saecularis
οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
Latin > English
saecularis saecularis, saeculare ADJ :: of/belonging to seculum/century/generation; of Roman century games/hymns
saecularis saecularis saecularis, saeculare ADJ :: secular, of world not church; ecclesiastics not member of order (Bee); gentile
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
saecŭlāris: (sēcŭ-), e, adj. saeculum,
I of or belonging to a saeculum: ludi, secular games, celebrated at very long intervals (the interval was fixed, in the time of Augustus, at one hundred and twenty years), and continuing three days and nights, Varr. and Liv. ap. Censor. de Die Nat. 17; Suet. Aug. 31; id. Dom. 4; id. Vit. 2; Plin. 7, 48, 49, § 159; Tac. A. 11, 11: carmen, a hymn sung at the secular games, a secular hymn; the best known hymn of this character is that composed by Horace, at the command of Augustus, to be sung at the secular games, A. U. C. 737; cf. Suet. Vit. Hor.—Hence, substt.
A saecŭlāres, ium, m. (sc. ludi), the secular games, Suet. Claud. 21.—
B saecŭlārĭa, ium, n. (sc. sacra), the secular games, Val. Max. 2, 4, 4 al.—
II Worldly, temporal, profane, lay, secular; pagan, heathen (eccl. Lat.): homines (opp. monachi), Hier. Ep. 60, 11: historia, Sedul. in Conc. post Ep. 7, 9: exempla, Tert. Exhort. ad Cast. 13 (al. saeculi): feminae quaedam (Dido, Lucretia), id. ib. 13 fin.—As subst.: saecŭlārĭa, ium, n., worldly matters: redditur in culpā pastor saecularia servans, Commod. 94, 69.— Hence, adv.: saecŭlārĭter, in a worldly manner (eccl. Lat.): mulierem saeculariter ornari, Cypr. Testim. 3, 36.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
sæcŭlāris,¹³ e (sæculum),
1 séculaire : sæculares ludi Plin. 7, 159 ; Tac. Ann. 11, 11, ou sæculares seul Suet. Claud. 21, jeux séculaires, célébrés tous les cent ans ; [d’où le carmen sæculare d’Horace]
2 du siècle, séculier, profane : Hier. Ep. 60, 11.
Latin > German (Georges)
saeculāris (sēculāris), e (saeculum), I) hundertjährig, ludi, Spiele, die in der Regel alle hundert Jahre abgehalten wurden, Val. Max. u. Suet.: dah. carmen, Lied, das bei der Jahrhundertfeier von Knaben u. Mädchen gesungen wurde, wie Horaz eins zur Säkularfeier des Augustus dichtete. – II) im Gegensatz zum Geistlichen = zeitlich, weltlich, heidnisch, litterae, Tert.: historia, Sidon.: litteratura, Hieron.: homines (Ggstz. monachi), Hieron.
