po po, insep. prep. (cf. ποτί, πρός), a prefix denoting power or possession, or that renders emphatic the meaning of a verb; as in polleo, polliceor, pono. ‡ popro potissimum positum est in Saliari carmine, Fest. p. 205 Müll.
po' po', an old form of post; as, po' meridiem, mentioned by Quint. 9, 4, 39.
Poblilia Poblĭlĭa or Publĭlĭatribus (also, Publĭa, Publĭcĭa, Popĭlĭa, Popĭl-lĭa), one of the rustic tribes, Liv. 7, 15, fin.; Inscr. Grut. 568, 1; Inscr. Don. cl. 6, n. 112; Inscr. Maff. Ver. Illustr. 1; cf. Fest. p. 233 Müll.; cf.: Popillia tribus a progenitrice traxit vocabulum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 232 Müll.
pocillator pōcillātor, ōris, m.pocillum, a cupbearer (post-class.): quo, Jovi pocillatorem Phrygium sustulerat,i. e.
poculentus pōcŭlentus (poscŭl-, pōtŭl-), a, um, adj.id., drinkable, potable: penus est quod esculentum aut poculentum est, etc., Q. Scaevola ap. Gell. 4, 1, 17. Of vessels, fit for use in drinking: a poculento argento vascularius,Inscr. Grut. 643, 3.
poculum pōcŭlum (contr. pōclum, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 80; 89; Arn. 5, 175), i, n.from root po-, pot; Gr. πίνω, v. potus. Lit., a drinking-vessel, a cup, goblet, bowl, beaker (class.; syn.: calix, cyathus): et nobis idem Alcimedon duo pocula fecit, Verg. E: 3, 44: poculum grande,Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 89: magnis poculis aliquem invitare,id. Rud. 2, 3, 32: exhaurire poculum,
podager pŏdăger, gri, m., = ποδαγρός, one who has the gout, a gouty man (ante- and postclass. for podagricus): numquam poetor nisi si podager, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 829 P. (Sat. v. 8 Vahl.); Claud. Epigr. 29.
podagricus pŏdā^grĭcus, a, um, adj., = ποδαγρικός, gouty, podagric: cum tot feminae podagricae calvaeque sint,Sen. Ep. 15, 3, 21. Subst.: pŏdā^grĭcus, i, m., a gouty person, Cels. 4, 24: podagrici pedibus suis maledicunt, chiragrici manibus,Petr. 132.
podagrosus pŏdā^grōsus, a, um, adj.podagra, having the gout, gouty (ante-class.): deformis senex, arthriticus ac podagrosus, Lucil. ap. Non. 166, 14: podagrosi estis ac vicistis cochleam tarditudine,Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 28: pedes,id. Merc. 3, 4, 8.
Podalirius Pŏdălīrĭus, ii, m., = Ποδαλείριος. Son of Æsculapius, a celebrated physician, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 11; id. A. A. 2, 735.A Trojan who followed Æneas to Italy, Verg. A. 12, 304.A Roman surname: C. PETRONIVS PODALIRIVS, Inscr. Amaduzzi Anecd. Litter. t. l. p. 463.
poderes pŏdēres or pŏdēris, is, m., = ποδήρης, a long garment descending to the ankle, worn by the priests, Tert. adv. Jud. 11; cf. Isid. Orig. 19, 21: in veste poderis quam habebat totus erat orbis,Vulg. Sap. 18, 24.
podex pōdex, ĭcis, m.perh. for pordex, from pedo, ere, the fundament, anus, Hor. Epod. 8, 6: lēvis,Juv. 2, 12.
podia pŏdĭa, ae, f., a rope fastened to one of the lower corners of a sail, for the purpose of setting it to the wind; in Engl. nautical lang., a sheet, Serv. Verg. A. 5, 830 (al. podium).
podiarius pŏdĭārĭus, i, m.podium, one who performs mimes on the stage, a mime, Not. Tir. p. 174: podiarius, inter mimos, Gloss. Isid.
podicus pŏdĭcus, a, um, adj.ποῦς, of or belonging to a foot (post-class.): sed temporum alia simplicia sunt, quae podica etiam perhibentur. Pes veri est numeri prima progressio, Mart. Cap. 9, § 974.
podismatus pŏdismātus, a, um, adj.podismus, measured out by feet (post-class.): ager,Front. Colon. p. 132 Goes.
podismus pŏdismus, i, m., = ποδισμός, a measuring out by feet, foot-measure (post-class.): ad podismum dimetiri loca,Veg. Mil. 2, 7 fin.; 3, 15; Front. Colon. p. 130 Goes.; Inscr. Orell. 4570.
podium pŏdĭum, ii, n., = πόδιον, an elevated place, a height. In gen. (post-class.): podia ternis alta pedibus fabricantur,Pall. 1, 38. In partic. A projection in a building, a jutty, balcony, podium (postAug.), Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 22; Vitr. 3, 3; 5, 7; 7, 4, 4; Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 22. A projecting part in the circus or amphitheatre, a parapet or balcony next to the arena, where the emperor and other distinguished persons sat, Suet. Ner. 12; cf. Plin. 37, 3, 11, § 45: omnes ad podium spectantes,Juv. 2, 147.
Poeas Poeas (Paeas), antis, m., = Ποίας, the father of Philoctetes, Ov. M. 9, 233; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1603; Hyg. Fab. 14. Hence, Poeantĭădes (Paeant-), ae, m., the son of Pœas, i. e. Philoctetes, Ov. M. 13, 313. Poeantĭus (Paeant-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pœas, Pœantian: Poeantia proles,i. e.
Poecile Poecĭle, ēs, f., = Ποικίλη (variegated). The picture-gallery, a celebrated hall or portico in the market-place at Athens: in porticu, quae Poecile vocatur,Nep. Milt. 6, 3; cf. Plin. 35, 9, 35, § 59.A gallery in the Athenian style at the Tiburtine villa of the emperor Hadrian, Spart. Hadr. 26.
poema pŏēma, ătis (gen. plur. poëmatorum, Afran. ap. Non. 493, 9; cf. Charis. p. 114 P.: poëmatum,Suet. Gram. 23; Spart. Hadr. 14; dat. and abl. plur. usually poëmatis, Cic. Off. 3, 3, 15; Plaut. As. 1, 3, 22; Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3; but also poëmatibus,Suet. Tit. 3; App. Mag. 5), n., = ποίημα, a composition in verse, a poem (freq. and class.; syn. carmen): pars est parva poëma, proinde ut epistola quaevis. Illa poësis opus totum, ut tota Ilias una Est θέσις, annalesque Enni: atque istoc opus unum Est majus multo quam quod dixi ante poëma, Lucil. ap. Non. 428, 12 sq.; cf.: poëma est λέξις εὔρυθμος, id est verba plura modice in quandam conjecta formam. Itaque etiam distichon epigrammation vocant poëma. Poësis est perpetuum argumentum e rhythmis, ut Ilias Homeri et Annales Ennii, Varr. ap. Non. 428, 19 sq. Plur.: poëmata (opp. oratio),
poetry
,Cic. Or. 21, 70. So of some verses of a poem: o poëma tenerum et moratum atque molle!Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66; and of a short poem,Cat. 50, 16, 1. But this distinction is not observed even by Ennius, and poëma was the name in the class. period for every kind of poem: latos per populos terrasque poëmata nostra clara cluebunt, Enn. ap. Prob. p. 1401 P. (Ann. v. 3 Vahl.): poëma facere,Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 9: poëma ad Caesarem quod composueram, incidi,id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4, § 11: Graecum condere,id. Att. 1, 16, 15: pangere,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 40; id. A. P. 416: scribere,id. Ep. 2, 1, 117: egregium,Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 217: poëma festivum, concinnum, elegans,id. Pis. 29, 70: si poëma loquens pictura est, pictura tacitum poëma debet esse,Auct. Her. 4, 28, 39: ridenda poëmata malo, quam te,Juv. 10, 124.
poematium pŏēmătĭum, ĭi, n., = ποιημάτιον, a little or short poem (post-Aug.), Plin. Ep. 4, 14; so id. ib. 4, 27; Aus. Idyll. 7.
poenalis poenālis, e, adj.poena, of or belonging to punishment, penal (post-Aug.; esp. freq. in the jurists): opera,Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112: poenalis aquae dirisque genitae,
Poenulus Poenŭlus, i, m.dim.Poeni, The Young Carthaginian, the title of a comedy of Plautus.
Poenus Poenus, i, v. Poeni.
Poenus Poenus, a, um, v. Poeni, A.
poesis pŏēsis (pŏĕsis, Prud. ap. Symm. 2, 52), is, f., = ποίησις. The art of composing poems, poetry, poesy (rarely so used), Quint. 12, 11, 26.A poem, poetry (class.): ut pictura, poësis erit: quae, si propius stes, Te capiat magis, etc.,Hor. A. P. 361; Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 100: Anacreontis tota poësis est amatoria,id. Tusc. 4, 33, 71.
poeta pŏēta, ae (POETES, Inscr. Orell. 1163), m., = ποιητής. In gen., a maker, producer (ante-class.): nec fallaciam Astutiorem ullus fecit poëta,
,id. As. 4, 1, 3. In partic., a poet (class.; syn. vates): visus Homerus adesse poëta, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 51 (Ann. v. 6 Vahl.); Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 194: oratores et poëtae,id. ib. 3, 10, 39: versificator quam poëta melior,Quint. 10, 1, 89: pictoribus atque poëtis Quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas,Hor. A. P. 9: expectes eadem a summo minimoque poëtā,Juv. 1, 14: judex absolvit injuriarum eum, qui Lucilium poëtam in scenā nominatim laeserat,Auct. Her. 2, 3, 19: unum (genus deorum) a poëtis traditum, Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 27 init.
Poetelius Poetelĭus, i, m., name of a Roman gens: M. Petelius,
poeticus pŏētĭcus, a, um, adj., = ποιητικός, poetic, poetical: verbum,Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153: non poëtico sed quodam oratorio numero et modo,id. ib. 1, 33, 151: di,
Poetneum Poetneum, i, n., a fortress of Athamania, Liv. 39, 25.
poeto pŏēto, āre, v poëtor.
poetor pŏētor, āri, v. dep.poëta, to be a poet, to write poetry, to poetize (ante- and postclass.): numquam poëtor nisi si podager, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 829 P. (Sat. v. 8 Vahl.): ineptia poëtandi,Aus. Idyll. 6 praef. In an active collat. form: priusquam poëtare incipio, Verus ap. Front. Ep. ad Caes. 2, 8 Mai.
Polemo Pŏlĕmo or -mon, ōnis, m., = Πολέμων. A Grecian philosopher at Athens, a disciple of Xenocrates and teacher of Zeno and Arcesilaus, Cic. Ac. 1, 9, 34; id. de Or. 3, 18, 67; id. Fin. 4, 6, 14; Hor. S. 2, 3, 254; Val. Max. 6, 9, 1ext. Hence, Pŏlĕ-mōnēus, a, um, adj., Polemonian: P. Stoicus,Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132.A king of Pontus after Mithridates, Suet. Ner. 18; Eutr. 7, 14. Hence, Pŏlĕmōnĭăcus, a, um, adj., Polemonian: Pontus,Aur. Vict. Caes. 15; Vop. Aur. 21 fin.; Eutr. 7, 14.
Poliorcetes Pŏlĭorcētes, ae, m., = Πολιορκητής (the besieger or stormer of cities), a surname of Demetrius, king of Macedonia (cf.: Demetrius expugnator),Plin. 7, 38, 39, § 126; Sen. Ep. 9, 15; Vitr. 10, 22; Amm. 23, 4, 10; 24, 2, 18.
polite pŏlītē, adv., v. 1. polio, P. a. fin.
Polites Pŏlītes, ae, m., = Πολίτης, a son of Priam, killed by Pyrrhus, Verg. A. 2, 526; 5, 564.
politia pŏlītīa, ae, f., = πολιτεία. The State, the name of one of Plato's works, Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60; 2, 27, 59.The administration of the Commonwealth (late Lat.), Ambros. Hexaëm. 5, 15, 52; Cassiod. Var. 9, 2.
politicus pŏlītĭcus, a, um, adj., = πολιτικός, of or belonging to civil polity or to the State, political, civil: libri, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 5: philosophi,Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 109: virtutes,Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 8.
politio pŏlītĭo, ōnis, f.1. polio, a smoothing, a furbishing, polishing.Lit. (post-Aug.): speculi,Vitr. 7, 3. Of smoothing or plastering a wall, Vitr. 7, 4.Transf., an improving, cultivating: agrorum,Cato, R. R. 136.
politor pŏlītor, ōris, m.id., one who furbishes or polishes, a polisher.Lit.: gemmarum, Firm. Math. 4, 7 fin.Transf., a cultivator, improver: agri,Cato, R. R. 5, 136; Dig. 17, 2, 52.
polleo pollĕo (polet, pollet: quia nondum geminabant antiqui consonantes,Fest. p. 205 Müll.), ēre, v. n.potis-valeo. Lit. In gen., to be strong, powerful, or potent, to be able, to prevail, avail (class.; cf.: valeo, possum): QVANTO MAGIS POTES POLLESQVE, an old formula in Liv. 1, 24, 8: potest polletque (populus),Liv. 8, 33; Plaut. As. 3, 3, 46: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: pollere, regnare, dominari,Cic. Rep. 3, 12, 21: qui in republicā tum plurimum pollebant,Caes. B. C. 1, 4: polleo plurimum inter homines, id. ap. Suet. Caes. 6; Cic. Brut. 51, 90: ad fidem faciendam justitia plus pollet,id. Off. 2, 9, 34: cum Romana majestas toto orbe polleret,Flor. 4, 2, 8. With subj.-clause: is omnibus exemplo debet esse, quantum in hac urbe polleat, multorum obedire tempori,Cic. Brut. 69, 242. With abl.: formā,Prop. 3, 8 (4, 9), 17: pecuniā,Suet. Caes. 19: armis,Tac. A. 11, 24: gloriā antiquitatis,id. ib. 4, 55: nobilitate,id. H. 3, 45: malis artibus,id. A. 14, 57: gratiā,id. H. 2, 92. In partic., of medicines, to be potent or efficacious, to operate: herba contra anginas efficacissime pollet,
is a powerful specific
,Plin. 24, 19, 110, § 171: pollet adversus scorpiones,id. 20, 16, 63, § 171: aurum plurimis modis pollet in remediis,id. 33, 4, 25, § 84; 28, 8, 29, § 114.Transf.To be of worth, to be valued, esteemed, Plin. 19, 3, 17, § 47: cum eadem vitis aliud aliis in locis polleat,id. 14, 6, 8, § 70.To possess in abundance, be rich in: utensilibus,App. M. 2, 19. Hence, pollens, entis, P. a., strong, mighty, able, powerful, potent (mostly since the Aug. period; not in Cic.): genus pollens atque honoratissumum,Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 28: animus, abunde pollens potensque,Sall. J. 1, 3: potens pollensque,Liv. 2, 34; Inscr. Grut. 50, 3: genus pollens,Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 28: classis plurimum pollens mari,Vell. 1, 2: mens pollentior,Tert. adv. Psych. 6: pollentissima ingenia,Sol. 2 med. With abl.: sagittis pollens dea, Naev. ap. Macr. 6, 5 (Trag. Rel. p. 11 Rib.): equo pollens,Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 55: opibus,Lucr. 1, 61: venenis,Val. Fl. 6, 85. With gen.: vini pollens Liber,Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 21 (Fleck. as one word, vinipollens). With acc.: soror cuncta pollentis viri, Argolica Juno,Sen. Agam. 805. With inf.: tractare sereno Imperio vulgum pollens,Sil. 14, 80; Luc. 6, 685. Hence, adv.: pollenter, powerfully (post-class.); comp. pollentius, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 254.
polliceor pollĭcĕor, ĭtus (act. form polliceres, Varr. Sat. Menip. 8, 5), 2, v. dep. a. and n.from an old prep. por or port (= Gr. πορτί, προτί, or πρός; cf. pro) and liceor. To hold forth, offer, promise any thing (freq. and class.; syn.: promitto, spondeo): neque minus prolixe de tuā voluntate promisi, quam eram solitus de meā polliceri,Cic. Fam. 7, 5, 1; id. Planc. 42, 101; cf.: alicui studium,id. Fam. 5, 8, 4; cf.: mirandum in modum profitentur, offerunt se, pollicentur,id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5: id omne tibi polliceor ac defero,id. Imp. Pomp. 24, 67: pro certo polliceor hoc vobis atque confirmo me esse perfecturum, ut, etc.,id. Agr. 2, 37, 100: non modo ut ponatur, verum etiam ut inviolata maneat pollicetur,Just. 9, 2, 12. With subj. alone, Hirt. B. G. 8, 52, 4: alicui divitias, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132 (Trag. v. 359 Vahl.): hospitium et cenam,Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 8: plus pollicere quam ego a te postulo,id. Truc. 2, 4, 23. With inf. pres.: modo Qui sum pollicitus ducere,Ter. And. 3, 5, 7; jusjurandum pollicitus est dare,Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 36: pollicentur obsides dare,Caes. B. C. 4, 21, 5; 6, 9, 7: benigne,Cic. Fam. 4, 13, 3: liberalissime,id. Att. 5, 13, 2. Prov.: montes auri, to promise mountains of gold, i. e. boundless wealth, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 18; for which also: maria montesque,Sall. C. 23, 3. Esp. Of an orator, in opening his speech, to promise, announce: quaeso ut, quid pollicitus sim, diligenter memoriae mandetis,Cic. Quint. 10, 36: docui, quod primum pollicitus sum, causam omnino, cur postularet, non fuisse, etc.,id. ib. 19, 60. Of purchasers, to bid, offer: at illic pollicitus est prior,Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 102. Of auspices, to forebode, promise: id assuetae sanguine et praedā aves pollicebantur,Flor. 1, 1, 7.!*? Act. collat. form pollĭcĕo, ēre, to promise (ante-class.): ne dares, ne polliceres, Varr. ap. Non. 471, 13. polliceor, in a pass. signif.: ut aliis ob metum statuae polliceantur, Metell. Numid. ap. Prisc. p. 972 P.; Dig. 14, 1, 1: pollicita fides,Ov. F. 3, 366; Lact. Pasch. 60: pollicitus torus,Ov. H. 21, 140. Hence, subst.: pollĭcĭ-tum, i, n., something promised, a promise, Ov. A. A. 1, 632: memores polliciti nostri,Col. 11, 3, 1. In plur.: hanc tu pollicitis corrumpe,Ov. A. A. 1, 355: pollicitis captus,id. Am. 3, 7, 70; 2, 16, 48.
pollicitatio pollĭcĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.pollicitor, a promising, a promise (class. but not in Cic., who uses promissio, promissum; usu. plur.): vereor ne istaec pollicitatio Te in crimen populo ponat,Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 10: hinc pollicitationes aufer,Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 18: huic magnis praemiis pollicitationibusque persuadet, ut, etc.,Caes. B. G. 3, 18; 3, 26; 7, 1; id. B. C. 3, 108; Sall. J. 61, 4; Sen. Ben. 3, 19, 3; Plin. Ep. 10, 33, 3; Auct. B. Afr. 35; Dig. 50, 12, 1 sqq. In sing.: cum (legionem) ad se arcessisset Antonius hac pollicitatione, denarios quingenos singulis militibus daturum, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 4; Inscr. Grut. 422, 3: ex nudā pollicitatione nulla actio nascitur,Paul. Sent. 5, 12, 9; Vulg. Heb. 4, 1.
pollicitatrix pollĭcĭtātrix, īcis, f.pollicitator, she that promises (eccl. Lat.), Tert. Apol. 23.
pollicitor pollĭcĭtor, ātus, 1, v. freq. a. and n.polliceor, to promise (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic. or Cæs.): pro capite argentum,Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 24: operam suam alicui,id. Mil. 3, 3, 6; Dig. 50, 12, 6. Absol.: ego te complures menses tuli Pollicitantem, nihil ferentem,Ter. Phorm. 3, 2, 36: sollicitando et pollicitando, id. And. 5, 4, 9: largiundo atque pollicitando magis incendere,Sall. C. 38, 1; id. J. 8, 1.
pollicitum pollĭcĭtum, i, n., v. polliceor fin.
pollicitus pollĭcĭtus, a, um, Part., from polliceor.
pollinaris pollĭnāris, e, adj.pollen, of or belonging to fine flour, flour-, meal-: pollinare cribrum, γυριστήριον κόσκινον, Gloss. Cyril.; v. pollinarius.
pollinarius pollĭnārĭus, a, um, adj.id., of or belonging to fine flour, flour-, meal-: cribrum,
pollinctor pollinctor (or pollictor), ōris, m.pollingo, one who washes corpses and prepares them for burning, an undertaker: pollinctores sunt, qui mortuos curant,Non. 157, 20; cf.: pollinctores dicti sunt, qui funera morientium accurant,Fulg. p. 559, 9; Plaut. Poen. prol. 63; id. As. 5, 2, 60; Varr. ap. Non. 157, 21 sq.; Mart. 10, 97, 3; Dig. 14, 3, 5; Sid. Ep. 3, 13; of buriers, Vulg. Ezech. 39, 15.
pollinctus pollinctus, a, um, Part., from pollingo.
pollingo pollingo, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a., to wash a corpse, and prepare it for the funeral pile (ante- and post-class.): pollingo, περιστέλλω νεκρόν, σιροπλόκω, ταριχεύω, ἐνταφιάζω, Gloss. Philox.: quia mihi pollinctor dixit, qui eum pollinxerat,Plaut. Poen. prol. 63; App. Flor. p. 362, 27: figmenta hominum mortuorum curate pollincta,Amm. 19, 1, 10. Transf., of an old man near his grave: pollinctum corpus,Val. Max. 7, 7, 4; cf.: voluptas fucata aut medicamentis pollincta,Sen. Vit. Beat. 7, 2.
pollio pollĭo, īre: pollit, pila ludit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 243 Müll.
Pollio Pollĭo (Pōlĭo, v. Lucr. p. 33 Lachm.), ōnis, m., a Roman surname. So esp., Asinius Pollio, v. Asinius. Trebellius Pollio, v. Trebellius.The name of a bad actor, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 37. v. Polio.
pollis pollis, ĭnis, v. pollen.
pollubrum pollūbrum (pōlūbr-), i, n.polluo, a wash-basin, laver: polubrum pelluvium vas, quod nos pelvem vocamus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 247 Müll.: polubrum quod Graeci χέρνιβα, nos trulleum vocamus. Livius: argenteo polubro (acc. to Hom. Od. 1, 136); Fabius Pictor, lib. xvi.: polubrum sinistrā manu teneto,Non. 544, 22 sq.
polluceo pollūcĕo, xi, ctum, 2, v. a.old prep. port = Gr. προτί, πρός, and liceor; root licof linquo; Gr. λειπω; cf. licet. Lit., in relig. lang., to place upon the altar as a sacrifice to the deity, to offer, offer up: Jovi dapali culignam vini quantumvis polluceto ... cum pollucere oportebit, sic facies, etc.,Cato, R. R. 132: polluxi tibi iam publicando epulo Herculis decumas, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 874 P. (Com. Rel. p. 9 Rib.): decumam partem Herculi,Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 80: pisces, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20: pollucere merces (quas cuivis deo) liceat, sunt far, polenta, vinum, panis fermentalis, ficus passa, suilla, bubula, agnina, casei, ovilla, alica, sesama et oleum, pisces quibus est squama praeter scarum: Herculi autem omnia esculenta, potulenta,Fest. p. 253 Müll.Transf.To serve up as a dish: non ego sum pollucta pago, I am no dish for the village (like the Engl. saying, I am meat for your master), Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 11.To entertain, to treal with a thing (ante- and post-class.). * Lit., jocosely: polluctus virgis servus,Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 37.Trop., to cause to share in or partake of, Arn. 5, 164. Hence, pol-luctum, i, n., the thing offered, an offering; also, a sacrificial banquet: polluctum quod a porricendo est fictum. Cum enim ex mercibus libamenta porrecta sunt Herculi in aram, tum polluctum est,Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll.: ad polluctum emere, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20: polluctum Herculis,Macr. S. 2, 12 fin.; Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 63.polluctē, adv., with rich offerings, sumptuously, magnificently: pollucte prodigus, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. prodegeris, p. 229 Müll. (dub.).
pollutrix pollūtrix, īcis, f.id., a polluter (late Lat.), Jul. ap. Aug. c. Sec. Resp. Jul. 6, 5.
Pollux Pollux, ūcis (collat. form of nom.Pol-lūces, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 53; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 73 Müll. Voc. pol, edepol, v.infra), m., = Πολυδεύκης, a famous pugilist, son of Tyndarus and Leda, and brother of Castor, in connection with whom, as the constellation of the Twins (Gemini, v. 2. Castor), he serves as a guide to mariners, Cic. N. D. 3, 21, 53; id. Leg. 2, 8, 19; Hyg. Fab. 14; 173: ita me ... Castor, Polluces ... dique omnes ament,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 53; Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 27. Poet.: geminus Pollux,i. e.
Castor and Pollux
,Hor. C. 3, 29, 64: facere aliquem de Polluce Castora, i. e. to make a knight of a pugilist (pugil), Mart. 7, 57, 1. As a deity: DEVS VINCIVS POLLVX, Inscr. Rein. cl. 1, n. 218. In voc., contr. pol, and length. edepol (aedep-), interj. (cf.: ecastor, equirine, etc.), by Pollux! indeed! truly! pol mihi fortuna magis nunc defit quam genus, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 394 Vahl.); id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 100 ib.); Caecil. 190; Com. Fragm. p. 67 Rib.; Plaut. Aul. 2, 7, 2: per pol quam paucos reperias meretricibus fideles,Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 1: pol, me miserum, patrone, vocares,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 92; 2, 2, 138. In connection with other particles of affirmation: pol profecto,
polulus pōlŭlus (poll-), a, um, adj.a rustic form for paululus, little (only in the two foll. pass.): labellum,Cato, R. R. 10, 2: sublaminae,id. ib. 21, 3.
polus pŏlus, i, m., = πόλος. Lit., the end of an axis, a pole (poet. and postAug.): terra a verticibus duobus, quos appellaverunt polos, centrum caeli est, nec non Signiferi oblique inter eos siti,Plin. 2, 15, 13, § 63; 2, 70, 71, § 179; Ov. M. 2, 75; id. P. 2, 7, 64: polus glacialis,
Polyaenus Pŏlyaenus, i, m., = Πολύαινος, a mathematician, a friend and follower of Epicurus, Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20; id. Ac. 2, 33, 106.
polyandrion pŏlyandrĭon, ĭi, n., = πολυάνδριον, a common burial-place, graveyard, cemetery, Lact. Epit. 72, 17; Arn. 6, p. 194.
polyanthemum pŏlyanthĕmum, i, n., = πολυάνθεμον (pure Lat. ranunculus), a caustic plant, otherwise called batrachion (perh. Ranunculus polyanthemos, Linn., many-flowered, crowfoot), Plin. 27, 12, 90, § 112.
polyarchion pŏlyarchĭon (-cyon), i, n., = πολυαρχίον, a kind of soothing ointment, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 24, 136.
Polybe Polybē, ēs, f., one of the fifty daughters of Danaüs, Hyg. Fab. 170.
Polybius Pŏlybĭus, ii, m., = Πολύβιος, a celebrated Greek historian from Megalopolis, in Arcadia, the son of Lycortas and friend of the younger Scipio Africanus, Cic. Rep. 1, 21, 34; 2, 14, 27; 4, 3, 3; id. Off. 3, 32, 113; Liv. 30, 45.
Polyclitus Pŏlyclītus (Pŏlŭ-, -ētus) (ĕ scanned short, Prud. στεφ. 10, 269), i, m., = Πολύκλειτος, a celebrated Grecian sculptor from Argos or Sicyon, contemporary with Pericles. Form Polyclitus, Plin. 34, 8, 19 § 55; Cic. Brut. 18, 70; 86, 296; id. de Or. 2, 16, 70; 3, 7, 26; Juv. 8, 103; Mart. 8, 51, 2. Form POLYCLETVS, Inscr. Orell. 3245. Hence, Pŏlyclētēus (-īus), a, um, adj., Polycletean: caelum,Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9; Stat. S. 2, 2, 67.
polycnemon pŏlycnēmon, i, n., = πολύκνημον, a plant, otherwise unknown, Plin. 26, 14, 88, § 148.
Polycrates Pŏlycrătes, is, m., = Πολυκράτης, a prince of Samos, and friend of Amasis, celebrated for his good fortune, but at last crucified by the Persian governor Orœtes, Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 92; Val. Max. 6, 9, 5ext. Gr. acc. in -en, Quint. 2, 17, 4.
Polycratia Pŏlycrătĭa, ae, f., wife of the Achœan chief Aratus, Liv. 27, 31.
Polydaemon Pŏlydaemon, ŏnis, m., a descendant of Semiramis, slain by Perseus, Ov. M. 5, 85.
Polydamas Pō^lydămas (the o made long by the requirements of the verse), antis, m., = Πολυδάμας. A Trojan, son of Panthous and friend of Hector, Ov. M. 12, 547; id. H. 5, 94. Hence, Pō^lydămantēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Polydamas: arma,Sil. 12, 212.A famous athlete, Val. Max. 9, 12, 10ext.
Polydector Pŏlydector, ŏris, m., one of the fifty sons of Ægyptus, Hyg. Fab. 170.
Polydorus Pŏlydōrus, i, m., = Πολύδωρος, a son of Priam and Hecuba, killed by the Thracian Polymnestor, Cic. poët. de Or. 3, 58, 219; Verg. A. 3, 45 Serv.; Ov. M. 13, 432 sq. Hence, Pŏlydōrēus, a, um, adj., of Polydorus, Polydorean: sanguis,Ov. M. 13, 629.
Polygnotus Pŏlygnōtus, i, m., = Πολύγνωτος, a celebrated Grecian painter and statuary of Thasus, contemporary with Socrates, Plin. 35, 6, 25; Cic. Brut. 18, 70.
polygonaton pŏlygŏnăton, i, n., = πολυγόνατον. The plant called Solomon's seal: Convallaria polygonatum (Linn.),Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 113.Another name for leucacantha, Plin. 22, 17, 18, § 40.
polygonium pŏlygŏnĭum, ii, v. polygonos.
polygonius pŏlygōnĭus, a, um, adj., = πολυγώνιος, having many angles, polygonal: turres,Vitr. 1, 5.
polygonoides pŏlygŏnŏīdes, is, f., = πολυγονοειδής, a species of the plant clematis, Plin. 24, 15, 90, § 141.
polygonos pŏlygŏnos or -us, i, f., or pŏly-gŏnon, i (pŏlygŏnĭum, ĭi, Scrib. Comp. 193), n., = πολύγονος or ‐ον, a plant (called in pure Lat. herba sanguinalis or sanguinaria), knotgrass, Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 113; 26, 15, 90, § 158.
polygonum pŏlygōnum, i, n., = πολύγωνον, a polygon, Censor. de Die Nat. 8 med.
polygrammos pŏlygrammos, i, f., = πολύγραμμος, a sort of jasper, with many white streaks, Plin. 37, 9, 37, § 118.
polygynaecon pŏlygynaecon, i, a false reading for syngenicon, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 134; v. Sillig ad h. l.
Polyhistor Pŏlyhistor, ŏris, m., = Πολυίστωρ (the much-knowing or learned man). The title of the natural history written by C. Julius Solinus.A surname of the grammarian Cornelius Alexander, Suet. Gram. 20; Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 115.
Polyhymnia Pŏlyhymnĭa (Pŏlymnĭa, Poët. ap. Anth. Lat. 1, p. 51 Burm.), ae, f., = Πολυμνία (she of many hymns), one of the Muses, Hor. C. 1, 1, 33; Ov. F. 5, 9; Mart. 4, 31, 7; Aus. Idyll. 20.
Polymnestor Pŏlymnēstor and Pŏlymēstor, ŏris, m., = Πολυμνήστωρ and Πολυμήστωρ, a king of Thrace, the husband of Ilione, daughter of Priam; he killed his brotherin-law Polydorus, who had been intrusted to his charge, Ov. M. 13, 536; Hyg. Fab. 109; Mythogr. Lat. 2, 209; Serv. Verg. A. 3, 6; 3, 15.
Polymnia Pŏlymnĭa, v. Polyhymnia.
polymyxos pŏlymyxos, i, adj. f., = πολύμυξος, having many wicks: lucerna,Mart. 14, 41in lemm.
polyneuron pŏlyneuron, i, n., = πολύνευρον, a plant (pure Lat. plantago major), great plantain, App. Herb. 1.
polyptoton pŏlyptōton, i, n., = πολύπτωτον, a figure of speech, when several cases of the same word stand together, as homo homini, Mart. Cap. 5, § 535.
polyptycha pŏlyptycha, ōrum, n., = πολύπτυχα (that has many folds or leaves), accountbooks, registers (post-class.), Veg. Mil. 2, 19; Cod. Th. 1, 26, 2; 1, 28, 13.
polyrrhizos pŏlyrrhīzos, on, adj., = πολύρριζος. Having many roots, an appellation of several plants, Plin. 25, 8, 54, §§ 96, 98 al.Subst.: pŏlyrrhīzon, i, n., a plant, otherwise unknown, Plin. 27, 12, 103, § 126.
polysemus pŏlysēmus, a, um, adj., = πολύσημος, having many significations (postclass.): sermo,Serv. Verg. A. 1, 1.
polysigma pŏlysigmaπολύ‐σίγμα, a too frequent repetition of the letter s: ubi s littera crebrius geminatur: Sosia in Solario soleas sarciebat suas,Mart. Cap. 5, § 514.
polyspaston pŏlyspaston, i, n., = πολύσπαστον, a hoisting-tackle with many pulleys, Vitr. 10, 5, and 16.
Polytimetus Pŏlytīmētus, i, m., a river of Sogdiana, now Koi, near Bokhara, Curt. 7, 10, 2.
pomerium pōmērĭum and pōmoerĭum (the first is most freq. in inscrr., the latter in MSS.; but the better manuscripts have also,Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 13, and Tac. A. 12, 23 and 24, pomerium. A third form, post-moerium, Varr. L. L. 5, § 143 Müll., seems merely to have been assumed from the etymology; a fourth archaic form is posi-merium, pontificale pomoerium, qui auspicato olim quidem omnem urbem ambiebat praeter Aventinum ... estque prosimerium quasi proxi-murium, pontifices auspicabantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 248 Müll.), ĭi, n.post-moerus = murus. Lit., the open space left free from buildings within and without the walls of a town, bounded by stones (cippi or termini), and limiting the city auspices, Varr. L. L. 5, § 143 Müll.; Liv. 1, 44; Gell. 13, 14, 6; 15, 27, 4; Tac. A. 12, 23 and 24: POMERIVM, Inscr. (746 A. U. C.) Orell. 1; Inscr. Grut. 242 (Orell. 1, p. 567); Inscr. Orell. 710; Inscr. (A. D. 121) Orell. 811: pomoerium intrare, transire,Cic. N. D. 2, 4, 11: de pomoerii jure,id. Div. 2, 35, 75: sales intra pomeria nati,i. e.
of the city
,Juv. 9, 11.Trop., bounds, limits (ante- and post-class.): qui minore pomerio finierunt,
Pometia Pōmētĭa, ae, f. (collat. form Pōmē tii, ōrum, m., Verg. A. 6, 775), a very old town of the Volsci, in Latium, also called Suessa Pometia; perh. the mod. Torre Petrara or Mesa, Cic. Rep. 2, 24, 45; Liv. 1, 53; 2, 16; 2, 25 al. Hence, Pōmētīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pometia, Pometian: manubiae,Liv. 1, 55.
pometum pōmētum, i, n.pomus, a place planted with fruit-trees, an orchard (post-class. for pomarium), Pall. 1, 36, 3.
Pomona Pōmōna, ae, f.pomum. The goddess of fruit and fruit-trees, Pomona, Varr. L. L. 7, § 45 Müll.; Ov. M. 14, 623; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 190; Arn. 3, p. 118.Transf., fruit-trees, fruit (post-Aug.), Plin. 23 prooem. 1, § 1: Thyle larga et diutina Pomona copiosa est,Sol. 22 med. Derivv. ‡ Pōmōnal, ālis, n., the temple of Pomona, Fest. p. 250 Müll.Pōmōnālis, e, adj., of or belonging to Pomona, Pomonal: flamen,Varr. L. L. 7, § 45 Müll.; cf. Fest. s. v. maximae dignationis, pp. 154 and 155 Müll.
pomosus pōmōsus, a, um, adj.id., full of or abounding in fruit (poet.): horti,Tib. 1, 1, 21 (25): arva,Prop. 4 (5), 7, 81. cf.: pomosi Tiburis arva, Col. poët. 10, 138: corona,
pompa pompa, ae, f., = πομπή, a solemn procession,a public procession of any kind (at public festivals, games, triumphs, marriages, funerals, etc.). Lit. In gen.: in pompā cum magna vis auri argentique ferretur,Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91: per Dionysia pompam ducere,Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 92: sollemnes ordine pompas Exequi,Verg. A. 5, 53: sollemnes ducere pompas Ad delubra juvat,id. G. 3, 22: Pontico triumpho inter pompae fercula trium verborum protulit titulum: veni, vidi, vici,Suet. Caes. 37; so, pompa Indica,i. e.
Pompeius Pompējus (trisyl.) or Pompēïus (quadrisyl.), i, m., and Pompēja, ae, f., name of a Roman gens. So the famous Cn. Pompejus Magnus, the triumvir, Caes. B. C. 3, 86; Cic. Fam. 3, 4, 2; 13, 41, 1; id. Imp. Pomp. 1 sqq. et saep. In fem., Pompeja, his sister, Cic. Fam. 5, 11, 2; another,
pompholyx pomphŏlyx, ygis, f., = πομφόλυξ, a substance deposited from the smoke of smelting-furnaces, pompholyx, Plin. 34, 13, 33, § 128.
Pompilius Pompĭlĭus, a, name of a Roman gens. The most celebrated is Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, Hor. C. 1, 12, 34; Ov. F. 2, 69; Liv. 1, 18. Hence, Pom-pĭlĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pompilius, Pompilian: sanguis,i.e.
descendants of Numa Pompilius
,Hor. A. P. 292.Pompĭlĭānus, a, um, adj., Pompilian: curia,
pompo pompo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to make or do any thing with pomp (post-class.): grandisonis pompare modis,Sedul. 1, 2. Hence, pompātus, a, um, P. a., magnificently ordered, pompous, splendid: pompatior suggestus,Tert. Spect. 7.
Pomponius Pompōnĭus, i, m., and Pompōnĭa, ae, f., name of a Roman gens. L. Pomponius, an Atellane poet of Bononia, Gell. 12, 10, 7. T. Pomponius Atticus, a friend of Cicero, whose life is written by Nepos, Cic. Att. 1, 5; Nep. Att. 1 sqq. P. Pomponius Secundus, a tragedian, Quint. 8, 3, 31; 10, 1, 98. Sex. Pomponius, a lawyer, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 68. M. Pomponius Matho, a prœtor, Liv. 22, 7; and augur, id. 29, 38. Pomponius Mela, a geographer of the first century, author of a treatise De Situ Orbis. In fem.: Pompō-nĭa. Daughter of T. Pomponius Atticus, and wife of Q. Cicero, Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3; id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 2.The mother of Scipio Africanus, Sil. 13, 615. Hence, Pompō-nĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Pomponius, Pomponian: nomina,Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1: pira,Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 54: versus,
Pomptinus Pomptīnus (Pontīn-), a, um, adj., Pomptine, an appellation given to a district in Latium, near Pometia: ager, Liv. 6, 5; Flor. 1, 13, 20: palus,Juv. 3, 307; and freq. in the plur. paludes, the extensive marshy district exposed to the inundations of the Amasenus and Ufens, still called the Pomptine (Pontine) Marshes, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 59; 26, 4, 9, § 19; Suet. Caes. 47; Mart. 10, 74; Luc. 3, 85.Subst.: Pomptī-num, i, n., the Pomptine district, Liv. 2, 34: inde Pomptinum sumam,Cic. Att. 7, 5, 3 (Baiter).
pomulum pōmŭlum, i, n.pomum, a little apple, Jul. ap. Aug. c. Sec. Resp. Jul. 6, 20.
pomusculum pōmuscŭlum, i, n.dim.pomum, small fruit, fruit, Poët. in Anthol. Lat. 1, p. 461 Burm.
ponderabilis pondĕrābĭlis, e, adj.pondero, that can be weighed, ponderable (post-class.): corpora,Claud. Mam. Stat. Anim. 2, 4. Hence, adv.: pondĕrābĭlĭter, ponderably, Aug. Spec. 20.
ponderale pondĕrāle, is, n.pondus, the public scales, Inscr. Rein. cl. 7, n. 15; v. ponderarium.
ponderans pondĕrans, antis, Part. and P. a., from pondero.
ponderarium pondĕrārĭum, ii, n.pondero, the place where public weights are kept and things are weighed, the public scales, Inscr. Orell. 144 and 4344.
pondero pondĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id., to weigh a thing (syn. examino). Lit.: granum,Plin. 18, 7, 12, § 66: semper amatorum ponderat illa sinus,Prop. 2, 13 (3, 8), 12: pugnos,Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 156: in unum omnia ponderata confunduntur,Scrib. Comp. 106.Trop., to weigh in the mind, to ponder, consider, reflect upon (class.): imprimis, quo quisque animo fecerit, ponderandum est,Cic. Off. 1, 15, 49: momento suo unamquamque rem ponderandam,id. Font. 6, 21: verborum delectum aurium judicio,id. de Or. 3, 37, 150: omnia voluptatibus et doloribus,id. Leg. 1, 13, 39: quid quisque admiserit non ex crimine, sed ex moribus ejus ... est ponderandum,id. Sull. 25, 69: non ex libidine aut levitate testium causas honestorum hominum ponderari,id. ib. 28, 89: non esse fidem ex fortunā ponderandam,id. Part. 34, 117: causas non ratione, sed verbis,id. Caecil. 21, 61: consilia eventis,id. Rab. Post. 1, 1: dum inventa ponderant et dimetiuntur,Quint. 8 prooem. § 27. Hence, pon-dĕrans, antis, P. a., in a neuter sense, weighing, weighty, heavy (post-class.): affectu ponderantiore,Sid. Ep. 8, 6 med. dub. (al. ponderatiore).pondĕrātus, a, um, P. a., weighed, pondered, well considered: ponderatiora beneficia,Nep. Fragm. 2 (v. also under ponderans). Hence, adv.: pondĕrātē, with due consideration (late Lat.), Hier. in Psa. 36; pondĕrātim, Cassiod. Var. 2, 40.
pondiculum pondĭcŭlum, i, n.dim.pondus, a small weight (late Lat.), Claud. Mam. Stat. Anim. 2, 4.
pondo pondo, adv.abl. from pondus, by weight, in weight. In gen.: neque piscium ullam unciam hodie pondo cepi,
an ounce weight
,Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 8: ut exercitus coronam auream dictatori libram pondo decreverit,
a pound in weight
,
weighing a pound
,Liv. 3, 29; 4, 20: vettonicae tusae pondo libra,Plin. 26, 7, 19, § 33: pretium in pondo libras denarii duo,id. 33, 12, 56, § 158: styracis, resinae terebinthinae pondo sextantes,Cels. 5, 25, 16: sextarium aquae cum dodrante pondo mellis diluunt,Col. 12, 12: argenti in convivio plus pondo quam libras centum inferre,Gell. 2, 24, 2. In partic., with numerals, as the usual measure of weight, as subst. indecl., pounds (sc. libra; freq. and class.): COMPEDIBVS QVINDECIM PONDO ... VINCITO, Fragm. XII. Tabularum: quot pondo te censes esse nudum?Plaut. As. 2, 2, 33: auri quinque pondo abstulit,Cic. Clu. 64, 179: argenti pondo viginti millia,Caes. B. C. 2, 18; Plin. 33, 3, 15, § 51; 11, 42, 97, § 241: fulmen aureum quinquaginta pondo auri,Liv. 22, 1, 17. Gen.: rettuli auri pondo mille octingentūm septuaginta, Varr. ap. Non. 149, 19: corona aurea pondo ducentūm,id. ib. 163, 33.
pondus pondus, ĕris, n.pendo, a weight.Lit. In gen., a weight used in a scale, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: pondera ab Gallis allata iniqua,Liv. 5, 48 fin.: utuntur taleis ferreis ad certum pondus examinatis pro numo,Caes. B. G. 5, 12; Dig. 19, 1, 32: pondera publica, Paul. ex Fest. p. 246 Müll. In partic., the weight of a pound, a pound (very rare for the usual pondo): dupondius a duobus ponderibus, quod unum pondus assipondium dicebatur. Id ideo, quod as erat libra pondus,Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 Müll.: argenti pondera quinque,Mart. 7, 53, 12.Transf. In abstr. Heaviness, weight of a body: moveri gravitate et pondere,Cic. Fat. 11, 24; 10, 22; 20, 46; id. Tusc. 1, 17, 40: magni ponderis saxa,Caes. B. G. 2, 29; 7, 22: emere aliquid pondere,
,Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 51; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. II. p. 380 sq.; cf. also: quis libravit in pondere montes et colles in staterā?Vulg. Isa. 40, 12. In concr. A heavy body, a weight, mass, load, burden: in terram feruntur omnia suo nutu pondera,Cic. Rep. 6, 17, 17: grande auri pondus,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 45; so, innumerabile pondus auri,id. Sest. 43, 93: magnum argenti pondus expositum,Caes. B. C. 3, 96: aeris magnum pondus,id. ib. 3, 103; Stat. Th. 6, 648: immania pondera baltei,Verg. A. 10, 496: Spartani pondera disci,Mart. 14, 164, 1. Poet., of the fruit of the womb, Ov. M. 9, 684; id. Am. 2, 14, 14; Prop. 4, 1, 96 (5, 1, 100); Mart. 14, 151; of the privy parts,Cat. 63, 5; Stat. S. 3, 4, 77.A quantity, number, multitude (anteclass. and very rare): magnum pondus omnium artificum, Varr. ap. Non. 466, 5.Trop.Weight, consequence, importance, consideration, influence, authority, etc. (class.; cf. momentum): persona non qualiscumque testimonii pondus habet,Cic. Top. 19, 73: grave ipsius conscientiae pondus est,id. N. D. 3, 35, 85; cf.: (honestas) aut sola expetenda est ... aut certe omni pondere gravior habenda quam reliqua omnia,id. Off. 3, 8, 35: id est maximi momenti et ponderis,id. Vatin. 4, 9: qui pondus habent,id. Att. 11, 6, 1: habet vim in ingenio et pondus in vitā, id. de Or. 2, 74, 302: magnum pondus accessit ad tollendum dubitationem, judicium et consilium tuum,id. Fam. 11, 29, 1: ut is intellegat, hanc meam commendationem magnum apud te pondus habuisse,id. ib. 13, 25; cf.: ut is intellegat meas apud te litteras maximum pondus habuisse,id. Fam. 12, 27; 13, 35, 2: tuae litterae maximi sunt apud me ponderis,id. ib. 2, 19, 2: ejus filius eodem est apud me pondere, quo fuit ille,id. Att. 10, 1. 1. Of style: omnium verborum ponderibus est utendum,Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72: fabula sine pondere et arte,Hor. A. P. 320; cf.: nugis addere pondus,id. Ep. 1, 19, 42.Oppressive weight, burden (poet. for onus): curarum,Luc. 9, 951; Stat. Th. 4, 39: rerum,Ov. Tr. 2, 237; Mart. 6, 64, 14: tauri ruentis In Venerem tolerare pondus,Hor. C. 2, 5, 4: amara senectae Pondera,Ov. M. 9, 438: Constantius, insolentiae pondera gravius librans,Amm. 14, 5, 1.Weight of character, i. e. firmness, constancy (poet.): nulla diu femina pondus habet,Prop. 2, 25 (3, 20), 22: nostri reverentia ponderis obstat,Stat. Th. 1, 289: hilaris, tamen cum pondere, virtus,id. S. 2, 3, 65; cf. id. ib. 5, 3, 246.
pondusculum ponduscŭlum, i, n.dim.pondus, a small weight (post-Aug.): saxi,Col. 12, 51: si cooriatur procella, apprehensi pondusculo lapilli (apes) se librant,Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 24.
pone pōne, adv. and prep.for posine, posne; cf. Gr. πύματος, the last, and v. post. Adv., after, behind, back, = post, a tergo (opp. ante, before; rare and mostly poet.; by Quint., 8, 3, 25, considered as archaic; cf. also: pone gravi sono antiqui utebantur pro loci significatione,Fest. p. 249 Müll.; Plaut. Cas. 5, 1, 16): (moveri) et ante et pone, ad laevam et ad dextram,Cic. Univ. 13 fin.: (remiges) Pone petunt, exim referunt ad pectora tonsas, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. tonsam, p. 356 Müll. (Ann. v. 236 Vahl.): pone venire,Prop. 3, 15, 30 (4, 14, 28): pars cetera pontum Pone legit,Verg. A. 2, 208: pone subit conjux,id. ib. 2, 725: pone sequens,id. ib. 10, 226; Sil. 8, 561: respicere,Val. Max. 1, 7, ext. 1. With vorsum, behind, backwards: pone vorsum illac mare est, Cato ap. Charis. p. 191 P.; cf. infra fin.Prep. with acc., behind (mostly anteclass. and post-Aug.): pone quos aut ante labantur,Cic. Univ. 10 fin.: pone me,Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 1; cf.: pone nos recede,id. Poen. 3, 2, 34: pone aedem Castoris,id. Curc. 4, 1, 20; id. Trin. 3, 2, 37: pone castra,Liv. 40, 30 fin.: aedes Africani pone Veteres,id. 44, 16, 10: vinctae pone tergum manus,Tac. H. 3, 85; so, pone tergum insurgebat silva,id. A. 2, 16; id. H. 2, 83; 3, 60; 4, 82: comam pone verticem submittere,Suet. Ner. 51; id. Tib 68; Val. Max. 1, 7, ext. 1; Sen. ad Marc. 9, 3; Just. 2, 7, 8. With vorsus: postquam auspicaviatque exercitum adduxi pone vorsus castra hostium, Cato ap. Charis. p. 191 P.
pono pōno, pŏsŭi (Plaut. posīvi), pŏsĭtum, 3 (old form of perf. POSEIVEI, Inscr. Orell. 3308: posivi,Plaut. Ps. 5, 1, 35: posivimus, id. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.: posiverunt, Cato, R. R. praef. 1: posiveris,id. ib. 4, 1; Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 108: POSIERunt, Inscr. Orell. 5061: POSIT, contr. from posivit,ib. 71; 732; 1475; 3087 al.; part. perf. sync. postus, a, um, Lucr. 1, 1059; 3, 87; 6, 965), v. a.for posno, posino, from old prep. port, = προτί, πρός, and sino; cf.: porricio, pollingo, etc., and v. pro, sino, to put or set down a person or thing, to put, place, set, lay, etc. (syn.: colloco, statuo); constr. with acc. alone, or with in and abl., or with adv. of place; sometimes with in and acc., or absol.;v.infra. Lit. In gen.: tabulas in aerario ponere,Caes. B. C. 3, 108: castra,
to pitch
,id. ib. 1, 65fin.: castra iniquo loco,id. ib. 1, 81: milia passuum tria ab eorum castris castra ponit,id. B. G. 1, 22 fin.: qui indicabantur, in senatu sunt positi, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 3, 50: tabulas obsignatas in publico,Cic. Fl. 9, 21: sejuges in Capitolio aurati a P. Cornelio positi,Liv. 38, 35, 4: tyrannicidae imago in gymnasio ponatur,Quint. 7, 7, 5; cf. id. 1, 7, 12: collum in Pulvere,Hor. C. 4, 6, 11; cf.: artus in litore ponunt,Verg. A. 1, 173; and with simple abl.: saxo posuit latus,Val. Fl. 4, 378: in curulibus sellis sese posuerunt,
seated themselves
,Flor. 1, 13. With in and acc.: hodierno die primum longo intervallo in possessionem libertatis pedem ponimus, Cic. Phil. 3, 11, 28 B. and K. (Klotz, possessione): Cyzici in Prytaneum vasa aurea mensae unius posuit,Liv. 41, 20, 7 Weissenb. ad loc.: stipes erat, quem ... in flammam triplices posuere sorores,Ov. M. 8, 452: omnia pone feros in ignes,id. R. Am. 719: oleas in solem,Cato, R. R. 7: coronam in caput,Gell. 3, 15, 3. With sub and abl.: pone sub curru nimium propinqui,Hor. C. 1, 22, 21: fundamenta,Vulg. 1 Esd. 6, 3: ubi pedem poneret non habebat,
,id. ib. 42, 15. In partic. In milit. lang., to place, post, set, station a body of troops: ibi praesidium ponit,Caes. B. G. 2, 5: praesidium ibi,id. B. C. 1, 47 fin.: legionem tuendae orae maritimae causā,id. ib. 3, 34: insidias contra aliquem,Cic. Agr. 2, 18, 49.To set up, erect, build (mostly poet.): opus,Ov. M. 8, 160: templa,Verg. A. 6, 19: aras,id. ib. 3, 404: tropaeum,Nep. Dat. 8, 3; so, in inscrr., of erecting monuments of any kind: POSVIT, PONENDVM CVRAVIT (usu. abbreviated P. C.), etc.: columna rostrata quae est Duilio in foro posita,
in honor of Duilius
,Quint. 1, 7, 12. Hence, poet., to form, fashion works of art: Alcimedon duo pocula fecit ... Orpheaque in medio posuit,Verg. E. 3, 46: hic saxo liquidis ille coloribus Sollers nunc hominem ponere, nunc deum,Hor. C. 4, 8, 8.To set, set out, plant trees, etc. (poet. and in postAug. prose; syn.: planto, sero): pone ordine vites,Verg. E. 1, 74: vitem,Col. 4, 1; cf.: ille et nefasto te (arbor) posuit die,
planted thee
,Hor. C. 2, 13, 1.To lay, stake, wager, as a forfeit; to lay down, propose, as a prize: pono pallium; Ille suum anulum opposuit,Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 76: pocula fagina,Verg. E. 3, 36: invitat pretiis animos et praemia ponit,id. A. 5, 292: praemia,id. ib. 5, 486: praemium,Liv. 41, 23, 10. In business lang., to put out at interest, to loan, to invest (less freq. than collocare): pecuniam in praedio ponere, Cic. Tull. § 15 Orell.; cf.: pecuniam apud aliquem,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 70, § 165: dives positis in fenore nummis,Hor. A. P. 421: pecuniam Quaerit Kalendis ponere,id. Epod. 2, 70.To place, set, appoint a person as a watch or guard, accuser, etc. (less freq. than apponere): Dumnorigi custodes ponit, ut, quae agat, scire possit,Caes. B. G. 1, 20 fin.: custos frumento publico est positus,Cic. Fl. 19, 45: alicui accusatorem, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3: puer super hoc positus officium,Petr. 56, 8.To serve up, set before one at table (rare for the class. apponere), Cato, R. R. 79; so id. ib. 81: posito pavone,Hor. S. 2, 2, 23; 2, 4, 14; 2, 6, 64; 2, 8, 91; id. A. P. 422: positi Bacchi cornua,Ov. A. A. 1, 231: vinum,Petr. 34, 7: calidum scis ponere sumen,Pers. 1, 53: porcum,Mart. 8, 22, 1: da Trebio, pone ad Trebium,Juv. 5, 135.To lay aside, take off, put down, lay down, etc. (as clothing, arms, books, the hair or beard, etc., = deponere): cum pila ludere vellet tunicamque poneret,Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 60; cf.: veste positā,id. ib. 1, 47, 113: velamina,Ov. A. A. 2, 613; cf.: velamina de corpore,id. M. 4, 345: arma,Caes. B. G. 4, 37: sarcinam,Petr. 117, 11: barbam,Suet. Calig. 5; cf.: bicolor positis membrana capillis,Pers. 3, 10: libros de manibus,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 23; cf.: cum posui librum, et mecum ipse coepi cogitare,id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24.To lay out for the grave: toroque Mortua componar, positaeque det oscula frater,Ov. M. 9, 503; Verg. A. 2, 644. Also, to lay in the grave, to bury, inter (poet. and in post-class. prose; syn.: sepelio, condo): corpore posto,Lucr. 3, 871: te ... patriā decedens ponere terrā,Verg. A. 6, 508; Ov. F. 5, 480: ubi corpus meum positum fuerit,Dig. 34, 1, 18 fin.; Inscr. Orell. 4370: IN HAC CVPA MATER ET FILIVS POSITI SVNT,ib. 4550; 4495: HIC POSITVS EST, Inscr. in Boeckh. C. I. Gr. 4156: CINERES,Inscr. Orell. 4393; 4489. Ponere calculum or calculos, transf., to weigh carefully, to ponder, consider: si bene calculum ponas,Petr. 115, 16: examina tecum, omnesque, quos ego movi, in utrāque parte calculos pone,Plin. Ep. 2, 19 fin.Toarrange, deck, set in order (cf. compono): qui suas ponunt in statione comas,Ov. A. A. 3, 434: quid totiens positas fingis, inepta, comas?id. ib. 1, 306; cf. id. H. 4, 77; id. M. 1, 477.To subdue, calm, allay, quiet: quo non arbiter Hadriae Major, tollere seu ponere vult freta,Hor. C. 1, 3, 16: magnos cum ponunt aequora motus,Prop. 4 (5), 14, 31. Hence, neutr., of the winds, to fall, abate (poet. and late Lat.): cum venti posuere omnisque repente resedit Flatus,Verg. A. 7, 27: tum Zephyri posuere,id. ib. 10, 103: simul ac ventus posuit,Gell. 2, 30, 2.Trop. In gen., to set, place, put, lay a thing anywhere: noenum ponebat rumores ante salutem, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 314 Vahl.): pone ante oculos laetitiam senatūs,Cic. Phil. 2, 45, 115: at te apud eum, di boni! quantā in gratiā posui,id. Att. 6, 6, 4; cf. id. ib. 5, 11, 6; 6, 1, 22: ponite me ei (Appio) in gratiā, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5: apud Lentulum ponam te in gratiā,Cic. Att. 5, 3, 3 B. and K. (Orell. gratiam): se quoque in gratiā reconciliatae pacis ponere,Liv. 44, 14, 7: in laude positus,Cic. Sest. 66, 139: aliquem in metu non ponere,i. e.
,Vulg. Mal. 2, 2. With in and acc.: te in crimen populo ponat atque infamiam,Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 11. Elliptically: et quidem cum in mentem venit, ponor ad scribendum, when it occurs to Cœsar, he sets me (i. e. my name) to the Senate's decrees, Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 4. In partic. Ponere aliquid in aliquā re, to put or place a thing in something, to cause a thing to rest or depend upon: credibile non est, quantum ego in consiliis et prudentiā tuā, quantum in amore et fide ponam,Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3: spem in aliquo,id. ib. 6, 1, 11: salutis auxilium in celeritate,Caes. B. G. 5, 48; cf.: spem salutis in virtute,id. ib. 5, 34, 2: ut in dubio poneret, utrum, etc.,
regarded as doubtful
,
doubted
,Liv. 34, 5, 3: sed haec haud in magno equidem ponam discrimine, I shall attach no great importance to it, id. prooem. § 8. In pass.: positum esse in aliquā re, to be based or founded upon, to rest upon, depend upon: ut salutem praesentium, spem reliquorum in vestris sententiis positam esse et defixam putetis,Cic. Fl. 1, 3; id. Agr. 2, 9, 22: omnia posita putamus in Planci tui liberalitate,id. Att. 16, 16, F, 2; id. Or. 8, 27: in te positum est, ut, etc.,id. Att. 16, 16, B, § 8. To lay out, spend, employ a thing, esp. time, in any thing: tempus in cogitatione ponere,Cic. de Or. 3, 5, 17: si in hac curā vita mihi ponenda sit,id. Fam. 9, 24, 4: diem totum in considerandā causā,id. Brut. 22, 87; cf. id. Fam. 5, 21, 1; id. Att. 6, 2, 6: sumptum,id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2; id. Fam. 13, 54 fin.; cf.: totum animum atque omnem curam, operam diligentiamque suam in petitione,id. Mur. 22, 45: id multo tum faciemus liberius totosque nos in contemplandis rebus perspiciendisque ponemus,id. Tusc. 1, 19, 44: apud gratissimum hominem beneficium ponere,id. Fam. 13, 55 fin.: itinera enim ita facit, ut multos dies in oppidum ponat,id. Att. 11, 22, 2.To put, place, count, reckon, consider a thing in or among certain things: mortem in malis,Cic. Fin. 3, 8, 29: in beneficii loco,id. Fam. 15, 4, 12; id. Cat. 2, 9, 20: si quis motus populi factus esset, id C. Norbano in fraude capitali esse ponendum,id. de Or. 2, 48, 199: in laude,
,Vulg. Johan. 10, 15; 17. Esp., milit. t. t.: arma ponere (= deponere), to lay down arms, yield, surrender: Nepesinis inde edictum ut arma ponant,Liv. 6, 10, 5: dedi imperatorem, arma poni jubet,id. 4, 10, 3; cf.: positis armis,id. 35, 36, 4; id. Epit. 88.To make, cause to be (eccl. Lat.): cornu tuum ponam ferreum,Vulg. Mich. 4, 13: posuit me desolatam,id. Thren. 3, 11; with quasi: ponam Samariam quasi acervum,id. Mich. 1, 6; with in and acc.: posuerunt eam in ruinam,id. Isa. 23, 13.To assume, suppose, put a case (of mere suppositions; only late Lat.; cf. 6 supra): pone tamen ab evangelistis scriptum, Ambros. de Fide, 5, 16, 194; Ps.-Quint. Decl. 273. Hence, pŏsĭtus, a, um, P. a., of localities, placed, situated; situate, standing, lying anywhere: Roma in montibus posita,Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96: Delos in Aegaeo mari posita,id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55: portus ex adverso urbi positus,Liv. 45, 5: tumulus opportune ad id positus,id. 28, 13: urbs alieno solo posita,id. 4, 17. Poet.: somno positus = sopitus,
pons pons, ntis, m.kindred with Sanscr. pathi, a path; Gr. πάτος; old Germ. phat, pfat; mod. Germ. Pfad; Angl.-Sax. padh; hence prop. a board across a ditch, brook, etc., a bridge across a river, ditch, or marsh, between towers, etc. In gen.: pars oppidi mari disjuncta angusto, ponte rursus adjungitur et continetur,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 117: pontem in Arare faciendum curat,
,id. 14, 134. Plur.: plures dies efficiendis pontibus absumpti,
a bridge of several spans
,Tac. A. 2, 8; 11, 13; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 3; cf. id. ib. 10, 18, 4. In partic. The bridge at the Comitia, over which the voters passed one by one to the septum, to deposit their votes, Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5; Auct. Her. 1, 12, 21; Ov. F. 5, 634. Hence the proverb: sexagenarios de ponte; v. sexagenarius.A wooden drawbridge, to be let down from besieging towers to the walls of a town or fortress, Tac. A. 4, 51; Suet. Aug. 20.A plank bridge thrown from a vessel to the shore, Verg. A. 10, 288 and 654; Liv. 21, 28.The deck of a ship on which the military engines were placed, Tac. A. 2, 6.A floor of a tower, Verg. A. 9, 530; 12, 675.A wooden bridge on a narrow wall between two towers, Verg. A. 9, 170.
Pons Pons, ntis, m., a geographical proper name. Pons Argenteus, the modern Argens, Lepid. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 2; 10, 35. Pons Campanus, Hor. S. 1, 5, 45; Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 62. Aureoli, the modern Pontiruolo, Trebell. XXX. Tyr. Aureol. al.
pontifex pontĭfex (pontŭ-), fĭcisdoubtless from pons-facio; but the original meaning is obscure, m., a Roman high-priest, a pontiff, pontifex (cf.: antistes, sacerdos): pontifices, ut Q. Scaevola pontifex maximus dicebat, a posse et facere,Varr. L. L. 5, § 83 Müll.; Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 20, on the laws of the Twelve Tables; id. de Or. 3, 19, 73; id. Rep. 2, 14, 26; Liv. 1, 20; Ov. F. 6, 454; Hor. C. 3, 30, 9; 2, 14, 28; 3, 23, 12; id. Ep. 2, 1, 26; Juv. 6, 604. Their chief or president was called Pontifex Maximus, Cic. Agr. 2, 7, 18; id. de Or. 2, 12, 51; Liv. 3, 54; 25, 5 et saep.: MAIOR VESTAE, Inscr. (a. 353 p. Chr. n.) Orell. 3184: pontifices minores, a lower class of pontiffs, minor or sub- pontiffs: scribae pontificis, quos nunc minores pontifices appellant,Liv. 22, 57, 3; Cic. Har. Resp. 6, 12; Verr. Fl. Fast. ap. Inscr. Orell. 2, p. 408; Inscr. Cenot. Pisan. ap. Orell. 643: pontifices seu minores seu maximi,Lact. 5, 19, 12.Transf.The Jewish high-priest: Pontifex, id est, sacerdos maximus,Vulg. Lev. 21, 10: Caiapham pontificem,id. Johan. 18, 24. Hence, In the Christian period, a bishop, Sid. Carm. 16, 6.
pontificalis pontĭfĭcālis, e, adj.pontifex, of or belonging to a pontifex, pontifical: insignia,Liv. 10, 7: auctoritas,Cic. Leg. 2, 21, 52: honos,
of the Pontifex Maximus
,Ov. F. 3, 420: ludi, given by the Pontifex Maximus on his entrance into office, Suet. Aug. 44: lectio,Macr. S. 7, 13, 11.
pontificius pontĭfĭcĭus, a, um, adj.id., of or belonging to a pontifex, pontifical: libri,Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 84; id. Rep. 2, 31, 54: jus, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 174, 7; Cic. Dom. 14. Subst.pontĭfĭcĭi, ōrum, m. (sc. libri), the pontifical books, Amm. 17, 7, 10.pontĭfĭcĭum, ii, n.Lit., the dignity of a pontiff or of a bishop (post-class.), Sol. 16 fin.; Cod. Th. 16, 5, 13.Transf., the power or right of doing any thing: is, cujus negotium id pontificiumque esset,Gell. 1, 13, 3; Cod. Th. 8, 18, 1; Symm. Ep. 3, 17; 10, 44; Arn. 2, 89.
pontilis pontīlis, e, adj.1. pons, of or belonging to a bridge, bridge- (post-class.): stratus, perh. a wooden floor, Veg. Vet. 1, 56; 2, 58 Schneid.
Pontinus Pontīnus, a, um, v. Pomptinus.
Pontius Pontĭus, i, m., the name of a gens, originally Samnite, afterwards Roman. So, C. Pontius, a leader of the Samnites, who surrounded the Romans in the Caudine Pass, Cic. Off. 2, 21, 75; Liv. 9, 1; Flor. 1, 16, 10. L. Pontius Aquila, one of the assassins of Cœsar, Cic. Phil. 11, 6, 14; Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 4; Suet. Caes. 78. Pontius Pilatus, governor of Judœa in the time of Christ, Tac. A. 15, 44; Tert. Apol. 21; Lact. 4, 18; Sed. Carm. 5, 116.
pontivagus pontĭvăgus, a, um, adj.1. pontusvagor, roaming over the sea; subst., one who sails over the sea, a voyager, navigator, Poët. ap. Anthol. Lat. 1, p. 487.
pontonium pontonĭum, ĭi, n.dim.ponto, a small punt, acc. to Isid. Orig. 19, 1.
pontus pontus, i, m., = πόντος. Lit., the sea (poet. for mare): mulserat huc navem pontus, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 870 P. (Ann. v. 257 Vahl.): placidus,Lucr. 2, 559: pontus Libyae,Verg. A. 1, 556: caelum undique et undique pontus,id. ib. 3, 193 al.: aequora ponti,Lucr. 1, 8; 2, 772; Verg. G. 1, 469; cf.: freta ponti,id. ib. 1, 356.Poet., transf. * The deep: maris,Verg. A. 10, 377 (a poetic pleonasm, like the Homer. πόντος ἁλὸς πολιῆς, Il. 21, 59).A wave of the sea, sea-wave: ingens a vertice pontus In puppim ferit,Verg. A. 1, 114.
popa pŏpa, ae, m.A Roman inferior priest, a priest's assistant or minister, who brought the victim to the altar and felled it with an axe, Suet. Calig. 32 fin.; Prop. 4 (5), 3, 62; Cic. Mil. 24, 65; Serv. Verg. A. 12, 120. Alluding to the corpulence of such priests: popa venter,
a fat paunch
,
glutton
,Pers. 6, 74. In fem.: PHILEMA POPA DE INSVLA, perh. = she who sells animals for sacrifice, Inscr. Orell. 2457.
popanum pŏpănum, i, n., = πόπανον, a sacrificial cake, Juv. 6, 541.
popellus pŏpellus, i, m.dim.populus, the rabble, mob, populace, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 65; Pers. 4, 15.
Popilia Popilĭa (Popill-), tribus, v. Poblilia.
Popilius Popĭlĭus (Popill-), i, m., and Popi-lĭa (Popill-), ae, f., the name of a Roman gens. So esp., M. Popillius Laenas, a consul A. U.C. 395, Cic. Brut. 14, 56. C. Popilius Laenas, the assassin of Cicero, Liv. Epit. 120; Sen. Suas. 7. In fem.: Popilia,
Poplicula Poplĭcŭla (Poplĭcŏla) or Publĭ-cŏla (the very ancient inscr. in Orell. 547 has POPLICVLA, the palimpsest of Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 53; 55, twice Publicola), ae, m.1. populus-colo (a favorer or friend of the people), a surname of P. Valerius, and of his descendants, Inscr. Orell. 547: inde cognomen factum Publicolae est,Liv. 2, 8: Poplicola, ingentis Volesi Spartana propago,Sil. 2, 8; Inscr. Grut. 480, 5: Poplicola atque Corvinus,Hor. S. 1, 10, 28. Poet., in plur., as an appellative, Sid. Carm. 23, 80.
poplicus poplĭcus, a, um, v. publicus.
Poplifugia Pŏplĭfŭgĭa (Pŏpŭ-), ōrum, n.1. populus-fugio, a festival in memory of the people's flight to the rescue of the Latins, celebrated on the nones of July, POPLIF. NP., Calend. Maff. ap. Inscr. Orell. 2, p. 394; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, 3, § 18; Piso ap. Macr. S. 3, 2.
poplus poplus and pŏpŏlus, i, v. 1. populus init.
Poppaeus Poppaeus, i, m.; Poppaea, ae, f., the name of a Roman gens. Masc., Poppaeus Sabinus, Tac. A. 1, 80; 4, 46; 5, 10; 6, 39: Poppaeus Silvanus,id. H. 2, 86; 3, 50.Fem.: Poppaea (on inscrr. also Poppea and Poppaia) Sabina,
wife of the emperor Nero
,Suet. Oth. 3; id. Ner. 35; Tac. A. 13, 45 sq.; id. H. 1, 13; 78; Inscr. Orell. 731; 733; Inscr. Fratr. Arval. ap. Marin. tab. XVII. b, p. 123. Hence, Poppaeā-nus, a, um, adj., named after Poppœa, Poppœan: pinguia, a species of cosmetic (bread-dough mixed with asses' milk), Juv. 6, 465.
poppysma poppysma, ătis, n., and poppys-mus, i, m., = πόππυσμα and ποππυσμός, a smacking or clucking with the tongue, as a sign of approbation, Juv. 6, 584; on occasion of lightning, as a religious ceremony,Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 25; of a similar sound,Mart. 7, 18, 11.
poppysmus poppysmus, i, v. poppysma.
poppyzon poppȳzon, ontis, m., = ποππύζων, one who clucks with the tongue: cum pingeret poppyzonta retinentem equum,Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 104.
populabilis pŏpŭlābĭlis, e, adj.populor, that may be laid waste or ravaged, destructible (poet.): quodcunque fuit populabile flammae,Ov. M. 9, 262.
populabundus pŏpŭlābundus, a, um, adj.id., laying waste, ravaging (rare): agros populabundus, Sisenn. ap. Non. 471, 23; cf.Gell. 11, 15, 7: in fines Romanos excurrerunt populabundi,Liv. 1, 15, 1: vagari populandum,id. 2, 60, 2: consul per agrum populabundus ierat,id. 3, 3, 10.
popularia pŏpŭlārĭa, ĭum, v. popularis, I. B.
popularis pŏpŭlāris (sync. poplāris, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 36), e, adj.1. populus, of or belonging to the people, proceeding from or designed for the people. In gen.: populares leges,i. e.
,Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 200 (opp. regia civitas, monarchy): popularia sacra sunt, ut ait Labeo, quae omnes cives faciunt nec certis familiis attributa sunt,Fest. p.253 Müll.Subst.: pŏpŭlārĭa, ĭum, n. (sc. subsellia), the seats of the people in the theatre, the common seats, Suet. Claud. 25; id. Dom. 4 fin. In partic. Of or belonging to the same people or country, native, indigenous (as an adj. rare): Sappho puellis de popularibus querentem vidimus,Hor. C. 2, 13, 25: flumina,
,id. ib. 7, 498. As subst.: pŏpŭlāris, is, comm. (freq. and class.). Masc., a countryman, fellow-countryman: redire ad suos populares, Naev. ap. Fest. s. v. stuprum, p. 317 Müll.: o mi popularis, salve,Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 79: o populares,Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 1; id. Ad. 2, 1, 1: popularis ac sodalis suus,Cic. Ac. 2, 37, 118: ego vero Solonis, popularis tui, ut puto, etiam mei, legem neglegam (for Cicero had also lived in Athens),id. Att. 10, 1, 2: popularis alicujus definiti loci (opp. civis totius mundi),id. Leg. 1, 23, 61: non populares modo,Liv. 29, 1: cum turbā popularium,Just. 43, 1, 6: quae res indicabat populares esse.Fem.: mea popularis opsecro haec est?Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 35; 4, 4, 36; 4, 8, 4 al.; Sall. J. 58, 4: tibi popularis,Ov. M. 12, 191.Transf. Of animals and plants of the same region: leaena, Ov. lb. 503: (glires) populares ejusdem silvae (opp. alienigenae, amne vel monte discreti),Plin. 8, 57, 82, § 224: populares eorum (prunorum) myxae,id. 15, 13, 12, § 43. Of persons of the same condition, occupation, tastes, etc., a companion, partner, associate, accomplice, comrade: meus popularis Geta, fellow (i. e. a slave), Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 1: populares conjurationis,Sall. C. 24, 1; 52, 14: sceleris,id. ib. 22, 1: invitis hoc nostris popularibus dicam, the men of our school, i. e. the Stoics, Sen. Vit. Beat. 13. In a political signification, of or belonging to the people, attached or devoted to the people (as opposed to the nobility), popular, democratic: res publica ex tribus generibus illis, regali et optumati et populari confusa modice,Cic. Rep. 2, 23, 41 (ap. Non. 342, 31): homo maxime popularis,Cic. Clu. 28, 77: consul veritate non ostentatione popularis,id. Agr. 1, 7, 23: animus vere popularis, saluti populi consulens, id. Cat. 4, 5, 9: ingenium,Liv. 2, 24: sacerdos, i. e. Clodius, as attached to the popular party,Cic. Sest. 30, 66: vir,Liv. 6, 20: homo, of the common people (opp. rex), Vulg. Sap. 18, 11. Hence, subst.: pŏpŭlāres, ĭum, m., the people's party, the democrats (opp. optimates, the aristocrats): duo genera semper in hac civitate fuerunt . . . quibus ex generibus alteri se populares, alteri optimates et haberi et esse voluerunt. Quia ea quae faciebant, multitudini jucunda esse volebant, populares habebantur,Cic. Sest. 45, 96: qui populares habebantur,id. ib. 49, 105: ex quo evenit, ut alii populares, alii studiosi optimi cujusque videantur,id. Off. 1, 25, 85.Acceptable to the people, agreeable to the multitude, popular: dixi in senatu me popularem consulem futurum. Quid enim est tam populare quam pax?Cic. Agr. 2, 4, 9: potest nihil esse tam populare quam id quod ego consul popularis adfero, pacem, etc.,id. ib. 2, 37, 102: quo nihil popularius est,Liv. 7, 33, 3: populare gratumque audientibus,Plin. Paneg. 77, 4.Of or belonging to the citizens (as opposed to the soldiery): quique rem agunt duelli, quique populare auspicium,Cic. Leg.2, 8; cf.Amm. 14, 10; usually as subst.: popŭlāris, is, m., a citizen (post-class.): multa milia et popularium et militum,Capitol. Ant. Phil. 17; Dig. 1, 12, 1 fin.: popularibus militibusque,Juv. 26, 3, 5; Amm. 22, 2.Belonging to or fit for the common people; hence, common, coarse, mean, bad: sal. Cato, R. R. 88: pulli (apium),Col. 9, 11, 4: popularia agere, to play coarse tricks, Laber. ap. Non. 150, 25. Hence, adv.: pŏpŭlārĭter. After the manner of the common people, i. e. commonly, coarsely, vulgarly, Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24: loqui,id. Fin. 2, 6, 17: scriptus liber (opp. limatius),id. ib. 5, 5, 12.In a popular manner, popularly, democratically: agere,Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73: conciones seditiose ac populariter excitatae,id. Clu. 34, 93: occidere quemlibet populariter,
popularitas pŏpŭlārĭtas, ātis, f.popularis. * (Acc. to popularis, II. A.) A being of the same country, fellow-citizenship: popularitatis causa,Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 81. (Acc. to popularis, II. B.) Popularity, but only subjectively, an effort to please the people, a courting of popular favor, popular bearing (post-Aug.): ne quid popularitatis praetermitteret,Suet. Tit. 8; id. Calig. 15; id. Ner. 53: quanto rarior apud Tiberium popularitas, tanto, etc.,Tac. A. 3, 69: gratus popularitate,Stat. S. 2, 7, 69.Transf., the population, inhabitants (late Lat.), Tert. Anim. 30; id. adv. Marc. 1, 10.
populariter pŏpŭlārĭter, adv., v. popularis fin.
populatim pŏpŭlātim, adv.1. populus, from people to people, among all nations, everywhere, universally (ante-class.): poëta placuit populatim omnibus, Pompon. ap. Non. 150, 20; Caecil. ap. ib. 154, 14; Arn. 3, 5.
populatio pŏpŭlātĭo, ōnis, f.populor, a laying waste, ravaging, plundering, spoiling, devastation, etc. (not in Cic.). Lit.: populationem effuse facere,Liv. 2, 64. In plur.: populationibus incursionibusque,Liv. 3, 3 fin.: hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque prohibere,Caes. B. G. 1, 15.Transf. Concr., things plundered, plunder, booty: Veientes pleni populationum,Liv. 2, 43.A ravaging, destroying done by animals: a populatione murium formicarumque frumenta defendere,Col. 2, 20; so, volucrum,id. 3, 21.Trop., destruction, corruption, ruin (post-Aug.): morum,Plin. 9, 34, 53, § 104; of ruin through luxury, Col. 1, 5, 7.
populatio pŏpŭlātĭo, ōnis, f.1. populus, population; concr., a people, a multitude (late Lat.): flebat populatio praesens,Sedul. 4, 275.
populiscitum pŏpŭliscītum, i, n., or better written separately, pŏpŭli scītum, a decree of the people: Athenienses nihil nisi populi scitis ac decretis agebant,Cic. Rep. 1, 27, 43; id. Opt. Gen. 7, 19: populiscito in patriam restitutus est,Nep. Arist. 1, 5: scitum populi,Liv. 45, 25.
populito pŏpŭlĭto, āre, v. freq. a.populor, to lay waste, to plunder: fructus agrorum,Dig. 49, 1, 21 fin. (al. popularentur).
populneus pōpulnĕus, a, um, adj.2. populus, of poplars, poplar-: frons,Cato, R. R. 5, 8; Col. 6, 3, 7: scobis,Col. 12, 43, 4; cf. populeus.
populnus pōpulnus, a, um, adj.id., of poplars, poplar-: sors,Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 32.
populo pŏpŭlo, āre, v. populor.
Populonia Pŏpŭlōnĭa, ae, f.populor (she who protects against devastation), a surname of Juno, Macr. S. 3, 11; Arn. 3, 118; Mart. Cap. 2, § 149; Sen. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 6, 10 fin.
Populonia Pŏpŭlōnĭa, ae, f., also Pŏpŭlō-nĭum, ĭi, n., and Pŏpŭlōnĭi, ōrum, m., a town on the coast of Etruria, now the ruins of Poplonia, near Piombino. Form Populonia, Verg. A. 10, 172; Mel. 2, 4, 9: Populonium,Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 50: Populonii,Liv. 30, 39, 2. Hence, Pŏpŭlōnĭen-ses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Populonia, the Populonians, Liv. 28, 45.
populor pŏpŭlor, ātus, 1. v. dep., and pŏpŭlo, āre, v. a.1. populus; prop. to spread or pour out in a multitude over a region; hence, transf. to the result, to lay waste, ravage, devastate, desolate; to spoil, plunder, pillage (class.; syn.: vasto, vexo, diripio). Lit. Form populor: Romanus exercitus insulam integram urit, populatur, vastat, Naev. ap. Non. 90, 29: noctu populabatur agros,Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33: Remorum agros,Caes. B. G. 5, 56: arva ferro populatur et igni,Luc. 2, 445; so, omnia igni ferroque populatus,Flor. 2, 17, 16: consules Aequos populantur,Liv. 3, 23 fin. Form populo (in Cicero only in part. perf. pass.): patriam populavit meam, Pac. ap. Non. 39, 32: agrum populare coeperunt, Quadrig. ib. 471, 20: litora vestra Vi populat,Verg. A. 12, 263: Penates,id. ib. 1, 527. In pass.: urbem Romanam deūm irā morbo populari,Liv. 3, 6; 3, 3fin.: populata vexataque provincia,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 52, § 122; cf.: Siculi nunc populati atque vexati,id. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2: arva Marte populata nostro,Hor. C. 3, 5, 23: populatis messibus,Plin. 8, 55, 81.Transf., in gen., to destroy, ruin, spoil (mostly poet. and in the active form), Plaut. ap. Diom. p. 395 P.: populatque ingentem farris acervum Curculio,Verg. G. 1, 185: capillos,Ov. M. 2, 319: feris populandas tradere gentes,id. ib. 1, 249: populata tempora raptis Auribus,
populositas pŏpŭlōsĭtas, ātis. f.populosus, a multitude (post-class.): deorum,Arn. 3, p. 102: luminum Argi,Fulg. Myth. 1, 24; Sid. Ep. 1, 6.
populosus pŏpŭlōsus, a, um, adj.1. populus, abounding in people, populous, numerous (post-class.): gens populosa,App. Flor. p. 342: familia,id. M. 5, p. 162: Briareus populoso corpore,Sid. Carm. 15, 27. Comp.: populosior globus, Veg.Mil. 3, 19 fin. Sup.: insula populosissima,Sol. 52.
populus pŏpŭlus (contr. POPLVS, Inscr. Column. Rostr. in Corp. Inscr. Lat. 195, 17, Plaut. Am. prol. 101; 1, 1, 103; id. Aul. 2, 4, 6; id. Cas. 3, 2, 6 et saep. Also written POPOLVS, Corp. Inscr. Lat. 197, 15 al.; nom. plur. poploe, Carm. Sal. ap. Fest. p. 205 Müll.; v. pilumnoe) [from root pleof pleo; v. plenus], i, m., a people, the people.Lit. In gen. (cf.: gens, natio): res publica res populi: populus autem non omnis hominum coetus quoquo modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis juris consensu et utilitatis communione sociatus,Cic. Rep. 1, 25, 39: populus Romanus,id. Phil. 6, 5, 12: exspectabat populus, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (Ann. v. 90 Vahl.): tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 27: casci populi Latini, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 Müll. (Ann. v. 24 Vahl.): hi populi: Atellani, Calatini, etc.,Liv. 22, 61 fin. Esp. The people, opp. to the Senate, in the formula senatus populusque Romanus (abbreviated S. P. Q. R.), saep.; cf.: et patres in populi fore potestate,Liv. 2, 56. Opp. to the plebs: non enim populi, sed plebis eum (tribunum) magistratum esse,Liv. 2, 56: ut ea res populo plebique Romanae bene eveniret,Cic. Mur. 1, 1. Rarely for plebs, the populace: dat populus, dat gratus eques, dat tura senatus,Mart. 8, 15, 3: urbanus, the citizens (opp. to the military), Nep. Cim. 2, 1.Transf.A region, district, regarded as inhabited: frequens cultoribus alius populus,Liv. 21, 34, 1 (cf. Gr. δῆμος).A multitude, host, crowd, throng, great number of persons or things (poet. and in postAug. prose): ratis populo peritura recepto,i. e.
por por, for puer, i. e. servus; e. g. Marcipor, Lucipor, etc., i. e. servus Marci, etc.,Prisc. 6. Thus also porafor puera, i. e. serva, Inscr. Rein. Class. 17, n. 180.
porca porca, ae, f.porcus, a female swine, a sow, Cato, R. R. 134; Pall. 3, 26. By poet. license for a male swine, a boar, Verg. A. 8, 641 Serv.; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 19: tenera,Juv. 2, 86.
porceo porceo (PORXI, acc. to Charis. p. 217 P., without any example). 2, v. a.porro-arceo, to keep off, keep back, to hinder, restrain (ante-class.): porcet quoque dictum ab antiquis quasi porro arcet, Paul. ex Fest. p. 15 Müll.: porcet significat prohibet,Non. 159, 33: non te porro procedere porcent, Lucil. ap. Non. 160, 9: civium porcet pudor, Enn. ap. ib. 160, 6 (Trag. v. 369 Vahl.); Varr. ap. ib. 160, 8; Pac. and Att. ap. ib. 160, 2 and 5.
porcetra porcē^tra, ae, f.porca, a sow that has once littered, Meliss. ap. Gell. 18, 6, 4.
porcilaca porcĭlāca or porcillāca, ae, f., for portulaca, purslain, Plin. 20, 20, 81, § 210.
porcilia porcilĭa, ae, f.porca, a young sow, Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. n. 41, lin. 22; cf. Not. Tir. p. 167.
porciliaris porcilĭāris, e, adj.porcilia, of or belonging to a young sow: extae, Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. n. 41, lin. 18.
porcinarium porcīnārĭum, ĭi, n.porcus, a pigsty: ὑοφορβεῖον, porcinarium, Gloss. Gr. Lat.
Porcius Porcius, i, m.; Porcia, ae, f., the name of a Roman gens. The most celebrated are, M. Porcius Cato Censorinus, or Major, the severe censor, whose life was written by Nepos, and for whom Cicero named his Essay on Old Age, Nep. Cato, 1 sqq.; Cic. Rep. 1, 1. M. Porcius Cato, the younger, called Uticensis, because of his famous death at Utica, Sall. Cat. 52, 1; Cic. Att. 12, 12, 1. In fem., Porcia, a sister of the younger Cato, wife of Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cic. Att. 13, 37; 3, 48. Hence, Porcĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Porcius, Porcian: lex, of the people's tribune P. Porcius Laeca, Liv. 9, 10; Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 12; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 63, § 163; Sall. C. 51, 40: basilica,
porcus porcus, i, m.cf. Gr. πόρκος, Varr. L. L. 5, § 97 Müll.; Umbr. purka, O. H. Germ. farah. Lit., a tame swine, a hog, pig: sunt domi agni, et porci sacres,Plaut. Rud. 4, 6, 4: villa abundat porco, haedo, agno, gallinā, etc.,Cic. Sen. 16, 56; Mart. 8, 22, 1: Scrofa alat suos porcos,
,Cato, R. R. 134; Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57. Of a glutton, as a term of reproach, hog, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 16; Cat. 39, 11.Transf. Porcus marinus, the sea-hog, porpoise, Plin. 32, 5, 19, § 56; also called simply porcus,id. 32, 2, 9, § 19. = pudendum muliebre, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 10. Caput porci, in milit. lang., a wedge-shaped order of battle, Amm. 17, 13; cf. porcinus, II.
porphyrio porphyrĭo, ōnis, m., = πορφυρίων, a species of water-fowl, the sultana-hen, porphyrton (Fulica porphyrio, Linn.), Plin. 10, 16, 63, § 129; Vulg. Lev. 11, 18.
Porphyrion Porphyrĭon, ōnis, m., = Πορφυρίων. One of the giants, Hor. C. 3, 4, 54; Mart. 13, 78, 2; Claud. Gigant. 35; 115.An ancient commentator on Horace, Charis. p. 196 P.
porrecte porrectē, adv., v. 1. porrigo, P. a. fin.
porrectio porrectĭo, ōnis, f.1. porrigo, a stretching out, extending, extension: digitorum (opp. contractio),Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150: bracchii,Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27. Concr., a straight line (opp. circinatio), Vitr. 10, 3, 8.
porrectus porrectus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from 1. porrigo.
porriciae porrĭcĭae, ārum, f.porricio, the parts of the victim consecrated to the gods, sacrificial pieces, Arn. 2, p. 231; Sol. 5 med. (al. prosiciae).
porricio porrĭcĭo (porĭ-), ēci, ectum, 3, v. a.old prep. port (v. pōno) and root ric-, to extend; cf. rica, a flowing veil. Lit., to lay before, to offer sacrifice to the gods: exta porriciunto, diis danto in altaria, Veran. ap. Macr. S. 3, 2: atrocia porriciunt exta ministratores, Naev. ap. Non. 76, 6; Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 32: cruda exta in mare porricit,Liv. 29, 27; cf.: extaque salsos Porriciam in fluctus,Verg. A. 5, 238 and 776; Fenest. ap. Non. 154, 21. Prov.: inter caesa et porrecta ut aiunt, between the slaying and the offering of the victim, i. e. at the last moment, at the eleventh hour, Cic. Att. 5, 18, 1.Transf., apart from relig. lang., to bring forth, produce any thing: seges frumentum porricit,Varr. R. R. 1, 29 fin.
porriginosus porrīgĭnōsus, a, um, adj.2. porrigo, full of dandruff, scurvy: caput,Plin. Val. 1, 4.
porrigo porrĭgo, rexi, rectum, 3 (contr. form porgo, porgite, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 26, and Verg. A. 8, 274: porge,Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 18; Aus. Idyll. 4, 37: porgebat, Sil 9, 458: porgens,Val. Fl. 2, 656: porgi,Stat. Th. 8, 755: porxit,id. S. 2, 1, 204; cf.: antiqui etiam porgam dixerunt pro porrigam,Fest. p. 218 Müll. Acc. to Lachmann, Hor. S. 2, 6, 59, instead of perditur, we should read porgitur; v. perdo init.), v. a.por, = pro, and rego, to stretch or spread out before one's self, to put forth, reach out, extend (class.; syn. extendo). Lit. In gen.: jam dudum, si des, porrexi manum,Plaut. Ps. 4. 7, 49: animal membra porrigit, contrahit,Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120: manum ad tradendam pyxidem,id. Cael. 26, 63: crus,Liv. 8, 8: caelo bracchia,Ov. M. 1, 767: aciem latius,Sall. J. 52, 6. Pass., to stretch or spread one's self out, to be stretched out, extended: (Tityos) per tota novem cui jugera corpus Porrigitur,
,Juv. 6, 43. Porrigere manum, in voting, to put forth or hold up the hand, Cic. Fl. 6, 15. Hence, transf., i. q. to express one's assent or approval: quare si tu quoque huic sententiae manum porrigis,Symm. Ep. 7, 15.Trop.To protract, prolong (syn. prolato): iter,App. M. 2, 14; 6, 3; so of the quantity of a syllable: syllabam,Quint. 1, 6, 32; cf.: ut aliquis impetum morbi trahendo effugiat, porrigaturque in id tempus, etc.,i. e.
be kept alive
,
supported
,Cels. 2, 5. (Acc. to I. B. 2.) To offer, to grant a thing: praesidium clientibus porrigere atque tendere,Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184: et mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, Porriget hora,Hor. C. 2, 16, 32. Manus ad (in) aliquid porrigere, to reach after, strive for, seek to obtain (mostly post-Aug.): Lydiam cepisti ... jam etiam ad pecora nostra avaras et insatiabiles manus porrigis,Curt. 7, 8, 19: fames me appellat, ad proxima quaeque porrigatur manus,Sen. Ep. 119, 4; id. Ben. 5, 14, 2; id. Cons. Polyb. 17, 1; Val. Max. 9, 1, 2; Lact. 7, 15, 5: manus suas in orientem occidentemque porrexit,id. Mort. Pers. 3 fin.; cf.: pecunia deesse coepit, neque quo manus porrigeret suppetebat, nisi, etc.,Nep. Dion, 7, 2. Se porrigere, to extend, reach, spread itself: jam fortuna Romana se ad orientalia regna porrigere coeperat,Just. 39, 5, 3: quis gradus ulterior, quo se tua porrigat ira, restat?Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 5. porrectus, a, um, P. a., stretched out, extended, long.Lit.: porrecta ac aperta loca,Caes. B. G. 2, 19: locus,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 41: syllaba,
,Ov. P. 4, 12, 14: senex, stretched out, i. e. dead, Cat. 67, 6; cf. in double sense: tuam amicam video. Ca. Ubi ea'st? Ps. Eccam in tabellis porrectam, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 34. Comp.: porrectior acies,Tac. Agr. 35 fin.: porrectior frons, i. e. more cheerful (opp. contractior), Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 3.Subst.: porrectum, i, n.Extent: Thessaliae in porrectum longitudo,Plin. 4, 9, 16, § 32. A straight line, Vitr. 10, 8.A plain, Dig. 8, 3, 8. Plur., Min. Fel. 17, 10. Trop., widespread, extended: famaque et imperī Porrecta majestas ad ortum Solis ab Hesperio cubili,Hor. C. 4, 15, 15. Hence, adv.: porrectē, widely, extensively, far (post-class.). Comp.: porrectius ire,
Porrima Porrĭma, ae, f., a Roman goddess worshipped by women, perh. another name for Carmentis, Ov. F. 1, 633; cf. Hartung, Rel. d. Röm. 2, p. 199.
porrina porrīna, ae, f.porrum, a bed of leeks, Cato, R. R. 47; Arn. 2, 85; Dig. 7, 1, 58.
porrixo porrixo, āre, v. freq. a.1. porrigo, to stretch out strongly, App. M. Fragm. p. 717 Oud.
porro porro, adv.root pra-; Sanscr. prathamus, primus; Lat. prae, pro, prior; cf. Gr. πόρρω, πρόσω, forward, onward, farther on, to a distance, at a distance, after off, far.Lit., in space, with verbs both of motion and of rest (rare and mostly anteclass.), Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 18: porro agere armentum,Liv. 1, 7, 6: ire,id. 9, 2. So ellipt.: porro Quirites, on! hither! ye Romans! Laber. ap. Macr. S. 2, 7; Tert. adv. Val. 13 (al. proh). With verbs of rest: habitare,Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 95: inscius Aeneas, quae sint ea flumina porro,Verg. A. 6, 711: campi deinde porro,Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 18.Transf. In time. Of old, aforetime, formerly (very rare): altera (Nympha), quod porro fuerat, cecinisse putatur,Ov. F. 1, 635.Henceforth, hereafter, afterwards, in future: me sollicitum habitum esse atque porro fore, Cato ap. Charis. p. 190 P.; Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 36: quid in animo Celtiberi haberent aut porro habituri essent,Liv. 40, 36: fac, eadem ut sis porro,Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 38; id. Phorm. 5, 7, 44: move ocius te, ut, quid agam, porro intellegas,id. And. 4, 3, 16: dehinc ut quiescant porro moneo, id. ib. prol. 22: hinc maxima porro Accepit Roma, et patrium servavit honorem,
,Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 12, and S. 1, 17: jecoris, a part of the liver (so too in Gr. πύλη), Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 137: fluviorum,Vulg. Nahum, 2, 6. Of the fundament, Cat. 15, 17.Trop. Et quibus e portis occurri cuique deceret, by what way, by what means, Lucr. 6, 32. As the symbol of strength: portae inferi,
portatrix portātrix, īcis, f.id., she that carries, Inscr. Orell. 1373.
portella portella, ae, f.dim.porta, a small door: portella, ῥυμοπύλιον, παραπύλιον, Gloss. Lat. Gr.
portendo portendo, di, tum, 3 (inf. pres. portendier, Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 4), v. a.an archaic collat. form in relig. lang. of protendo, to stretch forth, to point out, indicate (future events, misfortunes, etc.), to foretell, predict, presage, portend (cf.: ostendo, monstro): ea (auspicia) illis exeuntibus in aciem portendisse deos,Liv. 30, 32, 9; cf.: di immortales mihi sacrificanti ... laeta omnia prosperaque portendere,id. 31, 7 fin.: magnitudinem imperii portendens prodigium,id. 1, 55: populo commutationem rerum portendit fore, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: triginta annos Cyrum regnaturum esse portendi,Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46: quod portentum regni ruinam portendebat, of an earthquake,Just. 17, 1, 3. Pass., to be indicated (by a sign), to threaten, impend. Usually of bad fortune, loss, injury, etc.: nobis periculum magnum portenditur,Plaut. As. 3, 1, 27: haruspices dudum dicebant mihi, malum damnumque maximum portendier,id. Poen. 3, 5, 4; cf.: malum quod in quiete tibi portentum est,id. Curc. 2, 2, 22: quod in extis nostris portentum est,id. Poen. 5, 4, 35. Of good fortune, etc.: salvos sum: libertas portenditur,Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 38: quid spei Latinis portendi?Liv. 1, 50. Hence, portentum, i, n., a sign, token, omen, portent (syn.: ostentum, prodigium). Lit.: ex quo illa ostenta, monstra, portenta, prodigia dicuntur,Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 7; cf. Fest. p. 245 Müll.; and Paul. ex Fest. p. 244 Müll.: nam si quod raro fit, id portentum putandum est, sapientem esse portentum est,Cic. Div. 2, 28, 61: portentum inusitatum conflatum est recens, Poët. ap. Gell. 15, 4: alii portenta atque prodigia nunciabant,Sall. C. 30, 2: ne quaere profecto, Quem casum portenta ferant,Verg. A. 8, 533. Of miracles, Vulg. Heb. 2, 4; id. Deut. 34, 11; cf. id. Marc. 13, 22.Transf.A monster, monstrosity: cetera de genere hoc quae sunt portenta perempta,Lucr. 5, 37; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 11: quale portentum neque militaris Daunias latis alit aesculetis Nec, etc.,id. C. 1, 22, 13: quae virgineo portenta sub inguine latrant,i. e.
,Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14; cf.: bovem quendam putari deum, multaque alia portenta apud eosdem, id. Rep. 3, 9, 14. Trop., in a moral sense, a monster of depravity: P. Clodius, fatale portentum prodigiumque rei publicae,Cic. Pis. 4, 9: Gabinius et Piso, duo rei publicae portenta ac paene funera,id. Prov. Cons. 1, 2: qualia demens Aegyptus portenta colat,Juv. 15, 2.A marvellous or extravagant fiction, a strange tale, a wonderful story: cetera de genere hoc monstra et portenta locuntur,Lucr. 4, 590: poëtarum et pictorum portenta,Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 11: portentum atque monstrum certissimum est, esse aliquem humanā specie et figurā, qui tantum immanitate bestias vicerit,id. Rosc. Am. 22, 63: portenta atque praestigias scribere,Gell. 10, 12, 6.
portentifer portentĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum, v. portentificus.
portentificus portentĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.portentum-facio, marvellous, monstrous, unnatural, extraordinary (poet. and in post-class. prose): venena,Ov. M. 14, 55 Jahn (al. portentifera): figurae animalium,Lact. 2, 13, 11: opera,id. 4, 13, 15.
portentosus portentōsus (-tŭōsus), a, um, adj.portentum, full of monsters, monstrous, portentous, unnatural, hideous, revolting, etc. (class., but not used of abstract things till after the Aug. period): si quando aliqua portentosa aut ex pecude aut ex homine nata dicuntur,Cic. Div. 2, 28, 60: puer portentoso parvoque capite,Suet. Dom. 4: portentosissima genera ciborum,id. Calig. 37: labyrinthi, vel portentosissimum humani impendii opus,Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 84: mendacia Graeciae,id. 5, 1, 1, § 4: scientia,i. e.
Porthmeus Porthmeus (dissyl.), ĕi and ĕos, m., = Πορθμεύς, the ferryman, a name given to Charon (poet.): navita Porthmeus,Petr. 121. Acc. Porthmea, Juv. 3, 266.
porthmos porthmos, i, m.,= πορθμός, a strait (pure Lat. fretum), Plin. 3, 5, 10, § 74.
porticatio portĭcātĭo, ōnis, f.porticus, a row of galleries or porticoes, Dig. 11, 7, 37.
porticula portĭcŭla, ae, f.dim.id., a small gallery or portico, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 3. Collat. form portĭcŭlus, i, Inscr. Murat. 1716, 14.
porticuncula portĭcuncŭla, ae, f.dim.id., a small gallery, Inscr. Orell. 4821.
porticus portĭcus, ūs, f. (also heteroclit. acc. plur. PORTICOS, Inscr. Orell. 4043) [porta], a walk covered by a roof supported on columns, a colonnade, piazza, arcade, gallery, porch, portico, = στοά. Lit.: omnes porticus commetiri,Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 7: porticum aedificare,id. ib. 3, 2, 69; Cic. Att. 4, 16, 14: inambulare in porticu,id. Rep. 1, 12, 18: viae latae, porticus, etc.,id. ib. 3, 31, 43: porticuum laxitas,Suet. Calig. 37: porticuum,id. Dom. 14; Vitr. 5, 1: in amplis porticibus,Verg. A. 3, 353; cf. id. ib. 2, 528: me porticus excepit,Hor. S. 1, 4, 134; id. Ep. 1, 1, 71: porticus, in quā gestetur dominus,Juv. 7, 178: triplex,Vulg. Ezech. 42, 3. In the upper story, Dig. 39, 2, 47.Transf. * The entrance or porch of a tent (poet.): saucii opplent porticus, the porches, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38.A weather-board, shed, Col. 9 praef. § 2; 9, 7, 4; 9, 14, 14.A long shed or gallery to protect soldiers in sieges, Caes. B. C. 2, 2, 3.The Porch or Portico, meaning the school of the Stoics (from στοά, porch, the place where Zeno taught); hence, transf., the Stoic philosophy, the Stoics: Chrysippus, qui fulcire putatur porticum Stoicorum,Cic. Ac. 2, 24, 75; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 44: clamat Zeno et tota illa porticus tumultuatur, Cic. Fragm. ap. Aug. contr. Ac. 3, 7; Gell. 12, 5, 10.
portio portĭo, ōnis (abl. sing. portioni, Inscr. Lat. 206, 38), f.kindr. with pars and πόρω, to share, impart, a share, part, portion (post-Aug., except in the phrase pro portione; v. in foll. II.). Lit.: Luna aequā portione divisa,Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 42: ex his portio in Italiā consedit, portio in Illyricos sinus penetravit, Just. 24, 4, 2: hereditatis,id. 36, 2, 5; cf. id. 21, 1, 2: quamvis quota portio faecis Achaei,Juv. 3, 61: mox in proflatum additur tertia portio aeris collectanei,Plin. 34, 9, 20, § 97: pari portione inter se mixta pix, cera, alumen, etc.,Cels. 4, 24; cf.: glandis cortex et nitrum paribus portionibus,id. 5, 18, 4: nil natura portionibus parit,
,Just. 28, 1, 1: vocare aliquem in portionem muneris,id. 5, 2, 9: magna mortalium portio,Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 102.Transf., a relation to any thing, proportion, i. q. proportio. In gen., adverb. prō portiōne (class.; not in Cæs.), in proportion, proportionally, relatively: pro portione ea omnia facito,Cato, R. R. 106 fin.: pro portione ad majorem fundum vel minorem addere,Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 3: Mamertinis pro portione imperaretur,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 55; id. Fl. 14, 32; Liv. 34, 50: oportet ut aedibus ac templis vestibula et aditus, sic causis principia pro portione rerum praeponere,
portionalis portĭōnālis, e, adj.portio, of or belonging to a part, partial (post-class.), Tert. Virg. Vel. 4 fin.: jejunium,id. adv. Psych. 9; id. Res. Carn. 57.
portisculus portiscŭlus, i, m.Lit., a truncheon or hammer with which the master of the rowers gave signals, and beat time to indicate the proper stroke: tonsas ante tenentes Parerent, observarent, portisculus signum Cum dare coepisset, Enn. ap. Non. 151, 26 (Ann. v. 233 Vahl.); Cato ap. Fest. p. 234 Müll.: nec palmarum pulsus nec portisculi, Laber. ap. Non. 151, 28.Trop., guidance, direction: ad loquendum atque ad tacendum tu ut habes portisculum,Plaut. As. 3, 1, 15.
portito portĭto, āre, v. freq. a.porto, to bear, carry: servus crumenam portitans,Gell. 20, 1, 13.
portitor portĭtor, ōris, m.from the root por, whence porto, a bearer, carrier. A carrier, conveyer. Usually one who conveys people in a boat or ship. In gen., a ferryman, boatman, sailor, mariner (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Plato cum flumen nave transisset, non ab illo quicquam portitor exegisset, etc.,Sen. Ben. 6, 18, 1. In partic., the ferryman, i. e. Charon (poet.): ubi portitor aera recepit, etc.,Prop. 4 (5), 11, 7.Orci,Verg. G. 4, 502; id. A. 6, 298: Lethaei amnis,Stat. Th. 12, 559; Val. Fl. 1, 784 et saep. By land, a carrier, carter, wagoner: Portitor Ursae, i. e. the constellation Bootes, who, as it were, drives the wain, Stat. Th. 1, 693.A bearer, carrier (mostly post-class.; cf. bajulus): Helles,i. e.
porto porto, āvi, ātum, v. freq. a.root porfor for-to, kindr. with fer-o; Sanscr. vhri, ferre, to bear or carry along; to convey any thing heavy (class.; syn.: fero, gero, veho). Lit.: ferri proprie dicimus, quae quis suo corpore bajulat, portari ea, quae quis in jumento secum ducit, agi ea, quae animalia sunt,Dig. 50, 16, 235 (the foll. pass. prove that this distinction is not valid): ut id, quod agri efferant sui, quascumque velint in terras portare possint,Cic. Rep. 2, 4, 9: hominem ad Baias octophoro,id. Q. Fr. 2, 10, 2: Massili portabant juvenes ad litora tanas, Enn. ap. Don. p. 1777 P. (Ann. v. 605 Vahl.): frumentum,Cic. Att. 14, 3, 1: viaticum ad hostem,id. Fam. 12, 3, 2; cf. id. Font. 5, 9: Massilium in triumpho,
a tax paid for the right of hawking goods about the country
,
a peddler's tax
,Cic. Att. 2, 16, 4. * Fare, freight, = naulum: Charon expetens portorium,App. M. 6, p. 180, 28.
Portuensis Portŭensis (also written PORTENSIS, Inscr. Grut. 437, 2; 1027, 4), e, adj.portus, of or belonging to the port of Ostia, Portuensian: mensores, grain-measurers at the port of Ostia, Cod. Th. 14, 4, 9; Inscr. Grut. 462, 1: horrea, granaries at the port of Ostia, Cod. Th. 14, 23, 1: SVSCEPTORES,
collectors of port-duties
,Inscr. Orell. 3184: FABER FERRARIVS,Inscr. Fabr. p. 84, n. 144; cf. Nibby, Della via Portuense e dell' antica città di Porto, Rom. 1827.
portula portŭla, ae, f.dim.porta, a small door or gate, Liv. 25, 9; 25, 13; Inscr. Grut. 207, 2.
Portunus Portūnus (less correctly Portum-nus), i, m.portus, the protecting god of harbors, also called Palaemon, Cic. N. D. 2, 26, 66; Ov. F. 6, 547; Verg. A. 5, 241 Serv.; Lact. 1, 21, 23; Inscr. Orell. 1585; Paul. ex Fest. p. 243. Hence, Portūnālis (Portumn-), e, adj., of or belonging to Portunus, Portunal: flamen, Poët. ap. Fest. s. v. persillum, p. 217 Müll.Subst.: Portūnālĭa, ĭum, n., the festival of Portunus, celebrated annually on the 17th of August, Varr. L. L. 6, § 19 Müll.; Calend. ap. Inscr. Orell. 2, p. 396.
portuose portŭōsē, adv., v. portuosus fin.
portuosus portŭōsus, a, um, adj.portus, full of or abounding in harbors, having many harbors: mare,Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 69: flumen Trinium,Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 106: pars Numidiae portuosior,Sall. J. 16, 5: navigatio minime portuosa,
with no ports to run into
,Cic. Fam. 6, 20, 1. * Adv.: portŭōsē, with many harbors; only comp.: portuosius illic alveus Nili,
,Verg. A. 7, 598: venias portus et ara tuis,Ov. H. 1, 110: vos eritis nostrae portus et ara fugae,id. P. 2, 8, 68. In the oldest Latinity, a house (as a place which one enters): portum in XII. pro domo positum omnes fere consentiunt,Fest. p. 233 Müll.A warehouse: portus appellatus est conclusus locus, quo importantur merces et inde exportantur,Dig. 50, 16, 59: Licini,Cassiod. Var. 1, 25.
porus pŏrus, i, m., = πόρος, a passage, channel in the body: cordis sui, Ambros. Hexaëm. 3, 9, 39; of the air passages, Isid. 11, 1, 80; cf.: pori meatus,Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 228 (al. permeatus).
Posca Posca, ae, m., a Roman surname: M. Pinarius Posca,Liv. 40, 18.
poscaenium poscaenium, v. postscaenium.
poscinummius poscĭnummius (-nūmius), a, um, adj.posco-nummus, money-seeking, mercenary: oscula,App. M. 10, p. 248, 36.
posco posco, pŏposci, 3 (old perf. peposci, Val. Antias ap. Gell. 7, 9, 9), v. inch. a. [for porc-scere; Sanscr. root parkh- prakh-, to ask; cf.: precor, procus, procax], to ask for urgently; to beg, demand, request, desire (syn.: flagito, postulo, peto). In gen., constr. usually with aliquid, aliquem (sibi): aliquid ab aliquo; also with a double acc., with ut, with inf., or with acc. and inf., or wholly absol.: poscere est secundum Varronem, quotiens aliquid pro merito nostro deposcimus: petere vero est cum aliquid humiliter et cum precibus postulamus,Serv. Verg. A. 9, 194. With acc.: posco atque adeo flagito crimen,Cic. Planc. 19, 48; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 71: argentum,id. ib. 2, 4, 20, § 44; 2, 3, 34, § 78: pugnam,Liv. 2, 45, 6: nec mi aurum posco, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 200 Vahl.): si quid poscam,Plaut. Aul. 2, 5, 10: pulvinos,Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 29; id. Planc. 19, 48: vades poposcit,id. Rep. 2, 36, 61; cf.: audaciae partes Roscii sibi poposcerunt,Cic. Rosc. Am. 13, 35: peccatis veniam poscentem (preceded by postulare),Hor. S. 1, 3, 75. With ab: fac, ut audeat Tibi credere omnia, abs te petere et poscere,Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 53: diem a praetore peposcit, Val. Antias ap. Gell. 7, 9, 9: abs te litteras,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 16, § 36; 2, 2, 47, § 117: tutorem ab aliquo,Suet. Aug. 94: bibere a me poscis,Vulg. Joann. 4, 9. With a double acc.: parentes pretium pro sepulturā liberum poscere,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 7: magistratum nummos,id. ib. 2, 1, 17, § 44: aliquem causam disserendi,id. Tusc. 3, 3, 7: claves portarum magistratus,Liv. 27, 24, 8: non ita creditum Poscis Quintilium deos,Hor. C. 1, 24, 12: cur me in decursu lampada poscis?Pers. 6, 61: poscenti vos rationem,Vulg. 1 Pet. 3, 15. Hence, pass.: poscor aliquid, I am asked for something, something is asked or demanded of me (poet. and in post-class. prose): gravidae posceris exta bovis,
,id. M. 7, 771: nec tantum segetes alimentaque debita dives Poscebatur humus,id. ib. 1, 138: quod rationem pecuniae posceretur,Gell. 4, 18, 12; to be called upon or invoked to inspire a poet or to sing: aversus Apollo Poscitur invitā verba pigenda lyrā,Prop. 4 (5), 1, 76.(better reading poscis ab); cf. absol. Palilia poscor: Non poscor frustra; si favet alma Pales,Ov. F. 4, 721; so, poscimur Aonides,Ov. M. 5, 333: poscimur,Hor. C. 1, 32, 1. With ut: poscimus, ut cenes civiliter,Juv. 5, 112: poscimus ut sit, etc.,id. 7, 71; Tac. H. 2, 39: poposcit, ut haec ipsa quaestio diligentius tractaretur, Aug. Civ. Dei, 2, 21. (ε) With inf. or acc. and inf. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): poscat sibi fabula credit,Hor. A. P. 339; cf.: immolare Fauno, Seu poscat agnā sive malit haedo,id. C. 1, 4, 12: esse sacerdotes delubraque vestra tueri Poscimus,Ov. M. 8, 708: contraque occurrere poscunt,Val. Fl. 4, 194; Pers. 1, 128; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 151. In prose: ego vero te etiam morari posco inter voluptates,Sen. Contr. 1, 8; Arn. 7, p. 254. So, too, perh. (acc. to Stephanus's conjecture): vos fallere poscunt,Rutil. Lup. Fig. 2, 19, p. 181 Frotsch. (ζ) Ellipt.: poscunt majoribus poculis, sc. bibere,
they challenge to drink from larger goblets
,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 66. (η) Absol., to beg, be a beggar: improbus es, cum poscis, ait. Sed pensio clamat, posce,Juv. 9, 63 sq. Of inanimate and abstract subjects, to demand, require, need: quod res poscere videbatur,Caes. B. G. 7, 1: cum usus poscit,id. ib. 4, 2: quod negotium poscebat, Sail J. 56, 1; 70, 3; Quint. 11, 3, 162 et saep. In partic. To demand for punishment, to ask the surrender of: accusant ii, quos populus poscit, Cic. Rosc. Am. 5, 13; cf.: hujus tantae cladis auctor Annibal poscitur,Flor. 2, 6, 7: nec poscitur auctor,Sil. 2, 44: poscendum poenae juvenem jubebat,id. 1, 677; so Liv. 9, 26. In gen., to call one (ante-class. and poet.): clamore hominem posco,Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 5: gemitu Alciden,Sen. Herc. Oet. 1887. Pass.: ego poscor Olympo (dat. of agent), Olympus calls me, summons me to the combat, Verg. A. 8, 533: poscimur,Ov. M. 2, 144. In partic., to call upon, invoke: supplex tua numina posco,Verg. A. 1, 666. In selling. To ask, demand for a thing, to offer at a price: tanti quanti poscit, vin' tanti illam emi?Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 22: pro reliquis (libris) idem pretium poposcit, Varr. ap. Lact. 1, 6, 10.To ask, bid, offer a price for a thing: agite licemini. Qui cenā poscit? ecqui poscit prandio?Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 68; id. Merc. 2, 3, 101; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 88.To demand one's hand, ask in marriage: eam si jubes, frater, tibi me poscere, poscam,Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 38: filiam tuam mihi uxorem posco,id. ib. 2, 2, 42: tibi permittam, posce, duce,id. Trin. 2, 2, 103: sine dote posco tuam sororem filio,id. ib. 2, 4, 98: tuam sororem uxorem alicui,id. ib. 2, 4, 49.
positio pŏsĭtĭo, ōnis, f.pono, a putting, placing, setting (post-Aug.; in Cic. Fl. 26, 62, possessione is the correct reading). Lit.: calicis positio,Front. Aquaed. 36: surculi,Col. 3, 17: linearum,id. 3, 3 fin.: brassicae,id. 11, 3, 24.Transf., a position of the body or of places, a posture, situation: corporis nostri positio,Sen. Q. N. 1, 16, 7: caeli locique,Col. 3, 4, 1: loci,Quint. 3, 7, 26: pro situ et positione locorum,id. 3, 21, 9: Italiae procurrentis,Plin. 37, 13, 77, § 201: uniuscujusque stellarum forma et positio,Gell. 14, 1.Trop.A placing, use of a word: μετωνυμία est nominis pro nomine positio, Quint. 8, 6, 23; 1, 5, 51. In partic., affirmation: paupertas non per positionem sed per detractionem dicitur,Sen. Ep. 87, 39.Transf. In rhet., a proposition, theme, subject, argument, Quint. 2, 10, 15; 7, 4, 40. In gram., an ending, termination, Quint. 1, 5, 60; so id. 1, 5, 65; 1, 6, 10; 12; 22. In prosody. A downward beat, in marking time: a sublatione ad positionem,Quint. 9, 4, 48; so id. 9, 4, 55; Mart. Cap. 9, § 981; so of the voice (opp. elevatio), Isid. 1, 16, 21. Positio syllabae, the place of a short vowel before two consonants, by which the syllable becomes long, position, Quint. 1, 5, 28; 9, 4, 86; Diom. p. 423 P. et saep.A state of mind, mood: in quācumque positione mentis sim,Sen. Ep. 64, 3. Positiones, circumstances of a thing, Quint. 7, 4, 40.
positivus pŏsĭtīvus, a, um, adj.id., positive, in gram. Settled by arbitrary appointment or agreement (opp. to natural): nomina non positiva esse sed naturalia,Gell. 10, 4in lemm. Positivum nomen. An adjective in the positive degree, Cledon. p. 1893 P.A substantive, Macr. S. 1, 4, 9.
positor pŏsĭtor, ōris, m.id., a builder, founder (Ovid): moenium,Ov. M. 9, 448: templorum,id. F. 2, 63.
positura pŏsĭtūra, ae, f.id.. Lit., position, posture, situation (poet. and in post-class. prose): corporum,Lucr. 1, 685: ligni,Gell. 5, 3, 4: sideris,id. 2, 21. With a subject. gen.: dei,i. e.
,Cic. Quint. 26, 83: Monam insulam, a cujus possessione revocatum Paulinum memoravi, etc.,Tac. Agr. 18: si mare intretur, promptam ipsis possessionem,id. A. 2, 5.Transf. In abstr., a possessing, holding, possession, occupation: possessio est, ut definit Gallus Aelius, usus quidam agri, aut aedificii, non ipse fundus, aut ager,Fest. p. 233 Müll.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 222 ib.: possessio appellata est, ut Labeo ait, a sedibus, quasi positio, quia naturaliter tenetur ab eo, qui ei insistit, quam Graeci κατοχὴν dicunt, Dig. 41, 21: certā re et possessione deturbari,Cic. Fam. 12, 25: hortorum,id. Mil. 27, 75: fundi,id. ib. 27, 75: in possessionem proficisci,
,Sen. Ira, 1, 7, 2: si ignis prima possessio rerum fuit, qui paulatim exstinctus, sedem terris dedit,
if at first fire possessed the world
,Just. 2, 1, 15. In concr., a thing possessed, a possession, property, esp. an estate: possessiones appellantur agri late patentes, publici privatique: qui non mancipatione, sed usu tenebantur, et, ut quisque occupaverat, possidebat,Fest. p. 241 Müll.: prata et areas quasdam magno aestimant, quod ei generi possessionum minime noceri potest,Cic. Par. 6, 3, 51; Caes. B. C. 1, 17: qui trans Rhodanum vicos possessionesque habebant,id. B. G. 1, 11: urbanae,Nep. Att. 14, 3: aes alienum meis nominibus ex possessionibus solvere possem,Sall. C. 35, 3.Trop., possession: prudentiae doctrinaeque possessio,Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 122: judicii ac defensionis,id. ib. 2, 49, 200: laud is, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 7, 2: res publica in possessione victoriae permanebit, id. ap. ib. 10, 21, 6.
possessiuncula possessĭuncŭla, ae, f.dim.possessio, II. B., a small possession, a small estate: meae,Cic. Att. 13, 23, 3: si attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit possessiunculam ejus,Vulg. Lev. 25, 25.
possessivus possessīvus, a, um, adj.possideo, of or relating to possession, possessive; a gram. t. t. (post-Aug.): nomina (e. g. Ciceronianus, Evandrius),Charis. p. 128 P. and A.: pronomina (e. g. meus, tuus, suus),Quint. 1, 5, 45: casus, the possessive or genitive case, Prisc. p. 670 P.
possessor possessor, ōris, m.id., a possessor (class.) Lit., Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 20: bonorum,id. Quint. 8, 30: regni inertis,i. e.
Pluto
,Luc. 6, 779; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 49. Esp. t. t. in law (post-Aug.), the possessor of the thing claimed; hence, the defendant in a suit (opp. petitor), Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 2; Quint. 7, 1, 38; Paul. Sent. 5, 36, 1.Trop.: Aquilo possessor Italici litoris,Petr. 114.
possessorius possessōrĭus, a, um, adj.possessor, of or relating to possession, possessory (postclass.): interdictum,Gai. Inst. 4, § 145: actiones,Dig. 38, 2, 50.<
possessus possessus, a, um, Part., from possideo and possido.
possessus possessus, ūs (only in abl. sing.), m.possideo, possession (post-class.), App. Mag. p. 282, 5.
possestrix possestrix, īcis, f.possessor, she that possesses (ante-class.), Afran. ap. Non. 150, 28.
possibilis possĭbĭlis, e, adj.possum, that may exist or may be done, possible (post-Aug.): melius qui tertiam partem dixerunt δυνατόν, quod nostri possibile nominant, Quint. 3, 8, 25: condiciones,Dig. 28, 3, 16: possibile est, with subject-clause, ib. 25, 2, 3; Vulg. 2 Macc. 3, 6. Hence, adv.: possĭ-bĭlĭter, Jul. ap. Aug. c. Sec. Resp. Jul. 2, 52.
possibilitas possĭbĭlĭtas, ātis, f.possibilis, ability to do a thing, possibility, power (post-class.), Arn. 1, 25: fandi,Mart. Cap. 4, § 335: pro possibilitate, according to ability or strength, Amm. 19, 2, 15; Vulg. 2 Esdr. 5, 8.
possideo possĭdĕo (archaic orthogr. POSIDET, Epitaphs of the Scipios; Sentent. de Limit. Genuat. Rudorff; in the latter also POSIDENT, POSIDEBVNT, POSIDETO, POSIDERE, as well as POSEDEIT and POSEDET, for possedit), sēdi, sessum, 2, v. a.old prep. port; Gr. προτί, πρός (v. pono), and sedeo, to have and hold, to be master of, to own, possess (syn.: teneo, habeo). Lit.: uti nunc possidetis eum fundum q. d. a. (i. e. quo de agitur), quod nec vi nec clam nec precario alter ab altero possidetis, ita possidentis: adversus ea vim fieri veto, an ancient formula of the prætor,Fest. p. 233 Müll.: qui in alienā potestate sunt, rem peculiarem tenere possunt, habere et possidere non possunt: quia possessio non tantum corporis, sed etiam juris est,Dig. 41, 2, 49: ex edicto bona possidere,Cic. Quint. 6, 25: partem agri,Caes. B. G. 6, 11: solum bello captum,Liv. 26, 11: Galli Italiam maximis plurimisque urbibus possident,Just. 38, 4, 9: uniones,Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 119.Absol., to have possessions, to possess lands, be settled: juxta litora maris possidere,Dig. 47, 9, 7: possidere trans flumen,ib. 43, 14, 1.Transf., for possido, to take possession of, to occupy (very rare except in eccl. and late Lat.): ego possideo plus Pallante,Juv. 1, 108: quot agri jugera?id. 3, 141: ferro septus possidet sedes sacras, Att. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 102; Auct. Her. 1, 11, 19: forum armatis catervis perditorum hominum,Cic. Dom. 42, 110 (dub.): magister, quid faciendo vitam aeternam possidebo,Vulg. Luc. 10, 25: iniqui regnum Dei non possidebunt,id. 1 Cor. 6, 9 et saep. To occupy, abide in a place (poet.): victrix possidet umbra nemus,Mart. 6, 76, 6: Zephyri possidet aura nemus,Prop. 1, 19, 2; Luc. 2, 454.Trop., to possess, to have a thing (class.): possidere nomen,Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 27: palmam,id. Most. 1, 1, 31: secli mores in se,id. Truc. prol. 13: inverecundum animi ingenium, Poët. ap. Cic. Inv. 1, 45, 83: plus fidei quam artis, plus veritatis quam disciplinae possidet in se,Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 17; id. Rosc. Am. 24, 66; Ov. F. 1, 586: possedit favorem plebis Clodius,Val. Max. 3, 5, 3.
possido possīdo, sēdi, sessum, 3, v. a.causat. of possideo, q. v.. Lit., to take possession of, to possess one's self of (class.; cf.: habeo, occupo, potior): bona alicujus sine testamento,Cic. de Or. 2, 70, 283: regnum, Auct. B. Alex. 34. Of inanim. subjects (poet. and in post-class. prose): aër omne possidat inane,Lucr. 1, 386: circumfluus humor Ultima possedit,
took possession of
,Ov. M. 1, 31: ignis cuncta possedit,Just. 2, 1, 14.Trop., to take possession of, possess itself of, to occupy (class.): brevi tempore totum hominem, totamque ejus praeturam possederat,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 68, § 158.<
,id. Att. 8, 14, 1: facere non potui quin tibi sententiam declararem meam,id. Fam. 6, 13, 1; cf.: non possum non: aequitatem tuam non potui non probare,id. ib. 1, 9, 26: non possum te non accusare,id. ib. 5, 14, 2: is non potest eam (mortem) non timere,id. Fin. 3, 8, 29. Absol.: potest (sc. fieri), it may be, is possible: potest, ut alii ita arbitrentur,Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 38: non, non sic futurum est; non potest,Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 73; Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 100 Brix; cf. id. Trin. 3, 3, 3: quae (mala) si potest singula consolando levare, etc.,Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84: nos dignitatem, ut potest, retinebimus,id. Fam. 1, 2, 4. Quantum or ut potest, as much or as far as possible: ibo atque arcessam medicum, quantum potest,Plaut. Men. 5, 2; id. Most. 3, 2, 71; Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 20: nos in senatu dignitatem nostram, ut potest in tantā hominum perfidiā, retinebimus,Cic. Fam. 1, 2, 4. In urgent questions: possum scire, quo profectus, cujus sis, aut quid veneris?
may I know? can I learn? pray
,
will you tell me?
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 190: possumne ego hodie ex te exsculpere Verum?Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 44. In partic. To be able, to have influence or efficacy, to avail. With neutr. acc. used adverbially (class.; cf. polleo): vocat me, quae in me plus potest,Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 42: plus potest qui plus valet,id. ib. 4, 3, 38: qui tum et poterant per vim et scelus plurimum, et quod poterant, id audebant,Cic. Quint. 21, 69: quid ergo? hoc pueri possunt, viri non poterunt?id. Tusc. 2, 14, 34: qui apud me et amicitiā, et beneficiis, et dignitate plurimum possunt,id. Rosc. Am. 1, 4: plus aliquanto apud te pecuniae cupiditas, quam judicii metus potuit,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 57, § 131; id. de Or. 2, 42, 180: quid aristolochia ad morsus serpentum possit,id. Div. 1, 10, 16: quoniam multum potest provisio animi ad minuendum dolorem,id. Tusc. 3, 14, 30: ad beate vivendum satis posse virtutem,id. ib. 5, 5, 12: multum posse ad salutem alterius ... parum potuisse ad exitium, Cic. Opp. ap. Amm. 30, 8, 7. In gen., and without neutr. acc. (late Lat.): posse litteras ejus ad perniciem, non posse ad salutem,App. Mag. 79, p. 324. Posse aliquem, to be able to embrace one (poet.), Mart. 3, 32. Posse as subst. (poet.): posse loqui,
the power of speech
,Ov. M. 2, 483: posse moveri = facultatem se movendi,id. ib. 11, 177. Freq. in elliptical sentences: quod vi non poterant, fraude assequi temptant,Curt. 5, 10, 8: Ismenias, etsi publicis non poterat, privatis tamen viribus adjuvabat,Just. 5, 9, 8: ut auxilium quod misericordiā non poterat, jure cognationis obtineret,id. 28, 1, 9: ut collegam vi, si aliter non possent, de foro abducerent,Liv. 2, 56. In apodosis of conditional sentences, analogous to the auxiliaries of the Engl. potential mood (v. Roby, § 1520; Zumpt, § 519). Indic.: ille potuit exspectatior venire, qui te nuntiaret mortuom (= si quis nuntiaret, etc.),Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 12: nec vero ipsam amicitiam tueri possumus, nisi aeque amicos et nosmet ipsos diligamus,Cic. Fin. 1, 20, 67: Pompeius munitiones Caesaris prohibere non poterat, nisi praelio decertare vellet,Caes. B. C. 3, 44: consul esse qui potui, nisi eum vitae cursum tenuissem, Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 10: (res publica) poterat esse perpetua, si patriis viveretur institutis,id. ib. 3, 29, 41: deleri totus exercitus potuit, si fugientis persecuti victores essent,Liv. 32, 12, 6: nisi felicitas in socordiam vertisset exuere jugum potuerunt,Tac. Agr. 31.Subj.: qui denique ex bestiis fructus, nisi homines adjuvarent, percipi posset,Cic. Off. 2, 4, 14; cf.: ventum quidem erat eo, ut, si hostem similem antiquis Macedonum regibus habuisset consul, magna clades accipi potuerit,Liv. 44, 4, 9. So when the condition is implied, or is contained in an adverbial clause: quae res egestati et aeri alieno tuo praeter mortem Caesaris subvenire potuisset?Cic. Phil. 2, 14, 36: quis opifex praeter naturam ... tantam sollertiam persequi potuisset in sensibus?id. N. D. 2, 57, 142; id. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: plurima proferre possemus, sed modus adhibendus est,Nep. Epam. 4, 6: possem hic Ciceronis respondere verbis, sed, etc.,Quint. 2, 21, 14. Hence, pŏtens, entis (gen. plur. potentum, Verg. A. 12, 519; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 114), P. a. In gen., able, mighty, powerful, potent (class.): amplae atque potentes civitates,Cic. Inv. 2, 56, 169: familiae clarae ac potentes,Liv. 23, 4: amici magni et potentes,Suet. Aug. 56: ne quis ex plebe contra potentiorem auxilii egeret,Caes. B. G. 6, 10: duo potentissimi reges,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 4: potentissimus et clarissimus civis,id. Planc. 21, 51. With gen.: quanta sit humani ingenii vis, quam potens efficiendi quae velit,Quint. 12, 11, 10. With abl.: Roma potens opibus,Ov. F. 4, 255: pecuniā et orbitate,Tac. H. 1, 73. With inf.: compensare potens,Dig. 16, 2, 10. In partic. Having power over, ruling over, master of a thing; with gen.: dum liber, dum mei potens sum,
,Liv. 23, 16, 6; so, facere aliquem potentem alicujus rei, to make one master of any thing, to give one the power over a thing: consilii,id. 8, 13, 14: imperii,id. 22, 42, 12: diva potens Cypri, that reigns over Cyprus, i.e. Venus, Hor. C. 1, 3, 1: Naïadum potens (Bacchus),id. ib. 3, 25, 14: silvarum potens Diana,id. C. S. 1: diva potens uteri,i.e.
,Luc. 6, 485; cf. id. 5, 199 Corte ad loc.Fit for, capable of any thing; with gen.: potens regni,Liv. 24, 2: hostes neque pugnae, neque fugae satis potentes caeduntur, unable either to fight or flee, id. 8, 39.Partaking of, having attained a thing; with gen. (poet.): pacis potentes,Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 9: voti,Ov. M. 8, 80: jussi,
post post (form poste, Enn. An. 235; Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 131; id. Stich. 2, 2, 56), adv. and prep.root pas-; Sanscr. pac-kas, behind; Gr. πύματος (for πόσματος); Lat. pone, postremus. Adv. Of place, behind, back, backwards (class.): ante aut post,Liv. 22, 5, 8: servi, qui post erant,Cic. Mil. 10, 29: lacertis priora genua post curvantur,
backwards
,Plin. 11, 45, 102, § 249: sed ubi periculum advenit, invidia atque superbia post fuere, remained behind, were forgotten, Sall. C. 23, 7: post minor est,i.e.
,Cic. Fl. 23, 56: paucis diebus post,Plaut. Men. prol. 36: multis annis post,id. ib. 5, 9, 72: biennio post,Cic. Brut. 91, 316: quam te post multis tueor tempestatibus? after how long a time? Pac. ap. Non. 414, 3: aliquanto post,
postauctumnalis post-auctumnālis (-autumn-), e, adj., post - autumnal (post-Aug.): pira,Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 54.
postea postĕā (in some edd. also separately, post ĕa), adv.post- and acc. plur. ea, orig. eā, Corss. Ausspr. 1, 769. After this or that, hereafter, thereafter, afterwards: P. Considius, qui in exercitu P. Sullae, et postea in M. Crassi fuerat,Caes. B. G. 1, 21; Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 90; id. Brut. 3, 12: postea, cum mihi nihil scriberetur, verebar ne, etc.,id. Fam. 2, 19, 1: postea vero quam equitatus in conspectum venit,Caes. B. G. 4, 37; Cato, R. R. 156. With abl. of difference of time (class.): postea aliquanto,
,id. Cat. 1, 6, 15: paulo postea,Amm. 26, 10, 5: multo postea,id. 28, 4, 3. So with adv. of time (post-class.): non diu postea,Amm. 14, 11, 24: haud longe postea,id. 14, 7, 17: longe autem postea,id. 17, 4, 5. With deinde, inde, or deinceps, then, after that, afterwards: legati deinde postea missi ab rege,Liv. 41, 24: inde postea,id. 44, 24: postea deinceps,id. 45, 14. postea quam (also as one word, posteaquam), after that (very freq. in Cic.): postea quam ego in Siciliam veni,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 56, § 138: posteaquam honoribus inservire coepi,id. Off. 2, 1, 4; 3, 2, 8: postea quam nuntii venerint,Caes. B. G. 6, 10; 7, 82; 5, 32: posteaquam Agesilaum misere,Just. 6, 2, 7. Rarely with pluperf.: postea quam tantam multitudinem conlegerat emblematum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54 (cf. Zumpt, § 507 b). So, too, postea vero quam,Caes. B. G. 4, 37; Cic. Fam. 3, 7, 5; Sall. J. 29, 3; Nep. Dion, 4, 3 al.; cf.: postea autem quam ei nuntiatum est,Cic. Clu. 67, 192: postea (or post ea) loci for postea: post ea loci consul pervenit in oppidum,Sall. J. 102, 1.Transf.Afterwards, for then, besides (ante-class.), Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 35; id. Most. 1, 3, 131 (dub.).Then, in consequence of this: nonne haec justa tibi videntur postea?Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 26. Hence, quid postea?
,Vulg. Tob. 8, 9.Transf., of animals, offspring (poet.), Juv. 8, 62.Trop., the last place, inferiority (eccl. Lat.): principalem veritati, et posteritatem mendacitati deputare,Tert. Praescr. 31.
postero postĕro, āvi, 1, v. a.id.. Lit., to be behind or later, to come after, Trop., to be inferior to, to want, to come short of, = ὑστερέω (post-class.): cum oliva tota nigrescet, quod speciei merito posteravit, fundendi ubertate compensat, Pall 12, 4.
posterula postĕrŭla, ae, f dim. (sc. janua or via) [id.]. A small back door or gate, a postern (post-class.): posterulae proditio, Cassian. Inst. Coenob. 5, 11.A back-way, by-way (post-class.), Amm. 30, 1, 13.
posterus postĕrus or poster (not in use in nom. sing. masc.), a, um, adj. Comp: posterior, us. Sup.: postremus or postumus, a, um [post], coming after, following, next, ensuing, future.Posit.: cum ibi diem posterum commoraretur,Cic. Clu. 13, 37: in posterum diem distulit,id. Deiot. 7, 21: postero die mane,id. Verr 2, 2, 17, § 41: postero die, Sall J. 75, 9: posterā nocte,Nep. Eum. 9, 4: postero anno, Cic. Fragm. pro C. Cornel.: postera aetas,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 42: lux,id. S. 1, 5, 39: posterā Crescam laude,
,Non. 73, 32. Hence, Subst.: postĕri, ōrum, m., coming generations, descendants, posterity: expetantur eae poenae a liberis, a nepotibus, a posteris,Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 90: posterūm gloria,Tac. A. 3, 72: postero, for postero die,
on the following day
,
next day
,id. ib. 4, 45; cf.: quam minimum credula postero,Hor. C. 1, 11, 8: in posterum, for in posterum diem, to the following day, till the next day: in posterum oppugnationem differt,Caes. B. G. 7, 11. More freq.: in posterum (sc. tempus), in the future, for the future: in posterum confirmat,Caes. B. C. 1, 3: multum in posterum providerunt,Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 91; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6; id. Fam. 1, 9, 2: longe in posterum prospicere,id. ib. 2, 8, 1.Trop., inferior (post-class.), Mart. Cap. 4, § 333.Comp.: postĕ-rĭor, postĕrĭus. Lit., that comes or follows after, next in order, time, or place, latter, later, posterior (class.; strictly only when two objects or classes are contrasted in place or time; opp.: prior, superior): ut cum priore (dicto) necessario posterius cohaerere videntur,Cic. Inv. 1, 46, 86: nec acumine posteriorum (oratorum), nec fulmine utens superiorum,id. Or. 6, 21: ea pertinere ad superiorem divisionem: contra posteriorem nihil dici oportere,id. Ac. 2, 31, 99; 2, 30, 96; id. Off. 1, 20, 67: posteriores pedes (opp.: pedes priores),
,Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5: paria esse debent posteriora superioribus,id. de Or. 3, 48, 186: Thucy dides paulo aetate posterior,id. Brut. 11, 48: quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias,Hor. S. 1, 4, 59. Sometimes added to other words of contrast: alii ... alii ... tamen hi quoque posteriores, etc.,Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70: cujus est ratio duplex ... facilior est haec posterior ... sed illa lautior,id. Off. 2, 15, 52; cf. superior.Subst.postĕ-rĭōres, um, m., for posteri, posterity (postclass.): quemadmodum omnes cognati supra tritavum, generali appellatione majores vocantur, ita post trinepotem posteriores,Dig. 38, 10, 10.postĕrĭōra, um, n., the posteriors (post-class.), Lampr Elag. 5. Adv.: postĕrĭus, later, afterwards (class.): posterius dicere,Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 76: posterius istuc dicis quam credo tibi,i. e.
I believe you before you speak
,id. As. 1, 1, 48: jubet posterius ad se reverti,Cic. Verr 2, 4, 29, § 66: Thucydides si posterius fuisset,
had he lived at a later period
,id. Brut. 83, 288.Trop., inferior, of less account or value, worse (class.): quorum utrique semper patriae salus et dignitas posterior suā dominatione et domesticis commodis fuit,Cic. Att. 10, 4, 4; id. Phil. 13, 3, 6: suam salutem posteriorem communi salute ducere,id. Rab. Perd. 1, 3: nihil posterius, nihil nequius,id. Pis. 27, 66 (al. protervius): omnes res posteriores pono atque operam do tibi,
I lay every thing aside
,Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 7: non posteriores feram, I will not play the meanest part, I shall not be behindhand, Ter Ad. 5, 4, 26; cf.: cujus sic fortuna cum improbitate certavit, ut nemo posset utrum posterior an infelicior esset judicare,Cic. Prov Cons. 4, 8 fin.Sup, in two forms, postrēmus and postŭmus, a, um. postrēmus, a, um, the hindmost, the last (class.): alia prima ponet, alia postrema,
last
,Cic. Or 15, 50: acies,
the rear
,Sall. J. 101, 5: in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis adesse,
now in the front
,
now in the rear
,id. ib. 45, 2: postremā in comoediā, at the end of the piece, Plaut. Cist. fin.: in postremo libro,
at the close of the book
,Just. 43, 5: mense postremo,Pall. 7, 2: munus, i. e. exsequiae,
,Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17. postrēmō, adv., at last, finally (class.), Caes. B. G. 7, 1: omnes urbes, agri, regna denique, postremo etiam vectigalia vestra venierint,Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62: primum ... deinde ... postremo: denique ... postremo,id. N. D. 1, 37, 104; Hor. S. 2, 2, 132: ad postremum, at last, finally, ultimately: sed ad postremum nihil apparet,Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 23; Sall. Fragm. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 3, 17; Liv. 38, 16; Hirt. B. G. 8, 43: postremum, for the last time: si id facis, hodie postremum me vides, Ter And. 2, 1, 22: in quo (vestigio) ille postremum institisset,Cic. de Or. 3, 2, 6: postremum, at last: postremum mel et acetum superfundes,Pall. 12, 22.Trop., the last, lowest, basest, meanest, worst (class.): postremum genus,Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur,id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137: servitus postremum malorum omnium,id. Phil. 2, 44, 113. Hence, ante- and post-class., a new comp. postremior, and sup. postremissimus: ut possit videri nullum animal in terris homine postremius,App. de Deo Socr. p. 43 fin.: omnium nationum postremissimum nequissimumque existimatote, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 3: cum adulescentulis postremissimis,App. Mag. p. 336.po-stŭmus (acc. to an erroneous derivation, from post - humus, sometimes also post-humus), a, um, the last, said esp. of the youngest children, or of those born after the father's death, or after he had made his will, late-born, posthumous: Silvius ... tua postuma proles, Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia conjux Educet silvis,
late-born son
,Verg. A. 6, 763; cf. with this passage: postuma proles non eum significat, qui patre mortuo, sed qui postremo loco natus est, sicuti Silvius, qui Aeneā jam sene, tardo seroque partu est editus, Caesellius Vindex ap. Gell. 2, 16, 5. On the other hand: is, qui post patris mortem natus est, dicitur postumus,Varr. L. L. 9, § 60 Müll.; and: postumus cognominatur post patris mortem natus,Fest. p. 238 Müll.; Plaut. ap. Fest. l. l. As subst.: postŭmus, i, m., a posthumous child: non minus postumis quam jam natis testamento tutores dari posse,Gai. Inst. 1, 147: si quis postumis dederit tutores, hique vivo eo nascantur, an datio valeat?Dig. 26, 2, 16 fin.: postuma spes,
the last
,App. M. 4, p. 144, 26: suscipit doctrinam seram plane et postumam,id. Mag. p. 297, 23: cena quam postumā diligentiā praeparaverat,
with extreme care
,id. M. 6, p. 186, 25.Subst.: postŭmum, i, n., that which is last, the end, extremity: de postumo corporis,Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.
postfactus postfactus, or separate, post fac-tus, a, um, Part., from the obsol. postfacio, made or done afterwards (post-class.): post facta furta (opp. ante facta),Gell. 17, 7, 3. Absol.: ex postfacto,
postgenitus post-gĕnĭtus, or separate, post gĕnĭtus, a, um, adj., born afterwards; in plur. subst.: postgĕnĭti, ōrum, m., posterity, descendants (poet.), Hor. C. 3, 24, 30.
posthabeo post-hăbĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2, v. a., to place after, esteem less, postpone, neglect (class.): omnes posthabui mihi res,Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 15: omnia,Caes. B. C. 3, 33: omnibus rebus posthabitis,
posticipo postĭcĭpo, āre, 1, v. a.post-capio, to take or receive afterwards (post-class.), opp. anticipare, Claud. Mam. Stat. Anim. 1, 21.
posticula postīcŭla, ae, f.dim.postica, a little backdoor (post - class.): brevis posticula,App. M. 2, p. 124, 41.
posticulum postīcŭlum, i, n.dim.posticum, a small back building (Plautinian), Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 157; 4, 3, 78.
posticum postīcum, i, n., v. posticus.
posticus postīcus, a, um, adj.post; like anticus from ante. That is behind, hinder, back-, posterior (class., but not in Cic. or Cæs.): est etiam hic ostium aliud posticum nostrarum aedium,
backdoor
,Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 40; cf.: posticum ostium dicitur in posteriore parte aedium. Ceterum antiqui etiam vicinum habitantem ad posteriorem partem aedium sic appellarunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 220 Müll.: locus erat posticis aedium partibus,Liv. 23, 8: perrexit in interiores partes domuis posticae, of the backbuilding, out - house, Varr. ap. Non. 217, 7: domo posticā egressus,Val. Max. 5, 7, 3: muri,Varr. L. L. 5, § 42 Müll.: vicinus, v. Paul. ex Fest. l. l.: non peperit, verum posticā parte profudit, with the posteriors, Lucil. ap. Non. 217, 17: sannae,
,Sol. 26: pars palatii,Suet. Oth. 6: posticam lineam in agris dividendis Serv. Sulpicius appellavit, ab exoriente sole ad occidentem quae spectabat,Fest. p. 233 Müll.: quae ante nos sunt, antica: et quae post nos sunt, postica dicuntur: et dextram anticam, sinistram posticam dicimus. Sic etiam ea caeli pars, quae sole illustratur ad meridiem, antica nominatur, quae ad septentrionem postica, Paul. ex Fest. p. 220 Müll.; cf.: ejus templi partes quattuor dicuntur: sinistra ab oriente, dextra ab occasu, antica ad meridiem, postica ad septentrionem,Varr. L. L. 7, § 7 Müll.Subst.postīca, ae, f., a backdoor (post-class.), App. M. 9, p. 217, 25; Dig. 7, 1, 13.postīcum, i, n.A backdoor (the prevailing form for this signif.): per posticum se conferre,Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 27: atria servantem postico falle clientem,Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 31; Vulg. Dan. 13, 18.The back part of a building, the rear front, Titin. ap. Non. 217, 19: in pronao, et postico,Vitr. 3, 1.A backhouse, privy (anteclass.), Lucil. ap. Non. 217, 20.The posteriors, the fundament (ante- and postclass.): retrimenta cibi, quae exierunt per posticum, Varr. ap. Non. 217, 24; also in plur., Arn. 2, 54.
postilio postĭlĭo, ōnis, f.postulo; cf. consilium from consulo. Relig. t. t., a claim of a god upon men, a demand for the fulfilment of a forgotten sacrifice (cf. postulatio, with which it is confounded in many MSS. and edd.; mostly ante- and post-class.): de eā re scriptum est, postiliones esse Jovi, Saturno, Neptuno, Telluri, dis caelestibus,Cic. Har. Resp. 10, 20: eodem ostento Telluri postilio deberi dicitur,id. ib. 14, 31: deum Manium postilionem postulare,Varr. L. L. 5, § 148 Müll.: in caeremoniis vestris postulionibus locus est,Arn. 4, 148.
postilla postillā, or separate, post illa, adv.cf. postea, after that, afterwards (anteclass. and poet.): postilla, germana soror, errare videbar, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 42 Vahl.): saepe post illa operam rei publicae fortem perhibuit, Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7: sed eum, qui mihi vendidit illam, numquam postilla vidi,Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 43; id. Most. 1, 2, 61; Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 33; Cat. 84, 9.
postis postis, is (abl. sing. posti, Ov. M. 5, 120), m.pono, a post, door-post.Lit. (class.), Ov. Am. 2, 1, 27: caput legis in curiae poste figere,Cic. Att. 3, 15, 6: armis Herculis ad postem fixis, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5: cur invidendis postibus moliar atrium,id. C. 3, 1, 45: tenere postem, said of him who consecrates a temple,Liv. 2, 8; Cic. Dom. 46, 120. Also of other edifices: ambulationis postes nemo umquam tenuit in dedicando,Cic. Dom. 46, 121.Poet., transf., a door (usually in plur.): postes a cardine vellit Aeratos,Verg. A. 2, 480: aerati procumbunt cardine postes,id. ib. 493; Val. Fl. 7, 322: perunguere postis, ne quid mali medicamenti inferretur,Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 142. In sing.: poste recluso,Luc. 5, 531.Trop. (poet.): belli ferratos postes portasque refregit, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 622 (Ann. v. 271 Vahl.): videtur Cernere res animus, sublatis postibus ipsis,i. e.
postliminium postlīmĭnĭum, ii, n.post - limen, prop., a return behind one's threshold, i. e. to one's home; hence, a return to one's old condition and former privileges, the right to return home and resume one's former rank and privileges, the right of recovery, reprisal, postliminium: cum ipsius postliminii vis quaeritur, et verbum ipsum notatur, Servius noster nihil putat esse notandum, nisi post; et liminium illud productionem esse verbi vult, ut in finitimo, legitimo, aeditimo non plus inesse timum, quam in meditullio tullium. Scaevola autem Publii filius junctum putat esse verbum, ut sit in eo et post, et limen: ut quae a nobis alienata sunt, cum ad hostem pervenerint, et ex suo tamquam limine exierint, dein cum redierint post ad idem limen, postliminio videantur rediisse,Cic. Top. 8, 36: quem pater suus aut populus vendidisset, aut pater patratus dedidisset, ei nullum esse postliminium,
has no right to return to his house and his old privileges
,id. de Or. 1, 40, 181: postliminii jus,Dig. 29, 15, 5: postliminium dare alicui, ib. Hence, postlīmĭniō, adverbial abl.Lit., by the right of postliminium: postliminio redeunt haec, homo, navis, equus, etc.,Cic. Top. 8, 36; id. Balb. 11, 28: civi Romano licet esse Gaditanum, sive exsilio, sive postliminio, sive rejectione hujus civitatis,i. e.
when he returns to Gades
,
where he was a citizen before being one at Rome
,
and recovers his right of citizenship
,
which he had lost by the attainment of Roman citizenship
,id. ib. 12, 29: redire,Dig. 49, 15, 19: reverti,ib. 49, 15, 5.Transf., by the right of return, i. e. back, again, anew (postclass.): postliminio in forum cupedinis reducens,
leading back again
,App. M. 1, p. 123, 30: corpus postliminio mortis animare,
after death
,id. ib. 2, p. 127, 4.Trop., a return: postliminium ecclesiasticae pacis,
reconciliation
,Tert. Pudic. 15.
postmeridianus postmĕrīdĭānus, a, um, v. pomeridianus.
postmodo post-mŏdo (also separately, post mŏdo), adv., afterwards, presently, shortly (mostly poet., and in Livy for postea; not in Plaut., Cic., Cæs., or Quint.): tamen postmodo necesse est doleant, Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 1: sentiet illa tuas postmodo capta manus,Prop. 2, 10 (3, 1), 18; * Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 11 (Fleck.); Ov. Am. 1, 14, 56; id. A. A. 1, 486: neglegis immeritis nocituram Postmodo te natis fraudem committere?Hor. C. 1, 28, 31: publicum in praesentiā dedecus, postmodo periculum,Liv. 2, 43, 8; 2, 24, 5; 3, 41, 5; 4, 7, 6; Col. 1, 8, 4 al.; cf. postmodum.
postomis postŏmis, ĭdis, f.perh. from πρόστομος, a barnacle, twitch, an instrument fixed upon the nostrils of unruly horses; hence, transf., a drinking-cup, from its being always at a tippler's nose (anteclass.), Lucil. ap. Non. 22, 27 (al. prostomides): postomis, ἐπιστομίς, Gloss. Lat. Gr.
postpartor post-partor, ōris, m., an inheritor, successor, heir (ante-class.): unde anteparta demus postpartoribus,Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 42.
postpono post-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum, 3, v. a., to put after, postpone; to esteem less, to neglect.disregard (class., but not in Cic.; cf.: post habeo, praetermitto): ut omnia postponere videretur,Caes. B. G. 6, 3: omnia postposui, dummodo praeceptis patris parerem, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 6: scorto postponere honestum Officium,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 34: postponere Hannibalem Alexandro Magno. Just. 30, 4, 9: omnibus rebus postpositis,
postpositus postpŏsĭtus, a, um, Part., from postpono.
postprincipia post-princĭpĭa, ōrum, n.principium, continuance of a thing after it is begun, course, progress, sequel (ante-class.): ut quisque (quidque occeperit), sic ei procedunt postprincipia,Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 4: voluptas disciplinarum in postprincipiis exsistit, in principiis vero ipsis ineptae et insuaves videntur, Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 18, 6; 16, 9, 5: postprincipia atque exitus vitiosae vitae, old poet ap. Cic. Sest. 55, 118 (Halm reads post principia).
postputo post-pŭto, āvi, 1, v. a., to regard as secondary, to esteem less, to disregard (anteclass.): cum te postputasse omnes res prae parente intellego,Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 33.
postquam postquam (posquam, Att. ap. Non. 109, 26, acc. to Rib. Trag. Rel. v. 118; id. Verg. A. 3, 463; cf. Munro ad Lucr. 4, 1186; Rib. Prol. ad Verg. p. 442; also separately, post quam), conj.After that, after, as soon as, when (class., but rare in Cic., who commonly writes postea quam; v. postea); constr. usually with histor. pres., or perf. or imperf. indic., or subj.; rarely with pluperf. (v. Zumpt, § 507, b; cf. Weissenb. ad Liv. 22, 1, 1; Krebs, Antibarb. p. 889): abeo ab illis, postquam video, me sic ludificarier,Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 27; id. Most. 3, 3, 22; Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 28: postquam res eorum satis prospera videbatur,Sall. C. 6, 3; cf. id. J. 13, 5 al.: eo postquam Caesar pervenit, obsides, arma poposcit,Caes. B. G. 1, 27: post quam armis disceptari coeptum est de jure publico, nihil esse actum cum dignitate,Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 3: postquam id difficilius visum est neque facultas perficiendi dabatur, transierunt, etc.,Caes. B. C. 3, 60, 5: postquam divitiae honori esse coepere, et eas gloria sequebatur,Sall. C. 12, 1; cf. id. J. 70, 5: undecimo die postquam a te discesseram,Cic. Att. 12, 1, 1: quod post accidisset, quam dedissem ad te liberto litteras,id. ib. 6, 3, 1: quartum post annum, quam redierat,Nep. Dion, 10, 3. With post: postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 15. With an accessory idea of cause, since, because, inasmuch as (rare and mostly poet.): nunc ego illam me velim convenire, postquam inanis sum,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 2; id. Most. 3, 3, 22: postquam poëta sensit, scripturam suam Ab iniquis observari,Ter. Ad. prol. 1 (postquam pro quoniam, Don.): postquam suas terras sedem belli esse viderent, verterunt, etc. (= cum),Liv. 22, 1, 1: sed periit, postquam cerdonibus esse timendus Coeperat; hoc nocuit, etc.,Juv. 4, 153; Tac. A. 1, 68.
postremitas postrēmĭtas, ātis, f.postremus, the last, the end, extremity (post-class.), Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 11.
postremo postrēmo and postrēmus, a, um, v. posterus, III. A.
postridie postrīdĭē (ante-class. collat. form po-strīdŭo, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 90), adv.loc. form from posterus and die, on the day after, the following or next day (class.), Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 63: haud dubitavit postridie palam in castris docere,id. Rep. 1, 16, 23; 2, 31, 55: primā luce postridie constituunt proficisci,Caes. B. C. 1, 67: postridie mane,Cic. Fam. 11, 6, 1. With gen.: postridie ejus diei mane eādem perfidiā usi Germani,Caes. B. G. 4, 13: postridie ejus diei,id. ib. 1, 23, 1; 1, 48, 2; 1, 51, 1 et saep. With acc., the day after: venatio, quae postridie ludos Apollinaris futura est,Cic. Att. 16, 4, 1: postridie Idus. id. ib. 13, 47, a, 1: postridie Kalendas,id. ib. 4, 12, 1: Kalendas, Nonas, Idus,Liv. 6, 1 fin.: absolutionem, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 2, 1. With quam: quid causae fuerit, postridie intellexi, quam a vobis discessi,Cic. Fam. 14, 7, 1; id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2; id. Att. 9, 5, 1.
postriduanus postrīdŭānus or postrīdĭānus, a, um, adj.postridie, that is, comes, or happens on the following day (post-class.): dies,Macr. S. 1, 15 fin.; 1, 16, 21.
postriduo postrīduō, adv., v. postridie.
postscaenium postscaenĭum or poscaenĭum (-cen-), ii, n.post-scena, the part of the theatre behind the scenes, the postscenium; trop., for secret, mystery: postscenia vitae,
postscribo post-scrībo, ĕre, v. a., to write after or under, to add in writing (post-Aug.): Tiberii nomen suo postscripserat,Tac. A. 3, 64.
postsignani post-signāni, ōrum, m. (sc. milites) [signum], the soldiers who are stationed behind the standards (opp. antesignani), Front. Strat. 2, 3, 17; Amm. 18, 8, 7; 24, 6, 9.
postsum post-sum (also separate, post sum), fui, esse, v. n., to be after or future; in tmesi: qui ignominias sibi post putavit esse prae meo commodo,Ter. Ad. 2, 3, 9. Subst.postfŭtūri, ōrum, m., those yet to be, posterity: quia solus omnium post memoriam humani generis subplicia in post futuros composuit,Sall. H. 1, 41, 6 Dietsch.postfŭtūrum, i, n., that which is to be, the future: duplicare obituri dolorem etiam post futuri aestimatione,Plin. 7, 55, 56, § 190: in post futurum,
postularius postŭlārĭus, a, um, adj.postulo, that demands or claims: postularia fulgura, which signify that a forgotten vow must be performed, or a neglected sacrifice be offered, Fest. p. 245 Müll.; for this is found postulatoria, Caecil. ap. Sen. N. Q. 2, 49, 1.
postulator postŭlātor, ōris, m.id., a claimant, esp. a plaintiff (post-Aug.): postulatoribus per libellos respondere,Suet. Ner. 14.
postulatorius postŭlātōrĭus, a, um, v. postularius.
postulatrix postŭlātrix, īcis, f.postulator, she that demands (eccl. Lat.): sollemnitates postulatrices (al. solemnitates, popularitates),Tert. Cor. Mil. 13.
postulatum postŭlātum, i, v. postulo fin.
postulatus postŭlātus, ūs, m.postulo, a claim or demand in a court of justice, a suit: ventum in jus est: postulatu audito, etc.,Liv. 4, 9, 6.
postulio postŭlĭo, ōnis, v. postulatio, II. A.
postulo postŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.posco, to ask, demand, require, request, desire (syn.: posco, flagito, peto); constr. with aliquid, aliquid ab aliquo, aliquem aliquid, with ut (ne), de, with inf., or absol. In gen.: incipiunt postulare, poscere, minari,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 34, § 78: nemo inventus est tam audax, qui posceret, nemo tam impudens qui postularet ut venderet,id. ib. 2, 4, 20, § 44; cf. Liv. 2, 45; 3, 19: tametsi causa postulat, tamen quia postulat, non flagitat, praeteribo,Cic. Quint. 3, 13: postulabat autem magis quam petebat, ut, etc.,Curt. 4, 1, 8: dehinc postulo, sive aequom est, te oro, ut, etc.,Ter. And. 1, 2, 19: ita volo itaque postulo ut fiat,id. ib. 3, 3, 18; Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 27: suom jus postulat,Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 47; cf.: aequom postulat, da veniam,id. And. 5, 3, 30; and: quid est? num iniquom postulo?id. Phorm. 2, 3, 64: nunc hic dies alios mores postulat,id. And. 1, 2, 18: fidem publicam,Cic. Att. 2, 24, 2: istud, quod postulas,id. Rep. 1, 20, 33; id. Lael. 2, 9: ad senatum venire auxilium postulatum,Caes. B. G. 1, 31: deliberandi sibi unum diem postulavit,Cic. N. D. 1, 22, 60; cf.: noctem sibi ad deliberandum postulavit,id. Sest. 34, 74: postulo abs te, ut, etc.,Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 18: postulatur a te jam diu vel flagitatur potius historia,Cic. Leg. 1, 5: quom maxime abs te postulo atque oro, ut, etc.,Ter. And. 5, 1, 4; and: quidvis ab amico postulare,Cic. Lael. 10, 35; cf. in pass.: cum aliquid ab amicis postularetur,id. ib.: orationes a me duas postulas,id. Att. 2, 7, 1: quod principes civitatum a me postulassent,id. Fam. 3, 8, 5; cf. infra the passages with an object-clause. With ut (ne): quodam modo postulat, ut, etc.,Cic. Att. 10, 4, 2: postulatum est, ut Bibuli sententia divideretur,id. Fam. 1, 2, 1 (for other examples with ut, v.supra): legatos ad Bocchum mittit postulatum, ne sine causā hostis populo Romano fieret,Sall. J. 83, 1. With subj. alone: qui postularent, eos qui sibi Galliaeque bellum intulissent, sibi dederent,Caes. B. G. 4, 16, 3. With de: sapientes homines a senatu de foedere postulaverunt,Cic. Balb. 15, 34: Ariovistus legatos ad eum mittit, quod antea de colloquio postulasset, id per se fieri licere,Caes. B. G. 1, 42. With inf., freq. to be rendered, to wish, like, want: qui lepide postulat alterum frustrari, Enn. ap. Gell. 18, 2, 7 (Sat. 32 Vahl.): hic postulat se Romae absolvi, qui, etc.,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 60, § 138: o facinus impudicum! quam liberam esse oporteat, servire postulare,Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 62; id. Men. 2, 3, 88: me ducere istis dictis postulas?Ter. And. 4, 1, 20; id. Eun. 1, 1, 16: (lupinum) ne spargi quidem postulat decidens sponte,Plin. 18, 14, 36, § 135: si me tibi praemandere postulas,Gell. 4, 1, 11. With a double object: quas (sollicitudines) levare tua te prudentia postulat, demands of you, Luccei. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 2. With nom. and inf.: qui postulat deus credi,Curt. 6, 11, 24. In partic., in jurid. lang. To summon, arraign before a court, to prosecute, accuse, impeach (syn.: accuso, insimulo); constr. class. usu. with de and abl., post-Aug. also with gen.): Gabinium tres adhuc factiones postulant: L. Lentulus, qui jam de majestate postulavit,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5, § 15: aliquem apud praetorem de pecuniis repetundis,id. Cornel. Fragm. 1: aliquem repetundis,Tac. A. 3, 38: aliquem majestatis,id. ib. 1, 74: aliquem repetundarum,Suet. Caes. 4: aliquem aliquā lege, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3: aliquem ex aliquā causā reum,Plin. 33, 2, 8, § 33: aliquem impietatis reum,Plin. Ep. 7, 33, 7: aliquem injuriarum,Suet. Aug. 56 fin.: aliquem capitis,Dig. 46, 1, 53: qui (infames) postulare prohibentur,Paul. Sent. 1, 2, 1.To demand a writ or leave to prosecute, from the prætor or other magistrate: postulare est desiderium suum vel amici sui in jure apud eum qui jurisdictioni praeest exponere vel alterius desiderio contradicere, etc.,Dig. 3, 1, 1; cf. this whole section: De postulando: in aliquem delationem nominis postulare,Cic. Div. in Caecil. 20, 64: postulare servos in quaestionem,id. Rosc. Am. 28, 77: quaestionem,Liv. 2, 29, 5. For the usual expostulare, to complain of one: quom patrem adeas postulatum,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 38 (but in id. Mil. 2, 6, 35, the correct read. is expostulare; v. Ritschl ad h. l.). Postulare votum (lit. to ask a desire, i. e.), to vow, App. Flor. init. Of the seller, to demand a price, ask (post-class. for posco): pro eis (libris) trecentos Philippeos postulasse,Lact. 1, 6, 10; cf.: accipe victori populus quod postulat aurum,Juv. 7, 243. Transf., of things. To contain, measure: jugerum sex modios seminis postulat,Col. 2, 9, 17.To need, require: cepina magis frequenter subactam postulat terram,Col. 11, 3, 56. Hence, po-stŭlātum, i, n.; usually in plur.: po-stŭlāta, ōrum, a demand, request (class.): intolerabilia postulata,Cic. Fam. 12, 4, 1; id. Phil. 12, 12, 28: deferre postulata alicujus ad aliquem, Caes. B. C. 1, 9: cognoscere de postulatis alicujus,id. B. G. 4, 11 fin.: postulata facere,Nep. Alcib. 8, 4.
postumatus postŭmātus, ūs, m.postumus, the last or lowest place (post-class.), opp. principatus, Tert. adv. Val. 35.
Postumius Postŭmĭus (erroneously writt. Post-hŭmĭus; v. postumus, under posterus, III. B.), i, m.; Postŭmia, ae, f., name of a Roman gens. Postumius Tubertus, a Roman consul, Liv. 2, 16. Postumia, wife of Sulpicius, Cic. Fam. 4, 2, 1.A Vestal, Liv. 4, 44.A woman addicted to tippling, Cat. 27, 3. Hence, Po-stŭmĭus, a, um, adj., Postumian: lex,Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88: via,
leading towards Genoa
,Tac. H. 3, 21.Postŭmĭā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Postumius, Postumian: imperia,i. e.
postumo postŭmo, āre, v. n.postumus, to come after, be inferior (eccl. Lat.): alicui,Tert. Apol. 19: omnis consummatio, etsi ordine postumat, effectu tamen anticipat,id. Res. Carn. 45.
postumus postŭmus, a, um, sup., v. posterus, III. B.
Postumus Postŭmus, i, m., a Roman surname. M. Curtius Postumus, a friend of Cicero, and the accuser of Murena, Cic. Fam. 13, 5, 2 sq. C. Rabirius Postumus, defended by Cicero, Cic. Rab. Post. 1, 1 sqq. Ursidius Postumus, to whom is addressed the sixth satire of Juvenal, Juv. 6, 21; 38; 377.
Postverta Post-verta or Post-vorta, ae, f.verto, a goddess presiding over childbirth, who was invoked when the child made a wrong presentation: Carmentes, quarum altera Postverta cognominata'st, Prosa altera, a directi perversique partus et potestate et nomine, Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4; Ov. F. 1, 633. Acc. to Macrobius, a goddess presiding over the future (opp. Antevorta), Macr. S. 1, 7.
Postvota Postvōta, ae, f., an epithet of Venus, Serv. Verg. A. 1, 720.
potabilis pōtābĭlis, e, adj.poto, that may be drunk, drinkable, potable (post-class.), Aus. Clar. Urb. 14, 31: medicamina,Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4, 112: fons,Amm. 18, 9, 2.
potaculum pōtācŭlum, i, n.id., a drinking, toping (eccl. Lat.), Tert. Apol. 39.
potamantis pŏtămantis, ĭdis, f., an Indian plant, also called thalassegle, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 164.
potamogeton pŏtămŏgēton or pŏtămŏgīton, ŏnis, f., = ποταμογείτων (a neighbor of the river), a water-plant, water-milfoil, pondweed, Plin. 26, 8, 33, § 50; 32, 5, 19, § 53.
‡† pŏtămŏphylăcĭa, ae, f., = ποταμός‐φυλακή, a guarding of the river, Inscr. Murat. 1056, 4.
potatorius pōtātōrĭus, a, um, adj.id., of or belonging to drinking, drinking- (post-class.): vas,Plin. Val. 3, 53; Isid. 20, 5in lemm.
potatus pōtātus, ūs, m.id., a drinking, draught (post-class.), App. M. 7, p. 192, 23.
potax pōtax, ācis, adj.id., given to drinking, fond of drink: πότης, bibax, potax Gloss. Philox.
pote pŏte, adj., v. potis, I.
potens pŏtens, P. a., v. possum fin.
potentator pŏtentātor, ōris, m.potens, a ruler, potentate (eccl. Lat.): solus potentator et rex regnantium,Tert. Res. Carn. 23 (cf. potens, Vulg. 1 Tim. 6, 15).
potentatus pŏtentātus, ūs, m.id., might, power. In gen. (eccl. Lat.), Arn. 1, 31. In partic., political power, rule, dominion, command (= principatus; so class.): post interitum Tatii cum ad eum potentatus omnis recidisset, * Cic. Rep. 2, 8, 14: de potentatu contendere,Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 4; Liv. 26, 38, 7.Transf., of persons, a potentate (late Lat.), plur.: honores et potentatus contemnere,Lact. 6, 17 med.; Cypr. Exh. Mart. 11.
potestas pŏtestas, ātis (gen. plur. potestatium, Sen. Ep. 115, 7; Plin. 29, 4, 20, § 67), f.possum. Lit., in gen., ability, power of doing any thing (class.): SI FVRIOSVS EST AGNATORVM GENTILIVMQVE IN EO PECVNIAQVE EIVS POTESTAS ESTO, Fragm. XII. Tabularum: vim tantam in se et potestatem habere tantae astutiae,
to have such a power of craftiness
,
to be able to devise such tricks
,Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 32: aut potestas defuit aut facultas aut voluntas,Cic. Inv. 2, 7, 24: habere potestatem vitae necisque in aliquem,id. Dom. 29, 77; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3, § 11: potestatem alicui deferre beneficiorum tribuendorum,id. Balb. 16, 37. Poet., with inf.: potestas occurrere telis ... ensem avellere dextrā,Stat. Th. 3, 296; Luc. 2, 40. In phrases. Esse in potestate alicujus, to be in one's power, under one's control, to be subject to (for a description of the relation of potestas under the Roman law, and of the classes of persons to whom it applied, v. Gai. Inst. 1, 49 sqq.): mittuntur legati, qui nuntient, ut sit in senatūs populique Romani potestate,Cic. Phil. 6, 2, 4: esse in dicione ac potestate alicujus,id. Quint. 2, 6: habere familiam in potestate, to keep them slaves, not tofree them, Liv. 8, 15. Esse in suā potestate, to be one's own master, Nep. Att. 6, 1; so, esse suae potestatis,Liv. 31, 45. Jus potestatemque habere imperandi, Cic. Phil. 11, 12, 30; cf.: cum consulis eā de re jus ac potestatem esse dixisset,
had jurisdiction and authority over it
,Liv. 24, 39. Est mea (tua, etc.) potestas, I have the power, I can, Cic. Att. 2, 5, 1; Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 42; cf.: sed volui meam potestatem esse vel petendi, etc.,Cic. Att. 4, 2, 6. In partic. Political power, dominion, rule, empire, sovereignty (syn.: imperium, dicio): Thessaliam in potestatem Thebanorum redigere,Nep. Pelop. 5, 1; Liv. 24, 31; so, sub potestatem Atheniensium redigere,Nep. Milt. 1, 4: esse in potestate alicujus,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 136: tenere aliquem in suā potestate ac dicione,id. ib. 2, 1, 38, § 97: venire in arbitrium ac potestatem alicujus,id. ib. 2, 1, 57, § 150.Magisterial power, authority, office, magistracy (syn.: magistratus, auctoritas): potestas praetoria,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 69: qui togatus in re publicā cum potestate imperioque versatus sit,id. Phil. 1, 7, 18: modo ut bonā ratione emerit, nihil pro potestate, nihil ab invito,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 10: cum potestate aut legatione in provinciam proficisci,id. ib. 2, 4, 5, § 9; id. Clu. 27, 74: censores dederunt operam, ut ita potestatem gererent, ut, etc.,
so to administer the office
,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 138; id. Agr. 2, 6, 14. In plur.: imperia, potestates, legationes,id. Leg. 3, 3, 9: in potestatibus gerendis,Auct. Her. 3, 7, 14.Transf.A person in office, a public officer, magistrate: a magistratu aut ab aliquā potestate legitimā evocatus,
by some lawful authority
,Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 74: mavis Fidenarum esse potestas,Juv. 10, 100.A ruler, supreme monarch: hominum rerumque aeterna potestas,i. e.
Jupiter
,Verg. A. 10, 18: nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, cum laudatur dis aequa potestas,Juv. 4, 71 (v. context): potestates, = ἀρχαί, the highest magistrates, Plin. 9, 8, 8, § 26; Suet. Ner. 36; Amm. 31, 12, 5: celsae potestates,
officers of state
,id. 14, 1, 10: jurisdictionem potestatibus per provincias demandare,Suet. Claud. 23. Esp., legal power, right over or to a thing (class.): potestatis verbo plura significantur: in personā magistratuum imperium, in personā liberorum patria potestas, in personā servi dominium: at cum agimus de noxae deditione cum eo, qui servum non defendit, praesentis corporis copiam facultatemque significamus. Ex lege Atiniā in potestatem domini rem furtivam venisse videri, et si ejus vindicandae potestatem habuerit, Sabinus et Cassius aiunt,Dig. 50, 16, 215. Of inanimate things, power, force, efficacy, effect, operation, virtue, value: potestates colorum,Vitr. 7, 14: potestates visque herbarum,Verg. A. 12, 396; Plin. 25, 2, 5, § 9: pecuniarum,
value
,Dig. 13, 4, 3: haec potestatibus praesentibus dijudicanda sunt,
circumstances
,
state of things
,Gell. 1, 3, 24: actionum vis et potestas,Dig. 9, 4, 1: quaternarius numerus suis partibus complet decadis ipsius potestatem (because the first four integers, taken together, = 10),
compass
,
fulness
,Mart. Cap. 2, § 106: plumbi potestas,
nature
,
quality
,
properties
,Lucr. 5, 1242: naturalis,Vitr. 9, 4. Of a word, meaning, signification (syn.: vis, significatio),Gell. 10, 29, 1; Auct. Her. 4, 54, 67; Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 4. Math. t. t., = δύναμις, the square root, Mart. Cap. 2, § 106.Trop.Power, control, command (class.): dum ex tanto gaudio in potestatem nostram redeamus, recover our self-control, come to ourselves, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14: exisse ex potestate dicimus eos, qui effrenati feruntur aut libidine, aut iracundiā,
to have lost the control of their reason
,
to be out of their minds
,Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11; cf.: qui exisse ex potestate dicuntur, idcirco dicuntur, quia non sunt in potestate mentis, cui regnum totius animi a natura tributum est,id. ib. 3, 5, 11; cf. also id. ib. 4, 36, 77: postquam ad te cum omnium rerum tum etiam tui potestatem di transtulerint,Plin. Pan. 56, 3.Power, ability, possibility, opportunity (class.; cf.: copia, facultas): ubi mihi potestas primum evenit,Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 18: liberius vivendi,Ter. And. 1, 1, 25: ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae,Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1: quoties mihi certorum hominum potestas erit (al. facultas),whenever I find men on whom I can rely, id. ib. 1, 7, 1: facere potestatem, to give opportunity, leave, permission: si quid de his rebus dicere vellet, feci potestatem,id. Cat. 3, 5, 11: quae potestas si mihi saepius fiet, utar,
,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66, § 149: potestatem sui facere, to allow others to see or have access to one, to give an opportunity of conversing with one: cum neque praetores diebus aliquot adiri possent vel potestatem sui facerent,
Potidania Pŏtĭdānĭa, ae, f., = Ποτιδανία, a town in Ætolia, Liv. 28, 8.
potilis pōtĭlis, e, adj.poto, that pertains to drinking, drinking- (ante- and post-class.): potilis nidus, a drinking-vessel, Varr. ap. Non. 145, 4: raptus,
Potina Pōtīna (-ĭca), ae, f.poto, the goddess that presides over children's drinking, Varr. ap. Non. 108, 19; Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 11; Arn. 3, 25.
potio pōtĭo, ōnis, f.id., a drinking, a drink, draught, abstr. and concr. (class.). In gen. Abstr.: in mediā potione,Cic. Clu. 10, 30; cf.: contemptissimis escis et potionibus,id. Fin. 2, 28, 90. Concr.: cum cibo et potione fames sitisque depulsa est,Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: multo cibo et potione completi,id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100: cibus et potio,Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 5: A POTIONE,
a cup-bearer
,Inscr. Grut. 578, 1. In partic. A poisonous draught: potione mulierem sustulit,Cic. Clu. 14, 40; cf.: potio mortis causa data. Quint. Decl. 350: haec potio torquet,Juv. 6, 624.A draught or potion given by physicians: dare potionis aliquid,Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 21: potiones ad id efficaces,Cels. 4, 8.A magic potion, philter (poet.), Hor. Epod. 5, 73.Trop.: nam mihi jam intus potione juncea onerabo gulam, load my throat with a draught of rushes, i. e. hang myself with a rope of rushes, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 56.
potio pŏtĭo, īvi, īre, v. a.potis, to put into the power of, to subject to any one: eum nunc potivit pater Servitutis,
potionarius pōtĭōnārĭus, a, um, adj.1. potio, of or belonging to drinking or to a drink, Not. Tir. p. 169.
potiono pōtĭōno, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a.id., to give to drink (in the verb. finit. post class.): jumentum potione,Veg. Vet. 1, 46; 1, 34; 38; 3, 59: omnes gentes, Hieron. in Isa. 8, 27, v. 2. Hence, pōtĭōnātus, a, um, P. a., that has had a potion given him (post-Aug.): potionatus amatorio medicamento,Suet. Calig. 50.
potior pŏtĭor, ītus, 4 (inf. pres. potirier, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 66. Acc. to the third conj., potĭtur, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 274 Müll. or Ann. v. 78 Vahl.; Verg. A. 3, 56: capto potĭmur mundo,Manil. 4, 882; Ov. M. 13, 130; Cat. 64, 402. Potītur. only in Prisc. 881, and Ov. H. 14, 113. So, poti for potiri, Pac. ap. Non. 475, 29; Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 3, 5, acc. to Trag. Rel. p. 56 Rib., and Enn. Trag. v. 260 Vahl. Act. collat. form pŏtĭo, īre; v. 2. potio), v. dep. n. [potis]. Lit., to become master of, to take possession of, to get, obtain, acquire, receive; constr. with gen., acc., abl., and absol. (class.; syn.: occupo, invado). With gen.: illius regni potiri,Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 5: urbis potiri,Sall. C. 47, 2: vexilli,Liv. 25, 14: nemini in opinionem veniebat Antonium rerum potiturum,Nep. Att. 9, 6: voti,Sil. 15, 331. With acc. (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic.): regnum, Pac. ap. Non. 481, 32: sceptrum,Att. ib. 30; cf.: Homerus sceptra potitus,Lucr. 3, 1038: oppidum, Auct. B. Hisp. 13: summum imperii,
to get possession of the supreme dominion
,Nep. Eum. 3, 4; cf.: regni Persarum potiundi,id. Ages. 4, 2: spes urbis potiundae,Caes. B. G. 2, 7, 2; 3, 6, 2: in spe urbis hostium potiundae,Liv. 8, 2, 5; Curt. 8, 11, 19. With abl.: ille hodie si illā sit potitus muliere,Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 9: natura iis potiens,Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 41: si ad decem milia annorum gentem aliquam urbe nostra potituram putem,id. ib. 1, 37, 90 B. and K.: imperio totius Galliae,Caes. B. G. 1, 2: victoriā,id. ib. 3, 24: impedimentis castrisque,id. ib. 1, 21: sceptro,Ov. H. 14, 113: pane, Lucil. ap. Prisc. p. 881 P.: thalamo, Naev. ib.Absol.: libidines ad potiundum incitantur,Cic. Sen. 12, 39: potiendi spe inflammati,id. Fin. 1, 18, 60.Transf., to be master of, to have, hold, possess, occupy; with gen., acc., abl., and absol. (class.; syn.: fruor, utor). With gen.: Cleanthes solem dominari et rerum potiri putat,
has the chief power in the universe
,Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 126: civitas Atheniensium, dum ea rerum potita est,id. Rosc. Am. 25, 70: potiente rerum patre,Tac. H. 3, 74. With acc.: laborem hunc potiri,Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 5: patria potitur commoda,Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 17: gaudia,id. ib. 22. With abl.: frui iis (voluptatibus), quibus senectus, etiam si non abunde potitur, non omnino caret,Cic. Sen. 14, 48: oppido,Liv. 6, 33: monte,
potis pŏtis (in the positive rarely declined, and in the neutr.pŏte), adj. (comp.pŏ-tĭor, ius; sup.pŏtissĭmus, a, um; class. only in the comp.) [Sanscr. patis, lord; Gr. πόσις, husband; δες‐πότης, lord; Lat. compotis (compos) potiri]. Posit., able, capable; possible (mostly ante-class. and poet.): divi qui potes pro illo quod Samothraces θεοὶ δυνατοί, Varr L. L. 5, § 58 Müll.; Macr. S. 3, 4: nisi qui colaphos perpeti Potis parasitus,Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21. Usually in the connection potis or pote est, he, she, or it is able, may, or can: at ea supterfugere potis es pauca,Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 17: neque sanguis ullo potis est pacto profluens consistere, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: istam non potis est vis saeva exstinguere venti, Poët. ap. Gell. 19, 9, 12: at non Evandrum potis est vis ulla tenere,Verg. A. 11, 148: quod nunquam potis est sejungi,Lucr. 1, 452: nec potis est cerni,id. 5, 719; Cat. 76, 24: qui potis est?
how is it possible?
id. 72, 7. With plur.: si speres quicquam prodesse potis sunt, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 410 Vahl.): duae plus satis dare potis sunt,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 17: quid pastores potis sint,Varr. R. R. 2, 2. Without est: quis potis ingentes oras evolvere belli? Enn. ap. Diom. p. 381 P. (Ann. v. 178 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 671; Hor. C. 3, 17, 13. Form pote: si non aliud pote est,Cat. 43, 16. Without est: nec devitari letum pote,Lucr. 3, 1079: viget, veget, utpote plurimum, Varr. ap Non. 2, 876: nec non emptor pote ex empto vendito illum damnare,id. R. R. 2, 2: nec eniti remis pote,Val. Fl. 4, 680; Prop. 2, 1, 46: qui pote? vis dicam? nugaris,Pers. 1, 56: in te dici pote, Id, quod,Cat. 98, 1: nec peccatum a me quisquam pote dicere quicquam,id. 67, 11: hoc facito, sive id non pote sive pote,
,id. ib. 4, 13, 1: quam pote, as much as possible (post-class.): aufugiamus istinc quam pote longissime,App. M. 1, p. 107, 9; 2, p. 119, 33.Comp.: pŏtĭor, us, that may be preferred, preferred; better, preferable (class.). Of persons: numquam edepol erit ille potior Harpax, quam ego,Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 17; 1, 3, 95: quem aequiust potiorem habere quam te?id. Stich. 1, 2, 40: qui plus pollet potiorque est patre, old poet ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69; id. Fam. 10, 3, 2: itaque cives potiores quam peregrini,id. Lael. 5, 19: Sosim et Moericum quibus tantam crederem rem, potiores habui,Liv. 26, 31, 4: at tu, qui potior nunc es,
happier in love
,
preferred
,Tib. 1, 6, 33 (5, 69): ut in judicio possessionis potior esset,Dig. 18, 1, 34. Of things, better, stronger, preferable, more useful or important: nulla potior serenda,Varr. R. R. 1, 15: sucus,Plin. 36, 22, 43, § 158: novistine locum potiorem rure beato?Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 14: sententia,id. Epod. 16, 17: mors civibus Romanis semper fuit servitute potior,Cic. Phil. 10, 9, 19: illi turpis vita integrā famā potior fuit,Sall. J. 67, 3: nihil mihi potius fuit quam ut Massinissam convenirem,
I had nothing more important
,
nothing more urgent to do
,Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9: illa semper potiora duxisti, quae, etc.,id. de Or. 3, 22, 82: semper se rei publicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habuisse potiora,Caes. B. C. 1, 8. Subst.: ut probetis potiora,Vulg. Phil. 1, 10: hem, mater mea, tibi rem potiorem video (sc. verbis), I see a fact stronger than words, i. e. a clearer proof, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 12.Sup.: pŏtissĭmus, a, um, the chief, principal, most prominent, most important. Of persons (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): item huic ultro fit, ut Meret, potissimus nostrae domi ut sit,Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 9: tantis potissimus umbris,Stat. Th. 4, 627: potissimos libertorum veneno interficere,Tac. A. 14, 65. Of things (class.): utrum potius, aut quid potissimum sit, quaeritur,Cic. Inv. 1, 12, 17: cura,Stat. S. 4, 4, 20: nobilitas,Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25: opusculum,Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 10: causa,Tac. A. 4, 16. Hence, adv., only in the comp. and sup.Comp.: pŏtĭus, rather, preferably, more (class.; cf.: satius, prius): quo nos vocabis nomine? Ar. Libortos. Le. Non patronos? Ar. Id potius, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 62: sed scin', quid volo potius, sodes, facias?Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 27; id. And. 5, 3, 2: nec vero imperia expetenda: ac potius non accipienda interdum,Cic. Off. 1, 20, 68. With quam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 11: Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani,Caes. B. G. 1, 45. When the predicates are compared, the verb in the following clause is always in the subj.: perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios indicaret,
rather than
,Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52: in oratione non vis potius quam delectatio postulatur,Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 317: privabo potius illum debito testimonio quam id cum meā laude communicem,id. Ac. 2, 1, 3: scribam aliquid potius, quam committam ut litterae non reddantur,id. Att. 5, 6, 2: nos potius nostro delicto plectemur, quam res publica nostra peccata luat,Liv. 8, 7, 17: per interregem comitia habenda potius, quam consulum alter a bello avocaretur,id. 22, 23, 10; 9, 14, 16. So with quam ut: se miliens morituros potius quam ut tantum dedecoris admitti patiantur,Liv. 4, 2, 8: audeo dicere hoc malo domitos ipsos potius cultores agrorum fore, quam ut armati, etc., id. 2, 34, 11; 6, 28, 8; 9, 14, 7. But after verbs of willing, wishing (sometimes of declaring), the inf. is used: dictatore obstinato tollere potius totum e re publicā consulatum, quam promiscuum facere,Liv. 7, 21, 1; 23, 9, 8; 21, 13, 8: v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 15, 2; Fest. s. v. olivitam, p. 202 Müll.; v. Muuml;ll. ad. loc. p. 203, a. In an inverted order: quam potius,Verg. Copa, 5: quid mihi negotii est eum istis nugacibus, quam potius potamus mulsum? C. Titius ap. Macr. S. 2, 12. Sometimes potius is to be supplied: tacita, bona est mulier semper, quam loquens,Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 70; id. Men. 5, 1, 26: tamen statuit congredi, quam cum tantis copiis refugere,Nep. Dat. 8, 1. Pleon., with words which already express comparison. Comp., Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 19: Uticae potius quam Romae esse malle,Cic. Lig. 2, 5: favorabiliores rei potius, quam actores habentur,Dig. 50, 17, 167. Esp., introducing a repetition of a thought in a corrected or strengthened form: aut potius, vel potius, or rather, or I may better say, etc.: efficiet enim ratio ut ... mors aut malum non sit, aut sit bonum potius,Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 23: quam fuit imbecillus P. Africani filius, quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,id. Sen. 11, 35: erravit aut potius insanivit Apronius?Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 113: Cato magnus hercule homo, vel potius summus et singularis vir,id. Brut. 85, 293; Dig. 1, 5, 16.Sup.: pŏtissĭmē (pŏtissŭ-), and more freq. pŏtissĭmum (pŏtissŭ-), chiefly, principally, especially, in preference to all others, above all, most of all (class.). Form potissime, Cels. 3, 6. Form potissimum: responde, quo leto censes me ut peream potissimum?Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 15; Ter. And. 2, 6, 23: exsistat aliquis et potissimum Caecus ille,Cic. Cael. 14, 33; id. Mur. 2, 4: nos id potissimum consecuti sumus,id. Tusc. 5, 4, 11: tanta erat contentio, qui potissimum ex magno numero conscenderent, ut,Caes. B. C. 2, 43: quid agam? aut quo potissimum infelix accedam?Sall. J. 14, 15; Auct. Her. 3, 2, 2; Lact. 2, 18, 3.
potissime pŏtissĭmē (pŏtissŭmē) and pŏtis-sĭmum (pŏtissŭmum), advv., v. potis fin. B.
potissum pŏtissum, v. possum init.
Potitius Pŏtītĭus, a, name of a Roman gens. Adj., Potitian: gens Potitia,Liv. 9, 29. Subst.: Potitius auctor,Verg. A. 8, 269. Pŏtītĭi, ōrum, m., priests of Hercules, v. Pinarius.
potitus pŏtītus, a, um, Part., in a pass. signif., v. 2. potio.
potitus pŏtītus, a, um, Part., from 1. potior.
Potitus Potitus, i, m., a Roman surname: C. Valerius Potitus,Liv. 4, 53.
potiuncula pōtĭuncŭla, ae, f.dim.1. potio, a small draught or potion (post-Aug.): modica,Suet. Dom. 21: crebrae,Petr. 47.
potius pŏtĭus, adv., v. potis fin. A.
Potniae Potnĭae, ārum, f., = Ποτνιαί, a village in Bœotia, on the Asopus, in whose neighborhood were pastures which made animals mad, Plin. 25, 8, 53, § 94. Hence, Pot-nĭas, ădis, adj. f., = Ποτνιάς, of Potniœ, Potnian (poet.): quo tempore Glauci Potniades malis membra absumpsere quadrigae (i. e. equae),Verg. G. 3, 268: equae, Ov. lb. 557.
poto pōto, āvi, ātum, or pōtum, 1, v. a. and n.root po; Gr. πίνω, πέπωκα, to drink; Lat. potus, potor, poculum, etc.. Act., to drink (ante-class. and post-Aug.; syn. bibo), Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 13: aquam,Suet. Ner. 48; Juv. 5, 52: vinum,Plin. 14, 5, 7, § 58: ut edormiscam hanc crapulam, quam potavi,
this intoxication which I have drunk myself into
,Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 28.Transf.Poet. Potare flumen aliquod, to drink from a stream, i. q. to dwell by it: fera, quae gelidum potat Araxen,Sen. Hippol. 57: stagna Tagi,Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 286. Of inanim. subjects, to drink up, to suck or draw in, to absorb moisture (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): vestis sudorem potat,Lucr. 4, 1128: potantia vellera fucum,Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 27: potanda ferens infantibus ubera,Juv. 6, 9; Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 134.Causative (late Lat.), to give to drink, to cause to drink: potasti nos vino,Vulg. Psa. 59, 5: potaverunt me aceto,id. ib. 68, 22; id. Ecclus. 15, 3; id. Isa. 49, 10; id. Apoc. 14, 8.Neutr., to drink. In gen. (class.): redi simul mecum potatum,Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 28: potaturus est apud me,Ter. Phorm. 5, 5, 9: si potare velit,Cic. Brut. 83, 288: potare dilutius, id. Fragm. ap. Amm. 15, 12, 4: potum veniunt juvenci,Verg. E. 7, 11: cornibus, from or out of horns, Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 126. Part.: potatus, caused to drink, furnished with drink: felle et aceto potatus,Tert. Spect. 30: et omnes in spiritu potati sunt,Vulg. 1 Cor. 12, 13. In partic., to drink, tope, tipple (class.): obsonat, potat, olet unguenta de meo,Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 37: ibi primum insuevit exercitus populi Romani amare, potare,Sall. C. 11, 6: frui voluptate potandi,Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 118: totos dies potabatur,id. Phil. 2, 27, 67: potantibus his apud Sex. Tarquinium,Liv. 1, 57, 6 al. Hence, pōtus, a, um, P. a.Act., that has drunk: et pransus sum, et potus sum, dicamus, Varr. ap. Gell. 2, 25, 7; but usually, drunken, intoxicated (class.): domum bene potus redire,Cic. Fam. 7, 22: inscitia pransi, poti, oscitantis ducis,id. Mil. 21, 56: anus,Hor. C. 4, 13, 5; id. S. 1, 3, 90. Pass., that has been drunk, drunk, drunk up, drunk out, drained (class.): sanguine tauri poto,Cic. Brut. 11, 43: poti faece tenus cadi,Hor. C. 3, 15, 16: amygdalae ex aquā potae,Plin. 23, 8, 75, § 144.
potor pōtor, ōris, m.poto, a drinker. In gen. (poet.): aquae potores,Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 3.Transf.: Rhodanique potor,i. e.
potulentus pōtŭlentus (pōcŭl-), a, um, adj.potus. That may be drunk, drinkable (rare but class.). Subst. plur.: pōtŭlen-ta, ōrum, n., drinkables, drinks: gustatus habitat in eā parte oris, quā esculentis et potulentis iter natura patefecit,Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141: esculenta omnia et potulenta,Gell. 17, 11, 2; cf. Q. Scaevola ap. Gell. 4, 1, 17.Drunken, intoxicated (post-Aug.), Suet. Oth. 2; App. M. 3, p. 131, 18.