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ambĭtĭo (noun F) : ambio
* A going round.
* In the time of the republic, t. t. (v. ambio, II. B.), the going about of candidates for office in Rome, and the soliciting of individual citizens for their vote, a canvassing, suing for office (by just and lawful means; while ambitus denotes unlawful means, as bribery, threats, etc.): quid de nostris ambitionibus loquar?Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 62: mea me ambitio ab omni illā cogitatione abstrahebat,id. Sull. 4: cum ambitionis nostrae tempora postulabant,id. Planc. 18, 45: si infinitus forensium rerum labor et ambitionis occupatio decursu honorum etiam aetatis flexu constitisset,id. de Or. 1, 1, 1: hic magistratus a populo summā ambitione contenditur,Cic. Verr. 2, 53, 131: tanta exarsit ambitio, ut primores civitatis prensarent homines,Liv. 3, 35, 1 et saep.
* In gen., a striving for one's favor or good-will; an excessive desire to please, flattery, adulation: ambitione labi,Cic. Brut. 69, 244: sive aliquā suspitione sive ambitione adducti,id. Clu. 28, 76: in Scipione ambitio major, vita tristior,id. Off. 1, 30, 108 Heus., Beier, and Gernh.: Dionysius Platonem magnā ambitione Syracusas perduxit, in an ostentatious manner, for the purpose of securing his favor, Nep. Dion, 2, 2 Br. and Dähn.: ambitio (i.e. studium Fabiis placendi) obstabat,Liv. 5, 36: ambitione relegatā,without flattery,Hor. S. 1, 10, 84: ambitionem scriptoris facile averseris, obtrectatio et livor pronis auribus accipiuntur, Tac. H. 1, 1: nullo officii aut ambitionis genere omisso, i.e. nullis blanditiis,Suet. Oth. 4: coronas quam parcissime et sine ambitione tribuit,id. Aug. 25 et saep.—Hence, also partiality: jus sibi per ambitionem dictum non esse,Liv. 3, 47.
* With the predom. idea of the purpose or end, a desire for honor, popularity, power, display, etc.; in bon. part., ambition; in mal. part., vanity.—So in Lucr. of the ambitious efforts of men: Angustum per iter luctantes ambitionis,struggling to press through the narrow way of ambition,Lucr. 5, 1132: me ambitio quaedam ad honorum studium duxit,Cic. Att. 1, 17: Miserrima omnino est ambitio honorumque contentio,id. Off. 1, 25: a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat,Sall. C. 4, 2: aut ab avaritiā aut miserā ambitione laborat,Hor. S. 1, 4, 26: Vitā solutorum miserā ambitione gravique,id. ib. 1, 6, 129; so id. ib. 2, 3, 78; 2, 6, 18: inanis,id. Ep. 2, 2, 207: levis,Ov. F. 1, 103 al.: licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, tamen frequenter causa virtutum est,Quint. 1, 2, 22: perversa,id. 10, 7, 20: funerum nulla ambitio,no display, pomp,Tac. G. 27.
* Great exertion: cum admitti magnā ambitione aegre obtinuisset,Just. 1, 3.
* That which surrounds (v. ambio, 2.; postclass. for ambitus): vimineos alveos circumdant ambitione tergorum bubulorum,with a wrapping of cowhide,Sol. 22: fuliginem ambitio extimae cutis cohibet,id. 35: ita assedimus, ut me ex tribus medium lateris ambitione protegerent, Min. Oct. 4.
* A going round.
* In the time of the republic, t. t. (v. ambio, II. B.), the going about of candidates for office in Rome, and the soliciting of individual citizens for their vote, a canvassing, suing for office (by just and lawful means; while ambitus denotes unlawful means, as bribery, threats, etc.): quid de nostris ambitionibus loquar?Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 62: mea me ambitio ab omni illā cogitatione abstrahebat,id. Sull. 4: cum ambitionis nostrae tempora postulabant,id. Planc. 18, 45: si infinitus forensium rerum labor et ambitionis occupatio decursu honorum etiam aetatis flexu constitisset,id. de Or. 1, 1, 1: hic magistratus a populo summā ambitione contenditur,Cic. Verr. 2, 53, 131: tanta exarsit ambitio, ut primores civitatis prensarent homines,Liv. 3, 35, 1 et saep.
* In gen., a striving for one's favor or good-will; an excessive desire to please, flattery, adulation: ambitione labi,Cic. Brut. 69, 244: sive aliquā suspitione sive ambitione adducti,id. Clu. 28, 76: in Scipione ambitio major, vita tristior,id. Off. 1, 30, 108 Heus., Beier, and Gernh.: Dionysius Platonem magnā ambitione Syracusas perduxit, in an ostentatious manner, for the purpose of securing his favor, Nep. Dion, 2, 2 Br. and Dähn.: ambitio (i.e. studium Fabiis placendi) obstabat,Liv. 5, 36: ambitione relegatā,without flattery,Hor. S. 1, 10, 84: ambitionem scriptoris facile averseris, obtrectatio et livor pronis auribus accipiuntur, Tac. H. 1, 1: nullo officii aut ambitionis genere omisso, i.e. nullis blanditiis,Suet. Oth. 4: coronas quam parcissime et sine ambitione tribuit,id. Aug. 25 et saep.—Hence, also partiality: jus sibi per ambitionem dictum non esse,Liv. 3, 47.
* With the predom. idea of the purpose or end, a desire for honor, popularity, power, display, etc.; in bon. part., ambition; in mal. part., vanity.—So in Lucr. of the ambitious efforts of men: Angustum per iter luctantes ambitionis,struggling to press through the narrow way of ambition,Lucr. 5, 1132: me ambitio quaedam ad honorum studium duxit,Cic. Att. 1, 17: Miserrima omnino est ambitio honorumque contentio,id. Off. 1, 25: a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat,Sall. C. 4, 2: aut ab avaritiā aut miserā ambitione laborat,Hor. S. 1, 4, 26: Vitā solutorum miserā ambitione gravique,id. ib. 1, 6, 129; so id. ib. 2, 3, 78; 2, 6, 18: inanis,id. Ep. 2, 2, 207: levis,Ov. F. 1, 103 al.: licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, tamen frequenter causa virtutum est,Quint. 1, 2, 22: perversa,id. 10, 7, 20: funerum nulla ambitio,no display, pomp,Tac. G. 27.
* Great exertion: cum admitti magnā ambitione aegre obtinuisset,Just. 1, 3.
* That which surrounds (v. ambio, 2.; postclass. for ambitus): vimineos alveos circumdant ambitione tergorum bubulorum,with a wrapping of cowhide,Sol. 22: fuliginem ambitio extimae cutis cohibet,id. 35: ita assedimus, ut me ex tribus medium lateris ambitione protegerent, Min. Oct. 4.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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