season (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Of the year1. tempus, ŏris, n.2. tempestas (time of the year, esp. with reference to the weather as favourable or unfavourable)II. Right or suitable time1. tempus2. opportūnĭtasIII. A somewhat brief period • season (subs.): I. Of the year: 1. tempus, ŏris, n.: at every s. of the year, omni t. anni, Cic. Verr. 4, 48, 107: the fourfold changes of the s.s, temporum commutationes quadripartitae, id. Tusc. 1, 28, 68: it was the winter s., erat hibernum t. anni, Cic. Rep. 1, 12: so the s.s, tempora anni, Lucr. 2, 33. 2. tempestas (time of the year, esp. with reference to the weather as favourable or unfavourable): while the s. smiles, quum t. arridet, Lucr. 2, 32. II. Right or suitable time: 1. tempus: esp. in certain phrr. in due s., tempore, Cic. Fam. 7, 18: in tempore, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 123: also, at the appointed s., ad tempus, Cic. Att. 13, 45. 2. opportūnĭtas: in more abstract sense: cf. Cic. Off. 1, 40, 142, opportunitas idoneorum ad agendum temporum: v. opportunity. III. A somewhat brief period: in phr., for a s., in tempus, cf. Tac. A. 14, 20 (= temporarily, just for the occasion): or use paullisper (for a while): Cic.: Caes.