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|lshtext=<b>fundāmentum</b>: i, n. id.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[foundation]], [[ground]]-[[work]], [[basis]] ([[class]].; [[mostly]] in plur.; cf. [[basis]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sing. ([[rare]]): [[quin]] cum fundamento ([[aedes]]) Perierint, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 69: substruere [[fundamentum]], id. ib. 1, 2, 40.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur.: operum fastigia spectantur, [[latent]] fundamenta, Quint. prooem. § 4: agere fundamenta, Cic. Mil. 27, 75: maximorum operum, id. Marc. 8, 25: prima urbi jacere, Liv. 1, 12, 4 (cf. under II. β the [[passage]] from Cic. Fl. 2, 4): novae [[domus]] jacere, Suet. Calig. 22; cf. id. Aug. 28: alta theatri locare, Verg. A. 1, 428: altae Carthaginis locare, id. ib. 4, 266; Plin. 36, 14, 21, § 95: fodere delubro, id. 28, 2, 4, § 15: subdere per solidum, Tac. A. 4, 62: urbis quatit [[Neptunus]], Verg. A. 2, 611: saxa [[turris]], quibus fundamenta continebantur, convellunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 11, 3: [[villa]] a fundamentis inchoata, Suet. Caes. 46: Albam a fundamentis proruere, [[utterly]], Liv. 26, 13, 16: [[urbs]] a fundamentis diruta, id. 42, 63, 11; 42, 67, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., the [[bottom]], = [[fundus]]: qui a fundamento mihi [[usque]] movisti [[mare]], id. ib. 2, 6, 55.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop. (syn.: [[sedes]], [[initium]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sing.: meo judicio [[pietas]] [[fundamentum]] est omnium virtutum, Cic. Planc. 12, 29; cf.: [[fundamentum]] justitiae est [[fides]], id. Off. 1, 7, 23: [[narratio]] est quaedam [[quasi]] [[sedes]] et [[fundamentum]] constituendae fidei, id. Part. 9, 31: eloquentiae, id. de Or. 3, 37, 151: philosophiae, id. Div. 2, 1, 2: [[initium]] ac [[fundamentum]] defensionis, id. Clu. 10, 30: horum criminum, id. Cael. 13, 30: [[quod]] [[fundamentum]] hujus quaestionis est, id videtis, id. N. D. 1, 17, 44: [[disciplina]] nixa fundamento veritatis, Gell. 14, 1, 20: [[fundamentum]] et [[causa]] imperii, Sen. Ep. 87, 41: [[caput]] et [[fundamentum]] intellegitur totius testamenti heredis [[institutio]], Gai. Inst. 2, 229.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Piur.: [[illic]] radices, [[illic]] fundamenta sunt, Quint. 10, 3, 3: quibus initiis ac fundamentis hae tantae summis in rebus laudes excitatae sunt, Cic. Sest. 2, 5: libertatis, id. Balb. 13, 31: virtutum, id. Fin. 2, 22, 72; cf.: [[consulatus]] tui, id. Pis. 4, 9: [[senectus]], quae fundamentis adolescentiae constituta est, id. de Sen. 18, 62: ad evertenda fundamenta rei publicae, id. Cat. 4, 6, 13: actionum, id. Phil. 4, 1, 1: jacere pacis fundamenta, id. ib. 1, 1, 1; so [[with]] jacio: rei publicae, id. Fam. 12, 25, 2: civitatis, id. N. D. 3, 2, 5; id. Ac. 2, 12, 37; id. Sull. 10, 30; Curt. 5, 1, 29; Lact. 7, 1, 1: defensionis, Cic. Mur. 6, 14: salutis suae, id. Fam. 10, 29: non praeterit me [[quam]] magnarum rerum fundamenta ponam [[senex]], Sen. Q. N. 3 praef. 1: vitae, id. Ep. 13, 16: impudentiae, Quint 12, 6, 2: futuri oratoris, id. ib. 1, 4, 5; for [[which]] also [[with]] the dat. (cf. [[supra]] I. the [[passage]] from Liv. 1, 12, 4): cui causae, Cic. Fl. 2, 4: verecundiae, id. Rep. 4, 4 Mos.: imperii, Plin. 15, 18, 20, § 78.

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