A griece or steppe: a staires: a round in aladder: a degree in consanguinity: a degree or estate of honour: an occasion or meane: a pace in going. Sublimes gradus. Ouid. Ædificare gradus. Cic. Ascendere gradibus in cœlum. Cic. Multis gradibus ascendere. Cic. Connellere gradus. Cic. Cæs. Altos gradus eoaserat. Virg. He was ascended vp on high: he was got vp the high staires. Gradibus surgebant limina. Virgil. Grises or steppes were made to goe vp into the entrie. Scalarum gradus si alios tollas, alios incidas, nonnullos hærentes relinquas, Periculum struis, non ascensum paras. Cecinna Ciceroni. Rounds of ladders. Gradus. Virg. A pace in going. Citatus gradus. Seneca. A swift pace. Gradu infausto. Ouid. Gradu pleno. Liu. A great pace: a full stride, as when men go in haste. Præceps gradus. Seneca. A verie hastie running pace. Vesanus gradus. Sen. Abducere gradum. Sil. To sleppe backe: to retire. Accelerare gradum, Vide ACCELERO. Incitato accurrit gradu. Sen. He tunneth hastily to him. Acuere gradus. Stat. To incourage to go apace & make hast. Addere gradum. Liu. To go faster. Adiuuare gradum baeulo. Sen. To stay himself with a staffe. Æquare gradus alicuius. Sil. To go as fast as one. Approperare gradum. Plaut. To hie apace. Celerare. Virg. To make haste. Colligere. Sil. To stay his pace: to go more softly. Conferre. Plaut. Virg. Vide CONFERO. Continere. Virg. To stay or rest. Corripere. Horat. To take his way hastily. Dirigere inuitum gradÛ. Sen. To lead one against his wil. Verso gradu discedere. Ouid. To turne and departe. Efferre gradum foribus. Sil. To go foorth of doores. Modico gradu ire. Plaut. To goe softly. Tardis gradibus errare. Ouid. To goe flowly. Facere gradum. Sil. To go: to march. Facere gradum. Aliter. Vide post Gradum iacere. Firmare gradum. apprehensis inuicem manibus. Quint. To take handes and go more steadily. Fœmineo corpora ferre gradu. Ouid. To go like a woman. Ingentes ferre grados. Ouid. To go a very great pace. Virgineos ferre gradus. Ouid. To go like a maide. Flectere gradum retro. Sen. To turne backe. Ebrio gradu incedere. Sen. To go like one druncke. Inferre gradum. Li. To anaunce forward and set vpon them. Minuere gradum suum. Quint. To go more softly. Seniles moliri gradus. Sen. To go leisurely like an old man. Gradu moncre. Liu. To make to recule and giue backe. Niti gradu. Pacuuius. Ouans gradus. Val. Flac. Proferre gradum. Stat. To go faster. Promouere. Stat. Rapido posiluit gradu. Sen. He leapt out hastily. Retrahere gradum. Stat. To steppe backe. Reuocare. Virg To returne. Sistere. Virg. To stande stil. Suspensus gradus digitis. Ouid. Vide SVSPENDO. Sustinere gradum. Ouid. To stay. Tangere locum gradu. Ouid. To come to a place. Tremulo gradu venit ægra senectus. Ouid. Vertere gradum. Stat. Deijci de gradu. Cicero. To bee abashed and caste oute of countenaunce: to be troubled in minde. Gradom iacere ad aliquam rem, & aditum. Cic. To make an entry, way, or beginning to a thing. Ad Rempublicam gradus. Cic. An entrie, way, or meane to ascende to gouernement of. Facere gradum ad aliquid. Qu. To make an entry or way to. Imperij gradus ex Sicilia in Africam Romanis factus. Cice. The Romanes had way or entrance by Sicilie to attaine the Empire of Afrik. Facilem gradum adipiscendi Consulatus relinquere. Ci. To leaue an easte way or entrie, &c. A vittute ad rationem video te venisse gradibus. Cicer. By degrees. Ætatis gradus. Cic. A degree of age. Scandere gradus adultæ ætatis. Lucret. To come to persice age. Fortunæ gradus. Ci. Necessitudioum gradus non ijdem erunt qui & temporum. Cic. Degrees of friendship. Gradus officiorum. Cic. Officij primum gradum seruare. Cic. Oratorum & doctorum gradus. Cic. Petitionis gradus inter æquales. Cicer. Degrees of suing for offices. Fateor me ad istum gradum sapientiæ non venisse. Marius ad Ciceronem. Not to haue come to this degree of. Societatis hominum plures sunt gradus. Cic. Sonorum gradibus descendere. Cic. To descend by degrees of tunes. Intendere & remittere sonorum gradus. Cic. Gradus. Cic. A stare or degree of honout. De gradu digoitatis dimoueri. Cicer. To leese his authoritie and reputation. Altissimus dignitatis gradus. Cic. Omni gradu amplissimo dignissimus. Cicer. Most worthie the highest honout in the cammon weale. Amplissimus gradus dignitatis. Cic. Inferior gradus aut interitus aut seruitutis. Cic. Senatorius gradus. Cic. The degree of the Senatours. Stabilis & non expers dignitatis gradus. Cic. Summus honoris gradus. Cic. Altiorem gradum ascendere. Ci. To come to higher estate. Ascendere ad altiorem gradum. Cic. Idem. Ascendere vnum gradum dignitatis. Cic. Magistratum gradibus ascendere. Cicer. To come to offices by degrees one after an other. Assequi dignitatis aliquem gradum. Cic. Collocare in gradu. Cic. Vide COLLOCO. Militiæ gradu deijci. Modestinus. To be putte out of the degree or office that he is in, and made a common souldior. Per honorum gradus ad summum imperium efferri. Cic. Poni in altissimo gradu. Cic. Suum cuique honorem & gradum reddere. Cic. Reponere in gradum, Vide REFONO. Honoris gradum spectare. Cic. Tenere gradum Consularis dignitatis. Cic. Gradus. Cic. An occasion, eutrie, or beginning. Hic gradus mei reditus est quod, &c. Cic.

I. Lit.: ad hanc conversionem, quae pedibus et gradu non egeret, ingrediendi membra non dedit, Cic. Univ. 6: quaenam vox ex te resonans meo gradu remoram facit? Lucil. l. l.: gradum proferre pedum, Enn. ap. Fest. S. V. PEDUM, p. 249, a Müll. (Trag. v. 248 Vahl.): quo nunc incerta re atque inorata gradum Regredere conare? id. ap. Non. 166, 23 (Trag. v. 12 Vahl.): gradum facere, Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 249: tollere gradum, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 6: ad forum suspenso gradu placide ire perrexi, Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 27: quieto et placido gradu sequi, Phaedr. 2, 7, 6; cf., on the contrary: celeri gradu Eunt uterque, Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 22: ut tu es gradibus grandibus, id. Ep. 1, 1, 11: citato gradu in hostem ducere, Liv. 28, 14, 17: concito gradu properare, Phaedr. 3, 2, 11: gradum celerare, to hasten, Verg. A. 4, 641: so, corripere, Hor. C. 1, 3, 33: addere, Liv. 26, 9, 5: sistere, Verg. A. 6, 465: sustinere, Ov. F. 6, 398: revocare, Verg. A. 6, 128: referre, Ov. F. 5, 502: vertere, Stat. Th. 8, 138 et saep.: peditum aciem instructam pleno gradu in hostem inducit, at full pace, at a quick step, Liv. 4, 32, 10; 34, 15, 3; 34, 16, 2; cf.: militari gradu viginti milia passuum horis quinque dumtaxat aestivis conficienda sunt; pleno autem gradu, qui citatior est, totidem horis XXIV. milia peragenda sunt, Veg. 1, 9: modico gradu, Liv. 30, 5, 3: presso gradu, = ba/dhn, with measured step, a moderate pace, id. 28, 14, 14: citato gradu, id. 28, 14, 17; Trebon. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 2: non gradu, sed praecipiti cursu a virtute descitum, ad vitia transcursum, step by step, = gradatim, Vell. 2, 1, 1: per gradus, Ov. M. 2, 354.—

B. Trop., a step, stage, degree: quem mortis timuit gradum, pace, approach, Hor. C. 1, 3, 17: hunc quasi gradum quendam atque aditum ad cetera factum intelligitis, Cic. Agr. 2, 15, 38; cf.: itaque majoribus nostris in Africam ex hac provincia gradus imperii factus est, id. Verr. 2, 2, 1, 3; Quint. 3, 6, 8; so, Crassus Licinius nec consul nec praetor ante fuerat, quam censor est factus: ex aedilitate gradum censuram fecit, Liv. 27, 6, 17; 6, 35, 2 Drak.: hunc gradum mei reditus esse, quod mulieres revertissent, a step towards my return, Cic. Att. 7, 23, 2; cf. Liv. 6, 42, 2: notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit: Tempore crevit amor, Ov. M. 4, 59; cf. Prop. 1, 13, 8: cum consuleretur, quid sentiret, Non possum, inquit, tibi dicere: nescio enim quid de gradu faciat: tamquam de essedario interrogaretur, i. e. of the Peripatetics, Sen. Ep. 29: etsi spondeus, quod est e longis duabus, hebetior videtur et tardior, habet tamen stabilem quendam et non expertem dignitatis gradum, pace, Cic. Or. 64, 216.

II. Transf.

A. In milit. and gladiator's lang., station, position, ground taken by a combatant: obnisos vos (velim) stabili gradu impetum hostium excipere, Liv. 6, 12, 8; cf. Tac. H. 2, 35: de gradu libero ac stabili conari, Liv. 34, 39, 3: in suo quisque gradu obnixi, urgentes scutis, sine respiratione ac respectu pugnabant, id. 8, 38, 11: inque gradu stetimus, certi non cedere, Ov. M. 9, 43: hostes gradu demoti, Liv. 6, 32, 8 Drak. N. cr.; for which: turbare ac statu movere, id. 30, 18, 4.—

2. Trop., a firm position or stand: corda virum mansere gradu, i. e. firm, steadfast, Sil. 16, 21: fortis et constantis est, non perturbari in rebus asperis, nec tumultuantem de gradu deici, ut dicitur, to let one's self be disconcerted, Cic. Off. 1, 23, 80; cf.: dejectus de gradu, id. Att. 16, 15, 3: motus gradu, Sen. Const. Sap. 19: gradu depulsus, Nep. Them. 5, 1; cf.: nam si gradum, si caritatem filii apud te haberem, Liv. 40, 9, 3.—

B. That on which one steps, a step or round of a ladder, a stair.

1. Lit. (usu. in plur.): quemadmodum scalarum gradus si alios tollas, alios incidas, etc., Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3: haerent parietibus scalae, postesque sub ipsos Nituntur gradibus, Verg. A. 2, 443: gradus templorum, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 5: gradus ejusdem templi tollebantur, id. Sest. 15, 34; cf.: aerea cui (templo) gradibus surgebant limina, Verg. A. 1, 448; Vell. 2, 3, 1: pro Palatii gradibus, Suet. Ner. 8; id. Vit. 15: praeceps per gradus ire, id. Calig. 35: si gradibus trepidatur ab imis, Juv. 3, 200.—

(b). Sing.: cum dextro pede primus gradus ascenditur, Vitr. 3, 3.—

b. Transf., of things that rise by steps.

(a). In hair-dressing, a braid of hair: caput in gradus atque anulos comptum, Quint. 12, 10, 47: comam in gradus frangere, id. 1, 6, 44; cf.: coma in gradus formata, Suet. Ner. 51.—

(b). In econom. lang., a spit or such a depth of earth as can be dug at once with the spade, Col. 3, 13, 19; 4, 1, 3.—

(g). In math., a degree of a circle, Manil. 1, 579.—

(d). In veterin. lang., a wrinkle on the roof of a horse's mouth, Veg. Vet. 1, 2; 32; 4, 2.—

2. Trop., a step, degree in tones, in age, relationship, rank, etc. (equally common in sing. and plur.): ille princeps variabit et mutabit, omnes sonorum tum intendens tum remittens persequetur gradus, Cic. Or. 18, 59; cf. id. de Or. 3, 61, 227: ab ima ad summam (vocem) ac retro multi sunt gradus, Quint. 11, 3, 15; cf. Vulg. Psa. 119 Tit. et saep.: Paulatim gradus aetatis scandere adultae, Lucr. 2, 1123; cf.: quod tanta penuria est in omni vel honoris vel aetatis gradu, ut, etc., Cic. Fam. 3, 11, 3; so, aetatis, Vell. 2, 36, 2; Quint. 3, 7, 15; Suet. Aug. 79; id. Tit. 3 al.: unus gradus et una progenies, Lact. 2, 10, 10: nostri quoque sanguinis auctor Juppiter est, totidemque gradus distamus ab illo, Ov. M. 13, 143; cf.: a matre Magnum Pompeium artissimo contingebat gradu, Suet. Aug. 4; id. Ner. 2: qui (populus) te tam mature ad summum imperium per omnes honorum gradus extulit, Cic. Cat. 1, 11, 28: gradus dignitatis, id. Rep. 1, 27; cf. id. ib. 1, 27 fin.—Sing.: ex tam alto dignitatis gradu, Cic. Lael. 3, 12 fin.: gradus altior, altissimus, amplissimus, dignitatis, id. Clu. 55, 150; id. Phil. 1, 6, 14; id. Mur. 14, 30; cf. also id. ib. 27, 55: summum in praefectura florentissima gradum tenere et dignitatis et gratiae, id. Planc. 13, 32: a senatorio gradu longe abesse, id. de Imp. Pomp. 21, 61; cf.: ascendens gradibus magistratuum, id. Brut. 81, 281.—Without gen.: etenim quis est civis praesertim hoc gradu, quo me vos esse voluistis, tam oblitus beneficii vestri, etc., id. Phil. 6, 7, 18; id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: omni gradu amplissimo dignissimus, id. Fam. 6, 10, 2: gradus officiorum, id. Off. 1, 45, 160: temporum servantur gradus, id. Part. 4, 12: cf.: non iidem erunt necessitudinum gradus qui temporum, id. Off. 1, 18, 59: gradus cognationis, Dig. 38, 10, 1 sqq.: v. de gradibus, Paul. Sent. 4, 11, 1-8: agnationis, Gai. Inst. 3, 10, 11: si plures eodem gradu sint agnati, Ulp. Fragm. 26, 5: cognati ex transverso gradu usque ad quartum gradum, i. e. collateral kindred (opp. parentes et liberi), id. ib. 5, 6: gradus plures sunt societatis hominum, id. ib. 1, 17, 53: peccatorum gradus, id. Verr. 2, 3, 74, 172: oratorum aetates et gradus, id. Brut. 32, 122; cf.: gradus et dissimilitudines Atticorum, id. ib. 82, 285: accendendi judicis plures sunt gradus, Quint. 11, 3, 166; 6, 4, 67: nec gradus est ultra Fabios cognominis ullus; Illa domus meritis Maxima dicta suis, Ov. F. 1, 605: si ita esset, quid opus erat te gradatim istuc pervenire? ... A beatis ad virtutem, a virtute ad rationem video te venisse gradibus, Cic. N. D. 1, 32, 89; cf.: omnes gradus virtutis implere, Lact. 5, 14, 18; and: hi plerumque gradus, Juv. 11, 46.