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* Abl. sing. regularly familiari; familiare, Varr. and P. Rutil. ap. Charis. p. 105 P.), adj. familia.
* Of or belonging to servants (rare; only as subst.): fămĭlĭāris, is, m., a servant: majores nostri servos (quod etiam in mimis adhuc durat) familiares appellaverunt,Sen. Ep. 47 med.: hujus familiae familiarem,Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 203; id. Ep. 1, 1, 2.
* Of or belonging to a house, household, or family; household, domestic, family, private (freq. and class.): fundus,Plaut. As. 5, 2, 24; cf. focus,Col. 11, 1, 19: filius,Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 23: negotiis familiaribus impediti,Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1; cf.: res domesticae ac familiares,Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 2; so, res,the household, family affairs, property,Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 88; Caes. B. G. 1, 18, 4; Quint. 12, 1, 6; 12, 7, 9: ab domo ab re familiari, diutius abesse,Liv. 5, 4, 6 al.; cf. copiae,Liv. 2, 16, 7: pecuniae,Tac. A. 4, 15: rationes,id. ib. 6, 16: curae,id. ib. 11, 7: referam nunc interiorem ac familiarem ejus vitam,Suet. Aug. 61: vita,Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 46: quis umquam in luctu domestico, quis in funere familiari cenavit cum toga pulla?Cic. Vatin. 13, 31: parricidium, i. e. committed on a member of the same family, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 26, 67: maeror,a family grief,Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 60: Lar,Cic. Quint. 27, 85; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 27; id. Rep. 5, 5 Mos. N. cr., v. Lar; cf.: numen Minerva,Quint. 10, 1, 91.
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* Familiar, intimate, friendly, and (more freq.) subst., a familiar acquaintance, friend (syn.: amicus, familiaris, intimus, necessarius).
* With substt.: videmus Papum Aemilium C. Luscino familiarem fuisse, etc.,Cic. Lael. 11, 39: biduo factus est mihi familiaris,id. Fam. 3, 1, 2; id. Phil. 2, 32, 78; id. Rep. 2, 20; cf. id. Fam. 7, 8, 1: amici,Plin. Ep. 9, 34, 1; 9, 37, 1: sermones,Cic. Off. 2, 11, 39; id. Fam. 15, 15, 1; id. Att. 1, 9, 1; cf. epistolae,Quint. 1, 1, 29: minus familiari vultu respexisse,friendly,Suet. Caes. 78: voltus ille,Cic. Att. 1, 11, 1: colloquium,Liv. 25, 18, 5: jam inde a puero in omnia familiaria jura assuetus,the rights of intimacy,id. 24, 5, 9: voluntas,Sen. Ben. 6, 16, 1; cf.: vox auribus meis familiaris,Petr. 100: familiaribus magis ei aetati exemplis,Quint. 5, 10, 96: exempla,id. 7, 2, 17; 9, 4, 44: verba regionibus quibusdam magis familiaria,id. 8, 2, 13: litterae,Suet. Tib. 62.—Comp.: qui familiarior nobis propter scriptorum multitudinem est,Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 71: aditus in domum,Liv. 24, 5, 7: frater ei (with carior),Nep. Att. 16, 2: quo boves familiariores bubulco fiant,Col. 6, 2, 6: color argenti militaribus signis,Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 58. —Sup.: homo amantissimus familiarissimus, conjunctissimus officiis,Cic. Sull. 20, 57; cf. id. Att. 16, 16, F. 17: luna terris familiarissimum sidus,Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 41; 16, 18, 30, § 75; 16, 31, 57, § 131.
* Of or belonging to one's self, to one's own people or country (cf. domesticus); only in the lang. of the haruspices, of those parts of the animal which related to the party that sacrificed (opp. hostilis): (haruspices) fissum familiare et vitale tractant,Cic. Div. 2, 13, 32; cf.: Decio caput jecinoris a familiari parte caesum haruspex dicitur ostendisse,Liv. 8, 9, 1; cf.: mater procurans familiare ostentum,Liv. 26, 6, 14.
* Familiar, customary, habitual: mihi familiare est omnes cogitationes meas tecum communicare,Plin. Ep. 4, 24, 7; 2, 5, 10: familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere,Vell. 2, 30, 3: fuisse statuariam artem familiarem Italiae quoque indicant,Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 33; 35, 7, 31, § 49.
* Fitting, appropriate, adapted: quae peregrina ... transferuntur, minus sunt familiaria nostro solo quam vernacula,Col. 3, 4, 1: familiarissimum hoc platanis,Plin. 16, 31, 57, § 131: hipposelinum sabulosis familiarissimum,id. 19, 8, 48, § 163.—Hence, fămĭlĭārĭter, adv. *
* By families: agros in montibus Romani acceperunt familiariter,Front. de Colon. p. 119 Goes.
* Familiarly, intimately, on friendly terms (freq. and class.): hominem ignotum compellare familiariter,Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 23; cf.: nimium familiariter Me attrectas,id. Rud. 2, 4, 6; id. Ep. 1, 1, 2: nihil turpius quam cum eo bellum gerere, quicum familiariter vixeris,Cic. Lael. 21, 77: familiariter amicus,Quint. 1, 2, 15: amatum a me,id. 10, 3, 12: dilectus,Plin. Ep. 9, 19, 5 et saep.: loqui,Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37: scribere,id. Att. 9, 4, 1: nosse causas, i. e. to be familiarly or intimately, accurately acquainted with, Quint. 6, 4, 8; 5, 7, 7: quod ex longinquo petitur, parum familiariter nostro solo venit,i. e. suitable, adapted,Col. Arb. 1, 3.—Comp.: licentius, liberius, familiarius cum domina vivere,Cic. Cael. 23, 57: factum,id. de Or. 2, 3, 14; Quint. 2, 7, 3.—Sup.: cum Verre familiarissime et amicissime vivere,Cic. Div. in Caecil. 9, 29; Nep. Ages. 1, 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary