He that marrieth my daughter: a sonne in lawe. Generum assumere. Plin. iun. Adiungere. Virg. Capere. Terent. Sumere. Tacit. Optare. Pers.

To brag of his stocke, auncestontes and royall titles Ingenium iactare. Quin. To make a brag of his witte. Iactare. Virgil. Talia iactanti, stridens aquilone procella, &c Virg. In vndis iactari. Vir. Iactare. Vir. To babble vainely. Huc illuc iactari. Lucan. To be vexed and tossed to and fro. Ventis iactainur. Prop. We be driuen and tossed with winds now into one coaste, now into an other. Morbo iactari, Hor. To be sore vexed with. Iactari æstu febrique. Cic. To be tormented with an ague & feuer. Iactari fluctibus. Cice. To be tossed to and fro with wanes. Iactari clamore conuitioque. Ci. To be eryed aut & tailed at.

I. Lit.: cum soceris generi non lavantur, Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129; cf.: mei viri gener, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 87: generum nostrum ire cum adfini suo, id. Trin. 3, 1, 21: et gener et affines placent, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 63; cf. id. ib. 4, 8, 25; id. And. 3, 3, 39; id. Hec. 4, 1, 22: C. Fannium et Quintum Scaevolam, generos Laelii, Cic. Rep. 1, 12; id. Lael. 1, 3; 8, 26; id. Att. 4, 2, 4; Caes. B. G. 5, 56, 3; Quint. 6 praef. 13; Hor. C. 2, 4, 13; Ov. F. 3, 202; Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 18 et saep.—Also, a daughter's bridegroom, Hor. Epod. 6, 13; Verg. A. 2, 344; cf.: generi et nurus appellatione sponsus quoque et sponsa continetur, Dig. 38, 10, 6.—

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A. The husband of a granddaughter or greatgranddaughter, for progener, qui conlegam et generum adsciverat Sejanum, Tac. A. 5, 6; 6, 8; cf.: generi appellatione et neptis et proneptis tam ex filio quam ex filia editarum, ceterarumque maritos contineri manifestum est, Dig. 50, 16, 136.—

B. A sister's husband, brother-in-law, Just. 18, 4; Nep. Paus. 1.—

C. Comically, of a daughter's paramour: Villius in Fausta Sullae gener, etc., Hor. S. 1, 2, 64.