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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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ăge: pres imperat act 2nd sg

• ăgo, ēgi, actum, 3, v. a. (axim = egerim, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 22; Paul. ex Fest. s. v. axitiosi, p. 3 Müll.; axit = egerit, Paul. Diac. 3, 3; AGIER = agi, Cic. Off. 3, 15; agentūm = agentium, Vulc. Gall. Av. Cass. 4, 6) [cf. ἄγω; Sanscr. aǵ, aghāmi = to go, to drive; agmas = way, train = ὄγμος; agis = race, contest = ἀγών; perh. also Germ. jagen, to drive, to hunt], to put in motion, to move (syn.: agitare, pellere, urgere).
  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. Of cattle and other animals, to lead, drive.
        1. a. Absol.: agas asellum, Seip. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258: jumenta agebat, Liv. 1, 48: capellas ago, Verg. E. 1, 13: Pars quia non veniant pecudes, sed agantur, ab actu etc., Ov. F. 1, 323: caballum, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 36.—
        2. b. With acc. of place, prep., sup., or inf.: agere bovem Romam, Curt. 1, 45: equum in hostem, id. 7, 4: Germani in amnem aguntur, Tac. H. 5, 21: acto ad vallum equo, id. A. 2, 13: pecora per calles, Curt. 7, 11: per devia rura capellas, Ov. M. 1, 676: pecus pastum, Varr. L. L. 6, 41, p. 88 Müll.: capellas potum age, Verg. E. 9, 23: pecus egit altos Visere montes, Hor. C. 1, 2, 7.—
    2. B. Of men, to drive, lead, conduct, impel.
        1. a. Absol.: agmen agens equitum, Verg. A. 7, 804.—
        2. b. With prep., abl., or inf.: vinctum ante se Thyum agebat, Nep. Dat. 3: agitur praeceps exercitus Lydorum in populos, Sil. 4, 720: (adulteram) maritus per omnem vicum verbere agit, Tac. G. 19; Suet. Calig. 27: captivos prae se agentes, Curt. 7, 6; Liv. 23, 1: acti ante suum quisque praedonem catenati, Quint. 8, 3, 69: captivos sub curribus agere, Mart. 8, 26: agimur auguriis quaerere exilia, Verg. A. 3, 5; and simple for comp.: multis milibus armatorum actis ex ea regione = coactis, Liv. 44, 31.— In prose: agi, to be led, to march, to go: quo multitudo omnis consternata agebatur, Liv. 10, 29: si citius agi vellet agmen, that the army would move, or march on quicker, id. 2, 58: raptim agmine acto, id. 6, 28; so id. 23, 36; 25, 9.—Trop.: egit sol hiemem sub terras, Verg. G. 4, 51: poëmata dulcia sunto Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto, lead the mind, Hor. A. P. 100. —Hence, poet.: se agere, to betake one's self, i. e. to go, to come (in Plaut. very freq.; also in Ter., Verg., etc.): quo agis te? where are you going? Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294: unde agis te? id. Most. 1, 4, 28; so id. ib. 3, 1, 31; id. Mil. 3, 2, 49; id. Poen. 1, 2, 120; id. Pers. 4, 3, 13; id. Trin. 4, 3, 71: quo hinc te agis? where are you going, Ter. And. 4, 2, 25: Ecce gubernator sese Palinurus agebat, was moving along, Verg. A. 6, 337: Aeneas se matutinus agebat, id. ib. 8, 465: is enim se primus agebat, for he strode on in front, id. ib. 9, 696.—Also without se: Et tu, unde agis? Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20: Quo agis? id. Pers. 2, 2, 34: Huc age, Tib. 2, 5, 2 (unless age is here to be taken with veni at the end of the line).—
    3. C. To drive or carry off (animals or men), to steal, rob, plunder (usually abigere): Et redigunt actos in sua rura boves, Ov. F. 3, 64.—So esp. freq. of men or animals taken as booty in war, while ferre is used of portable things; hence, ferre et agere (as in Gr. ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν, Hom. Il. 5, 484; and reversed, φέρειν καὶ ἄγειν, in Hdt. and Xen.; cf.: rapiunt feruntque, Verg. A. 2, 374: rapere et auferre, Cic. Off. 1, 14), in gen., to rob, to plunder: res sociorum ferri agique vidit, Liv. 22, 3: ut ferri agique res suas viderunt, id. 38, 15; so id. 3, 37; so also: rapere agereque: ut ex alieno agro raperent agerentque, Liv. 22, 1, 2; but portari atque agi means to bear and carry, to bring together, in Caes. B. C. 2, 29 (as φέρειν καὶ ἄγειν in Plat. Phaedr. 279C,): ne pulcram praedam agat, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 3: urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere, Sall. J. 20, 8; 32, 3: pecoris et mancipiorum praedas, id. ib. 44, 5; so eccl. Lat.: agere praedas de aliquo, Vulg. Jud. 9, 16; ib. 1 Reg. 27, 8; cf. Gron. Obs. 3, 22, 633.—
    4. D. To chase, pursue, press animals or men, to drive about or onwards in flight (for the usual agitare).
        1. a. Of animals: apros, Verg. G. 3, 412: cervum, id. A. 7, 481; cf. id. ib. 4, 71: citos canes, Ov. H. 5, 20: feros tauros, Suet. Claud. 21.—
        2. b. Of men: ceteros ruerem, agerem, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21 (= prosequerer, premerem, Don.): ita perterritos egerunt, ut, etc., Caes. B. G. 4, 12: Demoleos cursu palantis Troas agebat, Verg. A. 5, 265; cf. id. ib. 1, 574: aliquem in exsilium, Liv. 25, 2; so Just. 2, 9, 6; 16, 4, 4; 17, 3, 17; 22, 1, 16 al.: aliquem in fugam, id. 16, 2, 3.—
    5. E. Of inanimate or abstract objects, to move, impel, push forwards, advance, carry to or toward any point: quid si pater cuniculos agat ad aerarium? lead, make, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 90: egisse huc Alpheum vias, made its way, Verg. A. 3, 695: vix leni et tranquillo mari moles agi possunt, carry, build out, Curt. 4, 2, 8: cloacam maximam sub terram agendam, to be carried under ground, Liv. 1, 56; so often in the histt., esp. Cæs. and Livy, as t. t., of moving forwards the battering engines: celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis, pushed forwards, up, Caes. B. G. 2, 12 Herz.; so id. ib. 3, 21; 7, 17; id. B. C. 2, 1; Liv. 8, 16: accelerant acta pariter testudine Volsci, Verg. A. 9, 505 al.: fugere colles campique videntur, quos agimus praeter navem, i. e. praeter quos agimus navem, Lucr. 4, 391: in litus passim naves egerunt, drove the ships ashore, Liv. 22, 19: ratem in amnem, Ov. F. 1, 500: naves in advorsum amnem, Tac. H. 4, 22.— Poet.: agere navem, to steer or direct a ship, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 114; so, agere currum, to drive a chariot, Ov. M. 2, 62; 2, 388 al.—
  2. F. To stir up, to throw out, excite, cause, bring forth (mostly poet.): scintillasque agere ac late differre favillam, to throw out sparks and scatter ashes far around, Lucr. 2, 675: spumas ore, Verg. G. 3, 203; so Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66: piceum Flumen agit, Verg. A. 9, 814: qui vocem cubantes sensim excitant, eandemque cum egerunt, etc., when they have brought it forth, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251. —Hence, animam agere, to expel the breath of life, give up the ghost, expire: agens animam spumat, Lucr. 3, 493: anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens, Cat. 63, 31: nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 19: Hortensius, cum has litteras scripsi, animam agebat, id. Fam. 8, 13, 2; so Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13: eodem tempore et gestum et animam ageres, Cic. Rosc. Com. 8: Est tanti habere animam ut agam? Sen. Ep. 101, 12; and with a play upon words: semper agis causas et res agis, Attale, semper. Est, non est, quod agas, Attale, semper agis. Si res et causae desunt, agis, Attale, mulas; Attale, ne quod agas desit, agas animam, Mart. 1, 80.—
  3. G. Of plants, to put forth or out, to shoot, extend: (salices) gemmas agunt, Varr. R. R. 1, 30: florem agere coeperit ficus, Col. R. R. 5, 10, 10: frondem agere, Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45: se ad auras palmes agit, Verg. G. 2, 364: (platanum) radices trium et triginta cubitorum egisse, Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 15: per glebas sensim radicibus actis, Ov. M. 4, 254; so id. ib. 2, 583: robora suas radices in profundum agunt, Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 127.—Metaph.: vera gloria radices agit, Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43: pluma in cutem radices egerat imas, Ov. M. 2, 582.
  4. II. Trop.
    1. A. Spec., to guide, govern: Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur, Verg. A. 1, 574; cf. Forbig. ad h. 1., who considers it the only instance of this use, and compares a similar use of ἄγω; v. L. and S. s. v. II. 2.—
    2. B. In gen., to move, impel, excite, urge to a thing, to prompt or induce to: si quis ad illa deus te agat, Hor. S. 2, 7, 24: una plăga ceteros ad certamen egit, Liv. 9, 41; 8, 7; 39, 15: quae te, germane, furentem Mens agit in facinus? Ov. M. 5, 14: totis mentibus acta, Sil. 10, 191: in furorem agere, Quint. 6, 1, 31: si Agricola in ipsam gloriam praeceps agebatur, Tac. Agr. 41: provinciam avaritia in bellum egerat, id. A. 14, 32.—
    3. C. To drive, stir up, excite, agitate, rouse vehemently (cf. agito, II.): me amor fugat, agit, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8: agunt eum praecipitem poenae civium Romanorum, Cic. Verr. 1, 3: perpetua naturalis bonitas, quae nullis casibus neque agitur neque minuitur, Nep. Att. 9, 1 Brem.: opportunitas, quae etiam mediocres viros spe praedae transvorsos agit, i. e. leads astray, Sall. J. 6, 3; 14, 20; so Sen. Ep. 8, 3.—To pursue with hostile intent, to persecute, disturb, vex, to attack, assail (for the usu. agitare; mostly poet.): reginam Alecto stimulis agit undique Bacchi, Verg. A. 7, 405: non res et agentia (i. e. agitantia, vexantia) verba Lycamben, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25: acerba fata Romanos agunt, id. Epod 7, 17: diris agam vos, id. ib. 5, 89: quam deus ultor agebat, Ov. M. 14, 750: futurae mortis agor stimulis, Luc. 4, 517; cf. Matth. ad Cic. Mur. § 21.—
    4. D. To drive at something, to pursue a course of action, i. e. to make something an object of action; either in the most general sense, like the Engl. do and the Gr. πράττειν, for every kind of mental or physical employment; or, in a more restricted sense, to exhibit in external action, to act or perform, to deliver or pronounce, etc., so that after the act is completed nothing remains permanent, e. g. a speech, dance, play, etc. (while facere, to make, ποιεῖν, denotes the production of an object which continues to exist after the act is completed; and gerere, the performance of the duties of an office or calling).—On these significations, v. Varr. 6, 6, 62, and 6, 7, 64, and 6, 8, 72.—For the more restricted signif. v. Quint. 2, 18, 1 sq.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 7, 12; Hab. Syn. 426.
      1. 1. In the most gen. signif., to do, act, labor, in opp. to rest or idleness.
        1. a. With the gen. objects, aliquid, nihil, plus, etc.: numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret, Cic. Rep. 1, 17 (cf. with this, id. Off. 3, 1: numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus esset): mihi, qui nihil agit, esse omnino non videtur. id. N. D. 2, 16, 46: post satietatem nihil (est) agendum, Cels. 1, 2.—Hence,
        2. b. Without object: aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi, Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Juv. 16, 49: agendi tempora, Tac. H. 3, 40: industria in agendo, celeritas in conficiendo, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 29.—
        3. c. In colloquial lang., to do, to fare, get on: quid agis? what are you doing? M. Tulli, quid agis? Cic. Cat. 1, 11: Quid agis? What's your business? Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 9; also, How goes it with you? How are you? τι πράττεις, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 20; Cic. Fam. 7, 11 al.; Hor. S. 1, 9, 4: vereor, quid agat, how he is, Cic. Att. 9, 17: ut sciatis, quid agam, Vulg. Ephes. 6, 21: prospere agit anima tua, fares well, ib. 3 Joan. 2: quid agitur? how goes it with you? how do you do? how are you? Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 17; 1, 5, 42; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40: Quid intus agitur? is going on, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 20; id. Ps. 1, 5, 42 al.—
        4. d. With nihil or non multum, to do, i. e. to effect, accomplish, achieve nothing, or not much (orig. belonging to colloquial lang., but in the class. per. even in oratorical and poet. style): nihil agit; collum obstringe homini, Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 29: nihil agis, you effect nothing, it is of no use, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12: nihil agis, dolor! quamvis sis molestus, numquam te esse confitebor malum, Cic. Tusc. 2, 25, 61 Kühn.; Matius ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 28, 10: cupis, inquit, abire; sed nihil agis; usque tenebo, Hor. S. 1, 9, 15: [nihil agis,] nihil assequeris, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15 B. and K.: ubi blanditiis agitur nihil, Ov. M. 6, 685: egerit non multum, has not done much, Curt. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. p. 120.—
        5. e. In certain circumstances, to proceed, do, act, manage (mostly belonging to familiar style): Thr. Quid nunc agimus? Gn. Quin redimus, What shall we do now? Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 41: hei mihi! quid faciam? quid agam? what shall I do? how shall I act? id. Ad. 5, 3, 3: quid agam, habeo, id. And. 3, 2, 18 (= quid respondeam habeo, Don.) al.: sed ita quidam agebat, was so acting, Cic. Lig. 7, 21: a Burro minaciter actum, Burrus proceeded to threats, Tac. A. 13, 21.—
      2. 2. To pursue, do, perform, transact (the most usual signif. of this word; in all periods; syn.: facere, efficere, transigere, gerere, tractare, curare): cui quod agat institutumst nullo negotio id agit, Enn. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 12 (Trag. v. 254 Vahl.): ut quae egi, ago, axim, verruncent bene, Pac. ap. Non. 505, 23 (Trag. Rel. p. 114 Rib.): At nihil est, nisi, dum calet, hoc agitur, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 92: Ut id agam, quod missus huc sum, id. Ps. 2, 2, 44: homines quae agunt vigilantes, agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt, minus mirum est, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: observabo quam rem agat, what he is going to do, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 114: Id quidem ago, That is what I am doing, Verg. E. 9, 37: res vera agitur, Juv. 4, 35: Jam tempus agires, Verg. A. 5, 638: utilis rebus agendis, Juv. 14, 72: grassator ferro agit rem, does the business with a dagger, id. 3, 305; 6, 659 (cf.: gladiis geritur res, Liv. 9, 41): nihil ego nunc de istac re ago, do nothing about that matter, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 8: postquam id actumst, after this is accomplished, id. Am. 1, 1, 72; so, sed quid actumst? id. Ps. 2, 4, 20: nihil aliud agebam nisi eum defenderem, Cic. Sull. 12: ne quid temere ac fortuitu, inconsiderate negligenterque agamus, id. Off. 1, 29: agamus quod instat, Verg. E. 9, 66: renuntiaverunt ei omnia, quae egerant, Vulg. Marc. 6, 30; ib. Act. 5, 35: suum negotium agere, to mind one's business, attend to one's own affairs, Cic. Off. 1, 9; id. de Or. 3, 55, 211; so, ut vestrum negotium agatis, Vulg. 1 Thess. 4, 11: neque satis Bruto constabat, quid agerent, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: postquam res in Africā gestas, quoque modo actae forent, fama divolgavit, Sall. J. 30, 1: sed tu delibera, utrum colloqui malis an per litteras agere quae cogitas, Nep. Con. 3, 8 al.—With the spec. idea of completing, finishing: jucundi acti labores, a proverb in Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 105.—
      3. 3. To pursue in one's mind, to drive at, to revolve, to be occupied with, think upon, have in view, aim at (cf. agito, II. E., volvo and voluto): nescio quid mens mea majus agit, Ov. H. 12, 212: hoc variis mens ipsa modis agit, Val. Fl. 3, 392: agere fratri proditionem, Tac. H. 2, 26: de intrandā Britanniā, id. Agr. 13.—
      4. 4. With a verbal subst., as a favorite circumlocution for the action indicated by the subst. (cf. in Gr. ἄγω with verbal subst.): rimas agere (sometimes ducere), to open in cracks, fissures, to crack, Cic. Att. 14, 9; Ov. M. 2, 211; Luc. 6, 728: vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitis, keep watch over, guard, Naev. ap. Non. 323, 1; so Liv. 5, 10: vigilias agere, Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 93; Nep. Thras. 4; Tac. H. 3, 76: excubias alicui, Ov. F. 3, 245: excubias, Tac. H. 4, 58: pervigilium, Suet. Vit. 10: stationem agere, to keep guard, Liv. 35, 29; Tac. H. 1, 28: triumphum agere, to triumph, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; Ov. M. 15, 757; Suet. Dom. 6: libera arbitria agere, to make free decisions, to decide arbitrarily, Liv. 24, 45; Curt. 6, 1, 19; 8, 1, 4: paenitentiam agere, to exercise repentance, to repent, Quint. 9, 3, 12; Petr. S. 132; Tac. Or. 15; Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10; Vulg. Lev. 5, 5; ib. Matt. 3, 2; ib. Apoc. 2, 5: silentia agere, to maintain silence, Ov. M. 1, 349: pacem agere, Juv. 15, 163: crimen agere, to bring accusation, to accuse, Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 48: laborem agere, id. Fin. 2, 32: cursus agere, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 95: delectum agere, to make choice, to choose, Plin. 7, 29, 30, § 107; Quint. 10, 4, 5: experimenta agere, Liv. 9, 14; Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18: mensuram, id. 15, 3, 4, § 14: curam agere, to care for, Ov. H. 15, 302; Quint. 8, prooem. 18: curam ejus egit, Vulg. Luc. 10, 34: oblivia agere, to forget, Ov. M. 12, 540: nugas agere, to trifle, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 29; id. As. 1, 1, 78, and often: officinas agere, to keep shop, Inscr. Orell. 4266.—So esp.: agere gratias (poet. grates; never in sing. gratiam), to give thanks, to thank; Gr. χάριν ἔχειν (habere gratiam is to be or feel grateful; Gr. χάριν εἰδέναι; and referre gratiam, to return a favor, requite; Gr. χάριν ἀποδιδόναι; cf. Bremi ad Nep. Them. 8, 7): diis gratias pro meritis agere, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26: Haud male agit gratias, id. Aul. 4, 4, 31: Magnas vero agere gratias Thaïs mihi? Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1: Dis magnas merito gratias habeo atque ago, id. Phorm. 5, 6, 80: Lentulo nostro egi per litteras tuo nomine gratias diligenter, Cic. Fam. 1, 10: immortales ago tibi gratias agamque dum vivam; nam relaturum me adfirmare non possum, id. ib. 10, 11, 1: maximas tibi omnes gratias agimus, C. Caesar; majores etiam habemus, id. Marcell. 11, 33: Trebatio magnas ago gratias, quod, etc., id. Fam. 11, 28, 8: renuntiate gratias regi me agere; referre gratiam aliam nunc non posse quam ut suadeam, ne, etc., Liv. 37, 37: grates tibi ago, summe Sol, vobisque, reliqui Caelites, * Cic. Rep. 6, 9: gaudet et invito grates agit inde parenti, Ov. M. 2, 152; so id. ib. 6, 435; 484; 10, 291; 681; 14, 596; Vulg. 2 Reg. 8, 10; ib. Matt. 15, 36 al.; and in connection with this, laudes agere: Jovis fratri laudes ago et grates gratiasque habeo, Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 2: Dianae laudes gratesque agam, id. Mil. 2, 5, 2; so, diis immortalibus laudesque et grates egit, Liv. 26, 48: agi sibi gratias passus est, Tac. Agr. 42; so id. H. 2, 71; 4, 51; id. A. 13, 21; but oftener grates or gratis in Tac.: Tiberius egit gratīs benevolentiae patrum, A. 6, 2: agit grates, id. H. 3, 80; 4, 64; id. A. 2, 38; 2, 86; 3, 18; 3, 24; 4, 15 al.—
      5. 5. Of time, to pass, spend (very freq. and class.): Romulus in caelo cum dīs agit aevom, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 28; so Pac. id. ib. 2, 21, 49, and Hor. S. 1, 5, 101: tempus, Tac. H. 4, 62; id. A. 3, 16: domi aetatem, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6: aetatem in litteris, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3: senectutem, id. Sen. 3, 7; cf. id. ib. 17, 60: dies festos, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Tac. G. 17: otia secura, Verg. G. 3, 377; Ov. F. 1, 68; 4, 926: ruri agere vitam, Liv. 7, 39, and Tac. A. 15, 63: vitam in terris, Verg. G. 2, 538: tranquillam vitam agere, Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 2: Hunc (diem) agerem si, Verg. A. 5, 51: ver magnus agebat Orbis, id. G. 2, 338: aestiva agere, to pass, be in, summer quarters, Liv. 27, 8; 27, 21; Curt. 5, 8, 24.—Pass.: menses jam tibi esse actos vides, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 2: mensis agitur hic septimus, Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 34, and Ov. M. 7, 700: melior pars acta (est) diei, Verg. A. 9, 156; Juv. 4, 66; Tac. A. 15, 63: acta est per lacrimas nox, Ov. H. 12, 58 Ruhnk.: tunc principium anni agebatur, Liv. 3, 6: actis quindecim annis in regno, Just. 41, 5, 9: Nona aetas agitur, Juv. 13, 28 al.—With annus and an ordinal, to be of a certain age, to be so old: quartum annum ago et octogesimum, am eighty-four years old, Cic. Sen. 10, 32: Annum agens sextum decimum patrem amisit, Suet. Caes. 1.—Metaph.: sescentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, was in its 640th year, Tac. G. 37.— Hence also absol. (rare), to pass or spend time, to live, to be, to be somewhere: civitas laeta agere, was joyful, Sall. J. 55, 2: tum Marius apud primos agebat, id. ib. 101, 6: in Africa, quā procul a mari incultius agebatur, id. ib. 89, 7: apud illos homines, qui tum agebant, Tac. A. 3, 19: Thracia discors agebat, id. ib. 3, 38: Juxta Hermunduros Naristi agunt, Tac. G. 42: ultra jugum plurimae gentes agunt, id. ib. 43: Gallos trans Padum agentes, id. H. 3, 34: quibus (annis) exul Rhodi agit, id. A. 1, 4: agere inter homines desinere, id. ib. 15, 74: Vitellius non in ore volgi agere, was not in the sight of the people, id. H. 3, 36: ante aciem agere, id. G. 7; and: in armis agere, id. A. 14, 55 = versari.—
      6. 6. In the lang. of offerings, t. t., to despatch the victim, to kill, slay. In performing this rite, the sacrificer asked the priest, agone, shall I do it? and the latter answered, age or hoc age, do it: qui calido strictos tincturus sanguine cultros semper, Agone? rogat, nec nisi jussus agit, Ov. F. 1. 321 (cf. agonia and agonalia): a tergo Chaeream cervicem (Caligulae) gladio caesim graviter percussisse, praemissā voce, hoc age, Suet. Calig. 58; id. Galb. 20. —This call of the priest in act of solemn sacrifice, Hoc age, warned the assembled multitude to be quiet and give attention; hence hoc or id and sometimes haec or istuc agere was used for, to give attention to, to attend to, to mind, heed; and followed by ut or ne, to pursue a thing, have it in view, aim at, design, etc.; cf. Ruhnk. ad Ter. And. 1, 2, 15, and Suet. Calig. 58: hoc agite, Plaut. As. prol. init.: Hoc age, Hor. S. 2, 3, 152; id. Ep. 1, 6, 31: Hoc agite, of poetry, Juv. 7, 20: hoc agamus, Sen. Clem. 1, 12: haec agamus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 49: agere hoc possumus, Lucr. 1, 41; 4, 969; Juv. 7, 48: hoccine agis an non? hoc agam, id. ib., Ter. And. 1, 2, 15; 2, 5, 4: nunc istuc age, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 47; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 3 al.: Hoc egit civis Romanus ante te nemo, Cic. Lig. 4, 11: id et agunt et moliuntur, id. Mur. 38: (oculi, aures, etc.) quasi fenestrae sunt animi, quibus tamen sentire nihil queat mens, nisi id agat et adsit, id. Tusc. 1, 20, 46: qui id egerunt, ut gentem . . . collocarent, aimed at this, that, etc., id. Cat. 4, 6, 12: qui cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut viri boni esse videantur, keep it in view, that, id. Off. 1, 13, 41: idne agebas, ut tibi cum sceleratis, an ut cum bonis civibus conveniret? id. Lig. 6, 18: Hoc agit, ut doleas, Juv. 5, 157: Hoc age, ne mutata retrorsum te ferat aura, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 88: Quid tuus ille destrictus gladius agebat? have in view, mean, Cic. Leg. 3, 9: Quid aliud egimus nisi ut, quod hic potest, nos possemus? id. ib. 4, 10: Sin autem id actum est, ut homines postremi pecuniis alienis locupletarentur, id. Rosc. Am. 47, 137: certiorem eum fecit, id agi, ut pons dissolveretur, Nep. Them. 5, 1: ego id semper egi, ne bellis interessem, Cic. Fam. 4, 7.—Also, the opp.: alias res or aliud agere, not to attend to, heed, or observe, to pursue secondary or subordinate objects: Ch. Alias res agis. Pa. Istuc ago equidem, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 57; id. Hec. 5, 3, 28: usque eo animadverti eum jocari atque alias res agere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 22: atqui vides, quam alias res agamus, id. de Or. 3, 14, 51; id. Brut. 66, 233: aliud agens ac nihil ejusmodi cogitans, id. Clu. 64.—
      7. 7. In relation to public affairs, to conduct, manage, carry on, administer: agere bellum, to carry on or wage war (embracing the whole theory and practice of war, while bellum gerere designates the bodily and mental effort, and the bearing of the necessary burdens; and bellum facere, the actual outbreak of hostile feelings, v. Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 28): qui longe aliā ratione ac reliqui Galli bellum agere instituerunt, Caes. B. G. 3, 28: Antiochus si tam in agendo bello parere voluisset consiliis ejus (Hannibalis) quam in suscipiendo instituerat, etc., Nep. Hann. 8, 3; Curt. 4, 10, 29: aliena bella mercedibus agere, Mel. 1, 16: Bellaque non puero tractat agenda puer, Ov. A. A. 1, 182 (also in id. Tr. 2, 230, Gron. Observ. 2, 3, 227, for the usu. obit, with one MS., reads agit; so Merkel).—Poet.: Martem for bellum, Luc. 4, 2: agere proelium, to give battle (very rare): levibus proeliis cum Gallis actis, Liv. 22, 9.—Of offices, employments, etc., to conduct, exercise, administer, hold: forum agere, to hold court, Cic. Fam. 8, 6; and: conventus agere, to hold the assizes, Cic. Verr. 5, 11, 28; Caes. B. G. 1, 54; 6, 44; used of the governors of provinces: judicium agere, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 120: vivorum coetus agere, to make assemblies of, to assemble, Tac. A. 16, 34: censum agere, Liv. 3, 22; Tac. A. 14, 46; Suet. Aug. 27: recensum agere, id. Caes. 41: potestatem agere, Flor. 1, 7, 2: honorem agere, Liv. 8, 26: regnum, Flor. 1, 6, 2: rem publicam, Dig. 4, 6, 35, § 8: consulatum, Quint. 12, 1, 16: praefecturam, Suet. Tib. 6: centurionatum, Tac. A. 1, 44: senatum, Suet. Caes. 88: fiscum agere, to have charge of the treasury, id. Dom. 12: publicum agere, to collect the taxes, id. Vesp. 1: inquisitionem agere, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 18: curam alicujus rei agere, to have the management of, to manage, Liv. 6, 15; Suet. Claud. 18: rei publicae curationem agens, Liv. 4, 13: dilectum agere, to make a levy, to levy (postAug. for dilectum habere, Cic., Cæs., Sall.), Quint. 12, 3, 5; Tac. A. 2, 16; id. Agr. 7 and 10; id. H. 2, 16, 12; Suet. Calig. 43. —
      8. 8. Of civil and political transactions in the senate, the forum, before tribunals of justice, etc., to manage or transact, to do, to discuss, plead, speak, deliberate; constr. aliquid or de aliqua re: velim recordere, quae ego de te in senatu egerim, quae in contionibus dixerim, Cic. Fam. 5, 2; 1, 9: de condicionibus pacis, Liv. 8, 37: de summā re publica, Suet. Caes. 28: cum de Catilinae conjuratione ageretur in curiā, id. Aug. 94: de poenā alicujus, Liv. 5, 36: de agro plebis, id. 1, 46.—Hence the phrase: agere cum populo, of magistrates, to address the people in a public assembly, for the purpose of obtaining their approval or rejection of a thing (while agere ad populum signifies to propose, to bring before the people): cum populo agere est rogare quid populum, quod suffragiis suis aut jubeat aut vetet, Gell. 13, 15, 10: agere cum populo de re publicā, Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 12; id. Lael. 25, 96: neu quis de his postea ad senatum referat neve cum populo agat, Sall. C. 51, 43.—So also absol.: hic locus (rostra) ad agendum amplissimus, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 1: Metellus cum agere coepisset, tertio quoque verbo orationis suae me appellabat, id. Fam. 5, 2.—Transf. to common life.
        1. a. Agere cum aliquo, de aliquo or re or ut, to treat, deal, negotiate, confer, talk with one about a person or thing; to endeavor to persuade or move one, that, etc.: nihil age tecum (sc. cum odore vini); ubi est ipsus (vini lepos)? I have nothing to do with you, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 11: Quae (patria) tecum, Catilina, sic agit, thus pleads, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 18: algae Inquisitores agerent cum remige nudo, Juv. 4, 49: haec inter se dubiis de rebus agebant, thus treated together, Verg. A. 11, 445: de quo et praesens tecum egi diligenter, et scripsi ad te accurate antea, Cic. Fam. 13, 75: egi cum Claudiā et cum vestrā sorore Muciā, ut eum ab illā injuriā deterrerent, id. ib. 5, 2: misi ad Metellum communes amicos, qui agerent cum eo, ut de illā mente desisteret, id. ib. 5, 2: Callias quidam egit cum Cimone, ut eam (Elpinicen) sibi uxorem daret, Nep. Cim. 1, 3.—Also absol.: Alcibiades praesente vulgo agere coepit, Nep. Alc. 8, 2: si qua Caesares obtinendae Armeniae egerant, Tac. A. 15, 14: ut Lucretius agere varie, rogando alternis suadendoque coepit, Liv. 2, 2.—In Suet. once agere cum senatu, with acc. and inf., to propose or state to the Senate: Tiberius egit cum senatu non debere talia praemia tribui, Suet. Tib. 54.—
        2. b. With the advv. bene, praeclare, male, etc., to deal well or ill with one, to treat or use well or ill: facile est bene agere cum eis, etc., Cic. Phil. 14, 11: bene egissent Athenienses cum Miltiade, si, etc., Val. Max. 5, 3, 3 ext.; Vulg. Jud. 9, 16: praeclare cum aliquo agere, Cic. Sest. 23: Male agis mecum, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 21: qui cum creditoribus suis male agat, Cic. Quinct. 84; and: tu contra me male agis, Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—Freq. in pass., to be or go well or ill with one, to be well or badly off: intelleget secum actum esse pessime, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50: praeclare mecum actum puto, id. Fam. 9, 24; so id. ib. 5, 18: exstat cujusdam non inscitus jocus bene agi potuisse cum rebus humanis, si Domitius pater talem habuisset uxorem, it would have gone well with human affairs, been well for mankind, if, etc., Suet. Ner. 28.—Also absol. without cum: agitur praeclare, si nosmet ipsos regere possumus, it is well done if, etc., it is a splendid thing if, etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 14: vivitur cum eis, in quibus praeclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis, id. Off. 1, 15: bene agitur pro noxiā, Plaut. Mil. 5, 23.—
      9. 9. Of transactions before a court or tribunal.
        1. a. Aliquid agere ex jure, ex syngraphā, ex sponso, or simply the abl. jure, lege, litibus, obsignatis tabellis, causā, to bring an action or suit, to manage a cause, to plead a case: ex jure civili et praetorio agere, Cic. Caecin. 12: tamquam ex syngraphā agere cum populo, to litigate, id. Mur. 17: ex sponso egit, id. Quint. 9: Ph. Una injuriast Tecum. Ch. Lege agito ergo, Go to law, then, Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 90: agere lege in hereditatem, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 175; Ov. F. 1, 48; Liv. 9, 46: cum illo se lege agere dicebat, Nep. Tim. 5: summo jure agere, to assert or claim one's right to the full extent of the law, Cic. Off. 1, 11: non enim gladiis mecum, sed litibus agetur, id. Q. Fr. 1, 4: causā quam vi agere malle, Tac. A. 13, 37: tabellis obsignatis agis mecum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 11, 33: Jure, ut opinor, agat, jure increpet inciletque, with right would bring her charge, Lucr. 3, 963; so, Castrensis jurisdictio plura manu agens, settles more cases by force, Tac. Agr. 9: ubi manu agitur, when the case is settled by violent hands, id. G. 36.—
        2. b. Causam or rem agere, to try or plead a case; with apud, ad, or absol.: causam apud centumviros egit, Cic. Caecin. 24: Caesar cum ageret apud censores, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 10; so with adversus: egi causam adversus magistratus, Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 11: orator agere dicitur causam, Varr. L. L. 6, 42: causam isto modo agere, Cic. Lig. 4, 10; Tac. Or. 5; 11; 14; Juv. 2, 51; 14, 132: agit causas liberales, Cic. Fam. 8, 9: qui ad rem agendam adsunt, M. Cael. ap. Quint. 11, 1, 51: cum (M. Tullius) et ipsam se rem agere diceret, Quint. 12, 10, 45: Gripe, accede huc; tua res agitur, is being tried, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 104; Quint. 8, 3, 13; and extra-judicially: rogo ad Caesarem meam causam agas, Cic. Fam. 5, 10: Una (factio) populi causam agebat, altera optimatum, Nep. Phoc. 3; so, agere, absol., to plead' ad judicem sic agi solet, Cic. Lig. 10: tam solute agere, tam leniter, id. Brut. 80: tu istuc nisi fingeres, sic ageres? id. ib. 80; Juv. 7, 143 and 144; 14, 32.—Transf. to common life; with de or acc., to discuss, treat, speak of: Sed estne hic ipsus, de quo agebam? of whom I was speaking, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 53: causa non solum exponenda, sed etiam graviter copioseque agenda est, to be discussed, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; Cic. Verr. 1, 13, 37: Samnitium bella, quae agimus, are treating of, Liv. 10, 31.—Hence,
        3. c. Agere aliquem reum, to proceed against one as accused, to accuse one, Liv. 4, 42; 24, 25; Tac. A. 14, 18: reus agitur, id. ib. 15, 20; 3, 13; and with the gen. of the crime, with which one is charged: agere furti, to accuse of theft, Cic. Fam. 7, 22: adulterii cum aliquo, Quint. 4, 4, 8: injuriarum, id. 3, 6, 19; and often in the Pandects.—
        4. d. Pass. of the thing which is the subject of accusation, to be in suit or in question; it concerns or affects, is about, etc.: non nunc pecunia, sed illud agitur, quomodo, etc., Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 67: non capitis ei res agitur, sed pecuniae, the point in dispute, id. Phorm. 4, 3, 26: aguntur injuriae sociorum, agitur vis legum, agitur existimatio, veritasque judiciorum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51: si magna res, magna hereditas agetur, id. Fin. 2, 17: quā de re agitur, what the point of dispute or litigation is, id. Brut. 79.—Hence, trop.,
          1. α. Res agitur, the case is on trial, i. e. something is at stake or at hazard, in peril, or in danger: at nos, quarum res agitur, aliter auctores sumus, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 72: quasi istic mea res minor agatur quam tua, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 113: agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum atque amicorum, aguntur certissima populi Romani vectigalia et maxima, aguntur bona multorum civium, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 2, 6: in quibus eorum aut caput agatur aut fama, id. Lael. 17, 61; Nep. Att. 15, 2: non libertas solum agebatur, Liv. 28, 19; Sen. Clem. 1, 20 al.: nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84 (= in periculo versatur, Lambin.): agitur pars tertia mundi, is at stake, I am in danger of losing, Ov. M. 5, 372.—
          2. β. Res acta est, the case is over (and done for): acta haec res est; perii, this matter is ended, Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 3: hence, actum est de aliquo or aliquā re, it is all over with a person or thing: actum hodie est de me, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 63: jam de Servio actum, Liv. 1, 47: actum est de collo meo, Plaut. Trin. 3, 4, 194.—So also absol.: actumst; ilicet me infelicem, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 17: si animus hominem pepulit, actumst, id. Trin. 2, 2, 27; Ter. And. 3, 1, 7; Cic. Att. 5, 15: actumst, ilicet, peristi, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 9: periimus; actumst, id. Heaut. 3, 3, 3.—
          3. γ. Rem actam agere, to plead a case already finished, i. e. to act to no purpose: rem actam agis, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 27; id. Cist. 4, 2, 36; Liv. 28, 40; so, actum or acta agere: actum, aiunt, ne agas, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 72; Cic. Att. 9, 18: acta agimus, id. Am. 22.—
      10. 10. To represent by external action, to perform, pronounce, deliver, etc.
        1. a. Of an orator, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 79: quae sic ab illo acta esse constabat oculis, voce, gestu, inimici ut lacrimas tenere non possent, id. ib. 3, 56, 214: agere fortius et audentius volo, Tac. Or. 18; 39.—
        2. b. Of an actor, to represent, play, act: Ipse hanc acturust Juppiter comoediam, Plaut. Am. prol. 88; so, fabulam, Ter. Ad. prol. 12; id. Hec. prol. 22: dum haec agitur fabula, Plaut. Men. prol. 72 al.: partīs, to have a part in a play, Ter. Phorm. prol. 27: Ballionem illum cum agit, agit Chaeream, Cic. Rosc. Com. 7: gestum agere in scaenā, id. de Or. 2, 57: dicitur canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu, Liv. 7, 2 al.—Transf. to other relations, to represent or personate one, to act the part of, to act as, behave like: has partes lenitatis semper egi, Cic. Mur. 3: egi illos omnes adulescentes, quos ille actitat, id. Fam. 2, 9: amicum imperatoris, Tac. H. 1, 30: exulem, id. A. 1, 4: socium magis imperii quam ministrum, id. H. 2, 83: senatorem, Tac. A. 16, 28.—So of things poetically: utrinque prora frontem agit, serves as a bow, Tac. G. 44.—
      11. 11. Se agere = se gerere, to carry one's self, to behave, deport one's self: tantā mobilitate sese Numidae agunt, Sall. J. 56, 5: quanto ferocius ante se egerint, Tac. H. 3, 2 Halm: qui se pro equitibus Romanis agerent, Suet. Claud. 25: non principem se, sed ministrum egit, id. ib. 29: neglegenter se et avare agere, Eutr. 6, 9: prudenter se agebat, Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 5: sapienter se agebat, ib. 4 Reg. 18, 7. —Also absol.: seditiose, Tac. Agr. 7: facile justeque, id. ib. 9: superbe, id. H. 2, 27: ex aequo, id. ib. 4, 64: anxius et intentus agebat, id. Agr. 5.—
      12. 12. Imper.: age, agite, Ter., Tib., Lucr., Hor., Ov., never using agite, and Catull. never age, with which compare the Gr. ἄγε, ἄγετε (also accompanied by the particles dum, eia, en, ergo, igitur, jam, modo, nuncjam, porro, quare, quin, sane, vero, verum, and by sis); as an exclamation.
        1. a. In encouragement, exhortation, come! come on! (old Engl. go to!) up! on! quick! (cf. I. B. fin.). (α In the sing.: age, adsta, mane, audi, Enn. ap. Delr. Synt. 1, 99: age i tu secundum, come, follow me! Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 1: age, perge, quaeso, id. Cist. 2, 3, 12: age, da veniam filio, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 14: age, age, nunc experiamur, id. ib. 5, 4, 23: age sis tu ... delude, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 89; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39; Cic. Tusc. 2, 18; id. Rosc. Am. 16: quanto ferocius ante se egerint, agedum eam solve cistulam, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 151; id. Capt. 3, 4, 39: Agedum vicissim dic, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 69; id. Eun. 4, 4, 27: agedum humanis concede, Lucr. 3, 962: age modo hodie sero, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 103: age nuncjam, id. And. 5, 2, 25: En age, quid cessas, Tib. 2, 2, 10: Quare age, Verg. A. 7, 429: Verum age, id. ib. 12, 832: Quin age, id. G. 4, 329: en, age, Rumpe moras, id. ib. 3, 43: eia age, id. A. 4, 569.—
          1. β. In the plur.: agite, pugni, up, fists, and at 'em! Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 146: agite bibite, id. Curc. 1, 1, 88; id. Stich. 1, 3, 68: agite in modum dicite, Cat. 61, 38: Quare agite ... conjungite, id. 64, 372; Verg. A. 1, 627: vos agite ... volvite, Val. Fl. 3, 311: agite nunc, divites, plorate, Vulg. Jac. 5, 1: agitedum, Liv. 3, 62.—Also age in the sing., with a verb in the plur. (cf. ἄγε τάμνετε, Hom. Od. 3, 332; ἄγε δὴ τραπείομεν, id. Il. 3, 441): age igitur, intro abite, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 54: En agedum convertite, Prop. 1, 1, 21: mittite, agedum, legatos, Liv. 38, 47: Ite age, Stat. Th. 10, 33: Huc age adeste, Sil. 11, 169.—
        2. b. In transitions in discourse, well then! well now! well! (esp. in Cic. Or. very freq.). So in Plaut. for resuming discourse that has been interrupted: age, tu interea huic somnium narra, Curc. 2, 2, 5: nunc age, res quoniam docui non posse creari, etc., well now, since I have taught, etc., Lucr. 1, 266: nunc age, quod superest, cognosce et clarius audi, id. 1, 920; so id. 1, 952; 2, 62; 333; 730; 3, 418; 4, 109 al.: age porro, tu, qui existimari te voluisti interpretem foederum, cur, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22; so id. Rosc. Am. 16; id. Part. 12; id. Att. 8, 3.—And age (as in a.) with a verb in the plur.: age vero, ceteris in rebus qualis sit temperantia considerate, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 14; so id. Sull. 26; id. Mil. 21; id. Rosc. Am. 37.—
        3. c. As a sign of assent, well! very well! good! right! Age, age, mansero, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 61: age, age, jam ducat; dabo, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 57: Age, veniam, id. And. 4, 2, 30: age, sit ita factum, Cic. Mil. 19: age sane, Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 27; Cic. Fin. 2, 35, 119.!*? Position.—Age, used with another verb in the imperative, regularly stands before it, but in poetry, for the sake of the metre, it,
  5. I. Sometimes follows such verb; as,
        1. a. In dactylic metre: Cede agedum, Prop. 5, 9, 54: Dic age, Verg. A. 6, 343; Hor. S. 2, 7, 92; Ov. F. 1, 149: Esto age, Pers. 2, 42: Fare age, Verg. A. 3, 362: Finge age, Ov. H. 7, 65: Redde age, Hor. S. 2, 8, 80: Surge age, Verg. A. 3, 169; 8, 59; 10, 241; Ov. H. 14, 73: Vade age, Verg. A. 3, 462; 4, 422; so, agite: Ite agite, Prop. 4, 3, 7.—
        2. b. In other metres (very rarely): appropera age, Plaut. Cas. 2, 2, 38: dic age, Hor. C. 1, 32, 3; 2, 11, 22; 3, 4, 1.—So also in prose (very rarely): Mittite agedum, Liv. 38, 47: procedat agedum ad pugnam, id. 7, 9.—
  6. II. It is often separated from such verb: age me huc adspice, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 118; id. Capt. 5, 2, 1: Age ... instiga, Ter. And. 4, 2, 10; 5, 6, 11: Quare agite ... conjungite, Cat. 64, 372: Huc age ... veni, Tib. 2, 5, 2: Ergo age cervici imponere nostrae, Verg. A. 2, 707: en age segnis Rumpe moras, id. G. 3, 42: age te procellae Crede, Hor. C. 3, 27, 62: Age jam ... condisce, id. ib. 4, 11, 31; id. S. 2, 7, 4.—Hence,
      1. 1. ăgens, entis, P. a.
    1. A. Adj.
      1. 1. Efficient, effective, powerful (only in the rhet. lang. of Cic.): utendum est imaginibus agentibus, acribus, insignitis, Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 358: acre orator, incensus et agens, id. Brut. 92, 317.—Comp. and sup. not used.!*?
      2. 2. Agentia verba, in the grammarians, for verba activa, Gell. 18, 12.—
    2. B. Subst.: ăgentes, ium.
        1. a. Under the emperors, a kind of secret police (also called frumentarii and curiosi), Aur. Vict. Caes. 39 fin.; Dig. 1, 12; 1, 20; 21; 22; 23, etc.; Amm. 15, 3; 14, 11 al.—
        2. b. For agrimensores, land-surveyors, Hyg. Lim. p. 179.—
      1. 2. actus, a, um, P. a. Lit., that has been transacted in the Senate, in the forum, before the courts of justice, etc.; hence,
    3. A. actum, i, n., a public transaction in the Senate, before the people, or before a single magistrate: actum ejus, qui in re publicā cum imperio versatus sit, Cic. Phil. 1, 7: acta Caesaris servanda censeo, id. ib. 1, 7: acta tui praeclari tribunatūs, id. Dom. 31.—
    4. B. acta publĭca, or absol.: acta, ōrum, n., the register of public acts, records, journal. Julius Cæsar, in his consulship, ordered that the doings of the Senate (diurna acta) should be made public, Suet. Caes. 20; cf. Ernest. Exc. 1; but Augustus again prohibited it, Suet. Aug. 36. Still the acts of the Senate were written down, and, under the succeeding emperors. certain senators were appointed to this office (actis vel commentariis Senatūs conficiendis), Tac. A. 5, 4. They had also public registers of the transactions of the assemblies of the people, and of the different courts of justice; also of births and deaths, marriages, divorces, etc., which were preserved as sources of future history.—Hence, diurna urbis acta, the city journal, Tac. A. 13, 31: acta populi, Suet. Caes. 20: acta publica, Tac. A. 12, 24; Suet. Tib. 8; Plin. Ep. 7, 33: urbana, id. ib. 9, 15; which were all comprehended under the gen. name acta.
      1. 1. With the time added: acta eorum temporum, Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 60: illius temporis, Ascon. Mil. 44, 16: ejus anni, Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—
      2. 2. Absol., Cic. Fam. 12, 8; 22, 1; 28, 3; Sen. Ben. 2, 10; 3, 16; Suet. Calig. 8; Quint. 9, 3; Juv. 2, 136: Quis dabit historico, quantum daret acta legenti, i. e. to the actuarius, q. v., id. 7, 104; cf. Bähr's Röm. Lit. Gesch. 303.—
    5. C. acta triumphōrum, the public record of triumphs, fuller than the Fasti triumphales, Plin. 37, 2, 6, § 12.—
    6. D. acta fŏri (v. Inscr. Grut. 445, 10), the records,
        1. a. Of strictly historical transactions, Amm. 22, 3, 4; Dig. 4, 6, 33, § 1.—
        2. b. Of matters of private right, as wills, gifts, bonds (acta ad jus privatorum pertinentia, Dig. 49, 14, 45, § 4), Fragm. Vat. §§ 249, 266, 268, 317.—
    7. E. acta mi-litarĭa, the daily records of the movements of a legion, Veg. R. R. 2, 19.
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• ăgĕ, ăgĭtĕ, ăgĕdum, ăgĭtĕdum, (ago), anciens impératifs devenus de pures interjections : eh bien ! allons ! or çà ! [les formes du sing. age, agedum sont employées même quand elles s'adressent à une pluralité : Pl. Mil. 928 ; St. 221 ; As. 828 ; Cic. n'emploie jamais agite] || [avec impér.] age vero, responde Cic. Cæc. 48, allons, voyons réponds ; age, esto Cic. Att. 9, 9, 3, eh bien, soit ; age nunc comparate... Cic. Mil. 55, voyons maintenant, comparez... || [avec subj.] age nunc consideremus Cic. Amer. 93, eh bien donc, examinons maintenant ; age, age, exponamus Cic. Fin. 5, 8, allons ! allons ! (soit) exposons... || [avec interrog.] age porro, tu cur imperasti ? Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, et maintenant voyons, toi, pourquoi as-tu commandé ? age porro, custodiri ducem placuit ; quæ sunt istæ custodiæ ? Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 68, soit, continuons : il a décidé de garder ce chef en prison ; or quelle est-elle, cette prison ? || [avec ind.] age, ut... omittamus, possum nominare... Cic. CM 24, hé ! sans parler de..., je puis nommer... ; nunc age, expediam Lucr. 2, 62 ; Virg. G. 4, 149, eh bien ! maintenant, j'expliquerai... || [ellipse du v.] « quin conscendimus equos ? » « age sane » omnes Liv. 1, 57, 7, « que ne montons-nous à cheval ? » « allons, soit ! » s'écrièrent-ils tous.
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ăge: pres imperat act 2nd sg

• ăgō, ēgī, āctum, ăgĕre, tr.
A mettre en mouvement :
  1. I. faire avancer : capellas Virg. B. 1, 13, pousser devant soi ses chèvres, cf. Cic. Cæc. 54 ; equo temere acto Liv. 21, 5, 14, le cheval étant poussé au hasard ; potum capellas Virg. B. 9, 24, mener boire les chèvres ; [avec inf., poét.] pecus egit visere montes Hor. O. 1, 2, 7, il mena son troupeau visiter les montagnes [le poussa au sommet des montagnes] ; prædam Cæs. G. 6, 43, 2, pousser devant soi le butin ; vinctum ante se regem agebat Nep. Dat. 3, 2, il poussait devant lui le roi enchaîné ; copias Liv. 27, 42, 1, mettre des troupes en marche ; magnum agmen Virg. En. 7, 707, conduire une colonne (armée) nombreuse || [réfléchi et passif à sens réfléchi] se mouvoir : quo te agis ? (quo agis ? Pl. Pers. 216) Pl. Trin. 1078, où vas-tu ? sese Palinurus agebat Virg. En. 6, 337, Palinure s'avançait ; retro se agere Sen. Ben. 6, 2, 3, revenir sur ses pas ; in summum cacumen aguntur Sen. Tranq. 12, 3, [les fourmis] montent au sommet [de l'arbre]; quo multitudo agebatur Liv. 10, 29, 14, où se précipitait la multitude || [fig.] pousser : te discus agit Hor. S. 2, 2, 13, le disque t'entraîne, cf. Cic. Arch. 16
  2. II. turbinem Virg. En. 7, 380, faire tourner un sabot ; turres Cæs. G. 2, 12, 5, faire avancer des tours ; naves Liv. 24, 34, 7, faire avancer (manœuvrer) des vaisseaux ; per patris corpus carpentum Liv. 1, 48, 7, faire passer son char sur le corps de son père ; carmine quercus Virg. G. 4, 510, mettre en mouvement les chênes par ses accents mélodieux || [réfléchi et passif à sens réfl.] ad auras palmes se agit Virg. G. 2, 364, la tige (se pousse) monte dans les airs ; agitur motu suo Cic. Nat. 2, 23, [ce qui est chaud] se meut d'un mouvement spontané ; stellæ aguntur Sen. Ben. 4, 23, 4, les étoiles se meuvent ; spina agitur per lumbos Virg. G. 3, 87, l'épine dorsale court le long de son échine || pousser, enfoncer : sublicas Cæs. G. 4, 17, 9, enfoncer des pilotis ; per corpus stipitem Sen. Marc. 20, 3, enfoncer un pieu dans le corps
  3. III. pousser devant soi, emmener : præda ex omnibus locis agebatur Cæs. G. 6, 43, 2, de tous les points on emmenait du butin || agere et portare, emmener et transporter : Cæs. G. 2, 29, 4 ; C. 2, 25, 2 ; Liv. 34, 16, 14 || agere et ferre, emmener et emporter : Liv. 3, 37, 7 ; 10, 34, 4, etc., c'-à-d. piller, faire main basse, cf. ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν; [au fig.] principes in amicitia Cæsaris agunt feruntque cuncta Tac. D. 8, les premiers dans l'amitié de César, ils disposent de tout comme en pays conquis
  4. IV. pousser dehors, chasser : lapidibus aliquem Cic. Att. 11, 21, 2, chasser qqn à coups de pierres ; præcipitem aliquem, chasser qqn précipitamment, précipiter qqn : Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 7 ; Clu. 171 ; Cæs. G. 5, 17, 3 ; præ se formidinem ac fugam, cædem et cruorem Liv. 10, 28, 16, pousser devant soi l'effroi et la panique, le carnage et le sang ; membris atra venena Virg. G. 2, 130, chasser des membres le noir poison || exhaler : gemitus Virg. En. 6, 873, exhaler des gémissements ; animam, rendre l'âme, être à l'agonie : Cic. Com. 24 ; Tusc. 1, 19 ; Cæl. d. Cic. Fam. 8, 13, 2 ; Liv. 26, 14, 5 || pousser en avant, faire sortir : cruentas spumas ore Virg. G. 3, 203, faire sortir une écume sanglante de sa bouche ; spumas in ore Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 148, avoir l'écume à la bouche
  5. V. poursuivre, traquer, talonner : apros Virg. G. 3, 412, poursuivre des sangliers [à la chasse] ; diris agam vos Hor. Epo. 5, 89, je vous poursuivrai de mes imprécations ; acerba fata Romanos agunt Hor. Epo. 7, 17, des destins cruels poursuivent les Romains ; agentia verba Lycamben Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 25, les mots qui harcèlent Lycambe
  6. VI. pousser à, faire aller à, conduire à : in crucem Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 163, faire aller au supplice de la croix ; in exilium Liv. 1, 49, 4, en exil || in arma Liv. 6, 15, 7 ; in mortem Sen. Ira 2, 36, 5 ; in præcipitia consilia Liv. 2, 51, 7, pousser à prendre les armes, à se donner la mort, à des résolutions brusques ; ad certamen Liv. 9, 41, 15 ; ad scelus 39, 15, 3, pousser au combat, au crime || [avec inf., poét.] nova quærere tecta Virg. En. 7, 393, pousser à chercher de nouvelles demeures, cf. En. 3, 4 ; Stat. Th. 3, 626, etc.
  7. VII. pousser, faire sortir : radices Varro R. 1, 37, 5, gemmas Varro R. 1, 30, 1, pousser des racines, des bourgeons ; vera gloria radices agit Cic. Off. 2, 43, la vraie gloire jette des racines
  8. VIII. pousser, faire aller, mener : fundamenta Cic. Mil. 75, faire aller les fondations [dans un sens déterminé] ; cuniculos Cic. Off. 3, 90, mener des galeries souterraines, creuser des mines ; cloacam maximam sub terra Liv. 1, 56, 2, percer sous terre le grand égout ; per hostes limitem Virg. En. 10, 513, se frayer un chemin à travers les ennemis.
B faire [expression de l'activité]:
  1. I. tr.
    1. 1. [avec pronoms n.] : aliquid, nihil, faire qqch., ne rien faire [être oisif]; omnia quæ fiunt quæque aguntur Cic. de Or. 2, 317, tout ce qui se produit [dans la nature], tout ce qui se fait [dans le domaine de l'activité humaine] ; quid agam ? Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3, que faire ? || [dans la convers.] quid agis ? que fais-tu ? quid agitur ? comment cela va-t-il ? || aliquid de aliquo, de aliqua re, faire qqch. à propos de qqn, de qqch. : Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 155 ; 4, 41 ; Att. 1, 15, 2 ; Liv. 36, 10, 6 || [avec res] : rem (res), accomplir une chose (des choses) : Cic. de Or. 2, 153 ; ante rem, acta re Liv. 21, 28, 6, avant, après l'accomplissement de la chose ; quo in loco res acta est Liv. 1, 36, 5, à l'endroit où l'acte fut accompli ; principia rerum agendarum Cic. Fin. 4, 47, les principes de nos actions ; utrum natura tua agendis rebus an otioso studio aptior sit Sen. Tranq. 7, 2, [demande-toi] si, par ta nature, c'est à l'action ou aux loisirs studieux que tu es le plus apte ; tempus agendæ rei Liv. 1, 47, 8, le moment d'agir
    2. 2. rem agere Cic. Amer. 110, traiter, régler une affaire, cf. Quint. 2, 14, 1 ; cum aliquo Cæs. G. 1, 47, 1, avec qqn ; tui Bruti rem ago Cic. Att. 5, 18, 4, je m'emploie pour ton cher Brutus ; suam rem agere Nep. Att. 15, 2, faire ses propres affaires
    3. 3. faire une chose, s'occuper d'une chose : non id ago Cic. Quinct. 42, ce n'est pas de cela que je m'occupe ; omissis ceteris studiis unum id egit Cic. Br. 249, ayant laissé de côté toutes les autres études, c'est uniquement à l'art oratoire qu'il s'est consacré ; etiamsi id non agas Cic. Or. 175, sans même qu'on se le propose || hoc age (agite) [expression fréq. chez les comiques], attention ! || aliud (alias res) agere, s'occuper d'autre chose, être distrait, indifférent : Cic. Clu. 179 ; Br. 233 ; de Or. 3, 51, etc. || s'occuper de, traiter [par écrit], exposer : bella quæ... agimus Liv. 10, 31, 10, guerres dont nous poursuivons l'exposé..., cf. Lucr. 1, 138 ; 4, 29
    4. 4. faire qqch., obtenir un résultat : nihil, n'obtenir aucun résultat (n'aboutir à rien) : Cic. Amer. 130 ; Planc. 83 ; Phil. 13, 43 ; Tusc. 2, 61 ; si quid agere vis Cic. Cæcil. 39, si tu veux obtenir un résultat ; [d'où le part. adj.] agens, qui produit de l'effet, expressif : Cic. de Or. 2, 358
    5. 5. agere (id, hoc) ut et subj., mettre son activité à faire qqch., se proposer de, viser à : secum ipse certat ; id agit, ut semper superius suum facinus novo scelere vincat Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 116, il rivalise avec lui-même ; son but est de toujours surpasser par un nouveau crime son forfait précédent ; ego id semper egi, ne interessem (rebus gerendis) Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 2, moi, j'ai toujours visé à ne pas me mêler à l'activité politique ; cum id agam, ne putemus Cic. Tusc. 1, 83, comme je me propose d'empêcher que nous ne croyions... ; legio Martis nihil egit aliud nisi ut aliquando liberi essemus Cic. Phil. 5, 23, la légion de Mars n'a pas eu d'autre objet (visée) que de nous assurer un jour la liberté, cf. Nep. Att. 11, 1 || agere nihil aliud nisi, ne faire rien d'autre que : ego quoque hoc tempore nihil aliud agerem, nisi eum defenderem Cic. Sulla 35, moi aussi en ce moment je ne ferais rien d'autre que le défendre, cf. Tusc. 1, 75 ; nihil aliud egit quam regem armavit Nep. Hann. 10, 1, il ne fit que pousser le roi à prendre les armes ; [et avec ellipse du v.] nihil aliud quam bellum comparavit Nep. Ages. 2, 4, il ne fit que préparer la guerre
    6. 6. [avec des compl. divers] : negotium Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 149, s'occuper d'une affaire ; aliam curam Liv. 2, 48, 1, prendre soin d'une autre chose ; joca et seria Sall. J. 96, 2, plaisanter et parler sérieusement ; pænitentiam Tac. D. 15, se repentir ; gratias, remercier ; laudes Liv. 26, 48, 3, glorifier || vigilias, stationem, delectus, censum, forum, triumphum, voir ces mots || honores Liv. 3, 35, 3 ; 8, 26, 7, exercer des magistratures ; augurium Cic. Off. 3, 66, s'acquitter des fonctions d'augure ; consulatum Liv. 3, 69, 3, exercer le consulat
    7. 7. [en parl. de magistrats et d'actes officiels] : omnia, quæ C. Cæsar egit Cic. Domo 40, tout ce qu'a fait César [les actes de César], v. acta, cf. Phil. 1, 18 ; Att. 14, 22, 1, etc.; nihil de me actum esse jure Cic. Sest. 73, qu'aucune des mesures prises à mon égard n'était conforme au droit || traiter des affaires : apud populum hæc et per populum agi convenire Cic. Inv. 2, 134, il convient que ces affaires se traitent devant le peuple et par le peuple ; cum ageretur ea res in senatu Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 88, comme on traitait cette question au sénat
    8. 8. [au passif indicatif] être en question, être en jeu : in quo bello agitur populi Romani gloria, agitur salus sociorum Cic. Pomp. 6, dans cette guerre, il s'agit de la gloire du peuple romain, il s'agit du salut des alliés ; cf. Quinct. 9 ; Verr. 2, 1, 74 ; 2, 57 ; Læl. 61, etc. ; Nep. Att. 15, 2
    9. 9. [au part.] actus, a, um, accompli, c.-à-d. passé : vulgo dicitur « jucundi acti labores » Cic. Fin. 2, 105, on dit communément « les peines passées sont agréables », cf. Liv. 10, 31, 11 ; Tac. Ann. 3, 59 ; [expr. proverb.] acta agere, revenir sur le fait accompli, perdre sa peine : Cic. Læl. 85 ; Att. 9, 18, 3 ; ou rem actam agere Liv. 28, 40, 3 ||
  2. II. [abst]
    1. 1. agir, être actif [surtout au gérondif] : aliud agendi tempus, aliud quiescendi Cic. Nat. 2, 132, un temps pour agir, un autre pour se reposer ; ad agendum natus Cic. Fin. 2, 40, né pour l'action ; vigilando, agundo prospera omnia cedunt Sall. C. 52, 29, par la vigilance, par l'activité tout succède heureusement ; se non interfuisse, sed egisse dicit Cic. Arch. 8, il dépose qu'il n'a pas seulement été spectateur, mais acteur || [avec déterm. adverbiale] agite ut voltis Cic. de Or. 2, 367, agissez à votre guise ; perge ut agis Cic. Fam. 10, 12, 5, continue d'agir comme tu fais ; bene agis, cum... jussisti Liv. 8, 33, 10, tu as raison d'avoir ordonné || agere lege, agir conformément à la loi [c.-à-d. frapper de la hache] : lictor, in eum primum lege age Liv. 26, 16, 3, licteur, commence par lui l'application de la loi, cf. Liv. 26, 15, 9 ; Sen. Rhet. Contr. 10, 3, 6
    2. 2. agere cum aliquo bene, male, etc., se comporter bien, mal à l'égard de qqn, traiter qqn bien, mal : Cic. Quinct. 84 ; Verr. 2, 3, 204 ; Off. 3, 38 ; sic par est agere cum civibus Cic. Off. 2, 83, voilà comment il convient d'agir à l'égard de ses concitoyens || [au pass. impers.] secum male actum putat Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 119, il pense qu'on s'est mal comporté à son égard ; cum illo quis neget actum esse præclare ? Cic. Læl. 11, qui pourrait dire que la destinée n'a pas été belle pour lui ? optime actum cum eo videtur esse, qui... Cic. Fam. 5, 18, 1, il semble avoir un sort heureux celui qui...; bene agitur cum senectute, si... pervenit Sen. Ep. 124, 12, c'est un bonheur pour la vieillesse, si elle parvient ; [avec le dat.] Catonem si mare devorasset, nonne illi bene actum foret ? Sen. Marc. 20, 6, si la mer avait englouti Caton, n'aurait-ce pas été pour lui un bonheur ? || [expression] præclare agitur si... possumus Cic. Fam. 4, 14, 1, c'est bien beau, si nous pouvons... ; quoniam vivitur... cum iis, in quibus præclare agitur si sunt simulacra virtutis Cic. Off. 1, 46, puisque notre existence se passe... avec des gens chez lesquels c'est déjà bien beau s'il se trouve des apparences de vertu || satis agere, se donner bien du mal, avoir bien assez à faire : cum Pyrrhus prospere pugnasset satisque agerent Romani Gell. 3, 8, 1, comme Pyrrhus avait eu l'avantage dans les combats et que les Romains étaient dans une situation difficile, cf. Cato Orat. 1, 17 ; Gell. 9, 11, 4 ; satis agentes rerum suarum Apul. M. 8, 17, inquiets de leurs affaires || [dans les sacrifices, le sacrificateur demande au prêtre agone ? est-ce que j'agis (j'opère)?] dies agonales dicti ab « agone » Varro L. 6, 12, les agonalia tirent leur nom de la formule agone, cf. Ov. F. 1, 322 ; Sen. Rhet. Contr. 2, 3, 19 || [en grammaire] verba agentia, verbes actifs : Varro L. 6, 1 ; Gell. 18, 12 ; Char. 164, 27
    3. 3. [terme officiel] agir, prendre des mesures : qui agent, auspicia servanto Cic. Leg. 3, 11, que ceux qui feront acte de magistrats, observent les auspices || [surtout avec cum] agere cum populo, cum patribus, cum plebe, s'adresser au peuple, aux sénateurs, à la plèbe, leur faire des propositions, des motions : jus cum populo agendi aut cum senatu Cic. Leg. 3, 40, le droit de faire une motion au peuple ou au sénat ; [d'où simplt] parler : is (Licinius Crassus) primus instituit in forum versus agere cum populo Cic. Læl. 96, c'est lui qui le premier introduisit l'habitude de parler au peuple en se tournant vers le forum || per populum, per senatum Cic. Att. 15, 4, 1, s'adresser au peuple, au sénat [pour régler une affaire] || de aliqua re in senatu Cic. Mur. 51, traiter une affaire dans le sénat ; de me agendi dies Cic. Sest. 75, le jour du débat qui me concernait ; non agitur de vectigalibus Sall. C. 52, 6, il ne s'agit pas (nous n'avons pas à délibérer sur) des revenus de l'État ; numquam ante de triumpho per populum actum Liv. 3, 63, 9, jamais jusque-là la question du triomphe n'a été réglée par le peuple [jamais il n'a décerné le triomphe] || sæpissime est actum in senatu, ut Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 157, il y eut souvent débat au sénat en vue de || [av. prop. inf.] soutenir (au sénat) que : Cic. Att. 1, 12, 1
    4. 4. [langue commune] agere cum aliquo, traiter avec qqn, avoir affaire avec qqn, parler à qqn : is ita cum Cæsare egit Cæs. G. 1, 13, 3, il s'expliqua avec César de la manière suivante ; pluribus verbis tecum agerem, nisi pro me apud te res ipsa loqueretur Cic. Att. 3, 1, je t'entreprendrais plus longuement, si la chose ne te parlait d'elle-même en ma faveur ; tamquam ex syngrapha cum populo Cic. Mur. 35, s'adresser au peuple comme aux termes d'un contrat [avoir les mêmes exigences que si un contrat était passé avec lui]; plebeio sermone cum aliquo Cic. Fam. 9, 21, 1, s'adresser à qqn dans un style populaire || [avec ut subj.] entreprendre qqn pour obtenir qqch., demander que : agit mecum et cum fratre meo, ut adiremus Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 137, il nous entreprend, mon frère et moi, pour que nous allions à la séance ; cum sæpe mecum ageres, ut de amicitia scriberem aliquid Cic. Læl. 4, comme tu me demandais souvent d'écrire sur l'amitié || agere de aliqua re Cic. Clu. 160, traiter une affaire ; de obsessione Cæs. G. 7, 36, 1, s'occuper de la question du blocus ; de paupertate agitur Cic. Tusc. 3, 57, il s'agit de la pauvreté [la pauvreté est en question] || sedentes agamus Cic. Tusc. 2, 9, asseyons-nous pour discuter (causer) ; de patre coram agemus Cic. Att. 15, 3, 2, nous parlerons du père quand nous serons ensemble.
C exprimer par le mouvement, par la parole
  1. I. [en parlant des acteurs] : fabulam, jouer une pièce, Pl., Ter., Cic., etc. ; versus (versum) Cic. Sest. 120 ; de Or. 3, 102, débiter des vers (un vers) avec les gestes ; gestum Cic. Quinct. 77 ; de Or. 2, 223, faire les gestes à la manière d'un acteur ; partes, tenir un rôle [au pr. et au fig.] : Mur. 6 ; Cæl. 8 ; Br. 308 ; Chæream Cic. Com. 20, jouer le personnage de Chæréa || [d'où] Cæl. d. Cic. Fam. 8, 17, 1, mirificum civem agis, tu fais le merveilleux patriote ; lenem senatorem agit Liv. 45, 25, 2, il joue le rôle d'un sénateur clément (il se montre sénateur clément) ; lætum convivam Hor. S. 2, 6, 111, il se montre joyeux convive ; agamus bonum patrem familiæ Sen. Ep. 64, 7, jouons le rôle d'un bon père de famille ; amicum imperatoris Tac. H. 1, 30, jouer le rôle d'ami de l'empereur || se agere, se comporter : Sen. Ben. 2, 20, 2 || [abst] jouer : noluit hodie agere Roscius Cic. de Or. 1, 124, Roscius aujourd'hui n'a pas voulu jouer [avec tout son art]
  2. II. [en parlant des orateurs] : causam, plaider une cause ; pro aliquo, pour qqn : Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 103 ; causas amicorum Cic. de Or. 1, 170, défendre ses amis ; [d'où au fig.] senatus causam Cic. de Or. 1, 225, soutenir la cause du sénat [le parti du sénat] || res agitur apud prætorem Cic. Arch. 3, l'affaire est portée (se plaide) devant le préteur, cf. Tusc. 1, 10 ; acta res est, l'affaire est jugée, c'est fini : Pl. Rud. 683 ; Ter. Haut. 564 ; actum est, même sens, Don. Eun. 54 ; [d'où au fig.] c'en est fait : Cic. Amer. 150 ; Att. 5, 15, 1, etc.; actum est de exercitu Liv. 2, 48, 5, c'en est fait de l'armée
  3. III. [abst] soutenir (intenter) une action, cum aliquo, contre qqn Cic. de Or. 1, 179, ou contra aliquem Cic. Sest. 112 ; lege agere [expr. consacrée], faire un procès dans les formes ; ex sponso Cic. Quinct. 32, ex jure civili Cic. Cæc. 34, poursuivre en vertu d'un engagement pris, en vertu du droit civil ; furti Cic. Clu. 163, poursuivre pour vol ; in hereditatem Cic. de Or. 1, 175, faire un procès en vue d'héritage, en revendication d'héritage || de bonis et cæde agitur Cic. Amer. 103, le procès porte sur une affaire de biens et de meurtre ; « qua de re agitur » illud Cic. Br. 275, ce fameux « point en question », « point à juger » [formule des jurisconsultes], cf. Mur. 28 ; agitur de parricidio... ; apud homines prudentissimos agitur Cic. Amer. 73, l'objet de l'action est un parricide ; c'est devant des hommes pleins de sagesse que l'action se présente
  4. IV. plaider [comme défenseur] : argumentis agemus Cic. Cæl. 22, je plaiderai avec preuves à l'appui ; si acrius egero aut liberius Cic. Sest. 4, si je plaide avec plus de vivacité ou de liberté
  5. V. parler (plaider) avec l'action oratoire : cum dignitate et venustate Cic. de Or. 1, 142, avoir de la noblesse et de la grâce dans son action oratoire ; agere ac pronuntiare Cic. de Or. 2, 79, l'action et le débit || orator incensus et agens Cic. Br. 317, orateur plein de feu, d'une action oratoire puissante.
D passer la vie, le temps : ætatem, vitam Cic. Tusc. 5, 77 ; Clu. 195, etc., passer sa vie, vivre ; octingentesimum annum Cic. CM 4, vivre sa huit-centième année ; supremum diem vitæ Cic. Fin. 2, 96, être au dernier jour de sa vie ; pleraque tempora in venando Sall. J. 6, 1, passer la plus grande partie de son temps à la chasse ; laudator temporis acti Hor. P. 173, panégyriste du passé ; hiemem sub tectis Liv. 5, 2, 6, passer l'hiver dans les maisons ; [d'où] hiberna agere Liv. 9, 28, 2 ; æstiva Liv. 27, 8, 19, tenir les quartiers d'hiver, les quartiers d'été ; otia Virg. G. 3, 377, vivre dans l'oisiveté ; pacem Liv. 2, 49, 2 ; regnum Liv. 1, 32, 3, être en paix, passer son règne (sa vie de roi) || dans Sall., Liv., Tac. et les poètes agere est pris abst au sens de vivere : civitas trepida antea læta agere Sall. J. 55, 2, la cité, auparavant agitée, était dans la joie ; incerta pace Liv. 9, 25, 6, vivre dans un état de paix équivoque ; velut inter temulentos agebat Tac. H. 2, 41, il vivait pour ainsi dire au milieu de gens ivres ; sermone... ut Germani agunt Tac. G. 46, sous le rapport de la langue... ils vivent comme les Germains = ils ont la langue des G. || [avec des sens très variés] être, se trouver, se tenir, etc. : Marius apud primos agebat Sall. J. 101, 6, Marius se tenait au premier rang des combattants ; ad opprimendam stationem navium incaute agentem Liv. 30, 9, 6, pour couler les vaisseaux au mouillage qui n'étaient pas sur leurs gardes ; in stationibus neglegenter Liv. 23, 37, 6, se tenir dans les postes d'une manière insouciante. ➳ axim = egerim Pacuv. 297 || agier, inf. arch. dans les formules juridiques : Cic. Top. 66 ; Off. 3, 61 || sur divers sens du verbe, v. Mart. 1, 79.
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AGE, [ἄγε, φέρε] Ortum illud quidem ab Imperatiuo verbi Ago, est tamen Grammaticis hortandi aduerbium, ac proprie iungitur verbo imperatiuo singulari, secundae personae. […]
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AGO, egi, actum, ere. [ἄγω] Latissimi vsus verbum, quod ad omnem fere motum animorum et corporum significandum adhibetur. […]
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• age:
    1. I. Time of life:
      1. 1. aetas, ātis, f.: the a. of men, aet. hominum, Cic.: the a. of trees, aet. arborum, Plin.: we are now of such an a. that we ought to endure all things courageously, id aetatis jam sumus ut omnia fortiter ferre debeamus, Cic.: Fimbria was more advanced in a., Fimbria longius aetate provectus fuit, Cic.: a child in a., aetate puer, Cic. Of definite periods of life: an advanced a., aet. provecta, Cic.: advancing a., ingravescens aet., Cic.: of all (the other) a.s there is a fixed limit, but none of old a., omnium aet. certus est terminus, senectutis autem nullus, Cic.: the a. of boyhood, aet. puerilis, Cic.: the inexperience of youthful a., ineuntis aet. inscitia, Cic.: the flower of a., i. e., youth, flos aetatis, Cic.: middle a., aet. media, constans, Cic.: the legal a. for the consulship, aet. consularis, Cic.
      2. 2. aevum (poet.): human nature is weak and of short a., natura humana imbecilla atque aevi brevis est, Sall.: if any one shall ask you my a., meum si quis te percontabitur aevum, Hor.: the flower of a., flos aevi, Ov.: he would now be blooming at the same a. as you, nunc aequali tecum pubesceret aevo, Virg.--Note. Age when = old-age may be expr. by aetas or (poet.) aevum when the context explains the sense in which the words are used: as, a man worn out with disease and a., vir morbo atque aet. confectus, Sall.: worn out with a., confectus aevo, Virg.: v. years, old age. Phr.: I am in the 84th year of my a., quartum annum ago et octogesimum, Cic.: this end had Galba at the a. of 73, hunc exitum habuit Galba tribus et septuaginta annis, Tac.: a man more than 40 years of a., vir annos natus major quadraginta, Cic.: with children above the a. of 15, cum liberis majoribus quam quindecim annos natis, Liv.: P. Orbius is about my a., P. Orbius meus fere aequalis est, Cic.: under a., minor XXI annis or annorum, Dig.: above a., major XXI annis. (N.B. The Roman law differed from the English in respect of the age at which legal competency began, and hence none of its terms are exactly equivalent to our phrases, which must therefore be literally rendered):
    2. II. A particular period; an epoch:
      1. 1. aetas: the chief astronomers of that a., summi astrologi illius aet., Cic.: the heroic a.s, heroicae aet., Cic.: the golden a., aurea aet., Ov.
      2. 2. aevum: in our a., in nostro aevo, Plin.
      3. 3. sēcŭlum: I myself perhaps am involved in the error of this a., ipse fortasse in hujus s. errore versor, Cic.: lest the a. of Pyrrha should return, ne rediret s. Pyrrhae, Hor.
      4. 4. tempus, ŏris, n.: the heroic a.s, heroica t., Cic.: v. times.
    3. III. All the human beings existing at any one time:
      1. 1. aetas: what have we, a hardened a., shrunk from? quid nos dura refugimus aetas? Hor.
      2. 2. sēcŭlum: I know what are the manners of this a., novi ego hoc s., moribus quibus sient, Pl.: the insolence of this a., hujus s. insolentia, Cic.: the judgment of succeeding a.s, s. reliquorum judicium, Cic. Esp. of the spirit or morals of an age: nor is debauchery called the spirit of the a., nec corrumpere ac corrumpi seculum vocatur, Tac.
    4. IV. A century or any long, indefinite period:
      1. 1. sēcŭlum: some a.s afterwards Scipio took Carthage, aliquot seculis post Scipio Carthaginem cepit, Cic.: Hor.
      2. 2. aetas: I have lived 200 years; the present is the third a. of my existence, vixi annos bis centum; nunc tertia vivitur aetas, Ov.: v. century.
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  • (1) the natural duration of anything, especially of a man; aetas (poetic, aevum): (2) time of life, or a certain portion of it, aetas: the flower of one’s age, aetas florens; floe aetatis; aetas viridis or integra: military age, aetas militaris: of or about the military age, militiae; maturus: the maturity, weakness of age, aetatis maturitas, imbecillitas: the strength of full age, aetatis robur, nervi: to be of the same age as anybody, aequalem esse alicui: nearly of the same age, aetate proximum esse alicui: to be in the flower of his age, integra aetate esse; in ipso aetatis flore or robore esse: to be of a great age, longius aetate provectum esse: of a great age, grandis natu, aetate decrepita (the latter. If accompanied with weakness): to be of such an age, id aetatis esse.
  • To be of or under age. Of age, sui juris: suae potestatis (no longer under the father’s power): suae tutelae (not requiring a guardian): sui potens (general term for one who can act as he pleases, but sui judicii is a different thing; one who acts boldly up to his own principles): to be of age, sui juris esse: to be nearly of age, prope puberem aetatem esse: to be coming of age, sui juris fieri; in suam tutelam venire, pervenire: to declare a son of age, emancipare filium. Under age. infans (of a very young child), nondum adulta aetate (general term), peradolescentulus, peradolescens (still very young): sons under age, filii praetextati. With reference to ascending the throne, nondum maturus imperio: to appoint anybody regent till his own children should come of age, regnum alicui commendare, quoad liberi in suam tutelam pervenirent (Nep., Eum., 2, 2). Vid: MINOR.
  • Old age, senectus, senilis aetas (age, whether with reference to the weakness or to the experience of age: poetic, senecta); aetas extrema or esacta; summa senectus (extreme old age): senium (the time of feebleness): aetas decrepita (decrepitude): vetustas (great age and consequent goodness of a thing long kept; e.g., of wine, fruits, etc.). A green old age, cruda ac viridis senectus (Verg.): to live to or attain old age, senectutem adipisci, ad senectutem venire: to die at an advanced age, senectute diem obire supremum; exacta aetate mori: to die of old age, aliquem senectus dissolvit: to be worn out with old age, aetate or senio confectum esse: to make provision against old age, senectuti subsidium parare. Age does not change the man, lupus pilum mutat, non mentem. Age gives experience, seris venit usus ab annis (Ov.). Wisdom and experience belong to old age, mens et ratio et consilium in senibas est.
  • To be so many years of age, natum esse with accusative of the years; or esse with the genitive of the years: to be above so many years of age, vixisse, confecisse, complevisse, so many years. Thus; he is nineteen years of age, decem et novem annos natus est; decem et novem annorum est: he is above ninety years of age, nonaginta annos vixit, confecit complevit: also nonagesimum annum excessisse, egressum esse: above or under thirty-three years of age, major, or minor, annos tres et triginta natus; ormajor (minor) annorum trium et triginta: also major (minor) quam atmos tres et triginta natus: major (minor) quam annorum trium et triginta. He died at the age of thirty-three, decessit annos tres et triginta natus: in the thirtieth year of his age, tricesimum annum agens.
  • An age = certain period of time; aetas (general term, also of those who lived at the same time): saeculum (large, indefinite period; an age or generation; according to some, 30 ... 33 years; according to Etruscan and Roman usage, 100 years. In the times of the empire, a reign, each emperor bringing in a new order of things): tempus, tempora (the times or days of). The golden age, aetas aurea: a learned age, saeculum eruditum: the age of Homer is uncertain, Homeri incerta sunt tempora: Socrates was not understood by the men of its age, Socratem aetas sua parum intellexit; Socrates ab homirubus sui temporis parum intelligebatur: there are hardly two good orators in an age, vix singulis aetatibus bini oratores laudabilesconstitere: for that age, ut in ea aetate (i. e., of anything good, etc., for that age).
  • The spirit of the age, saeculi, hujus aetatis ingenium (so Friedrich August Wolf for the bad form saeculi genius or indoles tempoaris. Tac. has aulae ingenium): mores saeculi or temporum (its moral character, customary proceedings, etc, Florus, Plin.): from context, mores only (such is the spirit of the age. ita se mores habent. Sal. Vel.): temporum natura atque ratio (circumstances of the times; after Cic., ad Div. 6, 6, 8): saeculum (corrumpere et corrumpi non illic saeculum vocatur, Tac., the spirit of the age; the fashion of the times): tempora (the times): the licentious spirit of the age, licentia temporum: the irreligious spirit of the age, quae nunc tenet saeculum negligentia dei (deum, Liv.).
  • The wants of our or the present age, *quod haec tempora requirunt; quod nostris temporibus desideratur.
  • The history of our age, nostae aetatis historia; aequalis nostrae aetatis memoria (Cic., De Leg., i. 3, 8).