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|lshtext=<b>cūra</b>: ae, f. [[caveo]]; cf. [[curo]] init.,<br /><b>I</b> [[care]], [[solicitude]], [[carefulness]], [[thought]], [[concern]].<br /><b>I</b> Trouble ([[physical]] or [[mental]]), bestowed on [[something]]; [[solicitude]], [[care]], [[attention]], pains (syn.: [[diligentia]], [[opera]], [[studium]], [[labor]], etc.; opp. [[neglegentia]], etc.;<br /> v. the foll.; [[very]] freq. in [[every]] per. and [[species]] of [[composition]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ab. sol.: curantes magnā cum curā, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107: magnā cum curā ego illum curari [[volo]], Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 7; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 9: in aliquā re curam ponere ([[just]] [[before]]: magnum studi um multamque operam, etc.), Cic. Off. 1, 6, 19: haec tam acrem curam diligentiamque desiderant, id. de Or. 3, 48, 184; so [[with]] [[diligentia]], Quint. 10, 1, 86: si utrumque cum curā et [[studio]] fecerimus, id. 10, 7, 29: aliquid cum curā exsequi, Liv. 39, 41, 6: [[plus]] laboris et curae, Quint. 8, prooem. § 13; so [[with]] [[labor]], id. 2, 2, 10 al.: [[cura]] et [[industria]], Suet. Gram. 21: ut in rem publicam omni cogitatione curāque incumberes, Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 2; so [[with]] [[cogitatio]], id. ib. 10, 3, 3; id. de Or. 2, 44, 186; and in plur., id. Off. 2, 1, 2; opp. [[neglegentia]], Quint. 11, 3, 137; 11, 3, 19: non naturam defecisse sed curam, id. 1, 1, 2; so opp. [[natura]], id. 1, 2, 4; 2, 8, 5: omni curā vestigare, Curt. 4, 6, 5: omni curā in aliquid incumbere, Cic. Fam. 12, 24, 2: omnem curam in siderum cognitione ponere, id. Div. 1, 42, 93: [[cura]] et [[meditatio]] accessit, Tac. Or. 16; cf. id. Agr. 10 et saep.: eo majore curā illam (rem publicam) administrari, Sall. J. 85, 2: curam praestare, Suet. Tib. 18: in re unā consumere curam (for [[which]], in foll. [[verse]], laborare), Hor. S. 2, 4, 48 et saep.: esse [[cura]] alicui, to be an [[object]] of one's [[care]]: [[cura]] pii diis sunt et qui coluere coluntur, Ov. M. 8, 724.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen., [[care]], [[attention]], [[management]], [[administration]], [[charge]], a [[guardianship]], [[concern]] for a [[person]] or [[thing]], etc.: [[difficilis]] rerum alienarum, Cic. Off. 1, 9, 30; cf.: rerum domesticarum, Quint. 3, 3, 9: maxima belli, Cic. Att. 6, 5, 3: agrorum, Quint. 12, 1, 6: corporis, id. 1, 11, 15: capillorum, Suet. Dom. 18: funeris sui, id. Tib. 51 et saep.: deorum, Liv. 6, 41, 9: civium, id. 6, 15, 11: nepotum, Quint. 4, prooem. § 2: magni Caesaris, Hor. C. 1, 12, 50; Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 37; Sen. Ep. 14, 2 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With de and abl.: [[omnis]] [[cura]] de re publicā, Cic. Brut. 3, 10: quocum mihi conjuncta [[cura]] de publicā re et privatā fuit, id. Lael. 4, 15: si [[qua]] de Pompejo nostro tuendo ... [[cura]] te attigit, id. Att. 9, 11, 2, A: gratissima est mihi tua [[cura]] de [[illo]] mandato, id. ib. 5, 4, 1.—So [[with]] de: curam habere, agere, etc.: de vitā communi omnium curam habere, Vitr. 1, 2, init.: Romani [[tamquam]] de Samnitibus non de se curam agerent, Liv. 8, 3, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With pro: omnium non tam pro Aetolis [[cura]] erat, [[quam]] ne, etc., Liv. 27, 30, 5: curam habere pro [[aliquo]], Veg. 2, 20: curam pro nobis hospitis, [[uxor]], agas, Ov. H. 15 (16), 302.—（ε) Curae (alicui) esse, to be an [[object]] of [[care]] or [[attention]]; to [[have]] a [[care]] for, [[take]] [[care]] of, [[attend]] to, to be [[anxious]] [[about]], [[bestow]] pains [[upon]], etc.: [[Caesar]] [[pollicitus]] est, sibi eam rem curae futuram, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 33: haec sibi esse curae, id. ib. 1, 40: rati [[sese]] diis curae esse, Sall. J. 75, 9: cui [[salus]] mea fuit curae, Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 22; 15, 2, 8; Quint. 3, 8, 45 et saep.: ea tantae mihi curae sunt, ut, etc., Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 24: pollicetur sibi magnae curae [[fore]], ut omnia restituerentur, id. Verr. 2, 4, 33, § 73; cf.: si [[tibi]] curae Quantae conveniat, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 30: ipsis doctoribus hoc esse curae velim, ut, etc., Quint. 2, 4, 5: dumque [[amor]] est curae, Ov. M. 2, 683: [[ceterum]] [[magis]] vis morbi ingravescens curae erat, terroresque ac prodigia, Liv. 4, 21, 5: [[ceterum]] eo tempore [[minus]] ea bella ... curae patribus erant, [[quam]] [[expectatio]], etc., id. 35, 23, 1: in eorum periculis non [[secus]] absentes [[quam]] praesentes amicos Attico esse curae, Nep. Att. 12, 5.—With a [[subject]]-[[clause]]: nonnulli, quibus non fuit curae caelestem inveterare aquam, etc., Col. 12, 12, 3; Quint. 7, 1, 4; 9, 3, 74: eligere [[modo]] curae [[sit]], id. 10, 1, 31: mihi erit curae explorare provinciae voluntatem, Plin. Ep. 7, 10, 2.—With de: de mandatis [[quod]] [[tibi]] curae fuit, est mihi gratum, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 8: sic recipiunt, Caesari ... de augendā meā dignitate curae [[fore]], Cic. Att. 11, 6, 3; cf. id. Fam. 10, 1, 1, and II. A. fin. [[infra]]: de ceteris senatui curae [[fore]], Sall. J. 26, 1.—In the [[same]] [[sense]] also, (ζ) Curae aliquid habere: cohortatus, ut petitionem suam curae haberent, Sall. C. 21 fin.; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10; Quint. prooem. § 16: habebo [[itaque]] curae, ut te meliorem reddam, Sen. Ben. 1, 8, 2: ut [[ille]] ... [[quid]] ageret, curae sibi haberet certiorem facere Atticum, Nep. Att. 20, 4.—（η) Cura est, [[with]] [[subject]]-[[clause]], [[solicitude]], [[care]], [[anxiety]] to do [[any]] [[thing]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): curaque finitimos vincere major erat, Ov. F. 1, 30: [[talis]] [[amor]] teneat, nec [[sit]] mihi [[cura]] mederi, Verg. E. 8, 89: [[cura]] comere capillum fuit, Sen. Q. N. 1, 17, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., t. t.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> In [[political]] lang. (esp. of the [[post]]-Aug. per.), the [[management]] of [[state]] affairs, [[administration]], [[charge]], [[oversight]], [[command]], [[office]]: [[magistratus]] et imperia, [[postremo]] [[omnis]] [[cura]] rerum publicarum [[minime]] mihi hac tempestate cupiunda videntur, Sall. J. 3, 1; so, legionis armandae, Tac. H. 1, 80: aerarii, Suet. Aug. 36: annonae, id. Tib. 8: operum publicorum, viarum, aquarum, etc. (preceded by nova officia), id. Aug. 37 al. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> In the jurists, the [[management]] of [[business]] for a [[minor]], [[guardianship]], [[trusteeship]] (for the [[more]] usu. [[curatio]]), Dig. 3, 1, 1; 5, 1, 19 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> In medic., [[medical]] [[attendance]], [[healing]] (for [[curatio]]), [[cure]]: aquae, quae sub cutem est, Cels. 2, 10; Vell. 2, 123; Sil. 6, 551 Drak. et saep.—Plur.: curae aegrescentium, Macr. S. 7, 4, 6.—Hence, [[poet]].: [[illa]] fuit lacrimis ultima [[cura]] meis (sc. [[somnus]]), Prop. 1, 3, 46; cf. Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 5.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>d</b> In [[agriculture]], [[care]], [[culture]], [[rearing]]: Pelusiacae lentis, Verg. G. 1, 228: boum, id. ib. 1, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]. (abstr. pro concr.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Like the Gr. [[μελέτη]], a written [[work]], [[writing]] ([[several]] times in Tac.; [[elsewhere]] [[rare]]): quorum in [[manus]] [[cura]] nostra venerit, Tac. A. 4, 11; id. Or. 3; Ov. P. 4, 16, 39. —In plur., Tac. A. 3, 24.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An [[attendant]], [[guardian]], [[overseer]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): [[tertius]] immundae [[cura]] [[fidelis]] harae, i. e. the [[swine]] - [[herd]] Eumæus, Ov. H. 1, 104: praetorii, Treb. Claud. 14; cf. Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 45; 2, 1.—<br /><b>II</b> Anxiety, [[solicitude]], [[concern]], [[disquiet]], [[trouble]], [[grief]], [[sorrow]]; syn.: [[sollicitudo]], [[metus]], etc.; cf. [[φροντίς]] ([[very]] freq. in [[every]] per. and [[species]] of [[composition]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: si [[quid]] ego adjuro curamve levasso, quae [[nunc]] te coquit, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1: [[animus]] [[lassus]], curā [[confectus]], Ter. And. 2, 1, 4: cottidianā curā angere ani [[mum]], id. Phorm. 1, 3, 8: curae metusque, Cic. Div. 2, 72, 150: [[cura]] et [[sollicitudo]]. id. Att. 15, 14, 3; Quint. 8, prooem. § 20; 11, 1, 44 et saep.: curas cordis manis, Lucr. 3, 116: acres cuppedinis, id. 5, 46: gravi saucia curā ([[Dido]]), Verg. A. 4, 1: atra, Hor C. 3, 1, 40: edaces, id. ib. 2, 11, 18: vitiosa, id. ib. 2, 16, 22: [[sine]] curā esse, Cic. Att. 12, 6, 4; 15, 12, 2: [[quid]] facerem, curā cruciabar [[miser]], Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 23: [[cura]] est, negoti [[quid]] [[sit]] aut [[quid]] nuntiet, I am [[anxious]], my [[concern]] is, id. ib. 1, 2, 10; cf.: [[amica]] mea [[quid]] agat, Cura est, ut valeat, id. Stich. 5, 2, 4: mihi maximae curae est, non de meā [[quidem]] vitā, sed me [[patria]] sollicitat, etc., Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 1.—With pro: [[quam]] pro me curam geris, Verg. A. 12, 48.—With in: nullā in posterum curā, Tac. H. 3, 55.— Plur.: [[cur]] eam rem tam [[studiose]] curas, quae [[tibi]] multas dabit curas, Auct. Her. 4, 14, 21: at [[tibi]] curarum milia quanta dabit! Prop. 1, 5, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., the [[care]], [[pain]], or [[anxiety]] of [[love]], [[love]] ([[poet]].): crescit [[enim]] [[assidue]] spectando [[cura]] puellae, Prop. 3 (4), 21, 3; cf. Ov. R. Am. 311: tua sub nostro pectore [[cura]], Prop. 1, 15, 31: et juvenum curas et libera vina referre, Hor. A. P. 85: [[hinc]] illaec [[primum]] Veneris dulcedinis in cor Stillavit [[gutta]] et successit [[frigida]] [[cura]], chilling [[anxiety]] for one [[loved]], Lucr. 4, 1060.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[Meton]]. (abstr. pro concr.), the [[loved]] [[object]], the [[mistress]]: tua [[cura]], [[Lycoris]], Verg. E. 10, 22; Prop. 2 (3), 25, 1; 2 (3), 34, 9; Hor. C. 2, 8, 8; Verg. Cir. 75; cf.: [[puer]], mea maxima [[cura]], id. A. 1, 678; 10, 132: [[cura]] deum, id. ib. 3, 46: raucae, tua [[cura]], [[palumbes]], id. E. 1, 57 Forbig. ad loc.
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