Matter whereof any thing is made: timber: woode: the bodie of the tree vnder the barke. Rudis materia. Lucan. Stuffe or matter vnfashioned or vnwrought. Decoquunt anoi materiam, Vide DECOQVO. Materies non suppetit. Plaut. The stuffe will not serue. Materia domus, Calx, lapides, ligna, tegulæ. Cic. The matter or stuffe to builde with. Materiæ etiam appellatione, ligna omnia comprehenduntur. Liu. All maner of timber. Materies si roborea est, ab vno fabro dolari ad vnguem debet. Col. If the timber be oke. Incorrupta contra omnia vitia materia. Plin. Materies. Col. The badie of the tree vnder the barke. Cuneum ferreum inter materiem & corticÊ demietito. Co. Materia libri. Horat. The matter, argument, or proposition that a booke intreateth of. Abundantior, atq; vstr quám oportebat, fusa materia. Quin. Compositæ materiæ ad ostentationem. Quint. Arguments deuised to write on for ostentation of eloquence. Deliberatiuæ materiæ. Quiut, Matters to speake of in the kinde deliberatiue. Fœlix materia in carmine. Ouid. Gracilis materia. Ouid. A slender matter. Huberior materia. Quint. A copious argument. Ingens materia ad dicendum. Quint. A large matter to intreate of. Iocosa materia. Ouid. Luculenta materia. Plin. iun. Mortales materiæ. Tac. Matters touching things fraile and mortall. Multiplex, variáque materia. Quint. Performata materia. Quint. Plurima ad fingendum, credendúmque materies. Tac. Aperiens se latius materia. Quin. A matter opening it self and ministring more occasion to write or speake. Crescit mihi materies seribendi. Cic. Destinata materia ad scribendum. Quint. Detrahere materiam sceleri. Tacit. Dicere materias fictas. Quint. To intreat of feined matters or arguments. Dictare materias quas imitetur puer. Quint. Dare materiam exordio. Quint. To minister matter for the beginning. Præformatam materiam dare secundÛ cuiusque vires. Quin. To giue an argument to his scholers fashioned & drawen in partes according to euery ones capacitie. Dare alicui respondendi materiam. Quint. Duplicat materiam. Quint. Fingere materias veritati quam similimas. Quin. To deuise arguments or matters to write of. Præbuit iuuení materiam adipiscendi fauoris. Tac. He gaue the yong man occasion to purchase fauour. Præbere materiam suo damno. Ouid. Amori materiam quærere. Ouid. Materia campúsque tuis laudibus prosternitur, Vide PROSTERNO. Relinquere materiem Drusi fratris gloriæ. Tacit. To leaue occasion for Drusius his brother to get glory. Scribere de-integro materiam retractatam. Quint. Suggerere materiam. Quint. Opus superat materiam. Ouid. Trahere materiam â re aliqua. Quint. Materia benefaciendi. Pli. iun. Matter and occasion to doe good. Liberalitatis materia gratissima. Plin. iun. Mali materia. Horat. Ea verustissima militaribus odijs materies. Taci. That was the oldest matter and occasion of hatred among soldiors. Materia. Col. A yong branch shooting out of the bodie of a vine. Colum. lib. 5. cap. 6. Materies de equis etiam dicitur. Col.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: materia rerum, ex qua et in qua sunt omnia, Cic. N. D. 3, 39, 92; cf. id. Ac. 1, 6, 7: materiam superabat opus, Ov. M. 2, 5: materiae apparatio, Vitr. 2, 8, 7: rudis, i. e. chaos, Luc. 2, 8; cf.: omnis fere materia nondum formata rudis appellatur, Cinc. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 265 Müll.: (arbor) inter corticem et materiem, Col. 5, 11, 4: crispa, Plin. 16, 28, 51, 119: materiae longitudo, Col. 4, 24, 3: vitis in materiam, frondemque effunditur, id. 4, 21, 2: si nihil valet materies, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88: in eam insulam materiam, calcem, caementa, atque arma convexit, id. Mil. 27, 74: caesa, Col. 11, 2, 11; cf. Caes. B. G. 4, 17; 5, 39: cornus non potest videri materies propter exilitatem, sed lignum, Plin. 16, 40, 76, 206: materiae, lignorum aggestus, Tac. A. 1, 35: videndum est ut materies suppetat scutariis, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 35: proba materies est, si probum adhibes fabrum, id. Poen. 4, 2, 93: imprimebatur sculptura materiae anuli, sive ex ferro sive ex auro foret, Macr. S. 7, 13, 11. —Plur.: deūm imagines mortalibus materiis in species hominum effingere, Tac. H. 5, 5.—Of food: imbecillissimam materiam esse omnem caulem oleris, Cels. 2, 18, 39 sqq.; cf. of the means of subsistence: consumere omnem materiam, Ov. M. 8, 876; matter, in gen.: materies aliqua mala erat, Aug. Conf. 7, 5, 2.—In abstract, matter, the material universe: Deus ex materia ortus est, aut materia ex Deo, Lact. 2, 8.—

B. Esp., matter of suppuration, pus, Cels. 3, 27, 4.—

II. Transf., a stock, race, breed: quod ex vetere materia nascitur, plerumque congeneratum parentis senium refert, Col. 7, 3, 15: generosa (equorum), id. 6, 27 init. —

III. Trop.

A. The matter, subjectmatter, subject, topic, ground, theme of any exertion of the mental powers, as of an art or science, an oration, etc.: materiam artis eam dicimus in qua omnis ars et facultas, quae conficitur ex arte, versatur. Ut si medicinae materiam dicamus morbos ac vulnera, quod in his omnis medicina versetur; item quibus in rebus versatur ars et facultas oratoria, eas res materiam artis rhetoricae nominamus, Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 17: quasi materia, quam tractet, et in qua versetur, subjecta est veritas, id. Off. 1, 5, 16: est enim deformitatis et corporis vitiorum satis bella materies ad jocandum, id. de Or. 2, 59, 239; 1, 11, 49; id. Rosc. Com. 32, 89; id. Div. 2, 4, 12: sermonum, id. Q. Fr 1, 2, 1: materies crescit mihi, my matter (for writing about) increases, id. Att. 2, 12, 3: rei. id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1: aequa viribus, a subject suited to your powers, Hor. A. P. 38: infames, Gell. 17, 12, 1: extra materiam juris, the province, Gai. Inst. 2, 191.—

B. A cause, occasion, source, opportunity (cf. mater, II.): quid enim odisset Clodium Milo segetem ac materiam suae gloriae? Cic. Mil. 13, 35 (for which shortly before: fons perennis gloriae suae): materies ingentis decoris, Liv. 1, 39, 3: non praebiturum se illi eo die materiam, id. 3, 46, 3: major orationis, id. 35, 12, 10: criminandi, id. 3, 31, 4: omnium malorum, Sall. C. 10: materiam invidiae dare, Cic. Phil. 11, 9, 21: materiam bonitati dare, id. de Or. 2, 84, 342: scelerum, Just. 3, 2, 12: seditionis, id. 11, 5, 3: laudis, Luc. 8, 16: benefaciendi, Plin. Pan. 38: ne quid materiae praeberet Neroni, occasion of jealousy, Suet. Galb. 9: epistolae, quae materiam sermonibus praebuere, Tac. H. 4, 4: praebere materiam causasque jocorum, Juv. 3, 147: materiamque sibi ducis indulgentia quaerit, id. 7, 21.—

C. Natural abilities, talents, genius, disposition: fac, fuisse in isto C. Laelii, M. Catonis materiem atque indolem, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 68, 160: in animis humanis, id. Inv. 1, 2, 2: materiam ingentis publice privatimade decoris omni indulgentia nostra nutriamus, Liv. 1, 39, 3: ad cupiditatem, id. 1, 46; Quint. 2, 4, 7.—Hence, one's nature, natural character: non sum materia digna perire tua, thy unfeeling disposition, Ov. H. 4, 86.—

D. A subject, argument, course of thought, topic (post-Aug.): tertium diem esse, quod omni labore materiae ad scribendum destinatae non inveniret exordium, Quint. 10, 3, 14: argumentum plura significat ... omnem ad scribendum destinatam materiam ita appellari, id. 5, 10, 9: video non futurum finem in ista materia ullum, nisi quem ipse mihi fecero, Sen. Ep. 87, 11: pulcritudinem materiae considerare, Plin. Ep. 3, 13, 2; 2, 5, 5: materiam ex titulo cognosces, id. ib. 5, 13, 3 al. (materies animi est, materia arboris; et materies qualitas ingenii, materia fabris apta, Front. II. p. 481 Mai.; but this distinction is not observed by class. writers).