1. mĕmor — Lewis & Short
mĕmor, ŏris (anciently memoris, memore, acc. to
Prisc. p. 772 P.;I comp. memorior, id. p. 699 P.), adj. Sanscr. root smar-, in smarti, memory; smara, love; Gr. ma/rtus, witness; me/rimna, care; cf.: memoria, mora, etc., not from memini, mindful of a thing, remembering; constr. with gen., with acc. and inf., with a rel,clause, and absol.
I In gen.
(a) With gen.:
ut memor esses sui,Ter. And. 1, 5, 46:
se eorum facti memorem fore,Caes. B. C. 1, 13:
generis,Sall. C. 60, 7:
pristinarum virtutum,Nep. Hann. 12 fin.:
quique sui memores alios fecere merendo,Verg. A. 6, 664:
nostri,Hor. C. 3, 27, 14; 1, 33, 1:
vale nostri memor,Juv. 3, 318.—
(b) With acc. and inf.:
memor Lucullum periisse,Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 25:
memor objectum ab eo sibi,Suet. Aug. 28.—
(g) With a rel. -clause:
memor, quo ordine quisque discubuerat,Quint. 11, 2, 13:
vive memor, quam sis aevi brevis,Hor. S. 2, 6, 97.—
(d) Absol.:
memorem et gratum esse,Cic. Fam. 13, 25: et bene apud memores veteris stat gratia facti, grateful. Verg. A. 4, 539: cf. 6, 664 supra:
ipsa memor praecepta canam,Hor. S. 2, 4, 11; id. A. P. 368:
pectus,Juv. 11, 28.—Prov.:
mendacem memorem esse oportet,a liar should have a good memory, Quint. 4, 2, 91.—
B Trop., of inanim. things et cadum Marsi memorem duelli, which remembers the Marsian war, i. e. was made during that war, Hor. C. 3, 14, 18:
medium erat in Anco ingenium, et Numae et Romuli memor,Liv. 1, 32:
lingua,Ov. Am. 3, 14, 48:
pectus,id. H. 13, 66:
auris,id. ib. 20, 98:
cura,id. P 4, 2, 7:
manus,id. ib. 1, 4, 56:
saevae Junonis ira,vindictive, avenging, Verg. A. 1, 4:
supplicium exempli parum memoris legum humanarum,unmindful of, not observing, Liv. 1, 28.—
II Esp.
A That easily remembers, possessed of a good memory:
homo ingeniosus ac memor,Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194.—
B Poet., transf., that reminds one of a thing:
nostri memorem sepulcro Scalpe querelam,Hor. C. 3, 11, 51:
impressit memorem dente labris notam,id. ib. 1, 13, 12:
indicii memor poena,Ov. M. 4, 190:
tabellae,id. ib. 8, 744:
versus,id. P. 2, 7, 33.—Hence, adv., in two forms.
A mĕmŏre, by heart, readily (ante-class.): cum ista memore meministi, Pompon. ap. Non. 514, 23 (Com. Rel. v. 109 Rib.).—
B mĕmŏrĭter.
1 From memory, by personal recollection:
oratio est habita memoriter,Cic. Ac. 2, 19, 63:
omnes ordines memoriter salutavit,Suet. Ner. 10:
Q. Mucius multa narrare de Laelio memoriter et jucunde solebat,Cic. Lael. 1, 1.—
2 Esp.
(a) With a good memory, by ready recollection:
ista exposuisti, ut tam multa, memoriter, ut tam obscura, dilucide,Cic. Fin. 4, 1, 1:
ut memoriter me Sauream vocabat,Plaut. As. 3, 2, 38:
hic quidem quae illic sunt res gestae memorat memoriter,id. Am. 1, 1, 261:
hem istuc si potes memoriter meminisse,id. Capt. 2, 1, 53; cf. Afran. ap. Charis. 1, p. 89 P. (Com. Fragm. v. 365 Rib.).—
(b) Fully, accurately, correctly, Ter. Eun. 5, 3, 6; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 47:
memoriter respondeto ad ea quae rogāro,Cic. Vatin. 4, 10:
nostra Aratea memoriter a te pronuntiata sunt,id. Div. 2, 5, 14; Auct. ad Her. 3, 17, 30:
tu, qui tam memoriter tenes omnes,Plin. Ep. 6, 33, 11 (cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34).