to practise as a physician

prŏfĭtĕor, fessus, v (old form of the inf. PROFITEREI, and of the imper. PROFITEMINO, several times in the Tab. Her, in Haubold, Mon. Leg. p. 99 sq.), v. dep. a. [pro-fateor], to declare publicly, to own freely, to acknowledge, avow, confess openly, profess (class.).

In gen.

Absol.:

neque vis tuā voluntate ipse profiteri,

Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 80:

ita libenter confitetur, ut non solum fateri, sed etiam profiteri videatur,

Cic. Caecin. 9, 24:

fateor atque etiam profiteor et prae me fero,

id. Rab. Perd. 5, 17.—

With acc.:

profiteri et in medium proferre aliquid,

Cic. Fin. 2, 23, 76:

cur ea non profitenda putabas?

Ov. H. 21, 129.—

With obj. clause:

profitentur Carnutes, se nullum periculum recusare,

Caes. B. G. 7, 2; Cic. N D. 1, 5, 12.—

With de:

de parricidio professum,

Suet. Calig. 12:

de semet professo,

id. Dom. 8.—

In partic.

Profiteri se aliquem, to declare one's self or profess to be something:

profiteri se grammaticum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 4, 12; Poët. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 26, 42;

profiteri se patrem infantis,

Suet. Calig. 25:

se legatum,

id. Galb. 10:

se candidatum consulatūs,

id. Aug. 4:

professus amicum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 2.—With esse:

triduo me jure consultum esse profitebor,

Cic. Mur. 13, 28:

me omnium provinciarum defensorem esse profitebor,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 93, § 217.—

Profiteri aliquid, to profess an art, science, etc.:

profiteri philosophiam,

to declare one's self a philosopher, Cic. Pis. 29, 71; medicinam, to profess medicine, to practise as a physician, Cels. praef.; Suet. Caes. 42;

jus,

Ov. A. A. 3, 531.—In pass.:

rem non professam apud nos tenemus,

Quint. Decl. 341. — Absol.: profiteri, to be a teacher or professor (post-Aug.):

cum omnes qui profitentur, audiero,

Plin. Ep 2, 18, 3:

translatus est in Siciliam, ubi nunc profitetur,

id. ib. 4, 11, 14.—

Profiteri indicium, to give evidence, make a deposition against accomplices:

multis hortantibus indicium profitetur,

Sall. J. 35, 6; Hirt. B. Afr 55, Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 9:

summum supplicium decernebatur, ni professus indicium foret,

Tac. A. 6, 3.—

To offer freely, propose voluntarily, to promise: quis profitetur? who volunteers? Plaut Capt. 3, 1, 20:

se ad eam rem adjutorem,

Caes. B. G. 5, 38:

ego vero tibi profiteor atque polliceor eximium et singulare meum studium in omni genere officii,

Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 4:

si vos in eam rem operam vestram profitemini,

id. Rosc. Am. 53, 153:

Varro profitetur se alterā die ad colloquium venturum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

sumunt gentiles arma professa manus,

arms that promise a combat, Ov. F. 2, 198: magna, Hor A. P. 14; Ov. F. 5, 351:

grandia,

Hor. A. P. 27.—

To disclose, show, display, make a show of; dolorem, Just. 8, 5, 11:

sola Jovem Semele vidit Jovis ora professum,

Nemes. Ecl. 3, 22:

vitate viros cultum formamque professos,

Ov. A A. 3, 433.—

To make a public statement or return of any thing (as of one's name, property, business, etc.):

censum (one's estate),

Ulp. Fragm. 1, 8;

Tab. Her. in Haubold, Mon. Leg. p. 99 sq. (q. v.): ut aratores jugera sationum suarum profiterentur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 15, § 38:

apud decemviros, quantum habeat praedae,

id. Agr. 2, 22, 59:

greges ovium ad publicanum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1:

frumentum, Liv 4, 12: furtum,

Quint. Decl. 341:

rem alienam,

id. ib. 341:

rem apud publicanum,

id. ib. 359; Dig. 39, 4, 16, § 12.— Absol.:

ne decipiat (publicanus) profiteri volentes,

Dig. 39, 4, 19, § 6; Vulg. Luc. 2, 3 and 5:

nomen,

to give in one's name, announce one's self, Liv. 26, 18; also without nomen:

Catilina prohibitus erat petere consulatum, quod intra legitimos dies profiteri nequiverit,

Sall. C. 18, 3:

nam et quaesturam petentes, quos indignos judicavit, profiteri vetuit,

Vell. 2, 92, 3: professae (sc. feminae), i. e. common prostitutes, who had to give in their names to the aedile, Ov. F. 4, 866.— Trop.:

in his nomen suum profitetur,

among these he reckons himself, Ter. Eun. prol. 3.—Hence, prŏ-fessus, a, um, P. a., in passive signif., known, manifest, confessed ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

culpa professa,

Ov. Am. 3, 14, 6:

dux,

Just. 8, 4, 4.—Ex or de professo, openly, avowedly, intentionally, professedly:

non ex professo eam (potentiam) non petere,

Sen. Ep. 14, 8:

vir ex professo mollis, Macr S. 2, 9.—De professo (postclass.): ac ne id quidem de professo audet,

openly, App. Mag. p. 274, 11.

mĕdĭcīnus, a, um, adj. [1. medicus], of or belonging to a physician or surgeon, medical (as adj. only ante- and post-class.; as subst. class.).

Adj.:

ars,

the healing art, medicine, Varr. L. L. 5, § 93 Müll.; Hyg. Fab. 274; Aug. Conf. 4, 3.—

Subst.: mĕdĭcīna, ae, f.

(Sc. ars.) The healing or medical art, medicine, surgery:

ut medicina (ars est) valetudinis,

Cic. Fin. 5, 6, 16; id. Off. 1, 42, 151:

medicina, quae ex observatione salubrium atque his contrariorum reperta est,

Quint. 2, 17, 9: tertiam esse partem medicinae, quae manu curet, i. e. surgery, Cels. prooem. 7:

medicinam excolere,

id. ib.:

exercere,

Cic. Clu. 63, 178:

facere,

Phaedr. 1, 14, 2:

factitare,

to practise, Quint. 7, 2, 26:

clarus medicinā,

Plin. 25, 2, 5, § 15.—

(Sc. officina.) The shop of a physician or surgeon; the booth in which a physician waited on his patients and vended his medicines (rare;

not in Cic.): in medicinis, in tonstrinis,

Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 6; cf.: veteres absolute dicebant pistrinam et sutrinam et medicinam, Don. Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 45 (the taberna of the physician is mentioned in Plin. 29, 1, 6, § 12).—

(Sc. res.) A remedy, medicine.

Lit.:

si medicus veniat, qui huic morbo facere medicinam potest,

i. e. heal, cure, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 76:

accipere medicinam,

Cic. Att. 12, 21, 5.—

Transf.

Like medicamentum, poison, Att. ap. Non. 20, 31 (Trag. Rel. v. 579 Rib.).—

The pruning of vines, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 191.—

Trop., a remedy, relief, antidote (a favorite word of Cic.):

singulis medicinam consilii atque orationis meae afferam,

Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 17:

sed non egeo medicinā: me ipse consolor,

id. Lael. 3, 10:

sublevatio et medicina,

id. Rep. 2, 34, 59:

temporis,

id. Fam. 5, 16, 6:

doloris,

id. Ac. 1, 3:

laboris,

id. Fin. 5, 19, 54:

calamitatis,

id. Tusc. 3, 22, 54:

quae sanaret vitiosas partes rei publicae,

id. Att. 2, 1, 7:

crede mihi, non ulla tua'st medicina figurae,

i. e. no means of rendering beautiful, Prop. 1, 2, 7:

periculorum,

Cic. Sest. 23, 51:

malorum,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 33:

curae,

id. P. 1, 2, 43.—In plur.:

his quatuor causis totidem medicinae opponuntur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 339.

lā̆trōcĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [2. latro].

To perform military service for pay, to be a hired soldier (ante-class.):

ibit aliquo Latrocinatum,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 198; id. Mil. 2, 6, 19: qui regi latrocinatus decem annos Demetrio, id. Fragm. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 52 Müll.—

To practise freebooting, robbery, or highway-robbery, to rob on the highway:

Catilina latrocinantem se interfici mallet, quam exsulem vivere,

Cic. Cat. 2, 7 fin.:

ubi impune sui posteri latrocinarentur,

id. Mil. 7, 17:

vitae instituta sic distant, ut Cretes et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent,

id. Rep. 3, 9, 15.— To commit piracy:

maritimi, alteri mercandi causa, alteri latrocinandi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 9.—

Transf.

Of a fish preying upon others, to hunt, seize:

pastinaca latrocinatur ex occulto,

Plin. 9, 42, 67, § 144.—

Of a physician who dissects a body:

mortui praecordia et viscus omne in conspectum,

Cels. 1 praef. —Hence. lā̆trōcĭnanter, adv., like a robber, Aug. Ep. 35, 3.

lā̆trōcĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [2. latro].

To perform military service for pay, to be a hired soldier (ante-class.):

ibit aliquo Latrocinatum,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 198; id. Mil. 2, 6, 19: qui regi latrocinatus decem annos Demetrio, id. Fragm. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 52 Müll.—

To practise freebooting, robbery, or highway-robbery, to rob on the highway:

Catilina latrocinantem se interfici mallet, quam exsulem vivere,

Cic. Cat. 2, 7 fin.:

ubi impune sui posteri latrocinarentur,

id. Mil. 7, 17:

vitae instituta sic distant, ut Cretes et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent,

id. Rep. 3, 9, 15.— To commit piracy:

maritimi, alteri mercandi causa, alteri latrocinandi,

Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 9.—

Transf.

Of a fish preying upon others, to hunt, seize:

pastinaca latrocinatur ex occulto,

Plin. 9, 42, 67, § 144.—

Of a physician who dissects a body:

mortui praecordia et viscus omne in conspectum,

Cels. 1 praef. —Hence. lā̆trōcĭnanter, adv., like a robber, Aug. Ep. 35, 3.