Músice, pen. cor. Aduerbium. Plaut.Delectably: in an harmony:also perfitely that nothing lacketh.
Músicus, ci, m. g. Substantiuum. Cic.A musician: a singing man.Florueruot in Græcia musici.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mūsĭca, ae, and mūsĭcē, ēs, f., = mousikh/, the art of music, music; acc. to the notions of the ancients, also every higher kind of artistic or scientific culture or pursuit: musicam Damone aut Aristoxeno tractante? etc., Cic. de Or. 3, 33, 132: socci et cothurni, i. e.
comic and dramatic poetry
, Aus. Ep. 10, 43: musice antiquis temporibus tantum venerationis habuit, ut, Quint. 1, 10, 9.
mūsĭcus. a, um, adj., = mousiko/s. I.Of or belonging to music, musical (class.). A.Adj.: leges musicae,
the rules of music
, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 39: sonus citharae, Phaedr. 4, 18, 20: pedes, Plin. 29, 1, 5, 6.—B.Subst. 1. mūsĭcus, i, m., a musician: musicorum aures, Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146.—2. mūsĭ-ca, ōrum, n., music: in musicis numeri, et voces, et modi, Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187: dedere se musicis, id. ib. 1, 3, 10: et omnia musicorum organa, Vulg. 1 Par. 16, 42.—II. In gen. 1.Of or belonging to poetry, poetical; subst., a poet: applicare se ad studium musicum, the art of poetry, Ter. Heaut. prol. 23: ars, id. Phorm. prol. 18: musicus pes, a metrical foot of five syllables, (e. g. temperantia), Diom. p. 478 P.—2.Of or belonging to science, scientific: ludus, scientific occupation, Gell. praef.—Hence, adv.: mūsĭcē, = mousikw=s: musice hercle agitis aetatem, you are in clover, i. e. living luxuriously at another's expense, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 40.