• FAIR

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• Beautiful, Vid:
• Of weather, winds, etc., serenus (bright, cloudless; of the sky and weather): sudus (seudus, not wet; not rainy; of the wind and weather): secundus (favorable; of the wind). Fair weather, serenum; serenitas (or serenitates; opposed to imbres, Col.); sudum: idonea tempestas (with reference to a voyage; for sailing, ad navigandum): the weather being fair, sereno; serenitate: when it is fair, ubi serenum or sudum est: whilst it is fair, dum sudum est: calm and fair weather, tranquilla serenitas: it is becoming fair, disserenascit (Liv.); but disserenat (Plin.) = it is fair; when the weather is fair and without wind, cum serenum atque placidum est. A fair wind, ventus secundus, or prosper, or idoneus: to sail with a fair wind, ad occasionem aurae evehi (Suet., Oct., 87): to have the wind fair, ventum nactum esse secundum (Caes.): with a very fair wind, secundissimo vento.
• Equitable, aequus: justus [SYN. in EQUITABLE]: modicus (moderate; of price). It is fair, aequum, verum (☞ Liv., 3, 49, fin.), par, jus, fas est, with infinitive., or accusative and infinitive; to make a fair demand; to ask only what is fair, aequa postulare. I think it fair, aequum censeo.
• Clear (Vid :), clarus (of letters, writing, etc.). To write out fair, perhaps pure describere (Gell., 9, 13, where, however, the meaning is different). To write a fair hand, *clare scribere.
• Of complexion, etc, candidus (of a dazzling fairness, etc., puella; humeri, colla, cervix, ora, etc.): clari colons: claro colore (bright-colored): pallidus (pale): subpallidus (rather pale). Poetical expressions are lacteus (Verg.), and lacteolus (Catullus; milk-white): niveus (snow-white): eburneus (like ivory).
• MISCELLANEOUS PHRASES. To have fair play, libere agere or facere posse (to have full liberty of action); in suo jure non or a nullo impediri (not to have one’s rights encroached upon); aequos, or incorruptos or incorruptos atque integros habere judices (to have impartial judges). Having a fair outside, speciosus (a, um) pelle decora (Hor.): by fair means, cum gratia (e.g., impetro, quod postulo, Terentianus); cum bona gratia (opposed to cum mala gratia, Ter., Phorm., 4, 3, 17): by fair means or foul, *cum gratia aut per vim; *aut precibus aut vi: to wish to stand fair with anybody, alicui placere velle; apud aliquem in gratia poni velle.

2. s. mercatus (also as the place): status in quosdam dies mercatus (Tac., Hist., 3, 30, 1); ☞ nundinae = a weekly market. A much-frequented fair, mercatus frequens: to appoint a fair, mercatum instituere: to hold a fair, mercatum habere: to go or come to a fair, to visit it, ad mercatum ire or proficisci or venire. To come the day after the fair, (Proverb) cena comesa venire.