(adj.adv.) : mĕmor, ŏris (anciently memoris, memore, acc. to Prisc. p. 772 P.;
* Comp. memorior, id. p. 699 P.), adj. Sanscr. root smar-, in smarti, memory; smara, love; Gr. μάρτυς, witness; μέριμνα, care; cf.: memoria, mora, etc., not from memini, mindful of a thing, remembering; constr. with gen., with acc. and inf., with a rel,clause, and absol.
* In gen.
* With gen.: ut memor esses sui,Ter. And. 1, 5, 46: se eorum facti memorem fore,Caes. B. C. 1, 13: generis,Sall. C. 60, 7: pristinarum virtutum,Nep. Hann. 12 fin.: quique sui memores alios fecere merendo,Verg. A. 6, 664: nostri,Hor. C. 3, 27, 14; 1, 33, 1: vale nostri memor,Juv. 3, 318.
* Esp.
* Trop., of inanim. things et cadum Marsi memorem duelli, which remembers the Marsian war, i. e. was made during that war, Hor. C. 3, 14, 18: medium erat in Anco ingenium, et Numae et Romuli memor,Liv. 1, 32: lingua,Ov. Am. 3, 14, 48: pectus,id. H. 13, 66: auris,id. ib. 20, 98: cura,id. P 4, 2, 7: manus,id. ib. 1, 4, 56: saevae Junonis ira,vindictive, avenging,Verg. A. 1, 4: supplicium exempli parum memoris legum humanarum,unmindful of, not observing,Liv. 1, 28.
* Absol.: memorem et gratum esse,Cic. Fam. 13, 25: et bene apud memores veteris stat gratia facti, grateful. Verg. A. 4, 539: cf. 6, 664 supra: ipsa memor praecepta canam,Hor. S. 2, 4, 11; id. A. P. 368: pectus,Juv. 11, 28.—Prov.: mendacem memorem esse oportet,a liar should have a good memory,Quint. 4, 2, 91.
* That easily remembers, possessed of a good memory: homo ingeniosus ac memor,Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194.
* Poet., transf., that reminds one of a thing: nostri memorem sepulcro Scalpe querelam,Hor. C. 3, 11, 51: impressit memorem dente labris notam,id. ib. 1, 13, 12: indicii memor poena,Ov. M. 4, 190: tabellae,id. ib. 8, 744: versus,id. P. 2, 7, 33.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
* Mĕmŏre, by heart, readily (ante-class.): cum ista memore meministi, Pompon. ap. Non. 514, 23 (Com. Rel. v. 109 Rib.).
* Mĕmŏrĭter.
* From memory, by personal recollection: oratio est habita memoriter,Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 63: omnes ordines memoriter salutavit,Suet. Ner. 10: Q. Mucius multa narrare de Laelio memoriter et jucunde solebat,Cic. Lael. 1, 1.
* Esp.
* With a good memory, by ready recollection: ista exposuisti, ut tam multa, memoriter, ut tam obscura, dilucide,Cic. Fin. 4, 1, 1: ut memoriter me Sauream vocabat,Plaut. As. 3, 2, 38: hic quidem quae illic sunt res gestae memorat memoriter,id. Am. 1, 1, 261: hem istuc si potes memoriter meminisse,id. Capt. 2, 1, 53; cf. Afran. ap. Charis. 1, p. 89 P. (Com. Fragm. v. 365 Rib.).
* Fully, accurately, correctly, Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 6; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 47: memoriter respondeto ad ea quae rogāro,Cic. Vatin. 4, 10: nostra Aratea memoriter a te pronuntiata sunt,id. Div. 2, 5, 14; Auct. ad Her. 3, 17, 30: tu, qui tam memoriter tenes omnes,Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 11 (cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34).

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