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ἢ τοὺς πότους ἐρεῖς δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀφροδίσια, καὶ δέδιας μὴ τούτων ἐνδεὴς γενόμενος ἀπόλωμαι. οὐκ ἐννοεῖς δὲ ὅτι τὸ μὴ διψῆν τοῦ πιεῖν πολὺ κάλλιον καὶ τὸ μὴ πεινῆν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ τὸ μὴ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ ἀμπεχόνης εὐπορεῖν; → There you'll go, talking of drinking and dining and dressing up and screwing, worrying I'll be lost without all that. Don't you realize how much better it is to have no thirst, than to drink? to have no hunger, than to eat? to not be cold, than to possess a wardrobe of finery? (Lucian, On Mourning 16)
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|lshtext=<b>pŭer</b>: ĕri (old voc. puere, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 2; 5, 2, 42; id. Most. 4, 2, 32 et saep.; Caecil. and Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.;<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. puerūm, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50), m. (v. [[infra]]) [[root]] pu-, to [[beget]]; v. pudes; and cf. [[pupa]], [[putus]], orig. a [[child]], [[whether]] [[boy]] or [[girl]]: pueri appellatione [[etiam]] [[puella]] significatur, Dig. 50, 16, 163.—Thus, as fem.: sancta [[puer]] Saturni [[filia]], [[regina]], Liv. And. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.: prima incedit Cereris [[Proserpina]] [[puer]], i.e. [[daughter]] of [[Ceres]], Naev. ib. p. 697 P.: mea [[puer]], mea [[puer]], Poët. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 64 P.; Ael. Stil. and As. ib. p. 64 P.—Hence, freq. in the | |lshtext=<b>pŭer</b>: ĕri (old voc. puere, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 2; 5, 2, 42; id. Most. 4, 2, 32 et saep.; Caecil. and Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.;<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. puerūm, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50), m. (v. [[infra]]) [[root]] pu-, to [[beget]]; v. pudes; and cf. [[pupa]], [[putus]], orig. a [[child]], [[whether]] [[boy]] or [[girl]]: pueri appellatione [[etiam]] [[puella]] significatur, Dig. 50, 16, 163.—Thus, as fem.: sancta [[puer]] Saturni [[filia]], [[regina]], Liv. And. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.: prima incedit Cereris [[Proserpina]] [[puer]], i.e. [[daughter]] of [[Ceres]], Naev. ib. p. 697 P.: mea [[puer]], mea [[puer]], Poët. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 64 P.; Ael. Stil. and As. ib. p. 64 P.—Hence, freq. in the plur. pueri, children, in gen., Plaut. Poen. prol. 28; 30: infantium puerorum [[incunabula]], Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153: [[cinis]] eorum pueros [[tarde]] dentientes adjuvat cum melle, Plin. 30, 3, 8, § 22; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 7; id. C. 4, 9, 24.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br /> <b>1</b> A [[male]] [[child]], a [[boy]], [[lad]], [[young]] [[man]] ([[strictly]] [[till]] the seventeenth [[year]], [[but]] freq. applied to those [[who]] are [[much]] [[older]]): puero [[isti]] [[date]] mammam, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 1: [[aliquam]] puero nutricem para, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 104; 5, 2, 4: homini [[ilico]] lacrimae cadunt Quasi puero, id. Ad. 4, 1, 21: quo portas puerum? id. And. 4, 3, 7: nescire [[quid]] [[antea]] [[quam]] [[natus]] sis, acciderit, id est [[semper]] esse puerum, Cic. Or. 34, 120; Ov. P. 4, 12, 20: [[laudator]] temporis acti Se puero, [[when]] he [[was]] a [[boy]], Hor. A. P. 173; cf.: foeminae praetextatique pueri et puellae, Suet. Claud. 35.—A puero, and [[with]] plur. [[verb]], a pueris (cf. Gr. ἐκ παιδός, ἐκ παίδων), from a [[boy]], [[boyhood]], or [[childhood]] (cf. ab): doctum hominem cognovi, idque a puero, Cic. Fam. 13, 16, 4; id. Ac. 2, 3, 8: diligentiā matris a puero [[doctus]], id. Brut. 27, 104; Hor S. 1, 4, 97: ad eas artes, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus, Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2.—In [[like]] [[manner]]: ut [[primum]] ex pueris excessit [[Archias]], as [[soon]] as he ceased to be a [[child]], Cic. Arch. 3, 4.—<br /> <b>2</b> A [[grown]]-up [[youth]], [[young]] [[man]], Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2: [[puer]] [[egregius]] [[praesidium]] sibi [[primum]] et nobis, [[deinde]] summae rei publicae comparavit, of Octavian at the [[age]] of [[nineteen]], id. ib. 12, 25, 4 (cf. Vell. 2, 61, 1; Tac. A. 13, 6); cf. of the [[same]]: [[nomen]] clarissimi adulescentis vel pueri [[potius]], Cic. Phil. 4, 1, 3; of [[Scipio]] [[Africanus]], at the [[age]] of [[twenty]], Sil. 15, 33; 44 (coupled [[with]] juvenis, id. 15, 10 and 18); of [[Pallas]], in [[military]] [[command]], Verg. A. 11, 42.—<br /> <b>3</b> An [[unmarried]] [[man]], a [[bachelor]], Ov. F. 4, 226.—<br /> <b>4</b> As a [[pet]] [[name]], or in [[familiar]] [[address]], [[boy]], [[fellow]], Cat. 12, 9; Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 17.—<br /> <b>B</b> Transf.<br /> <b>1</b> A [[little]] [[son]], a [[son]] ([[poet]].), Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 72: [[Ascanius]] [[puer]], Verg. A. 2, 598: tuque ([[Venus]]) puerque [[tuus]] (Cupido), id. ib. 4, 94; cf. Hor. C. 1, 32, 10: Latonae [[puer]], id. ib. 4, 6, 37: Semeles [[puer]], id. ib. 1, 19, 2: deorum pueri, id. A. P. 83; 185.—<br /> <b>2</b> A [[boy]] for [[attendance]], a [[servant]], [[slave]]: [[cedo]] aquam manibus, [[puer]], Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 150; Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 77: Persicos odi, [[puer]], [[apparatus]], Hor. C. 1, 38, 1; 2, 11, 18; 4, 11, 10: hic vivum mihi cespitem ponite, pueri, id. ib. 1, 19, 14: [[cena]] ministratur pueris [[tribus]], id. S. 1, 6, 116: tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae Ingerere, id. ib. 1, 5, 11: regii, [[royal]] [[pages]], Liv. 45, 6; Curt. 5, 2, 13: litteratissimi, Nep. Att. 13, 3; Juv. 11, 59; Dig. 50, 16, 204.—*<br /> <b>3</b> As adj., [[youthful]]: [[puera]] [[facies]], Paul. Nol. Carm. 25, 217. | ||
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pŭer: ĕri (old voc. puere, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 2; 5, 2, 42; id. Most. 4, 2, 32 et saep.; Caecil. and Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.;
I gen. plur. puerūm, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 50), m. (v. infra) root pu-, to beget; v. pudes; and cf. pupa, putus, orig. a child, whether boy or girl: pueri appellatione etiam puella significatur, Dig. 50, 16, 163.—Thus, as fem.: sancta puer Saturni filia, regina, Liv. And. ap. Prisc. p. 697 P.: prima incedit Cereris Proserpina puer, i.e. daughter of Ceres, Naev. ib. p. 697 P.: mea puer, mea puer, Poët. ap. Charis. p. 64 P.; Ael. Stil. and As. ib. p. 64 P.—Hence, freq. in the plur. pueri, children, in gen., Plaut. Poen. prol. 28; 30: infantium puerorum incunabula, Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153: cinis eorum pueros tarde dentientes adjuvat cum melle, Plin. 30, 3, 8, § 22; Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 7; id. C. 4, 9, 24.—
II In partic.
1 A male child, a boy, lad, young man (strictly till the seventeenth year, but freq. applied to those who are much older): puero isti date mammam, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 1: aliquam puero nutricem para, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 104; 5, 2, 4: homini ilico lacrimae cadunt Quasi puero, id. Ad. 4, 1, 21: quo portas puerum? id. And. 4, 3, 7: nescire quid antea quam natus sis, acciderit, id est semper esse puerum, Cic. Or. 34, 120; Ov. P. 4, 12, 20: laudator temporis acti Se puero, when he was a boy, Hor. A. P. 173; cf.: foeminae praetextatique pueri et puellae, Suet. Claud. 35.—A puero, and with plur. verb, a pueris (cf. Gr. ἐκ παιδός, ἐκ παίδων), from a boy, boyhood, or childhood (cf. ab): doctum hominem cognovi, idque a puero, Cic. Fam. 13, 16, 4; id. Ac. 2, 3, 8: diligentiā matris a puero doctus, id. Brut. 27, 104; Hor S. 1, 4, 97: ad eas artes, quibus a pueris dediti fuimus, Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 2.—In like manner: ut primum ex pueris excessit Archias, as soon as he ceased to be a child, Cic. Arch. 3, 4.—
2 A grown-up youth, young man, Cic. Fam. 2, 1, 2: puer egregius praesidium sibi primum et nobis, deinde summae rei publicae comparavit, of Octavian at the age of nineteen, id. ib. 12, 25, 4 (cf. Vell. 2, 61, 1; Tac. A. 13, 6); cf. of the same: nomen clarissimi adulescentis vel pueri potius, Cic. Phil. 4, 1, 3; of Scipio Africanus, at the age of twenty, Sil. 15, 33; 44 (coupled with juvenis, id. 15, 10 and 18); of Pallas, in military command, Verg. A. 11, 42.—
3 An unmarried man, a bachelor, Ov. F. 4, 226.—
4 As a pet name, or in familiar address, boy, fellow, Cat. 12, 9; Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 17.—
B Transf.
1 A little son, a son (poet.), Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 72: Ascanius puer, Verg. A. 2, 598: tuque (Venus) puerque tuus (Cupido), id. ib. 4, 94; cf. Hor. C. 1, 32, 10: Latonae puer, id. ib. 4, 6, 37: Semeles puer, id. ib. 1, 19, 2: deorum pueri, id. A. P. 83; 185.—
2 A boy for attendance, a servant, slave: cedo aquam manibus, puer, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 150; Cic. Rosc. Am. 28, 77: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus, Hor. C. 1, 38, 1; 2, 11, 18; 4, 11, 10: hic vivum mihi cespitem ponite, pueri, id. ib. 1, 19, 14: cena ministratur pueris tribus, id. S. 1, 6, 116: tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae Ingerere, id. ib. 1, 5, 11: regii, royal pages, Liv. 45, 6; Curt. 5, 2, 13: litteratissimi, Nep. Att. 13, 3; Juv. 11, 59; Dig. 50, 16, 204.—*
3 As adj., youthful: puera facies, Paul. Nol. Carm. 25, 217.
