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|lshtext=<b>nuntĭus</b>: a, um, adj. perh. contr. from noventius, from obsol. novēre, to [[make]] [[new]]; v. [[novus]].<br /><b>I</b> That announces, signifies, makes [[known]]; announcing, informing ([[poet]].): [[nuntia]] [[fibra]] deos? Tib. 2, 1, 26: fratre reversuro, [[nuntia]] venit [[avis]], Mart. 8, 32, 8: [[nuntia]] [[littera]], Ov. H. 6, 9: simulacra In mentes hominum divinae [[nuntia]] formae, Lucr. 6, 77; cf. id. 4, 704: habes animi [[nuntia]] verba mei, Ov. H. 16, 10: [[exta]] venturae [[nuntia]] [[sortis]], Tib. 3, 4, 5.—<br /><b>II</b> Usually as subst.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> nuntĭum, i, n., an [[announcement]], [[message]], [[news]] ([[rare]]): ad aures nova [[nuntia]] referens, this [[new]] [[message]], Cat. 63, 75; cf.: [[nuntius]] est qui nuntiat, nuntium, [[quod]] nuntiatur, Serv. Verg. A. 11, 896: de [[caelo]] nuntium erit, Varr. L. L. 6, 86: tyrannum perturbant [[nuntia]], Sedul. 2, 474.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> nuntĭus, i, m., a [[bearer]] of [[news]], one [[who]] brings [[intelligence]], a [[reporter]], [[messenger]], [[courier]] (freq. and [[class]].); [[both]] of persons and things: [[Mercurius]] Jovis qui [[nuntius]] perhibetur, Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 1: ad me rus advenit [[nuntius]], id. Merc. 4, 1, 1: o hominem fortunatum, qui ejusmodi nuntios, seu [[potius]] Pegasos habet, Cic. Quint. 25, 80: litteris, nuntiis, cohortationibus omnes excitare. id. Phil. 14, 7, 20: facere aliquem certiorem per nuntium, id. Att. 11, 24, 4: aliquid audire [[sine]] capite, [[sine]] auctore, rumore [[nuntio]], id. Fam. 12, 10, 1: litteras et nuntios mittere ad aliquem, Caes. B. G. 1, 26: [[nuntius]] [[ibis]] Pelidae, Verg. A. 2, 547: [[nuntius]] adfert rem, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 25: [[nuntius]] [[ales]], i. e. [[Mercurius]], Ov. H. 16, 68: [[Mercurius]], [[nuntius]] Jovis et deorum, Hor. C. 1, 10, 5: nuntii afferunt Darium premi a Scythis, Nep. Milt. 3, 3.—Poet., of a [[woman]]: huic dea ... [[utinam]] non hic [[tibi]] [[nuntius]] essem, Val. Fl. 2, 141.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> A [[messenger]], the [[bearer]] of a written [[message]], = [[tabellarius]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): [[nuntio]] ipsius, qui litteras attulerat dici (placuit), Liv. 42, 37, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Abstract.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> In gen., a [[message]], [[news]], [[tidings]]: nuntium exoptabilem nuntiare, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 67: opta [[ergo]] ob istunc nuntium quidvis [[tibi]], id. Merc. 5, 2, 65: inest [[lepos]] in [[nuntio]] tuo [[magnus]], id. Rud. 2, 3, 22: acerbum nuntium alicui perferre, Cic. Balb. 28, 64: de Q. Fratre nuntii nobis tristes venerunt, id. Att. 3, 17, 1: exoptatum nuntium alicui afferre, id. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: nuntium optatissimum accipere, id. Fam. 2, 19, 1: nuntium perferre, id. Lig. 3, 7: nuntium ferre ad aliquem, Liv. 4, 41: [[horribilis]] [[nuntius]] affertur, Cat. 84, 10; Verg. A. 8, 582.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[command]], [[order]], [[injunction]]: quos [[senatus]] ad denuntiandum [[bellum]] miserat, [[nisi]] legatorum [[nuntio]] paruisset, Cic. Fam. 12, 24, 2; Nep. Chabr. 3, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nuntium uxori remittere or mittere, to [[send]] one's [[wife]] a [[letter]] of divorce, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 183; 56, 238; id. Att. 1, 13, 3; Dig. 24, 2, 4; 24, 3, 22.—Also of a [[woman]] [[who]] separates from her [[husband]], Cic. Top. 4, 19; App. M. 9, p. 230 med. —Of the annulling of a betrothment: si [[invito]] patrono nuntium [[sponsa]] [[liberta]] remiserit, Dig. 23, 2, 45.—Of the [[rejection]] of the [[marriage]] [[contract]] by the parents and guardians: ego [[adeo]] jam [[illi]] remittam nuntium adfini meo, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 74: si puellae tutores ad infringenda sponsalia nuntium miserint, Dig. 23, 1, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hence, transf.: virtuti nuntium remittere, to [[renounce]], Cic. Fam. 15, 16, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> nuntĭa, ae, f., a [[female]] [[messenger]], she [[that]] brings [[tidings]]: [[nuntia]] fulva Jovis, i. e. the [[eagle]], Poët. ap. Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 2; cf. Liv. 1, 34: [[historia]] [[nuntia]] vetustatis, Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 36: vox [[nuntia]] cladis, Liv. 5, 50: [[fama]] [[nuntia]] veri, Verg. A. 4, 188; Ov. P. 4, 4, 15: [[plaga]] [[nuntia]] rerum, Lucr. 4, 704; cf. Val. Fl. 2, 141; B. 1. a. fin. [[supra]].