Mos, consuetudóque seruata. Cic. Mores laudantur qui sunt ex placido & concitato mitifsimi. Col. The conditions are praysed.Mos obliuisci hominibus, neque nouisse cuius nihîli sit facienda gratia.Plaut.Men haue a fashion and custome to forget, &c.Mos & consuetudo ciuilis.Cic.-mos nunquam illi fuit patri meo.Vt exprobraret quod bonus faceret boni.Plaut.It was neuer my fathers fashion or condicion, &c.Mos est hominum, vt nolint eundem pluribus in rebus excellere.Cic.The fashion of men is.Mos erat antiquis.Ouid.Virginibus Tyrijs mos est gestare pharetrá.Virg.The maydens of Tyre vse to beare a quiuer.Vt mos est.Cic.As the fashion is.Is genti mos dirus erat. Sil. The people vsed that cruell fashion or maner. Moris est.Cic. Negauit moris esse Græcorum vt in conuiuio, &c. He sayde the fashion of the Græcians was not &c. More habent licentiam.Plaut.By custome they may.More agere institutísque ciuilibus.Cic.Petere honorem pro flagicio, more fit. Plautus. It is the custome to require a reward for a naughty act.More rotat fundæ.Ouid.He turneth round like a wheele.More magis hoc quidem scribo, qum quo te admoneodum putem.Cic.I write this rather of a custome, then, &c.Meretricio more viuere.Cic.To liue after the fashion of harlots.Bestiarum more vagari.Cic.Ferarum more. Hor. Like wilde beastes.More hominum euenit, vt quod sim nactus mali Prius rescisceres tu, qum ego quod tibi euenit boni.Terent.It hath happened after the common course of the world.More ingenij humani, cupido difficilia faciendi, animum vertit.Salust.After the fashion of mans nature, lust to atchicue difficult things, &c.Quibus more maiorum concessum est, vel omnes adire prouincias. &c. Cicero. To whome it was graunted afterthe fashion of our auncetours.More noualium proscindatur terta. Col. Let it be eared after the fashion of land lying falow euery second yeare.Facis tu quidem omnium more.Cic. More meo.Cic.According to my custome or wouled maner.Nouo more aliquid facere.Cic.To do a thing as it was neuer done before.Multi more isto atque exemplo viuunt, quos quum censeas Tibi amicos, reperinntur falsi falsimonijs.Plaut.Many line after this maner & fashiõ that when thou wouldst thinke, &c. Ad morem. Quint. Materias subijpsi fingunt, & ad morem actionum prosequuntur. And prosecute them after the fashiõ of actions.De more.Virg.After the custome or fashion.Crimen de more solutæ.Virg.Comptos de more capillos.Virg.Ex more. Horat. According to the custome.Cunctis ex more vocatis.Virg.Priscóque deos ex more precatus.Ouid.Praying to the gods according to the auncient maner.In morem sluminis.Virg.Like a riuer or streame.In morem stagoi.Virg.In morem operis componere carmina. Horat. Est hoc in more positum, institutóque maiorum, vt ij qui, &c.Cic.This was alway the custome and maner of our auncetours, that, &c.In patrijs est moribus, multorÛ causas gratuitò defendere Cic.It is the maner and custome of our countrey: or our auncetours were woont.Eas potissimum religiones tenerent, quæ essent in more maiorum.Cic.Which our auncetours accnstomed.Per hunc inuenta licentia morem. Horat. Tempestas sine more furit.Virg. Moribus, pro more & consuetudine.Cic. Vt de fundo Cecinna moribus deduceretur. That Cecinua according to the custome, should be ledde from possession of the lande. Castus moribus. Mart. Consimilis moribus, Vide CONSIMILIS.Incompositus. Quint. Of vnseemely behauiour.Prefectus moribus.Quintil.An ouerseer of maners.Doctus imitator morum. Horat. Veritas morum. Quint. Æqui mores modicis erroribus.Iuuen.Good or honest maner with small vices.Antiqui mores.Plaut.Auidi mores.Plaut. Austerus mos. Cic.Bonis monbus conuenit. Iustinianus. It is a point of honesty.Barbarus mos. Horat. Bonus mos.Plaut.An honest fashion: a good property.Ciuiles mores. Plin. Intermortui mores, Plaut.Commodus mos.Cic.Intorti mores. Pers. Maners depraned and corrupted.Curui mores. Pers. Crooked conditiõs: naughty fashions: vices.Damnati mores. luuen. Non inutilis mos. Quint. Deductus inde mos. Horat. Lepidi mores.Plaut.Pleasant conditions.Feri mores hominum.Senec.The cruell and rude behauiour of men.Malignus mos. Claud. Humiles mores. Stat.Maritimi mores, Vide MARS.Immodesti.Plaut. Improbus mos. Plaut.Indocti mores.Plaut. Mendosi mores. Ouid.Mitissimi. Col. Very gentle conditions.Infandus mos.Stat. Nocentissimi. Quintil.Infitus vitio genti mos.Liu. Noui. Plin. Insuetus mos.Cic. Pacifici. Claud. Pallentes mores. Pers. Faultes making men pale for feare of punishment.Patrius mos.Ouid. Rectus mos. Hor. Peruersus.Cic. Rigidi mores. Ouid.Peregrioi mores.Liu. Seueri. Plin. Pessimi. Quint. Solennis sacrorum mos. Lucret. Pudici. Plin. Rabidi. Ouid.Varius mos.Virg. Præclarum maioribus morem accepimus rogandi iudicis.Cic.We haue receyued of our auncetours a notable customeor maner to desire the iudge.Accipere mores. Vide ACCIPIO. Adumbrare morem alicuius. Curt. To resemble ones fashion in doing: to imitate.Affingere mores. Vide AFFINGO. Agere morem, Vide AGO.Recto more agere aliquid. Horat. Austero more & modo agere.Cic.To doe rigorously and after an austere fashion.Astringere mores. Quint. Bibere more Græco, Vide BIBO.Marernósque bibit mores, exampláque discit. Claud. He susketh his mothers conditions.Captare mores.Plaut.Cedere moribus alicuius. Horat. Colere mores populi, Vide COLO.Rabidos compescere mores.Ouid.To represse their cruell fashions.Comprobare mores factis.Plaut.Condere mores alicuius gentis. Curt. To fashion the maners of a people.Conformare mores.Cic.To fashion ones behauiour.Congtuere cum alterius moribus, Vide CONGRVO.Congruere in morem alicuius.Liu.Consequi morem, Vide CONSEQVOR.Conueniunt mores, Vide CONVENIO.Corrumpere mores alicuius.Cic.Custodite morem, Vide CVSTODIO.Decedere de luo more, Vide DECEDO.Deduci ad morem alicuius.Cic.To be brought to futowe ones fashion.Mendosos desendere mores.Ouid.To defend corrupt maners.Deregunt le mores. Quint. Conditions shew themselfe.Nocentissimis moribus perniciosa dare instrumenta. Quimil. To minister wicked occasions of most naughty conditions.Effingere mores Cic.To frame or fashion ones conditions.Excolere mores. Quint. Exornate morem communis sermonis.Quintil.Exprimere oratione mores alicuius, Cic.In wordes to represent or liuely to expresse ones conditions.Motem tecerat vsus.Ouid.Peruerso more facere.Cic.To do frowardly.Suis quisque singitur moribus.Cic. Morem gerere alicui.Terent.To obey one.Gestus est mos & voluntati & dignirati tuæ.Cic.Your pleasurs and honour was obeyed.Gerendus est tibi mos.Cic.You must be obeyed.Morem gerere animo.Plaut.To folow his owne phantasie.Mores quos antè gerebant, nunc quoque habent.Ouid.Imitari mores & disciplinam alicuius.Cic.Immutare mores.Cic.Pacis morem imponere populis. Virgil. To giue and oppoynt condition of peace or law to line by in peace.Inœssit mos, Vide INCESSO.Inducere morem, Vide INDVCO.Inducere aliquid in mores populi.Cic.To bring vp a thing as a custome among men.Induere motes pudicos & seueros, Vide INDVO.Inficere peregrinis moribus, Vide INFICIO.Hominum mores inspicere. Horat. Instituere mores.Quintil.To frame or inssrurt how they shall behaue themselfe.Ad vitium mores instruet inde soos.Ouid.Labuntur ad mollitiem mores.Cic.Moners decay and fall to a nicenesse or effeminate wantonnesse.Manet mos antiquus.Cic.Mutate mores. Vide MVTO. Obserere mores.Plaut. Vide OBSERO. More & exemplo opitulari.Cic.To ayde according to the custome and example shewed by other.Ornate motibus aliquid. Horat. To adourne or set foorth with good maners.Ostendere mores alicuins.Terent.Pati mores. Plin. Perdere mores alicuius.Quintil.To hurt or bestroy ones good maners: to marre.Perducere aliquid in morÊ.Cic.To bring in vse or custome.Perlucent mores, & quodammodo agnoscuntur ex oratione dicentis Quint.Dnes conditions appeare. &c.Permittere morem.Virg.Moribus illa placet Ouid.Hir conditions liketh hím hetter.Prætendere vultum & tristitiam pessimis moribus. Quint. To hide or cloake very naughtie conditions with a graue and sad countenance.Prosteraere morcs ciuiles. Plin. To ouerthrow and marre ciuile fashions.Pallentes radere mores. Pers. To reprooue vices or naughtie conditions.Morem antiquum referre. Suet. To bring in vre againe an old fashion.Exemplóque suo mores reget.Ouid.Virtutem & mores alicuius representare. Horat. Mores repugnant. Horat. Retinere morem. Cic.Seruare morem. Quint. To keepe a fashion.Soluere morem traditum â prioribus, Vide SOLVO.Regibus hic mos est, &c. Hor. Kings haue this fashion.Sicut meus est mos. Hor. As my sashion is.Tenere morem.Cic.Sacrorum morem tenere.Virg.Traditus ab antiquis mos. Hor. A fashion left of old time.Ad nostrum vsum morémque transferri.Cic.Iam dolor in morem venit meus.Ouid.More ex alterius viuere. Ter. Moribus autiquis viuendum.Plaut. Ad cœli mores, solíque ingenia. Plin. According to the state or temperature of the ayre and nature of the ground.Varium cœli prædiscere morem.Virg.
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mos, mōris, m. [etym. dub.; perh. root ma-, measure; cf.: maturus, matutinus; prop., a measuring or guiding rule of life; hence], manner, custom, way, usage, practice, fashion, wont, as determined not by the laws, but by men's will and pleasure, humor, self-will, caprice (class.; cf.: consuetudo, usus). I.Lit.: opsequens oboediensque'st mori atque imperiis patris, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 54: huncine erat aequum ex illius more, an illum ex hujus vivere?Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 24: alieno more vivendum est mihi, according to the will or humor of another, id. And. 1, 1, 125: nonne fuit levius dominae pervincere mores, Prop. 1, 17, 15: morem alicui gerere, to do the will of a person, to humor, gratify, obey him: sic decet morem geras, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 35; Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 17: animo morem gessero, Ter. And. 4, 1, 17: adulescenti morem gestum oportuit, id. Ad. 2, 2, 6; v. gero.—II. The will as a rule for action, custom, usage, practice, wont, habit: leges mori serviunt,
usage, custom
, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 36: legi morique parendum est, Cic. Univ. 11: ibam forte Viā Sacrā, sicut meus est mos,
custom, wont
, Hor. S. 1, 9, 1: contra morem consuetudinemque civilem, Cic. Off. 1, 41, 148: quae vero more agentur institutisque civilibus,
according to usage, according to custom
, id. ib.: mos est hominum, ut nolint eundem pluribus rebus excellere, id. Brut. 21, 84: ut mos est, Juv. 6, 392; moris erat quondam servare, etc., id. 11, 83: more sinistro,
by a perverted custom
, id. 2, 87.— So with ut: morem traditum a patribus, ut, etc., Liv. 27, 11, 10: hunc morem servare, ut, etc., id. 32, 34, 5: virginibus Tyriis mos est gestare pharetram,
it is the custom, they are accustomed
, Verg. A. 1, 336: qui istic mos est?Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 1: mos ita rogandi, Cic. Fam. 12, 17, 1: ut mos fuit Bithyniae regibus, id. Verr. 2, 5, 11, 27: moris est, it is the custom: negavit, moris esse Graecorum, ut, etc., id. ib. 2, 1, 26, 66; Vell. 2, 37, 5: quae moris Graecorum non sint, Liv. 36, 28, 4; cf.: (aliquid) satis ex more Graecorum factum, id. 36, 28, 5: ut Domitiano moris erat, Tac. Agr. 39.—Plur.: id quoque morum Tiberii erat, Tac. A. 1, 80: praeter civium morem,
contrary to custom, to usage
, Ter. And. 5, 3, 9: sine more, unwonted, unparalleled: facinus sine more, Stat. Th. 1, 238; so, nullo more, id. ib. 7, 135: supra morem: terra supra morem densa,
unusually
, Verg. G. 2, 227 (cf.: supra modum): perducere aliquid in morem,
to make into a custom, make customary
, Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 162: quod jam in morem venerat, ut, etc.,
had become customary
, Liv. 42, 21, 7.—B. In partic., in a moral point of view, conduct, behavior; in plur., manners, morals, character; in a good or bad sense: est ita temperatis moderatisque moribus, ut summa severitas summā cum humanitate jungatur,
, id. ib. 38, 109: eos esse M'. Curii mores, eamque probitatem, ut, etc., id. Fam. 13, 17, 3; id. de Or. 2, 43, 182: mores disciplinamque alicujus imitari, id. Deiot. 10, 28: perditi, id. Fam. 2, 5, 2: praefectura morum,
the supervision of the public morals
, Suet. Caes. 76: moribus et caelum patuit,
to good morals, virtue
, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 101: amator meretricis mores sibi emit auro et purpurā,
polite behavior, complaisance
, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 128: propitiis, si per mores nostros liceret, diis, i. e.
our evil way of life
, Tac. H. 3, 72: morum quoque filius,
like his father in character
, Juv. 14, 52: ne te ignarum fuisse dicas meorum morum, leno ego sum, i. e.
my trade
, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 6: in publicis moribus, Suet. Tib. 33; 42.—III.Transf.A.Quality, nature, manner; mode, fashion: haec meretrix fecit, ut mos est meretricius, Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 8: mores siderum,
qualities, properties
, Plin. 18, 24, 56, 206: caeli, Verg. G. 1, 51: Carneadeo more et modo disputare,
manner
, Cic. Univ. 1: si humano modo, si usitato more peccāsset,
in the usual manner
, id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, 9: Graeco more bibere, id. ib. 1, 26, 66: apis Matinae More modoque,
after the manner of, like
, Hor. C. 4, 2, 27: Dardanius torrentis aquae vel turbinis atri More furens, Verg. A. 10, 604: more novalium, Col. 3, 13, 4: caeli et anni mores, Col. 1, Praef. 23: omnium more, Cic. Fam. 12, 17, 3; so, ad morem actionum, Quint. 4, 1, 43: elabitur anguis in morem fluminis,
like
, Verg. G. 1, 245: in hunc operis morem, Hor. S. 2, 1, 63: pecudum in morem, Flor. 3, 8, 6: morem vestis tenere,
mode, fashion
, Just. 1, 2, 3.— B.A precept, law, rule (poet. and postAug.): moresque viris et moenia ponet,
precepts, laws
, Verg. A. 1, 264; cf.: pacis inponere morem, id. ib. 6, 852: quod moribus eorum interdici non poterat, Nep. Ham. 3: quid ferri duritiā pugnacius? sed cedit, et patitur mores,
submits to laws, obeys, is tamed
, Plin. 36, 16, 25, 127: ut leo mores Accepit, Stat. Ach. 2, 183: in morem tonsa coma, = ex more ludi, Verg. A. 5, 556.