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Название: Latin Phrase-Book

Автор: Auden Henry William

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СКАЧАТЬ luce– at daybreak.

      luce (luci)– in full daylight.

      ubi illuxit, luxit, diluxit– when it was day.

      lucet– it is daylight.

      diluculo– in the morning twilight.

      advesperascit– evening is drawing on.

      die, caelo vesperascente– when it is growing dusk; towards evening.

      multus dies or multa lux est– the day is already far advanced.

      ad multam noctem– till late at night.

      de nocte, de die– while it is still night, day.

      multa de nocte– late at night.

      intempesta, concubia nocte– in the dead of night; at midnight.

      silentio noctis– in the silence of the night.

      vicissitudines dierum noctiumque– the succession of day and night.

      noctes diesque, noctes et dies, et dies et noctes, dies noctesque, diem noctemque– night and day.

      tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum– morning, noon, evening, night.

      tempora matutina– the morning hours.

      in dies (singulos)– from day to day.

      in diem vivere– to live from day to day.

      alternis diebus– every other day.

      quattuor dies continui– four successive days.

      unus et alter dies– one or two days.

      dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant– one, two, several days had passed, intervened.

      diem proferre (Att. 13. 14) – to adjourn, delay.

       biduo serius 34– two days late.

      horā citius– an hour too soon.

      postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium) (Att. 4. 1. 5) – on the day after, which was September 5th.

      hodie qui est dies Non. Sept.; cras qui dies futurus est Non. Sept.– to-day the 5th of September; tomorrow September the 5th.

      dies hesternus, hodiernus, crastinus– yesterday, to-day, tomorrow.

      diem dicere colloquio– to appoint a date for an interview.

      ad diem constitutam– at the appointed time.

      diem videre, cum…– to live to see the day when…

      dies dolorem mitigabit– time will assuage his grief.

      quota hora est?– what time is it?

      tertia hora est– it is the third hour (= 9 A.M.)

      ad horam compositam– at the time agreed on.

      III. Parts of the Human Body

      omnibus artubus contremiscere– to tremble in every limb.

      aures claudere, patefacere (e.g. veritati, assentatoribus) – to turn a deaf ear to, to open one's ears to…

      aures praebere alicui– to listen to a person.

      aures alicuius obtundere or simply obtundere (aliquem)– to din a thing into a person's ears.

      in aurem alicui dicere (insusurrare) aliquid– to whisper something in a person's ears.

      ad aures alicuius (not alicui) pervenire, accidere– to come to some one's ears.

      aures erigere– to prick up one's ears.

      oratio in aures influit– his words find an easy hearing, are listened to with pleasure.

      aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27) – a fine, practised ear.

      neque auribus neque oculis satis consto– I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf.

      caput aperire (opp. operire) – to uncover one's head.

      capite aperto (opp. operto) – bare-headed.

      capite obvoluto– with head covered.

      caput demittere– to bow one's head.

      caput praecīdere– to cut off a man's head.

       caput 35 parieti impingere– to strike one's head against the wall.

      cervices (in Cic. only in plur.) frangere alicui or alicuius– to break a person's neck.

      gladius cervicibus impendet– a sword hangs over his neck.

       hostis 36 in cervicibus alicuius est– the foe is at our heels, is upon us.

      promittere crinem, barbam– to grow one's hair, beard long.

      passis crinibus– with dishevelled hair.

      capilli horrent– his hair stands on end.

      capilli compti, compositi (opp. horridi) – well-ordered, well-brushed hair.

      extremis digitis aliquid attingere– to touch with the fingertips.

      frontem contrahere (opp. explicare) – to frown.

      frontem ferire, percutere– to beat one's brow.

      in fronte alicuius inscriptum est– one can see it in his face.

      ab alicuius latere non discedere– to be always at a person's side.

      a latere regis esse– to belong to the king's bodyguard.

      manum (dextram) alicui porrigere– to give one's hand to some one.

       manum non vertere alicuius rei causa 37– to make not the slightest effort; not to stir a finger.

      manus inicere, inferre, afferre alicui– to lay violent hands on a person.

      manus tollere– to raise one's hands in astonishment.

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<p>34</p>

Used absolutely "too late" = sero; if "too late for," "later than," always serius (quam).

<p>35</p>

caput has several metaphorical meanings, e.g. capita coniurationis (Liv. 9. 26), the leaders of the conspiracy; caput Graeciae, the capital of Greece; caput cenae, the chief dish; capita legis, the headings, clauses of a law; id quod caput est, the main point; de capite deducere (Liv. 6. 15), to subtract from the capital; capitis periculum, mortal peril; capitis deminutio (maxima, media, minima) (Liv. 22. 60), deprivation of civil rights. caput is often combined with fons = source, origin, e.g. ille fons et caput Socrates (Cic. De. Or. 1. 42); in aegritudine est fons miseriarum et caput (Cic.) By metonymy caput is used with liberum (and noxium) (Verr. 2. 32. 79) with the meaning of a free (guilty) person, individual.

<p>36</p>

Cf. velut in cervicibus habere hostem (Liv. 44. 39); bellum ingens in cervicibus est (Liv. 22. 33. 6).

<p>37</p>

Cf. ne digitum quidem porrigere alicuius rei causa.