The middle equally distant from the excremities: meane: neither to be praised nor dispraised. Also mapifest: indifferent. Complura sunt nec placida, nec fera, sed mediæ inter vtrumque naturæ. Plin. Of indifferent nature betweene both. Medio æstu. Virg. At midday when the heat is greatest. Media mulieris æras. Plaut. The flower or lustiest time of the womans age. Qui mediam ducit vxorem domum. Plau. He that marrieth a wife of middle age. Medius anuus, Medius dies, Media nox. Plin. iun. Colu. Cæs. Halfe a yeare, halfe a day, halfe a night, or the mids of the day, or night. Per medias rapit ira cædes. Horat. Medius digitus. Plin. In foro medio, vel per medium forum. Ci. In the middes of the common place. Frigoribus medijs. Virg. MediÛ ingeniÛ erat in Anco. Liu. Ancus was betwene both. Medius mundi locus. Cic. The middle part of the world. In medio mundo terra sita est. Cic. The earth standeth in the midst of the world. Plus media parte. Ouid. More than halfe. In media potione exclamauit mulier. Cic. In the middes of hir draught the woman cried out. Sermonem medium abrumpere. Virg. To breake of in the middes of the talke. Sonus medius, summus, imus. Plin. The meane: the trebble: the base. Medium tempus. Plin. iun. Medio tempore. Suet. In the meane time. In voce media resistit. Virg. Pacis & belli medius. Horat. To be indifferent betweene peace and warre. Mediam locauit. Virg. He placed hir in the middle. Medium arripere. Liu. To take by the middle of the body. Ego illam mediam diruptam velim. Plaut. I woulde to god shee were burst in the middle. Mediam mulierem complectitur. Tere. He embraceth hir about the middle. Medium responsum. Liu. A doubtfull answere. Medius & ambiguus sermo. Plin. iun. Doubtfull and ambiguous talke. Media vocabula dicÛtur, quæ & in bonã & in malã partem accipi possÛt: qualia sunt tÊpestas, & valetudo, facinus, &c. Mediæ artes, que neque landari per se, neque vituperari possunt, sed vtiles, aut secus, secundum mores vtentium fiunt. Quint. Artes indifferent as they be vsed. Medium tenere. Plin. iun. To keepe a meane. Cursum medium tenere. Cic. Interiectus ac medius, vel Interiectus medius. Cic. Afferre in medium, Vide AFFERO. In medium consulere, Vide CONSVLO. E medio discedere. Suet. To depart out of the place. E medio excedere, pro mori. Ter. To die. Pellere è medio. Cic. To thrust away: to reiect cleane. Ponere in medio. Ci. To vtter: to propose to men: in wordes to lay before them. Proferre aliquid in medium. Idem. Cic. Quærere in medium. Virg. To seeke lyuing by that is common to all, and not haue any seuerallitie. Recede de medio, per alium transigam. Cic. Go thy way and let me alone, I will dispatch the matter by another. Relinquere in medio. Cic. I will define nothing but leaue it to the indgement of other. In medio esse. vel situm aut positum esse. Cicer. Tabulæ sunt in medio. The registers are to be seene of euery man. Dicendi ratio in medio posita est. Cice. The manner of pleading is easie for euery man to attaine. Sed quod discrepat, in medio sit. Suet. What difference there is, let it be as doubfull and vnknowne. Sumere de medio. Cic. To take there as euery man may take for the commonnesse and easinesse. Verba è medio sumpta. B. Easte wordes taken out of the vse of common speach. De medio tollere, pro Occidere. Cic. To kill. Venire in medium, & Procedere in medium. Cic. To come abroad in the sight of men. Vocare in medium. Cic. To call, or bring forth to the knowledge or sight of men. Medio campi, medio montium, medio diêi. Tacit. In the middle of the field, &c.

I. Adj.

A. Lit.: terra complexa medium mundi locum, Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18; cf. id. ib. 6, 17, 17: medium mundi locum petere, id. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: versus aeque prima, et media, et extrema pars attenditur, id. de Or. 3, 50, 192: ultimum, proximum, medium tempus, id. Prov. Cons. 18, 43: in foro medio, in the midst of the forum, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 14; Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 6; cf.: medio foro, in the open forum, Suet. Claud. 18 al.: in solio medius consedit, sat in the middle, Ov. F. 3, 359; Verg. A. 7, 169: considit scopulo medius, id. G. 4, 436: concilio medius sedebat, Ov. M. 10, 144: ignes, Verg. A. 12, 201: medio tempore, in the meantime, meanwhile, Suet. Caes. 76: vinum novum, vetus, medium, i. e. neither old nor new, Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 31, 14: cum plenus fluctu medius foret alveus, full to the middle, Juv. 12, 30.—With dat.: Peloponnesii Megaram, mediam Corintho Athenisque urbem, condidere, midway between Corinth and Athens, Vell. 1, 2, 4.—With abl.: si medius Polluce et Castore ponar, between, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 13.—With inter: cum inter bellum et pacem medium nihil sit, there is no medium, no middle course between, Cic. Phil. 8, 1, 4: inter quos numeros duo medii inveniuntur (sc. numeri), Mart. Cap. 7, 737.—With gen.: locus medius regionum earum, half-way between, Caes. B. G. 4, 19: locus medius juguli summique lacerti, between, Ov. M. 6, 409; 5, 564: et medius juvenum ibat, id. F. 5, 67: medius silentūm, Stat. Th. 4, 683.—With ex: medius ex tribus, Sall. J. 11, 3: medium arripere aliquem, to seize one by the middle, around the body, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 18: juvenem medium complectitur, Liv. 23, 9, 9: Alcides medium tenuit, held him fast by the middle, Luc. 4, 652: medium ostendere unguem, to point with the middle finger, Juv. 10, 53.—

2. Transf., half (ante- and postclass.): hieme demunt cibum medium, half their food, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 9: scrupulum croci, Pall. Jan. 18: aurum ... Italicis totum, medium provincialibus reddidit, Capitol. Anton. Pius, 4 fin.—

B. Trop., of the middle, not very great or small, middling, medial, moderate.

1. Of age: aetatis mediae vir, of middle age, Phaedr. 2, 2, 3.—

2. Of plans, purposes, etc.: nihil medium, nec spem nec curam, sed immensa omnia volventes animo, Liv. 2, 49, 5: medium quiddam tenere, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 9.—

3. Of intellect: eloquentiā medius, middling, tolerable, Vell. 2, 29, 2: ingenium, moderate, Tac. H. 1, 49.—

4. Undetermined, undecided: medios esse, i. e. neutral, Cic. Att. 10, 8, 4: medium se gerere, Liv. 2, 27: se dubium mediumque partibus praestitit, Vell. 2, 21, 1; cf.: responsum, indefinite, ambiguous, Liv. 39, 39: vocabula, that can be taken in a good or bad sense, ambiguous, Gell. 12, 9, 1. —

5. Indifferent, not imperative: officium, a duty which is not distinctly enjoined by the moral law, but is sustained by preponderant reasoning: medium officium id esse dicunt (Graeci) quod cur factum sit, ratio probabilis reddi possit, Cic. Off. 1, 3, 8; cf.: ex quo intellegitur, officium medium quiddam esse, quod neque in bonis ponatur neque in contrariis, id. Fin. 3, 17, 58; cf. sqq. and Madv. ad loc.: artes, which in themselves are neither good nor bad, indifferent, Quint. 2, 20, 1.—

6. Intermediate: medium erat in Anco ingenium, et Numae et Romuli memor, of a middle kind, resembling each in some degree, Liv. 1, 32, 4: nihil habet ista res (actoris) medium, sed aut lacrimas meretur aut risum, Quint. 6, 1, 45: ille jam paene medius adfectus est ex amoribus et desideriis amicorum, Quint. 6, 2, 17.—Hence, as subst.: mĕdĭus, i, m., one who stands or comes between, a mediator: medium sese offert, as a mediator, Verg. A. 7, 536: pacator mediusque Syphax, Sil. 16, 222: pacis eras mediusque belli, arbiter, Hor. C. 2, 19, 28; cf.: nunc mediis subeant irrita verba deis, oaths in which the gods were called upon to be mediators, Ov. R. Am. 678.—

7. Central, with ex or in: ex factione media consul, fully committed to it, Sall. H. 3, 61, 8; so (nearly = intimus), viros fortīs et magnanimos eosdem bonos et simplicīs ... esse volumus: quae sunt ex media laude justititiae, these qualities are clearly among those which make uprightness praiseworthy, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63: partitiones oratoriae, quae e media illa nostra Academia effloruerunt, id. Part. Or. 40, 139: ingressio e media philosophia repetita est, id. Or. 3, 11; id. Leg. 2, 21, 53: in medio maerore et dolore, id. Tusc. 4, 29, 63; id. Q. Fr. 2, 15, 1: in media dimicatione, the hottest of the fight, Suet. Aug. 10; cf.: in medio ardore certaminis, Curt. 8, 4, 27: in media solitudine, the most profound, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2: in mediis divitiis, in abundant wealth, id. Vit. Beat. 26, 1: in medio robore virium, Liv. 28, 35, 6: in medio ardore belli, id. 24, 45, 4: in media reipublicae luce, the full blaze of public life, Quint. 1, 2, 18: media inter pocula, Juv. 8, 217.—Hence,

II. Subst.: mĕdĭum, ii, n., the middle, midst.

A. Lit.

1. Of space (very rare in Cic.): in medio aedium sedens, Liv. 1, 57, 9: maris, id. 31, 45, 11; for which, without in, medio aedium eburneis sellis sedere, id. 5, 41, 2: medio viae ponere, id. 37, 13, 10: in agmine in primis modo, modo in postremis, saepe in medio adesse, Sall. J. 45, 2; for which, without in, medio sextam legionem constituit, Tac. A. 13, 38: medio montium porrigitur planities, id. ib. 1, 64: medio stans hostia ad aras, Verg. G. 3, 486: medio tutissimus ibis, Ov. M. 2, 137: in medium geminos immani pondere caestus Projecit, Verg. A. 5, 401: in medium sarcinas coniciunt, Liv. 10, 36, 1; 13: equitatus consulem in medium acceptum, armis protegens, in castra reduxit, id. 21, 46, 9.— Trop.: tamquam arbiter honorarius medium ferire voluisse, to cut through the middle, Cic. Fat. 17, 39: intacta invidiā media sunt, ad summa ferme tendit, Liv. 45, 35.—

2. Of time: diei, Liv. 27, 48: medio temporis, in the meantime, meanwhile, Tac. A. 13, 28; cf.: nec longum in medio tempus, cum, the interval, Verg. A. 9, 395; Ov. M. 4, 167; Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 13.—

B. Transf.

1. The midst of all, the presence of all, the public, the community (class.): in medio omnibus palma est posita, qui artem tractant musicam, lies open to all, Ter. Phorm. prol. 16: tabulae sunt in medio, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 42, 104: rem totam in medio ponere, publicly, id. ib. 2, 1, 11, 29: ponam in medio sententias philosophorum, id. N. D. 1, 6, 13: dicendi ratio in medio posita, lies open to all, id. de Or. 1, 3, 12: rem in medium proferre, to publish, make known, id. Fam. 15, 27, 6: vocare in medium, before the public, before a public tribunal: rem in medium vocare coeperunt, id. Clu. 28, 77: in medio relinquere, to leave it to the public, leave it undecided, id. Cael. 20, 48; Sall. C. 19, 16: pellere e medio, to expel, reject, Enn. ap. Cic. Mur. 14, 30 (Ann. v. 272 Vahl.); Cic. Off. 3, 8, 37: cum jacentia verba sustulimus e medio, adopt words from the people, common words, id. de Or. 3, 45, 177; cf.: munda sed e medio consuetaque verba puellae Scribite, Ov. A. A. 3, 479: tollere de medio, to do away with, abolish: litteras, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 71, 176: tollere de medio, to put out of the way, cut off, destroy: hominem, id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20: de medio removere, to put out of sight, id. ib. 8, 23: e medio excedere or abire, to leave the world, to die: e medio excessit, she is dead, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 74: ea mortem obiit, e medio abiit, id. ib. 5, 8, 30: tollite lumen e medio, Juv. 9, 106: recedere de medio, to go away, retire, withdraw: cur te mihi offers? recede de medio, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112: in medio esse, to be present, Ter. Ad. 3, 5, 32: in medium venire or procedere, to appear, come forward, show one's self in public, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 71, 175: in medium, before the public, for the public, for the community: communes utilitates in medium afferre, id. Off. 1, 7, 22: consulere in medium, to care for the public good, for the good of all, Verg. A. 11, 335; so opp. separantem suas res a publicis, Liv. 24, 22, 14 sq.; 26, 12, 7: quaerere, to make acquisitions for the use of all, Verg. G. 1, 127: cedere, to fall or devolve to the community, Tac. H. 4, 64: conferre laudem, i. e. so that all may have a share of it, Liv. 6, 6: dare, to communicate for the use of all, Ov. M. 15, 66: in medium conferre, in gaming, to put down, put in the pool, Suet. Aug. 71: in medio, for sub dio, in the open air: scorpios fugari posse, si aliqui ex eis urantur in medio, Pall. 1, 35, 12.—

2. A half (ante-class. and post-Aug.): scillae medium conterunt cum aqua, Varr. R. R. 2, 7: scrobem ad medium completo, Col. Arb. 4, 5.—Hence,

III. Adv.: mĕdĭē, in the middle, in a middling degree, moderately, tolerably (except once in Tac. only post-class.): qui noluerant medie, kept quiet, remained neutral, Tac. H. 1, 19: nec plane optimi, nec oppido deterrimi sunt, sed quasi medie morati, App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 22, 23; Eutr. 7, 13; Lact. 6, 15 fin.: ortus medie humilis, Aur. Vict. Caes. 20.—

2. Indefinitely, Ambros. in Luc. 8, 17, 34.