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ălĭquantus, a, um, adj. [alius-quantus; v. aliquis], somewhat, some, moderate, tolerable; considerable, not a little (designating the medium between much and little; cf. Ernest. ad Suet. Caes. 87; Wolf ad Suet. Caes. 10; Hotting. ad Cic. Div. 2, 1; Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 3, 13; 5, 10; Brut. ad Nep. Dion, 3, 3; Kritz ad Sall. C. 8, 2).

In gen.: M. sed quaero, utrum aliquid actum superioribus diebus, an nihil arbitremur: A. Actum vero et aliquantum quidem, Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15:

Romani signorum et armorum aliquanto numero, hostium paucorum potiti,

Sall. J. 74, 3:

timor aliquantus, sed spes amplior,

id. ib. 105, 4:

spatium,

Liv. 38, 27:

iter,

id. 25, 35:

pecunia,

App. Mag. p. 320, 1.—

Esp.

In the neutr. as subst.:

ad quos aliquantum ex cotidianis sumptibus redundet,

Cic. Cael. 57:

Alienus ex eā facultate, si quam habet, aliquantum detracturus est,

somewhat, id. Div. in Caecil. 15:

ut aliquantum se arbitrentur adeptos ad dicendum,

id. Off. 1, 1; id. Phil. 8, 27; and esp. with partit. gen., some part, some:

aliquantum agri,

Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33:

nummorum aliquantum et auri,

id. Clu. 179:

temporis,

id. Quint. 22:

animi,

id. Att. 7, 13 fin.:

noctis,

id. Fam. 7, 25 fin. al.:

aliquantum negotii sustinere,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7:

itineris,

Caes. B. G. 5, 10 Herz.:

equorum et armorum,

Sall. J. 62, 5:

famae et auctoritatis,

Liv. 44, 33; 21, 28; 30, 8; 41, 16 al.; Suet. Caes. 81.—

The plur. rare, and only in later Lat.:

aliquanti in caelestium numerum referuntur,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 33:

aliquanta oppida,

Eutr. 4 fin.; Spart. Hadr. 7 fin.:

aliquantis diebus,

Pall. 1, 19.—Whence, ălĭquantum and ălĭ-quantō, adv. (on the proportionate use of these forms with the posit. and comp. v. Beier ad Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38; Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 5, 10; Web. ad Luc. 2, 225; Zumpt, Gr. § 488), somewhat, in some degree, a little, rather; considerably, not a little (cf. aliquantus).

In gen.

Aliquantum: Ba. Nam ut in navi vecta es, credo timida es. So. Aliquantum, soror, somewhat so, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 73:

quae (consolatio) mihi quidem ipsi sane aliquantum medetur, ceteris item multum illam profuturam puto,

Cic. Div. 2, 1, 3: item qui processit aliquantum ad virtutis aditum ( has come somewhat near), nihilominus, etc., id. Fin. 3, 14, 48:

aliquantum commoveri,

id. Clu. 140:

quod nisi meo adventu illius conatus aliquantum repressissem,

id. Verr. 2, 64:

movit aliquantum oratio regis legatos,

Liv. 39, 29; so id. 5, 23 al.: huc concede aliquantum ( a little), Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 116:

aliquantum ventriosus,

id. As. 2, 3, 20:

quale sit, non tam definitione intellegi potest (quamquam aliquantum potest), quam, etc.,

to some extent, in some degree, Cic. Fin. 2, 14, 45:

litteris lectis aliquantum acquievi,

id. Fam. 4, 6:

adjutus aliquantum,

Suet. Tib. 13.—

Aliquanto:

non modo non contra legem, sed etiam intra legem et quidem aliquanto,

not a little, considerably so, Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 9: terra etsi aliquanto specie differt, etc., * Tac. G. 5.—

Esp., with compp. it has greater or less force, acc. to the context, much more or a little more, somewhat more (the latter sometimes ironic. instead of the former; cf. Quint. 1, 12, 4 Spald.; in class. prose very freq.; most freq. prob. in Suet.; but never perh. in poetry, except in the examples from the ante-class. per.).

With aliquanto: Ch. Abeamus intro hinc ad me. St. Atque aliquanto lubentius quam abs te sum egressus, Plaut. Ep. 3, 2, 43:

aliquanto amplius,

id. As. 3, 3, 2; so Cic. Verr. 2, 1:

aliquanto plus,

id. ib. 2, 1:

minus aliquanto,

id. Div. in Caecil. 18:

melius aliquanto,

id. Brut. 78, 270:

sed certe idem melius aliquanto dicerent, si, etc.,

id. de Or. 2, 24, 103:

carinae aliquanto planiores quam nostrarum navium,

much flatter, Caes. B. G. 3, 13 Herz.; so,

aliquanto crudelior esse coepit,

Nep. Dion, 3, 3:

cum majore aliquanto numero quam decretum erat,

Sall. J. 86, 4; so id. C. 8, 2; id. J. 79, 4:

aliquanto superior,

Liv. 5, 26, 6:

ad majus aliquanto certamen redit,

Liv. 5, 29, 5; so id: 27, 36, 7; Quint. 1, 12, 4; Suet. Caes. 10; 86; id. Tib. 62 al.:

soluta est navis aliquanto prius,

some time before, Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 15:

maturius aliquanto lupinus seritur,

Pall. R. R. 10, 5:

aliquanto serius quam per aetatem liceret,

Cic. Agr. 2, 3.—So with ante and post:

aliquanto ante in provinciam proficiscitur, quam,

Cic. Verr. 1, 149; 3, 44:

ante aliquanto quam est mortuus,

id. ib. 2, 46; id. Vatin. 25:

ad illos aliquanto post venit,

id. Verr. 4, 85:

porticum post aliquanto Q. Catulus fecit,

id. Dom. 102: atque ille primo quidem negavit; post autem aliquanto ( but some time afterwards) surrexit, id. Cat. 3, 11:

postea aliquanto,

id. Inv. 2, 51, 154.—

With aliquantum:

aliquantum ad rem est avidior,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 51:

fortasse aliquantum iniquior erat,

id. Heaut. 1, 2, 27:

aliquantum amplior augustiorque,

Liv. 1, 7, 9:

aliquantum taetrior,

Val. Max. 5, 9, 3:

Garumna aliquantum plenior,

Mel. 3, 2, 5.

com-plāno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to make even, level, or plain (rare).

Prop.:

terram tabulā, manibus, pedibus,

Cato, R. R. 151, 3:

montium juga,

Suet. Calig. 37:

lacum,

id. Caes. 44:

opera, Auct. B. Alex. 63: domum,

to make even with the ground, to pull down, raze, Cic. Dom. 38, 101.—

Trop.:

complanare et mollire aspera, dura,

i. e. to render tolerable, Sen. Prov. 5, 9.

lĕvis, e, adj. [for leg-vis; Sanscr. laghu-s, little; cf. O. H. Germ. ring-i; Germ. gering; Gr. elachus], light in weight, not heavy (opp. gravis).

Lit.:

leviora corpora (opp. graviora),

Lucr. 2, 227:

aether,

id. 5, 459:

aura,

id. 3, 196:

levior quam pluma,

Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 23:

stipulae,

Verg. G. 1, 289: armatura, light armor:

levis armaturae Numidae,

the light-armed Numidians, Caes. B. G. 2, 10; also, by metonymy, lightarmed troops; v. armatura, and cf.:

sed haec fuerit nobis tamquam levis armaturae prima orationis excursio,

Cic. Div. 2, 10 fin.; so,

miles,

a light-armed soldier, Liv. 8, 8; cf.

of clothing: nudi, aut sagulo leves,

Tac. G. 6:

flebis in solo levis angiportu,

Hor. C. 1, 25, 10.—Of the earth upon the dead:

terraque securae sit super ossa levis,

Tib. 2, 4, 50;

esp. freq. on tombstones: sit tibi terra levis (abbreviated, S. T. T. L.): per leves populos,

the shades, bodiless persons, Ov. M. 10, 14:

virgaque levem coerces aurea turbam,

Hor. C. 1, 10, 18.— Poet. with inf.: fessis leviora tolli Pergama Grais, a lighter burden, i. e. easier to be destroyed, Hor. C. 2, 4, 11.—

Transf.

Light of digestion, easy to digest (mostly poet. and post-Aug.):

quae in aqua degunt, leviorem cibum praestant. Inter domesticas quadrupedes levissima suilla est, gravissima bubula,

lightest of digestion, Cels. 1, 18:

leves malvae,

Hor. C. 1, 31, 16 (cf.:

gravi Malvae salubres corpori,

id. Epod. 2, 57).—

Light in motion, swift, quick, fleet, nimble, rapid (syn.:

agilis, alacer, pernix): ipsa (diva) levi fecit volitantem flamine currum (i. e. Argo),

a quick, favorable wind, Cat. 64, 9; cf.:

leves venti,

Ov. M. 15, 346:

flatus,

Sil. 15, 162:

currus,

light, swift, Ov. M. 2, 150:

levi deducens pollice filum,

light, nimble, id. ib. 4, 36; so,

pollex,

id. ib. 6, 22:

saltus,

id. ib. 7, 767;

3, 599: peltam pro parma fecit, ut ad motus concursusque essent leviores,

Nep. Iphicr. 1:

Messapus levis cursu,

Verg. A. 12, 489:

leves Parthi,

id. G. 4, 314:

equus,

Val. Fl. 1, 389:

Nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 31:

quaere modos leviore plectro,

nimbler, gayer, id. ib. 2, 1, 40:

et levis erecta consurgit ad oscula plantā,

Juv. 6, 507.—With inf. ( poet.):

omnes ire leves,

Sil. 16, 488:

exsultare levis,

id. 10, 605:

levior discurrere,

id. 4, 549:

nullo levis terrore moveri,

Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 514:

hora,

fleeting, Ov. M. 15, 181:

terra,

light, thin soil, Verg. G. 2, 92:

et ubi montana (loca) quod leviora et ideo salubriora,

Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3;

so (opp graviora),

id. ib. —

Slight, trifling, small (mostly poet.): ignis, Ov. M. 3, 488:

tactus,

a slight, gentle touch, id. ib. 4, 180:

strepitus,

id. ib. 7, 840:

stridor,

id. ib. 4, 413.

Trop.

Without weight, i. e. of no consequence; hence, in gen., light, trifling, unimportant, inconsiderable, trivial, slight, little, petty, easy (class.):

nunquam erit alienis gravis qui suis se concinnat levem,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 58:

grave est nomen imperii atque id etiam in levi persona pertimescitur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 17, 45:

leve et infirmum,

id. Rosc. Com. 2, 6: quae mihi ad spem obtinendae veritatis gravissima sunt;

ad motum animi... leviora,

id. Deiot. 2, 5:

quod alia quaedam inania et levia conquiras,

id. Planc. 26, 63:

auditio,

a light, unfounded report, Caes. B. G. 7, 42:

cui res et pecunia levissima et existimatio sanctissima fuit semper,

something very insignificant, Cic. Rosc. Com. 5, 15:

dolor,

id. Fin. 1, 12, 40:

proelium,

Caes. B. G. 7, 36:

periculum,

id. B. C. 3, 26:

in aliquem merita,

id. ib. 2, 32, 10:

leviore de causa,

id. B. G. 7, 4 fin.:

praecordia levibus flagrantia causis,

Juv. 13, 182:

effutire leves indigna tragoedia versus,

Hor. A. P. 231.—As subst.:

in levi habitum,

was made little of, was regarded as a trifle, Tac. H. 2, 21; id. A. 3, 54:

levia sed nimium queror,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 63:

quid leviora loquor? Petr. poët. 134, 12: non est leve tot puerorum observare manus,

no easy matter, Juv. 7, 240:

quidquid levius putaris,

easier, id. 10, 344.—

With gen. ( poet.):

opum levior,

Sil. 2, 102.—

In disposition or character.

Light, light-minded, capricious, fickle, inconstant, unreliable, false:

homo levior quam pluma,

Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 23:

ne me leviorem erga te putes,

id. Trin. 5, 2, 34:

tu levior cortice,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 22:

vitium levium hominum atque fallacium,

Cic. Lael. 25, 91:

quidam saepe in parva pecunia perspiciuntur quam sint leves,

id. ib. 17, 63:

leves ac nummarii judices,

id. Clu. 28, 75:

sit precor illa levis,

Tib. 1, 6, 56:

levi brachio aliquid agere,

Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6:

quid levius aut turpius,

Caes. B. G. 5, 28 fin.:

auctor,

Liv. 5, 15:

leves amicitiae,

Cic. Lael. 26, 100:

spes,

vain, empty, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 8:

leviores mores,

Ulp. Fragm. 6, 12.—

Mild, gentle, pleasant (rare):

quos qui leviore nomine appellant, percussores vocant,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 33, 93; and:

levior reprehensio,

id. Ac. 2, 32, 102:

tandem eo, quod levissimum videbatur, decursum est,

the gentlest, mildest, Liv. 5, 23 fin.:

nec leves somnos timor aut cupido Sordidus aufert,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 15; id. Epod. 2, 28:

exsilium,

mild, tolerable, Suet. Aug. 51.—Hence, adv.: lĕ-vĭter, lightly, not heavily.

Lit. (rare):

armati,

light-armed, Curt. 4, 13.—Of the blow of a weapon:

levius casura pila sperabat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 92, 2.—

Trop.

Slightly, a little, not much, somewhat:

leviter densae nubes,

Lucr. 6, 248:

inflexum bacillum,

Cic. Div. 1, 17, 30:

genae leviter eminentes (al. leniter),

id. N. D. 2, 57, 143:

qui (medici) leviter aegrotantes leniter curant, gravioribus autem morbis, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 24, 83:

saucius,

id. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

non leviter lucra liguriens,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 76, § 177:

agnoscere aliquid,

id. Fin. 2, 11, 33:

eruditus,

id. de Or. 3, 6, 24.— Comp.:

quanto constantior idem In vitiis, tanto levius miser,

so much less, Hor. S. 2, 7, 18:

dolere,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 30.— Sup.:

ut levissime dicam,

to express it in the mildest manner, Cic. Cat. 3, 7 fin. —

Easily, lightly, without difficulty, with equanimity:

id eo levius ferendum est, quod, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 2; cf.:

sed levissime feram, si, etc.,

id. Prov. Cons. 20, 47; Liv. 29, 9.— Comp.:

levius torquetis Arachne,

more dexterously, Juv. 2, 56.

lēvis (erroneously laevis), e, adj. [Gr. leios, leuros], smooth, smoothed, not rough, opp. asper (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

corpuscula quaedam levia, alia aspera, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 1, 24, 66:

in locis (spectatur): leves an asperi,

id. Part. Or. 10, 36:

Deus levem eum (mundum) fecit et undique aequabilem,

id. Univ. 6:

pocula,

smooth, shining, Verg. A. 5, 91:

pharetrae,

id. ib. 5, 558:

brassica,

Cato, R. R. 15, 7:

levissima corpora,

Lucr. 4, 659:

coma pectine levis,

Ov. M. 12, 409:

nascunturque leves per digitos umerosque plumae,

Hor. C. 2, 20, 11:

levior assiduo detritis aequore conchis,

Ov. M. 13, 792: inimicus pumice levis, rubbed (cf. pumicatus), Juv. 9, 95.— Poet.: levi cum sanguine Nisus labitur infelix, slippery, [p. 1055] Verg. A. 5, 328:

levis Juventas ( = imberbis),

smooth, without hair, beardless, Hor. C. 2, 11, 6; so,

ora,

Tib. 1, 9 (8), 31:

crura,

Juv. 8, 115:

sponsus,

id. 3, 111:

caput,

id. 10, 199; 2, 12; hence, also, poet. for youthful, delicate, beautiful:

pectus,

Verg. A. 11, 40:

frons,

id. E. 6, 51:

umeri,

id. A. 7, 815:

colla,

Ov. M. 10, 698.—Also, finely dressed, spruce, effeminate:

vir,

Ov. A. A. 3, 437; Pers. 1, 82: argentum, smooth, not engraved or chased, Juv. 14, 62.—In neutr. absol.:

externi ne quid valeat per leve morari,

smoothness, Hor. S. 2, 7, 87; so,

per leve,

Pers. 1, 64:

per levia,

Aus. Idyll. 16, 4.—

Transf., rubbed smooth, ground down, softened, soft (rare), Scrib. Comp. 228; Cels. 2, 8.—

Trop., of speech, smooth, flowing (rare but class.):

oratio (opp. aspera),

Cic. Or. 5 fin.; so,

levis verborum concursus (opp. asper),

id. de Or. 3, 43, 171:

levis et aspera (vox),

Quint. 11, 3, 15:

levis et quadrata compositio,

id. 2, 5, 9:

levia ac nitida,

id. 5, 12, 18:

(aures) fragosis offenduntur et levibus mulcentur,

id. 9, 4, 116.— Adv. does not occur.

mĕdĭō̆cris, e (ō usually; rarely ŏ), adj. [medius], in a middle state between too much and too little, middling, moderate, tolerable, ordinary; sometimes also, not remarkable, indifferent, mediocre.

In gen. (class.).

Lit., of size, quantity, degree, etc., in material things:

castellum,

Sall. J. 92, 5:

spatium,

Caes. B. G. 5, 43:

agmen,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 9:

intervallum,

id. B. Alex. 30.—

Of mind, character, ability, acts, achievements, etc.:

C. L. Memmii fuerunt oratores mediocres,

Cic. Brut. 36, 136:

L. Cotta in mediocrium oratorum numero,

id. ib. 36, 137:

non mediocres viri, sed maximi et docti,

id. Rep. 3, 11, 19:

homines,

id. de Or. 1, 21, 94:

vir,

Just. 1, 4, 4:

poëta,

Hor. A. P. 372:

in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

amicitia,

id. Lael. 6, 10:

malum,

id. Tusc. 3, 10, 22:

artes,

id. de Or. 1, 2, 6:

eloquentia,

id. ib. 1, 29, 133:

ingenium,

id. ib. 2, 27, 119:

excusare... mediocris est animi,

narrow, small, Caes. B. C. 3, 20:

ut mediocris jacturae te mergat onus,

Juv. 13, 7.—

Esp.

Per litoten, with non (haud, nec), not insignificant, not common or trivial:

Jugurthae non mediocrem animum pollicitando accendebant,

i. e. ardent, ambitious, Sall. J. 8, 1:

non mediocris hominis haec sunt officia,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 9:

haud mediocris hic, ut ego quidem intellego, vir fuit,

Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55: nec mediocre [p. 1124] telum ad res gerendas, id. Lael. 17, 61:

non mediocrem sibi diligentiam adhibendam intellegebat,

uncommon, extraordinary, Caes. B. G. 3, 20:

praemium non mediocre,

Suet. Vesp. 18:

non mediocris dissensio,

Quint. 9, 1, 10 et saep.—

With syllaba, common = anceps:

syllabarum longarum et brevium et mediocrium junctura,

Gell. 16, 18, 5.—Hence, adv.: mĕdĭō̆crĭter.

Moderately, tolerably, ordinarily, not particularly, not very, not remarkably, not much (class.):

ordo annalium mediocriter nos retinet,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 5:

corpus mediocriter aegrum,

id. Tusc. 3, 10, 22.—

By litotes, with haud, ne, non (cf.:

supra, mediocris, II. A.): flagitium, et damnum haud mediocriter,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 13:

non mediocriter,

in no moderate degree, Caes. B. G. 1, 39:

reprehensus est non mediocriter,

i. e. greatly, exceedingly, very much, Quint. 11, 1, 17; so id. 8, 2, 2; 9; 11, 1, 57 al.—

Very little:

ne mediocriter quidem disertus,

not in the least, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 91.—

With moderation, calmly, tranquilly = modice (rare, and perh. only in Cic.):

quod mihi non mediocriter ferendum videtur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 41, § 95.— Comp.:

hoc vellem mediocrius,

Cic. Att. 1, 20, 5.

mĕdĭus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. madhya, the same; Gr. mesos; Angl. - Sax. midd; Germ. Mitte; cf. dimidius, meridies (medi-), etc.], that is in the middle or midst, mid, middle (class.).

Adj.

Lit.:

terra complexa medium mundi locum,

Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18; cf. id. ib. 6, 17, 17:

medium mundi locum petere,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:

versus aeque prima, et media, et extrema pars attenditur,

id. de Or. 3, 50, 192:

ultimum, proximum, medium tempus,

id. Prov. Cons. 18, 43:

in foro medio,

in the midst of the forum, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 14; Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 6; cf.:

medio foro,

in the open forum, Suet. Claud. 18 al.:

in solio medius consedit,

sat in the middle, Ov. F. 3, 359; Verg. A. 7, 169:

considit scopulo medius,

id. G. 4, 436:

concilio medius sedebat,

Ov. M. 10, 144:

ignes,

Verg. A. 12, 201:

medio tempore,

in the meantime, meanwhile, Suet. Caes. 76: vinum novum, vetus, medium, i. e. neither old nor new, Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 31, 14:

cum plenus fluctu medius foret alveus,

full to the middle, Juv. 12, 30.—With dat.:

Peloponnesii Megaram, mediam Corintho Athenisque urbem, condidere,

midway between Corinth and Athens, Vell. 1, 2, 4.—With abl.:

si medius Polluce et Castore ponar,

between, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 13.—With inter:

cum inter bellum et pacem medium nihil sit,

there is no medium, no middle course between, Cic. Phil. 8, 1, 4:

inter quos numeros duo medii inveniuntur (sc. numeri),

Mart. Cap. 7, § 737.—With gen.:

locus medius regionum earum,

half-way between, Caes. B. G. 4, 19:

locus medius juguli summique lacerti,

between, Ov. M. 6, 409; 5, 564:

et medius juvenum ibat,

id. F. 5, 67:

medius silentūm,

Stat. Th. 4, 683.—With ex:

medius ex tribus,

Sall. J. 11, 3:

medium arripere aliquem,

to seize one by the middle, around the body, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 18:

juvenem medium complectitur,

Liv. 23, 9, 9:

Alcides medium tenuit,

held him fast by the middle, Luc. 4, 652:

medium ostendere unguem,

to point with the middle finger, Juv. 10, 53.—

Transf., half (ante- and postclass.):

hieme demunt cibum medium,

half their food, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 9:

scrupulum croci,

Pall. Jan. 18: aurum... Italicis totum, medium provincialibus reddidit, Capitol. Anton. Pius, 4 fin. —

Trop., of the middle, not very great or small, middling, medial, moderate.

Of age:

aetatis mediae vir,

of middle age, Phaedr. 2, 2, 3.—

Of plans, purposes, etc.:

nihil medium, nec spem nec curam, sed immensa omnia volventes animo,

Liv. 2, 49, 5:

medium quiddam tenere,

Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 9.—

Of intellect:

eloquentiā medius,

middling, tolerable, Vell. 2, 29, 2:

ingenium,

moderate, Tac. H. 1, 49.—

Undetermined, undecided:

medios esse,

i. e. neutral, Cic. Att. 10, 8, 4:

medium se gerere,

Liv. 2, 27:

se dubium mediumque partibus praestitit,

Vell. 2, 21, 1; cf.:

responsum,

indefinite, ambiguous, Liv. 39, 39: vocabula, that can be taken in a good or bad sense, ambiguous, Gell. 12, 9, 1. —

Indifferent, not imperative: officium, a duty which is not distinctly enjoined by the moral law, but is sustained by preponderant reasoning:

medium officium id esse dicunt (Graeci) quod cur factum sit, ratio probabilis reddi possit,

Cic. Off. 1, 3, 8; cf.:

ex quo intellegitur, officium medium quiddam esse, quod neque in bonis ponatur neque in contrariis,

id. Fin. 3, 17, 58; cf.

sqq. and Madv. ad loc.: artes,

which in themselves are neither good nor bad, indifferent, Quint. 2, 20, 1.—

Intermediate:

medium erat in Anco ingenium, et Numae et Romuli memor,

of a middle kind, resembling each in some degree, Liv. 1, 32, 4:

nihil habet ista res (actoris) medium, sed aut lacrimas meretur aut risum,

Quint. 6, 1, 45:

ille jam paene medius adfectus est ex amoribus et desideriis amicorum,

Quint. 6, 2, 17.—Hence, as subst.: mĕdĭus, i, m., one who stands or comes between, a mediator:

medium sese offert,

as a mediator, Verg. A. 7, 536:

pacator mediusque Syphax,

Sil. 16, 222:

pacis eras mediusque belli,

arbiter, Hor. C. 2, 19, 28; cf.:

nunc mediis subeant irrita verba deis,

oaths in which the gods were called upon to be mediators, Ov. R. Am. 678.—

Central, with ex or in:

ex factione media consul,

fully committed to it, Sall. H. 3, 61, 8;

so (nearly = intimus), viros fortīs et magnanimos eosdem bonos et simplicīs... esse volumus: quae sunt ex media laude justititiae,

these qualities are clearly among those which make uprightness praiseworthy, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63:

partitiones oratoriae, quae e media illa nostra Academia effloruerunt,

id. Part. Or. 40, 139:

ingressio e media philosophia repetita est,

id. Or. 3, 11; id. Leg. 2, 21, 53:

in medio maerore et dolore,

id. Tusc. 4, 29, 63; id. Q. Fr. 2, 15, 1:

in media dimicatione,

the hottest of the fight, Suet. Aug. 10; cf.:

in medio ardore certaminis,

Curt. 8, 4, 27:

in media solitudine,

the most profound, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2:

in mediis divitiis,

in abundant wealth, id. Vit. Beat. 26, 1:

in medio robore virium,

Liv. 28, 35, 6:

in medio ardore belli,

id. 24, 45, 4:

in media reipublicae luce,

the full blaze of public life, Quint. 1, 2, 18:

media inter pocula,

Juv. 8, 217.—Hence,

Subst.: mĕdĭum, ii, n., the middle, midst.

Lit.

Of space (very rare in Cic.):

in medio aedium sedens,

Liv. 1, 57, 9:

maris,

id. 31, 45, 11; for which, without in, medio aedium eburneis sellis sedere, id. 5, 41, 2:

medio viae ponere,

id. 37, 13, 10:

in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis, saepe in medio adesse,

Sall. J. 45, 2; for which, without in, medio sextam legionem constituit, Tac. A. 13, 38:

medio montium porrigitur planities,

id. ib. 1, 64:

medio stans hostia ad aras,

Verg. G. 3, 486:

medio tutissimus ibis,

Ov. M. 2, 137:

in medium geminos immani pondere caestus Projecit,

Verg. A. 5, 401:

in medium sarcinas coniciunt,

Liv. 10, 36, 1; 13:

equitatus consulem in medium acceptum, armis protegens, in castra reduxit,

id. 21, 46, 9.— Trop.:

tamquam arbiter honorarius medium ferire voluisse,

to cut through the middle, Cic. Fat. 17, 39:

intacta invidiā media sunt, ad summa ferme tendit,

Liv. 45, 35.—

Of time:

diei,

Liv. 27, 48:

medio temporis,

in the meantime, meanwhile, Tac. A. 13, 28; cf.:

nec longum in medio tempus, cum,

the interval, Verg. A. 9, 395; Ov. M. 4, 167; Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 13.—

Transf.

The midst of all, the presence of all, the public, the community (class.):

in medio omnibus palma est posita, qui artem tractant musicam,

lies open to all, Ter. Phorm. prol. 16:

tabulae sunt in medio,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 42, § 104:

rem totam in medio ponere,

publicly, id. ib. 2, 1, 11, §

29: ponam in medio sententias philosophorum,

id. N. D. 1, 6, 13:

dicendi ratio in medio posita,

lies open to all, id. de Or. 1, 3, 12:

rem in medium proferre,

to publish, make known, id. Fam. 15, 27, 6: vocare in medium, before the public, before a public tribunal:

rem in medium vocare coeperunt,

id. Clu. 28, 77:

in medio relinquere,

to leave it to the public, leave it undecided, id. Cael. 20, 48; Sall. C. 19, 16: pellere e medio, to expel, reject, Enn. ap. Cic. Mur. 14, 30 (Ann. v. 272 Vahl.); Cic. Off. 3, 8, 37:

cum jacentia verba sustulimus e medio,

adopt words from the people, common words, id. de Or. 3, 45, 177; cf.: munda sed e medio consuetaque verba puellae Scribite, Ov. A. A. 3, 479: tollere de medio, to do away with, abolish:

litteras,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 71, § 176: tollere de medio, to put out of the way, cut off, destroy:

hominem,

id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

de medio removere,

to put out of sight, id. ib. 8, 23: e medio excedere or abire, to leave the world, to die:

e medio excessit,

she is dead, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 74:

ea mortem obiit, e medio abiit,

id. ib. 5, 8, 30:

tollite lumen e medio,

Juv. 9, 106: recedere de medio, to go away, retire, withdraw:

cur te mihi offers? recede de medio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:

in medio esse,

to be present, Ter. Ad. 3, 5, 32:

in medium venire or procedere,

to appear, come forward, show one's self in public, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 71, § 175: in medium, before the public, for the public, for the community:

communes utilitates in medium afferre,

id. Off. 1, 7, 22:

consulere in medium,

to care for the public good, for the good of all, Verg. A. 11, 335;

so opp. separantem suas res a publicis,

Liv. 24, 22, 14 sq.; 26, 12, 7:

quaerere,

to make acquisitions for the use of all, Verg. G. 1, 127: cedere, to fall or devolve to the community, Tac. H. 4, 64:

conferre laudem,

i. e. so that all may have a share of it, Liv. 6, 6:

dare,

to communicate for the use of all, Ov. M. 15, 66:

in medium conferre, in gaming,

to put down, put in the pool, Suet. Aug. 71: in medio, for sub dio, in the open air:

scorpios fugari posse, si aliqui ex eis urantur in medio,

Pall. 1, 35, 12.—

A half (ante-class. and post-Aug.):

scillae medium conterunt cum aqua,

Varr. R. R. 2, 7:

scrobem ad medium completo,

Col. Arb. 4, 5.—Hence,

Adv.: mĕdĭē, in the middle, in a middling degree, moderately, tolerably (except once in Tac. only post-class.):

qui noluerant medie,

kept quiet, remained neutral, Tac. H. 1, 19:

nec plane optimi, nec oppido deterrimi sunt, sed quasi medie morati,

App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 22, 23; Eutr. 7, 13; Lact. 6, 15 fin.:

ortus medie humilis,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 20.—

Indefinitely, Ambros. in Luc. 8, 17, 34.

mŏdĭcus, a, um, adj. [modus], having or keeping a proper measure, moderate (cf. mediocris); esp. in behavior, modest, temperate; also, of size, moderate-sized; middling, ordinary, mean, bad (class.; syn.: moderatus, mediocris).

In a good sense:

modico gradu ire,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 19:

potiones,

Cic. Div. 1, 51, 115:

convivia,

id. Sen. 13, 44:

severitas,

id. ib. 18, 65:

industrios, supplices, modicos esse,

Sall. J. 85, 1:

domi modicus,

id. ib. 63, 2:

modicum quoddam corpus (historiae),

a book of a tolerable size, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 4:

amant (mala) modicas rigationes,

gentle, moderate, Pall. 3, 25, 14.—

In a disparaging sense, middling, ordinary, mean, scanty, small, etc.:

genus dicendi subtile in probando, modicum in delectando,

Cic. Or. 21, 69:

oculi,

middling-sized, Plin. 11, 37, 53, § 141:

ea, valde et modica, et illustria sunt,

few in number, Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 137:

Graecis hoc modicum est,

not frequent, id. Fin. 2, 19, 62:

pecunia,

little, scanty, id. Par. 6, 2, 47:

acervus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 190:

incrementa,

small, Just. 7, 1:

tempus,

short, Quint. 1, 2, 12:

rem pateris modicam,

a trifling affliction, Juv. 13, 143:

modici amici,

humble, poor, id. 5, 108.—With gen.:

Sabinus modicus originis,

Tac. A. 6, 39:

virium,

Vell. 1, 12, 4:

pecuniae,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

voluptatum,

id. ib. 2, 73. —As subst.: mŏdĭcum, i, n. (sc. spatium), a little way:

modicum progredi,

a little, App. M. 6, p. 180, 38: modico contentus. [p. 1155] Juv. 9, 9.—Also, in abl., modico adverbially:

modico deinde regressa,

i. e. after a short time, App. M. 1, p. 112, 20:

modico prius, quam Larissam accederem,

a short time before, id. ib. p. 105 med.:

modico secus progredi,

to go a little farther, id. ib. p. 112, 10.—Hence, adv.: mŏdĭcē, with moderation, moderately; modestly; in a proper manner; also, in an ordinary manner, meanly, poorly (class.).

Modice hoc faciam, Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 4:

dolorem modice ferre,

quietly, calmly, id. Tusc. 1, 46, 111; id. Phil. 11, 3, 7:

se recipere,

quietly, in good order, Liv. 28, 15: verecunde et modice, Enn. ap. Non. 342, 23 (Trag. v. 241 Vahl.):

modice et modeste vitam vivere,

Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 18:

dicere,

Cic. Sull. 29, 80:

modice et scienter uti re aliquā,

id. de Or. 1, 29, 132.—

Slightly, not very, not much:

minae Clodii modice me tangunt,

Cic. Att. 2, 19, 1:

modice vinosus,

Liv. 41, 4:

locuples,

id. 38, 14, 9:

modice instratus torus,

slightly, meanly, scantily, Suet. Aug. 73.

mŏdĭcus, a, um, adj. [modus], having or keeping a proper measure, moderate (cf. mediocris); esp. in behavior, modest, temperate; also, of size, moderate-sized; middling, ordinary, mean, bad (class.; syn.: moderatus, mediocris).

In a good sense:

modico gradu ire,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 19:

potiones,

Cic. Div. 1, 51, 115:

convivia,

id. Sen. 13, 44:

severitas,

id. ib. 18, 65:

industrios, supplices, modicos esse,

Sall. J. 85, 1:

domi modicus,

id. ib. 63, 2:

modicum quoddam corpus (historiae),

a book of a tolerable size, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 4:

amant (mala) modicas rigationes,

gentle, moderate, Pall. 3, 25, 14.—

In a disparaging sense, middling, ordinary, mean, scanty, small, etc.:

genus dicendi subtile in probando, modicum in delectando,

Cic. Or. 21, 69:

oculi,

middling-sized, Plin. 11, 37, 53, § 141:

ea, valde et modica, et illustria sunt,

few in number, Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 137:

Graecis hoc modicum est,

not frequent, id. Fin. 2, 19, 62:

pecunia,

little, scanty, id. Par. 6, 2, 47:

acervus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 190:

incrementa,

small, Just. 7, 1:

tempus,

short, Quint. 1, 2, 12:

rem pateris modicam,

a trifling affliction, Juv. 13, 143:

modici amici,

humble, poor, id. 5, 108.—With gen.:

Sabinus modicus originis,

Tac. A. 6, 39:

virium,

Vell. 1, 12, 4:

pecuniae,

Tac. A. 3, 72:

voluptatum,

id. ib. 2, 73. —As subst.: mŏdĭcum, i, n. (sc. spatium), a little way:

modicum progredi,

a little, App. M. 6, p. 180, 38: modico contentus. [p. 1155] Juv. 9, 9.—Also, in abl., modico adverbially:

modico deinde regressa,

i. e. after a short time, App. M. 1, p. 112, 20:

modico prius, quam Larissam accederem,

a short time before, id. ib. p. 105 med.:

modico secus progredi,

to go a little farther, id. ib. p. 112, 10.—Hence, adv.: mŏdĭcē, with moderation, moderately; modestly; in a proper manner; also, in an ordinary manner, meanly, poorly (class.).

Modice hoc faciam, Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 4:

dolorem modice ferre,

quietly, calmly, id. Tusc. 1, 46, 111; id. Phil. 11, 3, 7:

se recipere,

quietly, in good order, Liv. 28, 15: verecunde et modice, Enn. ap. Non. 342, 23 (Trag. v. 241 Vahl.):

modice et modeste vitam vivere,

Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 18:

dicere,

Cic. Sull. 29, 80:

modice et scienter uti re aliquā,

id. de Or. 1, 29, 132.—

Slightly, not very, not much:

minae Clodii modice me tangunt,

Cic. Att. 2, 19, 1:

modice vinosus,

Liv. 41, 4:

locuples,

id. 38, 14, 9:

modice instratus torus,

slightly, meanly, scantily, Suet. Aug. 73.

mŏdŏ (scanned mŏdō, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 23; Lucr. 2, 11, 35; Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 107; v. Corss. Ausspr. 2, p. 480; Lachm. ad Lucr. 2, p. 140), adv. [orig. abl. of modus, q. v.].

Qs., by measure, expressing, like tantum, a restriction of the idea, only, merely, but.

In gen.

Affirmatively: ter sub armis malim vitam cernere, Quam semel modo parere, even once, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll. (Trag. v. 298 Vahl.):

semel modo,

only once, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 30:

uni modo gessi morem,

id. Most. 1, 3, 43:

hoc autem si ita sit, ut unum modo sensibus falsum videatur, etc.,

Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 101; cf.:

quorum genera plura sunt: hi unum modo quale sit suspicantur,

id. Or. 9, 28:

nec audiendi quidam, qui tres modo primas esse partes volunt,

Quint. 3, 3, 4:

paulum modo,

Cic. Fam. 1, 5, b, 2; Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 15:

perpauxillum modo,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 74; cf.:

manus erat nulla, quae parvam modo causam timoris afferret,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 3:

quae pacisci modo scis, sed quod pacta es, non scis solvere,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 88:

ad ornandam modo, non augendam orationem assumuntur,

Quint. 8, 6, 39; cf. Cic. Inv. 2, 23, 69:

solere modo non etiam oportere,

id. Off. 3, 4, 18:

doctrina ac litterae secundis rebus delectationem modo habere videbantur, nunc vero etiam salutem,

id. Fam. 6, 12, 5:

circi modo spectaculum fuerat,

Liv. 7, 2: modo facito ut illam serves, only see that, etc., Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 59:

modo fac, ne quid aliud cures, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 16, 11, 1:

aetatem velim servire, Libanum ut conveniam modo,

if I can only, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 8:

modo ut tacere possis,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 9; cf.:

concede, ut impune emerit, modo ut bonā ratione emerit,

if but. provided that, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 10:

modo ut haec nobis loca tenere liceat,

id. Fam. 14, 14, 1.— For the expressions dummodo, solummodo, and tantummodo, v. dum, solum, and tantum.—

Negatively: non modo... sed (verum) etiam (et, or simply sed), not only... but also:

ut non modo secunda sperare debeas, sed etiam adversa fortissimo animo ferre,

Cic. Fam. 6, 13, 5:

non modo agendo, verum etiam cogitando,

id. Cael. 19, 45:

illum non modo favisse, sed et, etc.,

id. Att. 11, 9, 2:

non modo falsum id esse, sed hoc verissimum,

id. Rep. 2, 44, 71.— As to these expressions, and also respecting the omission of a second non in the latter clause, v. under sed and non.—

In partic., in restrictive clauses, for ullo or aliquo modo, in any way or degree, at all, only, even:

servus est nemo, qui modo tolerabili conditione sit servitutis, qui, etc.,

who is in any tolerable condition, Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 16; cf.:

quamquam quis ignorat, qui modo umquam mediocriter res istas scire curavit, quin, etc.,

id. Fl. 27, 64; and:

quis est omnium, qui modo cum Musis habeat aliquod commercium, qui? etc.,

id. Tusc. 5, 23, 66:

nemo aliter philosophus sensit, in quo modo esset auctoritas,

id. Div. 1, 39, 86; cf.: servitus, honorifica modo, Brut. ap. Cic. ad Brut. 1, 17, 4:

tum quam plurimis modo dignis, se utilem praebent,

be they but worthy, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 92:

bonis viris... faciendum est, modo pro facultatibus,

id. ib. 2, 17, 58:

decerne, modo recte,

id. Rosc. Am. 48, 138:

itaque veniam, quo vocas, modo adjutore te,

id. Att. 16, 13, a, 1:

atque utinam posset aliquā ratione hoc crimen quamvis falsa, modo humana atque usitata defendere,

if only, id. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 224.—

Si modo, if only (freq.):

tu si modo es Romae: vix enim puto, sin es, hoc vehementer animadvertas velim,

Cic. Att. 5, 8, 2:

tute scis (si modo meministi) me tibi tum dixisse, etc.,

id. ib. 12, 18, 2:

fortasse vici, si modo permansero,

id. ib. 12, 44, 3.— Poet. with subj.:

si modo sola queant saxa tenere fidem,

Prop. 1, 18, 4.—

Poet. and in jurid. Latin, modo si, for dummodo, if only, provided that:

persequar inferius, modo si licet ordine ferri,

Ov. Tr. 2, 263:

modo si ejus nomine opus fiat,

Dig. 39, 1, 18; 26, 2, 28; 19, 2, 19, § 10.—

As a conjunction with subj., for dummodo, if only, provided that (freq. and class.):

quos valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,

Cic. Brut. 16, 64; id. Or. 9, 28:

manent ingenia senibus, modo permaneat studium et industria,

id. Sen. 7, 22; Quint. 10, 1, 131:

modo Juppiter adsit, Tertia lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris,

Verg. A. 3, 116.—So, modo ne for dummodo ne, if only not, provided that not:

quae de Sicinio audīsti, ea mihi probantur: modo ne illa exceptio in aliquem incurrat bene de nobis meritum,

Cic. Att. 5, 4, 3:

si quis est paulo ad voluptates propensior, modo ne sit ex pecudum genere, etc.,

id. Off. 1, 30, 105; id. Ac. 2, 43, 132.—

Modo non, like the Gr. monon ouchi, all but, almost, nearly, = propemodum (ante- and post-class.):

modo non montes auri pollicens,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 17 Don.:

favet Fabi gloriae, quae modo non suā contumeliā splendeat,

Liv. 10, 24, 11:

pictor equum venientem, modo non vivum, comprehenderat,

Val. Max. 8, 11, ext. 7:

modo non reclamante publico vigore,

Amm. 14, 7, 1; 16, 12, 16; 21, 14, 1; 22, 6, 2 al.—

In colloq. lang. with imperatives, just, now, only:

sequere hac modo,

Plaut. Men. 4, 1, 4:

sedete hic modo,

id. Rud. 3, 3, 29:

propera modo,

id. Men. 1, 4, 32:

vide modo,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 46:

ignem scrutare modo, inquam,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 276.—Indignantly:

quin tu i modo,

begone now, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 182; so,

i modo,

id. Stich. 3, 2, 23:

tace modo,

be still now, id. As. 5, 2, 19.—With tu or vos ( poet. and post-class.):

tu modo, dum licet, hunc fructum ne desere vitae,

Prop. 2, 15, 49; Verg. G. 3, 73:

tu modo posce deos veniam,

id. A. 4, 50:

vos modo, inquit, parcite,

Phaedr. 2, 8, 8; Curt. 9, 6, 24; 9, 2, 25.

With specifications of time, like Gr. arti (reaching to the full measure of the time, fully).

In gen.

Of the pressent time, just now, just (ante-class. and poet.):

quid? ego modo huic frater factus, dum intro eo atque exeo?

just now? Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 43:

modo dolores, meatu, occipiunt,

Ter. Ad. 3, 1, 2 (evidenter hic modo temporis praesentis adverbium est, Don.):

advenis modo,

id. Hec. 3, 5, 8 Don.:

devoravi nomen imprudens modo,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 63:

jam modo nunc possum contentus vivere parvo,

Tib. 1, 1, 25; cf.:

peccare fuisset Ante satis, penitus modo nunc genus omne perosos Femineum,

Verg. A. 9, 141.—

Of time just passed, just now, but this moment, a little while ago, lately (class.):

nuper homines nobiles hujusmodi, judices, et quid dico nuper? immo vero modo ac plane paulo ante vidimus, qui, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 7: Al. Ita uti dudum dixeras? Am. Dudum? quam dudum istuc factum est? Al. Temptas:

jam dudum, pridem, modo,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 60: Ph. Quando? Do. Hodie. Ph. Quamdudum? Do. Modo, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 30:

sum illi villae amicior modo factus,

Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 4:

quaeras putemne talem esse deorum naturam, qualis modo a te sit exposita,

id. N. D. 1, 21, 57:

declaravit id modo temeritas C. Caesaris,

id. Off. 1, 8, 26:

modo hoc malum in rem publicam invasit,

id. ib. 2, 21, 75:

si hodie bella sint, quale Gallicum modo (i. e. twenty-two years earlier),

Liv. 6, 40, 17; cf. id. 22, 14, 13; Cic. Div. 1, 44, 99.—Opp. to nunc: qui nunc primum te advenisse dicas, [p. 1156] modo qui hinc abieris, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 63:

in quā urbe modo gratiā, auctoritate, gloriā floruimus, in eā nunc iis quidem omnibus caremus,

Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 2; id. Mur. 40, 86; 41, 88; Prop. 1, 18, 7.—With tunc, Tac. A. 2, 75.—

Of time just to come, immediately, directly, in a moment (rare, and perh. not in Cic.):

domum modo ibo,

Ter. And. 3, 4, 15; Liv. 26, 15:

Artabanus tardari metu, modo cupidine vindictae inardescere,

Tac. A. 6, 32; 4, 50.—

In partic.

Modo... modo, now... now, at one moment... at another, sometimes... sometimes (class.):

modo ait, modo negat,

sometimes he says Yes, and sometimes No, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 46:

Cotta meus modo hoc, modo illud,

Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47; id. Div. 2, 44, 93:

modo his, modo illis ex partibus,

id. N. D. 2, 19, 49:

o Academiam volaticam et sui similem, modo huc, modo illuc!

id. Att. 13, 25, 3:

citus modo, modo tardus incessus,

Sall. C. 15, 5:

laetos modo, modo pavidos animadverteres,

id. J. 60, 4:

nebulonem modo, modo nugatorem appellat,

Liv. 38, 56.—Instead of modo... modo, we sometimes find:

nunc... modo: nunc quereretur eundem accusatorem ac judicem esse, modo vitam sibi eripi, etc.,

Liv. 8, 32, 9.—Again, instead of the second modo (esp. in poets and in post-Aug. prose writers), we find:

nunc aliquando, interdum, nonnumquam, saepe, rursus.—So, modo... nunc,

Ov. M. 13, 922; id. F. 4, 643; id. Tr. 1, 2, 27:

modo ut reciperet imperium, nunc ut legatione fungeretur,

Tac. H. 2, 51:

modo... aliquando,

id. A. 1, 81; 6, 35; 11, 34; 16, 10; id. H. 2, 74:

modo... interdum,

Sall. J. 42, 1; 55, 9; 62, 9 Kritz.; 74, 1; Hor. S. 1, 9, 9 et saep.:

modo... nonnumquam,

Suet. Tib. 66; id. Claud. 15; id. Calig. 52:

modo... saepe,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 11:

modo... modo... saepe,

Sall. J. 45, 2; Tac. H. 4, 84:

modo... rursus,

Prop. 1, 3, 41.—

Modo... tum (deinde, postea, etc.), at first... then, at one time... at another:

sol modo accedens, tum autem recedens,

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

(Xenophon) facit Socratem disputantem... et modo unum, tum autem plures deos,

id. ib. 1, 12, 31:

et modo mundum, tum mentem divinam esse putat,

id. ib. 1, 13, 34; cf.:

modo (Theophrastus) menti divinum tribuit principatum, modo caelo, tum autem signis sideribusque caelestibus,

id. ib. 1, 13, 35:

et forte in eo loco grandis ilex coaluerat inter saxa paulum modo prona, deinde flexa, etc.,

Sall. J. 93, 4:

modo... paulo post,

Val. Max. 7, 4, 5:

modo... modo... postremum,

Tac. H. 4, 46:

quid agerent, modo timentes, vicissim contemnentes religiones,

Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43.

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

for steterant,

Verg. A. 3, 110;

steterint,

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

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

Causative, with acc.

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

O qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi Sistat,

Verg. G. 2, 489:

tertia lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris,

id. A. 3, 117 (classis stat;

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

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

jaculum clamanti (al. clamantis) sistit in ore,

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

disponit quas in fronte manus, medio quas robore sistat,

Stat. Th. 7, 393:

(equum ligneum) sacratā sistimus arā,

Verg. A. 2, 245:

aeternis potius me pruinis siste,

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

victima Sistitur ante aras,

Ov. M. 15, 132:

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

Verg. A. 8, 85:

post haec Sistitur crater,

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

cohortes expeditas super caput hostium sistit,

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

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

terrā sistēre petitā,

id. ib. 3, 635:

(vos) facili jam tramite sistam,

Verg. A. 6, 676:

ut eum in Syriā aut Aegypto sisterent orabat,

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

hic siste patrem,

Sen. Phoen. 121:

Annam huc siste sororem,

Verg. A. 4, 634.—

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

aciem in litore sistit,

Verg. A. 10, 309; cf.:

sistere tertiam decimam legionem in ipso aggere jubet,

Tac. H. 3, 21.—

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

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

Cic. Att. 3, 25:

te vegetum nobis in Graeciā sistas,

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

hic dea se primum rapido pulcherrima nisu Sistit,

Verg. A. 11, 853.—

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

supra, 4.): ego vos salvos sistam,

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

omnia salva sistentur tibi,

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

suam rem sibi salvam sistam,

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

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

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

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

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

cum te reducem aetas prospera sistet,

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

tutum patrio te limine sistam,

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

praedā onustos triumphantesque mecum domos reduces sistatis,

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

Pelasgis siste levem campum,

Stat. Th. 8, 328:

modo se isdem in terris victorem sisterent,

Tac. A. 2, 14:

operā tuā sistas hunc nobis sanum atque validum,

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

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

tempora quod sistant propriis parentia signis,

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

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

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

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

ibi crebro, credo, capite sistebant cadi,

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

ipsum si quicquam posse in se sistere credis,

to rest upon itself, Lucr. 1, 1057:

neque posse in terrā sistere terram,

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

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

id. 4, 415:

incerti quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur,

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

quaesitisque diu terris, ubi sistere detur,

Ov. M. 1, 307. —

As jurid. term.

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

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

Gai. 4, 184:

fit ut Alfenus promittat, Naevio sisti Quinctium,

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

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

id. ib. 6, 25:

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

Liv. 3, 45, 3:

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

Gell. 7, 1, 10:

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

Dig. 2, 11, 11:

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

ib. 2, 9, 5:

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

ib. 2, 9, 6:

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

ib. 2, 6, 4:

si quis in judicio secundum suam promissionem non stitit,

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

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

vadimonium sistit,

Cic. Quint. 8, 30:

ut nullum illa stiterit vadimonium sine Attico,

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

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

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

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

tibi amatorem illum alacrem vadimonio sistam,

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

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

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 73:

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

Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45. —

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

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

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

apud illas aedis sistendae mihi sunt sycophantiae,

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

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

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

Tac. A. 15, 72:

cum Augustus sibi templum sisti non prohibuisset,

id. ib. 4 37:

at Romae tropaea de Parthis arcusque sistebantur,

id. ib. 15, 18:

monuere ut... templum iisdem vestigiis sisteretur,

id. H. 4, 53:

sistere monumenta,

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

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

Causative (rare;

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

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

v. sto),

Verg. A. 6, 858; cf.:

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

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

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

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

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

Neutr., to stand firm, to resist:

nec quicquam Teucros Sustentare valet telis, aut sistere contra,

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

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

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

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

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

To stand still:

solstitium dictum est quod sol eo die sistere videatur,

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

sistunt amnes,

Verg. G. 1, 479:

incurrit, errat, sistit,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 248.—

To remain, stop:

Siste! Quo praeceps ruis?

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

vis tu quidem istum intra locum sistere?

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

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

depunge, ubi sistam,

Pers. 6, 79:

nec in Hectore tracto sistere,

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

To cease (dub.):

hactenus sistat nefas' pius est,

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

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

To arrest, stop, check an advancing motion.

With gradum:

plano sistit uterque gradum,

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

siste properantem gradum,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 772:

repente sistunt gradum,

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

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

fugam foedam siste,

Liv. 1, 12, 5:

si periculo suo fugam sistere posset,

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

Of vehicles, horses, etc.:

esseda siste,

Prop. 2, 1, 76:

equos,

Verg. A. 12, 355:

quadrijugos,

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

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

exercitus iter sistit,

Tac. H. 3, 50.—

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

Aquilejae sisti bellum expectarique Mucianum jubebat,

Tac. H. 3, [p. 1712] 8.—

Of living objects, in gen.

To arrest their course, make them halt:

aegre coercitam legionem Bedriaci sistit,

Tac. H. 2, 23:

festinantia sistens Fata,

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

non prius se ab effuso cursu sistunt,

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

aliquem cuspide,

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

cervum vulnere sistere,

id. 2, 78.—

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

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

Liv. 1, 37, 3:

ibi integrae vires sistunt invehentem se jam Samnitem,

id. 10, 14, 18:

nec sisti vis hostium poterat,

Curt. 5, 3, 11:

nec sisti poterant scandentes,

Tac. H. 3, 71; 5, 21. —

Trop., to stop the advance of prices:

pretia augeri in dies, nec mediocribus remediis sisti posse,

Tac. A. 3, 52.—

To arrest the motion of fluids.

Of water:

sistere aquam fluviis,

Verg. A. 4, 489:

amnis, siste parumper aquas,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 2:

quae concita flumina sistunt,

id. M. 7, 154:

sistito infestum mare,

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

Of blood and secretions:

(ea) quibus sistitur sanguis parari jubet,

Tac. A. 15, 54:

sanguinem,

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

haemorrhoidum abundantiam,

id. 27, 4, 5, § 19:

fluctiones,

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

nomas,

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

mensis,

id. 23, 6, 60, § 112:

vomitiones,

id. 20, 20, 81, § 213:

alvum bubus,

id. 18, 16, 42, § 143:

alvum,

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

ventrem,

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

To arrest the motion of life, make rigid:

ille oculos sistit,

Stat. Th. 2, 539.—

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

querelas,

Ov. M. 7, 711:

fletus,

id. ib. 14, 835:

lacrimas,

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

minas,

id. Tr. 1, 2, 60:

opus,

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

labores,

id. ib. 5, 490:

furorem,

Stat. Th. 5, 663:

furialem impetum,

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

pace tamen sisti bellum placet,

Ov. M. 14, 803:

antequam summa dies spectacula sistat,

id. F. 4, 387:

sitim sistere,

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

nec primo in limine sistit conatus scelerum,

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

ruinas,

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

ventum,

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

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

Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 198.—

Sistere with intra = to confine, keep within:

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

Tac. H. 2, 11:

dum populatio lucem intra sisteretur,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liv. 2, 29, 8:

si domestica seditio adiciatur, sisti non posse,

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

si quem similem priore anno dedissent, non potuisse sisti,

id. 3, 9, 8:

vixque concordiā sisti videbatur,

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

qualicunque urbis statu, manente disciplinā militari sisti potuisse,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

esp., a peregrinus (= hostis),

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

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

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

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

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

Liv. 39, 13, 8:

stato loco statisque diebus,

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

stato lustri die,

Sen. Troad. 781:

status sacrificii dies,

Flor. 1, 3, 16:

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

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

stato tempore,

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

stata tempora (partus),

Stat. Achill. 2, 673:

adeo in illā plagā mundus statas vices temporum mutat,

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

stata quinquennia,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 113:

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

Fest. p. 264 Lind.:

proficiscuntur Aeniam ad statum sacrificium,

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

solemne et statum sacrificium (al. statutum),

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

stata sacra,

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

stata foedera,

id. ib. 11, 380:

status flatus,

Sen. Ben. 4, 28:

stati cursus siderum,

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

Moderate, average, normal:

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

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

tŏlĕrābĭlis, e, adj. [tolero].

Pass., that may be borne, bearable, supportable, endurable, passable, tolerable (class.):

amicitiae si tolerabiles erunt, ferendae sunt,

Cic. Lael. 21, 78:

tolerabilis conditio servitutis,

id. Cat. 4, 8, 16:

genus rei publicae,

id. Rep. 1, 26, 42:

fenus,

id. Att. 6, 1, 16:

hoc utcumque tolerabile: gravius illud quod, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 2:

regi tolerabili, aut, si vultis, etiam amabili,

Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44; cf.

orator,

id. Brut. 48, 178:

oratores,

id. de Or. 1, 2, 8:

Minucius jam ante vix tolerabilis,

Liv. 22, 27, 1:

non tolerabile numen,

Verg. A. 5, 768:

habitus,

Val. Max. 4, 1, 1.— Comp.:

senectus,

Cic. Sen. 3, 8:

tolerabilius est sic dicere, etc.,

id. de Or. 1, 50, 218.— Sup.:

sententia,

Dig. 28, 5, 18. —

Act., that can easily bear or endure, enduring, sustaining, supporting (rare; not in Cic.;

but cf. tolerabiliter, 2.): homo,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 31:

quas (oves) ille tempore auctumni ratus adhuc esse tolerabiles,

i. e. able to support the winter, Col. 7, 3, 14.— Adv.: tŏlĕrābĭ-lĭter.

Bearably, passably, tolerably:

facere aliquid,

Col. 11, 2, 85:

dicere,

id. 2, 2, 3:

dare veratrum,

Cels. 2, 13.—

For toleranter, patiently:

etenim si dolores eosdem tolerabilius patiuntur,

Cic. Fin. 3, 13, 42; so,

tolerabilius ferre igniculum desiderii,

id. Fam. 15, 20, 2.

tŏlĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. ( dep. collat. form tŏlĕror, āri, acc. to Prisc. p. 800 P.) [lengthened form of the root tol, whence tollo and tuli, kindr. with the Gr. TLAÔ], to bear, support, sustain (syn.: fero, patior, sustineo, sino).

Lit. (rare and mostly post-class.):

aquilae ipsae non tolerantes pondus apprehensum una merguntur,

Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 10; cf. id. 35, 14, 49, § 173:

aliquem sinu,

App. M. 3, p. 132, 29:

gremio suo,

id. ib. 4, p. 154, 23:

mensula cenae totius honestas reliquias tolerans,

id. ib. 2, p. 121, 26.—

Trop., to bear, endure, tolerate, sustain, support:

militiam,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 1:

hiemem,

id. Cat. 2, 10, 23; Hirt. B. G. 8, 5, 1:

dicunt illi dolorem esse difficile toleratu,

Cic. Fin. 4, 19, 52:

sumptus et tributa civitatum ab omnibus tolerari aequabiliter,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25: acritudinem, Att. ap. Fest. p. 356; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 28:

facile labores pericula, dubias atque asperas res,

Sall. C. 10, 2:

aequo animo servitutem,

id. J. 31, 11:

cursus,

Ov. M. 5, 610:

vaporem,

id. ib. 2, 301; cf.:

vaporis vim,

id. ib. 11, 630:

tanta peditum equitatumque vis damnaque et injuriae aegre tolerabantur,

Tac. H. 2, 56 fin.:

sitim aestumque,

id. G. 4.— Absol.:

paulo longius tolerari posse,

Caes. B. G. 7, 71:

posse ipsam Liviam statuere, nubendum post Drusum an in penatibus isdem tolerandum haberet,

continue, remain, Tac. A. 4, 40.—

With object-clause ( poet. and in post - Aug. prose): ferro se caedi quam dictis his toleraret, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 356 Müll. (Ann. v. 137 Vahl.):

qui perpeti medicinam toleraverant,

Plin. 26, 1, 3, § 3:

magnitudinem mali perferre visu non toleravit,

Tac. A. 3, 3 fin. —

Of inanim. or abstr. subjects:

Germania imbres tempestatesque tolerat,

Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 21; 35, 14, 49, § 173:

tolerat et annos metica (vitis),

id. 14, 2, 4, § 35.—

Transf., to support a person or thing, i. e. to nourish, maintain, sustain, preserve by food, wealth, etc., = sustentare (v. h. v. II. B. 1.;

so not in Cic.): his rationibus equitatum tolerare,

Caes. B. C. 3, 58:

octona milia equitum suā pecuniā,

Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 136:

equos,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49:

corpora equorum,

Tac. A. 2, 24; Col. 6, 24, 5:

se fructibus agri,

Dig. 50, 16, 203:

semetipsos (pisces clausi),

Col. 8, 17, 15:

vitam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77; Tac. A. 15, 45 fin.; Verg. A. 8, 409:

aevum,

Lucr. 2, 1171:

annos,

Mart. 7, 64, 5:

egestatem,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 57; so id. ib. 2, 2, 77:

paupertatem,

id. Rud. 4, 2, 14:

famem,

Caes. B. G. 1, 28:

inopiam,

Sall. C. 37, 7.— Absol.:

ut toleret (sc. erum amantem servus), ne pessum abeat,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 12.—

To keep, observe:

silentium obnixum,

App. M. 4, p. 147, 1.— Hence,

tŏlĕrans, antis, P.a., bearing, supporting, enduring, tolerating, tolerant (post-Aug.; mostly with gen.):

corpus laborum tolerans,

Tac. A. 4, 1 fin.:

piscium genera dulcis undae tolerantia,

Col. 8, 16, 2. — Comp.:

vacca frigoris tolerantior,

Col. 6, 22, 2:

bello tolerantior,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 11. — Sup.:

asellus plagarum et penuriae tolerantissimus,

Col. 7, 1, 2.— Adv.: tŏlĕran-ter.

Patiently, enduringly, tolerantly:

ferre aliquid,

Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 2:

pati dolorem,

id. Tusc. 2, 18, 43.—

For tolerabiliter, bearably, tolerably:

at nunc anniculae fecunditatem poscuntur, tolerantius tamen bimae,

moderately, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 176.—

tŏlĕrātus, a, um, P. a., supportable, tolerable:

ut clementiam ac justitiam, quanto ignara barbaris, tanto toleratiora capesseret,

acceptable, Tac. A. 12, 11.† † toles ( tolles), ĭum, m. [Celtic], a wen on the neck, goitre, Veg. Vet. 1, 38; 3, 64; Ser. Samm. 16, 289; Marc. Emp. 15 med.; cf. Fest. p. 356 Müll.

tŏlĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. ( dep. collat. form tŏlĕror, āri, acc. to Prisc. p. 800 P.) [lengthened form of the root tol, whence tollo and tuli, kindr. with the Gr. TLAÔ], to bear, support, sustain (syn.: fero, patior, sustineo, sino).

Lit. (rare and mostly post-class.):

aquilae ipsae non tolerantes pondus apprehensum una merguntur,

Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 10; cf. id. 35, 14, 49, § 173:

aliquem sinu,

App. M. 3, p. 132, 29:

gremio suo,

id. ib. 4, p. 154, 23:

mensula cenae totius honestas reliquias tolerans,

id. ib. 2, p. 121, 26.—

Trop., to bear, endure, tolerate, sustain, support:

militiam,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 1:

hiemem,

id. Cat. 2, 10, 23; Hirt. B. G. 8, 5, 1:

dicunt illi dolorem esse difficile toleratu,

Cic. Fin. 4, 19, 52:

sumptus et tributa civitatum ab omnibus tolerari aequabiliter,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25: acritudinem, Att. ap. Fest. p. 356; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 28:

facile labores pericula, dubias atque asperas res,

Sall. C. 10, 2:

aequo animo servitutem,

id. J. 31, 11:

cursus,

Ov. M. 5, 610:

vaporem,

id. ib. 2, 301; cf.:

vaporis vim,

id. ib. 11, 630:

tanta peditum equitatumque vis damnaque et injuriae aegre tolerabantur,

Tac. H. 2, 56 fin.:

sitim aestumque,

id. G. 4.— Absol.:

paulo longius tolerari posse,

Caes. B. G. 7, 71:

posse ipsam Liviam statuere, nubendum post Drusum an in penatibus isdem tolerandum haberet,

continue, remain, Tac. A. 4, 40.—

With object-clause ( poet. and in post - Aug. prose): ferro se caedi quam dictis his toleraret, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 356 Müll. (Ann. v. 137 Vahl.):

qui perpeti medicinam toleraverant,

Plin. 26, 1, 3, § 3:

magnitudinem mali perferre visu non toleravit,

Tac. A. 3, 3 fin. —

Of inanim. or abstr. subjects:

Germania imbres tempestatesque tolerat,

Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 21; 35, 14, 49, § 173:

tolerat et annos metica (vitis),

id. 14, 2, 4, § 35.—

Transf., to support a person or thing, i. e. to nourish, maintain, sustain, preserve by food, wealth, etc., = sustentare (v. h. v. II. B. 1.;

so not in Cic.): his rationibus equitatum tolerare,

Caes. B. C. 3, 58:

octona milia equitum suā pecuniā,

Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 136:

equos,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49:

corpora equorum,

Tac. A. 2, 24; Col. 6, 24, 5:

se fructibus agri,

Dig. 50, 16, 203:

semetipsos (pisces clausi),

Col. 8, 17, 15:

vitam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77; Tac. A. 15, 45 fin.; Verg. A. 8, 409:

aevum,

Lucr. 2, 1171:

annos,

Mart. 7, 64, 5:

egestatem,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 57; so id. ib. 2, 2, 77:

paupertatem,

id. Rud. 4, 2, 14:

famem,

Caes. B. G. 1, 28:

inopiam,

Sall. C. 37, 7.— Absol.:

ut toleret (sc. erum amantem servus), ne pessum abeat,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 12.—

To keep, observe:

silentium obnixum,

App. M. 4, p. 147, 1.— Hence,

tŏlĕrans, antis, P.a., bearing, supporting, enduring, tolerating, tolerant (post-Aug.; mostly with gen.):

corpus laborum tolerans,

Tac. A. 4, 1 fin.:

piscium genera dulcis undae tolerantia,

Col. 8, 16, 2. — Comp.:

vacca frigoris tolerantior,

Col. 6, 22, 2:

bello tolerantior,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 11. — Sup.:

asellus plagarum et penuriae tolerantissimus,

Col. 7, 1, 2.— Adv.: tŏlĕran-ter.

Patiently, enduringly, tolerantly:

ferre aliquid,

Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 2:

pati dolorem,

id. Tusc. 2, 18, 43.—

For tolerabiliter, bearably, tolerably:

at nunc anniculae fecunditatem poscuntur, tolerantius tamen bimae,

moderately, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 176.—

tŏlĕrātus, a, um, P. a., supportable, tolerable:

ut clementiam ac justitiam, quanto ignara barbaris, tanto toleratiora capesseret,

acceptable, Tac. A. 12, 11.† † toles ( tolles), ĭum, m. [Celtic], a wen on the neck, goitre, Veg. Vet. 1, 38; 3, 64; Ser. Samm. 16, 289; Marc. Emp. 15 med.; cf. Fest. p. 356 Müll.

tŏlĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. ( dep. collat. form tŏlĕror, āri, acc. to Prisc. p. 800 P.) [lengthened form of the root tol, whence tollo and tuli, kindr. with the Gr. TLAÔ], to bear, support, sustain (syn.: fero, patior, sustineo, sino).

Lit. (rare and mostly post-class.):

aquilae ipsae non tolerantes pondus apprehensum una merguntur,

Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 10; cf. id. 35, 14, 49, § 173:

aliquem sinu,

App. M. 3, p. 132, 29:

gremio suo,

id. ib. 4, p. 154, 23:

mensula cenae totius honestas reliquias tolerans,

id. ib. 2, p. 121, 26.—

Trop., to bear, endure, tolerate, sustain, support:

militiam,

Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 1:

hiemem,

id. Cat. 2, 10, 23; Hirt. B. G. 8, 5, 1:

dicunt illi dolorem esse difficile toleratu,

Cic. Fin. 4, 19, 52:

sumptus et tributa civitatum ab omnibus tolerari aequabiliter,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25: acritudinem, Att. ap. Fest. p. 356; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 28:

facile labores pericula, dubias atque asperas res,

Sall. C. 10, 2:

aequo animo servitutem,

id. J. 31, 11:

cursus,

Ov. M. 5, 610:

vaporem,

id. ib. 2, 301; cf.:

vaporis vim,

id. ib. 11, 630:

tanta peditum equitatumque vis damnaque et injuriae aegre tolerabantur,

Tac. H. 2, 56 fin.:

sitim aestumque,

id. G. 4.— Absol.:

paulo longius tolerari posse,

Caes. B. G. 7, 71:

posse ipsam Liviam statuere, nubendum post Drusum an in penatibus isdem tolerandum haberet,

continue, remain, Tac. A. 4, 40.—

With object-clause ( poet. and in post - Aug. prose): ferro se caedi quam dictis his toleraret, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 356 Müll. (Ann. v. 137 Vahl.):

qui perpeti medicinam toleraverant,

Plin. 26, 1, 3, § 3:

magnitudinem mali perferre visu non toleravit,

Tac. A. 3, 3 fin. —

Of inanim. or abstr. subjects:

Germania imbres tempestatesque tolerat,

Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 21; 35, 14, 49, § 173:

tolerat et annos metica (vitis),

id. 14, 2, 4, § 35.—

Transf., to support a person or thing, i. e. to nourish, maintain, sustain, preserve by food, wealth, etc., = sustentare (v. h. v. II. B. 1.;

so not in Cic.): his rationibus equitatum tolerare,

Caes. B. C. 3, 58:

octona milia equitum suā pecuniā,

Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 136:

equos,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49:

corpora equorum,

Tac. A. 2, 24; Col. 6, 24, 5:

se fructibus agri,

Dig. 50, 16, 203:

semetipsos (pisces clausi),

Col. 8, 17, 15:

vitam,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77; Tac. A. 15, 45 fin.; Verg. A. 8, 409:

aevum,

Lucr. 2, 1171:

annos,

Mart. 7, 64, 5:

egestatem,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 57; so id. ib. 2, 2, 77:

paupertatem,

id. Rud. 4, 2, 14:

famem,

Caes. B. G. 1, 28:

inopiam,

Sall. C. 37, 7.— Absol.:

ut toleret (sc. erum amantem servus), ne pessum abeat,

Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 12.—

To keep, observe:

silentium obnixum,

App. M. 4, p. 147, 1.— Hence,

tŏlĕrans, antis, P.a., bearing, supporting, enduring, tolerating, tolerant (post-Aug.; mostly with gen.):

corpus laborum tolerans,

Tac. A. 4, 1 fin.:

piscium genera dulcis undae tolerantia,

Col. 8, 16, 2. — Comp.:

vacca frigoris tolerantior,

Col. 6, 22, 2:

bello tolerantior,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 11. — Sup.:

asellus plagarum et penuriae tolerantissimus,

Col. 7, 1, 2.— Adv.: tŏlĕran-ter.

Patiently, enduringly, tolerantly:

ferre aliquid,

Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 2:

pati dolorem,

id. Tusc. 2, 18, 43.—

For tolerabiliter, bearably, tolerably:

at nunc anniculae fecunditatem poscuntur, tolerantius tamen bimae,

moderately, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 176.—

tŏlĕrātus, a, um, P. a., supportable, tolerable:

ut clementiam ac justitiam, quanto ignara barbaris, tanto toleratiora capesseret,

acceptable, Tac. A. 12, 11.† † toles ( tolles), ĭum, m. [Celtic], a wen on the neck, goitre, Veg. Vet. 1, 38; 3, 64; Ser. Samm. 16, 289; Marc. Emp. 15 med.; cf. Fest. p. 356 Müll.