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ŏpus, ĕris, n. [Sanscr. ap-as, work; whence apuas, gain; v. ops; cf. also Germ. üben].

Lit.

In gen., work, labor (cf.:

labor, ars, opera): quod in opere faciundo operae consumis tuae,

in doing your work, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 21:

menses octo continuos opus hic non defuit, cum vas nullum fieret, nisi aureum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54:

oratio in causarum contentionibus magnum est quoddam opus, atque haud sciam, an de humanisoperibus longe maximum,

id. de Or. 2, 17, 71.—

Esp.

Work, art, workmanship:

naturā et opere munitus,

Caes. B. G. 5, 21.—

Of agricultural labor:

opus faciam, ut defatiger usque,

Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 14; Cic. Sen. 7, 24:

grave Martis opus,

Verg. A. 8, 515.—

Of honey-making: foris [p. 1274] pascuntur (apes), intus opus faciunt, Varr. R. R. 3, 16.—

Of literary labor:

(Graeci) opus quaerunt,

seek employment, Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, 81; cf. Liv. 5, 3.—

In mal. part., Plaut. As. 5, 2, 23.—

Transf., a work that has been done or made.

A military work, either a defensive work, fortification, or a work of besiegers, a siege-engine, machine, etc.:

nondum opere castrorum perfecto,

Caes. B. C. 2, 26; so,

opere perfecto,

id. B. G. 1, 8; Nep. Them. 7, 1:

Mutinam operibus munitionibusque saepsit,

Cic. Phil. 13, 9, 20:

operibus Toletum cepit,

Liv. 35, 22; 37, 5.—

Any result of labor.

Of public works, esp. buildings:

aedium sacrarum, publicorumque operum depopulatio,

Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 12; Liv. 1, 56, 2; 1, 57, 1; Quint. 3, 11, 13:

de exstruendis reficiendisve operibus,

Suet. Tib. 30:

opera, templum theatrumque,

id. Calig. 21; cf.

of an aqueduct, etc.,

id. Claud. 20:

in titulis operum,

in public inscriptions, id. ib. 41 fin. —

Of writings, a work, book:

habeo opus magnum in manibus,

Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 3:

an pangis aliquid Sophocleum? Fac opus appareat,

id. Fam. 16, 18, 3:

quod Homerus atque Vergilius operum suorum principiis faciunt,

Quint. 4, 1, 34; 3, 6, 64; 10, 1, 83.—

Of a work of art:

quorum iste non opere delectabatur, sed pondere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 56, § 124:

hydria Boëthi manu facta praeclaro opere,

of admirable workmanship, id. ib. 2, 4, 14, §

32: haec omnia antiquo opere,

id. ib. 2, 4, 21, § 46.—

In gen., a deed, action, performance, business:

miserum'st opus,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 2:

ut si mures corroserint aliquid, quorum est opus hoc unum, monstrum putemus,

Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59:

opus meae hastae,

Ov. M. 12, 112.—For magno opere, tanto opere, quanto opere (and, joined in one word, magnopere, tantopere, quantopere), lit., with great, such, or what labor, v. h. vv.—

Esp. (eccl. Lat.).

A work of superhuman power, a miracle, Vulg. Joh. 5, 36; 7, 21; 14, 10.—

Bona opera, = kala erga, good works, deeds wrought by grace, Cypr. Ep. 18, 2; Lact. 3, 9, 15; 6, 18, 9; Vulg. Matt. 5, 16.—

Transf., abstr. in nom. and acc., need, necessity; hence,

Opus est, it is needful, wanting; there is need of, use for: opus est mihi, tibi, etc., I ( thou, etc.) have need of, need, want. It is contrasted with necesse est: emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est, Cato ap. Sen. Ep. 94, 28. Also with indigere:

ait (Chrysippus) sapien. tem nullā re indigere, et tamen multis illi rebus opus esse, contra stulto nullā re opus est, nullā re enim uti scit, sed omnibus eget,

Sen. Ep. 9, 12. The person who needs any thing is put in the dat., and the thing needed in the nom. or abl. (prop. abl. instrum.: opus est mihi, I have work with, i. e. I need), rarely in the gen., acc., inf., acc. and inf., or with ut.

With the nom. of the thing needed as subject:

materiem, et quae opus sunt, dominus praebebit,

Cato, R. R. 14, 3:

minus multi opus sunt boves,

Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 4:

maritumi milites opus sunt tibi,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 61:

dux nobis et auctor opus est,

Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 1:

hujus nobis exempla permulta opus sunt,

id. Inv. 2, 19, 57:

ullā in re, quod ad valetudinem opus sit,

id. Fam. 16, 4, 2:

si quid opus erit in sumptum,

id. Att. 5, 8, 2:

parari, quae ad transitum Hellesponti opus essent,

Liv. 37, 18, 10:

quae curando vulneri opus sunt,

id. 1, 41, 1; cf.:

ferociora utraque quam quietis opus est consiliis,

id. 30, 30, 11; cf. with esse: nil sibi divitias opus esse, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 15.—

With abl.:

magistratibus opus est,

there is need of, they are needed, Cic. Leg. 3, 2, 5:

viro et gubernatore opus est,

Liv. 24, 8:

opus est auctoritate tuā,

Cic. Fam. 9, 25, 3:

non longis opus est ambagibus,

Ov. M. 4, 475:

nunc opus est leviore lyrā,

id. ib. 10, 152.—With pers. subj. (very rare):

responderunt regem discordiis opus esse,

Just. 11, 7, 10.— So with abl. of the part. perf.:

maturato opus est,

there is need of haste, it is necessary to act speedily, Liv. 8, 13; cf.:

erat nihil cur properato opus esset,

of haste, Cic. Mil. 19, 49 (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 464, A, 1).— With abl. of the sup.:

ita dictu opus est,

it is necessary to say, I must say. Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 68:

quod scitu opus est,

Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28.—

With gen.:

ad consilium pensandum temporis opus esse,

Liv. 22, 51:

quanti argenti opus fuit,

id. 23, 31.—

With acc. (ante-class.):

puero opus est cibum,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 10; 1, 1, 71: opus est modium unum (calcis), Cato, R. R. 15.—

With inf.:

quid opus est de Dionysio tam valde affirmare?

Cic. Att. 7, 8, 1.—Ellipt.:

quid opus est plura? (sc. proferre),

Cic. Sen. 1, 3.—

With acc. and inf.:

nunc opus est te animo valere,

Cic. Fam. 16, 4, 2.—

With ut:

opus nutrici autem, utrem ut habeat veteris vini largiter,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 11; Tac. Dial. 31 init.; Vulg. Johan. 2, 25; 16, 30.—

With subj. alone:

non est opus affingas aliquid,

Plin. Ep. 9, 33, 11.—

Absol.:

sic opus est,

Ov. M. 1, 279.—

Sometimes opus est is employed without the notion of strict necessity, as i. q. expedit, juvat, conducit, it is good, useful, serviceable, beneficial:

atque haud sciam, an ne opus sit quidem, nihil umquam omnino deesse amicis,

Cic. Lael. 14, 51; id. Off. 3, 11, 49; id. ib. 3, 32, 114; Hor. S. 1, 9, 27; 2, 6, 116.—

Opus habere, to have need of (very rare); with abl., Col. 9, 1, 5: opus habere ut, Ambros. de Fide, 5, 17, 213; cf.:

non dicimus opus habeo, sed opus est mihi,

Diom. 301 P.

Ŏpūs, ūntis, f., = Opous, a town of Locris, in Greece, now Kardhenitza, Liv. 28, 7; Ov. P. 1, 3, 73.—Hence,

Ŏpūn-tĭus, a, um, adj., Opuntian:

sinus,

Mel. 2, 3, 6; Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 27:

Philodamus,

of Opus, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 44, § 109.—In plur.: Ŏpūntĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Opus, the Opuntians, Liv. 28, 6 fin.

ŏpus, ĕris, n. [Sanscr. ap-as, work; whence apuas, gain; v. ops; cf. also Germ. üben].

Lit.

In gen., work, labor (cf.:

labor, ars, opera): quod in opere faciundo operae consumis tuae,

in doing your work, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 21:

menses octo continuos opus hic non defuit, cum vas nullum fieret, nisi aureum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54:

oratio in causarum contentionibus magnum est quoddam opus, atque haud sciam, an de humanisoperibus longe maximum,

id. de Or. 2, 17, 71.—

Esp.

Work, art, workmanship:

naturā et opere munitus,

Caes. B. G. 5, 21.—

Of agricultural labor:

opus faciam, ut defatiger usque,

Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 14; Cic. Sen. 7, 24:

grave Martis opus,

Verg. A. 8, 515.—

Of honey-making: foris [p. 1274] pascuntur (apes), intus opus faciunt, Varr. R. R. 3, 16.—

Of literary labor:

(Graeci) opus quaerunt,

seek employment, Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, 81; cf. Liv. 5, 3.—

In mal. part., Plaut. As. 5, 2, 23.—

Transf., a work that has been done or made.

A military work, either a defensive work, fortification, or a work of besiegers, a siege-engine, machine, etc.:

nondum opere castrorum perfecto,

Caes. B. C. 2, 26; so,

opere perfecto,

id. B. G. 1, 8; Nep. Them. 7, 1:

Mutinam operibus munitionibusque saepsit,

Cic. Phil. 13, 9, 20:

operibus Toletum cepit,

Liv. 35, 22; 37, 5.—

Any result of labor.

Of public works, esp. buildings:

aedium sacrarum, publicorumque operum depopulatio,

Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 12; Liv. 1, 56, 2; 1, 57, 1; Quint. 3, 11, 13:

de exstruendis reficiendisve operibus,

Suet. Tib. 30:

opera, templum theatrumque,

id. Calig. 21; cf.

of an aqueduct, etc.,

id. Claud. 20:

in titulis operum,

in public inscriptions, id. ib. 41 fin. —

Of writings, a work, book:

habeo opus magnum in manibus,

Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 3:

an pangis aliquid Sophocleum? Fac opus appareat,

id. Fam. 16, 18, 3:

quod Homerus atque Vergilius operum suorum principiis faciunt,

Quint. 4, 1, 34; 3, 6, 64; 10, 1, 83.—

Of a work of art:

quorum iste non opere delectabatur, sed pondere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 56, § 124:

hydria Boëthi manu facta praeclaro opere,

of admirable workmanship, id. ib. 2, 4, 14, §

32: haec omnia antiquo opere,

id. ib. 2, 4, 21, § 46.—

In gen., a deed, action, performance, business:

miserum'st opus,

Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 2:

ut si mures corroserint aliquid, quorum est opus hoc unum, monstrum putemus,

Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59:

opus meae hastae,

Ov. M. 12, 112.—For magno opere, tanto opere, quanto opere (and, joined in one word, magnopere, tantopere, quantopere), lit., with great, such, or what labor, v. h. vv.—

Esp. (eccl. Lat.).

A work of superhuman power, a miracle, Vulg. Joh. 5, 36; 7, 21; 14, 10.—

Bona opera, = kala erga, good works, deeds wrought by grace, Cypr. Ep. 18, 2; Lact. 3, 9, 15; 6, 18, 9; Vulg. Matt. 5, 16.—

Transf., abstr. in nom. and acc., need, necessity; hence,

Opus est, it is needful, wanting; there is need of, use for: opus est mihi, tibi, etc., I ( thou, etc.) have need of, need, want. It is contrasted with necesse est: emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est, Cato ap. Sen. Ep. 94, 28. Also with indigere:

ait (Chrysippus) sapien. tem nullā re indigere, et tamen multis illi rebus opus esse, contra stulto nullā re opus est, nullā re enim uti scit, sed omnibus eget,

Sen. Ep. 9, 12. The person who needs any thing is put in the dat., and the thing needed in the nom. or abl. (prop. abl. instrum.: opus est mihi, I have work with, i. e. I need), rarely in the gen., acc., inf., acc. and inf., or with ut.

With the nom. of the thing needed as subject:

materiem, et quae opus sunt, dominus praebebit,

Cato, R. R. 14, 3:

minus multi opus sunt boves,

Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 4:

maritumi milites opus sunt tibi,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 61:

dux nobis et auctor opus est,

Cic. Fam. 2, 6, 1:

hujus nobis exempla permulta opus sunt,

id. Inv. 2, 19, 57:

ullā in re, quod ad valetudinem opus sit,

id. Fam. 16, 4, 2:

si quid opus erit in sumptum,

id. Att. 5, 8, 2:

parari, quae ad transitum Hellesponti opus essent,

Liv. 37, 18, 10:

quae curando vulneri opus sunt,

id. 1, 41, 1; cf.:

ferociora utraque quam quietis opus est consiliis,

id. 30, 30, 11; cf. with esse: nil sibi divitias opus esse, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 15.—

With abl.:

magistratibus opus est,

there is need of, they are needed, Cic. Leg. 3, 2, 5:

viro et gubernatore opus est,

Liv. 24, 8:

opus est auctoritate tuā,

Cic. Fam. 9, 25, 3:

non longis opus est ambagibus,

Ov. M. 4, 475:

nunc opus est leviore lyrā,

id. ib. 10, 152.—With pers. subj. (very rare):

responderunt regem discordiis opus esse,

Just. 11, 7, 10.— So with abl. of the part. perf.:

maturato opus est,

there is need of haste, it is necessary to act speedily, Liv. 8, 13; cf.:

erat nihil cur properato opus esset,

of haste, Cic. Mil. 19, 49 (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 464, A, 1).— With abl. of the sup.:

ita dictu opus est,

it is necessary to say, I must say. Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 68:

quod scitu opus est,

Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28.—

With gen.:

ad consilium pensandum temporis opus esse,

Liv. 22, 51:

quanti argenti opus fuit,

id. 23, 31.—

With acc. (ante-class.):

puero opus est cibum,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 10; 1, 1, 71: opus est modium unum (calcis), Cato, R. R. 15.—

With inf.:

quid opus est de Dionysio tam valde affirmare?

Cic. Att. 7, 8, 1.—Ellipt.:

quid opus est plura? (sc. proferre),

Cic. Sen. 1, 3.—

With acc. and inf.:

nunc opus est te animo valere,

Cic. Fam. 16, 4, 2.—

With ut:

opus nutrici autem, utrem ut habeat veteris vini largiter,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 11; Tac. Dial. 31 init.; Vulg. Johan. 2, 25; 16, 30.—

With subj. alone:

non est opus affingas aliquid,

Plin. Ep. 9, 33, 11.—

Absol.:

sic opus est,

Ov. M. 1, 279.—

Sometimes opus est is employed without the notion of strict necessity, as i. q. expedit, juvat, conducit, it is good, useful, serviceable, beneficial:

atque haud sciam, an ne opus sit quidem, nihil umquam omnino deesse amicis,

Cic. Lael. 14, 51; id. Off. 3, 11, 49; id. ib. 3, 32, 114; Hor. S. 1, 9, 27; 2, 6, 116.—

Opus habere, to have need of (very rare); with abl., Col. 9, 1, 5: opus habere ut, Ambros. de Fide, 5, 17, 213; cf.:

non dicimus opus habeo, sed opus est mihi,

Diom. 301 P.

Ŏpūs, ūntis, f., = Opous, a town of Locris, in Greece, now Kardhenitza, Liv. 28, 7; Ov. P. 1, 3, 73.—Hence,

Ŏpūn-tĭus, a, um, adj., Opuntian:

sinus,

Mel. 2, 3, 6; Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 27:

Philodamus,

of Opus, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 44, § 109.—In plur.: Ŏpūntĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Opus, the Opuntians, Liv. 28, 6 fin.

sisto, stĭti (Charis. p. 220, and Diom. p. 369, give steti for both sisto and sto, confining stiti to the compounds of both. But steti, as perfect of sisto, is late jurid. Lat., and perh. dub.;

for steterant,

Verg. A. 3, 110;

steterint,

id. ib. 3, 403; Liv. 8, 32, 12, belong to stare; cf. also Gell. 2, 14, 1 sqq.; and v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 461 sq.), stătum [root stă, strengthened by reduplication; cf. histêmi], used in two general senses, I. To cause to stand, place, = colloco, pono; II. To stand, be placed, = sto.

Sistere, in gen., = collocare (in class. prose only in the partic. uses, v. A. 4. C. and D., infra).

Causative, with acc.

To place = facere ut stet; constr. with in and abl., with abl. alone, and with ad, super, etc., and acc.:

O qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi Sistat,

Verg. G. 2, 489:

tertia lux classem Cretaeis sistet in oris,

id. A. 3, 117 (classis stat;

v. sto): inque tuo celerem litore siste gradum,

Ov. H. 13, 102 (cf. infra, III. 2. A.):

jaculum clamanti (al. clamantis) sistit in ore,

plants the dart in his face, Verg. A. 10, 323:

disponit quas in fronte manus, medio quas robore sistat,

Stat. Th. 7, 393:

(equum ligneum) sacratā sistimus arā,

Verg. A. 2, 245:

aeternis potius me pruinis siste,

Stat. Th. 4, 395: ut stata (est) lux pelago, as soon as light was set ( shone) on the sea, id. ib. 5, 476:

victima Sistitur ante aras,

Ov. M. 15, 132:

quam (suem) Aeneas ubi... sistit ad aram,

Verg. A. 8, 85:

post haec Sistitur crater,

Ov. M. 8, 669: vestigia in altero (monte) sisti (non posse), that no footprints can be placed ( made) on the other mountain, Plin. 2, 96, 98, § 211:

cohortes expeditas super caput hostium sistit,

Tac. H. 3, 77; cf. id. A. 12, 13; Stat. Th. 4, 445; Sil. 4, 612. —

To place, as the result of guidance or conveyance; hence, to convey, to send, lead, take, conduct to, = facere ut veniat; constr. with in and abl., with abl. alone, and with advv. of place: officio meo ripā sistetur in illā Haec, will be carried by me to, etc., Ov. M. 9, 109:

terrā sistēre petitā,

id. ib. 3, 635:

(vos) facili jam tramite sistam,

Verg. A. 6, 676:

ut eum in Syriā aut Aegypto sisterent orabat,

to convey him to, Tac. H. 2, 9.—So with hic (= in with abl.) or huc (= in with acc.):

hic siste patrem,

Sen. Phoen. 121:

Annam huc siste sororem,

Verg. A. 4, 634.—

To place an army in order of battle, draw up, = instruere:

aciem in litore sistit,

Verg. A. 10, 309; cf.:

sistere tertiam decimam legionem in ipso aggere jubet,

Tac. H. 3, 21.—

Se sistere = to betake one's self, to present one's self, to come (so twice in Cicero's letters):

des operam, id quod mihi affirmasti, ut te ante Kal. Jan., ubicumque erimus, sistas,

Cic. Att. 3, 25:

te vegetum nobis in Graeciā sistas,

id. ib. 10, 16, 6 (cf. infra, E.):

hic dea se primum rapido pulcherrima nisu Sistit,

Verg. A. 11, 853.—

With two acc. (cf.: praesto, reddo) = to cause to be in a certain condition, to place, etc.; often with dat. of interest (ante- and post-class., and poet.; cf.

supra, 4.): ego vos salvos sistam,

I will place you in safety, see you to a safe place, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 5:

omnia salva sistentur tibi,

all will be returned to you in good order, id. ib. 5, 3, 3; so,

suam rem sibi salvam sistam,

id. Poen. 5, 2, 123; cf.:

rectius tacitas tibi res sistam, quam quod dictum est mutae mulieri,

will keep your secrets, id. ib. 4, 2, 54:

neque (dotem) incolumem sistere illi, et detraxe autument,

that you deliver it entire to her, id. Trin. 3, 3, 15:

cum te reducem aetas prospera sistet,

Cat. 64, 238: tu modo servitio vacuum me siste (= praesta) superbo, set me free from, Prop. 4, 16 (3, 17), 42:

tutum patrio te limine sistam,

will see you safe home, Verg. A. 2, 620:

praedā onustos triumphantesque mecum domos reduces sistatis,

Liv. 29, 27, 3 Weissenb. ad loc.:

Pelasgis siste levem campum,

Stat. Th. 8, 328:

modo se isdem in terris victorem sisterent,

Tac. A. 2, 14:

operā tuā sistas hunc nobis sanum atque validum,

give him back to us, safe and sound, Gell. 18, 10, 7: ita mihi salvam ac sospitem rempublicam sistere in suā sede liceat, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 28.—

Neutr, with double nom., = exsistere, to be, to become: judex extremae sistet vitaeque necisque, he will become a judge, etc., Manil. 4, 548 (dub.):

tempora quod sistant propriis parentia signis,

id. 3, 529 (dub.; al. sic stant; cf. infra, II.).—

As neuter verb, to stand, rest, be placed, lie ( poet.);

constr. like sto: ne quis mihi obstiterit obviam, nam qui obstiterit, ore sistet,

will lie on his face, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 13 Brix ad loc.: (nemo sit) tantā gloriā... quin cadat, quin capite sistat, will be placed or stand on his head, id. Curc. 2, 3, 8:

ibi crebro, credo, capite sistebant cadi,

id. Mil. 3, 2, 36 Lorenz (Brix, hoc illi crebro capite):

ipsum si quicquam posse in se sistere credis,

to rest upon itself, Lucr. 1, 1057:

neque posse in terrā sistere terram,

nor can the earth rest upon itself, id. 2, 603:

at conlectus aquae... qui lapides inter sistit per strata viarum,

id. 4, 415:

incerti quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur,

to rest, to stay, Verg. A. 3, 7; cf.:

quaesitisque diu terris, ubi sistere detur,

Ov. M. 1, 307. —

As jurid. term.

In both a causative and neuter sense = to produce in court, or to appear in court after being bound over by the judge or by promise to the adversary (vadimonium); constr. either absol. or with the dat. of the adversary to whom the promise is made (alicui sisti), to appear upon somebody's demand; also, in judicio sisti. The present active is either used reflexively (se sistere = to appear), or with a transitive object (sistere aliquem = to produce in court one in whose behalf the promise has been made). The present passive, sisti, sistendus, sistitur, = to appear or to be produced. The perfect act., stiti, stitisse, rarely the perfect passive, status sum, = to have appeared, I appeared. So in all periods of the language:

cum autem in jus vocatus fuerit adversarius, ni eo die finitum fuerit negotium, vadimonium ei faciendum est, id est ut promittat se certo die sisti,

Gai. 4, 184:

fit ut Alfenus promittat, Naevio sisti Quinctium,

that Quinctius would be forthcoming upon Naevius's complaint, Cic. Quint. 21, 67; cf. id. ib. 8, 30 (v. infra, B.):

testificatur, P. Quinctium non stitisse, et se stitisse,

id. ib. 6, 25:

quin puellam sistendam promittat (= fore ut puella sistatur in judicio),

Liv. 3, 45, 3:

interrogavit quisquam, in quem diem locumque vadimonium promitti juberet, et Scipio manum ad ipsam oppidi, quod obsidebatur, arcem protendens: Perendie sese sistant illo in loco,

Gell. 7, 1, 10:

si quis quendam in judicio sisti promiserit, in eādem causā eum debet sistere,

Dig. 2, 11, 11:

si servum in eādem causā sistere promiserit, et liber factus sistatur,... non recte sistitur,

ib. 2, 9, 5:

sed si statu liberum sisti promissum sit, in eādem causā sisti videtur, quamvis liber sistatur,

ib. 2, 9, 6:

cum quis in judicio sisti promiserit, neque adjecerit poenam si status non esset,

ib. 2, 6, 4:

si quis in judicio secundum suam promissionem non stitit,

ib. 2, 11, 2, § 1; cf. ib. 2, 5, 1; 2, 8, 2; 2, 11, 2, § 3.—

Vadimonium sistere, to present one's self in court, thus keeping the solemn engagement (vadimonium) made to that effect; lit., to make the vadimonium stand, i. e. effective, opp. deserere vadimonium = not to appear, to forfeit the vadimonium. The phrase does not occur in the jurists of the Pandects, the institution of the vadimonium being abolished by Marcus Aurelius. It is found in the following three places only: quid si vadimonium capite obvoluto stitisses? Cat. ap. Gell. 2, 14, 1: ut Quinctium sisti Alfenus promitteret. Venit Romam Quinctius;

vadimonium sistit,

Cic. Quint. 8, 30:

ut nullum illa stiterit vadimonium sine Attico,

Nep. Att. 9; Gai. 4, 185; cf. diem sistere under status, P. a. infra.—

Transf., out of judicial usage, in gen., = to appear or present one's self, quasi ex vadimonio; constr. absol. or with dat. of the person entitled to demand the appearance:

ubi tu es qui me vadatus's Veneriis vadimoniis? Sisto ego tibi me, et mihi contra itidem ted ut sistas suadeo (of a lover's appointment),

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 5; so,

tibi amatorem illum alacrem vadimonio sistam,

produce, App. M. 9, p. 227, 14:

nam promisimus carnufici aut talentum magnum, aut hunc hodie sistere,

Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 73:

vas factus est alter ejus sistendi, ut si ille non revertisset, moriendum esset sibi,

Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45. —

Fana sistere, acc. to Festus anciently used, either = to place ( secure and fix places for) temples in founding a city, or to place the couches in the lectisternia:

sistere fana, cum in urbe condendā dicitur, significat loca in oppido futurorum fanorum constituere: quamquam Antistius Labeo, in commentario XV. juris pontificii ait fana sistere esse lectisternia certis locis et diebus habere,

Fest. p. 267 Lind. To this usage Plaut. perh. alludes:

apud illas aedis sistendae mihi sunt sycophantiae,

the place about that house I must make the scene of my tricks, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 25.—

Sistere monumenta, etc., or sistere alone, to erect statues, etc. (= statuere; post-class. and rare;

mostly in Tac.): ut apud Palatium effigies eorum sisteret,

Tac. A. 15, 72:

cum Augustus sibi templum sisti non prohibuisset,

id. ib. 4 37:

at Romae tropaea de Parthis arcusque sistebantur,

id. ib. 15, 18:

monuere ut... templum iisdem vestigiis sisteretur,

id. H. 4, 53:

sistere monumenta,

Aus. Ep. 24, 55: Ast ego te... Carthaginis arce Marmoreis sistam templis (cf. histanai tina), Sil. 8, 231; v. statuo.

Sistere = to cause what is tottering or loose to stand firm, to support or fasten; and neutr., to stand firm.

Causative (rare;

perh. not in class. prose) = stabilire: sucus... mobilis (dentes) sistit,

Plin. 20, 3, 8, § 15; and trop.: hic (Marcellus) rem Romanam magno turbante tumultu Sistet (cf.: respublica stat;

v. sto),

Verg. A. 6, 858; cf.:

non ita civitatem aegram esse, ut consuetis remediis sisti posset,

Liv. 3, 20, 8 (where sisti may be impers.; v. infra, III. C.).—

Neutr., to stand firm, to last, = stare:

nec mortale genus, nec divum corpora sancta Exiguom possent horai sistere tempus,

Lucr. 1, 1016: qui rem publicam sistere negat posse, nisi ad equestrem ordinem judicia referantur, Cotta ap. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 96, § 223.—

Neutr., to stand firm, to resist:

nec quicquam Teucros Sustentare valet telis, aut sistere contra,

Verg. A. 11, 873; so with dat. = resistere:

donec Galba, inruenti turbae neque aetate neque corpore sistens, sella levaretur,

Tac. H. 1, 35; cf. sisti = resistere, III. B. 1. f. infra.

Sistere = to stand still, and to cause to stand still.

Neutr. = stare (rare; in Varr., Tac., and the poets).

To stand still:

solstitium dictum est quod sol eo die sistere videatur,

Varr. L. L. 5, p. 53 (Bip.):

sistunt amnes,

Verg. G. 1, 479:

incurrit, errat, sistit,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 248.—

To remain, stop:

Siste! Quo praeceps ruis?

Sen. Thyest. 77; id. Oedip. 1050:

vis tu quidem istum intra locum sistere?

will you remain in that position? Tac. A. 4, 40.—

Trop., to stop, not to go any farther:

depunge, ubi sistam,

Pers. 6, 79:

nec in Hectore tracto sistere,

to stop at the dragging of Hector, Stat. Achill. 1, 7.—

To cease (dub.):

hactenus sistat nefas' pius est,

if his crime ceases here, he will be pious, Sen. Thyest. 744 (perh. act., to stop, end).—

Causative (not ante-Aug.; freq. in Tac., Plin., and the poets).

To arrest, stop, check an advancing motion.

With gradum:

plano sistit uterque gradum,

arrest their steps, Prop. 5 (4), 10, 36; Verg. A. 6, 465:

siste properantem gradum,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 772:

repente sistunt gradum,

Curt. 4, 6, 14. —With pedem, Ov. R. Am. 80.—

With fugam, to stop, stay, check, stem, arrest the flight:

fugam foedam siste,

Liv. 1, 12, 5:

si periculo suo fugam sistere posset,

id. 30, 12, 1; so Curt. 8, 14, 37; 4, 16, 2; 8, 3, 2; Tac. A. 12, 39.—

Of vehicles, horses, etc.:

esseda siste,

Prop. 2, 1, 76:

equos,

Verg. A. 12, 355:

quadrijugos,

Stat. Achill. 2, 429; so id. Th. 5, 364.—

With iter, to arrest the advance of an army, to halt:

exercitus iter sistit,

Tac. H. 3, 50.—

With bellum, to halt (cf. infra, D.):

Aquilejae sisti bellum expectarique Mucianum jubebat,

Tac. H. 3, [p. 1712] 8.—

Of living objects, in gen.

To arrest their course, make them halt:

aegre coercitam legionem Bedriaci sistit,

Tac. H. 2, 23:

festinantia sistens Fata,

staying the hurrying Fates, Stat. S. 3, 4, 24.—So, se sistere with ab, to desist from:

non prius se ab effuso cursu sistunt,

Liv. 6, 29, 3; hence, to arrest by wounding, i. e. to wound or kill:

aliquem cuspide,

Sil. 1, 382; 1, 163; so,

cervum vulnere sistere,

id. 2, 78.—

To stop a hostile attack of persons, to resist them, ward them off:

ut non sisterent modo Sabinas legiones, sed in fugam averterent,

Liv. 1, 37, 3:

ibi integrae vires sistunt invehentem se jam Samnitem,

id. 10, 14, 18:

nec sisti vis hostium poterat,

Curt. 5, 3, 11:

nec sisti poterant scandentes,

Tac. H. 3, 71; 5, 21. —

Trop., to stop the advance of prices:

pretia augeri in dies, nec mediocribus remediis sisti posse,

Tac. A. 3, 52.—

To arrest the motion of fluids.

Of water:

sistere aquam fluviis,

Verg. A. 4, 489:

amnis, siste parumper aquas,

Ov. Am. 3, 6, 2:

quae concita flumina sistunt,

id. M. 7, 154:

sistito infestum mare,

calm, Sen. Agam. 523; cf. Ov. M. 7, 200; id. H. 6, 87; Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 118.—

Of blood and secretions:

(ea) quibus sistitur sanguis parari jubet,

Tac. A. 15, 54:

sanguinem,

Plin. 20, 7, 25, § 59; 28, 18, 73, § 239; 27, 4, 5, § 18:

haemorrhoidum abundantiam,

id. 27, 4, 5, § 19:

fluctiones,

id. 20, 8, 27, § 71, 34, 10, 23, § 105; 35, 17, 57, § 195:

nomas,

id. 30, 13, 39, § 116; 24, 16, 94, § 151:

mensis,

id. 23, 6, 60, § 112:

vomitiones,

id. 20, 20, 81, § 213:

alvum bubus,

id. 18, 16, 42, § 143:

alvum,

stop the bowels, id. 23, 6, 60, § 113; 22, 25, 59, § 126; 20, 5, 18, § 37:

ventrem,

id. 20, 23, 96, § 256; Mart. 13, 116.—

To arrest the motion of life, make rigid:

ille oculos sistit,

Stat. Th. 2, 539.—

To end, put an end to (= finem facere alicui rei); pass., to cease:

querelas,

Ov. M. 7, 711:

fletus,

id. ib. 14, 835:

lacrimas,

id. F. 1, 367; 480; 6, 154:

minas,

id. Tr. 1, 2, 60:

opus,

id. H. 16 (17), 266; id. M. 3, 153:

labores,

id. ib. 5, 490:

furorem,

Stat. Th. 5, 663:

furialem impetum,

Sen. Med. 157; id. Agam. 203:

pace tamen sisti bellum placet,

Ov. M. 14, 803:

antequam summa dies spectacula sistat,

id. F. 4, 387:

sitim sistere,

to allay, id. P. 3, 1, 18:

nec primo in limine sistit conatus scelerum,

suppresses, Stat. S. 5, 2, 86:

ruinas,

to stop destruction, Plin. Pan. 50, 4:

ventum,

to ward off, turn the wind, id. Ep. 2, 17, 17;

(motus terrae) non ante quadraginta dies sistuntur, = desinunt,

Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 198.—

Sistere with intra = to confine, keep within:

transgresso jam Alpes Caecina, quem sisti intra Gallias posse speraverant,

Tac. H. 2, 11:

dum populatio lucem intra sisteretur,

provided the raids were confined to day-time, id. A. 4, 48. —

Impers. and trop., to arrest or avoid an impending misfortune, or to stand, i. e. to endure; generally in the form sisti non potest (more rarely: sisti potest) = it cannot be endured, a disaster cannot be avoided or met (once in Plaut.; freq. in Liv.; sometimes in Tac.; cf., in gen., Brix ad Plaut. Trin. 720; Drak. ad Liv. 3, 16, 4; Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 29, 8; Gronov. ad Liv. 4, 12, 6; Beneke ad Just. 11, 1, 6).

Without a subject, res or a noun of general import being understood:

quid ego nunc agam, nisi ut clipeum ad dorsum accommodem, etc.? Non sisti potest,

it is intolerable, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 94:

totam plebem aere alieno demersam esse, nec sisti posse nisi omnibus consulatur,

Liv. 2, 29, 8:

si domestica seditio adiciatur, sisti non posse,

the situation will be desperate, id. 45, 19, 3:

si quem similem priore anno dedissent, non potuisse sisti,

id. 3, 9, 8:

vixque concordiā sisti videbatur,

that the crisis could scarcely be met, even by harmonious action, id. 3, 16, 4:

qualicunque urbis statu, manente disciplinā militari sisti potuisse,

these evils were endurable, id. 2, 44, 10: exercitum gravi morbo affectari, nec sisti potuisse ni, etc., it would have ended in disaster, if not, etc., id. 29, 10, 1:

qui omnes populi si pariter deficiant, sisti nullo modo posse,

Just. 11, 1, 6 Gronov. ad loc.; cf. Liv. 3, 20, 8 supra, II. A. 1.— Rarely with a subject-clause understood: nec jam sisti poterat, and it was no longer tolerable, i. e. that Nero should disgrace himself, etc., Tac. A. 14, 14.—

Rarely with quin, to prevent etc. (pregn., implying also the stopping of something; cf.

supra, III. B. 1.): neque sisti potuit quin et palatium et domus et cuncta circum haurirentur (igni),

Tac. A. 15, 39.—Hence, stătus, a, um, P. a., as attribute of nouns, occurs in several conventional phrases, as relics of archaic usage.

Status (condictusve) dies cum hoste, in the XII. Tables, = a day of trial fixed by the judge or agreed upon with the adversary;

esp., a peregrinus (= hostis),

Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37. It presupposes a phrase, diem sistere, prob.=vadimonium sistere (v. supra, I. C. 2.). Such an appointment was an excuse from the most important public duties, even for soldiers from joining the army, Cinc. ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4.—

Hence, transf.: si status condictus cum hoste intercedit dies, tamen est eundum quo imperant,

i. e. under all circumstances we must go, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5.—

In certain phrases, appointed, fixed, regular (cf. statutus, with which it is often confounded in MSS.):

status dies: tres in anno statos dies habere quibus, etc.,

Liv. 39, 13, 8:

stato loco statisque diebus,

id. 42, 32, 2; so id. 5, 52, 2; 27, 23 fin.:

stato lustri die,

Sen. Troad. 781:

status sacrificii dies,

Flor. 1, 3, 16:

statum tempus, statā vice, etc.: lunae defectio statis temporibus fit,

Liv. 44, 37 init.; so id. 28, 6, 10:

stato tempore,

Tac. A. 12, 13; id. H. 4, 81; Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 173:

stata tempora (partus),

Stat. Achill. 2, 673:

adeo in illā plagā mundus statas vices temporum mutat,

Curt. 8, 19, 13; so id. 9, 9, 9; 5, 1, 23; so, feriae, etc.: feriae statae appellabantur quod certo statutoque die observarentur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69 Lind.:

stata quinquennia,

Stat. S. 5, 3, 113:

stata sacra or sacrificia: stata sacrificia sunt quae certis diebus fieri debent,

Fest. p. 264 Lind.:

proficiscuntur Aeniam ad statum sacrificium,

Liv. 40, 4, 9; 23, 35, 3; 5, 46, 2; 39, 13, 8; Cic. Mil. 17, 45:

solemne et statum sacrificium (al. statutum),

id. Tusc. 1, 47, 113; so Liv. 23, 35, 3:

stata sacra,

Ov. F. 2, 528; Stat. Th. 1, 666:

stata foedera,

id. ib. 11, 380:

status flatus,

Sen. Ben. 4, 28:

stati cursus siderum,

Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 291 (different: statae stellae = fixed stars, Censor. D. N. 8, belonging to II. 2. supra): statae febres, intermittent fevers, returning regularly, Plin. 28, 27, 28, § 107.—

Moderate, average, normal:

inter enim pulcherrimam feminam et deformissimam media forma quaedam est, quae et a nimio pulcritudinis periculo et a summo deformitatis odio vacat, qualis a Q. Ennio perquam eleganti vocabulo stata dicitur...Ennius autem eas fere feminas ait incolumi pudicitia esse quae statā formā forent,

Gell. 5, 11, 12 -14 (v. Enn. Trag. p. 133 Vahl.).

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.

tantus, a, um, adj. [perh. for tavantus; cf. Sanscr. tāvant, so great; Gr. teôs, i. e. teWôs].

Of such size or measure, so great in amount, extent, value, degree, etc. (as some standard expressed or understood); usually with a foll. quantus, ut, qui, or absol.; rarely quam.

With [p. 1841] quantus:

nullam (contionem) umquam vidi tantam, quanta nunc vestrum est,

Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:

quae tanta sunt in hoc uno, quanta in omnibus reliquis imperatoribus,

id. Imp. Pomp. 11, 29:

est alienum tanto viro, quantus es tu, non posse, etc.,

id. ad Brut. 1, 9, 1:

tantam eorum multitudinem nostri interfecerunt, quantum fuit diei spatium,

Caes. B. G. 2, 11; cf.:

quamquam Demaden continua dicendi exercitatio potuerit tantum, quantuluscumque postea fuit, fecisse,

Quint. 2, 17, 12; Cic. Lael. 20, 74; Sall. C. 58, 2.—

With ut.

Denoting result or consequence; with subj.:

tanta erat operis firmitudo, ut, etc.,

Caes. B G 4, 17:

non fuit tantus homo Sex. Roscius in civitate, ut, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 43, 125;

unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis... ut, etc.,

id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

quod ego tantum nefas commisi, ut hanc vicem saevitiae meae redderes?

Curt. 4, 10, 29:

quod tantum cogitavi nefas, ut dignior Philotas me videretur?

id. 6, 7, 30.—

Denoting comparison:

tantā modestiā dicto audiens fuit, ut si privatus esset,

Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—

With rel. qui, etc.:

cave putes aut mare ullum aut flammam esse tantam, quam non facilius sit sedare quam, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 42, 65:

statuerunt, tantum illud esse maleficium, quod, etc.,

id. Sull. 2, 7:

nulla est tanta vis, quae non ferro frangi possit,

id. Marcell. 3, 8.—

Without correlation (esp. freq. in exclamations, etc.) ita tanta mira in aedibus sunt facta, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 5:

tanta factis modo mira miris modis, etc.,

id. Cas. 3, 5, 5:

qui tantus natu deorum nescis nomina,

id. Bacch. 1, 2, 15:

neque solum in tantis rebus, sed etiam in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis,

id. Rep. 1, 3, 4:

tantilla tanta verba funditat,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 61. hocine mihi ob labores tantos tantillum dari, id. Truc. 2, 6, 56:

ne tantae nationes conjugantur,

Caes. B. G. 3, 11:

onus,

id. ib. 2, 30 in tantis motionibus tantisque vicissitudinibus, tam multarum rerum atque tantarum ordinious, Cic. N D. 2, 5, 15:

non idem sentio tanta hac in re tamque immensa posse fieri,

id. de Or 2, 20, 84:

qui tantas et tam infinitas pecunias repudiarit,

id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

tot tantaque vitia,

id. Verr 1, 16, 47:

quae faceres in hominem tantum et talem,

id. Fam. 13, 66, 1; cf.:

conservare urbes tantas atque tales,

id. N. D. 3, 38, 92, so too, with talis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 14, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71:

tanta ista mala,

Sall. C. 40, 2;

Liv 31, 9: neque tanto tractu se colligit anguis,

Verg. G. 2, 154:

tantorum ingentia septem Terga boum,

id. A. 5, 404; Curt. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 28; 4, 1, 1:

sexcenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi,

six hundred times as much, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so,

sexcenta tanta,

id. Ps. 2, 2, 37:

tribus tantis illi minus redit quam obseveris,

three times as much less, id. Trin. 2, 4, 129:

jam non quaero, unde tantam Melitensem vestem habueris,

such a great quantity of, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183:

si in uno corpore tantarum rerum gubernationem mens humana possidet,

Lact. 1, 3, 21.—

With quam:

maria aspera juro, Non ullum pro me tantum cepisse timorem, Quam, etc.,

Verg. A. 6, 352 (cf. infra, B. 2.).—With a partit. gen.:

tantus ille ventorum,

Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 (dub.; Jahn, ventus).—

Esp. in phrase tantō ŏpĕre; freq. as one word, tantŏpĕre, so greatly, in so high a degree, so very, etc. (class. and freq.):

cur tanto opere extimueras?

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 92, cf.:

si studia Graecorum vos tanto opere delectant,

Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 2; id. Ep. 1, 2, 31; Ter. And. 5, 2, 27; id. Heaut. 4, 5, 38; Caes. B. G. 7, 52; Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 21; id. Mur. 10, 23; id. de Or. 1, 35, 164 al.—In an inverted order:

mirum est, me, ut redeam, te opere tanto quaesere,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 1.—

Transf., so many ( = tot; mostly poet.):

tantae Coëunt in proelia gentes,

Val. Fl. 5, 636:

lamentabile tantis urbibus,

Stat. Th. 11, 160:

legatum valet in tantos quanti inveniantur,

Dig. 30, 1, 65.— Sing.:

numquam tanto se vulture caelum Induit,

Luc. 7, 834. —

tantum, so much, so many:

habere tantum molestiae quantum gloriae...ut tantum nobis, quantum ipsi superesse posset, remitteret,

Cic. Rep. 1, 4, 7:

decutio argenti tantum, quantum mihi lubet,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 3, 4:

iis adposuit tantum, quod satis esset, nullo adparatu,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: tantum complectitur, quod satis sit modicae palaestrae, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

eo indito cumini fricti tantum, quod oleat,

Cato, R. R. 156, 3 (cf.: tantum quod, s. v. tantum, adv. B. 2. b.): Ch. Coactus reddidit ducentos et mille Philippum. Ni. Tantum debuit, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 38: nec tantum Karthago habuisset opum, Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 526 (1, 48, 3 B. and K.):

cum tantum belli in manibus esset,

Liv. 4, 57, 1:

sed quid hic tantum hominum incedunt?

Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 5:

tantum hostium intra muros est,

Liv. 3, 17, 4 et saep.:

sexies tantum, quam quantum satum sit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 43, § 102; cf.:

etiamsi alterum tantum perdundum est, perdam, etc.,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 81 (v. alter):

tantum... dum,

Liv. 27, 42, 12; cf.:

tantum modo... dum,

Sall. J. 53, 3: tantum abest, ut, etc. (v. absum). —

In colloquial lang.: tantum est, that is all, nothing more, etc.:

vos rogat, ut, etc. Tantum est. Valete,

Plaut. Trin. prol. 22; so id. Cas. prol. 87: Lo. Numquid amplius? Ly. Tantum est, id. Merc. 2, 2, 12; Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 26; id. Hec. 5, 3, 15.—

Gen. (of price) tanti:

tanti, quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22; cf.:

tanti est, quanti est fungus putidus,

it is worth as much as, is worth no more than, id. Bacch. 4, 7, 23:

frumentum tanti fuit, quanti iste aestimavit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194:

ubi me dixero dare tanti,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 49:

graviter increpuit, tanti habitare censorem,

in so costly a house, Plin. 17, 1, 1, § 3. —

Trop.: est tanti (alicui), to be worth so much; to be valued, prized, or esteemed so highly; to be of such consequence or importance:

tanti ejus apud se gratiam esse ostendit, uti, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 20: tanti non fuit Arsacen capere, ut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 14, 1:

hoc tanti fuit vertere, ut, etc.,

Quint. 1, 6, 38: est mihi tanti, Quirites, hujus invidiae tempestatem subire, dummodo a vobis hujus belli periculum depellatur, it is worth this price to me, i. e. I esteem it a light thing, Cic. Cat. 2, 7, 15; cf.:

sed est tanti (sc.: invidiam istam mihi impendere), dummodo,

id. ib. 1, 9, 22:

etsi id quidem non tanti est, quam quod propter eosdem, etc.,

id. Mil. 22, 58:

juratus tibi possum dicere, nihil esse tanti, etc.,

id. Att. 2, 13, 2:

cum dicturis tanti suae non sint (actiones),

Quint. 12, 8, 4:

sunt o! sunt jurgia tanti,

Ov. M. 2, 424 et saep.—

Abl. (with comparatives) tantō, by so much, so much the:

quanto erat in dies gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 45; cf.:

quantum opere processerant, tanto aberant ab aquā longius,

id. B. C. 1, 81:

tanto major vis, quanto recentior,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

reperietis quinquies tanto amplius istum quam quantum, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 97, § 225:

tantone minoris decumae venierunt quam fuerunt?

id. ib. 2, 3, 45, § 106 et saep.: bis tanto amici sunt inter se quam prius, twice as much, twice as good, dis tosôi, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 62:

bis tanto pluris,

id. Men. 4, 3, 6:

ter tanto pejor,

id. Pers. 1, 3, 73:

multo tanto miserior,

id. Rud. 2, 6, 37:

si Cleomenes non tanto ante fugisset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 89:

post tanto,

Verg. G. 3, 476; Curt. 6, 7, 26.— Rarely with verbs denoting comparison:

tanto praestitit ceteros imperatores, quan to populus Romanus antecedit fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1; Ov. M. 13, 368; cf.:

doctrinis tanto antecessit condiscipulos, ut, etc.,

Nep. Epam. 2, 2.— Poet. with sup.:

tanto pessimus omnium poëta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus,

Cat. 49, 6.—

In colloquial lang.: tanto melior! so much the better! well done! good! excellent! bravo! etc.: To. Omnes sycophantias instruxi et comparavi, quo pacto ab lenone auferam hoc argentum. Sa. Tanto melior! Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 24; cf. Sen. Ep. 31;

so too: tanto melior,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 61; Phaedr. 3, 5, 3:

tanto hercle melior,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 38:

tanto major! tanto augustior!

how great! how noble! Plin. Pan. 71, 4:

tanto nequior!

so much the worse! that is bad! Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 12; cf. Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; so,

tanto miserior,

id. Stich. 5, 5, 8.—

In tantum, so far, so much, to such a degree, so greatly:

danti in tantum producenda notitia est muneris sui, in quantum delectatura est eum, cui datur,

Sen. Ben. 2, 23; Col. 12, 24, 1:

quaedam aquae fervent in tantum, ut non possint esse usui,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 24, 1: humum in tantum deprimere, donec altitudinis mensuram datam ceperit, Col. 3, 13, 9:

in tantum suam felicitatem virtutemque enituisse,

Liv. 22, 27.

Since tantus conveys only the idea of relative greatness, it may also be used (with a foll. ut) to denote a small amount, degree, extent, etc.; hence, of such a quantity or quality, such, so small, so slight or trivial; in the neutr., so little, so few (rare but class.):

ceterarum provinciarum vectigalia tanta sunt, ut iis ad ipsas provincias tutandas vix contenti esse possimus,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14; id. Fam. 1, 7, 4: si bellum tantum erit, ut vos aut successores sustinere possint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3:

praesidii tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 35:

tantum navium,

id. B. C. 3, 2.—Hence, tantum, adv.

So much, so greatly, to such a degree, so:

tantum, quantum quis fuge,

as quickly as possible, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 94:

de quo tantum, quantum me amas, velim cogites,

Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1:

id tantum abest ab officio, ut, etc.,

so far, id. Off. 1, 14, 43:

rex tantum auctoritate ejus motus est, ut, etc.,

Nep. Con. 4, 1:

tantum progressus a castris, ut dimicaturum appareret,

Liv. 37, 39, 6:

tantumque ibi moratus, dum, etc.,

so long, id. 27, 42, 13:

tantum ad narrandum argumentum adest benignitas,

Plaut. Men. prol. 16:

ne miremini, quā ratione hic tantum apud istum libertus potuerit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134:

nullo tantum se Mysia cultu Jactat,

Verg. G. 1, 102.—With adjj. (mostly poet.):

nec tantum dulcia, quantum Et liquida,

Verg. G. 4, 101:

juventus Non tantum Veneris quantum studiosa culinae,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 80:

tantum dissimilis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 313:

Marius quantum bello optimus, tantum pace pessimus,

Vell. 2, 11, 1.—

(Acc. to tantus, II.; and therefore, prop., only so much, so little; hence) Only, alone, merely, but:

tantum monet, quantum intellegit,

only so much, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44:

tantum in latitudinem patebat, quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8:

quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur...se accommodat, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 4, 11:

Socratem tantum de vitā et de moribus solitum esse quaerere,

id. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

nomen tantum virtutis usurpas,

id. Par. 2, 17:

dixit tantum: nihil ostendit, nihil protulit,

id. Fl. 15, 34:

notus mihi nomine tantum,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 3:

apte dicere non elocutionis tantum genere constat, sed, etc.,

Quint. 11, 1, 7; so,

non tantum... sed,

id. 9, 3, 28:

nec tantum... sed (etiam),

id. 3, 8, 33; 9, 3, 78; 11, 2, 5.—So with unus (mostly post-Aug.;

once in Cic.): excepit unum tantum: scire se nihil se scire, nihil amplius,

Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74:

unum flumen tantum intererat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 19:

unum defuisse tantum superbiae,

Liv. 6, 16, 5; 21, 50, 6; 34, 9, 5; Just. 8, 5, 5; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Tac. A. 15, 1; Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120.—

Strengthened by modo, and also joined with it in one word, tantummŏdo (freq. and class.;

whereas solummodo is only post-Aug., v. h. v.): homines populariter annum tantummodo solis, id est unius astri reditu metiuntur,

Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24:

ut tantummodo per stirpes alantur suas,

id. N. D. 2, 32, 81:

cum tantummodo potestatem gustandi feceris,

id. Rep. 2, 28, 51:

omnis ea judicatio versatur tantummodo in nomine,

id. ib. 4, 6, 6:

pedites tantummodo umeris ac summo pectore exstare (ut possent),

Caes. B. C. 1, 62:

velis tantummodo,

you have only to wish it, Hor. S. 1, 9, 54:

unum hoc tantummodo, neque praeterea quicquam, etc.,

Suet. Tib. 11 et saep.:

neque eum oratorem tantummodo, sed hominem non putant,

Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 52:

neque e silvis tantummodo promota castra, sed etiam... in campos delata acies,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

Cn. Scipionem misit non ad tuendos tantummodo veteres socios, sed etiam ad pellendum Hispaniā Hasdrubalem,

id. 21, 32, 4; so,

non tantummodo... sed etiam,

Sen. Polyb. 15, 3; id. Ot. Sap. 3, 5; 5, 4; Front. Ep. ad Verr. p. 124:

non tantummodo... sed... quoque,

Vell. 2, 110, 5:

non tantummodo... verum etiam,

Aug. Ep. 162, 1; id. Grat. Christ. 14: non... tantum, with ellips. of sed, not only (but much more), Ov. Am. 1, 4, 63; cf.:

rem atrocem nec tantum epistulā dignam,

Plin. Ep. 3, 14; Juv. 1, 131.—

Particular phrases.

Tantum non, analog. to the Gr. monon ouk, to [p. 1842] point out an action as only not, i. e. very nearly, completed, almost, all but, very nearly (perh. not ante-Aug.; in Cic. Att. 14, 5, 2, Baiter reads tantummodo):

cum agger promotus ad urbem vineaeque tantum non jam injunctae moenibus essent,

Liv. 5, 7, 2:

tantum non jam captam Lacedaemonem esse,

id. 34, 40, 5:

tantum non ad portam bellum esse,

id. 25, 15, 1:

videt Romanos tantum non jam circumveniri a dextro cornu,

id. 37, 29, 9:

cum hostes tantum non arcessierint,

id. 4, 2, 12 Drak.:

tantum non adversis tempestatibus Rhodum enavigavit,

Suet. Tib. 11:

tantum non statim a funere,

id. ib. 52:

tantum non summam malorum suorum professus est,

id. ib. 66:

tantum non in ipso ejus consulatu,

id. Dom. 15 et saep.—But in many cases non belongs to the verb, and not to tantum:

tantum non cunctandum neque cessandum esse,

only there must be no delay, Liv. 35, 18, 8:

dictator bello ita gesto, ut tantum non defuisse fortunae videretur,

id. 4, 57, 8 Drak.; cf.:

ut qui per haec vicit, tantum non defuisse sibi advocatum sciat,

Quint. 6, 2, 4.—

Tantum quod, denoting immediate nearness in point of time, only, just, but just, just then, hardly, scarcely (class.):

tantum quod ex Arpinati veneram, cum mihi a te litterae redditae sunt,

Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 1:

tantum quod ultimam imposuerat Pannonico bello Caesar manum, cum, etc.,

Vell. 2, 117, 1:

haec cum scriberem, tantum quod existimabam ad te orationem esse perlatam,

Cic. Att. 15, 13, 7:

navis Alexandrina, quae tantum quod appulerat,

Suet. Aug. 98:

natus est XVIII. Cal. Jan. tantum quod oriente sole,

id. Ner. 6:

tantum quod pueritiam egresso,

id. Aug. 63:

dentem tantum quod exemptum,

id. Vesp. 5 (but in Liv. 22, 2, 9; 33, 4, 6; Amm. 27, 5, 4, the quod belongs not to tantum, but to the following verb):

tantum alone = tantum quod,

Verg. E. 6, 16. —

Tantum quod non, only that not, nothing is wanting but:

tantum quod hominem non nominat: causam quidem totam perscribit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 45, § 116.