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Morphology Lemmata prudens (external link: prudens )Forms: prudens (data provider: perseus), prudensque (data provider: perseus), prudente (data provider: perseus), prudentem (data provider: perseus), prudenter (data provider: perseus), prudenterque (data provider: perseus), prudentes (data provider: perseus), prudentesque (data provider: perseus), prudenti (data provider: perseus), prudentia (data provider: perseus), prudentiaque (data provider: perseus), prudentibus (data provider: perseus), prudentior (data provider: perseus), prudentiora (data provider: donatus-sup), prudentiorem (data provider: perseus), prudentioremve (data provider: perseus), prudentiores (data provider: perseus), prudentioribus (data provider: perseus), prudentiorum (data provider: donatus-sup), prudentis (data provider: perseus), prudentisque (data provider: perseus), prudentissima (data provider: perseus), prudentissimam (data provider: perseus), prudentissimas (data provider: perseus), prudentissime (data provider: perseus), prudentissimi (data provider: perseus), prudentissimis (data provider: perseus), prudentissimo (data provider: perseus), prudentissimos (data provider: perseus), prudentissimum (data provider: perseus), prudentissimus (data provider: perseus), prudentissumus (data provider: perseus), prudentium (data provider: perseus), prudentius (data provider: perseus)prudenter (external link: prudenter )Forms: prudenter (data provider: perseus), prudenterque (data provider: perseus)Dictionary Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary prudens prūdens, entis, adj. [contr. from providens].
I. Foreseeing , foreknowing (very rare); constr. with an objective clause , or absol. : ille contra urinam spargit, prudens, hanc quoque leoni exitialem , Plin. 8, 38, 57, 136 : quos prudentis possumus dicere, id est providentis , Cic. Div. 1, 49, 111 : de futuro satis callidus satisque prudens, Ps.-Sall. ap. Cic. init. —
II. Transf.
A. Knowing , skilled , experienced , versed , practised in a thing (class.; syn.: peritus, consultus); constr. with gen. or in; poet. and post-Aug. also with inf.
(a). With gen. : ceterarum rerum pater familias et prudens et attentus , Cic. Quint. 3, 11 : belli prudentes, Sall. Ep. Mith. (H. 4, 61, 16 Dietsch): rei militaris , Nep. Con. 1, 2 : locorum , Liv. 34, 28 fin. : animus rerum prudens , Hor. C. 4, 9, 35 : artis , Ov. H. 5, 150 : animorum provinciae prudens , Tac. Agr. 19 : doli prudens , id. H. 2, 25 : agricolationis , Col. 2, 2, 15 .—Comp. : prudentiores rerum rusticarum , Col. 4, 2, 1 ; so, earum rerum , Gell. 14, 2, 4 .—Sup. : adulandi gens prudentissima , Juv. 3, 86 .—
(b). With in : prudens in jure civili , Cic. Lael. 2, 6 .—
(g). With inf. or acc. and inf. : nec pauperum prudens anus Novemdialis dissipare pulveres , Hor. Epod. 17, 47 : prudens otii vitia negotio discuti , Curt. 7, 1, 4 :-ob ea se peti prudens, Plin. 8, 31, 49, 111 : sciens prudensque se praegnantem non esse , Dig. 25, 6, 1, 2 .—
2. In partic.
a. Juris prudens, also prudens alone (like juris peritus), skilled or learned in the law; as subst. : jūrisprūdens, ntis, m. , one learned in the law , a lawyer , jurist , jurisconsult (only post-class.), Dig. 38, 15, 2 fin. ; 1, 2, 2 ; 1, 1, 7 ; 40, 7, 30; Just. Inst. 1, 2 .—
b. Like sciens, knowing , wise , discreet , prudent; usually connected with sciens : prudens animam de corpore mitto, Enn. ap. Non. 150, 8 (Ann. v. 216 Vahl.): quos prudens praetereo , Hor. S. 1, 10, 88 ; 2, 5, 58 (cf.: imprudens praeteriisse videris , Cic. Brut. 77, 269 ): ibis sub furcam prudens , Hor. S. 2, 7, 66 : nequidquam deus abscidit Prudens Oceano terras , id. C. 1, 3, 22 ; 3, 29, 29 ; Ov. M. 3, 364 : an prudens imprudensve rupisset , Gell. 20, 1, 34 .—With sciens : amore ardeo: et prudens, sciens, Vivus vidensque pereo , Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 27 : ut in fabulis Amphiaraus sic ego prudens et sciens ad pestem ante oculos positam sum profectus , Cic. Fam. 6, 6, 6 ; Cael. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 9 , A, 5; Suet. Ner. 2 fin. —
B. In gen., sagacious , sensible , intelligent , clever , judicious , etc. (very freq.): vir naturā peracutus et prudens , Cic. Or. 5, 18 : quis P. Octavio ingenio prudentior, jure peritior , id. Clu. 38, 107 : prudentem et, ut ita dicam, catum , id. Leg. 1, 16, 45 : in existimando admodum prudens , id. Brut. 68, 239 ; cf.: prudentissimi in disserendo , id. ib. 31, 118 : virum ad consilia prudentem , id. Font. 15, 43 : quo nemo prudentior , id. Lael. 1, 5 : homines amicissimi ac prudentissimi , id. Rep. 1, 46, 10 : vir bonus et prudens , Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 32 ; cf. id. A. P. 445 : si divitiae prudentem reddere possent , id. Ep. 2, 2, 155 : prudentior ille consilio, hic animo magnificentior , Just. 9, 8, 13 .—With adverb. acc. : prudens alia , Amm. 15, 13, 2 .—Of abstract things: prudens, temperata, fortis, justa ratio , Cic. Fin. 5, 21, 58 : prudens animi sententia , Ov. H. 21, 137 : consilium, quod si non fuerit prudens, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7 , A, 1; Ov. M. 13, 433 : prudentissimum consilium , Nep. Eum. 3, 4 ; Hirt. B. Alex. 24 . —
C. Cautious , circumspect (very rare): malebant me nimium timidum quam satis prudentem existimari , Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 2 .— Hence, adv. : prūdenter, sagaciously , intelligently , discreetly , wisely , skilfully , learnedly , prudently , etc.: loqui, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4, 4 (Ann. v. 255 Vahl.): facere , Cic. Fin. 5, 6, 15 ; cf. id. Rep. 3, 9, 16 : rationem excogitare , id. ib. 2, 12, 23 : multa ab eo prudenter disputata , id. Lael. 1, 1 : multa provisa prudenter , id. ib. 2, 6 .—Comp. , Aug. in Suet. Tib. 21 ; Quint. 9, 2, 44 .—Sup. : defendere , Cic. Div. 2, 72, 150 : scribere , id. Att. 13, 1, 1 ; Val. Max. 3, 3, 4 ext. 4.
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