up and down

up and down.

dĕorsum (dissyll. per synaeresin, Lucr. 1, 362; 2, 205 al.; cf.

, on the contrary, trisyll.,

id. 2, 202.—Also deorsus, like prorsus, quorsus, rursus, adversus, Cic. N. D. 1, 25, 69; Ap. M. 8, p. 207, 18; id. ib. 9, p. 236, 40; id. de Deo Socr. p. 47, 35; id. Flor. no. 15), adv. [contr. from devorsum, turned down], downwards, katô, opp. to sursum (class.).

To indicate motion: ego me deorsum duco de arbore, Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 8:

deorsum cuncta feruntur (opp. flammae expressae sursum),

Lucr. 2, 202; 205; 6, 335; Cic. N. D. 1, 25, 69; id. Fin. 1, 6, 18; Cels. 5, 26, 31:

reliqui (gestus) ante nos et dextra laevaque et sursum et deorsum aliquid ostendunt,

Quint. 11, 3, 105:

deorsum cadit,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89; cf.: ut isto gladio deorsus ad meum Tlepolemum viam quaeram, i. e. in orcum, Ap. M. 8, p. 207, 18.—

Pleonast. with versus (versum):

ubi deorsum versus ibit,

Cato R. R. 156, 4; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 5; Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1:

ubi eo veneris, clivos deorsum vorsum est,

right down before you, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35.—

With sursum, up and down, anô katô:

ne sursum deorsum cursites,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 47; cf.:

naturis sursum deorsum, ultro citro commeantibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84:

si sanguis sursum deorsumve erupit,

Cels. 2, 8:

cum terra quatitur et sursum ac deorsum movetur,

Sen. Q. N. 6, 21.—

To indicate position, locality, down, below:

qui colunt deorsum, magis aestate laborant: qui sursum, magis hieme... nec non sursum quam deorsum tardius seruntur ac metuntur,

Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3; Plaut. Aul. 2, 7, 5; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 34 sq.; Vulg. Deut. 4, 39 al.—Cf. on this art. Hand, Turs. II. p. 280- 282.

sursum (collat. form sursus, Lucr. 2, 188: susum, Cato, R. R. 157, 15; Aug. Tract. 8, Ep. 1, Joan. 2; Tract. 10, 5; Lact. Mort. Pers. 19, 4:

SVRVORSVM,

Inscr. Grut. 204), adv. [contr. from sub-vorsum], from below, i. e. up, upwards, on high (opp. deorsum; class. and very freq.).

Denoting motion:

cum ex alto puteo sursum ad summum escenderis,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 14:

ascendere in tectum,

id. Am. 3, 4, 25:

illuc,

id. ib. 3, 4, 17:

quid nunc supina sursum in caelum conspicis?

id. Cist. 2, 3, 78:

subducere susum animam,

Cato, R. R. 157, 15; cf.

infra, II.: flammae expressae sursum (opp. deorsum ferri),

Lucr. 2, 204:

adspicit nil sursum,

Mart. 1, 97, 11: sursum ac deorsum diducere, Tubero ap. Gell. 7 (6), 4, 3; Quint. 11, 3, 105.—

Pleon. joined with versus (versum, vorsum), Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 123:

vineam sursum vorsum semper ducito,

Cato, R. R. 33, 1; 32, 1:

sursus enim vorsus gignuntur et augmina sumunt: Et sursum nitidae fruges arbustaque crescunt,

Lucr. 2, 189:

cum gradatim sursum versus reditur,

Cic. Or. 39, 135; so,

sursum versus,

id. Part. Or. 7, 24; Lact. 3, 24, 1; Gell. 2, 1, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 32 fin. —

Sursum deorsum, up and down, to and fro:

sursum deorsum ultro citroque commeantibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84:

ne sursum deorsum cursites,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 47.—Prov.:

omnia ista sursum deorsum fortuna versavit,

topsy-turvy, Sen. Ep. 44, 4; cf.:

quod sursum est, deorsum faciunt,

i. e. they turn every thing upside down, Petr. 65 fin. —

Denoting situation or locality, high up, above (very rare): qui colunt deorsum, magis aestate laborant;

qui sursum, magis hieme... nec non sursum quam deorsum tardius seruntur ac metuntur,

Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3:

praeterito hac rectā plateā sursum,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35:

nares, quod omnis odor ad supera fertur, recte sursum sunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141.

sursum (collat. form sursus, Lucr. 2, 188: susum, Cato, R. R. 157, 15; Aug. Tract. 8, Ep. 1, Joan. 2; Tract. 10, 5; Lact. Mort. Pers. 19, 4:

SVRVORSVM,

Inscr. Grut. 204), adv. [contr. from sub-vorsum], from below, i. e. up, upwards, on high (opp. deorsum; class. and very freq.).

Denoting motion:

cum ex alto puteo sursum ad summum escenderis,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 14:

ascendere in tectum,

id. Am. 3, 4, 25:

illuc,

id. ib. 3, 4, 17:

quid nunc supina sursum in caelum conspicis?

id. Cist. 2, 3, 78:

subducere susum animam,

Cato, R. R. 157, 15; cf.

infra, II.: flammae expressae sursum (opp. deorsum ferri),

Lucr. 2, 204:

adspicit nil sursum,

Mart. 1, 97, 11: sursum ac deorsum diducere, Tubero ap. Gell. 7 (6), 4, 3; Quint. 11, 3, 105.—

Pleon. joined with versus (versum, vorsum), Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 123:

vineam sursum vorsum semper ducito,

Cato, R. R. 33, 1; 32, 1:

sursus enim vorsus gignuntur et augmina sumunt: Et sursum nitidae fruges arbustaque crescunt,

Lucr. 2, 189:

cum gradatim sursum versus reditur,

Cic. Or. 39, 135; so,

sursum versus,

id. Part. Or. 7, 24; Lact. 3, 24, 1; Gell. 2, 1, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 32 fin. —

Sursum deorsum, up and down, to and fro:

sursum deorsum ultro citroque commeantibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84:

ne sursum deorsum cursites,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 47.—Prov.:

omnia ista sursum deorsum fortuna versavit,

topsy-turvy, Sen. Ep. 44, 4; cf.:

quod sursum est, deorsum faciunt,

i. e. they turn every thing upside down, Petr. 65 fin. —

Denoting situation or locality, high up, above (very rare): qui colunt deorsum, magis aestate laborant;

qui sursum, magis hieme... nec non sursum quam deorsum tardius seruntur ac metuntur,

Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3:

praeterito hac rectā plateā sursum,

Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35:

nares, quod omnis odor ad supera fertur, recte sursum sunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141.

erro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [root er-, to go; desiderative forms, erchomai (ersk-); and Lat. (ers-o) erro, to seek to reach; hence, to wander; cf. Germ. irren; Engl. err, etc., v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 546 sq.].

In gen.

Prop., to wander, to wander or stray about, to wander up and down, to rove (freq. and class.; cf.

vagor, palor): propter te errans patria careo,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 16; cf.:

cum vagus et exsul erraret,

Cic. Clu. 62, 175:

ignari hominumque locorumque Erramus vento huc et vastis fluctibus acti,

Verg. A. 1, 333; cf. id. ib. 1, 32; 3, 200; Ov. M. 3, 175; id. F. 2, 335 et saep.:

circum villulas nostras,

Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3:

pios per lucos,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 7:

inter audaces lupus errat agnos,

id. ib. 3, 18, 13; cf.

of beasts,

id. S. 1, 8, 35; id. Epod. 2, 12; Verg. E. 1, 9; 2, 21; 6, 40; id. G. 4, 11 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

male tum Libyae solis erratur in agris,

Verg. G. 3, 249.—Prov.:

in media luce errare,

Sen. Ben. 5, 6, 3.—

Transf., of inanimate things:

(stellae) quae errantes et quasi vagae nominantur,

Cic. Rep. 1, 14;

so of the planets,

id. N. D. 2, 20; 3, 20; id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; Plin. 2, 6, 4, § 12; Vulg. Jud. 13; cf.

of the motion of the stars in gen.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 17:

Cocytus errans flumine languido,

id. C. 2, 14, 18; cf. Verg. G. 3, 14:

errantesque per altum Cyaneae,

Val. Fl. 4, 561:

hic lintres errare videres,

Ov. F. 2, 391:

vidi ad frontem sparsos errare capillos,

i. e. flying about, Prop. 2, 1, 7; cf. id. 2, 22, 9:

errantia lumina,

i. e. moving fitfully about, Prop. 3, 14, 27 (4, 13, 27 M.); cf. Stat. Th. 10, 150:

pulmonibus errat Ignis edax,

i. e. spreads, runs about, Ov. M. 9, 201 et saep.—

Trop., to wander, stray at random: ne vagari et errare cogatur oratio, Cic. de Or., 48, 209; cf.: erraus et vaga sententia (opp. stabilis certaque), id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

eo fit, ut errem et vager latius,

id. Ac. 2, 20, 66:

ut ingredi libere, non ut licenter videatur errare,

id. Or. 23, 77:

errans opinio (opp. stabilis conscientia),

id. Fin. 2, 22, 71:

dubiis affectibus errat,

Ov. M. 8, 473:

ne tuus erret honos,

be in doubt, uncertain, id. F. 1, 468; cf. id. ib. 3, 543.— Poet., with a rel.-clause:

erro, quam insistas viam,

I am uncertain, in doubt, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 197; cf.:

inter recens et vetus sacramentum,

i. e. to hesitate, vacillate, Tac. H. 4, 58.—

In partic., to miss the right way, to lose one's self, go astray (in the literal sense rarely, but in the trop. freq. and class.).

Lit.: homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 16, 51:

errare viā,

Verg. A. 2, 739:

maledictus qui errare facit caecum in itinere,

Vulg. Deut. 27, 18.—

Trop., to wander from the truth, to err, mistake:

avius errat Saepe animus,

Lucr. 3, 463; cf. id. 2, 740:

totā erras viā,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14; cf.:

in eo non tu quidem totà re, sed temporibus errasti,

Cic. Phil. 2, 9 fin.:

longe,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 40; cf.

procul,

Sall. J. 85, 38 Kritz. N. cr.:

errant probe,

Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 20:

vehementer,

Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103:

valde,

id. de Or. 2, 19, 83 et saep.:

errare malo cum Platone quam cum istis vera sentire,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 39; cf. id. Balb. 28, 64:

erras, si id credis,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 53; so with si, id. Hec. 4, 4, 60; Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 5; 7, 29, 2 et saep.:

de nostris verbis errat,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 22:

in aliqua re,

Quint. 6, 3, 112; 10, 2, 21; 11, 1, 81 al.:

in alteram partem,

id. 10, 1, 26; cf.:

in alienos fetus,

Liv. 31, 12, 8.—Less freq. with acc. of a neutr. pronoun:

mone, quaeso, si quid erro,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 30; so with quid, Ter. And. 3, 2, 18; Quint. 2, 5, 16; 2, 3, 11; 2, 6, 6:

hoc,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 21.— Poet. also with the acc. of a noun:

errabant tempora,

i. e. in chronology, Ov. F. 3, 155.— Pass. impers.:

si fuit errandum,

Ov. H. 7, 109:

si nihil esset erratum,

Quint. 6, 5, 7:

si erratur in nomine,

Cic. Fin. 4, 20 fin.; cf.:

tutius circa priores erratur,

Quint. 2, 5, 26:

uno verbo esse erratum,

id. 7, 3, 17. —Sometimes, in a palliative manner, of moral error, to err through mistake:

pariter te errantem et illum sceleratissimum persequi,

Sall. J. 102, 5; cf. id. ib. 104, 4. —Hence,

errātum, i, n., an error, mistake, fault:

illud de Flavio et fastis, si secus est, commune erratum est,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 18; cf. id. ib. 13, 44 fin.:

cujus errato nulla venia, recte facto exigua laus proponitur,

id. Agr. 2, 2, 5; id. Fam. 5, 20, 8:

nullum ob totius vitae non dicam vitium, sed erratum,

id. Clu. 48; cf. id. Lig. 1; id. Sull. 23; and in plur., id. Fam. 16, 21, 2; Sall. J. 102, 10; Ov. Pont. 2, 3, 66.—

Act. in Aug. poets (only in part. perf.), to wander over or through:

immensum est erratas dicere terras,

Ov. F. 4, 573:

ager,

id. ib. 3, 655:

orbis,

Val. Fl. 4, 447:

litora,

Verg. A. 3, 690.

erro, ōnis, m. [1. erro], a wanderer, vagabond, vagrant, Tib. 2, 6, 6; Ov. H. 15, 53.—Used esp. of slaves:

ut errones aliquem cujus dicantur invenient,

Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 5; Edict. Aedil. ap. Gell. 4, 2, 1; Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 14; 49, 16, 4 fin.; Hor. S. 2, 7, 113.—Of the queen-bee:

dux,

Col. 9, 10 fin. —Of the planets, Nigid. ap. Gell. 3, 10, 2; 14, 1, 11.— Of vagabond soldiers:

nec nostros servire sinant errorribus agros,

Verg. Dir. 70 Rib.

ăb-undo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n.

Lit., of a wave, to flow over and down, to overflow (while redundo signifies to flow over a thing with great abundance of water, to inundate): apud abundantem antiquam amnem, Att. ap. Non. 192, 4 (Trag. Rel. p. 175 Rib.):

flumina abundare ut facerent,

Lucr. 6, 267; cf. id. 1, 282; Verg. G. 3, 484; and in the beautiful figure in Plaut.: ripis superat mi atque abundat pectus laetitiā, for joy, my heart swells above its banks and overflows, Stich. 2, 1, 6:

ita abundavit Tiberis, ut, etc.,

Liv. 30, 38, 10; cf.:

quando aqua Albana abundāsset,

id. 5, 15, 11: so,

fons in omnem partem,

Plin. 18, 22, 51, § 188.

Transf.

Poet., of plants, to shoot up with great luxuriance:

de terris abundant herbarum genera ac fruges,

Lucr. 5, 920 (in Enn. ap. Macr. 6, 3, the better read. is obundantes, Enn. p. 65 Vahl.).

In gen., to abound, to be redundant:

sive deest naturae quippiam, sive abundat atque affluit,

Cic. Div. 1, 29, 61:

abundabant et praemia et operae vitae,

Plin. H. N. 14, prooem. § 4.—Once with dat.:

tenuioribus magis sanguis, plenioribus magis caro abundat,

Cels. 2, 10.

To overflow with any thing, to have an abundance or superabundance of, to abound in (the most usual signif.); constr. with abl., and once poet. with gen. (cf. Rudd. II. p. 189 n.).

With abl.:

divitiis,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 17:

villa abundat porco, haedo, agno, etc.,

Cic. Sen. 16, 56:

praeceptis philosophiae,

id. Off. 1, 1:

ingenio, otio,

id. de Or. 1, 6, 22:

mulier abundat audaciā,

id. Clu. 84: cujus oratio omnibus [p. 14] ornamentis abundavit, id. Balb. 7:

equitatu,

Caes. B. G. 7, 14:

magna copiā frumenti,

id. ib. 8, 40:

aquā, Auct. B. Alex. 1: et aequalium familiaritatibus et consuetudine propinquorum,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58:

clientibus,

Quint. 5, 10, 26.— Poet.: amore abundas, you are too fortunate in love (successu prospero affluis, Don.), Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 11; cf. Lucil.: ille abundans cum septem incolumis pinnis redit, ap. Don. Ter. l. c.—

With gen.: quarum et abundemus rerum et quarum indigeamus, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 498, 7.—Esp., to abound in wealth, to be rich (cf. abundantia, II.):

et absentes adsunt et egentes abundant,

Cic. Lael. 7, 23:

Caietam, si quando abundare coepero, ornabo,

id. Att. 1, 4, 3.—Hence, ăbun-dans, antis, P. a., overflowing.

Lit., of rivers, fluids, etc.:

fluvius abundantior aestate,

i. e. fuller, Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

abundantissimus amnis,

Cic. Rep. 2, 19:

menses (mulierum),

Plin. 22, 25, 71, § 147. —

Transf.

Existing in abundance, copious, abundant:

non adesā jam, sed abundanti etiam pecuniā sic dissolutus,

Cic. Quint. 12, 40.—

Containing abundance, abounding, rich, full; constr. with abl., gen., or absol.

With abl.:

vir abundans bellicis laudibus, Cn. Pompeius,

Cic. Off. 1, 22, 78:

abundantior consilio, ingenio, sapientiā,

id. Pis. 26, 62:

rerum copiā et sententiarum varietate abundantissimus,

id. de Or. 2, 14, 58.—

With gen.:

(via) copiosa omniumque rerum abundans,

Nep. Eum. 8, 5:

lactis,

Verg. E. 2, 20:

corporis, Claud. ap. Eutrop. 2, 380: pietatis,

id. IV. Cons. Hon. 113.—

Absol.:

non erat abundans, non inops tamen oratio,

Cic. Brut. 67, 238:

abundantior atque ultra quam oportet fusa materia,

Quint. 2, 4, 7:

abundantissima cena,

Suet. Ner. 42; cf. id. Calig. 17.—Also in a bad sense, of discourse, pleonastic, superabundant, Quint. 12, 10, 18; 8, 3, 56.— Hence, adv.:

ex abundanti,

superabundantly, Quint. 4, 5, 15; 5, 6, 2; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 46 al.—

Esp., abounding in wealth, rich (syn. dives, opp. egens):

(supellex) non illa quidem luxuriosi hominis, sed tamen abundantis,

Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 66:

haec utrum abundantis an egentis signa sunt?

id. Par. 6, 1, § 43.—Hence, adv.: ăbundanter, abundantly, copiously:

loqui,

Cic. de Or. 2, 35:

ferre fructum,

Plin. 24, 9, 42.— Comp., Cic. Trop. 10.— Sup., Suet. Aug. 74.

To go up and down, back and forth, in and out.

discurso, āre, v. freq. a. and n. [id.].

Neutr., to run about, hasten up and down (post - Aug. and rare):

multum in agendo discursantem, salientem, etc.... non agere dixit (Domitius Afer) sed satagere,

Quint. 6, 3, 54; cf. id. 11, 3, 126; Flor. 3, 18, 10.—

Act., to traverse (late Lat.):

Gallias,

Amm. 15, 5, 4.

nicto, āvi, ātum, 1, and ĕre, 3, v. n., and nictor, ātus, v. dep. n. [1. nico], to move the eyelids.

Lit., to move the eyelids up and down, to wink, blink:

plerisque naturale ut nictari (al. nictare) non cessent,

Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 144; 11, 37, 57, § 156.—Form nicto, ĕre: (canis) voce suā nictit ululatque ibi acute, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 177 Müll. (Ann. v. 346 Vahl.).—

To make a sign with the eyes, to wink:

neque illa ulli homini nutet, nictet, annuat,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 39; id. Men. 4, 2, 49; id. Merc. 2, 3, 72.—

Transf., of fire:

nictantia fulgura flammae,

flashing, Lucr. 6, 182.—

Trop., to exert one's self, to strive: nictare et oculorum et aliorum membrorum nisu saepe aliquid conari, dictum est ab antiquis, ut Lucretius in libro quarto (6, 836): Hic ubi nictari nequeunt (Lachm. nixari): Caecilius in Hymnide: Garrulis medentes jactent, sine nictentur perticis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 177 Müll.

nicto, āvi, ātum, 1, and ĕre, 3, v. n., and nictor, ātus, v. dep. n. [1. nico], to move the eyelids.

Lit., to move the eyelids up and down, to wink, blink:

plerisque naturale ut nictari (al. nictare) non cessent,

Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 144; 11, 37, 57, § 156.—Form nicto, ĕre: (canis) voce suā nictit ululatque ibi acute, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 177 Müll. (Ann. v. 346 Vahl.).—

To make a sign with the eyes, to wink:

neque illa ulli homini nutet, nictet, annuat,

Plaut. As. 4, 1, 39; id. Men. 4, 2, 49; id. Merc. 2, 3, 72.—

Transf., of fire:

nictantia fulgura flammae,

flashing, Lucr. 6, 182.—

Trop., to exert one's self, to strive: nictare et oculorum et aliorum membrorum nisu saepe aliquid conari, dictum est ab antiquis, ut Lucretius in libro quarto (6, 836): Hic ubi nictari nequeunt (Lachm. nixari): Caecilius in Hymnide: Garrulis medentes jactent, sine nictentur perticis, Paul. ex Fest. p. 177 Müll.

ĕpī̆drŏmus, i, m., = epidromos.

A cord running up and down for opening and closing a net, Cato, R. R. 13, 1 Schneid.; Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 11.—

The sail in the after-part of a ship, acc. to Isid. Orig. 19, 3, 3.

ĭnambŭlātĭo, ōnis, f. [inambulo].

A walking up and down on the rostra (of orators;

rare but class.),

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27; Cic. Brut. 43, 158. — Poet.: tremuli lecti, a moving or shaking to and fro, Cat. 6, 11.—

Transf., a place to walk in, a walk, promenade, Vitr. 1, 3; Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 11.

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