(P. a.P. a.) : sisto, stĭti (Charis. p. 220, and Diom. p. 369, give steti for both sisto and sto, confining stiti to the compounds of both. But steti, as perfect of sisto, is late jurid. Lat., and perh. dub.;
* For steterant,Verg. A. 3, 110; steterint,id. ib. 3, 403; Liv. 8, 32, 12, belong to stare; cf. also Gell. 2, 14, 1 sqq.; and v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 461 sq.), stătum [root stă, strengthened by reduplication; cf. ἵστημι], used in two general senses, I. To cause to stand, place, = colloco, pono; II. To stand, be placed, = sto.
* Sistere, in gen., = collocare (in class. prose only in the partic. uses, v. A. 4. C. and D., infra).
* Causative, with acc.
* Sistere monumenta, etc., or sistere alone, to erect statues, etc. (= statuere; post-class. and rare; mostly in Tac.): ut apud Palatium effigies eorum sisteret,Tac. A. 15, 72: cum Augustus sibi templum sisti non prohibuisset,id. ib. 4 37: at Romae tropaea de Parthis arcusque sistebantur,id. ib. 15, 18: monuere ut ... templum iisdem vestigiis sisteretur,id. H. 4, 53: sistere monumenta,Aus. Ep. 24, 55: Ast ego te ... Carthaginis arce Marmoreis sistam templis (cf. ἱστάναι τινά), Sil. 8, 231; v. statuo.
* Sistere = to cause what is tottering or loose to stand firm, to support or fasten; and neutr., to stand firm.
* As jurid. term.
* Sistere = to stand still, and to cause to stand still.
* Transf., out of judicial usage, in gen., = to appear or present one's self, quasi ex vadimonio; constr. absol. or with dat. of the person entitled to demand the appearance: ubi tu es qui me vadatus's Veneriis vadimoniis? Sisto ego tibi me, et mihi contra itidem ted ut sistas suadeo (of a lover's appointment),Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 5; so, tibi amatorem illum alacrem vadimonio sistam,produce,App. M. 9, p. 227, 14: nam promisimus carnufici aut talentum magnum, aut hunc hodie sistere,Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 73: vas factus est alter ejus sistendi, ut si ille non revertisset, moriendum esset sibi,Cic. Off. 3, 10, 45.
* Fana sistere, acc. to Festus anciently used, either = to place (secure and fix places for) temples in founding a city, or to place the couches in the lectisternia: sistere fana, cum in urbe condendā dicitur, significat loca in oppido futurorum fanorum constituere: quamquam Antistius Labeo, in commentario XV. juris pontificii ait fana sistere esse lectisternia certis locis et diebus habere,Fest. p. 267 Lind. To this usage Plaut. perh. alludes: apud illas aedis sistendae mihi sunt sycophantiae,the place about that house I must make the scene of my tricks,Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 25.
* In both a causative and neuter sense = to produce in court, or to appear in court after being bound over by the judge or by promise to the adversary (vadimonium); constr. either absol. or with the dat. of the adversary to whom the promise is made (alicui sisti), to appear upon somebody's demand; also, in judicio sisti. The present active is either used reflexively (se sistere = to appear), or with a transitive object (sistere aliquem = to produce in court one in whose behalf the promise has been made). The present passive, sisti, sistendus, sistitur, = to appear or to be produced. The perfect act., stiti, stitisse, rarely the perfect passive, status sum, = to have appeared, I appeared. So in all periods of the language: cum autem in jus vocatus fuerit adversarius, ni eo die finitum fuerit negotium, vadimonium ei faciendum est, id est ut promittat se certo die sisti,Gai. 4, 184: fit ut Alfenus promittat, Naevio sisti Quinctium,that Quinctius would be forthcoming upon Naevius's complaint,Cic. Quint. 21, 67; cf. id. ib. 8, 30 (v. infra, B.): testificatur, P. Quinctium non stitisse, et se stitisse,id. ib. 6, 25: quin puellam sistendam promittat (= fore ut puella sistatur in judicio),Liv. 3, 45, 3: interrogavit quisquam, in quem diem locumque vadimonium promitti juberet, et Scipio manum ad ipsam oppidi, quod obsidebatur, arcem protendens: Perendie sese sistant illo in loco,Gell. 7, 1, 10: si quis quendam in judicio sisti promiserit, in eādem causā eum debet sistere,Dig. 2, 11, 11: si servum in eādem causā sistere promiserit, et liber factus sistatur, ... non recte sistitur,ib. 2, 9, 5: sed si statu liberum sisti promissum sit, in eādem causā sisti videtur, quamvis liber sistatur,ib. 2, 9, 6: cum quis in judicio sisti promiserit, neque adjecerit poenam si status non esset,ib. 2, 6, 4: si quis in judicio secundum suam promissionem non stitit,ib. 2, 11, 2, § 1; cf. ib. 2, 5, 1; 2, 8, 2; 2, 11, 2, § 3.
* Vadimonium sistere, to present one's self in court, thus keeping the solemn engagement (vadimonium) made to that effect; lit., to make the vadimonium stand, i. e. effective, opp. deserere vadimonium = not to appear, to forfeit the vadimonium. The phrase does not occur in the jurists of the Pandects, the institution of the vadimonium being abolished by Marcus Aurelius. It is found in the following three places only: quid si vadimonium capite obvoluto stitisses? Cat. ap. Gell. 2, 14, 1: ut Quinctium sisti Alfenus promitteret. Venit Romam Quinctius; vadimonium sistit,Cic. Quint. 8, 30: ut nullum illa stiterit vadimonium sine Attico,Nep. Att. 9; Gai. 4, 185; cf. diem sistere under status, P. a. infra.
* Causative (rare; perh. not in class. prose) = stabilire: sucus ... mobilis (dentes) sistit,Plin. 20, 3, 8, § 15; and trop.: hic (Marcellus) rem Romanam magno turbante tumultu Sistet (cf.: respublica stat; v. sto),Verg. A. 6, 858; cf.: non ita civitatem aegram esse, ut consuetis remediis sisti posset,Liv. 3, 20, 8 (where sisti may be impers.; v.infra, III. C.).
* Neutr., to stand firm, to last, = stare: nec mortale genus, nec divum corpora sancta Exiguom possent horai sistere tempus,Lucr. 1, 1016: qui rem publicam sistere negat posse, nisi ad equestrem ordinem judicia referantur, Cotta ap. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 96, § 223.
* Neutr., to stand firm, to resist: nec quicquam Teucros Sustentare valet telis, aut sistere contra,Verg. A. 11, 873; so with dat. = resistere: donec Galba, inruenti turbae neque aetate neque corpore sistens, sella levaretur,Tac. H. 1, 35; cf. sisti = resistere, III. B. 1. f. infra.
* Neutr. = stare (rare; in Varr., Tac., and the poets).
* To stand still: solstitium dictum est quod sol eo die sistere videatur,Varr. L. L. 5, p. 53 (Bip.): sistunt amnes,Verg. G. 1, 479: incurrit, errat, sistit,Sen. Herc. Oet. 248.
* Causative (not ante-Aug.; freq. in Tac., Plin., and the poets).
* Trop., to stop, not to go any farther: depunge, ubi sistam,Pers. 6, 79: nec in Hectore tracto sistere,to stop at the dragging of Hector,Stat. Achill. 1, 7.
* Impers. and trop., to arrest or avoid an impending misfortune, or to stand, i. e. to endure; generally in the form sisti non potest (more rarely: sisti potest) = it cannot be endured, a disaster cannot be avoided or met (once in Plaut.; freq. in Liv.; sometimes in Tac.; cf., in gen., Brix ad Plaut. Trin. 720; Drak. ad Liv. 3, 16, 4; Weissenb. ad Liv. 2, 29, 8; Gronov. ad Liv. 4, 12, 6; Beneke ad Just. 11, 1, 6).
* To arrest, stop, check an advancing motion.
* Status (condictusve) dies cum hoste, in the XII. Tables, = a day of trial fixed by the judge or agreed upon with the adversary; esp., a peregrinus (= hostis),Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37. It presupposes a phrase, diem sistere, prob.=vadimonium sistere (v. supra, I. C. 2.). Such an appointment was an excuse from the most important public duties, even for soldiers from joining the army, Cinc. ap. Gell. 16, 4, 4.— Hence, transf.: si status condictus cum hoste intercedit dies, tamen est eundum quo imperant,i. e. under all circumstances we must go,Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 5.
* In certain phrases, appointed, fixed, regular (cf. statutus, with which it is often confounded in MSS.): status dies: tres in anno statos dies habere quibus, etc.,Liv. 39, 13, 8: stato loco statisque diebus,id. 42, 32, 2; so id. 5, 52, 2; 27, 23 fin.: stato lustri die,Sen. Troad. 781: status sacrificii dies,Flor. 1, 3, 16: statum tempus, statā vice, etc.: lunae defectio statis temporibus fit,Liv. 44, 37 init.; so id. 28, 6, 10: stato tempore,Tac. A. 12, 13; id. H. 4, 81; Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 173: stata tempora (partus),Stat. Achill. 2, 673: adeo in illā plagā mundus statas vices temporum mutat,Curt. 8, 19, 13; so id. 9, 9, 9; 5, 1, 23; so, feriae, etc.: feriae statae appellabantur quod certo statutoque die observarentur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69 Lind.: stata quinquennia,Stat. S. 5, 3, 113: stata sacra or sacrificia: stata sacrificia sunt quae certis diebus fieri debent,Fest. p. 264 Lind.: proficiscuntur Aeniam ad statum sacrificium,Liv. 40, 4, 9; 23, 35, 3; 5, 46, 2; 39, 13, 8; Cic. Mil. 17, 45: solemne et statum sacrificium (al. statutum),id. Tusc. 1, 47, 113; so Liv. 23, 35, 3: stata sacra,Ov. F. 2, 528; Stat. Th. 1, 666: stata foedera,id. ib. 11, 380: status flatus,Sen. Ben. 4, 28: stati cursus siderum,Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 291 (different: statae stellae = fixed stars, Censor. D. N. 8, belonging to II. 2. supra): statae febres, intermittent fevers, returning regularly, Plin. 28, 27, 28, § 107.
* Moderate, average, normal: inter enim pulcherrimam feminam et deformissimam media forma quaedam est, quae et a nimio pulcritudinis periculo et a summo deformitatis odio vacat, qualis a Q. Ennio perquam eleganti vocabulo stata dicitur...Ennius autem eas fere feminas ait incolumi pudicitia esse quae statā formā forent,Gell. 5, 11, 12-14 (v. Enn. Trag. p. 133 Vahl.).
* To arrest the motion of life, make rigid: ille oculos sistit,Stat. Th. 2, 539.
* To end, put an end to (= finem facere alicui rei); pass., to cease: querelas,Ov. M. 7, 711: fletus,id. ib. 14, 835: lacrimas,id. F. 1, 367; 480; 6, 154: minas,id. Tr. 1, 2, 60: opus,id. H. 16 (17), 266; id. M. 3, 153: labores,id. ib. 5, 490: furorem,Stat. Th. 5, 663: furialem impetum,Sen. Med. 157; id. Agam. 203: pace tamen sisti bellum placet,Ov. M. 14, 803: antequam summa dies spectacula sistat,id. F. 4, 387: sitim sistere,to allay,id. P. 3, 1, 18: nec primo in limine sistit conatus scelerum,suppresses,Stat. S. 5, 2, 86: ruinas,to stop destruction,Plin. Pan. 50, 4: ventum,to ward off, turn the wind,id. Ep. 2, 17, 17; (motus terrae) non ante quadraginta dies sistuntur, = desinunt,Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 198.
* Sistere with intra = to confine, keep within: transgresso jam Alpes Caecina, quem sisti intra Gallias posse speraverant,Tac. H. 2, 11: dum populatio lucem intra sisteretur,provided the raids were confined to day-time,id. A. 4, 48.
* To arrest their course, make them halt: aegre coercitam legionem Bedriaci sistit,Tac. H. 2, 23: festinantia sistens Fata,staying the hurrying Fates,Stat. S. 3, 4, 24.—So, se sistere with ab, to desist from: non prius se ab effuso cursu sistunt,Liv. 6, 29, 3; hence, to arrest by wounding, i. e. to wound or kill: aliquem cuspide,Sil. 1, 382; 1, 163; so, cervum vulnere sistere,id. 2, 78.
* Trop., to stop the advance of prices: pretia augeri in dies, nec mediocribus remediis sisti posse,Tac. A. 3, 52.
* Of water: sistere aquam fluviis,Verg. A. 4, 489: amnis, siste parumper aquas,Ov. Am. 3, 6, 2: quae concita flumina sistunt,id. M. 7, 154: sistito infestum mare,calm,Sen. Agam. 523; cf. Ov. M. 7, 200; id. H. 6, 87; Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 118.
* Of blood and secretions: (ea) quibus sistitur sanguis parari jubet,Tac. A. 15, 54: sanguinem,Plin. 20, 7, 25, § 59; 28, 18, 73, § 239; 27, 4, 5, § 18: haemorrhoidum abundantiam,id. 27, 4, 5, § 19: fluctiones,id. 20, 8, 27, § 71, 34, 10, 23, § 105; 35, 17, 57, § 195: nomas,id. 30, 13, 39, § 116; 24, 16, 94, § 151: mensis,id. 23, 6, 60, § 112: vomitiones,id. 20, 20, 81, § 213: alvum bubus,id. 18, 16, 42, § 143: alvum,stop the bowels,id. 23, 6, 60, § 113; 22, 25, 59, § 126; 20, 5, 18, § 37: ventrem,id. 20, 23, 96, § 256; Mart. 13, 116.
* Without a subject, res or a noun of general import being understood: quid ego nunc agam, nisi ut clipeum ad dorsum accommodem, etc.? Non sisti potest,it is intolerable,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 94: totam plebem aere alieno demersam esse, nec sisti posse nisi omnibus consulatur,Liv. 2, 29, 8: si domestica seditio adiciatur, sisti non posse,the situation will be desperate,id. 45, 19, 3: si quem similem priore anno dedissent, non potuisse sisti,id. 3, 9, 8: vixque concordiā sisti videbatur,that the crisis could scarcely be met, even by harmonious action,id. 3, 16, 4: qualicunque urbis statu, manente disciplinā militari sisti potuisse,these evils were endurable,id. 2, 44, 10: exercitum gravi morbo affectari, nec sisti potuisse ni, etc., it would have ended in disaster, if not, etc., id. 29, 10, 1: qui omnes populi si pariter deficiant, sisti nullo modo posse,Just. 11, 1, 6 Gronov. ad loc.; cf. Liv. 3, 20, 8 supra, II. A. 1.— Rarely with a subject-clause understood: nec jam sisti poterat, and it was no longer tolerable, i. e. that Nero should disgrace himself, etc., Tac. A. 14, 14.
* Rarely with quin, to prevent etc. (pregn., implying also the stopping of something; cf. supra, III. B. 1.): neque sisti potuit quin et palatium et domus et cuncta circum haurirentur (igni),Tac. A. 15, 39.—Hence, stătus, a, um, P. a., as attribute of nouns, occurs in several conventional phrases, as relics of archaic usage.