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ūnus (altlat. oenus), a, um, Genet. ūnīus, Dat. ūnī, (vgl. griech. οἰνός, οἰνή, die Eins auf dem Würfel, gotisch ains, ahd. ein), ein, eine, einer, ein (eines), I) eig.: A) im allg., als Zahlwort: unus de magistratibus, Cic.: mihi secundis rebus unus ex fortunatis hominibus, adversis unus ex summis viris videbatur, Cic.: unus ex Curiatiis, Liv. (u. so bei Livius oft unus ex, s. Fabri u. Weißenb. Liv. 24, 28, 1): unus eorum pontium, Caes.: principum unus, Liv.: uno et octogesimo anno, Cic.: unum et viginti annos, Cic.: dah. unus de multis, Cic., od. e multis, Cic., od. unus multorum, Hor., einer vom großen Haufen, ein gewöhnlicher Mensch, eine Alltagsseele (aber es unus ex multis, es geht dir nicht besser als den meisten, Plin. ep. 1, 3, 2): uno plus Etruscorum cecĭdisse, um einen Mann mehr, Liv.: in unum locum cogere copias, Caes., res diverse et diffuse dictas, Cic.: mit folg. alter (vgl. auch no. II), seltener mit folg. alius, zB. una ex parte... altera ex parte, Caes.: una species... altera, Varro LL.: unam (partem)... aliam... tertiam, Caes.: unum, alterum, tertium annum, Cic.: unus et alter dies, ein bis zwei Tage, Cic.: dies unus, alter, plures etc., Cic.: unum, alterum mensem, Cic.: unus post alterum, einer nach dem anderen, Aur. Vict.: unus aut summum alter, einer oder höchstens zwei, Cic. ep. 5. 21, 1 (versch. v. unus aut alter unter no. II). – Plur. (bes. bei Plur. tantum), ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias, Ter.: unae molae, Cato: unae quadrigae, Varro: manibus ab unis, Val. Flacc.: unae decumae... alterae, Cic.: ad hunc quadruplicem fontem diriguntur bini, uni transversi, alteri derecti, Varro LL. – ad unum (unam) omnes u. omnes ad unum, alle bis auf einen, alle bis auf den letzten, Cic. u.a. (s. Fabri Liv. 21, 42, 2): u. so bl. ad unum, Lucil. fr. u. Cic.: u. omnes cum uno, Gell. 3, 7, 16. – in unum, in eins (griech. εἰς εν) = an einen Ort (Punkt), convocare, Sall.: cogere, Liv.: sarcinas conicere, Liv.: confluere, Cic.: fundere, in eine Masse, Colum. – B) insbes.: 1) von dem, was allein vorhanden ist od. stattfindet, ein, wie nur einer, einzig, alleinig, allein, bloß, nur (s. Brix Plaut. trin. 166. Lorenz Plaut. Pseud. 52), quibus sui nihil est nisi una lingua, Plaut.: nunc unae quinque remorantur minae, Plaut.: ruri dum sum ego unos sex dies, Plaut.: uno verbo, Ter.: Demosthenes unus eminet, Cic.: Pompeius plus potest unus, allein, Cic.: unus ex omnibus, Cic.: uni ex omnibus Sequani, Caes.: sequere me t es unos passus, die einzigen drei Schritte, Plaut.: Ubii, qui uni miserant, allein, Caes.: nobis unis, uns allein, Catull.: uni mihi, Tibull. – verb. m. solus (zur Verstärkung), zB. uno illo solo antistite, Cic.: unam solam esse civitatem, Cic. – m. tantum od. modo (nur), zB. quem tantum unum fortuna reliquum esse voluisset, Cic.: una tantum porta, Liv.: unā tantum perforatā navi, Liv.: Cicero ad haec unum modo respondit, Caes.: aliis unus modo (numerus), aliis plures, aliis omnes iidem videntur, Cic. Vgl. Fabri Liv. 21, 50, 6. Kraner Caes. b.G. 5, 41, 7. – verstärkend b. Superl., mit u. ohne omnium, zB. unus invictissimus, Plaut.: unus ei fuit carissimus, Nep.: summus vir unus omnis Graeciae, der größte od. einzig große Mann, Cic.: cum unus in civitate maxime floreret, er allein vor allen am meisten, Nep.: eam rem unam maxime conciliaturam Romanis principum Hispaniae ami itiam, Liv.: quam omnium Thebis vir unam esse optimam diiudicat, Plaut.: rem unam esse omnium difficillimam, eine Sache, die unter allen die schwerste ist, unter allen die schwerste Sache, Cic. Vgl. Brix u. Lorenz Plaut. mil. 52. Fabri Liv. 22, 22, 8: hoc unum od. unum hoc, id unum, nur dieses, Plaut. (s. Brix Plaut. capt. 744). – 2) von dem, was mehreren gemeinsam ist, ein, einer, eine, ein und derselbe, der nämliche, einerlei (s. Unger Valg. p. 428), una rei publi ae pestis, Cic.: sic ubique una atque continua totius generis humani aut pax fuit aut fatigatio, Flor.: uno tempore, zu einer (gleicher) Zeit, Cic. u. Caes. – verb. mit idem, zB. exitus unus et idem, Cic.: eadem et una res, Cic. – im Plur. (bes. bei Plur. tantum): in unis aedibus, unis moribus, Cic. – II) übtr., indefinitiv, ein, einer, ein, irgend ein, gew. in Verbindung mit quidam, quivis, quisquam, aliquis u.a., una adulescentula, Ter.: unus caprimulgus aut fossor, der nächste beste, Catull.: unus paterfamilias, Cic.: ut iudicem unum, Cic.: nulla res una, Cic.: mit dem Superl.: cum uno gladiatore nequissimo, Cic. – ohne subst., tradidit uni, Ov.: rapta ab uno tuba, Suet. – verb. mit Pronom. u. unbest. Numeral., zB. una quaque (unaquaque) de re, Cic.: unum quodque (unumquodque), Cic.: auch unum quidquid, Lucr. u. Komik.: unus quilibet, quilibet unus, Liv.: quivis unus, Cic., u. unus quivis, Varro LL.: quisquam unus, Liv.: unus aliquis, unum aliquod, irgend ein einzelner, einzelnes, Cic. u.a. (s. Halm Cic: de div. in Caecil. 27. Heräus Tac. hist. 1, 6 extr. Heß Tac. dial. 6. p. 31): nec quisquam unus etc., und kein einziger, Liv.: unus quidam, Cic.: aliquis unus (griech. εἷς τις) pluresve, Cic.: nihil unum, gar nichts, Liv. – nemo unus, nullus unus, Cic. u.a. (s. Kühnast Liv. Synt. S. 273). – unus et (atque, aut, vel) alter, unus alterque, unus et item alter, der eine und (oder) der andere, der und (oder) jener, etliche, wenige, Ter., Cic. u.a. (vgl. Spengel Ter. Andr. 77. Nipperdey Tac. ann. 3, 34. p. 199, 10. Heß Tac. dial. p. 142. Schmidt Iuven. 7, 165. p. 199). – / α) Genet. unius hat das i lang, Verg. Aen. 1, 251. Ov. met. 13, 181, kurz, Lucr. 2, 379. Catull. 5, 3. Verg. Aen. 1, 41. Hor. sat. 1, 6, 13. – β) Genet. uni, Titin. com. 7. Catull. 17, 17. – Dat. uno u. unae, zB. uno operario, Varro r.r. 1, 18, 6: unae fibulae, Cato r.r. 19. – Vocat. une, Plaut. frivol. fr. b. Prisc. 5, 77. Catull. 37, 17. Augustin. conf. 1, 7, 12. – Altlat. oenus, Plaut. truc. 104 Sch. Cic. de legg. 3, 9: oino, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 32.
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ūnus (altlat. oenus), a, um, Genet. ūnīus, Dat. ūnī, (vgl. griech. οἰνός, οἰνή, die Eins auf dem Würfel, gotisch ains, ahd. ein), ein, eine, einer, ein (eines), I) eig.: A) im allg., als Zahlwort: unus de magistratibus, Cic.: mihi secundis rebus unus ex fortunatis hominibus, adversis unus ex summis viris videbatur, Cic.: unus ex Curiatiis, Liv. (u. so bei Livius oft unus ex, s. Fabri u. Weißenb. Liv. 24, 28, 1): unus eorum pontium, Caes.: principum unus, Liv.: uno et octogesimo anno, Cic.: unum et viginti annos, Cic.: dah. unus de multis, Cic., od. e multis, Cic., od. unus multorum, Hor., einer vom großen Haufen, ein gewöhnlicher Mensch, eine Alltagsseele (aber es unus ex multis, es geht dir nicht besser als den meisten, Plin. ep. 1, 3, 2): uno plus Etruscorum cecĭdisse, um einen Mann mehr, Liv.: in unum locum cogere copias, Caes., res diverse et diffuse dictas, Cic.: mit folg. alter (vgl. auch no. II), seltener mit folg. alius, zB. una ex parte... altera ex parte, Caes.: una species... altera, Varro LL.: unam (partem)... aliam... tertiam, Caes.: unum, alterum, tertium annum, Cic.: unus et alter dies, ein bis zwei Tage, Cic.: dies unus, alter, plures etc., Cic.: unum, alterum mensem, Cic.: unus post alterum, einer nach dem anderen, Aur. Vict.: unus aut summum alter, einer oder höchstens zwei, Cic. ep. 5. 21, 1 (versch. v. unus aut alter unter no. II). – Plur.————(bes. bei Plur. tantum), ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias, Ter.: unae molae, Cato: unae quadrigae, Varro: manibus ab unis, Val. Flacc.: unae decumae... alterae, Cic.: ad hunc quadruplicem fontem diriguntur bini, uni transversi, alteri derecti, Varro LL. – ad unum (unam) omnes u. omnes ad unum, alle bis auf einen, alle bis auf den letzten, Cic. u.a. (s. Fabri Liv. 21, 42, 2): u. so bl. ad unum, Lucil. fr. u. Cic.: u. omnes cum uno, Gell. 3, 7, 16. – in unum, in eins (griech. εἰς εν) = an einen Ort (Punkt), convocare, Sall.: cogere, Liv.: sarcinas conicere, Liv.: confluere, Cic.: fundere, in eine Masse, Colum. – B) insbes.: 1) von dem, was allein vorhanden ist od. stattfindet, ein, wie nur einer, einzig, alleinig, allein, bloß, nur (s. Brix Plaut. trin. 166. Lorenz Plaut. Pseud. 52), quibus sui nihil est nisi una lingua, Plaut.: nunc unae quinque remorantur minae, Plaut.: ruri dum sum ego unos sex dies, Plaut.: uno verbo, Ter.: Demosthenes unus eminet, Cic.: Pompeius plus potest unus, allein, Cic.: unus ex omnibus, Cic.: uni ex omnibus Sequani, Caes.: sequere me t es unos passus, die einzigen drei Schritte, Plaut.: Ubii, qui uni miserant, allein, Caes.: nobis unis, uns allein, Catull.: uni mihi, Tibull. – verb. m. solus (zur Verstärkung), zB. uno illo solo antistite, Cic.: unam solam esse civitatem, Cic. – m. tantum od. modo (nur), zB. quem tantum unum fortuna reliquum esse voluisset, Cic.: una tantum porta,————Liv.: unā tantum perforatā navi, Liv.: Cicero ad haec unum modo respondit, Caes.: aliis unus modo (numerus), aliis plures, aliis omnes iidem videntur, Cic. Vgl. Fabri Liv. 21, 50, 6. Kraner Caes. b.G. 5, 41, 7. – verstärkend b. Superl., mit u. ohne omnium, zB. unus invictissimus, Plaut.: unus ei fuit carissimus, Nep.: summus vir unus omnis Graeciae, der größte od. einzig große Mann, Cic.: cum unus in civitate maxime floreret, er allein vor allen am meisten, Nep.: eam rem unam maxime conciliaturam Romanis principum Hispaniae ami itiam, Liv.: quam omnium Thebis vir unam esse optimam diiudicat, Plaut.: rem unam esse omnium difficillimam, eine Sache, die unter allen die schwerste ist, unter allen die schwerste Sache, Cic. Vgl. Brix u. Lorenz Plaut. mil. 52. Fabri Liv. 22, 22, 8: hoc unum od. unum hoc, id unum, nur dieses, Plaut. (s. Brix Plaut. capt. 744). – 2) von dem, was mehreren gemeinsam ist, ein, einer, eine, ein und derselbe, der nämliche, einerlei (s. Unger Valg. p. 428), una rei publi ae pestis, Cic.: sic ubique una atque continua totius generis humani aut pax fuit aut fatigatio, Flor.: uno tempore, zu einer (gleicher) Zeit, Cic. u. Caes. – verb. mit idem, zB. exitus unus et idem, Cic.: eadem et una res, Cic. – im Plur. (bes. bei Plur. tantum): in unis aedibus, unis moribus, Cic. – II) übtr., indefinitiv, ein, einer, ein, irgend ein, gew. in Verbindung mit quidam, quivis, quisquam, aliquis————u.a., una adulescentula, Ter.: unus caprimulgus aut fossor, der nächste beste, Catull.: unus paterfamilias, Cic.: ut iudicem unum, Cic.: nulla res una, Cic.: mit dem Superl.: cum uno gladiatore nequissimo, Cic. – ohne subst., tradidit uni, Ov.: rapta ab uno tuba, Suet. – verb. mit Pronom. u. unbest. Numeral., zB. una quaque (unaquaque) de re, Cic.: unum quodque (unumquodque), Cic.: auch unum quidquid, Lucr. u. Komik.: unus quilibet, quilibet unus, Liv.: quivis unus, Cic., u. unus quivis, Varro LL.: quisquam unus, Liv.: unus aliquis, unum aliquod, irgend ein einzelner, einzelnes, Cic. u.a. (s. Halm Cic: de div. in Caecil. 27. Heräus Tac. hist. 1, 6 extr. Heß Tac. dial. 6. p. 31): nec quisquam unus etc., und kein einziger, Liv.: unus quidam, Cic.: aliquis unus (griech. εἷς τις) pluresve, Cic.: nihil unum, gar nichts, Liv. – nemo unus, nullus unus, Cic. u.a. (s. Kühnast Liv. Synt. S. 273). – unus et (atque, aut, vel) alter, unus alterque, unus et item alter, der eine und (oder) der andere, der und (oder) jener, etliche, wenige, Ter., Cic. u.a. (vgl. Spengel Ter. Andr. 77. Nipperdey Tac. ann. 3, 34. p. 199, 10. Heß Tac. dial. p. 142. Schmidt Iuven. 7, 165. p. 199). – ⇒ α) Genet. unius hat das i lang, Verg. Aen. 1, 251. Ov. met. 13, 181, kurz, Lucr. 2, 379. Catull. 5, 3. Verg. Aen. 1, 41. Hor. sat. 1, 6, 13. – β) Genet. uni, Titin. com. 7. Catull. 17, 17. – Dat. uno u. unae, zB. uno operario, Varro r.r. 1, 18, 6:————unae fibulae, Cato r.r. 19. – Vocat. une, Plaut. frivol. fr. b. Prisc. 5, 77. Catull. 37, 17. Augustin. conf. 1, 7, 12. – Altlat. oenus, Plaut. truc. 104 Sch. Cic. de legg. 3, 9: oino, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 32. -
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ūnus (old forms OINOS and OENOS; cf. Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 9; C. I. L. 1, 32, 35), a, um (scanned gen. sing. unĭus, Lucr. 2, 379; Verg. A. 1, 41; Hor. S. 1, 6, 13 al.:I.unīus,
Verg. A. 1, 251; Ov. M. 13, 181 al.; ante-class. collat. form of the gen. sing. uni, Titin. ap. Prisc. pp. 694 and 717 P.; dat. m. uno, Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 6; dat. f. unae, Cato, R. R. 19, 1; acc. OINO, C. I. L. l. l.; voc. une, Plaut. ap. Prisc. p. 673 P.; Cat. 37, 17; cf. Varr. L. L. 8, § 63 Müll.; Aug. Conf. 1, 7), num. adj. [cf. Gr. oinê, oios; Goth. ains; Germ. eins; Engl. one].Prop.A.In gen., one, a single.1.Sing.:b.dabitur tibi amphora una et una semita, Fons unus, unum aënum et octo dolia,
Plaut. Cas. 1, 33 sq.:mulieres duas pejores esse quam unam,
id. Curc. 5, 1, 2:pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem,
id. Truc. 2, 6, 8:unius esse negotium diei,
Caes. B. C. 3, 82:mors Tiberii Gracchi... divisit populum unum in duas partes,
Cic. Rep. 1, 19, 31:cum penes unum est omnium summa rerum, regem illum unum vocamus,
id. ib. 1, 26, 42:qui uno et octogesimo anno scribens est mortuus,
id. Sen. 5, 13; cf. Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 141.—Corresponding to alter:Helvetii continentur unā ex parte flumine Rheno, alterā ex parte monte Jurā,
Caes. B. G. 1, 2:unum, alterum, tertium annum Sassia quiescebat,
Cic. Clu. 64, 178; id. Verr. 2, 4, 29, § 66; 2, 5, 29, § 76:exercituum unus... alter,
Liv. 24, 44, 1:ratio triplex: una de vitā et moribus, altera de naturā,
Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 19:cum duas cerneret vias, unam Voluptatis, alteram Virtutis,
id. Off. 1, 32, 118:unam Nicaeam, alteram Bucephalen vocavit,
Just. 12, 8, 8; and, connected with alter:habetur una atque altera contio vehemens,
repeated, several, Cic. Clu. 28, 77:neque in uno aut altero animadversum est, sed jam in pluribus,
one or two, id. Mur. 21, 43:meae verecundiae sufficit unus aut alter, ac potius unus,
Plin. Ep. 2, 13. 3;4, 3, 1: excepto patre tuo, praeterea uno aut altero,
id. Pan. 45:unus atque alter et mox plures,
Suet. Claud. 12:unus et alter assentiuntur,
Curt. 5, 7, 4:sed postquam amans accessit... Unus et item alter,
Ter. And. 1, 1. 50:amici, Qui modo de multis unus et alter erant,
Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 16;rarely unus post unum (= singuli deinceps): interiere,
Aur. Vict. Epit. 26, 41:uno plus Tuscorum cecidisse in acie (sc. quam Romanorum),
Liv. 2, 7, 2; cf.:legem unā plures tribus antiquarunt quam jusserunt,
id. 5, 30, 7.—With gen. part.: Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres: quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 1:2.totam philosophiam tres in partes diviserunt... quarum cum una sit, etc.,
Cic. Fin. 4, 2, 5:superiores tres erant, quarum est una sola defensa,
id. ib. 5, 7, 20:orare ut trium harum rerum unam ab se impetrari sinerent,
Liv. 42, 23, 5.—Plur.:b.ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias,
Ter. And. 4, 1, 50: molas asinarias unas, et trusatiles unas, Hispanienses unas. Cato, R. R. 10, 4; so,molae,
id. ib. 13, 1:quadrigae,
Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 14:similitudines, unae rerum, alterae verborum,
Auct. Her. 3, 20, 33:adductus sum tuis unis et alteris litteris,
Cic. Att. 14, 18, 1:decumae,
id. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:tibi invideo, quod unis vestimentis tam diu lautus es,
id. Fl. 29, 70:satis una superque Vidimus excidia,
Verg. A. 2, 642; Luc. 4, 548.—With gen. part.:B.tria Graecorum genera sunt, quorum uni sunt Athenienses, etc.,
Cic. Fl. 27, 64.—Esp.1.Adverbial expressions.a.Ad unum, all together, unanimously, to a man, without exception:b.amplius duūm milium numero ad unum terga vertebant, Auct. B. Afr. 70: consurrexit senatus cum clamore ad unum,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 2:Juppiter, si nondum exosus ad unum Trojanos,
Verg. A. 5, 687:cui sunt adsensi ad unum (senatores),
Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 2:ipsos ad unum caedere,
Curt. 7, 5, 32;usu. with omnes,
Cic. Lael. 23, 86; Liv. 21, 42, 2; Caes. B. C. 3, 27; cf. ad, C. 2.—In unum, into one, to one place, together:2.Fibrenus divisus aequaliter in duas partes latera haec alluit, rapideque dilapsus cito in unum confluit,
Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6; cf. Sall. J. 51, 3; Liv. 30, 11, 4; 44, 7, 8; Verg. E. 7, 2; Ov. R. Am. 673.—Of that which is common to several persons or things, one and the same.a.Alone.(α).Sing.:(β).cum suo sibi gnato unam ad amicam de die Potare,
Plaut. As. 4, 2, 16:uno exemplo ne omnes vitam viverent,
id. Mil. 3, 1, 132; cf. id. Capt. prol. 20:unius aetatis clarissimi et sapientissimi nostrae civitatis viri,
Cic. Rep. 1, 8, 13:illa cum uno tempore audīsset, etc.,
id. Clu. 9, 28:atque uno etiam tempore accidit, ut, etc.,
Caes. B. C. 3, 15:omnibus hic erit unus honos,
Verg. A. 5, 308:omnes una manet nox,
Hor. C. 1, 28, 15:unus utrique Error,
id. S. 2, 3, 51:parentum injuriae Unius modi sunt ferme,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 31:noli putare tolerabiles horum insanias nec unius modi fore,
Cic. Att. 9, 7, 5; so,unius modi,
id. Univ. 7.—Esp., uno ore, with one voice, all together, unanimously:ceteri amici omnes Uno ore auctores fuere, ut, etc.,
Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 20:de cujus utilitate omnes uno ore consentiunt,
Cic. Lael. 23, 86:unoque omnes eadem ore fremebant,
Verg. A. 11, 132.—Plur.:b.aderit una in unis aedibus,
Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 76:unis moribus et nunquam mutatis legibus vivunt,
Cic. Fl. 26, 63.—Connected with idem:c.exitus quidem omnium unus et idem fuit,
Cic. Div. 2, 47, 97:in quā (sc. causā) omnes sentirent unum atque idem,
id. Cat. 4, 7, 14:ferar unus et idem,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 200; Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 18.—Corresponding to idem:3. a.non semper idem floribus est honor Vernis, neque uno Luna rubens nitet Vultu,
Hor. C. 2, 11, 10.—Sing.(α).Alone:(β).hic unus, ut ego suspicor, servat fidem,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 4, 21:unum hoc scio, hanc meritam esse, ut memor esses sui,
Ter. And. 1, 5, 46; cf.:unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 1, 1, 1:cum mihi sit unum opus hoc a parentibus meis relictum,
id. ib. 1, 22, 35:nunc vero eversis omnibus rebus, una ratio videtur,
id. Fam. 6, 21, 1:itaque unum illud erat insitum priscis illis,
id. Tusc. 1, 12, 27:quove praesidio unus per tot gentes pervenisset?
Liv. 1, 18, 3:erat omnino in Galliā ulteriore legio una,
Caes. B. G. 1, 7:Pompejus plus potest unus, quam ceteri omnes,
Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3:cui (sc. mihi) semper uni magis, quam universis, placere voluisti,
id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46:qui (sc. Demosthenes) unus eminet inter omnes in omni genere dicendi,
id. Or. 29, 104:te unum in tanto exercitu mihi fuisse adsensorem,
id. Fam. 6, 21, 1.— Absol.:de Antonio nihil dico praeter unum,
Cic. Sest. 3, 8.—With ex:(γ).cum te unum ex omnibus ad dicendum maxime natum aptumque cognōssem,
Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 99: illc unus ex omnibus Italicis intactus profugit, [p. 1934] Sall. J. 67, 3; 69, 4.—With gen.:(δ).ille unus ordinis nostri discessu meo palam exsultavit,
Cic. Sest. 64, 133:quod post Cannensem cladem unus Romanorum imperatorum prospere rem gessisset,
Liv. 23, 30, 19.—With sup.:(ε).tu, quam ego unam vidi mulierem audacissumam,
Plaut. As. 3, 1, 16:unus istic servos est sacerrumus,
id. Most. 4, 2, 67:rem unam esse omnium difficillimam,
Cic. Brut. 6, 25:urbem unam mihi amicissimam declinavi,
id. Planc. 41, 97:quo ego uno equite Romano familiarissime utor,
id. Fam. 13, 43, 1:virum unum totius Graeciae doctissimum Platonem accepimus,
id. Rab. Post. 9, 23.—With magis:(ζ).quam Juno fertur terris magis omnibus unam Posthabitā coluisse Samo,
Verg. A. 1, 15.—With comp.:(η).sagacius unus odoror,
Hor. Epod. 12, 4.—Strengthened by solus:(θ).unus est solus inventus, qui, etc.,
Cic. Sest. 62, 130; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 5, § 13:ex uno oppido solo,
id. ib. 2, 2, 75, §185: nil admirari prope res est una, Numici, Solaque, quae, etc.,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 1:te unum, solum suum depeculatorem, vexatorem... venisse senserunt,
Cic. Pis. 40, 96:unus solusque censebat,
Plin. Pan. 76.—Strengthened by tantum (rare before the Aug. age; once in Cic.; cf. Halm ad Cic. Sull. 22, 62):(ι).inter bina castra... unum flumen tantum intererat,
Caes. B. C. 3, 19:excepit unum tantum, nihil amplius,
Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:unius tantum criminis in vincla te duci jubeo,
Liv. 3, 56, 4 Weissenb. ad loc.:unā tantum perforatā navi,
id. 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; 44, 43, 6; Just. 8, 5, 5; Sen. Ep. 79, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120; 11, 37, 47, § 131; Cels. 5, 28, 14; cf. absol.:unum defuisse tantum superbiae, quod, etc.,
Liv. 6, 16, 5.—Strengthened by modo (class.):(κ).nam aliis unus modo, aliis plures, aliis omnes eidem videntur,
Cic. Or. 54, 180:hi unum modo quale sit suspicantur,
id. ib. 9, 28:hoc autem si ita sit, ut unum modo sensibus falsum videtur,
id. Ac. 2, 32, 101; id. Phil. 1, 6, 14; Sall. J. 89, 6; id. H. 3, 61, 12 Dietsch; Liv. 22, 45, 4; 23, 42, 5.—Unus for unus omnium maxime:(λ).quae tibi una in amore atque in deliciis fuit,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 3; so,Nautes, unum Tritonia Pallas Quem docuit,
Verg. A. 5, 704.—Emphat., with negatives, no one person or thing, not a single one, none whatever:b.eum si reddis mihi, praeterea unum nummum ne duis,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 81:nemo de nobis unus excellat,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 105:ut unum signum Byzantii ex maximo numero nullum haberent,
id. Prov. Cons. 4, 7:nullā re unā magis oratorem commendari, quam, etc.,
id. Brut. 59, 216:haec adhortatio praetoris non modo quemquam unum elicuit ad suadendum, sed ne fremitum quidem movit (i. e. non modo non... sed),
Liv. 32, 20, 7:quia nemo unus satis dignus regno visus est,
id. 2, 6, 3:eo mortuo ad neminem unum summa imperii redit,
Caes. B. C. 3, 18:Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis dona dedit,
Liv. 41, 20, 7; cf. id. 3, 45, 4.—Plur.:II. A.sequere me Tres unos passus,
three single steps, only three steps, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 34:unae quinque minae,
id. Ps. 1, 1, 52:ruri dum sum ego unos sex dies,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 129; id. Cist. 4, 2, 68:sese unis Suebis concedere,
Caes. B. G. 4, 7:Ubii, qui uni legatos miserant,
id. ib. 4, 16:ut unis litteris totius aestatis res gestas ad senatum perscriberem,
Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 3:abs te ipso, qui me accusas, unas mihi scito litteras redditas esse,
id. Att. 1, 5, 4.Without a pron.1.Absol.:2.inter mulieres, Quae ibi aderant, forte unam aspicio adulescentulam, etc.,
Ter. And. 1, 1, 91:ibi una aderit mulier lepida, etc.,
Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 38:sicut unus paterfamilias his de rebus loquor,
Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 132; cf.:me una haec res torquet, quod non Pompejum tanquam unus manipularis secutus sim,
id. Att. 9, 10, 2.—With ex:3.ut me sic audiatis ut unum e togatis,
Cic. Rep. 1, 22, 36; cf.:qui non fuit orator unus e multis: potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:ex principibus unus nomine Polyaenus,
Liv. 24, 22, 1:unus ex ultimā turbā,
id. 24, 27, 1.—With de:4.tenuis L. Verginius unusque de multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 66. —With gen. part. (not in Cic.):5.eregione unius eorum pontium,
Caes. B. G. 7, 35:Apollonides principum unus orationem habuit,
Liv. 24, 28, 1:pastorum unus,
id. 10, 4, 8:servus unus exulum initium fecit,
id. 25, 23, 6:scortum transfugarum unius,
id. 26, 12, 16; 26, 33, 11; 30, 42, 30; 37, 23, 7;40, 5, 10: unus turbae militaris,
id. 22, 42, 4; 6, 40, 6:unus hostium Latinae linguae sciens,
Tac. A. 2, 13:una Amazonum,
id. ib. 4, 56:unum se civium (esse) respondit,
id. ib. 12, 5.—With sup.:B.est huic unus servos violentissimus, Qui, etc.,
Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 39; cf.:tanquam mihi cum M. Crasso contentio esset, non cum uno gladiatore nequissimo,
Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7.—With,1.Aliquis:2.ex quibus si unum aliquod in te cognoveris, etc.,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 9, 27; cf.:ad unum aliquem confugere,
id. Off. 2, 12, 41:unius alicujus,
id. Fin. 3, 19, 64; id. Verr. 2, 1, 24, § 62; 2, 2, 3, § 9; id. Phil. 10, 1, 3.—In the order aliquis unus, Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48.—Quidam:3.est enim eloquentia una quaedam de summis virtutibus,
Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 55:unius cujusdam,
id. ib. 2, 10, 40.—Quivis:4.si tu solus aut quivis unus, etc.,
Cic. Caecin. 22, 62.—Quilibet:5.queratur unus quilibet militis mei injuriam,
Liv. 42, 42, 3:unus Quiritium quilibet,
id. 6, 40, 6:quilibet unus ex iis, quos, etc.,
id. 9, 17, 15.—Quisque:6.ponite ante oculos unum quemque regum,
Cic. Par. 1, 2, 11; so,unus quisque (and sometimes in one word, unusquisque): unāquāque de re,
id. Font. 10, 21:unum quodque,
id. Rosc. Am. 30, 83:unum quidque,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 59, § 132; cf. Caes. B. C. 2, 29:domini capitis unius cujusque,
Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48.—Quisquis:C.sin unum quicquid singillatim et placide percontabere,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 39:unum quicquid,
Lucr. 5, 1388.—Private, un official, a private person, a private citizen (post-class.):dicentes publicam violationem fidei non debere unius lui sanguine,
Vell. 2, 1, 5:pro uno homine jactura publica pacisceris,
Sen. Suas. 7, 3.— Adv.: ūnā (acc. to I. B. 1.), in one and the same place, at the same time, in company, together:qui cum Amphitruone hinc una ieram in exercitum,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 248:hic Juppiter hodie ipse aget, Et ego una cum illo,
id. ib. prol. 95:quod summi puerorum amores saepe una cum praetextā togā ponerentur,
Cic. Lael. 10, 33:i mecum, obsecro, una simul,
Plaut. Most. 4, 3, 43:mandata eri perierunt, una et Sosia,
id. Am. 1, 1, 182:si mei consilii causam rationemque cognoverit, una et id quod facio probabit, et, etc.,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 1:qui una venerant,
id. Rep. 1, 12, 18:cum et ego essem una et pauci admodum familiares,
id. Lael. 1, 2:si in Italiā consistat (Pompejus), erimus una,
id. Att. 7, 10; id. Fin. 2, 24, 79; id. Brut. 21, 81.— Poet., with dat.:Pallas huic filius una, Una omnes juvenum primi pauperque senatus Tura dabant,
at the same time, along with him, Verg. A. 8, 104 sq. -
4 unus
ūnus, a, um (gen. īus, поэт. иногда ĭus и ī; dat. ī, редко ō, f. ae)1) один (u. miles Cs; u. de illis C; una castra Cs)u. e и de multis или u. multorum C — один из многихuni... alii (alteri) C etc. — одни... другиеu. et alter QC — один-другой, кое-ктоu. vel (или aut) alter C — один или дваnon u. C — не одинin unum (sc. locum) — в одно место ( convenire Sl)2) только один, (один-)единственный, только (один) ( felicitas in unā virtute posita est C)nihil dico praeter unum C — я утверждаю лишь одноunae quinque minae Pl — всего лишь пять минnemo (nullus) u. Cs etc. — ни одинu. quisque C etc. — каждый, всякий3) для усиления superl. (u. doctissimus C; res una omnium difficillima C)non uno luna nitet vultu погов. H = — счастье не всегда улыбается5) какой-л., какой-нибудь (aliquem, ut judĭcem unum, vereri C) -
5 moltus
multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.I.Posit.A.In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):B.multi fortissimi viri,
Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:rationes,
id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:multae et magnae contentiones,
many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:O multas et graves offensiones,
id. Att. 11, 7, 3:multi et graves dolores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:multi et varii timores,
Liv. 3, 16, 3:multae bonaeque artes animi,
Sall. J. 28, 5:multa et clara facinora,
Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:multi improbi,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:multi boni, docti, prudentes,
id. Fl. 4, 8:multi nobiles,
id. Planc. 20, 50:multa acerba habuit ille annus,
id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:multa infanda,
Liv. 28, 12, 5:multa falsa,
id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:multa secunda proelia,
victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:multa libera capita,
freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:multae liberae civitates,
republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:multos fortes viros,
id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:multi clari viri,
noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:multi primarii viri,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:multi clarissimi viri,
Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:multi amplissimi viri,
id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:multi honestissimi homines,
id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:multi peritissimi homines,
id. Caecin. 24, 69:multi summi homines,
id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,
id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:in veteribus patronis multis,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:multa praeterea bella gravia,
id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:multis suppliciis justis,
id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,
id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:plurima signa pulcherrima,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:virtutes animi multae et magnae,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:causas ille multas et graves habuit,
id. Clu. 30, 82;and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,
id. Cael. 5, 12:prodigia multa, foeda,
Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:multi hominum,
Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:multae silvestrium arborum,
id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:nimium multa,
Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:nimis multa,
id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:insulae non ita multae,
not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:parum multa scire,
too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,
as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:minime multi remiges,
exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,
id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,
Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,
Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,
with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:multa prece prosequi,
id. C. 4, 5, 33:multa victima,
Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:avis,
id. Am. 3, 5, 4:tabella,
Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,
Cic. Pis. 27, 67:multo labore quaerere aliquid,
with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:cura,
Sall. J. 7, 4:sol,
much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,
Liv. 23, 30, 2:multum sanguinem haurire,
Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:multam harenam mare evomit,
id. 4, 6, 8:arbor,
id. 7, 4, 26:silva,
id. 8, 10, 14:multae vestis injectu opprimi,
Tac. A. 6, 50:multa et lauta supellex,
Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:aurum,
Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:libertas,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:multam salutem dicere alicui,
to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:cum auro et argento multo,
Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:Itaque multum diei processerat,
a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:ad multum diem,
till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:multo adhuc die,
when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:multo denique die,
when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:multa nocte,
late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:multo mane,
very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:multa opinio, for multorum,
the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:velut multa pace,
as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:multus homo,
one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,
id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:unus de multis esse,
id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:numerarer in multis,
among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:e multis una sit tibi,
no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:multum est,
it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,
Cic. Clu. 64, 181:ne multis: Diogenes emitur,
id. ib. 16, 47:quid multis moror?
Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:multa reluctari,
Verg. G. 4, 301:gemens,
id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:deos testatus,
id. ib. 7, 593:invehi,
Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):haud multa moratus,
Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:in multum velociores,
by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—In partic.1.Too much, overmuch, excessive:2.supellex modica, non multa,
Nep. Att. 13, 5.—In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:3.qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,
id. ib. 2, 87, 358:nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,
id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—Frequent, frequently present:A.in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,
Sall. J. 96, 3:multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,
was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!
troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:instare,
Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):B.salve multum, gnate mi,
Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:multum vale,
farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,
id. Men. 2, 2, 42:opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,
not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,
often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,
id. Brut. 34, 128:non multum confidere,
not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:sunt in venationibus,
often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,
Cic. Brut. 48, 178:multum fuisse cum aliquo,
to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:gratia valere,
to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:res multum et saepe quaesita,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:longe omnes multumque superabit,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:multum et diu cogitans,
id. Div. 2, 1, 1:diu multumque scriptitare,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:multum loquaces,
very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:mepti labores,
very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,
much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:multum robustior illo,
Juv. 19, 197:majora,
Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:haud multum infra viam,
Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:haud multum post mortem ejus,
Tac. A. 5, 3:ut multum,
at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).1.With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:2.multo tanto carior,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:pauciores oratores,
Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:facilius atque expeditius iter,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,
Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:multo ceteros anteibant,
Tac. H. 4, 13:multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,
Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:multo mavolo,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,
Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:3.quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,
Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:simulacrum multo antiquissimum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:maxima pars,
id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:multo id bellum maximum fuit,
Liv. 1, 11, 5:pars multo maxima,
id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:multo gratissima lux,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:foedissimum,
Quint. 9, 4, 72:optimum,
id. ib. 26:pulcherrimum,
id. 1, 2, 24:utilissima,
id. 2, 10, 1:maxime,
Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:multo maxime miserabile,
Sall. C. 36, 4:multo maxime ingenio validus,
id. J. 6, 1.—With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:4.multo aliter,
Ter. And. prol. 4:multo aliter ac sperabat,
far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:quod non multo secus fieret, si,
not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:5.non multo ante urbem captam,
Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:non multo ante,
not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:multo ante,
Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:non multo post, quam, etc.,
not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:haud multo ante solis occasum,
Liv. 5, 39, 2:multo ante noctem,
id. 27, 42, 13.—Very rarely with the positive for multum:6.maligna multo,
very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:II.multo multoque longior,
far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:multo multoque operosius est,
Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.A.In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;(β).so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!
Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:ne plus minusve loqueretur,
Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,
Mart. 8, 71, 4:aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,
too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,
and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,
Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,
id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:valet enim salus plus quam libido,
id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—With a partitive gen.:(γ).vultis pecuniae plus habere,
Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,
id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,plus virium,
id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:plus hostium,
Liv. 2, 42:plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:plus ingenii,
id. ib. 1, 14, 22:Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,
as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):(δ).non plus quam semel,
Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:ne plus reddat quam acceperit,
id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,
into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:plus quam decem dies abesse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,
with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—Without quam:(ε).HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,
Liv. 24, 44:plus milies audivi,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:non plus mille quingentos aeris,
id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,
Liv. 31, 34:cum plus annum aeger fuisset,
id. 40, 2:parte plus dimidia rem auctam,
id. 29, 25.—With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:2.VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,
more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:ex his alius alio plus habet virium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,
Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,
id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,
or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:plus aequo,
Cic. Lael. 16, 58:plus paulo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:paulo plus,
Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:plus nimio,
overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,
one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:3.ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,
of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:ager multo pluris est,
is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:pluris emere,
dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,vendere,
id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:aedificare,
Col. 1, 4, 7:pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,
of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,
Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,
id. ib. 8, 2, 4:facere aliquem pluris,
make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:pluris habere,
id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:aestimare,
id. Par. 6, 2, 48:ducere,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5:putare,
id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—4.Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—* 5.Like magis, with an adj.:B.plus formosus, for formosior,
Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—In the plur.1.Comparatively, more in number:2.omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:multo plura,
many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;b.1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,
id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 18:plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,
id. B. C. 3, 52:summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,
Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,
id. 8, 4, 27:quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,
Cic. Clu. 41, 115:eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;without verba: quid ego plura dicam?
id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:pluribus haec exsecutus sum,
Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,
what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,
id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—Esp.: plures.(α).The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—(β).Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:(γ).quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?
Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—The greater number, the majority:III.plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,
Vulg. Act. 19, 32.Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):(β).hujus sunt plurima simulacra,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,
Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:plurimae et maximae partes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 8:plurimorum seculorum memoria,
id. ib. 3, 9, 14:haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,
id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:me plurima praeda onustum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:sermo,
Quint. 2, 2, 5:risus,
id. 6, 3, 85:res,
id. 6, 1, 51:exercitatio,
id. 8 prooem. §28: mons,
very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:cervix,
id. G. 3, 52:Aetna,
Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,
very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:coma plurima,
very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,
mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,
many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,oleaster plurimus,
Verg. G. 2, 183:qua plurima mittitur ales,
Mart. 9, 56, 1:plurima lecta rosa est,
Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):ut haberet quam plurimum,
as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,
id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,
id. ib. 2, 9, 16:si vero populus plurimum potest,
id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,
id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:plurimum aliis praestare,
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:ut te plurimum diligam,
id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,
id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,
Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,
Min. Fel. Oct. 22:gratulor,
id. ib. 40:(elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,
at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,cum plurimum,
id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:(γ).artis,
Quint. 10, 5, 3:auctoritatis et ponderis,
id. 9, 4, 91:ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,
id. 10, 3, 1:virtutum,
id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—In the gen. pretii:plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,
values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,
Nep. Eum. 2, 2:ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,
Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48. -
6 multi
multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.I.Posit.A.In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):B.multi fortissimi viri,
Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:rationes,
id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:multae et magnae contentiones,
many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:O multas et graves offensiones,
id. Att. 11, 7, 3:multi et graves dolores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:multi et varii timores,
Liv. 3, 16, 3:multae bonaeque artes animi,
Sall. J. 28, 5:multa et clara facinora,
Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:multi improbi,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:multi boni, docti, prudentes,
id. Fl. 4, 8:multi nobiles,
id. Planc. 20, 50:multa acerba habuit ille annus,
id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:multa infanda,
Liv. 28, 12, 5:multa falsa,
id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:multa secunda proelia,
victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:multa libera capita,
freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:multae liberae civitates,
republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:multos fortes viros,
id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:multi clari viri,
noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:multi primarii viri,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:multi clarissimi viri,
Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:multi amplissimi viri,
id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:multi honestissimi homines,
id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:multi peritissimi homines,
id. Caecin. 24, 69:multi summi homines,
id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,
id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:in veteribus patronis multis,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:multa praeterea bella gravia,
id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:multis suppliciis justis,
id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,
id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:plurima signa pulcherrima,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:virtutes animi multae et magnae,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:causas ille multas et graves habuit,
id. Clu. 30, 82;and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,
id. Cael. 5, 12:prodigia multa, foeda,
Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:multi hominum,
Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:multae silvestrium arborum,
id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:nimium multa,
Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:nimis multa,
id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:insulae non ita multae,
not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:parum multa scire,
too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,
as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:minime multi remiges,
exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,
id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,
Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,
Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,
with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:multa prece prosequi,
id. C. 4, 5, 33:multa victima,
Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:avis,
id. Am. 3, 5, 4:tabella,
Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,
Cic. Pis. 27, 67:multo labore quaerere aliquid,
with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:cura,
Sall. J. 7, 4:sol,
much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,
Liv. 23, 30, 2:multum sanguinem haurire,
Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:multam harenam mare evomit,
id. 4, 6, 8:arbor,
id. 7, 4, 26:silva,
id. 8, 10, 14:multae vestis injectu opprimi,
Tac. A. 6, 50:multa et lauta supellex,
Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:aurum,
Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:libertas,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:multam salutem dicere alicui,
to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:cum auro et argento multo,
Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:Itaque multum diei processerat,
a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:ad multum diem,
till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:multo adhuc die,
when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:multo denique die,
when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:multa nocte,
late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:multo mane,
very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:multa opinio, for multorum,
the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:velut multa pace,
as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:multus homo,
one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,
id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:unus de multis esse,
id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:numerarer in multis,
among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:e multis una sit tibi,
no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:multum est,
it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,
Cic. Clu. 64, 181:ne multis: Diogenes emitur,
id. ib. 16, 47:quid multis moror?
Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:multa reluctari,
Verg. G. 4, 301:gemens,
id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:deos testatus,
id. ib. 7, 593:invehi,
Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):haud multa moratus,
Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:in multum velociores,
by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—In partic.1.Too much, overmuch, excessive:2.supellex modica, non multa,
Nep. Att. 13, 5.—In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:3.qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,
id. ib. 2, 87, 358:nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,
id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—Frequent, frequently present:A.in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,
Sall. J. 96, 3:multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,
was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!
troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:instare,
Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):B.salve multum, gnate mi,
Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:multum vale,
farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,
id. Men. 2, 2, 42:opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,
not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,
often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,
id. Brut. 34, 128:non multum confidere,
not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:sunt in venationibus,
often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,
Cic. Brut. 48, 178:multum fuisse cum aliquo,
to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:gratia valere,
to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:res multum et saepe quaesita,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:longe omnes multumque superabit,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:multum et diu cogitans,
id. Div. 2, 1, 1:diu multumque scriptitare,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:multum loquaces,
very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:mepti labores,
very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,
much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:multum robustior illo,
Juv. 19, 197:majora,
Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:haud multum infra viam,
Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:haud multum post mortem ejus,
Tac. A. 5, 3:ut multum,
at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).1.With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:2.multo tanto carior,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:pauciores oratores,
Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:facilius atque expeditius iter,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,
Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:multo ceteros anteibant,
Tac. H. 4, 13:multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,
Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:multo mavolo,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,
Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:3.quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,
Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:simulacrum multo antiquissimum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:maxima pars,
id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:multo id bellum maximum fuit,
Liv. 1, 11, 5:pars multo maxima,
id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:multo gratissima lux,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:foedissimum,
Quint. 9, 4, 72:optimum,
id. ib. 26:pulcherrimum,
id. 1, 2, 24:utilissima,
id. 2, 10, 1:maxime,
Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:multo maxime miserabile,
Sall. C. 36, 4:multo maxime ingenio validus,
id. J. 6, 1.—With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:4.multo aliter,
Ter. And. prol. 4:multo aliter ac sperabat,
far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:quod non multo secus fieret, si,
not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:5.non multo ante urbem captam,
Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:non multo ante,
not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:multo ante,
Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:non multo post, quam, etc.,
not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:haud multo ante solis occasum,
Liv. 5, 39, 2:multo ante noctem,
id. 27, 42, 13.—Very rarely with the positive for multum:6.maligna multo,
very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:II.multo multoque longior,
far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:multo multoque operosius est,
Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.A.In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;(β).so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!
Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:ne plus minusve loqueretur,
Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,
Mart. 8, 71, 4:aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,
too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,
and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,
Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,
id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:valet enim salus plus quam libido,
id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—With a partitive gen.:(γ).vultis pecuniae plus habere,
Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,
id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,plus virium,
id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:plus hostium,
Liv. 2, 42:plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:plus ingenii,
id. ib. 1, 14, 22:Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,
as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):(δ).non plus quam semel,
Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:ne plus reddat quam acceperit,
id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,
into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:plus quam decem dies abesse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,
with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—Without quam:(ε).HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,
Liv. 24, 44:plus milies audivi,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:non plus mille quingentos aeris,
id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,
Liv. 31, 34:cum plus annum aeger fuisset,
id. 40, 2:parte plus dimidia rem auctam,
id. 29, 25.—With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:2.VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,
more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:ex his alius alio plus habet virium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,
Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,
id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,
or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:plus aequo,
Cic. Lael. 16, 58:plus paulo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:paulo plus,
Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:plus nimio,
overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,
one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:3.ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,
of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:ager multo pluris est,
is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:pluris emere,
dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,vendere,
id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:aedificare,
Col. 1, 4, 7:pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,
of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,
Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,
id. ib. 8, 2, 4:facere aliquem pluris,
make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:pluris habere,
id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:aestimare,
id. Par. 6, 2, 48:ducere,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5:putare,
id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—4.Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—* 5.Like magis, with an adj.:B.plus formosus, for formosior,
Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—In the plur.1.Comparatively, more in number:2.omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:multo plura,
many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;b.1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,
id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 18:plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,
id. B. C. 3, 52:summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,
Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,
id. 8, 4, 27:quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,
Cic. Clu. 41, 115:eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;without verba: quid ego plura dicam?
id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:pluribus haec exsecutus sum,
Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,
what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,
id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—Esp.: plures.(α).The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—(β).Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:(γ).quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?
Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—The greater number, the majority:III.plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,
Vulg. Act. 19, 32.Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):(β).hujus sunt plurima simulacra,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,
Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:plurimae et maximae partes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 8:plurimorum seculorum memoria,
id. ib. 3, 9, 14:haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,
id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:me plurima praeda onustum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:sermo,
Quint. 2, 2, 5:risus,
id. 6, 3, 85:res,
id. 6, 1, 51:exercitatio,
id. 8 prooem. §28: mons,
very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:cervix,
id. G. 3, 52:Aetna,
Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,
very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:coma plurima,
very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,
mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,
many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,oleaster plurimus,
Verg. G. 2, 183:qua plurima mittitur ales,
Mart. 9, 56, 1:plurima lecta rosa est,
Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):ut haberet quam plurimum,
as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,
id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,
id. ib. 2, 9, 16:si vero populus plurimum potest,
id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,
id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:plurimum aliis praestare,
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:ut te plurimum diligam,
id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,
id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,
Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,
Min. Fel. Oct. 22:gratulor,
id. ib. 40:(elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,
at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,cum plurimum,
id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:(γ).artis,
Quint. 10, 5, 3:auctoritatis et ponderis,
id. 9, 4, 91:ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,
id. 10, 3, 1:virtutum,
id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—In the gen. pretii:plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,
values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,
Nep. Eum. 2, 2:ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,
Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48. -
7 multus
multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.I.Posit.A.In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):B.multi fortissimi viri,
Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:rationes,
id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:multae et magnae contentiones,
many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:O multas et graves offensiones,
id. Att. 11, 7, 3:multi et graves dolores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:multi et varii timores,
Liv. 3, 16, 3:multae bonaeque artes animi,
Sall. J. 28, 5:multa et clara facinora,
Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:multi improbi,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:multi boni, docti, prudentes,
id. Fl. 4, 8:multi nobiles,
id. Planc. 20, 50:multa acerba habuit ille annus,
id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:multa infanda,
Liv. 28, 12, 5:multa falsa,
id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:multa secunda proelia,
victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:multa libera capita,
freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:multae liberae civitates,
republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:multos fortes viros,
id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:multi clari viri,
noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:multi primarii viri,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:multi clarissimi viri,
Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:multi amplissimi viri,
id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:multi honestissimi homines,
id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:multi peritissimi homines,
id. Caecin. 24, 69:multi summi homines,
id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,
id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:in veteribus patronis multis,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:multa praeterea bella gravia,
id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:multis suppliciis justis,
id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,
id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:plurima signa pulcherrima,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:virtutes animi multae et magnae,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:causas ille multas et graves habuit,
id. Clu. 30, 82;and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,
id. Cael. 5, 12:prodigia multa, foeda,
Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:multi hominum,
Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:multae silvestrium arborum,
id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:nimium multa,
Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:nimis multa,
id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:insulae non ita multae,
not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:parum multa scire,
too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,
as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:minime multi remiges,
exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,
id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,
Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,
Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,
with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:multa prece prosequi,
id. C. 4, 5, 33:multa victima,
Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:avis,
id. Am. 3, 5, 4:tabella,
Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,
Cic. Pis. 27, 67:multo labore quaerere aliquid,
with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:cura,
Sall. J. 7, 4:sol,
much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,
Liv. 23, 30, 2:multum sanguinem haurire,
Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:multam harenam mare evomit,
id. 4, 6, 8:arbor,
id. 7, 4, 26:silva,
id. 8, 10, 14:multae vestis injectu opprimi,
Tac. A. 6, 50:multa et lauta supellex,
Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:aurum,
Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:libertas,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:multam salutem dicere alicui,
to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:cum auro et argento multo,
Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:Itaque multum diei processerat,
a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:ad multum diem,
till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:multo adhuc die,
when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:multo denique die,
when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:multa nocte,
late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:multo mane,
very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:multa opinio, for multorum,
the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:velut multa pace,
as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:multus homo,
one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,
id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:unus de multis esse,
id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:numerarer in multis,
among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:e multis una sit tibi,
no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:multum est,
it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,
Cic. Clu. 64, 181:ne multis: Diogenes emitur,
id. ib. 16, 47:quid multis moror?
Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:multa reluctari,
Verg. G. 4, 301:gemens,
id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:deos testatus,
id. ib. 7, 593:invehi,
Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):haud multa moratus,
Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:in multum velociores,
by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—In partic.1.Too much, overmuch, excessive:2.supellex modica, non multa,
Nep. Att. 13, 5.—In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:3.qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,
id. ib. 2, 87, 358:nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,
id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—Frequent, frequently present:A.in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,
Sall. J. 96, 3:multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,
was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!
troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:instare,
Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):B.salve multum, gnate mi,
Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:multum vale,
farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,
id. Men. 2, 2, 42:opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,
not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,
often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,
id. Brut. 34, 128:non multum confidere,
not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:sunt in venationibus,
often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,
Cic. Brut. 48, 178:multum fuisse cum aliquo,
to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:gratia valere,
to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:res multum et saepe quaesita,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:longe omnes multumque superabit,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:multum et diu cogitans,
id. Div. 2, 1, 1:diu multumque scriptitare,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:multum loquaces,
very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:mepti labores,
very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,
much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:multum robustior illo,
Juv. 19, 197:majora,
Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:haud multum infra viam,
Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:haud multum post mortem ejus,
Tac. A. 5, 3:ut multum,
at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).1.With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:2.multo tanto carior,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:pauciores oratores,
Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:facilius atque expeditius iter,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,
Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:multo ceteros anteibant,
Tac. H. 4, 13:multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,
Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:multo mavolo,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,
Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:3.quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,
Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:simulacrum multo antiquissimum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:maxima pars,
id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:multo id bellum maximum fuit,
Liv. 1, 11, 5:pars multo maxima,
id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:multo gratissima lux,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:foedissimum,
Quint. 9, 4, 72:optimum,
id. ib. 26:pulcherrimum,
id. 1, 2, 24:utilissima,
id. 2, 10, 1:maxime,
Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:multo maxime miserabile,
Sall. C. 36, 4:multo maxime ingenio validus,
id. J. 6, 1.—With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:4.multo aliter,
Ter. And. prol. 4:multo aliter ac sperabat,
far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:quod non multo secus fieret, si,
not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:5.non multo ante urbem captam,
Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:non multo ante,
not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:multo ante,
Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:non multo post, quam, etc.,
not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:haud multo ante solis occasum,
Liv. 5, 39, 2:multo ante noctem,
id. 27, 42, 13.—Very rarely with the positive for multum:6.maligna multo,
very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:II.multo multoque longior,
far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:multo multoque operosius est,
Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.A.In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;(β).so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!
Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:ne plus minusve loqueretur,
Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,
Mart. 8, 71, 4:aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,
too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,
and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,
Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,
id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:valet enim salus plus quam libido,
id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—With a partitive gen.:(γ).vultis pecuniae plus habere,
Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,
id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,plus virium,
id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:plus hostium,
Liv. 2, 42:plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:plus ingenii,
id. ib. 1, 14, 22:Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,
as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):(δ).non plus quam semel,
Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:ne plus reddat quam acceperit,
id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,
into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:plus quam decem dies abesse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,
with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—Without quam:(ε).HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,
Liv. 24, 44:plus milies audivi,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:non plus mille quingentos aeris,
id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,
Liv. 31, 34:cum plus annum aeger fuisset,
id. 40, 2:parte plus dimidia rem auctam,
id. 29, 25.—With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:2.VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,
more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:ex his alius alio plus habet virium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,
Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,
id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,
or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:plus aequo,
Cic. Lael. 16, 58:plus paulo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:paulo plus,
Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:plus nimio,
overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,
one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:3.ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,
of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:ager multo pluris est,
is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:pluris emere,
dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,vendere,
id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:aedificare,
Col. 1, 4, 7:pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,
of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,
Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,
id. ib. 8, 2, 4:facere aliquem pluris,
make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:pluris habere,
id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:aestimare,
id. Par. 6, 2, 48:ducere,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5:putare,
id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—4.Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—* 5.Like magis, with an adj.:B.plus formosus, for formosior,
Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—In the plur.1.Comparatively, more in number:2.omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:multo plura,
many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;b.1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,
id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 18:plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,
id. B. C. 3, 52:summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,
Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,
id. 8, 4, 27:quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,
Cic. Clu. 41, 115:eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;without verba: quid ego plura dicam?
id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:pluribus haec exsecutus sum,
Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,
what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,
id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—Esp.: plures.(α).The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—(β).Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:(γ).quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?
Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—The greater number, the majority:III.plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,
Vulg. Act. 19, 32.Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):(β).hujus sunt plurima simulacra,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,
Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:plurimae et maximae partes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 8:plurimorum seculorum memoria,
id. ib. 3, 9, 14:haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,
id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:me plurima praeda onustum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:sermo,
Quint. 2, 2, 5:risus,
id. 6, 3, 85:res,
id. 6, 1, 51:exercitatio,
id. 8 prooem. §28: mons,
very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:cervix,
id. G. 3, 52:Aetna,
Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,
very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:coma plurima,
very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,
mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,
many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,oleaster plurimus,
Verg. G. 2, 183:qua plurima mittitur ales,
Mart. 9, 56, 1:plurima lecta rosa est,
Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):ut haberet quam plurimum,
as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,
id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,
id. ib. 2, 9, 16:si vero populus plurimum potest,
id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,
id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:plurimum aliis praestare,
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:ut te plurimum diligam,
id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,
id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,
Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,
Min. Fel. Oct. 22:gratulor,
id. ib. 40:(elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,
at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,cum plurimum,
id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:(γ).artis,
Quint. 10, 5, 3:auctoritatis et ponderis,
id. 9, 4, 91:ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,
id. 10, 3, 1:virtutum,
id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—In the gen. pretii:plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,
values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,
Nep. Eum. 2, 2:ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,
Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48. -
8 plurimum
multus (old form moltus), a, um; comp. plus; sup. plurimus (v. at the end of this art.), adj. [etym. dub.], much, great, many, of things corporeal and incorporeal.I.Posit.A.In gen.: multi mortales, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: multi suam rem [p. 1173] bene gessere: multi qui, etc., Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 sq. Vahl.):B.multi fortissimi viri,
Cic. Fam. 5, 17, 3:rationes,
id. de Or. 1, 51, 222. tam multis verbis scribere, at such length, id. Fam. 3, 8, 1:beneficia. Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ratissima, p. 286 Mull.: multi alii,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 28.—When used with another adjective it is usually connected with it by a conjunction:multae et magnae contentiones,
many great conlests, Cic. Phil. 2, 3, 7; 3, 10, 26:O multas et graves offensiones,
id. Att. 11, 7, 3:multi et graves dolores,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 119:multi et varii timores,
Liv. 3, 16, 3:multae bonaeque artes animi,
Sall. J. 28, 5:multa et clara facinora,
Tac. A. 12, 31.—But when the second adjective is used substantively the conjunction is omitted:multi improbi,
Cic. Off. 2, 8, 28; 2, 19, 65:multi boni, docti, prudentes,
id. Fl. 4, 8:multi nobiles,
id. Planc. 20, 50:multa acerba habuit ille annus,
id. Sest. 27, 58; 66, 139:multa infanda,
Liv. 28, 12, 5:multa falsa,
id. 35, 23, 2.—Also, when the second adjective forms with its substantive a single conception:multa secunda proelia,
victories, Liv. 9, 42, 5; 35, 1, 3; 41, 17, 1:multa libera capita,
freemen, id. 42, 41, 11:multae liberae civitates,
republics, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68:multos fortes viros,
id. Cat. 3, 2, 7; id. Mur. 8, 17:multi clari viri,
noblemen, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17:multi primarii viri,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 61, § 149.—Similarly, et is omitted between multi and adjectives which form with their substantives familiar phrases:multi clarissimi viri,
Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:multi amplissimi viri,
id. Fin. 2, 17, 55; id. Deiot. 14, 39; id. Fam. 10, 25, 2; id. Att. 10, 8, 7; 16, 16, 11; id. Verr. 1, 7, 19:multi honestissimi homines,
id. Fam. 15, 15, 3:multi peritissimi homines,
id. Caecin. 24, 69:multi summi homines,
id. Arch. 12, 30; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:multi clarissimi et sapientissimi viri,
id. Planc. 4, 11; id. Cael. 18, 43.—Et is also omitted when the substantive stands between the two adjectives:in veteribus patronis multis,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2:multa praeterea bella gravia,
id. Agr. 2, 33, 90:multis suppliciis justis,
id. Cat. 1, 8, 20:multa majores nostri magna et gravia bella gesserunt,
id. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6:plurima signa pulcherrima,
id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61.—When both adjectives follow the substantive, et is sometimes inserted:virtutes animi multae et magnae,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64:causas ille multas et graves habuit,
id. Clu. 30, 82;and is sometimes omitted, the emphasis then falling on the second adjective: utebatur hominibus improbis, multis,
id. Cael. 5, 12:prodigia multa, foeda,
Liv. 40, 29, 1.—With a partitive gen.:multi hominum,
Plin. 16, 25, 40, § 96:multae silvestrium arborum,
id. 16, 31, 56, § 128.—In neutr. plur.: multa, orum, many things, much:nimium multa,
Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 3:nimis multa,
id. Fin. 2, 18, 57:insulae non ita multae,
not so many, not so very many, Plin. 5, 7, 7, § 41:parum multa scire,
too few, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1: bene multi, a good many, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4:quam minime multa vestigia servitutis,
as few as possible, Nep. Tim. 3, 3:minime multi remiges,
exceedingly few, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 88:in multas pecunias alienissimorum hominum invasit,
id. Phil. 2, 16, 41; id. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:multae pecuniae variis ex causis a privatis detinentur,
Plin. Ep. 10, 17, 3.—Sometimes multi stands for multi alii, many others:nam certe Pompeio, et a Curionibus patre et filio, et a multis exprobratum est,
Suet. Caes. 50.—The sing. also is used poet. for the plur., many a:aut trudit acres hinc et hinc multa cane Apros in obstantes plagas,
with many dogs, Hor. Epod. 2, 31:multa prece prosequi,
id. C. 4, 5, 33:multa victima,
Verg. E. 1, 34: agna. Ov. F. 4, 772:avis,
id. Am. 3, 5, 4:tabella,
Tib. 1, 3, 28; so of persons: multus sua vulnera puppi Affixit moriens, many a one, for multi affixerunt, Luc. 3, 707.—In sing., to denote quantity, much, great, abundant: multum aurum et argentum. Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 8; 22:exstructa mensa multa carne rancida,
Cic. Pis. 27, 67:multo labore quaerere aliquid,
with much labor, great exertion, Cic. Sull. 26, 73:cura,
Sall. J. 7, 4:sol,
much sun, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81: sermo, much conversalion, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: stilus tuus multi sudoris est. Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: multo cibo et potione completi, id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100:multo sanguine ea Poenis victoria stetit,
Liv. 23, 30, 2:multum sanguinem haurire,
Curt. 4, 14, 17; 8, 14, 32:multam harenam mare evomit,
id. 4, 6, 8:arbor,
id. 7, 4, 26:silva,
id. 8, 10, 14:multae vestis injectu opprimi,
Tac. A. 6, 50:multa et lauta supellex,
Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:aurum,
Sall. J. 13, 6; Tac. A. 6, 33; Liv. 26, 11, 9; Curt. 3, 3, 12:libertas,
Hor. S. 1, 4, 5:multam salutem dicere alicui,
to greet heartily, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 194:cum auro et argento multo,
Sall. J. 13, 6.—Of time:Itaque multum diei processerat,
a great part of the day, Sall. J. 51, 2:ad multum diem,
till far in the day, Cic. Att. 13, 9, 1:multo adhuc die,
when much of the day was still remaining, when it was still high day, Tac. H. 2, 44:multo denique die,
when the day was far spent, Caes. B. G. 1, 22:multa nocte,
late at night, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2:multo mane,
very early, id. Att. 5, 4, 1:multa opinio, for multorum,
the general opinion, Gell. 3, 16, 1:velut multa pace,
as in a general peace, as if there were peace everywhere, Tac. H. 4, 35:multus homo,
one who gives himself up to the lusts of many, Cat. 112, 1.— multi, orum, m., the many, the common mass, the multitude: probis probatus potius, quam multis forem, Att. ap. Non. 519, 9:video ego te, mulier, more multarum utier,
id. ib. —Esp.: unus e (or de) multis, one of the multitude, a man of no distinction:tenuis L. Virginius unusque e multis,
Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 62:unus de multis esse,
id. Off. 1, 30, 109: M. Calidius non fuit orator unus e multis;potius inter multos prope singularis fuit,
id. Brut. 79, 274:numerarer in multis,
among the herd of orators, id. ib. 97, 333:e multis una sit tibi,
no better than others, Ov. R. Am. 682:multum est,
it is of importance, Verg. G. 2, 272.—In neutr. absol.: ne multa, or ne multis, not to be prolix, in short:ne multa: perquiritur a coactoribus,
Cic. Clu. 64, 181:ne multis: Diogenes emitur,
id. ib. 16, 47:quid multis moror?
Ter. And. 1, 1, 87.—Sometimes multa is used (particularly by the poets) adverbially, much, greatly, very:multa reluctari,
Verg. G. 4, 301:gemens,
id. ib. 3, 226; id. A. 5, 869:deos testatus,
id. ib. 7, 593:invehi,
Nep. Ep. 6, 1 (cf. nonnulla invehi, id. Tim. 5, 3):haud multa moratus,
Verg. A. 3, 610.—Rarely in multum:in multum velociores,
by far, Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 108.—In partic.1.Too much, overmuch, excessive:2.supellex modica, non multa,
Nep. Att. 13, 5.—In speech, much-speaking, diffuse, prolix:3.qui in aliquo genere aut inconcinnus aut multus est,
Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 17:ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim,
id. ib. 2, 87, 358:nolo in stellarum ratione multus vobis videri,
id. N. D. 2, 46, 119.—Frequent, frequently present:A.in operibus, in agmine, atque ad vigilias multus adesse,
Sall. J. 96, 3:multus in eo proelio Caesar fuit,
was in many places, Flor. 4, 2, 50:hen hercle hominem multum et odiosum mihi!
troublesome, tedious, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 41:instare,
Sall. J. 84, 1.—Hence, adv., in two forms.multum, much, very much, greatly, very, often, frequently, far, etc. (class.):B.salve multum, gnate mi,
Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 56:multum vale,
farewell, id. Stich. 3, 2, 40:hominem ineptum multum et odiosum mihi,
id. Men. 2, 2, 42:opinor, Cassium uti non ita multum sorore,
not very much, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3:multum mecum municipales homines loquuntur,
often, id. Att. 8, 13, 2:non multum ille quidem nec saepe dicebat,
id. Brut. 34, 128:non multum confidere,
not very much, not particularly, Caes. B. G. 3, 25:sunt in venationibus,
often, frequently, id. ib. 4, 1:in eodem genere causarum multum erat T. Juventius,
Cic. Brut. 48, 178:multum fuisse cum aliquo,
to have had much intercourse with, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:sum multum equidem cum Phaedro in Epicuri hortis,
id. Fin. 5, 1, 3:gratia valere,
to be in great favor, Nep. Con. 2, 1:res multum et saepe quaesita,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:longe omnes multumque superabit,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115:multum et diu cogitans,
id. Div. 2, 1, 1:diu multumque scriptitare,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 152.—With an adj.:multum loquaces,
very talkative, Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 5:mepti labores,
very, Plin. Ep. 1, 9.— Poet. also with comp.:multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi,
much, far, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139:multum robustior illo,
Juv. 19, 197:majora,
Sil. 13, 708.— So with infra, post:haud multum infra viam,
Liv. 5, 37, 7; Plin. 98, 7, § 20:haud multum post mortem ejus,
Tac. A. 5, 3:ut multum,
at most, Mart. 10, 11, 6; Vop. Aur. 46.—multō by much, much, a great deal, far, by far (class.).1.With comparatives and verbs which imply comparison:2.multo tanto carior,
Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 76:pauciores oratores,
Cic. de Or. 1, 3, 11:facilius atque expeditius iter,
Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—With verbs:virtutem omnibus rebus multo anteponentes,
Cic. Fin. 4, 18, 49:multo ceteros anteibant,
Tac. H. 4, 13:multo praestat beneficii, quam maleficii immemorem esse,
Sall. J. 31, 28.—With malle:multo mavolo,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 88; id. Ps. 2, 4, 38:meo judicio multo stare malo, quam, etc.,
Cic. Att. 12, 21, 1.—With sup. (rare but class.), by far, by much:3.quae tibi mulier videtur multo sapientissuma,
Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 66; id. Am. 2, 2, 150: multo optimus hostis, by far, Lucil. ap. Non. 4, 413:simulacrum multo antiquissimum,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 109; 2, 4, 23, § 50; id. Cat. 4, 8, 17:maxima pars,
id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 82:multo id bellum maximum fuit,
Liv. 1, 11, 5:pars multo maxima,
id. 30, 18, 14: multo molestissima, Cic. Div. in. Caecil. 11, 36:multo gratissima lux,
Hor. S. 1, 5, 39:foedissimum,
Quint. 9, 4, 72:optimum,
id. ib. 26:pulcherrimum,
id. 1, 2, 24:utilissima,
id. 2, 10, 1:maxime,
Auct. Her. 4, 44, 58:multo maxime miserabile,
Sall. C. 36, 4:multo maxime ingenio validus,
id. J. 6, 1.—With particles denoting a difference, far, greatly, very:4.multo aliter,
Ter. And. prol. 4:multo aliter ac sperabat,
far otherwise than, Nep. Ham. 2:quod non multo secus fieret, si,
not far otherwise, not very different, Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 1: multo infra Cyrenaicum. Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 40. —In specifications of time, before ante and post, long, much:5.non multo ante urbem captam,
Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101:non multo ante,
not long before, Nep. Eum. 3, 3:multo ante,
Cic. Fam. 4, 1, 1:non multo post, quam, etc.,
not long after, id. Att. 12, 49, 9:haud multo ante solis occasum,
Liv. 5, 39, 2:multo ante noctem,
id. 27, 42, 13.—Very rarely with the positive for multum:6.maligna multo,
very, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 83 Umpf.—Doubled, multo multoque, with comparatives:II.multo multoque longior,
far, very much, Front. ad M. Caes. 2, 5:multo multoque operosius est,
Val. Max. 4, 1, 2: multo multoque magis, Front. Laud. Negl. § 3.Comp.: plūs, pluris; in the plur., plures, plura (in sing. anciently written plous; three times in the S. C. de Bacch. Here perh. belongs, in the plur., pleores and pleoris, for plures, in the Song of the Arval Brothers.—For the class. neuter of the plur., plura, the form pluria was used in ante-class. Latinity. Gellius cites M. Cato, Q. Claudius, Valerius Antias, L. AElius, P. Nigidius, and M. Varro as authorities for this form, Gell. 5, 21, 6; yet Plautus and Terence have only plura; and the earlier reading pluria, in Lucr. 1, 877; 2, 1135; 4, 1085, is now supplanted by the critically certain plura and plurima.—The gen. plur. plurium, however, has remained the predominant form, e. g. Quint. 7, 1, 1; 8, 4, 27; 9, 4, 66 et saep.) [from the root ple; Gr. pleon, pimplêmi; cf. plenus, plera, compleo, etc.; also locu-ples, plebes, populus, etc.], more.A.In the sing. (used both substantively and adverbially): LIBRAS FARRIS ENDO DIES DATO. SI VOLET PLVS DATO, Fragm. XII. Tab. in Gell. 20, 1, 45: SI PLVS MINVSVE SECVERVNT, SE FRAVDE ESTO, ib.;(β).so (perh. in imitation of this legal phrase): ebeu, cur ego plus minusve feci quam aequom fuit!
Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 18; Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 21:ne plus minusve loqueretur,
Suet. Aug. 84; cf. Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 27; and in the signif. of circiter, about: septingenti sunt paulo plus aut minus anni... postquam, etc., Enn. ap. Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 2 (Ann. v. 493 Vahl.);so. non longius abesse plus minus octo milibus,
Hirt. B. G. 8, 20, 1 Oud.; cf.:speranti plures... venerunt plusve minusve duae,
Mart. 8, 71, 4:aut ne quid faciam plus, quod post me minus fecisse satius sit,
too much... too little, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 4:tantum et plus etiam ipse mihi deberet,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 7:vos et decem numero, et, quod plus est, Romani estis,
and what is more, Liv. 9, 24, 8:verbane plus an sententia valere debeat,
Cic. Top. 25, 96: [p. 1174] cf.:apud me argumenta plus quam testes valent,
id. Rep. 1, 38, 59:valet enim salus plus quam libido,
id. ib. 1, 40, 63.—With a partitive gen.:(γ).vultis pecuniae plus habere,
Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88; cf.:nostri casus plus honoris habuerunt quam laboris,
id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; so,plus virium,
id. Leg. 1, 2, 6:plus hostium,
Liv. 2, 42:plus dapis et rixae multo minus invidiaeque,
Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 51:in hac causa eo plus auctoritatis habent, quia, etc.,
Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; cf.:plus ingenii,
id. ib. 1, 14, 22:Albano non plus animi erat quam fidei,
as little courage as fidelity, Liv. 1, 27, 5.—With quam (some examples of which have already been given above):(δ).non plus quam semel,
Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61:confiteor eos... plus quam sicarios esse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:ne plus reddat quam acceperit,
id. Lael. 16, 58 et saep.:non plus quam in tres partis posse distribui putaverunt,
into not more than, id. Inv. 1, 34, 57:plus quam decem dies abesse,
id. Phil. 2, 13, 31:nulla (navis) plus quam triginta remis agatur,
with more than, Liv. 38, 38, 8.—Without quam:(ε).HOMINES PLOVS V. OINVORSEI VIREI ATQVE MVLIERES, S. C. de Bacch. 19 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): plus mille capti,
Liv. 24, 44:plus milies audivi,
Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32: plus semel, Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96:plus quingentos colaphos infregit mihi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria,
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37:non plus mille quingentos aeris,
id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:paulo plus ducentos passus a castris,
Liv. 31, 34:cum plus annum aeger fuisset,
id. 40, 2:parte plus dimidia rem auctam,
id. 29, 25.—With a compar. or adverbial abl., or with an abl. of measure:2.VIREI PLOVS DVOBVS, S. C. de Bacch. 20 (Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 173): de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent,
more than the importunate, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 44:ex his alius alio plus habet virium,
Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: cave putes hoc tempore plus me quemquam cruciari, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, 2:alterum certe non potest, ut plus una vera sit,
Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 5; cf.:in columba plures videri colores, nec esse plus uno,
id. Ac. 2, 25, 79: HOC PLVS NE FACITO, more than this, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59:annos sexaginta natus es Aut plus eo,
or more than that, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 11:plus aequo,
Cic. Lael. 16, 58:plus paulo,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 8:paulo plus,
Liv. 31, 34: multo plus, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8, A, 1:plus nimio,
overmuch, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 30: quam molestum est uno digito plus habere, too much by a finger, i. e. a finger too much, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99:uno plus Etruscorum cecidisse in acie,
one man more, Liv. 2, 7, 2.—In the gen. pretii, pluris, of more value, of a higher price, for more, higher, dearer:3.ut plus reddant musti et olei, et pretii pluris,
of greater value, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 4:ager multo pluris est,
is worth much more, Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; cf.:quo pluris sint nostra oliveta,
id. Rep. 3, 9, 16:pluris emere,
dearer, id. Fam. 7, 2, 1; so,vendere,
id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Verr. 2, 3, 19, § 48; Hor. S. 2, 3, 300:aedificare,
Col. 1, 4, 7:pluris est oculatus testis quam auriti decem,
of more value, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8:mea mihi conscientia pluris est, quam omnium sermo,
Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2:facio pluris omnium hominem neminem,
id. ib. 8, 2, 4:facere aliquem pluris,
make more of one, esteem him more highly, id. Fam. 3, 4, 2:pluris habere,
id. Phil. 6, 4, 10:aestimare,
id. Par. 6, 2, 48:ducere,
id. Att. 7, 3, 5:putare,
id. Off. 3, 4, 18 et saep.—Rarely, instead of the genitive, in the abl. pretii: plure vendunt, Lucil. ap. Charis. 2, p. 189 P.: plure altero tanto, quanto ejus fundus est, velim, Plaut. ib.: plure venit, Cic. ib.—4.Plus plusque, more and more: quem mehercule plus plusque in dies diligo. Cic. Att. 6, 2, 10.—* 5.Like magis, with an adj.:B.plus formosus, for formosior,
Nemes. Ecl. 4, 72.—In the plur.1.Comparatively, more in number:2.omnes qui aere alieno premantur, quos plures esse intellego quam putaram,
Cic. Att. 7, 3, 5; id. Rep. 2, 22, 40:nemini ego plura acerba esse credo ex amore homini umquam oblata quam mihi,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 1:ne plura insignia essent imperii in libero populo quam in regno fuissent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55:multo plura,
many more things, Quint. 3, 6, 28.—In gen., of a great number, many: qui plus fore dicant in pluribus consilii quam in uno. Cic. Rep. 1, 35, 55: cf.: quid quaeso interest inter unum et plures, si justitia est in pluribus? id. ib. 1, 39, 61;b.1, 34, 52: non possunt una in civitate multi rem ac fortunas amittere, ut non plures secum in eandem trahant calamitatem,
id. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:quod pluribus praesentibus eas res jactari nolebat,
Caes. B. G. 1, 18:plura castella Pompeius tentaverat,
id. B. C. 3, 52:summus dolor plures dies manere non potest,
Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:pluribus diebus, Quint. prooem. § 7: illic plurium rerum est congeries,
id. 8, 4, 27:quae consuetudo sit, pluribus verbis docere,
Cic. Clu. 41, 115:eum pluribus verbis rogat, ut, etc.,
id. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64;without verba: quid ego plura dicam?
id. de Or. 1, 5, 18:pluribus haec exsecutus sum,
Phaedr. 3, 10, 59;also elliptically, quid plura? and, ne plura, like quid multa? and ne multa: hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia. Quid plura? hanc vides villam, etc.,
what need of many words? in short, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3:sed—ne plura—dicendum enim aliquando est—Pomponium Atticum sic amo, ut alterum fratrem,
id. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—Esp.: plures.(α).The mass, the multitude, opp. pauciores, = hoi oligoi, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 13.—(β).Euphemistically, acc. to the Gr. hoi pleiones, the dead:(γ).quin prius Me ad plures penetravi?
Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 14.—The greater number, the majority:III.plures nesciebant qua ex causa convenissent,
Vulg. Act. 19, 32.Sup.: plūrĭmus (archaic form, plisima plurima, Paul. ex Fest. p. 204 and 205 Mull.: PLIOIRVME (I), Epit. of Scipio), a, um [from root ple; whence also plus, q. v., ploirumus for ploisumus; and thence the predominant form plurimus], most, very much, or many (as an adj. in good prose mostly in the plur., except the standing formula of greeting: salutem plurimam dicere alicui; v. infra):(β).hujus sunt plurima simulacra,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17:nos plurimis ignotissimi gentibus,
Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:plurimae et maximae partes,
id. ib. 1, 4, 8:plurimorum seculorum memoria,
id. ib. 3, 9, 14:haec plurimis a me verbis dicta sunt,
id. ib. 1, 7, 12 et saep.—In sing.:me plurima praeda onustum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4:sermo,
Quint. 2, 2, 5:risus,
id. 6, 3, 85:res,
id. 6, 1, 51:exercitatio,
id. 8 prooem. §28: mons,
very large, Verg. A. 1, 419:cervix,
id. G. 3, 52:Aetna,
Ov. Ib. 600.—Of a greeting: impertit salutem plurimam, Lucil. ap. Non. 472. 16; and esp. freq.: salutem plurimam dicit (commonly abbrev. S. P. D.) at the beginning of letters; v. salus.— Poet.:medio cum plurimus orbe Sol erat,
very powerful, oppressive, Ov. M. 14, 53: plurima qua silva est. thickest, id. ib. 14, 361:coma plurima,
very thick, id. ib. 13, 844:sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone conjux,
mostly, chiefly, id. ib. 11, 562.—And collect.:plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos,
many a one, very many, Hor. C. 1, 7, 8; so,oleaster plurimus,
Verg. G. 2, 183:qua plurima mittitur ales,
Mart. 9, 56, 1:plurima lecta rosa est,
Ov. F. 4, 441.— In neutr. absol. (substant. or adverb.):ut haberet quam plurimum,
as much as possible, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 39:caput autem est, quam plurimum scribere,
id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:ut in quoque oratore plurimum esset,
id. Rep. 1, 27, 123.— Adv.: plūrĭmum:et is valebat in suffragio plurimum, cujus plurimum intererat, esse in optimo statu civitatem,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40:auspiciis plurimum obsecutus est Romulus,
id. ib. 2, 9, 16:si vero populus plurimum potest,
id. ib. 3, 14, 23; cf.:qui apud me dignitate plurimum possunt,
id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4:plurimum aliis praestare,
id. Inv. 2, 1, 1:ut te plurimum diligam,
id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78:hoc ego utor uno omnium plurimum,
id. Fam. 11, 16, 2:quantum (al. quanto) plurimum possunt,
Quint. 11, 3, 120: plurimum quantum also signifies very much indeed, exceedingly (post-class.):plurimum quantum veritati nocuere,
Min. Fel. Oct. 22:gratulor,
id. ib. 40:(elleborum) ex aqua datur plurimum drachma,
at the most, Plin. 25, 5, 22, § 54; 9, 36, 60, § 125; 30, 6, 16, § 48; so,cum plurimum,
id. 2, 17, 15, § 78 (opp. to cum minimum); 18, 7, 10, § 60: nec tam numerosa differentia; tribus ut plurimum bonitatibus distat, for the most part, commonly, usually, = plerumque, Plin. 15, 3, 4, § 18.—In neutr. with a partit. gen.: sententiarum et gravitatis plurimum, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 25:(γ).artis,
Quint. 10, 5, 3:auctoritatis et ponderis,
id. 9, 4, 91:ut laboris sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum,
id. 10, 3, 1:virtutum,
id. 12, 1, 20 plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fratermtas ducum, Flor. 4, 2, 74.—In the gen. pretii:plurimi: immo unice unum plurimi pendit,
values very highly, esteems very much, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29:quem unum Alexander plurimi fecerat,
Nep. Eum. 2, 2:ut quisque quod plurimi est possidet,
Cic. Par. 6, 2, 48. -
9 multus
multus adj. (for comp. and sup. in use see plūs, plūrimus). I. Plur., with subst., or with adjec. used as subst, many, a great number: multi alii, T.: multae sunt artes eximiae: tam multis verbis scribere, at such length: Quid multa verba? in short, T.: multa acerba habuit ille annus.—With other adjj., many: multae et magnae contentiones: multis magnisque praesidiis perditis, S.: multi et varii timores, L.: vectigalīs multos ac stipendiarios liberavit: multae liberae civitates, republics: multa libera capita, freemen, L.: multa secunda proelia, victories, L.: multa maiores magna et gravia bella gesserunt: multis suppliciis iustis: utebatur hominibus improbis multis: prodigia multa foeda, L.—As subst m., many men, many: multi pecunias coëgerunt: alter multos fefellit: pro multis dicere.—The multitude, mass, common people, vulgar: unus de multis esse: orator unus e multis, commonplace: numerari in multis, in the herd (of orators): e multis una sit tibi, no better than others, O.: sum unus Multorum, H. —As subst n. (only nom. and acc.), many things, much: quam multa te deficiant vides: quid multis moror? many words, T.: ne multa, in short: quid multa? H.— II. Sing., distributive, many a (poet.): trudit multā cane Apros in plagas, H.: multā victimā, V.: multā prece prosequi, H.—Of quantity, much, abundant, large, considerable, extensive: exstructa mensa multā carne: multum pro re p. sanguinem effudistis: multa et lauta supellex: lingua Gallica, quā multā utebatur, spoke fluently, Cs.: multus fluens, glibly, H.—In excess, superfluous: supellex modica, non multa, N.: qui in aliquo genere multus est, prolix.—Frequent, frequently, engaged, busy, diligent: ad vigilias multus adesse, S.: cum Timaeo multum fuisse: Multa viri virtus animo recursat, V.—Strong, influential: adeo teneris consuescere multum est, so strong is habit, V.—Of time, full, late: ad multum diem, till late in the day: multa iam dies erat, L.: multā nocte, late at night: multo mane, very early.* * *multa -um, -, plurimus -a -um ADJmuch, many, great, many a; large, intense, assiduous; tedious -
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multus, a, um, Compar. plūs, plūris (subst.), Plur. plūrēs, n. plūra, selten plūria (adi. u. subst.), Superl. plürimus, a, um, viel, I) eig.: A) von der Menge, viel, zahlreich (Ggstz. paucus), 1) einzelner Gegenstände, verba, Cic.: viri, Cic.: multae pecuniae alienae, Cic.: multorum annorum tyrannis, Nep., laetitia, Cic., doctrina, Auct. b. Afr.: multorum angulorum forma, Boëth.: multi, viele, viele Menschen (Ggstz. pauci), Cic.: multi alii, Ter., auch bl. multi, viele andere, Suet.: saepe multi, viele andere zu einer anderen Zeit, Cic. u.a. (s. Kühner u. Meißner Cic. Tusc. 1, 74): insulae non ita multae, nicht gar sehr viele, Plin.: parum multi, allzu wenige, Cornif. rhet.: bene multi, ziemlich viele, Asin. Poll. (in Cic. ep.), Auct. b. Hisp. u. Ov.: minime multi, äußerst wenige, Cic.: quam minime multa vestigia, möglichst wenige, Nep.: multis verbis, weitläufig, Cic.: quid multa verba? was braucht's vieler Worte? kurz, Ter.: so auch quid multis moror? Ter.: ne multa od. ne multis, kurz, Cic.: m. partitivem Genet., multi hominum, Plin.: multae arborum, Plin. – multi (wie οἱ πολλοί), der große Haufe, die Menge, die gewöhnlichen Menschen, unus de multis, Cic.: qui non fuit orator unus e multis, Cic.: numerarer in multis, unter die gemeinen Redner, Cic.: auch vom Weibe, una e multis sit tibi, nicht besser als andere, Ov.: more multarum, Acc. tr. fr.: multa, viele Dinge, vieles, Cic. u.a.: nimis multa, Cic.: multa bene agere, viele glückliche Taten vollbringen, Eutr.: multis vastatis, nachdem viele Gegenden verwüstet worden waren, Eutr. – Compar., plures, Genet. plurium, mehrere, mehr als einer (Ggstz. pauci, aliqui, singuli, unus), Cic. u.a. – m. partit. Genet., plures vestrûm, Curt. – plura, Cic. u. (Ggstz. pauciora) Plin. ep.: plurium dierum hiems (Sturm), Plin.: plurium annorum indutiae, Liv.: plurium annorum officium, Plin.: plurium angulorum forma, Boëth.: pluribus verbis, Nep., od. bl. pluribus, Phaedr., weitläufiger: ne plura, Plin., od. quid plura? kurz, Cic.: nicht selten = complures, mehrere, verschiedene, viele, plures enixa partus, Liv.: pluribus verbis rogare, Cic. – insbes., plures, der große Haufe (Ggstz. pauciores, οἱ δλίγοι, die Vornehmen, Hochgestellten), Plaut. trin. 34: u. (wie οἱ πλείονες) euphem. v. den Toten, ad plures penetrare, zu seinen Vätern versammelt werden, Plaut. trin. 291 Sch.3: u. so ad plures abire, Petron. 42, 5. – Superl., plurimi, sehr viele, die meisten, Cic.: plurima simulacra, Caes.: saecula, Cic.: plurimi anni, Iustin.: plurimis verbis, sehr ausführlich, Cic. – auch kollekt., plurimus dicent, Hor. – m. partit. Genet., longe plurimos hostium occīdit, Liv.: plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fraternitas ducum, überaus am meisten begünstigte die P. usw., Flor. 4, 2, 74. – 2) eines Stoffes, caro, Cic.: sudor, Cic.: sanguis, Liv.: cruor, Val. Max.: aurum argentumque, Sall., aurum et argentum, Tac.: supellex, viel Hausrat, Nep.: victima, viele O., Ov., Verg.: avis, Ov. – Comparat., plus, so nur in der Volksspr., wie argentum in ostiarii illius cella plus iacet, Petron. 37, 8. – Superl., plurima praeda, Plaut.: vestis, stragula, Cic.: rosa, Ov.: Aetna, der größte Teil des A., Ov.
B) v. intensiver Fülle u. Stärke, viel, groß, stark, bedeutend, 1) im allg.: sol, heiße Sonne, Plin. u. Suet.: multo labore, Cic.: multā cum clade suorum, Liv.: cura, Sall.: libertas, Hor.: sermo, viel Gerede, Cic. (vgl. unten no. II, B): opinio, verbreitete, allgemeine Ansicht, Gell.: velut multā pace, wie im tiefen Frieden, Tac.: operam suam multam existimare, Cic.: multum est, es ist bedeutend, wichtig, es tut viel, es nützt sehr, Verg. – Superl., plurimus sol, Ov. u. Plin. ep.: plurima quā silva est, wo der Wald am dichtesten ist, Ov.: coma, Ov.: canities, Verg.: fons, Ov.: luna, der volle Mond, Mart.: labor, Hor.: risus, Quint.: sermo, Quint.: exercitatio, Quint.: salutem plurimam dicere, Plaut., od. plurimā salute impertire, Ter., seinen herzlichsten Gruß sagen. – 2) insbes., von den Tageszeiten, ad multum diem, bis weit in den Tag, Cic.: vides iam diem multum esse, daß der Tag schon weit vorgerückt ists, Plaut.: postquam multa iam dies erat, als es schon stark Tag war, Liv.: multo die, Caes.: multā luce, Sall. hist. fr.: multā nocte, spät in der Nacht, Cic.: multo adhuc die, da noch viel vom Tage übrig war, noch hoch am Tage, Tac.: multo mane, sehr früh, Cic.
C) von der Ausdehnung im Raume, groß, multa pars Europae, Liv.: et potes in toto multa iacēre toro, einen großen Raum einnehmend, Ov. – Superl., plurimus collis, Verg.
II) übtr.: A) in bezug auf die Rede, weitschweifig, weitläufig, breit, homo multus et odiosus, ein Schwätzer, Plaut.: ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim, Cic.: est multus in laudanda magnificentia, Cic.: de quibus multa ab illis habetur oratio, worüber sie sich in weitläufiger Rede verbreiten, Cic.
B) in bezug auf eine Tätigkeit, viel beschäftigt, viel verkehrend, eifrig, emsig, unablässig, häufig, in eodem genere causarum multus erat T. Iuventius, Cic.: multus et ferox instare, Sall.: ad vigilias multus adesse, Sall.: multus in eo proelio fuit Caesar, Flor.: eum cum Timaeo Locro multum fuisse, habe viel verkehrt mit usw., Cic. de rep. 1, 16: multa viri virtus multusque recursat honos, Verg.: dah. multum est, es ist häufig, man hört es oft, Cic. – Superl., legor plurimus in orbe, Ov.: plurima nantis in ore Alcyone coniunx, Ov.: cum libellis mihi plurimis sermo est, mit meinen Büchern unterhalte ich mich oft, Sen. ep. 67, 2.
C) in bezug auf das Verhalten, aufdringlich, lästig, qui in aliquo genere (Beziehung) aut inconcinnus aut multus est, Cic.: nimius est, multus est, er geht zu weit, er ist übertrieben in seiner Strenge, Val. imp. b. Vopisc.: dah. multus es et pathicus, du gibst dich vielen preis, Catull. – Davon:
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multus, a, um, Compar. plūs, plūris (subst.), Plur. plūrēs, n. plūra, selten plūria (adi. u. subst.), Superl. plürimus, a, um, viel, I) eig.: A) von der Menge, viel, zahlreich (Ggstz. paucus), 1) einzelner Gegenstände, verba, Cic.: viri, Cic.: multae pecuniae alienae, Cic.: multorum annorum tyrannis, Nep., laetitia, Cic., doctrina, Auct. b. Afr.: multorum angulorum forma, Boëth.: multi, viele, viele Menschen (Ggstz. pauci), Cic.: multi alii, Ter., auch bl. multi, viele andere, Suet.: saepe multi, viele andere zu einer anderen Zeit, Cic. u.a. (s. Kühner u. Meißner Cic. Tusc. 1, 74): insulae non ita multae, nicht gar sehr viele, Plin.: parum multi, allzu wenige, Cornif. rhet.: bene multi, ziemlich viele, Asin. Poll. (in Cic. ep.), Auct. b. Hisp. u. Ov.: minime multi, äußerst wenige, Cic.: quam minime multa vestigia, möglichst wenige, Nep.: multis verbis, weitläufig, Cic.: quid multa verba? was braucht's vieler Worte? kurz, Ter.: so auch quid multis moror? Ter.: ne multa od. ne multis, kurz, Cic.: m. partitivem Genet., multi hominum, Plin.: multae arborum, Plin. – multi (wie οἱ πολλοί), der große Haufe, die Menge, die gewöhnlichen Menschen, unus de multis, Cic.: qui non fuit orator unus e multis, Cic.: numerarer in multis, unter die gemeinen Redner, Cic.: auch vom Weibe, una e multis sit tibi, nicht besser als andere, Ov.: more multarum,————Acc. tr. fr.: multa, viele Dinge, vieles, Cic. u.a.: nimis multa, Cic.: multa bene agere, viele glückliche Taten vollbringen, Eutr.: multis vastatis, nachdem viele Gegenden verwüstet worden waren, Eutr. – Compar., plures, Genet. plurium, mehrere, mehr als einer (Ggstz. pauci, aliqui, singuli, unus), Cic. u.a. – m. partit. Genet., plures vestrûm, Curt. – plura, Cic. u. (Ggstz. pauciora) Plin. ep.: plurium dierum hiems (Sturm), Plin.: plurium annorum indutiae, Liv.: plurium annorum officium, Plin.: plurium angulorum forma, Boëth.: pluribus verbis, Nep., od. bl. pluribus, Phaedr., weitläufiger: ne plura, Plin., od. quid plura? kurz, Cic.: nicht selten = complures, mehrere, verschiedene, viele, plures enixa partus, Liv.: pluribus verbis rogare, Cic. – insbes., plures, der große Haufe (Ggstz. pauciores, οἱ δλίγοι, die Vornehmen, Hochgestellten), Plaut. trin. 34: u. (wie οἱ πλείονες) euphem. v. den Toten, ad plures penetrare, zu seinen Vätern versammelt werden, Plaut. trin. 291 Sch.3: u. so ad plures abire, Petron. 42, 5. – Superl., plurimi, sehr viele, die meisten, Cic.: plurima simulacra, Caes.: saecula, Cic.: plurimi anni, Iustin.: plurimis verbis, sehr ausführlich, Cic. – auch kollekt., plurimus dicent, Hor. – m. partit. Genet., longe plurimos hostium occīdit, Liv.: plurimum quantum favoris partibus dabat fraternitas ducum, überaus am meisten begünstigte die P. usw., Flor. 4, 2, 74. – 2) eines————Stoffes, caro, Cic.: sudor, Cic.: sanguis, Liv.: cruor, Val. Max.: aurum argentumque, Sall., aurum et argentum, Tac.: supellex, viel Hausrat, Nep.: victima, viele O., Ov., Verg.: avis, Ov. – Comparat., plus, so nur in der Volksspr., wie argentum in ostiarii illius cella plus iacet, Petron. 37, 8. – Superl., plurima praeda, Plaut.: vestis, stragula, Cic.: rosa, Ov.: Aetna, der größte Teil des A., Ov.B) v. intensiver Fülle u. Stärke, viel, groß, stark, bedeutend, 1) im allg.: sol, heiße Sonne, Plin. u. Suet.: multo labore, Cic.: multā cum clade suorum, Liv.: cura, Sall.: libertas, Hor.: sermo, viel Gerede, Cic. (vgl. unten no. II, B): opinio, verbreitete, allgemeine Ansicht, Gell.: velut multā pace, wie im tiefen Frieden, Tac.: operam suam multam existimare, Cic.: multum est, es ist bedeutend, wichtig, es tut viel, es nützt sehr, Verg. – Superl., plurimus sol, Ov. u. Plin. ep.: plurima quā silva est, wo der Wald am dichtesten ist, Ov.: coma, Ov.: canities, Verg.: fons, Ov.: luna, der volle Mond, Mart.: labor, Hor.: risus, Quint.: sermo, Quint.: exercitatio, Quint.: salutem plurimam dicere, Plaut., od. plurimā salute impertire, Ter., seinen herzlichsten Gruß sagen. – 2) insbes., von den Tageszeiten, ad multum diem, bis weit in den Tag, Cic.: vides iam diem multum esse, daß der Tag schon weit vorgerückt ists, Plaut.: postquam multa iam dies erat, als es schon stark Tag war, Liv.:————multo die, Caes.: multā luce, Sall. hist. fr.: multā nocte, spät in der Nacht, Cic.: multo adhuc die, da noch viel vom Tage übrig war, noch hoch am Tage, Tac.: multo mane, sehr früh, Cic.C) von der Ausdehnung im Raume, groß, multa pars Europae, Liv.: et potes in toto multa iacēre toro, einen großen Raum einnehmend, Ov. – Superl., plurimus collis, Verg.II) übtr.: A) in bezug auf die Rede, weitschweifig, weitläufig, breit, homo multus et odiosus, ein Schwätzer, Plaut.: ne in re nota et pervulgata multus et insolens sim, Cic.: est multus in laudanda magnificentia, Cic.: de quibus multa ab illis habetur oratio, worüber sie sich in weitläufiger Rede verbreiten, Cic.B) in bezug auf eine Tätigkeit, viel beschäftigt, viel verkehrend, eifrig, emsig, unablässig, häufig, in eodem genere causarum multus erat T. Iuventius, Cic.: multus et ferox instare, Sall.: ad vigilias multus adesse, Sall.: multus in eo proelio fuit Caesar, Flor.: eum cum Timaeo Locro multum fuisse, habe viel verkehrt mit usw., Cic. de rep. 1, 16: multa viri virtus multusque recursat honos, Verg.: dah. multum est, es ist häufig, man hört es oft, Cic. – Superl., legor plurimus in orbe, Ov.: plurima nantis in ore Alcyone coniunx, Ov.: cum libellis mihi plurimis sermo est, mit meinen Büchern unterhalte ich mich oft, Sen. ep. 67,————2.C) in bezug auf das Verhalten, aufdringlich, lästig, qui in aliquo genere (Beziehung) aut inconcinnus aut multus est, Cic.: nimius est, multus est, er geht zu weit, er ist übertrieben in seiner Strenge, Val. imp. b. Vopisc.: dah. multus es et pathicus, du gibst dich vielen preis, Catull. – Davon: -
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multus, a, um [st2]1 [-] nombreux, grand, long. [st2]2 [-] abondant, en grande quantité; avancé (en parl. du jour, de la nuit). [st2]3 [-] répandu, général. [st2]4 [-] étendu, spacieux; grand, important, considérable. [st2]5 [-] prolixe, bavard. [st2]6 [-] fréquent. - multi mortales (multi hominum), Cic.: beaucoup d'hommes. - minime multi remiges, Cic.: fort peu de rameurs. - multā prece, Ov.: par des prières réitérées. - ad multam noctem: fort avant dans la nuit. - ne multa, quid multa? (dicam): bref. ( →multa s.-ent. verba) - ne multus sim, Cic.: pour ne pas être bavard, pour abréger. - satis multa, Cic.: en voilà assez. - unus e multis: un homme du commun, le premier venu. - multa agere: faire beaucoup de choses, être très occupé. - in operibus multus adesse, Sall. J. 96, 3: (Sylla) était souvent présent sur les chantiers. - multus est in ea re, Cic.: il s'applique beaucoup à cette affaire. - multā pace, Tac.: en pleine paix. - multā luce, Ter.: en plein jour. - multā cane, Hor.: avec une meute importante. - multus sermo, Quint.: long entretien. - multa libertas, Hor.: pleine liberté. - multus fragor, Lucr.: grand bruit. - multa est opinio, Gell.: on croit communément. - lingua quā multā utebatur, Caes.: langue qu'il employait souvent. - hominem multum! Plaut.: l'assommant personnage! - multa, acc. plur. neutre pris comme adv.: beaucoup. - quum multa invectus esset in...: s'étant répandu en reproches contre... - multa reluctans, Virg.: opposant une vive résistance. - gemens multa, Virg.: poussant de longs gémissements. - haud multa moratus, Virg. En. 3.610: sans s'attarder longtemps. - in toro multa jaces, Ov.: tu tiens dans le lit une large place.* * *multus, a, um [st2]1 [-] nombreux, grand, long. [st2]2 [-] abondant, en grande quantité; avancé (en parl. du jour, de la nuit). [st2]3 [-] répandu, général. [st2]4 [-] étendu, spacieux; grand, important, considérable. [st2]5 [-] prolixe, bavard. [st2]6 [-] fréquent. - multi mortales (multi hominum), Cic.: beaucoup d'hommes. - minime multi remiges, Cic.: fort peu de rameurs. - multā prece, Ov.: par des prières réitérées. - ad multam noctem: fort avant dans la nuit. - ne multa, quid multa? (dicam): bref. ( →multa s.-ent. verba) - ne multus sim, Cic.: pour ne pas être bavard, pour abréger. - satis multa, Cic.: en voilà assez. - unus e multis: un homme du commun, le premier venu. - multa agere: faire beaucoup de choses, être très occupé. - in operibus multus adesse, Sall. J. 96, 3: (Sylla) était souvent présent sur les chantiers. - multus est in ea re, Cic.: il s'applique beaucoup à cette affaire. - multā pace, Tac.: en pleine paix. - multā luce, Ter.: en plein jour. - multā cane, Hor.: avec une meute importante. - multus sermo, Quint.: long entretien. - multa libertas, Hor.: pleine liberté. - multus fragor, Lucr.: grand bruit. - multa est opinio, Gell.: on croit communément. - lingua quā multā utebatur, Caes.: langue qu'il employait souvent. - hominem multum! Plaut.: l'assommant personnage! - multa, acc. plur. neutre pris comme adv.: beaucoup. - quum multa invectus esset in...: s'étant répandu en reproches contre... - multa reluctans, Virg.: opposant une vive résistance. - gemens multa, Virg.: poussant de longs gémissements. - haud multa moratus, Virg. En. 3.610: sans s'attarder longtemps. - in toro multa jaces, Ov.: tu tiens dans le lit une large place.* * *Multus, multa, multum. Plaut. Si hoc parauissent, homines essent minus multi mali. Il n'y auroit pas tant de mauvaises gens.\Multis fortissimis viris. Cic. A beaucoup d'hommes, A mains hommes, A maint homme, A moult d'hommes.\Multus in eo fuit, siue in ea re. Cic. Il s'est fort arresté à cela.\In opere multus. Sallust. Il est frequent à la besongne, Le plus du temps il besongne.\Multa pro multum: vt Reluctans multa. Virgil. Moult, Beaucoup.\Capitum multorum bellua. Horat. Qui ha beaucoup de testes.\Multus sermo ad multum diem. Cic. Nous fusmes long temps à parler ensemble, tellement qu'une grande partie du jour estoit ja passee, Nostre propos dura si long temps, que le jour estoit ja bien avant.\Multo denique die per exploratores Caesar cognouit et montem a suis teneri, etc. Caesar. Apres qu'il fut grand jour.\Multa luce reuecti hostes. Tacit. Qu'il estoit ja grand jour.\Multo mane. Cic. Fort matin.\Millia multa dare letho. Virg. Tuer grand nombre de gens.\Multis modis reprehendi potest. Cic. En beaucoup de manieres, En maintes manieres et facons, En moult de manieres.\Nominis multi homo. Horat. De grand renom.\Multa nocte cum Vibullio veni ad Pompeium. Cic. Il y avoit ja long temps qu'il estoit nuict.\Pars multa mei. Horat. La plus grande partie de moy.\Quibus efficitur, multis partibus solem maiorem esse quam terram. Cic. Beaucoup plus grand.\Veneri dicito multam meis verbis salutem. Plaut. Salue la de par moy grandement.\Sermonem multum habere de aliquo. Brutus ad Ciceronem. Tenir long propos de luy.\Sudoris multi est res illa. Cic. C'est une chose de grande peine et travail.\Multo tanto miserior. Plaut. Sans comparaison plus miserable.\Vi multa reuulsum gubernaculum. Virgil. A grande force.\Vtilitates multae, et magnae consecutae sunt. Cic. Maintes.\Radice multa, crassaque. Plin. Qui ha force racines. -
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[ABCU]A - dē + abl. prép. [st1]1 [-] de, du haut de. - de muro: du haut de la muraille. - de puteo haurire: puiser d'un puits. [st1]2 [-] pendant, après. - de mense Decembri navigare: faire une traversée pendant le mois de décembre. - de media nocte: après minuit. [st1]3 [-] de, d'entre. - unus de multis: le premier venu, n'importe qui. [st1]4 [-] en prenant sur. - de publico redimere: racheter en prenant sur les fonds publics, racheter aux frais de l'Etat. [st1]5 [-] d'après. - quibus de causis: pour ces raisons. - de more: selon la coutume. [st1]6 [-] au sujet de. - de ceteris: quant au reste. [st1]7 [-] de la part de. - bene mereri de aliquo: bien mériter de qqn, rendre de grands services à qqn. [ABCU]B - dē- + consonne ou dĕ- + voyelle ou h (di-, dif-, dis-, dir-), préfixes. [st1]1 [-] séparation: - de-cedere: partir, décéder. - de-minuere: retrancher. - di-ducere: séparer. [st1]2 [-] mouvement de haut en bas: - de-spicere: regarder de haut en bas, mépriser. - de-jicere → de + jacere: jeter à bas, précipiter. [st1]3 [-] privation, cessation, valeur négative: - de-mens: fou, privé de raison. - de-decus: déshonneur. - dif-ficilis: difficile. - de-fervescere: cesser de bouillir. [st1]4 [-] valeur intensive, achèvement: - de-poscere: demander énergiquement. - de-sudare: suer beaucoup. - de-servio: servir avec zèle. - de-vincere: vaincre complètement, écraser. [st1]5 [-] dispersion: - dis-currere: courir dans toutes les directions. - di-mittere: envoyer dans tous les sens.* * *[ABCU]A - dē + abl. prép. [st1]1 [-] de, du haut de. - de muro: du haut de la muraille. - de puteo haurire: puiser d'un puits. [st1]2 [-] pendant, après. - de mense Decembri navigare: faire une traversée pendant le mois de décembre. - de media nocte: après minuit. [st1]3 [-] de, d'entre. - unus de multis: le premier venu, n'importe qui. [st1]4 [-] en prenant sur. - de publico redimere: racheter en prenant sur les fonds publics, racheter aux frais de l'Etat. [st1]5 [-] d'après. - quibus de causis: pour ces raisons. - de more: selon la coutume. [st1]6 [-] au sujet de. - de ceteris: quant au reste. [st1]7 [-] de la part de. - bene mereri de aliquo: bien mériter de qqn, rendre de grands services à qqn. [ABCU]B - dē- + consonne ou dĕ- + voyelle ou h (di-, dif-, dis-, dir-), préfixes. [st1]1 [-] séparation: - de-cedere: partir, décéder. - de-minuere: retrancher. - di-ducere: séparer. [st1]2 [-] mouvement de haut en bas: - de-spicere: regarder de haut en bas, mépriser. - de-jicere → de + jacere: jeter à bas, précipiter. [st1]3 [-] privation, cessation, valeur négative: - de-mens: fou, privé de raison. - de-decus: déshonneur. - dif-ficilis: difficile. - de-fervescere: cesser de bouillir. [st1]4 [-] valeur intensive, achèvement: - de-poscere: demander énergiquement. - de-sudare: suer beaucoup. - de-servio: servir avec zèle. - de-vincere: vaincre complètement, écraser. [st1]5 [-] dispersion: - dis-currere: courir dans toutes les directions. - di-mittere: envoyer dans tous les sens.* * *De, Praepositio, ablatiuo casui seruiens: quae suo casui semper praeponitur. aliquando interponitur inter substantiuum et adiectiuum elegantiae causa. Cic. Id nisi graui de causa non fecisset. Sans grande cause.\De nocte abire. Terent. De nuict.\De nocte multa exurrexi. Plaut. Je me suis levé qu'il estoit encores grand nuict.\De media nocte missus equitatus. Caesar. Sur la minuict.\De nocte vigilare. Cic. Veiller de nuict.\De die potitare. Plaut. De jour.\De medio potare die. Horat. Dés midy commencer à boire et yvrongner.\De die viuere cum perditis. Cic. De jour, En plain jour.\Apparare de die conuiuium. Terent. Incontinent, Tout à l'heure.\De meo praeceptis nihil nouum apposui. Plaut. Du mien.\De tuo istuc addis. Plaut. Du tien, De ta fantasie.\Olet vnguenta de meo. Terent. De mon bien et à mes despens.\De nostro saepe edunt. Plaut. Ils mangent souvent du nostre, Ils vivent à noz despens.\Quum ante id tempus de suo quisque functus eo munere esset. Liu. A ses despens.\De alicuius sententia peccare. Plaut. Par son conseil et advis.\De sua sententia in Albano monte triumphauit. Plin. iunior. A sa fantasie, Sans s'en conseiller.\De sua sententia aliquid comminisci. Plaut. De soymesme.\De sententia populi lectus imperator. Liu. De l'advis et accord du peuple.\De communi sententia aliquid constituere. Cic. Par l'advis de tous ensemble.\De sententia alicuius dare. Cic. Selon qu'il advisera.\De meo consilio. Cic. Par mon conseil.\Vix tamen sibi de mea voluntate concessum est. Cic. On luy accorda de mon consentement, mais à grand peine voulut on.\De pro a. Cic. Et enim de principio studuit animus occurrere magnitudini criminis. Du commencement, Dés le commencement.\De sinistra parte eruti dentes. Plin. Du costé gauche.\Et si qua sunt de genere eodem. Cic. Et s'il en y a d'autres qui soyent de ce mesme genre.\Nam de reducenda, id vera neutiquam honestum esse arbitror. Terent. Quand est de la remener, je pense, etc.\Nam de te quidem satis scio, peccando detrimenti nihil fieri potest. Terent. Quant est de toy, ou Au regard de toy.\De lanificio neminem metuo. Plaut. Quant à, etc.\Flebat pater de filii morte. Cic. A cause, Pour la mort de son filz.\Mittere legatos ad Caesarem de pace. Caesar. Pour traicter de la paix.\Adii te heri de filia. Terent. J'allay hier vers toy pour te parler de ta fille.\De regno, De rege sanguinem fundere. Curt. Espandre son sang pour le Roy, Se mettre en peril pour luy.\Non bonus est somnus homini de prandio. Plaut. Incontinent apres le disner.\Totum hominem tibi ita trado, de manu (vt aiunt) in manum tuam istam. Cic. Je m'en dessaisi, et t'en saisi.\Considerate diligenterque nauiges de mense Decembri. Cic. Au mois de Decembre.\De summo loco adolescens. Plaut. De hault lieu, De grand maison.\AEdificare de exemplo alterius. Plaut. A l'exemple d'un autre.\De scripto dicere. Cic. Prononcer par livre, en lisant ce qui est escript.\De caetero. Plin. De caetero, in ventre nihil est. Quant au reste, au demourant.\De caetero vide an verum sit quod dicis. Seneca. Desormais, Doresenavant.\Ibo de_improuiso obuiam. Plaut. A despourveu, Quand ils ne s'en doubteront point, A l'improveu.\- interuenit Homo de_improuiso. Terent. Il survient un homme qu'on ne s'en doubtoit point.\- de_industria Fugiebatis. Plaut. De faict a pensé, De propos deliberé, Tout à esciant.\Paululum interesse censes, ex animo omnia, Vt fert natura, facias, an de_industria? Terent. Pense tu qu'il n'y ait gueres à dire, ou gueres de difference, de faire une chose nayvement, ou par ruze et industrie?\De_integro. Terent. Ratio de_integro ineunda est mihi. De rechef, Tout de nouveau.\De_more. Plin. iunior. Selon la coustume.\De_nihilo irasci. Plaut. Liu. Pour un neant, Sans cause.\Non hoc de_nihilo est, quod Laches nunc me conuentam esse expetit. Terent. Ce n'est point sans cause, Ce n'est pas pour neant. \ De_praefacili. Plaut. Facilement.\Aspice de_procul in conspectum. Plaut. De loing.\De_proximo hic senex. Plaut. Qui demeure ci aupres.\Vna exeuntes hinc video de_proximo. Plaut. D'ici aupres.\De_reliquo, si id quod confido fore, dignum eum tua amicitia cognoueris, peto, etc. Cic. Quant au reste, Au demeurant.\De_repente. Cic. Tu de_repente irrupisses. Incontinent, Subitement, Tout à coup.\De_subito. Plaut. Quid si apud te veniat de_subito prandium. Soubdainement.\De_super. Plin. iunior. Lapidibus et tegulis de_super interfectus. D'enhault, Qui cheurent d'enhault.\De_tempore. Hirtius, Ipse de_tempore coenauit. D'heure, De bonne heure.\De_transuerso. Cic. Ecce autem de_transuerso Lucius Caesar, vt veniam ad se rogat, in nemus. A la traverse. -
14 aliquid
ălĭquis, aliquid; plur. aliqui [alius-quis; cf. Engl. somebody or other, i.e. some person [p. 88] obscurely definite; v. Donald. Varron. p. 381 sq.] ( fem. sing. rare).— Abl. sing. aliqui, Plaut. Aul. prol. 24; id. Most. 1, 3, 18; id. Truc. 5, 30; id. Ep. 3, 1, 11.— Nom. plur. masc. aliques, analog. to ques, from quis, acc. to Charis. 133 P.— Nom. and acc. plur. neutr. always aliqua.— Dat. and abl. plur. aliquibus, Liv. 22, 13;I.oftener aliquis,
id. 26, 15; 26, 49; Plin. 2, 48, 49, § 131.—Alicui, trisyl., Tib. 4, 7, 2), indef. subst. pron., some one, somebody, any one, something, any thing; in the plur., some, any (it is opp. to an object definitely stated, as also to no one, nobody. The synn. quis, aliquis, and quidam designate an object not denoted by name; quis leaves not merely the object, but even its existence, uncertain; hence it is in gen. used in hypoth. and conditional clauses, with si, nisi, num, quando, etc.; aliquis, more emphatic than quis, denotes that an object really exists, but that nothing depends upon its individuality; no matter of what kind it may be, if it is only one, and not none; quidam indicates not merely the existence and individuality of an object, but that it is known as such to the speaker, only that he is not acquainted with, or does not choose to give, its more definite relations; cf. Jahn ad Ov. M. 9, 429, and the works there referred to).A.. In gen.: nam nos decebat domum Lugere, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (as a transl. of Eurip. Cresph. Fragm. ap. Stob. tit. 121, Edei gar hêmas sullogon poioumenous Ton phunta thrênein, etc.):B.Ervom tibi aliquis cras faxo ad villam adferat,
Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 65:hunc videre saepe optabamus diem, Quom ex te esset aliquis, qui te appellaret patrem,
Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 30:utinam modo agatur aliquid!
Cic. Att. 3, 15:aliquid facerem, ut hoc ne facerem,
I would do any thing, that I might not do this, Ter. And. 1, 5, 24; so id. Phorm. 5, 6, 34:fit plerumque, ut ei, qui boni quid volunt adferre, adfingant aliquid, quo faciant id, quod nuntiant, laetius,
Cic. Phil. 1, 3:quamvis enim demersae sunt leges alicujus opibus,
id. Off. 2, 7, 24:quod motum adfert alicui,
to any thing, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 53: te donabo ego hodie aliqui (abl.), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 18; so, gaudere aliqui me volo, in some thing (or some way), id. Truc. 5, 30:nec manibus humanis (Deus) colitur indigens aliquo,
any thing, Vulg. Act. 17, 25:non est tua ulla culpa, si te aliqui timuerunt,
Cic. Marcell. 6 fin.:in narratione, ut aliqua neganda, aliqua adicienda, sic aliqua etiam tacenda,
Quint. 4, 2, 67:sunt aliqua epistulis eorum inserta,
Tac. Or. 25:laudare aliqua, ferre quaedam,
Quint. 2, 4, 12:quaero, utrum aliquid actum an nihil arbitremur,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15: quisquis est ille, si modo est aliquis (i. e. if only there is some one), qui, etc., id. Brut. 73, 255; so id. Ac. 2, 43, 132, etc.; Liv. 2, 10 fin.:nunc aliquis dicat mihi: Quid tu?
Hor. S. 1, 3, 19; so id. ib. 2, 2, 94; 2, 2, 105; 2, 3, 6; 2, 5, 42, and id. Ep. 2, 1, 206.— Fem. sing.:Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus Veloces superāsse viros,
Ov. M. 10, 560:si qua tibi spon sa est, haec tibi sive aliqua est,
id. ib. 4, 326.—Not unfrequently with adj.:C.Novo modo novum aliquid inventum adferre addecet,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 156:novum aliquid advertere,
Tac. A. 15, 30:judicabant esse profecto aliquid naturā pulchrum atque praeclarum,
Cic. Sen. 13, 43:mihi ne diuturnum quidem quidquam videtur, in quo est aliquid extremum,
in which there is any end, id. ib. 19, 69; cf. id. ib. 2, 5:dignum aliquid elaborare,
Tac. Or. 9:aliquid improvisum, inopinatum,
Liv. 27, 43:aliquid exquisitum,
Tac. A. 12, 66:aliquid illustre et dignum memoriā,
id. Or. 20:sanctum aliquid et providum,
id. G. 8:insigne aliquid faceret eis,
Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 31:aliquid magnum,
Verg. A. 9, 186, and 10, 547:quos magnum aliquid deceret, Juv 8, 263: dicens se esse aliquem magnum,
Vulg. Act. 8, 9:majus aliquid et excelsius,
Tac. A. 3, 53:melius aliquid,
Vulg. Heb. 11, 40:deterius aliquid,
ib. Joan. 5, 14.—Also with unus, to designate a single, but not otherwise defined person:ad unum aliquem confugiebant,
Cic. Off. 2, 12, 41 (cf. id. ib. 2, 12, 42: id si ab uno justo et bono viro consequebantur, erant, etc.): sin aliquis excellit unus e multis;effert se, si unum aliquid adfert,
id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; so id. Verr. 2, 2, 52:aliquis unus pluresve divitiores,
id. Rep. 1, 32: nam si natura non prohibet et esse virum bonum et esse dicendiperitum:cur non aliquis etiam unus utrumque consequi possit? cur autem non se quisque speret fore illum aliquem?
that one, Quint. 12, 1, 31; 1, 12, 2.—Partitive with ex, de, or the gen.:D.aliquis ex vobis,
Cic. Cael. 3:aliquem ex privatis audimus jussisse, etc.,
Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 22:ex principibus aliquis,
Vulg. Joan. 7, 48; ib. Rom. 11, 14:aliquis de tribus nobis,
Cic. Leg. 3, 7:si de iis aliqui remanserint,
Vulg. Lev. 26, 39; ib. 2 Reg. 9, 3:suorum aliquis,
Cic. Phil. 8, 9:exspectabam aliquem meorum,
id. Att. 13, 15: succurret fortasse alicui vestrūm, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1:trium rerum aliqua consequemur,
Cic. Part. 8, 30:impetratum ab aliquo vestrūm,
Tac. Or. 15; so Vulg. 1 Cor. 6, 1:principum aliquis,
Tac. G. 13:cum popularibus et aliquibus principum,
Liv. 22, 13:horum aliquid,
Vulg. Lev. 15, 10.—Aliquid (nom. or acc.), with gen. of a subst. or of a neutr, adj. of second decl. instead of the adj. aliqui, aliqua, aliquod, agreeing with such word:E.aliquid pugnae,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 54:vestimenti aridi,
id. Rud. 2, 6, 16:consilii,
id. Ep. 2, 2, 71:monstri,
Ter. And. 1, 5, 15:scitamentorum,
Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 26:armorum,
Tac. G. 18:boni,
Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 5; Ter. And. 2, 3, 24; Vulg. Joan. 1, 46:aequi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 33:mali,
Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 60; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 29:novi,
Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1, 1; Vulg. Act. 17, 21:potionis,
Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 22:virium,
Cic. Fam. 11, 18:falsi,
id. Caecin. 1, 3:vacui,
Quint. 10, 6, 1:mdefensi,
Liv. 26, 5 al. —Very rarely in abl.:aliquo loci morari,
Dig. 18, 7, 1.—Frequently, esp. in Cic., with the kindred words aliquando, alicubi, aliquo, etc., for the sake of emphasis or rhetorical fulness, Cic. Planc. 14, 35:F.asperius locutus est aliquid aliquando,
id. ib. 13, 33; id. Sest. 6, 14; id. Mil. 25, 67:non despero fore aliquem aliquando,
id. de Or. 1, 21, 95; id. Rep. 1, 9; id. Or. 42, 144; id. Fam. 7, 11 med.: evadat saltem aliquid aliquā, quod conatus sum, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1; App. Mag. p. 295, 17 al.—In conditional clauses with si, nisi, quod si, etc.:G.si aliquid de summā gravitate Pompeius dimisisset,
Cic. Phil. 13, 1: si aliquid ( really any thing, in contrast with nihil) dandum est voluptati, id. Sen. 13, 44: quod si non possimus aliquid proficere suadendo, Lucc. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 5:Quod si de iis aliqui remanserint,
Vulg. Lev. 26, 39:si quando aliquid tamquam aliqua fabella narratur,
Cic. de Or. 2, 59:si quis vobis aliquid dixerit,
Vulg. Matt. 21, 3; ib. Luc. 19, 8:si aliquem, cui narraret, habuisset,
Cic. Lael. 23, 88:si aliquem nacti sumus, cujus, etc.,
id. ib. 8, 27:cui (puero) si aliquid erit,
id. Fam. 14, 1:nisi alicui suorum negotium daret,
Nep. Dion, 8, 2:si aliquid eorum praestitit,
Liv. 24, 8.—In negative clauses with ne:H.Pompeius cavebat omnia, no aliquid vos timeretis,
Cic. Mil. 24, 66:ne, si tibi sit pecunia adempta, aliquis dicat,
Nep. Epam. 4, 4:ne alicui dicerent,
Vulg. Luc. 8, 46.—In Plaut. and Ter. collect. with a plur. verb (cf. tis, Matth. Gr. 673): aperite atque Erotium aliquis evocate, open, some one (of you), etc., Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 111 (cf. id. Ps. 5, 1, 37:I.me adesse quis nuntiate): aperite aliquis actutum ostium,
Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 27.—In Verg. once with the second person sing.:► In the following passages, with the critical authority added, aliquis seems to stand for the adj.Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos,
Verg. A. 4, 625.aliqui, as nemo sometimes stands with a noun for the adj. nullus:II.nos quibus est alicunde aliquis objectus labos,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6 Fleck.;Et ait idem, ut aliquis metus adjunctus sit ad gratiam,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24 B. and K.:num igitur aliquis dolor in corpore est?
id. Tusc. 1, 34, 82 iid.:ut aliquis nos deus tolleret,
id. Am. 23, 87 iid.: sin casus aliquis interpellārit, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8 iid.:si deus aliquis vitas repente mutāsset,
Tac. Or. 41 Halm:sic est aliquis oratorum campus,
id. ib. 39 id.:sive sensus aliquis argutā sententiā effulsit,
id. ib. 20 id. A similar use of aliquid for the adj. aliquod was asserted to exist in Plaut. by Lind. ad Cic. Inv. 2, 6, 399, and this is repeated by Klotz, s. v. aliquis, but Lemaire's Index gives only one instance: ni occupo aliquid mihi consilium, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 94, where Brix now reads aliquod.Esp.A.With alius, aliud: some or any other, something else, any thing else:B.dum aliud aliquid flagitii conficiat,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 5:potest fieri, ut alius aliquis Cornelius sit,
Cic. Fragm. B. VI. 21:ut per alium aliquem te ipsum ulciscantur,
id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 22:non est in alio aliquo salus,
Vulg. Act. 4, 12:aliquid aliud promittere,
Petr. 10, 5 al. —And with the idea of alius implied, in opp. to a definite object or objects, some or any other, something else, any thing else: aut ture aut vino aut aliqui (abl.) semper supplicat, Plaut. Aul prol. 24:C.vellem aliquid Antonio praeter illum libellum libuisset scribere,
Cic. Brut. 44:aut ipse occurrebat aut aliquos mittebat,
Liv. 34, 38:cum seditionem sedare vellem, cum frumentum imperarem..., cum aliquid denique rei publicae causā gererem,
Cic. Verr. 1, 27, 20: commentabar declamitans saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie id. Brut. 90, 310; Vell. 1, 17; Tac. A. 1, 4: (Tiberius) neque spectacula omnino edidit;et iis, quae ab aliquo ederentur, rarissime interfuit,
Suet. Tib. 47.—In a pregn. signif. as in Gr. tis, ti, something considerable, important, or great = aliquid magnum (v. supra. I. B.; cf. in Gr. hoti oiesthe ti poiein ouden poiountes, Plat. Symp. 1, 4):1.non omnia in ducis, aliquid et in militum manu esse,
Liv. 45, 36.—Hence, esp.,Esse aliquem or aliquid, to be somebody or something, i. e to be of some worth, value, or note, to be esteemed:2.atque fac, ut me velis esse aliquem,
Cic. Att. 3, 15 fin.:aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris dignum, si vis esse aliquis,
Juv. 1, 73:an quidquam stultius quam quos singulos contemnas, eos esse aliquid putare universos?
Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:exstitit Theodas dicens se esse aliquem,
Vulg. Act. 5, 36: si umquam in dicendo fuimus aliquid. Cic. Att. 4, 2:ego quoque aliquid sum,
id. Fam. 6, 18:qui videbantur aliquid esse,
Vulg. Gal. 2, 2; 2, 6: quod te cum Culeone scribis de privilegio locutum, est aliquid ( it is something, it is no trifle):sed, etc.,
Cic. Att. 3, 15: est istuc quidem aliquid, sed, etc.; id. Sen. 3; id. Cat. 1, 4:est aliquid nupsisse Jovi,
Ov. F. 6, 27:Est aliquid de tot Graiorum milibus unum A Diomede legi,
id. M. 13, 241:est aliquid unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae,
Juv. 3, 230:omina sunt aliquid,
Ov. Am. 1, 12, 3; so,crimen abesse,
id. F. 1, 484:Sunt aliquid Manes,
Prop. 5, 7, 1:est aliquid eloquentia,
Quint. 1, prooem. fin. —Dicere aliquid, like legein ti, to say something worth the while:3.diceres aliquid et magno quidem philosopho dignum,
Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 35; cf. Herm. ad Vig. 731; 755; so, assequi aliquid, to effect something considerable:Etenim si nunc aliquid assequi se putant, qui ostium Ponti viderunt,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 45.—In colloquial lang.: fiet aliquid, something important or great, will, may come to pass or happen: Ch. Invenietur, exquiretur, aliquid fiet. Eu. Enicas. Jam istuc aliquid fiet, metuo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 25:D.mane, aliquid fiet, ne abi,
id. Truc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14.—Ad aliquid esse, in gram. lang., to refer or relate to something else, e. g. pater, filius, frater, etc. (v. ad):E.idem cum interrogantur, cur aper apri et pater patris faciat, il lud nomen positum, hoc ad aliquid esse contendunt,
Quint. 1, 6, 13 Halm.—Atque aliquis, poet. in imitation of hôide de tis, and thus some one (Hom. II. 7, 178;F.7, 201 al.): Atque aliquis, magno quaerens exempla timori, Non alios, inquit, motus, etc.,
Luc. 2, 67 Web.; Stat. Th. 1, 171; Claud. Eutr. 1, 350.—It is sometimes omitted before qui, esp. in the phrase est qui, sunt qui:G.praemittebatque de stipulatoribus suis, qui perscrutarentur, etc.,
Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25:sunt quibus in satirā videar nimis acer,
Hor. S. 2, 1, 1:sunt qui adiciant his evidentiam, quae, etc.,
Quint. 4, 2, § 63 (cf. on the contr. § 69: verum in his quoque confessionibus est aliquid. quod ex invidiā detrahi possit).—Aliquid, like nihil (q. v. I. g), is used of persons:A.Hinc ad Antonium nemo, illinc ad Caesarem cotidie aliquid transfugiebat,
Vell. 2, 84, 2 (cf. in Gr. tôn d allôn ou per ti... oute theôn out anthrôpôn, Hom. H. Ven. 34 sq. Herm.).— Hence the advv.ălĭquid (prop. acc. denoting in what respect, with a verb or [p. 89] adj.; so in Gr. ti), somewhat, in something, in some degree, to some extent:B.illud vereor, ne tibi illum succensere aliquid suspicere,
Cic. Deiot. 13, 35:si in me aliquid offendistis,
at all, in any respect, id. Mil. 36, 99:quos tamen aliquid usus ac disciplina sublevarent,
somewhat, Caes. B. G. 1, 40:Philippi regnum officere aliquid videtur libertati vestrae,
Liv. 31, 29:Nos aliquid Rutulos contra juvisse nefandum est?
Verg. A. 10, 84:neque circumcisio aliquid valet,
Vulg. Gal. 6, 15:perlucens jam aliquid, incerta tamen lux,
Liv. 41, 2:aliquid et spatio fessus,
Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 259; Ellendt ad Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35.—ălĭquō (from aliquoi, old dat. denoting direction whither; cf.: eo, quo, alio, etc.).1.Somewhither (arch.), to some place, somewhere; in the comic poets sometimes also with a subst. added, which designates the place more definitely:2.ut aliquo ex urbe amoveas,
Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 94:aliquo abicere,
Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 26:concludere,
id. Eun. 4, 3, 25 (cf. id. Ad. 4, 2, 13, in cellam aliquam concludere):ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,
Cic. Cat. 1, 17:demigrandum potius aliquo est quam, etc.,
id. Dom. 100:aliquem aliquo impellere,
id. Vatin. 15:aliquo exire,
id. Q. Fr. 3, 1:aliquo advenire vel sicunde discedere,
Suet. Calig. 4; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 51; id. Men. 5, 1, 3:in angulum Aliquo abire,
Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 10; 3, 3, 6:aliquem rus aliquo educere,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3.—With a gen., like quo, ubi, etc.: migrandum Rhodum aut aliquo terrarum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 5.—With the idea of alio implied, = alio quo, somewhere else, to some other place (cf. aliquis, II. B.):C.dum proficiscor aliquo,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:at certe ut hinc concedas aliquo,
id. Heaut. 3, 3, 11:si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui, ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,
Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 265.—ălĭquam, adv. (prop. acc. fem.), = in aliquam partem, in some degree; only in connection with diu, multus, and plures.1.Aliquam diu (B. and K.), or together aliquamdiu (Madv., Halm, Dietsch), awhile, for a while, for some time; also pregn., for some considerable time (most freq. in the histt., esp. Cæs. and Livy; also in Cic.).a.Absol.:b.ut non aliquando condemnatum esse Oppianicum, sed aliquam diu incolumem fuisse miremini,
Cic. Clu. 9, 25:Aristum Athenis audivit aliquam diu,
id. Ac. 1, 3, 12:in vincula conjectus est, in quibus aliquamdiu fuit,
Nep. Con. 5, 3;id. Dion, 3, 1: quā in parte rex affuit, ibi aliquamdiu certatum,
Sall. J. 74, 3; Liv. 3, 70, 4.—Often followed by deinde, postea, postremo, tandem, etc.:* c.pugnatur aliquamdiu pari contentione: deinde, etc., Auct. B. G. 8, 19, 3: cunctati aliquamdiu sunt: pudor deinde commovit aciem,
Liv. 2, 10, 9; so id. 1, 16:quos aliquamdiu inermos timuissent, hos postea armatos superāssent,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 6:controversia aliquamdiu fuit: postremo, etc.,
Liv. 3, 32, 7; 25, 15, 14; 45, 6, 6:ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit: tandem, etc.,
Liv. 29, 2, 15; 34, 28, 4 and 11; Suet. Ner. 6.—With donec, as a more definite limitation of time, some time... until, a considerable time... until:d.exanimis aliquamdiu jacuit, donec, etc.,
Suet. Caes. 82. —Meton., for a long distance; most freq. of rivers:2.Rhodanus aliquamdiu Gallias dirimit,
Mel. 2, 5, 5; so id. 3, 5, 6; 3, 9, 8 al.—Of the Corycian cave in Cilicia:deinde aliquamdiu perspicuus, mox, et quo magis subitur, obscurior,
Mel. 1, 13.—Aliquam multi, or aliquammulti, somewhat many, considerable in number or quantity (mostly post-class.):D.sunt vestrūm aliquam multi, qui L. Pisonem cognōrunt,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56 B. and K.: aliquammultos non comparuisse, * Gell. 3, 10, 17 Hertz:aliquammultis diebus decumbo,
App. Mag. p. 320, 10.—Also adv.: aliquam multum, something much, to a considerable distance, considerably:sed haec defensio, ut dixi, aliquam multum a me remota est,
App. Mag. p. 276, 7 dub.—And comp. * aliquam plures, somewhat more, considerably more:aliquam pluribus et amarioribus perorantem,
Tert. Apol. 12 dub.; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 243.—ălĭquā, adv. (prop. abl. fem.).1.Somewhere (like mod. Engl. somewhere for somewhither):2.antevenito aliquā aliquos,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 66: aliquā evolare si posset, * Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67:si quā evasissent aliquā,
Liv. 26, 27, 12.—Transf. to action, in some way or other, in some manner, = aliquo modo:E.aliquid aliquā sentire,
Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 62: evadere aliquā, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1:aliquid aliquā resciscere,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 19, and 4, 1, 19: aliquā nocere, * Verg. E. 3, 15:aliquā obesse,
App. Mag. p. 295, 17.—ălĭqui, adv. (prop. abl. = aliquo modo), in some way, somehow:► The forms aliqua, neutr.Quamquam ego tibi videor stultus, gaudere me aliqui volo,
Plaut. Truc. 5, 30 (but in this and like cases, aliqui may be treated as the abl. subst.; cf. supra, I. A.); cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 242.plur., and aliquam, acc., and aliquā, abl., used adverbially, may also be referred to the adj. ălĭqui, ălĭqua, ălĭquod. -
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ălĭquis, aliquid; plur. aliqui [alius-quis; cf. Engl. somebody or other, i.e. some person [p. 88] obscurely definite; v. Donald. Varron. p. 381 sq.] ( fem. sing. rare).— Abl. sing. aliqui, Plaut. Aul. prol. 24; id. Most. 1, 3, 18; id. Truc. 5, 30; id. Ep. 3, 1, 11.— Nom. plur. masc. aliques, analog. to ques, from quis, acc. to Charis. 133 P.— Nom. and acc. plur. neutr. always aliqua.— Dat. and abl. plur. aliquibus, Liv. 22, 13;I.oftener aliquis,
id. 26, 15; 26, 49; Plin. 2, 48, 49, § 131.—Alicui, trisyl., Tib. 4, 7, 2), indef. subst. pron., some one, somebody, any one, something, any thing; in the plur., some, any (it is opp. to an object definitely stated, as also to no one, nobody. The synn. quis, aliquis, and quidam designate an object not denoted by name; quis leaves not merely the object, but even its existence, uncertain; hence it is in gen. used in hypoth. and conditional clauses, with si, nisi, num, quando, etc.; aliquis, more emphatic than quis, denotes that an object really exists, but that nothing depends upon its individuality; no matter of what kind it may be, if it is only one, and not none; quidam indicates not merely the existence and individuality of an object, but that it is known as such to the speaker, only that he is not acquainted with, or does not choose to give, its more definite relations; cf. Jahn ad Ov. M. 9, 429, and the works there referred to).A.. In gen.: nam nos decebat domum Lugere, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (as a transl. of Eurip. Cresph. Fragm. ap. Stob. tit. 121, Edei gar hêmas sullogon poioumenous Ton phunta thrênein, etc.):B.Ervom tibi aliquis cras faxo ad villam adferat,
Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 65:hunc videre saepe optabamus diem, Quom ex te esset aliquis, qui te appellaret patrem,
Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 30:utinam modo agatur aliquid!
Cic. Att. 3, 15:aliquid facerem, ut hoc ne facerem,
I would do any thing, that I might not do this, Ter. And. 1, 5, 24; so id. Phorm. 5, 6, 34:fit plerumque, ut ei, qui boni quid volunt adferre, adfingant aliquid, quo faciant id, quod nuntiant, laetius,
Cic. Phil. 1, 3:quamvis enim demersae sunt leges alicujus opibus,
id. Off. 2, 7, 24:quod motum adfert alicui,
to any thing, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 53: te donabo ego hodie aliqui (abl.), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 18; so, gaudere aliqui me volo, in some thing (or some way), id. Truc. 5, 30:nec manibus humanis (Deus) colitur indigens aliquo,
any thing, Vulg. Act. 17, 25:non est tua ulla culpa, si te aliqui timuerunt,
Cic. Marcell. 6 fin.:in narratione, ut aliqua neganda, aliqua adicienda, sic aliqua etiam tacenda,
Quint. 4, 2, 67:sunt aliqua epistulis eorum inserta,
Tac. Or. 25:laudare aliqua, ferre quaedam,
Quint. 2, 4, 12:quaero, utrum aliquid actum an nihil arbitremur,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15: quisquis est ille, si modo est aliquis (i. e. if only there is some one), qui, etc., id. Brut. 73, 255; so id. Ac. 2, 43, 132, etc.; Liv. 2, 10 fin.:nunc aliquis dicat mihi: Quid tu?
Hor. S. 1, 3, 19; so id. ib. 2, 2, 94; 2, 2, 105; 2, 3, 6; 2, 5, 42, and id. Ep. 2, 1, 206.— Fem. sing.:Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus Veloces superāsse viros,
Ov. M. 10, 560:si qua tibi spon sa est, haec tibi sive aliqua est,
id. ib. 4, 326.—Not unfrequently with adj.:C.Novo modo novum aliquid inventum adferre addecet,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 156:novum aliquid advertere,
Tac. A. 15, 30:judicabant esse profecto aliquid naturā pulchrum atque praeclarum,
Cic. Sen. 13, 43:mihi ne diuturnum quidem quidquam videtur, in quo est aliquid extremum,
in which there is any end, id. ib. 19, 69; cf. id. ib. 2, 5:dignum aliquid elaborare,
Tac. Or. 9:aliquid improvisum, inopinatum,
Liv. 27, 43:aliquid exquisitum,
Tac. A. 12, 66:aliquid illustre et dignum memoriā,
id. Or. 20:sanctum aliquid et providum,
id. G. 8:insigne aliquid faceret eis,
Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 31:aliquid magnum,
Verg. A. 9, 186, and 10, 547:quos magnum aliquid deceret, Juv 8, 263: dicens se esse aliquem magnum,
Vulg. Act. 8, 9:majus aliquid et excelsius,
Tac. A. 3, 53:melius aliquid,
Vulg. Heb. 11, 40:deterius aliquid,
ib. Joan. 5, 14.—Also with unus, to designate a single, but not otherwise defined person:ad unum aliquem confugiebant,
Cic. Off. 2, 12, 41 (cf. id. ib. 2, 12, 42: id si ab uno justo et bono viro consequebantur, erant, etc.): sin aliquis excellit unus e multis;effert se, si unum aliquid adfert,
id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; so id. Verr. 2, 2, 52:aliquis unus pluresve divitiores,
id. Rep. 1, 32: nam si natura non prohibet et esse virum bonum et esse dicendiperitum:cur non aliquis etiam unus utrumque consequi possit? cur autem non se quisque speret fore illum aliquem?
that one, Quint. 12, 1, 31; 1, 12, 2.—Partitive with ex, de, or the gen.:D.aliquis ex vobis,
Cic. Cael. 3:aliquem ex privatis audimus jussisse, etc.,
Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 22:ex principibus aliquis,
Vulg. Joan. 7, 48; ib. Rom. 11, 14:aliquis de tribus nobis,
Cic. Leg. 3, 7:si de iis aliqui remanserint,
Vulg. Lev. 26, 39; ib. 2 Reg. 9, 3:suorum aliquis,
Cic. Phil. 8, 9:exspectabam aliquem meorum,
id. Att. 13, 15: succurret fortasse alicui vestrūm, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1:trium rerum aliqua consequemur,
Cic. Part. 8, 30:impetratum ab aliquo vestrūm,
Tac. Or. 15; so Vulg. 1 Cor. 6, 1:principum aliquis,
Tac. G. 13:cum popularibus et aliquibus principum,
Liv. 22, 13:horum aliquid,
Vulg. Lev. 15, 10.—Aliquid (nom. or acc.), with gen. of a subst. or of a neutr, adj. of second decl. instead of the adj. aliqui, aliqua, aliquod, agreeing with such word:E.aliquid pugnae,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 54:vestimenti aridi,
id. Rud. 2, 6, 16:consilii,
id. Ep. 2, 2, 71:monstri,
Ter. And. 1, 5, 15:scitamentorum,
Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 26:armorum,
Tac. G. 18:boni,
Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 5; Ter. And. 2, 3, 24; Vulg. Joan. 1, 46:aequi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 33:mali,
Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 60; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 29:novi,
Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1, 1; Vulg. Act. 17, 21:potionis,
Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 22:virium,
Cic. Fam. 11, 18:falsi,
id. Caecin. 1, 3:vacui,
Quint. 10, 6, 1:mdefensi,
Liv. 26, 5 al. —Very rarely in abl.:aliquo loci morari,
Dig. 18, 7, 1.—Frequently, esp. in Cic., with the kindred words aliquando, alicubi, aliquo, etc., for the sake of emphasis or rhetorical fulness, Cic. Planc. 14, 35:F.asperius locutus est aliquid aliquando,
id. ib. 13, 33; id. Sest. 6, 14; id. Mil. 25, 67:non despero fore aliquem aliquando,
id. de Or. 1, 21, 95; id. Rep. 1, 9; id. Or. 42, 144; id. Fam. 7, 11 med.: evadat saltem aliquid aliquā, quod conatus sum, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1; App. Mag. p. 295, 17 al.—In conditional clauses with si, nisi, quod si, etc.:G.si aliquid de summā gravitate Pompeius dimisisset,
Cic. Phil. 13, 1: si aliquid ( really any thing, in contrast with nihil) dandum est voluptati, id. Sen. 13, 44: quod si non possimus aliquid proficere suadendo, Lucc. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 5:Quod si de iis aliqui remanserint,
Vulg. Lev. 26, 39:si quando aliquid tamquam aliqua fabella narratur,
Cic. de Or. 2, 59:si quis vobis aliquid dixerit,
Vulg. Matt. 21, 3; ib. Luc. 19, 8:si aliquem, cui narraret, habuisset,
Cic. Lael. 23, 88:si aliquem nacti sumus, cujus, etc.,
id. ib. 8, 27:cui (puero) si aliquid erit,
id. Fam. 14, 1:nisi alicui suorum negotium daret,
Nep. Dion, 8, 2:si aliquid eorum praestitit,
Liv. 24, 8.—In negative clauses with ne:H.Pompeius cavebat omnia, no aliquid vos timeretis,
Cic. Mil. 24, 66:ne, si tibi sit pecunia adempta, aliquis dicat,
Nep. Epam. 4, 4:ne alicui dicerent,
Vulg. Luc. 8, 46.—In Plaut. and Ter. collect. with a plur. verb (cf. tis, Matth. Gr. 673): aperite atque Erotium aliquis evocate, open, some one (of you), etc., Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 111 (cf. id. Ps. 5, 1, 37:I.me adesse quis nuntiate): aperite aliquis actutum ostium,
Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 27.—In Verg. once with the second person sing.:► In the following passages, with the critical authority added, aliquis seems to stand for the adj.Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos,
Verg. A. 4, 625.aliqui, as nemo sometimes stands with a noun for the adj. nullus:II.nos quibus est alicunde aliquis objectus labos,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6 Fleck.;Et ait idem, ut aliquis metus adjunctus sit ad gratiam,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24 B. and K.:num igitur aliquis dolor in corpore est?
id. Tusc. 1, 34, 82 iid.:ut aliquis nos deus tolleret,
id. Am. 23, 87 iid.: sin casus aliquis interpellārit, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8 iid.:si deus aliquis vitas repente mutāsset,
Tac. Or. 41 Halm:sic est aliquis oratorum campus,
id. ib. 39 id.:sive sensus aliquis argutā sententiā effulsit,
id. ib. 20 id. A similar use of aliquid for the adj. aliquod was asserted to exist in Plaut. by Lind. ad Cic. Inv. 2, 6, 399, and this is repeated by Klotz, s. v. aliquis, but Lemaire's Index gives only one instance: ni occupo aliquid mihi consilium, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 94, where Brix now reads aliquod.Esp.A.With alius, aliud: some or any other, something else, any thing else:B.dum aliud aliquid flagitii conficiat,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 5:potest fieri, ut alius aliquis Cornelius sit,
Cic. Fragm. B. VI. 21:ut per alium aliquem te ipsum ulciscantur,
id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 22:non est in alio aliquo salus,
Vulg. Act. 4, 12:aliquid aliud promittere,
Petr. 10, 5 al. —And with the idea of alius implied, in opp. to a definite object or objects, some or any other, something else, any thing else: aut ture aut vino aut aliqui (abl.) semper supplicat, Plaut. Aul prol. 24:C.vellem aliquid Antonio praeter illum libellum libuisset scribere,
Cic. Brut. 44:aut ipse occurrebat aut aliquos mittebat,
Liv. 34, 38:cum seditionem sedare vellem, cum frumentum imperarem..., cum aliquid denique rei publicae causā gererem,
Cic. Verr. 1, 27, 20: commentabar declamitans saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie id. Brut. 90, 310; Vell. 1, 17; Tac. A. 1, 4: (Tiberius) neque spectacula omnino edidit;et iis, quae ab aliquo ederentur, rarissime interfuit,
Suet. Tib. 47.—In a pregn. signif. as in Gr. tis, ti, something considerable, important, or great = aliquid magnum (v. supra. I. B.; cf. in Gr. hoti oiesthe ti poiein ouden poiountes, Plat. Symp. 1, 4):1.non omnia in ducis, aliquid et in militum manu esse,
Liv. 45, 36.—Hence, esp.,Esse aliquem or aliquid, to be somebody or something, i. e to be of some worth, value, or note, to be esteemed:2.atque fac, ut me velis esse aliquem,
Cic. Att. 3, 15 fin.:aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris dignum, si vis esse aliquis,
Juv. 1, 73:an quidquam stultius quam quos singulos contemnas, eos esse aliquid putare universos?
Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:exstitit Theodas dicens se esse aliquem,
Vulg. Act. 5, 36: si umquam in dicendo fuimus aliquid. Cic. Att. 4, 2:ego quoque aliquid sum,
id. Fam. 6, 18:qui videbantur aliquid esse,
Vulg. Gal. 2, 2; 2, 6: quod te cum Culeone scribis de privilegio locutum, est aliquid ( it is something, it is no trifle):sed, etc.,
Cic. Att. 3, 15: est istuc quidem aliquid, sed, etc.; id. Sen. 3; id. Cat. 1, 4:est aliquid nupsisse Jovi,
Ov. F. 6, 27:Est aliquid de tot Graiorum milibus unum A Diomede legi,
id. M. 13, 241:est aliquid unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae,
Juv. 3, 230:omina sunt aliquid,
Ov. Am. 1, 12, 3; so,crimen abesse,
id. F. 1, 484:Sunt aliquid Manes,
Prop. 5, 7, 1:est aliquid eloquentia,
Quint. 1, prooem. fin. —Dicere aliquid, like legein ti, to say something worth the while:3.diceres aliquid et magno quidem philosopho dignum,
Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 35; cf. Herm. ad Vig. 731; 755; so, assequi aliquid, to effect something considerable:Etenim si nunc aliquid assequi se putant, qui ostium Ponti viderunt,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 45.—In colloquial lang.: fiet aliquid, something important or great, will, may come to pass or happen: Ch. Invenietur, exquiretur, aliquid fiet. Eu. Enicas. Jam istuc aliquid fiet, metuo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 25:D.mane, aliquid fiet, ne abi,
id. Truc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14.—Ad aliquid esse, in gram. lang., to refer or relate to something else, e. g. pater, filius, frater, etc. (v. ad):E.idem cum interrogantur, cur aper apri et pater patris faciat, il lud nomen positum, hoc ad aliquid esse contendunt,
Quint. 1, 6, 13 Halm.—Atque aliquis, poet. in imitation of hôide de tis, and thus some one (Hom. II. 7, 178;F.7, 201 al.): Atque aliquis, magno quaerens exempla timori, Non alios, inquit, motus, etc.,
Luc. 2, 67 Web.; Stat. Th. 1, 171; Claud. Eutr. 1, 350.—It is sometimes omitted before qui, esp. in the phrase est qui, sunt qui:G.praemittebatque de stipulatoribus suis, qui perscrutarentur, etc.,
Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25:sunt quibus in satirā videar nimis acer,
Hor. S. 2, 1, 1:sunt qui adiciant his evidentiam, quae, etc.,
Quint. 4, 2, § 63 (cf. on the contr. § 69: verum in his quoque confessionibus est aliquid. quod ex invidiā detrahi possit).—Aliquid, like nihil (q. v. I. g), is used of persons:A.Hinc ad Antonium nemo, illinc ad Caesarem cotidie aliquid transfugiebat,
Vell. 2, 84, 2 (cf. in Gr. tôn d allôn ou per ti... oute theôn out anthrôpôn, Hom. H. Ven. 34 sq. Herm.).— Hence the advv.ălĭquid (prop. acc. denoting in what respect, with a verb or [p. 89] adj.; so in Gr. ti), somewhat, in something, in some degree, to some extent:B.illud vereor, ne tibi illum succensere aliquid suspicere,
Cic. Deiot. 13, 35:si in me aliquid offendistis,
at all, in any respect, id. Mil. 36, 99:quos tamen aliquid usus ac disciplina sublevarent,
somewhat, Caes. B. G. 1, 40:Philippi regnum officere aliquid videtur libertati vestrae,
Liv. 31, 29:Nos aliquid Rutulos contra juvisse nefandum est?
Verg. A. 10, 84:neque circumcisio aliquid valet,
Vulg. Gal. 6, 15:perlucens jam aliquid, incerta tamen lux,
Liv. 41, 2:aliquid et spatio fessus,
Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 259; Ellendt ad Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35.—ălĭquō (from aliquoi, old dat. denoting direction whither; cf.: eo, quo, alio, etc.).1.Somewhither (arch.), to some place, somewhere; in the comic poets sometimes also with a subst. added, which designates the place more definitely:2.ut aliquo ex urbe amoveas,
Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 94:aliquo abicere,
Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 26:concludere,
id. Eun. 4, 3, 25 (cf. id. Ad. 4, 2, 13, in cellam aliquam concludere):ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,
Cic. Cat. 1, 17:demigrandum potius aliquo est quam, etc.,
id. Dom. 100:aliquem aliquo impellere,
id. Vatin. 15:aliquo exire,
id. Q. Fr. 3, 1:aliquo advenire vel sicunde discedere,
Suet. Calig. 4; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 51; id. Men. 5, 1, 3:in angulum Aliquo abire,
Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 10; 3, 3, 6:aliquem rus aliquo educere,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3.—With a gen., like quo, ubi, etc.: migrandum Rhodum aut aliquo terrarum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 5.—With the idea of alio implied, = alio quo, somewhere else, to some other place (cf. aliquis, II. B.):C.dum proficiscor aliquo,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:at certe ut hinc concedas aliquo,
id. Heaut. 3, 3, 11:si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui, ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,
Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 265.—ălĭquam, adv. (prop. acc. fem.), = in aliquam partem, in some degree; only in connection with diu, multus, and plures.1.Aliquam diu (B. and K.), or together aliquamdiu (Madv., Halm, Dietsch), awhile, for a while, for some time; also pregn., for some considerable time (most freq. in the histt., esp. Cæs. and Livy; also in Cic.).a.Absol.:b.ut non aliquando condemnatum esse Oppianicum, sed aliquam diu incolumem fuisse miremini,
Cic. Clu. 9, 25:Aristum Athenis audivit aliquam diu,
id. Ac. 1, 3, 12:in vincula conjectus est, in quibus aliquamdiu fuit,
Nep. Con. 5, 3;id. Dion, 3, 1: quā in parte rex affuit, ibi aliquamdiu certatum,
Sall. J. 74, 3; Liv. 3, 70, 4.—Often followed by deinde, postea, postremo, tandem, etc.:* c.pugnatur aliquamdiu pari contentione: deinde, etc., Auct. B. G. 8, 19, 3: cunctati aliquamdiu sunt: pudor deinde commovit aciem,
Liv. 2, 10, 9; so id. 1, 16:quos aliquamdiu inermos timuissent, hos postea armatos superāssent,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 6:controversia aliquamdiu fuit: postremo, etc.,
Liv. 3, 32, 7; 25, 15, 14; 45, 6, 6:ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit: tandem, etc.,
Liv. 29, 2, 15; 34, 28, 4 and 11; Suet. Ner. 6.—With donec, as a more definite limitation of time, some time... until, a considerable time... until:d.exanimis aliquamdiu jacuit, donec, etc.,
Suet. Caes. 82. —Meton., for a long distance; most freq. of rivers:2.Rhodanus aliquamdiu Gallias dirimit,
Mel. 2, 5, 5; so id. 3, 5, 6; 3, 9, 8 al.—Of the Corycian cave in Cilicia:deinde aliquamdiu perspicuus, mox, et quo magis subitur, obscurior,
Mel. 1, 13.—Aliquam multi, or aliquammulti, somewhat many, considerable in number or quantity (mostly post-class.):D.sunt vestrūm aliquam multi, qui L. Pisonem cognōrunt,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56 B. and K.: aliquammultos non comparuisse, * Gell. 3, 10, 17 Hertz:aliquammultis diebus decumbo,
App. Mag. p. 320, 10.—Also adv.: aliquam multum, something much, to a considerable distance, considerably:sed haec defensio, ut dixi, aliquam multum a me remota est,
App. Mag. p. 276, 7 dub.—And comp. * aliquam plures, somewhat more, considerably more:aliquam pluribus et amarioribus perorantem,
Tert. Apol. 12 dub.; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 243.—ălĭquā, adv. (prop. abl. fem.).1.Somewhere (like mod. Engl. somewhere for somewhither):2.antevenito aliquā aliquos,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 66: aliquā evolare si posset, * Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67:si quā evasissent aliquā,
Liv. 26, 27, 12.—Transf. to action, in some way or other, in some manner, = aliquo modo:E.aliquid aliquā sentire,
Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 62: evadere aliquā, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1:aliquid aliquā resciscere,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 19, and 4, 1, 19: aliquā nocere, * Verg. E. 3, 15:aliquā obesse,
App. Mag. p. 295, 17.—ălĭqui, adv. (prop. abl. = aliquo modo), in some way, somehow:► The forms aliqua, neutr.Quamquam ego tibi videor stultus, gaudere me aliqui volo,
Plaut. Truc. 5, 30 (but in this and like cases, aliqui may be treated as the abl. subst.; cf. supra, I. A.); cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 242.plur., and aliquam, acc., and aliquā, abl., used adverbially, may also be referred to the adj. ălĭqui, ălĭqua, ălĭquod. -
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ălĭquis, aliquid; plur. aliqui [alius-quis; cf. Engl. somebody or other, i.e. some person [p. 88] obscurely definite; v. Donald. Varron. p. 381 sq.] ( fem. sing. rare).— Abl. sing. aliqui, Plaut. Aul. prol. 24; id. Most. 1, 3, 18; id. Truc. 5, 30; id. Ep. 3, 1, 11.— Nom. plur. masc. aliques, analog. to ques, from quis, acc. to Charis. 133 P.— Nom. and acc. plur. neutr. always aliqua.— Dat. and abl. plur. aliquibus, Liv. 22, 13;I.oftener aliquis,
id. 26, 15; 26, 49; Plin. 2, 48, 49, § 131.—Alicui, trisyl., Tib. 4, 7, 2), indef. subst. pron., some one, somebody, any one, something, any thing; in the plur., some, any (it is opp. to an object definitely stated, as also to no one, nobody. The synn. quis, aliquis, and quidam designate an object not denoted by name; quis leaves not merely the object, but even its existence, uncertain; hence it is in gen. used in hypoth. and conditional clauses, with si, nisi, num, quando, etc.; aliquis, more emphatic than quis, denotes that an object really exists, but that nothing depends upon its individuality; no matter of what kind it may be, if it is only one, and not none; quidam indicates not merely the existence and individuality of an object, but that it is known as such to the speaker, only that he is not acquainted with, or does not choose to give, its more definite relations; cf. Jahn ad Ov. M. 9, 429, and the works there referred to).A.. In gen.: nam nos decebat domum Lugere, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (as a transl. of Eurip. Cresph. Fragm. ap. Stob. tit. 121, Edei gar hêmas sullogon poioumenous Ton phunta thrênein, etc.):B.Ervom tibi aliquis cras faxo ad villam adferat,
Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 65:hunc videre saepe optabamus diem, Quom ex te esset aliquis, qui te appellaret patrem,
Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 30:utinam modo agatur aliquid!
Cic. Att. 3, 15:aliquid facerem, ut hoc ne facerem,
I would do any thing, that I might not do this, Ter. And. 1, 5, 24; so id. Phorm. 5, 6, 34:fit plerumque, ut ei, qui boni quid volunt adferre, adfingant aliquid, quo faciant id, quod nuntiant, laetius,
Cic. Phil. 1, 3:quamvis enim demersae sunt leges alicujus opibus,
id. Off. 2, 7, 24:quod motum adfert alicui,
to any thing, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 53: te donabo ego hodie aliqui (abl.), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 18; so, gaudere aliqui me volo, in some thing (or some way), id. Truc. 5, 30:nec manibus humanis (Deus) colitur indigens aliquo,
any thing, Vulg. Act. 17, 25:non est tua ulla culpa, si te aliqui timuerunt,
Cic. Marcell. 6 fin.:in narratione, ut aliqua neganda, aliqua adicienda, sic aliqua etiam tacenda,
Quint. 4, 2, 67:sunt aliqua epistulis eorum inserta,
Tac. Or. 25:laudare aliqua, ferre quaedam,
Quint. 2, 4, 12:quaero, utrum aliquid actum an nihil arbitremur,
Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15: quisquis est ille, si modo est aliquis (i. e. if only there is some one), qui, etc., id. Brut. 73, 255; so id. Ac. 2, 43, 132, etc.; Liv. 2, 10 fin.:nunc aliquis dicat mihi: Quid tu?
Hor. S. 1, 3, 19; so id. ib. 2, 2, 94; 2, 2, 105; 2, 3, 6; 2, 5, 42, and id. Ep. 2, 1, 206.— Fem. sing.:Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus Veloces superāsse viros,
Ov. M. 10, 560:si qua tibi spon sa est, haec tibi sive aliqua est,
id. ib. 4, 326.—Not unfrequently with adj.:C.Novo modo novum aliquid inventum adferre addecet,
Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 156:novum aliquid advertere,
Tac. A. 15, 30:judicabant esse profecto aliquid naturā pulchrum atque praeclarum,
Cic. Sen. 13, 43:mihi ne diuturnum quidem quidquam videtur, in quo est aliquid extremum,
in which there is any end, id. ib. 19, 69; cf. id. ib. 2, 5:dignum aliquid elaborare,
Tac. Or. 9:aliquid improvisum, inopinatum,
Liv. 27, 43:aliquid exquisitum,
Tac. A. 12, 66:aliquid illustre et dignum memoriā,
id. Or. 20:sanctum aliquid et providum,
id. G. 8:insigne aliquid faceret eis,
Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 31:aliquid magnum,
Verg. A. 9, 186, and 10, 547:quos magnum aliquid deceret, Juv 8, 263: dicens se esse aliquem magnum,
Vulg. Act. 8, 9:majus aliquid et excelsius,
Tac. A. 3, 53:melius aliquid,
Vulg. Heb. 11, 40:deterius aliquid,
ib. Joan. 5, 14.—Also with unus, to designate a single, but not otherwise defined person:ad unum aliquem confugiebant,
Cic. Off. 2, 12, 41 (cf. id. ib. 2, 12, 42: id si ab uno justo et bono viro consequebantur, erant, etc.): sin aliquis excellit unus e multis;effert se, si unum aliquid adfert,
id. de Or. 3, 33, 136; so id. Verr. 2, 2, 52:aliquis unus pluresve divitiores,
id. Rep. 1, 32: nam si natura non prohibet et esse virum bonum et esse dicendiperitum:cur non aliquis etiam unus utrumque consequi possit? cur autem non se quisque speret fore illum aliquem?
that one, Quint. 12, 1, 31; 1, 12, 2.—Partitive with ex, de, or the gen.:D.aliquis ex vobis,
Cic. Cael. 3:aliquem ex privatis audimus jussisse, etc.,
Plin. 13, 3, 4, § 22:ex principibus aliquis,
Vulg. Joan. 7, 48; ib. Rom. 11, 14:aliquis de tribus nobis,
Cic. Leg. 3, 7:si de iis aliqui remanserint,
Vulg. Lev. 26, 39; ib. 2 Reg. 9, 3:suorum aliquis,
Cic. Phil. 8, 9:exspectabam aliquem meorum,
id. Att. 13, 15: succurret fortasse alicui vestrūm, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1:trium rerum aliqua consequemur,
Cic. Part. 8, 30:impetratum ab aliquo vestrūm,
Tac. Or. 15; so Vulg. 1 Cor. 6, 1:principum aliquis,
Tac. G. 13:cum popularibus et aliquibus principum,
Liv. 22, 13:horum aliquid,
Vulg. Lev. 15, 10.—Aliquid (nom. or acc.), with gen. of a subst. or of a neutr, adj. of second decl. instead of the adj. aliqui, aliqua, aliquod, agreeing with such word:E.aliquid pugnae,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 54:vestimenti aridi,
id. Rud. 2, 6, 16:consilii,
id. Ep. 2, 2, 71:monstri,
Ter. And. 1, 5, 15:scitamentorum,
Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 26:armorum,
Tac. G. 18:boni,
Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 5; Ter. And. 2, 3, 24; Vulg. Joan. 1, 46:aequi,
Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 33:mali,
Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 60; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 29:novi,
Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 1, 1; Vulg. Act. 17, 21:potionis,
Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 22:virium,
Cic. Fam. 11, 18:falsi,
id. Caecin. 1, 3:vacui,
Quint. 10, 6, 1:mdefensi,
Liv. 26, 5 al. —Very rarely in abl.:aliquo loci morari,
Dig. 18, 7, 1.—Frequently, esp. in Cic., with the kindred words aliquando, alicubi, aliquo, etc., for the sake of emphasis or rhetorical fulness, Cic. Planc. 14, 35:F.asperius locutus est aliquid aliquando,
id. ib. 13, 33; id. Sest. 6, 14; id. Mil. 25, 67:non despero fore aliquem aliquando,
id. de Or. 1, 21, 95; id. Rep. 1, 9; id. Or. 42, 144; id. Fam. 7, 11 med.: evadat saltem aliquid aliquā, quod conatus sum, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1; App. Mag. p. 295, 17 al.—In conditional clauses with si, nisi, quod si, etc.:G.si aliquid de summā gravitate Pompeius dimisisset,
Cic. Phil. 13, 1: si aliquid ( really any thing, in contrast with nihil) dandum est voluptati, id. Sen. 13, 44: quod si non possimus aliquid proficere suadendo, Lucc. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 5:Quod si de iis aliqui remanserint,
Vulg. Lev. 26, 39:si quando aliquid tamquam aliqua fabella narratur,
Cic. de Or. 2, 59:si quis vobis aliquid dixerit,
Vulg. Matt. 21, 3; ib. Luc. 19, 8:si aliquem, cui narraret, habuisset,
Cic. Lael. 23, 88:si aliquem nacti sumus, cujus, etc.,
id. ib. 8, 27:cui (puero) si aliquid erit,
id. Fam. 14, 1:nisi alicui suorum negotium daret,
Nep. Dion, 8, 2:si aliquid eorum praestitit,
Liv. 24, 8.—In negative clauses with ne:H.Pompeius cavebat omnia, no aliquid vos timeretis,
Cic. Mil. 24, 66:ne, si tibi sit pecunia adempta, aliquis dicat,
Nep. Epam. 4, 4:ne alicui dicerent,
Vulg. Luc. 8, 46.—In Plaut. and Ter. collect. with a plur. verb (cf. tis, Matth. Gr. 673): aperite atque Erotium aliquis evocate, open, some one (of you), etc., Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 111 (cf. id. Ps. 5, 1, 37:I.me adesse quis nuntiate): aperite aliquis actutum ostium,
Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 27.—In Verg. once with the second person sing.:► In the following passages, with the critical authority added, aliquis seems to stand for the adj.Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos,
Verg. A. 4, 625.aliqui, as nemo sometimes stands with a noun for the adj. nullus:II.nos quibus est alicunde aliquis objectus labos,
Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 6 Fleck.;Et ait idem, ut aliquis metus adjunctus sit ad gratiam,
Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24 B. and K.:num igitur aliquis dolor in corpore est?
id. Tusc. 1, 34, 82 iid.:ut aliquis nos deus tolleret,
id. Am. 23, 87 iid.: sin casus aliquis interpellārit, Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 8 iid.:si deus aliquis vitas repente mutāsset,
Tac. Or. 41 Halm:sic est aliquis oratorum campus,
id. ib. 39 id.:sive sensus aliquis argutā sententiā effulsit,
id. ib. 20 id. A similar use of aliquid for the adj. aliquod was asserted to exist in Plaut. by Lind. ad Cic. Inv. 2, 6, 399, and this is repeated by Klotz, s. v. aliquis, but Lemaire's Index gives only one instance: ni occupo aliquid mihi consilium, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 94, where Brix now reads aliquod.Esp.A.With alius, aliud: some or any other, something else, any thing else:B.dum aliud aliquid flagitii conficiat,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 5:potest fieri, ut alius aliquis Cornelius sit,
Cic. Fragm. B. VI. 21:ut per alium aliquem te ipsum ulciscantur,
id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 22:non est in alio aliquo salus,
Vulg. Act. 4, 12:aliquid aliud promittere,
Petr. 10, 5 al. —And with the idea of alius implied, in opp. to a definite object or objects, some or any other, something else, any thing else: aut ture aut vino aut aliqui (abl.) semper supplicat, Plaut. Aul prol. 24:C.vellem aliquid Antonio praeter illum libellum libuisset scribere,
Cic. Brut. 44:aut ipse occurrebat aut aliquos mittebat,
Liv. 34, 38:cum seditionem sedare vellem, cum frumentum imperarem..., cum aliquid denique rei publicae causā gererem,
Cic. Verr. 1, 27, 20: commentabar declamitans saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie id. Brut. 90, 310; Vell. 1, 17; Tac. A. 1, 4: (Tiberius) neque spectacula omnino edidit;et iis, quae ab aliquo ederentur, rarissime interfuit,
Suet. Tib. 47.—In a pregn. signif. as in Gr. tis, ti, something considerable, important, or great = aliquid magnum (v. supra. I. B.; cf. in Gr. hoti oiesthe ti poiein ouden poiountes, Plat. Symp. 1, 4):1.non omnia in ducis, aliquid et in militum manu esse,
Liv. 45, 36.—Hence, esp.,Esse aliquem or aliquid, to be somebody or something, i. e to be of some worth, value, or note, to be esteemed:2.atque fac, ut me velis esse aliquem,
Cic. Att. 3, 15 fin.:aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris dignum, si vis esse aliquis,
Juv. 1, 73:an quidquam stultius quam quos singulos contemnas, eos esse aliquid putare universos?
Cic. Tusc. 5, 36, 104:exstitit Theodas dicens se esse aliquem,
Vulg. Act. 5, 36: si umquam in dicendo fuimus aliquid. Cic. Att. 4, 2:ego quoque aliquid sum,
id. Fam. 6, 18:qui videbantur aliquid esse,
Vulg. Gal. 2, 2; 2, 6: quod te cum Culeone scribis de privilegio locutum, est aliquid ( it is something, it is no trifle):sed, etc.,
Cic. Att. 3, 15: est istuc quidem aliquid, sed, etc.; id. Sen. 3; id. Cat. 1, 4:est aliquid nupsisse Jovi,
Ov. F. 6, 27:Est aliquid de tot Graiorum milibus unum A Diomede legi,
id. M. 13, 241:est aliquid unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae,
Juv. 3, 230:omina sunt aliquid,
Ov. Am. 1, 12, 3; so,crimen abesse,
id. F. 1, 484:Sunt aliquid Manes,
Prop. 5, 7, 1:est aliquid eloquentia,
Quint. 1, prooem. fin. —Dicere aliquid, like legein ti, to say something worth the while:3.diceres aliquid et magno quidem philosopho dignum,
Cic. Tusc. 3, 16, 35; cf. Herm. ad Vig. 731; 755; so, assequi aliquid, to effect something considerable:Etenim si nunc aliquid assequi se putant, qui ostium Ponti viderunt,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 20, 45.—In colloquial lang.: fiet aliquid, something important or great, will, may come to pass or happen: Ch. Invenietur, exquiretur, aliquid fiet. Eu. Enicas. Jam istuc aliquid fiet, metuo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 25:D.mane, aliquid fiet, ne abi,
id. Truc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 1, 14.—Ad aliquid esse, in gram. lang., to refer or relate to something else, e. g. pater, filius, frater, etc. (v. ad):E.idem cum interrogantur, cur aper apri et pater patris faciat, il lud nomen positum, hoc ad aliquid esse contendunt,
Quint. 1, 6, 13 Halm.—Atque aliquis, poet. in imitation of hôide de tis, and thus some one (Hom. II. 7, 178;F.7, 201 al.): Atque aliquis, magno quaerens exempla timori, Non alios, inquit, motus, etc.,
Luc. 2, 67 Web.; Stat. Th. 1, 171; Claud. Eutr. 1, 350.—It is sometimes omitted before qui, esp. in the phrase est qui, sunt qui:G.praemittebatque de stipulatoribus suis, qui perscrutarentur, etc.,
Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25:sunt quibus in satirā videar nimis acer,
Hor. S. 2, 1, 1:sunt qui adiciant his evidentiam, quae, etc.,
Quint. 4, 2, § 63 (cf. on the contr. § 69: verum in his quoque confessionibus est aliquid. quod ex invidiā detrahi possit).—Aliquid, like nihil (q. v. I. g), is used of persons:A.Hinc ad Antonium nemo, illinc ad Caesarem cotidie aliquid transfugiebat,
Vell. 2, 84, 2 (cf. in Gr. tôn d allôn ou per ti... oute theôn out anthrôpôn, Hom. H. Ven. 34 sq. Herm.).— Hence the advv.ălĭquid (prop. acc. denoting in what respect, with a verb or [p. 89] adj.; so in Gr. ti), somewhat, in something, in some degree, to some extent:B.illud vereor, ne tibi illum succensere aliquid suspicere,
Cic. Deiot. 13, 35:si in me aliquid offendistis,
at all, in any respect, id. Mil. 36, 99:quos tamen aliquid usus ac disciplina sublevarent,
somewhat, Caes. B. G. 1, 40:Philippi regnum officere aliquid videtur libertati vestrae,
Liv. 31, 29:Nos aliquid Rutulos contra juvisse nefandum est?
Verg. A. 10, 84:neque circumcisio aliquid valet,
Vulg. Gal. 6, 15:perlucens jam aliquid, incerta tamen lux,
Liv. 41, 2:aliquid et spatio fessus,
Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 259; Ellendt ad Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 35.—ălĭquō (from aliquoi, old dat. denoting direction whither; cf.: eo, quo, alio, etc.).1.Somewhither (arch.), to some place, somewhere; in the comic poets sometimes also with a subst. added, which designates the place more definitely:2.ut aliquo ex urbe amoveas,
Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 94:aliquo abicere,
Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 26:concludere,
id. Eun. 4, 3, 25 (cf. id. Ad. 4, 2, 13, in cellam aliquam concludere):ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,
Cic. Cat. 1, 17:demigrandum potius aliquo est quam, etc.,
id. Dom. 100:aliquem aliquo impellere,
id. Vatin. 15:aliquo exire,
id. Q. Fr. 3, 1:aliquo advenire vel sicunde discedere,
Suet. Calig. 4; Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 51; id. Men. 5, 1, 3:in angulum Aliquo abire,
Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 10; 3, 3, 6:aliquem rus aliquo educere,
Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3.—With a gen., like quo, ubi, etc.: migrandum Rhodum aut aliquo terrarum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 1, 5.—With the idea of alio implied, = alio quo, somewhere else, to some other place (cf. aliquis, II. B.):C.dum proficiscor aliquo,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 28:at certe ut hinc concedas aliquo,
id. Heaut. 3, 3, 11:si te parentes timerent atque odissent tui, ab eorum oculis aliquo concederes,
Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 265.—ălĭquam, adv. (prop. acc. fem.), = in aliquam partem, in some degree; only in connection with diu, multus, and plures.1.Aliquam diu (B. and K.), or together aliquamdiu (Madv., Halm, Dietsch), awhile, for a while, for some time; also pregn., for some considerable time (most freq. in the histt., esp. Cæs. and Livy; also in Cic.).a.Absol.:b.ut non aliquando condemnatum esse Oppianicum, sed aliquam diu incolumem fuisse miremini,
Cic. Clu. 9, 25:Aristum Athenis audivit aliquam diu,
id. Ac. 1, 3, 12:in vincula conjectus est, in quibus aliquamdiu fuit,
Nep. Con. 5, 3;id. Dion, 3, 1: quā in parte rex affuit, ibi aliquamdiu certatum,
Sall. J. 74, 3; Liv. 3, 70, 4.—Often followed by deinde, postea, postremo, tandem, etc.:* c.pugnatur aliquamdiu pari contentione: deinde, etc., Auct. B. G. 8, 19, 3: cunctati aliquamdiu sunt: pudor deinde commovit aciem,
Liv. 2, 10, 9; so id. 1, 16:quos aliquamdiu inermos timuissent, hos postea armatos superāssent,
Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 6:controversia aliquamdiu fuit: postremo, etc.,
Liv. 3, 32, 7; 25, 15, 14; 45, 6, 6:ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit: tandem, etc.,
Liv. 29, 2, 15; 34, 28, 4 and 11; Suet. Ner. 6.—With donec, as a more definite limitation of time, some time... until, a considerable time... until:d.exanimis aliquamdiu jacuit, donec, etc.,
Suet. Caes. 82. —Meton., for a long distance; most freq. of rivers:2.Rhodanus aliquamdiu Gallias dirimit,
Mel. 2, 5, 5; so id. 3, 5, 6; 3, 9, 8 al.—Of the Corycian cave in Cilicia:deinde aliquamdiu perspicuus, mox, et quo magis subitur, obscurior,
Mel. 1, 13.—Aliquam multi, or aliquammulti, somewhat many, considerable in number or quantity (mostly post-class.):D.sunt vestrūm aliquam multi, qui L. Pisonem cognōrunt,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56 B. and K.: aliquammultos non comparuisse, * Gell. 3, 10, 17 Hertz:aliquammultis diebus decumbo,
App. Mag. p. 320, 10.—Also adv.: aliquam multum, something much, to a considerable distance, considerably:sed haec defensio, ut dixi, aliquam multum a me remota est,
App. Mag. p. 276, 7 dub.—And comp. * aliquam plures, somewhat more, considerably more:aliquam pluribus et amarioribus perorantem,
Tert. Apol. 12 dub.; cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 243.—ălĭquā, adv. (prop. abl. fem.).1.Somewhere (like mod. Engl. somewhere for somewhither):2.antevenito aliquā aliquos,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 66: aliquā evolare si posset, * Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67:si quā evasissent aliquā,
Liv. 26, 27, 12.—Transf. to action, in some way or other, in some manner, = aliquo modo:E.aliquid aliquā sentire,
Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 62: evadere aliquā, Lucil. ap. Non. 293, 1:aliquid aliquā resciscere,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 19, and 4, 1, 19: aliquā nocere, * Verg. E. 3, 15:aliquā obesse,
App. Mag. p. 295, 17.—ălĭqui, adv. (prop. abl. = aliquo modo), in some way, somehow:► The forms aliqua, neutr.Quamquam ego tibi videor stultus, gaudere me aliqui volo,
Plaut. Truc. 5, 30 (but in this and like cases, aliqui may be treated as the abl. subst.; cf. supra, I. A.); cf. Hand, Turs. I. p. 242.plur., and aliquam, acc., and aliquā, abl., used adverbially, may also be referred to the adj. ălĭqui, ălĭqua, ălĭquod. -
17 aliquis
aliquis aliqua, aliquid, nom. and acc plur. neut. aliqua, dat. aliquīs or aliquibus, pron indef., some one, any one, anybody, one or another; neut., something, anything. I. As pron. subst: Quom ex te esset aliquis, qui te appellaret patrem, T.: aliquid facerem, ut hoc ne facerem, T.: demersae sunt leges alicuius opibus: si te aliqui timuerunt: unusquisque aliquid fraudans se, L.: nunc aliquis dicat mihi: Quid tu? H.: Si qua tibi sponsa est... Haec tibi sive aliqua est, O.: insigne aliquid facere, T.: esse aliquid naturā pulchrum: in quo est aliquid extremum, any end.—With unus, some one man, some one: ad unum aliquem confugiebant: sin aliquis excellit unus e multis.—Partit.: aliquis ex barbatis illis: suorum aliquis: principum aliquis, Ta.: cum aliquibus principum, L.: aliquid credito esse causae, be sure there is some reason, T.: falsi: virium. — With aliquando, emphasizing the indefiniteness: quia dico aliquid aliquando: si qui fecerint aliquid aliquando.—In conditional clauses: si aliquid dandum est voluptati: si aliquem nacti sumus, cuius, etc.: nisi alicui suorum negotium daret, N.—In negative clauses: ne aliquid vos timeretis: ne aliquis dicat, etc., N.—Collect. with a plur verb.: aperite aliquis actutum ostium, T.—With alius, aliud, some other, any other, something else, anything else: dum aliud aliquid flagiti conficiat, T.: per alium aliquem te ipsum ulcisci.—Praegn., somebody, something, considerable, important: atque fac, ut me velis esse aliquem, to be somebody: si vis esse aliquis, Iu.: Meas esse aliquid putare nugas, Ct.: Est aliquid... A Diomede legi, O.: est aliquid Unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae, Iu.: dicere aliquid, to say something worth the while: adsequi aliquid, to accomplish something.—So, in colloq. lang.: fiet aliquid, something (great) will happen, T.—One and another, a few, some: dixerat aliquis leniorem sententiam, ut primo Marcellus, Cs.: dicet aliquis, noli, etc. — II. adj. (cf. aliqui): nos quibus est alicunde aliquis obiectus labos, T.: ut aliquis metus adiunctis sit ad gratiam.* * *aliquis (aliqua), aliquid (quod) (P N aliqua) PRONanyone, anybody, anything; someone (unspecified); some/few; some (particular) thing -
18 de
I dē praep. cum abl.1) сdecedere de foro Nep — уйти с форума (т. е. оставить политическую деятельность)de viā lassus Pl (fessus Cs) — усталый (устав) с дорогиpendĕre de aliquā re O etc. — свисать с чего-л., т. е. висеть на чём-л.2) изaliquis de ponte J — кто-л. из стоящих на мосту (т. е. нищих)signum factum de marmore O — статуя, сделанная из мрамора3) от, уemere de aliquo Cato — покупать у кого-л.quaerere (audire) de aliquo C — спрашивать у кого-л., слышать от кого-л.4) оloqui de re aliqua C — говорить о чём-л.5) по поводу, по вопросу о, касательноRegulus de captivis commutandis Romam missus est C — Регул был послан в Рим по вопросу об обмене пленнымиde cetero Sen, QC и de ceteris Sl — что касается остального6) согласно, поeā de re, eā de causa C, Cs etc. — по этой причине7) в, во время, в течениеII dē-приставка, выражающая преим.2) устранение, лишение ( dearmare)3) движение вниз ( decidere)4) недостаток, отсутствие (deesse, dementia)5) завершение действия ( debellare) -
19 homunculus
ī m. (=homullus) ирон.простой (посредственный) человечишко (ut h. unus e multis C) -
20 pro [2]
2. prō (altind. prá, griech. πρό), vor, für, I) Adv. in den Verbndgg. proquam, prout, w. s. – II) Praep. m. Abl. (spätlat. m. Acc., Corp. inscr. Lat. 6, 81 u. 224 461), A) eig., vom Raume, von der Richtung nach vorwärts od. vornhin, u. zwar: 1) über etwas hinaus, so daß man sich außerhalb eines Gegenstandes, ihm gegenüber, vor ihm befindet, vor, im Angesichte: a) auf die Frage wo? sedens pro aede, Cic.: copias pro oppido collocaverat, Caes.: legiones pro castris constituit, Caes.: stabat pro litore classis, vor, an dem Ufer, Tac. – b) auf die Frage wohin? Caesar pro castris suas copias produxit, vor... hinaus, Caes. b. G. 1, 48, 3. – 2) vorn in, vorn an, vorn auf, wobei man an den Begriff des Hervortretens zu denken hat, so daß der Sprechende oder Handelnde den Gegenstand, auf dem er sich befindet, im Rücken hat, pro suggestu, auf der Tribüne, in der Versammlung, Caes.: pro tribunali, Cic.: pro contione, vor, in der Versammlung, Liv.: u. Tac. (s. Heräus Tac. hist. 4, 24, 16): pro rostris, Suet. – B) übtr., zur Bezeichnung: 1) des Schutzes, Vorteils, für, zum Vorteile, zugunsten (Ggstz. contra alqm), dimicare pro legibus, pro libertate, pro patria, Cic.: hoc non modo non pro me, sed contra me est potius, zu meinem Vorteile, Cic.: sive illud pro plebe sive contra plebem est, Liv.: orationes et pro se multae et pro aliis et in alios, Liv.: metuo enim, ne scelerate dicam in te, quod pro Milone dicam pie, Cic. – 2) der Stellvertretung, Verwechselung, Gleichgeltung usw.: a) statt, anstatt, pro consule, Cic.: pro collegio, im Namen des K., Liv.: pro magistro esse od. operas dare, Vizedirektor sein, Cic.: alci pro quaestore esse, bei jmd. die Quästorstelle vertreten, Liv.: pro patre esse alci, Vaterstelle vertreten, Ter.: in vulgus pro cunctatore segnem, pro cauto timidum compellabat, Liv.: pro vallo carros obicere, Caes. – b) wie, so gut wie, als, pro victis (abierunt), wie Besiegte, Liv.: Cato est mihi unus pro multis milibus, Cic.: nonnulli ab insciis pro noxiis concīduntur, als Schuldige, Nep.: pro certo scire, für gewiß, Liv.: so auch pro certo polliceri, Cic.: pro infecto habere, für ungeschehen halten, Cic.: pro damnato esse, so gut wie verurteilt, Cic.: hunc amavi pro meo, wie meinen eigenen Sohn, Ter.: transire pro transfuga, als Überläufer, Liv.: stare pro contione, als V., Tac.: dicere pro testimonio, im Zeugenverhöre aussagen, Cic.: pro amicis, als Freunde, freundschaftlich, Liv.: se pro cive gerere, sich als Bürger betragen, d.i. die Pflichten u. Rechte eines Bürgers ausüben, Cic. – dah. auch pro eo, ac si etc., gleich als wenn usw., Cic. – 3) der Vergeltung od. eines Ausgleiches, für, zum Lohne (als Belohnung) für etw., pro vectura solvere, Cic.: pro tribus corporibus XXX milia talentûm auri accipere, Curt.: (alci) pro meritis gratiam referre, Caes. u. Nep.: pro vita hominis hominis vitam reddere, Caes.: pro Caesaris in se meritis ei plurimum debere, Caes.: petere honorem pro flagitio, Plaut.: pro tali facinore stirpem ac nomen civitatis tollere, Caes.: alqm pro scelere suo ulcisci (bestrafen), Caes. – 4) eines Verhältnisses, nach, nach Beschaffenheit, im Verhältnis zu, vermöge, für od. gemäß, infolge, auch im Vergleiche zu (griech. ἀντί), da gebraucht, wo der Wert zweier Dinge gegeneinander gehalten wird, duo talenta pro re nostra ego esse decrevi satis, im V. zu meinem Vermögen, Ter.: pro multitudine hominum et pro gloria belli atque fortitudinis, im V. zu ihrer Bevölkerung und für ihren Kriegsruhm und ihre Tapferkeit, Caes.: sunt impii cives, pro caritate rei publicae nimium multi, pro multitudine bene sentientium admodum pauci, Cic.: proelium atrocius quam pro numero pugnantium fuit, Liv.: hoc tibi pro servitio debeo, infolge des Skl., Ter.: u. so sedulo moneo, quae possum pro mea sapientia, Ter.: latius quam pro copiis, Liv.: pro dignitate populi Romani, Liv.: pro patriae caritate, Nep.: agere pro viribus, Cic.: pro virili parte, Cic.: pro portione, Liv.: pro tempore et pro re, nach Zeit und Umständen, Caes.: pro tempore, Liv.: pro mea parte, für meinen Teil, Cic.: dah. pro se quisque, jeder für sich, nach Maßgabe seiner Kräfte, Cic. u.a.: pro eo, vermöge dessen, nach dem, nach Be schaffenheit dessen, mit folg. ac od. atque ( wie) od. quam, quantum, wie, pro eo ac debui, nach dem wie usw., nach meiner Pflicht, Sulpic. in Cic. ep.: pro eo, quanti te facio, nach dem wie ich dich schätze, vermöge meiner großen Achtung vor dir, Cic.: pro eo est atque etc., ist ebenso gut wie usw., ICt.: ferner pro eo quod, weil demnach, Cic.: dagegen auch pro eo habeamus, halten es dafür, Cic.: ferner pro eo ut = prout, je nachdem wie, Cic. Verr. 3, 126: pro imperio, gebieterisch, auf gebieterische Art, Ter.: dah. auch pro tua prudentia, deiner Klugheit gemäß, nach deiner Klugheit, Liv.: pro tuo amore, Liv. – 5) der Veranlassung, Bewirkung durch etwas, durch, fieri pro tribuno aedilem, Liv.: ut pro suffragio renuntiaretur, Cic.: pro praede litis vindiciarum cum satis accepisset, Cic. – / In Zusammensetzungen ist das lateinische pro gew. lang, zuw. aber kurz (z.B. prŏfanus), das griechische pro (πρό) dagegen gew. kurz, zuw. aber lang (z.B. prōlogus).
См. также в других словарях:
Unus pro multis — (lat.), einer für viele … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Unus pro multis — (lat.), einer für viele … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
unus pro multis — unus pro mụl|tis [lat.] (bildungsspr.): einer für viele … Universal-Lexikon
unus pro multis — unus pro mul|tis [ ...ti:s] <lat. ; »einer für viele«> einer für alle … Das große Fremdwörterbuch
Unus pro multis. — См. Десятая вина виновата … Большой толково-фразеологический словарь Михельсона (оригинальная орфография)
unus — (izg. ȗnus) br. DEFINICIJA jedan SINTAGMA unus pro multis (izg. unus prȏ mȕltis) jedan za mnoge; unus pro omnibus et omne pro uno (izg. unus prȏ ȍmnibus ȅt ȍmnes prȏ ȗno) jedan za sve i svi za jednoga ETIMOLOGIJA lat … Hrvatski jezični portal
Homunculus unus e multis. — См. Человек дюжинный … Большой толково-фразеологический словарь Михельсона (оригинальная орфография)
человек дюжинный — каких много, из толпы Ср. Вашего брата по тринадцати на дюжину кладут, да и то не берут . Ср. Даром дают, да и с придачей не берут. Ср. Ожогин был человек дюжинный, не дурной, не хороший. Тургенев. Дневник лишнего человека. Ср. Ольга не дюжинная… … Большой толково-фразеологический словарь Михельсона
Человек дюжинный — Человѣкъ дюжинный (какихъ много, изъ толпы). Ср. «Вашего брата по тринадцати на дюжину кладутъ, да и то не берутъ». Ср. Даромъ даютъ, да и съ придачей не берутъ. Ср. Ожогинъ былъ человѣкъ дюжинный, не дурной, не хорошій. Тургеневъ. Дневникъ… … Большой толково-фразеологический словарь Михельсона (оригинальная орфография)
десятая вина виновата — Ср. Полевое Уголовное Уложение 1812 г. янв. 27. Ср. С жребия двадцатого казнить смертию. Указы имп. Анны и Елизаветы 1731 г. и 1752 г. При заговорах по жребию из десяти виновных десятый обвиняется (Ср. римск. decimatio при двадцатом vicesimatio) … Большой толково-фразеологический словарь Михельсона
Десятая вина виновата — Десятая вина виновата. Ср. Полевое Уголовное Уложеніе 1812 г. Янв. 27. Ср. Съ жребія двадцатаго казнить смертно. Указы Имп. Анны и Елизаветы 1731 г. и 1752 г. Поясн. При заговорахъ, по жребію изъ десяти виновныхъ, десятый обвиняется (ср. Римск.… … Большой толково-фразеологический словарь Михельсона (оригинальная орфография)
