to preserve alive

dif-fĕro, distŭli, dīlātum, differre ( inf. differrier, Lucr. 1, 1088. In tmesi:

disque tulissent,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 14), v. a. and n.

Act., to carry different ways; to spread abroad, scatter, disperse, separate (cf.: reicere, proferre, procrastinare, producere, ampliare, prorogare—class.).

Lit.:

scintillas agere ac late differre favillam,

Lucr. 2, 675; cf.:

favillam longe (ventus),

id. 6, 692:

nubila (vis venti),

id. 1, 273; Verg. G. 3, 197:

ignem (ventus),

Caes. B. C. 2, 14, 2:

casae venti magnitudine ignem distulerunt,

id. B. G. 5, 43, 2:

majorem partem classis (vis Africi),

Vell. 2, 79, 2:

rudentes fractosque remos (Eurus),

Hor. Epod. 10, 6 et saep.; cf. Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 14:

nos cum scapha tempestas dextrovorsum Differt ab illis,

id. Rud. 2, 3, 39; cf. Lucr. 1, 1088: cytisum, to plant apart, in separate rows = disserere, digerere, Varr. R. R. 1, 43; Col. 11, 3, 30 sq.; 38; 42 al.; cf.:

ulmos in versum,

Verg. G. 4, 144:

ut formicae frustillatim (te) differant,

Plaut. Curc. 4, 4, 20; cf.:

insepulta membra (lupi),

Hor. Epod. 5, 99; and:

Mettum in diversa (quadrigae),

Verg. A. 8, 643. —

Trop.

To distract, disquiet, disturb a person (only ante-class.): vorsor in amoris rota miser, Exanimor, feror, differor, distrahor, diripior, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5:

differor clamore,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 15:

cupidine ejus,

id. Poen. 1, 1, 28; cf.:

amore istius,

id. Mil. 4, 4, 27:

laetitia,

id. Truc. 4, 1, 3:

doloribus,

Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 40.—Less freq. act.:

aliquem dictis,

to confound, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 125; cf. Ter. And. 2, 4, 5 Ruhnk.—

To spread abroad, publish, divulge; with a personal object, to cry down, to defame (mostly anteclass. and post-Aug.; not in Cic., Caes., or Sall.).

With acc. rei: cum de me ista foris sermonibus differs, Lucil. ap. Non. 284, 16; cf.:

rumores famam differant licebit nosque carpant,

Varr. ib. 18:

commissam libertatem populo Rom. sermonibus,

Liv. 34, 49:

promissum jus anulorum fama distulit,

Suet. Caes. 33.—With acc. and inf.:

ne mi hanc famam differant, Me dedidisse, etc.,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 63; Ter. Heaut. prol. 16; Nep. Dion. 10; Val. Fl. 1, 753.—With quasi and dependent clause:

rumore ab obtrectatoribus dilato, quasi eundem mox et discruciatum necasset,

Suet. Aug. 14 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

quo pertinuit differri etiam per externos, tamquam veneno interceptus esset,

Tac. A. 3, 12; cf. id. ib. 4, 25.—

With acc. pers.:

aliquem pipulo,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 32 (cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 103 Müll., and see pipulum): aliquem maledicendo sermonibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 284, 24:

dominos variis rumoribus,

Tac. A. 1, 4:

te circum omnes alias puellas,

to bring into disrepute with them, Prop. 1, 4, 22.—In the pass.: differor sermone miser, Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 93, 10:

alterna differor invidia,

Prop. 1, 16, 48.—

With reference to time, to defer, put off, protract, delay any thing; with a personal object also to put off, amuse with promises, get rid of (class. and very freq.).

With acc. rei:

cetera praesenti sermoni reserventur: hoc tamen non queo differre, etc.,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 8:

differre quotidie ac procrastinare rem,

id. Rosc. Am. 9 fin.:

saepe vadimonia,

id. Quint. 5 fin.:

iter in praesentia,

Caes. B. C. 3, 85, 4:

pleraque (with omittere in praesens tempus),

Hor. A. P. 44:

distulit ira sitim,

Ov. M. 6, 366 et saep.:

differri jam hora non potest,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 19:

tempus,

id. ib. 8, 8; id. Prov. Cons. 11 fin.; Liv. 3, 46; Ov. M. 1, 724 al.:

diem de die,

Liv. 25, 25 et saep.—With inf.:

quaerere distuli,

Hor. Od. 4, 4, 21; so Liv. 42, 2 (but not Suet. Caes. 81, where agere belongs to proposuerat, cf. id. Aug. 72; id. Calig. 49).—With quin:

nihil dilaturi, quin periculum summae rerum facerent,

Liv. 6, 22 fin.; so Suet. Caes. 4; with in and acc.:

reliqua in crastinum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 44 fin.:

in posterum diem,

id. Deiot. 7, 21; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 65 fin.:

in posterum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 32; Caes. B. G. 7, 11, 5:

in aliud tempus,

Cic. Brut. 87; Caes. B. C. 1, 86, 2:

in adventum tuum,

Cic. Fam. 2, 3 fin.:

diem edicti in a. d. IV. Kal. Dec.,

id. Phil. 3, 8, 20:

curandi tempus in annum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 39 et saep. — Poet.:

tropaea in pueros suos,

to reserve for, Prop. 4, 6, 82.—Rarely with ad:

aliquid ad crudelitatis tempus,

Cic. Vat. 11 fin.; cf. the foll.—

With acc. pers.:

sin autem differs me in tempus aliud,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 10; Liv. 26, 51; 41, 8:

differri non posse adeo concitatos animos,

id. 7, 14:

dilatus per frustrationem,

id. 25, 25; cf.:

aliquem variis frustrationibus,

Just. 9, 6 fin.:

Campanos,

Liv. 26, 33:

aliquem petentem,

Suet. Vesp. 23 Ern.:

caros amicos (opp. properare),

Mart. 13, 55 et saep.— Poet.: vivacem anum, to preserve alive, i. e. to postpone her death, Ov. M. 13, 519; cf.:

decimum dilatus in annum (belli) Hector erat,

id. ib. 12, 76:

aliquem in spem impetrandi tandem honoris,

Liv. 39, 32:

aliquem in septimum diem,

Suet. Tib. 32; id. Caes. 82 Oud.; id. Aug. 44 fin. et saep.— Rarely with ad:

legati ad novos magistratus dilati,

Liv. 41, 8:

aliquem ad finem muneris,

Suet. Vit. 12:

quas (legationes) par tim dato responso ex itinere dimisit, partim distulit Tarraconem,

Liv. 26, 51.—Once with post:

aliquid post bellum differre,

Liv. 4, 6, 4.—

Absol. Prov.: differ;

habent parvae commoda magna morae,

Ov. F. 3, 394.

Neut., to differ, be different (esp. freq. since the Ciceron. period—cf.:

discrepare, distare, interesse): qui re consentientes vocabulis differebant,

Cic. Fin. 4, 2 fin.; cf.:

naturis differunt, voluntate autem similes sunt,

id. de Or. 2, 23: verbo [p. 575] differre, re esse unum, id. Caecin. 21, 59:

distare aliquid aut ex aliqua parte differre,

id. ib. 14:

nihil aut non fere multum differre,

id. Brut. 40 fin.:

paulum differre,

id. Agr. 2, 31, 85 et saep.:

nec quicquam differre, utrumne... an, etc.,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 251; cf.:

quid enim differt, barathrone Dones quicquid habes, an? etc.,

id. ib. 166.—

With ab:

ita ut pauxillum differat a cavillulis,

Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 18:

quidnam esset illud, quo ipsi (poëtae) differrent ab oratoribus,

Cic. Or. 19, 66; id. Off. 1, 27 fin.:

quid hoc ab illo differt?

id. Caecin. 14:

non multum ab hostili expugnatione,

id. de Imp. Pomp. 5 fin.:

multum a Gallica consuetudine,

Caes. B. G. 5, 14; cf. ib. 6, 21; 6, 28, 5:

hoc fere ab reliquis differunt, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 6, 18, 3 et saep.—

With inter (esp. impers.):

si nihil inter deum et deum differt,

Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 80; id. Off. 1, 28, 99; id. Fin. 4, 25, 70:

nequid inter privatum et magistratum differat,

id. Rep. 1, 43:

ut non multum differat inter summos et mediocres viros,

id. Off. 2, 8, 30: multa sunt alia, quae inter locum et locum plurimum differunt (for which, shortly before, inter locorum naturas quantum intersit), id. Fat. 4:

haec cogitatione inter se differunt, re quidem copulata sunt,

id. Tusc. 4, 11: inter se aliqua re, id. Opt. gen. 2, 6; id. N. D. 1, 7, 16; Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 2; 6, 11, 1; Quint. 12, 10, 22; 34; 67 et saep.:

quae quidem inter se plurimum differunt,

id. 5, 14, 27.—

Rarely with cum:

occasio cum tempore hoc differt,

Cic. Inv. 1, 27:

hoc genus causae cum superiore hoc differt, quod, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 30, 92 Orell. N. cr. —

Likewise rarely, differre in aliqua re, Lucr. 3, 314; Nep. Ages. 7 fin. —

Rarely, and only poet. or in post-Aug. prose, with dat.:

quod pede certo Differt sermoni sermo merus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 48:

tragico differre colori,

id. A. P. 236; Quint. 2, 21, 10; Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 107; cf. id. 9, 8, 7, § 23.—Hence, diffĕ-rens, entis, P. a., different, superior:

differentius nomen,

a more excellent name, Vulg. Heb. 1, 4; in Quintilian subst. n. (opp. proprium), a difference, Quint. 5, 10, 55; 58; 6, 3, 66; 7, 3, 3; 25 sq.—

* Adv.: diffĕren-ter, differently, Sol. 1.

in-sĕro, sēvi, sĭtum, 3, v. a. [in-, 1. sero], to sow or plant in; to ingraft (class.).

Lit.:

frumentum,

Col. 5, 7, 3:

pirum bonam in pirum silvaticam,

to ingraft, graft, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 5:

vitem,

Col. Arb. 8, 2:

fissā modo cortice virgam Inserit,

Ov. M. 14, 631; Hor. Epod. 2, 12:

inseritur et nucis arbutus horrida fetu,

Verg. G. 2, 69 Forbig. ad loc.; so,

cum Vergilius insitam nucibus arbutum dicat,

Plin. 15, 15, 17, § 57. —

Trop., to implant:

num qua tibi vitiorum inseverit olim Natura,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 35:

remedia herbis invisis,

Plin. 22, 6, 7, § 15:

animos corporibus,

to unite, Cic. Univ. 12, 38.—Hence, insĭtus, a, um, P.a., ingrafted, grafted.

Lit.:

arbor,

Col. Arb. 20, 2:

mala,

Verg. G. 2, 33.—

Transf., of animals:

discordantem utero suo generis alieni stirpem insitam recipere,

a hybrid, Col. 6, 36, 2.— Subst.: insĭtum, i, n., a graft, scion, Col. 5, 11, 8.—

Trop., implanted by nature, inborn, innate, natural:

O generosam stirpem et tamquam in unam arborem plura genera, sic in istam domum multorum insitam atque illigatam sapientiam,

Cic. Brut. 58, 213: reliqua est ea causa, quae non jam recepta, sed innata;

neque delata ad me, sed in animo sensuque meo penitus affixa atque insita est,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 53, § 139:

Deorum cognitiones,

id. N. D. 1, 17, 44:

tam penitus insita opinio,

id. Clu. 1, 4:

notio quasi naturalis atque insita in animis nostris,

id. Fin. 1, 9, 31:

menti cognitionis amor,

id. ib. 4, 7, 18:

hoc naturā est insitum, ut,

id. Sull. 30, 83:

feritas,

Liv. 34, 20, 2.— In gen., taken in, incorporated, admitted, adopted:

ex deserto Gavii horreo in Calatinos Atilios insitus,

Cic. Sest. 33, 72:

insitus et adoptivus,

Tac. A. 13, 14.

in-sĕro, sĕrŭi, sertum, 3, v. a. [in-, 2. sero], to put, bring, or introduce into, to insert (class.); constr. with in and acc., or with dat.

Lit.

In gen.:

collum in laqueum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37; id. de Or. 2, 39, 162:

oculos in pectora,

Ov. M. 2, 94:

caput in tentoria,

Liv. 8, 36, 6:

gemmas aureis soleis,

Curt. 9, 1, 29:

falces longuriis,

Caes. B. G. 3, 14:

subtegmen radiis,

Ov. M. 6, 56:

in avium nidis aliquid,

Plin. 24, 19, 113, § 174.—

In partic., to ingraft: quidquid inserueris, vimine diligenter ligato, Col. Arb. 8, 2:

surculus insertus,

id. ib. 3.—

Trop., to bring into, introduce, to mix or mingle with:

amputanda plura sunt illi aetati, quam inserenda,

Cic. Cael. 31, 76:

jus est, quod non opinio genuit, sed quaedam innata vis inseruit,

id. Inv. 2, 53, 161:

historiae jocos,

Ov. Tr. 2, 444:

querelas,

Tac. H. 1, 23:

adeo minimis etiam rebus prava religio inserit Deos,

Liv. 27, 23, 2:

contiones directas operi suo,

Just. 38, 3:

tantae rerum magnitudini hoc inserere,

Vell. 2, 107, 1:

haec libello,

Suet. Dom. 18: manus, to set one ' s hands to, Luc. 8, 552:

liberos sceleri,

to draw into, involve in crime, Sen. Thyest. 322:

nomina alienae gentis Aeacidis,

Ov. M. 13, 33; cf.:

ignobilitatem suam magnis nominibus,

Tac. A. 6, 2: se, to mingle with, join, engage in:

inserentibus se centurionibus,

id. H. 2, 19:

se turbae,

Ov. A. A. 1, 605:

se bellis civilibus,

id. M. 3, 117: civium numero, to reckon or enroll among, Suet. Aug. 42:

Liviorum familiae,

id. Tib. 3:

stellis et concilio Jovis,

Hor. C. 3, 25, 6:

aliquem vitae,

i. e. to preserve alive, Stat. S. 5, 5, 72: nomen famae, to attach to fame, i. e. to render celebrated, Tac. Or. 10.

sŭperstĭto, āre, v. a. and n. [superstes].

Act., to keep alive, preserve: regnumque nostrum ut sospitent superstitentque, Enn. ap. Non. 170, 14; 176, 3 (Trag. v. 331 Vahl.).—

Neutr., to be over or remaining:

ut mihi supersit, suppetat, superstitet,

Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 3.

vīvārĭus, a, um, adj. [vivus], of or belonging to living creatures.

Adj.: naves, fish-boats, i. e. in which live fish are conveyed, Macr. S. 2, 12 med. —More freq.,

Subst.: vīvārĭum, ii, n., an enclosure in which game, fish, etc., are kept alive; a park, warren, preserve, fish-pond, Plin. 8, 52, 78, § 211; 8, 32, 50, § 115; Sen. Clem. 1, 18, 2; Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168; 9, 55, 81, § 171; Juv. 4, 51; 3, 308.— Transf.:

excipiant senes, quos in vivaria mittant,

i. e. whom they keep under their control in order to get made their heirs, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 79.