sĭno — Lewis & Short
sĭno, sīvi, sĭtum, 3 (sinit, as archaic
I subj. pres. formerly stood, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 27; Verg. Cir. 239; but in the former passage has been corrected to sierit, Fleck.; and in the latter the clause is spurious.— Perf. sii, Varr. ap. Diom. p. 371 P.:
siit,Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 24, acc. to Diom. l. l.; another old form of the perf. sini, Scaur. ap. Diom. l. l.; so, too, pluperf. sinisset, Rutil. ib.— Sync. perf. sisti, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 80: sistis, Att. ap. Cic. Sest. 57, 122.—Subj. sieris or siris, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106; cf. Trag. Rel. p. 84 Rib.; Plaut. Bacch. 3, 2, 18; id. Ep. 3, 3, 19; id. Trin. 2, 4, 120;
an old formula,Liv. 1, 32:
sirit,id. 28, 28, 11; 28, 34, 24:
siritis,Plaut. Poen. 5, 1, 20: sirint, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 64; id. Merc. 3, 4, 28.—Pluperf. sisset, Liv. 27, 6:
sissent,Cic. Sest. 19, 44; Liv. 3, 18; 35, 5, 11), v. a. etym. dub., orig., to let, put, lay, or set down; found so only in the P. a. situs (v. infra, P. a.), and in the compound pono (for posino, v. pono); cf. also 2. situs, I.—Hence, transf., and freq. in all styles and periods.
I In gen., to let, suffer, allow, permit, give leave (syn.: permitto, patior, tolero, fero); constr. usually with an obj.-clause, the subj., or absol., rarely with ut or an acc.
(a) With obj.clause: exsulare sinitis, sistis pelli, pulsum patimini, Att. ap. Cic. Sest. 57, 122: neu reliquias sic meas sieris denudatis ossibus foede divexarier, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106:
quin tu itiner exsequi meum me sinis?Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 88:
nos Transalpinas gentes oleam et vitem serere non sinimus,Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 16:
non sinam tum nobis denique responderi,Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 54 B. and K.:
praecipitem amicum ferri sinere,id. Lael. 24, 89:
latrocinium in Syriam penetrare,id. Phil. 11, 13, 32: vinum ad se importari, * Caes. B. G. 4, 2 fin.:
Medos equitare inultos,Hor. C. 1, 2, 51:
magnum corpus Crescere sinito,Verg. G. 3, 206; Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 11; cf.:
Cato contionatus est, se comitia haberi non siturum,Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 6:
sine sis loqui me,Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 50:
sine me dum istuc judicare,id. Most. 5, 2, 22; so,
sine dum petere,id. Truc. 2, 7, 67 et saep.—Pass.:
vinum in dolium conditur et ibi sinitur fermentari,Col. 12, 17, 1:
neque is tamen inire sinitur,id. 6, 37, 9:
vitis suci gratiā exire sinitur,Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 16:
hic accusare eum moderate, per senatus auctoritatem non est situs,Cic. Sest. 44, 95:
sine te exorari,Plin. Ep. 9, 21, 3.—
(b) With subj. (so for the most part only in the imper.):
sine te exorem, sine te prendam auriculis, sine dem savium,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 163:
sine me expurgem,Ter. And. 5, 3, 29: Ch. At tandem dicat sine. Si. Age dicat;
sino,id. ib. 5, 3, 24:
ne duit, si non vult: sic sine astet,let him stand, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 54:
sine pascat durus (captivus) aretque,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 70:
sine vivat ineptus,id. ib. 1, 17, 32:
sine sciam,let me know, Liv. 2, 40, 5:
sinite abeam viva a vobis,Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 92:
sinite instaurata revisam Proelia,Verg. A. 2, 669 et saep.—Poet. in the verb. finit: natura repugnat;
Nec sinit incipiat,Ov. M. 3, 377.—
(g) Absol. (syn.: pati, ferre);
suspende, vinci, verbera: auctor sum, sino,Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 18:
nobiscum versari jam diutius non potes: non feram, non patiar, non sinam,Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 10:
domum ire cupio: at uxor non sinit,Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 60: Ba. Ego nolo dare te quicquam. Pi. Sine. Ba. Sino equidem, si lubet, id. Bacch. 1, 1, 66: nate, cave;
dum resque sinit, tua corrige vota,Ov. M. 2, 89:
moretur ergo in libertate sinentibus nobis,Plin. Ep. 4, 10 fin.—
(d) With ut:
sivi, animum ut expleret suom,Ter. And. 1, 2, 17:
sinite, exorator ut sim, id. Hec. prol. alt. 2: neque sinam, ut,id. ib. 4, 2, 14:
nec dii siverint, ut hoc decus demere mihi quisquam possit,Curt. 5, 8, 13:
neque di sinant ut Belgarum decus istud sit,Tac. A. 1, 43.— (e) With acc.:
sinite arma viris et cedite ferro,leave arms to men, Verg. A. 9, 620:
per te, vir Trojane, sine hanc animam et miserere precantis,id. ib. 10, 598:
neu propius tectis taxum sine,id. G. 4, 47:
serpentium multitudo nisi hieme transitum non sinit,Plin. 6, 14, 17, § 43:
at id nos non sinemus,Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 7; cf.:
non sinat hoc Ajax,Ov. M. 13, 219; 7, 174.—Sometimes the acc. is used elliptically, as in Engl., and an inf. (to be, remain, do, go, etc.) is to be supplied: Sy. Sineres vero tu illum tuum Facere haec? De. Sinerem illum! Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 42:
dum interea sic sit, istuc actutum sino,I'll let that by and by go, I don't care for it, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 68:
me in tabernā usque adhuc sineret Syrus,id. Ps. 4, 7, 14: Ch. Ne labora. Me. Sine me, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 38: quisquis es, sine me, let me (go), id. Ad. 3, 2, 23.—
II In partic.
A In colloquial language.
1 Sine, let:
sine veniat!let him come! Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 1:
insani feriant sine litora fluctus,Verg. E. 9, 43.—So simply sine! be it so! granted! very well! agreed, etc.:
pulchre ludificor. Sine!Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 6; id. As. 5, 2, 48; id. Aul. 3, 2, 11; id. Bacch. 4, 7, 13; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 90 al.:
sic sine,Plaut. Truc. 5, 4.—
2 Sine modo, only let, i. e. if only:
cur me verberas? ... Patiar. Sine modo adveniat senex! Sine modo venire salvum, etc.,Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 10.—So with subj.:
sine modo venias domum,Plaut. As. 5, 2, 50 Fleck.—
B Rarely like the Greek e)a=n, to give up, cease, leave a thing undone: Al. Vin vocem? Cl. Sine:
nolo, si occupata est,Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 14: tum certare odiis, tum res rapuisse licebit. Nunc sinite (sc. certare, etc.), forbear, Verg A. 10, 15.—
C Ne di sirint (sinant), ne Juppiter sirit, etc., God forbid! Heaven forefend! Ch. Hoc capital facis ... aequalem et sodalem liberum civem enicas. Eu. Ne di sirint, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 28; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 64;
for which: ne di siverint,id. Merc. 2, 2, 51:
illud nec di sinant,Plin. Ep. 2, 2, 3:
ne istuc Juppiter O. M. sirit, urbem, etc.,Liv. 28, 28, 11:
nec me ille sierit Juppiter,Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 27.—Hence, sĭtus, a, um, P. a., placed, set, lying, situate (syn. positus; freq. and class.).
A Lit.
1 In gen.:
(gallinis) meridie bibere dato nec plus aqua sita siet horam unam,nor let the water be set before them more than an hour, Cato, R. R. 89:
pluma Quae sita cervices circum collumque coronat,Lucr. 2, 802:
(aurum) probe in latebris situm,Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 2; 4, 2, 8:
proba merx facile emptorem reperit, tametsi in abstruso sita est,id. Poen. 1, 2, 129:
Romuli lituus, cum situs esset in curiā Saliorum, etc.,Cic. Div. 1, 17, 30:
in ore sita lingua est finita dentibus,id. N. D. 2, 59, 149:
inter duo genua naribus sitis,Plin. 10, 64, 84, § 183:
ara sub dio,id. 2, 107, 111, § 240:
sitae fuere et Thespiades (statuae) ad aedem Felicitatis,id. 36, 5, 4, § 39 et saep.—Rarely of persons:
quin socios, amicos procul juxtaque sitos trahunt exciduntque,Sall. H. 4, 61, 17 Dietsch; cf.:
jam fratres, jam propinquos, jam longius sitos caedibus exhaustos,Tac. A. 12, 10:
nobilissimi totius Britanniae eoque in ipsis penetralibus siti,id. Agr. 30:
cis Rhenum sitarum gentium animos confirmavit,Vell. 2, 120, 1; cf.:
gens in convallibus sita,Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 28.—
2 In partic.
a Of places, lying, situate:
locus in mediā insulā situs,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 106:
in quo (sinu) sita Carthago est,Liv. 30, 24, 9:
urbes in orā Graeciae,Nep. Alcib. 5:
urbs ex adverso (Carthaginis),Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 4:
insulae ante promunturium,id. 9, 59, 85, § 180:
regio contra Parthiae tractum,id. 6, 16, 18, § 46 et saep.—
b Of the dead, lying, laid, buried, interred (syn. conditus):
declarat Ennius de Africano, hic est ille situs. Vere: nam siti dicuntur hi, qui conditi sunt,Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57; cf.:
redditur terrae corpus et ita locatum ac situm quasi operimento matris obducitur,id. ib. 2, 22, 56: siticines appellati qui apud sitos canere soliti essent, hoc est vitā functos et sepultos, Atei. Capito ap. Gell. 20, 2:
C. Marii sitae reliquiae,Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 56:
(Aeneas) situs est ... super Numicium flumen,Liv. 1, 2 Drak.:
Cn. Terentium offendisse arcam, in quā Numa situs fuisset,Plin. 13, 13, 27, § 84.—Hence the common phrase in epitaphs:
HIC SITVS EST, HIC SITI SVNT, etc.,Inscr. Orell. 654; 4639 sq.; Tib. 3, 2, 29.—
Comically: noli minitari: scio crucem futuram mihi sepulcrum: Ibi mei sunt majores siti, pater, avus, etc.,Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 20.—
c A few times in Tacitus for conditus, built, founded:
urbem Philippopolim, a Macedone Philippo sitam circumsidunt,Tac. A. 3, 38 fin.; 6, 41:
veterem aram Druso sitam disjecerant,id. ib. 2, 7 fin.:
vallum duabus legionibus situm,id. H. 4, 22.—
B Trop.
1 In gen., placed, situated, present, ready: hoc erit tibi argumentum semper in promptu situm, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 29, 20 (Sat. v. 37 Vahl.):
in melle sunt linguae sitae vostrae,Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 76:
quae ceteris in artibus aut studiis sita sunt,Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 65:
quas (artes) semper in te intellexi sitas,Ter. And. 1, 1, 6:
(voluptates) in medio sitas esse dicunt,within the reach of all, Cic. Tusc. 5, 33, 94.—
2 In partic.: situm esse in aliquo or in aliquā re, to rest with, depend upon some one or something (a favorite figure with Cic., and found not unfreq. in other writers):
in patris potestate est situm,Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 52; cf.:
assensio quae est in nostrā potestate sita,Cic. Ac. 2, 12, 37:
hujusce rei potestas omnis in vobis sita est, judices,id. Mur. 39, 83; cf.:
huic ipsi (Archiae), quantum est situm in nobis, opem ferre debemus,id. Arch. 1, 1:
est situm in nobis, ut, etc.,id. Fin. 1, 17, 57; cf.
also: si causa appetitus non est sita in nobis, ne ipse quidem appetitus est in nostrā potestate, etc.,id. Fat. 17, 40:
summam eruditionem Graeci sitam censebant in nervorum vocumque cantibus,id. Tusc. 1, 2, 4:
in officio colendo sita vitae est honestas omnis et in neglegendo turpitudo,id. Off. 1, 2, 4:
qui omnem vim divinam in naturā sitam esse censet,id. N. D. 1, 13, 35:
cui spes omnis in fugā sita erat,Sall. J. 54, 8:
in armis omnia sita,id. ib. 51, 4:
in unius pernicie ejus patriae sitam putabant salutem,Nep. Epam. 9 et saep.:
res omnis in incerto sita est,Plaut. Capt. 3, 4. 4:
tu in eo sitam vitam beatam putas?Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 35:
jam si pugnandum est, quo consilio in temporibus situm est,id. Att. 7, 9, 4:
laus in medio,Tac. Or. 18.