1. securus — de Vaan
securus 'free from anxiety, safe' (Naev.+); accurare 'to give attention, attend' (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. securus, p. 170]
The corpus record — Latin
securus
securus
free from anxiety, safe
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 15s 1 · 153.85/10k
- De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
- Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 11s 1 · 50.51/10k
- Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
- Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
- Avidius Cassius 6 · 23.01/10k
- Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 5 · 19.14/10k
- Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
- Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 2 · 15.42/10k
- de raptu Proserpinae 10 · 14.34/10k
- Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
- Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Densest 12 of 187 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. sē-cūrus — Lewis & Short
sē-cūrus, a, um, adj.se = sine and cura, i. q. non or nibil curans,
I free from care, careless, unconcerned, untroubled, fearless, quiet, easy, composed.
I Lit.
A In a good sense (class.; cf. tutus); constr. absol., with de, ab, gen., or a rel.-clause:
ut, meis ab tergo tutis, securus bellum Nabidi inferam,Liv. 31, 25:
securus solutusque,id. 25, 39;
(with otiosus),Quint. 5, 13, 59:
securus Hermippus Temnum proficiscitur,Cic. Fl. 20, 46:
sine militis usu Mollia securae peragebant otia gentes,Ov. M. 1, 100; 11, 423; 12, 129:
non secura quidem, fausto tamen omine laeta Mater abit templo,id. ib. 9, 784; cf.:
a non securo Eumene,Liv. 45, 19:
Ceres natā secura receptā,easy now that she had found, Ov. M. 5, 572; cf. Tib. 1, 1, 77 (v. infra, b.):
de linguā Latinā securi es animi,Cic. Att. 12, 52 fin.:
de bello Romano,Liv. 36, 41:
de facilitate credentis,Tac. A. 16, 2: securos vos ab hac parte reddemus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 8; Curt. 9, 6, 24; so,
ab hac parte,Suet. Tib. 11.—Comp.:
securior ab Samnitibus,Liv. 9, 22:
Romani securi pro salute de gloriā certabant,Tac. Agr. 26:
aut pro vobis sollicitior, aut pro me securior,id. H. 4, 58.— With gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
ne sis secura futuri,Ov. M. 6, 137; so, suis (gen. of sus), id. ib. 7, 435:
extremi sepulcri,Stat. Th. 12, 781:
pelagi atque mei,unconcerned about, Verg. A. 7, 304:
amorum germanae,id. ib. 1, 350;
10, 326: poenae,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 17:
tam parvae observationis (Cicero),Quint. 8, 3, 51:
odii,Tac. Agr. 43:
potentiae,id. A. 3, 28:
nec securam incrementi sui patiebatur esse Italiam,Vell. 2, 109, 4:
qui (motus) Campaniam numquam securam hujus mali...vastavit,Sen. Q. N. 6, 1, 2:
quem (rogum) uxoria pietas mortis secura conscendit,Val. Max. 2, 6, ext. 14:
his persuadet, ut securo fugae suae Eumeni superveniant,Just. 13, 8, 5:
periculi,Curt. 5, 10, 15:
discurrunt securi casus ejus, qui supervenit ignaris,id. 9, 9, 8 (v. infra, b.). —With rel.-clause:
gestit nummum in loculos demittere, post hoc Securus, cadat an recto stet fabula talo,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176; id. S. 2, 4, 50 (opp. laboret); id. C. 1, 26, 6.— With ne and subj.:
ne quis etiam errore labatur vestrum quoque, non sum securus,Liv. 39, 16, 6.—
b Of inanim. things.
(a) Free from care, untroubled, tranquil, serene, cheerful, bright (poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
deos securum agere aevum,Lucr. 5, 82; 6, 58; Hor. S. 1, 5, 101:
quies (leti),Lucr. 3, 211; 3, 939:
otia,Verg. G. 3, 376:
dies,Tib. 3, 4, 54:
merum,id. 2, 1, 46:
mensa,id. 3, 6, 30:
convivia,Sen. Clem. 1, 26:
artus (Herculis),Ov. M. 9, 240:
gaudia nato recepto,id. ib. 7, 455:
summa malorum,careless, id. ib. 14, 490:
olus,i.e. of the careless idler, Hor. S. 2, 7, 30 et saep.; Quint. 10, 5, 8:
causae,id. 11, 3, 151:
vox securae claritatis,id. 11, 3, 64:
tempus securius,more free from care, id. 12, 1, 20; cf.:
securior materia,Tac. H. 1, 1 et saep.:
securos ab eo metu somnos,Plin. 28, 9, 42, § 149. —With gen.:
vota secura repulsae,safe against, Ov. M. 12, 199.—
(b) Poet., that frees from care or anxiety:
latices,Verg. A. 6, 715 (securos ab effectu, Serv. ad l. l.).—
B In a bad sense, careless, reckless, heedless, negligent (post-Aug. and very rare):
reus,Quint. 6, 1, 14; cf. id. 4, 2, 55; 11, 3, 3.—Of abstract things: castrensis jurisdictio, easy, off-hand (shortly after, opp. gravis, intentus), Tac. Agr. 9:
luxus,id. A. 3, 54.—
II Transf., object., of a thing or place, free from danger, safe, secure (not till after the Aug. period, and rare for the class. tutus):
hostis levis et velox et repentinus, qui nullum usquam tempus, nullum locum quietum aut securum esse sineret,Liv. 39, 1:
domus,Plin. Pan. 62, 7:
Tripolim securissimam reddidit,Spart. Sev. 18:
securiorem,Tac. Or. 3:
quorum (hominum) ea natura est, ut secura velint,safety, security, id. ib. 37 fin.—With gen.:
subitā inundatione Tiberis non modo jacentia et plana urbis loca sed secura ejusmodi casuum implevit,secure from such accidents, Tac. H. 1, 86.—Adv., in two forms,
A sē-cūrē.
1 (Acc. to I.) Carelessly, heedlessly, fearlessly, unconcernedly, quietly (not ante-Aug.):
lente ac secure aliquid ferre,Suet. Ner. 40; Plin. Ep. 1, 4, 3 (with neglegenter); Vell. 2, 129, 3; Val. Max. 4, 7, 1 ext. al.—Comp., Sen. Ep. 18, 8.—
2 (Acc. to II.) Safely, securely, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 6.—
B sēcūrĭter (late Lat.), Aug. in Joan. Ep. ad Parth. Tr. 10, 8.
3. Sécürus — Walde–Hofmann
Sécürus, -a, -um ,sorglos; sicher“ (seit Cie.; daraus entl. ahd. sihhüri usw., Kluge!! s, sicher): —sé(d) und cüra, vgl. I 314. 1. seeus „gemäß, dicht, hinter“ (seit Liv. Andr. [oft hau(d) secus, sin secus u. dgl.]; auch seguius [seit Afran.] Kompar. sequior — inferior seit Apul, rom.): als ,folgend* Nom, Sg. eines Part. Pf. zu sequor (el ai. säcä „zusammen mit“, säkdm „ın Gemeinschaft mit, nebst“, Brugmann II? 2, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Sécürus, p. 1412]
In the wild
- secura Seneca, Hercules 1
- securi Ovid, Epistulae 16.107
- securum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.5.5
- securos Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.16.8
- securos Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 9
- Securasque Lucan, Pharsalia 6.163
6 of 860 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. securus (scan p. 170; entry #388).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Sécürus (scan p. 1412; entry #2532).
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