mĕmŏrĭa — Lewis & Short
mĕmŏrĭa, ae, f.memor.
I The faculty of remembering, memory, recollection (class.):
ubi me fugiet memoria,Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 2:
Edepol, memoria's optumad,id. Mil. 1, 1, 45:
bona,Cic. Att. 8, 4, 2:
segnis ac lenta,Sen. Ep. 74, 1:
tenacissima,Quint. 1, 1, 19:
Hortensius memoriā tantā fuit, ut, etc.,Cic. Brut. 88, 301:
hoc in memoria mea penitus insedit,id. de Or. 2, 28, 122:
in memoriam redigere,to recall to mind, recollect, id. Fam. 1, 9, 9; so,
in memoriam reducere,id. Inv 1, 52, 98 memoriā comprehendere, to hold in the memory, commit to memory, id. do Or. 1, 34, 154:
memoriā tenere,id. Sen. 4, 12; Caes. B. G. 1, 14:
memoriā custodire,Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 127:
memoriam agitare,to exercise the memory, Quint. 1, 8, 14:
habere in memoriā,to remember, Ter. And. 1, 1, 13:
hoc est mihi in memoriā,in my recollection, Cic. Sull. 13, 37:
deponere aliquid ex memoriā,to forget a thing, id. ib. 6, 18:
memoriam alicujus deponere,to forget, Caes. B. G. 1, 14:
si memoria fefellerit,Quint. 11, 3, 127:
hoc fugit memoriam meam,has escaped my recollection, id. 4, 5, 3:
Carthaginem excidisse de memoriā,Liv. 29, 19, 12; cf.:
memoriā cedere,id. 2, 33, 9:
memoriā abire,id. 2, 4, 2 ut mea memoria est, Cic. Att. 13, 31, 4:
ex memoriā exponam,from memory, id. Cat. 3, 6, 13.—
II Memory, remembrance:
si quid faciendumst mulieri male ... Ibi ei inmortalis memoriast meminisse,Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 15: verterunt sese memoriae, remembrances are altered, i. e. times are changed, id. Truc. 2, 1, 10:
memoriā dign' viri,Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 2:
nostrae,id. Fam. 8, 3, 3:
memoriae prodere sermonem alicujus,to hand down to posterity, to leave in writing, to record, id. de Or. 3, 4, 14:
memoriam prodere,to transmit, hand down, Caes. B. G. 1, 13:
traditur memoriae, prolapsum cecidisse,it is related, Liv. 5, 21:
vivit, vivetque per omnium saeculorum memoriam,Vell. 2, 66, 5:
(oratio) ad memoriam laudum domesticarum,Cic. Brut. 16, 62:
quorum memoria et recordatio jucunda sane fuit,id. ib. 2, 9:
memoria immortalis,Nep. Att. 11, 5.—
B Transf.
1 The time of remembrance, period of recollection, time:
multi superiori memoriā se in alias civitates contulerunt,in earlier times, Cic. Balb. 12, 28:
Cratippus princeps hujus memoriae philosophorum,in our time, at the present time, id. Off. 3, 2, 5:
quod persaepe et nostrā, et patrum memoriā acci dit,id. Font. 7, 13:
usque ad nostram memoriam,id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 54:
quod in omni memoriā est omnino inauditum,id. Vatin. 14, 33:
post hominum memoriam,since the memory of man, id. Cat. 1, 7, 16:
paulo supra hanc memoriam,a little before this, a short time since, Caes. B. G. 6, 19.—
2 An historical account, relation, narration:
liber, quo iste omnium rerum memoriam breviter complexus est,Cic. Brut. 3, 14:
de Magonis interitu duplex memoria prodita est,Nep. Hann. 8, 2:
memoriam vitae prosā oratione composuit,Suet. Claud. 1 fin.—
b Concr., a written account, narrative, memoir:
quispiam ex his, qui se ad litteras memoriasque veteres dediderat,Gell. 2, 21, 6:
in veteribus memoriis scriptum legimus,id. 4, 6, 1; 7, 8, 1:
sine ullā pristini auctoris memoriā,Suet. Dom. 5.—
c (Eccl. Lat.) A monument, esp. a Christian church as a memorial of a saint or monument of a martyr:
in memoriā Cypriani manere,Aug. Conf 5, 8, 3: memoriae martyrum templis deorum succedunt, id. Civ. Dei, 26, 5;
22, 8, 11 and 12 al.: memoriam sibi et suis com parare,Inscr. Grut. 827, 8.—
III Personified, the goddess of memory, = Mnemosyne, Afran. ap. Gell. 13, 8, 3:
Jovis (filias, ex memoria uxore,Arn. 3, c. 37.