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|lshtext=<b>ambĭtĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[ambio]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[going]] [[round]].<br /><b>I</b> In the [[time]] of the [[republic]], t. t. (v. [[ambio]], II. B.), the [[going]] [[about]] of candidates for [[office]] in [[Rome]], and the soliciting of [[individual]] citizens for [[their]] [[vote]], a [[canvassing]], suing for [[office]] (by [[just]] and [[lawful]] [[means]]; [[while]] [[ambitus]] denotes [[unlawful]] [[means]], as [[bribery]], threats, etc.): [[quid]] de nostris ambitionibus loquar? Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 62: mea me [[ambitio]] ab omni illā cogitatione abstrahebat, id. Sull. 4: cum ambitionis nostrae tempora postulabant, id. Planc. 18, 45: si [[infinitus]] forensium rerum [[labor]] et ambitionis [[occupatio]] decursu honorum [[etiam]] aetatis flexu constitisset, id. de Or. 1, 1, 1: hic [[magistratus]] a [[populo]] summā ambitione contenditur, id. Verr. 2, 53, 131: tanta exarsit [[ambitio]], ut primores civitatis prensarent homines, Liv. 3, 35, 1 et saep.—<br /> In gen., a [[striving]] for one's [[favor]] or [[good]]-[[will]]; an [[excessive]] [[desire]] to [[please]], [[flattery]], [[adulation]]: ambitione labi, Cic. Brut. 69, 244: [[sive]] aliquā suspitione [[sive]] ambitione adducti, id. Clu. 28, 76: in Scipione [[ambitio]] major, [[vita]] tristior, id. Off. 1, 30, 108 Heus., Beier, and Gernh.: [[Dionysius]] Platonem magnā ambitione Syracusas perduxit, in an [[ostentatious]] [[manner]], for the [[purpose]] of securing his [[favor]], Nep. [[Dion]], 2, 2 Br. and Dähn.: [[ambitio]] (i.e. [[studium]] Fabiis placendi) obstabat, Liv. 5, 36: ambitione relegatā, [[without]] [[flattery]], Hor. S. 1, 10, 84: ambitionem scriptoris [[facile]] averseris, [[obtrectatio]] et [[livor]] [[pronis]] auribus accipiuntur, Tac. H. 1, 1: nullo officii aut ambitionis genere omisso, i.e. nullis blanditiis, Suet. Oth. 4: coronas [[quam]] parcissime et [[sine]] ambitione tribuit, id. Aug. 25 et saep.—Hence, also [[partiality]]: jus sibi per ambitionem [[dictum]] non esse, Liv. 3, 47.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> With the predom. [[idea]] of the [[purpose]] or [[end]], a [[desire]] for [[honor]], [[popularity]], [[power]], [[display]], etc.; in bon. [[part]]., [[ambition]]; in mal. [[part]]., [[vanity]].—So in Lucr. of the [[ambitious]] efforts of men: Angustum per [[iter]] luctantes ambitionis, [[struggling]] to [[press]] [[through]] the [[narrow]] [[way]] of [[ambition]], Lucr. 5, 1132: me [[ambitio]] quaedam ad honorum [[studium]] duxit, Cic. Att. 1, 17: Miserrima [[omnino]] est [[ambitio]] honorumque [[contentio]], id. Off. 1, 25: a quo [[incepto]] studioque me [[ambitio]] [[mala]] detinuerat, Sall. C. 4, 2: aut ab avaritiā aut miserā ambitione laborat, Hor. S. 1, 4, 26: Vitā solutorum miserā ambitione gravique, id. ib. 1, 6, 129; so id. ib. 2, 3, 78; 2, 6, 18: [[inanis]], id. Ep. 2, 2, 207: [[levis]], Ov. F. 1, 103 al.: [[licet]] ipsa [[vitium]] [[sit]] [[ambitio]], [[tamen]] [[frequenter]] [[causa]] virtutum est, Quint. 1, 2, 22: perversa, id. 10, 7, 20: funerum nulla [[ambitio]], no [[display]], [[pomp]], Tac. G. 27.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Great [[exertion]]: cum admitti magnā ambitione [[aegre]] obtinuisset, Just. 1, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> That [[which]] surrounds (v. [[ambio]], 2.; postclass. for [[ambitus]]): vimineos alveos circumdant ambitione tergorum bubulorum, [[with]] a [[wrapping]] of cowhide, Sol. 22: fuliginem [[ambitio]] extimae [[cutis]] cohibet, id. 35: ita assedimus, ut me ex [[tribus]] [[medium]] lateris ambitione protegerent, Min. Oct. 4.
|lshtext=<b>ambĭtĭo</b>: ōnis, f. [[ambio]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[going]] [[round]].<br /><b>I</b> In the [[time]] of the [[republic]], t. t. (v. [[ambio]], II. B.), the [[going]] [[about]] of candidates for [[office]] in [[Rome]], and the soliciting of [[individual]] citizens for [[their]] [[vote]], a [[canvassing]], suing for [[office]] (by [[just]] and [[lawful]] [[means]]; [[while]] [[ambitus]] denotes [[unlawful]] [[means]], as [[bribery]], threats, etc.): [[quid]] de nostris ambitionibus loquar? Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 62: mea me [[ambitio]] ab omni illā cogitatione abstrahebat, id. Sull. 4: cum ambitionis nostrae tempora postulabant, id. Planc. 18, 45: si [[infinitus]] forensium rerum [[labor]] et ambitionis [[occupatio]] decursu honorum [[etiam]] aetatis flexu constitisset, id. de Or. 1, 1, 1: hic [[magistratus]] a [[populo]] summā ambitione contenditur, id. Verr. 2, 53, 131: tanta exarsit [[ambitio]], ut primores civitatis prensarent homines, Liv. 3, 35, 1 et saep.—<br /> In gen., a [[striving]] for one's [[favor]] or [[good]]-[[will]]; an [[excessive]] [[desire]] to [[please]], [[flattery]], [[adulation]]: ambitione labi, Cic. Brut. 69, 244: [[sive]] aliquā suspitione [[sive]] ambitione adducti, id. Clu. 28, 76: in Scipione [[ambitio]] major, [[vita]] tristior, id. Off. 1, 30, 108 Heus., Beier, and Gernh.: [[Dionysius]] Platonem magnā ambitione Syracusas perduxit, in an [[ostentatious]] [[manner]], for the [[purpose]] of securing his [[favor]], Nep. [[Dion]], 2, 2 Br. and Dähn.: [[ambitio]] (i.e. [[studium]] Fabiis placendi) obstabat, Liv. 5, 36: ambitione relegatā, [[without]] [[flattery]], Hor. S. 1, 10, 84: ambitionem scriptoris [[facile]] averseris, [[obtrectatio]] et [[livor]] [[pronis]] auribus accipiuntur, Tac. H. 1, 1: nullo officii aut ambitionis genere omisso, i.e. nullis blanditiis, Suet. Oth. 4: coronas [[quam]] parcissime et [[sine]] ambitione tribuit, id. Aug. 25 et saep.—Hence, also [[partiality]]: jus sibi per ambitionem [[dictum]] non esse, Liv. 3, 47.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> With the predom. [[idea]] of the [[purpose]] or [[end]], a [[desire]] for [[honor]], [[popularity]], [[power]], [[display]], etc.; in bon. [[part]]., [[ambition]]; in mal. [[part]]., [[vanity]].—So in Lucr. of the [[ambitious]] efforts of men: Angustum per [[iter]] luctantes ambitionis, [[struggling]] to [[press]] [[through]] the [[narrow]] [[way]] of [[ambition]], Lucr. 5, 1132: me [[ambitio]] quaedam ad honorum [[studium]] duxit, Cic. Att. 1, 17: Miserrima [[omnino]] est [[ambitio]] honorumque [[contentio]], id. Off. 1, 25: a quo [[incepto]] studioque me [[ambitio]] [[mala]] detinuerat, Sall. C. 4, 2: aut ab avaritiā aut miserā ambitione laborat, Hor. S. 1, 4, 26: Vitā solutorum miserā ambitione gravique, id. ib. 1, 6, 129; so id. ib. 2, 3, 78; 2, 6, 18: [[inanis]], id. Ep. 2, 2, 207: [[levis]], Ov. F. 1, 103 al.: [[licet]] ipsa [[vitium]] [[sit]] [[ambitio]], [[tamen]] [[frequenter]] [[causa]] virtutum est, Quint. 1, 2, 22: perversa, id. 10, 7, 20: funerum nulla [[ambitio]], no [[display]], [[pomp]], Tac. G. 27.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Great [[exertion]]: cum admitti magnā ambitione [[aegre]] obtinuisset, Just. 1, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> That [[which]] surrounds (v. [[ambio]], 2.; postclass. for [[ambitus]]): vimineos alveos circumdant ambitione tergorum bubulorum, [[with]] a [[wrapping]] of cowhide, Sol. 22: fuliginem [[ambitio]] extimae [[cutis]] cohibet, id. 35: ita assedimus, ut me ex [[tribus]] [[medium]] lateris ambitione protegerent, Min. Oct. 4.
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Latin > English

ambitio ambitionis N F :: ambition; desire for/currying favor/popularity, flattery; vote canvassing; pomp

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ambĭtĭo: ōnis, f. ambio,
I a going round.
I In the time of the republic, t. t. (v. ambio, II. B.), the going about of candidates for office in Rome, and the soliciting of individual citizens for their vote, a canvassing, suing for office (by just and lawful means; while ambitus denotes unlawful means, as bribery, threats, etc.): quid de nostris ambitionibus loquar? Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 62: mea me ambitio ab omni illā cogitatione abstrahebat, id. Sull. 4: cum ambitionis nostrae tempora postulabant, id. Planc. 18, 45: si infinitus forensium rerum labor et ambitionis occupatio decursu honorum etiam aetatis flexu constitisset, id. de Or. 1, 1, 1: hic magistratus a populo summā ambitione contenditur, id. Verr. 2, 53, 131: tanta exarsit ambitio, ut primores civitatis prensarent homines, Liv. 3, 35, 1 et saep.—
In gen., a striving for one's favor or good-will; an excessive desire to please, flattery, adulation: ambitione labi, Cic. Brut. 69, 244: sive aliquā suspitione sive ambitione adducti, id. Clu. 28, 76: in Scipione ambitio major, vita tristior, id. Off. 1, 30, 108 Heus., Beier, and Gernh.: Dionysius Platonem magnā ambitione Syracusas perduxit, in an ostentatious manner, for the purpose of securing his favor, Nep. Dion, 2, 2 Br. and Dähn.: ambitio (i.e. studium Fabiis placendi) obstabat, Liv. 5, 36: ambitione relegatā, without flattery, Hor. S. 1, 10, 84: ambitionem scriptoris facile averseris, obtrectatio et livor pronis auribus accipiuntur, Tac. H. 1, 1: nullo officii aut ambitionis genere omisso, i.e. nullis blanditiis, Suet. Oth. 4: coronas quam parcissime et sine ambitione tribuit, id. Aug. 25 et saep.—Hence, also partiality: jus sibi per ambitionem dictum non esse, Liv. 3, 47.—
   B With the predom. idea of the purpose or end, a desire for honor, popularity, power, display, etc.; in bon. part., ambition; in mal. part., vanity.—So in Lucr. of the ambitious efforts of men: Angustum per iter luctantes ambitionis, struggling to press through the narrow way of ambition, Lucr. 5, 1132: me ambitio quaedam ad honorum studium duxit, Cic. Att. 1, 17: Miserrima omnino est ambitio honorumque contentio, id. Off. 1, 25: a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat, Sall. C. 4, 2: aut ab avaritiā aut miserā ambitione laborat, Hor. S. 1, 4, 26: Vitā solutorum miserā ambitione gravique, id. ib. 1, 6, 129; so id. ib. 2, 3, 78; 2, 6, 18: inanis, id. Ep. 2, 2, 207: levis, Ov. F. 1, 103 al.: licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, tamen frequenter causa virtutum est, Quint. 1, 2, 22: perversa, id. 10, 7, 20: funerum nulla ambitio, no display, pomp, Tac. G. 27.—
   C Great exertion: cum admitti magnā ambitione aegre obtinuisset, Just. 1, 3.—
   D That which surrounds (v. ambio, 2.; postclass. for ambitus): vimineos alveos circumdant ambitione tergorum bubulorum, with a wrapping of cowhide, Sol. 22: fuliginem ambitio extimae cutis cohibet, id. 35: ita assedimus, ut me ex tribus medium lateris ambitione protegerent, Min. Oct. 4.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

ambĭtĭō,⁸ ōnis, f. (ambio),
1 tournées (démarches) des candidats pour solliciter les suffrages, par des voies légitimes ambitus brigue, c.-à-d. emploi de moyens illégitimes] : ambitio et forensis labor Cic. Sulla 11, les démarches pour parvenir aux magistratures et le travail du barreau, cf. de Or. 1, 94 ; Mil. 42 ; Liv. 7, 39, 12 ; etc.
2 [en gén.] ambition : miserrima est ambitio honorumque contentio Cic. Off. 1, 87, il n’y a rien de plus misérable que l’ambition et la lutte pour les honneurs ; me ambitio quædam ad honorum studium duxit Cic. Att. 1, 17, 5, un sentiment d’ambition m’a conduit à la recherche des magistratures ; ambitio mala Sall. C. 4, 2, une ambition funeste [misera Hor. S. 1, 6, 129 ] || désir de popularité : in Scipione ambitio major Cic. Off. 1, 108, dans Scipion il y avait un plus grand désir de popularité, cf. Liv. 22, 42, 12 || désir de se faire bien venir, complaisances intéressées : non puto existimare te ambitione me labi, quippe de mortuis Cic. Br. 244, je n’imagine pas que tu me juges entraîné par l’esprit de complaisance, puisque c’est de morts que je parle, cf. Verr. 2, 2, 98 ; Clu. 76 ; officii potius in socios quam ambitionis in cives rationem ducere Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 154, se préoccuper de remplir son devoir envers les alliés plutôt que de se faire bien venir des citoyens romains ; ambitio scriptoris Tac. H. 1, 1, les complaisances (désir de plaire) d’un écrivain ; tanta temperantia inter ambitionem sævitiamque moderatus Sall. J. 45, 1, tant il gardait un juste milieu entre la complaisance et la sévérité excessive || ambitio gloriæ Tac. Ann. 15, 16, l’ambition (la poursuite) de la gloire
3 pompe, faste : funerum nulla ambitio Tac. G. 27, dans les funérailles pas de faste ; Dionysius Platonem magna ambitione Syracusas perduxit Nep. Dion 2, 2, Denys le tyran fit amener Platon à Syracuse avec grande pompe
4 [au pr.] action d’entourer, d’aller autour, de se répandre : Macr. Scip. 1, 17, 16 ; 1, 20, 26 ; Tert. Nat. 1, 7, etc.

Latin > German (Georges)

ambitio, ōnis, f. (ambio), das Herumgehen, I) im allg., a) abstr., der Umlauf, die Bahn eines Planeten, Macr. somn. Scip. 1, 17, 16 u. 20, 26. – b) konkret, die Umgebung, Solin. 22, 7; 35, 8. Minuc. Fel. 4, 6. – II) prägn., das Herumgehen als Bittsteller. 1) eig., als publiz. t.t., die Bewerbung um ein Ehrenamt durch persönl. Anhalten beim Volke, die Amtsbewerbung, homines ad ambitionem gratiosissimi, Cic.: quod me ambitio et forensis labor ab omni illa cogitatione abstrahebat, Cic.: scio enim quam timida sit ambitio, Cic.: illis difficile est in potestatibus temperare, qui per ambitionem probos se simulavere, bei ihren Amtsbewerbungen, Sall.: tanta exarsit ambitio, ut primores etiam civitatis prensarent homines, Liv.: u. Plur., ut studia cupiditatesque honorum atque ambitiones ex hominibus civitatibusque tollerentur, Cic. Verr. 2, 132: quid de nostris ambitionibus, quid de cupiditate honorum loquar? Cic. Tusc. 2, 62. – ambitio annua, die jährliche Bewerbung (um das Königsamt bei den Vejentern), Liv. 5, 1, 3. – 2) übtr.: a) das Streben nach äußerer Ehre, u. zwar: α) der Drang-, das Streben nach Ehre u. Rang im Staate, das Streben-, die Rücksichten des Ehrgeizes, die ehrgeizigen Bestrebungen u. Pläne, der Ehrgeiz, die Ehrsucht des nach Ehrenstellen u. hoher Stellung Strebenden, licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, tamen frequenter causa virtutis est, Quint.: me ambitio quaedam ad honorum studium duxit, Cic.: in Scipione ambitio maior, Cic.: a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat, Sall.: aut ab avaritia aut miserā ambitione (den leidigen Ehrgeiz) laborat, Hor.: quibus ambitio est m. folg. Infin., Tac. ann. 14, 22: Plur., Rutil. Lup. 2, 16. – β) das Streben nach Ehre bei andern übh., der Ehrgeiz, die Ehrsucht übh., dah. auch die Sucht zu glänzen, die Eitelkeit, Prunksucht (s. Kritz Tac. Agr. 1, 2), declamatores quosdam perversa ducit ambitio, ut expositā controversiā protinus dicere velint, Quint.: ambitio et luxuria et impotentia scaenam desiderant, Sen.: ambitione relegatā te dicere possum, ohne jede Eitelkeit, ohne jeden eitlen Dünkel, Hor.: hiemem non per oppida neque ex ambitione mea egi, nicht nach Eingebungen meiner Eitelkeit, Sall. fr.: funerum nulla ambitio, bei L. kein eitler Prunk, Tac.: magnā eum (Platonem) ambitione Syracusas perduxit, mit Aufsehen machendem großem Gepränge, Nep.: non fames nobis ventris nostri magno constat, sed ambitio, Sen. – b) das Streben-, Haschen nach Gunst, das Buhlen um die Gunst der Menge od. der einzelnen, die man zu gewissen Zwecken braucht, Gunstbeflissenheit, Gunstbuhlerei, Gunsterschleichung, die Rücksichtnahme, die (selbstsüchtigen) Nebenrücksichten, das rücksichtsvolle-, berechnende Benehmen, die rück sichtsvolle Aufmerksamkeit, die rücksichtsvolle Nachsicht od. -Schonung, die Ansehung der Person, die selbstsüchtigen Absichten, die Wohldienerei, Liebedienerei, die Parteilichkeit (s. Halm Cic. Sest. 10 ed. mai. Heräus Tac. hist. 1, 1, 9), ambitio popularis, Iustin.: virtute vos victores vivere dixit, non ambitione neque perfidiā, Plaut.: non puto existimare te ambitione me labi, Cic.: dux tantā temperantiā inter ambitionem saevitiamque moderatus, gunstsuchender Milde, Sall.: ambitione vulgi tacitum favorem militum quaerunt, Iustin, (u. so oft von dem Buhlen des Feldherrn usw. um die Gunst der Soldaten, s. Fabri Sall. Iug. 45, 1 u. Liv. 22, 42, 12): ius sibi per ambitionem dictum non esse, aus parteilicher Rücksichtnahme, aus Parteilichkeit, Liv. – c) übh. das eifrige Streben, das Haschen nach etw., das Buhlen um etw., amb. gloriae, Tac.: ambitio conciliandae provinciae ad spes novas, Tac. – absol. = eifrige Bemühung, magnā ambitione admitti non poterat, trotz der größten u. eifrigsten Bemühungen, Iustin. 1, 3, 2: u. so somnum quibuscumque ambitionibus adhibendum, Cael. Aur. acut. 1, 17, 171.

Spanish > Greek

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