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|lshtext=<b>cassus</b>: a, um, adj.,<br /><b>I</b> [[empty]], [[void]], [[hollow]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop. (syn.: [[inanis]], [[vacuus]]; [[mostly]] [[poet]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Absol.: nux, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 137; Hor. S. 2, 5, 36: [[glans]], Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 37: [[canna]], [[unfruitful]], Ov. F. 6, 406: [[granum]] [[inane]] cassumque, Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: [[anulus]], Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15. 6.—Subst.: palearum cassa, Sol. c. 52 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Expressing [[that]] of [[which]] the [[subject]] is [[empty]], etc., [[wanting]], devoid of, deprived of, [[without]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With abl.: [[sanguine]] cassa ([[cochlea]]), [[bloodless]], Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133; so, [[virgo]] [[dote]] cassa, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 14: lumine aër, Lucr. 4, 368: lumine [[corpus]], id. 5, 719; 5, 757: animā [[corpus]], id. 3, 562.—Poet.: [[cassus]] lumine (= vitā), deprived of [[life]], [[dead]], Verg. A. 2, 85; imitated by Stat. Th. 2, 15; and in [[like]] [[sense]] aethere [[cassus]], Verg. A. 11, 104: simulacra cassa sensu, Lucr. 4, 127.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen.: [[cassus]] luminis [[ensis]], Cic. Arat. 369.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ab: [[elementum]] ab omnibus, App. de Deo Socr. p. 46.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[vain]], [[empty]], [[useless]], [[futile]], [[fruitless]] (syn.: [[inanis]], [[irritus]]): cassum quiddam et inani vocis [[sono]] decoratum, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119; so, [[copia]] verborum, Lucr. 4, 511: vota, Verg. A. 12, 780: [[fertilitas]] terrae, Ov. M. 5, 482: [[fraus]], Luc. 5, 130: consilia, Sen. [[Troad]]. 570: viae, [[vain]], [[profitless]], Stat. Th. 11, 449: labores, Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 6: [[manus]], [[without]] [[effect]], Stat. Th. 9, 770: [[augur]] futuri, false, erring, id. ib. 9, 629: [[omen]], id. ib. 5, 318.—Subst.: cassa, ōrum, n., [[empty]] things: palearum, Sol. 52; esp. of [[speech]]: cassa memorare, to [[talk]] [[idly]], Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 16; so, cassa habebantur quae, etc., were [[thought]] [[vain]], [[futile]], Tac. H. 3, 55; Sen. Herc. Oet. 352.— Esp. freq. in [[poetry]] (in [[prose]], [[but]] not in Cic.), in cassum, or, in one [[word]], incas-[[sum]], adverb., in [[vain]], [[uselessly]], to no [[purpose]]: ex multis omnia in cassum cadunt, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; cf. Lucr. 2, 1165: [[temere]], in cassum frustraque, [[without]] [[aim]] or [[purpose]], [[fortuitously]], id. 2, 1060; so id. 5, 1002; 5, 1430: furere, Verg. G. 3, 100: longos ciebat Incassum [[fletus]], id. A. 3, 345: tot [[incassum]] fusos patiere labores? id. ib. 7, 421.—In [[prose]]: quae [[profecto]] [[incassum]] agebantur, Sall. H. 3, 61, 11 Dietsch: vana [[incassum]] jactare [[tela]], Liv. 10, 29, 2: [[incassum]] missae [[preces]], id. 2, 49, 8: aliquid [[incassum]] disserere, Tac. A. 1, 4; Just. 11, 15, 6; Lact. 6, 9, 17; Sen. Brev. Vit. 11, 1: [[frustra]] in cassumque. Mart. Cap. 1, § 10.— Also cassum: [[quid]] cassum times? Sen. Herc. Oet. 353; cf.: [[μάτην]], [[frustra]], [[nequicquam]], cassum, Gloss. Cyrill.
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