LAT
abhorreo
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(verb) : ăb-horrĕo, ui, ēre, 2, and
* A., to shrink back from a thing, to shudder at, abhor.
* Lit. (syn. aversor; rare but class.); constr. with ab or absol., sometimes with the acc. (not so in Cicero; cf. Haase ad Reisig Vorles. p. 696): retro volgus abhorret ab hac,shrinks back from,Lucr. 1, 945; 4, 20: omnes aspernabantur, omnes abhorrebant, etc.,Cic. Clu. 14, 41: quid tam abhorret hilaritudo?Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 56: pumilos atque distortos,Suet. Aug. 83; so id. Galb. 4; Vit. 10.
* Transf., in gen.
* To be averse or disinclined to a thing, not to wish it, usu. with ab: a nuptiis,Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 92: ab re uxoriā,id. And. 5, 1, 10; and so often in Cic.: Caesaris a causā,Cic. Sest. 33: a caede,id. ib. 63: ab horum turpitudine, audaciā, sordibus,id. ib. 52, 112: a scribendo abhorret animus,id. Att. 2, 6: animo abhorruisse ab optimo statu civitatis,id. Phil. 7, 2: a ceterorum consilio,Nep. Milt. 3, 5 al.
* In a yet more general sense, to be remote from an object, i. e. to vary or differ from, to be inconsistent or not to agree with (freq. and class.): temeritas tanta, ut non procul abhorreat ab insaniā,Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 68: a vulgari genere orationis atque a consuetudine communis sensus,id. de Or. 1, 3, 12: oratio abhorrens a personā hominis gravissimi,id. Rep. 1, 15: ab opinione tuā,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 20: Punicum abhorrens os ab Latinorum nominum prolatione, Liv. 22, 13; so id. 29, 6; 30, 44: a fide,to be incredible,id. 9, 36: a tuo scelere,is not connected with,Cic. Cat. 1, 7 al. —Hence, like dispar, with dat.: tam pacatae profectioni abhorrens mos,not accordant with,Liv. 2, 14.
* To be free from: Caelius longe ab istā suspicione abhorrere debet,Cic. Cael. 4.
* Absol.
* To alter: tantum abhorret ac mutat,alters and changes,Cat. 22, 11.
* To be unfit: sin plane abhorrebit et erit absurdus,Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85; cf.: absurdae atque abhorrentes lacrimae,Liv. 30, 44, 6; and: carmen abhorrens et inconditum,id. 27, 37, 13.
* A., to shrink back from a thing, to shudder at, abhor.
* Lit. (syn. aversor; rare but class.); constr. with ab or absol., sometimes with the acc. (not so in Cicero; cf. Haase ad Reisig Vorles. p. 696): retro volgus abhorret ab hac,shrinks back from,Lucr. 1, 945; 4, 20: omnes aspernabantur, omnes abhorrebant, etc.,Cic. Clu. 14, 41: quid tam abhorret hilaritudo?Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 56: pumilos atque distortos,Suet. Aug. 83; so id. Galb. 4; Vit. 10.
* Transf., in gen.
* To be averse or disinclined to a thing, not to wish it, usu. with ab: a nuptiis,Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 92: ab re uxoriā,id. And. 5, 1, 10; and so often in Cic.: Caesaris a causā,Cic. Sest. 33: a caede,id. ib. 63: ab horum turpitudine, audaciā, sordibus,id. ib. 52, 112: a scribendo abhorret animus,id. Att. 2, 6: animo abhorruisse ab optimo statu civitatis,id. Phil. 7, 2: a ceterorum consilio,Nep. Milt. 3, 5 al.
* In a yet more general sense, to be remote from an object, i. e. to vary or differ from, to be inconsistent or not to agree with (freq. and class.): temeritas tanta, ut non procul abhorreat ab insaniā,Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 68: a vulgari genere orationis atque a consuetudine communis sensus,id. de Or. 1, 3, 12: oratio abhorrens a personā hominis gravissimi,id. Rep. 1, 15: ab opinione tuā,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 20: Punicum abhorrens os ab Latinorum nominum prolatione, Liv. 22, 13; so id. 29, 6; 30, 44: a fide,to be incredible,id. 9, 36: a tuo scelere,is not connected with,Cic. Cat. 1, 7 al. —Hence, like dispar, with dat.: tam pacatae profectioni abhorrens mos,not accordant with,Liv. 2, 14.
* To be free from: Caelius longe ab istā suspicione abhorrere debet,Cic. Cael. 4.
* Absol.
* To alter: tantum abhorret ac mutat,alters and changes,Cat. 22, 11.
* To be unfit: sin plane abhorrebit et erit absurdus,Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85; cf.: absurdae atque abhorrentes lacrimae,Liv. 30, 44, 6; and: carmen abhorrens et inconditum,id. 27, 37, 13.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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