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|lshtext=<b>sīc-ut</b>: and ([[far]] [[less]]. freq. [[but]] [[class]].) sīc-ŭti, adv.,<br /><b>I</b> so as, [[just]] as, as.<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> With a [[separate]] [[clause]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form [[sicut]]: [[sicut]] dixi, faciam, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 59: [[clanculum]], [[sicut]] praecepi, id. ib. 3, 3, 76: [[nempe]] [[sicut]] [[dicis]] ([[shortly]] [[after]]: ita ut [[dicis]]), id. Aul. 2, 4, 15; so, [[sicut]] [[dicis]], id. Bacch. 4, 4, 67; id. Men. prol. 74: hae sunt, [[sicut]] [[praedico]], id. Most. 3, 2, 84; cf. id. Bacch. 3, 6, 20: [[stultitia]] magna est, Hominem amatorem ad [[forum]] procedere, etc. ... [[sicut]] ego feci [[stultus]], id. Cas. 3, 3, 4: si [[ille]] huc redibit, [[sicut]] [[confido]] [[affore]], id. Capt. 3, 5, 38: sic ut tu huic potes, id. ib. 5, 1, 16: [[primum]] Montem Sacrum, [[sicut]] erat in simili causā [[antea]] [[factum]], [[deinde]] Aventinum (occupasse), Cic. Rep. 2, 37, 63; 6, 18, 19: [[sicut]] ait [[Ennius]], id. ib. 1, 41, 64; cf.: [[sicut]] [[sapiens]] poëta dixit, id. Par. 5, 1, 34: ut se [[quoque]], [[sicut]] socios, dignos existimetis, id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 13: valeant [[preces]] [[apud]] te meae, [[sicut]] pro te [[hodie]] valuerunt, Liv. 23, 8: consules turpissimi, [[sicut]] hi recentes rerum [[exitus]] declararunt, Cic. Planc. 35, 86: [[sicut]] summarum [[summa]] est aeterna, Lucr. 5, 361: [[sicut]] [[Cicero]] dicit, Quint. 9, 3, 83: [[sicut]] ostendimus, id. 11, 3, 174 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form [[sicuti]]: [[sicuti]] dixi [[prius]], Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 67: habuit [[ille]], [[sicuti]] meminisse vos [[arbitror]], permulta signa, Cic. Cael. 5, 12: [[sicuti]] me [[quoque]] erroris mei paenitet, id. ib. 6, 14: urbem Romam, [[sicuti]] ego accepi, condidere [[atque]] habuere [[initio]] Trojani, Sall. C. 6, 1: [[sicuti]] dignum erat, Quint. 11, 3, 148.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Corresp. to ita, [[itidem]], sic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form [[sicut]]: [[sicut]] tuom vis gnatum tuae Superesse vitae, Ita te [[obtestor]], etc., Plaut. As. 1, 1, 1: [[sicut]] verbis nuncupavi, ita pro republicā Quiritium ... legiones [[mecum]] Dis Manibus [[devoveo]], an old [[formula]] in Liv. 8, 9: [[sicut]] coronatus laureā coronā [[oraculum]] adisset, ita, etc., id. 23, 11; 21, 13; Quint. 1, 2, 26; 9, 1, 8; 9, 3, 100; 10, 1, 1: [[sicut]] [[medico]] diligenti [[natura]] corporis cognoscenda est, sic [[equidem]], etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 186: [[sicut]] magno accidit casu, ut, etc.... sic magnae fuit fortunae, etc., Caes. B. G. 6, 30: [[sicuti]] merci [[pretium]] statuit ... Itidem divos dispertisse vitam humanam aequom fuit, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 131.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form [[sicuti]]: [[sicuti]] ... ita, Caes. B. C. 3, 15; cf. [[infra]], B. b.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Without a [[separate]] [[verb]] (so [[most]] freq.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form [[sicut]]: [[sicut]] fortunatorum memorant insulas (is est [[ager]]), Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 148: [[sicut]] familiae, id. Men. prol. 74; id. Cas. 2, 6, 46: te esse sapientem, nec [[sicut]] [[vulgus]], sed ut eruditi solent appellare sapientem, Cic. Lael. 2, 6: Graeciae, [[sicut]] [[apud]] nos, delubra magnifica, id. Rep. 3, 9, 14: non debent esse amicitiarum [[sicut]] aliarum rerum satietates, id. Lael. 19, 67: ut tuo judicio uteretur, [[sicut]] in rebus omnibus, id. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 5, 3; id. Tusc. 1, 17, 40: provinciam suam hanc esse Galliam, [[sicut]] illam nostram, Caes. B. G. 1, 44; 6, 19: [[nihil]] me, [[sicut]] [[antea]], juvat Scribere versiculos, Hor. Epod. 11, 1 et saep.: hunc, [[sicut]] omni vitā, tum petentem premebat [[nobilitas]], Liv. 39, 41; 34, 9, 10: nec [[sicut]] vulnere [[sanguis]], Luc. 3, 638 Drak. N. cr.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form [[sicuti]]: me amicissime [[cottidie]] [[magis]] [[Caesar]] amplectitur: familiares [[quidem]] ejus, [[sicuti]] neminem, Cic. Fam. 6, 6, 13: [[sicuti]] te, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 174, 33.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Corresp. to ita, [[item]], sic, etc. (cf. [[supra]], A. b.): praecipuum [[lumen]] [[sicut]] eloquentiae, ita praeceptis [[quoque]] ejus, dedit M. [[Tullius]], Quint. 3, 1, 20; so id. 8, prooem. § 29; 9, 1, 18; 10, 1, 14: [[sicut]] in [[foro]] non bonos oratores, [[item]] in theatro actores malos perpeti, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 118: [[illi]], [[sicut]] Campani Capuam, sic [[Rhegium]] habituri perpetuam sedem erant, Liv. 28, 28: [[sicut]] in vitā, in causis [[quoque]], Quint. 12, 1, 13; cf. Liv. 9, 17 Drak. N. cr.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> With an [[accessory]] [[idea]] of [[cause]], inasmuch as, [[since]] (perh. [[only]] in the [[two]] foll. passages): [[nunc]] [[occasio]]'st faciundi, [[prius]] [[quam]] in urbem advenerit, [[sicut]] [[cras]] hic aderit, [[hodie]] non venerit, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 87: quo [[lubet]], [[sicut]] [[soror]] Ejus huc gemina advenit Ephesum, id. Mil. 4, 1, 28 Brix ad loc.; cf. id. Pers. 1, 3, 57.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Pregn.: [[sicut]] est, erat, etc., in [[confirmation]] of a [[former]] [[proposition]], as [[indeed]] it is ([[was]]), as it [[really]] is ([[was]]), as is ([[was]]) the [[fact]] ([[class]].; a favorite [[expression]] [[with]] Cic.): sint nobis [[isti]], qui de ratione vivendi disserunt, magni homines, ut sunt, Cic. Rep. 3, 3, 4: huc accedit, [[quod]], [[quamvis]] [[ille]] [[felix]] [[sit]], [[sicut]] est, [[tamen]], etc., id. Rosc. Am. 8, 22: [[sit]] ista res magna, [[sicut]] est, id. Leg. 1, 5, 17; Liv. 7, 35: [[sit]] [[licet]], [[sicut]] est, ab omni ambitione [[longe]] [[remotus]], Plin. Ep. 5, 15, 2: [[illa]], [[quamvis]] [[ridicula]] essent, [[sicut]] erant, mihi [[tamen]] risum non moverunt, Cic. Fam. 7, 32, 3: secundam eam [[Paulus]], [[sicut]] erat, victoriam [[ratus]], Liv. 45, 7: poteratque viri vox [[illa]] videri, [[sicuti]] erat, Ov. M. 12, 205: [[quamvis]] scelerati [[illi]] fuissent, [[sicuti]] fuerunt, pestiferi cives [[tamen]], etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 230.—Less freq. [[with]] [[other]] verbs: [[quamvis]] [[enim]] multis locis dicat [[Epicurus]], [[sicut]] dicit, [[satis]] [[fortiter]] de dolore, [[tamen]], etc., Cic. Off. 3, 33, 117 Beier: [[quamquam]] in consuetudine cottidianā perspexisses, [[sicuti]] perspicies, id. Fam. 3, 10, 2: [[quod]] [[fore]], [[sicut]] accidit, videbat, Caes. B. G. 5, 58: terrendi [[magis]] hostes erant [[quam]] fallendi, [[sicut]] territi sunt, Liv. 25, 24.— Strengthened by re verā: [[apud]] nos, re verā [[sicut]] sunt, mercenarii scribae existimantur, Nep. Eum. 1, 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> For introducing a [[term]] of [[comparison]], as it were, [[like]], as, as if, = [[tamquam]] ([[class]].): ut [[sese]] splendore animi et vitae suae [[sicut]] [[speculum]] praebeat civibus, Cic. Rep. 2, 42, 69: qui, [[sicut]] [[unus]] [[paterfamilias]], [[loquor]], id. Inv. 2, 5, 19: [[quod]] me [[sicut]] alterum parentem et observat et diligit, id. Fam. 5, 8, 4: ([[natura]]) rationem in capite [[sicut]] in arce posuit, id. Tusc. 1, 10, 20; id. de Or. 1, 29, 132: ex his duabus diversis [[sicuti]] familiis unum quoddam est conflatum [[genus]], id. Inv. 2, 3, 8: ab ejus ([[cornus]]) summo, [[sicut]] palmae, rami [[quam]] [[late]] diffunduntur, Caes. B. G. 6, 26 fin.: multi mortales vitam [[sicut]] peregrinantes transegere, Sall. C. 2, 8; 31, 5; 38, 3; id. J. 60, 4; Liv. 7, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> For introducing an [[example]], as, as for [[instance]], etc. ([[class]].): quibus in causis omnibus, [[sicut]] in ipsā M.' [[Curii]] ... fuit [[summa]] de jure [[dissensio]], Cic. de Or. 1, 56, 238; Nep. Dat. 9: omnibus periculis, [[sicut]] cum Spartam oppugnavit, id. Pel. 4: [[sicuti]] cum, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 154, 27: [[sicuti]] si, Enn. ap. Gell. 3, 14, 5 (Ann. v. 344 Vahl.); Quint. 9, 3, 89; so id. 9, 3, 16; 9, 3, 91; 7, 2, 17; 8, 3, 51; Suet. Aug. 56; 85 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> Sicut eram, erat, etc., [[like]] the Gr. ὡς εἰχον, to [[denote]] an unchanged [[condition]] of the [[subject]] in a [[new]] [[state]] of [[action]], [[just]] as I (he, etc.) [[was]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): [[sicut]] eram, [[fugio]] [[sine]] vestibus, Ov. M. 5, 601; 6, 657: [[sicut]] erat, rectos defert in Tartara [[currus]], Stat. Th. 7, 820; so, [[sicut]] erat, id. ib. 3, 680; 4, 803; 10, 37; Luc. 2, 365: [[ille]], [[sicut]] nudatus erat, pervenit ad Graecos, Curt. 9, 7, 10; 10, 4, 2: [[sicut]] erat [[togatus]], Suet. Claud. 34; Just. 14, 4, 1; 26, 2, 4 al.: [[sicut]] erant, Ov. M. 3, 178; Suet. Calig. 45; id. Oth. 8: [[sicut]] erit, Tib. 3, 1, 18.—Less freq. [[with]] [[another]] [[verb]]: [[sicut]] curru eminebat, oculos circumferens, Curt. 4, 14, 9: praecipitatum in [[flumen]], [[sicut]] [[vestitus]] advenerat, Suet. Claud. 9.—Form [[sicuti]]: [[sicuti]] erat, cruentā veste, in [[castra]] pervenit, Curt. 8, 3, 10—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> A [[few]] times in [[Sallust]] [[with]] an [[accessory]] [[hypothetical]] signif., as if, [[just]] as if, = [[quasi]]: alii [[sicuti]] populi jura defenderent, [[pars]], etc., Sall. C. 38, 3: [[sicuti]] jurgio [[lacessitus]] foret, in Senatum venit, id. ib. 31, 5: [[sicuti]] audiri a suis aut cerni possent, etc., id. J. 60, 4: [[sicuti]] salutatum introire ad Ciceronem, id. C. 28, 1.—<br /> Of [[time]], as [[soon]] as, [[after]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): [[sicut]] adulescit, terram [[inde]] colligimus, Pall. Apr. 2, 3.
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