wide

wide, spacious / later, postponed / lax, loose, relaxed

wide, broad, long / willing, obliging, favorable.

lātus, a, um, adj. [old Lat. stlātus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 313; Sanscr. root star-, strnāmi = sterno; Gr. stor- in stornumi, stratos; Lat. sterno, stratus, torus; cf. strāges, struo; not connected with platus, nor with 3. lātus = tlêtos], broad, wide.

Lit.:

fossa,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:

mare,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 46, § 103:

via,

id. ib. 2, 4, 53, §

119: agri,

id. Rep. 5, 2, 3:

clavus,

Quint. 11, 3, 138 (v. clavus):

umeri,

Verg. A. 9, 725; cf.:

artus barbarorum,

Tac. A. 2, 21:

lati et lacertosi viri,

broad-shouldered, Col. 1, 9, 4; Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 21:

rana bove latior,

Phaedr. 1, 24, 5:

palus non latior pedibus quinquaginta,

Caes. B. G. 7, 19:

latissimum flumen,

id. ib. 2, 27:

latissimae solitudines,

id. ib. 6, 22:

comesse panem tris pedes latum,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 1, 8:

fossae quindecim pedes latae,

Caes. B. G. 7, 72:

areas latas pedum denum facito,

Col. 2, 10, 26:

populi,

Verg. A. 1, 225:

moenia lata videt,

id. ib. 6, 549:

latis otia fundis,

id. G. 2, 468: ne latos fines parare studeant. Caes. B. G. 6, 21:

ager,

Liv. 23, 46:

orbis,

Hor. C. 1, 12, 57:

terrae,

Ov. M. 2, 307:

lata Polyphemi acies,

wide eye, Juv. 9, 64.— Neutr. absol.:

crescere in latum,

to increase in width, widen, Ov. M. 1, 336.— Absol.:

per latum,

Vulg. Ezech. 46, 22:

in lato pedum centum,

Lampr. Alex. Sev. 26, 7.—

Transf., poet., for proud, swelling (cf. Eng. vulg. spreading):

latus ut in circo spatiere,

that you may stalk along largely, proudly, Hor. S. 2, 3, 183:

lati incesserunt et cothurnati (histriones),

Sen. Ep. 76, 31. —

Trop.

In gen., broad, wide, wide-spread, extended (mostly post-Aug.):

vox,

Quint. 11, 3, 82; cf.:

verba,

pronounced broadly, Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46:

gloria,

widespread, Plin. Ep. 4, 12, 7:

lato Murrus caligat in hoste,

Sil. 1, 499:

interpretatio,

broad, not strict, lenient, Dig. 22, 1, 1:

culpa,

great, ib. 50, 16, 213; 11, 6, 1 fin.:

fuga,

a kind of banishment, whereby all places are forbidden to the exile but one, ib. 48, 22, 5.—

In partic., of style, diffuse, detailed, copious, prolix:

oratio Academicorum liberior et latior (opp. Stoicorum oratio astrictior et contractior),

Cic. Brut. 31, 120:

latum atque fusum,

Quint. 11, 3, 50:

latiore varioque tractatu,

id. 7, 3, 16:

latiore quadam comprehensione,

id. 2, 5, 14:

genus orandi latum et sonans,

Tac. H. 1, 90:

Aeschines his latior et audentior,

Quint. 12, 10, 23.— Hence, adv.: lātē, broadly, widely, extensively; with longe, on all sides, far and wide, everywhere.

Lit.:

late longeque diffusus,

Cic. Leg. 1, 12, 34:

omnibus longe lateque aedificiis incensis,

Caes. B. G. 4, 35:

minus late vagari,

id. ib. 1, 2:

regnare,

Just. 13, 7:

populus late rex,

Verg. A. 1, 21; cf.:

diu Lateque victrix,

Hor. C. 4, 4, 23:

cladem inferre,

Tac. H. 3, 23.— Comp.:

latius demum operaest pretium ivisse,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 156:

itaque latius quam caedebatur ruebat (murus),

Liv. 21, 11:

possidere (agros),

Ov. M. 5, 131:

metui,

Tac. A. 12, 43. — Sup.:

ager latissime continuatus,

Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 70:

quam latissime possint, ignes faciant,

Nep. Eum. 9, 3.—

Trop.: ars late patet, widely. Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 235:

Phrygiae late refer primordia gentis,

Ov. H. 17, 57.— Comp.:

latius loquuntur rhetores, dialectici compressius,

Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17: quod [p. 1042] pateat latius, of rather extensive application, Cic. Off. 3, 4, 19:

latius perscribere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 17:

uti opibus,

more lavishly, Hor. S. 2, 2, 113.— Sup.:

fidei bonae nomen latissime manat,

Cic. Off. 3, 17, 70:

latissime patere,

id. ib. 3, 17, 69.

lătus, ĕris, n. [cf. Gr. platus; Lat. lăter, Latium, plautus or plotus], the side, flank of men or animals.

Lit.:

ego vostra faciam latera lorea,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 2: quid conminatu's mihi? Con. Istud male factum arbitror, quia non latus fodi, id. Aul. 3, 2, 4:

occidisse ex equo dicitur, et latus offendisse vehementer,

Cic. Clu. 62, 175:

cujus latus ille mucro petebat,

id. Lig. 3, 9:

laterique accommodat ensem,

Verg. A. 2, 393; Quint. 2, 13, 12; 11, 3, 69; 118:

laterum inclinatione forti ac virili,

id. 1, 11, 18: vellere latus digitis, to twitch one by the side (in order to attract attention), Ov. A. A. 1, 606; cf.:

si tetigit latus acrior,

Juv. 7, 109:

tum latus ei dicenti condoluisse... dieque septimo est lateris dolore consumptus,

pleurisy, Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6; so,

lateris dolor,

Cato, R. R. 125; Cels. 2, 7; 8; Plin. 21, 21, 89, § 155:

lateris vigili cum febre dolor,

Juv. 13, 229; cf.:

laterum dolor aut tussis,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 32: artifices lateris, i. e. those who make skilful side movements or evolutions, ballet-dancers, Ov. A. A. 3, 351:

latus tegere alicui,

to walk by the side of one, Hor. S. 2, 5, 18:

claudere alicui,

Juv. 3, 131; and:

mares inter se uxoresque contendunt, uter det latus illis (sc. pantomimis),

Sen. Q. N. 7, 32, 3.—Of animals:

equorum,

Lucr. 5, 1324:

cujus (equi aënei) in lateribus fores essent,

Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38.—

Of orators, the lungs:

lateribus aut clamore contendere,

Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255:

quae vox, quae latera, quae vires, etc.,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 67:

ut lateris conatus sit ille, non capitis,

Quint. 1, 11, 8; cf.:

lateris pectorisve firmitas an capitis etiam plus adjuvet,

id. 11, 3, 16; so id. 11, 3, 40:

dum vox ac latus praeparetur,

id. 10, 7, 2; 11, 3, 13:

voce, latere, firmitate (constat orator),

id. 12, 11, 2:

neque enim ex te umquam es nobilitatus, sed ex lateribus et lacertis tuis,

Cic. de Sen. 9, 27:

cum legem Voconiam voce magna et bonis lateribus suasissem,

id. ib. 5, 14:

illa adhuc audaciora et majorum, ut Cicero existimat, laterum,

Quint. 9, 1, 29.—

Poet., in mal. part., Lucil. ap. Non. 260, 30; Ov. H. 2, 58; 19, 138; Prop. 2, 2, 12:

lateri parcere,

Juv. 6, 37.—

Transf., in gen.

The side, flank, lateral surface of a thing (opp. frons and tergum;

v. h. vv.): collis ex utraque parte lateris dejectus habebat et in frontem leniter fastigatus paulatim ad planiciem redibat,

on each side, Caes. B. G. 2, 8; cf. Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 202:

terra angusta verticibus, lateribus latior,

Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 21:

latus unum castrorum,

Caes. B. G. 2, 5:

insula, cujus unum latus est contra Galliam,

id. ib. 5, 13:

et (Fibrenus) divisus aequaliter in duas partis latera haec (insulae) adluit,

Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6.—Of a maritime country, the coast, seaboard:

Illyricum,

Juv. 8, 117:

castelli,

Sall. J. 93:

tum prora avertit et undis Dat latus,

the ship's side, Verg. A. 1, 105:

ubi pulsarunt acres latera ardua fluctus,

Ov. M. 11, 529:

nudum remigio,

Hor. C. 1, 14, 4; id. Epod. 10, 3:

dextrum (domus),

id. Ep. 1, 16, 6:

mundi,

id. C. 1, 22, 19:

crystallus sexangulis nascitur lateribus,

surfaces, Plin. 37, 2, 9, § 26.—Of an army, the flank, Tac. Agr. 35:

reliquos equites ad latera disponit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 7:

ex itinere nostros latere aperto aggressi,

id. ib. 1, 25; cf. id. ib. 2, 23 fin.:

ad latus apertum hostium constitui,

id. ib. 4, 25:

ne simul in frontem, simul in latera, pugnaretur,

Tac. Agr. 35.—So in fighting: latus dare, to expose one's side or flank to the adversary, Val. Fl. 4, 304 (v. II. A. infra).—

Esp. freq.: a (ab) latere, on or at the side or flank; a or ab lateribus, on or at the sides or flanks (opp. a fronte, in front, before, and a tergo, at the back, behind):

a tergo, a fronte, a lateribus tenebitur,

Cic. Phil. 3, 13, 32:

a fronte atque ab utroque latere cratibus ac pluteis protegebat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 25 fin.; id. B. G. 2, 25:

ab omni latere securus,

Amm. 16, 9, 3:

ab latere aggredi,

Liv. 27, 48:

disjectos ab tergo aut lateribus circumveniebant,

Sall. J. 50 fin.:

ne quis inermibus militibus ab latere impetus fieri posset,

Caes. B. G. 3, 29:

Sulla profligatis iis, quos advorsum ierat, rediens ab latere Mauris incurrit,

Sall. J. 101, 8: si ex hac causa unda prorumperet, a lateribus undae circumfunderentur, Sen. Q. N. 6, 6, 4:

a lateribus, a fronte, quasi tria maria prospectat,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 5.—

Less freq. with ex:

latere ex utroque,

Lucr. 2, 1049:

ex lateribus aggredi aliquem,

Sall. C. 60:

tribus ex lateribus (locus) tegebatur,

Hirt. B. Alex. 28, 4:

ex alio latere cubiculum est politissimum,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 10:

omni ex latere armorum molibus urgeri,

Amm. 19, 7, 7.—

With de:

de latere ire,

Lucr. 6, 117.—Without prep.:

alio latere,

Tac. A. 3, 74.—

Poet. (pars pro toto), the body:

penna latus vestit, tenet,

Ov. M. 2, 376:

nunc latus in fulvis niveum deponit harenis,

id. ib. 2, 865; cf. id. ib. 3, 23;

14, 710: forte,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 26:

fessum longā militiā,

id. C. 2, 7, 18:

credidit tauro latus,

id. ib. 3, 27, 26:

liminis aut aquae Caelestis patiens latus,

id. ib. 3, 10, 20.—

Trop.

In gen.: in latera atque in terga incurrere, to attack the sides, i. e. the unguarded points, Quint. 9, 1, 20:

aliena negotia centum Per caput et circa saliunt latus,

encompass on every side, Hor. S. 2, 6, 34:

ut a sems latere numquam discederem,

never left his side, Cic. Lael. 1, 1; cf.: aliquem lateri alicujus adjungere, to attach to his side, i. e. to give him for a companion, Quint. 1, 2, 5; so,

alicui latus dare, of a client,

Sen. Q. N. 7, 32, 3 (cf. B. 1. infra):

lateri adhaerere gravem dominum,

hung about them, threatened them, Liv. 39, 25:

Illyriorum rex, lateri ejus haerens, assiduis precibus promissa exigebat,

Just. 29, 4, 8; cf.:

Agathocles regis lateri junctus, civitatem regebat,

id. 30, 2, 5:

circumfusa turba lateri meo,

Liv. 6, 15.—Esp.:

sacpe dabis nudum latus,

expose, Tib. 1, 4, 52:

la. tus imperii nudum,

Flor. 3, 5, 4:

nec adulatoribus latus praebeas,

expose yourself, lay yourself open to, Sen. Q. N. 4 praef.: latere tecto abscedere, i. e safe, unharmed, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 5:

hic fugit omnes Insidias nullique malo latus obdit apertum,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 59:

ex uno latere constat contractus,

on one side, Dig. 19, 1, 13 fin.; so ib. 3, 5, 5:

nulla ex utroque latere nascitur actio,

ib. 3, 5, 6, § 4.—

In partic.

To express intimacy, attachment:

latus alicui cingere,

to cling to, Liv. 32, 39, 8; esp. in the phrase: ab latere, at the side of, i. e. in intimate association with (rare, and perh. not ante-Aug.):

ab latere tyranni: addit eos ab latere tyranni,

Liv. 24, 5, 13; Curt. 3, 5, 15; cf.:

ille tuum, Castrice, dulce latus,

your constant associate, Mart. 6, 68, 4.—

Relationship, kindred, esp. collateral relationship (post-Aug.):

quibus (liberis) videor a meo tuoque latere pronum ad honores iter relicturus,

Plin. Ep. 8, 10, 3:

sunt et ex lateribus cognati ut fratres sororesque,

Dig. 38, 10, 10, § 8:

ex latere uxorem ducere,

ib. 23, 2, 68:

latus omne divinae domus,

Stat. S. 5 praef.: omnes personae cognatorum aut supra numerantur, aut infra, aut ex transverso, sive a latere... a latere, fratres et sorores, liberique eorum; item parentium fratres et sorores liberique eorum, (Ulp.) de Grad. Cogn. 2 ap. Huschke, Jurisp. Antejust. p. 530.

lātus, a, um, Part., v. fero.

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laxus, a, um, adj. [cf. languidus, languor, lactes], wide, loose, open; spacious, roomy; opp. adstrictus (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).

Lit.: laxius agmen, Sall. ap. Non. 235, 16:

casses,

Verg. G. 4, 247:

circli,

id. ib. 3, 166:

sinus,

Tib. 1, 6, 18:

toga,

id. 1, 6, 40; 2, 3, 78; cf.:

in pede calceus haeret,

wide, loose, Hor. S. 1, 3, 32:

nuces Ferre sinu laxo,

id. ib. 2, 3, 171:

qua satis laxo spatio equi permitti possent,

Liv. 10, 5; so,

spatium,

wide, roomy, Sen. Ep. 88 med.; cf.:

laxior domus,

Vell. 2, 81:

janua,

open, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 77:

compages,

Verg. A. 1, 122:

mulier,

Mart. 11, 21:

habenae,

Cic. Lael. 13 (v. under II.); Verg. A. 1, 63:

frena,

Ov. Am. 3, 4, 16; cf.:

qui jam contento, jam laxo fune laborat,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 20:

arcus,

slackened, unbent, unstrung, Verg. A. 11, 874:

laxo meditantur arcu cedere campis,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 23:

opes,

large, great, Mart. 2, 30, 4.—

Trop.:

laxissimas habenas habere amicitiae,

very wide, loose, Cic. Lael. 13, 45: si bellum cum eo hoste haberemus, in quo neglegentiae laxior locus esset, greater latitude or scope, Liv. 24, 8; cf.:

laxius imperium,

less strict, more indulgent, Sall. J. 64:

annona,

i. e. reduced, cheap, Liv. 2, 52:

caput,

relaxed, disordered from drinking, Pers. 3, 58:

vox,

pronounced broad, Gell. 13, 20, 12:

laxioribus verbis dicere aliquid,

prolix, diffuse, id. 16, 1, 3.—Of time:

diem statuo satis laxam,

sufficiently distant, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16:

tempus sibi et quidem laxius postulavit,

Plin. Ep. 4, 9 med. —Hence, adv.: laxē, widely, spaciously, loosely.

Lit.:

vis sideris laxe grassantis,

Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 217:

distans,

id. 13, 4, 7, § 33:

aurum laxius dilatatur,

id. 33, 3, 19, § 61:

Mercurii stella laxissime vagatur,

id. 2, 16, 13, § 66:

medio suspendit vincula ponto, Et laxe fluitare sinit,

loosely, freely, Luc. 4, 450:

manus vincire,

loosely, Liv. 9, 10, 7.—

Trop.:

laxius proferre diem,

to put farther off, Cic. Att. 13, 14, 1; cf.:

volo laxius (sc. rem curari),

id. ib. 15, 20, 4:

de munere pastorum alii angustius, alii laxius constituere solent,

a greater number, more, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 10:

in hostico laxius rapto suetis vivere artiores in pace res erant,

more unrestrictedly, more freely, Liv. 28, 24, 6:

Romanos remoto metu laxius licentiusque futuros,

be more relaxed in discipline, more negligent, disorderly, Sall. J. 85.

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ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:

tela,

i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:

auxilium castris apertis,

to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:

(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,

i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—

In partic.

With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):

omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),

Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,

se,

id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:

se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,

Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).

With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;

more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:

in laetitiam,

Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.

(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.

also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:

vastare,

Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:

effusius praedari,

id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.

vivere,

id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:

affluant opes,

Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:

tela,

i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:

auxilium castris apertis,

to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:

(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,

i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—

In partic.

With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):

omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),

Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,

se,

id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:

se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,

Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).

With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;

more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:

in laetitiam,

Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.

(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.

also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:

vastare,

Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:

effusius praedari,

id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.

vivere,

id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:

affluant opes,

Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

ef-fundo (or ecf-), fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out, pour forth, shed, spread abroad (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. and trop. signif.).

Lit.:

vinum in barathrum (i. e. ventrem),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 28; cf. Cic. Pis. 10:

aquam oblatam in galea,

Front. Strat. 1, 7, 7:

humorem,

Cels. 7, 15:

lacrimas,

Lucr. 1, 126; Cic. Planc. 42, 101:

imbrem (procella),

Curt. 8, 13:

se in oceanum (Ganges),

Plin. 2, 108, 112, § 243:

Sangarius flumen in Propontidem se effundit,

Liv. 38, 18, 18; cf. pass. in mid. force:

mare neque redundat umquam neque effunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116; v. also under P. a.—

Transf., of non-liquid bodies.

In gen., to pour out, pour forth, drive out, cast out, send out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose;

a favorite word of Vergil): saccos nummorum,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 149:

frumentum in flumen,

Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 19:

ei oculus effunditur,

is knocked out, put out, ib. 19, 2, 13, § 4:

tela,

i. e. to shoot in great numbers, Verg. A. 9, 509; Liv. 27, 18:

auxilium castris apertis,

to send forth, Verg. A. 7, 522:

equus consulem lapsum super caput effudit,

threw, Liv. 22, 3, 11; so id. 10, 11; 27, 32; Plin. 8, 42, 65, § 160; Curt. 8, 14, 34; Verg. A. 10, 574; 893; cf. Val. Fl. 8, 358:

(quae via) Excutiat Teucros vallo atque effundat in aequum,

Verg. A. 9, 68:

sub altis portis,

id. ib. 11, 485; cf.:

aliquem solo,

id. ib. 12, 532:

caput in gremium,

Cels. 7, 7, 4. — Poet.:

carmina molli numero fluere, ut per leve severos Effundat junctura ungues,

i. e. lets it slip over smoothly, Pers. 1, 65.—

In partic.

With se, or mid. of persons, to pour out in a multitude, to rush out, spread abroad (a favorite expression with the historians):

omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit (sc. ex urbe),

Caes. B. C. 2, 7, 3; so,

se,

id. ib. 2, 7, 3; Liv. 26, 19; 34, 8; 33, 12, 10; 35, 39, 5; Val. Max. 7, 6, 6; Vell. 2, 112, 4; Suet. Calig. 4 fin.; id. Caes. 44 et saep. (but not in Caes. B. G. 5, 19, 2, where the better reading is:

se ejecerat, v. Schneider ad h. l.): omnibus portis effunduntur,

Liv. 38, 6;

so mid.,

Tac. A. 1, 23; Liv. 40, 40, 10; and esp. freq. in the part. effusus, Sall. J. 55, 4; 69, 2; Liv. 1, 14; 9, 31; Tac. A. 4, 25 fin.; 12, 31; 15, 23; Verg. A. 6, 305 et saep.— Ellips. of se: ubi se arctat (mare) Hellespontus vocatur; Propontis, ubi expandit; ubi iterum pressit, Thracius Bosporus;

ubi iterum effundit, Pontus Euxinus,

spreads out, widens, Mel. 1, 1, 5.—

With the accessory notion of producing, to bring forth, produce abundantly:

non solum fruges verum herbas etiam effundunt,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; cf.: fruges (auctumnus), Hor. C. 4, 7, 11:

copiam,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36.—

Of property, to pour out, i. e. to lavish, squander, waste, run through:

patrimonium per luxuriam effundere atque consumere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; so,

patrimonium,

id. Phil. 3, 2:

aerarium,

id. Agr. 1, 5, 15; id. Tusc. 3, 20, 48:

sumptus,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

opes,

Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94:

omnes fortunas,

Tac. A. 14, 31:

reditus publicos non in classem exercitusque, sed in dies festos,

Just. 6, 9, 3; and absol.:

effundite, emite, etc.,

Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 34.

Trop.

In gen.:

effudi vobis omnia, quae sentiebam,

i. e. have freely imparted, Cic. de Or. 1, 34 fin.; cf. id. Att. 16, 7, 5; id. Fl. 17, 41; Quint. 2, 2, 10; 10, 3, 17; Val. Fl. 7, 434:

procellam eloquentiae,

Quint. 11, 3, 158:

totos affectus,

id. 4, 1, 28:

tales voces,

Verg. A. 5, 723:

questus,

id. ib. 5, 780:

carmina,

Ov. H. 12, 139 al.:

vox in coronam turbamque effunditur,

Cic. Fl. 28 fin.; cf.:

questus in aëra,

Ov. M. 9, 370:

omnem suum vinulentum furorem in me,

Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4:

iram in aliquem,

Liv. 39, 34:

omne odium in auxilii praesentis spem,

id. 31, 44, 2:

indignationem,

Vulg. Ezech. 20, 8 et saep.—

In partic. (acc. to I. B. 2. a. and c.).

With se, or mid., to give one's self up to, to give loose to, yield to, indulge in:

qui se in aliqua libidine effuderit,

Cic. Par. 3, 1, 21:

se in omnes libidines,

Tac. A. 14, 13:

(Pompeius) in nos suavissime hercule effusus,

has treated me with the most flattering confidence, Cic. Att. 4, 9;

more freq., mid.: in tantam licentiam socordiamque,

Liv. 25, 20, 6:

in venerem,

id. 29, 23, 4:

in amorem,

Tac. A. 1, 54; Curt. 8, 4, 25:

in laetitiam,

Just. 12, 3, 7; Curt. 5, 1, 37:

in jocos,

Suet. Aug. 98:

in cachinnos,

id. Calig. 32:

in questus, lacrimas, vota,

Tac. A. 1, 11:

in lacrimas,

id. ib. 3, 23; 4, 8; id. H. 2, 45;

for which, lacrimis,

Verg. A. 2, 651; cf.:

ad preces lacrimasque,

Liv. 44, 31 fin.:

ad luxuriam,

id. 34, 6:

terra effunditur in herbas,

Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 48; cf.:

quorum stomachus in vomitiones effunditur,

id. 23, 1, 23, § 43.—

To cast away, give up, let go, dismiss, resign:

collectam gratiam florentissimi hominis,

Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1:

odium,

id. ib. 1, 9, 20:

vires,

Liv. 10, 28; Ov. M. 12, 107:

curam sui,

Sen. Ira, 2, 35:

verecundiam,

id. Ep. 11:

animam,

Verg. A. 1, 98; cf.

vitam,

Ov. H. 7, 181; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 1, 11, 25:

spiritum,

Tac. A. 2, 70.—

To relax, loosen, slacken, let go:

manibus omnis effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 5, 818:

sive gradum seu frena effunderet,

Stat. Th. 9, 182:

irarum effundit habenas,

Verg. A. 12, 499.—Hence, effūsus, a, um, P. a.

(Effundo, I. B. 1.) Poured out, cast out; hence, plur. as subst.: effusa, ōrum, n., the urine:

reliquias et effusa intueri,

Sen. Const. Sap. 13, 1.—

(Effundo, I. B. 2.) Spread out, extensive, vast, broad, wide (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).— Lit.

In gen.:

effusumque corpus,

Lucr. 3, 113; cf.:

late mare,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 26:

loca,

Tac. G. 30:

effusissimus Hadriatici maris sinus,

Vell. 2, 43:

incendium,

Liv. 30, 5; cf.

caedes,

id. 42, 65:

cursus,

id. 2, 50; Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 102:

membra,

i. e. full, plump, Stat. Th. 6, 841.—

Esp., relaxed, slackened, loosened, dishevelled:

habenis,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 31; cf.:

quam posset effusissimis habenis,

Liv. 37, 20:

comae,

Ov. H. 7, 70; id. Am. 1, 9, 38 et saep.; cf.

also transf.: (nymphae) caesariem effusae nitidam per candida colla,

Verg. G. 4, 337.—

Of soldiers or a throng of people, etc., straggling, disorderly, scattered, dispersed:

effusum agmen ducit,

Liv. 21, 25, 8:

aciem,

Luc. 4, 743:

huc omnis turba effusa ruebat,

Verg. A. 6, 305:

sine armis effusi in armatos incidere hostis,

Liv. 30, 5, 8.—

Trop.

Profuse, prodigal, lavish:

quis in largitione effusior?

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

munificentiae effusissimus,

Vell. 2, 41.—

Extravagant, immoderate:

licentia,

Liv. 44, 1; cf.

laetitia,

id. 35, 43 fin.:

cursus,

Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 11 et saep.— Comp.:

cultus in verbis,

Quint. 3, 8, 58.— Sup.:

laudationes,

Petr. 48, 7:

studium,

Suet. Ner. 40.— Adv.: effūse.

(Acc. to I.) Far spread, far and wide, widely.

In gen.:

ire,

Sall. J. 105, 3; cf.

fugere,

Liv. 3, 22; 40, 48:

persequi,

id. 43, 23; Curt. 9, 8:

vastare,

Liv. 1, 10; 44, 30; cf.:

effusius praedari,

id. 34, 16 et saep.: spatium annale effuse interpretari. in a wide sense, Cod. Just. 7, 40, 1. —

Esp., profusely, lavishly:

large effuseque donare,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; cf.

vivere,

id. Cael. 16 fin.: liberalem esse, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 71:

affluant opes,

Liv. 3, 26. —In the comp., Tac. A. 4, 62.—

(Acc. to II.) Extravagantly, immoderately:

cum inaniter et effuse animus exsultat,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13:

amare,

Plin. Ep. 6, 26, 2.— Comp.:

dicere,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 20:

fovere,

id. ib. 7, 24, 4:

excipere,

Suet. Ner. 22:

favere,

Tac. H. 1, 19.— Sup.:

diligere,

Plin. Ep. 7, 30, 1; id. Pan. 84, 4.

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actus, a, um, P. a., from ago.

actus, ūs, m. [ago].

A.. The moving or driving of an object, impulse, motion: linguae actu, Pacuv. ap. Non. 506, 17:

mellis constantior est natura... et cunctantior actus,

Lucr. 3, 192:

levi admonitu, non actu, inflectit illam feram,

by driving, Cic. Rep. 2, 40:

fertur in abruptum magno mons inprobus actu,

Verg. A. 12, 687:

pila contorsit violento spiritus actu,

Sen. Agam. 432; hominum aut animalium actu vehiculum adhibemus, Cael. Aurel. Tard. 1, 1.— Hence,

Transf.

The right of driving cattle through a place, a passage for cattle:

aquae ductus, haustus, iter, actus,

Cic. Caec. 26; Ulp. Dig. 8, 3, 1.—

A road between fields; a cart- or carriage-way, Dig. 8, 1, 5; 8, 5, 4; 43, 19, 1 al.—And,

A measure or piece of land (in quo boves aguntur, cum aratur, cum impetu justo, Plin. 18, 59): actus minimus, 120 feet long and 4 feet wide: quadratus, 120 feet square; and duplicatus, 240 feet long and 120 feet wide, Varr. L. L. 5, § 34 Müll.; id. R. R. 1, 10; Paul. ex Fest. p. 17 Müll. Also a division made by bees in a hive, Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 22.

The doing or performing or a thing, an act, performance.

In gen. (so not in Cic.; for Leg. 1, 11, inst. of pravis actibus, is to be read, pravitatibus;

but often in the post-Aug. per.): post actum operis,

Quint. 2, 18, 1:

in vero actu rei,

id. 7, 2, 41:

rhetorice in actu consistit,

id. 2, 18, 2:

donec residua diurni actus conficeret,

Suet. Aug. 78; so id. Claud. 30:

non consenserat actibus eorum,

Vulg. Luc. 23, 51.—

Esp.

Public employment, business of state, esp. judicial:

actus rerum,

jurisdiction, Suet. Aug. 32; id. Claud. 15, 23; also absol. actus, Dig. 39, 4, 16; 40, 5, 41 al.—

Of an orator:

motus est in his orationis et actus,

Quint. 9, 2, 4; 11, 3, 140.—

Of an actor: the representation of a play, a part, a character, etc.:

neque enim histrioni, ut placeat, peragenda est fabula, modo in quocunque fuerit actu, probetur,

Cic. de Sen. 19, 70:

carminum actus,

recital, Liv. 7, 2:

histrionum actus,

Quint. 10, 2, 11:

in tragico quodam actu, cum elapsum baculum cito resumpsisset,

Suet. Ner. 24.—Hence, also, a larger division of a play, an act:

primo actu placeo,

Ter. Hec. prol. 31:

neque minor quinto, nec sit productior actu Fabula,

Hor. A. P. 189, and trop. (in Cic. very often):

extremus actus aetatis,

Cic. de Sen. 2; id. Marcell. 9:

quartus actus improbitatis,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 6; so id. Phil. 2, 14; id. Fam. 5, 12 al. [p. 26]

ex-tendo, di, tum (also extensum, Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 145; Ov. A. A. 3, 302; Stat. Th. 6, 902 al.; cf. the forms extensio, extensor, etc.), 3, v. a., to stretch out, spread outextend (class.).

Lit.:

(vincla escaria) quam magis extendas, tanto astringunt artius,

Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 19: idem Crassus, Per tuas statuas cum dixit et extento bracchio paululum etiam de gestu addidit, vehementius risimus, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242;

for which: (Zeno) cum extensis digitis adversam manum ostenderet,

id. Ac. 2, 47, 145:

manum,

Quint. 11, 3, 119; cf. Cels. 7, 23 fin.:

cervicem,

Vell. 2, 70, 2: crura ad [p. 707] longitudinem, Plin. 10, 64, 84, § 183:

cutem,

to stretch out, smooth out, id. 32, 6, 21, § 65:

chartam malleo,

id. 13, 12, 26, § 82:

lineam,

id. 9, 59, 85, § 182:

capita tignorum,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 1:

cornua aciei,

Curt. 4, 13 fin.; cf.:

agmen ad mare,

id. 3, 9 fin.:

majores pennas nido,

Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 21:

extendit pectitque comas,

Juv. 6, 496: labellum, to stretch as in pouting, id. 14, 325:

gladios,

to forge, id. 15, 168.—Mid.:

jussit et extendi campos, subsidere valles,

to extend themselves, spread out, Ov. M. 1, 43:

ignis extenditur per campos,

spreads, Verg. A. 10, 407; and:

cum ad summum palum vitis extenta est,

Col. 4, 20, 3:

fusus humi totoque ingens extenditur antro,

stretches himself out, Verg. A. 6, 423.—Prov.: ire per extentum funem, to walk on a tight rope, i. e. to perform a very difficult feat, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 210 (Gr. epi schoiniou peripatein).

Trop., to extend, increase, enlarge, lengthen, spread.

In gen.:

epistolam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 20:

agros (populus Rom. victor),

to extend, Hor. A. P. 208:

verba (opp. corripere),

Quint. 10, 1, 29:

perculit et multa moribundum extendit arenā,

stretched out, extended, Verg. A. 5, 374; 9, 589:

tam immodice epistulam extendi, ut, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 7, 9, 16; 3, 5, 20; 5, 15, 7:

famam factis,

Verg. A. 10, 468; cf.:

nomen in ultimas oras,

Hor. C. 3, 3, 45:

cupiditatem gloriae,

Liv. 28, 43, 5:

spem in Africam quoque,

id. 24, 48, 1:

artem suam per hanc successionem,

Petr. 140:

pretia usque eo extendens, ut, etc.,

Suet. Calig. 38:

extentis itineribus,

by forced marches, Liv. 30, 19, 1:

cursus,

to proceed, Verg. A. 12, 909:

partitionem ultra tres propositiones,

Quint. 4, 5, 3:

voluntatem suam ad ulteriores,

Dig. 32, 1, 33:

officium suum ad lapidum venditionem,

ib. 20, 4, 21:

cum se magnis itineribus extenderet,

i. e. was exerting himself, Caes. B. C. 3, 77 fin.:

se supra vires,

Liv. 34, 4, 15:

magis ille extenditur,

is excited, Juv. 11, 169.—

In partic., of time, to extend, prolong, continue; to spend, pass:

ab hora tertia cum ad noctem pugnam extendissent,

Liv. 27, 2, 6:

comissationes ad mediam noctem,

Suet. Tit. 7:

labores in horam quintam,

Mart. 4, 8, 3:

luctus suos,

Val. Max. 1, 1, 15:

curas venientem in annum,

extends his thoughts to the coming year, Verg. G. 2, 405:

tempus epularum,

Plin. Pan. 49, 5;

consulatum,

id. ib. 61, 6;

extento aevo vivere,

Hor. C. 2, 2, 5; Sil. 3, 95:

suam aetatem,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 26:

se ad centesimum annum, i. e. vitam,

Val. Max. 5, 2 ext. 4.— Hence,

extentus, a, um, P. a., extended, extensive, wide:

mare, fontes extentaque longe flumina,

Lucr. 1, 230 Lachm. N. cr. (al. externa):

stagna latius Lucrino lacu,

Hor. C. 2, 15, 3:

oculi,

wide open, Quint. 11, 3, 76:

sonus (lusciniae),

drawn out, prolonged, Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 82.— Sup.:

castra inter confragosa omnia praeruptaque quam extentissima potest valle locat,

Liv. 21, 32, 9 Drak. N. cr.:

spatia,

Sol. 52.— Adv.: ex-tente, widely; only comp.:

quadratus eminet stilus extentius,

Amm. 23, 4, 2 (dub.):

porrecto extentius brachio,

id. 18, 6, 13.—

extense, adv., at length, extensively (post-class.):

dominus extensius ista disponit,

Tert. Idol. 2.

hĭĕto, āre, v. freq. n. and a. [for hiato, from hio; cf. Diom. p. 336 P.], to open the mouth wide, to gape, yawn (ante-class.):

ego dum hieto,

Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 4; cf. id. Fragm. ap. Diom. p. 336 P.: praei hercle tu, qui mihi oscitans hietansque restas, Caecil. ib.; Cn. Mat. ib.—

, in gen., to open wide, throw open: hietantur fores, Laber. ap. Diom. p. 336 P. (Com. Rel. v. 89 Rib.).

lātro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [cf. Gr. loidoreô and latrazein = barbarizein, Hesych.], to bark (cf. baubor).

Lit.:

si canes latrent,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 56; Lucr. 5, 1066:

ne latret canis,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 128: quasi feta canes sine dentibus latrat, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 32 Müll. (Ann. v. 518 Vahl.):

canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet,

Curt. 7, 4, 13:

canino rictu,

Juv. 10, 272.— Impers. pass.:

scit cui latretur cum solus obambulet ipse,

Ov. Tr. 2, 459.—

Act. for allatrare, to bark at, bay:

senem adulterum Latrent Suburanae canes,

Hor. Epod. 5, 57:

cervinam pellem,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 66:

nubila,

Stat. Th. 1, 551.—Also in pass.:

latrari a canibus,

Plin. 25, 10, 78, § 126.—

Part. pres. as subst.: lātrans, antis, m., a barker, i. e. a dog ( poet.):

inmeriti fatum latrantis,

Ov. M. 8, 412; plur., id. ib. 8, 344.—

Transf.

To resound, roar, of water ( poet.):

latrantes undae,

Sil. 5, 396:

(amnis) Alpibus ortus fertur latrantibus undis,

id. 3, 470; Stat. Ach. 1, 451.—

In speaking, to rant, roar, bluster:

latrant jam quidam oratores, non loquuntur,

Cic. Brut. 15, 58:

rumperis et latras,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 136.—

Act., to bark at:

si quis Obprobriis dignum latraverit,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 85.—

Trop., to bark at, rage, etc.

In gen.:

multa ab animalium vocibus tralata in homines, partim quae sunt aperta, partim obscura. Perspicua, ut Ennii: Animus cum pectore latrat,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 103 Müll. (cf. Ann. v. 570 Vahl.):

admoto latrant praecordia tactu,

rage, Stat. S. 2, 1, 13:

curae latrantes,

Petr. 119.—

Act.:

magnas latrantia pectora curas,

Stat. Th. 2, 338.—

In partic.

To demand vehemently: latrare Ennius pro poscere posuit, Paul. ex Fest. 121 Müll.; cf.

Enn. l. l.: cum sale panis Latrantem stomachum bene leniet,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 17:

nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut, etc.,

Lucr. 2, 17.—

Opening the mouth wide, pronounced with a wide mouth:

hanc scripsit Latine Plautus cum latranti nomine,

Plaut. Cas. prol. 34.

lā̆tro, ōnis, m. [Gr. latris, root la-, laW-, in laô, leia; cf. lucrum], a hired servant, hireling, mercenary, satellite, bodyguard, etc. (only ante-class.): haec effatus ibi, latrones dicta facessunt, Enn. ap. Non. 306, 23 (Ann. v. 60 Vahl.).—Of mercenary soldiers:

latrones, quos conduxi,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 3:

nam hic latro in Sparta fuit,

id. Poen. 3, 3, 50:

latronem suam qui auro vitam venditat,

id. Bacch. 1, 1, 20 Fleck.; cf.: fortunas suas coepere latrones Inter se memorare, Enn. ap. Non. 134, 29 (Ann. v. 528 Vahl.); cf. Varr. L. L. 7, p. 141 Müll., and the passage from Paul. ex Fest. infra.—

Transf.

A freebooter, highwayman, robber, bandit, irregular soldier, brigand (opp. justi hostes). Liv. 40, 27, 10: latrones eos antiqui dicebant, qui conducti militabant. apo tês latreias. At nunc viarum obsessores dicuntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 118 Müll.:

hostes hi sunt, qui nobis, aut quibus nos publice bellum decrevimus: ceteri latrones aut praedones sunt,

Dig. 50, 16, 118:

vos latrones et mendicos homines magni penditis?

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 75:

collecti ex praedonibus latronibusque Syriae,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110; 3, 109 fin.; id. B. G. 3, 17:

erat ei vivendum latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset,

Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 62:

non semper viator a latrone, non numquam etiam latro a viatore occiditur,

Cic. Mil. 21, 55; cf.:

cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator,

Juv. 10, 22; 13, 145:

ne quis fur esset, neu latro,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 106:

quin etiam leges latronum esse dicuntur, etc.,

Cic. Off. 2, 11, 40:

quaestio latronum,

Paul. Sent. 5, 16, 13:

qui latronem caedem sibi inferentem, occiderit,

id. ib. 5, 23, 8.—Of an assassin, Val. Max. 5, 9, 4.— Poet. of a hunter, Verg. A. 12, 7.—Of a wolf, Phaedr. 1, 1, 4.—

For latrunculus, a chessman, a piece in the game of draughts or chess which represents a soldier; a man, pawn ( poet.):

latronum proelia,

Ov. A. A. 3, 357:

ludere bella latronum,

Mart. 14, 20, 1; cf.

vitreo latrone,

id. 7, 72, 8.

Lā̆tro, ōnis, m., a Roman surname. So M. Porcius Latro, a famous orator from Spain, a friend of the elder Seneca, Sen. Contr. 1 praef.; Quint. 10, 5, 18; 9, 2, 91; Plin. 20, 14, 57, § 160.—Hence,

Lătrō-nĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Latro, Latronian:

color,

Sen. Contr. 1, 7, 16; 1 praef. § 13.

lātro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [cf. Gr. loidoreô and latrazein = barbarizein, Hesych.], to bark (cf. baubor).

Lit.:

si canes latrent,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 20, 56; Lucr. 5, 1066:

ne latret canis,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 128: quasi feta canes sine dentibus latrat, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 32 Müll. (Ann. v. 518 Vahl.):

canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet,

Curt. 7, 4, 13:

canino rictu,

Juv. 10, 272.— Impers. pass.:

scit cui latretur cum solus obambulet ipse,

Ov. Tr. 2, 459.—

Act. for allatrare, to bark at, bay:

senem adulterum Latrent Suburanae canes,

Hor. Epod. 5, 57:

cervinam pellem,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 66:

nubila,

Stat. Th. 1, 551.—Also in pass.:

latrari a canibus,

Plin. 25, 10, 78, § 126.—

Part. pres. as subst.: lātrans, antis, m., a barker, i. e. a dog ( poet.):

inmeriti fatum latrantis,

Ov. M. 8, 412; plur., id. ib. 8, 344.—

Transf.

To resound, roar, of water ( poet.):

latrantes undae,

Sil. 5, 396:

(amnis) Alpibus ortus fertur latrantibus undis,

id. 3, 470; Stat. Ach. 1, 451.—

In speaking, to rant, roar, bluster:

latrant jam quidam oratores, non loquuntur,

Cic. Brut. 15, 58:

rumperis et latras,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 136.—

Act., to bark at:

si quis Obprobriis dignum latraverit,

Hor. S. 2, 1, 85.—

Trop., to bark at, rage, etc.

In gen.:

multa ab animalium vocibus tralata in homines, partim quae sunt aperta, partim obscura. Perspicua, ut Ennii: Animus cum pectore latrat,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 103 Müll. (cf. Ann. v. 570 Vahl.):

admoto latrant praecordia tactu,

rage, Stat. S. 2, 1, 13:

curae latrantes,

Petr. 119.—

Act.:

magnas latrantia pectora curas,

Stat. Th. 2, 338.—

In partic.

To demand vehemently: latrare Ennius pro poscere posuit, Paul. ex Fest. 121 Müll.; cf.

Enn. l. l.: cum sale panis Latrantem stomachum bene leniet,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 17:

nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut, etc.,

Lucr. 2, 17.—

Opening the mouth wide, pronounced with a wide mouth:

hanc scripsit Latine Plautus cum latranti nomine,

Plaut. Cas. prol. 34.

lā̆tro, ōnis, m. [Gr. latris, root la-, laW-, in laô, leia; cf. lucrum], a hired servant, hireling, mercenary, satellite, bodyguard, etc. (only ante-class.): haec effatus ibi, latrones dicta facessunt, Enn. ap. Non. 306, 23 (Ann. v. 60 Vahl.).—Of mercenary soldiers:

latrones, quos conduxi,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 3:

nam hic latro in Sparta fuit,

id. Poen. 3, 3, 50:

latronem suam qui auro vitam venditat,

id. Bacch. 1, 1, 20 Fleck.; cf.: fortunas suas coepere latrones Inter se memorare, Enn. ap. Non. 134, 29 (Ann. v. 528 Vahl.); cf. Varr. L. L. 7, p. 141 Müll., and the passage from Paul. ex Fest. infra.—

Transf.

A freebooter, highwayman, robber, bandit, irregular soldier, brigand (opp. justi hostes). Liv. 40, 27, 10: latrones eos antiqui dicebant, qui conducti militabant. apo tês latreias. At nunc viarum obsessores dicuntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 118 Müll.:

hostes hi sunt, qui nobis, aut quibus nos publice bellum decrevimus: ceteri latrones aut praedones sunt,

Dig. 50, 16, 118:

vos latrones et mendicos homines magni penditis?

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 75:

collecti ex praedonibus latronibusque Syriae,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110; 3, 109 fin.; id. B. G. 3, 17:

erat ei vivendum latronum ritu, ut tantum haberet, quantum rapere potuisset,

Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 62:

non semper viator a latrone, non numquam etiam latro a viatore occiditur,

Cic. Mil. 21, 55; cf.:

cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator,

Juv. 10, 22; 13, 145:

ne quis fur esset, neu latro,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 106:

quin etiam leges latronum esse dicuntur, etc.,

Cic. Off. 2, 11, 40:

quaestio latronum,

Paul. Sent. 5, 16, 13:

qui latronem caedem sibi inferentem, occiderit,

id. ib. 5, 23, 8.—Of an assassin, Val. Max. 5, 9, 4.— Poet. of a hunter, Verg. A. 12, 7.—Of a wolf, Phaedr. 1, 1, 4.—

For latrunculus, a chessman, a piece in the game of draughts or chess which represents a soldier; a man, pawn ( poet.):

latronum proelia,

Ov. A. A. 3, 357:

ludere bella latronum,

Mart. 14, 20, 1; cf.

vitreo latrone,

id. 7, 72, 8.

Lā̆tro, ōnis, m., a Roman surname. So M. Porcius Latro, a famous orator from Spain, a friend of the elder Seneca, Sen. Contr. 1 praef.; Quint. 10, 5, 18; 9, 2, 91; Plin. 20, 14, 57, § 160.—Hence,

Lătrō-nĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Latro, Latronian:

color,

Sen. Contr. 1, 7, 16; 1 praef. § 13.