Rising: springing: beginning. vt Austri orientis motus Horat, Of the south winde riling. Dies oriens. Tibull. Beginning. Luna oriens. Ouid. Rising. Lux oriens. Catul. Signa orientia noctis. Virg. Oriens, Nomen substantiuum, masc. g. Plin. The east parte where the sunne riseth. Oræ orientis. Horat. The easterne coastes or countries. Extremus Oriens. Ouid. The vttermost part of the east.

To be borne: to rise: to spring: to appeare: to haue the beginning of any thing: to beginne. Oriti & procreari in aliquo loco. Cic. To be borne and haue his beginning in a place. Oriri ex se, & sponte sua nasci. Cic. Cædes miserrima oritur, Virgil. A most miserable slaughter beginneth. Oritur clamor. Plaut. There ariseth a great shonte or crie. Oritur facinus ex re. Plaut. This mischiese hath his beginning of thee: or thou art the author of. Tibi me nulla est orta iniuria. Terent. I neuer did you any iniurie. Oritur fons in monte. Plin. iun. A spring riseth in the hill. Mœstis orietur sletibus horror. Propert. Prospera lux oritur. Ouid. A luckie day beginneth. Monstrum mirabile oritur. Virgil. There happeneth a marueylous straunge thing or wonder. A suo cuiusque genere virtutis officia oriuntur. Cicer. Risus oricbantur, dulcésque cachinni. Lucret. Oritur ab his sermo. Cic. They begin first to speake. Sermo oritur de villis. Horat. Talke was mooued, or they began to talke of. Stellæ oriuntur & cadunt. Ouid. Starres rise & goe downe. Vlcera oriuntur. Cels. Soares breake out. Ortum est abs te, vel ex te. Terent. It came of thee: or had the beginning of thee.

I. In gen., of persons, to rise, bestir one's self, get up, etc.: consul oriens nocte diceret dictatorem, Liv. 8, 23.—

B. Esp., of the heavenly bodies, to rise, become visible, appear: stellae, ut quaeque oriturque caditque, Ov. F. 1, 295: ortā luce, in the morning, Caes. B. G. 5, 8: orto sole, at sunrise, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 112: postera lux oritur, id. S. 1, 5, 39; cf.: crassa pulvis oritur, Enn. ap. Non. 205, 28. —

II. Transf., in gen., to come forth, become visible; to have one's origin or descent, to spring, descend from; to grow or spring forth; to rise, take its origin; arise, proceed, originate (syn. nascor): hoc quis non credat abs te esse ortum? Ter. And. 3, 2, 9: Rhenus oritur ex Lepontiis, takes its rise, Caes. B. G. 5, 4: Maeander ex arce summā Celaenarum ortus, Liv. 38, 13, 7: Tigris oritur in montibus Uxiorum, Curt. 5, 3, 1: fons oritur in monte, Plin. Ep. 4, 30, 2: Durius amnis oritur in Pelendonibus, Plin. 4, 20, 34, 112: amnis Indus in Cibyratarum jugis, id. 5, 28, 29, 103: ibi Caicus amnis oritur, id. 5, 30, 33, 125: incliti amnes Caucaso monte orti, Curt. 8, 9, 3: Rhenus Alpium vertice ortus, Tac. G. 1, 2: clamor, Caes. B. G. 5, 53: oritur controversia, arises, Cic. Clu. 69, 161: unde oritur nox, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 193 Müll. (Ann. v. 407 Vahl.): tempestas, Nep. Tim. 3, 3: monstrum mirabile, Verg. A. 2, 680: ulcera, Cels. 6, 13: ea officia. quae oriuntur a suo cujusque genere virtutum, Cic. Fin. 5, 24, 69: id facmus ex te ortum, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 67: tibi a me nulla orta est mjuria, I have caused you no injury, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 35: quod si numquam oritur, ne occidit quidem umquam, comes into being, Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 27. —Of persons, to be born: in quo (solo) tu ortus et procreatus es, Cic. Leg. 2, 2, 4: pueros orientes animari, at birth, id. Div. 2, 42, 89: ex concubina, Sal. J. 108, 1; to be descended from: plerosque Belgas esse ortos a Germanis, Caes. B. G. 2, 4; to begin, commence, take its beginning: ab aliquo sermo oritur, Cic. Lael. 1, 5.—Hence,

A. ŏrĭens, entis, P. a.; as subst. m.

1. The rising sun, morning sun: et me saevus equis oriens afflavit anhelis, Verg. A. 5, 739; id. G. 1, 250.—

2. The quarter where the sun rises, the East, the Orient (opp. to occidens, the West, the Occident): ab oriente ad occidentem, Cic. N. D. 2, 66: aestivus, the quarter where the sun rises in summer, Plin. 17, 14, 24, 105: hibernus, Col. 1, 6: vernus, Gell. 2, 22, 7.—

3. Poet. for day: septimus hinc oriens cum se demiserit undis, Ov. F. 1, 653.—

B. ortus, a, um, P. a., sprung, descended, born; constr. with ex, ab, and (partic. with poets and since the Aug. per.) with simple abl.

(a). Class. usually with ab: a me ortus, Cic. Planc. 27, 67: quoniam ab illo (Catone) ortus es, id. Mur. 31, 66; Nep. Att. 18, 3; Hor. S. 1, 5, 55: maternum genus ab regibus ortum, Suet. Caes. 6: a liberatoribus patriae ortus, Liv. 7, 32, 13: homo a se ortus, without noble or famous ancestors: ego a me ortus et per me nixus (opp. adjuvari commendatione majorum), Cic. Planc. 27, 67; id. Phil. 6, 6, 17.—

(b). Less freq. with ex and name of person: ex Tantalo, Quint. 9, 3, 57; but with ex and the name of a place, family, order, class, etc., freq. and class.: ex eodem loco ortus, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 10: ortus ex eā familiā, quā, etc., Liv. 7, 10, 3: ex concubinā, Sall. J. 5, 7; 108, 1; Liv. 1, 34, 6: ex patricio sanguine, id. 6, 40, 6.—

(g). With abl. alone (except with loco and genere, mostly poet. and post-Aug.): eā familiā ortus, Sall. C. 31, 7: orte Saturno, Hor. C. 1, 12, 50; 4, 5, 1; 3, 6, 33: 4, 6, 32: id. Ep. 1, 6, 22: ortus sorore ejus, Liv. 8, 3, 7: paelice, id. 39, 53, 3: orti Atticis, Vell. 1, 4 init.: antiquis nobilibus, Quint. 3, 8, 31: Germanicum Druso ortum, Tac. A. 1, 3: Thessalis, id. ib. 6, 34; 12, 53; 15, 72: regiā stirpe, Curt. 4, 1, 17: oppido Ferentino, Suet. Oth. 1: equestri familiā, id. Aug. 2: magnis e centurionibus, Hor. S. 1, 6, 73.