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Lewis Short
(verb) : gesto, āvi, ātum, 1, and n. gero.
* Act., to bear, to carry, to have; to wear, wield (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; for fero, porto, gero, habeo).
* Lit.: quae olim parva gestavit crepundia,Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 36: quae nisi fecissem, frustra Telamone creatus Gestasset laeva taurorum tergora septem (i. e. scutum),Ov. M. 13, 347: clavos trabales et cuneos manu ahena (Necessitas),Hor. C. 1, 35, 19: gemmam digito,Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 158: coronam lauream capite,Suet. Tib. 69; cf. Ov. M. 2, 366: ferrum et scopulos gestare in corde,id. ib. 7, 33: non obtunsa adeo gestamus pectora,Verg. A. 1, 567; cf.: neque jam livida gestat armis Brachia,Hor. C. 1, 8, 10: mercem sine fucis,id. S. 1, 2, 83: quem ego puerum tantillum in manibus gestavi meis,Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 24: post cervicibus fractis caput abscidit, idque affixum gestari jussit in pilo, * Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5; cf. Vell. 2, 27, 3: agnam lecticā,Hor. S. 2, 3, 214: dorso, sicut jumenta, onera gestare,Curt. 4, 2; cf.: arma umeris,Liv. 27, 48, 16: in umeris,Vulg. Isa. 46, 7: suum in pectore testem,Juv. 13, 198: cur in hoc digito gestaretur annulus,Macr. Sat. 7, 13, 11: lorum in collo pro bullae decore,id. ib. 1, 6, 13.—Absol.: (elephantos) decem annis gestare in utero vulgus existimat,to go with young,Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 28: ex urbe atque Italia irritamenta gulae gestabantur,Tac. H. 2, 62; cf. Sen. Q. N. 5 fin.
* Neutr., like veho, in the signif. of I. A. 2., to be carried out, to ride, drive, sail, etc., to take the air (very rare): simul gestanti, conspecto delatore ejus, Vis, inquit, etc.,Suet. Dom. 11: ne ad gestandum quidem umquam aliter iter ingressus, quam ut, etc.,id. Galb. 8.
* Trop.: hicine non gestandus in sinu est?i. e. to be dearly loved,Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 75: tu quidem Meum animum gestas: scis, quid acturus siem,know my wish,Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 11; cf.: rex te ergo in oculis ... gestare,Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 11.
* In partic., to carry about, to report, blab, tell: homines qui gestant quique auscultant crimina,Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 12: pessimum genus hominum videbatur, qui verba gestarent: sunt qui vitia gestant,Sen. Ep. 123.
* Act., to bear, to carry, to have; to wear, wield (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; for fero, porto, gero, habeo).
* Lit.: quae olim parva gestavit crepundia,Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 36: quae nisi fecissem, frustra Telamone creatus Gestasset laeva taurorum tergora septem (i. e. scutum),Ov. M. 13, 347: clavos trabales et cuneos manu ahena (Necessitas),Hor. C. 1, 35, 19: gemmam digito,Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 158: coronam lauream capite,Suet. Tib. 69; cf. Ov. M. 2, 366: ferrum et scopulos gestare in corde,id. ib. 7, 33: non obtunsa adeo gestamus pectora,Verg. A. 1, 567; cf.: neque jam livida gestat armis Brachia,Hor. C. 1, 8, 10: mercem sine fucis,id. S. 1, 2, 83: quem ego puerum tantillum in manibus gestavi meis,Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 24: post cervicibus fractis caput abscidit, idque affixum gestari jussit in pilo, * Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5; cf. Vell. 2, 27, 3: agnam lecticā,Hor. S. 2, 3, 214: dorso, sicut jumenta, onera gestare,Curt. 4, 2; cf.: arma umeris,Liv. 27, 48, 16: in umeris,Vulg. Isa. 46, 7: suum in pectore testem,Juv. 13, 198: cur in hoc digito gestaretur annulus,Macr. Sat. 7, 13, 11: lorum in collo pro bullae decore,id. ib. 1, 6, 13.—Absol.: (elephantos) decem annis gestare in utero vulgus existimat,to go with young,Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 28: ex urbe atque Italia irritamenta gulae gestabantur,Tac. H. 2, 62; cf. Sen. Q. N. 5 fin.
* Neutr., like veho, in the signif. of I. A. 2., to be carried out, to ride, drive, sail, etc., to take the air (very rare): simul gestanti, conspecto delatore ejus, Vis, inquit, etc.,Suet. Dom. 11: ne ad gestandum quidem umquam aliter iter ingressus, quam ut, etc.,id. Galb. 8.
* Trop.: hicine non gestandus in sinu est?i. e. to be dearly loved,Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 75: tu quidem Meum animum gestas: scis, quid acturus siem,know my wish,Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 11; cf.: rex te ergo in oculis ... gestare,Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 11.
* In partic., to carry about, to report, blab, tell: homines qui gestant quique auscultant crimina,Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 12: pessimum genus hominum videbatur, qui verba gestarent: sunt qui vitia gestant,Sen. Ep. 123.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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