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|lshtext=<b>văco</b>: āvi, ātum, 1 (<br /><b>I</b> perf. vacui, Tert. Pall. 4; id. Pud. 8 fin.; id. adv. Val. 9), v. n. etym. dub., to be [[empty]], [[void]], or [[vacant]]; to be [[void]] of, or [[without]]; not to [[contain]] ([[class]].; cf.: [[careo]], [[egeo]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br /> <b>A</b> Lit., of [[space]], etc.<br /> <b>1</b> Absol.: quācumque vacat [[spatium]], [[quod]] [[inane]] vocamus, Lucr. 1, 507; so, [[spatium]], id. 2, 1053; 6, 1029: [[inane]], id. 1, 520: [[villa]] ita completa militibus est, ut vix [[triclinium]] ... vacaret, Cic. Att. 13, 52, 1: tota [[domus]] [[superior]] vacat, id. ib. 13, 12, 10: [[aedes]], Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 7: maximam putant esse laudem, [[quam]] latissime a suis finibus vacare agros, to be [[uninhabited]], [[uncultivated]], Caes. B. G. 4, 3: [[locus]], id. ib. 1, 28; Quint. 8, 6, 18; 9, 4, 118; 10, 3, 33: ostia [[septem]] Pulverulenta [[vacant]], [[septem]] [[sine]] flumine [[valles]], Ov. M. 2, 256: odi cum [[late]] splendida [[cera]] vacat, id. Am. 1, 11, 20: haec fiunt dum vacat [[harena]], Sen. Ep. 7, 4.—<br /> <b>2</b> With abl. (so [[most]] freq.): [[illa]] [[natura]] [[caelestis]] et [[terra]] vacat et umore, Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; cf. id. N. D. 2, 24, 64: [[mens]] [[vacans]] corpore, id. ib. 1, 10, 25: hoste vacare domos, Verg. A. 3, 123: ([[domus]]) quae Igne vacet, Ov. M. 2, 764: custode [[vacans]], id. ib. 2, 422: ora vacent epulis, i. e. [[abstain]] from, id. ib. 15, 478: ea [[pars]] oppidi, quae fluminis circuitu vacabat, Auct. B. G. 8, 41. —<br /> <b>3</b> With ab: haec a custodiis classium loca [[maxime]] vacabant, Caes. B. C. 3, 25.—<br /> <b>B</b> Transf., to be [[vacant]]. [[free]] from, [[without]], [[unoccupied]], etc.<br /> <b>1</b> With abl.: ejusmodi (nimiis animi) motibus [[sermo]] debet vacare, Cic. Off. 1, 38, 136: nulla vitae [[pars]] vacare [[officio]] potest, id. ib. 1, 2, 4: omni curatione et administratione rerum (dii), id. N. D. 1, 1, 2: studiis, id. de Or. 3, 11, 43: curā et negotio, id. Leg. 1, 3, 8: [[vitio]], id. ib. 3, 3, 10: culpā, id. Fam. 7, 3, 4: criminibus, Quint. 10, 1, 34: febri, Cels. 2, 14 med.: morbis, Dig. 21, 1, 53: [[amplitudo]] animi pulchrior, si vacet [[populo]], keeps [[free]] from, [[remains]] [[aloof]] from, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: [[respublica]] et milite [[illic]] et pecuniā vacet, be [[free]] from the [[necessity]] of furnishing, Liv. 2, 48, 9.—<br /> <b>2</b> With ab and abl.: nullum [[tempus]] [[illi]] [[umquam]] vacabat aut a forensi dictione aut a scribendo, Cic. Brut. 78, 272: (rex) [[quicquid]] a [[bellis]] populi Romani vacabat, cum hominibus nostris consuetudines jungebat, id. Deiot. 9, 27: a [[publico]] [[officio]] et munere, id. Div. 2, 2, 7: ab opere (milites), Caes. B. C. 3, 76: ne [[quando]] a metu ac periculis vacarent, Liv. 7, 1: [[vacant]] ab [[imbecillis]] valetudinaria, Col. 12, 3, 8: a culpā, Sen. Ep. 97, 1: a periculo, id. Q. N. 6, 1, 1: a negotiis, Phaedr. 3 prol.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br /> <b>A</b> To be [[free]] from [[labor]], not busied, [[idle]], at [[leisure]]; to [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]]: [[quamvis]] [[occupatus]] sis, otii [[tamen]] [[plus]] habes: aut, si ne tu [[quidem]] vacas, noli, etc., Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 1; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 27: [[festus]] in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove [[pagus]], Hor. C. 3, 18, 11: si vacabis, Cic. Att. 12, 38, 2: si [[forte]] vacas, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 95.—<br /> <b>2</b> After the Aug. per. esp. freq.<br /> <b>a</b> Vacare alicui rei, to be [[free]] to [[attend]], [[apply]], or [[devote]] one's [[self]] to [[something]]; to [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]] for a [[thing]] (cf. [[studeo]]): philosophiae, Quinte, [[semper]] [[vaco]], Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10: in itinere, [[quasi]] [[solutus]] ceteris [[curis]], huic uni vacaret, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15: huic uni negotio vacare, Vell. 2, 114, 1: [[ille]] non vacasse sermoni suo regem causatus discessit, Curt. 6, 7, 21: [[paulum]] [[etiam]] palaestricis, Quint. 1, 11, 15: [[studio]] operis pulcherrimi, id. 12, 1, 4: [[foro]], id. 10, 1, 114: clientium negotiis, Tac. A. 16, 22: non discendo [[tantum]] juri, sed [[etiam]] docendo, Quint. 12, 1, 10: libellis legendis ac rescribendis, Suet. Aug. 45: queruntur de superiorum [[fastidio]], [[quod]] ipsis adire volentibus non vacaverint, [[have]] no [[leisure]] for [[them]], can not [[attend]] to [[them]], Sen. Brev. Vit. 2, 5.—Rarely absol.: dum [[perago]] [[tecum]] pauca sed apta, vaca, Ov. Am. 2, 2, 2.—<br /> <b>b</b> Vacare ad aliquid: non [[vaco]] ad istas ineptias, Sen. Ep. 49, 9; cf. ([[poet]].): in [[grande]] [[opus]], Ov. P. 3, 3, 36; also, [[with]] inf.: sternere [[acies]], Stat. Th. 8, 185.—<br /> <b>c</b> Vacat (alicui), impers., [[there]] is [[time]], [[room]], or [[leisure]] for a [[thing]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br /> <b>(a)</b> With inf. (so [[most]] freq.): si primā repetens ab origine pergam Et vacet annales nostrorum audire laborum, Verg. A. 1, 373: [[tunc]] et elegiam vacabit in [[manus]] sumere, Quint. 10, 1, 58: non vacabit incohare haec studia, id. 1, 12, 12: [[hactenus]] indulsisse vacat, it is permitted, i. q. [[licet]], Verg. A. 10, 625 Heyne; imitated by Sil. 17, 374.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> With dat., I (thou, he, etc.) [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]] for a [[thing]]: nobis venari nec vacat nec [[libet]], Plin. Ep. 9, 16, 1: non vacat exiguis rebus adesse Jovi, Ov. Tr. 2, 216: nec nostris praebere vacet [[tibi]] cantibus aures, id. M. 5, 334: obstat [[enim]] diligentiae scribendi [[etiam]] [[fatigatio]] et [[abunde]], si vacet, lucis spatia sufficiunt, Quint. 10, 3, 27: cui esse diserto vacet, id. 11, 1, 50: quo [[magis]] te, cui vacat, [[hortor]], etc., Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 11; 8, 15, 1; Curt. 10, 10, 12; Vell. 1, 15, 1; 2, 124, 1.— Absol.: teneri properentur amores, Dum vacat, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 70: si vacat, Juv. 1, 21. —<br /> <b>B</b> Of possessions, lands, etc., to be [[unoccupied]], [[vacant]], ownerless: cum agri Ligustini ... aliquantum vacaret, senatūs [[consultum]] est [[factum]], ut is [[ager]] [[viritim]] divideretur, Liv. 42, 4, 3: fundi possessionem nancisci, quae ex neglegentiā domini vacat, Dig. 41, 3, 37: si [[nemo]] [[sit]], bona vacabunt, ib. 38, 7, 2 fin.—<br /> <b>2</b> Esp., of offices, relations, positions, employments, etc., to be [[vacant]], [[without]] [[incumbent]], etc.: si [[Piso]] adesset, nullius philosophiae vacaret [[locus]], Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 16: [[quid]] [[enim]] nostrā victum esse Antonium, si [[victus]] est, ut alii vacaret, [[quod]] [[ille]] obtinuit? [[may]] [[stand]] [[open]], Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 17, 6: [[rogo]] ut Suram praeturā exornare digneris, cuia [[locus]] vacet, Plin. Ep. 10, 12 (7), 1: [[rogo]] dignitati... vel auguratum vel septemviratum, [[quia]] [[vacant]], adicere digneris, id. ib. 10, 13 (8).— Hence, văcans, antis, P. a.<br /> <b>A</b> Empty, [[unoccupied]], [[without]] an [[owner]], [[vacant]]: [[locus]], Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16, 8: [[metaphora]] ... vacantem locum occupare debet, Quint. 8, 6, 18: [[regnum]], Just. 42, 4, 2; 25, 2, 4; 27, 3, 1: [[saltus]], Verg. G. 3, 477: [[balneae]], Tac. H. 3, 11: bona, Dig. 30, 1, 93; 30, 1, 111.— Subst.: văcantia, ĭum, n., [[vacant]] estates, [[property]] [[without]] an [[owner]]: ut, si a privilegiis parentum cessaretur, [[velut]] [[parens]] omnium [[populus]] vacantia teneret, Tac. A. 3, 28.—<br /> <b>B</b> Of women, [[single]], [[unmarried]], [[without]] a [[husband]]: qui vacantem mulierem rapuit vel nuptam, Dig. 48, 6, 5; Quint. Decl. 262 (cf. vacua, Ov. H. 20, 149).—<br /> <b>C</b> Of persons, at [[leisure]], [[unoccupied]], [[idle]]: nec petiit animum vacantem, Ov. M. 9, 612.— Subst.: văcantĭa, ĭum, n., [[that]] [[which]] is [[superfluous]], [[useless]] ([[post]]-[[class]].): vacantia ex quāque re ac non necessariā auferre et excidere, Gell. 6, 5, 6.—Hence, adv.: vă-[[canter]], [[superfluously]], Gell. 17, 10, 16. | |lshtext=<b>văco</b>: āvi, ātum, 1 (<br /><b>I</b> perf. vacui, Tert. Pall. 4; id. Pud. 8 fin.; id. adv. Val. 9), v. n. etym. dub., to be [[empty]], [[void]], or [[vacant]]; to be [[void]] of, or [[without]]; not to [[contain]] ([[class]].; cf.: [[careo]], [[egeo]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br /> <b>A</b> Lit., of [[space]], etc.<br /> <b>1</b> Absol.: quācumque vacat [[spatium]], [[quod]] [[inane]] vocamus, Lucr. 1, 507; so, [[spatium]], id. 2, 1053; 6, 1029: [[inane]], id. 1, 520: [[villa]] ita completa militibus est, ut vix [[triclinium]] ... vacaret, Cic. Att. 13, 52, 1: tota [[domus]] [[superior]] vacat, id. ib. 13, 12, 10: [[aedes]], Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 7: maximam putant esse laudem, [[quam]] latissime a suis finibus vacare agros, to be [[uninhabited]], [[uncultivated]], Caes. B. G. 4, 3: [[locus]], id. ib. 1, 28; Quint. 8, 6, 18; 9, 4, 118; 10, 3, 33: ostia [[septem]] Pulverulenta [[vacant]], [[septem]] [[sine]] flumine [[valles]], Ov. M. 2, 256: odi cum [[late]] splendida [[cera]] vacat, id. Am. 1, 11, 20: haec fiunt dum vacat [[harena]], Sen. Ep. 7, 4.—<br /> <b>2</b> With abl. (so [[most]] freq.): [[illa]] [[natura]] [[caelestis]] et [[terra]] vacat et umore, Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; cf. id. N. D. 2, 24, 64: [[mens]] [[vacans]] corpore, id. ib. 1, 10, 25: hoste vacare domos, Verg. A. 3, 123: ([[domus]]) quae Igne vacet, Ov. M. 2, 764: custode [[vacans]], id. ib. 2, 422: ora vacent epulis, i. e. [[abstain]] from, id. ib. 15, 478: ea [[pars]] oppidi, quae fluminis circuitu vacabat, Auct. B. G. 8, 41. —<br /> <b>3</b> With ab: haec a custodiis classium loca [[maxime]] vacabant, Caes. B. C. 3, 25.—<br /> <b>B</b> Transf., to be [[vacant]]. [[free]] from, [[without]], [[unoccupied]], etc.<br /> <b>1</b> With abl.: ejusmodi (nimiis animi) motibus [[sermo]] debet vacare, Cic. Off. 1, 38, 136: nulla vitae [[pars]] vacare [[officio]] potest, id. ib. 1, 2, 4: omni curatione et administratione rerum (dii), id. N. D. 1, 1, 2: studiis, id. de Or. 3, 11, 43: curā et negotio, id. Leg. 1, 3, 8: [[vitio]], id. ib. 3, 3, 10: culpā, id. Fam. 7, 3, 4: criminibus, Quint. 10, 1, 34: febri, Cels. 2, 14 med.: morbis, Dig. 21, 1, 53: [[amplitudo]] animi pulchrior, si vacet [[populo]], keeps [[free]] from, [[remains]] [[aloof]] from, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: [[respublica]] et milite [[illic]] et pecuniā vacet, be [[free]] from the [[necessity]] of furnishing, Liv. 2, 48, 9.—<br /> <b>2</b> With ab and abl.: nullum [[tempus]] [[illi]] [[umquam]] vacabat aut a forensi dictione aut a scribendo, Cic. Brut. 78, 272: (rex) [[quicquid]] a [[bellis]] populi Romani vacabat, cum hominibus nostris consuetudines jungebat, id. Deiot. 9, 27: a [[publico]] [[officio]] et munere, id. Div. 2, 2, 7: ab opere (milites), Caes. B. C. 3, 76: ne [[quando]] a metu ac periculis vacarent, Liv. 7, 1: [[vacant]] ab [[imbecillis]] valetudinaria, Col. 12, 3, 8: a culpā, Sen. Ep. 97, 1: a periculo, id. Q. N. 6, 1, 1: a negotiis, Phaedr. 3 prol.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br /> <b>A</b> To be [[free]] from [[labor]], not busied, [[idle]], at [[leisure]]; to [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]]: [[quamvis]] [[occupatus]] sis, otii [[tamen]] [[plus]] habes: aut, si ne tu [[quidem]] vacas, noli, etc., Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 1; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 27: [[festus]] in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove [[pagus]], Hor. C. 3, 18, 11: si vacabis, Cic. Att. 12, 38, 2: si [[forte]] vacas, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 95.—<br /> <b>2</b> After the Aug. per. esp. freq.<br /> <b>a</b> Vacare alicui rei, to be [[free]] to [[attend]], [[apply]], or [[devote]] one's [[self]] to [[something]]; to [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]] for a [[thing]] (cf. [[studeo]]): philosophiae, Quinte, [[semper]] [[vaco]], Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10: in itinere, [[quasi]] [[solutus]] ceteris [[curis]], huic uni vacaret, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15: huic uni negotio vacare, Vell. 2, 114, 1: [[ille]] non vacasse sermoni suo regem causatus discessit, Curt. 6, 7, 21: [[paulum]] [[etiam]] palaestricis, Quint. 1, 11, 15: [[studio]] operis pulcherrimi, id. 12, 1, 4: [[foro]], id. 10, 1, 114: clientium negotiis, Tac. A. 16, 22: non discendo [[tantum]] juri, sed [[etiam]] docendo, Quint. 12, 1, 10: libellis legendis ac rescribendis, Suet. Aug. 45: queruntur de superiorum [[fastidio]], [[quod]] ipsis adire volentibus non vacaverint, [[have]] no [[leisure]] for [[them]], can not [[attend]] to [[them]], Sen. Brev. Vit. 2, 5.—Rarely absol.: dum [[perago]] [[tecum]] pauca sed apta, vaca, Ov. Am. 2, 2, 2.—<br /> <b>b</b> Vacare ad aliquid: non [[vaco]] ad istas ineptias, Sen. Ep. 49, 9; cf. ([[poet]].): in [[grande]] [[opus]], Ov. P. 3, 3, 36; also, [[with]] inf.: sternere [[acies]], Stat. Th. 8, 185.—<br /> <b>c</b> Vacat (alicui), impers., [[there]] is [[time]], [[room]], or [[leisure]] for a [[thing]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br /> <b>(a)</b> With inf. (so [[most]] freq.): si primā repetens ab origine pergam Et vacet annales nostrorum audire laborum, Verg. A. 1, 373: [[tunc]] et elegiam vacabit in [[manus]] sumere, Quint. 10, 1, 58: non vacabit incohare haec studia, id. 1, 12, 12: [[hactenus]] indulsisse vacat, it is permitted, i. q. [[licet]], Verg. A. 10, 625 Heyne; imitated by Sil. 17, 374.—<br /> <b>(b)</b> With dat., I (thou, he, etc.) [[have]] [[leisure]] or [[time]] for a [[thing]]: nobis venari nec vacat nec [[libet]], Plin. Ep. 9, 16, 1: non vacat exiguis rebus adesse Jovi, Ov. Tr. 2, 216: nec nostris praebere vacet [[tibi]] cantibus aures, id. M. 5, 334: obstat [[enim]] diligentiae scribendi [[etiam]] [[fatigatio]] et [[abunde]], si vacet, lucis spatia sufficiunt, Quint. 10, 3, 27: cui esse diserto vacet, id. 11, 1, 50: quo [[magis]] te, cui vacat, [[hortor]], etc., Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 11; 8, 15, 1; Curt. 10, 10, 12; Vell. 1, 15, 1; 2, 124, 1.— Absol.: teneri properentur amores, Dum vacat, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 70: si vacat, Juv. 1, 21. —<br /> <b>B</b> Of possessions, lands, etc., to be [[unoccupied]], [[vacant]], ownerless: cum agri Ligustini ... aliquantum vacaret, senatūs [[consultum]] est [[factum]], ut is [[ager]] [[viritim]] divideretur, Liv. 42, 4, 3: fundi possessionem nancisci, quae ex neglegentiā domini vacat, Dig. 41, 3, 37: si [[nemo]] [[sit]], bona vacabunt, ib. 38, 7, 2 fin.—<br /> <b>2</b> Esp., of offices, relations, positions, employments, etc., to be [[vacant]], [[without]] [[incumbent]], etc.: si [[Piso]] adesset, nullius philosophiae vacaret [[locus]], Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 16: [[quid]] [[enim]] nostrā victum esse Antonium, si [[victus]] est, ut alii vacaret, [[quod]] [[ille]] obtinuit? [[may]] [[stand]] [[open]], Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 17, 6: [[rogo]] ut Suram praeturā exornare digneris, cuia [[locus]] vacet, Plin. Ep. 10, 12 (7), 1: [[rogo]] dignitati... vel auguratum vel septemviratum, [[quia]] [[vacant]], adicere digneris, id. ib. 10, 13 (8).— Hence, văcans, antis, P. a.<br /> <b>A</b> Empty, [[unoccupied]], [[without]] an [[owner]], [[vacant]]: [[locus]], Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16, 8: [[metaphora]] ... vacantem locum occupare debet, Quint. 8, 6, 18: [[regnum]], Just. 42, 4, 2; 25, 2, 4; 27, 3, 1: [[saltus]], Verg. G. 3, 477: [[balneae]], Tac. H. 3, 11: bona, Dig. 30, 1, 93; 30, 1, 111.— Subst.: văcantia, ĭum, n., [[vacant]] estates, [[property]] [[without]] an [[owner]]: ut, si a privilegiis parentum cessaretur, [[velut]] [[parens]] omnium [[populus]] vacantia teneret, Tac. A. 3, 28.—<br /> <b>B</b> Of women, [[single]], [[unmarried]], [[without]] a [[husband]]: qui vacantem mulierem rapuit vel nuptam, Dig. 48, 6, 5; Quint. Decl. 262 (cf. vacua, Ov. H. 20, 149).—<br /> <b>C</b> Of persons, at [[leisure]], [[unoccupied]], [[idle]]: nec petiit animum vacantem, Ov. M. 9, 612.— Subst.: văcantĭa, ĭum, n., [[that]] [[which]] is [[superfluous]], [[useless]] ([[post]]-[[class]].): vacantia ex quāque re ac non necessariā auferre et excidere, Gell. 6, 5, 6.—Hence, adv.: vă-[[canter]], [[superfluously]], Gell. 17, 10, 16. | ||
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|gf=<b>văcō</b>,⁸ āvī, ātum, āre, intr.<br /> <b>I</b> être vide<br /><b>1</b> être libre, inoccupé, vacant : tota [[domus]] [[superior]] vacat Cic. Att. 12, 10, tout le [[haut]] de la maison [[est]] vide ; noluit locum vacare Cæs. G. 1, 28, 4, il ne voulut pas que la région restât inoccupée, inhabitée, cf. G. 4, 3, 1 || pl. n. vacantia Tac. Ann. 3, 28, les biens vacants, [mais Gell. 6, 5, 6 = choses sans emploi, inutiles]<br /><b>2</b> [avec abl.] être libre de, être sans : [[mens]] [[vacans]] corpore Cic. Nat. 1, 25, intelligence incorporelle, cf. Nat. 2, 64 ; Tusc. 1, 65 ; [[culpa]] vacare Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 4, être sans faute, n’avoir [[rien]] à se reprocher ; omni animi perturbatione Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, être exempt de toute passion || [avec ab ] : hæc a custodiis classium [[loca]] vacabant Cæs. C. 3, 25, 4, ces parages n’étaient pas gardés par les flottes ; ab opere Cæs. C. 3, 76, 3, n’avoir pas à travailler à un retranchement ; nullum [[tempus]] [[illi]] [[umquam]] vacabat a forensi dictione Cic. Br. 272, il ne laissait [[passer]] aucun moment sans parler au [[forum]], cf. Cic. Dej. 27 ; Div. 2, 7 ; a [[culpa]] Sen. Ep. 97, 1, n’être pas coupable.<br /> <b>II</b> être inoccupé, oisif ;<br /><b>1</b> être de loisir : si ne tu [[quidem]] vacas Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 1, si toi [[non]] [[plus]], tu n’as pas de loisir, cf. Cic. Att. 12, 38, 2 ; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 95<br /><b>2</b> vacare alicui [[rei]], avoir des loisirs pour qqch. ; philosophiæ Cic. Div. 1, 10, avoir du loisir pour la [[philosophie]] || [avec ad] Sen. Ep. 49, 9 ; [avec in acc., poét.] Ov. P. 3, 3, 36 ; [d’où] vaquer à qqch., donner son temps à qqch., s’occuper de qqch., dans Sen., Tac., Plin., Quint., etc. ; corpori Plin. Min. Ep. 9, 1, 4, exercer son corps ; [[foro]] Quint. 10, 1, 114, se consacrer au barreau ; discendo juri Quint. 12, 1, 10, s’occuper de l’étude du droit || donner son temps à qqn, être libre pour qqn : Sen. Brev. 2, 5 || [avec inf.] s’occuper de : Stat. Th. 8, 186.<br /> <b>III</b> impers., le temps ne manque pas, il y a loisir, il [[est]] loisible,<br /><b>1</b> [avec inf.] : elegiam vacabit in [[manus]] sumere Quint. 10, 1, 58, il [[sera]] loisible de prendre en mains les poètes élégiaques, cf. Virg. En. 1, 373 ; [[nobis]] venari [[non]] vacat Plin. Min. Ep. 9, 16, 1, nous n’avons pas le loisir de chasser, cf. Ov. Tr. 2, 1, 216 ; M. 5, 334<br /><b>2</b> abs<sup>t</sup>] : tu, [[cui]] vacat Plin. Min. Ep. 1, 10, 11, toi, qui as du loisir, cf. Plin. Min. Ep. 8, 15, 1 ; [[dum]] vacat Ov. Am. 3, 1, 70, pendant que loisir il y a, cf. Juv. 1, 21. arch. [[voco]] Pl. Cas. 527 [jeu de mots sur [[voco]], être vide et [[voco]], appeler]. | |||
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văco: āvi, ātum, 1 (
I perf. vacui, Tert. Pall. 4; id. Pud. 8 fin.; id. adv. Val. 9), v. n. etym. dub., to be empty, void, or vacant; to be void of, or without; not to contain (class.; cf.: careo, egeo).
I In gen.
A Lit., of space, etc.
1 Absol.: quācumque vacat spatium, quod inane vocamus, Lucr. 1, 507; so, spatium, id. 2, 1053; 6, 1029: inane, id. 1, 520: villa ita completa militibus est, ut vix triclinium ... vacaret, Cic. Att. 13, 52, 1: tota domus superior vacat, id. ib. 13, 12, 10: aedes, Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 7: maximam putant esse laudem, quam latissime a suis finibus vacare agros, to be uninhabited, uncultivated, Caes. B. G. 4, 3: locus, id. ib. 1, 28; Quint. 8, 6, 18; 9, 4, 118; 10, 3, 33: ostia septem Pulverulenta vacant, septem sine flumine valles, Ov. M. 2, 256: odi cum late splendida cera vacat, id. Am. 1, 11, 20: haec fiunt dum vacat harena, Sen. Ep. 7, 4.—
2 With abl. (so most freq.): illa natura caelestis et terra vacat et umore, Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65; cf. id. N. D. 2, 24, 64: mens vacans corpore, id. ib. 1, 10, 25: hoste vacare domos, Verg. A. 3, 123: (domus) quae Igne vacet, Ov. M. 2, 764: custode vacans, id. ib. 2, 422: ora vacent epulis, i. e. abstain from, id. ib. 15, 478: ea pars oppidi, quae fluminis circuitu vacabat, Auct. B. G. 8, 41. —
3 With ab: haec a custodiis classium loca maxime vacabant, Caes. B. C. 3, 25.—
B Transf., to be vacant. free from, without, unoccupied, etc.
1 With abl.: ejusmodi (nimiis animi) motibus sermo debet vacare, Cic. Off. 1, 38, 136: nulla vitae pars vacare officio potest, id. ib. 1, 2, 4: omni curatione et administratione rerum (dii), id. N. D. 1, 1, 2: studiis, id. de Or. 3, 11, 43: curā et negotio, id. Leg. 1, 3, 8: vitio, id. ib. 3, 3, 10: culpā, id. Fam. 7, 3, 4: criminibus, Quint. 10, 1, 34: febri, Cels. 2, 14 med.: morbis, Dig. 21, 1, 53: amplitudo animi pulchrior, si vacet populo, keeps free from, remains aloof from, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: respublica et milite illic et pecuniā vacet, be free from the necessity of furnishing, Liv. 2, 48, 9.—
2 With ab and abl.: nullum tempus illi umquam vacabat aut a forensi dictione aut a scribendo, Cic. Brut. 78, 272: (rex) quicquid a bellis populi Romani vacabat, cum hominibus nostris consuetudines jungebat, id. Deiot. 9, 27: a publico officio et munere, id. Div. 2, 2, 7: ab opere (milites), Caes. B. C. 3, 76: ne quando a metu ac periculis vacarent, Liv. 7, 1: vacant ab imbecillis valetudinaria, Col. 12, 3, 8: a culpā, Sen. Ep. 97, 1: a periculo, id. Q. N. 6, 1, 1: a negotiis, Phaedr. 3 prol.—
II In partic.
A To be free from labor, not busied, idle, at leisure; to have leisure or time: quamvis occupatus sis, otii tamen plus habes: aut, si ne tu quidem vacas, noli, etc., Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 1; cf. Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13, 1; Quint. 10, 3, 27: festus in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove pagus, Hor. C. 3, 18, 11: si vacabis, Cic. Att. 12, 38, 2: si forte vacas, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 95.—
2 After the Aug. per. esp. freq.
a Vacare alicui rei, to be free to attend, apply, or devote one's self to something; to have leisure or time for a thing (cf. studeo): philosophiae, Quinte, semper vaco, Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10: in itinere, quasi solutus ceteris curis, huic uni vacaret, Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15: huic uni negotio vacare, Vell. 2, 114, 1: ille non vacasse sermoni suo regem causatus discessit, Curt. 6, 7, 21: paulum etiam palaestricis, Quint. 1, 11, 15: studio operis pulcherrimi, id. 12, 1, 4: foro, id. 10, 1, 114: clientium negotiis, Tac. A. 16, 22: non discendo tantum juri, sed etiam docendo, Quint. 12, 1, 10: libellis legendis ac rescribendis, Suet. Aug. 45: queruntur de superiorum fastidio, quod ipsis adire volentibus non vacaverint, have no leisure for them, can not attend to them, Sen. Brev. Vit. 2, 5.—Rarely absol.: dum perago tecum pauca sed apta, vaca, Ov. Am. 2, 2, 2.—
b Vacare ad aliquid: non vaco ad istas ineptias, Sen. Ep. 49, 9; cf. (poet.): in grande opus, Ov. P. 3, 3, 36; also, with inf.: sternere acies, Stat. Th. 8, 185.—
c Vacat (alicui), impers., there is time, room, or leisure for a thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
(a) With inf. (so most freq.): si primā repetens ab origine pergam Et vacet annales nostrorum audire laborum, Verg. A. 1, 373: tunc et elegiam vacabit in manus sumere, Quint. 10, 1, 58: non vacabit incohare haec studia, id. 1, 12, 12: hactenus indulsisse vacat, it is permitted, i. q. licet, Verg. A. 10, 625 Heyne; imitated by Sil. 17, 374.—
(b) With dat., I (thou, he, etc.) have leisure or time for a thing: nobis venari nec vacat nec libet, Plin. Ep. 9, 16, 1: non vacat exiguis rebus adesse Jovi, Ov. Tr. 2, 216: nec nostris praebere vacet tibi cantibus aures, id. M. 5, 334: obstat enim diligentiae scribendi etiam fatigatio et abunde, si vacet, lucis spatia sufficiunt, Quint. 10, 3, 27: cui esse diserto vacet, id. 11, 1, 50: quo magis te, cui vacat, hortor, etc., Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 11; 8, 15, 1; Curt. 10, 10, 12; Vell. 1, 15, 1; 2, 124, 1.— Absol.: teneri properentur amores, Dum vacat, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 70: si vacat, Juv. 1, 21. —
B Of possessions, lands, etc., to be unoccupied, vacant, ownerless: cum agri Ligustini ... aliquantum vacaret, senatūs consultum est factum, ut is ager viritim divideretur, Liv. 42, 4, 3: fundi possessionem nancisci, quae ex neglegentiā domini vacat, Dig. 41, 3, 37: si nemo sit, bona vacabunt, ib. 38, 7, 2 fin.—
2 Esp., of offices, relations, positions, employments, etc., to be vacant, without incumbent, etc.: si Piso adesset, nullius philosophiae vacaret locus, Cic. N. D. 1, 7, 16: quid enim nostrā victum esse Antonium, si victus est, ut alii vacaret, quod ille obtinuit? may stand open, Brut. ap. Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 17, 6: rogo ut Suram praeturā exornare digneris, cuia locus vacet, Plin. Ep. 10, 12 (7), 1: rogo dignitati... vel auguratum vel septemviratum, quia vacant, adicere digneris, id. ib. 10, 13 (8).— Hence, văcans, antis, P. a.
A Empty, unoccupied, without an owner, vacant: locus, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16, 8: metaphora ... vacantem locum occupare debet, Quint. 8, 6, 18: regnum, Just. 42, 4, 2; 25, 2, 4; 27, 3, 1: saltus, Verg. G. 3, 477: balneae, Tac. H. 3, 11: bona, Dig. 30, 1, 93; 30, 1, 111.— Subst.: văcantia, ĭum, n., vacant estates, property without an owner: ut, si a privilegiis parentum cessaretur, velut parens omnium populus vacantia teneret, Tac. A. 3, 28.—
B Of women, single, unmarried, without a husband: qui vacantem mulierem rapuit vel nuptam, Dig. 48, 6, 5; Quint. Decl. 262 (cf. vacua, Ov. H. 20, 149).—
C Of persons, at leisure, unoccupied, idle: nec petiit animum vacantem, Ov. M. 9, 612.— Subst.: văcantĭa, ĭum, n., that which is superfluous, useless (post-class.): vacantia ex quāque re ac non necessariā auferre et excidere, Gell. 6, 5, 6.—Hence, adv.: vă-canter, superfluously, Gell. 17, 10, 16.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
văcō,⁸ āvī, ātum, āre, intr.
I être vide
1 être libre, inoccupé, vacant : tota domus superior vacat Cic. Att. 12, 10, tout le haut de la maison est vide ; noluit locum vacare Cæs. G. 1, 28, 4, il ne voulut pas que la région restât inoccupée, inhabitée, cf. G. 4, 3, 1 || pl. n. vacantia Tac. Ann. 3, 28, les biens vacants, [mais Gell. 6, 5, 6 = choses sans emploi, inutiles]
2 [avec abl.] être libre de, être sans : mens vacans corpore Cic. Nat. 1, 25, intelligence incorporelle, cf. Nat. 2, 64 ; Tusc. 1, 65 ; culpa vacare Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 4, être sans faute, n’avoir rien à se reprocher ; omni animi perturbatione Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, être exempt de toute passion || [avec ab ] : hæc a custodiis classium loca vacabant Cæs. C. 3, 25, 4, ces parages n’étaient pas gardés par les flottes ; ab opere Cæs. C. 3, 76, 3, n’avoir pas à travailler à un retranchement ; nullum tempus illi umquam vacabat a forensi dictione Cic. Br. 272, il ne laissait passer aucun moment sans parler au forum, cf. Cic. Dej. 27 ; Div. 2, 7 ; a culpa Sen. Ep. 97, 1, n’être pas coupable.
II être inoccupé, oisif ;
1 être de loisir : si ne tu quidem vacas Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 1, si toi non plus, tu n’as pas de loisir, cf. Cic. Att. 12, 38, 2 ; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 95
2 vacare alicui rei, avoir des loisirs pour qqch. ; philosophiæ Cic. Div. 1, 10, avoir du loisir pour la philosophie || [avec ad] Sen. Ep. 49, 9 ; [avec in acc., poét.] Ov. P. 3, 3, 36 ; [d’où] vaquer à qqch., donner son temps à qqch., s’occuper de qqch., dans Sen., Tac., Plin., Quint., etc. ; corpori Plin. Min. Ep. 9, 1, 4, exercer son corps ; foro Quint. 10, 1, 114, se consacrer au barreau ; discendo juri Quint. 12, 1, 10, s’occuper de l’étude du droit || donner son temps à qqn, être libre pour qqn : Sen. Brev. 2, 5 || [avec inf.] s’occuper de : Stat. Th. 8, 186.
III impers., le temps ne manque pas, il y a loisir, il est loisible,
1 [avec inf.] : elegiam vacabit in manus sumere Quint. 10, 1, 58, il sera loisible de prendre en mains les poètes élégiaques, cf. Virg. En. 1, 373 ; nobis venari non vacat Plin. Min. Ep. 9, 16, 1, nous n’avons pas le loisir de chasser, cf. Ov. Tr. 2, 1, 216 ; M. 5, 334
2 abst] : tu, cui vacat Plin. Min. Ep. 1, 10, 11, toi, qui as du loisir, cf. Plin. Min. Ep. 8, 15, 1 ; dum vacat Ov. Am. 3, 1, 70, pendant que loisir il y a, cf. Juv. 1, 21. arch. voco Pl. Cas. 527 [jeu de mots sur voco, être vide et voco, appeler].
