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to strive after a thing from admiration of it

  • 1 admiror

    ad-mīror, ātus, 1, v. dep., to wonder at, to be astonished at, to regard with admiration, to admire, to be in a state of mind in which something pleases us by its extraordinary greatness, its sublimity, or perfection; while mirari signifies to be surprised at, to have the feeling of the new, singular, unusual.
    I.
    In gen.:

    quorum ego copiam non modo non contemno, sed etiam vehementer admiror,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 51:

    ingenium tuum, Crasse, vehementer admirans,

    id. ib. 1, 20 fin.:

    res gestas,

    id. Brut. 94, 323:

    quem et admiror et diligo,

    id. Ac. 2, 36; so id. Scaur. 1, 4:

    magnitudinem animi,

    id. Fam. 1, 7; Nep. Dion. 2; id. Alcib. 11:

    illum,

    Verg. G. 4, 215 (cf. mirari in Hor. C. 4, 14, 43, and the Gr. thaumazein, Eurip. Med. 1144).—
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    To gaze at passionately, to strive after a thing from admiration of it, to desire to obtain it:

    nihil hominem nisi quod honestum decorumque sit, aut admirari aut optare aut expetere oportere,

    Cic. Off. 1, 20: nil admirari prope res est una, Numici, Solaque quae possit facere et servare beatum, not to be brought by any thing into an impassioned state of mind, or into a state of desire or longing (as in the Gr. mê thaumazein;

    acc. to Pythagoras the limit of all philos. effort),

    Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 1.—
    B.
    More freq., to fall into a state of wonder or astonishment at a thing, to wonder at, be astonished at. —Constr. with acc., acc. with inf., de, super aliquam rem, with a relat. clause, quod, cur, etc.:

    quid admirati estis?

    why are you so surprised? Plaut. Am. prol. 99:

    admiratus sum brevitatem epistulae,

    Cic. Att. 6, 9:

    hoc maxime admiratus sum, mentionem te hereditatum ausum esse facere,

    id. Phil. 2, 16 fin.; so Nep. Alcib. 1; id. Epam. 6, 3:

    de diplomate admiraris, quasi, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 10, 17:

    de Dionysio sum admiratus, qui, etc.,

    id. ib. 9, 12; so id. Mur. 19:

    super quae admiratus pater,

    Vulg. Tob. 5, 10; ib. Act. 13, 12:

    cave quidquam admiratus sis, quā causā id fiat,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 22:

    admirantium, unde hoc studium exstitisset,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 3:

    admiratur quidnam Vettius dicturus sit,

    id. Verr. 3, 167:

    admiror, quo pacto, etc.,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 99:

    admiratus sum, quod, etc.,

    Cic. Att. 6, 9:

    ne quis sit admiratus, cur, etc.,

    id. Off. 2, 10, 35.
    Pass.: Propter venustatem vestimentorum admirari, to be admired, Canutius ap. Prisc. 792 P.— Part. fut. pass.: admīrandus, a, um, to be admired; admirable, wonderful:

    suspicienda et admiranda,

    Cic. Div. 2, 72, 148:

    quo magis pravitas eorum admiranda est,

    Sall. J. 2, 4. —Hence also adj., = admirabilis:

    patiens admirandum in modum,

    Nep. Ep. 3: exposuit quae in Italia viderentur admiranda, id. Cat. fin.:

    admiranda spectacula,

    Verg. G. 4, 3:

    vir subtilis et in plurimis admirandus,

    Quint. 3, 11, 22.— Comp. and adv. not used.— Sup. is found in Salv. Ep. 8: admirandissimi juvenes; cf. Barth, Adv. 35, 9.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > admiror

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