unfounded

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as-sĭmŭlo ( adsĭmŭlo, Ritschl, Lachmann, Fleck., B. and K., Rib., Halm in Tac.; assĭmŭlo, Merk.; adsĭmĭlo, Halm in Quint., Tisch.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

Lit., to make one thing like another, to consider as similar, to compare (in the class. period rare):

Linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur,

that they are like complete animals, Lucr. 2, 914:

nolite ergo adsimulari iis,

be like them, Vulg. Matt. 6, 8; 7, 24:

simile ex specie comparabili aut ex conferundā atque adsimulandā naturā judicatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 42:

pictor, perceptā semel imitandi ratione, adsimulabit quidquid acceperit,

Quint. 7, 10, 9:

nec cohibere parietibus deos neque in ullam humani oris speciem adsimulare,

Tac. G. 9:

convivia assimulare freto,

Ov. M. 5, 6:

formam totius Britanniae bipenni adsimulavere,

Tac. Agr. 10; so id. A. 1, 28; 15, 39:

os longius illi adsimulat porcum,

Claud. Eid. 2, 6:

cui adsimilāstis me,

Vulg. Isa. 46, 5; ib. Marc. 4, 30:

quam (naturam) Gadareus primus adsimulāsse aptissime visus est,

to have designated by very suitable comparisons, Suet. Tib. 57. —

To represent something that is not, as real, to imitate, counterfeit, to pretend, to feign, simulate; constr. usu. with acc.; ante - class. with inf., acc. and inf., or with quasi; v. assimilis (mostly poet. or in post - Aug. prose).

With acc.:

has bene ut adsimules nuptias,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 141:

clipeumque jubasque Divini adsimulat capitis,

Verg. A. 10, 639:

Assimulavit anum,

Ov. M. 14, 656:

odium cum conjuge falsum Phasias assimulat,

id. ib. 7, 298:

fictos timores,

Sil. 7, 136:

sermonem humanum,

Plin. 8, 30, 44, § 106:

me sic adsimulabam, quasi stolidum,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 40:

se laetum,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 15:

amicum me,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 78.—

With simple inf.: furere adsimulavit, Pac. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 26, 98:

amare,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 98.—

With acc. and inf.:

ego me adsimulem insanire,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 79:

adsimulet se Tuam esse uxorem,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 195:

Nempe ut adsimulem me amore istius differri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 27; id. Poen. 3, 1, 57; id. Truc. 2, 4, 36; 2, 5, 11; 2, 5, 19:

venire me adsimulabo,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 20; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 53 al.—

With quasi:

adsimulato quasi hominem quaesiveris,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 11: Ad. Ita nos adsimulabimus. Co. Sed ita adsimulatote, quasi ego sim peregrinus, id. Poen. 3, 2, 23; id. Stich. 1, 2, 27:

adsimulabo quasi nunc exeam,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 8.—And absol.:

Obsecro, Quid si adsimulo, satin est?

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 33.—

(cf. Gron. Diatr. Stat. c. 6, p. 72 sq., and Hand ad h. l.; Quint. 7, 10, 9 Spald.; id. 10, 2, 11 Frotscher; Suet. Tib. 57 Bremi; Tac. G. 9 Passow; id. Agr. 10 Walch; Bessel, Misc. Phil. Crit. 1, 5 al.), is perh. solved in the foll. remarks: Such is the affinity of the sound of ŭ and ĭ in Lat., that when they stand in two successive syllables, separated by the semivowel l, the u is accommodated to the i. Thus, from consŭl arises consĭlĭum; from exsŭl, exsĭlĭum; from famŭl, famĭlĭa; so the terminations ĭlis and ŭlus, not ŭlis and ĭlus (these few, mutĭlus, nubĭlus, pumĭlus, [p. 181] rutĭlus, appear to be founded in the u of the first syllable; but for the heteroclites gracila, sterila, etc., a nom. sing. gracilus, sterilus, etc., is no more needed than for Bacchanal orum, a nom. Bacchanalium, and for carioras, Manil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 MSS., a form cariorus, a, um); and so it is also explained, that from the orig. facul and difficul arose faculter, facultas; difficulter, difficultas; not facŭlis, facŭliter, facŭlītas; difficŭlis, difficŭlĭter, difficŭlĭtas; but facilis, faciliter, facilitas; difficilis, difficiliter, difficilitas. This principle, applied to the derivatives of simul, shows the correctness of the orthography simulo, simulatio, simulator, with similis, similitudo, similitas; adsimulo, adsimulatio, adsimulator, with adsimilis; dissimulo, dissimulatio, dissimulator, with dissimilis and dissimilitudo, etc.; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.: Similo non dicimus, sed similis est. Sane dixerunt auctores simulat per u, hoc est homoiazei. But since the copyists knew that the more rare signif. of making like was not generically connected in the words simulare and adsimulare with the more usual one of imitating, dissembling, they wrote, where the former was required, sim i lo, adsim i lo, and gave occasion thereby to the entirely unfounded supposition that the ancients wrote, for the signif. making like, similo, adsimilo; for that of imitating, feigning, simulo, adsimulo Fr.—Hence, assĭmŭlātus ( ads-), a, um, P. a.

Made similar, similar, like:

totis mortalibus adsimulata Ipsa quoque ex aliis debent constare elementis,

Lucr. 2, 980:

montibus adsimulata Nubila,

id. 6, 189:

litterae lituraeque omnes adsimulatae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77:

Italia folio querno adsimulata,

Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43:

phloginos ochrae Atticae adsimulata,

id. 37, 10, 66, § 179:

favillae adsimilatus,

Vulg. Job, 30, 19:

adsimilatus Filio Dei,

ib. Heb. 7, 3.—

Imitated, i. e. feigned, pretended, dissembled:

familiaritas adsimulata,

Cic. Clu. 13:

virtus,

id. Cael. 6, 14:

adsimulatā castrorum consuetudine,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

alia vera, alia adsimulata,

Liv. 26, 19:

minus sanguinis ac virium declamationes habent quam orationes, quod in illis vera, in his adsimilata materia est,

Quint. 10, 2, 12; 9, 2, 31 al.— Comp., sup., and adv. not in use.—

* assĭmŭlanter ( ads-), adv. (qs. from the P. a. assimulans, which is not found), in a similar manner: dicta haec, Nigid. ap. Non. p. 40, 25. ‡ * assĭpondĭum, ii, n. [as-pondus], the weight of one as, a pound weight, Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 Müll.

as-sĭmŭlo ( adsĭmŭlo, Ritschl, Lachmann, Fleck., B. and K., Rib., Halm in Tac.; assĭmŭlo, Merk.; adsĭmĭlo, Halm in Quint., Tisch.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

Lit., to make one thing like another, to consider as similar, to compare (in the class. period rare):

Linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur,

that they are like complete animals, Lucr. 2, 914:

nolite ergo adsimulari iis,

be like them, Vulg. Matt. 6, 8; 7, 24:

simile ex specie comparabili aut ex conferundā atque adsimulandā naturā judicatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 42:

pictor, perceptā semel imitandi ratione, adsimulabit quidquid acceperit,

Quint. 7, 10, 9:

nec cohibere parietibus deos neque in ullam humani oris speciem adsimulare,

Tac. G. 9:

convivia assimulare freto,

Ov. M. 5, 6:

formam totius Britanniae bipenni adsimulavere,

Tac. Agr. 10; so id. A. 1, 28; 15, 39:

os longius illi adsimulat porcum,

Claud. Eid. 2, 6:

cui adsimilāstis me,

Vulg. Isa. 46, 5; ib. Marc. 4, 30:

quam (naturam) Gadareus primus adsimulāsse aptissime visus est,

to have designated by very suitable comparisons, Suet. Tib. 57. —

To represent something that is not, as real, to imitate, counterfeit, to pretend, to feign, simulate; constr. usu. with acc.; ante - class. with inf., acc. and inf., or with quasi; v. assimilis (mostly poet. or in post - Aug. prose).

With acc.:

has bene ut adsimules nuptias,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 141:

clipeumque jubasque Divini adsimulat capitis,

Verg. A. 10, 639:

Assimulavit anum,

Ov. M. 14, 656:

odium cum conjuge falsum Phasias assimulat,

id. ib. 7, 298:

fictos timores,

Sil. 7, 136:

sermonem humanum,

Plin. 8, 30, 44, § 106:

me sic adsimulabam, quasi stolidum,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 40:

se laetum,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 15:

amicum me,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 78.—

With simple inf.: furere adsimulavit, Pac. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 26, 98:

amare,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 98.—

With acc. and inf.:

ego me adsimulem insanire,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 79:

adsimulet se Tuam esse uxorem,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 195:

Nempe ut adsimulem me amore istius differri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 27; id. Poen. 3, 1, 57; id. Truc. 2, 4, 36; 2, 5, 11; 2, 5, 19:

venire me adsimulabo,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 20; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 53 al.—

With quasi:

adsimulato quasi hominem quaesiveris,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 11: Ad. Ita nos adsimulabimus. Co. Sed ita adsimulatote, quasi ego sim peregrinus, id. Poen. 3, 2, 23; id. Stich. 1, 2, 27:

adsimulabo quasi nunc exeam,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 8.—And absol.:

Obsecro, Quid si adsimulo, satin est?

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 33.—

(cf. Gron. Diatr. Stat. c. 6, p. 72 sq., and Hand ad h. l.; Quint. 7, 10, 9 Spald.; id. 10, 2, 11 Frotscher; Suet. Tib. 57 Bremi; Tac. G. 9 Passow; id. Agr. 10 Walch; Bessel, Misc. Phil. Crit. 1, 5 al.), is perh. solved in the foll. remarks: Such is the affinity of the sound of ŭ and ĭ in Lat., that when they stand in two successive syllables, separated by the semivowel l, the u is accommodated to the i. Thus, from consŭl arises consĭlĭum; from exsŭl, exsĭlĭum; from famŭl, famĭlĭa; so the terminations ĭlis and ŭlus, not ŭlis and ĭlus (these few, mutĭlus, nubĭlus, pumĭlus, [p. 181] rutĭlus, appear to be founded in the u of the first syllable; but for the heteroclites gracila, sterila, etc., a nom. sing. gracilus, sterilus, etc., is no more needed than for Bacchanal orum, a nom. Bacchanalium, and for carioras, Manil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 MSS., a form cariorus, a, um); and so it is also explained, that from the orig. facul and difficul arose faculter, facultas; difficulter, difficultas; not facŭlis, facŭliter, facŭlītas; difficŭlis, difficŭlĭter, difficŭlĭtas; but facilis, faciliter, facilitas; difficilis, difficiliter, difficilitas. This principle, applied to the derivatives of simul, shows the correctness of the orthography simulo, simulatio, simulator, with similis, similitudo, similitas; adsimulo, adsimulatio, adsimulator, with adsimilis; dissimulo, dissimulatio, dissimulator, with dissimilis and dissimilitudo, etc.; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.: Similo non dicimus, sed similis est. Sane dixerunt auctores simulat per u, hoc est homoiazei. But since the copyists knew that the more rare signif. of making like was not generically connected in the words simulare and adsimulare with the more usual one of imitating, dissembling, they wrote, where the former was required, sim i lo, adsim i lo, and gave occasion thereby to the entirely unfounded supposition that the ancients wrote, for the signif. making like, similo, adsimilo; for that of imitating, feigning, simulo, adsimulo Fr.—Hence, assĭmŭlātus ( ads-), a, um, P. a.

Made similar, similar, like:

totis mortalibus adsimulata Ipsa quoque ex aliis debent constare elementis,

Lucr. 2, 980:

montibus adsimulata Nubila,

id. 6, 189:

litterae lituraeque omnes adsimulatae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77:

Italia folio querno adsimulata,

Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43:

phloginos ochrae Atticae adsimulata,

id. 37, 10, 66, § 179:

favillae adsimilatus,

Vulg. Job, 30, 19:

adsimilatus Filio Dei,

ib. Heb. 7, 3.—

Imitated, i. e. feigned, pretended, dissembled:

familiaritas adsimulata,

Cic. Clu. 13:

virtus,

id. Cael. 6, 14:

adsimulatā castrorum consuetudine,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

alia vera, alia adsimulata,

Liv. 26, 19:

minus sanguinis ac virium declamationes habent quam orationes, quod in illis vera, in his adsimilata materia est,

Quint. 10, 2, 12; 9, 2, 31 al.— Comp., sup., and adv. not in use.—

* assĭmŭlanter ( ads-), adv. (qs. from the P. a. assimulans, which is not found), in a similar manner: dicta haec, Nigid. ap. Non. p. 40, 25. ‡ * assĭpondĭum, ii, n. [as-pondus], the weight of one as, a pound weight, Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 Müll.

as-sĭmŭlo ( adsĭmŭlo, Ritschl, Lachmann, Fleck., B. and K., Rib., Halm in Tac.; assĭmŭlo, Merk.; adsĭmĭlo, Halm in Quint., Tisch.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

Lit., to make one thing like another, to consider as similar, to compare (in the class. period rare):

Linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur,

that they are like complete animals, Lucr. 2, 914:

nolite ergo adsimulari iis,

be like them, Vulg. Matt. 6, 8; 7, 24:

simile ex specie comparabili aut ex conferundā atque adsimulandā naturā judicatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 42:

pictor, perceptā semel imitandi ratione, adsimulabit quidquid acceperit,

Quint. 7, 10, 9:

nec cohibere parietibus deos neque in ullam humani oris speciem adsimulare,

Tac. G. 9:

convivia assimulare freto,

Ov. M. 5, 6:

formam totius Britanniae bipenni adsimulavere,

Tac. Agr. 10; so id. A. 1, 28; 15, 39:

os longius illi adsimulat porcum,

Claud. Eid. 2, 6:

cui adsimilāstis me,

Vulg. Isa. 46, 5; ib. Marc. 4, 30:

quam (naturam) Gadareus primus adsimulāsse aptissime visus est,

to have designated by very suitable comparisons, Suet. Tib. 57. —

To represent something that is not, as real, to imitate, counterfeit, to pretend, to feign, simulate; constr. usu. with acc.; ante - class. with inf., acc. and inf., or with quasi; v. assimilis (mostly poet. or in post - Aug. prose).

With acc.:

has bene ut adsimules nuptias,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 141:

clipeumque jubasque Divini adsimulat capitis,

Verg. A. 10, 639:

Assimulavit anum,

Ov. M. 14, 656:

odium cum conjuge falsum Phasias assimulat,

id. ib. 7, 298:

fictos timores,

Sil. 7, 136:

sermonem humanum,

Plin. 8, 30, 44, § 106:

me sic adsimulabam, quasi stolidum,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 40:

se laetum,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 15:

amicum me,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 78.—

With simple inf.: furere adsimulavit, Pac. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 26, 98:

amare,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 98.—

With acc. and inf.:

ego me adsimulem insanire,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 79:

adsimulet se Tuam esse uxorem,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 195:

Nempe ut adsimulem me amore istius differri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 27; id. Poen. 3, 1, 57; id. Truc. 2, 4, 36; 2, 5, 11; 2, 5, 19:

venire me adsimulabo,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 20; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 53 al.—

With quasi:

adsimulato quasi hominem quaesiveris,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 11: Ad. Ita nos adsimulabimus. Co. Sed ita adsimulatote, quasi ego sim peregrinus, id. Poen. 3, 2, 23; id. Stich. 1, 2, 27:

adsimulabo quasi nunc exeam,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 8.—And absol.:

Obsecro, Quid si adsimulo, satin est?

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 33.—

(cf. Gron. Diatr. Stat. c. 6, p. 72 sq., and Hand ad h. l.; Quint. 7, 10, 9 Spald.; id. 10, 2, 11 Frotscher; Suet. Tib. 57 Bremi; Tac. G. 9 Passow; id. Agr. 10 Walch; Bessel, Misc. Phil. Crit. 1, 5 al.), is perh. solved in the foll. remarks: Such is the affinity of the sound of ŭ and ĭ in Lat., that when they stand in two successive syllables, separated by the semivowel l, the u is accommodated to the i. Thus, from consŭl arises consĭlĭum; from exsŭl, exsĭlĭum; from famŭl, famĭlĭa; so the terminations ĭlis and ŭlus, not ŭlis and ĭlus (these few, mutĭlus, nubĭlus, pumĭlus, [p. 181] rutĭlus, appear to be founded in the u of the first syllable; but for the heteroclites gracila, sterila, etc., a nom. sing. gracilus, sterilus, etc., is no more needed than for Bacchanal orum, a nom. Bacchanalium, and for carioras, Manil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 MSS., a form cariorus, a, um); and so it is also explained, that from the orig. facul and difficul arose faculter, facultas; difficulter, difficultas; not facŭlis, facŭliter, facŭlītas; difficŭlis, difficŭlĭter, difficŭlĭtas; but facilis, faciliter, facilitas; difficilis, difficiliter, difficilitas. This principle, applied to the derivatives of simul, shows the correctness of the orthography simulo, simulatio, simulator, with similis, similitudo, similitas; adsimulo, adsimulatio, adsimulator, with adsimilis; dissimulo, dissimulatio, dissimulator, with dissimilis and dissimilitudo, etc.; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.: Similo non dicimus, sed similis est. Sane dixerunt auctores simulat per u, hoc est homoiazei. But since the copyists knew that the more rare signif. of making like was not generically connected in the words simulare and adsimulare with the more usual one of imitating, dissembling, they wrote, where the former was required, sim i lo, adsim i lo, and gave occasion thereby to the entirely unfounded supposition that the ancients wrote, for the signif. making like, similo, adsimilo; for that of imitating, feigning, simulo, adsimulo Fr.—Hence, assĭmŭlātus ( ads-), a, um, P. a.

Made similar, similar, like:

totis mortalibus adsimulata Ipsa quoque ex aliis debent constare elementis,

Lucr. 2, 980:

montibus adsimulata Nubila,

id. 6, 189:

litterae lituraeque omnes adsimulatae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77:

Italia folio querno adsimulata,

Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43:

phloginos ochrae Atticae adsimulata,

id. 37, 10, 66, § 179:

favillae adsimilatus,

Vulg. Job, 30, 19:

adsimilatus Filio Dei,

ib. Heb. 7, 3.—

Imitated, i. e. feigned, pretended, dissembled:

familiaritas adsimulata,

Cic. Clu. 13:

virtus,

id. Cael. 6, 14:

adsimulatā castrorum consuetudine,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

alia vera, alia adsimulata,

Liv. 26, 19:

minus sanguinis ac virium declamationes habent quam orationes, quod in illis vera, in his adsimilata materia est,

Quint. 10, 2, 12; 9, 2, 31 al.— Comp., sup., and adv. not in use.—

* assĭmŭlanter ( ads-), adv. (qs. from the P. a. assimulans, which is not found), in a similar manner: dicta haec, Nigid. ap. Non. p. 40, 25. ‡ * assĭpondĭum, ii, n. [as-pondus], the weight of one as, a pound weight, Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 Müll.

as-sĭmŭlo ( adsĭmŭlo, Ritschl, Lachmann, Fleck., B. and K., Rib., Halm in Tac.; assĭmŭlo, Merk.; adsĭmĭlo, Halm in Quint., Tisch.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

Lit., to make one thing like another, to consider as similar, to compare (in the class. period rare):

Linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur,

that they are like complete animals, Lucr. 2, 914:

nolite ergo adsimulari iis,

be like them, Vulg. Matt. 6, 8; 7, 24:

simile ex specie comparabili aut ex conferundā atque adsimulandā naturā judicatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 42:

pictor, perceptā semel imitandi ratione, adsimulabit quidquid acceperit,

Quint. 7, 10, 9:

nec cohibere parietibus deos neque in ullam humani oris speciem adsimulare,

Tac. G. 9:

convivia assimulare freto,

Ov. M. 5, 6:

formam totius Britanniae bipenni adsimulavere,

Tac. Agr. 10; so id. A. 1, 28; 15, 39:

os longius illi adsimulat porcum,

Claud. Eid. 2, 6:

cui adsimilāstis me,

Vulg. Isa. 46, 5; ib. Marc. 4, 30:

quam (naturam) Gadareus primus adsimulāsse aptissime visus est,

to have designated by very suitable comparisons, Suet. Tib. 57. —

To represent something that is not, as real, to imitate, counterfeit, to pretend, to feign, simulate; constr. usu. with acc.; ante - class. with inf., acc. and inf., or with quasi; v. assimilis (mostly poet. or in post - Aug. prose).

With acc.:

has bene ut adsimules nuptias,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 141:

clipeumque jubasque Divini adsimulat capitis,

Verg. A. 10, 639:

Assimulavit anum,

Ov. M. 14, 656:

odium cum conjuge falsum Phasias assimulat,

id. ib. 7, 298:

fictos timores,

Sil. 7, 136:

sermonem humanum,

Plin. 8, 30, 44, § 106:

me sic adsimulabam, quasi stolidum,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 40:

se laetum,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 15:

amicum me,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 78.—

With simple inf.: furere adsimulavit, Pac. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 26, 98:

amare,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 98.—

With acc. and inf.:

ego me adsimulem insanire,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 79:

adsimulet se Tuam esse uxorem,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 195:

Nempe ut adsimulem me amore istius differri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 27; id. Poen. 3, 1, 57; id. Truc. 2, 4, 36; 2, 5, 11; 2, 5, 19:

venire me adsimulabo,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 20; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 53 al.—

With quasi:

adsimulato quasi hominem quaesiveris,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 11: Ad. Ita nos adsimulabimus. Co. Sed ita adsimulatote, quasi ego sim peregrinus, id. Poen. 3, 2, 23; id. Stich. 1, 2, 27:

adsimulabo quasi nunc exeam,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 8.—And absol.:

Obsecro, Quid si adsimulo, satin est?

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 33.—

(cf. Gron. Diatr. Stat. c. 6, p. 72 sq., and Hand ad h. l.; Quint. 7, 10, 9 Spald.; id. 10, 2, 11 Frotscher; Suet. Tib. 57 Bremi; Tac. G. 9 Passow; id. Agr. 10 Walch; Bessel, Misc. Phil. Crit. 1, 5 al.), is perh. solved in the foll. remarks: Such is the affinity of the sound of ŭ and ĭ in Lat., that when they stand in two successive syllables, separated by the semivowel l, the u is accommodated to the i. Thus, from consŭl arises consĭlĭum; from exsŭl, exsĭlĭum; from famŭl, famĭlĭa; so the terminations ĭlis and ŭlus, not ŭlis and ĭlus (these few, mutĭlus, nubĭlus, pumĭlus, [p. 181] rutĭlus, appear to be founded in the u of the first syllable; but for the heteroclites gracila, sterila, etc., a nom. sing. gracilus, sterilus, etc., is no more needed than for Bacchanal orum, a nom. Bacchanalium, and for carioras, Manil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 MSS., a form cariorus, a, um); and so it is also explained, that from the orig. facul and difficul arose faculter, facultas; difficulter, difficultas; not facŭlis, facŭliter, facŭlītas; difficŭlis, difficŭlĭter, difficŭlĭtas; but facilis, faciliter, facilitas; difficilis, difficiliter, difficilitas. This principle, applied to the derivatives of simul, shows the correctness of the orthography simulo, simulatio, simulator, with similis, similitudo, similitas; adsimulo, adsimulatio, adsimulator, with adsimilis; dissimulo, dissimulatio, dissimulator, with dissimilis and dissimilitudo, etc.; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.: Similo non dicimus, sed similis est. Sane dixerunt auctores simulat per u, hoc est homoiazei. But since the copyists knew that the more rare signif. of making like was not generically connected in the words simulare and adsimulare with the more usual one of imitating, dissembling, they wrote, where the former was required, sim i lo, adsim i lo, and gave occasion thereby to the entirely unfounded supposition that the ancients wrote, for the signif. making like, similo, adsimilo; for that of imitating, feigning, simulo, adsimulo Fr.—Hence, assĭmŭlātus ( ads-), a, um, P. a.

Made similar, similar, like:

totis mortalibus adsimulata Ipsa quoque ex aliis debent constare elementis,

Lucr. 2, 980:

montibus adsimulata Nubila,

id. 6, 189:

litterae lituraeque omnes adsimulatae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77:

Italia folio querno adsimulata,

Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43:

phloginos ochrae Atticae adsimulata,

id. 37, 10, 66, § 179:

favillae adsimilatus,

Vulg. Job, 30, 19:

adsimilatus Filio Dei,

ib. Heb. 7, 3.—

Imitated, i. e. feigned, pretended, dissembled:

familiaritas adsimulata,

Cic. Clu. 13:

virtus,

id. Cael. 6, 14:

adsimulatā castrorum consuetudine,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

alia vera, alia adsimulata,

Liv. 26, 19:

minus sanguinis ac virium declamationes habent quam orationes, quod in illis vera, in his adsimilata materia est,

Quint. 10, 2, 12; 9, 2, 31 al.— Comp., sup., and adv. not in use.—

* assĭmŭlanter ( ads-), adv. (qs. from the P. a. assimulans, which is not found), in a similar manner: dicta haec, Nigid. ap. Non. p. 40, 25. ‡ * assĭpondĭum, ii, n. [as-pondus], the weight of one as, a pound weight, Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 Müll.

as-sĭmŭlo ( adsĭmŭlo, Ritschl, Lachmann, Fleck., B. and K., Rib., Halm in Tac.; assĭmŭlo, Merk.; adsĭmĭlo, Halm in Quint., Tisch.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

Lit., to make one thing like another, to consider as similar, to compare (in the class. period rare):

Linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur,

that they are like complete animals, Lucr. 2, 914:

nolite ergo adsimulari iis,

be like them, Vulg. Matt. 6, 8; 7, 24:

simile ex specie comparabili aut ex conferundā atque adsimulandā naturā judicatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 42:

pictor, perceptā semel imitandi ratione, adsimulabit quidquid acceperit,

Quint. 7, 10, 9:

nec cohibere parietibus deos neque in ullam humani oris speciem adsimulare,

Tac. G. 9:

convivia assimulare freto,

Ov. M. 5, 6:

formam totius Britanniae bipenni adsimulavere,

Tac. Agr. 10; so id. A. 1, 28; 15, 39:

os longius illi adsimulat porcum,

Claud. Eid. 2, 6:

cui adsimilāstis me,

Vulg. Isa. 46, 5; ib. Marc. 4, 30:

quam (naturam) Gadareus primus adsimulāsse aptissime visus est,

to have designated by very suitable comparisons, Suet. Tib. 57. —

To represent something that is not, as real, to imitate, counterfeit, to pretend, to feign, simulate; constr. usu. with acc.; ante - class. with inf., acc. and inf., or with quasi; v. assimilis (mostly poet. or in post - Aug. prose).

With acc.:

has bene ut adsimules nuptias,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 141:

clipeumque jubasque Divini adsimulat capitis,

Verg. A. 10, 639:

Assimulavit anum,

Ov. M. 14, 656:

odium cum conjuge falsum Phasias assimulat,

id. ib. 7, 298:

fictos timores,

Sil. 7, 136:

sermonem humanum,

Plin. 8, 30, 44, § 106:

me sic adsimulabam, quasi stolidum,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 40:

se laetum,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 15:

amicum me,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 78.—

With simple inf.: furere adsimulavit, Pac. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 26, 98:

amare,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 98.—

With acc. and inf.:

ego me adsimulem insanire,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 79:

adsimulet se Tuam esse uxorem,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 195:

Nempe ut adsimulem me amore istius differri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 27; id. Poen. 3, 1, 57; id. Truc. 2, 4, 36; 2, 5, 11; 2, 5, 19:

venire me adsimulabo,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 20; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 53 al.—

With quasi:

adsimulato quasi hominem quaesiveris,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 11: Ad. Ita nos adsimulabimus. Co. Sed ita adsimulatote, quasi ego sim peregrinus, id. Poen. 3, 2, 23; id. Stich. 1, 2, 27:

adsimulabo quasi nunc exeam,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 8.—And absol.:

Obsecro, Quid si adsimulo, satin est?

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 33.—

(cf. Gron. Diatr. Stat. c. 6, p. 72 sq., and Hand ad h. l.; Quint. 7, 10, 9 Spald.; id. 10, 2, 11 Frotscher; Suet. Tib. 57 Bremi; Tac. G. 9 Passow; id. Agr. 10 Walch; Bessel, Misc. Phil. Crit. 1, 5 al.), is perh. solved in the foll. remarks: Such is the affinity of the sound of ŭ and ĭ in Lat., that when they stand in two successive syllables, separated by the semivowel l, the u is accommodated to the i. Thus, from consŭl arises consĭlĭum; from exsŭl, exsĭlĭum; from famŭl, famĭlĭa; so the terminations ĭlis and ŭlus, not ŭlis and ĭlus (these few, mutĭlus, nubĭlus, pumĭlus, [p. 181] rutĭlus, appear to be founded in the u of the first syllable; but for the heteroclites gracila, sterila, etc., a nom. sing. gracilus, sterilus, etc., is no more needed than for Bacchanal orum, a nom. Bacchanalium, and for carioras, Manil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 MSS., a form cariorus, a, um); and so it is also explained, that from the orig. facul and difficul arose faculter, facultas; difficulter, difficultas; not facŭlis, facŭliter, facŭlītas; difficŭlis, difficŭlĭter, difficŭlĭtas; but facilis, faciliter, facilitas; difficilis, difficiliter, difficilitas. This principle, applied to the derivatives of simul, shows the correctness of the orthography simulo, simulatio, simulator, with similis, similitudo, similitas; adsimulo, adsimulatio, adsimulator, with adsimilis; dissimulo, dissimulatio, dissimulator, with dissimilis and dissimilitudo, etc.; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.: Similo non dicimus, sed similis est. Sane dixerunt auctores simulat per u, hoc est homoiazei. But since the copyists knew that the more rare signif. of making like was not generically connected in the words simulare and adsimulare with the more usual one of imitating, dissembling, they wrote, where the former was required, sim i lo, adsim i lo, and gave occasion thereby to the entirely unfounded supposition that the ancients wrote, for the signif. making like, similo, adsimilo; for that of imitating, feigning, simulo, adsimulo Fr.—Hence, assĭmŭlātus ( ads-), a, um, P. a.

Made similar, similar, like:

totis mortalibus adsimulata Ipsa quoque ex aliis debent constare elementis,

Lucr. 2, 980:

montibus adsimulata Nubila,

id. 6, 189:

litterae lituraeque omnes adsimulatae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77:

Italia folio querno adsimulata,

Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43:

phloginos ochrae Atticae adsimulata,

id. 37, 10, 66, § 179:

favillae adsimilatus,

Vulg. Job, 30, 19:

adsimilatus Filio Dei,

ib. Heb. 7, 3.—

Imitated, i. e. feigned, pretended, dissembled:

familiaritas adsimulata,

Cic. Clu. 13:

virtus,

id. Cael. 6, 14:

adsimulatā castrorum consuetudine,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

alia vera, alia adsimulata,

Liv. 26, 19:

minus sanguinis ac virium declamationes habent quam orationes, quod in illis vera, in his adsimilata materia est,

Quint. 10, 2, 12; 9, 2, 31 al.— Comp., sup., and adv. not in use.—

* assĭmŭlanter ( ads-), adv. (qs. from the P. a. assimulans, which is not found), in a similar manner: dicta haec, Nigid. ap. Non. p. 40, 25. ‡ * assĭpondĭum, ii, n. [as-pondus], the weight of one as, a pound weight, Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 Müll.

as-sĭmŭlo ( adsĭmŭlo, Ritschl, Lachmann, Fleck., B. and K., Rib., Halm in Tac.; assĭmŭlo, Merk.; adsĭmĭlo, Halm in Quint., Tisch.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.

Lit., to make one thing like another, to consider as similar, to compare (in the class. period rare):

Linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur,

that they are like complete animals, Lucr. 2, 914:

nolite ergo adsimulari iis,

be like them, Vulg. Matt. 6, 8; 7, 24:

simile ex specie comparabili aut ex conferundā atque adsimulandā naturā judicatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 28, 42:

pictor, perceptā semel imitandi ratione, adsimulabit quidquid acceperit,

Quint. 7, 10, 9:

nec cohibere parietibus deos neque in ullam humani oris speciem adsimulare,

Tac. G. 9:

convivia assimulare freto,

Ov. M. 5, 6:

formam totius Britanniae bipenni adsimulavere,

Tac. Agr. 10; so id. A. 1, 28; 15, 39:

os longius illi adsimulat porcum,

Claud. Eid. 2, 6:

cui adsimilāstis me,

Vulg. Isa. 46, 5; ib. Marc. 4, 30:

quam (naturam) Gadareus primus adsimulāsse aptissime visus est,

to have designated by very suitable comparisons, Suet. Tib. 57. —

To represent something that is not, as real, to imitate, counterfeit, to pretend, to feign, simulate; constr. usu. with acc.; ante - class. with inf., acc. and inf., or with quasi; v. assimilis (mostly poet. or in post - Aug. prose).

With acc.:

has bene ut adsimules nuptias,

Ter. And. 1, 1, 141:

clipeumque jubasque Divini adsimulat capitis,

Verg. A. 10, 639:

Assimulavit anum,

Ov. M. 14, 656:

odium cum conjuge falsum Phasias assimulat,

id. ib. 7, 298:

fictos timores,

Sil. 7, 136:

sermonem humanum,

Plin. 8, 30, 44, § 106:

me sic adsimulabam, quasi stolidum,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 40:

se laetum,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 15:

amicum me,

id. Phorm. 1, 2, 78.—

With simple inf.: furere adsimulavit, Pac. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 26, 98:

amare,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 98.—

With acc. and inf.:

ego me adsimulem insanire,

Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 79:

adsimulet se Tuam esse uxorem,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 195:

Nempe ut adsimulem me amore istius differri,

id. ib. 4, 4, 27; id. Poen. 3, 1, 57; id. Truc. 2, 4, 36; 2, 5, 11; 2, 5, 19:

venire me adsimulabo,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 20; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 53 al.—

With quasi:

adsimulato quasi hominem quaesiveris,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 11: Ad. Ita nos adsimulabimus. Co. Sed ita adsimulatote, quasi ego sim peregrinus, id. Poen. 3, 2, 23; id. Stich. 1, 2, 27:

adsimulabo quasi nunc exeam,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 8.—And absol.:

Obsecro, Quid si adsimulo, satin est?

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 33.—

(cf. Gron. Diatr. Stat. c. 6, p. 72 sq., and Hand ad h. l.; Quint. 7, 10, 9 Spald.; id. 10, 2, 11 Frotscher; Suet. Tib. 57 Bremi; Tac. G. 9 Passow; id. Agr. 10 Walch; Bessel, Misc. Phil. Crit. 1, 5 al.), is perh. solved in the foll. remarks: Such is the affinity of the sound of ŭ and ĭ in Lat., that when they stand in two successive syllables, separated by the semivowel l, the u is accommodated to the i. Thus, from consŭl arises consĭlĭum; from exsŭl, exsĭlĭum; from famŭl, famĭlĭa; so the terminations ĭlis and ŭlus, not ŭlis and ĭlus (these few, mutĭlus, nubĭlus, pumĭlus, [p. 181] rutĭlus, appear to be founded in the u of the first syllable; but for the heteroclites gracila, sterila, etc., a nom. sing. gracilus, sterilus, etc., is no more needed than for Bacchanal orum, a nom. Bacchanalium, and for carioras, Manil. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 MSS., a form cariorus, a, um); and so it is also explained, that from the orig. facul and difficul arose faculter, facultas; difficulter, difficultas; not facŭlis, facŭliter, facŭlītas; difficŭlis, difficŭlĭter, difficŭlĭtas; but facilis, faciliter, facilitas; difficilis, difficiliter, difficilitas. This principle, applied to the derivatives of simul, shows the correctness of the orthography simulo, simulatio, simulator, with similis, similitudo, similitas; adsimulo, adsimulatio, adsimulator, with adsimilis; dissimulo, dissimulatio, dissimulator, with dissimilis and dissimilitudo, etc.; cf. Diom. p. 362 P.: Similo non dicimus, sed similis est. Sane dixerunt auctores simulat per u, hoc est homoiazei. But since the copyists knew that the more rare signif. of making like was not generically connected in the words simulare and adsimulare with the more usual one of imitating, dissembling, they wrote, where the former was required, sim i lo, adsim i lo, and gave occasion thereby to the entirely unfounded supposition that the ancients wrote, for the signif. making like, similo, adsimilo; for that of imitating, feigning, simulo, adsimulo Fr.—Hence, assĭmŭlātus ( ads-), a, um, P. a.

Made similar, similar, like:

totis mortalibus adsimulata Ipsa quoque ex aliis debent constare elementis,

Lucr. 2, 980:

montibus adsimulata Nubila,

id. 6, 189:

litterae lituraeque omnes adsimulatae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77:

Italia folio querno adsimulata,

Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 43:

phloginos ochrae Atticae adsimulata,

id. 37, 10, 66, § 179:

favillae adsimilatus,

Vulg. Job, 30, 19:

adsimilatus Filio Dei,

ib. Heb. 7, 3.—

Imitated, i. e. feigned, pretended, dissembled:

familiaritas adsimulata,

Cic. Clu. 13:

virtus,

id. Cael. 6, 14:

adsimulatā castrorum consuetudine,

Nep. Eum. 9, 4:

alia vera, alia adsimulata,

Liv. 26, 19:

minus sanguinis ac virium declamationes habent quam orationes, quod in illis vera, in his adsimilata materia est,

Quint. 10, 2, 12; 9, 2, 31 al.— Comp., sup., and adv. not in use.—

* assĭmŭlanter ( ads-), adv. (qs. from the P. a. assimulans, which is not found), in a similar manner: dicta haec, Nigid. ap. Non. p. 40, 25. ‡ * assĭpondĭum, ii, n. [as-pondus], the weight of one as, a pound weight, Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 Müll.

auctor (incorrectly written autor or author), ōris, comm. [id.], he that brings about the existence of any object, or promotes the increase or prosperity of it, whether he first originates it, or by his efforts gives greater permanence or continuance to it; to be differently translated according to the object, creator, maker, author, inventor, producer, father, founder, teacher, composer, cause, voucher, supporter, leader, head, etc. (syn.: conditor, origo, consiliarius, lator, suasor, princeps, dux).

Lit.

Of persons, a progenitor, father, ancestor:

L. Brutus, praeclarus auctor nobilitatis tuae,

the founder, progenitor of your nobility, Cic. Tusc. 4, 1, 2:

generis,

Verg. A. 4, 365; so Ov. M. 4, 640, and Suet. Vit. 2:

tu sanguinis ultimus auctor,

Verg. A. 7, 49; so Ov. M. 12, 558, and 13, 142:

tantae propaginis,

id. F. 3, 157:

originis,

Suet. Ner. 1:

gentis,

id. Claud. 25:

auctores parentes animarum,

Vulg. Sap. 12, 6:

auctore ab illo ducit originem,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 5:

Sive neglectum genus et nepotes Respicis auctor,

id. ib. 1, 2, 36:

mihi Tantalus auctor,

Ov. M. 6, 172:

auctores saxa fretumque tui,

id. H. 10, 132:

Juppiter e terrā genitam mentitur, ut auctor Desinat inquiri,

id. M. 1, 615.—Of animals, Col. 6, 27, 1.—

Of buildings, etc., founder, builder:

Trojae Cynthius auctor,

Verg. G. 3, 36:

murorum Romulus auctor,

Prop. 5, 6, 43 ( augur, Müll.):

auctor posuisset in oris Moenia,

Ov. M. 15, 9:

porticus auctoris Livia nomen habet,

id. A. A. 1, 72:

amphitheatri,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 118:

omnia sub titulo tantum suo ac sine ullā pristini auctoris memoriā,

Suet. Dom. 5.—

Of works of art, a maker, artist:

statua auctoris incerti,

Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 93: apparuit summam artis securitatem auctori placaisse, id. praef. § 27.—

Transf.

In gen., the originator, executor, performer, doer, cause, occasion of other things (freq. interchanged with actor):

tametsi haud quaquam par gloriá sequitur scriptorem et auctorem rerum, tamen etc.,

Sall. C. 3, 2 Kritz (cf. without rerum: Suam quisque culpam auctores ad negotia transferunt, id. J. 1, 4):

praeclari facinoris,

Vell. 2, 120, 6:

facti,

Ov. M. 9, 206; Vell. 1, 8:

cum perquirerent auctorem facti,

Vulg. Jud. 6, 29:

optimi statūs auctor,

Suet. Aug. 28:

honoris,

Ov. M. 10, 214:

vitae,

Vulg. Act. 3, 15:

salutis,

ib. Heb. 2, 10:

fidei,

ib. ib. 12, 2:

funeris,

Ov. M. 10, 199:

necis,

id. ib. 8, 449;

9, 214: mortis,

id. ib. 8, 493:

vulneris,

id. ib. 5, 133;

8, 418: plagae,

id. ib. 3, 329:

seditionis sectae,

Vulg. Act. 24, 5.—Also, in gen., one from whom any thing proceeds or comes:

auctor in incerto est: jaculum de parte sinistrā Venit,

i. e. the sender, Ov. M. 12, 419; so,

teli,

id. ib. 8, 349:

muneris,

the giver, id. ib. 2, 88;

5, 657, 7, 157 al.: meritorum,

id. ib. 8, 108 al.—

An investigator:

non sordidus auctor Naturae verique,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 14.—And as imparting learning, a teacher:

quamquam in antiquissimā philosophiā Cratippo auctore versaris,

Cic. Off. 2, 2, 8:

dicendi gravissimus auctor et magister Plato,

id. Or. 3, 10:

divini humanique juris auctor celeberrimus,

Vell. 2, 26, 2:

Servius Sulpicius, juris civilis auctor,

Gell. 2, 10; Dig. 19, 1, 39; 40, 7, 36.—

The author of a writing, a writer:

ii quos nunc lectito auctores,

Cic. Att. 12, 18:

ingeniosus poëta et auctor valde bonus,

id. Mur. 14:

scripta auctori perniciosa suo,

Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 68:

Belli Alexandrini Africique et Hispaniensis incertus auctor est,

Suet. Caes. 56; id. Aug. 31:

sine auctore notissimi versus,

i. e. anonymous verses, id. ib. 70; so id. Calig. 8; id. Dom. 8 al.— Meton. of cause for effect, for a literary production, writing, work:

in evolvendis utriusque linguae auctoribus, etc.,

Suet. Aug. 89. —In partic., the author of historical works, an historian (with and without rerum):

ego cautius posthac historiam attingam, te audiente, quem rerum Romanarum auctorem laudare possum religiosissimum,

Cic. Brut. 11, 44; so,

Matrem Antoniam non apud auctores rerum, non diurnā actorum scripturā reperio ullo insigni officio functam,

Tac. A. 3, 3; 3, 30 (diff. from auctor rerum in II. A.):

Polybius bonus auctor in primis,

Cic. Off. 3, 32, 113; so Nep. Them. 10, 4; Liv. 4, 20; Tac. A. 5, 9; 14, 64 al.—With historiae (eccl. Lat.):

historiae congruit auctori,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 2, 31.—Hence, in gen., one that gives an account of something, a narrator, reporter, informant (orally or in writing):

sibi insidias fieri: se id certis auctoribus comperisse,

Cic. Att. 14, 8:

celeberrimos auctores habeo tantam victoribus irreverentiam fuisse, ut, etc.,

Tac. H. 3, 51:

criminis ficti auctor, i. e. nuntius,

Ov. M. 7, 824:

Non haec tibi nuntiat auctor Ambiguus,

id. ib. 11, 666; 12, 58; 12, 61; 12, 532.—Hence, auctorem esse, with acc. and inf., to relate, recount:

Auctores sunt ter novenis punctis interfici hominem,

Plin. 11, 21, 24, § 73:

Fabius Rustiçus auctor est scriptos esse ad Caecinam Tuscum codicillos,

Tac. A. 13, 20:

Auctor est Julius Marathus ante paucos quam nasceretur menses prodigium Romae factum (esse) publice, etc.,

Suet. Aug. 94 et saep.—

One by whose influence, advice, command, etc., any thing is done, the cause, occasion, contriver, instigator, counsellor, adviser, promoter; constr. sometimes with ut, acc. and inf., or gen. gerund.: quid mihi es auctor ( what do you counsel me?) huic ut mittam? Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 2; 4, 7, 70; id. Poen. 1, 3, 1:

idne estis auctores mihi?

Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 16:

mihique ut absim, vehementer auctor est,

Cic. Att. 15, 5:

Gellium ipsis (philosophis) magno opere auctorem fuisse, ut controversiarum facerent modum,

id. Leg. 1, 20, 53:

ut propinqui de communi sententiā coërcerent, auctor fuit,

Suet. Tib. 35; id. Claud. 25; id. Calig. 15:

a me consilium petis, qui sim tibi auctor in Siciliāne subsidas, an proficiscare,

Cic. Fam. 6, 8: ego quidem tibi non sim auctor, si Pompeius Italiam reliquit, te quoque profugere, Att. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10:

ne auctor armorum duxque deesset, Auct. B. G. 8, 47: auctor facinori non deerat,

Liv. 2, 54:

auctores Bibulo fuere tantundem pollicendi,

Suet. Caes. 19:

auctores restituendae tribuniciae potestatis,

id. ib. 5; so id. Dom. 8:

auctor singulis universisque conspirandi simul et ut... communem causam juvarent,

id. Galb. 10 al. —So freq. in the abl. absol.: me, te, eo auctore, at my, your, his instance, by my [p. 199] advice, command, etc.:

non me quidem Faciet auctore, hodie ut illum decipiat,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 23:

an paenitebat flagiti, te auctore quod fecisset Adulescens?

Ter. Eun. 5, 6, 12:

quare omnes istos me auctore deridete atque contemnite,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 54:

quia calida fomenta non proderant, frigidis curari coactus auctore Antonio Musā,

Suet. Aug. 81; 96; id. Galb. 19; id. Vit. 2 al.: agis Carminibus grates et dis auctoribus horum, the promoters or authors of spells, Ov. M. 7, 148.—

Esp., in political lang., t. t.

Auctor legis.

One who proposes a law, a mover, proposer (very rare):

quarum legum auctor fuerat, earum suasorem se haud dubium ferebat,

Liv. 6, 36:

Quid desperatius, qui ne ementiendo quidem potueris auctorem adumbrare meliorem,

Cic. Dom. 30, 80.—

One who advises the proposal of a law, and exerts all his influence to have it passed, a supporter (stronger than suasor; cf. Suet. Tib. 27:

alium dicente, auctore eo Senatum se adīsse, verba mutare et pro auctore suasorem dicere coegit): isti rationi neque lator quisquam est inventus neque auctor umquam bonus,

Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 34:

cum ostenderem, si lex utilis plebi Romanae mihi videretur, auctorem me atque adjutorem futurum (esse),

id. Agr. 2, 5; id. Att. 1, 19:

quo auctore societatem cum Perseo junxerunt,

Liv. 45, 31; Suet. Oth. 8; id. Vesp. 11 al.—Sometimes in connection with suasor:

atque hujus deditionis ipse Postumius suasor et auctor fuit,

Cic. Off. 3, 30, 109:

Nisi quis retinet, idem suasor auctorque consilii ero,

Tac. H. 3, 2 al. —

Of a senate which accepts or adopts a proposition for a law, a confirmer, ratifier:

nunc cum loquar apud senatores populi Romani, legum et judiciorum et juris auctores,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67.— Poet., in gen., a law-giver:

animum ad civilia vertet Jura suum, legesque feret justissimus auctor,

Ov. M. 15, 833;

and of one who establishes conditions of peace: leges captis justissimus auctor imposuit,

id. ib. 8, 101. —Hence, auctores fieri, to approve, accept, confirm a law:

cum de plebe consulem non accipiebat, patres ante auctores fieri coëgerit,

Cic. Brut. 14, 55:

Decreverunt ut, cum populus regem jussisset, id sic ratum esset, si patres auctores fierent,

Liv. 1, 17; 1, 22; 2, 54; 2, 56; 6, 42; 8, 12 al.—

Auctor consilii publici, he who has the chief voice in the senate, a leader:

hunc rei publicae rectorem et consilii publici auctorem esse habendum,

Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 211; 3, 17, 63. —Also absol.:

regem Ariobarzanem, cujus salutem a senatu te auctore, commendatam habebam,

by your influence, and the decree of the senate occasioned by it, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 6; cf. Gron. ad Liv. 24, 43.—

One who is an exemplar, a model, pattern, type of any thing:

Caecilius, malus auctor Latinitatis,

Cic. Att. 7, 3, 10:

nec litterarum Graecarum, nec philosophiae jam ullum auctorem requiro,

id. Ac. 2, 2, 5; cf.

Wopk. Lect. Tull. p. 34: unum cedo auctorem tui facti, unius profer exemplum,

i. e. who has done a similar thing, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 26:

Cato omnium virtutum auctor,

id. Fin. 4, 16, 44 al. —

One that becomes security for something, a voucher, bail, surety, witness:

id ita esse ut credas, rem tibi auctorem dabo,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 70:

auctorem rumorem habere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 19: fama nuntiabat te esse in Syriā;

auctor erat nemo,

id. Fam. 12, 4:

non si mihi Juppiter auctor Spondeat,

Verg. A. 5, 17:

gravis quamvis magnae rei auctor,

Liv. 1, 16:

auctorem levem, nec satis fidum super tantā re Patres rati,

id. 5, 15 fin.:

urbs auspicato deis auctoribus in aeternum condita,

under the guaranty of the gods, id. 28, 28.—Also with acc. and inf.:

auctores sumus tutam ibi majestatem Romani nominis fore,

Liv. 2, 48.—

In judic. lang., t. t.

A seller, vender (inasmuch as he warrants the right of possession of the thing to be sold, and transfers it to the purchaser; sometimes the jurists make a distinction between auctor primus and auctor secundus; the former is the seller himself, the latter the bail or security whom the former brings, Dig. 21, 2, 4; cf.

Salmas. Mod. Usur. pp. 728 and 733): quod a malo auctore emīssent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22:

auctor fundi,

id. Caecin. 10; Dig. 19, 1, 52: Inpero (auctor ego sum), ut tu me quoivis castrandum loces, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 73 Wagn.; id. Ep. 3, 2, 21; id. Curc. 4, 2, 12.— Trop.:

auctor beneficii populi Romani,

Cic. Mur. 2.—

A guardian, trustee (of women and minors):

dos quam mulier nullo auctore dixisset,

Cic. Caecin. 25:

majores nostri nullam ne privatam quidem rem agere feminas sine auctore voluerunt,

Liv. 34, 2:

pupillus obligari tutori eo auctore non potest,

Dig. 26, 8, 5.—

In espousals, auctores are the witnesses of the marriage contract (parents, brothers, guardians, relatives, etc.):

nubit genero socrus, nullis auspicibus, nullis auctoribus,

Cic. Clu. 5.—

An agent, factor, spokesman, intercessor, champion:

praeclarus iste auctor suae civitatis,

Cic. Fl. 22:

(Plancius) princeps inter suos... maximarum societatum auctor, plurimarum magister,

id. Planc. 13, 22:

meae salutis,

id. Sest. 50, 107:

doloris sui, querelarum, etc.,

id. Fl. 22 fin.

Lat. auctor is also used as fem.:

eas aves, quibus auctoribus etc.,

Cic. Div. 1, 15, 27:

Et hostes aderant et (Theoxena) auctor mortis instabat,

Liv. 40, 4, 15:

auctor ego (Juno) audendi,

Verg. A. 12, 159; Ov. M. 8, 108; id. F. 5, 192; 6, 709; id. H. 14, 110; 15, 3; Sen. Med. 968; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 29 Müll. The distinction which the grammarians, Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 159, Prob. p. 1452 sq. P., and others make between auctor fem. and auctrix, that auctrix would refer more to the lit. signif. of the verb, augeo, while auctor fem. has more direct relation to the prevailing signif. of its noun, auctoritas, is unfounded.

crīmen, ĭnis, n. [contr. for cernimen, from cerno, II. C.]; lit., a judicial decision, verdict, judgment; hence, transf., like the Gr. krima, of the subject of such a decision, and with partieular reference either to the accuser or to the accused.

Subject., or with reference to the accuser, a charge, accusation, reproach; esp. when unfounded, a calumny, slander (very freq. in every period and species of composition):

criminin' me habuisse fidem?

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 15; cf. Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 13:

hae litterae fidem Persei criminibus fecerunt,

Liv. 40, 23, 9:

cum respondero criminibus,

Cic. Planc. 2, 4:

se falsis criminibus circumventum,

Sall. C. 34, 2; cf.:

crimen falsum,

Cic. Quint. 2, 8; Hor. C. 3, 7, 14:

criminibus adversariorum in invidiam venire,

Nep. Epam. 7, 3:

sermones pleni criminum in Patres,

Liv. 6, 14, 11:

crimina et suspiciones,

id. 40, 15, 3:

tanti maleficii crimen probare te censes posse talibus viris, si, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 26, 72:

sceleris maximi,

id. Cael. 23, 56; cf. id. ib. 27, 65; id. Sull. 24, 8:

istius conjurationis,

id. ib. 4, 12:

avaritiae,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192; 2, 5, 1, § 2:

veneficii,

Quint. 5, 7, 37:

ubi est crimen quod reprehenditis?

i. e. the point of the accusation, Cic. Sest. 38, 80 Halm ad loc.:

quo enim illi crimine peccatoque perierunt?

id. Cael. 30, 71:

haec causa est omnium horum scelerum atque criminum,

id. ib. 25, 61;

so (approaching the signif. II. A. infra), id C. Norbano in nefario crimine atque in fraude capitali esse ponendum,

id. de Or. 2, 48, 199 Sorof ad loc.:

era in crimen veniet,

Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 55 (era male audiet, Don.):

quid? sciebas tibi crimini datum iri?

would be made a reproach? Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 74; cf. Ov. M. 1, 766:

crimen adferre,

Cic. Rab. Post. 10, 27; cf.:

crimen inferre, offerre,

id. Lael. 18, 65:

in quos crimen intendebatur,

Liv. 9, 26, 11:

esse in crimine,

to stand charged with, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 100:

propulsare,

id. Sull. 4, 12:

defendere,

to repel, confute, id. ib.; Ov. M. 13, 303;

and opp. obicere,

Quint. 6, 3, 69:

repellere, transferre,

id. 4, 2, 26 et saep.— Poet.: belli, pretexts (causae), Verg. A. 7, 339.—

Meton. (abstr. pro concreto), an object of reproach or invective:

perpetuae crimen posteritatis eris,

Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 26.—

Object., or with reference to the accused, the fault complained of, a crime, fault, offence (freq., but rare in ante-Aug. prose).

Lit.

Ingen.:

foedati crimine turpi,

Lucr. 3, 49:

cum haec (causa) non in crimine aliquo, quod ille posset infitiari... consisteret,

Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 182 Sorof ad loc.:

crimen meum indicare,

Liv. 40, 12, 10; 41, 25, 6:

carendum non solum crimine turpitudinis, verum etiam suspicione,

Quint. 2, 2, 14:

cum quidam crimen ultro faterentur,

Suet. Claud. 36:

velut crimen taedas exosa jugales,

Ov. M. 1, 483:

non prodere vultu,

id. ib. 2, 447:

scire,

id. ib. 2, 614:

hoc si crimen erit, crimen amoris erit,

Prop. 2 (3), 30, 24; cf.:

tuum crimen erit,

thy fault, id. 2 (3), 28, 2:

crimina et innoxios discernere,

Tac. A. 1, 55.—Ovid in his Tristia very freq. calls the offence on account of which he was banished crimina or crimen, interchanging it with error, e. g. 1, 9, 64; 2, 3; 2, 207; 3, 5, 52; 3, 6, 26 al.—

Of inanim. objects:

crimina brassicae sunt, animae gravitatem facere, etc.,

fault, defect, Plin. 20, 9, 35, § 91.—

In partic., the crime of lewdness, adultery, Ov. M. 9, 24; Sil. 6, 634.—

Meton.

An object representing a crime:

et rupit pictas, caelestia crimina, vestes, i. e. deorum adulteria,

Ov. M. 6, 131; cf.:

tum paries nullo crimine pictus erat,

Prop. 2, 6, 34 (2, 5, 26 Bip.):

impressā signat sua crimina gemmā,

a letter containing her crime, Ov. M. 9, 566.—

A cause of a crime, a criminal:

se causam clamat crimenque caputque malorum,

Verg. A. 12, 600; cf.:

a pereant Baiae, crimen amoris, aquae,

Prop. 1, 11, 30:

Crimen et illa fuit... Myrrha,

id. 3, 19 (4, 18), 15.

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.

nĕ-que or nec (used indifferently before vowels and consonants. The notion that nec in class. prose stands only before consonants is wholly unfounded. Ap. Cic. in the Rep. alone we find nec nineteen times before vowels; viz.: nec accipere, 3, 13, 23: nec alios, 2, 37, 62: nec enim, 1, 24, 38; 6, 25, 27: nec esset, 5, 5, 7: nec ex se, 6, 24, 27:

nec id, 1, 1, 1: nec inportatis, 2, 15, 29: nec in, 6, 23, 25: nec inconstantiam, 3, 11, 18: nec injussu, 6, 15, 15: nec ipsius, 1, 26, 41: nec ipsum, 6, 24, 27: nec ulla, 1, 34, 51: nec ullo, 1, 37, 58: nec una, 2, 1, 2: nec hic, 3, 33, 45: nec hominis, 2, 21, 37: nec hunc, 6, 25, 29. Cf. also such passages as neque reliquarum virtutum, nec ipsius rei publicae,

Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 41:

dabo tibi testes nec nimis antiquos nec ullo modo barbaros,

id. ib. 1, 37, 58:

nec atrocius... neque apertius,

id. Tull. 1, 2:

nec homo occidi nec consulto, etc.,

id. ib. 14, 34. The true distinction is, that in the form nec the negation is more prominent; in the form neque, the connective force of the particle; cf. Hand, Turs. 4, p. 94 sq.), adv. and conj. [ne-que], not; and not, also not.

Adv., like ne, in ante-class. Latinity (v. ne, I.) as a general negative particle, = non, not (usually in the form nec. In class. Lat. this usage seems to be confined to certain formulae, as nec opinans, nec procul abesse, nec mancipi, etc.; v. infra): nec conjunctionem grammatici fere dicunt esse disjunctivam, ut: nec legit, nec scribit: cum si diligentius inspiciatur, ut fecit Sinnius Capito, intellegi possit, eam positam esse ab antiquis pro non, ut et in XII. est: AST EI CVSTOS NEC ESCIT, Paul. ex Fest. p. 162 Müll.:

SI INTESTATO MORITVR, CVI SVVS HERES NEC SIT, etc., Lex XII. Tab. (v. App. III. tab. 5): SI AGNATVS NEC ESCIT, etc., ib.: magistratus nec obedientem civem coërceto,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6:

senatori, qui nec aderit, culpa esto,

id. ib. 3, 4, 11:

bruti nec satis sardare queunt,

Naev. 1, 4; 1, 7:

tu dis nec recte dicis: non aequum facis,

Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11:

nec recte,

id. As. 1, 3, 3; 2, 4, 65; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; Cat. 30, 4:

alter, qui nec procul aberat,

Liv. 1, 25, 10:

nec ullus = nullus: cui Parcae tribuere nec ullo vulnere laedi,

Verg. Cir. 269:

differentia mancipi rerum et nec mancipi,

Gai. Inst. 2, 18 sq. —Form neque: si quid tibi in illisce suovitaurilibus lactentibus neque satisfactum est, etc., an old formula of prayer in Cato, R. R. 141, 4: neque opinantes insidiatores, Auct. B. Afr. 66; Auct. B. Alex. 75.

Conj., in all periods and kinds of composition.

In gen., = et non, and not, also not.

Alone.

When the negative applies to the principal verb of the clause: multumque laborat, Nec respirandi fit copia, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 437 Vahl.):

illa quae aliis sic, aliis secus, nec iisdem semper uno modo videntur, ficta esse dicimus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47:

delubra esse in urbibus censeo, nec sequor magos Persarum, quibus, etc.,

id. ib. 2, 10, 26; id. N. D. 1, 29, 81; id. Rep. 2, 1, 2:

quae mei testes dicunt, quia non viderunt nec sciunt,

id. Tull. 10, 24:

non eros nec dominos appellabant eos... sed patres et deos. Nec sine causā. Quid enim? etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 41, 64:

illa, nec invideo, fruitur meliore marito,

Ov. H. 2, 79.—

Less freq. when the negative applies to some other word:

nec inventas illas toto orbe pares vires gloriatur,

Just. 11, 9, 5:

et vidi et perii, nec notis ignibus arsi,

Ov. H. 12, 33:

Anguibus exuitur tenui cum pelle vetustas, Nec faciunt cervos cornua jacta senes ( = et faciunt non senes),

id. A. A. 3, 77:

neque eum aequom facere ait,

Ter. Phorm, 1, 2, 64:

nec dubie ludibrio esse miserias suas,

Liv. 2, 23, 14; 2, 14, 2; esp. in the phrases nec idcirco minus, nec eo minus, nec eo secius, neque eo magis;

thus: nec idcirco minus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 151:

neque eo minus,

Liv. 41, 8, 8; Suet. Oth. 2; id. Vesp. 24:

neque eo secius,

Nep. Att. 2, 2:

neque eo magis,

id. Eum. 4, 2; id. Paus. 3, 5; id. Att. 8, 5:

cum consules in Hernicos exercitum duxissent, neque inventis in agro hostibus, Ferentinum urbem cepissent,

Liv. 7, 9, 1.—

So, nec ullus, nec quisquam, for et nullus, et nemo, etc.:

nec ullo Gallorum ibi viro, etc.,

Liv. 38, 25, 3; Tac. Agr. 16:

nec quidquam magis quam ille, etc.,

Curt. 4, 2, 8.—

With vero, enim, autem, tamen:

neque vero hoc solum dixit, sed ipse et sentit et fecit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 229:

nec vero jam meo nomine abstinent,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 6: nec enim respexit, etc., id. Clod. et Cur. 4, 4; id. Lael. 10, 32:

neque enim tu is es, qui, qui sis nescias,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 6:

nec tamen didici, etc.,

id. Rep. 2, 38, 64:

neque autem ego sum ita demens, ut, etc.,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 6.—

In partic.

Nec [p. 1202] = ne... quidem, not even (in Liv. and later writers;

in Cic. dub. since B. and K. read ne... quidem,

Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 7; id. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; id. Cat. 2, 4, 8; cf.

Hand, Turs. 4, 105 sqq.): ne quid ex antiquo praeter sonum linguae, nec eum incorruptum, retinerent,

Liv. 5, 33, 11:

Maharbal nec ipse eruptionem cohortium sustinuit,

id. 23, 18, 4:

nec nos,

id. 3, 52, 9; 34, 32, 9; 37, 20, 8; 38, 23, 3;

40, 20, 6: non spes modo, sed nec dilatio,

Just. 11, 8, 4:

tam pauper, quam nec miserabilis Irus,

Mart. 6, 77, 1; 5, 70, 6: Juv. 2, 151:

interrogatus, an facta hominum deos fallerent, nec cogitata, inquit,

Val. Max. 7, 2, ext. 8; Tac. G. 6:

nec ipse,

Suet. Claud. 46; Flor. 1, 15, 3; Lact. 5, 13, 12; Amm. 14, 10, 3.—

Nec = etiam non (freq. in Quint.):

ut, si in urbe fines non reguntur, nec aqua in urbe arceatur,

Cic. Top. 4, 23; id. Fin. 1, 11, 39:

nec si quid dicere satis non est, ideo nec necesse est,

Quint. 1, 1, 21:

quod in foro non expedit, illic nec liceat,

id. 9, 2, 67; 5, 10, 86; 12, 3, 6;

2, 13, 7: sed neque haec in principem,

Tac. A. 4, 34; 3, 29; 2, 82.—

Neque (nec)... neque (nec), neither... nor: quae neque Dardaniis campis potuere perire, Nec cum capta capi, nec cum combusta cremari, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 360 Vahl.):

nam certe neque tum peccavi, cum... neque cum, etc.,

Cic. Att. 8, 12, 2:

nec meliores nec beatiores,

id. Rep. 1, 19, 32:

mors nec ad vivos pertineat nec ad mortuos,

id. Tusc. 1, 38, 91:

virtus nec eripi nec surripi potest umquam: neque naufragio neque incendio amittitur,

id. Par. 6, 3, 51: neque ego neque Caesar, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1; cf.:

haec si neque ego neque tu fecimus,

Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 23; so,

non... nec... neque... neque: perspicuum est, non omni caussae, nec auditori neque personae neque tempori congruere orationis unum genus,

Cic. de Or. 3, 55, 210.—The second nec is rarely placed after a word in the clause ( poet.):

nec deus hunc mensā, dea nec dignata cubili est,

Verg. E. 4, 63; id. A. 4, 365; 696:

sed nec Brutus erit, Bruti nec avunculus usquam,

Juv. 14, 43.—With a preceding negative, which, however, does not destroy the negation contained in neque... neque:

non mediusfidius prae lacrimis possum reliqua nec cogitare nec scribere,

Cic. Att. 9, 12, 1:

ut omnes intellegant, nihil me nec subterfugere voluisse reticendo nec obscurare dicendo,

id. Clu. 1, 1:

nulla vitae pars neque publicis neque privatis, neque forensibus neque domesticis, neque si tecum agas, neque si cum altero contrahas vacare officio potest,

id. Off. 1, 2, 4:

nemo umquam neque poëta neque orator fuit, qui, etc.,

id. Att. 14, 20, 3; 8, 1, 3; Liv. 38, 50, 11.—

Neque (nec)... et (que), and et... neque (nec), when one clause is affirmative, on the one hand not... and on the other hand; not only not... but also; or the contrary, on the one hand... and on the other hand not; not only... but also not.

Neque (nec)... et (que):

id neque amoris mediocris et ingenii summi et sapientiae judico,

Cic. Att. 1, 20, 1:

animal nullum inveniri potest, quod neque natum umquam sit, et semper sit futurum,

id. N. D. 3, 13, 32; id. Off. 2, 12, 43; id. Brut. 58, 198; Caes. B. G. 4, 1; Tac. A. 3, 35:

ex quo intellegitur nec intemperantiam propter se fugiendam esse temperantiamque expetendam,

Cic. Fin. 1, 14, 48:

perficiam, ut neque bonus quisquam intereat, paucorumque poenā vos omnes jam salvi esse possitis,

id. Cat. 2, 13, 28:

sed nec illa exstincta sunt, alunturque potius et augentur cogitatione et memoriā,

id. Lael. 27, 104; Ov. M. 2, 42; 811.—

Et... neque (nec):

ego vero et exspectabo ea quae polliceris neque exigam nisi tuo commodo,

Cic. Brut. 4, 17:

patebat via et certa neque longa,

id. Phil. 11, 2, 4:

intellegitis et animum ei praesto fuisse, nec consilium defuisse,

id. ib. 13, 6, 13:

et... nec... et... et,

id. Tusc. 5, 38, 112.—

Neque (nec) non (also in one word, necnon), emphatically affirmative, and also, and besides, and indeed, and:

nec haec non deminuitur scientia,

Varr. R. R. 1, 4, 4:

neque meam mentem non domum saepe revocat exanimata uxor,

Cic. Cat. 4, 2, 3:

nec vero non eadem ira deorum hanc ejus satellitibus injecit amentiam,

id. Mil. 32, 86:

nec vero Aristoteles non laudandus in eo, quod, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 16, 44: neque tamen illa non ornant, habiti honores, etc., id. de Or. 2, 85, 347:

neque tristius dicere quicquam debeo hac de re, neque non me tamen mordet aliquid,

id. Fam. 3, 12, 2:

nec non et sterilis, etc.,

Verg. G. 2, 53; id. A. 8, 461; Suet. Tit. 5.—

In Varro and after the Aug. per., nec non (or as one word, necnon) freq. as a simple conjunction = et, and, and likewise, and so too, and also:

ibi vidi greges magnos anserum, gallinarum, gruum, pavonum, necnon glirium, etc.,

Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 14; Col. 8, 15, 6:

nec non et Tyrii per limina laeta frequentes Convenere,

Verg. A. 1, 707; Plin. 13, 22, 38, § 118:

nec non etiam poëmata faciebat ex tempore,

Suet. Gram. 23:

nec non et ante,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 23, 13:

nec non et quasi,

id. 2 Par. 3, 16. —

Neque (nec) dum (also in one word, necdum), and not yet, not yet:

ille autem quid agat, si scis neque dum Romā es profectus, scribas ad me velim,

Cic. Att. 14, 10, 4; Cels. 5, 26, n. 33; Suet. Aug. 10; Juv. 11, 66:

necdum tamen ego Quintum conveneram,

Cic. Att. 6, 3, 2:

necdum etiam audierant inflari classica, necdum Impositos duris crepitare incudibus enses,

Verg. G. 2, 539; id. A. 11, 70.—Strengthened by tamen:

philosophi summi, neque dum tamen sapientiam consecuti, nonne intellegunt in summo se malo esse?

Cic. Tusc. 3, 28, 68; id. Att. 6, 3, 3:

et necdum (post-Aug.),

and not yet, Plin. Pan. 14, 1.—

Nec... quidem; v. quidem.—

Neque = et ne or neve.

Expressing negative purpose.

After ut (class.):

ut ea, quae regie statuit in aratores, praetermittam neque eos appellem, a quibus, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 115:

hortemur liberos nostros, ut animo rei magnitudinem complectantur, neque eis praeceptis quibus utuntur omnes, ut consequi posse confidant, etc.,

id. de Or. 1, 5, 19:

peterent ut dediticiis suis parcerent, neque in eum agrum arma inferrent,

Liv. 7, 31, 4; 1, 2, 4; 3, 52, 11; 27, 20, 12.—

After ne (not ante-Aug.):

conspirāsse inde, ne manus ad os cibum ferrent, nec os acciperet datum, nec dentes conficerent,

Liv. 2, 32, 10; 3, 21, 6; 4, 4, 11; 26, 42, 2.—

In a prohibition (rare):

nec id mirati sitis, priusquam, etc.,

Liv. 5, 53, 3:

nec a me nunc quisquam quaesiverit, quid, etc.,

id. 9, 9, 9:

nec quicquam raptim aut forte temere egeritis,

id. 23, 5, 3.—

In contrasts, but not, not however (class.):

ubi aetas tantum modo quaestui neque luxuriae modum fecerat,

Sall. C. 24, 3:

gloriosa modo neque belli patrandi,

id. J. 88, 4:

consulatus sine ulla patrum injuriā, nec sine offensione fuit,

Liv. 3, 55, 1:

oppida oppugnata nec obsessa sunt,

id. 5, 12, 5; Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9; Quint. 8, 6, 74; Tac. Agr. 8.

tĕmĕrĭtas, ātis, f [temere].

Hap. chance, accident (so rare but class., cf.:

fortuna. casus): in quibus nulla temeritas, sed ordo apparet,

Cic. N. D. 2, 32, 82 quid enim sors est? Idem propemodum, quod micare, quod talos jacere, quod tesseras quibus in rebus temeritas et casus, non ratio nec consilium valet, id. Div 2, 41, 85 fortunam in temeritatem declinando corrumpebant, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 385, 5, cf. (Pacuvius) ait, verius esse temeritate quam fortuna res regi, Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36:

illa superiora caduca et incerta posita non tam in consiliis nostris quam in fortunae temeritate,

Cic. Lael. 6, 20.—

Rashness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, hastiness, want of consideration, indiscretion, foolhardiness, temerity; a rash, inconsiderate, or unfounded opinion (the predom. signif. of the word, syn.:

inconsiderantia, audacia): omnis actio vacare debet temeritate et neglegentia,

Cic. Off. 1, 29, 101. multi faciunt multa temeritate quādam, sine judicio vel modo, id. ib. 1, 15, 49: numquam temeritas cum sapientiā miscetur. id. Marcell. 2, 7;

duci ad judicandum impetu et temeritate,

id. Planc. 4, 9:

temeritatem cupiditatemque militum reprehendit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 52: inpellit alios avaritia, alios iracundia et temeritas, id. ib, 7, 42; Sall. J. 7, 5;

temeritas est florentis aetatis, prudentia senescentis,

Cic. Sen. 6, 20;

so opp prudentia,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 8; (with ignorantia) Cic. Ac. 1, 11, 42; (with inscitia) Liv 6, 30, 6; 42, 49, 5; (with inscientia) id. 22, 25, 12.—In plur., rash, inconsiderate acts, Cic. Sest. 28, 61; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 97