F. 6, 77:

pedibus siccis super summa aequora,

id. M. 14, 50:

piscis ad hamum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 74:

monte decurrens velut amnis,

id. Od. 4, 2, 5; Liv. 38, 13; Ov. M. 3, 569:

uti naves decurrerent,

should sail, Tac. A. 15, 43:

in insulam quamdam decurrentes,

sailing to, Vulg. Act. 27, 16:

amnis Iomanes in Gangen per Palibothros decurrit,

Plin. 6, 19, 22, § 69:

in mare,

Liv. 21, 26.— Pass. impers.:

nunc video calcem, ad quam cum sit decursum, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 8, 15:

quo decursum prope jam siet,

Lucr. 2, 962.—

Act.:

septingenta milia passuum vis esse decursa biduo?

run through, Cic. Quint. 21, 81:

decurso spatio ad carceres,

id. Sen. 23, 83; cf.

, with the accessory idea of completion: nec vero velim quasi decurso spatio ad carceres a calce revocari,

id. de Sen. 23, 83; and:

decursa novissima meta,

Ov. M. 10, 597: vada salsa puppi, Catull. 64, 6.—

Transf., of the stars ( poet.), to accomplish their course: stellaeque per vacuum solitae noctis decurrere tempus, Lucan. 1, 531; cf.

lampas,

id. 10, 501. —

Esp., milit. t. t., to go through military exercises or manœuvres, to advance rapidly, to charge, skirmish, etc.:

pedites decurrendo signa sequi et servare ordines docuit,

while performing evolutions, Liv. 24, 48; cf. id. 23, 35; 26, 51; 40, 6 al.:

ex montibus in vallem,

Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 4; cf.:

ex omnibus partibus,

id. ib. 3, 4:

ex superiore loco,

Liv. 6, 33:

ex Capitolio in hostem,

id. 9, 4:

ab arce,

id. 1, 12:

inde (sc. a Janiculo),

id. 2, 10 et saep.:

incredibili celeritate ad flumen,

Caes. B. G. 2, 19, 7.— Pass. impers.:

quinto (die) iterum in armis de cursum est,

Liv. 26, 51.—

Transf., to walk or run in armor, in celebrating some festival (usually in funeral games):

(in funere Gracchi tradunt) armatum exercitum decucurrisse cum tripudiis Hispanorum,

Liv. 25, 17:

ter circum rogos, cincti fulgentibus armis, decurrēre,

Verg. A. 11, 189; Tac. A. 2, 7; Suet. Claud. 1 (v. decursio). —

Trop.

In gen.

Neutr.:

quin proclivius hic iras decurrat ad acreis,

Lucr. 3, 312; 4, 706; 5, 1262: quibus generibus per totas quaestiones decurrimus, go over or through, Quint. 9, 2, 48; cf. id. 10, 3, 17; Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 72:

omnium eo sententiae decurrerunt, ut, pax, etc.,

come to, Liv. 38, 8:

ides se non illuc decurrere, quod,

Tac. A. 4, 40:

ad Philotam,

Curt. 7, 1, 28:

ad consulendum te,

Plin. Ep. 10, 96.— Pass. impers.:

decurritur ad leniorem sententiam,

they come to, Liv. 6, 19; Quint. 6, 1, 2:

sermo extra calcem decurrens,

Amm. 21, 1, 14:

postremo eo decursum est, ut, etc.,

Liv. 26, 18; so id. 22, 31; 31, 20; Tac. A. 3, 59.—

Act., to run or pass through:

decurso aetatis spatio,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 14;

and so of one's course of life,

id. Merc. 3, 2, 4; Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 6; Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 33; cf.:

lumen vitae,

Lucr. 3, 1042: noctis iter, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, p. 6 Müll. (v. 347 Ribb.):

vitam,

Prop. 2, 15, 41; Phaedr. 4, 1, 2;

aetatem (with agere),

Cic. Quint. 31 fin.: tuque ades inceptumque unā decurre laborem (the fig. is that of sailing in a vessel; cf.

soon after: pelagoque volans da vela patenti),

Verg. G. 2, 39 Heyne:

ista, quae abs te breviter de arte decursa sunt,

treated, discussed, Cic. de Or. 1, 32, 148; cf.:

equos pugnasque virum decurrere versu,

to sing, Stat. Silv. 5, 3, 149: prius... quam mea tot laudes decurrere carmina possint, Auct. Paneg. in Pis. 198.—

In partic.

Pregn.: ad aliquid, to betake one's self to, have recourse to:

ad haec extrema et inimicissima jura tam cupide decurrebas, ut, etc.,

Cic. Quint. 15; so,

ad istam hortationem,

id. Caecin. 33, 65:

ad medicamenta,

Cels. 6, 18, 3:

ad oraculum,

Just. 16, 3:

ad miseras preces,

Hor. Od. 3, 29, 59:

Haemonias ad artes,

Ov. A. A. 2, 99; cf.:

assuetas ad artes (Circe),

id. Rem. Am. 287. Rarely to persons:

ad Alexandri exercitum,

Just. 14, 2.— Pass. impers.:

decurritur ad illud extremum atque ultimum S. C.... DENT OPERAM CONSVLES, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 1, 5, 3.—

Of the heavenly bodies, to set, move downwards:

qua sol decurrit meridies nuncupatur,

Mel. 1, 1, 1; Manil. 1, 505.—With acc., to traverse, Tibull. 4, 1, 160.—

In the rhetor. lang. of Quint., said of speech, to run on, Quint. 9, 4, 55 sq.; 11, 1, 6; 12, 9, 2 al.—

Proverb., to run through, i. e. to leave off:

quadrigae meae decucurrerunt (sc. ex quo podagricus factus sum),

i. e. my former cheerfulness is at an end, is gone, Petr. 64, 3.—So, haec (vitia) aetate sunt decursa, laid aside, Coel. in Cic. Fam. 8, 13.

trāĭcĭo and transĭcĭo (so always in Cæs.); also trājĭcĭo and transjĭcĭo, jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. and n. [trans-jacio], to throw across.

With the person or thing that moves as object, to cause to cross, cause to go across, over, or through.

In gen., to throw, hurl, cast, or fling over, to shoot over or across:

neque ullum interim telum transiciebatur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

quae concava trajecto cumba rudente vehat (te),

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 4:

arreptum vexillum trans vallum hostium trajecit,

Liv. 25, 14, 4:

cum trans vallum signum trajecisset,

id. 41, 4, 2:

pontibus transjectis,

thrown across, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

malis antennisque de nave in navem trajectis,

Liv. 30, 10, 5:

volucrem trajecto in fune columbam suspendit,

Verg. A. 5, 488:

tela alio,

Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 18:

pecora nunc in hibernos nunc in aestivos saltus,

drives over, Just. 8, 5, 7.— Poet.:

pedes super acervos,

to step over, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 76:

membra per ardentes acervos celeri pede,

Ov. F. 4, 782.—

In partic.

To transfer, cause to go over or across (from one place, etc., to another):

est etiam aurigae species Vertumnus et ejus, Traicit alterno qui leve pondus equo,

i. e. leaps lightly from horse to horse, Prop. 4 (5), 2, 36:

anulum in dextram manum,

Petr. 74:

quod est levissimum ac summum, ut traiciant in alia vasa,

decant, pour over, Varr. R. R. 1, 64, 1:

cerussam in cacabum,

Scrib. Comp. 45.—

Of soldiers, baggage, etc., to cause to cross (a stream, etc.), to transport, ship across, lead or conduct over, ship over, transfer: dum Brutus traiceret exercitum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2:

legiones quattuor equitatumque omnem transjecit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 40:

omnibus ferme suis trans Rhodanum trajectis,

Liv. 21, 26, 6:

res suas trans Halyn,

id. 38, 25, 7:

quae ibi legiones essent, eas... in Siciliam traiceret,

id. 23, 31, 4:

ut classem in Italiam traiceret,

id. 28, 36, 1:

pecuniam in provinciam,

id. 26, 7, 8; 48, 13, 9:

huc legionem postea transicit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 54:

magnam partem fortunarum eodem trajecit,

Nep. Att. 2, 2:

eas (sues) si quo traicere vult, in plostrum imponat,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 11:

ut praedatum milites trans flumen per occasiones aliis atque aliis locis traiceret,

Liv. 2, 11, 2.— Pass.: Marius trajectus in Africam, Cic. Red. Quir. 8, 20:

equitum innumerabilem vim traici Hellesponto in Europam,

Liv. 35, 48, 3:

classis Punica in Sardiniam trajecta,

id. 27, 6, 13:

(exercitus) Pado trajectus Cremonam,

id. 21, 56, 4; 30, 24, 11:

inermes in Boeotiam trajecti,

id. 32, 17, 3:

in Galliam trajecti forent,

Tac. A. 12, 39.—

With second acc. of the stream or place crossed:

equitum magnam partem flumen transjecit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 55:

Caesar Germanos flumen traicit,

id. ib. 1, 83 fin.:

si se Alpes Antonius trajecerit,

Cic. Fam. 11, 9, 2: exercitum Rhodanum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

copias Rhodanum,

id. ib. 10, 11, 2:

quos in Africam secum traiceret,

Liv. 29, 22, 12.—

With se:

ad Achillam sese ex regiā trajecit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 112: si quo etiam casu Isaram se trajecerint, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 4:

ducem Romanum in Africam trajecisse sese in hostilem terram,

Liv. 28, 18, 10.—

Poet., of the eyes:

quocumque oculos trajecimus,

i. e. to look, Lucr. 4, 424.—

To pass through, make a way through.

Of soldiers:

pars magna equitum mediam trajecit aciem,

broke through, Liv. 42, 7, 7.—

To strike through, stab through, pierce, penetrate, transfix, transpierce:

unum ex multitudine,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44:

aliquem pilis,

id. ib. 7, 82:

aliquem scorpione, a latere dextro,

id. ib. 7, 25:

lictorem gladio, Auct. B. Alex. 52: cuspide serpentem,

Ov. M. 4, 571:

lanceā infestā medium femur,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 48:

femur tragulā,

Caes. B. G. 5, 35:

pectus ferro,

Liv. 41, 11, 6:

cava tempora ferro,

Verg. A. 9, 634:

harundine linguam,

Ov. M. 11, 325:

terga sagittā,

id. ib. 9, 128:

exuentem se ac nudatum gladio trajecit,

Just. 3, 1, 8:

sagittā sub mammā trajectus,

id. 12, 9, 12:

aliquid acu,

Cels. 7, 8 and 9.—With se, to stab one ' s self:

se uno ictu infra laevam papillam,

Suet. Oth. 11.—

Trop.

In gen., to transfer, cause to pass:

cum ex illius invidiā deonerare aliquid et in te traicere coeperit,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46:

culpam in alium,

Quint. 9, 2, 4:

arbitrium litis trajecit in omnes,

Ov. M. 12, 628.—Mid.:

in cor Trajecto lateris capitisque dolore,

having thrown itself, Hor. S. 2, 3, 29.—

In partic., in rhet.:

verba,

to transpose, Cic. Or. 69, 229:

verba in clausulas,

Quint. 9, 4, 31 Spald.—

To cross over, pass over, cross.

With the place or thing passed over as object:

si Hannibal ad portas venisset murumque jaculo trajecisset,

Cic. Fin. 4, 9, 22:

trajecto amni,

Liv. 21, 27, 3:

Hiberum,

id. 21, 30, 3:

occupavit Scipio Padum traicere,

id. 21, 39, 10:

ratibus Trebiam,

id. 21, 56, 8:

mare,

id. 33, 31, 10:

flumen,

id. 38, 2, 10; 38, 27, 6:

fretum,

Sen. Ep. 14, 8:

amnem,

Curt. 7, 7, 13; 8, 13, 23:

utribus amnem,

id. 4, 7, 16; 4, 1, 10:

Rhenum,

Suet. Tib. 18:

mare,

Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 6:

Padum,

Tac. H. 2, 22:

sinum maris,

Vell. 2, 43, 1:

flumina nando,

Suet. Caes. 57:

Tiberim clipeo,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 186:

Aurora Jam medium aetherio cursu trajecerat axem,

Verg. A. 6, 536; cf. pass.:

postquam cernant Rhodanum trajectum,

Liv. 21, 30, 5:

ut transjaci (nemora) ne sagittis quidem possint,

Sol. 52, 46.—

Absol.:

ad Aethaliam insulam trajecit,

Liv. 37, 13, 3:

ut classe Hasdrubal Aegimurum traiceret,

id. 30, 24, 11:

ne qua classis ex Africā traiceret,

id. 30, 2, 1:

sed traicere in Euboeam erat propositum,

id. 40, 4, 10:

(ei) paranti traicere in Africam nuntiatum est,

id. 28, 36, 1; cf.:

Romanae naves Samum traicerunt,

id. 37, 13, 6:

primo quoque tempore in Africam traiciendum,

id. 29, 22, 11:

ad nos trajecturum illud incendium esse,

id. 7, 30, 12; cf. id. 31, 48, 7:

piscatoriā scaphā trepidus trajecit,

Just. 2, 13, 9:

trajecisse veteres Iberos,

Tac. Agr. 14. —

Trop., to overstep, transgress:

traicit et fati litora magnus amor,

Prop. 1, 19, 12.

trāĭcĭo and transĭcĭo (so always in Cæs.); also trājĭcĭo and transjĭcĭo, jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. and n. [trans-jacio], to throw across.

With the person or thing that moves as object, to cause to cross, cause to go across, over, or through.

In gen., to throw, hurl, cast, or fling over, to shoot over or across:

neque ullum interim telum transiciebatur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

quae concava trajecto cumba rudente vehat (te),

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 4:

arreptum vexillum trans vallum hostium trajecit,

Liv. 25, 14, 4:

cum trans vallum signum trajecisset,

id. 41, 4, 2:

pontibus transjectis,

thrown across, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

malis antennisque de nave in navem trajectis,

Liv. 30, 10, 5:

volucrem trajecto in fune columbam suspendit,

Verg. A. 5, 488:

tela alio,

Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 18:

pecora nunc in hibernos nunc in aestivos saltus,

drives over, Just. 8, 5, 7.— Poet.:

pedes super acervos,

to step over, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 76:

membra per ardentes acervos celeri pede,

Ov. F. 4, 782.—

In partic.

To transfer, cause to go over or across (from one place, etc., to another):

est etiam aurigae species Vertumnus et ejus, Traicit alterno qui leve pondus equo,

i. e. leaps lightly from horse to horse, Prop. 4 (5), 2, 36:

anulum in dextram manum,

Petr. 74:

quod est levissimum ac summum, ut traiciant in alia vasa,

decant, pour over, Varr. R. R. 1, 64, 1:

cerussam in cacabum,

Scrib. Comp. 45.—

Of soldiers, baggage, etc., to cause to cross (a stream, etc.), to transport, ship across, lead or conduct over, ship over, transfer: dum Brutus traiceret exercitum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2:

legiones quattuor equitatumque omnem transjecit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 40:

omnibus ferme suis trans Rhodanum trajectis,

Liv. 21, 26, 6:

res suas trans Halyn,

id. 38, 25, 7:

quae ibi legiones essent, eas... in Siciliam traiceret,

id. 23, 31, 4:

ut classem in Italiam traiceret,

id. 28, 36, 1:

pecuniam in provinciam,

id. 26, 7, 8; 48, 13, 9:

huc legionem postea transicit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 54:

magnam partem fortunarum eodem trajecit,

Nep. Att. 2, 2:

eas (sues) si quo traicere vult, in plostrum imponat,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 11:

ut praedatum milites trans flumen per occasiones aliis atque aliis locis traiceret,

Liv. 2, 11, 2.— Pass.: Marius trajectus in Africam, Cic. Red. Quir. 8, 20:

equitum innumerabilem vim traici Hellesponto in Europam,

Liv. 35, 48, 3:

classis Punica in Sardiniam trajecta,

id. 27, 6, 13:

(exercitus) Pado trajectus Cremonam,

id. 21, 56, 4; 30, 24, 11:

inermes in Boeotiam trajecti,

id. 32, 17, 3:

in Galliam trajecti forent,

Tac. A. 12, 39.—

With second acc. of the stream or place crossed:

equitum magnam partem flumen transjecit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 55:

Caesar Germanos flumen traicit,

id. ib. 1, 83 fin.:

si se Alpes Antonius trajecerit,

Cic. Fam. 11, 9, 2: exercitum Rhodanum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

copias Rhodanum,

id. ib. 10, 11, 2:

quos in Africam secum traiceret,

Liv. 29, 22, 12.—

With se:

ad Achillam sese ex regiā trajecit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 112: si quo etiam casu Isaram se trajecerint, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 4:

ducem Romanum in Africam trajecisse sese in hostilem terram,

Liv. 28, 18, 10.—

Poet., of the eyes:

quocumque oculos trajecimus,

i. e. to look, Lucr. 4, 424.—

To pass through, make a way through.

Of soldiers:

pars magna equitum mediam trajecit aciem,

broke through, Liv. 42, 7, 7.—

To strike through, stab through, pierce, penetrate, transfix, transpierce:

unum ex multitudine,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44:

aliquem pilis,

id. ib. 7, 82:

aliquem scorpione, a latere dextro,

id. ib. 7, 25:

lictorem gladio, Auct. B. Alex. 52: cuspide serpentem,

Ov. M. 4, 571:

lanceā infestā medium femur,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 48:

femur tragulā,

Caes. B. G. 5, 35:

pectus ferro,

Liv. 41, 11, 6:

cava tempora ferro,

Verg. A. 9, 634:

harundine linguam,

Ov. M. 11, 325:

terga sagittā,

id. ib. 9, 128:

exuentem se ac nudatum gladio trajecit,

Just. 3, 1, 8:

sagittā sub mammā trajectus,

id. 12, 9, 12:

aliquid acu,

Cels. 7, 8 and 9.—With se, to stab one ' s self:

se uno ictu infra laevam papillam,

Suet. Oth. 11.—

Trop.

In gen., to transfer, cause to pass:

cum ex illius invidiā deonerare aliquid et in te traicere coeperit,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46:

culpam in alium,

Quint. 9, 2, 4:

arbitrium litis trajecit in omnes,

Ov. M. 12, 628.—Mid.:

in cor Trajecto lateris capitisque dolore,

having thrown itself, Hor. S. 2, 3, 29.—

In partic., in rhet.:

verba,

to transpose, Cic. Or. 69, 229:

verba in clausulas,

Quint. 9, 4, 31 Spald.—

To cross over, pass over, cross.

With the place or thing passed over as object:

si Hannibal ad portas venisset murumque jaculo trajecisset,

Cic. Fin. 4, 9, 22:

trajecto amni,

Liv. 21, 27, 3:

Hiberum,

id. 21, 30, 3:

occupavit Scipio Padum traicere,

id. 21, 39, 10:

ratibus Trebiam,

id. 21, 56, 8:

mare,

id. 33, 31, 10:

flumen,

id. 38, 2, 10; 38, 27, 6:

fretum,

Sen. Ep. 14, 8:

amnem,

Curt. 7, 7, 13; 8, 13, 23:

utribus amnem,

id. 4, 7, 16; 4, 1, 10:

Rhenum,

Suet. Tib. 18:

mare,

Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 6:

Padum,

Tac. H. 2, 22:

sinum maris,

Vell. 2, 43, 1:

flumina nando,

Suet. Caes. 57:

Tiberim clipeo,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 186:

Aurora Jam medium aetherio cursu trajecerat axem,

Verg. A. 6, 536; cf. pass.:

postquam cernant Rhodanum trajectum,

Liv. 21, 30, 5:

ut transjaci (nemora) ne sagittis quidem possint,

Sol. 52, 46.—

Absol.:

ad Aethaliam insulam trajecit,

Liv. 37, 13, 3:

ut classe Hasdrubal Aegimurum traiceret,

id. 30, 24, 11:

ne qua classis ex Africā traiceret,

id. 30, 2, 1:

sed traicere in Euboeam erat propositum,

id. 40, 4, 10:

(ei) paranti traicere in Africam nuntiatum est,

id. 28, 36, 1; cf.:

Romanae naves Samum traicerunt,

id. 37, 13, 6:

primo quoque tempore in Africam traiciendum,

id. 29, 22, 11:

ad nos trajecturum illud incendium esse,

id. 7, 30, 12; cf. id. 31, 48, 7:

piscatoriā scaphā trepidus trajecit,

Just. 2, 13, 9:

trajecisse veteres Iberos,

Tac. Agr. 14. —

Trop., to overstep, transgress:

traicit et fati litora magnus amor,

Prop. 1, 19, 12.

trāĭcĭo and transĭcĭo (so always in Cæs.); also trājĭcĭo and transjĭcĭo, jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. and n. [trans-jacio], to throw across.

With the person or thing that moves as object, to cause to cross, cause to go across, over, or through.

In gen., to throw, hurl, cast, or fling over, to shoot over or across:

neque ullum interim telum transiciebatur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

quae concava trajecto cumba rudente vehat (te),

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 4:

arreptum vexillum trans vallum hostium trajecit,

Liv. 25, 14, 4:

cum trans vallum signum trajecisset,

id. 41, 4, 2:

pontibus transjectis,

thrown across, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

malis antennisque de nave in navem trajectis,

Liv. 30, 10, 5:

volucrem trajecto in fune columbam suspendit,

Verg. A. 5, 488:

tela alio,

Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 18:

pecora nunc in hibernos nunc in aestivos saltus,

drives over, Just. 8, 5, 7.— Poet.:

pedes super acervos,

to step over, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 76:

membra per ardentes acervos celeri pede,

Ov. F. 4, 782.—

In partic.

To transfer, cause to go over or across (from one place, etc., to another):

est etiam aurigae species Vertumnus et ejus, Traicit alterno qui leve pondus equo,

i. e. leaps lightly from horse to horse, Prop. 4 (5), 2, 36:

anulum in dextram manum,

Petr. 74:

quod est levissimum ac summum, ut traiciant in alia vasa,

decant, pour over, Varr. R. R. 1, 64, 1:

cerussam in cacabum,

Scrib. Comp. 45.—

Of soldiers, baggage, etc., to cause to cross (a stream, etc.), to transport, ship across, lead or conduct over, ship over, transfer: dum Brutus traiceret exercitum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2:

legiones quattuor equitatumque omnem transjecit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 40:

omnibus ferme suis trans Rhodanum trajectis,

Liv. 21, 26, 6:

res suas trans Halyn,

id. 38, 25, 7:

quae ibi legiones essent, eas... in Siciliam traiceret,

id. 23, 31, 4:

ut classem in Italiam traiceret,

id. 28, 36, 1:

pecuniam in provinciam,

id. 26, 7, 8; 48, 13, 9:

huc legionem postea transicit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 54:

magnam partem fortunarum eodem trajecit,

Nep. Att. 2, 2:

eas (sues) si quo traicere vult, in plostrum imponat,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 11:

ut praedatum milites trans flumen per occasiones aliis atque aliis locis traiceret,

Liv. 2, 11, 2.— Pass.: Marius trajectus in Africam, Cic. Red. Quir. 8, 20:

equitum innumerabilem vim traici Hellesponto in Europam,

Liv. 35, 48, 3:

classis Punica in Sardiniam trajecta,

id. 27, 6, 13:

(exercitus) Pado trajectus Cremonam,

id. 21, 56, 4; 30, 24, 11:

inermes in Boeotiam trajecti,

id. 32, 17, 3:

in Galliam trajecti forent,

Tac. A. 12, 39.—

With second acc. of the stream or place crossed:

equitum magnam partem flumen transjecit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 55:

Caesar Germanos flumen traicit,

id. ib. 1, 83 fin.:

si se Alpes Antonius trajecerit,

Cic. Fam. 11, 9, 2: exercitum Rhodanum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

copias Rhodanum,

id. ib. 10, 11, 2:

quos in Africam secum traiceret,

Liv. 29, 22, 12.—

With se:

ad Achillam sese ex regiā trajecit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 112: si quo etiam casu Isaram se trajecerint, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 4:

ducem Romanum in Africam trajecisse sese in hostilem terram,

Liv. 28, 18, 10.—

Poet., of the eyes:

quocumque oculos trajecimus,

i. e. to look, Lucr. 4, 424.—

To pass through, make a way through.

Of soldiers:

pars magna equitum mediam trajecit aciem,

broke through, Liv. 42, 7, 7.—

To strike through, stab through, pierce, penetrate, transfix, transpierce:

unum ex multitudine,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44:

aliquem pilis,

id. ib. 7, 82:

aliquem scorpione, a latere dextro,

id. ib. 7, 25:

lictorem gladio, Auct. B. Alex. 52: cuspide serpentem,

Ov. M. 4, 571:

lanceā infestā medium femur,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 48:

femur tragulā,

Caes. B. G. 5, 35:

pectus ferro,

Liv. 41, 11, 6:

cava tempora ferro,

Verg. A. 9, 634:

harundine linguam,

Ov. M. 11, 325:

terga sagittā,

id. ib. 9, 128:

exuentem se ac nudatum gladio trajecit,

Just. 3, 1, 8:

sagittā sub mammā trajectus,

id. 12, 9, 12:

aliquid acu,

Cels. 7, 8 and 9.—With se, to stab one ' s self:

se uno ictu infra laevam papillam,

Suet. Oth. 11.—

Trop.

In gen., to transfer, cause to pass:

cum ex illius invidiā deonerare aliquid et in te traicere coeperit,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46:

culpam in alium,

Quint. 9, 2, 4:

arbitrium litis trajecit in omnes,

Ov. M. 12, 628.—Mid.:

in cor Trajecto lateris capitisque dolore,

having thrown itself, Hor. S. 2, 3, 29.—

In partic., in rhet.:

verba,

to transpose, Cic. Or. 69, 229:

verba in clausulas,

Quint. 9, 4, 31 Spald.—

To cross over, pass over, cross.

With the place or thing passed over as object:

si Hannibal ad portas venisset murumque jaculo trajecisset,

Cic. Fin. 4, 9, 22:

trajecto amni,

Liv. 21, 27, 3:

Hiberum,

id. 21, 30, 3:

occupavit Scipio Padum traicere,

id. 21, 39, 10:

ratibus Trebiam,

id. 21, 56, 8:

mare,

id. 33, 31, 10:

flumen,

id. 38, 2, 10; 38, 27, 6:

fretum,

Sen. Ep. 14, 8:

amnem,

Curt. 7, 7, 13; 8, 13, 23:

utribus amnem,

id. 4, 7, 16; 4, 1, 10:

Rhenum,

Suet. Tib. 18:

mare,

Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 6:

Padum,

Tac. H. 2, 22:

sinum maris,

Vell. 2, 43, 1:

flumina nando,

Suet. Caes. 57:

Tiberim clipeo,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 186:

Aurora Jam medium aetherio cursu trajecerat axem,

Verg. A. 6, 536; cf. pass.:

postquam cernant Rhodanum trajectum,

Liv. 21, 30, 5:

ut transjaci (nemora) ne sagittis quidem possint,

Sol. 52, 46.—

Absol.:

ad Aethaliam insulam trajecit,

Liv. 37, 13, 3:

ut classe Hasdrubal Aegimurum traiceret,

id. 30, 24, 11:

ne qua classis ex Africā traiceret,

id. 30, 2, 1:

sed traicere in Euboeam erat propositum,

id. 40, 4, 10:

(ei) paranti traicere in Africam nuntiatum est,

id. 28, 36, 1; cf.:

Romanae naves Samum traicerunt,

id. 37, 13, 6:

primo quoque tempore in Africam traiciendum,

id. 29, 22, 11:

ad nos trajecturum illud incendium esse,

id. 7, 30, 12; cf. id. 31, 48, 7:

piscatoriā scaphā trepidus trajecit,

Just. 2, 13, 9:

trajecisse veteres Iberos,

Tac. Agr. 14. —

Trop., to overstep, transgress:

traicit et fati litora magnus amor,

Prop. 1, 19, 12.

trāĭcĭo and transĭcĭo (so always in Cæs.); also trājĭcĭo and transjĭcĭo, jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. and n. [trans-jacio], to throw across.

With the person or thing that moves as object, to cause to cross, cause to go across, over, or through.

In gen., to throw, hurl, cast, or fling over, to shoot over or across:

neque ullum interim telum transiciebatur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

quae concava trajecto cumba rudente vehat (te),

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 4:

arreptum vexillum trans vallum hostium trajecit,

Liv. 25, 14, 4:

cum trans vallum signum trajecisset,

id. 41, 4, 2:

pontibus transjectis,

thrown across, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

malis antennisque de nave in navem trajectis,

Liv. 30, 10, 5:

volucrem trajecto in fune columbam suspendit,

Verg. A. 5, 488:

tela alio,

Prop. 2, 12 (3, 3), 18:

pecora nunc in hibernos nunc in aestivos saltus,

drives over, Just. 8, 5, 7.— Poet.:

pedes super acervos,

to step over, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 76:

membra per ardentes acervos celeri pede,

Ov. F. 4, 782.—

In partic.

To transfer, cause to go over or across (from one place, etc., to another):

est etiam aurigae species Vertumnus et ejus, Traicit alterno qui leve pondus equo,

i. e. leaps lightly from horse to horse, Prop. 4 (5), 2, 36:

anulum in dextram manum,

Petr. 74:

quod est levissimum ac summum, ut traiciant in alia vasa,

decant, pour over, Varr. R. R. 1, 64, 1:

cerussam in cacabum,

Scrib. Comp. 45.—

Of soldiers, baggage, etc., to cause to cross (a stream, etc.), to transport, ship across, lead or conduct over, ship over, transfer: dum Brutus traiceret exercitum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2:

legiones quattuor equitatumque omnem transjecit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 40:

omnibus ferme suis trans Rhodanum trajectis,

Liv. 21, 26, 6:

res suas trans Halyn,

id. 38, 25, 7:

quae ibi legiones essent, eas... in Siciliam traiceret,

id. 23, 31, 4:

ut classem in Italiam traiceret,

id. 28, 36, 1:

pecuniam in provinciam,

id. 26, 7, 8; 48, 13, 9:

huc legionem postea transicit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 54:

magnam partem fortunarum eodem trajecit,

Nep. Att. 2, 2:

eas (sues) si quo traicere vult, in plostrum imponat,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 11:

ut praedatum milites trans flumen per occasiones aliis atque aliis locis traiceret,

Liv. 2, 11, 2.— Pass.: Marius trajectus in Africam, Cic. Red. Quir. 8, 20:

equitum innumerabilem vim traici Hellesponto in Europam,

Liv. 35, 48, 3:

classis Punica in Sardiniam trajecta,

id. 27, 6, 13:

(exercitus) Pado trajectus Cremonam,

id. 21, 56, 4; 30, 24, 11:

inermes in Boeotiam trajecti,

id. 32, 17, 3:

in Galliam trajecti forent,

Tac. A. 12, 39.—

With second acc. of the stream or place crossed:

equitum magnam partem flumen transjecit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 55:

Caesar Germanos flumen traicit,

id. ib. 1, 83 fin.:

si se Alpes Antonius trajecerit,

Cic. Fam. 11, 9, 2: exercitum Rhodanum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

copias Rhodanum,

id. ib. 10, 11, 2:

quos in Africam secum traiceret,

Liv. 29, 22, 12.—

With se:

ad Achillam sese ex regiā trajecit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 112: si quo etiam casu Isaram se trajecerint, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 4:

ducem Romanum in Africam trajecisse sese in hostilem terram,

Liv. 28, 18, 10.—

Poet., of the eyes:

quocumque oculos trajecimus,

i. e. to look, Lucr. 4, 424.—

To pass through, make a way through.

Of soldiers:

pars magna equitum mediam trajecit aciem,

broke through, Liv. 42, 7, 7.—

To strike through, stab through, pierce, penetrate, transfix, transpierce:

unum ex multitudine,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44:

aliquem pilis,

id. ib. 7, 82:

aliquem scorpione, a latere dextro,

id. ib. 7, 25:

lictorem gladio, Auct. B. Alex. 52: cuspide serpentem,

Ov. M. 4, 571:

lanceā infestā medium femur,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 48:

femur tragulā,

Caes. B. G. 5, 35:

pectus ferro,

Liv. 41, 11, 6:

cava tempora ferro,

Verg. A. 9, 634:

harundine linguam,

Ov. M. 11, 325:

terga sagittā,

id. ib. 9, 128:

exuentem se ac nudatum gladio trajecit,

Just. 3, 1, 8:

sagittā sub mammā trajectus,

id. 12, 9, 12:

aliquid acu,

Cels. 7, 8 and 9.—With se, to stab one ' s self:

se uno ictu infra laevam papillam,

Suet. Oth. 11.—

Trop.

In gen., to transfer, cause to pass:

cum ex illius invidiā deonerare aliquid et in te traicere coeperit,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46:

culpam in alium,

Quint. 9, 2, 4:

arbitrium litis trajecit in omnes,

Ov. M. 12, 628.—Mid.:

in cor Trajecto lateris capitisque dolore,

having thrown itself, Hor. S. 2, 3, 29.—

In partic., in rhet.:

verba,

to transpose, Cic. Or. 69, 229:

verba in clausulas,

Quint. 9, 4, 31 Spald.—

To cross over, pass over, cross.

With the place or thing passed over as object:

si Hannibal ad portas venisset murumque jaculo trajecisset,

Cic. Fin. 4, 9, 22:

trajecto amni,

Liv. 21, 27, 3:

Hiberum,

id. 21, 30, 3:

occupavit Scipio Padum traicere,

id. 21, 39, 10:

ratibus Trebiam,

id. 21, 56, 8:

mare,

id. 33, 31, 10:

flumen,

id. 38, 2, 10; 38, 27, 6:

fretum,

Sen. Ep. 14, 8:

amnem,

Curt. 7, 7, 13; 8, 13, 23:

utribus amnem,

id. 4, 7, 16; 4, 1, 10:

Rhenum,

Suet. Tib. 18:

mare,

Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 6:

Padum,

Tac. H. 2, 22:

sinum maris,

Vell. 2, 43, 1:

flumina nando,

Suet. Caes. 57:

Tiberim clipeo,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 186:

Aurora Jam medium aetherio cursu trajecerat axem,

Verg. A. 6, 536; cf. pass.:

postquam cernant Rhodanum trajectum,

Liv. 21, 30, 5:

ut transjaci (nemora) ne sagittis quidem possint,

Sol. 52, 46.—

Absol.:

ad Aethaliam insulam trajecit,

Liv. 37, 13, 3:

ut classe Hasdrubal Aegimurum traiceret,

id. 30, 24, 11:

ne qua classis ex Africā traiceret,

id. 30, 2, 1:

sed traicere in Euboeam erat propositum,

id. 40, 4, 10:

(ei) paranti traicere in Africam nuntiatum est,

id. 28, 36, 1; cf.:

Romanae naves Samum traicerunt,

id. 37, 13, 6:

primo quoque tempore in Africam traiciendum,

id. 29, 22, 11:

ad nos trajecturum illud incendium esse,

id. 7, 30, 12; cf. id. 31, 48, 7:

piscatoriā scaphā trepidus trajecit,

Just. 2, 13, 9:

trajecisse veteres Iberos,

Tac. Agr. 14. —

Trop., to overstep, transgress:

traicit et fati litora magnus amor,

Prop. 1, 19, 12.

trans-mitto or trāmitto, mīsi, missum, 3, v. a.

To send, carry, or convey across, over, or through; to send off, despatch, transmit from one place or person to another (syn.: transfero, traicio, traduco).

Lit.:

mihi illam ut tramittas: argentum accipias,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 27:

illam sibi,

id. ib. 1, 2, 52:

exercitus equitatusque celeriter transmittitur (i. e. trans flumen),

are conveyed across, Caes. B. G. 7, 61:

legiones,

Vell. 2, 51, 1:

cohortem Usipiorum in Britanniam,

Tac. Agr. 28:

classem in Euboeam ad urbem Oreum,

Liv. 28, 5, 18:

magnam classem in Siciliam,

id. 28, 41, 17:

unde auxilia in Italiam transmissurus erat,

id. 23, 32, 5; 27, 15, 7: transmissum per viam tigillum, thrown over or across, id. 1, 26, 10:

ponte transmisso,

Suet. Calig. 22 fin.: in partem campi pecora et armenta, Tac. A. 13, 55:

materiam in formas,

Col. 7, 8, 6.—

To cause to pass through:

per corium, per viscera Perque os elephanto bracchium transmitteres,

you would have thrust through, penetrated, Plaut. Mil. 1, 30; so,

ensem per latus,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 1165:

facem telo per pectus,

id. Thyest. 1089:

per medium amnem transmittit equum,

rides, Liv. 8, 24, 13:

(Gallorum reguli) exercitum per fines suos transmiserunt,

suffered to pass through, id. 21, 24, 5:

abies folio pinnato densa, ut imbres non transmittat,

Plin. 16, 10, 19, § 48:

Favonios,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 19; Tac. A. 13, 15:

ut vehem faeni large onustam transmitteret,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 108.—

Trop.

To carry over, transfer, etc.:

bellum in Italiam,

Liv. 21, 20, 4; so,

bellum,

Tac. A. 2, 6:

vitia cum opibus suis Romam (Asia),

Just. 36, 4, 12: vim in aliquem, to send against, i. e. employ against, Tac. A. 2, 38.—

To hand over, transmit, commit:

et quisquam dubitabit, quin huic hoc tantum bellum transmittendum sit, qui, etc.,

should be intrusted, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14, 42:

alicui signa et summam belli,

Sil. 7, 383:

hereditas transmittenda alicui,

to be made over, Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 7; and with inf.:

et longo transmisit habere nepoti,

Stat. S. 3, 3, 78 (analog. to dat habere, Verg. A. 9, 362;

and, donat habere,

id. ib. 5, 262);

for which: me famulo famulamque Heleno transmisit habendam,

id. ib. 3, 329:

omne meum tempus amicorum temporibus transmittendum putavi,

should be devoted, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1, 1:

poma intacta ore servis,

Tac. A. 4, 54.—

To let go: animo transmittente quicquid acceperat, letting pass through, i. e. forgetting, Sen. Ep. 99, 6:

mox Caesarem vergente jam senectā munia imperii facilius tramissurum,

would let go, resign, Tac. A. 4, 41:

Junium mensem transmissum,

passed over, omitted, id. ib. 16, 12 fin.:

Gangen amnem et quae ultra essent,

to leave unconquered, Curt. 9, 4, 17:

leo imbelles vitulos Transmittit,

Stat. Th. 8, 596.—

To go or pass over or across, to cross over; to cross, pass, go through, traverse, etc.

Lit.

In gen.

Act.:

grues cum maria transmittant,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125:

cur ipse tot maria transmisit,

id. Fin. 5, 29, 87; so,

maria,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 6:

satis constante famā jam Iberum Poenos transmisisse,

Liv. 21, 20, 9 (al. transisse):

quem (Euphratem) ponte,

Tac. A. 15, 7:

fluvium nando,

Stat. Th. 9, 239:

lacum nando,

Sil. 4, 347:

murales fossas saltu,

id. 8, 554:

equites medios tramittunt campos,

ride through, Lucr. 2, 330; cf.:

cursu campos (cervi),

run through, Verg. A. 4, 154: quantum Balearica torto Funda potest plumbo medii transmittere caeli, can send with its hurled bullet, i. e. can send its bullet, Ov. M. 4, 710:

tectum lapide vel missile,

to fling over, Plin. 28, 4, 6, § 33; cf.:

flumina disco,

Stat. Th. 6, 677.—In pass.:

duo sinus fuerunt, quos tramitti oporteret: utrumque pedibus aequis tramisimus,

Cic. Att. 16, 6, 1:

transmissus amnis,

Tac. A. 12, 13:

flumen ponte transmittitur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 8, 5.—

Neutr.:

ab eo loco conscendi ut transmitterem,

Cic. Phil. 1, 3, 7:

cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi summā hieme transmiserint,

id. Imp. Pomp. 12, 32:

cum a Leucopetrā profectus (inde enim tramittebam) stadia circiter CCC. processissem, etc.,

id. Att. 16, 7, 1; 8, 13, 1; 8, 11, 5:

ex Corsicā subactā Cicereius in Sardiniam transmisit,

Liv. 42, 7, 2; 32, 9, 6:

ab Lilybaeo Uticam,

id. 25, 31, 12:

ad vastandam Italiae oram,

id. 21, 51, 4; 23, 38, 11; 24, 36, 7:

centum onerariae naves in Africam transmiserunt,

id. 30, 24, 5; Suet. Caes. 58:

Cyprum transmisit,

Curt. 4, 1, 27. — Pass. impers.:

in Ebusum insulam transmissum est,

Liv. 22, 20, 7.—

In partic., to go over, desert to a party:

Domitius transmisit ad Caesa rem,

Vell. 2, 84 fin. (syn. transfugio).—

Trop. (post-Aug.).

In gen., to pass over, leave untouched or disregarded (syn praetermitto):

haud fas, Bacche, tuos taci tum tramittere honores,

Sil. 7, 162; cf.:

sententiam silentio, deinde oblivio,

Tac. H. 4, 9 fin.:

nihil silentio,

id. ib. 1, 13;

4, 31: aliquid dissimulatione,

id. A. 13, 39:

quae ipse pateretur,

Suet. Calig. 10; id. Vesp. 15. —

In partic., of time, to pass, spend (syn. ago):

tempus quiete,

Plin. Ep. 9, 6, 1: so,

vitam per obscurum,

Sen. Ep. 19, 2: [p. 1893] steriles annos, Stat. S. 4, 2, 12:

aevum,

id. ib. 1, 4, 124:

quattuor menses hiemis inedia,

Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 94:

vigiles noctes,

Stat. Th. 3, 278 et saep. — Transf.:

febrium ardorem,

i. e. to undergo, endure, Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 7; cf.

discrimen,

id. ib. 8, 11, 2:

secessus, voluptates, etc.,

id. ib. 6, 4, 2.

mētĭor, mensus (post-class. metītus, Dig. 32, 1, 52), 4, v. dep. [Sanscr. ma, to measure; cf. Gr. me-tron, Lat. modus], to measure, mete (lands, corn); also, to measure or mete out, to deal out, distribute by measure (class.).

Lit.:

metiri agrum,

Cic. Fam. 9, 17, 2:

frumentum,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 83, § 192:

sol, quem metiri non possunt,

id. Ac. 2, 41, 128:

magnitudinem mundi,

id. Off. 1, 43, 154: nummos, to measure one's money, i. e. to have a great abundance of it, Hor. S. 1, 1, 95:

nummos modio,

Petr. S. 37:

se ad candelabrum,

id. ib. 75:

pedes syllabis,

to measure by syllables, Cic. Or. 57, 194:

frumentum militibus metiri,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16:

cum exercitu frumentum metiri oporteret,

id. ib. 1, 23;

7, 71: Caecubum,

Hor. Epod. 9, 36:

quis mensus est pugillo aquas?

Vulg. Isa. 40, 12:

tantus acervus fuit, ut metientibus dimidium super tres modios explesse, sint quidam auctores,

Liv. 23, 12.—

Poet. transf., to measure a distance, i. e. to pass, walk, or sail through or over, to traverse:

Sacram metiente te viam (of the measured pace of a proud person),

Hor. Epod. 4, 7:

aequor curru,

to sail through, Verg. G. 4, 389:

aquas carinā,

Ov. M. 9, 446:

tu, cursu, dea menstruo metiens iter annuom,

to go through complete, Cat. 34, 17:

instabili gressu metitur litora cornix,

Luc. 5, 556.—Also absol.:

quin hic metimur gradibus militariis,

to walk, Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 11.—

Trop., to measure, estimate, judge one thing by another; also simply to measure, estimate, judge of, set a value on a thing.

With abl. of the standard of comparison, or the means of judgment:

sonantia metiri auribus,

Cic. Or. 68, 227:

oculo latus,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 103:

omnia quaestu,

by profit, Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 111:

qui nihil alterius causa faciet et metietur suis commodis omnia,

id. Leg. 1, 14, 41:

vides igitur, si amicitiam sua caritate metiare, nihil esse praestantius,

id. Fin. 2, 26, 85:

vim eloquentiae sua facultate non rei natura,

id. Opt. Gen. Or. 4, 10:

omnia voluptate,

id. Fam. 7, 12, 2:

studia utilitate,

Quint. 12, 11, 29:

magnos homines virtute, non fortuna,

Nep. Eum. 1:

usum pecuniae non magnitudine, sed ratione,

Cic. Att. 14:

officia utilitate,

Lact. 6, 11, 12:

odium in se aliorum suo in eos metiens odio,

Liv. 3, 54:

pericula suo metu,

Sall. C. 31, 2:

peccata vitiis,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 20:

aetatem nostram non spatio senectutis, sed tempore adulescentiae,

Quint. 12, 11, 13.—

With ex (very rare):

fidelitas, quam ego ex mea conscientiā metior,

Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2: ex eo, quantum cuique satis est, metiuntur homines divitiarum modum, id. Par. 6, 1, 14.—

With ad:

nec se metitur ad illum quem dedit haec (paupertas) posuitque modum,

i. e. accommodates herself, Juv. 6, 358.—

Absol. (post-Aug.):

metiri ac diligenter aestimare vires suas,

Quint. 6, 1, 45:

pondera sua,

Mart. 12, 100, 8:

sua regna,

Luc. 8, 527. —

With quod:

quanto metiris pretio, quod, etc.,

Juv. 9, 72.—

To traverse. go over, pass through:

late Aequora prospectu metior alta meo,

Ov. H. 10, 28:

tot casus, tot avia,

Val. Fl. 5, 476:

jamque duas lucis partes Hyperione menso,

Ov. M. 8, 564.—

To measure out, deal to any one, treat one well or ill:

mensurā quā mensi fueritis, remetietur vobis,

Vulg. Luc. 6, 38; cf. id. Matt. 7, 2.

signif., to be measured:

agri glebatim metiebantur,

Lact. Mort. Persec. 23, 2:

an sol pedis unius latitudine metiatur,

Arn. 2, 86.— Part. perf.: mensus, a, um, measured off:

mensa spatia conficere,

Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 69.—As subst.:

bene mensum dabo,

good measure, Sen. Q. N. 4, 4, 1.

per-curro, percŭcurri or percurri, percursum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to run through, hasten through; to pass through, traverse, run over, pass over or along class.; syn. peragro).

Lit.:

percurrere agrum Picenum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 15:

labro calamos,

Lucr. 4, 588:

rapido percurrens turbine campos,

id. 1, 273:

pollice chordas,

Ov. Am. 2, 4, 27:

conventus,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 46:

Tenchteros et Cattos,

Flor. 4, 12:

aristas,

to speed over, Ov. M. 10, 655:

percurrens luna fenestras,

Prop. 1, 3, 31:

pectine telas,

Verg. A. 7, 14; id. G. 1, 294:

ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos,

id. A. 8, 392: tempora nodo, i. e. to wind or bind round, Val. Fl. 6, 63.— Pass., Plin. 13, 12, 26, § 83:

hortus fontano umore percurritur,

Pall. 1, 6.—

Trop., to run through:

amplissimos honores percucurrit,

i. e. filled the highest offices one after another, Suet. Ner. 3:

quaesturam, praeturam,

id. Tib. 9; Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 7.—In pass.:

percursis honorum gradibus,

Amm. 15, 13, 2.—

To run over in speaking, to mention cursorily:

partes, quas modo percucurri,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

quae breviter a te percursa sunt,

id. ib. 1, 47, 205:

multas res oratione,

id. Div. 2, 46, 96:

omnia poenarum nomina,

Verg. A. 6, 627:

celebres in eā arte quam maximā brevitate,

Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 53:

modice beneficia,

to mention in a cursory manner, Tac. A. 4, 40:

paucis, quae cujusque ductu gens,

Vell. 2, 38, 1; Juv. 10, 225.—

To run over in the mind or with the eye, to scan briefly, to look over:

multa animo et cogitatione, multa etiam legendo,

Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 218:

atque id percurram brevi,

id. Div. in Caecil. 32, 94:

oculo,

to run over, Hor. S. 2, 5, 55:

paginas in annalious magistratuum,

to run through, to look over, Liv. 9, 18, 12:

pugnas,

Val. Fl. 6, 600.— Impers. pass., Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 328.—

Of feelings, sensations, to run through, penetrate, agitate:

omnium pectora occulto metu percurrente,

Curt. 4, 12, 14. —

Neutr., to run, run along to or over any thing (class.):

curriculo percurre (ad villam),

run thither quickly, Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 11:

ad forum,

id. And. 2, 2, 18: ad aliquem, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 16, 4:

per temonem (currūs),

to run along the pole, Caes. B. G. 4, 33 fin.:

per mare et terras,

Lucr. 6, 668.—

Trop. (very rare), to pass; with per, to run over in speaking, touch upon in succession:

nam per omnis civitates quae decumas habent, percurrit oratio mea,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 42, § 100.

pĕr-ăgo, ēgi, actum ( inf. paragier, Cato, Orig. 7, p. 1), 3, v. a.

To thrust through, pierce through, transfix (only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

Theseus latus ense peregit,

transpierced, Ov. H. 4, 119:

aliquem ardenti quercu,

Val. Fl. 1, 146; cf.:

externa peragi dextrā,

Sil. 11, 364.—Hence, transf., to kill, slay, Mart. 5, 37, 16.—

To pass through, traverse:

freta,

Ov. H. 15, 65:

cum sol duodena peregit Signa,

id. M. 13, 618.—

To drive about, harass, disturb, disquiet, agitate, annoy a person or thing (very rare):

pecora peragens asilus,

Sen. Ep. 58, 2: totum Sempronium usque eo perago, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 1.—

To carry through, go through with, execute, finish, accomplish, complete, etc.

In gen. (class.;

syn.: exsequor, conficio, patro): multum egerunt, qui ante nos fuerunt, sed non peregerunt,

Sen. Ep. 64, 8: carmen tubā solā peregit, Enn. ap. Lact. ad Stat. Th. 11, 56 (Ann. v. 508 Vahl.):

fabulam,

Cic. Sen. 19, 70; cf. id. ib. 18, 64 (and v. peractio):

comitia,

id. N. D. 2, 4, 10:

concilium,

Caes. B. G. 6, 4:

partes suas,

Plin. Ep. 7, 33, 5:

conata,

Juv. 13. 210:

inceptum,

Verg. A. 4, 452:

cursum,

id. ib. 4, 653; cf.:

coeptum iter,

Ov. F. 1, 188:

dona,

to finish distributing, Verg. A. 5, 362: mandata, Ov. M. 7, 502:

aetatem, vitam, aevum,

id. Tr. 4, 8, 13; 41; id. M. 15, 485:

facinus,

Juv. 6, 640; also, to exhaust:

quot viros,

Auct. Priap. 34.— Absol., = diagein, to pass one's life, Pers. 5, 138.— Pass. impers.:

Quis non peractum esse cum Pompeio crederet?

that the war with Pompey is ended, Flor. 4, 2, 53.—

In partic., in jurid. Lat.:

reum,

to continue a prosecution till the defendant is condemned, Liv. 4, 42; Plin. Ep. 3, 9, 4; Ov. P. 4, 6, 30; Val. Max. 6, 2, 4:

accusationem,

to prosecute to the end, Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 6:

receptus est reus, neque peractus, ob mortem opportunam,

Tac. A. 4, 21.—

In gen., to work, or work up any thing.

Lit.:

humum,

to till, cultivate, Ov. F. 4, 693:

cibum,

to digest, Plin. 9, 60, 86, § 183. —

Trop., to go through, go over, to relate, describe, detail, state:

legatus peragit deinde postulata...Haec paucis verbis carminis concipiendique jurisjurandi mutatis peragit,

Liv. 1, 32, 6 sq.:

verbis auspicia,

to mention, id. 1, 18 fin.:

res pace belloque gestas,

to describe, treat of, id. 2, 1:

dum perago tecum pauca,

Ov. Am. 2, 2, 2:

res tenues, tenui sermone peractas,

delivered, Hor. S. 2, 4, 9.

trans-curro, curri or cŭcurri (the former, Cic. Brut. 81, 282; Auct. Her. 4, 34, 45; Liv. 40, 40, 7; Quint. 9, 3, 89; Sen. Contr. 1, 6, 10;

the latter,

Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96; Suet. Calig. 24; Curt. 6, 3, 16), cursum, 3, v. n. and a.

To run over or across, to run, go, sail, etc., by or past.

Lit. cito Transcurre curriculo ad nos, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 43 sq.:

hinc ad forum,

Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 25:

praeter oculos,

Ov. M. 14, 359; cf.:

praeter ora populi,

Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96.— Absol.:

remos transcurrentes detergere,

in sailing by, Caes. B. C. 1, 58:

haud dubius, sine noxā transcursuros, si nemo se opponeret,

Curt. 4, 13, 33; Val. Fl. 4, 615. — Impers. pass.:

captis propioribus castris in altera transcursum castra ab Romanis est,

Liv. 25, 39, 7:

in arcem transcurso opus est tibi,

Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 17.—

Trop.:

ne sine delectu temere in dissimilem rem,

Auct. Her. 4, 34, 45:

hic tamen ad melius poterit transcurrere quondam,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 82:

in prolem transcurrit gratia patrum,

Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 51; so,

tempus,

Petr. 136.— Impers. pass.:

praecipiti cursu a virtute descitum, ad vitia transcursum,

Vell. 2, 1, 1.—

Of time, to pass by, elapse:

patiar ergo aestatem inquietem transcurrere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 2, 2:

cum tempus jam longum transcurreret,

Gell. 5, 10, 7.—

To run, hasten, or pass through, to traverse.

Lit.:

per spatium,

Lucr. 4, 192:

per geminum tempus (harundo),

Sil. 12, 414:

cum transcucurrisset Campaniam,

Suet. Calig. 24:

reliquas trunci partes (umor),

Col. 3, 10, 1:

(luna) radios solis,

id. 2, 10, 10:

Hellespontum,

Nep. Eum. 3, 3:

tot montium juga transcucurrimus,

Curt. 6, 3, 16:

caelum (nimbus),

Verg. A. 9. 111.— In pass.:

raptim transcursā primā porticu,

App. M. 9, p. 217; id. Flor. 1, p. 520, 19.—

Trop.

In gen.: suum cursum, to run through, hasten to the end of one ' s career, * Cic. Brut. 81, 282. —

In partic., to run through or over in speaking, to treat cursorily, touch briefly upon:

narrationem,

Sen. Contr. 1, 2 med.:

partem operis,

Quint. 9, 3, 89:

in quā (narratione) sciens transcurram subtiles nimium divisiones,

pass over, id. 4, 2, 2; 10, 1, 19; 10, 5, 8.

dē-scendo, di, sum, 3 ( perf. redupl.: descendidit, Valer. Antias ap. Gell. 7, 4 fin.; and, descendiderant, Laber. ib.; perf.: desciderunt, Inscr. Frat. Arv. 13 Henzen.), v. n., to come down; and of inanimate subjects, to fall, sink down, to descend, opp. to ascendo (class. and freq.).

Lit.

In gen.:

ex equo,

to alight, Cic. de Sen. 10, 34; Auct. B. Hisp. 15, 2;

for which, equo,

Sall. Hist. Fragm. 5, 13:

sicut monte descenderat,

id. J. 50, 2:

e curru,

Suet. Tib. 20:

e tribunali,

id. Claud. 15:

de rostris,

Cic. Vatin. 11:

de templo,

Liv. 44, 45:

de caelo,

id. 6, 18;

for which, caelo,

Hor. Od. 3, 4, 1:

e caelo,

Juv. 11, 27:

caelo ab alto,

Verg. A. 8, 423; cf.:

vertice montis ab alto,

id. ib. 7, 675; and:

ab Histro (Da cus),

id. G. 2, 497:

ab Alpibus,

Liv. 21, 32, 2; 27, 38, 6:

monte,

Verg. A. 4, 159:

aggeribus Alpinis atque arce Monoeci,

id. ib. 6, 831:

antro Castalio,

Ov. M. 3, 14:

per clivum,

id. F. 1, 263 et saep.—Indicating the terminus ad quem:

in mare de caelo,

Lucr. 6, 427:

Juppiter in terras,

id. 6, 402:

in pon tum,

Sil. 1, 607; 15, 152; cf.:

caelo in hibernas undas,

Verg. G. 4, 235:

caelo ad suos honores templaque, etc.,

Ov. F. 5, 551:

in aestum,

Lucr. 6, 402:

in inferiorem ambulationem,

Cic. Tusc. 4:

in campos,

Liv. 6, 737; cf. Curt. 9, 9:

in Piraeum,

Quint. 8, 6, 64 et saep.:

ad naviculas,

Cic. Ac. 2, 48 fin.:

ad genitorem imas Erebi descendit ad umbras,

Verg. A. 6, 404:

sinus vestis infra genua,

Curt. 6, 5 et saep. Poet. also with dat.:

nocti, i. e. ad inferos,

Sil. 13, 708; cf.

Erebo,

id. 13, 759.—With sup.:

per quod oraculo utentes sciscitatum deos descendunt,

Liv. 45, 27, 8.— Absol.:

turbo descendit,

Lucr. 6, 438; cf. Verg. E. 7, 60:

asta ut descendam (sc. ex equo),

dismount, alight, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 120; Suet. Galb. 18:

descendens (sc. e lecto),

Tib. 1, 5, 41:

descendo (sc. de arce),

Verg. A. 2, 632:

umbrae descendentes (sc. ad inferos),

Stat. S. 5, 5, 41.— Poet.: trepidi quoties nos descendentis arenae vidimus in partes, i. e. that seemed to sink as the wild beasts rose from the vaults, Calp. Ecl. 7, 69.—

In partic.

To go down, to go, to come, sc. from the dwelling-houses (which in Rome were mostly situated on eminences) to the forum, the comitia, etc.: in forum descendens, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 267; so, ad forum, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 538, 26; Q. Cic. Petit. cons. 14; Valer. Antias ap. Gell. 7, 9 fin.; Liv. 24, 7; 34, 1; cf.:

fuge, quo descendere gestis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 5;

Orell. ad loc.: ad comitia,

Suet. Caes. 13 al.:

de palatio et aedibus suis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 46.— Absol.:

hodie non descendit Antonius,

Cic. Phil. 2, 6, 15; id. Verr. 2, 2, 38; Liv. 2, 54; Sen. Ben. 3, 27 al. —

Transf.:

in causam,

Cic. Phil. 8, 2; Liv. 36, 7; Tac. H. 3, 3:

in partes,

id. A. 15, 50. —

Of land, etc., to sink, fall, slope:

regio,

Val. Fl. 1, 538.—

Of forests whose wood is brought to the plain, Stat. Ach. 2, 115:

Caucasus,

Val. Fl. 7, 55.—

Of water conveyed in pipes, to fall:

subeat descendatque,

Plin. 31, 6, 31, § 57; cf.

of the sea: non magis descenderet aequor,

Luc. 5, 338.—

In milit. lang., to march down, sc. from an eminence [p. 555] into the plain:

ex superioribus locis in planitiem,

Caes. B. C. 3, 98; cf. id. ib. 3, 65, 2:

qua (sc. de monte),

Sall. J. 50, 3:

inde (sc. de arce),

Liv. 32, 32; cf. id. 7, 29:

in aequum locum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 53, 2;

for which, in aequum,

Liv. 1, 12:

in campum omnibus copiis,

id. 23, 29:

in plana,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 18:

ad Alexandriam,

Liv. 45, 12 et saep.— Absol., Liv. 44, 5; Front. Strat. 3, 17, 9:

ad laevam,

Sall. J. 55 al. —With supine:

praedatum in agros Romanos,

Liv. 3, 10, 4; 10, 31, 2.—Hence,

Transf.:

in aciem,

to go into battle, to engage, Liv. 8, 8; 23, 29; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 11 al.:

in proelium,

id. ib. 2, 1, 10; Just. 21, 2, 5:

in certamen,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 26:

ad pugnam, ad tales pugnas,

Val. Fl. 3, 518; Juv. 7, 173; Front. Strat. 2, 1, 11; 2, 5, 41;

and even, in bellum,

Just. 15, 4, 21; 38, 8, 1; cf.:

in belli periculum,

id. 15, 1, 2.—

In medic. lang., of the excrements: to pass off, pass through, Cels. 2, 4 fin.:

olera,

id. 1, 6:

alvus,

id. 2, 7.—

Pregn., to sink down, penetrate into any thing (freq. only after the Aug. per.;

not in Cic. and Caes.): ferrum in corpus,

Liv. 1, 41; cf. Sil. 16, 544:

toto descendit in ilia ferro,

Ov. M. 3, 67:

(harundo) in caput,

Luc. 6, 216; cf.:

in jugulos gladiis descendebant (hostes),

Flor. 3, 10, 13:

ense in jugulos,

Claud. B. Get. 601:

in terram (fulmen),

Plin. 2, 55, 56, § 146:

in rimam calamus,

id. 17, 14, 24, § 102:

subjacens soli duritia non patitur in altum descendere (radices), lapathi radix ad tria cubita,

Plin. 19, 6, 31, § 98 et saep.:

toto corpore pestis,

Verg. A. 5, 683:

galeas vetant descendere cristae,

to sink down, Stat. Th. 9, 262. —

In an obscene sense, Catull. 112, 2; Juv. 11, 163.—

Trop.

In gen. (esp. freq. in Quint.), to descend, etc.:

a vita pastorali ad agriculturam,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 3 sq.; cf.:

ad aliquem,

Just. 1, 4, 1:

usus in nostram aetatem descendit,

Quint. 1, 11, 18:

(vox) attollitur concitatis affectibus, compositis descendit,

id. 11, 3, 65; cf. id. 9, 4, 92:

grammatici omnes in hanc descendent rerum tenuitatem,

id. 1, 4, 7 et saep.:

in omnia familiaritatis officia,

Plin. Pan. 85, 5.— Pass. impers.:

eo contemptionis descensum, ut, etc.,

Tac. A. 15, 1 et saep.:

si quid tamen olim Scripseris, in Maeci descendat judicis aures,

Hor. A. P. 387:

si descendere ad ipsum Ordine perpetuo quaeris sunt hujus origo Ilus et Assaracus, etc.,

Ov. M. 11, 754.—

In partic.

(Acc. to no. I. A. 4.) To sink deep into, to penetrate deeply:

quod verbum in pectus Jugurthae altius, quam quisquam ratus erat, descendit,

Sall. J. 11, 7; cf.:

ut altius injuriae quam merita descendant,

Sen. Ben. 1, 1 med.; id. Contr. 1 praef.; Spart. Ant. Get. 6:

cura in animos Patrum,

Liv. 3, 52; cf.:

qui (metus deorum) cum descendere ad animos... non posset,

id. 1, 19:

nemo in sese tentat descendere,

to examine himself, Pers. 4, 23.—

To lower one's self, descend to an act or employment, etc.; to yield, agree to any act, esp. to one which is unpleasant or wrong (freq. in Cic. and Caes.; cf. Orell. ad Cic. Cael. 2, and Fabri ad Liv. 23, 14, 3).—Constr. with ad, very rarely with in or absol.:

senes ad ludum adolescentium descendant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 43; cf. id. de Or. 2, 6:

ad calamitatum societates,

id. Lael. 17, 64:

sua voluntate sapientem descendere ad rationes civitatis non solere,

id. Rep. 1, 6 al.:

ad ejusmodi consilium,

Caes. B. G. 5, 29, 5:

ad innocentium supplicia,

id. ib. 6, 16 fin.:

ad vim atque ad arma,

id. ib. 7, 33:

ad gravissimas verborum contumelias,

id. B. C. 3, 83:

ad accusandum, ad inimicitias,

Cic. Mur. 27, 56; id. Sest. 41, 89; cf. id. Div. in Caecil. 1: ad extrema, Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:

ad frontis urbanae praemia,

Hor. Ep. 1, 9, 11:

preces in omnes,

Verg. A. 5, 782:

videte, quo descendam, judices,

Cic. Font. 1, 2; cf. id. Verr. 2, 1, 38; Caes. B. C. 1, 81, 5:

ad intellectum audientis,

Quint. 1, 2, 27:

ad minutissima opera,

id. 1, 12, 14; 4, 2, 15: placet mihi ista defensio;

descendo,

I acquiesce, id. ib. 2, 2, 72.—

(Mostly ante-Aug.) To descend or proceed from any person or thing:

ex gradu ascendentium vel descendentium uxorem ducere,

Dig. 23, 2, 68 et saep.:

quod genus liberalitatis ex jure gentium descendit,

ib. 43, 26, 1; cf. ib. 18, 1, 57 fin.:

a Platone,

Plin. 22, 24, 51, § 111; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 43.—Hence, subst.: dē-scendens, entis, m. and f., a descendant; plur. descendentes, posterity, Dig. 23, 2, 68. —

(In Quint.) To depart, deviate, differ from:

tantum ab eo defluebat, quantum ille (sc. Seneca) ab antiquis descenderat,

Quint. 10, 1, 126; id. 3, 5, 8.

2, 16, 13, § 71; Prud. Apoth. 1075.

per-mitto, mīsi, missum, 3, v. a., to let go through, suffer to pass through.

Lit. (very rare): fenestellae permittant columbas ad introitum exitumque, Pall. 1, 24, 1. —

Transf., to let go, let loose:

equos permittunt in hostem,

i. e. ride at full speed, Liv. 3, 61: equum concitatum ad hostium aciem, Sisenn. ap. Non. 162, 3:

se incautius in hostem,

i. e. to rush upon, Hirt. B. G. 8, 48: multi ex summo se permitterent, sprang down, Sisenn. ap. Non. 162, 5:

gregem campo,

to turn out into, Nemes. Ecl. 7.—Mid., to spread, extend, reach: odor possit permitti longius, spreads farther, Lucr 4, 688:

deserta regio ad Arimphaeos usque permittitur,

extends, Mel. 1, 19, 20.—

In partic.

To send away, export:

caseos trans maria,

Col. 7, 8, 6.—

To let fly, cast, hurl, throw, so as to reach the mark:

saxum permittit in hostem,

Ov. M. 12, 282; 14, 182:

longius tela,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

quācumque datur permittere visus,

to direct, cast, Sil. 3, 534.—

Trop.

To let loose, let go (rare):

tribunatum,

to make free use of, exercise without reserve, Liv. 2, 56:

se ad aliquam rem,

to strive after a thing, Gell. 6, 16, 1:

habenas equo,

Tib. 4, 1, 92.—

To give up, leave, intrust, surrender, commit (class.;

syn.: committo, commendo): totum ei negotium permisi,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:

permittitur infinita potestas,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 33:

aliquem judicum potestati,

id. Font. 14, 40:

alicui summam belli administrandi,

Caes. B. C. 1, 36:

fortunas suas fidei alicujus,

id. B. G. 5, 3:

alicui licentiam agendarum rerum,

Sall. J. 103, 3:

permissum ipsi erat, faceret, quod vellet,

Liv. 24, 14:

aliquem vitae,

to give one his life, Luc. 7, 731:

feminas maribus,

Col. 6, 24: permittere se, to give up or surrender one's self:

se suaque omnia in fidem atque potestatem populi Romani permittere,

Caes. B. G. 2, 3, 2:

se suaque omnia eorum potestati permittere,

id. ib. 2, 31, 3; Liv. 36, 28:

se in deditionem consulis,

id. 8, 20; 40, 49—

To give leave, let, allow, suffer, grant, permit (class.;

syn.: sino, patior): neque discessisset a me, nisi ego ei permisissem,

Cic. Fam. 13, 71:

tibi permitto respondere, ne, etc.,

id. N. D. 3, 1, 4:

quis Antonio permisit, ut, etc.,

id. de Or. 2, 90, 366:

ipsis judicibus conjecturam facere,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 22; Caes. B. C. 1, 50:

ibi permisso, ut, etc.,

Liv. 6, 25; 34, 31:

ut tuto transire permittatur,

Sen. Ben. 4, 12, 2:

permissus ut regnaret,

Curt. 8, 12, 6; Cic. de Or. 2, 90, 368; Liv. 35, 20:

non permittitur reprimere impetum,

Sen. Ira, 1, 7, 4:

si conjectare permittitur,

Plin. 4, 14, 28, § 99: permittere sibi, with a foll. object-clause, to allow or permit one's self, to venture to do a thing, Quint. 1, 4, 3.— So with acc.:

nil non permittit mulier sibi, Juv 6, 457: permitto aliquid iracundiae tuae,

to make allowance for, Cic. Sull. 16, 46:

inimicitias sibi cum aliquo susceptas patribus conscriptis et temporibus rei publicae,

to sacrifice them to the state of the country, id. Sest. 33, 72.—Hence, permis-sus, a, um, P. a.

Permitted; hence, subst.: permissum, i, n., a permission:

utor permisso,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 45; Dig. 11, 7, 8; Inscr. Grut. 80, 13.—

Let go, Plaut. ap. Fest. p. 215 Müll.

pĕr-ĕo, ĭi (īvi), ĭtum, īre (periet for peribit, Coripp. Johann. 7, 27; perf. perivit, App. M. 4, 21:

perīt,

Juv. 8, 85:

perisset,

Lact. 3, 20, 17 al.:

perisse,

Liv. 1, 49, 1; Ov. Am. 2, 19, 56; fut. periet, Vulg. Sap. 4, 19 al.), v. n.

To pass away, come to nothing; to vanish, disappear, be lost:

e patriā,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 5:

ecqua inde perisset soror,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 15:

ne vena periret aquae,

Ov. Tr. 3, 7, 16.—

Esp., to pass through, leak, be absorbed ( poet.):

lymphae Dolium pereuntis,

Hor. C. 3, 11, 27; cf.:

postremo pereunt imbres, ubi eos pater aether In gremium matris terrai praecipitavit,

Lucr. 1, 250.—

To pass away, to be destroyed, to perish (the predom. and class. signif. of the word; syn.: occĭdo, intereo, obeo).

In gen.:

aedes cum fundamento perierint,

Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 69:

tantam pecuniam tam brevi tempore perire potuisse,

Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11:

totum exercitum periturum,

Nep. Epam. 7, 4:

fac pereat vitreo miles ab hoste tuus (in the game of chess),

let your knight be taken by a pawn, Ov. A. A. 2, 208:

causae cur urbes perirent,

Hor. C. 1, 16, 19:

peritura regna,

Verg. G. 2, 498:

puppis,

Ov. F. 3, 600:

Troja peritura,

Verg. A. 2, 660:

pereunt sole tepente nives,

melt away, Ov. F. 3, 236:

telum rubigine,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 13:

comae,

Ov. Am. 1, 14, 30:

fabae laeso flore,

id. F. 5, 267.—Of the crocus:

gaudet calcari et atteri, pereundoque melius provenit,

Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 34.—

In partic.

To perish, lose one's life, die (class.): non intellego, quamobrem, si vivere honeste non possunt, perire turpiter velint;

aut cur minore dolore perituros se cum multis, quam si soli pereant, arbitrentur,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21:

summo cruciatu supplicioque,

id. N. D. 3, 33, 81:

fame,

id. Inv. 2, 57, 172:

eodem leto esse pereundum,

id. Div. 1, 26, 56:

morbo,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 86:

naufragio,

Cic. Deiot. 9, 25:

hominum manibus,

Verg. A. 3, 606:

uterque juravit, periturum inter nos secretum,

that it should perish with us, Petr. 21:

ab Hannibale,

at his hands, Plin. 11, 37, 73, § 189:

perire turpiter,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 21:

fortiter,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 42:

generosius,

id. C. 1, 37, 21:

a morbo,

Nep. Reg. 3, 3.—

To pine away with love, to be desperately in love; to love to desperation ( poet.):

indigno cum Gallus amore peribat,

Verg. E. 10, 10; Cat. 45, 3:

quo beatus Vulnere, quā pereat sagittā,

Hor. C. 1, 27, 11:

ipse Paris nudā fertur periisse Lacaenā,

Prop. 2, 12, 13.—With acc. of the beloved object, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 135.—

To be lost, wasted, spent in vain:

ne et oleum et opera perierit,

Cic. Att. 2, 17, 1:

tempora,

Ov. R. Am. 107:

labor,

id. M. 1, 273:

nullus perit otio dies,

Plin. 11, 6, 5, § 14:

ne nummi pereant,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 133:

minae,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 25:

aurum,

Col. 11, 1, 29; cf.

actiones,

Liv. 39, 18.—

To be lost, ruined, undone:

quid fieri tum potuit? jampridem perieramus,

Cic. Att. 14, 10, 1:

meo vitio pereo,

id. ib. 11, 9, 1.—Hence, perii, etc., as an exclamation of despair, I am lost! I'm undone! hei mihi, disperii! vocis non habeo satis:

vicini, interii, perii,

Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 36:

perii, interii, occidi! quo curram! quo non curram?

id. Aul. 4, 9, 1:

perii animo,

am disheartened, id. Rud. 2, 6, 26; cf.:

ingenio perii,

Ov. Tr. 2, 2; Lucr. 4, 1136:

periimus, actum est,

we are lost, it is all over with us, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 26:

perierat et inventus est,

Vulg. Luc. 24, 32; 15, 6.—So, peream, si, nisi, in asseverations, may I perish, may I die, if or if not, Ov. H. 17, 183; Cassiod. ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 4; Ov. P. 3, 5, 47; id. H. 17, 183.— Gerund and gerundive:

nisi illud perdo argentum, pereundum est mihi,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 91; Prop. 2, 1, 53:

pereundi figurae,

Ov. H. 10, 81:

pereundi terminus,

Sil. 3, 559:

puppis pereunda est probe,

must be lost, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 70.—

Trop., of moral qualities, etc.:

pudor periit,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 81:

fides,

id. Truc. 1, 1, 24:

virtus,

Ov. F. 2, 227.

ā-mitto, mīsi, missum, 3, v. a. (amīsti, sync., = amisisti, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10; id. Hec. 2, 2, 9:

amīssis, sync., = amiseris,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 70).

1. A.. In gen., to send away from one's self, to dismiss (thus, anteclass., freq. in Plaut. and Ter.): quod nos dicimus dimittere, antiqui etiam dicebant amittere, Don. ad Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 71; Att. ap. Non. 75, 32:

stulte feci, qui hunc (servum) amisi,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 66; id. ib. 4, 5, 25; so id. ib. 4, 5, 28:

quo pacto hic servos suum erum hinc amittat domum,

id. Capt. prol. 36:

et te et hunc amittam hinc,

id. ib. 2, 2, 82; so id. Most. 2, 2, 2; id. Men. 5, 8, 6 al.:

ut neque mi jus sit amittendi nec retinendi copia,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 24; 5, 8, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 8, 17 al.:

testis mecum est anulus, quem amiserat,

which he had sent away, id. Ad. 3, 2, 49; Varr. ap. Non. 83, 12.—

Spec., to let go, let slip:

praedā de manibus amissā,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20.—With simple abl.:

praedam ex oculis manibusque amittere,

Liv. 30, 24; 29, 32 et saep.:

Sceledre, manibus amisisti praedam,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 47 Ritschl.—

Trop.

In gen.:

istam rem certum est non amittere,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 217:

tibi hanc amittam noxiam unam,

to remit, to pardon, id. Poen. 1, 2, 191:

occasionem amittere,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 58; so Cic. Caecin. 5, 15; id. Att. 15, 11; Caes. B. G. 3, 18 al. (opp. occasionem raptare, Cic.:

arripere, Liv.: complecti, Plin. Min.: intellegere, Tac.): servire tempori et non amittere tempus cum sit datum,

Cic. Att. 8, 3, 6:

fidem amittere,

to break their word given on oath, Nep. Eun. 10, 2 Dähn.; Ov. M. 15, 556 al.—

Of trees, to let go, let fall, to drop, lose:

punica florem amittit,

Plin. 16, 26, 46, § 109:

pyrus et amygdala amittunt florem et primos fructus,

id. ib.:

ocissime salix amittit semen,

id. 16, 26, 46, § 110.—

Esp., to lose (commonly without criminality, by mistake, accident, etc.; while perdere usually designates a losing through one's own fault; and omittere, to allow a thing to pass by or over, which one might have obtained): Decius amisit vitam; at non perdidit: dedit vitam, accepit patriam: amisit animam, potitus est gloriā, Auct. ad Her. 4, 44, 57: Multa amittuntur tarditie et socordiā, Att. ap. Non. 181, 21 (Trag. Rel. p. 73 Rib.):

Simul consilium cum re amisti?

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10:

amittit vitam sensumque priorem,

Lucr. 3, 769 et saep.:

imperii jus amittere,

Cic. Phil. 10, 5 fin.:

ut totam litem aut obtineamus aut amittamus,

id. Rosc. Com. 4, 10:

classes optimae amissae et perditae,

id. Verr. 1, 5, 13:

filium amisit (sc. per mortem),

id. Fam. 4, 6; so Tac. Agr. 6; Suet. Vesp. 3; id. Calig. 12:

oppidum Capsam et magnam pecuniam amiserat,

Sall. J. 97, 1:

patrimoniis amissis,

id. C. 37, 5:

amittere optimates, i. e. favorem, animum eorum,

Nep. Dion, 7, 2 Dähn.:

patriam,

Liv. 5, 53:

exercitum,

id. 8, 33:

opera amissa (sc. incendio) restituit,

id. 5, 7; so Suet. Claud. 6:

si reperire vocas amittere certius,

i. e. to know more certainly that she is lost, Ov. M. 5, 519:

colores,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 27; so id. S. 1, 1, 60; 2, 5, 2 (not elsewh. in Hor.).

ex-pĕrĭor, pertus ( act. experiero, Varr. L. L. 8, 9, 24 dub.), 4, v. dep. a. [ex- and root per-; Sanscr. par-, pi-parmi, conduct; Gr. peraô, pass through; poros, passage; peira, experience; Lat. porta, portus, peritus, periculum; Germ. fahren, erfahren; Eng. fare, ferry], to try a thing; viz., either by way of testing or of attempting it.

To try, prove, put to the test.

In tempp. praes. constr. with the acc., a rel. clause, or absol.

With acc.:

habuisse aiunt domi (venenum), vimque ejus esse expertum in servo quodam ad eam rem ipsam parato,

Cic. Cael. 24, 58:

taciturnitatem nostram,

id. Brut. 65, 231:

amorem alicujus,

id. Att. 16, 16, C, 1:

his persuaserant, uti eandem belli fortunam experirentur,

Caes. B. G. 2, 16, 3:

judicium discipulorum,

Quint. 2, 5, 12:

in quo totas vires suas eloquentia experiretur,

id. 10, 1, 109:

imperium,

Liv. 2, 59, 4:

cervi cornua ad arbores subinde experientes,

Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 117 et saep.—

With a personal object: vin' me experiri?

make trial of me, Plaut. Merc. 4, 4, 29:

hanc experiamur,

Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 12 Ruhnk.:

tum se denique errasse sentiunt, cum eos (amicos) gravis aliquis casus experiri cogit,

Cic. Lael. 22, 84:

in periclitandis experiendisque pueris,

id. Div. 2, 46, 97.—So with se. reflex., to make trial of one's powers in any thing:

se heroo (versu),

Plin. Ep. 7, 4, 3 [p. 694] variis se studiorum generibus, id. ib. 9, 29, 1:

se in foro,

Quint. 12, 11, 16.—

With a rel.-clause, ut, etc.: vosne velit an me regnare era quidve ferat Fors, Virtute experiamur, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 204, ed. Vahl.):

lubet experiri, quo evasuru'st denique,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 93:

experiri libet, quantum audeatis,

Liv. 25, 38, 11; cf. Nep. Alcib. 1, 1:

in me ipso experior, ut exalbescam, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121; cf. with si:

expertique simul, si tela artusque sequantur,

Val. Fl. 5, 562.—

Absol.:

experiendo magis quam discendo cognovi,

Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 10:

judicare difficile est sane nisi expertum: experiendum autem est in ipsa amicitia: ita praecurrit amicitia judicium tollitque experiendi potestatem,

id. Lael. 17, 62.—

In the tempp. perf., to have tried, tested, experienced, i. e. to find or know by experience:

benignitatem tuam me experto praedicas,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 18:

omnia quae dico de Plancio, dico expertus in nobis,

Cic. Planc. 9, 22:

experti scire debemus, etc.,

id. Mil. 26, 69:

illud tibi expertus promitto,

id. Fam. 13, 9, 3:

dicam tibi, Catule, non tam doctus, quam, id quod est majus, expertus,

id. de Or. 2, 17, 72:

puellae jam virum expertae,

Hor. C. 3, 14, 11; 4, 4, 3; cf. Quint. 6, 5, 7:

mala captivitatis,

Sulp. Sev. 2, 22, 5:

id opera expertus sum esse ita,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 2, 3:

expertus sum prodesse,

Quint. 2, 4, 13:

expertus, juvenem praelongos habuisse sermones,

id. 10, 3, 32:

ut frequenter experti sumus,

id. 1, 12, 11.—

Rarely in other tenses: et exorabile numen Fortasse experiar,

may find, Juv. 13, 103.—

To make trial of, in a hostile sense, to measure strength with, to contend with:

ut interire quam Romanos non experiri mallet,

Nep. Ham. 4, 3:

maritimis moribus mecum experitur,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 11:

ipsi duces cominus invicem experti,

Flor. 3, 21, 7; 4, 10, 1; cf.:

hos cum Suevi, multis saepe bellis experti, finibus expellere non potuissent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 3, 4:

Turnum in armis,

Verg. A. 7, 434.

To undertake, to attempt, to make trial of, undergo, experience a thing.

In gen.:

qui desperatione debilitati experiri id nolent, quod se assequi posse diffidant. Sed par est omnes omnia experiri, qui, etc.,

Cic. Or. 1, 4; cf.:

istuc primum experiar,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 47:

omnia experiri certum est, priusquam pereo,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 11:

omnia prius quam, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 7, 78, 1:

extrema omnia,

Sall. C. 26, 5; cf.

also: sese omnia de pace expertum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 57, 2:

libertatem,

i. e. to make use of, enjoy, Sall. J. 31, 5:

late fusum opus est et multiplex, etc.... dicere experiar,

Quint. 2, 13, 17:

quod quoniam me saepius rogas, aggrediar, non tam perficiundi spe quam experiundi voluntate,

Cic. Or. 1, 2.—With ut and subj.:

nunc si vel periculose experiundum erit, experiar certe, ut hinc avolem,

Cic. Att. 9, 10, 3:

experiri, ut sine armis propinquum ad officium reduceret,

Nep. Dat. 2, 3.—

In partic., jurid. t. t., to try or test by law, to go to law:

aut intra parietes aut summo jure experietur,

Cic. Quint. 11, 38; cf.:

in jus vocare est juris experiundi causa vocare,

Dig. 2, 4, 1; 47, 8, 4:

a me diem petivit: ego experiri non potui: latitavit,

Cic. Quint. 23, 75; Liv. 40, 29, 11:

sua propria bona malaque, cum causae dicendae data facultas sit, tum se experturum,

Liv. 3, 56, 10:

postulare ut judicium populi Romani experiri (liceat),

id. ib. —Hence,

expĕrĭens, entis, P. a. (acc. to II.), experienced, enterprising, active, industrious (class.):

homo gnavus et industrius, experientissimus ac diligentissimus arator,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 21, § 53:

promptus homo et experiens,

id. ib. 2, 4, 17, §

37: vir fortis et experiens,

id. Clu. 8, 23:

vir acer et experiens,

Liv. 6, 34, 4:

comes experientis Ulixei,

Ov. M. 14, 159:

ingenium,

id. Am. 1, 9, 32. —With gen.:

genus experiens laborum,

inured to, patient of, Ov. M. 1, 414:

rei militaris experientissimi duces,

Arn. 2, 38 init.; cf. Vulg. 2 Macc. 8, 9.— Comp. appears not to occur.—

expertus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), in pass. signif., tried, proved, known by experience (freq. after the Aug. per.):

vir acer et pro causa plebis expertae virtutis,

Liv. 3, 44, 3:

per omnia expertus,

id. 1, 34, 12:

indignitates homines expertos,

id. 24, 22, 2:

dulcedo libertatis,

id. 1, 17, 3:

industria,

Suet. Vesp. 4:

artes,

Tac. A. 3, 17: saevitia, Prop. 1, 3, 18:

confidens ostento sibi expertissimo,

Suet. Tib. 19.—With gen.:

expertos belli juvenes,

Verg. A. 10, 173; cf. Tac. H. 4, 76.— Comp. and adv. appear not to occur.

mētor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [meta], to measure, mete; to measure off, mark out (not in Cic.).

In gen.:

stadium Hercules pedibus suis metatus est,

Gell. 1, 1, 2:

caelum,

Ov. F. 1, 309:

Indiam,

Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 57. — Poet., to traverse, pass through:

nunc nemoris alti densa metatur loca,

Sen. Hippol. 505:

agros,

Sil. 6, 58.—

In partic.

Act., to measure out, mark, or lay out: castra metati signa statuunt, Cael. ap. Non. 137, 18: castra, * Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 3:

cum ortu solis castra metabatur,

measured out the ground for a camp, encamped, pitched his camp, Sall. J. 106, 5:

agrum,

Liv. 21, 25:

agros,

Verg. G. 2, 274:

eam (i. e. Alexandriam),

Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 62:

regiones (for a temple),

Liv. 1, 10, 6:

castra,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 27.—

Neutr., to encamp, pitch one's tent:

metarique sub ipso templo... jussit,

Liv. 44, 7, 2:

post tabernaculum,

Vulg. Num. 3, 23.—Hence, transf., to erect, pitch, set up:

tabernacula ciliciis,

Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 143.— Act. collat. form, mēto, āre, to measure, measure out, etc.:

loca,

Verg. Cul. 172.— Pass.:

locus metatur,

Sen. Thyest. 462.—Often in part. perf.:

castris eo loco metatis,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 15; so,

castra,

Liv. 44, 37, 1:

porticus,

Hor. C. 2, 15, 15:

agellus,

id. S. 2, 2, 114:

prope Beroeam vallo metato,

Amm. 31, 9, 1.

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

AF VOBEIS,

Inscr. Orell. 3114;

AF MVRO,

ib. 6601;

AF CAPVA,

ib. 3308;

AF SOLO,

ib. 589;

AF LYCO,

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

abs chorago,

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

abs quivis,

Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 1:

abs terra,

Cato, R. R. 51;

and in compounds: aps-cessero,

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

and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus,

id. 28, 37, 2; v. Drakenb. ad. h. l. (Weissenb. ab).—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became ds- in the three compounds aspello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for asspernor); v. these words.—The late Lat. verb abbrevio may stand for adbrevio, the d of ad being assimilated to the following b.The fundamental signification of ab is departure from some fixed point (opp. to ad. which denotes motion to a point).

In space, and,

Fig., in time and other relations, in which the idea of departure from some point, as from source and origin, is included; Engl. from, away from, out of; down from; since, after; by, at, in, on, etc.

Lit., in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Att. ap. Non. 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Rib.):

Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci,

Caes. B. G. 1, 7:

fuga ab urbe turpissima,

Cic. Att. 7, 21:

ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim,

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

illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci,

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

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

Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.

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

oppidum ab Aenea fugiente a Troja conditum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33:

quemadmodum (Caesar) a Gergovia discederet,

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

ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit,

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

protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat,

id. ib. 1, 25, 2:

profecti a domo,

Liv. 40, 33, 2;

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

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

classe qua advecti ab domo fuerant,

Liv. 8, 22, 6;

of citizens: interim ab Roma legatos venisse nuntiatum est,

Liv. 21, 9, 3; cf.:

legati ab Orico ad M. Valerium praetorem venerunt,

id. 24, 40, 2.

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

Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat,

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

libertus a Fuflis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit,

Cic. Fl. 20, 47:

Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse,

id. Att. 7, 24:

cum a vobis discessero,

id. Sen. 22:

multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque,

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

so a fratre,

id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5:

a Pontio,

Cic. Att. 5, 3 fin.:

ab ea,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; and so often: a me, a nobis, a se, etc., from my, our, his house, etc., Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 7; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50; Cic. Att. 4, 9, 1 al.

Transf., without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc., and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc.

Of separation:

ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui,

Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2:

abesse a domo paulisper maluit,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 39:

tum Brutus ab Roma aberat,

Sall. C. 40, 5:

absint lacerti ab stabulis,

Verg. G. 4, 14.—

Of distance:

quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe,

Cic. Caecin. 10, 28; cf.:

nos in castra properabamus, quae aberant bidui,

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

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

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

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

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

non amplius pedum milibus duobus ab castris castra distabant,

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

cum domus patris a foro longe abesset,

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

qui fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius,

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

quae procul erant a conspectu imperii,

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

procul a castris hostes in collibus constiterunt,

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

tu procul a patria Alpinas nives vides,

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

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

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 6; cf.:

tu apud socrum tuam prope a meis aedibus sedebas,

id. Pis. 11, 26; and:

tam prope ab domo detineri,

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

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

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

duo milia fere et quingentos passus ab hoste posuerunt castra,

id. 37, 38, 5). —

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

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

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

pleraque Alpium ab Italia sicut breviora ita arrectiora sunt,

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

non eadem diligentia ab decumuna porta castra munita,

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

erat a septentrionibus collis,

on the north, id. ib. 7, 83, 2; so, ab oriente, a meridie, ab occasu; a fronte, a latere, a tergo, etc. (v. these words).

Fig.

In time.

From a [p. 3] point of time, without reference to the period subsequently elapsed. After:

Exul ab octava Marius bibit,

Juv. 1,40:

mulieres jam ab re divin[adot ] adparebunt domi,

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

Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus,

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

ab hac contione legati missi sunt,

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

ab eo magistratu,

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

a summa spe novissima exspectabat,

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

ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni,

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

confestim a proelio expugnatis hostium castris,

Liv. 30, 36, 1:

statim a funere,

Suet. Caes. 85;

and followed by statim: ab itinere statim,

id. ib. 60:

protinus ab adoptione,

Vell. 2, 104, 3:

Homerus qui recens ab illorum actate fuit,

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

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

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

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

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

With reference to a subsequent period. From, since, after:

ab hora tertia bibebatur,

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

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

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

vixit ab omni aeternitate,

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

cum quo a condiscipulatu vivebat conjunctissime,

Nep. Att. 5, 3:

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

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

centesima lux est haec ab interitu P. Clodii,

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

cujus a morte quintus hic et tricesimus annus est,

id. Sen. 6, 19; and:

ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumiun annum,

since, Sall. C. 47, 2:

diebus triginta, a qua die materia caesa est,

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

quod augures omnes usque ab Romulo decreverunt,

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

jam inde ab infelici pugna ceciderant animi,

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

ab hora octava ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus,

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

cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit,

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

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

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

pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum,

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

Particularly with nouns denoting a time of life:

qui homo cum animo inde ab ineunte aetate depugnat suo,

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

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

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

a pueritia,

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

jam inde ab adulescentia,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 16:

ab adulescentia,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1:

jam a prima adulescentia,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 23:

ab ineunte adulescentia,

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

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

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 20:

a primis temporibus aetatis,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 3:

a teneris unguiculis,

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

usque a toga pura,

id. Att. 7, 8, 5:

jam inde ab incunabulis,

Liv. 4, 36, 5:

a prima lanugine,

Suet. Oth. 12:

viridi ab aevo,

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

rarely of animals: ab infantia,

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

qui olim a puero parvulo mihi paedagogus fuerat,

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

a pausillo puero,

id. Stich. 1, 3, 21:

a puero,

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

a pueris,

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

ab adulescente,

id. Quint. 3, 12:

ab infante,

Col. 1, 8, 2:

a parva virgine,

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

a parvis,

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

a parvulo,

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

ab parvulis,

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

ab tenero,

Col. 5, 6, 20;

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

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13.

In other relations in which the idea of going forth, proceeding, from something is included.

In gen. to denote departure, separation, deterring, avoiding, intermitting, etc., or distance, difference, etc., of inanimate or abstract things. From: jus atque aecum se a malis spernit procul, Enn. ap. Non. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

qui discessum animi a corpore putent esse mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18:

hic ab artificio suo non recessit,

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

quod si exquiratur usque ab stirpe auctoritas,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 180:

condicionem quam ab te peto,

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

mercedem gloriae flagitas ab iis, quorum, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34:

si quid ab illo acceperis,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 90:

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

Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26:

ab defensione desistere,

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

ne quod tempus ab opere intermitteretur,

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

ut homines adulescentis a dicendi studio deterream,

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

qui quartus ab Arcesila fuit,

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

tu nunc eris alter ab illo,

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

Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus,

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

quid hoc ab illo differt,

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

hominum vita tantum distat a victu et cultu bestiarum,

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

discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam,

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

quae non aliena esse ducerem a dignitate,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7:

alieno a te animo fuit,

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

subdole ab re consulit,

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

haut est ab re aucupis,

Plaut. As. 1, 3, 71:

non ab re esse Quinctii visum est,

Liv. 35, 32, 6; so Plin. 27, 8, 35; 31, 3, 26; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Dom. 11; Gell. 18, 14 fin.; App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 31, 22 al. (but in Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44, ab re means with respect to the money matter).

In partic.

To denote an agent from whom an action proceeds, or by whom a thing is done or takes place. By, and in archaic and solemn style, of. So most frequently with pass. or intrans. verbs with pass. signif., when the active object is or is considered as a living being: Laudari me abs te, a laudato viro, Naev. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 31, 67: injuria abs te afficior, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38:

a patre deductus ad Scaevolam,

Cic. Lael. 1, 1:

ut tamquam a praesentibus coram haberi sermo videretur,

id. ib. 1, 3:

disputata ab eo,

id. ib. 1, 4 al.:

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

id. de Or. 3, 51, 197:

ita generati a natura sumus,

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

pars mundi damnata a rerum natura,

Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 88:

niagna adhibita cura est a providentia deorum,

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

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

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

salvebis a meo Cicerone,

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

a quibus (Atheniensibus) erat profectus,

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

ne vir ab hoste cadat,

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

levior est plaga ab amico quam a debitore,

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

a bestiis ictus, morsus, impetus,

id. Off. 2, 6, 19:

si calor est a sole,

id. N. D. 2, 52:

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

id. Att. 16, 7, 5:

metu poenae a Romanis,

Liv. 32, 23, 9:

bellum ingens a Volscis et Aequis,

id. 3, 22, 2:

ad exsolvendam fldem a consule,

id. 27, 5, 6.—With an adj.:

lassus ab equo indomito,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 10:

Murus ab ingenic notior ille tuo,

Prop. 5, 1, 126:

tempus a nostris triste malis,

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

vulgo occidebantur: per quos et a quibus?

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

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

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

si postulatur a populo,

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

deseror conjuge,

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

and in prose,

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

ipsum a se oritur et sua sponte nascitur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 78:

(urna) ab se cantat quoja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21 (al. eapse; cf. id. Men. 1, 2, 66); so Col. 11, 1, 5; Liv. 44, 33, 6.

With names of towns to denote origin, extraction, instead of gentile adjectives. From, of:

pastores a Pergamide,

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

Turnus ab Aricia,

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

obsides dant trecentos principum a Cora atque Pometia liberos,

Liv. 2, 22, 2; and poet.: O longa mundi servator ab Alba, Auguste, thou who art descended from the old Alban race of kings (=oriundus, or ortus regibus Albanis), Prop. 5, 6, 37.

In giving the etymology of a name: eam rem (sc. legem, Gr. nomon) illi Graeco putant nomine a suum cuique tribuendo appellatam, ego nostro a legendo, Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 19: annum intervallum regni fuit: id ab re... interregnum appellatum, Liv. 1, 17, 6:

(sinus maris) ab nomine propinquae urbis Ambracius appellatus,

id. 38, 4, 3; and so Varro in his Ling. Lat., and Pliny, in Books 1-5 of H. N., on almost every page. (Cf. also the arts. ex and de.)

With verbs of beginning and repeating: a summo bibere, in Plaut. to drink in succession from the one at the head of the table:

da, puere, ab summo,

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

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

Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 21:

coepere a fame mala,

Liv. 4, 12, 7:

cornicem a cauda de ovo exire,

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

a capite repetis, quod quaerimus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 6, 18 al.

With verbs of freeing from, defending, or protecting against any thing:

a foliis et stercore purgato,

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

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi?

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

Saguntini ut a proeliis quietem habuerant,

Liv. 21, 11, 5:

expiandum forum ab illis nefarii sceleris vestigiis,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 11:

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

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

ab incendio urbem vigiliis munitam intellegebat,

Sall. C. 32:

ut neque sustinere se a lapsu possent,

Liv. 21, 35, 12:

ut meam domum metueret atque a me ipso caveret,

Cic. Sest. 64, 133.

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

el metul a Chryside,

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

ab Hannibale metuens,

Liv. 23, 36; and:

metus a praetore,

id. 23, 15, 7;

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

Cic. Sull. 20, 59:

postquam nec ab Romanis robis ulla est spes,

you can expect nothing from the Romans, Liv. 21, 13, 4.

With verbs of fastening and holding:

funiculus a puppi religatus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

cum sinistra capillum ejus a vertice teneret,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 3.

Ulcisci se ab aliquo, to take vengeance on one:

a ferro sanguis humanus se ulciscitur,

Plin. 34, 14, 41 fin.

Cognoscere ab aliqua re to knoio or learn by means of something (different from ab aliquo, to learn from some one):

id se a Gallicis armis atque insignibus cognovisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 22.

Dolere, laborare, valere ab, instead of the simple abl.:

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

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 62:

a morbo valui, ab animo aeger fui,

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

a frigore et aestu ne quid laborent,

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

a frigore laborantibus,

Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 133; cf.:

laborare ab re frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 7, 10, 1; id. B. C. 3, 9; v. laboro.

Where verbs and adjectives are joined with ab, instead of the simple abl., ab defines more exactly the respect in which that which is expressed by the verb or adj. is to be understood, in relation to, with regard to, in respect to, on the part of:

ab ingenio improbus,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 59:

a me pudica'st,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 51:

orba ab optimatibus contio,

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

locus copiosus a frumento,

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

sumus imparati cum a militibas tum a pecunia,

id. ib. 7, 15 fin.:

ille Graecus ab omni laude felicior,

id. Brut. 16, 63:

ab una parte haud satis prosperuin,

Liv. 1, 32, 2 al.;

so often in poets ab arte=arte,

artfully, Tib. 1, 5, 4; 1, 9, 66; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 30.

In the statement of the motive instead of ex, propter, or the simple abl. causae, from, out of, on account of, in consequence of: ab singulari amore scribo, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B fin.:

linguam ab irrisu exserentem,

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

ab honore,

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

Especially in the poets instead of the gen.:

ab illo injuria,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 129:

fulgor ab auro,

Lucr. 2, 5:

dulces a fontibus undae,

Verg. G. 2, 243.

In indicating a part of the whole, for the more usual ex, of, out of:

scuto ab novissimis uni militi detracto,

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

nonnuill ab novissimis,

id. ib.; Cic. Sest. 65, 137; cf. id. ib. 59 fin.: a quibus (captivis) ad Senatum missus (Regulus).

In marking that from which any thing proceeds, and to which it belongs:

qui sunt ab ea disciplina,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 7:

ab eo qui sunt,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele aiunt,

id. Mur. 30, 63 (in imitation of oi upo tinos).

To designate an office or dignity (with or without servus; so not freq. till after the Aug. period;

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

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

a manu servus,

a secretary, Suet. Caes. 74: Narcissum ab eplstulis ( secretary) et Pallantem a rationibus ( accountant), id. Claud. 28; and so, ab actis, ab admissione, ab aegris, ab apotheca, ab argento, a balneis, a bibliotheca, a codicillis, a jumentis, a potione, etc. (v. these words and Inscr. Orell. vol. 3, Ind. xi. p. 181 sq.).

The use of ab before adverbs is for the most part peculiar to later Latinity:

a peregre,

Vitr. 5, 7 (6), 8:

a foris,

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

ab intus,

ib. ib. 7, 15:

ab invicem,

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

a longe,

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

a modo,

ib. ib. 23, 39;

Hier. Vit. Hilar.: a nune,

Vulg. Luc. 1, 48:

a sursum,

ib. Marc. 15, 38.

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

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

Cic. Pis. 37, 91:

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

id. Sen. 6:

a Jove incipiendum putat. Quo Jove?

id. Rep. 1, 36, 56:

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

id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.—

Ab in Plantus is once put after the word which it governs: quo ab, As. 1, 1, 106.—

It is in various ways separated from the word which it governs:

a vitae periculo,

Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

a nullius umquam me tempore aut commodo,

id. Arch. 6, 12:

a minus bono,

Sall. C. 2, 6:

a satis miti principio,

Liv. 1, 6, 4:

damnis dives ab ipsa suis,

Ov. H. 9, 96; so id. ib. 12, 18; 13, 116.—

The poets join a and que, making aque; but in good prose que is annexed to the following abl. (a meque, abs teque, etc.):

aque Chao,

Verg. G. 4, 347:

aque mero,

Ov. M. 3, 631:

aque viro,

id. H. 6, 156:

aque suis,

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

a meque,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

abs teque,

id. Att. 3, 15, 4:

a teque,

id. ib. 8, 11, §

7: a primaque adulescentia,

id. Brut. 91, 315 al. —

A Greek noun joined with ab stands in the dat.: a parte negotiati, hoc est pragmatikê, removisse, Quint. 3, 7, 1.

In composition ab,

Retains its original signif.: abducere, to take or carry away from some place: abstrahere, to draw auay; also, downward: abicere, to throw down; and denoting a departure from the idea of the simple word, it has an effect apparently privative: absimilis, departing from the similar, unlike: abnormis, departing from the rule, unusual (different from dissimilis, enormis); and so also in amens=a mente remotus, alienus ( out of one's senses, without self-control, insane): absurdus, missounding, then incongruous, irrational: abutor (in one of its senses), to misuse: aborior, abortus, to miscarry: abludo; for the privative force the Latin regularly employs in-, v. 2. in.—

It more rarely designates completeness, as in absorbere, abutor ( to use up). (The designation of the fourth generation in the ascending or descending line by ab belongs here only in appearance; as abavus for quartus pater, great-great-grandfather, although the Greeks introduced upopappos; for the immutability of the syllable ab in abpatrnus and abmatertera, as well as the signif. Of the word abavus, grandfather's grandfather, imitated in abnepos, grandchild's grandchild, seems to point to a derivation from avi avus, as Festus, p. 13 Mull., explains atavus, by atta avi, or, rather, attae avus.)

lēgo, āvi, ātum (archaic perf. legassit for legaverit, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 148), 1, v. a. [lex; and therefore qs. lege creare], a publicist's and jurid. t. t.

A publicist's t. t.

To send with a commission or charge, to send on an embassy, send as ambassador; to depute, despatch:

ne hoc quidem senatui relinquebas, ut legati ex ejus ordinis auctoritate legarentur,

Cic. Vatin. 15, 35:

hominem honestum ac nobilem legarunt ad Apronium,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 114: eos privatae rei causa legari, id. Fam. 3, 8, 4:

juste pieque legatus venio,

Liv. 1, 32:

tres adulescentes in Africam legantur, qui reges adeant, etc.,

Sall. J. 21, 4:

quos Athenienses Romam ad senatum legaverant impetratum, etc.,

Gell. 7, 14, 8.—

Transf. to the commission itself (ante- and post-class.):

quae verba legaverint Rhodii ad hostium ducem,

what they told him through their deputies, Gell. 15, 31 in lemm. —

Beyond the official sphere:

quin potius, quod legatum est tibi negotium, Id curas?

committed, intrusted, Plaut. Cas. 1, 12.—

To appoint or choose as deputy (as the official assistant, lieutenant, of a general or governor):

eum (Messium) Caesari legarat Appius,

Cic. Att. 4, 15, 9:

ego me a Pompeio legari ita sum passus, ut, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 2, 6:

istum legatum iri non arbitror,

id. ib. 10, 1, 4:

ne legaretur Gabinius Pompeio expetenti,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 19, 57:

Dolabella me sibi legavit,

chose me for his lieutenant, id. Att. 15, 11, 4:

Calpurnius parato exercitu legat sibi homines nobiles, etc.,

Sall. J. 28.—

A jurid. t. t.: aliquid, to appoint by a last will or testament, to leave or bequeath as a legacy (class.):

Numitori, qui stirpis maximus erat, regnum vetustum Silviae gentis legat,

Liv. 1, 3: legavit quidam uxori mundum omne penumque, Lucil. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 3:

usumfructum omnium bonorum Caesenniae legat,

Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:

Fabiae pecunia legata est a viro,

id. Top. 3, 14:

cui argentum omne legatum est,

Quint. 5, 10, 62:

in argento legato,

id. 7, 2, 11.—

Aliquid alicui ab aliquo, to leave one a legacy to be paid by the principal heir:

uxori testamento legat grandem pecuniam a filio, si qui natus esset: ab secundo herede nihil legat,

Cic. Clu. 12, 33:

si paterfamilias uxori ancillarum usum fructum legavit a filio, neque a secundo herede legavit,

id. Top. 4, 21; Quint. 7, 9, 5.—Hence,

lēgātus, i, m.

(Acc. to lego, I. A.) An ambassador, legate, Cic. Vatin. 15, 35:

legatos mittere,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 12, 35:

ad senatum legatos de aliqua re mittere,

id. de Or. 2, 37, 155; cf.:

missi magnis de rebus uterque Legati,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 29:

legatos mittere ad indicendum bellum,

Liv. 31, 8; Ov. M. 14, 527.—

(Acc. to lego, I. B.).

An official assistant given to a general or the governor of a province, a deputy, lieutenant, lieutenant-general:

quos legatos tute tibi legasti?

Cic. Pis. 14, 33:

qui M. Aemilio legati fuerunt,

id. Clu. 36, 99:

Quintus frater meus legatus est Caesaris,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 21; id. Off. 3, 20, 79; cf.:

Murena summo imperatori legatus L. Lucullo fuit, qua in legatione duxit exercitum, etc.,

id. Mur. 9, 20; 14, 32:

neque se ei legatum defuturum,

id. Phil. 11, 7, 17; Val. Max. 5, 5, 1:

hiberna cum legato praefectoque tradidisses,

Cic. Pis. 35, 86:

(Calvisius) duos legatos Uticae reliquerat,

id. Phil. 3, 10 fin.:

quaestorius,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 21, § 56; Caes. B. G. 2, 5 fin.:

L. Caesar, cujus pater Caesaris erat legatus,

id. B. C. 1, 8, 2:

magnitudo et splendor legati,

Liv. 38, 58, 9:

in magna legatum quaere popina,

Juv. 8, 172.—

Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province by the emperor, Tac. A. 12, 40; id. Agr. 33; Suet. Vesp. 4; Spart. Hadr. 3 et saep.; cf. legatio, I. B. 2., and Orell. ad Tac. Agr. 9.—

Legati legionum, commanders, Suet. Tib. 19; id. Vesp. 4; cf.:

Caesar singulis legionibus singulos legatos et quaestorem praefecit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52; Tac. A. 2, 36; id. H. 1, 7.—Also called;

legatus praetorius,

Tac. Agr. 7.—

lēgātum, i, n. (acc. to lego, II.), a bequest, legacy:

legatum est delibatio hereditatis, qua testator ex eo, quod universum heredis foret, alicui quid collatum velit,

Dig. 30, 116:

Hortensii legata cognovi,

Cic. Att. 7, 3, 9:

reliqua legata varie dedit,

Suet. Aug. 101; id. Tib. 48:

legatum peto ex testamento,

Quint. 4, 2, 6:

jus capiendi legata alicui adimere,

Suet. Dom. 8:

cymbala pulsantis legatum amici,

Juv. 9, 62:

legatorum genera sunt quattuor,

Gai. Inst. 2, 192; cf. sqq.

lĕgo, lēgi, lectum ( gen. plur. part. legentum, Ov. Tr. 1. 7, 25), 3, v. a. [Gr. legô, logos, logas, etc.; Lat. legumen, di-leg-ens, neg-leg-o, etc.; cf. Germ. lesen], to bring together, to gather, collect.

Lit.

In gen.:

oleam,

Cato, R. R. 144:

nuces,

Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 265:

herbas collibus,

Ov. M. 14, 347: flores et humi nascentia fraga, [p. 1048] Verg. E. 3, 92; cf.:

roscida mala,

id. ib. 8, 38:

flores in calathos,

Ov. F. 5, 218:

spolia caesorum,

Liv. 5, 39:

quos (montanos asparagos),

Juv. 11, 69.—Of the dead who have been burned:

ossa,

Ov. H. 10, 150:

homini mortuo ossa,

Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 60: ossa filii, Sen. de Ira, 2, 33, 6; cf. Quint. 8, 5, 21; Lact. de Mort. Persec. 21, 11:

reliquias legerunt primores equestris ordinis,

Suet. Aug. 100. —

Esp.

To take out, pick out, extract, remove:

quibusdam et radi ossa et legi... quae sine totius pernicie corporis haerere non poterant,

Sen. Prov. 1, 3, 2:

ossa vivis,

id. ad Marc. 22, 3:

ossa in capite lecta,

id. Ben. 5, 24, 3:

ossa e vulneribus,

Quint. 6, 1, 30.—

To pluck, strip, gather fruit from (a tree, etc.):

oleam qui legerit,

Cato, R. R. 144, 1:

ficus non erat apta legi,

Ov. F. 2, 254.—

Poet.: legere fila, to wind up:

extrema Lauso Parcae fila legunt,

i. e. spin the last thread of life, Verg. A. 10, 815; cf.:

quae dedit ingrato fila legenda viro,

Ov. F. 3, 462:

stamen,

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 40 (42).—

Naut. t. t.: vela legere, to draw together, furl:

omnis navita ponto umida vela legit,

Verg. G. 1, 373:

vela legunt socii,

id. A. 3, 532:

ipse dabit tenera vela, legetque manu,

Ov. H. 15, 215; Val. Fl. 2, 13:

prora funem legit Argus ab alta,

draws in, takes in, id. 1, 312:

ancoras classis legit,

is weighing anchor, Sen. Troad. 759.—

To take to one's self unjustly, to carry off, steal, purloin, plunder, abstract (not in Cic.): omnia viscatis manibus leget, omnia sumet: crede mihi, auferet omnia, Lucil. ap. Non. 332 and 396, 4:

majus esse maleficium stuprare ingenuam quam sacrum legere,

Auct. Her. 2, 30 fin.:

sacra divum,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 117:

soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas,

Verg. A. 10, 79 Serv. ad loc. (but Forbig. renders legere here as = eligere, sumere; cf. 8. infra).—

Of places, to go, pass, or wander through ( poet.):

nec me studiosius altera saltus Legit,

Ov. M. 5, 579:

pars cetera pontum Pone legit,

sails through, Verg. A. 2, 207:

vada dura lego,

id. ib. 3, 706:

freta,

id. ib. 3, 127:

aequora Afra,

Ov. F. 4, 289:

Ioniumque rapax Icariumque legit,

id. ib. 4, 566: vestigia alicujus, to follow one's footsteps, to track or pursue him:

subsequitur pressoque legit vestigia gressu,

id. M. 3, 17; cf.:

et vestigia retro Observata legit,

Verg. A. 9, 392:

tortos orbes,

to wander through, id. ib. 12, 481.—

To pass or sail by, to skirt, to coast along a shore, land, or place (mostly poet.):

Inarimen Prochytenque legit,

Ov. M. 14, 89; 15, 705; 709: primi litoris oram, coast along, i. e. not enter into details, Verg. G. 2, 44; id. E. 8, 7:

navibus oram Italiae,

Liv. 21, 51 fin.:

oram Campaniae,

Suet. Tib. 11; cf.

terram,

id. Aug. 16. —

Pregn., to choose from a number, to pick out, single out, select, elect (class.):

alia esse oportet forma quem tu pugno legeris,

pick out to fight with, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 160:

judices,

Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 16:

omnia, quae leget quaeque reiciet,

id. Fin. 4, 15, 40:

scribam,

to elect, appoint, id. Clu. 45, 126:

condiciones nubendi,

id. Cael. 15:

cives in patres,

Liv. 23, 22:

viros ad bella,

Ov. M. 7, 669:

geminasque legit de classe biremes,

Verg. A. 8, 79: legit virum vir, each one singles out his man (of the combatants in a battle), id. ib. 11, 632:

senatum ad modum pristinum redegit duabus lectionibus: prima ipsorum arbitratu, quo vir virum legit,

Suet. Aug. 35; Tac. H. 1, 18: neque ejus legendam filiam (sc. virginem Vestalem) qui domicilium in Italia non haberet, At. Cap. ap. Gell. 1, 12, 8.—

With inf.:

fidissima custos Lecta sacrum justae veneri occultare pudorem,

Stat. Th. 1, 530.

Trop.

To catch up, i. e. overhear a conversation:

nunc huc concedam, ut horum sermonem legam,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 21 (cf. sublegere, id. Mil. 4, 2. 98).—

To catch with the eye, to view, observe, behold, survey, see.

In gen.:

tumulum capit, unde omnes longo ordine posset Adversos legere,

Verg. A. 6, 755 Heyne ad loc.; and cf. Verg. A. 6, 34.—

In partic., to read or peruse a writing:

ut eos libros per te ipse legeres,

Cic. Top. 1:

defensionem causae,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 112:

legi apud Clitomachum, A. Albium jocantem dixisse, etc.,

id. Ac. 2, 45, 137:

aliquid studiose intenteque,

Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 1:

significas legisse te in quadam epistula mea, jussisse Verginium, etc.,

id. ib. 9, 19, 1: philosophorum consultorumque opiniones, Quint. 12, 11, 17:

liber tuus et lectus est et legitur a me diligenter,

Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 1:

orationem,

Quint. 1, 1, 6:

aiunt multum legendum esse non multa,

Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 15.—With a pers. obj.:

antiquos et novos,

Quint. 2, 5, 23:

antiquos studiosius,

id. 3, 6, 62:

poëtas,

id. 1, 4, 4. —In pass.:

Horatius fere solus legi dignus,

Quint. 10, 1, 96:

si cum judicio legatur Cassius Severus,

id. 10, 1, 116:

dumque legar, mecum pariter tua fama legetur,

Ov. Tr. 5, 14, 5:

sepulcra legens,

when reading epitaphs, Cic. de Sen. 7, 21:

legentium plerisque,

Liv. 1 praef. §

4: opus nescio an minimae legentibus futurum voluptati,

to my readers, Quint. 3, 1, 2; cf. id. 9, 4, 2; 2, 5, 3:

nec Cynicos nec Stoica dogmata,

Juv. 13, 121.— Absol.:

legendi usus,

Lact. 3, 25, 9:

memoriam continuus legendi usus instruit,

Macr. S. 1, 5, 1.—

In partic.

To read out, read aloud, recite (esp. freq. in post-Aug. authors):

convocatis auditoribus volumen legere, etc.,

Cic. Brut. 51, 191: codicem pro contione, id. Fragm. ap. Quint. 4, 4, 8:

audio me male legere, dumtaxat versus, orationes enim commodius,

Plin. Ep. 9, 34:

obturem impune legentibus aures,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 105:

quem vero arripuit tenet occiditque legendo,

with recitation, id. A. P. 475:

quis dabit historico quantum daret acta legenti,

to read him the news, Juv. 7, 104.—

To find in an author or a writing:

ut scriptum legimus,

Cic. Deiot. 7, 19:

legi etiam scriptum, esse avem quandam, etc.,

id. N. D. 2. 49 init.:

ego vero haec scripta legi,

id. Planc. 39, 94:

praeterea scriptum legimus, Gallos in venatibus tinguere sagittas,

Gell. 17, 15, 7. relatum legere, Nep. praef. 1.— Pass.:

in aliis codicibus non peccato sed peccatis legitur,

Aug. Cont. Jul. Rel. 1, 22; id. Don. Persev. 6 init. al.—

A publicist's t. t.: legere senatum, to read over or call off the names of senators (which was done by the censors;

v. lectio, II. A. 2.): censores fideli concordia senatum legerunt,

Liv. 40, 51; 9, 29; 9, 30; 9, 46; 43, 15 al.—Hence, lĕgens, entis, Part. as subst. m., a reader ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose for lector), Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 25.— Plur., Liv. praef. 4; Quint. 3, 1, 2; Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 44; Tac. A. 4, 33.—Also, lectus, a, um, P. a., chosen, picked out, selected; choice, excellent (class.): argenti lectae numeratae minae, good, i. e. of full weight, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 50; so,

argentum,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 3:

ut neque vir melior neque lectior femina in terris sit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

lectissimi viri atque ornatissimi,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 6, § 15; cf. id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 29:

uxor lectissima,

id. Inv. 1, 31, 52:

(verbis) lectis atque illustribus uti,

id. de Or. 3, 37, 150:

nihil est aliud... pulcre et oratorie dicere nisi optimis sententiis verbisque lectissimis dicere,

id. Or. 68, 227:

juvenum lectissime,

Stat. S. 5, 1, 247; cf.:

viginti lectis equitum comitatus,

Verg. A. 9, 48.—Hence, adv.: lectē, choicely, selectly (very rare):

ab lego lecte ac lectissime,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 36 Müll.— Comp.:

lectius,

Varr. R. R. 1, 54, 2 (al. lecta).