work (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ŏpus, ĕris, n. (the act of w.ing, and the thing completed by the w., as a building, a book, etc.)2. ŏpĕra (labour, pains)3. lăbor (labour, trouble)4. factum (a thing done)5. res, rei, f. (a thing, a matter taken in hand)6. ŏpuscŭlum (a small w.; esp. a writing); why an ungrateful reader depreciates my w.s, mea cur ingratus opuscula lector premat, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 35.7. ŏpella (petty w.)8. pensum (the day's portion weighed out to wool-spinners) • work (subs.): 1. ŏpus, ĕris, n. (the act of w.ing, and the thing completed by the w., as a building, a book, etc.): for eight successive months they had no lack of w., menses octo continuos opus his non defuit, Cic. Verr. 4, 24, 54: speaking in all other cases is play, in the exertions at the bar it is laborious w., omnium ceterarum rerum oratio ludus est, in caussarum contentionibus magnum est quoddam opus, id. de Or. 2, 17, 72: the toilsome w. of war, grave Martis opus, Virg. Aen. 8, 516: to accomplish w., opus efficere, Cic. Att. 9, 11, 2: an urn of beautiful w. (workmanship), hydria praeclaro opere, id. Verr. 4, 14, 32: in plur. esp. of siege-works: he commenced an attack on the city by w.s, operibus oppugnare urbem est adortus, Liv. 37, 5: w.s and fortifications, opera munitionesque, Cic. Phil. 13, 9, 20: demolition of public w.s, (buildings), publicorum operum depopulatio, id. Verr. Act. 1, 4, 12: I have an important w. (book) in hand, habeo magnum opus in manibus, id. Acad. 1, 1, 2. 2. ŏpĕra (labour, pains): the hand and w. of men, hominum manus atque opera, Cic. Off. 2, 2, 14: to bestow great zeal and much w. on matters, magnum studium multamque operam in res conferre, ibid. 1, 6, 19: you had spent more w. and labour, plus operae laborisque consumpseras, id. de Or. 1, 55, 234: in the agricultural writers esp. of a day's w. for a labourer; one day's w. for a boy, puerilis una opera, Col. 11, 2, 44: there will remain a w. to mark this foreign travel, exstabit opera peregrinationis hujus, Cic. Att. 15, 13, 2: w.s of spiders (spiders' webs), operae aranearum, Pl. Asin. 2, 4, 19. 3. lăbor (labour, trouble): what money or w. he may have spent on this matter, quid sumptus in eam rem aut laboris insumpserit, Cic. Inv. 2, 38, 112: to lighten w., laborem levare, id. Or. 34, 120: the fruit of w.: the glad crops and w.s of oxen, sata laeta boumque labores, Virg. G. 1, 325. 4. factum (a thing done): a glorious and divine w., factum praeclarum atque divinum, Cic. Phil. 2, 44, 114: the w.s of men and oxen, hominum, boum facta, Ov. H. 10, 60. 5. res, rei, f. (a thing, a matter taken in hand): he undertakes the w., rem suscipit, Caes. B. G. 1, 9. 6. ŏpuscŭlum (a small w.; esp. a writing); why an ungrateful reader depreciates my w.s, mea cur ingratus opuscula lector premat, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 35. 7. ŏpella (petty w.): the w. of the forum, opella forensis, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 8. 8. pensum (the day's portion weighed out to wool-spinners): maidens plying their nightly w., nocturna carpentes pensa puellae, Virg. G. 1, 390: I shall recal myself to my duty and w., me ad meum munus pensumque revocabo, Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 119. Phr.: w.s of art, artes: works of art wrought by Parrhasius, artes quas Parrhasius protulit, Hor. Od. 4, 8, 5: woman's w.: tela (weaving), lana, lanificium (wool-working), pictura (embroidery): acc. to the special kind: zeal for woman's w., operosae Minervae studium, Hor. Od. 3, 12, 4: the w.s (machinery) of a clock, etc.: machinatio: when we see anything moved by w.s, as a sphere, a timepiece, and many other things, quum machinatione quadam moveri aliquid videmus, ut sphaeram, ut horas, ut alia permulta, Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 97: the w.s (place where the w.ing is done) of a manufactory: *offĭcīna: good w.s, *recte honesteque facta, virtus: this is not the w. of chance, id evenit non casu, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6: it is a w. of time, *tempore eget ad conficiendum.