Benignus, Vide BENIGNVS. Boni vultus. Ouid.Merie lookes: good countenaunce or cheere.Compti vultus. Claud. Faces trimmed.Confusi. Lucan. Dismayed or troubled lookes.Consceleratus vultus.Cicer.Coruscus vultus. Claud. Distortus. Quint. Decorus. Claud. Durus.Ouid.A sower looke.Dilectus.Stat. Exanimes vultus. Lucan. Ferini.Ouid.Grimme lookes.Ferax vultus. Sen. Formosi vultus.Ouid. Igneus. Sen. Grauis vultus.Iuuen. Importunus. Cic.Hilaris.Ouid. Infestus. Lucan. Ingenui vultus puer. Iuu. A thild hauing a good honest face.Inimicus vultus.Plaut.Iratus. Claud. Iuniorem vultum præstar anisum. Plin. Anise maketh one loke youger.Iuueniles vultus.Ouid. Læti. Ouid.Loquax vultus.Ouid.Lubricus vultus aspici. Hora. A face daungerous to beholde, for that it allureth one to loue.Lucidi vultus Lunæ. Sen. Lugubres vultus.Ouid.Minaci vultu grauis.Val. Flac.Modestus vultus.Iuuen. Mœstus. Senec.Mœrens.Ouid. Nitidus. Ouid.Omniferi vultus Tellurìs.Ouid.The face of the earth bringeth forth all things.Præclarus vultus. Lucre. Proiectus & degener.Tacit.An vnmanlye looke, and without life or courage.Purpureus vultus Lunæ.Ouid.The Moone looking red.Ridiculus. Quint. Rigidus & trux vultus.Ouid.Serenus. Horat. Toruus. Quint. Seuerus & tristis.Cic. Toruo vultu ferus. Hor. Supinus. Quint. Trepidi vultus. Ouid.Sydereus. Seneca. Tristis vultus. Ouid.Terribilis. Oui. Trux. Tacit.Tumidi & truces vultus. Sen. Virginei. Virg.Virgineus vultus in ore puerili.Ouid.Virilis vultus. Hor. Vitalis. Lucr. Abdere vultus suos tenebris.Ouid.Addere vultum verbis.Ouidius.With his faire and courteous words to shew a good countenaunce also.Adhibere aliquò vultum, Vide ADHIBEO.Aduertere vultus suos sacris.Ouid.To turne towarde, &c.Affulsit vultus tuus populo. Horat. Appellare vultu, Vide APPELLO.Ruga senilis arat iam meos vultus.Ouid.Age maketh furrowes or wrinckles in my face.Alterno vultu & hunc & illum aspectans.Ouid.Looking nowe on the one, and now on the other.Aspice vultus meos. Ouidi. Aspicere aliquem molli vultu.Ouid.Auertere vultus ab aliquo.Ouid.Comparare vultum è vultu, Vide COMPARO.Feros componere vultus.Ouidius.To fashiõ his sterce lookes to a more pleasantnesse.Compositus vultus.Tacit.A countenaunce set and fashioned.Condere vultus.Ouid.Confundere vultum Lunæ carminibus.Ouid.Coniectare aliquid vultu. Tac. To gesse by, &c.Consentit vultus cum oratione, Vide CONSENTIO.Conuertere vultus suos in aliquem. Oui. To looke towarde.Silenti vultu defixus.Val. Flac.Looking stedfastly and saying nothing.Mœsto defixus lumina vultu.Virg.Deformat vultum macies. Virgil. Leanenesse dissigureth ones looke.Deiecit vultum, & demissa voce locuta est. Virgil. Shes bashefully cast hir countenaunce downeward, &c.Deiectus vultus.Virg.Deiectus in humum vultus.Ouid.Deposuit vultum suum in gremio.Ouid.Detinere vultus alicuius. Oui. To make one stare long on it.Discere vultum alicuius.Virg.Dissimulare vultum.Stat. Modesto vultu ire. Ouid.Amato vultu non exaciatur.Stat.Hee cannot satissie himselfe with looking on the face that hee loueth.Excidit illi vultus.Ouid.His merie cheare is chaunged & gone.Pacato vultu excipere aliquid. Oui. Expressi vultus per ahenea signa. Hora. Faces liuely wroughte in brasse.Exprimebat omnes vultus.Cic.He counterfaited al their countenaunces.Quos spiritus gessisset, vultu ferebat. Tacit He sheweth in his countenaunce, &c.Figere vultus in aliquo.Virg.To looke stedfastly on.Fingere vultum.Ouid.Fictus & simulatus vultus.Cic.Flagrantes Dei vultus.Virg.Flectere vultum ad aliquem.Ouid.To looke towarde.Serenos vultus fœdare.Virg.To disgrace and marre, &c.Fœdati vultus.Ouid.Prono fusus super oscula vultu. Sta. Deiectos gerit vultus pudore. Seneca. For shame shee casteth downe hir countenance and looketh to the grounde.Incertos vultus gerere Sen.Habet pacem vultus.Ouid.His countenaunce is peaceable and quiet.Infixi pectore hærent vultus, Virg.His lookes and countenance doth sticke deepely in hir minde.Humectare vultum largo flumine. Vir. To weepe abundantly.Immutat vultum.Terent.He changeth his countenaunce.Induere vultus seueros, Vide INDVO.Niueos infecit purpura vultus. Claud, Hir faire face waxed red with blushing.Durus vultus malis lachrymare nescit. Sen. Lauare vultum profusis lachrymis.Ouid.Madentes sudore vultus. Sil. Ones face dropping downe wyth sweate.Motare vultum, Vide MVTO. Notare vultus. Tac. Obducti vultus ægro luctu.Ouid.His countenannce ouercaste with forrowful heauinesse.Blandos offers mihi vultus. Tibul. Intrepidos vultus pertulit ad fata nouissima.Ouid.Hee looked with a stoute countenaunce enen to death.Prætendere vultum. Quint. Toto vultu in terram procumbere.Ouid.Promittere aliquid vultu. Quint. Amico vultu promitrere aliquid.Ouid.With a friendly looke to signisie or promise a thing.Placidi radiant in casside vultus. Claud. Referre vultum alicuius. Oui. To be like one in countenaunce.Alto vultu reijcere dona alicuius. Horatius. With a prowde looke, &c.Renidens falsum vultu.Tacit.Counterfaiting a smiling or merie looke.Renidenti cohibens suspiria vultu.Val. Flac.Placido vultu respice mea munera.Ouid.Respicere meliore vultu, Vide BONVS.Ficto ridere vultu.Stat.To counterfaite a laughing.Inuito vultu tidere. Hor. To laugh againste his will.Rigabat vultum atque ora lachrymis.Virg.Supplice vultu rogare aliquid. Claud. Benignum vultum seruat fortuna. Hora. Fortune yet looketh fauourably on vs.Soluto vultu galeas intrare.Stat.With a cherefull countenance to put his head in the helmet.Sparsi vultus sanguine.Ouid.Iniquo vultu spectare aliquem.Ouid.To looke displeasauntlye on one.Boni vultus esse.Ouid.To haue a good countenaunce.Castos vultus tegere.Ouid.Consilium vultu tegit. Virg He pretendeth in countenaunce to minde no such thing.Tendens ad sydera vultus.Ouid.Immotos vultus tenere.Ouid.Rectos tenere vultus in aliquem.Stat.To looke strefght on one.Tenuare voltum macie Propert.Terrcre aliquem vulu. Hor. Panido vultu territa, Sen.Trahere voltum & rugas cogere.Ouidius.To make the fate writheled and wrinckled.Demissos velare vultus. Lucan.
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bĕnignus, a, um, adj. [as if benigenus, from bonus genus, anal. with malignus and privignus], of a good kind or nature, beneficent, kind.I. Of feeling or deportment towards others, kind, good, friendly, pleasing, favorable, benignant: nam generi lenonio, Numquam ullus deus tam benignus fuit qui fuerit propitius, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 34: benignus et lepidus et comis, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 39: boni et benigni, id. Phorm. 5, 2, 2: comes, benigni, faciles, suaves homines esse dicuntur, Cic. Balb. 16, 36: Apelles in aemulis benignus, Plin. 35, 10, 36, 88; id. praef. 21: divi, Hor. C. 4, 2, 52: numen, id. ib. 4, 4, 74; cf. Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 34 al.— B. Of things, friendly, favorable, pleasant, mild: animus, Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 22: oratio, Cic. Off. 2, 14, 48: sociorum comitas vultusque benigni, Liv. 9, 6, 8; 30, 14, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 20: verba, Prop. 1, 10, 24: benigniora verba, Liv. 21, 19, 11.—In the jurists, interpretatio, a mild, favorable interpretation (opp. dura, which follows the strictness of the letter; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 10, 31 sq.), Dig. 39, 5, 16: semper in dubiis benigniora praeferenda sunt, ib. 50, 17, 56: benignior sententia, ib. 37, 6, 8.—C.Poet., = faustus, lucky, propitious, favorable: dies, Stat. S. 5, 1, 108: nox, id. Th. 10, 216.—II. More freq. of action, beneficent, obliging, that gives or imparts freely, liberal, bounteous, etc.: erga te benignus fui, atque opera mea Haec tibi sunt servata, Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 33; id. Trin. 3, 3, 12; 2, 4, 58: fortuna ... Nunc mihi, nunc alii benigna, Hor. C. 3, 29, 52: qui benigniores volunt esse, quam res patitur, peccant, Cic. Off. 1, 14, 44: qui liberalis benignusque dicitur, id. Leg. 1, 18, 48: facilius in timore benigni quam in victoriā grati reperiuntur, id. ad Brut. 1, 15, 8.—Poet., with gen.: vini somnique benignus,
a hard drinker and a lover of sleep
, Hor. S. 2, 3, 3.—Opp. to bonae frugi = prodigus, prodigal, lavish: est benignus potius quam bonae frugi, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 20.—B. Of things (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose; cf. malignus), yielding liberally, abundant, fruitful, fertile, copious, rich: et magnas messes terra benigna daret, Tib 3, 3, 6: ager, Ov. Am. 1, 10, 56: tellus, Plin. 18, 1, 1, 1: vepres, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 8: cornu, id. C. 1, 17, 15: egens benignae Tantalus semper dapis, id. Epod. 17, 66: ingenī Benigna vena est, id. C. 2, 18, 10: praeda, Ov. F. 5, 174: benigna materia gratias agendi Romanis, Liv. 42, 38, 6: quem (ordinem) persequi longa est magis quam benigna materia, fruitful, or suitable for exhibition, Mel. prooem. 1; so Seneca: primus liber .. benigniorem habuit materiem, Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 1: ipse materiā risūs benignissima, id. Const. 18, 1 (cf. also in Gr. a)/fqonos): aestivam sermone benigno tendere noctem, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 11 (sermone multo et liberali et largo, Lamb.): benignissimum inventum, i. e. beneficentissimum, Plin. 35, 2, 2, 11. —Hence, adv.: bĕnignē (ante-class. collat. form bĕnignĭter). 1.In a friendly manner, kindly, benevolently, courteously, benignly: benigne et amice facere, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 109: me benignius Omnes salutant quam salutabant prius, id. Aul. 1, 2, 36: ecquid ego possiem Blande dicere aut benigne facere, Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 24: viam monstrare,
, Liv. 3, 26, 1: audire, Suet. Aug. 89.—In the ante-class. form benigniter, Titin. ap. Non. p. 510, 13, and Prisc. p 1010 P.—b.Mildly, indulgently (in jurid. Lat.): in poenalibus causis benignius interpretandum est, Dig. 50, 17, 155; ib. 44, 7, 1, 13: benignissime rescripserunt, ib. 37, 14, 4.—c. Benigne dicis, or absol. benigne, used in colloquial lang. in thanking one for something, both when it is taken and when it is refused (the latter a courtly formula like the Gr. ai)nw= se, zhlw= se, kalw=s, ka/llista; cf. recte), you are very kind, I thank you very much, am under great obligation; no, I thank you.(a). In receiving: As. Peregre cum advenis, cena detur. Di. Benigne dicis, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 27; Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 62.—(b). In declining: frumentum, inquit, me abs te emere oportet. Optime. Modium denario. Benigne ac liberaliter: nam ego ternis HS non possum vendere, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 85, 196: dic Ad cenam veniat.. Benigne Respondet. Neget ille mihi? etc., Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 62; id. ib. 1, 7, 16 Schmid.—2.Abundantly, liberally, freely, generously: pecuniam praebere, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 37; id. Aul. 4, 4, 20; Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 1; Cic. Off. 2, 15, 52 and 53; Sall. J. 68, 3; Liv. 9, 31, 5; 9, 32. 2: benignius Deprome quadrimum, Hor. C. 1, 9, 6: paulo benignius ipsum Te tractare voles, id. Ep. 1, 17, 11. —b. Benigne facere alicui = bene facere, to do a favor, to show favor, Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 24 Ruhnk.; Cat. 73, 3: qui plurimis in istā provinciā benigne fecisti, Cic. Fam. 13, 67, 1; id. Off. 1, 14, 42; id. Inv. 1, 55, 109; Liv. 4, 14, 5; 28, 39, 18; Gell. 17, 5, 10 al.; cf. Rutil. Lup. p. 127 Ruhnk. (175 Frotscher).