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1 alternus
alternus, a, um, adj. [alter], one after the other, by turns, interchangeable, alternate (class. and also poet.).I.In gen.: ( Sem)VNIS. ALTERNEI. ADVOCAPIT. CONCTOS (i. e. Semones alterni advocate cunctos), Carm. Fr. Arv. 36 (v. advoco fin.): alternā vice inire, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 214 P. (Trag. v. 151 Vahl.):II.alternae arbores,
Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 138:Alterno tenebras et lucem tempore gigni,
Lucr. 5, 978:ex duabus orationibus capita alterna recitare,
Cic. Clu. 51, 140:alternis trabibus ac saxis,
with beams and stones regularly interchanged, Caes. B. G. 7, 23 Herz.:(bibere) alternis diebus modo aquam, modo vinum,
Cels. 3, 2:Alterno terram quatiunt pede,
Hor. C. 1, 4, 7:per alternas vices,
Ov. P. 4, 2, 6:vix hostem, alterni si congrediamur, habemus,
Verg. A. 12, 233; 6, 121: alternum foedus amicitiae, Cat. 109, 6: alternus metus, mutual or reciprocal fear, Liv. 26, 25; cf. id. 23, 26:alternas servant praetoria ripas,
the opposite, Stat. S. 1, 3, 25:aves,
the eagles which stand opposite to each other, Claud. Mall. Theod. prol. 16 (v. the passage in its connection):alternis paene verbis T. Manlii factum laudans,
with almost every other word, Liv. 8, 30: alternis dicetis;amant alterna Camenae,
responsive song, Verg. E. 3, 59:versibus alternis,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 146: alternis aptum sermonibus, alternate discourse, i. e. dialogue, id. A. P. 81. —Of verses: interchanging between hexameter and pentameter, elegiac:pedes alternos esse oportebit,
Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 193:epigramma alternis versibus longiusculis,
id. Arch. 10, 25; Ov. H. 15, 5:canere alterno carmine,
id. F. 2, 121; so id. Tr. 3, 1, 11; 3, 1, 56; 3, 7, 10 (cf.:modos impares,
id. ib. 2, 220).—Esp., in the Roman courts of justice the accused, and afterwards the accuser, could alternately reject all the judges appointed by the prætor;a. b.hence, alterna consilia or alternos judices reicere,
to reject by turns, Cic. Vatin. 11, 27; id. Planc. 15, 36:cum alternae civitates rejectae sunt,
id. Verr. 2, 2, 13.— Comp. and sup. are not used. — Advv. (only in posit.).Form alternīs ( abl. plur.; sc. vicibus), alternately, by turns ( poet. and prose; freq. in Lucr.;* c.not in Cic.),
Lucr. 1, 524; 1, 768; 1, 1011; 1, 1066; 3, 373; 4, 790; 6, 570; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 9; Verg. E. 3, 59; id. G. 1, 71; 1, 79; Liv. 2, 2 med.; Sen. Ep. 120 fin.; Plin. Ep. 18, 2.—Form alternă, neutr. plur., Plin. 11, 37, 51, § 138 Jan; App. M. 10, p. 247, 8 Elm.
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