innocens
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
in-nŏcens: entis, adj. (
I gen. plur. innocentūm, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 5; but innocentium, Cic. Verr. 4, 52, § 116), that does no harm.
I Lit., harmless, inoffensive, innoxious (syn. insons): epistula, Cic. Fam. 5, 18: ruina, Mart. 1, 83, 11: innocentis pocula Lesbii, Hor. C. 1, 17, 21: innocentior cibus, Plin. 23, 7, 67, § 132.—
II Transf., that harms no one, blameless, guiltless, innocent.
A In gen.: servus, Plant. Capt. 3, 5, 7: innocens is dicitur, non qui leviter nocet, sed qui nihil nocet, Cic. Tusc. 5, 14, 41: innocens si accusatus sit, absolvi potest, id. Rosc. Am. 20, 56: vir integer, innocens, religiosus, id. Verr. 2, 4, 4, § 7: parricidii, Flor. 4, 1: factorum innocens sum, Tac. A. 4, 34: innocentissimo patre privatus est, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 33, § 88: contentiones, carried on without bitterness, Vell. 1, 11, 6: vita innocentissimus, id. 2, 2, 2.—As subst.: innŏcens, entis, m., the guiltless man: cum innocente abstinentiā certabat (Cato), Sall. C. 54, 5; Auct. Her. 2, 3, 5. —
B In partic., disinterested, upright: praetores, Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 12: vir innocens et industrius, Suet. Vit. 2; Plin. Pan. 28, 3.—Hence, adv.: innŏcenter, harmlessly, blamelessly, innocently: vivere, Quint. 7, 4, 18: opes innocenter paratae, Tac. A. 4, 44.— Comp.: omnia, quae caeduntur, innocentius decrescente luna, quam crescente fiunt, more safely, better, Plin. 18, 32, 75, § 321: agere, Tac. H. 1, 9. — Sup.: vita innocentissime acta, Auct. Decl. ap. Sall. 2.
