Laxo, laxas, laxâre. Cic.To loose or set at libertie: to release: to open: to make larger.Arua laxant sinus.Virg. Laxare Virg.To set at libertie.Laxari vinculis.Cic.To loose out of bands & set at libertie.Astringere & laxare, contraria.Cic.To tie hard & to loose.Laxare animum laboribus. Liuius. To recreate his minde from labour.Annona haud multum laxauerat.Liu.The price of vittaile was not much fallen.Quies laxauerat artus.Virg.Catenas laxate Lucan.To loose the chaines.Corpora laxantur rugis.Ouidius.Their bodies hath skinne flagging and wrinkled.Laxare curas somno. Virg To refresh his carefull minde with sleepe.Curas laxare in otia. Claud. Ferrum laxatur ad vsus in numeros.Stat.Frænos laxat populis furentibus. Luc. He letteth the raging people haue bridle at will and do what they list.Humus die laxatur.Ouid. Iras laxare. Stat.Membra laxare quiete.Virg.Monera bacchi laxarunt duram mentem. Sil. Wine made him mery and pleasant.Laxare sese ab angustijs in latitudiuem. Plin. From a narow bottome to grow broader toward the toppe or end. Plin. 21. cap. 5. Laxare sese molestijs. Luceius ad Ciceronem. To ridde and dispatch him selfe of trouble.Tempus laxare.Senec.To prolong the time.Vincula laxare.Stat.
Laxus, Adiectiuum lato deducitur, & significat latum, & spatij maioris. Virg.Loose: large: wide: soft: weake.Ager laxus, cui opponitur Angustus. Colum. A large fielde or wide.Paludes laxæ. Lucan. Habenas laxas dare.Virg.To giue bridle at will.Amictus laxus.Ouid.A wide garment.Arcus laxus.Virg.A bow vnbent.Calceus laxus malè hæret in pede. Horat. A wide shooe sitteth ill on the foote.Domus laxa.Plin. iun.A large wide house full of roome.Funcs laxi.Virg.Cordes lewse or vnbound.Ianua laxa.Ouid.The gate open and not locked.Sinu laxo ferre aliquid. Horat. Tunica laxa.Ouid.Laxissimæ habenæ amicitie. Cic A free vse of friendship, that one may increase or diminish at his pleasure.Opes laxæ. Mart. Great riches.Laxum tempus, Laxa dies.Plin. iun.Cic.A long time.Quum ipse arbitratu meo aliam diem operi faciundo laxioiem dederim. Proculus. When at my pleasure I gane him a longer and further day to finish his worke.
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laxo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (rarely n.; v. I. B. 2. b. and II. B. b. infra) [id.], to stretch out, extend, to make wide or roomy, to expand. I.Lit.: forum, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 8: manipulos,
to open the ranks
, Caes. B. G. 2, 25: lilium ab angustiis in latitudinem paulatim se laxans, Plin. 21, 5, 11, 22.—B.Transf.1.To open, undo, unloose (syn. solvo): vincula epistolae laxavit, Nep. Paus. 4: nodos Herculeos, Luc. 4, 632: ubi dolor vocem laxaverat,
, Quint. 10, 5, 22: memoriae inhaeret fldelius, quod nulla scribendi securitate laxatur, id. 10, 6, 2: rarescit multo laxatus vulnere miles,
weakened
, Sil. 17, 422.—To lay open, disclose, reveal (poet.): fata latentia laxa, Stat. Achill. 1, 508.—(b).To reduce the price of: annonam, Liv. 2, 34, 12; so neutr., to lessen, fall in price: annona laxaverat, Liv. 26, 20.—laxātus, a, um, P. a., spread out, separated, extended, wide. A.Lit.: custodiae, i. e.
, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 77: compages, Verg. A. 1, 122: mulier, Mart. 11, 21: habenae, Cic. Lael. 13 (v. under II.); Verg. A. 1, 63: frena, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 16; cf.: qui jam contento, jam laxo fune laborat, Hor. S. 2, 7, 20: arcus,
slackened, unbent, unstrung
, Verg. A. 11, 874: laxo meditantur arcu cedere campis, Hor. C. 3, 8, 23: opes,
large, great
, Mart. 2, 30, 4.—II.Trop.: laxissimas habenas habere amicitiae,
very wide, loose
, Cic. Lael. 13, 45: si bellum cum eo hoste haberemus, in quo neglegentiae laxior locus esset, greater latitude or scope, Liv. 24, 8; cf.: laxius imperium,
less strict, more indulgent
, Sall. J. 64: annona, i. e.
reduced, cheap
, Liv. 2, 52: caput,
relaxed, disordered from drinking
, Pers. 3, 58: vox,
pronounced broad
, Gell. 13, 20, 12: laxioribus verbis dicere aliquid,
prolix, diffuse
, id. 16, 1, 3.—Of time: diem statuo satis laxam,
sufficiently distant
, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16: tempus sibi et quidem laxius postulavit, Plin. Ep. 4, 9 med.—Hence, adv.: laxē, widely, spaciously, loosely. 1.Lit.: vis sideris laxe grassantis, Plin. 2, 97, 99, 217: distans, id. 13, 4, 7, 33: aurum laxius dilatatur, id. 33, 3, 19, 61: Mercurii stella laxissime vagatur, id. 2, 16, 13, 66: medio suspendit vincula ponto, Et laxe fluitare sinit,
loosely, freely
, Luc. 4, 450: manus vincire,
loosely
, Liv. 9, 10, 7.—2.Trop.: laxius proferre diem,
to put farther off
, Cic. Att. 13, 14, 1; cf.: volo laxius (sc. rem curari), id. ib. 15, 20, 4: de munere pastorum alii angustius, alii laxius constituere solent,
a greater number, more
, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 10: in hostico laxius rapto suetis vivere artiores in pace res erant,
more unrestrictedly, more freely
, Liv. 28, 24, 6: Romanos remoto metu laxius licentiusque futuros,
be more relaxed in discipline, more negligent, disorderly