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• ashamed, be or feel: pŭdĕt, ŭit or pŭdĭtum est, 2 (with acc. of the person who experiences, and gen. or inf. mood of that which excites the feeling): there are men who are neither a. nor vexed at their infamy, sunt homines quos infamiae suae neque pudeat, neque taedeat, Cic.: we are a. of our scars, cicatricum pudet, Hor.: I should be ashamed to say I did not understand, puderet me dicere non intelligere, Cic.: also with supine in u: I am a. to say, pudet dictu, Tac.--(Note. In Plautus is found the personal form pudeo: Cas. 5, 2, 3.) To feel somewhat a., suppŭdet (constr. same as that of the simple verb): Cic. Phr. I am a., mihi rubor suffunditur, Sen (v. to blush): to fortify oneself against being a., se contra pudorem munire, Tac.

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• assured, to be or feel: confīdo, fīsus, 3: I feel a. that he will not abandon his duty, confido illum fore in officio, Cic. Phr.: be a. that you yourself are not mortal, but this body only, sic habeto, non esse te mortalem sed corpus hoc, Cic.: I feel a. that he will not reject my favour, mihi persuadetur eum gratiam meam non repudiaturum, Caes.: I would wish you to be a. that I will not fail to promote your designs on every occasion, velim tibi ita persuadeas, me tuis consiliis nullo loco defuturum, Cic.: I feel a. that he has done nothing, mihi exploratum est, nihil eum fecisse, Cic.: be a. of this, that I will do everything that I may think is for your interest, illud cave dubites quin ego omnia faciam quae interesse tua existimem, Cic.

• feel:

A. Trans.:

I. To explore with the hands:

1. tento (tempto), 1: he f.s the bosom (of the statue) with his hands, manibus pectora t., Ov. Met. 10, 282: Phaedr. Esp. to f. the pulse, venas t., Quint. 11, 3, 88: Suet.
2. praetento, 1 (to f. out before one): to f. one's way with the feet, pedibus p. iter, Tib. 2, 1, 77: Ov.
3. contrecto, 1: v. to handle.
4. tango, 3: v. to touch. Phr.: to f. the pulse, venas tenere, Cic. (more usu. tentare, v. supr.).

II. To perceive, experience:

1. sentio, si, sum, 4: to f. heat and cold, calorem et frigus s., Lucr.: to feel hunger, pain, famem, dolorem s., Cic.: Liv. Fig.: of inanimate objects: the vine shall f. the pestilential sirocco, pestilentem sentiet Africum vitis, Hor.: v. to suffer, experience.
2. căpio, cēpi, captum, 3 (to receive a sensation or emotion): to f. (derive) joy at the just destruction of a tyrant, laetitiam c. justo tyranni interitu, Cic. Att. 14, 14 (but the source of the emotion is usu. expr. by ex: Cic. passim): to f. pleasure, pity, etc., voluptatem, misericordiam c., Cic. (N.B.--In Lat. the constr. is often reversed, the emotion being made the subject, and the person the object: e. g. the senate felt alarm, senatum metus cepit, Liv. 23, 14, med.: so we find both satietatem capere, Pl. Am. 1, 2, 10; and satietas capit aliquem, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 13: the latter constr. is preferred in the case of the more active emotions, as love, hatred, admiration, fear.)
3. percĭpio, 3 (like preced., but only with personal subject): to f. pleasure, voluptatem p., Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: to f. such sorrow through any one, ex aliquo tantos p. luctus, Cic. Fam. 14, 1, init.: Ov.
4. concĭpio, 3 (in this sense chiefly poet.: usu. = to conceive, originate): to f. hope or fear, spem, metum c., Ov. F. 1, 486.
5. suscĭpio, 3 (referring to the rise of a feeling in the mind): to f. twofold grief (at the sight of some one), duplicem dolorem s., Cic. Vat. 7, 19.
6. expr. by affĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3 (to affect): to cause any one to f. joy, aliquem laetitia af., Cic. Mil. 28, 77: esp. in pass.: I f. a lively anxiety, magna sollicitudine afficior (but also, magna me afficit sollicitudo, the latter constr. being perhaps more formal), Cic. Att. 6, 3. Phr.: to f. a thing deeply, aliquid graviter et acerbe ferre, Cic. Div. Verr. 2, 4; magnum dolorem ex aliqua re capere, v. supr.: and to grieve for.

B. Intrans.:

I. To be the subject of sensations:

1. sentio, 4: Join: sentire ac vigere (to f. and be active), Cic. Sext. 21, 47.
2. sensum habeo: v. sensation.

II. To yield a certain sensation to the touch: Phr.: a tongue that f.s rough, lingua aspera tactu, Lucr.: fruit that f.s ripe, *poma quae manibus tentanti mollitudinis ac maturitatis sensum praebent.
III. To be in a certain state of mind: to feel glad, sorry, etc., laetari, gaudere; dolere, etc.: v. glad, etc.

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• FEEL

To feel by the touch, tangere: tentare, with or without digitis: tactu explorare (both for the sake of examining): attrectare; contrectare; pertrectare, also with the addition of manibus (to touch, handle): to feel anybody’s pulse, alicujus venam tentare (Suet.) or tangere (Persius); tangere aliquem, or alicujus manum, venam (Plin., Ep., 7, 1, 4; where some editions have the one reading, some the other); apprehendere manu brachium (Cels., 3, 6; where there is also corpori manum admovere). To feel anybody, etc. (to see whether he carries anything about him that is prohibited), excutere aliquem (in the sense in which the Romans did this, namely “by shaking anybody’s gown”). To feel anybody’s bed (to see if anything is concealed in it), alicujus culcitas et stragula praetentare et excutere (Suet.; praetentare = before one does something).
To perceive; i. e., to become conscious of anything, sentire (also with a following participle as supplement; used of both bodily and mental sensation; also of becoming conscious or aware of anything; in which sense, (The words are found in this connection and order.) sentire atque intelligere): (sensu) percipere (to comprehend or apprehend with one’s senses): intelligere (to comprehend): affici aliqua re (to be affected by bodily or mental pain). To feel pain in some part of the body (e.g., in one’s feet, etc.), sentire alicujus rei dolorem; dolore alicujus rei affici or affectum esse; dolet aliquid: to feel pain at or about anything, dolere aliquid or ex aliqua re (e.g., at anybody’s death, alicujus mortem, ex alicujus interitu); laborare aliqua re (to suffer from anything; e.g., alienis malis); acerbe ferre aliquid (to endure with a keen sense of pain; e.g., the separation from anybody, discidium): to feel anything very keenly, magnam molestiam trahere ex aliqua re; magna molestia affici ex aliqua re (to be disagreeably affected by anything); magnum capere or accipere dolorem ex aliqua re (to suffer great mental pain); graviter or gravissime dolere aliquid (to be violently afflicted by anything) acerbissime ferre aliquid (to endure with a bitter feeling): to feel the want of anything very severely, desiderio alicujus rei angi; magna molestia desiderare aliquid: to feel anything very painfully, anxie ferre aliquid: to feel an affection for anybody [Vid: To LOVE]: to feel an inclination, compassion, attachment, etc.; Vid: those substantives: to feel the beauties of anything; e.g., of a speech, orationis virtutes intelligere or introspicere: anything is more easily felt than described, aliquid facilius intelligi quam explanari potest.
MISCELLANEOUS PHRASES (especially with adjectives): to feel hungry, esurire (Vid: HUNFRY or HUNGER, s.: ☞ not sentire famem [Liv., 22, 13], which is to experience a famine); to feel thirsty, sitire. I feel offended at anything, offendit me aliquid: much offended, magnam injuriam mihi illatam esse puto. I feel dissatisfied with my condition, meae me fortunae poenitet: he shall feel that there are vigilant consuls in the city, sentiet, in hac urbe esse consules vigilantes: to let anybody feel one’s anger, bilem effundere or stomachum erumpere in aliquem (by words); aliquis iratum me sentit (by deed): to feel confidence in one’s self, sibi confidere [Vid. CONFIDENCE, or To CONFIDE]: to feel one’s weakness or insufficiency, minimum in se esse arbitrari: to feel ill, minus commoda valetudine uti: I feel rather better, mihi meliuscule est; vires recepi; he shall feel it, hoc non impune fecerit (i. e., he shall not have done it wtth impunity; also hoc non impunitum omittam): to feel for anybody, misereri alicujus; miseret me alicujus; tenet me misericordia alicujus; pari molestia affici (Sulp., ap. Cic.): to feel vexed at anything, aliqua ex re molestia affici: to feel pleasure at or from anything, voluptatem percipere ex re; pain, dolorem capere ex re; dolore affici, etc.: to feel angry, offendi; ira incendi: to feel very angry, iracundia efferri or exardescere; stomachari; indignari: to feel angry with anybody, alicui irasci, succensere; alicui esse inimicum (to be hostilely disposed toward him): to feel well, bona valetudine uti: to feel very well, optime valere or se habere: how do you feel? quomodo te habes? ut vales? I feel quite well, recte mihi est. I feel sorry, molestum est; doleo; poenitet me alicujus rei. I feel sorry for anybody; Vid: “to feel for anybody,” above: do not feel anxious about it, mitte curas: noli laborare de ea re: to feel dull, temporis or otii molestiam sentire; *tempus tarde labens moleste ferre; otio languescere: I feel glad that you are coming, gratus acceptusque mihi venis: I feel happy at anything, hoc placet; hoc mihi commodum est: you ought to feel happy or pleased at it, *est or habes, quod hac re gaudeas: I feel very weak, vires me deficiunt; infirmus sum viribus: to feel too weak, parum habere virium. To feel one’s way, abeo pedibus praetentans iter, or (if by the wall) abeo explorans manu parietes (both PROP.; after Tiberius, 2, 1, 78): baculo praetentare iter (of a blind man; Ov., Ib., 261).
To try, periclitari: tentare: experiri. SYN. in To TRY.

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• FEELING, FEEL

The sense of touch, tactus: sensus (the faculty of feeling, and the sensation felt; also of mental sensations and feelings): judicium (the faculty of forming a judgement of anything; Vid: Cic., Or., 8, 25; De Opt. gen., 4, 11): conscientia (consciousness, of anything, alicujus rei; Vid: Liv., 8, 4; ☞ 3, 60): affectus (the permanent state of the mind, the sentiment). A refined feeling, judicium elegans; judicii elegantia (with reference to perceiving the nature of anything with proper taste and discrimination): a correct and fine feeling, sincerum judicium et elegans; judicium intelligens or intelligentia (the correct feeling of a connoisseur). ☞ In many cases, however, our notion of “feeling for anything, must be conceived in Latin in a more concrete manner; e.g., natural feeling, natura: good natural feeling, naturae bonitas (Vid: Cic., Off., 1, 2, 5; si non interdum naturae bonitate vincatur): tender, moral feeling, pudor (Cic., Fin., 3, 2, 9): human feelings, humanitas: moral feeling, verecundia: the feeling of joy or pleasure, laetitia: a feeling for the beautiful, elegantia (good taste); venustas (grace that anybody displays; Vid: Plin., 35, 10, 36, No. 10, § 79; ☞ “sensus pulchritudinis” or “pulchri” is barbarous): to entertain a feeling, sensu praeditum esse; of anything, sentire aliquid, alicujus rei sensu moveri: to have no feeling, sensu carere: nihil sentire: nullius rei sensu moveri: a sensu abesse or alienum esse (PROP.); durum, ferreum, inhumanum esse: inhumano esse ingenio (IMPROP.): to be quite without feeling, tactu sensuque omni carere, also with the addition of sine quo nihil sentitur (PROP.); omnem humanitatem exuisse, abjecisse: obduruisse et omnem humanitatem exuisse: omnem humanitatis sensum amisisse (IMPROP.): without feeling, sensus expers; a sensu (a sensibus) alienatus; nihil sentiens (PROP.); durus: ferus: ferreus: inhumanus (IMPROP.): to have no feeling of pain, carere omni sensu doloris: if the dead have any feeling, si quis est in morte sensus: the countenance reveals all the feelings of the mind, vultus sensus animi indicant: the natural feeling of mankind, communis sensus omnium: to touch anybody’s feelings, alicujus sensus inflectere († Verg.; i. e., to inspire affection): those are instinctive feelings, ea sunt communibus infixa sensibus (Cic.): all the good partook of this feeling, unus sensus fuit bonorum omnium (Cic.): anybody’s political feelings, alicujus sensus de republica: you will not find the same feeling among the better sort that existed when you left us, non offendes eundem bonorum sensum, quem reliquisti (Cic.): to lose one’s feeling, sensum amittere (PROP.); animus obdurescit, occallescit (IMPROP.; to become hard-hearted): anything produces or excites various feelings within me, varie afficior aliqua re: to judge of anything not by rules, but by a certain natural feeling, non arte aliqua, sed naturali quodam sensu judicare aliquid: to judge after one’s own feelings, de suo sensu judicare: according to the feeling of my heart, ex animi mei sensu (Cic., Rosc. Am., 44, extr.): to open all one’s feelings to anybody, alicui sensus suos aperire (one’s thoughts; Nep.): to confide or reveal to anybody one’s innermost feelings, alicui intimos suos sensus detegere (one’s sentiments; Sen., Ep., 96, 1): from a feeling of one’s weakness, conscientia, quid abesset virium: want of feeling, torpor (PROP.); animus durus; ingenium inhumanum (IMPROP.): the organs of feeling, sensus or tactus membra, orum (after Plin., 10, 70, 89): the impressions made by feeling, demissa per tactum or sensum (after Hor., A.P. 180).

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