Charlton T. Lewis

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ Finally, by dropping the b of ab and lengthening the a, ab was changed into â, which form, together with ab, predominated through all periods of the Latin language, and took its place before all consonants in the later years of Cicero, and after him almost exclusively.—By dropping the b without lengthening the a, ab occurs in the form ă- in the two compounds ă-bîto and ă-pĕrio, quod videas.—On the other hand, instead of reducing ap to a and ă, a strengthened collateral form, aps, was made by adding to ap the letter s (also used in particles, as in ex, mox, vix) . ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ Ab ab ăb, ā, abs, preposition with the ablative case. This Indo-European particle (Sanscrit apa or ava; Etruscan av; Greek 'απó; Gothic af; Old German aba; New German ab; English of, off) has in Latin the following forms: ap, af, ab (av) , au-, â, ă; aps, abs, as-. The existence of the oldest form, ap, is proved by the oldest and best manuscripts analogous to the preposition apud, the Sanscrit api, and the Greek 'επí, and by the weakened form, af, which, by the rule of historical grammar and the nature of the Latin letter f, can be derived only from ap, not from ab. ”

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“ After that time Cicero evidently hesitates between abs te and a te, but during the last five or six years of his life a te became predominant in all his writings, even in his letters; consequently abs te apeas but rarely in later authors, as in Titus Livius 10, 19, 8; 26, 15, 12; and who, perhaps, also used abs conscendentibus, idem 28, 37, 2; vide Arnold Drakenborch [editor of Livy] ad hunc locum (W. Weissenborn [editor of Livy] ab) .—Finally abs, in consequence of the following p, lost its b, and became âs- in the three compounds as-pello, as-porto, and as-pernor (for as-spernor) ”

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“ LATIN DICTIONARY A a I. A, a, indeclinable noun sometimes joined with littera, i.e., littera a, the first letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to the a, α of the other Indo-European languages: A primum est: hinc incipiam, et quae nomina ab hoc sunt, C. Ennius Lucilius apud Terent, Scaur. p. 2255 P.: sus rostro si humi A litteram impresserit, M. Tullius Cicero’s De Divinatione ad M. Brutum 1, 13, 23: ne in A quidem atque S litteras exire temere masculina Graeca nomina recto casu patiebantur, M. T. Quintilianus 1, 5, 61. II. The sound of the A is short or long in every part of the word ”

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“ So Latin aut corresponds to Sanscrit ave (whence -vâ, Latin -ve) , Osc. avti, Umbr. ute, ote; and so the Latin preposition ab, through av, becomes au in the words aufero and aufugio (prop. av-fero, av-fugio, for ab-fero, ab-fugio) . Vide the article ab init. VII. In primitive roots, which have their kindred forms in the sister-languages of the Latin, the original a, still found in the Sanscrit, is in Latin either preserved or more frequently changed into other vowels. A. Original a preserved: Sanscrit mâtri, Latin mâter; Sanscrit bhrâtri, Latin frâter; Sanscrit nâsâ, Latin nâsus and nâris ”

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“ The diphthong au is often changed to ô and û (the latter particularly in compounds) : caudex, côdex; Claudius, Clodius; lautus, lôtus; plaustrum, plôstrum; plaudo, plôdo, explôdo; paululum, pôlulum; faux, suffôco; si audes (according to Cicero or according to others, si audies) , sôdes, etc.; claudo, inclûdo; causa, accûso. Hence in some words a regular gradation of au, o, u is found: claudo, clôdicare, clûdo; raudus, rôdus, rûdus; caupo, côpa, cûpa; naugae, nôgae (both forms in the manuscripts of Plautus) , nûgae; fraustra, frode, frude (in manuscripts of Vergil) ”

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“ Albâî Longâî, terrâî frugiferâî, frondosâî, lunâî, viâî; in Vergil: aulâî, aurâî, aquâî, pictâî; in Ausonius: herâî. B. ae as well as au are changed into other vowels. 1. The sound of ae, e, and oe being very similar, these vowels are often interchanged in the best manuscripts. So we find caerimonia and cerimonia, caepa and cêpa, saeculum and sêculum; scaena and scêna; caelum and coelum, haedus and hoedus, maestus and moestus; cena, coena, and caena, etc. 2. In composition and reduplications ae becomes î: aequus, inîquus; quaero, inquîro; laedo, illîdo; taedet, pertîsum (noticed by Cicero) ”

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“ Karl Ottfried Müller [editor of Festus] is only a conjecture) . In the time of Cicero this form was regarded as archaic, and only here and there used in account-books; see Cicero's Orator ad M. Brutum 47, 158 (where the correct reading is af, not abs or ab) , and compare Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl's, Priscae Latinitatis Monumenta Epigraphica page 7 and following.—The second form of this preposition, changed from ap, was ab, which has become the principal form and the one most generally used through all periods—and indeed the only one used before all vowels and h ”

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“ Homerus qui recens ab illorum aetate fuit, soon after their time, Cicero's De Deorum Naturâ 3, 5; so Terentius Varro's De Re Rusticâ 2, 8, 2; Vergil's Aeneis 6, 450 others (see also primum, confestim, etc.) —Sometimes with the name of a person or place, instead of an action: ibi mihi tuae litterae binae redditae sunt tertio abs te die, i. e. after their departure from you, Cicero's Epistulae ad Atticum 5, 3, 1: in Italiam perventum est quinto mense a Carthagine Novâ i. e. ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ Sanscrit apa, Latin ab; Sanscrit nâma, Latin năm; Sanscrit catur, Latin, quattuor (in Greek changed: τέτταρες) ; Sanscrit capûla, Latin căput (in Greek changed: κεφαλή, etc.) . B. Original a is changed into other Latin vowels— 1. Into e: Sanscrit ad, Latin ed (ĕdo) ; Sanscrit as, Latin es (esse) ; Sanscrit pat, Latin pet (peto) ; Sanscrit pâd, Latin pĕd (pês) ; Sanscrit dant, Latin dent (dens) ; Sanscrit gan, Latin gen (gigno) ; Sanscrit mâ, Latin mê-tior; Sanscrit saptan, Latin septem; Sanscrit daśan, Latin decem; Sanscrit śata, Latin centum; Sanscrit aham, Latin ĕgo; Sanscrit pâra, Latin per ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ The history of ancient nations, the private life of their citizens, the thoughts and beliefs of their writers have been closely scrutinized in the light of accumulating information. Thus the student of to-day may justly demand of his Dictionary far more than the scholarship of thirty years ago could furnish. ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ VI. Latin ă was early combined with the vowels i and u, forming the diphthongs ai and au; by changing the i into e, the diphthong ai soon became ae. So we find in the oldest inscriptions: AIDE, AIDILIS, AIQVOM, GNAIVOD, HAICE, DVELONAI, TABELAI, DATAI, etc., which soon gave place to aedem, aedilis, aequom, Gnaeo, haec, Bellonae, tabellae, datae, etc. (the Col. Rostr. has PRAESENTE, PRAEDAD, and the S. C. de Bacch. AEDEM. The triphthong aei, found in CONQVAEISIVEI (?) , is very rare; Miliar. Popil. lin. ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ For particulars, see the Lexicon.)
ab in compounds before i (for j) , h, b, d, l, n, r, s; abs before c, q, t; as before p (asporto) ; a before m and v; au before f (aufero, aufugio; but afui, see absum) . abicio, better than abjicio. abscisio, better than abcisio absum, afui, afore, etc. (not abfui) . ad in compounds before i (for j) , h, b, d, f, m, n, q. v; ac before c, sometimes q (better adquiro, etc.) ; ag or ad before g, but a or ad before gn, sp, sc, st; ad or al before l; ad (less properly an) before n; ap (less frequently ad) before p; ad or ar before r; ad or as before s ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ From the first, aps was used only before the letters c, q, t, and was very soon changed into abs (as ap into ab) : abs chorago, Plautus' Persa 1, 3, 79 (159 Ritschl) : abs quivis, Tertullianus' Ad Uxorem 2, 3, 1: abs terra, Cato, De Rustica 51; and in compounds: aps-cessero, Plautus' Trinummus 3, 1, 24 (625 Ritschl) ; idem ibidem 3, 2, 84 (710 Ritschl) : abs-condo, abs-que, abs-tineo, etc. The use of abs was confined almost exclusively to the combination abs te during the whole ante-classic period, and with Cicero till about the year 700 A [b] .U [rbe] .C [ondita] . (=B.C. 54) . ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ CHARLTON T. LEWIS. While each editor is alone and wholly responsible for the pages which he has prepared, Mr. LEWIS requests us to acknowledge the indebtedness of the book to contributions from other scholars, incorporated by him with his own collections. It is proper to refer, in particular, to the valuable services of GUSTAVUS FISCHER, LL.D., of New Brunswick whose learning and research have given to many articles a fulness and thoroughness hardly attempted before in a Latin Dictionary (see, for example, the words contra, 2. cum, sic, sisto, solvo, suus, tum, tunc, volo, and others) ”

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“ A. P. a populo or aediliciae potestatis; A. P. R. aerario populi Romani.—Upon the voting tablets in judicial trials A. denotes absolvo; hence A. is called littera salutaris, Cicero's Miles Gloriosus 6, 15; vide littera. In the Roman Comitia A. (=antiquo) denoted the rejection of the point in question; see antiquo. In Cicero's Tusculan Disputations (Tusculanae Disputationes) the A. designated one of the disputants=adulescens or auditor, opposed to M. for magister or Marcus (Cicero) ; but it is to be remarked that the letters A and M do not occur in the best manuscripts of this treatise ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ Livius 2, 33, 6 and others; compare: ab Arimino M. Antonium cum cohortibus quinque Arretium mittit, Caesar's Bellum Civile 1, 11 at the end; and: protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam miserat, idem ibidem 1, 25, 2: profecti a domo, Livius 40, 33, 2; of setting sail: cum exercitus vestri numquam a Brundisio nisi hieme summâ transmiserint, Cicero's Oratio de Imperio Cn. ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus, Caesar's Bellum Gallicum 2, 25, 1: ab hac contione legati missi sunt, immediately after, Titus Livius 24, 22, 6; compare idem 28, 33, 1: 40, 47, 8; 40, 49, 1 others: ab eo magistratu, after this office, Sallustius Crispus' Jugurtha 63, 5: a summâ spe novissima exspectabat, after the greatest hope, Tacitus' Annales 6, 50 at the end.—Strengthened by the adverbs primum, confestim, statim, protinus, or the adjective recens, immediately after, soon after: ut primum a tuo digressu Romam veni, Cicero's Epistulae ad Atticum 1, 5, 4 ”

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“ C. Sometimes the Latin has preserved the original a, while even the Sanscrit has changed it: Latin pa-, pater, Sanscrit. pâ, pitri. 2. As an abbreviation A. usually denotes the praenomen Aulus; A. A.=Auli duo, Inscriptiones Orelli 1530 (but A.A.=Aquae Aponi, the modern Abano, ibidem 1643 sequens; 2620; 3011) . The three directors of the mint were designated by III. VIRI A. A. A. F. F. (i.e., auro, argento, aeri flando, feriundo) , ibidem 569; 2242; 2379; 3134 alia; so also A. A. A., ibidem 3441 (compare Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares 7, 13 at the end, and see the article Triumviri) ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ Kühner, Raphael, editor of Cicero’s Tusculanae and author of Ausführliche Grammatik der Lateinischen Sprache, Hannover 1877, 1878.
Lachm., Karl Lachmann, editor of Lucilius, Lucretius, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, etc.
Lamb., D. Lambinus, editor of Plautus, Lucretius, Cicero, and Horace.
Lor. or Lorenz, A. O. F. Lorenz, editor of Plays of Plautus. ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ Ex Capitolio, etc., Cicero Oratio pro Caecinâ 30, 87; compare Diomedes p. 408 P., and a similar distinction between ad and in under ad. Elliptically: Diogenes Alexandro roganti, ut diceret, si quid opus esset: Nunc quidem paululum, inquit, a sole, a little out of the sun, Cicero Tusculanae Disputationes 5, 32, 92.—Often joined with usque: illam (mulierem) usque a mari supero Romam proficisci, all the way from, Cicero Oratio pro Cluentio 68, 192; vide usque, I.—And with ad, to denote the space passed over: siderum genus ab ortu ad occasum commeant, from...to, Cicero De Deorum Naturâ 2, 19 init. ”

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“ Cicero's Epistulae ad Atticum 4, 9, 1 and others.
B. Transfer without the idea of motion. To designate separation or distance, with the verbs abesse, distare, etc. and with the particles longe, procul, prope, etc. 1. Of separation: ego te afuisse tam diu a nobis dolui, Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares 2, 1, 2: abesse a domu paulisper maluit, idem Actio in Verrem 2, 4, 18, § 39: tum Brutus ab Româ aberat, C. Sallustius Crispus' Catilina 40, 5: absint lacerti ab stabulis, Vergil's Georgica 4, 14.—2. Of distance: quot milia fundus suus abesset ab urbe, Cicero's Oratio pro Caecinâ 10, 28 ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ I. Literally, in space: ab classe ad urbem tendunt, Lucius Accius (or Attius) in Nonius Marcellus 495, 22 (Trag. Rel. p. 177 Otto Ribbeck) : [1] Caesar maturat ab urbe proficisci, Caesar Bellum Gallicum 1, 7: fuga ab urbe turpissima, Cicero Epistolae ad Atticum 7, 21: ducite ab urbe domum, ducite Daphnim, Vergil Eclogae 8, 68. Cicero himself gives the difference between ab and ex thus: si qui mihi praesto fuerit cum armatis hominibus extra meum fundum et me introire prohibuerit, non ex eo, sed ab (from, away from) eo loco me dejecerit. ... ”

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“ Quasi ad adulescentem a patre ex Seleucia veniat, Plautus Trinummus 3, 3, 41; compare: libertus a Fufiis cum litteris ad Hermippum venit, Cicero's Oratio pro L. Flacco 20, 47: Nigidium a Domitio Capuam venisse, idem Epistulae ad Atticum 7, 24: cum a vobis discessero, idem De Senectute [or Cato Major] 22: multa merces tibi defluat ab Jove Neptunoque, Horace's Carmina [or Odae] 1, 28, 29 others. So often of a person instead of his house, lodging, etc.: videat forte hic te a patre aliquis exiens, from the father, i.e. ”

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“ Ancyr. Monumentum Ancyranum, an inscription placed on the wall of the pronaos at Ancyra, by Augustus Cæsar, fl. A.D. 14 Naev. C. Naevius, poet, ob. B.C. 198 Nazar. Nazarius, panegyrist, fl. A.D. 320 Pan. Const., Panegyricus Constantini. Nemes. M. Aur. Olympius Nemesianus, poet, fl. A.D. 260 Cyn., Cynegetica. Ecl., Eclogae. Nep. Cornelius Nepos, biographer, fl. ”

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“ Likewise ab integro, anew, afresh; see integer.—Ab ... ad, from (a time) ... to: ab horâ octavâ ad vesperum secreto collocuti sumus, Cicero's Epistulae ad Atticum 7, 8, 4; compare: cum ab horâ septimâ ad vesperum pugnatum sit, Caesar's Bellum Gallicum 1, 26, 2; and: a quo tempore ad vos consules anni sunt septigenti octoginta unus, P. Velleius Peterculus 1, 8, 4; and so in Plautus strengthened by usque: pugnata pugnast usque a mane ad vesperum, from morning to evening, Plautus' Amphitruo 1, 1, 97 ”

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“ Scipiones classis XL. die a securi navigavit, i. e. after its having been built, Plinius 16, 39, 74 § 192.—Hence the poetic expression: ab his, after this (compare ἐκ τούτων) , i. e. after these words, hereupon, Ovid's Metamorphoses 3, 273 ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ A.D. 375 Cic. or C. M. Tullius Cicero, orator and philosopher, obiit B.C. 43 Acad. or Ac., Academicae Quaestiones. ad Brut., ad Brutum Epistulae. Aem. Scaur., Oratio pro Aemilio Scauro. Agr., Orationes de Lege Agrariâ. Am., De Amicitiâ, or Laelius. Arat., Aratus. Arch., Oratio pro A. Licinio Archiâ. Att., Epistulae ad Atticum. Balb., Oratio pro L. Corn. Balbo. Brut., Brutus sive de Claris Oratoribus. Caecin., Oratio pro Caecinâ. Cael., Oratio pro M. Caelio. Cat., Orationes in Catilinam. Cat. M., Cato Major, or De Senectute. Clu., Oratio pro Cluentio. Deiot., Oratio pro Rege Deiotaro. ”

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Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary (1879)

“ Flac. or Fl., Oratio pro L. Flacco. Font. or Fontei., Oratio pro M. Fonteio. Fragm., Fragmenta. Har. Resp., Oratio de Haruspicum Responsis. Her., Auctor ad Herennium. Imp. Pomp., Oratio de Imperio Cn. Pompei, or Pro Lege Maniliâ. Inv., De Inventione Rhetoricâ. Lael., Laelius, or De Amicitiâ. Leg., De Legibus. Lig., Oratio pro Ligario. Manil., Oratio pro Lege Maniliâ, or De Imperio Cn. Pompei. Marcell., Oratio pro Marcello. Mil., Oratio pro Milone. Mur., Oratio pro L. Murenâ. N. D., De Deorum Naturâ. Off., De Officiis. Opt. Gen., De Optimo Genere Oratorum. Or., Orator ad M. Brutum. Par. ”

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