First: at the first sight. Ter. At etiam primò callidum & disertÛ credidi hominÊ. Yea but at the firste I thought him a wise & an eloquent man in telling his rale. Cœpi aduersari primò. Terent. I began to be against it at the first. Primò & mox. Plin. Vesci pecora solita, primóque purgari, mox pinguescere. First to scoure, then after to waxe fat.

First: best: chiefe: most excellent: most principall. Primus ante omnes. Virg. First of all. Prima duo capita epistolæ tuæ. Cic. Ciuitatis primus Dyrrhachinus. Ci. Dyrrachinus chiefe of the citie. Genere & nobilitate sui municipij facilè primus. Ci. Without cõparison the noblest mã of the citie that be dwelt in. Quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo repudies. Terent. Those things which you haue thought best. Prædium quod primum siet, si me rogabis, sic dicã, &c. Cato. If you will aske me which is the best maner. Prima & summa, habentur vtilia, Cic. Homo primus. Cic. An excellent honest man. Primus apud te est. Tere. You loue him best of al men: or he is in greatest credite & estimation with you of all men. Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerÛ volunt nec sunt. Terent. Which in all matters would seeme to rule the rost and be chiefe, and yet are not in deede. Primam dices, scio, si videris, Terent. Thou wilt saye shee is an excellent peece, and that there is none to be compared to hir. Laus prima illis est. Pli. They are moste esteemed, praysed, or set by. Honos primus virtutis. Horat. De prinatis me primùm sententiam rogauit. Cice. Of all them that were out of office he first asked mine opinion. Primi ex omnibus philosophis. Cic. Prima consiliorum: Hoc est, prima consilia. Tacit. Mihi responsum primus dedit ille petenti. Virg. He first answered me asking the question. Primo accessu. Liu. At his sirst comming. Aditus primi difficiles. Horat. Prima adolescentia, Vide ADOLEO. Primo statim aduÊtu. Li. By and by so sonne as he arriued. Aestas prima incœperat. Virg. Sommer was newlye begon. Aetas prima. Virg. Anni primi. Virg. Aspectu primo. Liu. At the first sight. Barba prima. Sen. The first yong beard. Corpora prima. Lucret. The foure elements. Primo quoque die. Col. So sonne as anye occasion or oportunitie shall be giuen. Primo diluculo. Suet. Early in the morning. Prima facie. Caius. At the first fight. Prima fronte, Idem. Quint. Prima ab infantia. Tac. Euen from his infancie. Primo introitu. Plin. At the first entrie. Prima iuuenta, Plin. Labes prima mali. Vir. Primis labris aliquid gustare. Ci. Scantly to touch a thing: to smatter of a thing and not to knowe it perfirely: to tast a little. Prima lux. Suet. Day breaking. Eò sum profectus prima luce. Sulpitius Ciceroni. Earlye in the morning. A prima luce, Vide A præpositionem. Primo mane cum familia prodeundum est. Colum. Earlye in the morning. Prima quaque occasione. Plin. iun. At the first occafion that shall be giuen. Primo progressu. Cic. Prima specie. Liu. At the first sight or appearance. Consilia callida & audacia, prima specie læra. Li. Craftye & desperate counsayles at the beginning be pleasaunt. Nominibus vterentur his quæ prima specie admirationem re explicata risum mouerent. Cic. Did vse those names, which at the first beginning caused men to wonder, but when the matter was declared, made them laugh at thÊ. Primo quoque tempore. Liu. So soone as any occasion or oportunitie shalbe. Primis tenebris mouit. Liu. In the beginning of the nighte: in the eueniug: so soone as it began to war darke. Prima vespera. Suet. As soone as euening was come. Primo vespere. Tac. A primo, Cic. At the beginning: at the first. A primo homo insanibat. Ter. A primo lucis. Macrobius. Vide. A. Cum primis, Vide CVM præpositionem. Sapiens cum primis nostræ ciuitatis homo. Cic. As wise a man as any is lightly in our citie. In primis, Vide IN præpositionem. Homo in primis improbissimus, Cic. A very wicked mã: as wicked a man as any is lightly to be found. In primis splendidus Minutius eques Romanus. Cic. Primas dare alicui: Sub. partes, Vide in Do, dare primas. Agere primas. Vide AGO. Concedere alicui primas, Vide CONCEDO. Primas deferre alicui. Ci. To giue to one the cheefe prayse: to attribute most vnto one: to giue him the pricke & price. Primarum partium esse. Cic.

I. In gen.: qui primus vulnus dicitur obligavisse, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 57: primus sentio mala nostra: primus rescisco omnia: Primus porro obnuntio, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 7: verum primum: verum igitur et extremum, Cic. Off. 3, 6, 27: primae litterae, id. Att. 9, 6, 5: primus inter homines nobilissimos, id. Sest. 3, 6: primi ex omnibus philosophis, id. Fin. 4, 7, 17: primus Graeciae in Thraciam introiit, Nep. Alcib. 7, 4: primus de mille fuisses, Ov. H. 17, 105: in primis, among the first, in the foremost ranks, Nep. Paus. 5, 3: in primis stetit, id. Epam. 10, 3: in primis pugnantes, Sall. C. 60, 6: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire, id. J. 6, 1: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, etc., poet.), Verg. A. 11, 573: primus post eos quos poëtae tradiderunt movisse aliqua circa rhetoricen Empedocles dicitur (= secundus or proximus ab iis), Quint. 3, 1, 8.—

II. In partic.

A. In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, etc.: in primā provinciā, at the entrance of the province, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 2: digitus, the tip of the finger, Cat. 2, 3: dentes, the front teeth, Plin. 19, 2, 11, 35: ranis prima lingua cohaeret, the end of the tongue, id. 11, 37, 65, 172: primā statim nocte, at the beginning of the night, Col. 10, 190: sol, i. e. the rising sun, Verg. A. 6, 255: luna, i. e. the new moon, Plin. 2, 13, 10, 56.—With quisque, the first possible, the very first: primo quoque tempore, at the very first opportunity, Cic. Fam. 13, 57, 1: primo quoque die, id. Phil. 8, 11, 33: me tibi primum quidque concedente, id. Ac. 2, 16, 49: fluit voluptas et prima quaeque avolat, id. Fin. 2, 32, 106.—Subst.: prīma, ōrum, n., the first part, the beginning: quod bellum, si prima satis prospera fuissent, Liv. 8, 3.—Of the first principles or elements of things, Lucr. 4, 186: prima consiliorum (for prima consilia), Tac. H. 2, 11: a primo, from the beginning, at first: multum improbiores sunt quam a primo credidi, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 139; Ter. Phorm. 4, 2, 14; 4, 3, 37: in illā pro Ctesiphonte oratione submissius a primo: deinde pressius, Cic. Or. 8, 26: suam vim retinere a primo ad extremum, id. Fin. 4, 13, 32: hoc a primo cogitavit, id. Att. 8, 11, 2; id. Phil. 2, 30, 75 Halm ad loc.: id a primo rectissime dicitur, id. Fin. 3, 9, 32 Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first: equites in primo late ire jubet, in the van, Sall. J. 68, 4: qui numerus in primo viget, jacet in extremo, Cic. Or. 64, 215. —

B. First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble (cf.: princeps, primores): evocat ad se Massiliensium quindecim primos, Caes. B. C. 1, 35: sui municipii facile primus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15: homo, id. Verr. 2, 4, 17, 37: primis urbis placuisse, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 23: juvenum primi, Verg. A. 9, 785: est genus hominum, qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt Nec sunt, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 17: quia sum apud te primus, I am the first in your favor, id. ib. 1, 2, 10: primus humani generis, Sil. 17, 255: urbem Italiae primam, Petr. 116: praedium, Cato, R. R. 1: suavia prima habere, to give the first place to, think the most of, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 9: otium atque divitiae, quae prima mortales putant, Sall. C. 36, 4: cura, a chief part, Plin. 5, 25, 21, 88.—Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense: peccatores, quorum primus ego sum, Vulg. 1 Tim. 1, 15: primas partes, or primas agere, to play the first part, to occupy the first rank, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27: primas in causis agebat Hortensius, Cic. Brut. 90, 308; 47: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing: actioni primas dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cum rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum: huic secundas, huic tertias, Cic. de Or. 3, 56, 213: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part: amoris erga me tibi primas defero, i. e. I assign to you the first rank among those who love me, id. Att. 1, 17, 5: primas concedere, to yield the first place: si Allienus tibi primas in dicendo partes concesserit, id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 49: primas tenere, to play the first part, be the best, id. Brut. 95, 327: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly: homo domi suae cum primis locuples, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28, 69: in primis lautus eques, Nep. Att. 13, 1: oppidum in primis Siciliae clarum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, 86: homo in primis improbissimus, id. ib. 2, 3, 27, 68: vir magnus in primis, id. N. D. 1, 43, 120: in primis hoc a se animadversum esse dicebat, id. de Or. 3, 5, 17: in primis nobis sermo de te fuit, id. Att. 5, 1, 3: in primis ... dein, first, in the first place, Sall. J. 26, 3. —Hence, adv., primo and primum; also, ante- and post-class. and very rare, prime and primiter (the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 920 sq.).

A. prīmō, at first, at the beginning, first, firstly.

1. In gen.: aedes primo ruere rebamur, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 42: neque credebam primo mihimet Sosiae, id. ib. 2, 1, 50; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, 26: primo non accredidit, Nep. Dat. 3, 4: Themistocles solus primo profectus est, id. Them. 6, 5: contemptus est primo a tyrannis, id. Thras. 2, 2; id. Ham. 2, 2.—

2. With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc: primo Stoicorum more agamus, deinde nostro instituto vagabimur, Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 13: primo pecuniae, dein imperii cupido crevit, Sall. C. 10, 3: primo ... deinde ... tum ... tum, Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50: primo ... deinde, Liv. 1, 27; Curt. 3, 12, 6; 4, 16, 21; 9, 10, 11: primo abstinentiā utendum: deinde danda, etc., Cels. 5, 26, 34: primo ... inde, ... hinc, Liv. 30, 11, 6: haec primo paulatim crescere: post, etc., Sall. C. 10, 6: dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente, Caes. B. G. 7, 15: primo ... postea ... postremo, etc., Liv. 26, 39: primo ... mox, id. 1, 50: primo ... mox deinde, Just. 1, 3: primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc., Sall. J. 111, 2: neque illi credebam primo, nunc vero palam est, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 91.—

3. (Mostly post-Aug. for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo: primo ... iterum, Liv. 2, 51: primo ... rursus, Suet. Aug. 17: primo ... secundo, Phaedr. 4, 10, 16.—

B. prīmum, at first, first, in the first place, in the beginning (class.).

1. In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum: Caesar primum suo, deinde omnium e conspectu remotis equis, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: primum ... deinde ... deinde, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58, 143: primum ... deinde ... tum ... postremo, id. N. D. 2, 1, 3: primum ... deinde ... praeterea ... postremo, id. Div. 2, 56, 116: primum ... tum ... deinde ... post ... tum ... deinde ...., id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Font. 14, 31; cf.: primum ... secundo loco ... deinde ... tum, id. Leg. 1, 13, 35; id. Inv. 2, 27, 79; Curt. 3, 6, 16; 8, 10, 9; Liv. 1, 28; Nep. Them. 2, 3; id. Epam. 1, 3: primum ... subinde, Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 15: primum ... mox, id. ib. 2, 2, 93.—

2. Without other adverbs.

(a). In gen.: quaerenda pecunia primum est, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 53: te Quicumque primum Produxit, id. C. 2, 13, 2; id. S. 2, 3, 41.—

(b). Strengthened with omnium, first of all, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 13: primum omnium ego ipse vigilo, Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19.—

3. With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.

(a). Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as: ut primum potestas data est augendae dignitatis tuae, etc., Cic. Fam. 10, 13, 1: ubi primum potuit, istum reliquit, id. Verr. 2, 2, 20, 48: simul ac primum niti possunt, etc., id. N. D. 2, 48, 124: tum affuerat, cum primum dati sunt judices, id. Verr. 2, 2, 23, 57.—

(b). Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (cf.: nunc demum, now at last): post illa nunc primum audio, Quid illo sit factum, Ter. And. 5, 4, 33.—

(g). With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.): primum dum, si falso insimulas, etc. Iterum si id verum est, etc., Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 26: omnium primumdum haed aedes jam face occlusae sicut, id. Most. 2, 1, 53; 1, 2, 39; id. Capt. 1, 2, 57: primum dum omnium male dictitatur tibi vulgo in sermonibus, id. Trin. 1, 2, 61.—

(d). With adv. or other expression of time, for the first time: hodie primum ire in ganeum, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 37: quo die primum convocati su mus, Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30.—

C. prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 188 P.; cf. Prisc. p. 603 P.—

D. prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and post-class.): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ap. Non. 154, 26; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Lat. Scop. in Egitto.