That belongeth to one as well as to an other: common. Tribus dominis communis. Lucan Common to. Vulgare & commune. Cic. Æquabilitas communis iuris. Cicer. A like or indifferent equalitie. Amicus simplex & communis. Cic. Animo ac voluntate communi aliquid defendere. Cic. Aura communis. Ouid. The ayre common to all. Auram communem haurire. Quint. To liue. Communis vtriusque nostrum calamitas. Cic. An aduersitie tonthing vs both. Ciuitas communis deorum atque hominum, mundus vniuersus. Cic. Conditio communis. Horat. Crimen commune. Cic. Dolor communis. Cic. Communes dies. Vniucky daies: dismall dayes: crosse dayes. Fama atque serimo communis. Cic. Filia communis. Quint. Fortuna nobis cum propinqnis communis plernnque est. Cic. Fuga communis. Sen. Gaudia communia. Ouid. Hæreditas communis. Paul. Hostis & prædo communis omnium. Cic. A generall enimy and robber of all men. Humanitas communis. Cic. Intellectus communis. Quint. Intelligentia communis. Cic. Indicatum commune. Cic. A thing that all men approue and follow. Iudicium commune. Cic. Ius commune. Cic. Iura communia regni. Lucan. The lawes of the realme common to all. Laus communis cum aliquo. Cic. Lecti communes. Cato. Legem omnium communem leuiter adornabit. Quint. Literæ communes. Cic Locos communes dicere. Quint. Loca communia. Cic. Publike places. Lucrum & compendium communc. Vlp. Luce communi aliquem priuare. Cic. To bereft of his lyfe. Mare commone omnibus. Plaut. Communis belli Mars. Cic. The euent of warre indifferent to one as well as to an other. Mens communis. Cic. A communi more verborum discedere. Cic. Omni ætari mortem esse communem. Cic. Natus communis. Virg. A childe common to the father and to the mother. Nomine communi comparare aliquid. Vlp. In the name of all. Odium alicui cum populo commune, Senec. That the people hath as well as he. Opinio imbecilla, & cum falso incognitóque communis. Cic. Pactum commune. Paul. Vnum & commune periculum ambobus. Virg. One daunger touching both indifferently. Communis pernicies adolescentium, leno. Ter. A generall destroyer of all youth. Pestis communis. Cic. Pignus commune. Ouid. Populus communis. Virg. Subiect as well to the tone as to the tother. Omnrum communia & contrita præcepta. Cic. Prudentia communis. Cic. Omnibus enim artibus volumus attriburam esse eam, quæ communis appellatur prudentia. Res communis. Horat. Salus commonis. Cic. Coniuncta atque communia scelera alicui cum aliquo. Cic. Sensus communes. Cic. Sensu communi carere. Horat. Not to haue that vnderstanding that euery man hath. De communi sententia aliquid constituere. Cic. To do a thing by common consent, or by adnise of all togither. Sermo communis. Quint. Spiritus communis viuis. Cic. Communi statione locum aliquem tenere, Virg. Studia communia. Ouid. Like stndies. Superos communes vocare. Val. Flac. Improbis & probis commune supplicium legis ac iudicij. Cic. Terror communis. Sen. Thorus communis. Sen. Communia vincla vocat Lucretius complexus amantium. Communis & remissus vir. Suet. A light person not keeping his grauitie. Vira communis. Cic. Vita, victúsque communis. Cic. Vitium commune & peruagatum Cic.

I. Prop.: vetus verbum hoc quidem est: Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 18: vinea vulpibus et hominibus, Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 5: sepulcrum Asiae Europaeque Troja, Cat. 68, 89: is fit ei cum Roscio communis, Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 27; cf.: alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est, Sall. C. 1, 2; Nep. Timol. 1, 4.—Esp. freq. in the formula aliquid cum aliquo commune habere: vetustas habet aliquid commune cum multis, amor non habet, Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 2: cum rerum naturā... quid habere potest commune... gallinaceum fel, id. Div. 2, 12, 29: controversia. quae communes minime cum aliis quaestiones habet, Quint. 5, 10, 110: illum... nihil vobiscum commune habentem, Sen. Const. 15, 2: sciat, se nihil mecum habere commune, id. Ben. 7, 12, 2: omnia cum amico communia habebit, qui multa cum homine, id. Ep. 48, 3; 74, 17; id. Q. N. 2, 37, 2: nec habet (pecudum natura) quidquam commune cum caelo, Lact. de Ira Dei, 7, 4; 8, 3; App. de Deo Socr. 13; Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 9; Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 25, B: vitium commune omnium est, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 30; cf. Cic. Sen. 11, 35; Lucr. 5, 260; 3, 326; 5, 555: communis imperii (i. e. Romani) fines, Cic. Balb. 5, 13; cf. libertas, id. Sest. 1, 1: salus, id. ib. 6, 15: utilitas, Nep. Alcib. 4, 6: mors, natural, Eutr. 7, 8: verba, i. e. prose, Claud. Epig. 81, 3: jus gentium, Nep. Them. 7, 4 et saep.: vitae ignarus, ignorant of life, i. e. of the customs of society, Cic. Phil. 2, 4, 7; cf.: sensu caret, of a sense of propriety, Hor. S. 1, 3, 66 Heind.; cf.: sit in beneficio sensus communis, Sen. Ben. 1, 12, 3; id. Ep. 5, 4; 105, 3; Quint. 1, 2, 20; cf. also: communium litterarum et politioris humanitatis expers, Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72: communis locus, euphem., the lower world, Plaut. Cas. prol. 19; and for a brothel, Sen. Contr. 1, 2, p. 83 Bip.—In plur.: loca, public places, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 46, 112; id. Fam. 13, 11, 1; but loci, in philos. lang., a commonplace, common topic, id. de Or. 3, 27, 106; id. Or. 36, 126; Quint. 2, 1, 9; 2, 1, 11; 5, 1, 3; 5, 12, 15; v. locus.—

B. Subst.: commūne, is, n., that which is common.

1. In gen., plur.: ut communibus pro communibus utatur, privatis ut suis, Cic. Off. 1, 7, 20: paucis ostendi gemis et communia laudas, publicity, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 4; Ov. M. 13, 271.—In sing.: de communi aliquid consequi, Dig. 17, 2, 52; so Paul. Sent. 1, 18, 3: jus communi dividundo, Cic. Fam. 7, 12, 2; cf. Gai Inst. 4, 42; Dig. 2, 1, 11, 2 al.—

2. Esp. = to\ koino/n, a community, state: commune Latium, Cinc. ap. Fest. p. 241, 18 Müll.: Commune Milyadum, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 38, 95: Siciliae, id. ib. 2, 2, 46, 114; 2, 2, 59, 145; 2, 2, 63, 154: gentis Pelasgae, Ov. M. 12, 7; cf.: communis Graecia, id. ib. 13, 199; and: res communis = respublica, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 522, 17.—

b. In commune.

(a). For common use, for all, for a common object, end, advantage, etc.: metuere, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 20: consulere, Ter. And. 3, 3, 16; Tac. A. 12, 5: conferre, Cic. Quint. 3, 12; id. Inv. 2, 3, 8: vocare honores, i. e. to bestow equally upon patricians and plebeians, Liv. 6, 40, 18: profutura, Quint. 6, 1, 7: laborare (apes), id. 5, 11, 24.—Rarely in communi: ponere libertatem, Tac. A. 13, 27.—

(b). In general, generally (in post-Aug. prose): de jure omni disputandum, Quint. 7, 1, 49; Plin. 17, 1, 1, 9; Tac. G. 27; 38; 40 al.—

(g). Halves! Sen. Ep. 119, 1; Phaedr. 5, 7, 3.—

II. Trop.

A. That represents the common sentiment, democratic: qui in bello... suo et certorum hominum consilio uteretur, eum magis communem censemus in victoriā futurum fuisse, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 9, 2.—

B. Of manners, accessible, familiar, courteous, condescending, affable (kindr. in sense with comis; hence in MSS. very freq. interchanged with it; v. comis): simplicem et communem et consentientem eligi (amicum) par est, Cic. Lael. 18, 65; so id. Fam. 4, 9, 2: communis infimis, par principibus, Nep. Att. 3, 1; so Eutr. 8, 5; cf. communitas.—Comp., Suet. Claud. 21 dub. (al. comior).—Sup., Suet. Vesp. 22 dub. (al. comissimus).—

C. T. t.

1. In rhet.: commune exordium, quod nihilo minus in hanc quam in contrariam partem causae potest convenire, equally appropriate to either side of a cause, Cic. Inv. 1, 18, 26; cf. Quint. 4, 1, 71; Auct. Her. 1, 7, 11; Cic. de Or. 2, 78, 319.—

2. In gram.: verbum, a common verb, i. e. one that has both an active and passive signification, Gell. 15, 13, 1; Prisc. p. 787 P.: syllaba = anceps, i. e. either long or short, Don. p. 1389 P.; Charis. p. 3 ib.; Diom. p. 423 ib.: genus, of both masculine and feminine gender, Charis. p. 126 ib. et saep.— Hence, Advv.

1. Class. form commū-nĭter, together, in common, jointly, generally (very freq.), Varr. R. R. 2, 10; Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Rosc. Am. 37, 108; id. N. D. 2, 48, 123; Nep. Pelop. 2, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 13; Ov. M. 6, 262.—Opp. proprie, Quint. 9, 1, 23; opp. separatim, Cic. Fam. 13, 12, 1; cf. id. Arch. 12, 32.— Comp., Diom. p. 480 P.—

2. commūnĭtus: deos colere, Varr. ap. Non. p. 510, 5.