vasti corporis

spătĭum, ii, n. [root spa-, to draw; Gr. spaô; span-, to stretch; Gr. spanis, want; cf.: penomai, penês; Germ. spannen; Dor. spadion (=stadion), race-course; cf. Lat. penuria], room, a space (very freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen.: est natura loci spatiumque profundi, Quod neque percurrere flumina possint, Nec, etc.... Usque adeo passim patet ingens copia rebus;

Finibus exemptis,

Lucr. 1, 1002; 5, 370; 1, 389:

locus ac spatium, quod inane vocamus,

id. 1, 426; cf. id. 1, 523:

per totum caeli spatium diffundere sese (solis lux),

id. 4, 202; cf.:

tres pateat caeli spatium non amplius ulnas,

Verg. E. 3, 105:

flumen Dubis paene totum oppidum cingit: reliquum spatium, quā flumen intermittit, mons continet,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

temporibus rerum et spatiis locorum animadversis,

id. B. C. 3, 61 fin.:

quod spatium non esset agitandi,

Nep. Eum. 5, 4:

spatium loci,

Quint. 8, 3, 84:

spatio distante,

Ov. M. 11, 715.—

In partic.

A (limited) space, distance, interval (syn. intervallum):

siderum genus spatiis immutabilibus ab ortu ad occasum commeans,

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

magno spatio paucis diebus confecto,

Caes. B. G. 3, 29:

itineris spatium,

id. B. C. 1, 24 fin.:

viae spatium,

the distance, length, Ov. M. 8, 794:

trabes paribus intermissae spatiis (shortly before: paribus intervallis),

Caes. B. G. 7, 23; cf.:

alios ineunt cursus aliosque recursus Adversi spatiis,

Verg. A. 5, 584 Coningt. ad loc.:

hic locus aequo fere spatio ab castris utrisque aberat,

Caes. B. G. 1, 43:

inter duas acies tantum erat relictum spatii, ut, etc.,

id. B. C. 3, 92:

cum Viridorix contra eum duum milium spatio consedisset,

id. B. G. 3, 17:

magnum spatium abesse,

id. ib. 2, 17:

quo tanta machinatio ab tanto spatio institueretur?

id. ib. 2, 30:

tormentorum usum spatio propinquitatis interire,

id. B. C. 2, 16 fin.:

jamque tenebat Nox medium caeli spatium,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 101:

illi medio in spatio chorus Occurrit,

Verg. A. 10, 219:

dimidium fere spatium confecerat, cum, etc.,

Nep. Eum. 9, 1:

spatium discrimina fallit,

the distance, Ov. M. 8, 577.—

Size, bulk, extent:

dum spatium victi considerat hostis (serpentis),

Ov. M. 3, 95:

elephantis,

Luc. 9, 732:

oris Et colli, ov. M. 2, 672: dat spatium collo,

id. ib. 3, 195:

breve lateris,

Juv. 6, 503; cf.:

quod sit homini spatium a vestigio ad verticem,

Plin. 7, 17, 17, § 77:

spatia montis,

id. 35, 1, 1, § 2:

spatium admirabile rhombi,

very large, Juv. 4, 39:

vasti corporis,

Sen. Hippol. 806:

plantae Herculis,

Gell. 1, 1, 2: trahit aures in spatium, in length, i. e. lengthens them out, Ov. M. 11, 176; so,

in spatium,

id. ib. 2, 197; 7, 783; Sil. 13, 562.—

An open space for walking, racing, etc., in.

A walk, promenade; a public place or square, etc. (cf. ambulatio):

urbs delubris distincta spatiisque communibus,

Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 41:

templaque et innumeris spatia interstincta columnis,

i. e. colonnades, porticos, Stat. S. 3, 5, 90:

quin igitur ad illa spatia nostra sedesque pergimus, ubi cum satis erit deambulatum, requiescemus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 14:

spatia silvestria,

id. ib. 1, 5, 15:

orator ex Academiae spatiis,

id. Or. 3, 12 (quoted by Quint. 12, 2, 23, and by Tac. Or. 32):

Academiae non sine causā nobilitata spatia,

Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 1: locus planis Porrectus spatiis, in level spaces, i. e. plains, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 42:

ille actus habenā Curvatis fertur spatiis,

Verg. A. 7, 381.—

A race-course, track:

sicut fortis equus, spatio qui saepe supremo Vicit Olympia,

Enn. Ann. 18, 22:

nec vero velim quasi decurso spatio a calce ad carceres revocari,

Cic. Sen. 23, 83:

amat spatiis obstantia rumpere claustra,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 9:

cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, Addunt in spatia,

Verg. G. 1, 513 Forbig. ad loc.:

hic ad Elei metas et maxuma campi Sudabit spatia,

id. ib. 3, 202: signoque repente Corripiunt spatia [p. 1736] audito, id. A. 5, 316:

tritumque relinquunt Quadrijugi spatium,

Ov. M. 2, 168; cf.:

equi Pulsabant pedibus spatium declivis Olympi,

id. ib. 6, 487:

abstulere me velut de spatio Graeciae res immixtae Romanis,

Liv. 35, 40, 1:

nobilis equos cursus et spatia probant,

Tac. Or. 39.—

Poet., in gen., room or space in a building:

Phocus in interius spatium pulchrosque recessus Cecropidas ducit,

the inner space, the interior, Ov. M. 7, 670.—

Transf., the action of walking, a walk, promenade; a turn, course:

cum in ambulationem ventum esset, Scaevolam, duobus spatiis tribusve factis, dixisse, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28; cf. id. Rep. 1, 12, 18; Suet. Aug. 83:

si interdum ad forum deducimur, si uno basilicae spatio honestamur,

Cic. Mur. 34, 70:

septem spatiis circo meruere coronam,

Ov. Hal. 68:

(agitatores) septimo spatio palmae appropinquant,

Sen. Ep. 30, 13.—

Trop.

Of time.

In gen., a space of time, interval, period:

spatia omnis temporis non numero dierum sed noctium finiunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 18:

spatium praeteriti temporis,

Cic. Arch. 1, 1:

quantum fuit diei spatium,

as the portion of the day allowed, Caes. B. G. 2, 11 fin.:

annuum spatium,

id. B. C. 3, 3:

annuum, menstruum, diurnum, nocturnum,

Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 39:

dierum triginta,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 39, § 96:

parvo dilexit spatio Minoida Theseus,

Prop. 2, 24, 43 (3, 19, 27):

spatio brevi,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 6:

in brevi spatio mutantur secla animantum,

Lucr. 2, 77; so,

in brevi spatio,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 2:

aliquid longo spatio tenere,

Cic. Off. 2, 23, 81:

me ex comparato et constituto spatio defensionis in semihorae curriculum coëgisti,

id. Rab. Perd. 2, 6:

hoc interim spatio conclave illud concidisse,

id. de Or. 2, 86, 353:

spatia annorum,

Prop. 3 (4), 21, 31:

spatium juventae Transire,

Ov. M. 15, 225:

illa dies... incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi,

id. ib. 15, 874:

post sexagesimum vitae spatium,

i. e. after the sixtieth year, Plin. 7, 50, 51, § 170.—

In partic.

Of a portion of time in which to do any thing, space, time, leisure, opportunity:

neque, ut celari posset, tempus spatium ullum dabat,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 14:

nisi tempus et spatium datum sit,

Cic. Quint. 1, 4:

irae suae spatium et consilio tempus dare,

Liv. 8, 32:

ubicumque datum erat spatium solitudinis,

Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 55:

quantum spatii nobis datur,

Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 252:

tempus inane peto, requiem spatiumque furori,

Verg. A. 4, 433: ne properes, oro;

spatium pro munere posco,

Ov. R. Am. 277:

proin quicquid est, da tempus ac spatium tibi. Quod ratio non quit, saepe sanavit mora,

Sen. Agam. 2, 129.—Esp.: spatium (aliquid, nihil spatii, etc.) alicui faciendi or ad faciendum aliquid, time to do a thing:

breve spatium'st perferundi quae minitas mihi,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 85:

ut Ne esset spatium cogitandi ad disturbandas nuptias,

Ter. And. 1, 2, 11:

quam longum spatium amandi amicam tibi dedi!

id. Hec. 4, 4, 62:

dare alicui spatium ad se colligendum,

Cic. Caecin. 2, 6:

ad scribendum,

id. Fam. 15, 17, 1:

pila in hostes coniciendi,

Caes. B. G. 1, 52; 4, 13; Ov. M. 10, 163:

nec fuit spatium ad contrahenda castra,

Caes. B. G. 7, 40:

cum erit spatium, utrumque praestabo,

Cic. Att. 5, 14, 1:

si spatium ad dicendum habuissemus,

id. Verr. 1, 18, 56:

spatium sumamus ad cogitandum,

id. Fin. 4, 1, 1; id. de Or. 1, 33, 150:

sex dies ad eam rem conficiendam spatii postulant,

Caes. B. C. 1, 3 fin.:

vix explicandi ordines spatium Etruscis fuit,

Liv. 2, 46, 3:

spatium Vitellianis datum refugiendi,

Tac. H. 2, 25.—Rarely with dat.:

spatium quidem tandem adparandis nuptiis, vocandi, sacruficandi dabitur paululum,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 20.—

A year of life:

quosdam (morbos) post sexagesimum vitae spatium non accidere,

Plin. 7, 50, 51, § 170. —

Metrical time, measure, quantity:

trochaeus, qui est eodem spatio quo choreus,

Cic. Or. 57, 193; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 18:

neu sermo subsultet imparibus spatiis ac sonis, miscens longa brevibus, etc.,

id. 11, 3, 43; cf. id. 11, 3, 40; 11, 3, 17 al.—

(Acc. to I. B.) A path, course, race, track:

ut eadem spatia quinque stellae dispari motu cursuque conficiant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 45, 178:

quid mihi opu'st, decurso aetatis spatio, cum meis gerere bellum?

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 14:

prope jam excurso spatio,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 6:

te vero, mea quem spatiis propioribus aetas Insequitur,

Verg. A. 9, 275: deflexit jam aliquantulum de spatio curriculoque consuetudo majorum, Cic. Lael. 12, 40; cf.:

quemadmodum simus in spatio Q. Hortensium ipsius vestigiis persecuti,

id. Brut. 90, 307:

currenti spatium praemonstra,

Lucr. 6, 93:

pede inoffenso spatium decurrere vitae,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 33; Sen. Troad. 398.

vāstus, a, um (vgl. ahd. wuosti, öde, wüst, leer), wüst, öde, verödet, leer, I) eig.: A) im allg.: a) absol.: loci coaedificati an vasti, Cic.: vasta ac deserta urbs, Liv.: ager vastus et desertus, Liv.: genus agrorum propter pestilentiam vastum atque desertum, Cic. – dies per silentium vastus (Ggstz. ploratibus inquies), Tac. – b) m. ab u. Abl.: mons vastus ab natura et humano cultu, Sall.: urbs a defensoribus vasta, Liv.: abs te viduae et vastae virgines, vereinsamt, Enn. – B) insbes., durch Verwüstung verödet, verheert, verwüstet, Troia, Plaut.: solum, Liv.: poet., haec ego vasta dabo, werde ich verheeren, Verg. Aen. 9, 323. – II) meton.: 1) ungeheuer groß, -weit, ungeheuer, unermeßlich, entsetzlich, belua immanis et vasta, Cic.: mare, Caes.: crater, Ov.: clamor, Verg.: iter, Ov. – elephanto ad figuram quae (belua) vastior? Cic.: belua vastissima, Cic.: vastissimus Oceanus, Caes. – v. Abstr., animus, unersättlicher Sinn, Sall.: scientia, weitumfassend, Colum.: potentia, vielumfassend, Ov. – 2) ungebildet, plump, roh, vastus homo atque foedus, Cic.: sunt quidam vultu motuque corporis vasti atque agrestes, Cic.: littera vastior, harter, rauher Buchstabe, Cic.: oratio, Cornif. rhet.: omnia vasta esse, Liv.

vastus, a, um, adj. [cf.: vanus, vacuus], empty, unoccupied, i.e. waste, desert.

Lit. (so rare but class.;

syn.: vacuus, desertus): genus agrorum propter pestilentiam vastum atque desertum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 69:

lex erat lata vasto ac relicto foro,

id. Sest. 24, 53:

agrum vastum ac desertum habere,

Liv. 28, 11, 10:

vasta ac deserta urbs,

id. 24, 3, 11; 28, 7, 12: vasta incendiis ruinisque urbs, id. 5, 53, 1:

mons vastus ab naturā et humano cultu,

uncultivated, Sall. J. 48, 3:

urbs a defensoribus vasta,

without, Liv. 23, 30, 7 (al. ex conj. vacua).—

Trop. (the fig. taken from tracts of country lying waste or untilled), uncultivated, unpolished, rude, rough, harsh:

vultu motuque corporis vasti atque agrestes,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

vastus homo atque foedus,

id. ib. 1, 25, 117:

vasti quidam et insubidi,

Gell. 19, 9, 9:

fugiemus crebras vocalium concursiones, quae vastam atque hiantem orationem reddunt, ut hoc est: baccae aeneae amoenissimae impendebant,

Auct. Her. 4, 12, 18:

omnia vasta ac temeraria esse,

Liv. 24, 48, 7:

littera vastior,

too harsh-sounding, Cic. Or. 45, 153.—

Transf.

Desolate, deserted: abs te viduae et vastae virgines sunt, made lonely, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 52 (Trag. v. 279 Vahl.):

dies per silentium vastus,

Tac. A. 3, 4.—

Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, devastated, destroyed (rare; cf.

vastatus): fit vasta Troja,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 130:

jam hanc urbem ferro vastam faciet Peleus, Att. ap. Fest. pp. 372 and 373: haec ego vasta dabo,

Verg. A. 9, 323:

nec solum modo vastum hosti relictum, sed castellis etiam vicisque illatus ignis,

Liv. 10, 12, 8.—

With the predom. idea of extent, vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous (syn.: ingens, immanis).

Of size: jamque fere pulvis ad caelum vasta videtur, Enn. ap. Non. 217, 11 (Ann. v. 286 Vahl.):

immani et vastae insidens beluae,

Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:

vasta et immanis belua,

id. Div. 1, 24, 49; cf.:

vastissimae beluae,

id. Rep. 2, 26, 49: elephanto beluarum nulla prudentior;

ad figuram quae vastior?

id. N. D. 1, 35, 97:

summa erat vasto atque aperto mari, difficultas navigandi,

Caes. B. G. 3, 12; cf.:

in vastissimo atque apertissimo Oceano,

id. ib. 3, 9, 7:

fossa vastissima,

Cic. Rep. 2, 6, 11:

solitudines,

id. ib. 2, 6, 19:

campi,

Verg. A. 3, 13:

Charybdis,

Lucr. 1, 722:

antiquus crater, quem vastum vastior ipse Sustulit Aegides,

Ov. M. 12, 236:

antrum,

Verg. A. 1, 52:

hiatus speluncae,

id. ib. 6, 237:

suspectus turris,

id. ib. 9, 530:

manus,

Ov. F. 2, 322:

arma,

Verg. A. 10, 768:

corpus,

Col. 7, 12, 3.—

Transf., of degree, etc., immense, enormous, prodigious, vast, etc.:

iter,

i.e. on the vast ocean, Ov. M. 14, 438:

certamen,

Verg. A. 12, 553:

impetus,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 30:

pugnae Cannensis clades vastissima,

Gell. 5, 17, 5:

tempestas,

Col. 2, 20, 5; cf.:

vapores vastissimi,

id. 2, 20, 1:

clamor,

Verg. A. 10, 716; Ov. M. 12, 494:

murmur,

Verg. A. 1, 245:

latratus,

Col. 7, 12, 3:

tonitru,

Val. Fl. 1, 617:

pondus,

Verg. A. 5, 447; Ov. H. 9, 88.—

Trop.:

vastus animus,

i.e. insatiable, Sall. C. 5, 4.—Rarely with abstr. nouns:

quam vasta potentia nostra est,

Ov. M. 2, 520:

varia vastaque scientia,

Col. 1, pr. 28:

nefas,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 767.— Adv.: vastē.

(Acc. to vastus, I. B.) Rudely, harshly:

loqui non aspere, non vaste, non rustice, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 45:

ne vastius diducantur verba,

id. ib. 3, 43, 172.—

(Acc. to II. B.) Widely, vastly, immensely, violently, enormously:

vaste cedentia litora,

Mel. 1, 1, 4:

vastius insurgens decimae ruit impetus undae,

Ov. M. 11, 530:

vastius podagra correpti,

Scrib. Comp. 107.

ā̆grestis, e, adj. [id.].

Lit., pertaining to land, fields, or the country, country, rural, rustic, wild, agrios:

Musa,

Lucr. 5, 1397:

te in Arpinati videbimus et hospitio agresti accipiemus,

Cic. Att. 2, 16 fin.:

vestitus,

Nep. Pel. 2, 5:

falx,

Tib. 2, 5, 28 al.:

poma,

Verg. A. 7, 111:

cum lactucis agrestibus,

Vulg. Exod. 12, 8:

ligna non sunt pomifera, sed agrestia,

ib. Deut. 20, 20:

herbas agrestes,

ib. 4 Reg. 4, 39.— Subst.: ā̆grestis, is ( gen. plur. agrestūm, Ov. M. 14, 635), a countryman, rustic, farmer, peasant, Lucr. 5, 1382:

non est haec oratio habenda aut cum imperitā multitudine aut in aliquo conventu agrestium,

Cic. Mur. 29:

collectos armat agrestes,

Verg. A. 9, 11:

Fictilia antiquus primum sibi fecit agrestis Pocula,

Tib. 1, 1, 39:

facinus admissum a quodam agresti,

Tac. A. 4, 45:

inopes agrestes,

id. H. 2, 13; 4, 50.—

Transf., and in mal. part.

Rustic, in opp. to the refined citizen ( urbanus, as agrios is opp. to asteios), boorish, clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, wild, savage, barbarous, of persons and things:

sunt quidam vultu motuque corporis vasti atque agrestes,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

O rem dignam, in quā non modo docti, verum etiam agrestes erubescant,

id. Leg. 1, 14, 41:

aborigines, genus hominum agreste,

Sall. C. 6, 1:

Ego ille agrestis, saevos, tristis, parcus, truculentus, tenax Duxi uxorem,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 12:

quis nostrūm tam animo agresti ac duro fuit, ut, etc.,

Cic. Arch. 8:

dominus agrestis et furiosus,

id. Sen. 14:

exculto animo nihil agreste, nihil inhumanum est,

id. Att. 13, 45; so Ov. M. 11, 767:

rustica vox et agrestis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 11; 2, 3. —Hence, agrestiores Musae, ruder, of the language of the bar, in opp. to more refined and polished eloquence, Cic. Or. 3, 11.—

Wild, brutish:

vultus,

Ov. M. 9, 96:

agrestem detraxit ab ore figuram Juppiter (of Io),

Prop. 3, 31, 13.— Comp., v. above.—

* Sup. agrestissimus, Cassiod. Ep. 7, 4.—

* Adv. comp. neutr. agrestius, Spart. Hadr. 3.