immūnis — Lewis & Short
immūnis (inm- and archaic in-moenis), e, adj.in-munus,
I free or exempt from a public service, burāen, or charge (class.; cf.: expers, exsors).
I Lit.:
melius hi quam nos, qui piratas immunes, socios vectigales habemus,Cic. Off. 3, 11, 49:
quid immunes? hi certe nihil debent,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53:
sine foedere immunes civitates ac liberae,id. ib. 2, 3, 6, § 13; id. Font. 4, 7:
immunis militiā,Liv. 1, 43, 8:
Ilienses ab omni onere immunes praestitit,Suet. Claud. 25:
qui agros immunes liberosque arant, i. e.,free from taxes, tax-free, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 166; cf. id. Agr. 3, 2, 9:
duo milia jugerum Sexto Clodio rhetori assignasti, et quidem immunia,Suet. Rhet. 5.—
(b) With gen.:
immunes portoriorum,Liv. 38, 14:
ceterorum immunes nisi propulsandi hostis,Tac. A. 1, 36.—
B Transf., beyond the polit. and milit. sphere, free or exempt from, that contributes or gives nothing (mostly poet.):
non cnim est inhumana virtus neque immunis neque superba,inactive, Cic. Lael. 14, 50:
quem scis inmunem Cinarae placuisse rapaci,who made no presents, without presents, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 33; id. C. 4, 12, 23:
Enipeus,Ov. M. 7, 229:
immunisque sedens aliena ad pabula fucus,doing nothing, idle, Verg. G. 4, 244:
ipsa quoque immunis rastroque intacta,without compulsion, free, Ov. M. 1, 101.—In a play on the word: Ly. Civi inmuni scin quid cantari solet? ... Ph. Verum, gnate mi, is est inmunis, quoi nihil est qui munus fungatur suum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 69; 73.—
(b) With gen.:
bos curvi immunis aratri,Ov. M. 3, 11:
immunes operum,id. ib. 4, 5.—
II Trop., not sharing or partaking in, free from, devoid of, without any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose); constr. with gen., abl., with ab, or absol.
(a) With gen.:
aspicit urbem Immunem tanti belli,Verg. A. 12, 559:
tanti boni,Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 62:
mali,id. M. 8, 691:
necis,exempt from, id. ib. 9, 253:
caedis manus,free from, unstained with, id. H. 14, 8:
delictorum paternorum,Vell. 2, 7:
aequoris Arctos,not setting in, Ov. M. 13, 293 (an imitation of the Homeric a)/mmoros loetrw=n *)wkeanoi=o, Il. 18, 489); Ov. F. 4, 575.—
(b) With abl.:
animum immunem esse tristitiā,Sen. Ep. 85:
Cato omnibus humanis vitiis,Vell. 2, 35, 2:
exercitum immunem tanta calamitate servavit,id. 2, 120, 3.—
(g) With ab:
immunis ab omnibus arbitris esse,Vell. 2, 14 fin.:
dentes a dolore,Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 37. —
(d) Absol.:
immunis aram si tetigit manus,stainless, pure, Hor. C. 3, 23, 17:
amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam, Inmoenest facinus,a thankless office, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 1; cf.: inmoene, improbum, culpandum, vel interdum munere liberatum, Gloss. Plac. p. 476.