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χλανίσι δὲ δὴ φαναῖσι περιπεπεµµένοι καὶ µαστίχην τρώγοντες, ὄζοντες µύρου. τὸ δ’ ὅλον οὐκ ἐπίσταµαι ἐγὼ ψιθυρίζειν, οὐδὲ κατακεκλασµένος πλάγιον ποιήσας τὸν τράχηλον περιπατεῖν, ὥσπερ ἑτέρους ὁρῶ κιναίδους ἐνθάδε πολλοὺς ἐν ἄστει καὶ πεπιττοκοπηµένους → Dressed up in bright clean fine cloaks and nibbling pine-thistle, smelling of myrrh. But I do not at all know how to whisper, nor how to be enervated, and make my neck go back and forth, just as I see many others, kinaidoi, here in the city, do, and waxed with pitch-plasters.
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rĕcens: entis (
I abl. sing., regularly, recenti; but in the poets sometimes recente, e. g. Cat. 63, 7; Ov. F. 4, 346 al.—Gen. plur., regularly, recentium: recentum, Hor. C. 1, 10, 2; Sil. 15, 601), adj. re and cand-; cf.: candeo, candor; Gr. καινός, καίω, that has not long existed, fresh, young, recent (opp. vetus, and differing from novus; v. antiquus init. (freq. and class.): quod si veteris contumeliae oblivisci vellet: num etiam recentium injuriarum memoriam deponere posse? Caes. B. G. 1, 14; 5, 54: (Verres) cum e provinciā recens esset invidiāque et infamiā non recenti sed vetere ac diuturnā flagraret, Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5: Regini quidam eo venerunt, Romā sane recentes, directly from Rome, id. Att. 16, 7, 1: omnis conglutinatio recens aegre, inveterata facile divellitur, id. Sen. 20, 72; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 17, 39: sed hanc ipsam recentem novam devoravit, id. Fam. 11, 21, 2; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 34: viri, Cic. Mur. 8, 17: (piscis) nequam est, nisi recens, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 26; cf. id. Ps. 4, 7, 25: catuli, just whelped, young, Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 4: tonsae (oves), newly shorn, id. ib. 2, 11, 7: caespites, Caes. B. C. 3, 96; cf. flores, Hor. C. 3, 27, 43; Ov. F. 4, 346: herbae, id. ib. 5, 123: serta, Verg. A. 1, 417: prata, fresh, green, id. ib. 6, 674 Serv.: sanguis, newly shed, Cat. 63, 7: sol, poet. for the rising sun, the east, Pers. 5, 54: proelium, Caes. B. G. 4, 13 fin.: victoria, id. ib. 1, 31 fin.; 5, 47: clades, Liv. 2, 22, 4 Drak. N. cr.: pollicitatio, Caes. B. C. 1, 57 fin.: arma, fresh, newly whetted, Ov. M. 8, 370: umbrae, of those newly deceased, id. ib. 4, 434: animae, id. ib. 8, 488; anima, id. ib. 15, 846 et saep.; cf.: non erit in te Deus recens, newly devised, and hence false, Vulg. Psa. 80, 9.—Comp.: epistula recentior, Cic. Fam. 3, 11, 1: recentiore memoriā, id. N. D. 2, 2, 6: unus ex amicis recentioribus, Quint. 6, 3, 92.—Sup.: recentissima tua est epistula Kal. data, Cic. Att. 8, 15, 3: recentissima quaeque sunt correcta et emendata maxime, id. Ac. 1. 4, 13: Senones recentissimi advenarum, Liv. 5, 35.—
(b) With ab, immediately after, fresh from, shortly after, etc.: pullum asininum a partu recentem subiciunt equae, newly foaled, Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 2: Homerus, qui recens ab illorum aetate fuit, Cic. N. D. 3, 5: recens a vulnere Dido, i. e. with her wound still fresh, Verg. A. 6, 450: Poenum recentem ab excidio opulentissimae urbis Iberum transire, Liv. 21, 16 fin.: alti spiritus viros, ut ita dicam, a diis recentes, Sen. Ep. 90, 44: haec vox, a quā recens sum: sonat adhuc et vibrat in auribus meis, id. Prov. 3, 3.—
(g) With in and abl., or (more freq.) with simple abl.: alius alio recentior sit in dolore, Auct. Her. 2, 7, 10: quod comitatum Agrippinae longo maerore fessum obvii et recentes in dolore anteibant, yet fresh in grief, whose grief was still fresh, Tac. A. 3, 1 fin.: quaedam (verba) in usu perquam recentia, Quint. 8, 3, 34: ut erat recens dolore et irā, Tac. A. 1, 41 fin.; so, recens praeturā, id. ib. 4, 52: stipendiis, ib. ib. 15, 59: caede, id. H. 3, 19: victoriā, id. ib. 3, 77.—
(d) With ad and acc.: recentes sumus ad id quod incipimus, Quint. 1, 12, 5.—
b Recenti re, while the matter is fresh, forthwith, immediately: quid si recenti re aedes pultem, Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 18: re recenti, id. Trin. 4, 3, 8; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 53, § 139; for which also, recenti negotio, id. ib. 2, 1, 39, § 101; and, in recenti, Dig. 48, 19, 25.—
c Recentiores (subst. and adj.), the moderns (said of authors): attulisti aliud humanius horum recentiorum, modern writers, Cic. Fin. 2, 26, 82; Plin. 12, 17, 37, § 74; also, Graeci recentiores, modern, id. 4, 16, 30, § 103.—
II Trop., fresh in strength, not exhausted by fatigue, vigorous: ut integri et recentes defatigatis succederent, Caes. B. G. 5, 16 fin.; so, integer et recens (opp.: fusus et saucius), Flor. 3, 1, 13; and in the order: recentes atque integri (opp. defatigati), Caes. B. G. 7, 48 fin.; and, opp. defessi, id. B. C. 3, 94; id. B. G. 7, 25: equitatus, id. ib. 7, 9: recens animus (consulis), Liv. 21, 52: equi, id. 29, 34 (along with integrae vires); 38, 25 (opp. fessi); Ov. M. 2, 63: clamor, Plin. Pan. 23, 5.—Comp.: sauciis ac defatigatis integros recentioribusque viribus subministrare, Auct. B. Afr. 78, 6. — Hence, advv.: recens and recenter, lately, freshly, newly, just, recently, etc.
(a) Form rĕcens (not in Cic. or Cæs.): puerum recens natum, Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 17: captum hominem, id. Capt. 3, 5, 60: scaena perfusa croco, Lucr. 2, 416: exstinctum lumen, id. 6, 792: coria recens detracta, Sall. H. 4, 2 Dietsch: inter recens domitos, id. ib. 3, 53: portentum conflatum est recens, Bass. ap. Gell. 15, 4, 3: beluae recens captae, Liv. 38, 17, 15; 2, 22, 4: acceptum vulnus, Tac. A. 2, 21: perdomita Hispania, id. ib. 4, 5: cognita, id. ib. 4, 69 et saep.: condita Roma, Suet. Tib. 1.—
(b) Form rĕcen-ter (post-class.): capti turdi, Pall. 1, 26, 2: lecta poma, id. 5, 4 fin.—
b Sup.: quam recentissime stercorato solo, Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 192; so, res gestae, Just. 30, 4, 8.
