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|lshtext=<b>cŭpĭdus</b>: a, um, adj. [[cupio]],<br /><b>I</b> [[longing]], desiring, [[desirous]], [[eager]], in a [[good]] and [[bad]] [[sense]], wishing, [[loving]], [[fond]], etc. ([[very]] freq. and [[class]].); constr. [[with]] gen., abl., inf., in, or absol.<br /><b>I</b> In a [[good]] [[sense]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of persons.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen.: ejus videndi [[cupidus]], Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 12; so, huc redeundi, abeundi a milite, Vosque hic videndi, id. ib. 1, 2, 16: redeundi domum, id. ib. 3, 1, 3: bellandi, Caes. B. G. 1, 2: te audiendi, Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 16: [[valde]] spectandi, id. ib. 1, 35, 162: [[satis]] faciendi rei publicae, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 1 et saep.: vitae, Lucr. 6, 1238; Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 1: mortis, Hor. S. 2, 2, 98: liberorum, Quint. 4, 2, 42: sententiarum, id. 5, 13, 31: pacis, Hor. S. 2, 1, 44 et saep.—Comp.: contentionis [[quam]] veritatis, Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 47.—Sup.: litterarum, Nep. [[Cato]], 3, 1: nostri, Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 104. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With inf.: attingere, Prop. 1, 19, 9: moriri, Ov. M. 14, 215.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With in and abl.: [[cupidus]] in perspiciendā cognoscendāque rerum naturā, Cic. Off. 1, 43, 154.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: si [[quicquam]] [[cupido]] optantique obtigit, Cat. 107, 1: cupidum [[vires]] Deficiunt, Hor. S. 2, 1, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of things: equorum Vis cupida, Lucr. 2, 265.—<br /><b>II</b> In a [[bad]] [[sense]], [[passionately]] desiring or [[longing]] for, [[eager]], [[greedy]], [[lustful]], [[passionate]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of persons.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen.: auri, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 51; cf. pecuniae, Cic. Verr. 1, 3, 8: damni, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 34: vini, id. ib. 1, 2, 50 (not vino, v. Ritschl ad h. l.): rerum novarum, imperii, Caes. B. G. 5, 6; cf.: rerum novarum, id. ib. 1, 18: cujuscumque motūs [[novi]], Tac. H. 1, 80; and: nullius rei [[nisi]] imperii, Nep. Reg. 2, 2: laedendi, Quint. 5, 7, 16: maledicendi, id. 6, 2, 16 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: cupidos moderatis anteferre, Cic. Font. 14, 32 (10, 22): non esse mirandum, qui in illā re [[turpis]] aut [[cupidus]] aut [[petulans]] fuerit, hāc [[quoque]] in re eum deliquisse, id. Inv. 2, 10, 33: [[emit]] [[homo]] [[cupidus]] (for [[which]], [[just]] [[before]], cupiditate [[incensus]]), [[eager]] to [[purchase]], id. Off. 3, 14, 59: [[stultus]] cupidusque, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 24: cupidusque et amata relinquere [[pernix]], id. A. P. 165 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of things: cor, Lucr. 4, 1138; Prop. 1, 8, 29; Hor. C. 3, 14, 26 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Longing from [[love]], [[pining]], [[languishing]] for, [[loving]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Of persons: neu me cupidum eo (sc. ad uxorem ducendam) impulisset, Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 6: [[maritus]], Cat. 64, 375; Tib. 1, 8, 74; Ov. M. 4, 679: cupidi [[nomen]] amantis habe, id. H. 3, 26.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Of things: [[simul]] ac cupidae mentis satiata [[libido]] est, Cat. 64, 147; Ov. M. 11, 63; id. Am. 3, 7, 9 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Desirous of [[money]], [[avaricious]], [[covetous]], Quint. 11, 1, 88: [[multitudo]] cupidorum hominum, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64: [[homo]] [[castus]] ac non [[cupidus]], id. Sest. 43, 93; Vitr. 1, 1, 7; so in [[sup]]., Suet. Vesp. 16.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Devoted to a [[party]], favoring [[any]] one, [[partial]]: quaestores [[vehementer]] (Verris), Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: cupidi et irati et conjurati testes, id. Font. 10, 21 (6, 11): judices ([[with]] infesti, invidentes), Tac. Or. 31; cf. comp.: judex, Cic. Caecin. 3, 8; and [[auctor]], id. Clu. 24, 66.—Hence, cŭ-pĭdē, adv., [[eagerly]], in a [[good]] and [[bad]] [[sense]], [[zealously]], [[passionately]], [[vehemently]], [[ardently]], [[warmly]], [[partially]], etc. (freq. and [[class]].), Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 11; Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 1; Cic. Att. 6, 3, 3; id. Rosc. Am. 18, 50; id. Phil. 2, 21, 52; Nep. Arist. 1, 4; Quint. 1, 3, 13; Cat. 63, 2; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 100 et saep.—Comp., Caes. B. G. 1, 15; 5, 15; Liv. 3, 32, 3 al.— Sup., Caes. B. G. 1, 40; id. B. C. 2, 20; Sall. C. 40, 4 al.