Castra, castris. Cæsar. To pitche or campe right ouer against an other.Causam in aliquem.Cic.To impute or lay the fault vpon one.Certamina belli inter se.Virg.To fight.Certamina pugnæ manu conferre. Lucrct. Idem. Ore suo cibos conferre. Quint. To feede with the bill, as birds do their yong.Consilia. Ter. To consult or deuise togither.Omne consilium, studium, officium, operam, laborem, diligentiam, ad amplitudioem alicuius conferre.Cicer.To employ all his councell, studie, &c. vpon oues honour, or set forth ones honour.Consilsum viuendi omne ad naturam suam.Cic.To applie his whole indeuour of fashioning his life according to his owne nature, following that.Consolationes in rem aliquam.Cic.To apply consolations to.Consulatum in euudem annum.Plin. iun.To veferre the cõsulship till the same.Copiam verborum conferre. Quint. To giue store of wordes.Crimen conferre in aliquem.Cic.To blame or accuse.Ne pòst conferas culpam in me.Terent.That thou lay not the fault in me afterward.Curas suas, & quicquid nobis est Deo datum, in rempub conferre.Cic.To implny and besiow vpon.Curas ad dignitatem alicuius.Cicer.To bende his care to the aduauncement of ones dignitie.In medium singulos denarios in singulos talos conferre. Suetonins. To hold or lay downe a penny for enery bone or die, in play.Diem soluendæ pecuniæ pacto conferre Papinianus.Diligentiam in valetudinem alicuius conferre.Cic.To be diligent in preseruing ones health.Dispurationem conferre in aliquos.Cic.To bend his disputation against themDona conferre alicui.Plaut.To bring in gistes to one.Exempla aliorum conferre.Plaut.To conferre or compare the examples of other.Si conferendum exemplum est, non, &c. Ter. If it be meete to vse example.Faciem & mores conferre duarum. Ohi. To compare, or make comparison of.Fructum aliò conferre.Terent.To bestowe the commoditie otherwise.Gradum.Plaut.To goe as fast as another: to sette sceppe by steppe.Gradum conferre cum hoste.Liu.To ioyne in hattaile withhis enimie.In carmen rem aliquam. Col. To bring or make into a verse.In commune.Cic.To bring togither for a common prosire.In educationem aliquid conferre.Quintil.To employ vpon bringing vp.Nunc verba in pauca conferam, quid te velim.Plaut.I will tell thee briefly, or in few wordes, what, &c.In pauca.Cic.To canclude: to be short.In quæstum vocem conferre.Cic.To employ his voyce to get money with it.In tempus ambulationis conferre cogitationes.Cicer.To deferre all his musings and cogitations vntill his time of walking.In vnum conferre plurium inuenta. Quint. To bring togither.Coram inter nos conferemus.Cic.We wil deuise and common of these matters, when we meete togither.Quotidie inter nos ea quæ audie bamus, conferebamus.Cicer.We did conferre togither.Ingenium ad rem aliquam.Cic.To apply his witte to.Iter Brundusium verius contuli. Ci. I tooke my iourney or went towarde. Videl TER. Lites conferre. Horat. To chide with.Maledicta in alsquem.Cicer.To rayle at one: to giue shrewde mordes.
Castro, castras, castrâre. Plin. To geld: to cut off.Castrare arbores. Plin. To bore holes low in trees.Castrare vites. Cato. To cut.Castrare caudas catulorum. Colum. To soynt.Castrare in sterilitatem. Plin. To geld.Castrarevina saccis. Plin.
Castrum, castri. Cic.A castle or fortresse: a hold.
, Col. 9, 15, 4; 9, 15, 11; cf.: castrare alvearia, Pall. 7, 7.—B.Trop., to enervate, debilitate: castrata res publica morte Africani, weakened (a vulgar figure, acc. to Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 164; Quint. 8, 6, 15): nisi illum (Maecenatem) enervasset felicitas, immo castrasset, Sen. Ep. 19, 9: libellos,
castrum, i, n. [kindred with casa, q. v.]. I. In sing., any fortified place; a castle, fort, fortress (more rare than castellum): ei Grunium dederat in Phrygiā castrum, etc., Nep. Alcib. 9, 3; Liv. 32. 29, 4; Dig. 27, 1, 17 fin.—B. Esp., nom. propr.1. Castrum Altum or Album, in Hispania Tarraconensis, Liv. 24, 41, 3.—2. Castrum Inui, or simply Castrum, an ancient city of the Rutuli, near Ardea, Verg. A. 6, 775; called Castrum, Ov. M. 15, 727; Sil. 8, 359. —3. Castrum Novum, a city on the seacoast of Etruria, Liv. 36, 3, 6; Plin. 3, 5, 8, 51.—4. Another Castrum Novum, on the sea-coast of Picenum, now Giulia Nova, Plin. 3, 13, 18, 110; also called absol. Castrum, Vell. 1, 14, 8.—5. Castrum Truentinum, a maritime city of Picenum, on the river Truentus, Cic. Att. 8, 12, B, 1; also called Truentum, Plin. 3, 13, 18, 110.—6. Castrum Vergium, a fortress of the Bergistani in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Berga, Liv. 34, 21, 1.—Far more freq., II. In plur.: castra, ōrum, n. (castra, ae, f.: castra haec vestra est, Att. ap. Non. p. 200, 30; Trag. Rel. p. 238 Rib.). A.Lit., several soldiers' tents situated together; hence, a military camp, an encampment; among the Romans a square (quadrata); later, after the manner of the Greeks, sometimes circular, or adjusted to its situation, Veg. Mil. 1, 23. It was surrounded by a trench (fossa) and a wall (vallum), and had four gates: Porta Praetoria, the front, chief gate, on the opp. side from the enemy, from which the legions marched; opp. to this, Porta Decumana (in later times Porta Quaestoria), the back gate; Porta Principalis Dextra, and Porta Principalis Sinistra, situated on the two sides of the camp, Liv. 40, 27, 4 sq.; cf. Dict. of Antiq.—b. Phrases. (a). With adj.: stativa,
occupied for a long time
,
permanent
, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, 29; Caes. B. C. 3, 30; 3, 37; Sall. J. 44, 4; Tac. A. 3, 21: aestiva,
an encampment on the shore for protecting the fleet and the troops while landing; sometimes connected with the ships drawn to land
, Caes. B. G. 5, 22 Herz.; cf. id. ib. 5, 11; Liv. 29, 35, 13; called also nautica, Nep. Alcib. 8, 5; id. Hann. 11, 6 (cf. id. ib. 4; Liv. 44, 39): lunata, crescent-shaped, Auct. B. Afr. 80.—With numerals: una, Tac. A. 4, 2: bina, Cic. Phil. 12, 11, 27; Liv. 4, 27, 3: quina, Caes. B. C. 3, 9.—(b). With verb: locum castris antecapere, Sall. J. 50, 1; cf.: capere locum castris, Liv. 4, 27, 3; 9, 17, 15; and montes castris capere, Tac. A. 12, 55: castra metari, Cael. ap. Non. p. 137, 18; Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 15 al.: facere, Caes. B. G. 1, 48; Nep. Milt. 5, 2; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 12, 29 al.: ponere, Caes. B. G. 2, 5; 7, 35; Nep. Hann. 5 fin.: ponere et munire, Sall. J. 75, 7: munire, Caes. B. G. 1, 49; Liv. 44, 39, 1: communire, Caes. B. G. 5, 49; Liv. 23, 28, 3: castra castris conferre, id. 10, 32, 5; 23, 28, 9: castris se tenere, Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 8: castra movere,
to break up
,
to decamp
, id. ib. 1, 39fin.; also syn. with to march forth from a camp, id. ib. 1, 15 Herz.; 1, 22; 2, 2; Sall. C. 57, 3; Nep. Dat. 8, 4; id. Eum. 12 fin. et saep.—Hence, also, promovere, Caes. B. G. 1, 48: movere retro, Liv. 2, 58, 3: removere, id. 9, 24, 4: proferre, Caes. B. C. 1, 81: castris castra inferre, Enn. Trag. 201 Vahl.—c. Castra Praetoriana, Praetoria, Urbana or simply Castra, the barracks of the Prœtorians in the suburbs of Rome, Suet. Tib. 37; id. Claud. 21; Tac. A. 4, 2; Suet. Aug. 29; id. Claud. 36; Dig. 48, 5, 15. —d. Castrorum filius, a surname of Caligula, who was brought up in the camp, Suet. Calig. 22; Aur. Vict. Caes. 3.—So, Castrorum mater, an appellation of Faustina, the wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, because she accompanied him in an expedition against the Quadi, Capitol. Marc. Aur. 26.—Hence both appell. in later inscriptions as titles of the Roman emperors and empresses.—B. Esp. as nom. propr., like castrum. 1. Castra Corneliana or Cornelia, on the north coast of Africa, near Utica, so called because the elder Scipio Africanus first pitched his camp there, after his landing in Africa, in the second Punic war, Caes. B. C. 2, 24; 2, 25; 2, 37; Mel. 1, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 4, 3, 24.—2. Castra Caecilia, in Lusitania, Plin. 4, 22, 35, 117.—3. Castra Hannibalis, a seaport town in Bruttium, Plin. 3, 10, 15, 95.—4. Castra Pyrrhi, a place in Grecian Illyria, Liv. 32, 13, 2.—5. Castra Vetera or Vetera, a place on the Lower Rhine, now Xanthen, Tac. H. 4, 18; 4, 21; 4, 35; id. A. 1, 45.—6. Castra Alexandri, a district in Egypt, Curt. 4, 7, 2; Oros. 1, 2.— C.Meton.1. Since, in military expeditions, a camp was pitched each evening, in the histt. (esp. Livy) for a day's march: secundis castris ( = bidui itinere) pervenit ad Dium, Liv. 44, 7, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 15; cf.: alteris castris, Liv. 38, 13, 2; Curt. 3, 7.— So tertiis castris, Liv. 38, 13, 11; 38, 24, 1; Tac. H. 4, 71: quartis castris, Liv. 44, 46, 10: quintis castris, Caes. B. G. 7, 36; Liv. 28, 19, 4: septimis castris, id. 40, 22, 1: decimis castris, id. 27, 32 fin.; 28, 33, 1.—2.Military service (hence, often opp. forum and toga), Nep. Epam. 5, 4; Vell. 2, 125, 4; Tib. 4, 1, 39: qui magnum in castris usum habebant, Caes. B. G. 1, 39.—3. Of beehives: cerea, Verg. A. 12, 589: in apium castris, Pall. 1, 37, 4.—4. Of a sheepfold, Col. 6, 23, 3.—5. Of political parties, regarded as arrayed in hostility: si ad interdicti sententiam confugis... in meis castris praesidiisque versaris, Cic. Caecin. 29, 83.—6. Of philosophical sects: Epicuri castra, Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 1: O castra praeclara (Epicuri)!id. ib. 7, 12, 1; Hor. C. 3, 16, 23; Sen. Ep. 2, 4.