to+check

compesco, pescui (pescitum, Prisc. p. 887 P.), 3, v. a. [compes], to fasten together, to confine, hold in check, to repress, curb, restrain (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; the words quoted as from Cic. by Quint. 11, 3, 169: quin compescitis vocem istam? ap. Cic. himself, Rab. Perd. 8, 18, are: quin continetis vocem).

Lit.:

ramos fluentes,

i. e. to clip, prune, Verg. G. 2, 370; Col. 5, 6, 11:

spatiantia bracchia,

Ov. M. 14, 630:

ignibus ignes,

id. ib. 2, 313:

incendia,

Plin. Ep. 10, 33 (43), 2:

mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 16:

luxuriosam vitem fructu,

Col. 4, 21, 2; cf. Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 124:

harundinem,

Col. 4, 32, 5; cf.: coërceo cretam, to tread, stamp, Titin. ap. Non. p. 245, 32:

equum angustis habenis,

Tib. 1, 4, 11:

suos ocellos,

Prop. 1, 16, 31:

seditiosum civem,

Quint. 11, 1, 40; cf.

legiones,

Suet. Calig. 1:

multitudinem,

id. Caes. 16.—

Trop., to suppress, repress, restrain, check, etc.: seditionem [p. 389] exercitūs verbo uno, Tac. A. 1, 42:

hostiles motus per legatos,

Suet. Tib. 37:

sitim multā undā,

Ov. M. 4, 102: maledicta hinc aufer;

linguam compescas face,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 75; cf. querellas.

3, 954 Lachm.:

tristitiam,

Ov. M. 9, 396:

clamorem,

Hor. C. 2, 20, 23:

risum,

id. S. 2, 8, 63; and:

vino dolores,

Tib. 1, 2, 1:

animam frenis et catenā,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 63:

mentem,

id. C. 1, 16, 22:

scelera,

Quint. 12, 1, 26:

ardorem (together with temperavit vim suam),

Tac. Agr. 8:

mores dissolutos vi,

Phaedr. 1, 2, 12.—

With inf.:

cave malum et compesce in illum dicere injuste,

cease, forbear, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 59.

com-prĭmo ( conp-), pressi, pressum, 3, v. a. [premo], to press or squeeze together, compress (very freq and class.).

In gen.:

(corpora) inter se compressa teneri,

Lucr. 6, 454:

dentis,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 1, 21:

cum plane (digitos) compresserat pugnumque fecerat,

Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 145; cf.:

compressa in pugnum manus,

Quint. 2, 20, 7; 11, 3, 104:

(oculos) opertos compressosque,

id. 11, 3, 76:

compressā palmā,

with the clinched hand, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 53:

compressam forcipe lingua,

Ov. M. 6, 556: labra, * Hor. S. 1, 4, 138:

tamquam compressa manu sit (terra),

Lucr. 6, 866:

manibus dorsum boum,

Col. 2, 3, 1:

murem,

Phaedr. 4, 2, 14:

ordines (aciei),

to make more dense, Liv. 8, 8, 12:

versus ordinibus,

to write closely, Ov. Am. 1, 11, 21:

mulierem,

to lie with, Plaut. Aul. prol. 30; Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 57; 5, 3, 30; id. Phorm. 5, 9, 29; Liv. 1, 4, 2 al.—Hence the equivocation in Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 192; id. Rud. 4, 4, 29 sq.; id. Truc. 2, 2, 6.—Also of the treading of a peacock, Col. 8, 11, 5.— Prov.: compressis manibus sedere, with the hands folded, i. e. to be unemployed, at leisure, Liv. 7, 13, 7; cf.:

compressas tenuisse manus,

Luc. 2, 292.—

Esp. with the access. idea of restraining free motion.

To hold back, hold, keep in, restrain; prop.:

animam,

to hold one's breath, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 28:

manum,

to keep off, id. Heaut. 3, 3, 29:

linguam alicui,

to silence him, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 192; cf. I. supra, and id. Mil. 2, 6, 88:

aquam (opp. inmittere),

Dig. 39, 3, 1, § 1:

tela manu,

Stat. Th. 11, 33:

alvum,

to check a diarrhœa, Cels. 1, 10; 6, 18, 7; so,

stomachum,

to bind, make costive, id. 4, 5 fin.; and transf. to the person: si morbus [p. 395] aliquem compresserit, id. praef.—

Trop.

Of passions, dispositions, intentions, actions, etc., to restrain, hinder, check, repress, curb (very freq.):

vocem et orationem,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 16:

gressum,

Verg. A. 6, 389:

consilium,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 6:

comprimere atque restinguere incensam illius cupiditatem,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59; cf. id. Cael. 31, 25:

conatum atque audaciam furentis hominis,

id. Phil. 10, 5, 11:

Clodii conatus furoresque,

id. Off. 2, 17, 58; cf. Liv. 3, 38, 7:

amor compressus edendi,

Verg. A. 8, 184:

tribunicios furores,

Cic. Mur. 11, 24:

ferocitatem tuam istam,

id. Vatin. 1, 2:

seditionem,

Liv. 2, 23, 10:

motus,

id. 1, 60, 1:

multi temere excitati tumultus sunt compressique,

id. 26, 10, 10:

plausum,

Cic. Deiot. 12, 34:

exsultantem laetitiam,

id. Top. 22, 86:

voce manuque Murmura,

Ov. M. 1, 206:

conscientiam,

to silence, Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 54 et saep. —

Transf. to the person:

non ego te conprimere possum sine malo?

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 81:

ac sedare exasperatos Ligures,

Liv. 42, 26, 1; cf. id. 5, 45, 7:

cujus adventus Pompeianos compressit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 65:

comprime te, nimium tinnis,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 32:

vix comprimor, quin involem illi in oculos,

id. Most. 1, 3, 46.—

With the access. idea of withholding evidence or knowledge ( = supprimo), to keep to one's self, keep back, withhold, suppress, conceal (rare, but in good prose;

most freq. in Cic.): frumentum,

Cic. Att. 5, 21, 8:

annonam,

Liv. 38, 35, 5:

multa, magna delicta,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 6:

orationem illam,

id. ib. 3, 12, 2:

famam captae Carthaginis ex industriā,

Liv. 26, 51, 11.—Hence, compressus, a, um, P. a., pressed together, i. e. close, strait, narrow:

calculus oris compressioris,

Cels. 2, 11; so in comp., Plin. 16, 10, 19, § 49; 17, 11, 16, § 80.—

Costive:

venter,

Cels. 1, 3:

alvus,

id. 3, 6: morbi, connected with costiveness, id. praef.— Adv.: compressē.

In a compressed manner, briefly, succinctly:

compressius loqui (opp. latius),

Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17.—

Pressingly, urgently:

compressius violentiusque quaerere,

Gell. 1, 23, 7; cf. Macr. S. 1, 6.

con-fūto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [futo, v. intens. from foveo], to check or repress a boiling liquid, to suppress, restrain, check.

Prop.: cocus magnum ahenum quando fervit, paulā confutat truā, Titin. ap. Non. p. 87, 13 (Com. Rel. v. 128 Rib.); cf. Varr. ib. p. 87, 11.—Hence (far more freq.),

Trop.

In gen., to repress, diminish, impede, destroy, put to silence: nostras secundas res, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14:

maximos dolores inventorum suorum memoriā et recordatione,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 31 88:

audaciam,

id. Part. Or. 38, 134.—

In partic.

To put down by words, to put to silence, confute (so class.): sensus judjcum imperiosis comminationibus, Tiro ap. Gell. 7, 3, 13:

ego istos, qui nunc me culpant, confutaverim,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 3, 28:

iratum senem verbis,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 13; cf.

dictis,

id. Heaut. 5, 1, 76.—

To refute, confute, disprove, answer conclusively:

hunc tactum confutabunt nares?

Lucr. 4, 488:

argumenta Stoicorum,

Cic. Div. 1, 5, 8:

opinionis levitatem,

id. N. D. 2, 17, 45:

ut verba magnifica rebus confutaret,

Liv. 37, 10, 2:

suo sibi argumento confutatus est,

Gell. 5, 10, 16.—

In late Lat., to convict, Cod. Th. 11, 8, 1.—With inf.:

nocuisse quibusdam,

Amm. 26, 3, 1:

tot suscepisse labores et pericula,

id. 17, 9, 5.

col-lĭgo ( conl-), lēgi, lectum, 3, v.a. [2. lego, ĕre], to gather or collect together into a whole or to a point, to assemble, draw or bring together, collect (class. and very freq.),

Prop.

In gen.

Of things:

omnia praesegmina,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 34:

stipulam,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 62; cf.: omnia furtim, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 273, 28:

radices palmarum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87:

apes in vas,

Varr. R. R. 2, 16, 37:

ossa,

Tib. 3, 2, 19; cf.

reliquias,

Suet. Tib. 54 fin.; id. Calig. 3:

materiem nostram Post obitum,

Lucr. 3, 847 (and Hom. Il. 24, 793):

sparsos per colla capillos in nodum,

Ov. M. 3, 170; 8, 319; and poet. transf. to the person:

immissos hederā collecta capillos Calliope, etc.,

id. ib. 5, 338; so,

sinus fluentes,

Verg. A. 1, 320:

flores,

Ov. M. 5, 399:

riguo horto olus,

id. ib. 8, 646:

de purpureis vitibus uvas,

id. ib. 8, 676:

fructus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 1: omnia venena, * Cat. 14, 19:

sarmenta virgultaque,

Caes. B. G. 3, 18:

serpentes,

Nep. Hann. 10, 4:

naufragium,

Cic. Sest. 6, 15: mortualia, glossaria conlegitis et lexidia, res taetras et inanes, Domit. ap. Gell. 18, 7, 3:

pecuniam,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 47:

viatica,

id. ib. 2, 2, 26; cf.:

stipem a tyrannis,

to obtain by begging, Liv. 38, 45, 9:

aër umorem colligens,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101:

imbres,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 15; cf.:

pluvias aquas,

Quint. 10, 1, 109; 5. 14, 31:

ventus per loca subcava terrae Collectus,

Lucr. 6, 558:

procellam,

id. 6, 124:

spiritum,

Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 78; Quint. 11, 3, 53:

flatus cornibus,

Sil. 14, 390:

collectae ex alto nubes,

heaped together, Verg. G. 1, 324:

pulvis collectus turbine,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 31; and poet.:

pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat,

i. e. to have covered himself with it, id. C. 1, 1, 4:

luna revertentes colligit ignes,

Verg. G. 1, 427:

antiqua verba et figuras,

Suet. Gram. 10:

equos,

to check, restrain, stop, Ov. M. 2, 398; so,

gressum,

Sil. 6, 399:

gradum,

id. 7, 695; so,

fig. iram,

id. 9, 477;

and of the operation of medicine: acria viscerum colligere,

Plin. 19, 6, 26, § 85: hastas, to draw back (opp. protendere), Tac. A. 2, 21:

librum,

to catch a falling book, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5:

apparatu nobis (sc. oratoribus) opus est et rebus exquisitis, undique collectis, arcessitis, comportatis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92; cf.:

interea, dum haec, quae dispersa sunt, cogantur,

id. ib. 1, 42, 191: sarcinas; to pack one ' s luggage for a journey:

annus octogesimus admonet me, ut sarcinas colligam ante quam proficiscar e vitā,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 1; also: sarcinas conligere = sarcinas conferre, to gather and put in order the baggage of an army before a battle, Sall. J. 97, 4: vasa, milit. t. t.., to pack together, pack up, to break up the camp for a march, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 19, § 40; Liv. 21, 47, 2; 22, 30, 1:

arma = remos,

i. e. to take in hand, take up, Verg. A. 5, 15 Forbig. ad loc.—

Of persons, mostly milit., to collect, assemble, bring together:

exercitus collectus ex senibus desperatis,

Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5:

ex urbe, ex agris, numerum hominum,

id. ib. 2, 4, 8:

milites,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 51, § 133:

reliquos ex fugā,

Nep. Hann. 6 fin.:

manu collectā in Thraciam introiit,

id. Alcib. 7, 4; cf. Liv. 1, 5, 4, and Tac. Agr. 37:

de pagis omnibus bonos viros,

Cic. Fin. 2, 4, 12: se colligere, to gather, collect:

in moenia,

Sil. 10, 390:

ex regno alicujus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 24: ad. aciem, Auct. B. Afr. 70; so, collecti, those who have collected:

in aestuaria ac paludes,

Caes. B. G. 2, 28; cf. Tac. A. 2, 11.—

Esp., with the accessory idea of shortening, by bringing together, to contract, draw up, compress, collect, concentrate (mostly poet. for the more usual contraho, coërceo, etc.):

in spiram tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154; cf.:

cogebantur breviore spatio et ipsi orbem colligere,

Liv. 2, 50, 7:

alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram,

Verg. A. 12, 862 Wagn. N. cr.:

apicem collectus in unum,

Ov. M. 13, 910:

pedes,

to compress, Tib. 1, 8, 14:

volumina collecta in artum,

Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45: se collegit in arma, covered himself with or concealed himself behind his shield, Verg. A. 12, 491; cf. id. ib. 10, 412 (post scutum se clausit, Serv.; Gr. sustaleis en aspidi, ep aspidos); cf. Stat. Th. 11, 545; Sil. 10, 255; 10, 129:

pallium,

to gather up, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 9:

togam,

Mart. 7, 33, 4:

12, 48, 5: per vulnera colligit hostes,

causes them to retreat, Sil. 10, 3.—Hence,

Medic. t. t., to make thick, to thicken (cf. cogo), Scrib. Comp. 95; 129; 138; 169; cf. Plin. 34, 11, 27, § 114.—

Trop.

To bring together, collect, to get, gain, acquire, produce, etc. (very freq. and class.):

sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt conligi,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62:

conlectis omnibus bellis civilibus,

i. e. brought together in speaking, adduced, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; cf. id. Sest. 6, 15:

flammarum iras,

Lucr. 1, 723; cf. Hor. A. P. 160; Val. Fl. 7, 335:

multaque facete dicta, ut ea, quae a sene Catone collecta sunt,

Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; 1, 42, 191:

res undique conlectae,

id. ib. 3, 24, 92:

quaedam conlecta edere,

Quint. 5, 10, 120:

sparsa argumenta,

id. 5, 7, 18: antiqua verba, Suet. [p. 367] Gram. 10:

omnes rumorum et contionum ventos,

Cic. Clu. 28, 77:

rumorem bonum,

id. Leg. 1, 19, 50:

peccata consulum,

id. ib. 3, 10, 23:

vestigia Pythagoreorum,

id. Tusc. 4, 2, 3:

existimationem multo sudore,

id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 72:

benevolentiam civium blanditiis,

id. Lael. 17, 61:

magnam gratiam magnamque dignitatem ex hoc labore,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 15 (16), 1:

auctoritatem,

Caes. B. G. 6, 12:

famam clementiae,

Liv. 21, 48, 10:

tantum amoris favorisque,

Suet. Claud. 12; Prop. 2 (3), 14, 9:

invidiam crudelitatis ex eo,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 8, § 19:

crimina majestatis,

Plin. Pan. 33 fin.:

sitim,

Verg. G. 3, 327; Ov. M. 5, 446; 6, 341 (cf.:

adducere sitim,

Hor. C. 4, 12, 13):

frigus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 13:

rabiem,

Verg. A. 9, 63; Ov. M. 1, 234; 9, 212:

odium,

id. ib. 3, 258:

usum patiendi,

id. Am. 1, 8, 75:

vires usu,

id. A. A. 2, 339; cf. Liv. 29, 30, 5; Sil. 4, 307.—

Of number, distance, etc., to amount or come to, extend; pass., to be reckoned (rare, and only in post-Aug. prose):

ut LX. passus plerique (rami) orbe colligant,

Plin. 12, 5, 11, § 23:

ambitus per frontem centum duos pedes colligit,

id. 36, 12, 17, § 77:

ad quos (consules) a regno Numae colliguntur anni DXXXV.,

id. 13, 13, 27, § 85; so Tac. G. 37; id. Or. 17.—

Colligere se or animum, mentem, etc., to collect one ' s self, to compose one ' s self, to recover one ' s courage, resolution, etc. (very freq. and class.):

quid est autem se ipsum colligere, nisi dissipatas animi partes rursum in suum locum cogere?

Cic. Tusc. 4, 36, 78: se, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.; Lucr. 3, 925; Cic. Quint. 16, 53; id. Div. 1, 27, 57; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37; id. Fam. 5, 18, 1; id. de Or. 1, 7, 24; id. Tusc. 1, 24, 58; Caes. B. C. 1, 14:

se colligere,

to rally, id. B.G. 5, 17:

se ex timore,

id. B.C. 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 50:

animos,

Liv. 3, 60, 11; cf. in pass., id. 10, 41, 13:

animum,

Tac. A. 1, 12; Suet. Ner. 48:

animum cogitationemque,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 14:

mentem,

Ov. M. 14, 352; cf.:

mentem cum vultu,

id. Am. 1, 14, 55:

paulatim mente collectā,

Curt. 8, 6, 22; cf.:

colligere spiritum,

to take breath, Quint. 11, 3, 53.—

To gather up in memory, put together in the mind, to think upon, weigh, consider:

cum et nostrae rei publicae detrimenta considero, et maximarum civitatum veteres animo calamitates colligo,

Cic. Inv. 1, 1, 1:

ut memineris, quae, etc.... quae, si colliges, et sperabis omnia optime, et, etc.,

id. Fam. 4, 13, 7; 6, 2, 4:

levis haec insania quantas Virtutes habeat, sic collige,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 119; cf.:

sic collige mecum,

id. S. 2, 1, 51. —Esp. freq.,

To put together mentally, etc., i. e. to gather, conclude, deduce, infer from what precedes (most freq. in Quint.); constr.: aliquid, aliquid ex aliquā re, per aliquam rem, aliquā re.—With ex:

ex eo colligere potes, quantā occupatione distinear,

Cic. Att. 2, 23, 1; so Quint. 5, 10, 80; 7, 2, 3; 7, 8, 6; 8, 4, 16; 4, 4, 5 al.; Suet. Tib. 67.—With per:

aliquid per aliud,

Quint. 5, 10, 11; so id. 4, 2, 81.—With abl. without a prep.:

quod multis et acutis conclusionibus colligunt,

Quint. 2, 20, 5; so id. 3, 6, 103; 5, 13, 14; 6, 3, 37; 7, 4, 1 al.; Col. 4, 3, 2 al.—With inde:

paucitatem inde hostium colligentes,

Liv. 7, 37, 9:

bene colligit, haec pueris et mulierculis esse grata,

Cic. Off. 2, 16, 57:

neque hoc colligi desideramus, disertiores esse antiquos, etc.,

Tac. Or. 27; Quint. 5, 14, 22; 7, 3, 18; 1, 10, 42; Ov. M. 11, 380; Pers. 5, 85.—Hence,

collectus, a, um, P. a., contracted, narrow (opp. effusus):

tanto beatior, quanto collectior,

App. Mag. 21, p. 287:

corpora collectiora (opp. effusiora),

Calp. Flacc. Decl. 2, p. 795:

tempus collectius,

Tert. Monog. 14.— Adv.: collectē, summarily, briefly, strictly:

ponere aliquod verbum,

Non. p. 164, 1.—

collectum, i, n., that which is collected as food, Plin. 11, 37, 60, § 159.

col-lĭgo ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to bind, tie, or fasten together, to connect, bind, tie up (in good prose).

Prop.:

omne colligatum solvi potest,

Cic. Univ. 11, 35:

corpora colligata vinculis naturalibus,

id. ib.; cf. id. ib. 5, 13: vasa (of warlike implements; cf. the preced. art., I. A. 1. fin.), Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 16:

manus,

id. Ep. 5, 2, 23; cf. id. ib. 5, 2, 25, and the common expression in the formula: i, lictor, colliga manus, tie the prisoner ' s hands, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 13; Liv. 1, 26, 8: conligavit eum miseris modis, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 33:

pluribus scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et colligatis,

fastened to one another, Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

solum herbis colligatum,

thickly overgrown, Col. 2, 17, 5:

bitumen vulnera colligat,

Plin. 35, 15, 51, § 181; cf.: colligatis vulneribus, * Suet. Tib. 61.—

Trop.

In gen., to unite, combine, connect (rare except in Cic.):

homines inter se sermonis vinclo,

Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3:

officiorum genera inter se colligata atque implicata sunt,

id. Off. 1, 5, 15; cf.:

(res) omnes inter se aptae colligataeque,

id. N. D. 1, 4, 9:

sententias verbis,

to join together rhetorically, id. Or. 50, 168:

annorum septingentorum memoriam uno libro,

to comprehend, comprise, id. ib. 34, 120.—

With the access. idea of preventing free motion, to restrain, check, stop, hinder:

impetum furentis (Antonii),

Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4:

Brutum in Graeciā,

i. e. to command that he remain there for protection, id. ib. 11, 11, 26:

se cum multis,

id. Fam. 9, 17, 2.—Hence, collĭgātē, adv., connectedly, jointly:

colligatius adhaerere alicui,

Aug. Doct. Christ. 1, 28.

com-prĭmo ( conp-), pressi, pressum, 3, v. a. [premo], to press or squeeze together, compress (very freq and class.).

In gen.:

(corpora) inter se compressa teneri,

Lucr. 6, 454:

dentis,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 1, 21:

cum plane (digitos) compresserat pugnumque fecerat,

Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 145; cf.:

compressa in pugnum manus,

Quint. 2, 20, 7; 11, 3, 104:

(oculos) opertos compressosque,

id. 11, 3, 76:

compressā palmā,

with the clinched hand, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 53:

compressam forcipe lingua,

Ov. M. 6, 556: labra, * Hor. S. 1, 4, 138:

tamquam compressa manu sit (terra),

Lucr. 6, 866:

manibus dorsum boum,

Col. 2, 3, 1:

murem,

Phaedr. 4, 2, 14:

ordines (aciei),

to make more dense, Liv. 8, 8, 12:

versus ordinibus,

to write closely, Ov. Am. 1, 11, 21:

mulierem,

to lie with, Plaut. Aul. prol. 30; Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 57; 5, 3, 30; id. Phorm. 5, 9, 29; Liv. 1, 4, 2 al.—Hence the equivocation in Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 192; id. Rud. 4, 4, 29 sq.; id. Truc. 2, 2, 6.—Also of the treading of a peacock, Col. 8, 11, 5.— Prov.: compressis manibus sedere, with the hands folded, i. e. to be unemployed, at leisure, Liv. 7, 13, 7; cf.:

compressas tenuisse manus,

Luc. 2, 292.—

Esp. with the access. idea of restraining free motion.

To hold back, hold, keep in, restrain; prop.:

animam,

to hold one's breath, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 28:

manum,

to keep off, id. Heaut. 3, 3, 29:

linguam alicui,

to silence him, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 192; cf. I. supra, and id. Mil. 2, 6, 88:

aquam (opp. inmittere),

Dig. 39, 3, 1, § 1:

tela manu,

Stat. Th. 11, 33:

alvum,

to check a diarrhœa, Cels. 1, 10; 6, 18, 7; so,

stomachum,

to bind, make costive, id. 4, 5 fin.; and transf. to the person: si morbus [p. 395] aliquem compresserit, id. praef.—

Trop.

Of passions, dispositions, intentions, actions, etc., to restrain, hinder, check, repress, curb (very freq.):

vocem et orationem,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 4, 16:

gressum,

Verg. A. 6, 389:

consilium,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 6:

comprimere atque restinguere incensam illius cupiditatem,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59; cf. id. Cael. 31, 25:

conatum atque audaciam furentis hominis,

id. Phil. 10, 5, 11:

Clodii conatus furoresque,

id. Off. 2, 17, 58; cf. Liv. 3, 38, 7:

amor compressus edendi,

Verg. A. 8, 184:

tribunicios furores,

Cic. Mur. 11, 24:

ferocitatem tuam istam,

id. Vatin. 1, 2:

seditionem,

Liv. 2, 23, 10:

motus,

id. 1, 60, 1:

multi temere excitati tumultus sunt compressique,

id. 26, 10, 10:

plausum,

Cic. Deiot. 12, 34:

exsultantem laetitiam,

id. Top. 22, 86:

voce manuque Murmura,

Ov. M. 1, 206:

conscientiam,

to silence, Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 54 et saep. —

Transf. to the person:

non ego te conprimere possum sine malo?

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 81:

ac sedare exasperatos Ligures,

Liv. 42, 26, 1; cf. id. 5, 45, 7:

cujus adventus Pompeianos compressit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 65:

comprime te, nimium tinnis,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 32:

vix comprimor, quin involem illi in oculos,

id. Most. 1, 3, 46.—

With the access. idea of withholding evidence or knowledge ( = supprimo), to keep to one's self, keep back, withhold, suppress, conceal (rare, but in good prose;

most freq. in Cic.): frumentum,

Cic. Att. 5, 21, 8:

annonam,

Liv. 38, 35, 5:

multa, magna delicta,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 6:

orationem illam,

id. ib. 3, 12, 2:

famam captae Carthaginis ex industriā,

Liv. 26, 51, 11.—Hence, compressus, a, um, P. a., pressed together, i. e. close, strait, narrow:

calculus oris compressioris,

Cels. 2, 11; so in comp., Plin. 16, 10, 19, § 49; 17, 11, 16, § 80.—

Costive:

venter,

Cels. 1, 3:

alvus,

id. 3, 6: morbi, connected with costiveness, id. praef.— Adv.: compressē.

In a compressed manner, briefly, succinctly:

compressius loqui (opp. latius),

Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17.—

Pressingly, urgently:

compressius violentiusque quaerere,

Gell. 1, 23, 7; cf. Macr. S. 1, 6.

con-tĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. and n. [teneo].

Act., to hold or keep together.

In gen. (rare).

Lit. (syn.:

coërceo, conjungo): contine quaeso caput,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 26:

quod omnem continet amplexu terram,

Lucr. 5, 319; cf.:

mundus omnia conplexu suo coërcet et continet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 22, 58:

vitem levi nodo,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 187:

magni refert primordia saepe cum quibus... contineantur,

Lucr. 1, 818; 1, 908; 2, 761;

2, 1008: pars oppidi, mari dijuncta angusto, ponte adjungitur et continetur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 117.—

Of places, to bound, limit, enclose (very rare in act.):

reliquum spatium mons continet,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

Oceanus ponto qua continet orbem,

Tib. 4, 1, 147; but more freq. in pass., to be comprised, enclosed, surrounded, encompassed, environed by:

qui vicus altissimis montibus undique continetur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1; so,

undique loci naturā Helvetii,

id. ib. 1, 2:

mare montibus angustis,

id. ib. 4, 23:

una pars Galliae Garumnā flumine, Oceano, finibus Belgarum,

id. ib. 1, 1.—

Trop.:

omnes artes quasi cognatione quādam inter se continentur,

hang together, Cic. Arch. 1, 2.—Far more freq. in all periods and species of composition.,

With partic. access. ideas.

With the access. idea of firmness, quiet, permanence, etc., to hold or keep together, to keep, hold fast, preserve, retain (syn. servo).

Lit.:

(alvus) arcet et continet... quod recepit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136:

merces (opp. partiri),

id. Vatin. 5, 12; cf.

exercitum (opp. dividere),

Liv. 28, 2, 16:

arida continent odorem diutius,

Plin. 21, 7, 18, § 39.—

Trop.:

nec ulla res vehementius rem publicam continet quam fides,

Cic. Off. 2, 24, 84:

Remos reliquosque Belgas in officio,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

in officio Dumnorigem,

id. ib. 5, 7:

te in exercitatione,

Cic. Fam. 7, 19 fin.:

te in tuis perenuibus studiis,

id. Brut. 97, 332:

ceteros in armis (plaga),

Liv. 9, 41, 15:

alicujus hospitio,

Nep. Lys. 1, 5.—

With the access. idea of hindering, preventing motion, to keep, keep still, detain, restrain, repress, enclose.

Lit.: milites [p. 449] sub pellibus, Caes. B. G. 3, 29; cf.:

pecudem sub tecto,

Col. 7, 10, 3:

exercitum castris,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48; 2, 11; Liv. 31, 26, 6; 28, 9, 14 al.; cf.:

nostros in castris (tempestates),

Caes. B. G. 4, 34; 6, 36; and:

copias in castris,

id. B. C. 1, 66; 3, 30; Auct. B. Afr. 1; 7; Liv. 36, 17, 9:

Pompeium quam angustissime,

Caes. B. C. 3, 45:

aliquem limine,

Liv. 34, 1, 5:

ora frenis,

Phaedr. 3, 6, 7:

ventos carcere,

Ov. M. 11, 432:

animam in dicendo,

Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 261 et saep.:

se ruri,

to stay, remain, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 17; cf.:

se domi,

Suet. Caes. 81:

suo se loco,

Caes. B. G. 4, 34:

oppido sese,

id. ib. 2, 30:

castris se continere,

id. B. C. 3, 37:

se vallo,

id. B. G. 5, 44:

se finibus Romanis,

Liv. 39, 17, 4; 34, 58, 3:

moenibus sese,

id. 42, 7, 4:

agrorum suorum terminis se,

id. 38, 40, 2:

se moenibus,

Ov. M. 13, 208:

sese intra silvas,

Caes. B. G. 2, 18:

suos intra munitionem,

id. ib. 5, 57;

5, 58: milites intra castrorum vallum,

id. B. C. 3, 76; Liv. 31, 34, 9;

Auct. B. Afr. 24: intra castra militem,

Tac. H. 4, 19:

praesidibus provinciarum propagavit imperium, ut a peritis et assuetis socii continerentur,

Suet. Aug. 23 et saep.:

an te auspicium commoratum est? an tempestas continet?

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 67.—

Trop., to hold back, detain, repress, hold in check, curb, check, stay, stop, tame, subdue, etc. (syn. cohibeo):

adpetitiones animi,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 22:

omnis cupiditates,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11, § 32:

modeste insolentiam suam,

id. Agr. 1, 6, 18:

risum,

id. Fin. 4, 25, 71 et saep.:

formido mortales omnes,

Lucr. 1, 151:

Etruriam non tam armis quam judiciorum terrore,

Liv. 29, 36, 10:

oppida magis metu quam fide,

id. 30, 20, 5; cf.:

quosdam continet metus,

Quint. 1, 3, 6:

solo metu,

id. 12, 7, 2 et saep.:

animum a consuetā libidine,

Sall. J. 15, 3:

temeritatem ab omni lapsu (with cohibere),

Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 45:

suos a proelio,

Caes. B. G. 1, 15:

manum juventus Metu deorum,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 37 al.:

se ab adsentiendo,

Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 104; so,

se ab exemplis,

id. Fin. 2, 19, 62:

temperans, qui se in aliquā libidine continuerit,

id. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se male continet amens,

Ov. M. 4, 351:

male me, quin vera faterer, Continui,

id. ib. 7, 729:

nequeo continere quin loquar,

Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 28.—

Mid.: contineri, quin complectar, non queo,

restrain myself, refrain, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 128; cf.:

vix me contineo, quin, etc.,

Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 20:

jam nequeo contineri,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 60; cf.:

vix contineor,

Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 9:

quae vera audivi, taceo et contineo optime,

keep it to myself, conceal it, id. Eun. 1, 2, 23:

ea quae continet, neque adhuc protulit, explicet nobis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 47, 206:

dicta,

id. ib. 2, 55, 222.—

With the access. idea of containing, to comprise, contain, involve, comprehend something in itself (syn. complector):

(aqua gelum) quod continet in se, mittit,

Lucr. 6, 877; cf.:

ut omnia, quae aluntur et crescunt, contineant in se vim caloris,

Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 23; so,

in se,

Quint. 1, 6, 31; 2, 10, 2:

Quattuor aeternus genitalia corpora mundus Continet,

Ov. M. 15, 240:

rem militarem,

Liv. 5, 52, 16:

panis innumeras paene continet medicinas,

Plin. 22, 25, 68, § 138:

(linea) centum continet (pedes),

Quint. 1, 10, 44:

Idus Martiae magnum mendum continent,

Cic. Att. 14, 22, 2:

paucas species (vox),

Quint. 11, 3, 18:

tales res, quales hic liber continet,

Cic. Or. 43, 148; Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 1:

narrationes, quae summam criminis contineant,

Quint. 4, 2, 10:

fabula stultorum regum et populorum continet aestus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 8; cf.:

liber primus ea continebit, quae, etc., Quint. prooem. § 21: tertia epistula continebat, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 9, 28, 5.—With subj.-clause:

quando ipsos loqui deceat, quartus liber continet,

Quint. 11, 1, 59.—Esp. freq.,

In pass.: contineri aliquā re, to be contained in something, be composed of, consist of or in, to rest upon, to be supported by, etc.:

terreno corpore,

Lucr. 1, 1085:

non venis et nervis et ossibus continentur (dii),

Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

artem negabat esse ullam, nisi quae cognitis penitusque perspectis... rebus contineretur,

id. de Or. 1, 20, 92:

forma honestatis, quae tota quattuor his virtutibus... continetur,

id. Fin. 2, 15, 48:

versus paucis (pedibus) continetur,

Quint. 9, 4, 60: quae philosophorum libris continentur, id. prooem. § 11; cf. id. 5, 10, 111 et saep.: artes, quae conjecturā continentur et sunt opinabiles, Cic. Div. 1, 14, 24:

foedere,

Liv. 41, 23, 9:

actu,

Quint. 2, 18, 5; 12, 9, 1; 3, 7, 28.—Rarely with in and abl.:

forum, in quo omnis aequitas continetur,

Cic. Cat. 4, 1, 2; cf.:

quibus (legibus) in singulis civitatibus res publica continetur,

id. Off. 3, 5, 23.—

Neutr., to hold together in itself, to hang together (in the verb. finit. very rare; but freq. as P. a.; cf. also the deriv. continuus):

per hortum utroque commeatus continet,

Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 43.—Hence,

contĭnens, entis, P. a.

(Acc. to II.) Holding or hanging together (freq. and class.).

Bordering upon, neighboring, contiguous, lying near, adjacent (syn.: junctus, adjunctus, contiguus); constr. with dat., cum, or absol.

Prop.:

aër mari,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 117:

continentia atque adjuncta praedia huic fundo,

id. Caecin. 4, 11:

(mare) dissimile est proximo ei continenti,

id. Ac. 2, 33, 105 al.:

Cappadociae pars ea, quae cum Cilicià continens est,

id. Fam. 15, 2, 2:

(Morini) continentes silvas ac paludes habebant,

Caes. B. G. 3, 28; cf. so absol.:

parum locuples continente ripā,

Hor. C. 2, 18, 22; cf.:

pars eorum, qui propiores erant continenti litori,

Liv. 44, 28, 12.— Subst.: contĭnentĭa, ĭum, n. (sc. loca), adjoining places, the neighborhood:

Cherronesum et continentia usque Atho montem,

Plin. 18, 25, 57, § 215 al.:

urbis,

the suburbs, Dig. 50, 16, 147.—

Trop., in time, following, next:

continentibus diebus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 84;

and of other abstract things: motus sensui junctus et continens,

Cic. N. D. 1, 11, 26:

timori perpetuo ipsum malum continens fuit,

followed at its heels, Liv. 5, 39, 8.—

Holding together, cohering in itself, connected, continuous, uninterrupted.

Prop.:

continens agmen migrantium,

Liv. 1, 29, 4:

agmen,

id. 2, 50, 7; 8, 8, 13 al.:

ruinae,

id. 21, 8, 5; terra, the mainland, continent, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 100 P.; Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 274, 6; Nep. Them. 3, 2; and in the same sense far more freq. subst.: contĭnens, entis, f. (rarely masc., Curt. 4, 2, 1 Zumpt, dub.; abl. in e and i equally used;

v. the 4th and 5th books of Caes. B. G.),

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 4, 28; 4, 31; 4, 36 bis et saep.; Nep. Milt. 7, 3; Liv. 35, 43, 4; Plin. 5, 31, 34, § 128; Suet Aug. 65; id. Tib. 40 et saep.—

Trop., in time, continual, consecutive, uninterrupted:

labor omnium dierum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 63; Liv. 42, 54, 3:

bella,

Caes. B. G. 5, 11 fin.:

imperium usque ad nos,

Liv. 7, 30, 8:

imber per noctem totam,

id. 23, 44, 6:

biduo,

Suet. Calig. 19:

febres sine intermissione,

Cels. 3, 5 fin.:

e continenti genere,

in continuous descent, Cic. Fin. 2, 19, 61:

spiritus,

id. de Or. 3, 57, 216 et saep.: ex continenti (sc. tempore), instantly, immediately, = continuo, statim, Just. 1, 9; so,

in continenti,

Dig. 44, 5, 1.—

(Acc. to I. B. 2. b.) That restrains his passions, continent, moderate, temperate, enkratês (rare, but in good prose):

continentior in vitā hominum quam in pecuniā,

Caes. B. C. 1, 23:

cum reges tam sint continentes, multo magis consularis esse oportere,

Cic. Fam. 9, 19, 1:

puer,

id. Att. 6, 6, 3:

Epaminondas,

Nep. Epam. 3, 2 al. — Sup., Cic. Par. 1, 1, 7; Suet. Aug. 71.—

(Acc. to I. B. 3.) In rhet., subst.: contĭnens, entis, n., that on which something rests or depends, the chief point, hinge:

causae,

Cic. Part. Or. 29, 103; id. Top. 25, 95:

intuendum videtur, quid sit quaestio, ratio, judicatio, continens, vel ut alii vocant, firmamentum,

Quint. 3, 11, 1; cf. id. ib. § 18 sqq.— Adv.: contĭnen-ter.

(Acc. to A. 2.)

In space, in unbroken succession, in a row. continenter sedetis, Cat. 37, 6.—More freq. and class.,

In time, continuously, without interruption:

totā nocte ierunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 26:

jam amplius horis sex pugnaretur,

id. ib. 3, 5:

biduum lapidibus pluit,

Liv. 25, 7, 7:

usque ad ipsum negotium,

Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 37:

ferri imagines,

id. N. D. 1, 39, 109.—

(Acc. to B.) Temperately, moderately (rare):

vivere,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106; in sup.:

vivere,

Aug. Ep. 199; id. Conf. 6, 12.—Hence also,

contentus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 2. b.); medial., satisfying one's self with, contented, satisfied, content (freq. in all periods and species of composition); constr. in gen. with the abl.; more rarely absol.; after the Aug. per. very freq. with the inf.

With abl.: his versibus, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 264, 3:

suis rebus,

Cic. Par. 6, 3, 51:

paucis,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 16:

illā (sorte),

id. ib. 1, 1, 3:

viverem uti contentus eo quod mī ipse parasset,

id. ib. 1, 4, 108; cf. Suet. Aug. 82:

solā Dianā,

Verg. A. 11, 582.—

Absol.:

cum ipsum audires sine comparatione, non modo contentus esses, sed melius non quaereres,

Cic. Brut. 35, 134; so comp., Plaut. Poen. 2, 15.—

With inf.:

indagare,

Ov. M. 1, 461:

edidicisse,

id. ib. 2, 638:

retinere titulum provinciae,

Vell. 2, 49:

hostes sustinuisse,

id. 2, 112:

indicare,

Quint. 4, 2, 128:

ostendere,

id. 5, 10, 31:

id consequi, quod imiteris,

id. 10, 2, 7 et saep.— Adv.: contentē (ante-and post-class., and rare), in a restrained manner, closely:

arte contenteque habere aliquem,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 63:

parce contenteque vivere,

Pacat. Pan. Theod. 13.

con-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to draw or bring several objects together, to collect, assemble (freq. and class.).

In gen.

Lit. (syn. colligo;

opp. dissipo): quae in rerum naturā constarent quaeque moverentur, ea contrahere amicitiam, dissipare discordiam,

Cic. Lael. 7, 24:

cohortes ex finitimis regionibus,

Caes. B. C. 1, 15:

exercitum in unum locum,

id. B. G. 1, 34; cf.:

omnes copias Luceriam,

Cic. Att. 8, 1, 2; and:

omnia in unum locum,

id. ib. 8, 11, B, 3:

omnes copias eo,

Nep. Ages. 3, 1:

navibus circiter LXXX. coactis, contractisque,

Caes. B. G. 4, 22; cf.:

magnam classem,

Nep. Con. 4, 4:

naves,

Suet. Calig. 19:

agrestes,

Ov. F. 4, 811:

captivos,

Liv. 37, 44, 3:

utrumque ad colloquium,

id. 28, 18, 2:

undique libros,

Suet. Aug. 31; cf.

exemplaria,

id. Gram. 24:

muscas in manu,

Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 122; cf.

serpentes,

id. 28, 9, 42, § 151: ii, qui in idem (collegium) contracti fuerint, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 34 (43), 1—

Trop.

To bring about, carry into effect, accomplish, execute, get, contract, occasion, cause, produce, make, etc. (very freq.):

amicitiam,

Cic. Lael. 14, 48:

vinculum amicitiae,

Val. Max. 4, 7 init.:

aliquid litigii,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 31; cf.

lites,

id. Capt. prol. 63: qui hoc [p. 458] mihi contraxit, id. Cas. 3, 2, 21; cf.:

negotium mihi,

Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 9; and:

numinis iram mihi (arte),

Ov. M. 2, 660:

bellum Saguntinis,

Liv. 24, 42, 11:

aliquid damni,

Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 91:

molestias,

id. Fam. 2, 16, 5; cf. Sall. H. 2, 41, 8 Dietsch:

aes alienum,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25:

causam certaminis,

Liv. 22, 28, 4; cf.

certamen,

id. 23, 26, 11; 25, 34, 10 al.:

necessitates ad bellum,

id. 44, 27, 12:

culpam,

to incur, Cic. Att. 11, 24, 1 al.:

cruditatem,

Quint. 7, 3, 38; cf. id. 2, 10, 6:

morbum,

Plin. 30, 8, 21, § 65:

pestilentiam,

id. 36, 27, 69, § 202:

saginam corporis,

Just. 21, 2:

causam valetudinis ex profluvio alvi,

Suet. Aug. 97 fin. et saep.: porca contracta, owed, due, sc. for the expiation of a crime, Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57 fin. —

In the lang. of business, t. t., to make a contract, conclude a bargain, to contract:

rationem, rem cum illo,

Cic. Clu. 14, 41; cf. id. Off. 1, 17, 53; id. Sull. 20, 56; id. Att. 7, 7, 7:

in tribuendo suum cuique et rerum contractarum fide,

id. Off. 1, 5, 14:

ex rebus contrahendis,

id. ib. 3, 15, 61:

in contrahendis negotiis,

id. ib. 2, 11, 40:

adfinitas inter Caesarem et Pompeium contracta nuptiis,

Vell. 2, 44, 3 et saep.—

Transf. beyond the sphere of business:

cum aliquo,

to have intercourse with, to associate with, Cic. Off. 1, 2, 4:

nihil cum populo,

id. Tusc. 5, 36, 105.—

In partic., with the prevailing idea of shortening or diminishing by drawing together (cf.: cogo, colligo, etc.), to draw close or together, to draw in, contract, shorten, narrow, lessen, abridge, diminish (freq. and class.; opp. porrigo, dilato, tendo).

Lit.:

animal omne membra quocumque volt flectit, contorquet, porrigit, contrahit,

Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120:

pulmones tum se contrahunt adspirantes, tum intrante spiritu dilatant,

id. N. D. 2, 55, 136:

contractum aliquo morbo bovis cor,

id. Div. 2, 16, 37; cf.:

se millepeda tactu,

Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 136:

bina cornua (opp. protendere),

id. 9, 32, 51, § 101: collum. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 41;

opp. tendere,

Quint. 11, 3, 82:

frontem,

to wrinkle, contract, Cic. Clu. 26, 72; Hor. S. 2, 2, 125:

supercilia (opp. deducere),

Quint. 11, 3, 79:

medium digitum in pollicem,

id. 11, 3, 92; cf.:

contractum genibus tangas caput,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 61:

gravissimo frigore solus atque contractus vigilabit in lectulo,

Hier. Ep. 53:

castra,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

vela,

Hor. C. 2, 10, 23; Quint. 12, prooem. § 4; cf. Cic. Att. 1, 16, 2:

orbem (lunae),

Ov. M. 15, 198:

umbras,

id. ib. 3, 144:

orationem (with summittere),

Quint. 11, 1, 45; cf. id. 12, 11, 16:

tempora dicendi,

id. 6, 5, 4 et saep.:

lac,

to curdle, coagulate, Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 117.—Of bees:

contracto frigore pigrae ( = contractae frigore pigro),

Verg. G. 4, 259; cf.:

pigrum est enim contractumque frigus,

Sen. Ira, 2, 19, 2:

horrida tempestas contraxit caelum,

narrows, Hor. Epod. 13, 1:

vulnera,

Plin. 24, 8, 33, § 48; cf.

cicatrices,

id. 12, 17, 38, § 77:

ventrem,

to stop, check, Cels. 4, 19; cf.

alvum,

id. ib.:

vomitiones,

Plin. 20, 2, 6, § 11.—

Esp., archit. t. t., to narrow, make smaller or tapering:

columnam,

Vitr. 4, 3, 4; cf. id. 3, 3, 12; 4, 7, 2:

pyramis XXIV. gradibus in metae cacumen se contrahens,

Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 31.—

Trop., to draw in, lessen, check, restrain ( = certis limitibus quasi coartare et circumscribere;

opp. remittere, diffundere): cui non animus formidine divum contrahitur?

Lucr. 5, 1219; cf.:

te rogo, ne contrahas ac demittas animum,

do not suffer your spirits to droop, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, § 4; and:

animos varietas sonorum (opp. remittere),

id. Leg. 2, 15, 38: terram quasi tristitiā (sol;

opp. laetificas),

id. N. D. 2, 40, 102:

ut et bonis amici quasi diffundantur et incommodis contrahantur,

are made sad, id. Lael. 13, 48 (cf. id. Tusc. 4, 6, 14):

ex quibus intellegitur, appetitus omnes contrahendos sedandosque,

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

cupidmem,

Hor. C. 3, 16, 39 et saep. —Hence, contractus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II.), drawn together into a narrow space, i. e. compressed, contracted, close, short, narrow, abridged, restricted, limited, etc.

Lit.:

tanto contractioribus ultimis digitis,

Quint. 11, 3, 95:

nares contractiores habent introitus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 145:

contractior ignis,

smaller, Lucr. 5, 569:

aequora,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 33; cf.

freta,

Ov. F. 6, 495:

locus (with exiguus),

Verg. G. 4, 295:

Nilus contractior et exilior,

Plin. Pan. 30, 3: contractiora spatia ordinum, Col. 5, 5, 3.—

Trop.

Of language, etc.:

et brevis ambitus verborum,

Cic. Brut. 44, 162; cf.:

contractior oratio,

id. ib. 31, 120:

propositum dicendi (opp. uberius),

Quint. 11, 1, 32:

summissā atque contractā voce (opp. erectā et concitatā),

id. 11, 3, 175; so,

vox,

id. 11, 3, 64: parvum opusculum lucubratum his jam contractioribus noctibus, Cic. Par. prooem. § 5.—

In gen.:

quae studia in his jam aetatibus nostris contractiora esse debent,

Cic. Cael. 31, 76:

paupertas,

stinted, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 20 (cf.:

angusta pauperies,

id. C. 3, 2, 1);

in the same sense transf. to the person: ad mare descendet vates tuus et sibi parcet Contractusque leget,

retired, solitary, id. ib. 1, 7, 12; cf.

homo,

Verg. M. 78.— Adv.: contractē, on a contracted scale; only in comp.:

assuescamus. servis paucioribus serviri, habitare contractius,

Sen. Tranq. 9, 3; Lact. 2, 8, 39 al.

frēno ( fraeno), āvi, ātum, 1 (archaic inf. pres. pass. frenarier, Prud. Psych. 191), v. a. [frenum], to furnish with a bridle, to bridle (mostly in poets).

Lit.:

frenati equi,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 15, 4:

equos,

Verg. A. 5, 554; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 13; cf. Liv. 21, 27:

ora cervi capistris,

Ov. M. 10, 125:

colla draconum (Medea),

id. ib. 7, 220; cf.

dracones,

id. Tr. 3, 8, 3:

frenato delphine sedens Thetis,

id. M. 11, 237; cf.:

vecta est frenato pisce Thetis,

Tib. 1, 5, 46: frenata acies, i. e. the cavalry (opp. pedestris), Sil. 11, 266.—

Transf., in gen., to bridle, curb, restrain, check (syn.: coerceo, comprimo, etc.).

Prop.:

(Aeolus ventos) Imperio premit ac vinclis et carcere frenat,

Verg. A. 1, 54:

agmina ductor,

Sil. 9, 418: cum tristis hiems glacie cursus frenaret aquarum, Verg. G. 4, 136:

alvum frenat brassica,

Ser. Samm. 29:

tussim medicamine,

id. 17.—

Trop., to bridle, curb, check, restrain, govern:

frenatam tot malis linguam resolvimus,

Plin. Pan. 66, 5:

qui eas (voluptates) sua temperantia frenavit ac domuit,

Liv. 30, 14, 7:

ejus (Clodii) furores, quos nullis jam legibus, nullis judiciis frenare poteramus,

Cic. Mil. 28, 77:

spes avidas,

Sil. 10, 341:

impetum (scribendi),

Phaedr. 4, 25, 7:

dolores corde,

to shut up, Sil. 8, 290:

gentes superbas justitiā (Dido),

Verg. A. 1, 523; cf.:

Aemoniam (Pelias),

Val. Fl. 1, 22:

ne quis temere frenari eos dicere posset, quominus de eo libere querantur,

Liv. 26, 29, 7.

prĕmo, essi, essum, 3, v. a. [etym. dub.; cf. prelum], to press (class.).

Lit.:

pede pedem alicui premere,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 30:

et trepidae matres pressere ad pectora natos,

Verg. A. 7, 518:

veluti qui sentibus anguem Pressit humi nitens,

id. ib. 2, 379:

novercae Monstra manu premens,

id. ib. 8, 288:

pressit et inductis membra paterna rotis,

i. e. drove her chariot over her father's body, Ov. Ib. 366:

trabes Hymettiae Premunt columnas,

press, rest heavily upon them, Hor. C. 2, 18, 3:

premere terga genu alicujus,

Ov. Am. 3, 2, 24:

ubera plena,

i. e. to milk, id. F. 4, 769:

vestigia alicujus,

to tread in, to follow one's footsteps, Tac. A. 2, 14:

nudis pressit qui calcibus anguem,

Juv. 1, 43:

dente frena,

to bite, to champ, Ov. M. 10, 704:

ore aliquid,

to chew, eat, id. ib. 5, 538; cf.:

aliquid morsu,

Lucr. 3, 663:

presso molari,

with compressed teeth, Juv. 5, 160:

pressum lac,

i. e. cheese, Verg. E. 1, 82.—In mal. part.:

Hister Peucen premerat Antro,

forced, Val. Fl. 8, 256:

uxorem,

Suet. Calig. 25.—Of animals:

feminas premunt galli,

Mart. 3, 57, 17.—

Transf.

Poet., to bear down upon, to touch:

premere litora,

Ov. M. 14, 416:

litus,

to keep close to the shore, Hor. C. 2, 10, 3:

aëra,

i. e. to fly, Luc. 7, 835.—

Poet., to hold fast, hold, firmly grasp:

premere frena manu,

Ov. M. 8, 37:

ferrum,

to grasp, Sil. 5, 670:

capulum,

id. 2, 615.—

Poet., to press a place with one's body, i. e. to sit, stand, lie, fall, or seat one's self on any thing:

toros,

Ov. H. 12, 30:

sedilia,

id. M. 5, 317:

hoc quod premis habeto,

id. ib. 5, 135:

et pictam positā pharetram cervice premebat,

id. ib. 2, 421:

humum,

to lie on the ground, id. Am. 3, 5, 16; cf. id. F. 4, 844:

frondes tuo premis ore caducas,

id. M. 9, 650; Sen. Hippol. 510.—

To cover, to conceal by covering (mostly poet.):

aliquid terrā,

to conceal, bury in the earth, Hor. Epod. 1, 33:

nonumque prematur in annum,

kept back, suppressed, id. A. P. 388:

omne lucrum tenebris alta premebat humus,

Ov. Am. 3, 8, 36:

ossa male pressa,

i. e. buried, id. Tr. 5, 3, 39; Plin. 2, 79, 81, § 191; hence, to crown, to cover or adorn with any thing:

ut premerer sacrā lauro,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 18:

molli Fronde crinem,

Verg. A. 4, 147:

canitiem galeā,

id. ib. 9, 612:

mitrā capillos,

Ov. F. 4, 517; cf. Verg. A. 5, 556.—

To make, form, or shape any thing by pressing ( poet.):

quod surgente die mulsere horisque diurnis, Nocte premunt,

they make into cheese, Verg. G. 3, 400:

os fingit premendo,

id. A. 6, 80:

caseos,

id. E. 1, 35:

mollem terram,

Vulg. Sap. 15, 7; Calp. Ecl. 5, 34.—

To press hard upon, bear down upon, to crowd, pursue closely:

hostes de loco superiore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 19:

Pompeiani nostros premere et instare coeperunt,

id. B. C. 3, 46:

hac fugerent Graii, premeret Trojana juventus,

Verg. A. 1, 467:

Pergamenae naves cum adversarios premerent acrius,

Nep. Hann. 11, 5:

hinc Rutulus premit, et murum circumsonat armis,

Verg. A. 8, 473:

obsidione urbem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 32.—Of the pursuit or chase of animals:

ad retia cervum,

Verg. G. 3, 413:

spumantis apri cursum clamore,

id. A. 1, 324:

bestias venatione,

Isid. 10, 282.—

To press down, burden, load, freight:

nescia quem premeret,

on whose back she sat, Ov. M. 2, 869:

tergum equi,

id. ib. 8, 34;

14, 343: et natat exuviis Graecia pressa suis,

Prop. 4, 1, 114 (5, 1, 116):

pressae carinae,

Verg. G. 1, 303:

pressus membra mero,

Prop. 2, 12 (3, 7), 42:

magno et gravi onere armorum pressi,

Caes. B. G. 4, 24:

auro phaleras,

to adorn, Stat. Th. 8, 567.—

To press into, force in, press upon:

(caprum) dentes in vite prementem,

Ov. F. 1, 355:

presso sub vomere,

Verg. G. 2, 356; cf.:

presso aratro,

Tib. 4, 1, 161:

alte ensem in corpore,

Stat. Th. 11, 542:

et nitidas presso pollice finge comas,

Prop. 3, 8 (4, 9), 14:

et cubito remanete presso,

leaning upon, Hor. C. 1, 27, 8. —

To make with any thing ( poet.):

aeternā notā,

Ov. F. 6, 610:

littera articulo pressa tremente,

id. H. 10, 140:

multā via pressa rotā,

id. ib. 18, 134.—

To press down, let down, cause to sink down, to lower:

nec preme, nec summum molire per aethera currum,

Ov. M. 2, 135:

humanaeque memor sortis, quae tollit eosdem, Et premit,

id. Tr. 3, 11, 67:

mundus ut ad Scythiam Rhiphaeasque arduus arces Consurgit, premitur Libyae devexus in Austros,

sinks down, Verg. G. 1, 240; Sen. Herc. Fur. 155. —

In partic.

To set, plant:

virgulta per agros,

Verg. G. 2, 346; 26.—

To make or form by pressing down, to make any thing deep, to dig:

vestigio leviter presso,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 53; cf.

(trop.): vestigia non pressa leviter, sed fixa,

id. Sest. 5, 13:

sulcum premere,

to draw a furrow, Verg. A. 10, 296:

fossam transversam, inter montes pressit (al. percussit),

Front. Strat. 1, 5:

fossa pressa,

Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 4:

cavernae in altitudinem pressae,

Curt. 5, 1, 28.—

To strike to the ground, to strike down:

tres famulos,

Verg. A. 9, 329:

paucos,

Tac. H. 4, 2.—

To press closely, compress, press together, close:

oculos,

Verg. A. 9, 487:

alicui fauces,

Ov. M. 12, 509:

laqueo collum,

to strangle, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 37:

angebar ceu guttura forcipe pressus,

Ov. M. 9, 78:

presso gutture,

compressed, Verg. G. 1, 410; cf.:

siquidem unius praecordia pressit ille (boletus) senis,

i. e. stopped his breath, Juv. 6, 621:

quibus illa premetur Per somnum digitis,

choked, id. 14, 221:

amplexu presso,

united, in close embrace, Sen. Oedip. 192:

oscula jungere pressa,

to exchange kisses, Ov. H. 2, 94; so,

pressa basia,

Mart. 6, 34, 1:

presso gradu incedere,

in close ranks, foot to foot, Liv. 28, 14:

pede presso,

id. 8, 8.—

In partic.

To shorten, tighten, draw in:

pressis habenis,

Verg. A. 11, 600 (cf.:

laxas dure habenas,

id. ib. 1, 63).—

To keep short, prune:

Calenā falce vitem,

Hor. C. 1, 31, 9:

luxuriem falce,

Ov. M. 14, 628:

falce premes umbras (i. e. arbores umbrantes),

Verg. G. 1, 157; 4, 131:

molle salictum,

Calp. Ecl. 5, 110.—

To check, arrest, stop:

premere sanguinem,

Tac. A. 15, 64:

vestigia pressit,

Verg. A. 6, 197:

attoniti pressere gradum,

Val. Fl. 2, 424 ' dixit, pressoque obmutuit ore, was silent, Verg. A. 6, 155.—

To press out, bring out by pressure:

tenerā sucos pressere medullā,

Luc. 4, 318; cf.: (equus) collectumque fremens volvit sub naribus ignem, Verg. ap. Sen. Ep. 95, 68, and id. G. 3, 85 Rib.—

To frequent: feci ut cotidie praesentem me viderent, habitavi in [p. 1441] oculis, pressi forum, Cic. Planc. 27, 66.—

Trop.

To press, press upon, oppress, overwhelm, weigh down; to urge, drive, importune, pursue, to press close or hard, etc. (class.):

ego istum pro suis factis pessumis pessum premam,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 49 Lorenz ad loc.:

quae necessitas eum tanta premebat, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97:

ea, quae premant, et ea, quae impendeant,

id. Fam. 9, 1, 2:

aerumnae, quae me premunt,

Sall. J. 14, 22:

pressus gravitate soporis,

bound by heavy, deep sleep, Ov. M. 15, 21:

cum aut aere alieno, aut magnitudine tributorum, aut injuriā potentium premuntur,

Caes. B. G. 6, 13:

invidia et odio populi premi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228:

premi periculis,

id. Rep. 1, 6, 10:

cum a me premeretur,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 53, § 139; cf.:

aliquem verbo,

id. Tusc. 1, 7, 13:

criminibus veris premere aliquem,

Ov. M. 14, 401:

cum a plerisque ad exeundum premeretur, exire noluit,

was pressed, urged, importuned, Nep. Ages. 6, 1:

a Pompeii procuratoribus sescentis premi coeptus est,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3: numina nulla premunt;

mortali urgemur ab hoste,

Verg. A. 10, 375:

premere reum voce, vultu,

Tac. A. 3, 67:

crimen,

to pursue obstinately, Quint. 7, 2, 12:

confessionem,

to force a confession from one, id. 7, 1, 29:

argumentum etiam atque etiam,

to pursue steadily, Cic. Tusc. 1, 36, 88:

ancipiti mentem formidine pressus,

Verg. A. 3, 47:

maerore pressa,

Sen. Oct. 103:

veritate pressus negare non potuit,

overcome, overpowered, Lact. 4, 13.—

Transf.

To repress, hide, conceal (mostly poet.):

dum nocte premuntur,

Verg. A. 6, 827:

curam sub corde,

id. ib. 4, 332:

odium,

Plin. Pan. 62:

iram,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

pavorem et consternationem mentis vultu,

id. ib. 13, 16:

interius omne secretum,

Sen. Ep. 3, 4:

dolorem silentio,

Val. Max. 3, 3, 1 ext.; cf. silentia, Sil. 12, 646:

aliquid ore,

Verg. A. 7, 103:

jam te premet nox,

Hor. C. 1, 4, 16.—

To lower, diminish, undervalue, disparage, depreciate:

premendorum superiorum arte sese extollebat,

Liv. 22, 12:

arma Latini,

Verg. A. 11, 402:

opuscula ( = deprimere atque elevare),

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 36:

famam alicujus,

Tac. A. 15, 49:

premere ac despicere,

Quint. 11, 1, 16:

premere tumentia, humilia extollere,

id. ib. 10, 4, 1.—

To surpass, exceed:

facta premant annos,

Ov. M. 7, 449:

ne prisca vetustas Laude pudicitiae saecula nostra premat,

id. P. 3, 1, 116:

quantum Latonia Nymphas Virgo premit,

Stat. S. 1, 2, 115.—

To rule ( poet.):

dicione premere populos,

Verg. A. 7, 737:

imperio,

id. ib. 1, 54:

Mycenas Servitio premet,

id. ib. 1, 285.—

To suppress, pull down, humble, degrade:

quae (vocabula) nunc situs premit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 118:

nec premendo alium me extulisse velim,

Liv. 22, 59, 10; cf. id. 39, 41, 1:

premebat reum crimen,

id. 3, 13, 1.—

To compress, abridge, condense:

haec enim, quae dilatantur a nobis, Zeno sic premebat,

Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20.—

To check, arrest, repress, restrain:

cursum ingenii tui, Brute, premit haec importuna clades civitatis,

Cic. Brut. 97, 332:

sub imo Corde gemitum,

Verg. A. 10, 464:

vocem,

to be silent, id. ib. 9, 324:

sermones vulgi,

to restrain, Tac. A. 3, 6.—

To store up, lay up in the mind, muse upon:

(vocem) ab ore Eripuit pater ac stupefactus numine pressit,

Verg. A. 7, 119.—Hence, pressus, a, um, P. a.

Moderate, slow, suppressed, kept down.

Lit.:

presso pede eos retro cedentes principes recipiebant,

Liv. 8, 8, 9:

presso gradu,

id. 28, 14, 14; cf.:

pressoque legit vestigia gressu,

Ov. M. 3, 17.—

Trop.

Of the voice or manner, subdued:

haec cum pressis et flebilibus modis, qui totis theatris maestitiam inferant,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106.—

Of color, lowered, depressed; hence, dark, gloomy:

color pressus,

Pall. 4, 13, 4:

color viridi pressior,

Plin. 35, 6, 13, § 32:

spadices pressi,

Serv. Verg. G. 3, 82.—

Esp., of an orator or of speech.

Compressed, concise, plain, without ornament (class.):

fiunt pro grandibus tumidi, pressis exiles, fortibus temerarii, etc.,

Quint. 10, 2, 16:

cum Attici pressi et integri, contra Asiani inflati et inanes haberentur,

id. 12, 10, 18.—Of style:

pressa et tenuia, et quae minimum ab usu cotidiano recedant,

Quint. 10, 1, 102:

pressus et demissus stilus,

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 5; Quint. 4, 2, 117.— Comp.: in concionibus pressior, et circumscriptior, et adductior, more moderate, keeping more within bounds, Plin. Ep. 1, 16, 4.—

Close, exact, accurate:

Thucydides ita verbis aptus et pressus, ut,

Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 56: quis te fuit umquam in partiundis rebus pressior? more exact, more accurate, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 364, 24:

sicuti taxare pressius crebriusque est, quam tangere,

Gell. 2, 6, 5:

quod (periculum) observandum pressiore cautelā censeo,

stricter, greater, App. M. 5, p. 160, 36:

cogitationes pressiores,

id. ib. 5, p. 163, 32.—So of sounds, precise, intelligible:

(lingua) vocem profusam fingit atque sonos vocis distinctos et pressos facit,

Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149.—Hence, adv.: pressē, with pressure, violently (class.): artius pressiusque conflictata, Atei. Capito ap. Gell. 10, 6, 2.—

Closely, tightly.

Lit.:

vites pressius putare,

Pall. 12, 9:

pressius colla radere,

Veg. Vet. 1, 56.—

Trop.

Of pronunciation, shortly, neatly, trimly:

loqui non aspere, non vaste, non rustice, sed presse, et aequabiliter, et leniter,

Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 45; id. Off. 1, 37, 133.—

Of the mode of expression, etc., concisely, not diffusely:

definire presse et anguste,

Cic. Or. 33, 117:

abundanter dicere, an presse,

Quint. 8, 3, 40:

pressius et astrictius scripsi,

Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 10.—

Without ornament, simply:

unum (genus oratorum) attenuate presseque, alterum sublate ampleque dicentium,

Cic. Brut. 55, 202:

aliquid describere modo pressius, modo elatius,

Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 3.—

Closely, exactly, correctly, accurately:

mihi placet agi subtilius, et pressius,

Cic. Fin. 4, 10, 24:

definiunt pressius,

id. Tusc. 4, 7, 14:

anquisitius, et exactius pressiusque disserere,

Gell. 1, 3, 21.

rē̆-frēno ( refraeno), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

To hold in with a bridle, to check, curb:

equos,

Curt. 4, 16, 3.—

In gen., to bridle, check, curb, restrain, hold back.

Lit.:

fluvios,

Lucr. 6, 531; cf.

aquas,

Ov. H. 6, 87:

materiem per membra,

Lucr. 2, 276; cf.:

copiam materiaï,

id. 2, 283.—

Trop. (class.):

religione refrenari,

Lucr. 5, 114:

blanda refrenat morsus voluptas,

id. 4, 1085:

adulescentes a gloriā,

Cic. Cael. 31, 76; cf.:

a reditu refrenavit,

id. Phil. 11, 2, 4:

juventutem,

id. Div. 2, 2, 4:

libidines,

id. Par. 5, 1, 33:

libidinem,

id. Agr. 2, 20, 55:

indomitam audeat Refrenare licentiam,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 29:

animum conscientiă sceleris avaritiaeque suae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, § 130:

omnium opibus refrenare ac coërcere,

id. Div. 2, 2, 4:

cursum dicendi,

Quint. 8, prooem. §

27: neque hac re severitas Papirii refrenari potest,

Val. Max. 2, 7, 8:

linguam,

Vulg. Jacob. 1, 26.

rĕ-tĭnĕo, ŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [teneo].

(With the signif. of the re predominating.) To hold or keep back, not let go; to detain, retain; to restrain (class.; cf. restringo).

Lit.: Ep. Asta, abire hinc non sinam. Th. Quid nunc me retines? Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 61:

quotiens foras ego ire volo, me retines, revocas,

id. Men. 1, 2, 5:

quid, malum, astas? Quin retines altrinsecus?

id. Mil. 2, 5, 36; id. Stich. 2, 3, 11:

te dexterā retinens manu Opsecro,

id. Capt. 2, 3, 82: si magis vis, eam omittam. Py. Nolo;

retine,

id. Mil. 4, 8, 27:

retine me,

id. Curc. 2, 3, 11; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 23:

concilium dimittit, Liscum retinet,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

homines,

Cic. Att. 13, 14, 1:

ab his fit initium retinendi Silii, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 3, 8; 3, 9; 3, 10 et saep.:

milites,

id. ib. 7, 47; 7, 52; cf.:

milites in loco,

id. B. C. 3, 92:

legiones ad urbem,

id. ib. 1, 2;

1, 9: cohortes apud se,

id. ib. 2, 19:

venit Varro ad me, et quidem id tempus, ut retinendus esset,

when he must be kept, Cic. Att. 13, 33, 4:

biduum tempestate retentus,

detained, Caes. B. C. 3, 102; cf. id. B. G. 7, 1; Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 12; cf.:

aegre sunt retenti, quin oppidum irrumperent,

Caes. B. C. 2, 13 fin.:

vi me, vi inquam, Plancius et complexu suo retinuit,

Cic. Planc. 41, 100:

nisi jam profecti sunt, retinebis homines,

id. Att. 13, 14, 1:

euntem,

Ov. H. 18, 99:

aliquem vinclis,

id. R. Am. 213:

consulem,

Liv. 37, 51:

morbo retineri,

id. 34, 10;

v. also infra, B.: armorum parte tertiā celatà atque in oppido retentā,

Caes. B. G. 2, 32 fin.; 2, 33:

naves pro bonis Tarquiniorum ab Aristodemo retentae sunt,

i. e. as security, Liv. 2, 34, 4:

vinum portantes naves tempestatibus retentas esse,

id. 37, 27, 2; Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 45:

mercedem,

to keep back, stop, id. As. 2, 4, 37:

alienum,

Cic. Fl. 23, 56:

lacrimas,

Ov. M. 1, 647:

manus ab ore,

id. ib. 9, 575 et saep.:

mulierem,

to hold, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 33; cf.:

mulierem per vim,

id. Bacch. 4, 8, 2:

arcum manu,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 34, § 74:

faculas sagittas,

Prop. 2, 29 (3, 27), 5; cf.:

injectā manu ferreā et retentā utrāque nave,

Caes. B. C. 1, 58:

sudor madidā veste retentus,

Mart. 5, 79, 3.—

Trop., to hold in check, keep within bounds, to restrain, check, repress, etc.: hoc servi esse officium reor, retinere at salutem (erum), Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 8:

liberos retinere,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 33; Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46; cf.:

moderantem cursum atque in suā potestate retinentem,

id. ib. 1, 29, 45:

gaudia,

Ov. M. 12, 285:

rabiem,

id. ib. 3, 566:

verba dolore,

id. ib. 10, 474:

aliquem in officio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 25, 70:

animos sociorum in fide,

Liv. 25, 40:

retineri nequeo quin dicam ea, quae promeres,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 15 (cf. supra, A.):

quae (varietas) vehementer animos hominum in legendo tuo scripto retinere possit... ordo ipse annalium mediocriter nos retinet,

binds, enchains, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 4 and 5:

(picus) Ore suo volucres vagas retinere solebat,

Ov. M. 14, 340:

lingua retenta metu,

id. H. 11, 82:

retinentibus vobis, erumperem,

Curt. 6, 3, 5.—

(With the signif. of the verb predominant.) To hold fast, keep, retain, preserve, maintain, etc. (freq. only since the class. per.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif.; cf. obtineo).

Lit.: potius mansuetudine et innocentiā imperatoris provinciam quam vi militum aut benignitate deorum retentam atque conservatam esse, Cato ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 5, 2:

oppidum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 21 fin.:

arces (Minerva),

to preserve, protect, Cat. 64, 8:

id egit, ut amicos observantiā, rem parsimoniā retineret,

Cic. Quint. 18, 59; cf.:

retinere servareque amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 89:

summos cum infimis pari jure,

Cic. Off. 2, 12, 41:

Aegyptum,

Curt. 4, 1, 30:

regionem,

id. 6, 5, 21:

neque virtutem qui habet virtute retinetur in vitā,

Cic. Fin. 3, 18, 61 B. and K.: fortunam citius reperias quam retineas, Publ. Syr. 168 Rib. —

Trop.:

retinete (fidem), post factum ut laetemini,

Plaut. Rud. prol. 30:

existimo jus augurum... rei publicae causā conservatum ac retentum,

Cic. Div. 2, 35, 75; so,

jus suum,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 14, § 37; Caes. B. C. 1, 5:

statum suum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 43:

pristinam virtutem,

Caes. B. G. 5, 48, 91; cf.:

vestigium pristinae dignitatis,

Cic. Sull. 32, 91:

officium,

id. Off. 3, 29, 105:

justitiam (with colere),

id. ib. 2, 12, 42 Beier; id. Inv. 1, 1, 3:

caritatem in pastores,

id. Lael. 19, 70:

utilitatem in amicitiā et fidem,

id. ib. 24, 88:

hunc morem usque adhuc,

id. Rep. 2, 20, 36; cf. id. ib. 2, 9, 16:

de finibus retentae defensaeque sententiae,

id. Tusc. 5, 30, 84:

gravitatem retinere, iracundiam pellere,

id. Off. 1, 38, 137:

ferociam animi in vultu,

Sall. C. 61, 4:

memoriam suae pristinae virtutis, tot secundissimorum proeliorum,

Caes. B. G. 2, 21; 7, 62:

aliquid memoriā,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19; id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33:

commissa (aures),

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 70 et saep.:

ut Palaemo et Telamo et Plato dicerentur, retinuerunt,

Quint. 1, 5, 60.— With ne, Cic. Rep. 2, 32, 56.—

Post-class. for memoriā retinere, to keep in mind, remember:

sive ille Hasdrubal est, sive quis alius, non retineo,

Gell. 17, 9, 16.—With object-clause:

retineo me dixisse,

Dig. 35, 1, 92 init. — Hence, rĕtĭnens, entis, P. a., holding fast, tenacious, observant of any thing (class.; cf. tenax); constr. with gen.:

homo sui juris dignitatisque retinens,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 3, § 11:

nimium equestris juris et libertatis,

id. Planc. 23, 55:

avitae nobilitatis,

Tac. A. 2, 38 fin.:

modestiae,

id. ib. 5, 11:

Seleuci conditoris (civitas),

i. e. retaining his institutions, id. ib. 6, 42; cf.:

antiqui moris,

id. ib. 16, 5 et saep. — Sup.:

proprietatum in verbis retinentissimus,

Gell. 10, 20, 10.

rĕ-tundo, tŭdi (also rettŭdi, Phaedr. 4, 22, 21 Orell. N. cr.), tūsum (retunsus, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 27; 4, 4, 8), 3, v. a., to beat or pound back any thing sharp, i. e. to blunt, dull (class.).

Lit.:

ferrum,

Cic. Sull. 30, 83:

in Massagetas ferrum,

Hor. C. 1, 35, 39:

gladios in rem publicam destrictos,

Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2:

ascias (tilia),

Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 207:

hamata tela,

Ov. Am. 2, 9, 13; cf.:

conjurationis nefaria tela,

Cic. Dom. 24, 63. —

Trop., to blunt, dull, deaden, weaken, restrain, check, etc.:

(censorii stili) mucronem,

Cic. Clu. 44, 123:

mucronem ingenii cotidianā pugnā,

Quint. 10, 5, 16 (with deteratur fulgor): belle iste puer retundit Antonium, Atticus ap. Cic. Att. 16, 15, 3:

collegam,

Tac. A. 5, 11:

animum, qui luxuriā et lasciviā Diffluit,

check, repress, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 73; so,

impetum erumpentium,

Liv. 2, 33: sermones, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1; cf.:

Aetolorum linguas,

Liv. 33, 31: improbitatem, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 3; Quint. 6, 4, 11 (with propulsare eos):

superbiam,

Phaedr. 4, 22, 21:

iram,

Prud. Cath. 6, 94; cf.:

Boreas retundit pelagus (ira motum),

Luc. 5, 601 Cort. N. cr. — Hence, rĕ-tūsus (retunsus, v. supra), a, um, P. a., blunted, blunt, dull.

Lit.:

securis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 27:

ferrum,

Verg. G. 2, 301:

tela,

Ov. M. 12, 496:

retusum et crassum ferramentum,

Col. 4, 24, 21:

aurum hebeti mucrone,

Lucr. 5, 1274.—

Trop.:

mihi cor retunsum'st oppugnando pectore,

deprived of feeling, Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 8:

cor,

Claud. Eutr. 2, 47:

ingenia (opp. acuta),

Cic. Div. 1, 36, 79 fin.:

stella crine retuso,

weakened, dimmed, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 185; cf. comp.:

acumen retusius,

Hier. Ep. 69, 4:

fervor belli,

subdued, Sil. 8, 321:

res,

impaired, unfortunate, id. 16, 21.

sisto, stĭti (Charis. p. 220, and Diom. p. 369, give steti for both sisto and sto, confining stiti to the compounds of both. But steti, as perfect of sisto, is late jurid. Lat., and perh. dub.;

for steterant,

Verg. A. 3, 110;

steterint,

id. ib. 3, 403; Liv. 8, 32, 12, belong to stare; cf. also Gell. 2, 14, 1 sqq.; and v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 461 sq.), stătum [root stă, strengthened by reduplication; cf. histêmi], used in two general senses, I. To cause to stand, place, = colloco, pono; II. To stand, be placed, = sto.

Sistere, in gen., = collocare (in class. prose only in the partic. uses, v. A. 4. C. and D., infra).

Causative, with acc.

To place = facere ut stet; constr. with in and abl., with abl. alone, and with ad, super, etc., and acc.:

O qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi Sistat,

Verg. G. 2, 489:

tertia lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris,

id. A. 3, 117 (classis stat;

v. sto): inque tuo celerem litore siste gradum,

Ov. H. 13, 102 (cf. infra, III. 2. A.):

jaculum clamanti (al. clamantis) sistit in ore,

plants the dart in his face, Verg. A. 10, 323:

disponit quas in fronte manus, medio quas robore sistat,

Stat. Th. 7, 393:

(equum ligneum) sacratā sistimus arā,

Verg. A. 2, 245:

aeternis potius me pruinis siste,

Stat. Th. 4, 395: ut stata (est) lux pelago, as soon as light was set ( shone) on the sea, id. ib. 5, 476:

victima Sistitur ante aras,

Ov. M. 15, 132:

quam (suem) Aeneas ubi... sistit ad aram,

Verg. A. 8, 85:

post haec Sistitur crater,

Ov. M. 8, 669: vestigia in altero (monte) sisti (non posse), that no footprints can be placed ( made) on the other mountain, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211:

cohortes expeditas super caput hostium sistit,

Tac. H. 3, 77; cf. id. A. 12, 13; Stat. Th. 4, 445; Sil. 4, 612. —

To place, as the result of guidance or conveyance; hence, to convey, to send, lead, take, conduct to, = facere ut veniat; constr. with in and abl., with abl. alone, and with advv. of place: officio meo ripā sistetur in illā Haec, will be carried by me to, etc., Ov. M. 9, 109:

terrā sistēre petitā,

id. ib. 3, 635:

(vos) facili jam tramite sistam,

Verg. A. 6, 676:

ut eum in Syriā aut Aegypto sisterent orabat,

to convey him to, Tac. H. 2, 9.—So with hic (= in with abl.) or huc (= in with acc.):

hic siste patrem,

Sen. Phoen. 121:

Annam huc siste sororem,

Verg. A. 4, 634.—

To place an army in order of battle, draw up, = instruere:

aciem in litore sistit,

Verg. A. 10, 309; cf.:

sistere tertiam decimam legionem in ipso aggere jubet,

Tac. H. 3, 21.—

Se sistere = to betake one's self, to present one's self, to come (so twice in Cicero's letters):

des operam, id quod mihi affirmasti, ut te ante Kal. Jan., ubicumque erimus, sistas,

Cic. Att. 3, 25:

te vegetum nobis in Graeciā sistas,

id. ib. 10, 16, 6 (cf. infra, E.):

hic dea se primum rapido pulcherrima nisu Sistit,

Verg. A. 11, 853.—

With two acc. (cf.: praesto, reddo) = to cause to be in a certain condition, to place, etc.; often with dat. of interest (ante- and post-class., and poet.; cf.

supra, 4.): ego vos salvos sistam,

I will place you in safety, see you to a safe place, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 5:

omnia salva sistentur tibi,

all will be returned to you in good order, id. ib. 5, 3, 3; so,

suam rem sibi salvam sistam,

id. Poen. 5, 2, 123; cf.:

rectius tacitas tibi res sistam, quam quod dictum est mutae mulieri,

will keep your secrets, id. ib. 4, 2, 54:

neque (dotem) incolumem sistere illi, et detraxe autument,

that you deliver it entire to her, id. Trin. 3, 3, 15:

cum te reducem aetas prospera sistet,

Cat. 64, 238: tu modo servitio vacuum me siste (= praesta) superbo, set me free from, Prop. 4, 16 (3, 17), 42:

tutum patrio te limine sistam,

will see you safe home, Verg. A. 2, 620:

praedā onustos triumphantesque mecum domos reduces sistatis,

Liv. 29, 27, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.:

Pelasgis siste levem campum,

Stat. Th. 8, 328:

modo se isdem in terris victorem sisterent,

Tac. A. 2, 14:

operā tuā sistas hunc nobis sanum atque validum,

give him back to us, safe and sound, Gell. 18, 10, 7: ita mihi salvam ac sospitem rempublicam sistere in suā sede liceat, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 28.—

Neutr, with double nom., = exsistere, to be, to become: judex extremae sistet vitaeque necisque, he will become a judge, etc., Manil. 4, 548 (dub.):

tempora quod sistant propriis parentia signis,

id. 3, 529 (dub.; al. sic stant; cf. infra, II.).—

As neuter verb, to stand, rest, be placed, lie ( poet.);

constr. like sto: ne quis mihi obstiterit obviam, nam qui obstiterit, ore sistet,

will lie on his face, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 13 Brix ad loc.: (nemo sit) tantā gloriā... quin cadat, quin capite sistat, will be placed or stand on his head, id. Curc. 2, 3, 8:

ibi crebro, credo, capite sistebant cadi,

id. Mil. 3, 2, 36 Lorenz (Brix, hoc illi crebro capite):

ipsum si quicquam posse in se sistere credis,

to rest upon itself, Lucr. 1, 1057:

neque posse in terrā sistere terram,

nor can the earth rest upon itself, id. 2, 603:

at conlectus aquae... qui lapides inter sistit per strata viarum,

id. 4, 415:

incerti quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur,

to rest, to stay, Verg. A. 3, 7; cf.:

quaesitisque diu terris, ubi sistere detur,

Ov. M. 1, 307. —

As jurid. term.

In both a causative and neuter sense = to produce in court, or to appear in court after being bound over by the judge or by promise to the adversary (vadimonium); constr. either absol. or with the dat. of the adversary to whom the promise is made (alicui sisti), to appear upon somebody's demand; also, in judicio sisti. The present active is either used reflexively (se sistere = to appear), or with a transitive object (sistere aliquem = to produce in court one in whose behalf the promise has been made). The present passive, sisti, sistendus, sistitur, = to appear or to be produced. The perfect act., stiti, stitisse, rarely the perfect passive, status sum, = to have appeared, I appeared. So in all periods of the language:

cum autem in jus vocatus fuerit adversarius, ni eo die finitum fuerit negotium, vadimonium ei faciendum est, id est ut promittat se certo die sisti,

Gai. 4, 184:

fit ut Alfenus promittat, Naevio sisti Quinctium,

that Quinctius would be forthcoming upon Naevius's complaint, Cic. Quint. 21, 67; cf. id. ib. 8, 30 (v. infra, B.):

testificatur, P. Quinctium non stitisse, et se stitisse,

id. ib. 6, 25:

quin puellam sistendam promittat (= fore ut puella sistatur in judicio),

Liv. 3, 45, 3:

interrogavit quisquam, in quem diem locumque vadimonium promitti juberet, et Scipio manum ad ipsam oppidi, quod obsidebatur, arcem protendens: Perendie sese sistant illo in loco,

Gell. 7, 1, 10:

si quis quendam in judicio sisti promiserit, in eādem causā eum debet sistere,

Dig. 2, 11, 11:

si servum in eādem causā sistere promiserit, et liber factus sistatur,... non recte sistitur,

ib. 2, 9, 5:

sed si statu liberum sisti promissum sit, in eādem causā sisti videtur, quamvis liber sistatur,

ib. 2, 9, 6:

cum quis in judicio sisti promiserit, neque adjecerit poenam si status non esset,

ib. 2, 6, 4:

si quis in judicio secundum suam promissionem non stitit,

ib. 2, 11, 2, § 1; cf. ib. 2, 5, 1; 2, 8, 2; 2, 11, 2, § 3.—

Vadimonium sistere, to present one's self in court, thus keeping the solemn engagement (vadimonium) made to that effect; lit., to make the vadimonium stand, i. e. effective, opp. deserere vadimonium = not to appear, to forfeit the vadimonium. The phrase does not occur in the jurists of the Pandects, the institution of the vadimonium being abolished by Marcus Aurelius. It is found in the following three places only: quid si vadimonium capite obvoluto stitisses? Cat. ap. Gell. 2, 14, 1: ut Quinctium sisti Alfenus promitteret. Venit Romam Quinctius;

vadimonium sistit,

Cic. Quint. 8, 30:

ut nullum illa stiterit vadimonium sine Attico,

Nep. Att. 9; Gai. 4, 185; cf. diem sistere under status, P. a. infra.—

Transf., out of judicial usage, in gen., = to appear or present one's self, quasi ex vadimonio; constr. absol. or with dat. of the person entitled to demand the appearance:

ubi tu es qui me vadatus's Veneriis vadimoniis? Sisto ego tibi me, et mihi contra itidem ted ut sistas suadeo (of a lover's appointment),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 5; so,

tibi amatorem illum alacrem vadimonio sistam,

produce, App. M. 9, p. 227, 14:

nam promisimus carnufici aut talentum magnum, aut hunc hodie sistere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 73:

vas factus est alter ejus sistendi, ut si ille non revertisset, moriendum esset sibi,

Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45. —

Fana sistere, acc. to Festus anciently used, either = to place ( secure and fix places for) temples in founding a city, or to place the couches in the lectisternia:

sistere fana, cum in urbe condendā dicitur, significat loca in oppido futurorum fanorum constituere: quamquam Antistius Labeo, in commentario XV. juris pontificii ait fana sistere esse lectisternia certis locis et diebus habere,

Fest. p. 267 Lind. To this usage Plaut. perh. alludes:

apud illas aedis sistendae mihi sunt sycophantiae,

the place about that house I must make the scene of my tricks, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 25.—

Sistere monumenta, etc., or sistere alone, to erect statues, etc. (= statuere; post-class. and rare;

mostly in Tac.): ut apud Palatium effigies eorum sisteret,

Tac. A. 15, 72:

cum Augustus sibi templum sisti non prohibuisset,

id. ib. 4 37:

at Romae tropaea de Parthis arcusque sistebantur,

id. ib. 15, 18:

monuere ut... templum iisdem vestigiis sisteretur,

id. H. 4, 53:

sistere monumenta,

Aus. Ep. 24, 55: Ast ego te... Carthaginis arce Marmoreis sistam templis (cf. histanai tina), Sil. 8, 231; v. statuo.

Sistere = to cause what is tottering or loose to stand firm, to support or fasten; and neutr., to stand firm.

Causative (rare;

perh. not in class. prose) = stabilire: sucus... mobilis (dentes) sistit,

Plin. 20, 3, 8, § 15; and trop.: hic (Marcellus) rem Romanam magno turbante tumultu Sistet (cf.: respublica stat;

v. sto),

Verg. A. 6, 858; cf.:

non ita civitatem aegram esse, ut consuetis remediis sisti posset,

Liv. 3, 20, 8 (where sisti may be impers.; v. infra, III. C.).—

Neutr., to stand firm, to last, = stare:

nec mortale genus, nec divum corpora sancta Exiguom possent horai sistere tempus,

Lucr. 1, 1016: qui rem publicam sistere negat posse, nisi ad equestrem ordinem judicia referantur, Cotta ap. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 96, § 223.—

Neutr., to stand firm, to resist:

nec quicquam Teucros Sustentare valet telis, aut sistere contra,

Verg. A. 11, 873; so with dat. = resistere:

donec Galba, inruenti turbae neque aetate neque corpore sistens, sella levaretur,

Tac. H. 1, 35; cf. sisti = resistere, III. B. 1. f. infra.

Sistere = to stand still, and to cause to stand still.

Neutr. = stare (rare; in Varr., Tac., and the poets).

To stand still:

solstitium dictum est quod sol eo die sistere videatur,

Varr. L. L. 5, p. 53 (Bip.):

sistunt amnes,

Verg. G. 1, 479:

incurrit, errat, sistit,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 248.—

To remain, stop:

Siste! Quo praeceps ruis?

Sen. Thyest. 77; id. Oedip. 1050:

vis tu quidem istum intra locum sistere?

will you remain in that position? Tac. A. 4, 40.—

Trop., to stop, not to go any farther:

depunge, ubi sistam,

Pers. 6, 79:

nec in Hectore tracto sistere,

to stop at the dragging of Hector, Stat. Achill. 1, 7.—

To cease (dub.):

hactenus sistat nefas' pius est,

if his crime ceases here, he will be pious, Sen. Thyest. 744 (perh. act., to stop, end).—

Causative (not ante-Aug.; freq. in Tac., Plin., and the poets).

To arrest, stop, check an advancing motion.

With gradum:

plano sistit uterque gradum,

arrest their steps, Prop. 5 (4), 10, 36; Verg. A. 6, 465:

siste properantem gradum,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 772:

repente sistunt gradum,

Curt. 4, 6, 14. —With pedem, Ov. R. Am. 80.—

With fugam, to stop, stay, check, stem, arrest the flight:

fugam foedam siste,

Liv. 1, 12, 5:

si periculo suo fugam sistere posset,

id. 30, 12, 1; so Curt. 8, 14, 37; 4, 16, 2; 8, 3, 2; Tac. A. 12, 39.—

Of vehicles, horses, etc.:

esseda siste,

Prop. 2, 1, 76:

equos,

Verg. A. 12, 355:

quadrijugos,

Stat. Achill. 2, 429; so id. Th. 5, 364.—

With iter, to arrest the advance of an army, to halt:

exercitus iter sistit,

Tac. H. 3, 50.—

With bellum, to halt (cf. infra, D.):

Aquilejae sisti bellum expectarique Mucianum jubebat,

Tac. H. 3, [p. 1712] 8.—

Of living objects, in gen.

To arrest their course, make them halt:

aegre coercitam legionem Bedriaci sistit,

Tac. H. 2, 23:

festinantia sistens Fata,

staying the hurrying Fates, Stat. S. 3, 4, 24.—So, se sistere with ab, to desist from:

non prius se ab effuso cursu sistunt,

Liv. 6, 29, 3; hence, to arrest by wounding, i. e. to wound or kill:

aliquem cuspide,

Sil. 1, 382; 1, 163; so,

cervum vulnere sistere,

id. 2, 78.—

To stop a hostile attack of persons, to resist them, ward them off:

ut non sisterent modo Sabinas legiones, sed in fugam averterent,

Liv. 1, 37, 3:

ibi integrae vires sistunt invehentem se jam Samnitem,

id. 10, 14, 18:

nec sisti vis hostium poterat,

Curt. 5, 3, 11:

nec sisti poterant scandentes,

Tac. H. 3, 71; 5, 21. —

Trop., to stop the advance of prices:

pretia augeri in dies, nec mediocribus remediis sisti posse,

Tac. A. 3, 52.—

To arrest the motion of fluids.

Of water:

sistere aquam fluviis,

Verg. A. 4, 489:

amnis, siste parumper aquas,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 2:

quae concita flumina sistunt,

id. M. 7, 154:

sistito infestum mare,

calm, Sen. Agam. 523; cf. Ov. M. 7, 200; id. H. 6, 87; Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 118.—

Of blood and secretions:

(ea) quibus sistitur sanguis parari jubet,

Tac. A. 15, 54:

sanguinem,

Plin. 20, 7, 25, § 59; 28, 18, 73, § 239; 27, 4, 5, § 18:

haemorrhoidum abundantiam,

id. 27, 4, 5, § 19:

fluctiones,

id. 20, 8, 27, § 71, 34, 10, 23, § 105; 35, 17, 57, § 195:

nomas,

id. 30, 13, 39, § 116; 24, 16, 94, § 151:

mensis,

id. 23, 6, 60, § 112:

vomitiones,

id. 20, 20, 81, § 213:

alvum bubus,

id. 18, 16, 42, § 143:

alvum,

stop the bowels, id. 23, 6, 60, § 113; 22, 25, 59, § 126; 20, 5, 18, § 37:

ventrem,

id. 20, 23, 96, § 256; Mart. 13, 116.—

To arrest the motion of life, make rigid:

ille oculos sistit,

Stat. Th. 2, 539.—

To end, put an end to (= finem facere alicui rei); pass., to cease:

querelas,

Ov. M. 7, 711:

fletus,

id. ib. 14, 835:

lacrimas,

id. F. 1, 367; 480; 6, 154:

minas,

id. Tr. 1, 2, 60:

opus,

id. H. 16 (17), 266; id. M. 3, 153:

labores,

id. ib. 5, 490:

furorem,

Stat. Th. 5, 663:

furialem impetum,

Sen. Med. 157; id. Agam. 203:

pace tamen sisti bellum placet,

Ov. M. 14, 803:

antequam summa dies spectacula sistat,

id. F. 4, 387:

sitim sistere,

to allay, id. P. 3, 1, 18:

nec primo in limine sistit conatus scelerum,

suppresses, Stat. S. 5, 2, 86:

ruinas,

to stop destruction, Plin. Pan. 50, 4:

ventum,

to ward off, turn the wind, id. Ep. 2, 17, 17;

(motus terrae) non ante quadraginta dies sistuntur, = desinunt,

Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 198.—

Sistere with intra = to confine, keep within:

transgresso jam Alpes Caecina, quem sisti intra Gallias posse speraverant,

Tac. H. 2, 11:

dum populatio lucem intra sisteretur,

provided the raids were confined to day-time, id. A. 4, 48. —

Impers. and trop., to arrest or avoid an impending misfortune, or to stand, i. e. to endure; generally in the form sisti non potest (more rarely: sisti potest) = it cannot be endured, a disaster cannot be avoided or met (once in Plaut.; freq. in Liv.; sometimes in Tac.; cf., in gen., Brix ad Plaut. Trin. 720; Drak. ad Liv. 3, 16, 4; Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 29, 8; Gronov. ad Liv. 4, 12, 6; Beneke ad Just. 11, 1, 6).

Without a subject, res or a noun of general import being understood:

quid ego nunc agam, nisi ut clipeum ad dorsum accommodem, etc.? Non sisti potest,

it is intolerable, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 94:

totam plebem aere alieno demersam esse, nec sisti posse nisi omnibus consulatur,

Liv. 2, 29, 8:

si domestica seditio adiciatur, sisti non posse,

the situation will be desperate, id. 45, 19, 3:

si quem similem priore anno dedissent, non potuisse sisti,

id. 3, 9, 8:

vixque concordiā sisti videbatur,

that the crisis could scarcely be met, even by harmonious action, id. 3, 16, 4:

qualicunque urbis statu, manente disciplinā militari sisti potuisse,

these evils were endurable, id. 2, 44, 10: exercitum gravi morbo affectari, nec sisti potuisse ni, etc., it would have ended in disaster, if not, etc., id. 29, 10, 1:

qui omnes populi si pariter deficiant, sisti nullo modo posse,

Just. 11, 1, 6 Gronov. ad loc.; cf. Liv. 3, 20, 8 supra, II. A. 1.— Rarely with a subject-clause understood: nec jam sisti poterat, and it was no longer tolerable, i. e. that Nero should disgrace himself, etc., Tac. A. 14, 14.—

Rarely with quin, to prevent etc. (pregn., implying also the stopping of something; cf.

supra, III. B. 1.): neque sisti potuit quin et palatium et domus et cuncta circum haurirentur (igni),

Tac. A. 15, 39.—Hence, stătus, a, um, P. a., as attribute of nouns, occurs in several conventional phrases, as relics of archaic usage.

Status (condictusve) dies cum hoste, in the XII. Tables, = a day of trial fixed by the judge or agreed upon with the adversary;

esp., a peregrinus (= hostis),

Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37. It presupposes a phrase, diem sistere, prob.=vadimonium sistere (v. supra, I. C. 2.). Such an appointment was an excuse from the most important public duties, even for soldiers from joining the army, Cinc. ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4.—

Hence, transf.: si status condictus cum hoste intercedit dies, tamen est eundum quo imperant,

i. e. under all circumstances we must go, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5.—

In certain phrases, appointed, fixed, regular (cf. statutus, with which it is often confounded in MSS.):

status dies: tres in anno statos dies habere quibus, etc.,

Liv. 39, 13, 8:

stato loco statisque diebus,

id. 42, 32, 2; so id. 5, 52, 2; 27, 23 fin.:

stato lustri die,

Sen. Troad. 781:

status sacrificii dies,

Flor. 1, 3, 16:

statum tempus, statā vice, etc.: lunae defectio statis temporibus fit,

Liv. 44, 37 init.; so id. 28, 6, 10:

stato tempore,

Tac. A. 12, 13; id. H. 4, 81; Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 173:

stata tempora (partus),

Stat. Achill. 2, 673:

adeo in illā plagā mundus statas vices temporum mutat,

Curt. 8, 19, 13; so id. 9, 9, 9; 5, 1, 23; so, feriae, etc.: feriae statae appellabantur quod certo statutoque die observarentur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69 Lind.:

stata quinquennia,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 113:

stata sacra or sacrificia: stata sacrificia sunt quae certis diebus fieri debent,

Fest. p. 264 Lind.:

proficiscuntur Aeniam ad statum sacrificium,

Liv. 40, 4, 9; 23, 35, 3; 5, 46, 2; 39, 13, 8; Cic. Mil. 17, 45:

solemne et statum sacrificium (al. statutum),

id. Tusc. 1, 47, 113; so Liv. 23, 35, 3:

stata sacra,

Ov. F. 2, 528; Stat. Th. 1, 666:

stata foedera,

id. ib. 11, 380:

status flatus,

Sen. Ben. 4, 28:

stati cursus siderum,

Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 291 (different: statae stellae = fixed stars, Censor. D. N. 8, belonging to II. 2. supra): statae febres, intermittent fevers, returning regularly, Plin. 28, 27, 28, § 107.—

Moderate, average, normal:

inter enim pulcherrimam feminam et deformissimam media forma quaedam est, quae et a nimio pulcritudinis periculo et a summo deformitatis odio vacat, qualis a Q. Ennio perquam eleganti vocabulo stata dicitur...Ennius autem eas fere feminas ait incolumi pudicitia esse quae statā formā forent,

Gell. 5, 11, 12 -14 (v. Enn. Trag. p. 133 Vahl.).

sub-stringo, nxi, ctum, 3, v. a., to bind beneath; to bind, tie, or draw up ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. subligo).

Lit.:

crinem nodo,

Tac. G. 38:

ligatas auro comas,

Luc. 3, 281:

sinus,

Sen. Troad. 88:

lintea malo,

Sil. 1, 689:

caput equi loro,

Nep. Eum. 5, 5:

carnem fasciā,

Suet. Galb. 21.—

Transf., to bind or draw together; to draw up, contract, check: aurem, i. e. to point or prick the ear, Hor. S. 2, 5, 95:

lacrimas,

Marc. Emp. 8:

bilem,

Juv. 6, 433. —

Trop., to check, restrain, etc.:

effusa,

Quint. 10, 5, 4.—Hence, substrictus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II.), drawn together, contracted; hence, small, narrow, tight, close:

ilia,

Ov. M. 3, 216:

crura,

id. ib. 11, 752:

testes castorum,

Plin. 32, 3, 13, § 26:

tunica,

Gell. 7, 12, 3.— Comp.:

venter substrictior,

Col. 6, 20.

sufflāmĭno, āre, v. a. [sufflamen], to hold back by a clog, to clog, check. *

Lit.: rotam Ixionis, Sen. Lud. Mort. Claud. (Apocol.) 14, 3.—

Trop., to stay, check, repress in speaking:

tanta illi erat velocitas orationis, ut vitium fieret. Itaque D. Augustus optime dixit, Aterius noster sufflaminandus est,

Sen. Exc. Contr. 4, praef. § 7.

sustĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [subs for sub, and teneo], to hold up, hold upright, uphold, to bear up, keep up, support, sustain (syn. fulcio).

Lit.

In gen.:

onus alicui,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 68:

quantum hominum terra sustinet,

id. Poen. prol. 90; id. Men. 1, 1, 13:

cum Milo umeris sustineret bovem vivum,

Cic. Sen. 10, 33:

arma membraque,

Liv. 23, 45, 3; Curt. 6, 1, 11; 7, 5, 8:

infirmos baculo artus,

to support, Ov. M. 6, 27:

furcis spectacula,

Liv. 1, 35, 9:

ingenuā speculum manu,

Ov. A. A. 2, 216:

fornice exstructo, quo pons sustinebatur, Auct. B. Alex. 19, 4: manibus clipeos et hastam Et galeam,

Ov. H. 3, 119:

vix populum tellus sustinet illa suum,

id. ib. 15 (16), 182:

lapis albus Pocula cum cyatho duo sustinet,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 117:

vas ad sustinenda opsonia,

Plin. 33, 11, 49, § 140:

aër volatus alitum sustinet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: lacus omnia illata pondera sustinens, bearing on its surface, Plin. 6, 27, 31, § 127:

ecce populus Romanus universus veluti duobus navigiis inpositus binis cardinibus sustinetur,

id. 36, 15, 24, § 119:

domum pluribus adminiculis fulcit ac sustinet,

Plin. Ep. 4, 21, 3: se, to support one ' s self, hold one ' s self up, stand, etc., Caes. B. G. 2, 25; so,

se a lapsu,

Liv. 21, 35:

se alis,

Ov. M. 4, 411. —

In partic., to hold or keep back, to keep in, stay, check, restrain, control, etc. (syn.: refreno, supprimo, moror): currum equosque, Lucil. ap. Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3:

currum,

id. Lael. 17, 63 (v. infra, II. B. 3.):

equos,

Caes. B. G. 4, 33:

remos,

Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3:

manum,

Ov. F. 5, 302:

sustinet a jugulo dextram,

Verg. A. 11, 750:

a jugulo nitentem sustinet hastam,

Stat. Th. 2, 648:

flumina Threiciā lyrā,

Prop. 3, 2, 2 (4, 1, 42):

nunc agendo, nunc sustinendo agmen,

Liv. 25, 36, 1:

aliud simile miraculum eos sustinuit,

id. 5, 39, 2:

signa,

id. 31, 24, 8:

gradum,

Ov. F. 6, 398:

perterritum exercitum,

Caes. B. C. 1, 71:

se,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 18, 41; Val. Fl. 3, 100:

se ab omni assensu,

i. e. to refrain, Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 48:

se a respondendo,

id. ib. 2, 32, 104. — Poet.:

celeres vias,

i. e. to halt, Sen. Hippol. 794.—

Trop.

In gen., to uphold, sustain, maintain, preserve:

dignitatem et decus civitatis,

Cic. Off. 1, 34, 124:

causam rei publicae,

id. Fam. 9, 8, 2; cf.:

causam publicam,

id. Div. in Caecil. 8, 27:

exspectationem,

id. Off. 3, 2, 6:

tris personas unus sustineo,

characters, id. de Or. 2, 24, 102:

personam magistri,

to personate, Suet. Gram. 24:

quid muneris in rem publicam fungi ac sustinere velitis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 86, § 199:

historiam veterem atque antiquam haec mea senectus sustinet,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 100: vitam, Maecen. ap. Sen. Ep. 101, 11.— Poet.:

(arbor) ingentem sustinet umbram,

Verg. G. 2, 297.—

In partic.

To sustain, support, maintain, by food, money, or other means:

hac (sc. re frumentariā) alimur et sustinemur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 5, § 11:

veterem amicum suum labentem excepit, fulsit et sustinuit re, fortunā, fide,

id. Rab. Post. 16, 43:

qui ager non amplius hominum quinque milia potest sustinere,

id. Att. 2, 16, 1:

alicujus munificentiā sustineri,

Liv. 39, 9, 6:

hinc patriam parvosque nepotes Sustinet,

Verg. G. 2, 515:

necessitates aliorum,

Liv. 6, 15, 9:

plebem,

id. 3, 65, 6:

penuriam temporum,

Col. 9, 14, 17.—

To bear, undergo, endure; to hold out against, withstand (so most freq.;

syn.: fero, tolero, patior): mala ferre sustinereque,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16:

non tu scis, quantum malarum rerum sustineam,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 8:

innocens suspitionem hanc sustinet causā meā,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 32:

labores,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3:

aestatem,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 39, 3:

dolorem pedum,

Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 5:

dolores,

id. ib. 1, 12, 8:

certamen,

Liv. 33, 36, 12:

vim hostium,

Nep. Hann. 11, 4:

periculum,

Dig. 18, 6, 1:

o dii, quis hujus potentiam poterit sustinere?

Cic. Phil. 7, 6, 17:

alicujus imperia,

Caes. B. G. 1, 31:

vulnera,

id. ib. 1, 45:

Philo ea sustinere vix poterat, quae contra Academicorum pertinaciam dicebantur,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18; Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10, 2:

Peloponnesum,

Cic. Att. 10, 12, 7: eos (rogantes), Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 3; Liv. 31, 13:

senatus querentes eos non sustinuit,

id. 31, 13, 4:

justa petentem deam,

Ov. M. 14, 788:

ferrum ignemque Jovemque,

id. ib. 13, 385 et saep.— Absol.: expectes et sustineas necesse est, Mart. 9, 3, 13:

neque jam sustineri poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 6; cf. Cic. Fam. 12, 6, 4; Liv. 29, 6, 17.—

With obj.-clause (mostly with a negative: non sustinet, he cannot bear, cannot endure; he does not take upon himself, does not venture):

non sustineo esse conscius mihi dissimulati judicii mei,

Quint. 3, 6, 64:

non impositos supremis ignibus artus Sustinuit spectare parens,

Ov. M. 13, 584;

so negatively,

id. ib. 1, 530; 6, 367; 6, 606; 9, 439; 10, 47; id. F. 4, 850; Vell. 2, 86, 2. —

In a negative interrog.: sustinebant tales viri, se tot senatoribus, etc.... non credidisse? tantae populi Romani voluntati restitisse? Sustineant. Reperiemus, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 4, § 10:

hoc quidem quis hominum sustineat petulans esse ad alterius arbitrium?

Quint. 12, 9, 10; 3, 6, 64:

deserere officii sui partes,

Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 16; 9, 13, 6:

Parmenionem rursus castigare non sustinebat,

Curt. 4, 13, 8; 6, 1, 15:

nec solus bibere sustineo,

id. 7, 5, 12; 7, 6, 15; 8, 5, 7; Vell. 2, 86, 2; Suet. Caes. 75.—Affirmatively:

quem in vinculis habituri erant, sustinuere venerari,

Curt. 5, 10, 13:

colloqui cum eo, quem damnaverat, sustinuit,

id. 6, 8, 16; 7, 5, 38; 10, 5, 25:

quae se praeferre Dianae Sustinuit,

took upon herself, presumed, Ov. M. 11, 322; so,

sustinet ire illuc,

id. ib. 4, 447; 6, 563; id. H. 5, 32; Phaedr. 4, 16, 8: aliquem videre, Auct. Cons. Liv. 135:

si quis aquam... haurire sustineat,

Plin. 30, 7, 20, § 64:

mentiri,

Petr. 116.—

(Acc. to I. B.) To hold in, stop, stay, check, restrain; to keep back, put off, defer, delay:

est igitur prudentis sustinere ut currum sic impetum benevolentiae,

Cic. Lael. 17, 63; so,

impetum hostis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 24; 1, 26; 2, 11;

3, 2 et saep.: subitas hostium incursiones,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 11; cf.:

Curio praemittit equites, qui primum impetum sustineant ac morentur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 26:

bellum consilio,

Liv. 3, 60, 1:

assensus lubricos,

Cic. Ac. 2, 34, 108:

sustinenda solutio est nominis Caerelliani,

id. Att. 12, 51, 3:

oppugnationem ad noctem,

Caes. B. G. 5, 37, 6:

rem in noctem,

Liv. 5, 35, 7:

iram,

id. 2, 19, 4.

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