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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 /> <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 /> <b>C</b> Great [[exertion]]: cum admitti magnā ambitione [[aegre]] obtinuisset, Just. 1, 3.—<br /> <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 /> <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 /> <b>C</b> Great [[exertion]]: cum admitti magnā ambitione [[aegre]] obtinuisset, Just. 1, 3.—<br /> <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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|gf=<b>ambĭtĭō</b>,⁸ ōnis, f. ([[ambio]]),<br /><b>1</b> 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.<br /><b>2</b> [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<br /><b>3</b> 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<br /><b>4</b> [au pr.] action d’entourer, d’aller autour, de se répandre : Macr. Scip. 1, 17, 16 ; 1, 20, 26 ; Tert. Nat. 1, 7, etc. | |||
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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 ]
