to+occupy

• Small things occupy light minds (small things amuse small minds)

, fungi, functus

to occupy oneself, perform, do, execute.

at-tĭnĕo ( adt-, Dietsch, Weissenb.), tĭnui, tentum, 2, v. a. and n. [teneo].

Act., (so only ante-class. or in the histt.; most freq. in Plaut. and Tac.).

To hold to, to bring or hold near:

aliquem ante oculos attinere,

Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 30.—

To hold or detain at some point (class. retinere), to hold fast, keep hold of, to hold, keep, detain, hold back, delay:

testes vinctos,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 63; id. Bacch. 2, 2, 3:

animum,

id. Mil. 4, 8, 17:

lectos viros castris attinere,

Tac. A. 2, 52; 6, 17:

prensam dextram vi attinere,

id. ib. 1, 35; 2, 10; 3, 71 fin.:

cunctos, qui carcere attinebantur, necari jussit,

id. ib. 6, 19; 3, 36 fin.; 12, 68; 13, 15; 13, 27;

15, 57: set ego conperior Bocchum Punicā fide simul Romanum et Numidam spe pacis adtinuisse,

detained, amused, Sall. J. 108, 3:

ad ea Corbulo satis comperto Vologesen defectione Hyrcaniae attineri,

is detained, hindered, Tac. A. 13, 37 fin.; 13, 50; 14, 33; 14, 56 fin.; 16, 19; id. H. 2, 14 fin. —

To hold possession of, to occupy, keep, guard, preserve: Quamque at tinendi magni dominatūs sient, Ter. Fragm. ap. Cic. Or. 47, 157:

ripam Danubii,

Tac. A. 4, 5.—

To stretch out to, to reach to:

nunc jam cultros attinet, i. e. ad cultros,

now he is reaching forth for, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 17.—Hence, of relations of place, to extend or stretch somewhere:

Scythae ad Borysthenem atque inde ad Tanain attinent,

Curt. 6, 2, 9.—

To belong somewhere; only in the third person: hoc (res) attinet (more rare, haec attinent) ad me (less freq. simply me), or absol. hoc attinet, this belongs to me, concerns me, pertains or appertains to me, relates or refers to me; cf. Rudd. II. p. 209; Roby, § 1534 (the most usu. class. signif. of the word).

Attinet (attinent) ad aliquem:

negotium hoc ad me attinet,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 51:

num quidnam ad filium haec aegritudo attinet?

id. ib. 5, 1, 24:

nunc quam ad rem dicam hoc attinere somnium,

id. Rud. 3, 1, 19; id. Most. 1, 3, 4:

Quid istuc ad me attinet?

id. Poen. 3, 3, 24:

Quid id ad me attinet?

id. Trin. 4, 2, 136, and id. ib. 4, 3, 58:

quod quidem ad nos duas attinuit,

id. Poen. 5, 4, 9 et saep.:

comperiebam nihil ad Pamphilum quicquam attinere,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 64; 1, 2, 16:

Scin tu... ad te attinere hanc Omnem rem?

id. Eun. 4, 6, 6; id. Ad. 1, 2, 54; 2, 1, 32; 3, 1, 9; id. Phorm. 3, 1, 17:

nunc nil ad nos de nobis attinet,

Lucr. 3, 852; 4, 30:

vobis alio loco, ut se tota res habeat, quod ad eam civitatem attinet, demonstrabitur,

in respect to that city, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 5:

quod ad me attinet,

id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 1; so id. Att. 5, 17; id. Fam. 1, 2 al.:

quod ad provincias attineret,

Liv. 42, 10; 23, 26 al.:

tamquam ad rem attineat quicquam,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 27 al.:

sed quid istae picturae ad me attinent?

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 36: Do. Hae quid ad me? Tox. Immo ad te attinent:

et tuā refert,

id. Pers. 4, 3, 27:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi, Aliena ut cures eaque nil quae ad te attinent?

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 24:

cetera quae ad colendam vitem attinebunt,

Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38.—And with nunc = ad hoc tempus (eccl. Lat.): Quod nunc attinet, vade, and for this time (Gr. to nun echon), Vulg. Act. 24, 25.—

Attinet (attinent) aliquem: neque quemquam attinebat [p. 196] id recusare, Cic. Quinct. 19: de magnitudine vocis nihil nos attinet commonere, Auct. ad Her. 3, 11, 20:

in his, quae custodiam religionis attinent,

Val. Max. 1, 1, n. 14.—

Hoc attinet (haec attinent), and more freq. attinet with an inf. as subject ( act. and pass.), it concerns, it matters, is of moment, is of consequence, is of importance: ea conquisiverunt, quae nihil attinebant, Auct. ad Her. 1, 1, 1:

nec patitur Scythas... Parthum dicere, nec quae nihil attinent,

Hor. C. 1, 19, 12:

de quo quid sentiam, nihil attinet dicere,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

nihil enim attinet quemquam nominari,

id. Leg. 2, 17, 42:

quia nec eosdem nominari adtinebat,

Liv. 23, 3, 13:

nec adtinuisse demi securim, cum sine provocatione creati essent, interpretabantur,

id. 3, 36; 2, 41; 6, 23; 6, 38; 34, 3; 36, 11;

37, 15: Quid attinet tot ora navium gravi Rostrata duci etc.,

Hor. Epod. 4, 17 al. —And in pregn. signif., it is serviceable, useful, or avails for, etc.:

quid attinuit cum iis, quibuscum re concinebat, verbis discrepare?

Cic. Fin. 4, 22, 60:

eā re non venit, quia nihil attinuit,

id. Att. 12, 18:

nec victoribus mitti adtinere puto,

Liv. 23, 13:

sin (frumenta) protinus usui destinantur, nihil attinet repoliri,

Col. 2, 21, 6.

at-tĭnĕo ( adt-, Dietsch, Weissenb.), tĭnui, tentum, 2, v. a. and n. [teneo].

Act., (so only ante-class. or in the histt.; most freq. in Plaut. and Tac.).

To hold to, to bring or hold near:

aliquem ante oculos attinere,

Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 30.—

To hold or detain at some point (class. retinere), to hold fast, keep hold of, to hold, keep, detain, hold back, delay:

testes vinctos,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 63; id. Bacch. 2, 2, 3:

animum,

id. Mil. 4, 8, 17:

lectos viros castris attinere,

Tac. A. 2, 52; 6, 17:

prensam dextram vi attinere,

id. ib. 1, 35; 2, 10; 3, 71 fin.:

cunctos, qui carcere attinebantur, necari jussit,

id. ib. 6, 19; 3, 36 fin.; 12, 68; 13, 15; 13, 27;

15, 57: set ego conperior Bocchum Punicā fide simul Romanum et Numidam spe pacis adtinuisse,

detained, amused, Sall. J. 108, 3:

ad ea Corbulo satis comperto Vologesen defectione Hyrcaniae attineri,

is detained, hindered, Tac. A. 13, 37 fin.; 13, 50; 14, 33; 14, 56 fin.; 16, 19; id. H. 2, 14 fin. —

To hold possession of, to occupy, keep, guard, preserve: Quamque at tinendi magni dominatūs sient, Ter. Fragm. ap. Cic. Or. 47, 157:

ripam Danubii,

Tac. A. 4, 5.—

To stretch out to, to reach to:

nunc jam cultros attinet, i. e. ad cultros,

now he is reaching forth for, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 17.—Hence, of relations of place, to extend or stretch somewhere:

Scythae ad Borysthenem atque inde ad Tanain attinent,

Curt. 6, 2, 9.—

To belong somewhere; only in the third person: hoc (res) attinet (more rare, haec attinent) ad me (less freq. simply me), or absol. hoc attinet, this belongs to me, concerns me, pertains or appertains to me, relates or refers to me; cf. Rudd. II. p. 209; Roby, § 1534 (the most usu. class. signif. of the word).

Attinet (attinent) ad aliquem:

negotium hoc ad me attinet,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 51:

num quidnam ad filium haec aegritudo attinet?

id. ib. 5, 1, 24:

nunc quam ad rem dicam hoc attinere somnium,

id. Rud. 3, 1, 19; id. Most. 1, 3, 4:

Quid istuc ad me attinet?

id. Poen. 3, 3, 24:

Quid id ad me attinet?

id. Trin. 4, 2, 136, and id. ib. 4, 3, 58:

quod quidem ad nos duas attinuit,

id. Poen. 5, 4, 9 et saep.:

comperiebam nihil ad Pamphilum quicquam attinere,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 64; 1, 2, 16:

Scin tu... ad te attinere hanc Omnem rem?

id. Eun. 4, 6, 6; id. Ad. 1, 2, 54; 2, 1, 32; 3, 1, 9; id. Phorm. 3, 1, 17:

nunc nil ad nos de nobis attinet,

Lucr. 3, 852; 4, 30:

vobis alio loco, ut se tota res habeat, quod ad eam civitatem attinet, demonstrabitur,

in respect to that city, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 5:

quod ad me attinet,

id. ad Q. Fr. 2, 1; so id. Att. 5, 17; id. Fam. 1, 2 al.:

quod ad provincias attineret,

Liv. 42, 10; 23, 26 al.:

tamquam ad rem attineat quicquam,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 27 al.:

sed quid istae picturae ad me attinent?

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 36: Do. Hae quid ad me? Tox. Immo ad te attinent:

et tuā refert,

id. Pers. 4, 3, 27:

tantumne ab re tuast oti tibi, Aliena ut cures eaque nil quae ad te attinent?

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 24:

cetera quae ad colendam vitem attinebunt,

Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38.—And with nunc = ad hoc tempus (eccl. Lat.): Quod nunc attinet, vade, and for this time (Gr. to nun echon), Vulg. Act. 24, 25.—

Attinet (attinent) aliquem: neque quemquam attinebat [p. 196] id recusare, Cic. Quinct. 19: de magnitudine vocis nihil nos attinet commonere, Auct. ad Her. 3, 11, 20:

in his, quae custodiam religionis attinent,

Val. Max. 1, 1, n. 14.—

Hoc attinet (haec attinent), and more freq. attinet with an inf. as subject ( act. and pass.), it concerns, it matters, is of moment, is of consequence, is of importance: ea conquisiverunt, quae nihil attinebant, Auct. ad Her. 1, 1, 1:

nec patitur Scythas... Parthum dicere, nec quae nihil attinent,

Hor. C. 1, 19, 12:

de quo quid sentiam, nihil attinet dicere,

Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 3:

nihil enim attinet quemquam nominari,

id. Leg. 2, 17, 42:

quia nec eosdem nominari adtinebat,

Liv. 23, 3, 13:

nec adtinuisse demi securim, cum sine provocatione creati essent, interpretabantur,

id. 3, 36; 2, 41; 6, 23; 6, 38; 34, 3; 36, 11;

37, 15: Quid attinet tot ora navium gravi Rostrata duci etc.,

Hor. Epod. 4, 17 al. —And in pregn. signif., it is serviceable, useful, or avails for, etc.:

quid attinuit cum iis, quibuscum re concinebat, verbis discrepare?

Cic. Fin. 4, 22, 60:

eā re non venit, quia nihil attinuit,

id. Att. 12, 18:

nec victoribus mitti adtinere puto,

Liv. 23, 13:

sin (frumenta) protinus usui destinantur, nihil attinet repoliri,

Col. 2, 21, 6.

circum-sto, stĕti, 1, v. n. and a. (the perf. and pluperf. having the same form with those of circumsisto, and a similar meaning, it is sometimes doubtful to which verb a form belongs), to stand around in a circle, to take a station round; and, with the acc., to stand around a person or thing, to surround, encircle, encompass.

Prop. (very freq. and class.).

Absol.: circumstant cum ardentibus taedis, Enn ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 51 Vahl.):

circumstant lacrimis rorantes ora genasque,

Lucr. 3, 469:

Morini spe praedae adducti circumsteterunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 37:

circumstant properi aurigae,

Verg. A. 12, 85:

ad circumstantes tendens sua bracchia silvas, Ov M. 3, 441: circumstantis exercitūs gratia,

Curt. 9, 3, 15:

amici,

id. 3, 5, 9.—

With acc.:

aliquem,

Verg. G. 4, 216; Ov. M. 11, 505; Curt. 5, 12, 9:

equites Romani qui circumstant senatum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 21:

sellam,

Liv. 8, 32, 14; Suet. Aug. 35:

solem,

Ov. M. 2, 394:

sacra,

id. ib. 2, 717:

lectum,

Curt. 10, 5, 2.—

Hence, circumstantes, ĭum, m. subst., the by-standers, Quint. 4, 2, 22; 4, 2, 127; Tac. A. 1, 21; 1, 22; Suet. Caes. 84; id. Aug. 93; Curt. 6, 10, 36.—

In partic., to surround in a hostile manner, to beset, besiege:

circumstare tribunal praetoris urbani, obsidere cum gladiis curiam, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32:

quem tres Curiatii circumsteterant,

Liv. 1, 25, 6:

si ambo consules infesti circumstarent tribunum,

id. 3, 9, 6:

urbem Romanam,

id. 27, 40, 6:

regis tecta,

Verg. A. 7, 585; cf. the foll.—

Trop., to surround, encompass, occupy, take possession of (freq. in post-Aug prose); absol. or with acc.:

cum dies et noctes omnia nos undique fata circumstent,

Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 20:

circumstant te summae auctoritates,

id. Verr. 1, 17, 52:

cum tanti undique terrores circumstarent,

Liv. 6, 2, 4; cf. id. 30, 3, 3:

anceps proelium Romanos circumsteterat, incertos in quem hostem eruptionem facerent,

id. 25, 34, 10:

ancepsque terror circumstabat,

id. 21, 28, 3; 34, 27, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 30:

haec me cura, haec difficultas sola circumstat,

Plin. Pan. 3, 4:

at me tum primum saevus circumstetit horror,

Verg. A. 2, 559:

scio acerba meorum Circumstare odia ( = meos, qui me oderunt),

id. ib. 10, 905:

circumsteterat Civilem et alius metus,

Tac. H. 4, 79:

circumsteterat palatium publica exspectatio,

id. ib. 1, 17:

paupertas et angustiae rerum nascentes eos circumsteterunt,

id. Or. 8.— Subst.: circumstantĭa, ium, n., details, circumstances, in an argument:

illa (argumenta) per se fortia non oportet circumstantibus obscurare,

Quint. 5, 12, 4.

circum-sto, stĕti, 1, v. n. and a. (the perf. and pluperf. having the same form with those of circumsisto, and a similar meaning, it is sometimes doubtful to which verb a form belongs), to stand around in a circle, to take a station round; and, with the acc., to stand around a person or thing, to surround, encircle, encompass.

Prop. (very freq. and class.).

Absol.: circumstant cum ardentibus taedis, Enn ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89 (Trag. v. 51 Vahl.):

circumstant lacrimis rorantes ora genasque,

Lucr. 3, 469:

Morini spe praedae adducti circumsteterunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 37:

circumstant properi aurigae,

Verg. A. 12, 85:

ad circumstantes tendens sua bracchia silvas, Ov M. 3, 441: circumstantis exercitūs gratia,

Curt. 9, 3, 15:

amici,

id. 3, 5, 9.—

With acc.:

aliquem,

Verg. G. 4, 216; Ov. M. 11, 505; Curt. 5, 12, 9:

equites Romani qui circumstant senatum,

Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 21:

sellam,

Liv. 8, 32, 14; Suet. Aug. 35:

solem,

Ov. M. 2, 394:

sacra,

id. ib. 2, 717:

lectum,

Curt. 10, 5, 2.—

Hence, circumstantes, ĭum, m. subst., the by-standers, Quint. 4, 2, 22; 4, 2, 127; Tac. A. 1, 21; 1, 22; Suet. Caes. 84; id. Aug. 93; Curt. 6, 10, 36.—

In partic., to surround in a hostile manner, to beset, besiege:

circumstare tribunal praetoris urbani, obsidere cum gladiis curiam, etc.,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32:

quem tres Curiatii circumsteterant,

Liv. 1, 25, 6:

si ambo consules infesti circumstarent tribunum,

id. 3, 9, 6:

urbem Romanam,

id. 27, 40, 6:

regis tecta,

Verg. A. 7, 585; cf. the foll.—

Trop., to surround, encompass, occupy, take possession of (freq. in post-Aug prose); absol. or with acc.:

cum dies et noctes omnia nos undique fata circumstent,

Cic. Phil. 10, 10, 20:

circumstant te summae auctoritates,

id. Verr. 1, 17, 52:

cum tanti undique terrores circumstarent,

Liv. 6, 2, 4; cf. id. 30, 3, 3:

anceps proelium Romanos circumsteterat, incertos in quem hostem eruptionem facerent,

id. 25, 34, 10:

ancepsque terror circumstabat,

id. 21, 28, 3; 34, 27, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 30:

haec me cura, haec difficultas sola circumstat,

Plin. Pan. 3, 4:

at me tum primum saevus circumstetit horror,

Verg. A. 2, 559:

scio acerba meorum Circumstare odia ( = meos, qui me oderunt),

id. ib. 10, 905:

circumsteterat Civilem et alius metus,

Tac. H. 4, 79:

circumsteterat palatium publica exspectatio,

id. ib. 1, 17:

paupertas et angustiae rerum nascentes eos circumsteterunt,

id. Or. 8.— Subst.: circumstantĭa, ium, n., details, circumstances, in an argument:

illa (argumenta) per se fortia non oportet circumstantibus obscurare,

Quint. 5, 12, 4.

col-lŏco ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to place together, to arrange, to station, lay, put, place, set, set up, erect, etc., a thing (or person) somewhere (class. in prose and poetry; cf.: statuo, pono, sisto).

Lit.

In gen.; constr. usu. with in and abl. (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 467 sq.; Zumpt, Gr. § 489); more rarely with in and acc.; also with other prepositions, or absol.

With in and abl.:

istam conloca cruminam in collo plane,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 67:

in rostris collocati,

Cic. Sest. 38, 83:

aliquem in cubili,

id. Tusc. 2, 17, 39:

in navi,

id. Planc. 41, 97:

in custodiā,

id. Phil. 7, 7, 19; id. Par. 3, 2, 25:

in solitudine,

id. Lael. 23, 87:

uno quidque in loco,

id. de Or. 1, 35, 163:

Herculem in concilio caelestium,

id. Off. 3, 5, 25:

legiones in cervicibus nostris,

id. Fam. 12, 23, 2; id. Agr. 2, 27, 74:

legionem in eis locis hiemandi causā,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf.:

exercitum in hibernis,

id. ib. 3, 29 fin.:

me in gremio Veneris,

Cat. 66, 56:

pedem grabati In collo sibi,

id. 10, 23:

insidias bipertito in silvis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 32:

quas (copias) in convalle in insidiis,

id. ib. 3, 20:

juvenem in latebris,

Verg. G. 4, 424 al.:

tabulas bene pictas in bono lumine,

Cic. Brut. 75, 261; id. Pis. 25, 61:

supremo In monte saxum,

Hor. Epod. 17, 68:

corpus in vestibulo,

Suet. Aug. 100; Cat. 10, 23:

praesidia in litore,

Nep. Hann. 11, 4.—With locat. proper names;

of towns: classem Miseni et alteram Ravennae,

Suet. Aug. 49:

singulas cohortes, Puteolis et Ostiae,

id. Claud. 25:

se Athenis collocavit,

established himself, settled there, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 4.—So also with adv. of place:

occupato oppido, ibi praesidium collocavit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38; 7, 9:

ubi iste castra collocarat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37, § 96. —

With in and acc.:

in tabernam vasa et servos,

Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 27:

me in arborem,

id. Aul. 4, 8, 6:

eam in lectum,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 45 (ipsum verbum collocant proprium est, et ascribitur pronubis, Don.):

exercitum in provinciam hiemandi gratia,

Sall. J. 61, 2; cf.

supra,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1, and 3, 29; cf. also id. ib. 1, 18, B. 1. infra:

maxilla ubi in suam sedem collocata est,

Cels. 8, 7.—

With simple abl.:

oculos pennis,

Ov. M. 1, 723.—

With other prepositions (freq. in Suet.): comites apud ceteros hospites, to lodge, quarter, Cic. Verr. [p. 368] 2, 1, 24, §

63: ut ante suum fundum Miloni insidias conlocaret,

to lay an ambush for, id. Mil. 10, 27:

cohortis legionarias quattuor advorsum pedites hostium,

Sall. J. 51, 3:

legiones propius Armeniam,

Tac. A. 13, 7; cf.:

ipse propior montem suos conlocat,

Sall. J. 49, 1:

obsides super se,

Suet. Aug. 43:

singulas infra se,

id. Calig. 24:

juxta se,

id. Ner. 13:

circa se,

id. Tit. 9, consulares super pulpitum, id. Calig. 54:

lecticam pro tribunali,

id. Aug. 33.—

Absol.: sine tumultu praesidiis conlocatis: Sall. C. 45, 2; cf. Caes. B. G. 3, 4; 4, 33:

tabulis et signis propalam collocatis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161:

columnas neque rectas, neque e regione,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 2:

lecticae collocabantur,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 18:

signum Jovis,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

sedes ac domicilium,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6:

postquam impedimenta collocata animadvertit,

Liv. 44, 37, 1 (cf.:

constituere impedimenta,

id. 44, 36, 6):

chlamydem, ut pendeat apte,

Ov. M. 2, 734:

collocat hasta sues,

lays prostrate, kills, Mart. 5, 65, 10:

reliqua signa in subsidio (i. e. ad subsidium) artius conlocat,

Sall. C. 59, 2; so,

ceterum exercitum in subsidiis,

id. ib. § 5 Kritz N. cr.:

vos, bonae feminae, collocate puellulam (cf. B. 1. infra),

Cat. 61, 184.—

Esp.

To give in marriage:

filiam alicui,

Tac. Agr. 9 fin.; cf. Suet. Claud. 27; so Cic. Brut. 26, 98; Nep. Att. 19, 4; Suet. Caes. 21; id. Aug. 64; id. Calig. 24; id. Dom. 22 al.:

matrem homini nobilissimo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

aliquam in matrimonium,

Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104;

together with in matrimonio,

Dig. 36, 1, 77:

eam in se dignam condicionem,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 122:

sororem ex matre et propinquas suas nuptum in alias civitates,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18; so,

nuptum,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 7; Col. 4, 3, 6; Dig. 3, 2, 11.—Less freq. absol.:

virginem,

Nep. Epam. 3, 5:

filiam alicujus,

id. Arist. 3, 3; cf.:

in collocandā filiā,

Tac. A. 4, 39:

collocantis filiam,

Just. 9, 6, 2.—

Collocare pecuniam, dotem, faenus, etc., a mercantile t. t., to give, lay out, invest, advance, place money, a dowry, wealth, etc.:

rem herilem,

Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 2:

in eā provinciā pecunias magnas collocatas habent,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 18; cf.:

pecunias in emptiones praediorum,

Dig. 17, 1, 2:

pecunias graviore faenore,

Suet. Aug. 39:

curavit, ut in eo fundo dos collocaretur,

Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:

nusquam posse eam (pecuniam) melius conlocari,

id. ib. 5, 15:

duas patrimonii partes in solo,

Suet. Tib. 48; cf.:

duas faenoris partes in agris,

Tac. A. 6, 17:

pecuniam idoneis nominibus,

Dig. 35, 2, 88.— Hence,

In gen., to employ, invest money in some way:

patrimonium suum non effudit: in rei publicae salute collocavit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 3:

miliens sestertium eā munificentiā collocatum,

Tac. A. 6, 45.—

(Like the Gr. protithenai.) To lay out a dead body in state in the vestibulum:

aliquem sancte ac reverenter in hortis Domitiis,

Capitol. Anton. p. 5; v. Casaub. ad h. l.—

Trop. (in good prose; most freq. in Cic. and Quint.).

In gen., acc. to I. A., to place, set, station, dispose of, occupy, employ, put.

With in and abl.:

illum multa in pectore suo conlocare oportet,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 8:

res est videnda in tuto ut conlocetur,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 11; 4, 3, 17:

ut totos se in optimo vitae statu exquirendo collocarent,

employed, occupied themselves, Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 2; cf.:

totum se in cognitione et scientiā,

id. Off. 1, 44, 158:

sese palam in meretriciā vitā,

id. Cael. 20, 49:

philosophiam in urbibus,

id. Tusc. 5, 4, 10:

in animis ego vestris omnes triumphos meos condi et collocari volo,

to be placed, deposited, id. Cat. 3, 11, 26:

omne suum studium in doctrinā ac sapientiā,

to apply, employ, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 10, § 29:

spem in incerto reliqui temporis eventu,

id. Quint. 26, 83:

adulescentiam suam in amore et voluptatibus,

to employ, spend, id. Cael. 17, 39:

bonas horas male,

Mart. 1, 113, 3:

omnium longitudinum et brevitatum in sonis judicium ipsa natura in auribus nostris collocavit,

placed, Cic. Or. 51, 173:

in conspectu,

Quint. 7, 1, 4:

famam in tuto,

id. 12, 11, 7. —

With in and acc.:

in otium se,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 10:

homines quattuor In soporem,

to put into the sleep of death, id. Am. 1, 1, 148.—

With simple abl.:

et propriis verbis et ordine collocatis,

Quint. 9, 1, 7:

ordine collocati sensus,

id. 7, 10, 16. —

With other prepositions: est et in nominibus ex diverso collocatis sua gratia, Quint. 9, 3, 86.—

Absol., to set in order, arrange, etc.:

rem militarem,

Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3:

aedilitas recte collocata,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 37:

tuā nobis auctoritate opus est ad collocandum aliquem civitatis statum,

id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 15, 12:

vix ut iis rebus, quas constituissent, conlocandis atque administrandis tempus daretur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 4: omnibus rebus confectis et collocatis, Auct. B. Alex. 33 fin. —In rhet.: verba collocata, i. e. in their relative positions (opp. simplicia), Cic. Or. 24, 80 sq.:

ut apte collocentur (verba),

Quint. 8, prooem. § 26; cf. id. § 31; 10, 2, 13; 8, 1, 1; 10. 1, 4;

9, 4, 1 al. —Rare: de cujus moderatione... in prioribus libris satis collocavi (= scripsi, dixi),

have brought forward, put forth, Tac. A. 6, 27 fin. —

Acc. to I. B. 2.: quamobrem melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos beneficium collocari puto, to put or place, as at interest, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70; id. Verr. 2, 5, 22, § 56:

bene,

id. Fam. 13, 28, 3; cf.:

ut pecuniae non quaerendae solum ratio est, verum etiam conlocandae... sic gloria et quaerenda et conlocanda ratione est,

id. Off. 2, 12, 42.

com-plĕo ( conp-), ēvi, ētum, 2 (contr. forms: complerunt, complerint, complerat, complesse, etc., for compleverunt, etc., very often), v. a. [pleo, whence suppleo, plenus], to fill up, fill full, fill out (class. in prose and poetry).

Lit., of material objects.

In gen., with acc. of place, vessel, etc., filled.

Alone:

hostes fossam complent,

Caes. B. G. 5, 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 16; Tac. H. 2, 25:

tune aut inane quicquam putes esse, cum ita conpleta et conferta sint omnia, ut, etc.,

Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125:

metu, ne compleantur navigia,

Liv. 41, 3, 2:

deducunt socii navis et litora conplent,

Verg. A. 3, 71:

conplebant Laidos aedes (amatores),

Prop. 2, 6, 1:

corpora quae loca complerent,

occupy space, Lucr. 1, 522:

legiones cum loca Camporum complent,

id. 2, 324:

milites complent murum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 27:

vigiles domum Flavii complevere,

Tac. H. 3, 69; id. A. 15, 33:

scrobem ad medium,

Col. Arb. 4, 5:

non bene urnam,

Ov. M. 12, 616:

vascula,

Quint. 1, 2, 28:

paginam,

to fill out, write full, Cic. Att. 13, 34 fin.:

speluncas, of the winds,

Lucr. 6, 197.—

With abl. of material, etc.:

fossas sarmentis et virgultis,

Caes. B. G. 3, 18:

totum prope caelum... humano genere conpletum est,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28:

mundum animorum multitudine,

id. Div. 2, 58, 119:

bestiis omnium gentium circum conplere,

Liv. 44, 9, 4:

naufragorum trepidatione passim natantium flumen conpleverunt,

id. 42, 62, 6:

Hispanias Gallias Italiam monumentis ingentium rerum,

id. 30, 28, 4:

quos (gradus) ubi accusator concitatis hominibus complerat,

Cic. Clu. 34, 93:

munus Apolline dignum libris,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 217:

late loca milite,

Verg. A. 2, 495:

naves serpentibus,

Nep. Hann. 11, 6:

amphoras plumbo,

id. ib. 9, 3:

statuas aëneas pecuniā,

id. ib. 9, 3:

horrea messibus,

Luc. 3, 66:

complentur moenia et tecta maerentium turbā,

Tac. A. 3, 1:

Palatium multitudine et clamoribus complebant,

id. ib. 14, 61:

virgultibus et cratibus et corporibus exanimis complere lossas,

id. ib. 4, 51; cf.

also: et terrae... stirpium renovatione complentur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128.—

With gen.:

conviviumque vicinorum cottidie conpleo,

Cic. Sen. 14, 46:

cum completus jam mercatorum carcer esset,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 57, § 147:

quae causa... ararum conpleverit urbis,

Lucr. 5, 1162.—

Esp.

In milit. lang.

To make the army, a legion, etc., of a full number, to complete, fill up:

legiones in itinere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 25:

cohortes pro numero militum complet,

Sall. C. 56, 1; Nep. Milt. 5, 1:

legione completā per maniplos,

Sil. 8, 119.—

To man, fill with men:

classem Romanam sociis navalibus,

Liv. 24, 11, 9:

naves colonis pastoribusque,

Caes. B. C. 1, 56; cf.:

has (naves) sagittariis tormentisque compleverunt,

id. ib. 2, 4:

naves bis denas aut plures,

Verg. A. 11, 327 Serv.—

To fill, impregnate:

alias (mulieres),

Lucr. 4, 1249; 4, 1275.—

Transf., of light, sound, etc. (freq.).

To fill with light, maké full:

ut cuncta suā luce conpleat (sol),

Cic. Rep. 6, 17, 17:

mundum suā luce,

id. N. D. 2, 46, 119:

terras largā luce,

id. ib. 2, 19, 43:

orbem (luna),

Tib. 2, 4, 18:

lunae se cornua lumine complent,

Verg. A. 3, 645:

quod maria ac terras omnis caelumque rigando Conpleat (sol),

Lucr. 5, 595.—

To fill with sound, cause to resound, etc., to fill, make full:

omnia clamoribus,

Lucr. 4, 1014:

omnia vocibus,

id. 5, 1065:

nemus querellis,

id. 2, 358; cf.:

nemus timendā voce,

Hor. Epod. 6, 9:

aëra tinnitibus et murmure,

Ov. M. 14, 537:

atria ululatu,

id. ib. 5, 153:

atria fremitu,

id. ib. 5, 3 et saep.:

fremitu aequora,

Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 37:

aures (sonus),

Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18; cf. id. Agr. 3, 1, 3:

caelum clamore,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 798: aures sermonibus, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olyb. 31: clamor omnia variis terrentium ac paventium vocibus complet, Liv. 5, 21, 11.—

Of odors, etc.:

omnia primo motu ac spiritu suo, vini, unguenti, corporis odore complesset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 12, § 31; cf. Veg. Vet. 1, 17, 3. —

Transf., to cover, overwhelm:

Dianam (i. e. simulacrum) coronis et floribus,

i. e. to deck, adorn, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 77:

vortentibus Telebois telis conplebantur corpora,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 95.—

To fill, sate with food or drink:

multo cibo et potione,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:

se flore Liberi,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 8:

haec avis scribitur conchis se solere conplere,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 124.—

Trop.

To supply fully, furnish abundantly:

exercitum omni copiā,

Caes. B. C. 2, 25 fin. —

To fill with any notion, story, desire, humor, passion:

completi sunt animi auresque vestrae, me... obsistere, etc.,

Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 3:

reliquos (milites) bonā spe,

Caes. B. C. 2, 21:

aliquem gaudio,

Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 69:

taedio,

Quint. 8, 6, 14:

animos robore,

Luc. 5, 412:

omnia luctu,

Sall. C. 51, 9:

omnia terrore,

Liv. 34, 9, 13:

cuncta pavore,

Curt. 3, 13, 10 al. —With gen.:

aliquem erroris et dementiae,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 9:

aliquem flagitii et formidinis,

id. Men. 5, 5, 3.—

To make complete or perfect, to finish; of a promise, to fulfil it:

lustrationem (annuam) menstruo spatio (luna),

Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 87; cf. Verg. A. 5, 46:

his rebus completis legiones reduci jussit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 (Dinter, ex conj., comparatis):

nocturnum erat sacrum, ita ut ante mediam noctem conpleretur,

Liv. 23, 35, 15:

studia,

Gell. 13, 5:

conplent ea beatissimam vitam,

Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 71; cf. id. ib. 3, 13, 43; id. Tusc. 5, 16, 47:

summam promissi,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 49, § 116:

rerum humanarum sorte completā,

Curt. 10, 6, 6 al. —

Of time, to finish, complete:

Gorgias centum et septem conplevit annos,

Cic. Sen. 5, 13:

cum VII. et LXX. annos complesset,

Nep. Att. 21, 1:

Corvinus centesimum annum complevit,

Val. Max. 8, 13, 1; Lact. Op. Dei, 4, 3; cf.:

sua fata,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 77:

sua tempora,

id. M. 15, 816:

quinque saecula vitae suae,

id. ib. 15, 395:

materna tempora,

i. e. the time of pregnancy, id. ib. 3, 312; cf. id. ib. 11, 311:

semel quadrigis, semel desultore misso, vix unius horae tempus utrumque curriculum conplebat,

Liv. 44, 9, 4.—Hence, complētus, a, um, P. a.

Prop., filled full, full: alveus Tiberis ruderibus, * Suet. Aug. 30.—

Trop., complete, perfect:

completus et perfectus verborum ambitus,

Cic. Or. 50, 168.—

* Comp., Gell. 1, 7, 20.

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.

In gen.:

quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?

Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:

(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,

Cels. 4, 1 fin.:

cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,

id. 7, 12, 1:

mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:

morsu guttura,

Luc. 4, 727:

nuces modio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

naves,

to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:

oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,

Cels. 7, 4, 3:

comprehendunt utrumque et orant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31:

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,

Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.

aures,

Tib. 2, 5, 92:

nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,

let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:

naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,

assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:

ignem,

to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;

and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,

Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:

opera flammā comprehensa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:

avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,

Ov. M. 9, 234:

loca vallo,

Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:

comprehensa aedificia,

Liv. 26, 27, 3.—

In partic.

To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:

aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:

tam capitalem hostem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

hominem,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:

nefarios duces,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

Virginium,

Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:

praesidium Punicum,

id. 26, 14, 7:

hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:

in fugā,

id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:

comprehensus morbo,

Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:

comprehensi pestiferā lue,

id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:

aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —

Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—

To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:

fures,

Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,

Transf. to the crime:

nefandum adulterium,

to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:

res ejus indicio,

id. Clu. 16, 47.—

Of plants, to take root; of a graft:

cum comprehendit (surculus),

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,

in gen.,

Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—

Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:

si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,

Cels. 5, 21 fin. —

Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:

ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,

Curt. 6, 6, 24. —

In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:

aliquid melle,

Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—

Of the range of a missile:

quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,

Sil. 4, 102.—

Of the reach of a surgical instrument:

si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,

Cels. 8, 3 init. —

Trop.

To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):

aliquid visu,

Sil. 3, 408;

and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,

Gell. 13, 30, 10.—

To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:

omnes animo virtutes,

id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:

animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:

omnia animis et cogitatione,

id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:

aliquid mente,

id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:

aliquid memoriā,

id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:

qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 50:

aliquid certis signis,

Col. 6, 24, 3:

aliquid experimentis assiduis,

Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:

esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:

virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,

id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—

To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:

breviter paucis comprendere multa,

Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:

breviter comprehensa sententia,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:

comprehendam brevi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,

id. Att. 12, 21, 1:

ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,

id. Brut. 8, 34:

in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,

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

emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,

Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:

ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19:

aliquid dictis,

Ov. M. 13, 160:

quae si comprendere coner,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —

Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:

neque enim numero comprendere refert,

Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:

numerum quorum comprendere non est,

id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—

To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;

mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,

to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

adulescentem humanitate tuā,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:

quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,

id. Planc. 19. 47.—

To shut in, include (late Lat.):

spiritum in effigiem,

Lact. 4, 8, 9:

elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,

id. 2, 6, 1.

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.

In gen.:

quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?

Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:

(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,

Cels. 4, 1 fin.:

cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,

id. 7, 12, 1:

mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:

morsu guttura,

Luc. 4, 727:

nuces modio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

naves,

to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:

oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,

Cels. 7, 4, 3:

comprehendunt utrumque et orant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31:

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,

Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.

aures,

Tib. 2, 5, 92:

nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,

let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:

naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,

assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:

ignem,

to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;

and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,

Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:

opera flammā comprehensa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:

avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,

Ov. M. 9, 234:

loca vallo,

Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:

comprehensa aedificia,

Liv. 26, 27, 3.—

In partic.

To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:

aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:

tam capitalem hostem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

hominem,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:

nefarios duces,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

Virginium,

Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:

praesidium Punicum,

id. 26, 14, 7:

hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:

in fugā,

id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:

comprehensus morbo,

Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:

comprehensi pestiferā lue,

id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:

aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —

Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—

To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:

fures,

Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,

Transf. to the crime:

nefandum adulterium,

to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:

res ejus indicio,

id. Clu. 16, 47.—

Of plants, to take root; of a graft:

cum comprehendit (surculus),

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,

in gen.,

Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—

Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:

si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,

Cels. 5, 21 fin. —

Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:

ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,

Curt. 6, 6, 24. —

In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:

aliquid melle,

Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—

Of the range of a missile:

quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,

Sil. 4, 102.—

Of the reach of a surgical instrument:

si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,

Cels. 8, 3 init. —

Trop.

To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):

aliquid visu,

Sil. 3, 408;

and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,

Gell. 13, 30, 10.—

To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:

omnes animo virtutes,

id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:

animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:

omnia animis et cogitatione,

id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:

aliquid mente,

id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:

aliquid memoriā,

id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:

qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 50:

aliquid certis signis,

Col. 6, 24, 3:

aliquid experimentis assiduis,

Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:

esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:

virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,

id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—

To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:

breviter paucis comprendere multa,

Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:

breviter comprehensa sententia,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:

comprehendam brevi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,

id. Att. 12, 21, 1:

ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,

id. Brut. 8, 34:

in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,

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

emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,

Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:

ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19:

aliquid dictis,

Ov. M. 13, 160:

quae si comprendere coner,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —

Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:

neque enim numero comprendere refert,

Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:

numerum quorum comprendere non est,

id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—

To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;

mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,

to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

adulescentem humanitate tuā,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:

quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,

id. Planc. 19. 47.—

To shut in, include (late Lat.):

spiritum in effigiem,

Lact. 4, 8, 9:

elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,

id. 2, 6, 1.

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.

In gen.:

quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?

Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:

(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,

Cels. 4, 1 fin.:

cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,

id. 7, 12, 1:

mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:

morsu guttura,

Luc. 4, 727:

nuces modio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

naves,

to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:

oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,

Cels. 7, 4, 3:

comprehendunt utrumque et orant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31:

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,

Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.

aures,

Tib. 2, 5, 92:

nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,

let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:

naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,

assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:

ignem,

to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;

and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,

Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:

opera flammā comprehensa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:

avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,

Ov. M. 9, 234:

loca vallo,

Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:

comprehensa aedificia,

Liv. 26, 27, 3.—

In partic.

To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:

aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:

tam capitalem hostem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

hominem,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:

nefarios duces,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

Virginium,

Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:

praesidium Punicum,

id. 26, 14, 7:

hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:

in fugā,

id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:

comprehensus morbo,

Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:

comprehensi pestiferā lue,

id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:

aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —

Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—

To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:

fures,

Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,

Transf. to the crime:

nefandum adulterium,

to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:

res ejus indicio,

id. Clu. 16, 47.—

Of plants, to take root; of a graft:

cum comprehendit (surculus),

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,

in gen.,

Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—

Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:

si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,

Cels. 5, 21 fin. —

Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:

ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,

Curt. 6, 6, 24. —

In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:

aliquid melle,

Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—

Of the range of a missile:

quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,

Sil. 4, 102.—

Of the reach of a surgical instrument:

si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,

Cels. 8, 3 init. —

Trop.

To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):

aliquid visu,

Sil. 3, 408;

and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,

Gell. 13, 30, 10.—

To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:

omnes animo virtutes,

id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:

animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:

omnia animis et cogitatione,

id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:

aliquid mente,

id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:

aliquid memoriā,

id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:

qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 50:

aliquid certis signis,

Col. 6, 24, 3:

aliquid experimentis assiduis,

Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:

esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:

virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,

id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—

To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:

breviter paucis comprendere multa,

Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:

breviter comprehensa sententia,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:

comprehendam brevi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,

id. Att. 12, 21, 1:

ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,

id. Brut. 8, 34:

in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,

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

emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,

Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:

ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19:

aliquid dictis,

Ov. M. 13, 160:

quae si comprendere coner,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —

Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:

neque enim numero comprendere refert,

Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:

numerum quorum comprendere non est,

id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—

To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;

mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,

to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

adulescentem humanitate tuā,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:

quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,

id. Planc. 19. 47.—

To shut in, include (late Lat.):

spiritum in effigiem,

Lact. 4, 8, 9:

elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,

id. 2, 6, 1.

col-lŏco ( conl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to place together, to arrange, to station, lay, put, place, set, set up, erect, etc., a thing (or person) somewhere (class. in prose and poetry; cf.: statuo, pono, sisto).

Lit.

In gen.; constr. usu. with in and abl. (cf. Ramsh. Gr. p. 467 sq.; Zumpt, Gr. § 489); more rarely with in and acc.; also with other prepositions, or absol.

With in and abl.:

istam conloca cruminam in collo plane,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 67:

in rostris collocati,

Cic. Sest. 38, 83:

aliquem in cubili,

id. Tusc. 2, 17, 39:

in navi,

id. Planc. 41, 97:

in custodiā,

id. Phil. 7, 7, 19; id. Par. 3, 2, 25:

in solitudine,

id. Lael. 23, 87:

uno quidque in loco,

id. de Or. 1, 35, 163:

Herculem in concilio caelestium,

id. Off. 3, 5, 25:

legiones in cervicibus nostris,

id. Fam. 12, 23, 2; id. Agr. 2, 27, 74:

legionem in eis locis hiemandi causā,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1; cf.:

exercitum in hibernis,

id. ib. 3, 29 fin.:

me in gremio Veneris,

Cat. 66, 56:

pedem grabati In collo sibi,

id. 10, 23:

insidias bipertito in silvis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 32:

quas (copias) in convalle in insidiis,

id. ib. 3, 20:

juvenem in latebris,

Verg. G. 4, 424 al.:

tabulas bene pictas in bono lumine,

Cic. Brut. 75, 261; id. Pis. 25, 61:

supremo In monte saxum,

Hor. Epod. 17, 68:

corpus in vestibulo,

Suet. Aug. 100; Cat. 10, 23:

praesidia in litore,

Nep. Hann. 11, 4.—With locat. proper names;

of towns: classem Miseni et alteram Ravennae,

Suet. Aug. 49:

singulas cohortes, Puteolis et Ostiae,

id. Claud. 25:

se Athenis collocavit,

established himself, settled there, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 4.—So also with adv. of place:

occupato oppido, ibi praesidium collocavit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38; 7, 9:

ubi iste castra collocarat,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37, § 96. —

With in and acc.:

in tabernam vasa et servos,

Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 27:

me in arborem,

id. Aul. 4, 8, 6:

eam in lectum,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 45 (ipsum verbum collocant proprium est, et ascribitur pronubis, Don.):

exercitum in provinciam hiemandi gratia,

Sall. J. 61, 2; cf.

supra,

Caes. B. G. 3, 1, and 3, 29; cf. also id. ib. 1, 18, B. 1. infra:

maxilla ubi in suam sedem collocata est,

Cels. 8, 7.—

With simple abl.:

oculos pennis,

Ov. M. 1, 723.—

With other prepositions (freq. in Suet.): comites apud ceteros hospites, to lodge, quarter, Cic. Verr. [p. 368] 2, 1, 24, §

63: ut ante suum fundum Miloni insidias conlocaret,

to lay an ambush for, id. Mil. 10, 27:

cohortis legionarias quattuor advorsum pedites hostium,

Sall. J. 51, 3:

legiones propius Armeniam,

Tac. A. 13, 7; cf.:

ipse propior montem suos conlocat,

Sall. J. 49, 1:

obsides super se,

Suet. Aug. 43:

singulas infra se,

id. Calig. 24:

juxta se,

id. Ner. 13:

circa se,

id. Tit. 9, consulares super pulpitum, id. Calig. 54:

lecticam pro tribunali,

id. Aug. 33.—

Absol.: sine tumultu praesidiis conlocatis: Sall. C. 45, 2; cf. Caes. B. G. 3, 4; 4, 33:

tabulis et signis propalam collocatis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161:

columnas neque rectas, neque e regione,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 2:

lecticae collocabantur,

id. Phil. 5, 6, 18:

signum Jovis,

id. Cat. 3, 9, 21:

sedes ac domicilium,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 6:

postquam impedimenta collocata animadvertit,

Liv. 44, 37, 1 (cf.:

constituere impedimenta,

id. 44, 36, 6):

chlamydem, ut pendeat apte,

Ov. M. 2, 734:

collocat hasta sues,

lays prostrate, kills, Mart. 5, 65, 10:

reliqua signa in subsidio (i. e. ad subsidium) artius conlocat,

Sall. C. 59, 2; so,

ceterum exercitum in subsidiis,

id. ib. § 5 Kritz N. cr.:

vos, bonae feminae, collocate puellulam (cf. B. 1. infra),

Cat. 61, 184.—

Esp.

To give in marriage:

filiam alicui,

Tac. Agr. 9 fin.; cf. Suet. Claud. 27; so Cic. Brut. 26, 98; Nep. Att. 19, 4; Suet. Caes. 21; id. Aug. 64; id. Calig. 24; id. Dom. 22 al.:

matrem homini nobilissimo,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18:

aliquam in matrimonium,

Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104;

together with in matrimonio,

Dig. 36, 1, 77:

eam in se dignam condicionem,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 122:

sororem ex matre et propinquas suas nuptum in alias civitates,

Caes. B. G. 1, 18; so,

nuptum,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 7; Col. 4, 3, 6; Dig. 3, 2, 11.—Less freq. absol.:

virginem,

Nep. Epam. 3, 5:

filiam alicujus,

id. Arist. 3, 3; cf.:

in collocandā filiā,

Tac. A. 4, 39:

collocantis filiam,

Just. 9, 6, 2.—

Collocare pecuniam, dotem, faenus, etc., a mercantile t. t., to give, lay out, invest, advance, place money, a dowry, wealth, etc.:

rem herilem,

Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 2:

in eā provinciā pecunias magnas collocatas habent,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 18; cf.:

pecunias in emptiones praediorum,

Dig. 17, 1, 2:

pecunias graviore faenore,

Suet. Aug. 39:

curavit, ut in eo fundo dos collocaretur,

Cic. Caecin. 4, 11:

nusquam posse eam (pecuniam) melius conlocari,

id. ib. 5, 15:

duas patrimonii partes in solo,

Suet. Tib. 48; cf.:

duas faenoris partes in agris,

Tac. A. 6, 17:

pecuniam idoneis nominibus,

Dig. 35, 2, 88.— Hence,

In gen., to employ, invest money in some way:

patrimonium suum non effudit: in rei publicae salute collocavit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 3:

miliens sestertium eā munificentiā collocatum,

Tac. A. 6, 45.—

(Like the Gr. protithenai.) To lay out a dead body in state in the vestibulum:

aliquem sancte ac reverenter in hortis Domitiis,

Capitol. Anton. p. 5; v. Casaub. ad h. l.—

Trop. (in good prose; most freq. in Cic. and Quint.).

In gen., acc. to I. A., to place, set, station, dispose of, occupy, employ, put.

With in and abl.:

illum multa in pectore suo conlocare oportet,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 8:

res est videnda in tuto ut conlocetur,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 11; 4, 3, 17:

ut totos se in optimo vitae statu exquirendo collocarent,

employed, occupied themselves, Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 2; cf.:

totum se in cognitione et scientiā,

id. Off. 1, 44, 158:

sese palam in meretriciā vitā,

id. Cael. 20, 49:

philosophiam in urbibus,

id. Tusc. 5, 4, 10:

in animis ego vestris omnes triumphos meos condi et collocari volo,

to be placed, deposited, id. Cat. 3, 11, 26:

omne suum studium in doctrinā ac sapientiā,

to apply, employ, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 10, § 29:

spem in incerto reliqui temporis eventu,

id. Quint. 26, 83:

adulescentiam suam in amore et voluptatibus,

to employ, spend, id. Cael. 17, 39:

bonas horas male,

Mart. 1, 113, 3:

omnium longitudinum et brevitatum in sonis judicium ipsa natura in auribus nostris collocavit,

placed, Cic. Or. 51, 173:

in conspectu,

Quint. 7, 1, 4:

famam in tuto,

id. 12, 11, 7. —

With in and acc.:

in otium se,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 10:

homines quattuor In soporem,

to put into the sleep of death, id. Am. 1, 1, 148.—

With simple abl.:

et propriis verbis et ordine collocatis,

Quint. 9, 1, 7:

ordine collocati sensus,

id. 7, 10, 16. —

With other prepositions: est et in nominibus ex diverso collocatis sua gratia, Quint. 9, 3, 86.—

Absol., to set in order, arrange, etc.:

rem militarem,

Cic. Fam. 2, 13, 3:

aedilitas recte collocata,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 37:

tuā nobis auctoritate opus est ad collocandum aliquem civitatis statum,

id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 15, 12:

vix ut iis rebus, quas constituissent, conlocandis atque administrandis tempus daretur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 4: omnibus rebus confectis et collocatis, Auct. B. Alex. 33 fin. —In rhet.: verba collocata, i. e. in their relative positions (opp. simplicia), Cic. Or. 24, 80 sq.:

ut apte collocentur (verba),

Quint. 8, prooem. § 26; cf. id. § 31; 10, 2, 13; 8, 1, 1; 10. 1, 4;

9, 4, 1 al. —Rare: de cujus moderatione... in prioribus libris satis collocavi (= scripsi, dixi),

have brought forward, put forth, Tac. A. 6, 27 fin. —

Acc. to I. B. 2.: quamobrem melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos beneficium collocari puto, to put or place, as at interest, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70; id. Verr. 2, 5, 22, § 56:

bene,

id. Fam. 13, 28, 3; cf.:

ut pecuniae non quaerendae solum ratio est, verum etiam conlocandae... sic gloria et quaerenda et conlocanda ratione est,

id. Off. 2, 12, 42.

com-plĕo ( conp-), ēvi, ētum, 2 (contr. forms: complerunt, complerint, complerat, complesse, etc., for compleverunt, etc., very often), v. a. [pleo, whence suppleo, plenus], to fill up, fill full, fill out (class. in prose and poetry).

Lit., of material objects.

In gen., with acc. of place, vessel, etc., filled.

Alone:

hostes fossam complent,

Caes. B. G. 5, 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 16; Tac. H. 2, 25:

tune aut inane quicquam putes esse, cum ita conpleta et conferta sint omnia, ut, etc.,

Cic. Ac. 2, 40, 125:

metu, ne compleantur navigia,

Liv. 41, 3, 2:

deducunt socii navis et litora conplent,

Verg. A. 3, 71:

conplebant Laidos aedes (amatores),

Prop. 2, 6, 1:

corpora quae loca complerent,

occupy space, Lucr. 1, 522:

legiones cum loca Camporum complent,

id. 2, 324:

milites complent murum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 27:

vigiles domum Flavii complevere,

Tac. H. 3, 69; id. A. 15, 33:

scrobem ad medium,

Col. Arb. 4, 5:

non bene urnam,

Ov. M. 12, 616:

vascula,

Quint. 1, 2, 28:

paginam,

to fill out, write full, Cic. Att. 13, 34 fin.:

speluncas, of the winds,

Lucr. 6, 197.—

With abl. of material, etc.:

fossas sarmentis et virgultis,

Caes. B. G. 3, 18:

totum prope caelum... humano genere conpletum est,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28:

mundum animorum multitudine,

id. Div. 2, 58, 119:

bestiis omnium gentium circum conplere,

Liv. 44, 9, 4:

naufragorum trepidatione passim natantium flumen conpleverunt,

id. 42, 62, 6:

Hispanias Gallias Italiam monumentis ingentium rerum,

id. 30, 28, 4:

quos (gradus) ubi accusator concitatis hominibus complerat,

Cic. Clu. 34, 93:

munus Apolline dignum libris,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 217:

late loca milite,

Verg. A. 2, 495:

naves serpentibus,

Nep. Hann. 11, 6:

amphoras plumbo,

id. ib. 9, 3:

statuas aëneas pecuniā,

id. ib. 9, 3:

horrea messibus,

Luc. 3, 66:

complentur moenia et tecta maerentium turbā,

Tac. A. 3, 1:

Palatium multitudine et clamoribus complebant,

id. ib. 14, 61:

virgultibus et cratibus et corporibus exanimis complere lossas,

id. ib. 4, 51; cf.

also: et terrae... stirpium renovatione complentur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128.—

With gen.:

conviviumque vicinorum cottidie conpleo,

Cic. Sen. 14, 46:

cum completus jam mercatorum carcer esset,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 57, § 147:

quae causa... ararum conpleverit urbis,

Lucr. 5, 1162.—

Esp.

In milit. lang.

To make the army, a legion, etc., of a full number, to complete, fill up:

legiones in itinere,

Caes. B. C. 1, 25:

cohortes pro numero militum complet,

Sall. C. 56, 1; Nep. Milt. 5, 1:

legione completā per maniplos,

Sil. 8, 119.—

To man, fill with men:

classem Romanam sociis navalibus,

Liv. 24, 11, 9:

naves colonis pastoribusque,

Caes. B. C. 1, 56; cf.:

has (naves) sagittariis tormentisque compleverunt,

id. ib. 2, 4:

naves bis denas aut plures,

Verg. A. 11, 327 Serv.—

To fill, impregnate:

alias (mulieres),

Lucr. 4, 1249; 4, 1275.—

Transf., of light, sound, etc. (freq.).

To fill with light, maké full:

ut cuncta suā luce conpleat (sol),

Cic. Rep. 6, 17, 17:

mundum suā luce,

id. N. D. 2, 46, 119:

terras largā luce,

id. ib. 2, 19, 43:

orbem (luna),

Tib. 2, 4, 18:

lunae se cornua lumine complent,

Verg. A. 3, 645:

quod maria ac terras omnis caelumque rigando Conpleat (sol),

Lucr. 5, 595.—

To fill with sound, cause to resound, etc., to fill, make full:

omnia clamoribus,

Lucr. 4, 1014:

omnia vocibus,

id. 5, 1065:

nemus querellis,

id. 2, 358; cf.:

nemus timendā voce,

Hor. Epod. 6, 9:

aëra tinnitibus et murmure,

Ov. M. 14, 537:

atria ululatu,

id. ib. 5, 153:

atria fremitu,

id. ib. 5, 3 et saep.:

fremitu aequora,

Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 37:

aures (sonus),

Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18; cf. id. Agr. 3, 1, 3:

caelum clamore,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 798: aures sermonibus, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olyb. 31: clamor omnia variis terrentium ac paventium vocibus complet, Liv. 5, 21, 11.—

Of odors, etc.:

omnia primo motu ac spiritu suo, vini, unguenti, corporis odore complesset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 12, § 31; cf. Veg. Vet. 1, 17, 3. —

Transf., to cover, overwhelm:

Dianam (i. e. simulacrum) coronis et floribus,

i. e. to deck, adorn, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 77:

vortentibus Telebois telis conplebantur corpora,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 95.—

To fill, sate with food or drink:

multo cibo et potione,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:

se flore Liberi,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 8:

haec avis scribitur conchis se solere conplere,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 124.—

Trop.

To supply fully, furnish abundantly:

exercitum omni copiā,

Caes. B. C. 2, 25 fin. —

To fill with any notion, story, desire, humor, passion:

completi sunt animi auresque vestrae, me... obsistere, etc.,

Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 3:

reliquos (milites) bonā spe,

Caes. B. C. 2, 21:

aliquem gaudio,

Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 69:

taedio,

Quint. 8, 6, 14:

animos robore,

Luc. 5, 412:

omnia luctu,

Sall. C. 51, 9:

omnia terrore,

Liv. 34, 9, 13:

cuncta pavore,

Curt. 3, 13, 10 al. —With gen.:

aliquem erroris et dementiae,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 9:

aliquem flagitii et formidinis,

id. Men. 5, 5, 3.—

To make complete or perfect, to finish; of a promise, to fulfil it:

lustrationem (annuam) menstruo spatio (luna),

Cic. N. D. 1, 31, 87; cf. Verg. A. 5, 46:

his rebus completis legiones reduci jussit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 (Dinter, ex conj., comparatis):

nocturnum erat sacrum, ita ut ante mediam noctem conpleretur,

Liv. 23, 35, 15:

studia,

Gell. 13, 5:

conplent ea beatissimam vitam,

Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 71; cf. id. ib. 3, 13, 43; id. Tusc. 5, 16, 47:

summam promissi,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 49, § 116:

rerum humanarum sorte completā,

Curt. 10, 6, 6 al. —

Of time, to finish, complete:

Gorgias centum et septem conplevit annos,

Cic. Sen. 5, 13:

cum VII. et LXX. annos complesset,

Nep. Att. 21, 1:

Corvinus centesimum annum complevit,

Val. Max. 8, 13, 1; Lact. Op. Dei, 4, 3; cf.:

sua fata,

Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 77:

sua tempora,

id. M. 15, 816:

quinque saecula vitae suae,

id. ib. 15, 395:

materna tempora,

i. e. the time of pregnancy, id. ib. 3, 312; cf. id. ib. 11, 311:

semel quadrigis, semel desultore misso, vix unius horae tempus utrumque curriculum conplebat,

Liv. 44, 9, 4.—Hence, complētus, a, um, P. a.

Prop., filled full, full: alveus Tiberis ruderibus, * Suet. Aug. 30.—

Trop., complete, perfect:

completus et perfectus verborum ambitus,

Cic. Or. 50, 168.—

* Comp., Gell. 1, 7, 20.

com-prĕhendo ( conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3, v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).

Prop.

In gen.:

quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?

Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92:

(vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur,

Cels. 4, 1 fin.:

cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit,

id. 7, 12, 1:

mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum),

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46:

morsu guttura,

Luc. 4, 727:

nuces modio,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

naves,

to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.:

oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt,

Cels. 7, 4, 3:

comprehendunt utrumque et orant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31:

ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,

Verg. A. 2, 794; cf.

aures,

Tib. 2, 5, 92:

nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme,

let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.:

naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae,

assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39:

ignem,

to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43;

and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit,

Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.:

opera flammā comprehensa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and:

avidis comprenditur ignibus agger,

Ov. M. 9, 234:

loca vallo,

Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.:

comprehensa aedificia,

Liv. 26, 27, 3.—

In partic.

To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:

aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere,

Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20:

tam capitalem hostem,

Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3:

hominem,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14:

nefarios duces,

id. Cat. 3, 7, 16:

Virginium,

Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1:

praesidium Punicum,

id. 26, 14, 7:

hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25:

in fugā,

id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease:

comprehensus morbo,

Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.:

comprehensi pestiferā lue,

id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon:

aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt,

Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin. —

Of things, to intercept' -epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—

To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:

fures,

Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence,

Transf. to the crime:

nefandum adulterium,

to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72:

res ejus indicio,

id. Clu. 16, 47.—

Of plants, to take root; of a graft:

cum comprehendit (surculus),

Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so,

in gen.,

Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—

Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:

si mulier non comprehendit, etc.,

Cels. 5, 21 fin. —

Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:

ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis,

Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3:

circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit,

Curt. 6, 6, 24. —

In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:

aliquid melle,

Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—

Of the range of a missile:

quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo,

Sil. 4, 102.—

Of the reach of a surgical instrument:

si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit,

Cels. 8, 3 init. —

Trop.

To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):

aliquid visu,

Sil. 3, 408;

and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices,

Gell. 13, 30, 10.—

To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:

omnes animo virtutes,

id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64:

animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus,

id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.:

omnia animis et cogitatione,

id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136:

aliquid mente,

id. N. D. 3, 8, 21:

aliquid memoriā,

id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121:

qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere,

id. ib. 1, 22, 50:

aliquid certis signis,

Col. 6, 24, 3:

aliquid experimentis assiduis,

Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.:

esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18:

virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse,

id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—

To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:

breviter paucis comprendere multa,

Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.:

breviter comprehensa sententia,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91:

comprehendam brevi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34:

perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

(Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat,

id. Att. 12, 21, 1:

ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam,

id. Brut. 8, 34:

in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa,

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

emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt,

Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.:

ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19:

aliquid dictis,

Ov. M. 13, 160:

quae si comprendere coner,

id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —

Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:

neque enim numero comprendere refert,

Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.:

numerum quorum comprendere non est,

id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—

To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;

mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc.,

to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

adulescentem humanitate tuā,

id. Fam. 13, 15, 3:

quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit,

id. Planc. 19. 47.—

To shut in, include (late Lat.):

spiritum in effigiem,

Lact. 4, 8, 9:

elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae,

id. 2, 6, 1.

con-sisto, stĭti, stĭtum, 3, v. n., to place one's self anywhere, to stand still, stand, halt, stop, make a stop (very freq. and class. in prose and poetry).

Lit.

In gen.:

jam hunc non ausim praeterire, quin consistam et conloquar,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 14:

otiose nunc jam ilico hic consiste,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 2:

ubi ad ipsum veni diverticulum, constiti,

id. Eun. 4, 2, 7; cf. Hor. S. 1, 9, 62:

uti et viatores consistere cogant,

Caes. B. G. 4, 5:

neque is (Demosthenes) consistens in loco, sed inambulans atque ascensu ingrediens arduo,

Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 261:

si ludius constitit aut tibicen repente conticuit,

id. Har. Resp. 11, 23; cf. id. Arch. 8, 19:

plura scribam ad te cum constitero: nunc eram plane in medio mari,

id. Att. 5, 12, 3: constitit nusquam primo quam ad Vada venit, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 2:

in quibus oppidis consistere praetores et conventum agere solebant,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 28:

Romae post praeturam,

id. ib. 2, 1, 39, §

101: ire modo ocius, interdum consistere,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 9:

in muro consistendi potestas erat nulli,

Caes. B. G. 2, 6:

omnes ordines, tota in illā contione Italia constitit,

Cic. Sest. 50, 107:

ad mensam consistere et ministrare,

id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61; so,

ad aras,

Ov. M. 10, 274:

ad ramos,

id. ib. 10, 510:

ante domum,

id. ib. 2, 766:

ante torum,

id. ib. 15, 653:

in aede,

id. ib. 15, 674:

in medio,

id. ib. 10, 601; and with a simple abl.:

limine,

id. ib. 4, 486; 9, 397; Stat. Th. 1, 123; Verg. A. 1, 541:

post eum,

Quint. 1, 10, 27:

in pedes,

Sen. Ep. 121, 9:

calce aliquem super ipsum debere consistere,

trample on, Cels. 8, 14, 19.—

In partic.

To set, become hard or solid:

frigore constitit Ister,

has been frozen, Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 1; cf.

unda,

id. M. 9, 662: sanguis, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 38:

alvus,

Cato, R. R. 126; 156, 4; cf.:

cum jam perfecte mustum deferbuit et constitit,

Col. 12, 21, 3:

album ex ovo, quo facilius consistat,

Cels. 4, 20, 15.—

Cum aliquo, to station or place one's self with some one for conversation, to stand with:

in hoc jam loco cum altero Constitit,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 31; id. Curc. 4, 2, 16 sq.:

cum hoc consistit, hunc amplexatur,

Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 19.—

To take one's place, take position, assume a place or attitude for an action, etc.;

of a musician: ut constitit,

Suet. Ner. 21;

of an actor: in scaenā vero postquam solus constitit,

Phaedr. 5, 5, 13;

of an orator: in communibus suggestis,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

Aesopus mediā subito in turbā constitit,

Phaedr. 4, 5, 29;

for shooting: post acer Mnestheus adducto constitit arcu,

Verg. A. 5, 507; cf.

of athletes, etc.,

id. ib. 5, 426; Plin. 7, 20, 19, § 83:

inter duas acies,

Liv. 7, 10, 9:

cum aliquo,

Petr. 19, 5.—Hence,

Milit. t. t., to halt, make a halt, take a position, to make a stand (opp. to a march, flight, or disorder):

locus, ubi constitissent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

qui in superiore acie constiterant,

id. ib. 1, 24; cf.:

in sinistrā parte acies,

id. ib. 2, 23:

in fluctibus,

id. ib. 4, 24:

sub muro,

id. ib. 7, 48:

juxta,

id. ib. 2, 26 al.:

pro opere,

Sall. J. 92, 8:

equites Ariovisti pari intervallo constiterunt,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43:

constitit utrumque agmen,

Liv. 21, 46, 4:

sic regii constiterant,

id. 42, 58, 10 et saep.:

ut reliquae (legiones) consistere non auderent,

Caes. B. G. 2, 17:

in locis superioribus consistere,

id. ib. 3, 6:

a fugā,

Liv. 10, 36, 11:

naves eorum nostris adversae constiterunt,

Caes. B. G. 3, 14.—

Jurid. t. t., to appear as accuser before a court of justice:

cum debitoribus,

Dig. 5, 3, 49:

cum matre,

Sen. Ira, 2, 7, 3:

adversus dominos,

Dig. 5, 1, 53.—

Poet.:

fert animus propius consistere,

i. e. take a nearer view, Ov. A. A. 3, 467.—

To have a stand as a dealer, occupy a place of business:

ede ubi consistas,

Juv. 3, 296:

in tabernā,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 5 Müll.:

IN SCHOLA,

Inscr. Orell. 4085; cf.:

locum consistendi Romanis in Galliā non fore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37; 7, 42.—

Trop.

In gen., to rest, remain, stand, Lucr. 2, 332; cf. id. 2, 322:

patiamini eo transire illius turpitudinis infamiam, ubi cetera maleficia consistunt,

Cic. Clu. 30, 83; cf.:

ut unde orta culpa esset, ibi poena consisteret,

Liv. 28, 26, 3:

ante oculos rectum pietasque pudorque constiterant,

Ov. M. 7, 73. —

In partic.

To pause, to dwell upon, delay, stop:

in uno nomine,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 38, § 95:

ipsa mihi veritas manum inicit et paulisper consistere et commorari cogit,

id. Rosc. Com. 16, 48; cf. id. de Or. 3, 31, 124:

in singulis,

id. Part. Or. 35, 120.— Impers. pass.:

ista quae spectantur, ad quae consistitur,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 2, 4.—

(Acc. to I. B. 2.) To be or remain firm, unshaken, immovable, steadfast, to be at rest, to stand one's ground, to continue, endure, subsist, be, exist:

mente consistere,

Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 68; so,

neque mente nec linguā neque ore,

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

praeclare in forensibus causis,

id. Or. 9, 30:

in dicendo,

id. Clu. 39, 108:

verbo quidem superabis me ipso judice, re autem ne consistes quidem ullo judice,

id. Caecin. 21, 59; cf.

of the cause itself: quia magistratus aliquis reperiebatur, apud quem Alfeni causa consisteret,

id. Quint. 22, 71; cf.

also: modo ut tibi constiterit fructus otii tui,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 1:

in quo (viro) non modo culpa nulla, sed ne suspitio quidem potuit consistere,

id. Rosc. Am. 52, 152; cf. id. Clu. 29, 78:

confiteor... me consistere in meo praesidio sic, ut non fugiendi hostis sed capiendi loci causā cessisse videar,

id. de Or. 2, 72, 294:

vitam consistere tutam,

to remain, continue safe, Lucr. 6, 11 Lachm. N. cr.:

constitit in nullā qui fuit ante color,

Ov. A. A. 1, 120:

sunt certi denique fines, Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 107; Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 68:

quales cum vertice celso Aëriae quercus constiterunt,

Verg. A. 3, 679:

nullo in loco, nullā in personā... consistunt (ista quae vires atque opes humanae vocantur),

Val. Max. 6, 9, ext. 7: spes est hunc miserum aliquando tandem posse consistere, to take a firm stand (the figure derived from fleeing soldiers), Cic. Quint. 30, 94:

si prohibent consistere vires,

Ov. M. 7, 573.—

Cum aliquo, to agree with: videsne igitur Zenonem tuum cum Aristone verbis consistere, re dissidere, cum Aristotele et illis re consentire, verbis discrepare, Cic. Fin. 4, 26, 72.—

In gen., to be, exist:

vix binos oratores laudabiles constitisse,

Cic. Brut. 97, 333:

sine agricultoribus nec consistere mortales nec ali posse manifestum est,

Col. 1, praef. § 6; Varr. R. R. 3, 8 fin.:

quadringentis centum Venerios non posse casu consistere,

to occur, lake place, be thrown, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48: summa studia officii inter nos certatim constiterunt, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 3: sed non in te quoque constitit idem Exitus, take or have place, Ov. M. 12, 297.—

With in, ex, or the simple abl. (in Quint. also with circa and inter; v. infra), to consist in or of, to depend upon:

major pars victūs eorum in lacte, caseo, carne consistit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 22:

omnis per se natura duabus Constitit in rebus,

Lucr. 1, 420:

e quibus haec rerum summa consistat,

id. 1, 236; so with ex, id. 1, 839; 1, 873 al.; with abl.:

deveniunt in talis disposturas, Qualibus haec rerum consistit summa,

id. 1, 1028; 5, 61; 5, 66:

vita omnis in venationibus atque in studiis rei militaris consistit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 21:

in eo salus et vita optimi cujusque consistit,

Cic. Phil. 3, 8, 19:

in hoc summa judicii causaque tota consistit,

id. Quint. 9, 32; cf. id. de Or. 1, 40, 182:

causam belli in personā tuā,

id. Phil. 2, 22, 53:

in quibus vita beata,

id. Tusc. 5, 14, 40:

in unā honestate omne bonum,

id. ib. 5, 14, 42:

in nomine controversia,

Quint. 7, 3, 7; 8, 3, 57:

in actu rhetoricen,

id. 2, 18, 2; 6, 3, 42:

spes omnis consistebat Datami in se locique naturā,

Nep. Dat. 8, 3.—With abl., Quint. 12, 10, 59:

omnis quaestio circa res personasque consistere videtur,

id. 3, 5, 7; 6, 3, 19:

quaestio inter utile atque honestum consistet,

id. 3, 8, 24. —

As opp. to progressive motion, to come to a stand, stand still, stop, rest, take rest, cease:

sola Ubi quiesco, omnis familiae causa consistit tibi,

Plaut. As. 3, 1, 9:

omnis administratio belli consistit,

Caes. B. C. 2, 12:

vel concidat omne caelum omnisque terra consistat necesse est,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 23, 54:

forensium rerum labor et ambitionis occupatio constitisset,

id. de Or. 1, 1, 1:

usura,

id. Att. 6, 1, 7: diarroia, id. Fam. 7, 26, 2; cf.:

videndum, morbus an increscat, an consistat, an minuatur,

remains unchanged, Cels. 3, 2; and:

cursus pituitae,

id. 6, 6:

cum ad Trebiam terrestre constitisset bellum,

Liv. 21, 49, 1:

cum bellum Ligustinum ad Pisas constitisset,

id. 35, 4, 1; 22, 32, 4:

infractaque constitit ira,

Ov. M. 6, 627:

Gaius ejusque posteri in equestri ordine constitere usque ad Augusti patrem,

Suet. Aug. 2; cf.:

maledictum, quod intra verba constitit,

stopped at, went no farther than, Quint. Decl. 279.

a. = constituo formerly stood Lucr. 6, 11; Sall. J. 49, 6; but these passages are corrected in recent editions. It is now found only Gell. 5, 10, 9, a doubtful passage, where Hertz reads: cum ad judices coniiciendae [consistendae] causae gratiā venissent.

dē-tĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [teneo], to hold off, keep back, detain.

Lit. (class.):

nos de nostro negotio,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 190:

aliquem ab aliquo incepto studioque,

Sall. C. 4, 2:

aliquem apud villam,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 13: so,

aliquem,

id. Men. 4, 2, 22; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 49; Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 5 (with demorari), Caes. B. C. 2, 17, 3 Oud. N. cr.; Liv. 4, 55 (opp. concire); Verg. A. 2, 788; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 5:

me grata compede Myrtale,

id. Od. 1, 33, 14; Ov. M. 13, 301 et saep.:

novissimos proelio,

Caes. B. C. 3, 75, 4; cf.:

Hannibalem quam acerrimo bello,

Liv. 27, 12:

se miserandis alimentis detinuerat,

had supported himself, Tac. A. 6, 23:

naves tempestatibus detinebantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 12 fin.; cf.:

rates voce canora,

Ov. A. A. 3, 311:

iter iratae anguis (cantus),

Tib. 1, 8, 20:

illum ne discederet,

Vulg. Luc. 4, 42.—

Trop.

In gen. ( poet.), to delay, i. e. lengthen:

euntem multa loquendo Detinuit sermone diem,

Ov. M. 1, 683; cf.

tempus,

id. Pont. 4, 10, 67.—

Esp., to occupy, engage (also class.):

in alienis negotiis detineri,

Cic. Inv. 2, 45, 132; cf. Quint. 10, 5, 17:

in contumelia,

Tac. A. 13, 36 fin.:

in admiratione sui,

Suet. Ner. 52:

manus in lyricis modis,

Ov. F. 5, 386:

mentes hominum circa alia,

Plin. H. N. 14 prooem. §

4: animum studiis,

Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 39:

oculos (mea poëmata),

id. ib. 2, 520; cf. Quint. 9, 2, 63:

animos in timore,

Hirt. B. Afr. 72, 3.—

To hold in the mind, know:

veritatem Dei in injustitia,

Vulg. Rom. 1, 18.

dis-tĭnĕo, tĭnŭi, tentum, 2, v. a. [teneo].

To keep asunder, to separate, divide.

Lit.:

tigna binis utrimque fibulis ab extrema parte distinebantur,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 7; Vitr. 3, 3:

mare, quod late terrarum distinet oras,

Lucr. 5, 203; 5, 690:

duo freta Isthmos,

Ov. H. 8, 69 Heins.; cf. id. ib. 12, 104; Luc. 4, 675: quem Notus spatio longius annuo Dulci distinet a domo, [p. 598] Hor. C. 4, 5, 12.—

Trop., to divide mentally; to distract, perplex:

distineor et divellor dolore,

Cic. Planc. 33, 79:

duae factiones senatum distinebant,

Liv. 9, 16, 6; cf. id. 5, 20, 4; Tac. H. 1, 32:

unanimos,

Liv. 7, 21:

ancipiti bello distinere regem,

id. 44, 20. —Esp. freq.,

In gen., to hold off, keep back, keep asunder, hinder, detain, prevent; to occupy, engage, employ, divert:

legiones a praesidio interclusas maximum flumen distinebat,

Caes. B. G. 7, 59, 5:

manus hostium,

id. ib. 2, 5, 2:

manum,

id. ib. 3, 11, 4; id. B. C. 3, 52, 1:

copias Caesaris,

id. ib. 3, 44, 2:

Volscos,

Liv. 4, 59:

Parthos Hyrcano bello,

Tac. A. 14, 25:

Britannicum militem hoste et mari,

id. H. 2, 32 et saep.:

in multitudine judiciorum et novis legibus distineri,

Cic. Fam. 7, 2 fin.; cf. id. ib. 12, 30, 2; id. Att. 2, 23:

distineri litibus,

Nep. Att. 9, 4:

ad omnia tuenda multifariam distineri,

Liv. 21, 8:

quominus strueret crimina distineri,

Tac. A. 11, 12.—

Transf., of inanimate objects:

pacem,

to hinder, prevent, Cic. Phil. 12, 12, 28; Liv. 2, 15 fin.:

victoriam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 37, 3:

rem,

Liv. 37, 12.—Hence, distentus, a, um, P. a., engaged, busied, occupied:

tot tantisque negotiis,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 22; id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 3; Plin. Ep. 6, 18, 1 al.:

te distentissimum esse qua de Buthrotiis, qua de Bruto,

Cic. Att. 15, 18:

circa summa scelera,

Tac. A. 16, 8 fin. —Of abstract subjects:

mens divina,

Cic. N. D. 3, 39 fin.:

tempus distentum impeditumque maximis officiis,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 7.— Comp. and adv. seem not to occur.

di-stringo, nxi, ctum, 3, v. a.

To draw asunder, to stretch out (very rarely): radiis rotarum districti pendent, * Verg. A. 6, 616.— Poet.:

(canum) rabies districta,

i. e. showing the teeth, Lucr. 5, 1064; cf.:

acies dentium,

Amm. 14, 7, 13.—Far more freq., esp. since the Aug. per. (not in Caesar, and in Cicero only as P. a.),

(Like distineo, II.) To detain a person anywhere, to hinder, to occupy, engage:

Romanum a tergo,

Flor. 2, 13, 1:

urbem (i. e. Romanos) incendiis,

id. 4, 1, 2:

distringit quem multarum rerum varietas,

Phaedr. 4, 26, 3; cf. Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 239:

distringor officio,

id. Ep. 1, 10, 9; cf. id. ib. 7, 15, 1; Quint. 12, 1, 5:

(Jovem) votis,

to molest, importune, Plin. Pan. 94, 2.—Esp. as milit. t. t., to make a diversion against an enemy, to distract the attention of:

Hannibalem mittendum in Africam esse ad distringendos Romanos,

Liv. 35, 18 fin.:

copias regias populatione maritimae orae,

id. 44, 35; cf.:

Scipionem oppugnatione plurium oppidorum,

Front. Strat. 1, 3, 5.—

To puzzle, confound:

ut distrinxi hominem,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 1, 65 (Spengel, destrinxi).—

Transf., of abstract objects:

ut discordiam moveret, qua consensus Romanorum distringeretur,

would be hindered, disturbed, Front. Strat. 1, 8, 1 Oud. N. cr. —Hence, districtus, a, um, P. a.

(Qs. stretched tight, i. e.) Strict, severe (post-Aug.):

districtior accusator,

Tac. A. 4, 36 fin.:

feneratrix (opp. amica obsequens),

Val. Max. 8, 2, 2:

censura,

id. 2, 9, 6:

districtissimi defensores,

Cod. Just. 1, 55, 6.—

Divided in mind, at strife with one's self; hence, hesitating, vacillating:

districtus mihi videris esse, quod et bonus civis et bonus amicus es,

Cic. Fam. 2, 15, 3.—

More freq. and class., occupied, engaged, busy:

judicio districtus atque obligatus,

Cic. Verr. 1, 9; cf.

(vinculo mortali) alii alligati sunt, alii astricti, alii districti quoque,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 16 fin.:

ancipiti contentione,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 4, 9:

labore vita districta,

id. de Or. 3, 2, 7; Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. 1; * Hor. S. 2, 8, 68; Nep. Hann. 13, 2; cf.:

imperium circa mala sua,

Flor. 4, 12, 1; and in the comp.:

numquam me a causis et judiciis districtiorem fuisse,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 16.— Adv. acc. to A., strictly, severely.

districte ( des-):

minatus,

Plin. Ep. 9, 21, 4:

deneganda,

Dig. 3, 3, 13.—

districtim:

innocens,

Sen. Contr. 7.—

Comp.:

districtius: repercutere,

Tert. Idol. 5:

vivere,

Hier. Ep. 22, no. 11.— Sup., Cassiod. Var. 9, 18.