to+throw

per-verto ( pervorto), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn around or about, to overturn, overthrow, throw down (class.).

Lit.: pinus proceras pervortunt, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 196 Vahl.):

(coqui) aulas pervortunt,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 1, 16:

turrim ballistā,

id. Bacch. 4, 4, 59:

tum visam beluam immanem, quàcunque incederet, arbusta, virgulta, tecta pervertere,

Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49:

perversae rupes,

broken, craggy rocks, Liv. 21, 33.—

Esp., in wrestling or boxing, to throw down, knock down; hence:

si rex opstabit ob viam, regem ipsum prius pervortito,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 14.—

Trop.

To overthrow, subvert; to destroy, ruin, undo, corrupt:

cito homo pervorti potest,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 52:

labefactare atque pervertere amicitiam aut justitiam,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

quidam, propositis malorum et bonorum finibus, omne officium perverterunt,

id. Off. 1, 2, 5:

omnia jura divina atque humana,

id. ib. 1, 8, 26:

ipse (Quinctius) postquam Junium pervertit, totam causam reliquit,

id. Quint. 39, 108:

hostium vim se perversurum putavit, pervertit autem suam,

id. Div. 2, 56, 115; id. Brut. 79, 273:

aliquem amicitiā alicujus,

Tac. A. 13, 45:

aliquem,

id. H. 3, 38:

aliquos et ambitio pervertet,

Quint. 12, 8, 2.—

To put down, confute, silence one (in allusion to the meaning I. B. supra):

nemo umquam me tenuissimā suspicione perstrinxit, quem non perverterim ac perfregerim,

Cic. Sull. 16, 47:

numquam ille me opprimet consilio, numquam ullo artificio pervertet,

id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44.—Hence, perver-sus ( pervorsus), a, um, P. a., turned the wrong way, askew, awry (cf. praeposterus).

Lit.: rectus perversusque partus, Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

perversas induit comas,

gets her false hair on awry, Ov. A. A. 3, 246:

pondere capitum perversa ova,

Plin. 10, 16, 18, § 38: perversa vestis, i. e. pulla, Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 5:

Roscius erat perversissimis oculis, quales sunt strabonum,

dreadfully squint-eyed, Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 79.—

Trop., perverse, not right, wrong, evil, bad:

dies pervorsus atque advorsus,

Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 1:

nihil pravum et perversum,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 30:

quid magis inquinatum, deformatum, perversum, conturbatum dici potest,

id. Har. Resp. 12, 25:

homo praeposterus atque perversus,

id. Clu. 26, 71:

sapientia,

id. Mur. 36, 75:

mos,

id. Rosc. Com. 18, 56:

bellum Contra fata deūm perverso numine poscunt,

Verg. A. 7, 584:

perversa grammaticorum subtilitas,

Plin. 35, 3, 4, § 13:

ambitio,

Quint. 10, 7, 21:

generatio perversa,

wicked, Vulg. Deut. 32, 20 et saep. —As subst.: perversum, i, n., a wrong, evil:

in perversum sollers,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 5, 3.—Hence, adv.: perversē ( pervor-sē), awry, the wrong way.

Lit.:

sella curulis in senatu perverse collocata,

Suet. Galb. 18.—

Trop., perversely, wrongly, badly, ill: dicere, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4, 3 (Trag. v. 229 Vahl.); so,

dicere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150:

erras pervorse, pater,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 36:

interpretari,

id. Truc. 1, 2, 41:

si quid fleri pervorse videt,

id. Pers. 3, 1, 40:

vides,

id. Merc. 2, 2, 20: si quid perverse tetreque factum est, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 23, 4:

uti deorum beneficio,

Cic. N. D. 3, 28, 70:

imitari,

id. Off. 3, 32, 113:

quiescite agere perverse,

Vulg. Isa. 1, 16.— Comp.:

perversius,

Tert. Apol. 2.— Sup.:

perversissime suspicari,

Hier. in Matt. 1, 25.

prō̆-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out or forth, to shed copiously, to cause to flow (class.).

Lit.:

sanguinem suum profundere omnem cupit, dummodo profusum hujus ante videat,

Cic. Clu. 6, 18:

sanguinem pro patriā,

id. Fin. 2, 19, 60; 2, 30, 97:

vim lacrimarum,

id. Rep. 6, 14, 14:

lacrimas oculis,

Verg. A. 12, 154; Ov. M. 9, 679; 7, 91; Sen. Med. 541:

sanguinem ex oculis,

Plin. 10, 60, 79, § 164:

aquam,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 29:

vinum,

id. Curc. 1, 1, 92:

vina deo tamquam sitienti,

Lact. 2, 4, 13; 6, 1, 5:

aquas sub mensas,

Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 26. —With se, to burst or gush forth:

lacrimae se subito profuderunt,

Cic. Ac. 11, 7, 6.—

Transf.

To stretch at full length, to prostrate ( poet.):

cum somnus membra profudit,

Lucr. 4, 757:

praecipites profusae in terram,

id. 6, 744.—Mid.: profusus, abjectus jacens. Pacuvius: profusus gemitu, murmure, stretched at full length, Paul. ex Fest. p. 228 Müll. (Trag. Rel. v. 321 Rib.). —

To pour or cast out, bring forth, produce (class.): posticā parte profudit, Lucil. ap. Non. 217, 16:

(puerum) ex alvo matris natura profudit,

Lucr. 5, 225:

sonitus,

id. 6, 401:

ignes,

id. 6, 210:

omnia ex ore,

id. 6, 6:

pectore voces,

to pour forth, utter, Cat. 64, 202:

vocem,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 56:

clamorem,

id. Fl. 6, 15; id. Leg. 1, 8, 25:

voces,

Cat. 64, 202:

vitia,

Suet. Tib. 42:

dolorem,

Vop. Aur. 1:

palmites,

Col. 5, 5, 17.—

With se, to pour forth, rush forth or out; of bees:

cum se nova profundent examina,

Col. 9, 3;

of archers: omnis multitudo sagittariorum se profudit,

Caes. B. C. 3, 93;

of luxuriant plants: ea, quae se nimium profuderunt,

have shot out, sent out shoots, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88:

profundit se supra modum numerus palmitum,

Col. 7, 24, 4.—

Trop., to cast or throw away:

ventis verba profundere,

Lucr. 4, 931:

quae si non profundere ac perdere videbor,

Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 17.—

In partic.

In a bad sense, spend uselessly; to lavish, dissipate, squander:

profundat, perdat, pereat,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 54; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 67, § 155:

patrimonia,

id. Cat. 2, 5, 10:

pecunias in res,

id. Off. 2, 16, 55.—

In a good sense, to spend, sacrifice:

non modo pecuniam, sed vitam etiam profundere pro patriā,

Cic. Off. 1, 24, 84.—

Esp., of life, to yield, give up:

animam,

Cic. Marc. 10, 32:

si pateretur natura, vel denas animas profundere praestabat in pugnā, quam, etc.,

Amm. 26, 10, 13:

spiritum in acie,

Val. Max. 6, 3, 3.—

To pour out, vent; to expend, exert, employ; to set forth, show, explain:

odium in aliquem,

Cic. Pis. 7, 16:

omnes profudi vires animi atque ingenii mei,

id. Att. 1, 18, 2:

res universas,

to set forth, explain, id. Ac. 2, 27, 87.—

With se, to pour itself forth, i. e. to rush forth, break out:

voluptates cum inclusae diutius, subito se nonnumquam profundunt atque eiciunt universae,

Cic. Cael. 31, 75:

si totum se ille in me profudisset,

had wholly poured himself out to me, had been liberal, id. Att. 7, 3, 3:

in questus flebiles sese in vestibulo curiae profuderunt,

Liv. 23, 20, 5.—Hence, prŏ-fūsus, a, um, P. a.

Lit., spread out, extended, hanging down (ante- and postclass.):

cauda profusa usque ad calces,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5.— Comp.:

equi coma et cauda profusior,

longer, Pall. 4, 13.—

Trop.

Lavish, extravagant, profuse (class.; cf.

prodigus): perditus ac profusus nepos,

Cic. Quint. 12, 40:

reus,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 20.—With gen.:

alieni appetens, sui profusus,

lavish of his own, Sall. C. 5, 4.—With in and abl.:

simul ad jacturam temporis ventum est, profusissimi in eo, cujus unius honesta avaritia est,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 3, 2.—Of things abstr. and concr.:

profusis sumptibus vivere,

Cic. Quint. 30, 93:

profusa luxuria in aedificiis,

Vell. 2, 33, 4.—

In a good sense, liberal ( poet.):

mens profusa,

Stat. S. 3, 1, 91:

homo,

Mart. 8, 38, 11.—

Costly, expensive:

amare profusas epulas,

Cic. Mur. 36, 76:

convivia,

Suet. Tit. 7.—

Immoderate, excessive, extravagant:

profusa hilaritas,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 7, 15:

genus jocandi,

id. Off. 1, 29, 103:

cupido,

Tac. H. 1, 52.— Sup.:

profusissima libido,

Suet. Claud. 53.— Adv.: prŏfūsē.

Lit., lavishly, extravagantly, profusely (post-Aug.):

aedes profuse exstructa,

at an immoderate expense, Suet. Aug. 72.— Sup.:

festos et solemnes dies profusissime celebrabat,

Suet. Aug. 75.—

Trop.

In disorder, confusedly:

consul obstitit profuse tendentibus suis in castra,

Liv. 10, 36.—

Immoderately, excessively:

profuse prolixeque laudare,

Gell. 5, 1, 2.— Comp.:

eo profusius sumptui deditus erat,

Sall. C. 13, 5.

rĕ-gĕro, gessi, gestum, 3, v. a., to bear, carry, or bring back (freq. only after the Aug. per.).

Lit.:

si summa terra sublata ex fundo meo et alia regesta esset,

Dig. 7, 4, 24 fin.:

terram e fossā,

Liv. 44, 11:

tellurem,

to throw back, Ov. M. 11, 188:

humum,

to throw up, Col. 11, 3, 5; cf. subst.:

rĕgestum, i, n., earth thrown up, id. 11, 3, 10; 4, 1, 3; 3, 13, 8:

radios,

Plin. 37, 9, 47, § 131; Sen. Ep. 15, 3:

decoquunt in ahenis levi igni duas partes (amurcae) quoad regerant,

i. e. cause to fly off, evaporate, Varr. R. R. 1, 64, 2.—

Transf., of written remarks, to enter, transcribe, record, register:

aliquid in commentarios,

Quint. 2, 11, 7:

scholas in hos commentarios,

id. 3, 6, 59.— Hence, in late Lat.: rĕgesta, ōrum, n., subst., a list, catalogue, register, Vop. Prob. 2, § 2; Prud. steph. 10, 1131.—

Trop., to throw or cast back, to retort (cf. refero): Stoicos, Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 1; cf. Plin. 13, 15, 29, § 91:

convicia,

Hor. S. 1, 7, 29:

contagia regerimus,

wish away from us, Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 35:

invidiam in aliquem,

Quint. 11, 1, 22; so,

invidiam,

Tac. H. 3, 78:

crimen ipsi,

Sen. Hippol. 720:

culpam in illos,

to throw the blame on them, Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 2.

rĕgestum, i, v. regero, I.

rĕgestum, i, n., earth thrown up, id. 11, 3, 10; 4, 1, 3; 3, 13, 8:

radios,

Plin. 37, 9, 47, § 131; Sen. Ep. 15, 3:

decoquunt in ahenis levi igni duas partes (amurcae) quoad regerant,

i. e. cause to fly off, evaporate, Varr. R. R. 1, 64, 2.—

Transf., of written remarks, to enter, transcribe, record, register:

aliquid in commentarios,

Quint. 2, 11, 7:

scholas in hos commentarios,

id. 3, 6, 59.— Hence, in late Lat.: rĕgesta, ōrum, n., subst., a list, catalogue, register, Vop. Prob. 2, § 2; Prud. steph. 10, 1131.—

Trop., to throw or cast back, to retort (cf. refero): Stoicos, Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 15, 19, 1; cf. Plin. 13, 15, 29, § 91:

convicia,

Hor. S. 1, 7, 29:

contagia regerimus,

wish away from us, Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 35:

invidiam in aliquem,

Quint. 11, 1, 22; so,

invidiam,

Tac. H. 3, 78:

crimen ipsi,

Sen. Hippol. 720:

culpam in illos,

to throw the blame on them, Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 2.

rĕgestum, i, v. regero, I.

rējecto, āvi, 1, v. freq. a. [id.].

To throw or cast back (very rare):

montes Icti rejectant voces ad sidera mundi,

Lucr. 2, 328; Sil. 7, 421:

caseum Alpinum rejectavit,

cast up, vomited, Spart. Anton. 12.—

To throw away again:

praedam,

Sil. 7, 722.

spargo, si, sum, 3 (old inf. spargier, Hor. C. 4, 11, 8), v. a. [Sanscr. root sparç, to touch, sprinkle; M. H. Germ. Sprengen; cf. Gr. speirô], to strew, throw here and there, cast, hurl, or throw about, scatter; to bestrew; to sprinkle, spatter, wet; to bespatter, bedew, moisten, etc. (freq. and class.; syn. sero).

Lit., in gen.:

semen,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 18, 50:

semina,

id. Div. 1, 3, 6; Quint. 1, 3, 5; 2, 9, 3; Ov. M. 5, 647:

humi, mortalia semina, dentes,

id. ib. 3, 105:

per humum, nova semina, dentes,

id. ib. 4, 573:

vipereos dentes in agros,

id. ib. 7, 122:

nummos populo de Rostris,

Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 16:

venena,

id. Cat. 2, 10, 23:

nuces,

Verg. E. 8, 30:

flores,

id. A. 6, 884; Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 14:

rosas,

id. C. 3, 19, 22:

frondes,

id. ib. 3, 18, 14: hastati spargunt hastas, cast or hurl about, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 287 Vahl.): hastas, id. ap. Macr. 6, 4:

tela,

Verg. A. 12, 51; Ov. M. 12, 600:

harenam pedibus,

Verg. E. 3, 87; id. A. 9, 629 et saep.— Absol.: sagittarius cum funditore utrimque spargunt, hurl, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1.—

Esp., of liquids, to sprinkle, scatter:

umorem passim toto terrarum in orbi,

Lucr. 6, 629:

cruorem,

id. 2, 195:

per totam domum aquas,

Hor. Epod. 5, 26 et saep.—

Transf., to bestrew, strew, scatter upon:

spargite humum foliis,

bestrew, strew, Verg. E. 5, 40; so,

virgulta fimo pingui,

id. G. 2, 347:

molā caput salsā,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 200:

gruem sale multo,

id. ib. 2, 8, 87:

(jus) croco,

id. ib. 2, 4, 68:

umerum capillis,

id. C. 3, 20, 14:

tempora canis,

Ov. M. 8, 567 al. —

To besprinkle, sprinkle, moisten, wet, etc.: saxa spargens tabo, sanie et sanguine atro, sprinkling, wetting, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107; id. Pis. 19, 43 (Trag. v. 414 Vahl.):

aras sanguine multo quadrupedum,

Lucr. 5, 1202:

aram immolato agno,

Hor. C. 4, 11, 8:

ora genasque lacrimis,

Lucr. 2, 977:

debitā lacrimā favillam amici,

Hor. C. 2, 6, 23:

corpus fluviali lymphā,

Verg. A. 4, 635:

proximos umore oris,

Quint. 11, 3, 56 et saep.:

anguis aureis maculis sparsus,

sprinkled over, spotted, flecked, Liv. 41, 21, 13:

sparsā, non convolutā canitie,

Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 55:

capreoli sparsis etiam nunc pellibus albo,

Verg. E. 2, 41:

tectum nitidius, aure aut coloribus sparsum,

covered over, Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 2; cf.:

priscis sparsa tabellis Livia Porticus,

Ov. A. A. 1, 71: sparso ore, adunco naso, with a spotty or freckled face, * Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 18.— Absol.: exi, Dave, Age, sparge: mundum esse hoc vestibulum volo, sprinkle, * Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 18, 12, 4: verrite aedes, spargite, Titin. ap. Charis. p. 183 P. (Com. Rel. p. 130 Rib.):

qui verrunt, qui spargunt,

Cic. Par. 5, 2, 37.—

To scatter, separate, disperse, divide, spread out (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose for the class. dispergere, dissipare):

omnibus a rebus... Perpetuo fluere ac mitti spargique necesse est Corpora,

Lucr. 6, 922:

res sparsas et vage disjectas diligenter eligere,

Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3:

(aper) spargit canes,

Ov. M. 8, 343:

corpora,

id. ib. 7, 442:

sparsus silebo,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 1394:

sparsam tempestate classem vidit,

Liv. 37, 13:

sparsi per vias speculatores,

id. 9, 23:

exercitum spargi per provincias,

Tac. H. 3, 46 fin.:

(natura) sparsit haec (cornua) in ramos,

Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 123:

fulgentes radios in orbem (gemma),

id. 37, 10, 67, § 181:

(Sicoris) Spargitur in sulcos,

Luc. 4, 142:

spargas tua prodigus,

you dissipate, squander, waste, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 195: stare et spargere sese hastis, scatter, disperse, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 154 Vahl.):

se in fugam passim spargere, Liv 33, 15, 15: saepe solet scintilla suos se spargere in ignes (shortly before, dissilire and dividi),

Lucr. 4, 606:

Rhenus ab septentrione in lacus, ab occidente in amnem Mosam se spargit,

Plin. 4, 15, 29, § 101:

magnum ab Argis Alciden,

to separate, part, Val. Fl. 5, 488:

sparsis consumptisque fratribus bello intestinae discordiae,

Just. 27, 3, 1.—

Trop.

In gen., to distribute, spread abroad, spread, extend:

animos in corpora humana,

Cic. Sen. 21, 77:

omnia spargere ac disseminare,

id. Arch. 12, 30:

sparserat Argolicas nomen vaga Fama per urbes Theseos,

Ov. M. 8, 267:

genera enim tractamus in species multas sese spargentia,

Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 45:

spargit legiones, nova cottidie bello semina ministrat,

Tac. H. 2, 76:

vestigia fugae,

Curt. 5, 13, 18.—

In partic.

Of speech, to intersperse, interpose, insert a word or words; of a report or rumor, to spread or noise abroad, to circulate, report (so perh. not ante-Aug.;

syn. dissemino): cum vigilans Quartae esto partis Ulixes Audieris heres: Ergo nunc Dama sodalis Nusquam est? etc.... Sparge subinde,

break in with, Hor. S. 2, 5, 103; cf.

' libris actorum spargere gaudes Argumenta viri,

Juv. 9, 84; Quint. 8, 3, 53:

spargere voces In vulgum ambiguas,

Verg. A. 2, 98:

suspitiones,

Quint. 7, 2, 12:

in parentes crimina,

id. 9, 2, 80:

fama spargitur,

Stat. Th. 9, 33.— Pass. impers., with obj.-clause:

spargebatur insuper, Albinum insigne regis et Jubae nomen usurpare,

Tac. H. 2, 58 fin. —

Pregn., of time:

satis multum temporis sparsimus,

wasted, consumed aimlessly, Sen. Ep. 19, 1.—Hence, sparsus, a, um, P. a., spread open or out:

sparsior racemus,

Plin. 16, 34, 62, § 146: uberior Nilo, generoso sparsior istro, Ven. Vit. S. Mart. 1, 129.

spargo, ĭnis, f. [1. spargo], a sprinkling, spray: salis, Ven. Ep. ad Felic. 3.

sterno, strāvi, strātum, 3 ( pluperf. sync. strarat, Manil. 1, 774: strasset, Varr. ap. Non. 86, 8), v. a. [Gr. root STOR, storennumi, to spread; stratos, camp; Sanscr. star- strnāmi = sterno; cf.: strages, struo, torus, and lātus, adj., old Lat. stlatus], to spread out, spread abroad; to stretch out, extend.

Lit. (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; in Cic. only in the part. perf.; cf.:

effundo, extendo, subicio, subdo): vestes,

Ov. M. 8, 658:

in duro vellus solo,

id. F. 4, 654:

bubulos utres ponte,

Plin. 6, 29, 34, § 176:

hic glarea dura Sternitur,

Tib. 1, 7, 60:

natas sub aequore virgas Sternit,

i. e. scatters, strews, Ov. M. 4, 743:

harenam,

id. F. 3, 813; id. Am. 2, 14, 8:

herbas,

id. M. 7, 254:

poma passim,

Verg. E. 7, 54:

spongeas ad lunam et pruinas,

Plin. 31, 11. [p. 1758] 47, §

123: arma per flores,

Grat. Cyneg. 487:

fessi sternunt corpora,

stretch out their bodies, lie down, Liv. 27, 47, 9; cf.:

sternunt se somno diversae in litore phocae,

Verg. G. 4, 432.—Mid.:

sternimur optatae gremio telluris,

Verg. A. 3, 509; and:

in Capitolinas certatim scanditur arces Sternunturque Jovi,

Sil. 12, 340.— Part. perf.: strātus, a, um, stretched out, lying down, prostrate (syn. prostratus): strata terrae, Enn. ap. Non. 172, 20 (Trag. v. 370 Vahl.):

nos humi strati,

Cic. de Or. 3, 6, 22:

quidam somno etiam strati,

Liv. 37, 20, 5:

ad pedes strati,

Cic. Att. 10, 4, 3:

stratum jacere et genua complecti,

Quint. 6, 1, 34:

nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 21.—

Of places, to extend:

insulae Frisiorum, Chaucorum, etc.... sternuntur inter Helium ac Flevum,

stretch out, extend, Plin. 4, 15, 29, § 101; 3, 5, 9, § 60;

hence, vites stratae,

spreading, Col. 5, 4, 2 (for Nep. Milt. 5, 3, v. under rarus, II. A.).—

In partic., to spread a thing out flat, i. e. to smooth, level (mostly poet.):

sternere aequor aquis,

Verg. A. 8, 89; cf.:

placidi straverunt aequora venti,

id. ib. 5, 763:

nunc omne tibi stratum silet aequor,

id. E. 9, 57:

pontum,

Ov. M. 11, 501:

mare,

Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 125:

stratoque super discumbitur ostro,

Verg. A. 1, 700:

viam per mare,

smoothed, levelled, Lucr. 3, 1030 (acc. to the Gr. hodon storennumi):

stratum militari labore iter,

Quint. 2, 13, 16; so,

hoc iter Alpes, Hoc Cannae stravere tibi,

Sil. 12, 514;

and trop.: praesens tibi fama benignum Stravit iter,

Stat. Th. 12, 813.—

Trop. (the figure borrowed from the sea), to calm, still, moderate:

odia militum,

Tac. H. 1, 58 (cf.:

constrata ira,

Stat. S. 2, 5, 1).—

Transf.

To cover, cover over (by spreading something out; the predom. class. signif. of the word; cf. obtendo).

Of a couch, bed, etc., to spread, prepare, arrange, make:

lectus vestimentis stratus est,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 30; cf.:

strata cubilia sunt herbis,

Lucr. 5, 1417:

rogatus est a Maximo, ut triclinium sterneret... Atque ille stravit pelliculis haedinis lectulos Punicanos,

Cic. Mur. 36, 75; so,

lectum, lectos, biclinium, triclinia, etc.,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 33; id. Most. 1, 4, 14; id. Men. 2, 3, 3; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 70; id. Ps. 1, 2, 31; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 73; id. Ad. 2, 4, 21; Cic. Clu. 5, 14; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61; Hirt. B. G. 8, 51:

his foliis cubitus sternere,

Plin. 24, 9, 38, § 59:

torum frondibus,

Juv. 6, 5:

strata cathedra,

cushioned, id. 9, 52; cf. also, ARCERAM NE STERNITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25; and absol.:

jubet sterni sibi in primā domus parte (sc. lectum),

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7.—

Esp., places, to cover; of a way, road, path, etc., to pave:

aspreta erant strata saxis,

Liv. 9, 35, 2:

via strata,

id. 8, 15, 8:

semitam saxo quadrato straverunt,

id. 10, 23 fin.; so,

vias silice... clivum Capitolinum silice... emporium lapide,

id. 41, 27, 5 sq.; and absol.:

locum illum sternendum locare,

Cic. Att. 14, 15, 2:

pavimentum stratum lapide,

Vulg. Ezech. 40, 17:

viam lapide,

Dig. 43, 11, 1.—

To saddle:

equos,

Liv. 37, 20, 12; 37, 20, 4; Veg. 5, 77:

asinum,

Vulg. Gen. 22, 3.—

In gen., to cover, spread:

argento sternunt iter omne viarum,

Lucr. 2, 626:

foliis nemus Multis et algā litus inutili tempestas Sternet,

will strew over, bestrew, Hor. C. 3, 17, 12:

congeriem silvae vellere summam,

Ov. M. 9, 236:

litora nive,

Val. Fl. 5, 175:

harenam Circi chrysocolla,

Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 90:

solum telis,

Verg. A. 9, 666:

Tyrrhenas valles caedibus,

Sil. 6, 602:

strati bacis silvestribus agri,

Verg. G. 2, 183:

ante aras terram caesi stravere juvenci,

covered, id. A. 8, 719.—

To stretch out by flinging down, to throw down, stretch on the ground, throw to the ground, overthrow, prostrate (mostly poet., esp. in Verg.; in prose not before the Aug. period; in Cic. only once in the trop. sense; v. the foll.; cf.

profligo): cujus casus prolapsi cum proximos sterneret,

Liv. 5, 47:

circa jacentem ducem sterne Gallorum catervas,

id. 7, 26, 8:

turbam invadite ac sternite omnia ferro,

id. 24, 38, 7:

alius sit fortis in armis, Sternat et adversos Marte favente duces,

Tib. 1, 10, 30:

caede viros,

Verg. A. 10, 119:

aliquem leto,

id. ib. 8, 566:

morte,

id. ib. 11, 796; Liv. 31, 21, 15; Ov. M. 12, 604:

adversā prensis a fronte capillis Stravit humi pronam,

id. ib. 2, 477: primosque et extremos Stravit humum, Hor. C. 4, 14, 32:

sternitur volnere,

Verg. A. 10, 781:

impetus per stratos caede hostes,

Liv. 4, 29, 1:

aliquem morti,

Verg. A. 12, 464:

irae Thyesten exitio gravi Stravere,

Hor. C. 1, 16, 18:

corpore toto Sternitur in vultus,

Stat. Th. 12, 318:

sternitur, et toto projectus corpore terrae,

Verg. A. 11, 87:

toto praecipitem sternit,

Sil. 4, 182:

hostes,

Just. 2, 11, 13:

Ajax stravit ferro pecus,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 202:

sternitur et procumbit humi bos,

Verg. A. 5, 481:

strata belua texit humum,

Ov. H. 10, 106:

rapidus torrens Sternit agros, sternit sata laeta,

Verg. A. 2, 306:

moenia,

to overthrow, demolish, Ov. M. 12, 550; cf.:

stratis ariete muris,

Liv. 1, 29, 2:

sternit a culmine Trojam,

Verg. A. 2, 603; so,

(elephanti) stabula Indorum dentibus sternunt,

Plin. 8, 9, 9, § 27.—

Trop. (rare):

deorum plagā perculsi, afflictos se et stratos esse fatentur,

cast down, prostrated, Cic. Tusc. 3, 29, 72:

mortalia corda Per gentes humiles stravit pavor,

Verg. G. 1, 331:

virtus populi Romani haec omnia strata humi erexit ac sustulit,

Liv. 26, 41, 12:

stratā Germaniā,

subdued, Amm. 16, 1, 5.—Hence, strātus, a, um, P. a.; as substt.

strāta, ae, f. (sc. via), a paved road or way (post-class.), Eutr. 9, 15:

amplas sternite jam stratas,

Juvenc. 1, 315:

in margine stratae,

id. 3, 656.—

strātum, i, n. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; acc. to II. A.).—

A bed-covering, a coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster:

lecti mollia strata,

Lucr. 4, 849:

proripere se e strato,

Suet. Calig. 51; Ov. M. 5, 34; 10, 267.—

Meton. (pars pro toto), a bed, couch:

haud segnis strato surgit Palinurus,

Verg. A. 3, 513; cf. id. ib. 8, 415;

3, 176: tale,

Nep. Ages. 8:

quies neque molli strato neque silentio arcessita,

Liv. 21, 4, 7.— Plur.:

strataque quae membris intepuere tuis,

Ov. H. 10, 54:

dura,

id. Am. 1, 2, 2; Luc. 1, 239.—Once also (sc. lectus) in the masc., Favorin. ap. Gell. 15, 8, 2.—

A horsecloth, housing, a saddle, Ov. M. 8, 33; Liv. 7, 14, 7; Sen. Ep. 80, 9; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202. —Prov.:

qui asinum non potest, stratum caedit (v. asinum),

Petr. 45, 8.—

A pavement:

saxea viarum,

Lucr. 1, 315; 4, 415: extraneum, Petr. poët. 55, 6, 11.