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(adj.adv.adv.) : laevus, a, um, adj.cf. Gr. λαιός
* Left, on the left side (mostly poet.; syn.: sinister, scaevus).
* Lit.: ut idem nunc sit laevus; et e laevo sit mutua dexter,Lucr. 4, 301 (325): manus,Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 145: ab laeva manu,Plaut. Aul. 4, 3, 1: habeo equidem hercle oculum. Py. At laevom dico, Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 24: latus,Ov. M. 12, 415: auris id. ib. 12, 336: pes,id. ib. 12, 101: umerus,id. H. 9, 62: Pontus,lying to the left,id. P. 4, 9, 119: iter,Verg. A. 5, 170: habena,Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 12: amnis,the left bank,Tac. A. 2, 8: laevā in parte mamillae,Juv. 7, 159.
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* (Sc. manus.) The left hand: opsecro te hanc per dexteram, perque hanc sororem laevam,Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 9: Ilionea petit dextrā, laevāque Serestum,Verg. A. 1, 611; id. ib. 2, 552; 7, 188: cognovi clipeum laevae gestamina nostrae,Ov. M. 15, 163; id. ib. 4, 782; 8, 321: hinc factum est ut usus anulorum exemtus dexterae, in laevam relegaretur,Macr. S. 7, 13, 11; so, dextera laevaque,Juv. 6, 561; 658.
* In neutr.: laevum, on the left (poet.): intonuit laevum,Verg. A. 2, 693; 9, 631: laevum extendere comas,Juv. 6, 495: in laevum, adverbially, to the left: fleximus in laevum cursus,Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 17: dixit in laevum conversus,Juv. 4, 120 (Jahn, in laevam).— Plur.: laeva, ōrum, n., places lying on the left: laeva tenent Thetis et Melite,Verg. A. 5, 825: Thracen et laeva Propontidos intrat,Ov. F. 5, 257.
* Awkward, stupid, foolish, silly: si mens non laeva fuisset,Verg. E. 1, 16; id. A. 2, 54: o ego laevus, Qui purgor bilem sub verni temporis horam,Hor. A. P. 301.
* Of ill omen, unfavorable, inconvenient; unfortunate, unlucky, bad, pernicious: Sirius laevo contristat lumine caelum,Verg. A. 10, 275: peccatum fateor, cum te sic tempore laevo Interpellarim,Hor. S. 2, 4, 4: teque nec laevus vetat ire picus,id. C. 3, 27, 15: laevo monitu pueros producit avaros,Juv. 14, 228: omen,Val. Fl. 6, 70: ignis,i. e. a pestilence,Stat. Th. 1, 634; Claud. Idyll. 2, 92; Sil. 1, 464 Rupert; so, numina laeva (opp. dextra or propitia),unfavorable gods, hostile deities,Verg. G. 4, 7 Jahn and Forbig. ad loc.: impia Cappadocum tellus et numine laevo Visa tibi,Mart. 6, 85, 3; Sil. 14, 494; 15, 512; Arn. adv. Gent. 3, 26.
* In the language of augurs, fortunate, lucky, propitious (because the Romans, by turning their faces to the south, had the eastern signs on their left hand; v. sinister): laeva prospera existimantur, quoniam laevā parte mundi ortus est,Plin. 2, 54, 55, § 142; cf. Liv. 1, 18: omina,Phaedr. 3, 18, 12: tonitru dedit omina laevo Juppiter,Ov. F. 4, 833; cf. Verg. A. 2, 693; 9, 631 (I. B. 2 supra).—Hence, adv.: laevē, awkwardly, wrongly (poet.), Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 52.
* Left, on the left side (mostly poet.; syn.: sinister, scaevus).
* Lit.: ut idem nunc sit laevus; et e laevo sit mutua dexter,Lucr. 4, 301 (325): manus,Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 145: ab laeva manu,Plaut. Aul. 4, 3, 1: habeo equidem hercle oculum. Py. At laevom dico, Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 24: latus,Ov. M. 12, 415: auris id. ib. 12, 336: pes,id. ib. 12, 101: umerus,id. H. 9, 62: Pontus,lying to the left,id. P. 4, 9, 119: iter,Verg. A. 5, 170: habena,Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 12: amnis,the left bank,Tac. A. 2, 8: laevā in parte mamillae,Juv. 7, 159.
* Subst.
* Trop.
* (Sc. manus.) The left hand: opsecro te hanc per dexteram, perque hanc sororem laevam,Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 9: Ilionea petit dextrā, laevāque Serestum,Verg. A. 1, 611; id. ib. 2, 552; 7, 188: cognovi clipeum laevae gestamina nostrae,Ov. M. 15, 163; id. ib. 4, 782; 8, 321: hinc factum est ut usus anulorum exemtus dexterae, in laevam relegaretur,Macr. S. 7, 13, 11; so, dextera laevaque,Juv. 6, 561; 658.
* In neutr.: laevum, on the left (poet.): intonuit laevum,Verg. A. 2, 693; 9, 631: laevum extendere comas,Juv. 6, 495: in laevum, adverbially, to the left: fleximus in laevum cursus,Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 17: dixit in laevum conversus,Juv. 4, 120 (Jahn, in laevam).— Plur.: laeva, ōrum, n., places lying on the left: laeva tenent Thetis et Melite,Verg. A. 5, 825: Thracen et laeva Propontidos intrat,Ov. F. 5, 257.
* Awkward, stupid, foolish, silly: si mens non laeva fuisset,Verg. E. 1, 16; id. A. 2, 54: o ego laevus, Qui purgor bilem sub verni temporis horam,Hor. A. P. 301.
* Of ill omen, unfavorable, inconvenient; unfortunate, unlucky, bad, pernicious: Sirius laevo contristat lumine caelum,Verg. A. 10, 275: peccatum fateor, cum te sic tempore laevo Interpellarim,Hor. S. 2, 4, 4: teque nec laevus vetat ire picus,id. C. 3, 27, 15: laevo monitu pueros producit avaros,Juv. 14, 228: omen,Val. Fl. 6, 70: ignis,i. e. a pestilence,Stat. Th. 1, 634; Claud. Idyll. 2, 92; Sil. 1, 464 Rupert; so, numina laeva (opp. dextra or propitia),unfavorable gods, hostile deities,Verg. G. 4, 7 Jahn and Forbig. ad loc.: impia Cappadocum tellus et numine laevo Visa tibi,Mart. 6, 85, 3; Sil. 14, 494; 15, 512; Arn. adv. Gent. 3, 26.
* In the language of augurs, fortunate, lucky, propitious (because the Romans, by turning their faces to the south, had the eastern signs on their left hand; v. sinister): laeva prospera existimantur, quoniam laevā parte mundi ortus est,Plin. 2, 54, 55, § 142; cf. Liv. 1, 18: omina,Phaedr. 3, 18, 12: tonitru dedit omina laevo Juppiter,Ov. F. 4, 833; cf. Verg. A. 2, 693; 9, 631 (I. B. 2 supra).—Hence, adv.: laevē, awkwardly, wrongly (poet.), Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 52.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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