SAVE Copy link • SAVETo preserve from destruction, to hinder from being lost, servare: conservare (opposed to perdere): salutem dare or afferre alicui: salutis auctorem esse alicui (to save anybody from ruin): servare ex aliqua re (to save from or out of anything, to rescue; e.g., navem ex tempestate): eripere alicui rei or ex aliqua re (to snatch anybody, rescue him from danger, aliquem periculo or ex periculo). To save out of the hands of the enemy, aliquem ex manibus hostium: to save from or out of anything, servare ab aliqua re (to preserve; e.g., from death, aliquem a morte): vindicare aliqua re and ab aliqua re (to protect, to shelter from; e.g., from destruction or ruin, aliquem ab interitu; to save the state from great dangers, rempublicam magnis periculis): liberare ab aliqua re (to free from; e.g., the town from being burnt, urbem ab incendio et flamma): retrahere ab aliqua re (to draw back, to withdraw from anything e.g., anybody from perishing or ruin, aliquem ab interitu): eripere ab or ex aliqua re (to snatch, to tear out of; e.g., anybody from death, aliquem a or ex morte): they had only saved their lives, iis praeter vitam nihil erat super: to save the state by exposing one’s own person to danger, suo periculo salutem afferre reipublicae: he cannot be saved, is not to be saved, actum est de eo (it is all over with him): a medicis desertus est; omnes medici diffidunt (he is given up by the physicians): to be anxious to save anybody, aliquem servatum velle; aliquem salvum esse velle: to save one’s self, se servare (e.g., one’s life): in tutum pervenire (to arrive safely at any place; e.g., by swimming, nando): aliquo confugere (to take refuge in a place): to try to save one’s self, salutem petere; saluti suae consulere (e.g., by flight, fuga): to save one’s self from a shipwreck by swimming, e naufragio enatare: to be saved or safe, in tuto esse; in portu navigare (the latter, Prov., Ter., Andr., 3, 1, 22): to save appearances [Vid: APPEARANCE]. To spare, alicujus rei compendium facere (PROP. and figuratively; for which the comic writers frequently say aliquid compendii facere): comparcere; anything, de re (Ter., Phorm., 1, 1, 9): parcere alicui rei (to keep back, refrain; e.g., verbis, Sen., Ep., 29, 1): ☞ Parce and comparce, with an infinitive for noli, are poetic. To endeavor to save time, temporis compendium sequi (Col., 4, 22, 5): to save time and trouble, tempus et operas compendii facere (after Plaut., Poen., 1, 2, 138): to save one anything (trouble, exertions, etc.), alicui gratiam facere alicujus rei: to save one’s self anything, omittere aliquid (to leave off): supersedere aliqua re (to excuse one’s self); also with an infinitive; e.g., supersedissem loqui.