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|lshtext=<b>nūtus</b>: ūs, m. nuo, ĕre (of [[abnuo]], etc.); cf. [[nuto]],<br /><b>I</b> a nodding, a [[nod]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[Scipio]] nutu finire disceptationem potuisset, Liv. 34, 62: nutu tremefecit Olympum, Verg. A. 9, 106: digitisque [[saepe]] est nutuque [[locutus]], Ov. Tr. 2, 453: signaque dat nutu, id. F. 1, 418: [[nutus]] conferre loquaces, Tib. 1, 2, 21: digiti, i.e. a beckoning, Tert. adv. Herm. 27: membrorum, Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 188: uno meo nutu jugulari utrumque vestrum posse, Suet. Calig. 32: nutibus oculorum, winks, Vulg. Isa. 3, 16.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., a [[downward]] [[tendency]] or [[motion]], [[gravity]]: terrena suopte nutu et suo pondere in terram ferri, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40: [[terra]] suā vi nutuque tenetur, id. de Or. 3, 45, 178; so in <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>, id. N. D. 2, 39, 98.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[command]], [[will]], [[pleasure]]: ad eorum [[arbitrium]] et nutum totos se fingunt, Cic. Or. 8, 24: jura omnia praetoris nutu [[atque]] arbitrio meretriculae gubernari, id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34: ad alicujus voluntatem nutumque convertere, id. Fam. 3, 10, 10: omnia deorum nutu [[atque]] potestate administrari, id. Cat. 3, 9, 21: auctoritate nutuque iegum domitas habere libidines, id. de Or. 1, 43, 194: paratum esse ad nutum, id. Phil. 7, 6, 18: ad nutum [[praesto]] esse, id. Verr. 2, 1, 31, § 78: respirare [[contra]] nutum dicionemque alicujus, id. Quint. 30, 94: alterius sub nutu degitur [[aetas]], Lucr. 4, 1122: saevae nutu Junonis eunt res, Verg. A. 7, 592.