to place a thing on an equality with

aequo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [aequus].

Act., to make one thing equal to another; constr. with cum and (in gen. in the histt.) with dat., and with cop. conj. (cf. adaequo).

With cum:

inventum est temperamentum, quo tenuiores cum principibus aequari se putarent,

Cic. Leg. 3, 10:

cum suas quisque opes cum potentissimis aequari videat,

Caes. B. G. 6, 22:

numerum (corporum) cum navibus,

Verg. A. 1, 193.—

With dat.:

Insedabiliter sitis arida, corpora mersans, Aequabat multum parvis umoribus imbrem,

an unquenchable, burning thirst... made the most copious stream seem to them as only a few drops, Lucr. 6, 1176:

per somnum vinumque dies noctibus aequare,

Liv. 31, 41:

aequavit togatus armati gloriam collegae,

id. 4, 10, 8:

cujus magnitudini semper animum aequavit,

id. 33, 21, 3 (but in id. 6, 20, 8, facta dictis aequando, dictis is abl.; v Weissenb. ad h. l.); Vell. 2, 127;

aequare solo templum,

to level with the ground, Tac. A. 1, 51;

so domum,

Quint. 3, 7, 20, and Aur. Vict. Vir. lllustr. 17. 5;

and in an extended sense: Scipio Numantiam excisam aequavit solo,

Vell. 2, 4.—Hence, trop.: solo aequandae sunt dictaturae consulatusque, entirely abolished, Liv 6, 18.—

With cop. conj.:

Curios aequare Fabriciosque,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 18, 2. — Poet.:

si protinus illum Aequāsset nocti ludum,

had played through the whole night, Verg. A. 9, 338.—Hence also,

In comparison, to place a thing on an equality with, to compare.; in Cic. with cum; later with dat.:

aequare et conferre scelera alicujus cum aliis,

Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 8:

ne aequaveritis Hannibali Philippum, ne Carthaginiensibus Macedonas: Pyrrho certe aequabitis,

Liv. 31, 7:

Deum homini non aequabo,

Vulg. Job, 32, 21:

quis in nubibus aequabitur Domino,

ib. Psa. 88, 7.—

Of places, to make level, even, or smooth:

aequata agri planities,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48;

and trop.: aequato discrimine,

at an equal distance, Lucr. 5, 690:

aequato omnium periculo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

aequato Marte,

Liv. 1, 25:

aequato jure omnium,

id. 2, 3.— Poet.: ibant aequati numero, [p. 58] divided into equal parts, Verg. A. 7, 698:

foedera regum Vel Gabiis vel cum rigidis aequata Sabinis, i. e. aequis legibus icta,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 25; cf.:

si foedus est, si societas aequatio juris est... cur non omnia aequantur?

placed in the same circumstances? Liv. 8, 4.—

T. t.

Aequare frontem, milit. t., to make an equal front, Liv. 5, 38:

aequatis frontibus,

Tib. 4, 1, 102; v. frons.—

Aequare sortes, to see that the lots are equal in number to those who draw, of the same material, and each with a different name. The classical passage for this phrase is Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 35: conicite sortes: uxor, aequa (sc. eas); v. the preceding verses. So Cic. Fragm. Or. Corn. 1, p. 449 Orell.: dum sitella defertur, dum aequantur sortes, dum sortitio fit, etc.—

Neutr. or act., to become equal to one, to equal, come up to, attain to (mostly in the histt.); constr. with dat., but oftener with acc. (cf. adaequo and aequipero, and Zumpt, §

389, 1): qui jam illis fere aequārunt,

Cic. Off. 1, 1, 3; Ov. M. 6, 21:

ea arte aequāsset superiores reges, ni, etc.,

Liv. 1, 53; so,

cursu equum,

id. 31, 35;

for which Curtius: cursum alicujus, 4, 1: gloriam alicujus,

Suet. Caes. 55:

eam picturam imitati sunt multi, aequavit nemo,

Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 126; Luc. 3, 456.— Poet.: sagitta aequans ventos, like the winds in swiftness, Verg. A. 10, 248:

valet nondum munia comparis Aequare (juvenca),

i. e. cannot yet draw even with her mate, Hor. C. 2, 5, 2.

aequĭpăro (better aequĭpĕr-; cf. Dietrich in Zeitschr. für vergl. Sprachf. 1, p. 550), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [aequipar].

Act., to put a thing on an equality with another thing, to compare, liken; with ad, cum, or dat.:

suas virtutes ad tuas,

Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 11:

aequiperata cum P fratre gloria,

Cic. Mur. 14, 31:

Jovis Solisque equis dictatorem,

Liv. 5, 23: Hadrianus Numae aequiperandus, Frontin. Princ. Hist. p. 317 Rom.—

Neutr., to place one's self on an equality with another in worth, to become equal to, to equal, come up to, attain to (cf. aequo and adaequo); constr. with dat., but more frequently with acc., and absol.

With dat.: nam si qui, quae eventura sunt, provideant, aequiperent Jovi, Pac. ap. Gell. 14, 1, 34.—

With acc.: nemo est qui factis me aequiperare queat, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 5, 17, 49 (Epigr. 8, p. 162 Vahl.):

urbem dignitate,

Nep. Them. 6, 1; so id. Alc. 11, 3; Liv. 37, 55:

voce magistrum,

Verg. E. 5, 48; Ov. P. 2, 5, 44.—

Absol., Pac. ap. Non. 307, 11.

aequus ( aecus, Pac. 32 Rib.; Lucr. 5, 1023 Lachm. and Munro; AIQVOS, S. C. de Bacch. 1. 26), a, um, adj. [formerly referred to EIKÔ, eoika, but Pott connects it with Sanscr. ēka = one, as if properly, one and uniform; others consider it as akin to aemulor, q. v.].

A.. Of place, that extends or lies in a horizontal direction, plain, even, level, flat (esp. freq. in the strategic descriptions of the histt.;

syn.: planus, aequalis, aequabilis, par, similis, justus): locus ad libellam aequus,

level, Varr. R. R. 1, 6 fin.:

aequus et planus locus,

Cic. Caec. 17 fin.:

in aequum locum se demittere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 28: legio, quae paulo aequiore loco constiterat, id. ib. 7, 51:

in aequum locum deducere,

Sall. J. 42 (cf. in Gr. eis to isoW katabainein, Xen. Anab. 4, 6, 18).— Trop.:

sive loquitur ex inferiore loco sive aequo sive ex superiore,

i. e. before the judges, sitting on raised seats, or in the Senate, or in the assembly of the people from the rostra, Cic. de Or. 3, 6, 23:

meos multos et ex superiore et ex aequo loco sermones habitos cum tuā summā laude,

from the tribune, and on private matters, id. Fam. 3, 8.—In the histt., sometimes subst.: aequum, i, n., with a gen., level ground, a plain:

facilem in aequo campi victoriam fore,

Liv. 5, 38:

ut primum agmen aequo, ceteri per acclive jugum insurgerent,

Tac. Agr. 35:

in aequum digredi,

id. ib. 18:

in aequo obstare,

id. ib. 36; id. H. 4, 23.—Also, an eminence, if it rises without inequalities:

dum Romanae cohortes in aequum eniterentur,

up the slope, Tac. A. 2, 80.—As a level place is more favorable for military operations than an uneven one, aequus has the signif.,

Favorable, convenient, advantageous (as its opp., iniquus, uneven, has that of unfavorable, etc.).

Of place:

locum se aequum ad dimicandum dedisse,

Caes. B. C. 3, 73:

etsi non aequum locum videbat suis,

Nep. Milt. 5, 4:

non hic silvas nec paludes, sed aequis locis aequos deos,

Tac. A. 1, 68. —

Of time: judicium aequiore tempore fieri oportere, more propitious, Cic. Corn. Fragm. ap. Ascon. p. 72:

et tempore et loco aequo,

Liv. 26, 3:

tempore aequo,

Suet. Caes. 35.—

In gen., of persons or things (freq. and class.), favorable, kind, friendly, benevolent, etc.; constr. absol. with dat., or in and acc. (in poets in with abl.).

Absol.:

consequeris, ut eos ipsos, quos contra statuas, aequos placatosque dimittas,

Cic. Or. 10, 34:

nobilitate inimica, non aequo senatu,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 3 med.:

meis aequissimis utuntur auribus,

id. Fam. 7, 33:

oculis aspicere aequis,

Verg. A. 4, 372:

O dominum aequum et bonum,

Suet. Aug. 53:

boni et aequi et faciles domini,

id. Tib. 29.—

With dat.:

aequa Venus Teucris, Pallas iniqua fuit,

Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 6; id. A. A. 2, 310.—

With in and acc.:

quis hoc statuit, quod aequum sit in Quintium, id iniquum esse in Maevium,

Cic. Quint. 14.—

With in and abl.:

victor erat quamvis, aequus in hoste fuit,

Prop. 4, 18, 28.—Hence,

aequus, i, m. subst., a friend:

ego ut me tibi amicissimum esse et aequi et iniqui intellegant, curabo,

both friends and enemies, Cic. Fam. 3, 6 fin.:

aequis iniquisque persuasum erat,

Liv. 5, 45.

That is equal to another in any quality, equal, like; and of things divided into two equal parts, a half:

aequo censu censeri,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 92:

partīs,

Lucr. 3, 125; so Aur. Vict. Orig. 19, 1; and Vulg. 1 Reg. 30, 24:

aequa erit mensura sagorum,

ib. Exod. 26, 8:

pondera,

ib. Lev. 19, 36:

portio,

ib. 2 Mach. 8, 30:

aequa dementia,

Lucr. 1, 705 al.:

aequā manu discedere,

to come off with equal advantage, Sall. C. 39; so,

aequo Marte pugnare,

with equal success, Liv. 2, 6; Curt. 4, 15, 29; Flor. 4, 2, 48 al.:

urbs erat in summo nubibus aequa jugo,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 24:

aequum vulnus utrique tulit,

id. M. 9, 719 (cf. id. ib. 7, 803:

aequales urebant pectora flammae): sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis,

Verg. A. 2, 724:

pars aequa mundi,

Plin. 2, 19, 17, § 81:

utinam esset mihi pars aequa amoris tecum, i. e. aeque vicissim amaremus,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 12:

non tertiam portionem, verum aequam,

Plin. 3, 1, 1, § 5 al. —Hence the adverbial phrases,

Ex aequo, in like manner, in an equal degree, equally ( = ex isou, Hdt., Dem.), Lucr. 1, 854:

dixit et ex aequo donis formaque probata, etc.,

Ov. H. 16, 87; 20, 123; id. Am. 1, 10, 33; id. A. A. 2, 682; id. M. 3, 145; 4, 62; Liv. 36, 37:

adversarum rerum ex aequo socii sunt (Fosi Cheruscis), cum in secundis minores fuissent,

Tac. G. 36 fin. —

In aequo esse or stare, to be equal:

qui cogit mori nolentem, in aequo est, quique properantem impedit,

Sen. Phoen. 98:

ut naturam oderint, quod infra deos sumus, quod non in aequo illis stetimus,

id. Ben. 2, 29: in aequo ponere aliquem alicui, to make equal, to put on an equality, to compare:

in aequo eum (Philopoemenem) summis imperatoribus posuerunt,

Liv. 39, 50 fin. —

Morally.

Of persons, fair, equitable, impartial in conduct toward others (diff. from justus, just; v. aequitas, II.); constr. absol., with dat.; more rarely with gen.:

praetor aequus et sapiens,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65; 2, 5, 59:

aequissimus aestimator et judex,

id. Fin. 3, 2:

praebere se aequum alicui,

id. Fam. 2, 1:

absentium aequi, praesentibus mobiles,

benevolent toward, Tac. A. 6, 36.—

Of things, fair, right, equitable, reasonable: ITA. SENATVS. AIQVOM. CENSVIT., S. C. de Bach. 1. 26: et aecum et rectum est, Pac. ap. Non. 261, 13 (Trag. Rel. p. 81 Rib.):

aequa et honesta postulatio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2:

quod justum est et aequum, servis praestate,

just and fair, Vulg. Col. 4, 1:

postulo primum id, quod aequissimum est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Clu. 2:

aequa lex et omnibus utilis,

id. Balb. 27:

aequissimis legibus monere,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 9, 5:

aequae conditiones,

Vell. 2, 25; see Fischer, Gr. II. 611.—Hence,

ae-quum, i, n. subst., what is fair, equitable, or just; fairness, equity, or justice, etc.: jus atque aequum, Enn. ap. Non. p. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

utilitas justi prope mater et aequi,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 98:

aequi studium,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 24, 6.—Often with comparatives, more than is right, proper, reasonable:

lamentari amplius aequo,

Lucr. 3, 966:

injurias gravius aequo habere,

to feel too deeply, Sall. C. 50:

potus largius aequo,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 215.—Hence, aequum est, it is reasonable, proper, right, etc.; constr. with acc. and inf., in good prose also with dat. pers. and ut, Rudd. II. p. 235, n. 21: nos quiescere aequom est, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 382 P. (Trag. v. 199 Vahl.):

quae liberum scire aequom est adulescentem,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 25:

significant Imbecillorum esse aecum misererier omnīs,

Lucr. 5, 1023:

non est aequum nos derelinquere verbum Dei,

Vulg. Act. 6, 2:

aequius est mori quam auctoritatem imperii foedare,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 12, 7:

ut peritis? Ut piscatorem aequomst (sc. perire), fame sitique speque,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 7; so,

sicut aequum est homini de potestate deorum timide et pauca dicamus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 16, 47.—In Plaut., with abl.:

plus vidissem quam med atque illo aequom foret,

would be becoming in me and him, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 84; id. Rud. prol. 47.—

Aequum as subst. very freq. with bonum = aequitas, equitable conduct toward others, fairness, equity, etc.:

neque quidquam queo aequi bonique ab eo impetrare,

what is right and just, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 65:

cum de jure civili, cum de aequo et bono disputaretur,

Cic. Brut. 38:

ex aequo et bono, non ex callido versutoque jure rem judicari oportere,

id. Caecin. 23:

fit reus magis ex aequo bonoque quam ex jure gentium,

in accordance with justice and equity, Sall. J. 35.— Also without et:

illi dolum malum, illi fidem bonam, illi aequum bonum tradiderunt,

Cic. Top. 17.—So also, aequius melius, according to greater equily, Cic. Off. 3, 15; id. Top. 17.—

Of a state of mind, even, unruffled, calm, composed, tranquil, patient, enduring (cf. aequitas, II. B.);

esp. freq. with animus or mens: animus aequos optumum est aerumnae condimentum,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 71:

concedo et quod animus aequus est et quia necesse est,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 50:

quodadest memento Componere aequus,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 32:

tentantem majora, fere praesentibus aequum,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 24;

and so, aequam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem, etc.,

id. C. 2, 3, 1.—Esp. freq. in the adv. abl.: aequo (aequiore, aequissimo) animo, with even mind, with equanimity, patiently, calmly, quietly, with forbearance: ego, nisi Bibulus adniteretur de triumpho, aequo animo essem, nunc vero aischron siôpan, Cic. Att. 6, 8:

carere aequo animo aliquā re,

id. Brut. 6:

ferre aliquid,

Nep. Dion. 6, 7; Aur. Vict. Orig. 6, 3:

accipere,

Sall. C. 3, 2:

tolerare,

id. J. 31:

quo aequiore animo Germanicus celerem successionem operiretur,

Suet. Tib. 25:

testem se in judiciis interrogari aequissimo animo patiebatur,

id. Aug. 56.—In eccl. Lat. = bono animo:

aequo animo esto,

be of good cheer, Vulg. 3 Reg. 21, 7:

aequo animo (aliquis) est? Psallat,

ib. Jacob. 5, 13.—Hence: aequi bonique facere aliquid, to regard as fair and reasonable (prop., a gen. of value, Roby, § 1191), to put up with, be content with, submit to, acquiesce in, etc.:

istuc aequi bonique facio,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 40: tranquillissimus animus meus totum istuc aequi boni [p. 59] facit, Cic. Att. 7, 7; Liv. 34, 22 fin.:

aequi istuc faciam,

it will be all the same to me, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 189.—So also:

aequi bonique dicere,

to propose any thing reasonable, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 32.—Hence, aequē, adv., in like manner, equally, just as = ex aequo, pariter, Gr. isôs, omoiôs (indicating the entire equality of two objects compared, while similiter denotes only likeness):

eā (benevolentiā) non pariter omnes egemus... honore et gloriā fortasse non aeque omnes egent,

Cic. Off. 2, 8, 30:

non possum ego non aut proxime atque ille aut etiam aeque laborare,

id. Fam. 9, 13, 2:

universa aeque eveniunt justo et impio,

Vulg. Eccl. 9, 2.

In the comic poets with cum or the comp. abl. (cf. adaeque); in Cic. and good class. authors gen. with et, atque, ac, ac si; less class. with quam, ut, quam ut; in Petr. with tamquam.

Aeque—cum:

animum advorte, ut aeque mecum haec scias,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 66, id. Poen. prol. 47: novi aeque omnia tecum, Ter Phorm. 5, 9, 43. But in Plaut. As. 4, 1, 26, tecum una postea aeque pocla potitet, una belongs with tecum to potitet, and aeque is put absol. (sc. ut tu).—

Aeque with comp. abl.:

nullus est hoc meticulosus aeque,

as this person, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 137:

qui me in terrā aeque fortunatus erit,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 51.—

Aeque—et or aeque— que (as in Gr. ison kai, isa kai, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 611;

Thuc. 3, 14). nisi aeque amicos et nosmet ipsos diligamus,

equally as ourselves, Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 67. versūs aeque prima et media et extrema pars attenditur, id. de Or. 3, 50, 192; id. Rosc. Com. 1, 2; so id. Mur. 13, 28; id. Clu. 69, 195, id. Tusc. 2, 26, 62 al.:

quod Aeque neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 26.—

Aeque—atque, —ac, —ac si, as... as; as much as, as: vide ne, quem tu esse hebetem deputes aeque ac pecus, is, etc., Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: pumex non aeque aridus atque hic est senex, Plaut Aul. 2, 4, 18; Ter. Phorm 1, 2, 43; Varr. R. R. 3, 8, 2:

nisi haberes, qui illis aeque ac tu ipse gauderet,

Cic. Lael. 6, 22:

sed me colit et observat aeque atque patronum suum,

id. Fam. 13, 69; 2, 2; so id. Brut. 71, 248; id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116; Cels. 6, 15; Tac. H. 4, 5; Suet. Caes. 12 al.: aeque ac si. with the subj., just as if. altogether as if:

Egnatii absentis rem ut tueare, aeque a te peto ac si mea negotia essent,

Cic. Fam. 13, 43, 3; Auct Her 2, 13, 19: quo factum est, ut jumenta aeque nitida ex castellis educeret ac si in campestribus ea locis habuisset, Nep Eum. 5. 6; Liv. 10, 7, 4; 44, 22, 5 al.—

Aeque— quam (only in Plaut. and prose writers from the Aug. per.;

neither in Cic. nor in Cæs.),

as... as, in the same manner as, as well... as, like, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 55;

nullum esse agrum aeque feracem quam hic est,

id. Epid. 2, 3, 1:

nihil aeque eos terruit quam robur et color imperatoris,

Liv. 28, 26, 14, 5, 6, 11; so 5, 3, 4; 31, 1, 3;

in navibus posita aeque quam in aedificiis,

Plin. 2, 81, 83, § 196; so 2, 70, 72, § 180; Tac. A. 14, 38; id. H. 2, 10; 4, 52; Suet. Aug. 64, 89; id. Galb. 4 al.—

Aeque—ut, a rare combination, and unworthy of imitation (in authors of the class. per. its reception rests, for the most part, upon false readings for aeque et or aeque ac), as much as, like, cui nihil aeque in causis agendis ut brevitas placet, Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 1 Keil. accinctus aeque ut discinctus, Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 11. Possidebitis eam (terram) singuli aeque ut frater suus, ib. Ezech. 47, 14:

idemque proficeret aeque ut rosaceum,

Plin. 23, 4, 45, § 89, where Jan reads proficeret quod rosaceum. —In Plaut. once aeque—quasi for the class. aeque ac. quem videam aeque esse maestum quasi dies si dicta sit, Plaut. As. 5, 1, 11 Fleck.—

Sometimes aeque—aeque, as well as, as much as. aeque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 25:

aeque discordiam praepositorum, aeque concordiam subjectis exitiosam,

Tac. Agr. 15.—

The comparison is often to be supplied from the whole sentence or context; hence, aeque stands absol. for aeque ac, etc. (ante-class. freq.; also in Cic. and Liv.), equally, as much as, as: eadem oratio non aeque valet, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4 (from Eurip. Hec. 295: logos... ou tauton sthenei):

satin habes, si feminarum nullast quam aeque diligam?

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 11: Aetna mons non aeque altus, id. Mil. 4, 2, 73; 4, 7, 10; id. Most. 1, 3, 85, etc.; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 32; Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 1; so id. ib. 5, 21; id. Fin. 4, 33, 62:

aeque sons,

Liv. 29, 19, 2;

so 29, 19, 4 al.: aeque non est dubium,

it is as little doubtful, Plin. 2, 15, 13, § 68.—

With omnes, uterque, and definite numerals, to indicate that a thing applies equally to all the objects designated, equally:

non omnia eadem aeque omnibus suavia esse scito,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 51; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 2; so Cic. Off. 2, 8, 31; id. Fin. 4, 27, 75 al.:

etsi utrique nostrum prope aeque gratae erant (litterae),

id. Fam. 13, 18; so id. Quint. 28, 86; Verg. G. 3, 118; Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 33; id. Fast. 1, 226:

aeque ambo pares,

Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 60:

duae trabes aeque longae,

Caes. B. C. 2, 10; Suet. Aug. 101. —

Sometimes absol., with several substantives, alike, equally:

Tragici et comici Numquam aeque sunt meditati,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 4. imperium bonus ignavus aeque sibi exoptant, Sall. C. 11.—

In Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 42, nec est mihi quisquam, melius aeque cui velim, melius velle is, perhaps, to be taken together as a phrase, and the comp. considered as used in a restricted sense, as in melius est. Others consider the comp. as used for the simple positive; cf. adaeque.—

Justly, with equity:

mihi id aeque factum arbitror,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 22 dub. (Ritschl: jureque id factum arbitror).— Comp.: ferro quam fame aequius perituros, more willingly, Sall. H. Fragm.— Sup.:

aequissime jus dicere,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 11, 2:

judicas ut qui aequissime,

Sid. 15, Ep. 11.

form, aequĭter, also occurs: praeda per participes aequiter partita est, Liv. Andr. ap. Non. 512, 31; so Pac. ib., Att. ib., and Plaut. acc. to Prisc. 1010 P.

aequus ( aecus, Pac. 32 Rib.; Lucr. 5, 1023 Lachm. and Munro; AIQVOS, S. C. de Bacch. 1. 26), a, um, adj. [formerly referred to EIKÔ, eoika, but Pott connects it with Sanscr. ēka = one, as if properly, one and uniform; others consider it as akin to aemulor, q. v.].

A.. Of place, that extends or lies in a horizontal direction, plain, even, level, flat (esp. freq. in the strategic descriptions of the histt.;

syn.: planus, aequalis, aequabilis, par, similis, justus): locus ad libellam aequus,

level, Varr. R. R. 1, 6 fin.:

aequus et planus locus,

Cic. Caec. 17 fin.:

in aequum locum se demittere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 28: legio, quae paulo aequiore loco constiterat, id. ib. 7, 51:

in aequum locum deducere,

Sall. J. 42 (cf. in Gr. eis to isoW katabainein, Xen. Anab. 4, 6, 18).— Trop.:

sive loquitur ex inferiore loco sive aequo sive ex superiore,

i. e. before the judges, sitting on raised seats, or in the Senate, or in the assembly of the people from the rostra, Cic. de Or. 3, 6, 23:

meos multos et ex superiore et ex aequo loco sermones habitos cum tuā summā laude,

from the tribune, and on private matters, id. Fam. 3, 8.—In the histt., sometimes subst.: aequum, i, n., with a gen., level ground, a plain:

facilem in aequo campi victoriam fore,

Liv. 5, 38:

ut primum agmen aequo, ceteri per acclive jugum insurgerent,

Tac. Agr. 35:

in aequum digredi,

id. ib. 18:

in aequo obstare,

id. ib. 36; id. H. 4, 23.—Also, an eminence, if it rises without inequalities:

dum Romanae cohortes in aequum eniterentur,

up the slope, Tac. A. 2, 80.—As a level place is more favorable for military operations than an uneven one, aequus has the signif.,

Favorable, convenient, advantageous (as its opp., iniquus, uneven, has that of unfavorable, etc.).

Of place:

locum se aequum ad dimicandum dedisse,

Caes. B. C. 3, 73:

etsi non aequum locum videbat suis,

Nep. Milt. 5, 4:

non hic silvas nec paludes, sed aequis locis aequos deos,

Tac. A. 1, 68. —

Of time: judicium aequiore tempore fieri oportere, more propitious, Cic. Corn. Fragm. ap. Ascon. p. 72:

et tempore et loco aequo,

Liv. 26, 3:

tempore aequo,

Suet. Caes. 35.—

In gen., of persons or things (freq. and class.), favorable, kind, friendly, benevolent, etc.; constr. absol. with dat., or in and acc. (in poets in with abl.).

Absol.:

consequeris, ut eos ipsos, quos contra statuas, aequos placatosque dimittas,

Cic. Or. 10, 34:

nobilitate inimica, non aequo senatu,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 3 med.:

meis aequissimis utuntur auribus,

id. Fam. 7, 33:

oculis aspicere aequis,

Verg. A. 4, 372:

O dominum aequum et bonum,

Suet. Aug. 53:

boni et aequi et faciles domini,

id. Tib. 29.—

With dat.:

aequa Venus Teucris, Pallas iniqua fuit,

Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 6; id. A. A. 2, 310.—

With in and acc.:

quis hoc statuit, quod aequum sit in Quintium, id iniquum esse in Maevium,

Cic. Quint. 14.—

With in and abl.:

victor erat quamvis, aequus in hoste fuit,

Prop. 4, 18, 28.—Hence,

aequus, i, m. subst., a friend:

ego ut me tibi amicissimum esse et aequi et iniqui intellegant, curabo,

both friends and enemies, Cic. Fam. 3, 6 fin.:

aequis iniquisque persuasum erat,

Liv. 5, 45.

That is equal to another in any quality, equal, like; and of things divided into two equal parts, a half:

aequo censu censeri,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 92:

partīs,

Lucr. 3, 125; so Aur. Vict. Orig. 19, 1; and Vulg. 1 Reg. 30, 24:

aequa erit mensura sagorum,

ib. Exod. 26, 8:

pondera,

ib. Lev. 19, 36:

portio,

ib. 2 Mach. 8, 30:

aequa dementia,

Lucr. 1, 705 al.:

aequā manu discedere,

to come off with equal advantage, Sall. C. 39; so,

aequo Marte pugnare,

with equal success, Liv. 2, 6; Curt. 4, 15, 29; Flor. 4, 2, 48 al.:

urbs erat in summo nubibus aequa jugo,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 24:

aequum vulnus utrique tulit,

id. M. 9, 719 (cf. id. ib. 7, 803:

aequales urebant pectora flammae): sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis,

Verg. A. 2, 724:

pars aequa mundi,

Plin. 2, 19, 17, § 81:

utinam esset mihi pars aequa amoris tecum, i. e. aeque vicissim amaremus,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 12:

non tertiam portionem, verum aequam,

Plin. 3, 1, 1, § 5 al. —Hence the adverbial phrases,

Ex aequo, in like manner, in an equal degree, equally ( = ex isou, Hdt., Dem.), Lucr. 1, 854:

dixit et ex aequo donis formaque probata, etc.,

Ov. H. 16, 87; 20, 123; id. Am. 1, 10, 33; id. A. A. 2, 682; id. M. 3, 145; 4, 62; Liv. 36, 37:

adversarum rerum ex aequo socii sunt (Fosi Cheruscis), cum in secundis minores fuissent,

Tac. G. 36 fin. —

In aequo esse or stare, to be equal:

qui cogit mori nolentem, in aequo est, quique properantem impedit,

Sen. Phoen. 98:

ut naturam oderint, quod infra deos sumus, quod non in aequo illis stetimus,

id. Ben. 2, 29: in aequo ponere aliquem alicui, to make equal, to put on an equality, to compare:

in aequo eum (Philopoemenem) summis imperatoribus posuerunt,

Liv. 39, 50 fin. —

Morally.

Of persons, fair, equitable, impartial in conduct toward others (diff. from justus, just; v. aequitas, II.); constr. absol., with dat.; more rarely with gen.:

praetor aequus et sapiens,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65; 2, 5, 59:

aequissimus aestimator et judex,

id. Fin. 3, 2:

praebere se aequum alicui,

id. Fam. 2, 1:

absentium aequi, praesentibus mobiles,

benevolent toward, Tac. A. 6, 36.—

Of things, fair, right, equitable, reasonable: ITA. SENATVS. AIQVOM. CENSVIT., S. C. de Bach. 1. 26: et aecum et rectum est, Pac. ap. Non. 261, 13 (Trag. Rel. p. 81 Rib.):

aequa et honesta postulatio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2:

quod justum est et aequum, servis praestate,

just and fair, Vulg. Col. 4, 1:

postulo primum id, quod aequissimum est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Clu. 2:

aequa lex et omnibus utilis,

id. Balb. 27:

aequissimis legibus monere,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 9, 5:

aequae conditiones,

Vell. 2, 25; see Fischer, Gr. II. 611.—Hence,

ae-quum, i, n. subst., what is fair, equitable, or just; fairness, equity, or justice, etc.: jus atque aequum, Enn. ap. Non. p. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

utilitas justi prope mater et aequi,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 98:

aequi studium,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 24, 6.—Often with comparatives, more than is right, proper, reasonable:

lamentari amplius aequo,

Lucr. 3, 966:

injurias gravius aequo habere,

to feel too deeply, Sall. C. 50:

potus largius aequo,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 215.—Hence, aequum est, it is reasonable, proper, right, etc.; constr. with acc. and inf., in good prose also with dat. pers. and ut, Rudd. II. p. 235, n. 21: nos quiescere aequom est, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 382 P. (Trag. v. 199 Vahl.):

quae liberum scire aequom est adulescentem,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 25:

significant Imbecillorum esse aecum misererier omnīs,

Lucr. 5, 1023:

non est aequum nos derelinquere verbum Dei,

Vulg. Act. 6, 2:

aequius est mori quam auctoritatem imperii foedare,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 12, 7:

ut peritis? Ut piscatorem aequomst (sc. perire), fame sitique speque,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 7; so,

sicut aequum est homini de potestate deorum timide et pauca dicamus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 16, 47.—In Plaut., with abl.:

plus vidissem quam med atque illo aequom foret,

would be becoming in me and him, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 84; id. Rud. prol. 47.—

Aequum as subst. very freq. with bonum = aequitas, equitable conduct toward others, fairness, equity, etc.:

neque quidquam queo aequi bonique ab eo impetrare,

what is right and just, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 65:

cum de jure civili, cum de aequo et bono disputaretur,

Cic. Brut. 38:

ex aequo et bono, non ex callido versutoque jure rem judicari oportere,

id. Caecin. 23:

fit reus magis ex aequo bonoque quam ex jure gentium,

in accordance with justice and equity, Sall. J. 35.— Also without et:

illi dolum malum, illi fidem bonam, illi aequum bonum tradiderunt,

Cic. Top. 17.—So also, aequius melius, according to greater equily, Cic. Off. 3, 15; id. Top. 17.—

Of a state of mind, even, unruffled, calm, composed, tranquil, patient, enduring (cf. aequitas, II. B.);

esp. freq. with animus or mens: animus aequos optumum est aerumnae condimentum,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 71:

concedo et quod animus aequus est et quia necesse est,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 50:

quodadest memento Componere aequus,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 32:

tentantem majora, fere praesentibus aequum,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 24;

and so, aequam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem, etc.,

id. C. 2, 3, 1.—Esp. freq. in the adv. abl.: aequo (aequiore, aequissimo) animo, with even mind, with equanimity, patiently, calmly, quietly, with forbearance: ego, nisi Bibulus adniteretur de triumpho, aequo animo essem, nunc vero aischron siôpan, Cic. Att. 6, 8:

carere aequo animo aliquā re,

id. Brut. 6:

ferre aliquid,

Nep. Dion. 6, 7; Aur. Vict. Orig. 6, 3:

accipere,

Sall. C. 3, 2:

tolerare,

id. J. 31:

quo aequiore animo Germanicus celerem successionem operiretur,

Suet. Tib. 25:

testem se in judiciis interrogari aequissimo animo patiebatur,

id. Aug. 56.—In eccl. Lat. = bono animo:

aequo animo esto,

be of good cheer, Vulg. 3 Reg. 21, 7:

aequo animo (aliquis) est? Psallat,

ib. Jacob. 5, 13.—Hence: aequi bonique facere aliquid, to regard as fair and reasonable (prop., a gen. of value, Roby, § 1191), to put up with, be content with, submit to, acquiesce in, etc.:

istuc aequi bonique facio,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 40: tranquillissimus animus meus totum istuc aequi boni [p. 59] facit, Cic. Att. 7, 7; Liv. 34, 22 fin.:

aequi istuc faciam,

it will be all the same to me, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 189.—So also:

aequi bonique dicere,

to propose any thing reasonable, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 32.—Hence, aequē, adv., in like manner, equally, just as = ex aequo, pariter, Gr. isôs, omoiôs (indicating the entire equality of two objects compared, while similiter denotes only likeness):

eā (benevolentiā) non pariter omnes egemus... honore et gloriā fortasse non aeque omnes egent,

Cic. Off. 2, 8, 30:

non possum ego non aut proxime atque ille aut etiam aeque laborare,

id. Fam. 9, 13, 2:

universa aeque eveniunt justo et impio,

Vulg. Eccl. 9, 2.

In the comic poets with cum or the comp. abl. (cf. adaeque); in Cic. and good class. authors gen. with et, atque, ac, ac si; less class. with quam, ut, quam ut; in Petr. with tamquam.

Aeque—cum:

animum advorte, ut aeque mecum haec scias,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 66, id. Poen. prol. 47: novi aeque omnia tecum, Ter Phorm. 5, 9, 43. But in Plaut. As. 4, 1, 26, tecum una postea aeque pocla potitet, una belongs with tecum to potitet, and aeque is put absol. (sc. ut tu).—

Aeque with comp. abl.:

nullus est hoc meticulosus aeque,

as this person, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 137:

qui me in terrā aeque fortunatus erit,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 51.—

Aeque—et or aeque— que (as in Gr. ison kai, isa kai, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 611;

Thuc. 3, 14). nisi aeque amicos et nosmet ipsos diligamus,

equally as ourselves, Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 67. versūs aeque prima et media et extrema pars attenditur, id. de Or. 3, 50, 192; id. Rosc. Com. 1, 2; so id. Mur. 13, 28; id. Clu. 69, 195, id. Tusc. 2, 26, 62 al.:

quod Aeque neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 26.—

Aeque—atque, —ac, —ac si, as... as; as much as, as: vide ne, quem tu esse hebetem deputes aeque ac pecus, is, etc., Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: pumex non aeque aridus atque hic est senex, Plaut Aul. 2, 4, 18; Ter. Phorm 1, 2, 43; Varr. R. R. 3, 8, 2:

nisi haberes, qui illis aeque ac tu ipse gauderet,

Cic. Lael. 6, 22:

sed me colit et observat aeque atque patronum suum,

id. Fam. 13, 69; 2, 2; so id. Brut. 71, 248; id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116; Cels. 6, 15; Tac. H. 4, 5; Suet. Caes. 12 al.: aeque ac si. with the subj., just as if. altogether as if:

Egnatii absentis rem ut tueare, aeque a te peto ac si mea negotia essent,

Cic. Fam. 13, 43, 3; Auct Her 2, 13, 19: quo factum est, ut jumenta aeque nitida ex castellis educeret ac si in campestribus ea locis habuisset, Nep Eum. 5. 6; Liv. 10, 7, 4; 44, 22, 5 al.—

Aeque— quam (only in Plaut. and prose writers from the Aug. per.;

neither in Cic. nor in Cæs.),

as... as, in the same manner as, as well... as, like, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 55;

nullum esse agrum aeque feracem quam hic est,

id. Epid. 2, 3, 1:

nihil aeque eos terruit quam robur et color imperatoris,

Liv. 28, 26, 14, 5, 6, 11; so 5, 3, 4; 31, 1, 3;

in navibus posita aeque quam in aedificiis,

Plin. 2, 81, 83, § 196; so 2, 70, 72, § 180; Tac. A. 14, 38; id. H. 2, 10; 4, 52; Suet. Aug. 64, 89; id. Galb. 4 al.—

Aeque—ut, a rare combination, and unworthy of imitation (in authors of the class. per. its reception rests, for the most part, upon false readings for aeque et or aeque ac), as much as, like, cui nihil aeque in causis agendis ut brevitas placet, Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 1 Keil. accinctus aeque ut discinctus, Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 11. Possidebitis eam (terram) singuli aeque ut frater suus, ib. Ezech. 47, 14:

idemque proficeret aeque ut rosaceum,

Plin. 23, 4, 45, § 89, where Jan reads proficeret quod rosaceum. —In Plaut. once aeque—quasi for the class. aeque ac. quem videam aeque esse maestum quasi dies si dicta sit, Plaut. As. 5, 1, 11 Fleck.—

Sometimes aeque—aeque, as well as, as much as. aeque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 25:

aeque discordiam praepositorum, aeque concordiam subjectis exitiosam,

Tac. Agr. 15.—

The comparison is often to be supplied from the whole sentence or context; hence, aeque stands absol. for aeque ac, etc. (ante-class. freq.; also in Cic. and Liv.), equally, as much as, as: eadem oratio non aeque valet, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4 (from Eurip. Hec. 295: logos... ou tauton sthenei):

satin habes, si feminarum nullast quam aeque diligam?

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 11: Aetna mons non aeque altus, id. Mil. 4, 2, 73; 4, 7, 10; id. Most. 1, 3, 85, etc.; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 32; Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 1; so id. ib. 5, 21; id. Fin. 4, 33, 62:

aeque sons,

Liv. 29, 19, 2;

so 29, 19, 4 al.: aeque non est dubium,

it is as little doubtful, Plin. 2, 15, 13, § 68.—

With omnes, uterque, and definite numerals, to indicate that a thing applies equally to all the objects designated, equally:

non omnia eadem aeque omnibus suavia esse scito,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 51; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 2; so Cic. Off. 2, 8, 31; id. Fin. 4, 27, 75 al.:

etsi utrique nostrum prope aeque gratae erant (litterae),

id. Fam. 13, 18; so id. Quint. 28, 86; Verg. G. 3, 118; Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 33; id. Fast. 1, 226:

aeque ambo pares,

Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 60:

duae trabes aeque longae,

Caes. B. C. 2, 10; Suet. Aug. 101. —

Sometimes absol., with several substantives, alike, equally:

Tragici et comici Numquam aeque sunt meditati,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 4. imperium bonus ignavus aeque sibi exoptant, Sall. C. 11.—

In Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 42, nec est mihi quisquam, melius aeque cui velim, melius velle is, perhaps, to be taken together as a phrase, and the comp. considered as used in a restricted sense, as in melius est. Others consider the comp. as used for the simple positive; cf. adaeque.—

Justly, with equity:

mihi id aeque factum arbitror,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 22 dub. (Ritschl: jureque id factum arbitror).— Comp.: ferro quam fame aequius perituros, more willingly, Sall. H. Fragm.— Sup.:

aequissime jus dicere,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 11, 2:

judicas ut qui aequissime,

Sid. 15, Ep. 11.

form, aequĭter, also occurs: praeda per participes aequiter partita est, Liv. Andr. ap. Non. 512, 31; so Pac. ib., Att. ib., and Plaut. acc. to Prisc. 1010 P.

aequus ( aecus, Pac. 32 Rib.; Lucr. 5, 1023 Lachm. and Munro; AIQVOS, S. C. de Bacch. 1. 26), a, um, adj. [formerly referred to EIKÔ, eoika, but Pott connects it with Sanscr. ēka = one, as if properly, one and uniform; others consider it as akin to aemulor, q. v.].

A.. Of place, that extends or lies in a horizontal direction, plain, even, level, flat (esp. freq. in the strategic descriptions of the histt.;

syn.: planus, aequalis, aequabilis, par, similis, justus): locus ad libellam aequus,

level, Varr. R. R. 1, 6 fin.:

aequus et planus locus,

Cic. Caec. 17 fin.:

in aequum locum se demittere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 28: legio, quae paulo aequiore loco constiterat, id. ib. 7, 51:

in aequum locum deducere,

Sall. J. 42 (cf. in Gr. eis to isoW katabainein, Xen. Anab. 4, 6, 18).— Trop.:

sive loquitur ex inferiore loco sive aequo sive ex superiore,

i. e. before the judges, sitting on raised seats, or in the Senate, or in the assembly of the people from the rostra, Cic. de Or. 3, 6, 23:

meos multos et ex superiore et ex aequo loco sermones habitos cum tuā summā laude,

from the tribune, and on private matters, id. Fam. 3, 8.—In the histt., sometimes subst.: aequum, i, n., with a gen., level ground, a plain:

facilem in aequo campi victoriam fore,

Liv. 5, 38:

ut primum agmen aequo, ceteri per acclive jugum insurgerent,

Tac. Agr. 35:

in aequum digredi,

id. ib. 18:

in aequo obstare,

id. ib. 36; id. H. 4, 23.—Also, an eminence, if it rises without inequalities:

dum Romanae cohortes in aequum eniterentur,

up the slope, Tac. A. 2, 80.—As a level place is more favorable for military operations than an uneven one, aequus has the signif.,

Favorable, convenient, advantageous (as its opp., iniquus, uneven, has that of unfavorable, etc.).

Of place:

locum se aequum ad dimicandum dedisse,

Caes. B. C. 3, 73:

etsi non aequum locum videbat suis,

Nep. Milt. 5, 4:

non hic silvas nec paludes, sed aequis locis aequos deos,

Tac. A. 1, 68. —

Of time: judicium aequiore tempore fieri oportere, more propitious, Cic. Corn. Fragm. ap. Ascon. p. 72:

et tempore et loco aequo,

Liv. 26, 3:

tempore aequo,

Suet. Caes. 35.—

In gen., of persons or things (freq. and class.), favorable, kind, friendly, benevolent, etc.; constr. absol. with dat., or in and acc. (in poets in with abl.).

Absol.:

consequeris, ut eos ipsos, quos contra statuas, aequos placatosque dimittas,

Cic. Or. 10, 34:

nobilitate inimica, non aequo senatu,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 3 med.:

meis aequissimis utuntur auribus,

id. Fam. 7, 33:

oculis aspicere aequis,

Verg. A. 4, 372:

O dominum aequum et bonum,

Suet. Aug. 53:

boni et aequi et faciles domini,

id. Tib. 29.—

With dat.:

aequa Venus Teucris, Pallas iniqua fuit,

Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 6; id. A. A. 2, 310.—

With in and acc.:

quis hoc statuit, quod aequum sit in Quintium, id iniquum esse in Maevium,

Cic. Quint. 14.—

With in and abl.:

victor erat quamvis, aequus in hoste fuit,

Prop. 4, 18, 28.—Hence,

aequus, i, m. subst., a friend:

ego ut me tibi amicissimum esse et aequi et iniqui intellegant, curabo,

both friends and enemies, Cic. Fam. 3, 6 fin.:

aequis iniquisque persuasum erat,

Liv. 5, 45.

That is equal to another in any quality, equal, like; and of things divided into two equal parts, a half:

aequo censu censeri,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 92:

partīs,

Lucr. 3, 125; so Aur. Vict. Orig. 19, 1; and Vulg. 1 Reg. 30, 24:

aequa erit mensura sagorum,

ib. Exod. 26, 8:

pondera,

ib. Lev. 19, 36:

portio,

ib. 2 Mach. 8, 30:

aequa dementia,

Lucr. 1, 705 al.:

aequā manu discedere,

to come off with equal advantage, Sall. C. 39; so,

aequo Marte pugnare,

with equal success, Liv. 2, 6; Curt. 4, 15, 29; Flor. 4, 2, 48 al.:

urbs erat in summo nubibus aequa jugo,

Ov. P. 4, 7, 24:

aequum vulnus utrique tulit,

id. M. 9, 719 (cf. id. ib. 7, 803:

aequales urebant pectora flammae): sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis,

Verg. A. 2, 724:

pars aequa mundi,

Plin. 2, 19, 17, § 81:

utinam esset mihi pars aequa amoris tecum, i. e. aeque vicissim amaremus,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 12:

non tertiam portionem, verum aequam,

Plin. 3, 1, 1, § 5 al. —Hence the adverbial phrases,

Ex aequo, in like manner, in an equal degree, equally ( = ex isou, Hdt., Dem.), Lucr. 1, 854:

dixit et ex aequo donis formaque probata, etc.,

Ov. H. 16, 87; 20, 123; id. Am. 1, 10, 33; id. A. A. 2, 682; id. M. 3, 145; 4, 62; Liv. 36, 37:

adversarum rerum ex aequo socii sunt (Fosi Cheruscis), cum in secundis minores fuissent,

Tac. G. 36 fin. —

In aequo esse or stare, to be equal:

qui cogit mori nolentem, in aequo est, quique properantem impedit,

Sen. Phoen. 98:

ut naturam oderint, quod infra deos sumus, quod non in aequo illis stetimus,

id. Ben. 2, 29: in aequo ponere aliquem alicui, to make equal, to put on an equality, to compare:

in aequo eum (Philopoemenem) summis imperatoribus posuerunt,

Liv. 39, 50 fin. —

Morally.

Of persons, fair, equitable, impartial in conduct toward others (diff. from justus, just; v. aequitas, II.); constr. absol., with dat.; more rarely with gen.:

praetor aequus et sapiens,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 65; 2, 5, 59:

aequissimus aestimator et judex,

id. Fin. 3, 2:

praebere se aequum alicui,

id. Fam. 2, 1:

absentium aequi, praesentibus mobiles,

benevolent toward, Tac. A. 6, 36.—

Of things, fair, right, equitable, reasonable: ITA. SENATVS. AIQVOM. CENSVIT., S. C. de Bach. 1. 26: et aecum et rectum est, Pac. ap. Non. 261, 13 (Trag. Rel. p. 81 Rib.):

aequa et honesta postulatio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2:

quod justum est et aequum, servis praestate,

just and fair, Vulg. Col. 4, 1:

postulo primum id, quod aequissimum est, ut, etc.,

Cic. Clu. 2:

aequa lex et omnibus utilis,

id. Balb. 27:

aequissimis legibus monere,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 9, 5:

aequae conditiones,

Vell. 2, 25; see Fischer, Gr. II. 611.—Hence,

ae-quum, i, n. subst., what is fair, equitable, or just; fairness, equity, or justice, etc.: jus atque aequum, Enn. ap. Non. p. 399, 10 (Trag. v. 224 Vahl.):

utilitas justi prope mater et aequi,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 98:

aequi studium,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 24, 6.—Often with comparatives, more than is right, proper, reasonable:

lamentari amplius aequo,

Lucr. 3, 966:

injurias gravius aequo habere,

to feel too deeply, Sall. C. 50:

potus largius aequo,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 215.—Hence, aequum est, it is reasonable, proper, right, etc.; constr. with acc. and inf., in good prose also with dat. pers. and ut, Rudd. II. p. 235, n. 21: nos quiescere aequom est, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 382 P. (Trag. v. 199 Vahl.):

quae liberum scire aequom est adulescentem,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 25:

significant Imbecillorum esse aecum misererier omnīs,

Lucr. 5, 1023:

non est aequum nos derelinquere verbum Dei,

Vulg. Act. 6, 2:

aequius est mori quam auctoritatem imperii foedare,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 12, 7:

ut peritis? Ut piscatorem aequomst (sc. perire), fame sitique speque,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 7; so,

sicut aequum est homini de potestate deorum timide et pauca dicamus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 16, 47.—In Plaut., with abl.:

plus vidissem quam med atque illo aequom foret,

would be becoming in me and him, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 84; id. Rud. prol. 47.—

Aequum as subst. very freq. with bonum = aequitas, equitable conduct toward others, fairness, equity, etc.:

neque quidquam queo aequi bonique ab eo impetrare,

what is right and just, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 65:

cum de jure civili, cum de aequo et bono disputaretur,

Cic. Brut. 38:

ex aequo et bono, non ex callido versutoque jure rem judicari oportere,

id. Caecin. 23:

fit reus magis ex aequo bonoque quam ex jure gentium,

in accordance with justice and equity, Sall. J. 35.— Also without et:

illi dolum malum, illi fidem bonam, illi aequum bonum tradiderunt,

Cic. Top. 17.—So also, aequius melius, according to greater equily, Cic. Off. 3, 15; id. Top. 17.—

Of a state of mind, even, unruffled, calm, composed, tranquil, patient, enduring (cf. aequitas, II. B.);

esp. freq. with animus or mens: animus aequos optumum est aerumnae condimentum,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 71:

concedo et quod animus aequus est et quia necesse est,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 50:

quodadest memento Componere aequus,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 32:

tentantem majora, fere praesentibus aequum,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 24;

and so, aequam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem, etc.,

id. C. 2, 3, 1.—Esp. freq. in the adv. abl.: aequo (aequiore, aequissimo) animo, with even mind, with equanimity, patiently, calmly, quietly, with forbearance: ego, nisi Bibulus adniteretur de triumpho, aequo animo essem, nunc vero aischron siôpan, Cic. Att. 6, 8:

carere aequo animo aliquā re,

id. Brut. 6:

ferre aliquid,

Nep. Dion. 6, 7; Aur. Vict. Orig. 6, 3:

accipere,

Sall. C. 3, 2:

tolerare,

id. J. 31:

quo aequiore animo Germanicus celerem successionem operiretur,

Suet. Tib. 25:

testem se in judiciis interrogari aequissimo animo patiebatur,

id. Aug. 56.—In eccl. Lat. = bono animo:

aequo animo esto,

be of good cheer, Vulg. 3 Reg. 21, 7:

aequo animo (aliquis) est? Psallat,

ib. Jacob. 5, 13.—Hence: aequi bonique facere aliquid, to regard as fair and reasonable (prop., a gen. of value, Roby, § 1191), to put up with, be content with, submit to, acquiesce in, etc.:

istuc aequi bonique facio,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 40: tranquillissimus animus meus totum istuc aequi boni [p. 59] facit, Cic. Att. 7, 7; Liv. 34, 22 fin.:

aequi istuc faciam,

it will be all the same to me, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 189.—So also:

aequi bonique dicere,

to propose any thing reasonable, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 32.—Hence, aequē, adv., in like manner, equally, just as = ex aequo, pariter, Gr. isôs, omoiôs (indicating the entire equality of two objects compared, while similiter denotes only likeness):

eā (benevolentiā) non pariter omnes egemus... honore et gloriā fortasse non aeque omnes egent,

Cic. Off. 2, 8, 30:

non possum ego non aut proxime atque ille aut etiam aeque laborare,

id. Fam. 9, 13, 2:

universa aeque eveniunt justo et impio,

Vulg. Eccl. 9, 2.

In the comic poets with cum or the comp. abl. (cf. adaeque); in Cic. and good class. authors gen. with et, atque, ac, ac si; less class. with quam, ut, quam ut; in Petr. with tamquam.

Aeque—cum:

animum advorte, ut aeque mecum haec scias,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 66, id. Poen. prol. 47: novi aeque omnia tecum, Ter Phorm. 5, 9, 43. But in Plaut. As. 4, 1, 26, tecum una postea aeque pocla potitet, una belongs with tecum to potitet, and aeque is put absol. (sc. ut tu).—

Aeque with comp. abl.:

nullus est hoc meticulosus aeque,

as this person, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 137:

qui me in terrā aeque fortunatus erit,

id. Curc. 1, 2, 51.—

Aeque—et or aeque— que (as in Gr. ison kai, isa kai, Soph. Oed. Tyr. 611;

Thuc. 3, 14). nisi aeque amicos et nosmet ipsos diligamus,

equally as ourselves, Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 67. versūs aeque prima et media et extrema pars attenditur, id. de Or. 3, 50, 192; id. Rosc. Com. 1, 2; so id. Mur. 13, 28; id. Clu. 69, 195, id. Tusc. 2, 26, 62 al.:

quod Aeque neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 26.—

Aeque—atque, —ac, —ac si, as... as; as much as, as: vide ne, quem tu esse hebetem deputes aeque ac pecus, is, etc., Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: pumex non aeque aridus atque hic est senex, Plaut Aul. 2, 4, 18; Ter. Phorm 1, 2, 43; Varr. R. R. 3, 8, 2:

nisi haberes, qui illis aeque ac tu ipse gauderet,

Cic. Lael. 6, 22:

sed me colit et observat aeque atque patronum suum,

id. Fam. 13, 69; 2, 2; so id. Brut. 71, 248; id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116; Cels. 6, 15; Tac. H. 4, 5; Suet. Caes. 12 al.: aeque ac si. with the subj., just as if. altogether as if:

Egnatii absentis rem ut tueare, aeque a te peto ac si mea negotia essent,

Cic. Fam. 13, 43, 3; Auct Her 2, 13, 19: quo factum est, ut jumenta aeque nitida ex castellis educeret ac si in campestribus ea locis habuisset, Nep Eum. 5. 6; Liv. 10, 7, 4; 44, 22, 5 al.—

Aeque— quam (only in Plaut. and prose writers from the Aug. per.;

neither in Cic. nor in Cæs.),

as... as, in the same manner as, as well... as, like, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 55;

nullum esse agrum aeque feracem quam hic est,

id. Epid. 2, 3, 1:

nihil aeque eos terruit quam robur et color imperatoris,

Liv. 28, 26, 14, 5, 6, 11; so 5, 3, 4; 31, 1, 3;

in navibus posita aeque quam in aedificiis,

Plin. 2, 81, 83, § 196; so 2, 70, 72, § 180; Tac. A. 14, 38; id. H. 2, 10; 4, 52; Suet. Aug. 64, 89; id. Galb. 4 al.—

Aeque—ut, a rare combination, and unworthy of imitation (in authors of the class. per. its reception rests, for the most part, upon false readings for aeque et or aeque ac), as much as, like, cui nihil aeque in causis agendis ut brevitas placet, Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 1 Keil. accinctus aeque ut discinctus, Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 11. Possidebitis eam (terram) singuli aeque ut frater suus, ib. Ezech. 47, 14:

idemque proficeret aeque ut rosaceum,

Plin. 23, 4, 45, § 89, where Jan reads proficeret quod rosaceum. —In Plaut. once aeque—quasi for the class. aeque ac. quem videam aeque esse maestum quasi dies si dicta sit, Plaut. As. 5, 1, 11 Fleck.—

Sometimes aeque—aeque, as well as, as much as. aeque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 25:

aeque discordiam praepositorum, aeque concordiam subjectis exitiosam,

Tac. Agr. 15.—

The comparison is often to be supplied from the whole sentence or context; hence, aeque stands absol. for aeque ac, etc. (ante-class. freq.; also in Cic. and Liv.), equally, as much as, as: eadem oratio non aeque valet, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4 (from Eurip. Hec. 295: logos... ou tauton sthenei):

satin habes, si feminarum nullast quam aeque diligam?

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 11: Aetna mons non aeque altus, id. Mil. 4, 2, 73; 4, 7, 10; id. Most. 1, 3, 85, etc.; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 32; Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 1; so id. ib. 5, 21; id. Fin. 4, 33, 62:

aeque sons,

Liv. 29, 19, 2;

so 29, 19, 4 al.: aeque non est dubium,

it is as little doubtful, Plin. 2, 15, 13, § 68.—

With omnes, uterque, and definite numerals, to indicate that a thing applies equally to all the objects designated, equally:

non omnia eadem aeque omnibus suavia esse scito,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 51; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 2; so Cic. Off. 2, 8, 31; id. Fin. 4, 27, 75 al.:

etsi utrique nostrum prope aeque gratae erant (litterae),

id. Fam. 13, 18; so id. Quint. 28, 86; Verg. G. 3, 118; Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 33; id. Fast. 1, 226:

aeque ambo pares,

Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 60:

duae trabes aeque longae,

Caes. B. C. 2, 10; Suet. Aug. 101. —

Sometimes absol., with several substantives, alike, equally:

Tragici et comici Numquam aeque sunt meditati,

Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 4. imperium bonus ignavus aeque sibi exoptant, Sall. C. 11.—

In Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 42, nec est mihi quisquam, melius aeque cui velim, melius velle is, perhaps, to be taken together as a phrase, and the comp. considered as used in a restricted sense, as in melius est. Others consider the comp. as used for the simple positive; cf. adaeque.—

Justly, with equity:

mihi id aeque factum arbitror,

Plaut. Mil. 5, 22 dub. (Ritschl: jureque id factum arbitror).— Comp.: ferro quam fame aequius perituros, more willingly, Sall. H. Fragm.— Sup.:

aequissime jus dicere,

Aur. Vict. Epit. 11, 2:

judicas ut qui aequissime,

Sid. 15, Ep. 11.

form, aequĭter, also occurs: praeda per participes aequiter partita est, Liv. Andr. ap. Non. 512, 31; so Pac. ib., Att. ib., and Plaut. acc. to Prisc. 1010 P.

magnus, a, um (archaic gen. magnai for magnae:

magnai reipublicai gratia,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 23), adj.; comp. mājor, us; sup. maxĭmus ( maxŭm-), a, um [root magh-; Sanscr. mahat, maba, great; Gr. megas; cf. meizôn for megiôn; cf. mêchos, majestas; also cf. root mak-; Gr. makros, and perh. makar], great, large.

Lit., of physical size or quantity, great, large; of things, vast, extensive, spacious, etc.: nequam et magnus homo, a great, tall fellow, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 32 Mull.; cf.

the double meaning: tu, bis denis grandia libris Qui scribis Priami proelia, magnus homo es,

a great man, Mart. 9, 51, 4: magna ossa lacertique Apparent homini, Lucil. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1:

magna ossa lacertosque Exuit,

Verg. A. 5, 422: (scarus) magnusque bonusque, Enn. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 9 Vahl.): indu mari magno, id. ap. Macr. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 425 Vahl.); so, in mari magno, id. ap. Fest. p. 356 Mull.; cf. Lucr. 2, 554:

magnus fluens Nilus,

Verg. G. 3, 28; Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 2:

magna et pulcra domus,

spacious, Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 17:

montes,

Cat. 64. 280; cf. Olympum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 20 Mull. (Ann. v. 1 Vahl.):

templa caelitum,

vast, id. ib. 7, § 6 (Trag. v. 227 Vahl.): magnae quercus, great oaks, lofty oaks, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 194 Vahl.):

aquae,

great floods, inundations, Liv. 24, 9: saxa maxima, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

oppidum maximum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 23.—

Esp.

Of measure, weight, quantity, great, much, abundant, considerable, etc.:

maximum pondus auri, magnum numerum frumenti, vim mellis maximam exportasse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 176:

magna pecunia mutua,

id. Att. 11, 3, 3:

copia pabuli,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16:

multitudo peditatus,

id. ib. 4, 34:

divitiae,

Nep. Dion. 1, 2:

populus,

Verg. A. 1, 148.—

Rarely of time, for longus, multus:

interea magnum sol circumvolvitur annum,

Verg. A. 3, 284:

magnum vocans solis (annum) comparatione lunaris,

Macr. S. 2, 11:

magno post tempore,

Just. 11, 10, 14; 32, 3, 10.—

Of the voice, loud, powerful, strong, mighty:

magna voce confiteri,

Cic. Caecin. 32, 92: major pars, the majority:

tribunorum,

Liv. 9, 46, 7.

Trop.

In gen., great, grand, mighty, noble, lofty, important, of great weight or importance, momentous: cum magnis dis, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 207 Vahl.); cf.: Saturnia magna dearum, id. ap. Prisc. p. 1103 P. (Ann. v. 482 Vahl.):

vir magnus in primis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit,

id. ib. 2, 66, 167:

magnus hoc bello Themistocles fuit, nec minor in pace,

Nep. Them. 6, 1:

Cato clarus atque magnus habetur,

Sall. C. 53, 1:

amicus,

great, wealthy, Juv. 6, 312: res magnas parvasque Eloqui, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 244 Vahl.):

virtus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

infamia,

Cic. Fam. 1, 1:

eloquentia, gravitas, studium, contentio,

id. ib.:

multo major alacritas, studiumque pugnandi majus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46:

causa,

great, important, weighty, Cic. Dom. 1, 1:

opus et arduum,

id. Or. 10, 33.— Absol. in neutr, sing. and plur.:

quamquam id magnum, et arduum est,

something great, Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 6: magna Di curant ( great things, important matters), parva neglegunt, id. N. D. 2, 66, 167:

magna loqui,

to say great things, speak boastfully, Tib. 2, 6, 11:

magnum est efficere, ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud, etc.,

it is a great, difficult, important thing, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

probitatem vel in eis, quos numquam vidimus, vel, quod majus est, in hoste etiam diligimus,

what is far greater, id. Lael. 9, 29: annus magnus, the great year, at the end of which the sun, moon, and planets were supposed to return to the same relative positions, the Piatonic year or cycle, consisting of 15000 years:

quarum (stellarum) ex disparibus motionibus, magnum annum mathematici nominaverunt, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52; id. Fragm. ap. Tac. Or. 16.— Posit. in comparison: Alexander orbi magnus est, Alex. andro orbis angustus, great in comparison with, i. e. too great for, Sen. Suas. 1, 3.—

In partic.

Of age, with natu, advanced in years, of great age, aged:

jam magno natu,

Nep. Paus. 5; Liv. 3, 71, 3:

homo magnus natu,

id. 10, 38, 6.—Usually in the comp. and sup., with or without natu or annis, older, the elder, the oldest or eldest:

qui (Livius) fuit major natu quam Plautus et Naevius,

older than, earlier, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 3:

audivi ex majoribus natu,

id. Off. 1, 30, 109:

hic una e multis, quae maxima natu, Pyrgo,

Verg. A. 5, 644:

annos natus major quadraginta,

more than, Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 39:

civis major annis viginti,

Suet. Caes. 42:

cum liberis, majoribus quam quindecim annos natis,

Liv. 45, 32.— Absol.: senis nostri frater major, the elder of two, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 13:

ex duobus filiis major, Caes B. C. 3, 108, 3: Fabii Ambusti filiae duae nuptae, Ser. Sulpicio major minor Licinio Stoloni erat,

Liv. 6, 34:

Gelo maximus stirpis,

id. 23, 30:

ut nubere vellet mulier viro, major juniori,

App. Mag. 27, p. 291, 28; cf.

in gen.: Cyrus major,

Lact. 4, 5, 7:

quaerere uter major aetate fuerit, Homerus an Hesiodus, cum minor Hecuba fuerit quam Helena,

Sen. Ep. 88, 5.—In legal lang., major (opp. minor), one who has attained his twenty-fifth year, who is of age:

si minor negotiis majoris intervenerit,

Dig. 4, 4, 24.—In plur. subst.: mājō-res, um, m., adults (opp. pueri), Varr. L. L. 9, 10, § 16 Mull.—But usually majores, ancestors, forefathers:

Itan tandem hanc majores famam tradiderunt tibi tui, Ut, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 16:

ibi mei sunt majores siti, pater, avos, proavos, abavos,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 20:

L. Philippus, vir patre, avo, majoribus suis dignissimus,

Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 25:

patres majoresque nostri,

id. Div. in Caecil. 21, 69:

more majorum,

id. Att. 1, 1, 1:

spes tamen una est, aliquando populum Romanum majorum similem fore,

id. Fam. 12, 22, 2:

majores natu,

Nep. Iphicr. 1, 1:

maxima virgo,

the eldest of the Vestal virgins, Ov. F. 4, 639: major erus, the old master, the master of the house, the old man (opp.: minor erus, the young master): Le. Ubinam est erus? Li. Major apud forum'st, minor hic est intus, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 63: majores natu, of the Senate:

de istis rebus in patria majores natu consulemus,

Liv. 1, 32, 10.—In designating relationship, magnus denotes kindred of the fourth, major of the fifth, and maximus of the sixth degree; so, avunculus magnus, a great-uncle; amita magna, a greataunt; avunculus or amita major; avunculus maximus, amita maxima, etc.; v. h. vv., and cf. Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

In specifications of value, in the neutr. absol., magni or magno, high, dear, of great value, at a high price, etc.; cf.: pretii majoris or maximi, higher, highest, very high:

magni esse,

to be highly esteemed, Cic. Fam. 13, 72, 2:

magni aestimare,

id. Tusc. 5, 7, 20:

magni existimans interesse ad decus,

to be of great consequence, id. N. D. 1, 4, 7:

emere agros poterunt quam volent magno,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 34:

magno vendere,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 30, § 71:

conducere aliquid nimium magno,

too high, too dear, id. Att. 1, 17, 9:

magno illi ea cunctatio stetit,

cost him dear, Liv. 2, 36.— Comp.:

ornatus muliebris majoris pretii,

Cic. Inv 1, 31, 51, rarely without pretii:

multo majoris alapae mecum veneunt,

dearer, higher, Phaedr. 2, 5, 25.— Sup.: te haec solum semper fecit maxumi, most highly prized, Ter And. 1, 5, 58:

senatus auctoritatem sibi maximi videri,

Cic. Att. 1, 14, 2: in majus, too greatly, too highly, greater than it is:

extollere aliquid in majus,

more highly than it deserves, Tac. A. 15, 30:

celebrare,

id. ib. 13, 8:

nuntiare,

id. H. 3, 38:

credere,

to believe a thing to be worse than it is, id. ib. 1, 18:

accipere,

to take a thing to be greater than it is, id. ib. 3, 8 init.: innotescere, in an exaggerated manner, id. ib 4, 50.—Also with abl., in majus vero ferri, Liv. 21, 32, 7.—

Magnum and maximum, adverbially, greatly, loudly (ante- and post-class.):

magnum clamat,

greatly, with a loud voice, aloud, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 10:

inclamare,

Gell. 5, 9 fin.:

exclamat derepente maximum,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 57.—Hence, măgis, adv., only in comp. in this anomalous form (i. e. mag-ius, like pris-cus for [p. 1100] prius-cus, and pris-tinus for prius-tinus); and in sup.: maxĭmē ( maxŭmē).

Comp.: magĭs (apocop. form, măgĕ, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 51; 2, 3, 14; id. Mon. 2, 3, 35; id. Poen. 1, 2, 64; 1, 2, 14; id. Trin. 4, 3, 46; id. Truc. 1, 2, 75; 3, 1, 17; 4, 4, 34; Lucr. 4, 81; 756; 5, 1203; Prop. 1, 11, 9; 3 (4), 14, 2; 4 (5), 8, 16; Verg. A. 10, 481; Sol. 22 fin.; but in Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2, magis or magi'. Acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 10, 481, Cicero in the Frumentaria wrote: mage condemnatum hominum in judicium adducere non posse), in a higher degree, more completely, more (for the difference between magis, plus, potius, and amplius, v. amplius).—

In gen.

With no qualifying words.

With the addition of the second term of the comparison.

With verbs:

quae (facinora) istaec aetas fugere magis quam sectari solet,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 28:

saliendo sese exercebant magis, quam scorto aut saviis,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 25; id. Pers. 4, 4, 108; 86:

magis honorem tribuere quam salutem accipere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 20, 7:

nisi forte magis erit parricida, si qui consularem patrem, quam si quis humilem necarit,

Cic. Mil. 7, 17:

magis ut consuetudinem servem, quam quod, etc.,

id. Clu. 32, 89.—Repeated:

quam magis exhausto spumaverit ubere mulctra, Laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis, i. e. quo magis,... eo magis,

Verg. G. 3, 309 sq.; cf.:

tam magis illa fremens... quam magis effuso crudescunt sanguine pugnae,

id. ib. 7, 787 sq.; v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 566.—Magis est, quod or ut, there is greater reason, there is more cause that, etc.:

quamobrem etsi magis est, quod gratuler tibi, quam quod te rogem: tamen etiam rogo, etc.,

Cic. Att. 16, 5, 2:

magis est, ut ipse moleste ferat, errasse se, quam ut, etc.,

id. Cael. 6, 14.—

With substt., usu. with quam: tu me amoris magis quam honoris servavisti gratia, Poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: bellipotentes sunt magi' quam sapientipotentes, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 56, 116 (Ann. v. 188 Vahl.):

umbra es amantum magis quam amator,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 31:

magis adeo id facilitate quam alia ulla culpa mea contigit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15:

aditus ad consulatum non magis nobilitati quam virtuti pateret,

id. Mur. 8, 17:

magis ratione et consilio quam virtute vicisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8; cf.:

ut magis virtute quam dolo contenderent,

id. ib. 1, 13, 6:

se magis consuetudine sua quam merito eorum civitatem conservaturum,

id. ib. 2, 32, 1:

timori magis quam religioni consulere,

id. B. C. 1, 67, 3:

jus bonumque apud eos non legibus magis quam natura valebat,

Sall. C. 9, 1:

non duces magis quam milites callent (obsistere, etc.),

Curt. 3, 2, 14.—And after negatives: non magis quam, as little as:

in dicendo irasci, dolere... non sunt figurae, non magis quam suadere,

Quint. 9, 1, 23:

Romanos nec magis jam dolo capi quam armis vinci posse,

Liv. 10, 4, 10:

pro certo habens non magis Antonio eripi se quam Caesari Brutum posse,

Sen. Suas. 6, 17:

non magis Alexandri saevitiam quam Bessi parricidium ferre potuisse,

Curt. 7, 6, 15; cf.:

nec magis post proelium quam in proelio caedibus temperatum est,

Liv. 2, 16, 9. —Followed by atque instead of quam (rare):

non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum est,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 15.— With the comp. abl. (rare):

quid philosophia magis colendum?

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 76:

quanto magis Aliensi die Aliam ipsam reformidaturos?

Liv. 6, 28, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.:

quam Juno fertur terris magis omnibus unam... coluisse,

Verg. A. 1, 15 (cf. B. 3. infra):

Albanum sive Falernum Te magis appositis delectat,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 17.—

With pronn.:

quid habetis, qui mage immortales vos credam esse quam ego siem?

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 64:

quis homo sit magis meus quam tu es?

id. Mil. 3, 1, 20:

quam mage amo quam matrem meam,

id. Truc. 3, 1, 17; cf.:

quem ego ecastor mage amo quam me,

id. ib. 4, 4, 34.—With utrum, followed by an:

jam scibo, utrum haec me mage amet, an marsupium,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 35.—With the abl. instead of quam:

nec magis hac infra quicquam est in corpore nostro,

Lucr. 3, 274; Verg. A. 1, 15.—

With adjj. and advv., and esp. with those which do not admit the comparative termination (most freq. without adding the second term of the comparison; v. under b. d): numquam potuisti mihi Magis opportunus advenire quam advenis, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 47:

neque lac lacti magis est simile, quam ille ego similis est mei,

id. Am. 2, 1, 54:

ars magis magna atque uber, quam difficilis et obscura,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 190:

corpora magna magis quam firma,

Liv. 5, 44, 4:

vultu pulchro magis quam venusto,

Suet. Ner. 51.—With the abl., Plaut. As. 3, 3, 114:

neque ego hoc homine quemquam vidi magis malum,

id. Ps. 4, 1, 27:

ab secundis rebus magis etiam solito incauti,

Liv. 5, 44, 6.—With compp. (adding to their force):

ita fustibus sum mollior miser magis quam ullus cinaedus,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 8. —

Without the addition of the second term.

With verbs: ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 315 Vahl.):

sapiunt magis,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 4:

magis curae est, magisque afformido, ne, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 10, 3:

magis metuant,

id. Mil. 5, 44:

tum magis id diceres, Fanni, si, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 7 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 1, 40, 62:

cum Pompeius ita contendisset, ut nihil umquam magis,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 20:

magis velle, for malle: quod magis vellem evenire,

Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 1; Val. Fl. 3, 270.—

With substt.: non ex jure manum consertum sed magi' ferro, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 276 Vahl.):

magis aedilis fieri non potuisset,

better, finer, Cic. Planc. 24, 60.—

With pronn.:

ecastor neminem hodie mage Amat corde atque animo suo,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 75.—

With adjj. and advv. (so most freq.).—With adjj.:

ut quadam magis necessaria ratione recte sit vivendum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 2:

magis anxius,

Ov. M. 1, 182:

hic magis tranquillu'st,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 55:

nihil videtur mundius, nec magis compositum quicquam, nec magis elegans,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 12:

nemo fuit magis severus nec magis continens,

id. ib. 2, 1, 21:

quod est magis verisimile,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13, 6:

magis admirabilis oratio,

Quint. 8, 3, 24:

magis communia verba,

id. 8, 2, 24 et saep.; rare: magis quam in aliis = praeter ceteros;

nescio quo pacto magis quam in aliis suum cuique pulchrum est,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 22, 63.— With advv.:

magis aperte,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 30:

magis impense,

id. ib. 5, 9, 36.—With compp. adding to their force:

magis est dulcius,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 22:

magis majores nugae,

id. Men. prol. 55:

magis modum in majorem,

id. Am. 1, 1, 145:

contentiores mage erunt,

id. Poen. 2, 15.—

Strengthened.

By etiam, multo, tanto, eo, hoc, quo, tam, quam; and negatively, nihilo:

qualis in dicendo Hierocles Alabandeus, magis etiam Menecles, frater ejus, fuit,

Cic. Brut. 95, 325; id. Off. 1, 21, 72:

illud ad me, ac multo etiam magis ad vos,

id. de Or. 2, 32, 139:

tanto magis Dic, quis est?

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 28:

ut quidque magis contemplor, tanto magis placet,

id. Most. 3, 2, 146:

vicina cacumina caelo, quam sint magis, tanto magis fument,

Lucr. 6, 460:

quanto ille plura miscebat, tanto hic magis in dies convalescebat,

Cic. Mil. 9, 25:

sed eo magis cauto est Opus, ne huc exeat, qui, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 22:

atque eo magis, si, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1:

eoque magis quod, etc.,

id. Lael. 2, 7; Caes. B. G. 1, 23; 1, 47; 3, 14;

5, 1: immo vero etiam hoc magis, quam illi veteres, quod, etc.,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

hoc vero magis properare Varro, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 2, 20:

quo magis cogito ego cum meo animo,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 13; Nep. Thras. 2:

magis quam id reputo, tam magis uror,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 5:

tam magis illa fremens... Quam magis, etc.,

Verg. A. 7, 787:

quanto mage... tam magis,

Lucr. 4, 81 sq.:

quam magis in pectore meo foveo, quas meus filius turbas turbet... magis curae est magisque afformido, ne, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 1; 4, 4, 27; id. Men. 1, 1, 19:

quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert,

id. As. 1, 3, 6:

densior hinc suboles Quam magis, etc.,

Verg. G. 3, 309:

cum Vercingetorix nihilo magis in aequum locum descenderet,

Caes. B. G. 6, 53.—

By reduplication: magis magisque, magis et magis, magis ac magis; and poet. also, magis magis, more and more: ex desiderio magis magisque maceror, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 182 P.:

cum cotidie magis magisque perditi homines tectis ac templis urbis minarentur,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5; id. Fam. 2, 18, 2; 16, 21, 2; Sall. C. 5, 7; cf. Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 2:

de Graecia cotidie magis et magis cogito,

Cic. Att. 14, 18, 4; 16, 3, 1; id. Brut. 90, 308; Liv. 7, 32, 6; Sall. J. 8, 6:

magis deinde ac magis,

Suet. Vit. 10:

post hoc magis ac magis,

id. Gram. 3;

for which also: magisque ac magis deinceps,

id. Tit. 3; Tac. A. 14, 8; Sen. de Ira, 3, 1, 4; id. Ep. 114, 25; id. Ben. 2, 14, 4; Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 10; 7, 3, 4; 10, 28, 3.— Poet. also:

magis atque magis,

Verg. A. 12, 239; Cat. 68, 48:

post, vento crescente, magis magis increbescunt,

id. 64, 275; cf. Verg. G. 4, 311.—

Pleon.

With potius (anteclass.):

magis decorum'st Libertum potius quam patronum onus in via portare,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 99:

mihi magis lubet cum probis potius quam cum improbis vivere,

id. Trin. 2, 1, 38.—

With malle: quam cum lego, nihil malo quam has res relinquere;

his vero auditis multo magis,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 76:

finge enim malle eum magis suum consequi quam, etc.,

Dig. 17, 2, 52, § 10. —

In partic.: non (neque) magis quam.

To signify perfect equality between two enunciations, no more... than; just as much... as; or neg., no more... than; just as little... as:

domus erat non domino magis ornamento quam civitati,

i. e. just as much to the city as to its owner, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2:

non Hannibale magis victo a se quam Q. Fabio,

Liv. 22, 27, 2:

conficior enim maerore, mea Terentia, nec me meae miseriae magis excruciant quam tuae vestraeque,

Cic. Fam. 13, 3, 1; Liv. 9, 22.— Neg.: qui est enim animus in aliquo morbo... non magis est sanus, quam id corpus, quod in morbo est, i. e. is just as far from being sound as a body, etc., Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10:

si aliqua in re Verris similis fuero, non magis mihi deerit inimicus quam Verri defuit,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 162; id. Fam. 5, 12, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 31:

non nascitur itaque ex malo bonum, non magis quam ficus ex olea,

Sen. Ep. 87, 25;

Quint. prooem. § 26: non magis Gaium imperaturum, quam per Baianum sinum equis discursurum,

Suet. Calig. 19. —Ellipt.:

nec eo magis lege liberi sunto,

just as little from that as from the rest, Cic. Leg. 3, 4, 11.—

For restricting the idea expressed in the clause with non magis, so that not more, according to a common figure of speech, = less; in Engl. not so much... as; less... than:

deinde credas mihi affirmanti velim, me hoc non pro Lysone magis quam pro omnibus scribere,

Cic. Fam. 13, 24; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 17:

miserebat non poenae magis homines, quam sceleris, quo poenam meriti essent,

Liv. 2, 5; 1, 28.—

Magis minusve, magis aut minus, or magis ac minus; post-Aug. for the usual plus minusve, more or less:

sed istud magis minusve vitiosum est pro personis dicentium,

Quint. 11, 1, 27; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 220:

minora vero plerumque sunt talia, ut pro persona, tempore, loco, causa magis ac minus vel excusata debeant videri vel reprehendenda,

Quint. 11, 1, 14; Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 67:

quaedam tamen et nationibus puto magis aut minus convenire,

Sen. Ep. 40, 11; cf.:

quosdam minus aut magis osos veritatem,

id. Suas. 1, 5:

aut minus, aut magis,

id. Ep. 82, 14.—

With alius... alio, etc.: ceterae philosophorum disciplinae, omnino alia magis alia, sed tamen omnes, one more than another, i. e. in different degrees, Cic. Fin. 3, 3, 11 Madvig. ad loc. (al.:

alia magis, alia minus, v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 560): mihi videntur omnes quidem illi errasse... sed alius alio magis,

Cic. Fin. 4, 16, 43:

sunt omnino omnes fere similes, sed declarant communis notiones, alia magis alia,

id. Tusc. 4, 24, 53:

alii aliis magis recusare,

Liv. 29, 15, 11.— Sup.: maxĭmē( maxŭmē), in the highest degree, most of all, most particularly, especially, exceedingly, very, etc.

Lit.

Alone.

With a verb:

haec una res in omni libero populo maximeque in pacatis tranquillisque civitatibus praecipue semper floruit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 30:

quid commemorem primum aut laudem maxime?

Ter. Eun. 5, 9, 14; 3, 1, 79:

nos coluit maxime,

id. Ad. 3, 2, 54:

quem convenire maxime cupiebam,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 30; id. As. 3, 3, 133:

de te audiebamus ea, quae maxime vellemus,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, a, 7; cf. id. Att. 13, 1:

extra quos (fines) egredi non possim, si maxime velim,

id. Quint. 10, 35:

in re publica maxime conservanda sunt jura belli,

most especially, id. Off. 1, 11, 33: huic legioni Caesar propter virtutem confidebat maxime, [p. 1101] Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

quem Homero crederet maxime accedere,

came nearest to, Quint. 10, 1, 86; cf.

pugnare,

most violently, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 271; 1, 1, 44:

jubere,

most positively, id. Bacch. 4, 9, 80:

id enim est profecto, quod constituta religione rem publicam contineat maxime,

Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 69; cf. maxime fin.:

ab eo exordiri volui maxime,

id. Off. 1, 2, 4:

cernere naturae vim maxime,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35.—

With an adj.:

res maxime necessaria,

Cic. Lael. 23, 86:

loca maxime frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 1, 10:

loci ad hoc maxime idonei,

Quint. 1, 11, 13:

maxime naturali carent amicitia,

Cic. Lael. 21, 80:

maxime feri,

Caes. B. G. 2, 4:

qui eo tempore maxime plebi acceptus erat,

id. ib. 1, 3:

idem ad augendam eloquentiam maxime accommodati erunt,

Quint. 1, 11, 13:

elegans maxime auctor,

id. 10, 1, 93:

maxime vero commune est quaerere, an sit honesta? etc.,

id. 2, 4, 37:

noto enim maxime utar exemplo,

id. 7, 3, 3.—So with supp.:

quae maxime liberalissima,

Cic. Att. 12, 38, 3:

maxime gravissimam omniumque (rerum),

Liv. 41, 23, 4 MS. (dub.: maxumam gravissimamque, Weissenb.). —

With numerals, at most:

puer ad annos maxime natus octo,

Gell. 17, 8, 4.—

With an adv.:

ut dicatis quam maxime ad veritatem accommodate,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 149 (v. infra 2).—

Strengthened by unus, unus omnium, omnium, multo, vel, tam, quam, etc. (supply potest):

qui proelium unus maxime accenderat,

Curt. 5, 2, 5:

cum sua modestia unus omnium maxime floreret,

Nep. Milt. 1, 1:

quae maxime omnium belli avida,

Liv. 23, 49; 4, 59; cf. Drak. ad Liv. 36, 19, 4:

atque ea res multo maxime disjunxit illum ab illa,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 85:

imperium populi Romani multo maxime miserabile visum est,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

illud mihi videtur vel maxime confirmare, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 65, 162:

hoc enim uno praestamus vel maxime feris,

id. de Or. 1, 8, 32:

quae quidem vel maxime suspicionem movent,

id. Part. Or. 33, 114:

quam potes, tam verba confer maxime ad compendium,

as much as possible, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 186:

ego jubeo quam maxime unam facere nos hanc familiam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 2:

ut quam maxime permaneant diuturna corpora,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108; id. de Or. 1, 34, 154:

quo mihi rectius videtur, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere,

Sall. C. 1, 3:

ceterum illum juvenem incipere a quam maxime facili ac favorabili causa velim,

Quint. 12, 6, 6.—

With the relative qui in the phrases, quam qui maxime and ut qui maxime:

tam enim sum amicus rei publicae, quam qui maxime,

as any one whatever, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 6:

grata ea res, ut quae maxime senatui umquam fuit,

Liv. 5, 25; 7, 33.—

With ut quisque... ita (maxime, potissimum or minime), the more... the more (or less):

hoc maxime officii est, ut quisque maxime opis indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 49:

ut quisque magnitudine animae maxime excellit, ita maxime, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 19, 64; cf.

, in the contrary order: colendum autem esse ita quemque maxime, ut quisque maxime virtutibus his lenioribus erit ornatus,

id. ib. 1, 15, 47:

ut enim quisque maxime ad suum commodum refert, quaecumque agit, ita minime est vir bonus,

id. Leg. 1, 18, 49.—

In gradations, to denote the first and most desirable, first of all, in the first place:

hujus industriam maxime quidem vellem, ut imitarentur ii, quos oportebat: secundo autem loco, ne alterius labori inviderent,

Cic. Phil. 8, 10, 31; cf. id. Caecin. 9, 23:

si per eum reductus insidiose redissem, me scilicet maxime sed proxime illum quoque fefellissem,

id. Rab. Post. 12, 33:

in quo genere sunt maxime oves, deinde caprae,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 1:

maxime... dein,

Plin. 9, 16, 23, § 56:

sed vitem maxime populus videtur alere, deinde ulmus, post etiam fraxinus,

Col. 5, 6, 4:

maxime... deinde... postea... minume,

Plin. 37, 12, 75, § 196:

maxime... postea... ultimae,

Col. 6, 3, 6:

post Chium maxime laudatur Creticum, mox Aegyptium,

Plin. 18, 7, 17, § 77.—

Transf.

Like potissimum, to give prominence to an idea, especially, particularly, principally:

quae ratio poetas, maximeque Homerum impulit, ut, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 6; Varr. R. R. 1, 51, 1:

scribe aliquid, et maxime, si Pompeius Italia cedit,

Cic. Att. 7, 12, 4: de Cocceio et Libone quae scribis, approbo:

maxime quod de judicatu meo,

id. ib. 12, 19, 2; id. Fin. 5, 1, 1:

cognoscat etiam rerum gestarum et memoriae veteris ordinem, maxime scilicet nostrae civitatis,

id. Or. 34, 120; id. Att. 13, 1, 2.—So in the connection, cum... tum maxime; tum... tum maxime; ut... tum maxime, but more especially:

scio et perspexi saepe: cum antehac, tum hodie maxime,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 56:

plena exemplorum est nostra res publica, cum saepe, tum maxime bello Punico secundo,

Cic. Off. 3, 11, 47; id. Att. 11, 6, 1; id. Fl. 38, 94:

tum exercitationibus crebris atque magnis, tum scribendo maxime persequatur,

id. de Or. 2, 23, 96:

longius autem procedens, ut in ceteris eloquentiae partibus, tum maxime, etc.,

id. Brut. 93, 320.— With nunc, nuper, tum, cum, just, precisely, exactly: Me. Quid? vostrum patri Filii quot eratis? M. Su. Ut nunc maxime memini, duo, just now, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 58:

cum iis, quos nuper maxime liberaverat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

ipse tum maxime admoto igne refovebat artus,

Curt. 8, 4, 25; 6, 6, 10; 5, 7, 2; Liv. 27, 4, 2 Drak.:

haec cum maxime loqueretur, sex lictores eum circumsistunt valentissimi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 76, § 187;

2, 4, 38, § 72: totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior, quam eorum, qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

id. Off. 1, 13, 41; Liv. 4, 3; 30, 33:

tum cum maxime,

at that precise time, at that moment, Liv. 40, 13, 4; 40, 32, 1; 33, 9, 3; 43, 7, 8; so,

tunc cum maxime,

Curt. 3, 2, 17:

nunc cum maxime,

Cic. Clu. 5, 12; id. Sen. 11, 38; Liv. 29, 17, 7; v. 2. cum.—

In colloquial lang., to denote emphatic assent, certainly, by all means, very well, yes; and with immo, to express emphatic dissent, certainly not, by no means: Ar. Jace, pater, talos, ut porro nos jaciamus. De. Maxime, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 54; id. Curc. 2, 3, 36: Th. Nisi quid magis Es occupatus, operam mihi da. Si. Maxime, id. Most. 4, 3, 17; Ter. And. 4, 5, 23: Ca. Numquid peccatum est, Simo? Si. Immo maxime, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 80; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 31:

scilicet res ipsa aspera est, sed vos non timetis eam. Immo vero maxime,

Sall. C. 52, 28 (v. immo); v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 552-607.

Magnus, i, m., a Roman surname, e. g. Cn. Pompeius Magnus; v. Pompeius.

magnus, a, um (archaic gen. magnai for magnae:

magnai reipublicai gratia,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 23), adj.; comp. mājor, us; sup. maxĭmus ( maxŭm-), a, um [root magh-; Sanscr. mahat, maba, great; Gr. megas; cf. meizôn for megiôn; cf. mêchos, majestas; also cf. root mak-; Gr. makros, and perh. makar], great, large.

Lit., of physical size or quantity, great, large; of things, vast, extensive, spacious, etc.: nequam et magnus homo, a great, tall fellow, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 32 Mull.; cf.

the double meaning: tu, bis denis grandia libris Qui scribis Priami proelia, magnus homo es,

a great man, Mart. 9, 51, 4: magna ossa lacertique Apparent homini, Lucil. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1:

magna ossa lacertosque Exuit,

Verg. A. 5, 422: (scarus) magnusque bonusque, Enn. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 9 Vahl.): indu mari magno, id. ap. Macr. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 425 Vahl.); so, in mari magno, id. ap. Fest. p. 356 Mull.; cf. Lucr. 2, 554:

magnus fluens Nilus,

Verg. G. 3, 28; Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 2:

magna et pulcra domus,

spacious, Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 17:

montes,

Cat. 64. 280; cf. Olympum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 20 Mull. (Ann. v. 1 Vahl.):

templa caelitum,

vast, id. ib. 7, § 6 (Trag. v. 227 Vahl.): magnae quercus, great oaks, lofty oaks, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 194 Vahl.):

aquae,

great floods, inundations, Liv. 24, 9: saxa maxima, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

oppidum maximum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 23.—

Esp.

Of measure, weight, quantity, great, much, abundant, considerable, etc.:

maximum pondus auri, magnum numerum frumenti, vim mellis maximam exportasse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 176:

magna pecunia mutua,

id. Att. 11, 3, 3:

copia pabuli,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16:

multitudo peditatus,

id. ib. 4, 34:

divitiae,

Nep. Dion. 1, 2:

populus,

Verg. A. 1, 148.—

Rarely of time, for longus, multus:

interea magnum sol circumvolvitur annum,

Verg. A. 3, 284:

magnum vocans solis (annum) comparatione lunaris,

Macr. S. 2, 11:

magno post tempore,

Just. 11, 10, 14; 32, 3, 10.—

Of the voice, loud, powerful, strong, mighty:

magna voce confiteri,

Cic. Caecin. 32, 92: major pars, the majority:

tribunorum,

Liv. 9, 46, 7.

Trop.

In gen., great, grand, mighty, noble, lofty, important, of great weight or importance, momentous: cum magnis dis, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 207 Vahl.); cf.: Saturnia magna dearum, id. ap. Prisc. p. 1103 P. (Ann. v. 482 Vahl.):

vir magnus in primis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit,

id. ib. 2, 66, 167:

magnus hoc bello Themistocles fuit, nec minor in pace,

Nep. Them. 6, 1:

Cato clarus atque magnus habetur,

Sall. C. 53, 1:

amicus,

great, wealthy, Juv. 6, 312: res magnas parvasque Eloqui, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 244 Vahl.):

virtus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

infamia,

Cic. Fam. 1, 1:

eloquentia, gravitas, studium, contentio,

id. ib.:

multo major alacritas, studiumque pugnandi majus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46:

causa,

great, important, weighty, Cic. Dom. 1, 1:

opus et arduum,

id. Or. 10, 33.— Absol. in neutr, sing. and plur.:

quamquam id magnum, et arduum est,

something great, Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 6: magna Di curant ( great things, important matters), parva neglegunt, id. N. D. 2, 66, 167:

magna loqui,

to say great things, speak boastfully, Tib. 2, 6, 11:

magnum est efficere, ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud, etc.,

it is a great, difficult, important thing, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

probitatem vel in eis, quos numquam vidimus, vel, quod majus est, in hoste etiam diligimus,

what is far greater, id. Lael. 9, 29: annus magnus, the great year, at the end of which the sun, moon, and planets were supposed to return to the same relative positions, the Piatonic year or cycle, consisting of 15000 years:

quarum (stellarum) ex disparibus motionibus, magnum annum mathematici nominaverunt, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52; id. Fragm. ap. Tac. Or. 16.— Posit. in comparison: Alexander orbi magnus est, Alex. andro orbis angustus, great in comparison with, i. e. too great for, Sen. Suas. 1, 3.—

In partic.

Of age, with natu, advanced in years, of great age, aged:

jam magno natu,

Nep. Paus. 5; Liv. 3, 71, 3:

homo magnus natu,

id. 10, 38, 6.—Usually in the comp. and sup., with or without natu or annis, older, the elder, the oldest or eldest:

qui (Livius) fuit major natu quam Plautus et Naevius,

older than, earlier, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 3:

audivi ex majoribus natu,

id. Off. 1, 30, 109:

hic una e multis, quae maxima natu, Pyrgo,

Verg. A. 5, 644:

annos natus major quadraginta,

more than, Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 39:

civis major annis viginti,

Suet. Caes. 42:

cum liberis, majoribus quam quindecim annos natis,

Liv. 45, 32.— Absol.: senis nostri frater major, the elder of two, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 13:

ex duobus filiis major, Caes B. C. 3, 108, 3: Fabii Ambusti filiae duae nuptae, Ser. Sulpicio major minor Licinio Stoloni erat,

Liv. 6, 34:

Gelo maximus stirpis,

id. 23, 30:

ut nubere vellet mulier viro, major juniori,

App. Mag. 27, p. 291, 28; cf.

in gen.: Cyrus major,

Lact. 4, 5, 7:

quaerere uter major aetate fuerit, Homerus an Hesiodus, cum minor Hecuba fuerit quam Helena,

Sen. Ep. 88, 5.—In legal lang., major (opp. minor), one who has attained his twenty-fifth year, who is of age:

si minor negotiis majoris intervenerit,

Dig. 4, 4, 24.—In plur. subst.: mājō-res, um, m., adults (opp. pueri), Varr. L. L. 9, 10, § 16 Mull.—But usually majores, ancestors, forefathers:

Itan tandem hanc majores famam tradiderunt tibi tui, Ut, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 16:

ibi mei sunt majores siti, pater, avos, proavos, abavos,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 20:

L. Philippus, vir patre, avo, majoribus suis dignissimus,

Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 25:

patres majoresque nostri,

id. Div. in Caecil. 21, 69:

more majorum,

id. Att. 1, 1, 1:

spes tamen una est, aliquando populum Romanum majorum similem fore,

id. Fam. 12, 22, 2:

majores natu,

Nep. Iphicr. 1, 1:

maxima virgo,

the eldest of the Vestal virgins, Ov. F. 4, 639: major erus, the old master, the master of the house, the old man (opp.: minor erus, the young master): Le. Ubinam est erus? Li. Major apud forum'st, minor hic est intus, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 63: majores natu, of the Senate:

de istis rebus in patria majores natu consulemus,

Liv. 1, 32, 10.—In designating relationship, magnus denotes kindred of the fourth, major of the fifth, and maximus of the sixth degree; so, avunculus magnus, a great-uncle; amita magna, a greataunt; avunculus or amita major; avunculus maximus, amita maxima, etc.; v. h. vv., and cf. Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

In specifications of value, in the neutr. absol., magni or magno, high, dear, of great value, at a high price, etc.; cf.: pretii majoris or maximi, higher, highest, very high:

magni esse,

to be highly esteemed, Cic. Fam. 13, 72, 2:

magni aestimare,

id. Tusc. 5, 7, 20:

magni existimans interesse ad decus,

to be of great consequence, id. N. D. 1, 4, 7:

emere agros poterunt quam volent magno,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 34:

magno vendere,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 30, § 71:

conducere aliquid nimium magno,

too high, too dear, id. Att. 1, 17, 9:

magno illi ea cunctatio stetit,

cost him dear, Liv. 2, 36.— Comp.:

ornatus muliebris majoris pretii,

Cic. Inv 1, 31, 51, rarely without pretii:

multo majoris alapae mecum veneunt,

dearer, higher, Phaedr. 2, 5, 25.— Sup.: te haec solum semper fecit maxumi, most highly prized, Ter And. 1, 5, 58:

senatus auctoritatem sibi maximi videri,

Cic. Att. 1, 14, 2: in majus, too greatly, too highly, greater than it is:

extollere aliquid in majus,

more highly than it deserves, Tac. A. 15, 30:

celebrare,

id. ib. 13, 8:

nuntiare,

id. H. 3, 38:

credere,

to believe a thing to be worse than it is, id. ib. 1, 18:

accipere,

to take a thing to be greater than it is, id. ib. 3, 8 init.: innotescere, in an exaggerated manner, id. ib 4, 50.—Also with abl., in majus vero ferri, Liv. 21, 32, 7.—

Magnum and maximum, adverbially, greatly, loudly (ante- and post-class.):

magnum clamat,

greatly, with a loud voice, aloud, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 10:

inclamare,

Gell. 5, 9 fin.:

exclamat derepente maximum,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 57.—Hence, măgis, adv., only in comp. in this anomalous form (i. e. mag-ius, like pris-cus for [p. 1100] prius-cus, and pris-tinus for prius-tinus); and in sup.: maxĭmē ( maxŭmē).

Comp.: magĭs (apocop. form, măgĕ, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 51; 2, 3, 14; id. Mon. 2, 3, 35; id. Poen. 1, 2, 64; 1, 2, 14; id. Trin. 4, 3, 46; id. Truc. 1, 2, 75; 3, 1, 17; 4, 4, 34; Lucr. 4, 81; 756; 5, 1203; Prop. 1, 11, 9; 3 (4), 14, 2; 4 (5), 8, 16; Verg. A. 10, 481; Sol. 22 fin.; but in Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2, magis or magi'. Acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 10, 481, Cicero in the Frumentaria wrote: mage condemnatum hominum in judicium adducere non posse), in a higher degree, more completely, more (for the difference between magis, plus, potius, and amplius, v. amplius).—

In gen.

With no qualifying words.

With the addition of the second term of the comparison.

With verbs:

quae (facinora) istaec aetas fugere magis quam sectari solet,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 28:

saliendo sese exercebant magis, quam scorto aut saviis,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 25; id. Pers. 4, 4, 108; 86:

magis honorem tribuere quam salutem accipere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 20, 7:

nisi forte magis erit parricida, si qui consularem patrem, quam si quis humilem necarit,

Cic. Mil. 7, 17:

magis ut consuetudinem servem, quam quod, etc.,

id. Clu. 32, 89.—Repeated:

quam magis exhausto spumaverit ubere mulctra, Laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis, i. e. quo magis,... eo magis,

Verg. G. 3, 309 sq.; cf.:

tam magis illa fremens... quam magis effuso crudescunt sanguine pugnae,

id. ib. 7, 787 sq.; v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 566.—Magis est, quod or ut, there is greater reason, there is more cause that, etc.:

quamobrem etsi magis est, quod gratuler tibi, quam quod te rogem: tamen etiam rogo, etc.,

Cic. Att. 16, 5, 2:

magis est, ut ipse moleste ferat, errasse se, quam ut, etc.,

id. Cael. 6, 14.—

With substt., usu. with quam: tu me amoris magis quam honoris servavisti gratia, Poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: bellipotentes sunt magi' quam sapientipotentes, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 56, 116 (Ann. v. 188 Vahl.):

umbra es amantum magis quam amator,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 31:

magis adeo id facilitate quam alia ulla culpa mea contigit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15:

aditus ad consulatum non magis nobilitati quam virtuti pateret,

id. Mur. 8, 17:

magis ratione et consilio quam virtute vicisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8; cf.:

ut magis virtute quam dolo contenderent,

id. ib. 1, 13, 6:

se magis consuetudine sua quam merito eorum civitatem conservaturum,

id. ib. 2, 32, 1:

timori magis quam religioni consulere,

id. B. C. 1, 67, 3:

jus bonumque apud eos non legibus magis quam natura valebat,

Sall. C. 9, 1:

non duces magis quam milites callent (obsistere, etc.),

Curt. 3, 2, 14.—And after negatives: non magis quam, as little as:

in dicendo irasci, dolere... non sunt figurae, non magis quam suadere,

Quint. 9, 1, 23:

Romanos nec magis jam dolo capi quam armis vinci posse,

Liv. 10, 4, 10:

pro certo habens non magis Antonio eripi se quam Caesari Brutum posse,

Sen. Suas. 6, 17:

non magis Alexandri saevitiam quam Bessi parricidium ferre potuisse,

Curt. 7, 6, 15; cf.:

nec magis post proelium quam in proelio caedibus temperatum est,

Liv. 2, 16, 9. —Followed by atque instead of quam (rare):

non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum est,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 15.— With the comp. abl. (rare):

quid philosophia magis colendum?

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 76:

quanto magis Aliensi die Aliam ipsam reformidaturos?

Liv. 6, 28, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.:

quam Juno fertur terris magis omnibus unam... coluisse,

Verg. A. 1, 15 (cf. B. 3. infra):

Albanum sive Falernum Te magis appositis delectat,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 17.—

With pronn.:

quid habetis, qui mage immortales vos credam esse quam ego siem?

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 64:

quis homo sit magis meus quam tu es?

id. Mil. 3, 1, 20:

quam mage amo quam matrem meam,

id. Truc. 3, 1, 17; cf.:

quem ego ecastor mage amo quam me,

id. ib. 4, 4, 34.—With utrum, followed by an:

jam scibo, utrum haec me mage amet, an marsupium,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 35.—With the abl. instead of quam:

nec magis hac infra quicquam est in corpore nostro,

Lucr. 3, 274; Verg. A. 1, 15.—

With adjj. and advv., and esp. with those which do not admit the comparative termination (most freq. without adding the second term of the comparison; v. under b. d): numquam potuisti mihi Magis opportunus advenire quam advenis, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 47:

neque lac lacti magis est simile, quam ille ego similis est mei,

id. Am. 2, 1, 54:

ars magis magna atque uber, quam difficilis et obscura,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 190:

corpora magna magis quam firma,

Liv. 5, 44, 4:

vultu pulchro magis quam venusto,

Suet. Ner. 51.—With the abl., Plaut. As. 3, 3, 114:

neque ego hoc homine quemquam vidi magis malum,

id. Ps. 4, 1, 27:

ab secundis rebus magis etiam solito incauti,

Liv. 5, 44, 6.—With compp. (adding to their force):

ita fustibus sum mollior miser magis quam ullus cinaedus,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 8. —

Without the addition of the second term.

With verbs: ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 315 Vahl.):

sapiunt magis,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 4:

magis curae est, magisque afformido, ne, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 10, 3:

magis metuant,

id. Mil. 5, 44:

tum magis id diceres, Fanni, si, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 7 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 1, 40, 62:

cum Pompeius ita contendisset, ut nihil umquam magis,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 20:

magis velle, for malle: quod magis vellem evenire,

Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 1; Val. Fl. 3, 270.—

With substt.: non ex jure manum consertum sed magi' ferro, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 276 Vahl.):

magis aedilis fieri non potuisset,

better, finer, Cic. Planc. 24, 60.—

With pronn.:

ecastor neminem hodie mage Amat corde atque animo suo,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 75.—

With adjj. and advv. (so most freq.).—With adjj.:

ut quadam magis necessaria ratione recte sit vivendum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 2:

magis anxius,

Ov. M. 1, 182:

hic magis tranquillu'st,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 55:

nihil videtur mundius, nec magis compositum quicquam, nec magis elegans,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 12:

nemo fuit magis severus nec magis continens,

id. ib. 2, 1, 21:

quod est magis verisimile,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13, 6:

magis admirabilis oratio,

Quint. 8, 3, 24:

magis communia verba,

id. 8, 2, 24 et saep.; rare: magis quam in aliis = praeter ceteros;

nescio quo pacto magis quam in aliis suum cuique pulchrum est,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 22, 63.— With advv.:

magis aperte,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 30:

magis impense,

id. ib. 5, 9, 36.—With compp. adding to their force:

magis est dulcius,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 22:

magis majores nugae,

id. Men. prol. 55:

magis modum in majorem,

id. Am. 1, 1, 145:

contentiores mage erunt,

id. Poen. 2, 15.—

Strengthened.

By etiam, multo, tanto, eo, hoc, quo, tam, quam; and negatively, nihilo:

qualis in dicendo Hierocles Alabandeus, magis etiam Menecles, frater ejus, fuit,

Cic. Brut. 95, 325; id. Off. 1, 21, 72:

illud ad me, ac multo etiam magis ad vos,

id. de Or. 2, 32, 139:

tanto magis Dic, quis est?

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 28:

ut quidque magis contemplor, tanto magis placet,

id. Most. 3, 2, 146:

vicina cacumina caelo, quam sint magis, tanto magis fument,

Lucr. 6, 460:

quanto ille plura miscebat, tanto hic magis in dies convalescebat,

Cic. Mil. 9, 25:

sed eo magis cauto est Opus, ne huc exeat, qui, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 22:

atque eo magis, si, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1:

eoque magis quod, etc.,

id. Lael. 2, 7; Caes. B. G. 1, 23; 1, 47; 3, 14;

5, 1: immo vero etiam hoc magis, quam illi veteres, quod, etc.,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

hoc vero magis properare Varro, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 2, 20:

quo magis cogito ego cum meo animo,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 13; Nep. Thras. 2:

magis quam id reputo, tam magis uror,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 5:

tam magis illa fremens... Quam magis, etc.,

Verg. A. 7, 787:

quanto mage... tam magis,

Lucr. 4, 81 sq.:

quam magis in pectore meo foveo, quas meus filius turbas turbet... magis curae est magisque afformido, ne, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 1; 4, 4, 27; id. Men. 1, 1, 19:

quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert,

id. As. 1, 3, 6:

densior hinc suboles Quam magis, etc.,

Verg. G. 3, 309:

cum Vercingetorix nihilo magis in aequum locum descenderet,

Caes. B. G. 6, 53.—

By reduplication: magis magisque, magis et magis, magis ac magis; and poet. also, magis magis, more and more: ex desiderio magis magisque maceror, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 182 P.:

cum cotidie magis magisque perditi homines tectis ac templis urbis minarentur,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5; id. Fam. 2, 18, 2; 16, 21, 2; Sall. C. 5, 7; cf. Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 2:

de Graecia cotidie magis et magis cogito,

Cic. Att. 14, 18, 4; 16, 3, 1; id. Brut. 90, 308; Liv. 7, 32, 6; Sall. J. 8, 6:

magis deinde ac magis,

Suet. Vit. 10:

post hoc magis ac magis,

id. Gram. 3;

for which also: magisque ac magis deinceps,

id. Tit. 3; Tac. A. 14, 8; Sen. de Ira, 3, 1, 4; id. Ep. 114, 25; id. Ben. 2, 14, 4; Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 10; 7, 3, 4; 10, 28, 3.— Poet. also:

magis atque magis,

Verg. A. 12, 239; Cat. 68, 48:

post, vento crescente, magis magis increbescunt,

id. 64, 275; cf. Verg. G. 4, 311.—

Pleon.

With potius (anteclass.):

magis decorum'st Libertum potius quam patronum onus in via portare,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 99:

mihi magis lubet cum probis potius quam cum improbis vivere,

id. Trin. 2, 1, 38.—

With malle: quam cum lego, nihil malo quam has res relinquere;

his vero auditis multo magis,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 76:

finge enim malle eum magis suum consequi quam, etc.,

Dig. 17, 2, 52, § 10. —

In partic.: non (neque) magis quam.

To signify perfect equality between two enunciations, no more... than; just as much... as; or neg., no more... than; just as little... as:

domus erat non domino magis ornamento quam civitati,

i. e. just as much to the city as to its owner, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2:

non Hannibale magis victo a se quam Q. Fabio,

Liv. 22, 27, 2:

conficior enim maerore, mea Terentia, nec me meae miseriae magis excruciant quam tuae vestraeque,

Cic. Fam. 13, 3, 1; Liv. 9, 22.— Neg.: qui est enim animus in aliquo morbo... non magis est sanus, quam id corpus, quod in morbo est, i. e. is just as far from being sound as a body, etc., Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10:

si aliqua in re Verris similis fuero, non magis mihi deerit inimicus quam Verri defuit,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 162; id. Fam. 5, 12, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 31:

non nascitur itaque ex malo bonum, non magis quam ficus ex olea,

Sen. Ep. 87, 25;

Quint. prooem. § 26: non magis Gaium imperaturum, quam per Baianum sinum equis discursurum,

Suet. Calig. 19. —Ellipt.:

nec eo magis lege liberi sunto,

just as little from that as from the rest, Cic. Leg. 3, 4, 11.—

For restricting the idea expressed in the clause with non magis, so that not more, according to a common figure of speech, = less; in Engl. not so much... as; less... than:

deinde credas mihi affirmanti velim, me hoc non pro Lysone magis quam pro omnibus scribere,

Cic. Fam. 13, 24; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 17:

miserebat non poenae magis homines, quam sceleris, quo poenam meriti essent,

Liv. 2, 5; 1, 28.—

Magis minusve, magis aut minus, or magis ac minus; post-Aug. for the usual plus minusve, more or less:

sed istud magis minusve vitiosum est pro personis dicentium,

Quint. 11, 1, 27; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 220:

minora vero plerumque sunt talia, ut pro persona, tempore, loco, causa magis ac minus vel excusata debeant videri vel reprehendenda,

Quint. 11, 1, 14; Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 67:

quaedam tamen et nationibus puto magis aut minus convenire,

Sen. Ep. 40, 11; cf.:

quosdam minus aut magis osos veritatem,

id. Suas. 1, 5:

aut minus, aut magis,

id. Ep. 82, 14.—

With alius... alio, etc.: ceterae philosophorum disciplinae, omnino alia magis alia, sed tamen omnes, one more than another, i. e. in different degrees, Cic. Fin. 3, 3, 11 Madvig. ad loc. (al.:

alia magis, alia minus, v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 560): mihi videntur omnes quidem illi errasse... sed alius alio magis,

Cic. Fin. 4, 16, 43:

sunt omnino omnes fere similes, sed declarant communis notiones, alia magis alia,

id. Tusc. 4, 24, 53:

alii aliis magis recusare,

Liv. 29, 15, 11.— Sup.: maxĭmē( maxŭmē), in the highest degree, most of all, most particularly, especially, exceedingly, very, etc.

Lit.

Alone.

With a verb:

haec una res in omni libero populo maximeque in pacatis tranquillisque civitatibus praecipue semper floruit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 30:

quid commemorem primum aut laudem maxime?

Ter. Eun. 5, 9, 14; 3, 1, 79:

nos coluit maxime,

id. Ad. 3, 2, 54:

quem convenire maxime cupiebam,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 30; id. As. 3, 3, 133:

de te audiebamus ea, quae maxime vellemus,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, a, 7; cf. id. Att. 13, 1:

extra quos (fines) egredi non possim, si maxime velim,

id. Quint. 10, 35:

in re publica maxime conservanda sunt jura belli,

most especially, id. Off. 1, 11, 33: huic legioni Caesar propter virtutem confidebat maxime, [p. 1101] Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

quem Homero crederet maxime accedere,

came nearest to, Quint. 10, 1, 86; cf.

pugnare,

most violently, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 271; 1, 1, 44:

jubere,

most positively, id. Bacch. 4, 9, 80:

id enim est profecto, quod constituta religione rem publicam contineat maxime,

Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 69; cf. maxime fin.:

ab eo exordiri volui maxime,

id. Off. 1, 2, 4:

cernere naturae vim maxime,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35.—

With an adj.:

res maxime necessaria,

Cic. Lael. 23, 86:

loca maxime frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 1, 10:

loci ad hoc maxime idonei,

Quint. 1, 11, 13:

maxime naturali carent amicitia,

Cic. Lael. 21, 80:

maxime feri,

Caes. B. G. 2, 4:

qui eo tempore maxime plebi acceptus erat,

id. ib. 1, 3:

idem ad augendam eloquentiam maxime accommodati erunt,

Quint. 1, 11, 13:

elegans maxime auctor,

id. 10, 1, 93:

maxime vero commune est quaerere, an sit honesta? etc.,

id. 2, 4, 37:

noto enim maxime utar exemplo,

id. 7, 3, 3.—So with supp.:

quae maxime liberalissima,

Cic. Att. 12, 38, 3:

maxime gravissimam omniumque (rerum),

Liv. 41, 23, 4 MS. (dub.: maxumam gravissimamque, Weissenb.). —

With numerals, at most:

puer ad annos maxime natus octo,

Gell. 17, 8, 4.—

With an adv.:

ut dicatis quam maxime ad veritatem accommodate,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 149 (v. infra 2).—

Strengthened by unus, unus omnium, omnium, multo, vel, tam, quam, etc. (supply potest):

qui proelium unus maxime accenderat,

Curt. 5, 2, 5:

cum sua modestia unus omnium maxime floreret,

Nep. Milt. 1, 1:

quae maxime omnium belli avida,

Liv. 23, 49; 4, 59; cf. Drak. ad Liv. 36, 19, 4:

atque ea res multo maxime disjunxit illum ab illa,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 85:

imperium populi Romani multo maxime miserabile visum est,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

illud mihi videtur vel maxime confirmare, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 65, 162:

hoc enim uno praestamus vel maxime feris,

id. de Or. 1, 8, 32:

quae quidem vel maxime suspicionem movent,

id. Part. Or. 33, 114:

quam potes, tam verba confer maxime ad compendium,

as much as possible, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 186:

ego jubeo quam maxime unam facere nos hanc familiam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 2:

ut quam maxime permaneant diuturna corpora,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108; id. de Or. 1, 34, 154:

quo mihi rectius videtur, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere,

Sall. C. 1, 3:

ceterum illum juvenem incipere a quam maxime facili ac favorabili causa velim,

Quint. 12, 6, 6.—

With the relative qui in the phrases, quam qui maxime and ut qui maxime:

tam enim sum amicus rei publicae, quam qui maxime,

as any one whatever, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 6:

grata ea res, ut quae maxime senatui umquam fuit,

Liv. 5, 25; 7, 33.—

With ut quisque... ita (maxime, potissimum or minime), the more... the more (or less):

hoc maxime officii est, ut quisque maxime opis indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 49:

ut quisque magnitudine animae maxime excellit, ita maxime, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 19, 64; cf.

, in the contrary order: colendum autem esse ita quemque maxime, ut quisque maxime virtutibus his lenioribus erit ornatus,

id. ib. 1, 15, 47:

ut enim quisque maxime ad suum commodum refert, quaecumque agit, ita minime est vir bonus,

id. Leg. 1, 18, 49.—

In gradations, to denote the first and most desirable, first of all, in the first place:

hujus industriam maxime quidem vellem, ut imitarentur ii, quos oportebat: secundo autem loco, ne alterius labori inviderent,

Cic. Phil. 8, 10, 31; cf. id. Caecin. 9, 23:

si per eum reductus insidiose redissem, me scilicet maxime sed proxime illum quoque fefellissem,

id. Rab. Post. 12, 33:

in quo genere sunt maxime oves, deinde caprae,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 1:

maxime... dein,

Plin. 9, 16, 23, § 56:

sed vitem maxime populus videtur alere, deinde ulmus, post etiam fraxinus,

Col. 5, 6, 4:

maxime... deinde... postea... minume,

Plin. 37, 12, 75, § 196:

maxime... postea... ultimae,

Col. 6, 3, 6:

post Chium maxime laudatur Creticum, mox Aegyptium,

Plin. 18, 7, 17, § 77.—

Transf.

Like potissimum, to give prominence to an idea, especially, particularly, principally:

quae ratio poetas, maximeque Homerum impulit, ut, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 6; Varr. R. R. 1, 51, 1:

scribe aliquid, et maxime, si Pompeius Italia cedit,

Cic. Att. 7, 12, 4: de Cocceio et Libone quae scribis, approbo:

maxime quod de judicatu meo,

id. ib. 12, 19, 2; id. Fin. 5, 1, 1:

cognoscat etiam rerum gestarum et memoriae veteris ordinem, maxime scilicet nostrae civitatis,

id. Or. 34, 120; id. Att. 13, 1, 2.—So in the connection, cum... tum maxime; tum... tum maxime; ut... tum maxime, but more especially:

scio et perspexi saepe: cum antehac, tum hodie maxime,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 56:

plena exemplorum est nostra res publica, cum saepe, tum maxime bello Punico secundo,

Cic. Off. 3, 11, 47; id. Att. 11, 6, 1; id. Fl. 38, 94:

tum exercitationibus crebris atque magnis, tum scribendo maxime persequatur,

id. de Or. 2, 23, 96:

longius autem procedens, ut in ceteris eloquentiae partibus, tum maxime, etc.,

id. Brut. 93, 320.— With nunc, nuper, tum, cum, just, precisely, exactly: Me. Quid? vostrum patri Filii quot eratis? M. Su. Ut nunc maxime memini, duo, just now, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 58:

cum iis, quos nuper maxime liberaverat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

ipse tum maxime admoto igne refovebat artus,

Curt. 8, 4, 25; 6, 6, 10; 5, 7, 2; Liv. 27, 4, 2 Drak.:

haec cum maxime loqueretur, sex lictores eum circumsistunt valentissimi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 76, § 187;

2, 4, 38, § 72: totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior, quam eorum, qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

id. Off. 1, 13, 41; Liv. 4, 3; 30, 33:

tum cum maxime,

at that precise time, at that moment, Liv. 40, 13, 4; 40, 32, 1; 33, 9, 3; 43, 7, 8; so,

tunc cum maxime,

Curt. 3, 2, 17:

nunc cum maxime,

Cic. Clu. 5, 12; id. Sen. 11, 38; Liv. 29, 17, 7; v. 2. cum.—

In colloquial lang., to denote emphatic assent, certainly, by all means, very well, yes; and with immo, to express emphatic dissent, certainly not, by no means: Ar. Jace, pater, talos, ut porro nos jaciamus. De. Maxime, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 54; id. Curc. 2, 3, 36: Th. Nisi quid magis Es occupatus, operam mihi da. Si. Maxime, id. Most. 4, 3, 17; Ter. And. 4, 5, 23: Ca. Numquid peccatum est, Simo? Si. Immo maxime, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 80; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 31:

scilicet res ipsa aspera est, sed vos non timetis eam. Immo vero maxime,

Sall. C. 52, 28 (v. immo); v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 552-607.

Magnus, i, m., a Roman surname, e. g. Cn. Pompeius Magnus; v. Pompeius.

magnus, a, um (archaic gen. magnai for magnae:

magnai reipublicai gratia,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 23), adj.; comp. mājor, us; sup. maxĭmus ( maxŭm-), a, um [root magh-; Sanscr. mahat, maba, great; Gr. megas; cf. meizôn for megiôn; cf. mêchos, majestas; also cf. root mak-; Gr. makros, and perh. makar], great, large.

Lit., of physical size or quantity, great, large; of things, vast, extensive, spacious, etc.: nequam et magnus homo, a great, tall fellow, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 32 Mull.; cf.

the double meaning: tu, bis denis grandia libris Qui scribis Priami proelia, magnus homo es,

a great man, Mart. 9, 51, 4: magna ossa lacertique Apparent homini, Lucil. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1:

magna ossa lacertosque Exuit,

Verg. A. 5, 422: (scarus) magnusque bonusque, Enn. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 9 Vahl.): indu mari magno, id. ap. Macr. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 425 Vahl.); so, in mari magno, id. ap. Fest. p. 356 Mull.; cf. Lucr. 2, 554:

magnus fluens Nilus,

Verg. G. 3, 28; Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 2:

magna et pulcra domus,

spacious, Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 17:

montes,

Cat. 64. 280; cf. Olympum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 20 Mull. (Ann. v. 1 Vahl.):

templa caelitum,

vast, id. ib. 7, § 6 (Trag. v. 227 Vahl.): magnae quercus, great oaks, lofty oaks, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 194 Vahl.):

aquae,

great floods, inundations, Liv. 24, 9: saxa maxima, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

oppidum maximum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 23.—

Esp.

Of measure, weight, quantity, great, much, abundant, considerable, etc.:

maximum pondus auri, magnum numerum frumenti, vim mellis maximam exportasse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 176:

magna pecunia mutua,

id. Att. 11, 3, 3:

copia pabuli,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16:

multitudo peditatus,

id. ib. 4, 34:

divitiae,

Nep. Dion. 1, 2:

populus,

Verg. A. 1, 148.—

Rarely of time, for longus, multus:

interea magnum sol circumvolvitur annum,

Verg. A. 3, 284:

magnum vocans solis (annum) comparatione lunaris,

Macr. S. 2, 11:

magno post tempore,

Just. 11, 10, 14; 32, 3, 10.—

Of the voice, loud, powerful, strong, mighty:

magna voce confiteri,

Cic. Caecin. 32, 92: major pars, the majority:

tribunorum,

Liv. 9, 46, 7.

Trop.

In gen., great, grand, mighty, noble, lofty, important, of great weight or importance, momentous: cum magnis dis, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 207 Vahl.); cf.: Saturnia magna dearum, id. ap. Prisc. p. 1103 P. (Ann. v. 482 Vahl.):

vir magnus in primis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit,

id. ib. 2, 66, 167:

magnus hoc bello Themistocles fuit, nec minor in pace,

Nep. Them. 6, 1:

Cato clarus atque magnus habetur,

Sall. C. 53, 1:

amicus,

great, wealthy, Juv. 6, 312: res magnas parvasque Eloqui, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 244 Vahl.):

virtus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

infamia,

Cic. Fam. 1, 1:

eloquentia, gravitas, studium, contentio,

id. ib.:

multo major alacritas, studiumque pugnandi majus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46:

causa,

great, important, weighty, Cic. Dom. 1, 1:

opus et arduum,

id. Or. 10, 33.— Absol. in neutr, sing. and plur.:

quamquam id magnum, et arduum est,

something great, Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 6: magna Di curant ( great things, important matters), parva neglegunt, id. N. D. 2, 66, 167:

magna loqui,

to say great things, speak boastfully, Tib. 2, 6, 11:

magnum est efficere, ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud, etc.,

it is a great, difficult, important thing, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

probitatem vel in eis, quos numquam vidimus, vel, quod majus est, in hoste etiam diligimus,

what is far greater, id. Lael. 9, 29: annus magnus, the great year, at the end of which the sun, moon, and planets were supposed to return to the same relative positions, the Piatonic year or cycle, consisting of 15000 years:

quarum (stellarum) ex disparibus motionibus, magnum annum mathematici nominaverunt, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52; id. Fragm. ap. Tac. Or. 16.— Posit. in comparison: Alexander orbi magnus est, Alex. andro orbis angustus, great in comparison with, i. e. too great for, Sen. Suas. 1, 3.—

In partic.

Of age, with natu, advanced in years, of great age, aged:

jam magno natu,

Nep. Paus. 5; Liv. 3, 71, 3:

homo magnus natu,

id. 10, 38, 6.—Usually in the comp. and sup., with or without natu or annis, older, the elder, the oldest or eldest:

qui (Livius) fuit major natu quam Plautus et Naevius,

older than, earlier, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 3:

audivi ex majoribus natu,

id. Off. 1, 30, 109:

hic una e multis, quae maxima natu, Pyrgo,

Verg. A. 5, 644:

annos natus major quadraginta,

more than, Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 39:

civis major annis viginti,

Suet. Caes. 42:

cum liberis, majoribus quam quindecim annos natis,

Liv. 45, 32.— Absol.: senis nostri frater major, the elder of two, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 13:

ex duobus filiis major, Caes B. C. 3, 108, 3: Fabii Ambusti filiae duae nuptae, Ser. Sulpicio major minor Licinio Stoloni erat,

Liv. 6, 34:

Gelo maximus stirpis,

id. 23, 30:

ut nubere vellet mulier viro, major juniori,

App. Mag. 27, p. 291, 28; cf.

in gen.: Cyrus major,

Lact. 4, 5, 7:

quaerere uter major aetate fuerit, Homerus an Hesiodus, cum minor Hecuba fuerit quam Helena,

Sen. Ep. 88, 5.—In legal lang., major (opp. minor), one who has attained his twenty-fifth year, who is of age:

si minor negotiis majoris intervenerit,

Dig. 4, 4, 24.—In plur. subst.: mājō-res, um, m., adults (opp. pueri), Varr. L. L. 9, 10, § 16 Mull.—But usually majores, ancestors, forefathers:

Itan tandem hanc majores famam tradiderunt tibi tui, Ut, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 16:

ibi mei sunt majores siti, pater, avos, proavos, abavos,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 20:

L. Philippus, vir patre, avo, majoribus suis dignissimus,

Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 25:

patres majoresque nostri,

id. Div. in Caecil. 21, 69:

more majorum,

id. Att. 1, 1, 1:

spes tamen una est, aliquando populum Romanum majorum similem fore,

id. Fam. 12, 22, 2:

majores natu,

Nep. Iphicr. 1, 1:

maxima virgo,

the eldest of the Vestal virgins, Ov. F. 4, 639: major erus, the old master, the master of the house, the old man (opp.: minor erus, the young master): Le. Ubinam est erus? Li. Major apud forum'st, minor hic est intus, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 63: majores natu, of the Senate:

de istis rebus in patria majores natu consulemus,

Liv. 1, 32, 10.—In designating relationship, magnus denotes kindred of the fourth, major of the fifth, and maximus of the sixth degree; so, avunculus magnus, a great-uncle; amita magna, a greataunt; avunculus or amita major; avunculus maximus, amita maxima, etc.; v. h. vv., and cf. Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

In specifications of value, in the neutr. absol., magni or magno, high, dear, of great value, at a high price, etc.; cf.: pretii majoris or maximi, higher, highest, very high:

magni esse,

to be highly esteemed, Cic. Fam. 13, 72, 2:

magni aestimare,

id. Tusc. 5, 7, 20:

magni existimans interesse ad decus,

to be of great consequence, id. N. D. 1, 4, 7:

emere agros poterunt quam volent magno,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 34:

magno vendere,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 30, § 71:

conducere aliquid nimium magno,

too high, too dear, id. Att. 1, 17, 9:

magno illi ea cunctatio stetit,

cost him dear, Liv. 2, 36.— Comp.:

ornatus muliebris majoris pretii,

Cic. Inv 1, 31, 51, rarely without pretii:

multo majoris alapae mecum veneunt,

dearer, higher, Phaedr. 2, 5, 25.— Sup.: te haec solum semper fecit maxumi, most highly prized, Ter And. 1, 5, 58:

senatus auctoritatem sibi maximi videri,

Cic. Att. 1, 14, 2: in majus, too greatly, too highly, greater than it is:

extollere aliquid in majus,

more highly than it deserves, Tac. A. 15, 30:

celebrare,

id. ib. 13, 8:

nuntiare,

id. H. 3, 38:

credere,

to believe a thing to be worse than it is, id. ib. 1, 18:

accipere,

to take a thing to be greater than it is, id. ib. 3, 8 init.: innotescere, in an exaggerated manner, id. ib 4, 50.—Also with abl., in majus vero ferri, Liv. 21, 32, 7.—

Magnum and maximum, adverbially, greatly, loudly (ante- and post-class.):

magnum clamat,

greatly, with a loud voice, aloud, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 10:

inclamare,

Gell. 5, 9 fin.:

exclamat derepente maximum,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 57.—Hence, măgis, adv., only in comp. in this anomalous form (i. e. mag-ius, like pris-cus for [p. 1100] prius-cus, and pris-tinus for prius-tinus); and in sup.: maxĭmē ( maxŭmē).

Comp.: magĭs (apocop. form, măgĕ, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 51; 2, 3, 14; id. Mon. 2, 3, 35; id. Poen. 1, 2, 64; 1, 2, 14; id. Trin. 4, 3, 46; id. Truc. 1, 2, 75; 3, 1, 17; 4, 4, 34; Lucr. 4, 81; 756; 5, 1203; Prop. 1, 11, 9; 3 (4), 14, 2; 4 (5), 8, 16; Verg. A. 10, 481; Sol. 22 fin.; but in Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2, magis or magi'. Acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 10, 481, Cicero in the Frumentaria wrote: mage condemnatum hominum in judicium adducere non posse), in a higher degree, more completely, more (for the difference between magis, plus, potius, and amplius, v. amplius).—

In gen.

With no qualifying words.

With the addition of the second term of the comparison.

With verbs:

quae (facinora) istaec aetas fugere magis quam sectari solet,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 28:

saliendo sese exercebant magis, quam scorto aut saviis,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 25; id. Pers. 4, 4, 108; 86:

magis honorem tribuere quam salutem accipere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 20, 7:

nisi forte magis erit parricida, si qui consularem patrem, quam si quis humilem necarit,

Cic. Mil. 7, 17:

magis ut consuetudinem servem, quam quod, etc.,

id. Clu. 32, 89.—Repeated:

quam magis exhausto spumaverit ubere mulctra, Laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis, i. e. quo magis,... eo magis,

Verg. G. 3, 309 sq.; cf.:

tam magis illa fremens... quam magis effuso crudescunt sanguine pugnae,

id. ib. 7, 787 sq.; v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 566.—Magis est, quod or ut, there is greater reason, there is more cause that, etc.:

quamobrem etsi magis est, quod gratuler tibi, quam quod te rogem: tamen etiam rogo, etc.,

Cic. Att. 16, 5, 2:

magis est, ut ipse moleste ferat, errasse se, quam ut, etc.,

id. Cael. 6, 14.—

With substt., usu. with quam: tu me amoris magis quam honoris servavisti gratia, Poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: bellipotentes sunt magi' quam sapientipotentes, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 56, 116 (Ann. v. 188 Vahl.):

umbra es amantum magis quam amator,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 31:

magis adeo id facilitate quam alia ulla culpa mea contigit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15:

aditus ad consulatum non magis nobilitati quam virtuti pateret,

id. Mur. 8, 17:

magis ratione et consilio quam virtute vicisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8; cf.:

ut magis virtute quam dolo contenderent,

id. ib. 1, 13, 6:

se magis consuetudine sua quam merito eorum civitatem conservaturum,

id. ib. 2, 32, 1:

timori magis quam religioni consulere,

id. B. C. 1, 67, 3:

jus bonumque apud eos non legibus magis quam natura valebat,

Sall. C. 9, 1:

non duces magis quam milites callent (obsistere, etc.),

Curt. 3, 2, 14.—And after negatives: non magis quam, as little as:

in dicendo irasci, dolere... non sunt figurae, non magis quam suadere,

Quint. 9, 1, 23:

Romanos nec magis jam dolo capi quam armis vinci posse,

Liv. 10, 4, 10:

pro certo habens non magis Antonio eripi se quam Caesari Brutum posse,

Sen. Suas. 6, 17:

non magis Alexandri saevitiam quam Bessi parricidium ferre potuisse,

Curt. 7, 6, 15; cf.:

nec magis post proelium quam in proelio caedibus temperatum est,

Liv. 2, 16, 9. —Followed by atque instead of quam (rare):

non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum est,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 15.— With the comp. abl. (rare):

quid philosophia magis colendum?

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 76:

quanto magis Aliensi die Aliam ipsam reformidaturos?

Liv. 6, 28, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.:

quam Juno fertur terris magis omnibus unam... coluisse,

Verg. A. 1, 15 (cf. B. 3. infra):

Albanum sive Falernum Te magis appositis delectat,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 17.—

With pronn.:

quid habetis, qui mage immortales vos credam esse quam ego siem?

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 64:

quis homo sit magis meus quam tu es?

id. Mil. 3, 1, 20:

quam mage amo quam matrem meam,

id. Truc. 3, 1, 17; cf.:

quem ego ecastor mage amo quam me,

id. ib. 4, 4, 34.—With utrum, followed by an:

jam scibo, utrum haec me mage amet, an marsupium,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 35.—With the abl. instead of quam:

nec magis hac infra quicquam est in corpore nostro,

Lucr. 3, 274; Verg. A. 1, 15.—

With adjj. and advv., and esp. with those which do not admit the comparative termination (most freq. without adding the second term of the comparison; v. under b. d): numquam potuisti mihi Magis opportunus advenire quam advenis, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 47:

neque lac lacti magis est simile, quam ille ego similis est mei,

id. Am. 2, 1, 54:

ars magis magna atque uber, quam difficilis et obscura,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 190:

corpora magna magis quam firma,

Liv. 5, 44, 4:

vultu pulchro magis quam venusto,

Suet. Ner. 51.—With the abl., Plaut. As. 3, 3, 114:

neque ego hoc homine quemquam vidi magis malum,

id. Ps. 4, 1, 27:

ab secundis rebus magis etiam solito incauti,

Liv. 5, 44, 6.—With compp. (adding to their force):

ita fustibus sum mollior miser magis quam ullus cinaedus,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 8. —

Without the addition of the second term.

With verbs: ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 315 Vahl.):

sapiunt magis,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 4:

magis curae est, magisque afformido, ne, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 10, 3:

magis metuant,

id. Mil. 5, 44:

tum magis id diceres, Fanni, si, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 7 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 1, 40, 62:

cum Pompeius ita contendisset, ut nihil umquam magis,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 20:

magis velle, for malle: quod magis vellem evenire,

Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 1; Val. Fl. 3, 270.—

With substt.: non ex jure manum consertum sed magi' ferro, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 276 Vahl.):

magis aedilis fieri non potuisset,

better, finer, Cic. Planc. 24, 60.—

With pronn.:

ecastor neminem hodie mage Amat corde atque animo suo,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 75.—

With adjj. and advv. (so most freq.).—With adjj.:

ut quadam magis necessaria ratione recte sit vivendum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 2:

magis anxius,

Ov. M. 1, 182:

hic magis tranquillu'st,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 55:

nihil videtur mundius, nec magis compositum quicquam, nec magis elegans,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 12:

nemo fuit magis severus nec magis continens,

id. ib. 2, 1, 21:

quod est magis verisimile,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13, 6:

magis admirabilis oratio,

Quint. 8, 3, 24:

magis communia verba,

id. 8, 2, 24 et saep.; rare: magis quam in aliis = praeter ceteros;

nescio quo pacto magis quam in aliis suum cuique pulchrum est,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 22, 63.— With advv.:

magis aperte,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 30:

magis impense,

id. ib. 5, 9, 36.—With compp. adding to their force:

magis est dulcius,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 22:

magis majores nugae,

id. Men. prol. 55:

magis modum in majorem,

id. Am. 1, 1, 145:

contentiores mage erunt,

id. Poen. 2, 15.—

Strengthened.

By etiam, multo, tanto, eo, hoc, quo, tam, quam; and negatively, nihilo:

qualis in dicendo Hierocles Alabandeus, magis etiam Menecles, frater ejus, fuit,

Cic. Brut. 95, 325; id. Off. 1, 21, 72:

illud ad me, ac multo etiam magis ad vos,

id. de Or. 2, 32, 139:

tanto magis Dic, quis est?

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 28:

ut quidque magis contemplor, tanto magis placet,

id. Most. 3, 2, 146:

vicina cacumina caelo, quam sint magis, tanto magis fument,

Lucr. 6, 460:

quanto ille plura miscebat, tanto hic magis in dies convalescebat,

Cic. Mil. 9, 25:

sed eo magis cauto est Opus, ne huc exeat, qui, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 22:

atque eo magis, si, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1:

eoque magis quod, etc.,

id. Lael. 2, 7; Caes. B. G. 1, 23; 1, 47; 3, 14;

5, 1: immo vero etiam hoc magis, quam illi veteres, quod, etc.,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

hoc vero magis properare Varro, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 2, 20:

quo magis cogito ego cum meo animo,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 13; Nep. Thras. 2:

magis quam id reputo, tam magis uror,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 5:

tam magis illa fremens... Quam magis, etc.,

Verg. A. 7, 787:

quanto mage... tam magis,

Lucr. 4, 81 sq.:

quam magis in pectore meo foveo, quas meus filius turbas turbet... magis curae est magisque afformido, ne, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 1; 4, 4, 27; id. Men. 1, 1, 19:

quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert,

id. As. 1, 3, 6:

densior hinc suboles Quam magis, etc.,

Verg. G. 3, 309:

cum Vercingetorix nihilo magis in aequum locum descenderet,

Caes. B. G. 6, 53.—

By reduplication: magis magisque, magis et magis, magis ac magis; and poet. also, magis magis, more and more: ex desiderio magis magisque maceror, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 182 P.:

cum cotidie magis magisque perditi homines tectis ac templis urbis minarentur,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5; id. Fam. 2, 18, 2; 16, 21, 2; Sall. C. 5, 7; cf. Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 2:

de Graecia cotidie magis et magis cogito,

Cic. Att. 14, 18, 4; 16, 3, 1; id. Brut. 90, 308; Liv. 7, 32, 6; Sall. J. 8, 6:

magis deinde ac magis,

Suet. Vit. 10:

post hoc magis ac magis,

id. Gram. 3;

for which also: magisque ac magis deinceps,

id. Tit. 3; Tac. A. 14, 8; Sen. de Ira, 3, 1, 4; id. Ep. 114, 25; id. Ben. 2, 14, 4; Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 10; 7, 3, 4; 10, 28, 3.— Poet. also:

magis atque magis,

Verg. A. 12, 239; Cat. 68, 48:

post, vento crescente, magis magis increbescunt,

id. 64, 275; cf. Verg. G. 4, 311.—

Pleon.

With potius (anteclass.):

magis decorum'st Libertum potius quam patronum onus in via portare,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 99:

mihi magis lubet cum probis potius quam cum improbis vivere,

id. Trin. 2, 1, 38.—

With malle: quam cum lego, nihil malo quam has res relinquere;

his vero auditis multo magis,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 76:

finge enim malle eum magis suum consequi quam, etc.,

Dig. 17, 2, 52, § 10. —

In partic.: non (neque) magis quam.

To signify perfect equality between two enunciations, no more... than; just as much... as; or neg., no more... than; just as little... as:

domus erat non domino magis ornamento quam civitati,

i. e. just as much to the city as to its owner, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2:

non Hannibale magis victo a se quam Q. Fabio,

Liv. 22, 27, 2:

conficior enim maerore, mea Terentia, nec me meae miseriae magis excruciant quam tuae vestraeque,

Cic. Fam. 13, 3, 1; Liv. 9, 22.— Neg.: qui est enim animus in aliquo morbo... non magis est sanus, quam id corpus, quod in morbo est, i. e. is just as far from being sound as a body, etc., Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10:

si aliqua in re Verris similis fuero, non magis mihi deerit inimicus quam Verri defuit,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 162; id. Fam. 5, 12, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 31:

non nascitur itaque ex malo bonum, non magis quam ficus ex olea,

Sen. Ep. 87, 25;

Quint. prooem. § 26: non magis Gaium imperaturum, quam per Baianum sinum equis discursurum,

Suet. Calig. 19. —Ellipt.:

nec eo magis lege liberi sunto,

just as little from that as from the rest, Cic. Leg. 3, 4, 11.—

For restricting the idea expressed in the clause with non magis, so that not more, according to a common figure of speech, = less; in Engl. not so much... as; less... than:

deinde credas mihi affirmanti velim, me hoc non pro Lysone magis quam pro omnibus scribere,

Cic. Fam. 13, 24; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 17:

miserebat non poenae magis homines, quam sceleris, quo poenam meriti essent,

Liv. 2, 5; 1, 28.—

Magis minusve, magis aut minus, or magis ac minus; post-Aug. for the usual plus minusve, more or less:

sed istud magis minusve vitiosum est pro personis dicentium,

Quint. 11, 1, 27; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 220:

minora vero plerumque sunt talia, ut pro persona, tempore, loco, causa magis ac minus vel excusata debeant videri vel reprehendenda,

Quint. 11, 1, 14; Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 67:

quaedam tamen et nationibus puto magis aut minus convenire,

Sen. Ep. 40, 11; cf.:

quosdam minus aut magis osos veritatem,

id. Suas. 1, 5:

aut minus, aut magis,

id. Ep. 82, 14.—

With alius... alio, etc.: ceterae philosophorum disciplinae, omnino alia magis alia, sed tamen omnes, one more than another, i. e. in different degrees, Cic. Fin. 3, 3, 11 Madvig. ad loc. (al.:

alia magis, alia minus, v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 560): mihi videntur omnes quidem illi errasse... sed alius alio magis,

Cic. Fin. 4, 16, 43:

sunt omnino omnes fere similes, sed declarant communis notiones, alia magis alia,

id. Tusc. 4, 24, 53:

alii aliis magis recusare,

Liv. 29, 15, 11.— Sup.: maxĭmē( maxŭmē), in the highest degree, most of all, most particularly, especially, exceedingly, very, etc.

Lit.

Alone.

With a verb:

haec una res in omni libero populo maximeque in pacatis tranquillisque civitatibus praecipue semper floruit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 30:

quid commemorem primum aut laudem maxime?

Ter. Eun. 5, 9, 14; 3, 1, 79:

nos coluit maxime,

id. Ad. 3, 2, 54:

quem convenire maxime cupiebam,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 30; id. As. 3, 3, 133:

de te audiebamus ea, quae maxime vellemus,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, a, 7; cf. id. Att. 13, 1:

extra quos (fines) egredi non possim, si maxime velim,

id. Quint. 10, 35:

in re publica maxime conservanda sunt jura belli,

most especially, id. Off. 1, 11, 33: huic legioni Caesar propter virtutem confidebat maxime, [p. 1101] Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

quem Homero crederet maxime accedere,

came nearest to, Quint. 10, 1, 86; cf.

pugnare,

most violently, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 271; 1, 1, 44:

jubere,

most positively, id. Bacch. 4, 9, 80:

id enim est profecto, quod constituta religione rem publicam contineat maxime,

Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 69; cf. maxime fin.:

ab eo exordiri volui maxime,

id. Off. 1, 2, 4:

cernere naturae vim maxime,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35.—

With an adj.:

res maxime necessaria,

Cic. Lael. 23, 86:

loca maxime frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 1, 10:

loci ad hoc maxime idonei,

Quint. 1, 11, 13:

maxime naturali carent amicitia,

Cic. Lael. 21, 80:

maxime feri,

Caes. B. G. 2, 4:

qui eo tempore maxime plebi acceptus erat,

id. ib. 1, 3:

idem ad augendam eloquentiam maxime accommodati erunt,

Quint. 1, 11, 13:

elegans maxime auctor,

id. 10, 1, 93:

maxime vero commune est quaerere, an sit honesta? etc.,

id. 2, 4, 37:

noto enim maxime utar exemplo,

id. 7, 3, 3.—So with supp.:

quae maxime liberalissima,

Cic. Att. 12, 38, 3:

maxime gravissimam omniumque (rerum),

Liv. 41, 23, 4 MS. (dub.: maxumam gravissimamque, Weissenb.). —

With numerals, at most:

puer ad annos maxime natus octo,

Gell. 17, 8, 4.—

With an adv.:

ut dicatis quam maxime ad veritatem accommodate,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 149 (v. infra 2).—

Strengthened by unus, unus omnium, omnium, multo, vel, tam, quam, etc. (supply potest):

qui proelium unus maxime accenderat,

Curt. 5, 2, 5:

cum sua modestia unus omnium maxime floreret,

Nep. Milt. 1, 1:

quae maxime omnium belli avida,

Liv. 23, 49; 4, 59; cf. Drak. ad Liv. 36, 19, 4:

atque ea res multo maxime disjunxit illum ab illa,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 85:

imperium populi Romani multo maxime miserabile visum est,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

illud mihi videtur vel maxime confirmare, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 65, 162:

hoc enim uno praestamus vel maxime feris,

id. de Or. 1, 8, 32:

quae quidem vel maxime suspicionem movent,

id. Part. Or. 33, 114:

quam potes, tam verba confer maxime ad compendium,

as much as possible, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 186:

ego jubeo quam maxime unam facere nos hanc familiam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 2:

ut quam maxime permaneant diuturna corpora,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108; id. de Or. 1, 34, 154:

quo mihi rectius videtur, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere,

Sall. C. 1, 3:

ceterum illum juvenem incipere a quam maxime facili ac favorabili causa velim,

Quint. 12, 6, 6.—

With the relative qui in the phrases, quam qui maxime and ut qui maxime:

tam enim sum amicus rei publicae, quam qui maxime,

as any one whatever, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 6:

grata ea res, ut quae maxime senatui umquam fuit,

Liv. 5, 25; 7, 33.—

With ut quisque... ita (maxime, potissimum or minime), the more... the more (or less):

hoc maxime officii est, ut quisque maxime opis indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 49:

ut quisque magnitudine animae maxime excellit, ita maxime, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 19, 64; cf.

, in the contrary order: colendum autem esse ita quemque maxime, ut quisque maxime virtutibus his lenioribus erit ornatus,

id. ib. 1, 15, 47:

ut enim quisque maxime ad suum commodum refert, quaecumque agit, ita minime est vir bonus,

id. Leg. 1, 18, 49.—

In gradations, to denote the first and most desirable, first of all, in the first place:

hujus industriam maxime quidem vellem, ut imitarentur ii, quos oportebat: secundo autem loco, ne alterius labori inviderent,

Cic. Phil. 8, 10, 31; cf. id. Caecin. 9, 23:

si per eum reductus insidiose redissem, me scilicet maxime sed proxime illum quoque fefellissem,

id. Rab. Post. 12, 33:

in quo genere sunt maxime oves, deinde caprae,

Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 1:

maxime... dein,

Plin. 9, 16, 23, § 56:

sed vitem maxime populus videtur alere, deinde ulmus, post etiam fraxinus,

Col. 5, 6, 4:

maxime... deinde... postea... minume,

Plin. 37, 12, 75, § 196:

maxime... postea... ultimae,

Col. 6, 3, 6:

post Chium maxime laudatur Creticum, mox Aegyptium,

Plin. 18, 7, 17, § 77.—

Transf.

Like potissimum, to give prominence to an idea, especially, particularly, principally:

quae ratio poetas, maximeque Homerum impulit, ut, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 6; Varr. R. R. 1, 51, 1:

scribe aliquid, et maxime, si Pompeius Italia cedit,

Cic. Att. 7, 12, 4: de Cocceio et Libone quae scribis, approbo:

maxime quod de judicatu meo,

id. ib. 12, 19, 2; id. Fin. 5, 1, 1:

cognoscat etiam rerum gestarum et memoriae veteris ordinem, maxime scilicet nostrae civitatis,

id. Or. 34, 120; id. Att. 13, 1, 2.—So in the connection, cum... tum maxime; tum... tum maxime; ut... tum maxime, but more especially:

scio et perspexi saepe: cum antehac, tum hodie maxime,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 56:

plena exemplorum est nostra res publica, cum saepe, tum maxime bello Punico secundo,

Cic. Off. 3, 11, 47; id. Att. 11, 6, 1; id. Fl. 38, 94:

tum exercitationibus crebris atque magnis, tum scribendo maxime persequatur,

id. de Or. 2, 23, 96:

longius autem procedens, ut in ceteris eloquentiae partibus, tum maxime, etc.,

id. Brut. 93, 320.— With nunc, nuper, tum, cum, just, precisely, exactly: Me. Quid? vostrum patri Filii quot eratis? M. Su. Ut nunc maxime memini, duo, just now, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 58:

cum iis, quos nuper maxime liberaverat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

ipse tum maxime admoto igne refovebat artus,

Curt. 8, 4, 25; 6, 6, 10; 5, 7, 2; Liv. 27, 4, 2 Drak.:

haec cum maxime loqueretur, sex lictores eum circumsistunt valentissimi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 76, § 187;

2, 4, 38, § 72: totius autem injustitiae nulla capitalior, quam eorum, qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur,

id. Off. 1, 13, 41; Liv. 4, 3; 30, 33:

tum cum maxime,

at that precise time, at that moment, Liv. 40, 13, 4; 40, 32, 1; 33, 9, 3; 43, 7, 8; so,

tunc cum maxime,

Curt. 3, 2, 17:

nunc cum maxime,

Cic. Clu. 5, 12; id. Sen. 11, 38; Liv. 29, 17, 7; v. 2. cum.—

In colloquial lang., to denote emphatic assent, certainly, by all means, very well, yes; and with immo, to express emphatic dissent, certainly not, by no means: Ar. Jace, pater, talos, ut porro nos jaciamus. De. Maxime, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 54; id. Curc. 2, 3, 36: Th. Nisi quid magis Es occupatus, operam mihi da. Si. Maxime, id. Most. 4, 3, 17; Ter. And. 4, 5, 23: Ca. Numquid peccatum est, Simo? Si. Immo maxime, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 80; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 31:

scilicet res ipsa aspera est, sed vos non timetis eam. Immo vero maxime,

Sall. C. 52, 28 (v. immo); v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 552-607.

Magnus, i, m., a Roman surname, e. g. Cn. Pompeius Magnus; v. Pompeius.

magnus, a, um (archaic gen. magnai for magnae:

magnai reipublicai gratia,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 23), adj.; comp. mājor, us; sup. maxĭmus ( maxŭm-), a, um [root magh-; Sanscr. mahat, maba, great; Gr. megas; cf. meizôn for megiôn; cf. mêchos, majestas; also cf. root mak-; Gr. makros, and perh. makar], great, large.

Lit., of physical size or quantity, great, large; of things, vast, extensive, spacious, etc.: nequam et magnus homo, a great, tall fellow, Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 32 Mull.; cf.

the double meaning: tu, bis denis grandia libris Qui scribis Priami proelia, magnus homo es,

a great man, Mart. 9, 51, 4: magna ossa lacertique Apparent homini, Lucil. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1:

magna ossa lacertosque Exuit,

Verg. A. 5, 422: (scarus) magnusque bonusque, Enn. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 9 Vahl.): indu mari magno, id. ap. Macr. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 425 Vahl.); so, in mari magno, id. ap. Fest. p. 356 Mull.; cf. Lucr. 2, 554:

magnus fluens Nilus,

Verg. G. 3, 28; Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 2:

magna et pulcra domus,

spacious, Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 17:

montes,

Cat. 64. 280; cf. Olympum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 20 Mull. (Ann. v. 1 Vahl.):

templa caelitum,

vast, id. ib. 7, § 6 (Trag. v. 227 Vahl.): magnae quercus, great oaks, lofty oaks, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 194 Vahl.):

aquae,

great floods, inundations, Liv. 24, 9: saxa maxima, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

oppidum maximum,

Caes. B. G. 1, 23.—

Esp.

Of measure, weight, quantity, great, much, abundant, considerable, etc.:

maximum pondus auri, magnum numerum frumenti, vim mellis maximam exportasse,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 72, § 176:

magna pecunia mutua,

id. Att. 11, 3, 3:

copia pabuli,

Caes. B. G. 1, 16:

multitudo peditatus,

id. ib. 4, 34:

divitiae,

Nep. Dion. 1, 2:

populus,

Verg. A. 1, 148.—

Rarely of time, for longus, multus:

interea magnum sol circumvolvitur annum,

Verg. A. 3, 284:

magnum vocans solis (annum) comparatione lunaris,

Macr. S. 2, 11:

magno post tempore,

Just. 11, 10, 14; 32, 3, 10.—

Of the voice, loud, powerful, strong, mighty:

magna voce confiteri,

Cic. Caecin. 32, 92: major pars, the majority:

tribunorum,

Liv. 9, 46, 7.

Trop.

In gen., great, grand, mighty, noble, lofty, important, of great weight or importance, momentous: cum magnis dis, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 207 Vahl.); cf.: Saturnia magna dearum, id. ap. Prisc. p. 1103 P. (Ann. v. 482 Vahl.):

vir magnus in primis,

Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 120:

nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit,

id. ib. 2, 66, 167:

magnus hoc bello Themistocles fuit, nec minor in pace,

Nep. Them. 6, 1:

Cato clarus atque magnus habetur,

Sall. C. 53, 1:

amicus,

great, wealthy, Juv. 6, 312: res magnas parvasque Eloqui, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 244 Vahl.):

virtus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 15:

infamia,

Cic. Fam. 1, 1:

eloquentia, gravitas, studium, contentio,

id. ib.:

multo major alacritas, studiumque pugnandi majus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46:

causa,

great, important, weighty, Cic. Dom. 1, 1:

opus et arduum,

id. Or. 10, 33.— Absol. in neutr, sing. and plur.:

quamquam id magnum, et arduum est,

something great, Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 6: magna Di curant ( great things, important matters), parva neglegunt, id. N. D. 2, 66, 167:

magna loqui,

to say great things, speak boastfully, Tib. 2, 6, 11:

magnum est efficere, ut quis intellegat, quid sit illud, etc.,

it is a great, difficult, important thing, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 7:

probitatem vel in eis, quos numquam vidimus, vel, quod majus est, in hoste etiam diligimus,

what is far greater, id. Lael. 9, 29: annus magnus, the great year, at the end of which the sun, moon, and planets were supposed to return to the same relative positions, the Piatonic year or cycle, consisting of 15000 years:

quarum (stellarum) ex disparibus motionibus, magnum annum mathematici nominaverunt, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52; id. Fragm. ap. Tac. Or. 16.— Posit. in comparison: Alexander orbi magnus est, Alex. andro orbis angustus, great in comparison with, i. e. too great for, Sen. Suas. 1, 3.—

In partic.

Of age, with natu, advanced in years, of great age, aged:

jam magno natu,

Nep. Paus. 5; Liv. 3, 71, 3:

homo magnus natu,

id. 10, 38, 6.—Usually in the comp. and sup., with or without natu or annis, older, the elder, the oldest or eldest:

qui (Livius) fuit major natu quam Plautus et Naevius,

older than, earlier, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 3:

audivi ex majoribus natu,

id. Off. 1, 30, 109:

hic una e multis, quae maxima natu, Pyrgo,

Verg. A. 5, 644:

annos natus major quadraginta,

more than, Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 39:

civis major annis viginti,

Suet. Caes. 42:

cum liberis, majoribus quam quindecim annos natis,

Liv. 45, 32.— Absol.: senis nostri frater major, the elder of two, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 13:

ex duobus filiis major, Caes B. C. 3, 108, 3: Fabii Ambusti filiae duae nuptae, Ser. Sulpicio major minor Licinio Stoloni erat,

Liv. 6, 34:

Gelo maximus stirpis,

id. 23, 30:

ut nubere vellet mulier viro, major juniori,

App. Mag. 27, p. 291, 28; cf.

in gen.: Cyrus major,

Lact. 4, 5, 7:

quaerere uter major aetate fuerit, Homerus an Hesiodus, cum minor Hecuba fuerit quam Helena,

Sen. Ep. 88, 5.—In legal lang., major (opp. minor), one who has attained his twenty-fifth year, who is of age:

si minor negotiis majoris intervenerit,

Dig. 4, 4, 24.—In plur. subst.: mājō-res, um, m., adults (opp. pueri), Varr. L. L. 9, 10, § 16 Mull.—But usually majores, ancestors, forefathers:

Itan tandem hanc majores famam tradiderunt tibi tui, Ut, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 16:

ibi mei sunt majores siti, pater, avos, proavos, abavos,

id. Mil. 2, 4, 20:

L. Philippus, vir patre, avo, majoribus suis dignissimus,

Cic. Phil. 3, 10, 25:

patres majoresque nostri,

id. Div. in Caecil. 21, 69:

more majorum,

id. Att. 1, 1, 1:

spes tamen una est, aliquando populum Romanum majorum similem fore,

id. Fam. 12, 22, 2:

majores natu,

Nep. Iphicr. 1, 1:

maxima virgo,

the eldest of the Vestal virgins, Ov. F. 4, 639: major erus, the old master, the master of the house, the old man (opp.: minor erus, the young master): Le. Ubinam est erus? Li. Major apud forum'st, minor hic est intus, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 63: majores natu, of the Senate:

de istis rebus in patria majores natu consulemus,

Liv. 1, 32, 10.—In designating relationship, magnus denotes kindred of the fourth, major of the fifth, and maximus of the sixth degree; so, avunculus magnus, a great-uncle; amita magna, a greataunt; avunculus or amita major; avunculus maximus, amita maxima, etc.; v. h. vv., and cf. Dig. 38, 10, 10.—

In specifications of value, in the neutr. absol., magni or magno, high, dear, of great value, at a high price, etc.; cf.: pretii majoris or maximi, higher, highest, very high:

magni esse,

to be highly esteemed, Cic. Fam. 13, 72, 2:

magni aestimare,

id. Tusc. 5, 7, 20:

magni existimans interesse ad decus,

to be of great consequence, id. N. D. 1, 4, 7:

emere agros poterunt quam volent magno,

id. Agr. 2, 13, 34:

magno vendere,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 30, § 71:

conducere aliquid nimium magno,

too high, too dear, id. Att. 1, 17, 9:

magno illi ea cunctatio stetit,

cost him dear, Liv. 2, 36.— Comp.:

ornatus muliebris majoris pretii,

Cic. Inv 1, 31, 51, rarely without pretii:

multo majoris alapae mecum veneunt,

dearer, higher, Phaedr. 2, 5, 25.— Sup.: te haec solum semper fecit maxumi, most highly prized, Ter And. 1, 5, 58:

senatus auctoritatem sibi maximi videri,

Cic. Att. 1, 14, 2: in majus, too greatly, too highly, greater than it is:

extollere aliquid in majus,

more highly than it deserves, Tac. A. 15, 30:

celebrare,

id. ib. 13, 8:

nuntiare,

id. H. 3, 38:

credere,

to believe a thing to be worse than it is, id. ib. 1, 18:

accipere,

to take a thing to be greater than it is, id. ib. 3, 8 init.: innotescere, in an exaggerated manner, id. ib 4, 50.—Also with abl., in majus vero ferri, Liv. 21, 32, 7.—

Magnum and maximum, adverbially, greatly, loudly (ante- and post-class.):

magnum clamat,

greatly, with a loud voice, aloud, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 10:

inclamare,

Gell. 5, 9 fin.:

exclamat derepente maximum,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 57.—Hence, măgis, adv., only in comp. in this anomalous form (i. e. mag-ius, like pris-cus for [p. 1100] prius-cus, and pris-tinus for prius-tinus); and in sup.: maxĭmē ( maxŭmē).

Comp.: magĭs (apocop. form, măgĕ, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 51; 2, 3, 14; id. Mon. 2, 3, 35; id. Poen. 1, 2, 64; 1, 2, 14; id. Trin. 4, 3, 46; id. Truc. 1, 2, 75; 3, 1, 17; 4, 4, 34; Lucr. 4, 81; 756; 5, 1203; Prop. 1, 11, 9; 3 (4), 14, 2; 4 (5), 8, 16; Verg. A. 10, 481; Sol. 22 fin.; but in Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2, magis or magi'. Acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 10, 481, Cicero in the Frumentaria wrote: mage condemnatum hominum in judicium adducere non posse), in a higher degree, more completely, more (for the difference between magis, plus, potius, and amplius, v. amplius).—

In gen.

With no qualifying words.

With the addition of the second term of the comparison.

With verbs:

quae (facinora) istaec aetas fugere magis quam sectari solet,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 28:

saliendo sese exercebant magis, quam scorto aut saviis,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 25; id. Pers. 4, 4, 108; 86:

magis honorem tribuere quam salutem accipere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 20, 7:

nisi forte magis erit parricida, si qui consularem patrem, quam si quis humilem necarit,

Cic. Mil. 7, 17:

magis ut consuetudinem servem, quam quod, etc.,

id. Clu. 32, 89.—Repeated:

quam magis exhausto spumaverit ubere mulctra, Laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis, i. e. quo magis,... eo magis,

Verg. G. 3, 309 sq.; cf.:

tam magis illa fremens... quam magis effuso crudescunt sanguine pugnae,

id. ib. 7, 787 sq.; v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 566.—Magis est, quod or ut, there is greater reason, there is more cause that, etc.:

quamobrem etsi magis est, quod gratuler tibi, quam quod te rogem: tamen etiam rogo, etc.,

Cic. Att. 16, 5, 2:

magis est, ut ipse moleste ferat, errasse se, quam ut, etc.,

id. Cael. 6, 14.—

With substt., usu. with quam: tu me amoris magis quam honoris servavisti gratia, Poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: bellipotentes sunt magi' quam sapientipotentes, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 56, 116 (Ann. v. 188 Vahl.):

umbra es amantum magis quam amator,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 31:

magis adeo id facilitate quam alia ulla culpa mea contigit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15:

aditus ad consulatum non magis nobilitati quam virtuti pateret,

id. Mur. 8, 17:

magis ratione et consilio quam virtute vicisse,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8; cf.:

ut magis virtute quam dolo contenderent,

id. ib. 1, 13, 6:

se magis consuetudine sua quam merito eorum civitatem conservaturum,

id. ib. 2, 32, 1:

timori magis quam religioni consulere,

id. B. C. 1, 67, 3:

jus bonumque apud eos non legibus magis quam natura valebat,

Sall. C. 9, 1:

non duces magis quam milites callent (obsistere, etc.),

Curt. 3, 2, 14.—And after negatives: non magis quam, as little as:

in dicendo irasci, dolere... non sunt figurae, non magis quam suadere,

Quint. 9, 1, 23:

Romanos nec magis jam dolo capi quam armis vinci posse,

Liv. 10, 4, 10:

pro certo habens non magis Antonio eripi se quam Caesari Brutum posse,

Sen. Suas. 6, 17:

non magis Alexandri saevitiam quam Bessi parricidium ferre potuisse,

Curt. 7, 6, 15; cf.:

nec magis post proelium quam in proelio caedibus temperatum est,

Liv. 2, 16, 9. —Followed by atque instead of quam (rare):

non Apollinis magis verum atque hoc responsum est,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 15.— With the comp. abl. (rare):

quid philosophia magis colendum?

Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 76:

quanto magis Aliensi die Aliam ipsam reformidaturos?

Liv. 6, 28, 6 Weissenb. ad loc.:

quam Juno fertur terris magis omnibus unam... coluisse,

Verg. A. 1, 15 (cf. B. 3. infra):

Albanum sive Falernum Te magis appositis delectat,

Hor. S. 2, 8, 17.—

With pronn.:

quid habetis, qui mage immortales vos credam esse quam ego siem?

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 64:

quis homo sit magis meus quam tu es?

id. Mil. 3, 1, 20:

quam mage amo quam matrem meam,

id. Truc. 3, 1, 17; cf.:

quem ego ecastor mage amo quam me,

id. ib. 4, 4, 34.—With utrum, followed by an:

jam scibo, utrum haec me mage amet, an marsupium,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 35.—With the abl. instead of quam:

nec magis hac infra quicquam est in corpore nostro,

Lucr. 3, 274; Verg. A. 1, 15.—

With adjj. and advv., and esp. with those which do not admit the comparative termination (most freq. without adding the second term of the comparison; v. under b. d): numquam potuisti mihi Magis opportunus advenire quam advenis, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 47:

neque lac lacti magis est simile, quam ille ego similis est mei,

id. Am. 2, 1, 54:

ars magis magna atque uber, quam difficilis et obscura,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 190:

corpora magna magis quam firma,

Liv. 5, 44, 4:

vultu pulchro magis quam venusto,

Suet. Ner. 51.—With the abl., Plaut. As. 3, 3, 114:

neque ego hoc homine quemquam vidi magis malum,

id. Ps. 4, 1, 27:

ab secundis rebus magis etiam solito incauti,

Liv. 5, 44, 6.—With compp. (adding to their force):

ita fustibus sum mollior miser magis quam ullus cinaedus,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 8. —

Without the addition of the second term.

With verbs: ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 315 Vahl.):

sapiunt magis,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 4:

magis curae est, magisque afformido, ne, etc.,

id. ib. 4, 10, 3:

magis metuant,

id. Mil. 5, 44:

tum magis id diceres, Fanni, si, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 7 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 1, 40, 62:

cum Pompeius ita contendisset, ut nihil umquam magis,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 20:

magis velle, for malle: quod magis vellem evenire,

Ter. Eun. 5, 7, 1; Val. Fl. 3, 270.—

With substt.: non ex jure manum consertum sed magi' ferro, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 276 Vahl.):

magis aedilis fieri non potuisset,

better, finer, Cic. Planc. 24, 60.—

With pronn.:

ecastor neminem hodie mage Amat corde atque animo suo,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 75.—

With adjj. and advv. (so most freq.).—With adjj.:

ut quadam magis necessaria ratione recte sit vivendum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 2:

magis anxius,

Ov. M. 1, 182:

hic magis tranquillu'st,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 55:

nihil videtur mundius, nec magis compositum quicquam, nec magis elegans,

Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 12:

nemo fuit magis severus nec magis continens,

id. ib. 2, 1, 21:

quod est magis verisimile,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13, 6:

magis admirabilis oratio,

Quint. 8, 3, 24:

magis communia verba,

id. 8, 2, 24 et saep.; rare: magis quam in aliis = praeter ceteros;

nescio quo pacto magis quam in aliis suum cuique pulchrum est,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 22, 63.— With advv.:

magis aperte,

Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 30:

magis impense,

id. ib. 5, 9, 36.—With compp. adding to their force:

magis est dulcius,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 22:

magis majores nugae,

id. Men. prol. 55:

magis modum in majorem,

id. Am. 1, 1, 145:

contentiores mage erunt,

id. Poen. 2, 15.—

Strengthened.

By etiam, multo, tanto, eo, hoc, quo, tam, quam; and negatively, nihilo:

qualis in dicendo Hierocles Alabandeus, magis etiam Menecles, frater ejus, fuit,

Cic. Brut. 95, 325; id. Off. 1, 21, 72:

illud ad me, ac multo etiam magis ad vos,

id. de Or. 2, 32, 139:

tanto magis Dic, quis est?

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 28:

ut quidque magis contemplor, tanto magis placet,

id. Most. 3, 2, 146:

vicina cacumina caelo, quam sint magis, tanto magis fument,

Lucr. 6, 460:

quanto ille plura miscebat, tanto hic magis in dies convalescebat,

Cic. Mil. 9, 25:

sed eo magis cauto est Opus, ne huc exeat, qui, etc.,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 22:

atque eo magis, si, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 1, § 1:

eoque magis quod, etc.,

id. Lael. 2, 7; Caes. B. G. 1, 23; 1, 47; 3, 14;

5, 1: immo vero etiam hoc magis, quam illi veteres, quod, etc.,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

hoc vero magis properare Varro, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 2, 20:

quo magis cogito ego cum meo animo,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 13; Nep. Thras. 2:

magis quam id reputo, tam magis uror,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 5:

tam magis illa fremens... Quam magis, etc.,

Verg. A. 7, 787:

quanto mage... tam magis,

Lucr. 4, 81 sq.:

quam magis in pectore meo foveo, quas meus filius turbas turbet... magis curae est magisque afformido, ne, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 1; 4, 4, 27; id. Men. 1, 1, 19:

quam magis te in altum capessis, tam aestus te in portum refert,

id. As. 1, 3, 6:

densior hinc suboles Quam magis, etc.,

Verg. G. 3, 309:

cum Vercingetorix nihilo magis in aequum locum descenderet,

Caes. B. G. 6, 53.—

By reduplication: magis magisque, magis et magis, magis ac magis; and poet. also, magis magis, more and more: ex desiderio magis magisque maceror, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 182 P.:

cum cotidie magis magisque perditi homines tectis ac templis urbis minarentur,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5; id. Fam. 2, 18, 2; 16, 21, 2; Sall. C. 5, 7; cf. Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 2:

de Graecia cotidie magis et magis cogito,

Cic. Att. 14, 18, 4; 16, 3, 1; id. Brut. 90, 308; Liv. 7, 32, 6; Sall. J. 8, 6:

magis deinde ac magis,

Suet. Vit. 10:

post hoc magis ac magis,

id. Gram. 3;

for which also: magisque ac magis deinceps,

id. Tit. 3; Tac. A. 14, 8; Sen. de Ira, 3, 1, 4; id. Ep. 114, 25; id. Ben. 2, 14, 4; Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 10; 7, 3, 4; 10, 28, 3.— Poet. also:

magis atque magis,

Verg. A. 12, 239; Cat. 68, 48:

post, vento crescente, magis magis increbescunt,

id. 64, 275; cf. Verg. G. 4, 311.—

Pleon.

With potius (anteclass.):

magis decorum'st Libertum potius quam patronum onus in via portare,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 99:

mihi magis lubet cum probis potius quam cum improbis vivere,

id. Trin. 2, 1, 38.—

With malle: quam cum lego, nihil malo quam has res relinquere;

his vero auditis multo magis,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 76:

finge enim malle eum magis suum consequi quam, etc.,

Dig. 17, 2, 52, § 10. —

In partic.: non (neque) magis quam.

To signify perfect equality between two enunciations, no more... than; just as much... as; or neg., no more... than; just as little... as:

domus erat non domino magis ornamento quam civitati,

i. e. just as much to the city as to its owner, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2:

non Hannibale magis victo a se quam Q. Fabio,

Liv. 22, 27, 2:

conficior enim maerore, mea Terentia, nec me meae miseriae magis excruciant quam tuae vestraeque,

Cic. Fam. 13, 3, 1; Liv. 9, 22.— Neg.: qui est enim animus in aliquo morbo... non magis est sanus, quam id corpus, quod in morbo est, i. e. is just as far from being sound as a body, etc., Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10:

si aliqua in re Verris similis fuero, non magis mihi deerit inimicus quam Verri defuit,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 69, § 162; id. Fam. 5, 12, 3; id. de Or. 2, 8, 31:

non nascitur itaque ex malo bonum, non magis quam ficus ex olea,

Sen. Ep. 87, 25;

Quint. prooem. § 26: non magis Gaium imperaturum, quam per Baianum sinum equis discursurum,

Suet. Calig. 19. —Ellipt.:

nec eo magis lege liberi sunto,

just as little from that as from the rest, Cic. Leg. 3, 4, 11.—

For restricting the idea expressed in the clause with non magis, so that not more, according to a common figure of speech, = less; in Engl. not so much... as; less... than:

deinde credas mihi affirmanti velim, me hoc non pro Lysone magis quam pro omnibus scribere,

Cic. Fam. 13, 24; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 17:

miserebat non poenae magis homines, quam sceleris, quo poenam meriti essent,

Liv. 2, 5; 1, 28.—

Magis minusve, magis aut minus, or magis ac minus; post-Aug. for the usual plus minusve, more or less:

sed istud magis minusve vitiosum est pro personis dicentium,

Quint. 11, 1, 27; Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 220:

minora vero plerumque sunt talia, ut pro persona, tempore, loco, causa magis ac minus vel excusata debeant videri vel reprehendenda,

Quint. 11, 1, 14; Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 67:

quaedam tamen et nationibus puto magis aut minus convenire,

Sen. Ep. 40, 11; cf.:

quosdam minus aut magis osos veritatem,

id. Suas. 1, 5:

aut minus, aut magis,

id. Ep. 82, 14.—

With alius... alio, etc.: ceterae philosophorum disciplinae, omnino alia magis alia, sed tamen omnes, one more than another, i. e. in different degrees, Cic. Fin. 3, 3, 11 Madvig. ad loc. (al.:

alia magis, alia minus, v. Hand, Turs. III. p. 560): mihi videntur omnes quidem illi errasse... sed alius alio magis,

Cic. Fin. 4, 16, 43:

sunt omnino omnes fere similes, sed declarant communis notiones, alia magis alia,

id. Tusc. 4, 24, 53:

alii aliis magis recusare,

Liv. 29, 15, 11.— Sup.: maxĭmē( maxŭmē), in the highest degree, most of all, most particularly, especially, exceedingly, very, etc.

Lit.

Alone.

With a verb:

haec una res in omni libero populo maximeque in pacatis tranquillisque civitatibus praecipue semper floruit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 30:

quid commemorem primum aut laudem maxime?

Ter. Eun. 5, 9, 14; 3, 1, 79:

nos coluit maxime,

id. Ad. 3, 2, 54:

quem convenire maxime cupiebam,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 30; id. As. 3, 3, 133:

de te audiebamus ea, quae maxime vellemus,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, a, 7; cf. id. Att. 13, 1:

extra quos (fines) egredi non possim, si maxime velim,

id. Quint. 10, 35:

in re publica maxime conservanda sunt jura belli,

most especially, id. Off. 1, 11, 33: huic legioni Caesar propter virtutem confidebat maxime, [p. 1101] Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

quem Homero crederet maxime accedere,

came nearest to, Quint. 10, 1, 86; cf.

pugnare,

most violently, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 271; 1, 1, 44:

jubere,

most positively, id. Bacch. 4, 9, 80:

id enim est profecto, quod constituta religione rem publicam contineat maxime,

Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 69; cf. maxime fin.:

ab eo exordiri volui maxime,

id. Off. 1, 2, 4:

cernere naturae vim maxime,

id. Tusc. 1, 15, 35.—

With an adj.:

res maxime necessaria,

Cic. Lael. 23, 86:

loca maxime frumentaria,

Caes. B. G. 1, 10:

loci ad hoc maxime idonei,

Quint. 1, 11, 13:

maxime naturali carent amicitia,

Cic. Lael. 21, 80:

maxime feri,

Caes. B. G. 2, 4:

qui eo tempore maxime plebi acceptus erat,

id. ib. 1, 3:

idem ad augendam eloquentiam maxime accommodati erunt,

Quint. 1, 11, 13:

elegans maxime auctor,

id. 10, 1, 93:

maxime vero commune est quaerere, an sit honesta? etc.,

id. 2, 4, 37:

noto enim maxime utar exemplo,

id. 7, 3, 3.—So with supp.:

quae maxime liberalissima,

Cic. Att. 12, 38, 3:

maxime gravissimam omniumque (rerum),

Liv. 41, 23, 4 MS. (dub.: maxumam gravissimamque, Weissenb.). —

With numerals, at most:

puer ad annos maxime natus octo,

Gell. 17, 8, 4.—

With an adv.:

ut dicatis quam maxime ad veritatem accommodate,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 149 (v. infra 2).—