rest (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Repose1. quies, ētis, f. (r. from care or labour)2. rĕquies, ētis, f. (no pl. or dat. sing.3. ōtium (leisure; hence repose4. pax, pācis, f. (peaceII. A supportIII. The remainder • rest (subs.): I. Repose: 1. quies, ētis, f. (r. from care or labour): the most placid r., placatissima q., Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 97: soothing r., blanda q., Stat. Silv. 2, 2, 140: indolent r., pigra q., id. 2, 3, 66: death is a state of r. from toils and sufferings, mors laborum ac miseriarum q. est, Cic. Cat. 4, 4, 7: to give the army three hours' r., exercitui tres horas ad quietem dare, Caes. B. G. 7, 41: my mind is on the watch and I take no r., excubo animo nec ullam partem capio quietis, Cic. Att. 9, 11, ad fin. Join: q. et tranquillitas, id. de Or. 1, 1, 2. Transf.: of sleep: gentle r., mollis q., Catul. 63, 38: to go to r., ire ad quietem; quieti se tradere, Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60 and 61; dare, Caes. B. C. 2, 14: to disturb one's r., q. alicujus turbare, Prop. 1, 3, 17: v. sleep. (N.B.--Quies was personified, and worshipped at Rome, Liv. 4, 41.) 2. rĕquies, ētis, f. (no pl. or dat. sing.: acc. requietem or requiem; abl. requiete and requie): r. from toils, r. laborum, Cic. Off. 2, 2, 6: to seek r. from one's avocations, ex occupationibus r. quaerere, Lucceius in Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 1. 3. ōtium (leisure; hence repose: sometimes pl. in poet.): to pray the gods for r., otium divos rogare, Hor. Od. 2, 16, 1: a god hath given us this r., deus nobis haec o. fecit, Virg. Ecl. 1, 6: to take refuge in the haven of r., in portum otii confugere, Cic. Brut. 2, 8. Join: pax, tranquillitas, o., id. Agr. 2, 17, 102: so, the profoundest calm of peace and r., summa tranquillitas pacis et otii, id. ib. 1, 8, 24. 4. pax, pācis, f. (peace: chiefly in poet.): now he reposes, lapped in peaceful r., nunc placida compostus pace quiescit, Virg. Aen. 1, 249. Phr.: to be at r., requiescere: v. rest (v.): to have one's mind at r., tranquillo esse animo, Cic. Sen. 20, 74: to give the enemy no r., hosti nihil laxamenti dare, Liv. 35, 21: Antony gave me no r., nunquam per Antonium quietus fui, Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 1: ambition allowed men's minds no r., ambitio animos hominum exercebat, Sall. C. 11, ad init.: no leisure brings me r. from toil, nullum ab labore me reclinat otium, Hor. Epod. 17, 24: a season of lengthened r., longae feriae, id. Od. 4, 5, 37: a r. (in music), *pausa; mora. II. A support: stătūmen, ĭnis, n.: v. support, prop: vāra is used for a pole to spread nets on, Lucan 4, 439 (also ămes); by Auson. Idyll. 12, praef. for a r. on which a cross plank is supported. Phr.: the stupid r.s of the little bridge, inepta crura ponticuli. Catul. 17, 3 (in a comic pass.): the r. of a lance, *loculamentum hastae (?): he rides, lance in r., against the consul himself, in ipsum infestus consulem dirigit equum, Liv. 2, 6, (q. v.): to set lance in r., perh. *hastam protendere, after Tac. A. 2, 21. III. The remainder: expr. by adjs.: (i.) rĕlĭquus (remaining, after the subtraction of a certain quantity: often used subs.): the r. of the night, reliquum noctis, Liv. 2, 25 (cf. Cic. Sen. 20, 72): the r. of the army, reliquus exercitus, Caes. B. G. 4, 22: the r. took to flight, reliqui fugae se mandarunt, id. ib. 1, 12: as for the r., quod reliquum est, de reliquo, Cic. Att. 16, 15; 16, 130. (ii.) cēter-, ra, rum (no nom. sing. masc.: rare in sing.: the r., viewed as a whole): there were very few remaining, and the r. were dismissed, erant perpauci reliqui, ceteri dimissi, Cic. Verr. 5, 34, 87: the r. of their lifetime, c. vita eorum. Sall. C. 52, ad fin.: more polished than the r., ceteris humaniores, Caes. B. G. 4, 3. (iii.) ălius (not in Cic.: used where two contrasted objects form a whole): the r. of the army, a. exercitus, Liv. 21, 27: Caes. Phr.: as for the r., quod superest, Cic. Att. 9, 19, ad fin.: ceteroquin, id.: v. respect (subs.), III.