commisceo
ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
com-miscĕo: (con-m-), miscui, mixtum, or mistum, 2, v. a.,
I to mix or mingle together, to intermingle (class.).
I Lit., constr. with cum, with abl., with in or inter, and absol.
A With cum and abl.: postea amurcam cum aquā commisceto aequas partis, Cato, R. R. 93; 103; 109: ventus... se cum eo commiscuit igni, Lucr. 6, 276: ignem illum sempiternum (Vestae) cum totius urbis incendio, Cic. Dom. 57, 144: servos cum ingenuis, Suet. Aug. 25.—
B With abl.: canes capro commixta, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 40: commixta. vis venti calore, Lucr 6, 322: liquidum corpus turbantibus aëris auris, id. 5, 502: frusta cruento commixta mero, Verg. A. 3, 633: commixtis igne tenebris, id. ib. 8, 255: aether... magno commixtus corpore, id. G. 2, 327: Chio nota si commixta Falerni est, Hor. S. 1, 10, 24: commixtae salivae melle, Suet. Vit. 2: reliquias Phyllidis cineribus Juliae, id. Dom. 17: crocum aquā pluviali, Scrib. Comp. 265.—
C With in or inter: inter se omnia pariter, Cato, R. R. 96, 1: necesse est ventus et aër Et calor inter se vigeant commixta per artus, Lucr. 3, 283: fumus in auras Commixtus tenuis, Verg. G. 4, 500.—
D Absol.: commisce mulsum, Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 7: in hac (patinā) scarorum jocinera, phasianarum cerebella... commiscuit, Suet. Vit. 13.—Esp., in part. perf., mingled, compounded: cibos omnis commixto corpore dicent Esse, Lucr. 1, 861: fert commixtam ad astra favillam, Verg. A. 9, 76; cf.: commixti corpore tantum Subsident Teucri, id. ib. 12, 835.—Esp., of sexual union: commiscendorum corporum libidines, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128: commisceri, Jul. Epit. Nov. 107, § 373.—
II Transf., in gen., to unite, bring together, join, mingle: ego abeo a te, ne quid tecum consili conmisceam, Plaut Mil. 2, 5, 68: siquis cum eo (Neptuno) quid rei conmiscuit, id. Rud. 2, 6, 3: jus accusatoris cum jure testimonii, Auct. Her. 4, 35, 47: numquam temeritas cum sapientiā comm iscetur, Cic. Marcell. 2, 7: gemitu commixta querella, Lucr. 6, 1159: attulit hunc illi caecis terroribus aura Commixtum clamorem, Verg. A. 12, 618: utrasque partis in computatione, Dig. 35, 2, 1, § 14.—
B To produce by mingling: Italo commixtus sanguine Silvius, i. e. of an Italian mother, Verg. A. 6, 762: materiae ex utroque commixtae, Quint. 3, 8, 55.
