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|lshtext=<b>clam</b>: (old [[access]]. form callim, or, acc. to Cod. Gu. 1, calam, Paul. ex Fest. p. 47, 3 Müll.) [[root]] cal-; cf.: [[calix]], [[celo]], [[cella]], [[occulo]], [[caligo]], adv. and prep.,<br /><b>I</b> [[secretly]], [[privately]]; and in the [[predicate]] [[after]] [[sum]] and [[fore]], [[hidden]], [[secret]], [[unknown]] (opp. [[palam]]; [[except]] [[once]] in Caes., v. II. [[infra]]; in [[class]]. [[prose]] [[only]] used as adv.).<br /><b>I</b> Adv.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: clamque palamque, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (247 Vahl.): [[ignis]] mortalibus [[clam]] Divisus, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23: mea [[nunc]] facinora aperiuntur, [[clam]] quae speravi [[fore]], Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 21; cf. Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 46; Lucr. 5, 1157: nec id [[clam]] esse potuit, Liv. 5, 36, 6: [[clam]] [[mordax]] [[canis]] (Gr. [[λαθροδήκτης]] [[κύων]]>), Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 27; cf. Amm. 15, 3, 5; Ter. And. 2, 6, 13; Cat. 21, 5; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 14, 8: [[clam]] peperit [[uxor]], Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 15: hanc tu mihi vel vi, vel [[clam]], vel [[precario]] Fac tradas (a jurid. [[formula]]), id. Eun. 2, 3, 28; cf. Cic. Caecin. 32, 92: qui [[propter]] avaritiam [[clam]] [[depositum]] non reddidit, id. Tusc. 3, 8, 17: [[clam]] mussitantes, Liv. 33, 31, 1; Suet. Tib. 6: praemissis [[confestim]] [[clam]] cohortibus, id. Caes. 31; id. Ner. 34: [[ille]] Sychaeum Clam ferro incautum superat, [[stealthily]], Verg. A. 1, 350: nec dic [[quid]] doleas, [[clam]] [[tamen]] [[usque]] [[dole]], Ov. R. Am. 694: cui te commisit alendum Clam, id. M. 13, 432; cf. id. ib. 14, 310 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With advv.; [[with]] [[furtim]], Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 49; [[with]] [[furtive]], id. ib. 5, 2, 61; [[with]] [[occulte]], Plin. 36, 2, 2, § 6; [[poet]]. [[with]] [[tacitus]]: [[tacito]] [[clam]] venit [[illa]] pede, and [[similar]] words, Tib. 1, 10, 34; 4, 6, 16; cf.: [[strepito]] nullo [[clam]] reserare fores, id. 1, 8, 60; opp. [[palam]], Enn. l. l.; Plaut. Merc. 5, 4, 63; Cic. Cael. 9, 20; id. Rosc. Am. 8, 23; id. Fam. 1, 1, 4; Tib. 2, 1, 84; Suet. Caes. 80; id. Dom. 2; and opp. [[propalam]], Suet. Ner. 22.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen.: res exulatum at illam [[clam]] abibat patris, Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 43 Ritschl (cf. [[λάθρη]] Λαομέδοντος, Hom. Il. 5, 269).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Clam est, [[with]] subj.-[[clause]] (cf. II. B. [[infra]]): meretricem commoneri Quam [[sane]] magni referat, nil [[clam]]'st, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 9.—<br /><b>II</b> Prep., [[without]] the [[knowledge]] of, [[unknown]] to, constr. [[with]] abl. or acc.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With abl. ([[only]] in the [[two]] foll. passages; for Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 2; 4, 6, 5; id. Curc. 1, 3, 17; id. Am. prol. 107 al., [[where]] the abl. [[formerly]] stood [[with]] [[clam]], [[have]] been corrected by Ritschl and [[recent]] edd.; v. Speng. ad Ter. And. 1, 5, 52; [[but]] cf. Ussing ad Plaut. Curc. l.l.): nec [[clam]] [[durateus]] Trojanis [[Pergama]] partu Inflammasset equos, Lucr. 1, 476 Munro ad loc.: non sibi [[clam]] [[vobis]] salutem [[fuga]] petivit? Caes. B. C. 2, 32.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: [[clam]] uxorem, Plaut. As. Grex. 1; id. Cas. prol. 54: [[clam]] uxorem et [[clam]] filium, id. Merc. 3, 2, 2: matrem, id. Mil. 2, 1, 34: patrem, id. Merc. 2, 3, 8; 3, 4, 75; id. Truc. 2, 1, 37 Speng.; Gell. 2, 23, 16: senem, Plaut. Most. 5, 1, 13: uxorem, id. Cas. 2, 8, 32; id. As. Grex. 5; id. Men. 1, 2, 43; 5, 9, 78; id. Merc. 4, 6, 3 Ritschl: virum, id. Cas. 2, 2, 28; id. Am. prol. 107: [[clam]] [[alter]] alterum, id. Cas. prol. 51: illum, id. Merc. 2, 3, 26: omnīs, id. Aul. prol. 7: [[clam]] praesidia [[Pompeii]], Auct. B. Hisp. 3: [[clam]] quemdam Philonem, id. ib. 35: nostros, id. ib. 16: dominum, Dig. 9, 2, 27, § 14: haec [[clam]] me omnia, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 46.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Clam me est, it is [[unknown]] to me, I [[know]] not ([[only]] in Plaut. and Ter.): [[neque]] [[adeo]] [[clam]] me est, Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 19: [[haud]] [[clam]] me est, id. ib. 3, 4, 10; so id. ib. 4, 1, 53; 4, 2, 1: nec [[clam]] te est, [[quam]], etc., id. And. 1, 5, 52.— *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Clam habere aliquem = celare aliquem, to [[keep]] [[secret]] from one, [[conceal]] from, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 35; cf. Prisc. p. 988 P.; Pomp. Comm. Art. [[Don]]. p. 399.
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