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(adverb) : con-sĕro, sĕrŭi, sertum, 3 (
* Perf. consevisti, Fronto, Ep. ad Ver. 8), v. a., to connect, entwine, tie, join, fit, bind into a whole (syn.: conecto, conjungo, contexo, etc.; class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in the signif. II. B., and in the histt.).
* In gen.
* Lit.
* In partic.
* Trop.: quid juvat nocti conseruisse diem?Ov. Am. 3, 6, 10: exodia conserta fabellis Atellanis,Liv. 7, 2, 11; v. exodium: virtutes consertae et inter se cohaerentes,Sen. Ep. 90, 3: ita ordo rerum tribus momentis consertus est, * Quint. 5, 10, 71: sermonem,to interchange words, converse,Curt. 8, 12, 5; Fronto l. l.
* To join, connect, unite together: teneros sinus,Tib. 1, 8, 36: femur femori,id. 1, 8, 26; cf.: latus lateri,Ov. H. 2, 58.
* Esp., to unite in hostility, for contest, to bring together; so most freq. manum or manus, to engage in close combat, to join hand to hand, to join battle: signa contulit, manum conseruit, magnas copias hostium fudit,Cic. Mur. 9, 20; so Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 3; Sall. J. 50, 4; Nep. Dat. 8, 4; id. Ages. 3, 6; Liv. 21, 41, 4 al.: manum cum hoste,Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll.; Cic. Att. 7, 20, 1; Nep. Hann. 4, 2: manus inter se,Sall. H. 1, 41, 19 Dietsch; Liv. 7, 40, 14; Ov. H. 12, 100: manus cum imparibus,Liv. 6, 12, 8: cum hoste manus,id. 21, 39, 3: consertis deinde manibus,id. 1, 25, 5: dextras,Stat. S. 1, 6, 60: pugnam,Liv. 21, 50, 1; cf. id. 21, 8, 7; Tac. A. 2, 10: pugnam inter se,Liv. 32, 10, 8: pugnam seni,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 43: proelia,Verg. A. 2, 398; Liv. 5, 36, 5; Curt. 8, 13, 12: certamen,Liv. 35, 4, 2: bella,Val. Fl. 3, 31: bella bellis,Luc. 2, 442: acies,Sil. 1, 339; cf.: conserta acies,hand-to-hand fighting,Tac. A. 6, 35.—Mid.: navis conseritur,enters the fight,Liv. 21, 50, 3: duo acerrimā pugnā conserti exercitus,Val. Max. 3, 2, 1.—Rarely absol.: levis armatura ab lateribus cum levi armaturā,Liv. 44, 4, 6.
* Trop.: haud ignotas belli artes inter se conserebant,Liv. 21, 1, 2.
* Transf., of judicial controversy: manum in jure or ex jure conserere, to make a joint seizure (this was done by the litigant parties laying hands at the same time upon the thing in dispute, each one claiming it as his own): si qui in jure manum conserunt, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 10, 7: non ex jure manum consertum sed mage ferro rem repetunt, Enn. ib. § 4 (Ann. v. 276 Vahl.); cf. also Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll., and Cic. Fam. 7, 13, 2: ibi ego te ex jure manum consertum voco, etc., I summon you in an action for possession, etc., a judic. formula in Cic. Mur. 12, 26; id. de Or. 1, 10, 41.—Hence, * con-sertē, , from consertus, a, um (acc. to I. A.), not used as P. a., as if bound or fastened together, in connection: omnia necesse est conligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,Cic. Fat. 14, 32.
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(verb) : con-sĕro, sēvi, sĭtum or sătum, 3, (
* Perf. conseruerit, Col. 3, 4, 2; Aur. Vict. Epit. 37, 3; Dig. 6, 1, 38; v. 1. sero).
* To sow or plant with something (class.).
* Lit.: agros,Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130; Verg. E. 1, 73; Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Dig. 7, 1, 9, § 6; cf.: ager diligenter consitus,Cic. Sen. 17, 59: ager arbustis consitus,Sall. J. 53, 1; and: consitus an incultus (locus),Quint. 5, 10, 37: Ismara Baccho (i. e. vino),Verg. G. 2, 38: vineam malleolo,Col. 5, 5, 6: arva frumento,Curt. 7, 4, 26.—Absol.: in alieno fundo,Dig. 6, 1, 38: in alienum fundum,ib. 41, 1, 9.
* To sow, plant: olivetum,Varr. R. R. 1, 24: hoc genus oleae,Cato, R. R. 6, 1: arborem,Liv. 10, 24, 5; Curt. 6, 5, 14; 7, 2, 22: zizyphum,Pall. Apr. 4: palmas,id. Oct. 12: (vitem) Narbonicam,Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 43; Cato ap. Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 46.
* Transf., of columns, to plant, set: aera (rostra) columnis consita,Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 49.
* Trop.: (sol) lumine conserit arva,strews, fills,Lucr. 2, 211: consitus sum Senectute, * Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 4: caeca mentem caligine Theseus consitus, * Cat. 64, 208.
* Transf. (cf. I. B. supra): extra vallum stili caeci, mirabilem in modum consiti, set, Auct. B. Afr. 31.
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