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luctor
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(verb) : luctor, ātus, 1 (
* Part. gen. plur. luctantūm, Prop. 4 (5), 22, 9; act. collat. form: viri validis viribus luctant, Enn. ap. Non. 472, 8: plurimum luctavimus, Plaut. ap. Non. 468, 32; Varr. L. L. 5, 10, § 61 Müll.: dum luctat,Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 31), lucta, q. v., to wrestle.
* Lit.: ibi cursu luctando disco hasta ... sese exercebant (juventus),Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 24: luctabitur Olympiis Milo,Cic. Fat. 13: fulvā luctantur harenā,Verg. A. 6, 643: luctabatur adsidue,Suet. Ner. 53: paucae (feminae) luctantur,Juv. 2, 53: umeris, ut luctaturi solent, ad occipitium ductis,Quint. 11, 3, 160.
* Transf, to wrestle, struggle, strive, contend.
* Trop., of mental or moral strife, to struggle, strive, contend: non luctabor tecum amplius,Cic. de Or. 1, 17, 74: cum aliquo luctari,id. Sull. 16, 47: Plancus diu, quarum esset partium secum luctatus,Vell. 2, 63, 3; Plin. 18, 5, 6, § 28: cum latentibus nodis,Curt. 3, 1, 18: cum ardore et siccitate regionis,id. 4, 7, 7.
* With inf. (poet.): et infracta luctatur harundine telum Eripere,Verg. A. 12, 387: deducere versum,Ov. P. 1, 5, 13: compescere risum,id. H. 17, 161; id. M. 15, 300.
* In partic., in mal. part.: cum aliquo,Prop. 2, 1, 13.
* With dat. (poet.): luctataeque diu tenebris hiemique sibique,Stat. Th. 11, 522: crudo pelago,Sil. 14, 453: morti,id. 10, 296.
* With abl.: ignis viridi luctetur robore,Luc. 3, 503; Vell. 2, 86, 2.—Hence, luctans, antis, P. a., struggling, reluctant: luctantia oscula carpere,Ov. M. 4, 358: composuit luctantia lumina somnus,Sil. 7, 204.
* In partic., as subst., of cross-beams, rafters, because they oppose and uphold each other like wrestlers, Isid. Orig. 19, 19.
* Part. gen. plur. luctantūm, Prop. 4 (5), 22, 9; act. collat. form: viri validis viribus luctant, Enn. ap. Non. 472, 8: plurimum luctavimus, Plaut. ap. Non. 468, 32; Varr. L. L. 5, 10, § 61 Müll.: dum luctat,Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 31), lucta, q. v., to wrestle.
* Lit.: ibi cursu luctando disco hasta ... sese exercebant (juventus),Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 24: luctabitur Olympiis Milo,Cic. Fat. 13: fulvā luctantur harenā,Verg. A. 6, 643: luctabatur adsidue,Suet. Ner. 53: paucae (feminae) luctantur,Juv. 2, 53: umeris, ut luctaturi solent, ad occipitium ductis,Quint. 11, 3, 160.
* Transf, to wrestle, struggle, strive, contend.
* Trop., of mental or moral strife, to struggle, strive, contend: non luctabor tecum amplius,Cic. de Or. 1, 17, 74: cum aliquo luctari,id. Sull. 16, 47: Plancus diu, quarum esset partium secum luctatus,Vell. 2, 63, 3; Plin. 18, 5, 6, § 28: cum latentibus nodis,Curt. 3, 1, 18: cum ardore et siccitate regionis,id. 4, 7, 7.
* With inf. (poet.): et infracta luctatur harundine telum Eripere,Verg. A. 12, 387: deducere versum,Ov. P. 1, 5, 13: compescere risum,id. H. 17, 161; id. M. 15, 300.
* In partic., in mal. part.: cum aliquo,Prop. 2, 1, 13.
* With dat. (poet.): luctataeque diu tenebris hiemique sibique,Stat. Th. 11, 522: crudo pelago,Sil. 14, 453: morti,id. 10, 296.
* With abl.: ignis viridi luctetur robore,Luc. 3, 503; Vell. 2, 86, 2.—Hence, luctans, antis, P. a., struggling, reluctant: luctantia oscula carpere,Ov. M. 4, 358: composuit luctantia lumina somnus,Sil. 7, 204.
* In partic., as subst., of cross-beams, rafters, because they oppose and uphold each other like wrestlers, Isid. Orig. 19, 19.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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