Fundo, fundas, fundâre. Virgil. To found: to make stable: to lay the foundation.Arces fundare.Virg.To beginne to builde.Fundata legibus ciuitas: cui opponitur, Euersa.Plin. iun.A citie stablished with good lawes.Accuratè sundata & extructa disciplina. Ci. A doctrine suhstantially grounded and taught on sure principles.Fundatam paternis auitisque opibus domum exhaurit. Qui. Leuiter fundata fides, Vide LEVIS.Magnis laboribus fundatum imperium.Cic.Established.Ius ciuile fundare. Pompon. To found and establish.Fundare nauem.Plaut.To make or builde a shippe.Anchora fundabat naues.Virg.The aneker stayed the ships.Opes bene fundatæ.Ouid.Power or riches well grounded or established.Præclarè fundata Respublica.Cic.Established in very good order.Sceptra fundare Sil.To establish his king dome.Fixus & sundatus Reipub. status. Cic.Fundatum veritare.Cic.Grounded vpon truth.Vrbem fundabit legibus.Virg.Fundatissima familia.Cic.A substantial and well grounded familie.
Fundus, fundi, m. g. Plaut.Lande or soile: a plotte of grounde with an hause on it.Cultus fundus. Horat. Lati fundi. Virg.Mendax fundus. Horat. Optimus maximúsque fundus, vide Optimus in BONVS.Ornatissimus fundus, vide Ornatus in ORNO.Conducere fundum, vide CONDVCO.Ingredi in fundum, vide INGREDIOR.Obire fundos nostros.Cic.Occiderunt fundi, Vide OCCIDO, pen. prod. Fundus.Plaut.A foundation. vt, Ei rei fundus pater sit porior co. Fundus.The chiefe author in doing of a thing. Cicero, pro Balbo. Fune bris, Funestus, Funereus, Funero, Vide FVNVS.
fundus, i, m. [Sanscr. budh-nas, ground; Gr. puqmh/n, pu/ndac; O. H. Germ. Bodam; Germ. Boden; v. fodio], the bottom of any thing (class.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: armarii fundum exsecuit,
, Verg. A. 3, 577; cf.: imo Nereus ciet aequora fundo, id. ib. 2, 419: amnis fundo carens, Plin. 3, 16, 20, 122: maris, Vulg. Judith, 5, 12: calicis, id. Isa. 51, 17.—Prov.: largitio fundum non habet,
there is no end of giving
, Cic. Off. 2, 15, 55.— 2.Transf. (pars pro toto), a cup: hi duo longaevo censentur Nestore fundi, Mart. 8, 6, 9.—B. In partic., a piece of land, a farm, estate (syn.: praedium, villa): fundi appellatione omne aedificium et omnis ager continetur; sed in usu urbana aedificia aedes, rustica villae dicuntur; locus vero sine aedificio in urbe area, rure autem ager appellatur: idemque ager cum aedificio fundus dicitur, Dig. 50, 16, 211; Cic. Agr. 3, 2 fin.: cum inprobata sit eorum sententia qui putaverint furtivum fundum fieri posse, Gai. Inst. 2, 51; cf.: non hominum tantum neque rerum moventium ... sed fundi quoque et aedium fieri furtum, Masur. Sab. ap. Gell. 11, 18, 13: cui nostrum non licet fundos nostros obire?Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 249: nunquam tam mane egredior, quin te in fundo conspicer fodere, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 16; Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 224; Cic. Caecin. 36, 104; id. Verr. 2, 3, 50, 119; id. Fam. 13, 69, 2; Quint. 4, 2, 131: dulcia poma feret cultus tibi fundus, Hor. S. 2, 5, 13 et saep.: euge, fundi et aedes, per tempus subvenistis mihi, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 84; cf.: si quidem habes fundum atque aedis, id. ib. 1, 2, 75: nostri fundi calamitas, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 34: quasi non fundis exornatae multae incedant per vias, i. e.
with the price of a farm
, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 42: unumne fundum pulcherrimum populi Romani, disperire patiemini?Cic. Agr. 2, 29, 80: nunc is nobis fundus est, i. e. ex quo fructus capiamus, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 15 Spengel ad loc.— Prov.: fundum alienum arat, incultum familiarem deserit, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 24.— II.Trop.A. In gen.: fluxas Phrygiae res vertere fundo, i. e. from its foundation, = funditus, Verg. A. 10, 88: cenae,
the principal dish
, Gell. 17, 8, 2.—B. In partic., publicists' t. t., qs. one who lays the foundation for the decision of a thing, one that approves a thing or ratifies it, the approver (syn. auctor): fundus dicitur populus esse rei, quam alienat, hoc est auctor, Paul. ex Fest. p. 89 Müll.: non ut hujus sententiae legisque fundus fierem, Gell. 19, 8, 12: negat ex foederato populo quemquam potuisse, nisi is populus fundus factus esset, in hanc civitatem venire, etc., Cic. Balb. 8, 19 (where Cicero gives to this legal principle another meaning); cf.: quid enim potuit dici imperitius quam foederatos populos fieri fundos oportere?id. ib. 8, 20; 11, 27; 18, 42: municipes sunt cives Romani ex municipiis, legibus suis et suo jure utentes ... neque ulla populi Romani lege astricti, nisi populus eorum fundus factus est, Gell. 16, 13, 6.—2.Transf. (ante- and post-class., and rare): ut, quae cum ejus filio egi, ei rei fundus pater sit potior,
may officially confirm
, Plaut. Trin. 5, 1, 7; cf. Gell. 19, 8, 12; and Paul. ex Fest. p. 89 Müll. supra.