Right: iust.

Straight, or right: direct. vt, Directi pedes. Directum iter. Directus ordo. Cic. Acies directa. Quint. An armie set in araye. Limes directus. Stat. A straite path. Loci in vitia directi. Quint. Membrana directa plumbo. Catul. Parchement ruled wyth lead. Inuicem directo contendere passu. Tibul. To contende who may runne fastest. Directa oratio. Liu. A plaine tale without circumstances. Viæ directæ. Lucr. Straite waies.

To make straite or right: to order: to direct. Dirigere acies, pro Ordinare. Virg. To set in aray. Aciem oculorum ad aliquÊ dirigere. Vide ACIES. To looke vpon. Affatus dirigeie alicui. Claud. To speake or turne his talke to one. Arcu dirigere tela. Hor. To shoote: to leuell with the bowe. Dirigere artes suas ad voluptatem. Ci. To make pleasure his principall end: to regard nothing but pleasure. Cogitationes suas ad rem aliquam. Cic. Vitam suam ad normam rationis. Cicer. To direcr and rule his life according to reason. Cacumen ramuli ad cœlum. Vatro. To raise the toppe vppe straite. Ad veritatem sæpissimè dirigit coniectura. Cic. Coniecture often leadeth to truth. Cursum suum aliquò. Cic. To turne his way to. Huc dirigere cursum. Virg. Direxit eam media linea ad læuam. Cic. He turned it from the middes toward the left side. Frontem aciei dirigere. Quint. Gressum. Virg. To go towarde. Hastam in aliquem. Ouid. To turne his speare against one. Hastile certo ictu. Virg. Iaculum totisviribus. Sene. To cast a dart at one with al his strength. Iter ad Mutinam. Plancus Ciceroni. Indicium ad aliquid. Quint. Iudicium suum aliquò. Cic. To bende his iudgement to any purpose. Literas ad aliquem. Modestinus. To direct letters to one. Ad naturam leges hominum diriguntur. Cic. Mens lawes are framed and made agreeable to nature. Norma aliquorum quædam dirigere. Cice. To directe and gouerne by the rule of. Vtilitate officium dirigere. Cic. To measure honest dutie by prosite. Dirigere aliquem ad suam opinionem. M. Antonius ad Ci. To bring, traine, or leade one into his opinion. Ad animi bona vel mala, omnis dirigenda oratio est. Cicer. We must direct our whole talke. In quincuncem dirigere ordines arborum. Cicer. To plante rews of trees in such order, as which way soeuer ye looke the trees stande euen. Dirigit huc puppim. Lucan. He turneth bitherwarde. Ad rationem dirigere aliquid. Cicer. To frame or rule according to reason. Ad illius similitudinem, artem & manum dirigebat. Ci. He did direct his cunning and hand to make the like thereof. Eius rota similitudo ad succum porti dirigitur. Plin. It doth wholy resemble the inice of leekes. Spicula dirigere dextra. Ouid. To leuell or cast dartes. In medio freto vela dirigere. Ouid. Visus dirigere ad aliquem. Clau. To looke straight vpon one. Dirigere omnia voluptate. Cicer. To measure all things by pleasure. Vulnera dirigere. Virg. Honestare dirigenda est vtilitas. Cic. Prosite muste bee measured by honestie.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: coronam si diviseris, arcus erit: si direxeris, virga, Sen. Q. N. 1, 10: haec directa materia injecta consternebantur, Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 8: crates, id. B. C. 3, 46, 5: naves ante portum, Liv. 37, 31; cf.: naves in pugnam, id. 22, 19: vicos, i. e. to build regularly, id. 5, 55; cf. castella, Flor. 4, 12, 26: molem recta fronte, Curt. 4, 3 et saep.: regiones lituo, i. e. to lay out, bound, Cic. Div. 1, 17; cf.: finem alicui veterem viam regiam, Liv. 39, 27.—Esp. freq.: aciem, to draw up the troops in battle array, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 5; Liv. 21, 47 fin.; 34, 28; Front. Strat. 1, 12, 3; 2, 1, 4 et saep.; cf. frontem, Quint. 2, 13, 3; 5, 13, 11: membrana plumbo derecta, ruled with a lead-pencil, Cat. 22, 7.—

b. Perh. i. q., to split, cleave in twain: elephantum machaeră dirigit, Plaut. Curc. 3, 54 (dub.); cf.: dirigere apud Plautum invenitur pro discidere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 69, 15 Müll.—

B. In partic., with respect to the terminus, to send in a straight line, to direct to a place (so most freq.): ex vestigio vela ad castra Corneliana, Caes. B. C. 2, 25, 6: aciem ad te, Cat. 63, 56: cursum ad litora, Caes. B. C. 3, 25, 4: iter ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 112 et saep.—Afterwards more freq. with in: equum in consulem, Liv. 2, 6: currum in hostem, Ov. M. 12, 78: tela manusque in corpus Aeacidae, Verg. A. 6, 57; Front. Strat. 3, 3, 4: hastam in te, Ov. M. 8, 66; cf.: dentes in inguina, id. ib. 8, 400: cursum in Africam, Vell. 2, 19 fin.: cursum per auras in lucos, Verg. A. 6, 195 et saep.: navem eo, Nep. Chabr. 4, 2: gressum huc, Verg. A. 5, 162; 11, 855 et saep.; and poet. with the dat.: Ilo hastam, Verg. A. 10, 401 et saep.—Without designating the limit: ab iisdem (Etesiis) maritimi cursus (i. e. navium) celeres et certi diriguntur, to be directed, steered, Cic. N. D. 2, 53: iter navis, Ov. F. 1, 4: cursum, Front. Strat. 3, 13, 6; esp. freq. of weapons, to aim, direct: spicula, Verg. A. 7, 497; Ov. M. 12, 606: hastile, Verg. A. 12, 490: tela, Hor. C. 4, 9, 18: sagittas, Suet. Dom. 19 et saep.—Poet.: vulnera, Verg. A. 10, 140; Sil. 2, 92 Drak.; Tac. H. 2, 35; cf.: vulnera alicui, Sen. Herc. Oet. 160.

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to set in order, arrange (very rare): materias divisione dirigere, Quint. 2, 6, 1.—Far more freq. (esp. in Cic. and Quint.),

B. In partic.: aliquid ad or in aliquid; also: aliqua re, to direct, guide, arrange a thing either to something (as its aim, scope) or according to something (as its rule or pattern).

(a). With ad: meas cogitationes sic dirigo, non ad illam parvulam Cynosuram sed, etc., Ac. 2, 20, 66; cf.: orationem ad exempla, id. Rep. 2, 31 fin.; Quint. 10, 2, 1: judicium ad ea, id. 6, 5, 2: se ad id quod, etc., id. 12, 3, 8; cf.: se ad ea effingenda, id. 10, 1, 127: praecipua rerum ad famam, Tac. A. 4, 40 et saep.—In a different sense (viz., with ad equiv. to secundum, v. ad): in verbis et eligendis et collocandis nihil non ad rationem, Cic. Brut. 37, 140: vitam ad certam rationis normam, to conform, id. Mur. 2: leges hominum ad naturam, id. Leg. 2, 5 fin.; id. Or. 2 fin. et saep.—

(b). With in (not so in Cic.): tota mente (intentionem) in opus ipsum, Quint. 10, 3, 28: communes locos in vitia, id. 2, 1, 11; Front. Strat. 3, 2, 2 et saep.—

(g). With abl. (only in Cic.): quos (fines) utilitate aut voluptate dirigunt, Cic. Fin. 5, 20 fin.: omnia voluptate, id. ib. 2, 22, 71: utilitatem honestate, id. Off. 3, 21, 83: haec normā, id. de Or. 3, 49, 190.—

(d). Without an object: (divinatio) ad veritatem saepissime dirigit, Cic. Div. 1, 14 fin. —(e) With acc. only: epistolam (sc. ad aliquem), to write, Capit. Clod. Alb. 2.—(z) With adversus, Quint. 5, 7, 6.—Hence, dīrectus (dērectus), a, um, P. a., made straight, straight, direct, whether horizontally or perpendicularly; straight, level; upright, steep.

A. Lit.: auditus flexuosum iter habet, ne quid intrare possit, si simplex et directum pateret, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf. aes (tubae), opp. flexum, Ov. M. 1, 98: iter, Caes. B. C. 3, 79, 2: latera, id. B. G. 7, 72, 1; cf. trabes, id. ib. 7, 23, 1: ordo (olearum), Cic. Caecin. 8, 22: arcus (opp. obliquus), Ov. M. 2, 129: paries, i. e. that cuts another at right angles, Cic. Top. 4: ut directiores ictus flant, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 2: praeruptus locus utraque ex parte directus, Caes. B. C. 1, 45, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 24, 3: (Henna) ab omni aditu circumcisa atque directa, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48 Zumpt N. cr.: cornu, Caes. B. G. 6, 26.—Subst.: dī-rectum, i, n., a straight line: in directo pedum VIII. esse, in anfracto XVI., in a straight line, Varr. L. L. 7, 15 Müll.; so, altitudo (montis) per directum IV. M. pass., Plin. 5, 22, 18, 80; cf. id. 3, 5, 9, 66 al.: cadere in directum moderate (with exire per devexum), Sen. Q. N. 6, 20; Vulg. Ezech. 47, 20 al.—

B. Trop., straightforward, unceremonious, open, simple, direct: o praeclaram beate vivendi et apertam et simplicem et directam viam, Cic. Fin. 1, 18; cf.: iter ad laudem, id. Cael. 17, 41: vera illa et directa ratio, id. ib. 18: tristis ac directus senex, id. ib. 16, 38; cf.: quid est in judicio? Directum, asperum, simplex, SI PARET HS ICCC DARI, id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11: percunctatio et denuntiatio belli, Liv. 21, 19; cf. contiones, Just. 38, 3 fin. (v. obliquus): verba, Cod. Just. 6, 23, 15: actio, Dig. 3, 5, 46; 9, 4, 26 et saep.; cf. institutio (opp. precaria), id. 29, 1, 19: libertates (opp. fideicommissariae), id. 29, 4, 12.—Adv.

a. dīrectē, directly, straight (very rare): dicere, Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24: ire, Vulg. Sap. 5, 22.—Far more freq.,

b. dīrectō, directly, straight: deorsum ferri, Cic. N. D. 1, 25: transversas trabes, Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 2: ad fidem spectare, Cic. Part. Or. 13, 46; so id. Div. 2, 61 fin. (opp. anfractus and circuitio); Liv. 1, 11 fin.; Sen. Ep. 66; Dig. 9, 4, 26 al. —

c. dīrectā: quo magis ursimus alte directā, press deep down perpendicularly, Lucr. 2, 198.—

d. dīrectim, straightway, directly (post-class.), App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 34; Macr. S. 7, 12 fin.—Comp.: directius gubernare, Cic. Ac. 2, 20, 66.—Sup. seems not to occur either in the adj. or in the adv.