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|lshtext=<b>sĕmĕl</b>: adv. num. [[root]] sam-, one; Sanscr. sa-, sam-, [[with]], [[together]]; Gr. ἅμα, [[ἅπαξ]];> cf.: sem-per, sim-ilis, sim-plex, [[sin]]-gulus, etc..<br /><b>I</b> Lit., [[once]], a [[single]] [[time]]: ter sub armis malim vitam cernere, Quam [[semel]] [[modo]] parere, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 81 Müll.; and ap. Non. 261, 9 (Trag. v. 298 Vahl.); so, [[potin']] ut [[semel]] [[modo]] huc respicias? Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 30: [[satis]] [[sum]] [[semel]] [[deceptus]], id. Capt. 3, 5, 99: [[semel]] fugiendi si [[data]] est [[occasio]], Satis est, id. ib. 1, 2, 8; so, [[semel]] si, id. As. 1, 3, 66 ([[but]] cf.: si [[semel]], [[infra]], II. B. 2 fin.): qui vel [[semel]] ita est [[usus]] oculis, ut vera cerneret, is, etc., Cic. Div. 2, 52, 107: ut [[attendant]], [[semel]] bisne [[signum]] canat in castris, Liv. 27, 47, 3: [[semel]] in mense sulcos sarrito, [[Cato]], R. R. 43, 2: [[semel]] [[die]], Cels. 1, 3 fin.: in diebus, Col. 12, 30, 1: [[semel]] [[anno]], Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 58: in [[anno]], id. 4, 12, 26, § 89: quem (Crassum) [[semel]] ait in vitā risisse [[Lucilius]], Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 92; so, [[semel]] in vitā, Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 58: [[semel]] [[adhuc]], id. 2, 25, 22, § 90: [[semel]] [[umquam]], id. 2, 35, 35, § 100 et saep.: M. [[Valerius]] Corvinus sellā curuli [[semel]] ac vicies sedit, id. 7, 48, 49, § 157; for [[which]] also: vicies et [[semel]], id. 2, 108, 102, § 243: sol omni terrarum ambitu non [[semel]] major, not greater by [[once]], i. e. not as [[large]] [[again]], not [[twice]] as [[large]], Sen. Q. N. 6, 16: [[haud]] [[semel]] sed centies, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 148; cf. id. As. 2, 4, 15: non [[semel]], sed bis, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 77, § 179; Val. Max. 1, 8, 4: non [[semel]], sed [[saepe]], Cic. Att. 1, 19, 7; id. Tusc. 5, 19, 56: non [[semel]] sed saepius, id. Phil. 2, 21, 52; id. N. D. 1, 40, 113; Nep. Epam. 7, 2; Lact. 3, 17, 12; Aug. Ep. 43, 15; 102, 7: non [[plus]] [[quam]] [[semel]] eloqui, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61; Vell. 2, 40, 4; also [[without]] [[quam]]: [[plus]] [[semel]], [[more]] [[than]] [[once]], Varr. ap. Plin. 14, 14, 17, § 96: Janum Quirinum [[semel]] [[atque]] [[iterum]] [[clausum]], [[once]] and [[again]], i. e. [[twice]], Suet. Aug. 22 (for [[which]]: [[Janus]] bis [[clausus]], Liv. 1, 19; Flor. 4, 12, 64; cf. also Plut. Num. 20); Suet. Aug. 27; [[but]] also in a [[more]] gen. [[sense]]: pecuniam [[semel]] [[atque]] [[iterum]] [[dare]] coacti sunt, [[time]] and [[again]], i. e. [[repeatedly]], Cic. Font. 12, 26 (8, 16): hoc [[semel]] [[ille]] iterumque neglexit, id. Div. 1, 25, 54; cf.: cum his Aeduos [[semel]] [[atque]] [[iterum]] armis contendisse, Caes. B.G. 1, 31; Liv. 27, 16 fin.; so [[too]] Suet. Claud. 46; for [[which]]: [[semel]] iterumque, Petr. 34, 9; 115, 12: [[Piso]] [[saepe]] dicebat, [[minus]] [[saepe]] [[Pomponius]], [[raro]] [[Carbo]], [[semel]] aut [[iterum]] [[Philippus]], [[only]] [[once]] or [[twice]], Cic. Brut. 90, 308; Sen. Contr. 1, 7, 12: [[semel]] et saepius, Cic. Phil. 14, 8, 22; Varr. L. L. 10, § 33 Müll.; cf.: an [[quod]] [[semel]] jus est, [[idem]] et saepius? Quint. 7, 8, 3.—Late Lat.: [[semel]] et bis, [[repeatedly]], Vulg. Phil. 4, 16; Greg. M. Ep. 5, 18 fin.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Pregn., [[like]] the Gr. [[ἅπαξ]],> of [[that]] [[which]] occurs no [[more]] [[than]] [[once]], [[but]] [[once]], [[but]] a [[single]] [[time]], [[once]] for all: cum [[facile]] orari, [[Caesar]], tum [[semel]] exorari soles, Cic. Deiot. 3, 9: quibus [[semel]] ignotum a te esse [[oportet]], id. ib. 14, 39: [[hostis]] est [[datus]], cum quo dimicantes aut vitam [[semel]] aut ignominiam finirent, Liv. 25, 6: totas [[semel]] absorbere placentas, to [[swallow]] [[entire]] cakes at [[once]], Hor. S. 2, 8, 24: procubuit moriens et humum [[semel]] [[ore]] momordit, [[once]] for all, Verg. A. 11, 418; cf.: nulla [[reparabilis]] [[arte]] Laesa [[pudicitia]] est; deperit [[illa]] [[semel]], Ov. H. 5, 104: [[semel]] aeternā nocte premenda fui, id. ib. 10, 112: nobis [[vero]] homicidio [[semel]] interdicto, [[once]] for all, Tert. Apol. 9: sic et [[semel]] [[Christus]] [[oblatus]] est, Vulg. Heb. 9, 28; id. 1 Pet. 3, 18: [[quoniam]] se [[semel]] a caeli contemplatione averterunt, Lact. 6, 1, 7; [[hence]] in [[Florus]]: [[semel]] in perpetuum, Flor. 2, 12, 2: [[semel]] et in perpetuum, id. 3, 6, 7.—Of [[speech]], at [[once]], [[once]] for all, in a [[word]], [[briefly]]: cum postulasset, ut sibi [[fundus]], cujus [[emptor]] erat, [[semel]] indicaretur, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 62 (for [[which]], [[just]] [[before]]: non [[plus]] [[quam]] [[semel]]): [[interim]], [[quod]] pluribus collegit [[adversarius]], [[satis]] est [[semel]] proponere, Quint. 5, 13, 14; cf.: ut [[semel]], plura complectar, id. 11, 1, 66; 1, 2, 24; 2, 15, 34: ut [[semel]] dicam, id. 10, 1, 17: ut, [[quod]] [[sentio]], [[semel]] finiam, id. 5, 13, 3; cf.: [[quisquam]] [[denique]], ut [[semel]] finiam, in lite cantat? id. 11, 3, 59; so ([[after]] [[denique]]) id. 10, 3, 22.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In a [[succession]] = [[primum]], [[primo]], the [[first]] [[time]], [[first]]: demonstravimus, L. Vibullium Rufum bis in potestatem pervenisse Caesaris, [[semel]] ad [[Corfinium]], [[iterum]] in Hispaniā, Caes. B. C. 3, 10; so [[after]] bis, [[with]] [[iterum]], Liv. 1, 19, 3; Suet. Caes. 36; id. Aug. 25; id. tib. 6 Oud.; 72; id. Claud. 6; [[after]] ter, [[with]] [[iterum]] and [[tertio]], Liv. 23, 9, 11.—Without [[iterum]], etc.: cum ad [[idem]], [[unde]] [[semel]] profecta sunt, cuncta astra redierint, Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24; cf.: uti exorta est [[semel]], Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 118.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen., [[like]] [[primum]], to [[denote]] the [[simple]] antecedence of an [[occurrence]]; [[hence]], [[most]] freq. [[with]] the particles ut, ubi, [[quando]], cum, si, etc., [[once]], [[ever]], at [[some]] [[time]], at [[any]] [[time]]: [[quod]] [[semel]] dixi, [[haud]] mutabo, [[what]] I [[have]] [[once]] said, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 85: [[quod]] Complacitum est [[semel]], id. Am. prol. 106: [[satis]] [[sum]] [[semel]] [[deceptus]], id. Capt. 3, 5, 99: verebamini, ne non id facerem [[quod]] recepissem [[semel]]? Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 9: nec accidere, ut [[quisquam]] te timere incipiat eorum, qui [[semel]] a te sint liberati timore, Cic. Deiot. 14, 39: in id, [[quod]] [[semel]] invasit, incumbit, Quint. 2, 12, 2: retrahi nequitum, [[quoquo]] progressa est [[semel]], Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. nequitum, p. 162 Müll.—So [[too]] in the [[comically]] formed [[proper]] [[name]]: Quodsemelarripides, Plaut. Pers. 4, 6, 23.—With particles; [[with]] ut: in hasce [[aedes]] pedem Nemo [[intro]] tetulit, [[semel]] ut emigravimus, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 40: ut occepi [[semel]], id. Am. 3, 1, 13: ut [[semel]] [[eloquentia]] evecta est, Cic. Brut. 13, 51: ut [[semel]] gloriam consecutus [[sum]], id. Att. 1, 19, 6; Caes. B. G. 1, 31: [[denique]] ut [[semel]] finiam, Quint. 9, 4, 138.—With ubi: ubi erit [[accubitum]] [[semel]], Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 105: ubi [[animus]] [[semel]] cupiditate se devinxit malā, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 34; 2, 4, 12; Liv. 22, 2.—With [[quandoquidem]]: perge, [[quandoquidem]] occepisti [[semel]], Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 34.—With [[quando]]: [[quando]] in [[apertum]] [[semel]] [[discrimen]] evasura esset res, Liv. 10, 14, 8.—With cum: quae proclivius ad perniciem, cum [[semel]] coepit, labitur, Cic. Lael. 12, 41.—With [[quoniam]]: ([[Antonius]]) [[quoniam]] [[semel]] induxit animum, sibi licere [[quod]] vellet, etc., Cic. Att. 14, 13, 6; Ov H. 12, 11: illam partem, [[quoniam]] [[semel]] ita [[vobis]] placuit, non recusabo [[quominus]] perpoliam, Cic. de Or 2, 28, 121; id. Rosc. Am. 11, 31; id. Phil. 12, 7, 18; Liv. 40, 13, 7.—With si: si [[semel]] amoris peculum accepit, Extemplo et ipsus periit et res, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 22; so, si [[semel]], id. Mil. 3, 3, 42: si istam [[semel]] amiseris libertatem, id. ib. 3, 1, 106 Brix ad loc.; Ov. M. 13, 101: si illum [[semel]] prehendero, Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 6: si [[semel]] animum tuom perspexerit, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 69: et [[semel]] emissum volat inrevocabile verbam, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 71 ([[but]], [[semel]] si, if [[once]], if [[ever]], [[whenever]], as an [[emphatic]] [[numeral]], Plaut. As. 1, 3, 66; id. Capt. 1, 2, 8;<br /> v. [[supra]], I. init.).—With participles ([[several]] times in Liv. and Quint.): ut adversando remorandoque incitato [[semel]] militi adderent impetum, Liv. 2, 45, 7; so id. 5, 6, 8; 25, 6, 15; Quint. 4, 2, 115; 7, 10, 9; 10, 7, 24 al.

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