human Copy link Outline 1. hūmānus2. expr. by gen. sing. or pl. of hŏmo3. mortālis, e • human: 1. hūmānus: h. nature, h. natura, Cic. Rep. 1, 14: the h. race, h. genus, Cic. Am. 5, 20: to pollute altars with h. sacrifices, aras h. hostiis funestare, Cic. Font. 10, 21: to offer h. sacrifices, h. hostiis litare, Tac. Ger. 9 (humana sacrificia were sacrifices offered on behalf of the dead, Fest. s. v.). 2. expr. by gen. sing. or pl. of hŏmo: to seek the welfare of the (whole) h. race, consulere hominum generi, Cic. Rep. 3, 12: to derive anything from h. nature, ab hominis natura aliquid repetere, Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 17: the h. figure, hominis figura, Cic. 3. mortālis, e: all h. works shall perish, m. facta peribunt, Hor. A. P. 68: Cic.: v. mortal. Phr.: to offer h. sacrifices, homines immolare, Cic. Font. 10, 21 (cf. supr. 1): h. feeling (including sympathy, kindliness, etc.), humanitas, Cic.: v. Lat. Dict. s. v.
HUMAN Copy link • HUMANhumanus (in all the relations of the English word); by the genitive hominum (when = proper to men; e.g., human faults and errors, hominum vitae et errores): mortalis (in respect of the imperfection of men). Anything exceeds all human comprehension, aliquid humani ingenii modum excedit: human feeling, humanitas: to lay aside, renounce all human feeling, humanitatem omnem exuere; ab humanitate desciscere; hominem ex homine exuere: to have committed some fault from human frailty, aliqua culpa humani erroris teneri. Human form, forma, species humana; humana species et figura; humana species atque forma: to have a human form, humano visu esse (of a god, as also the following expressions): to assume a human form, speciem humanam induere: in a human form, humana specie indutus; sub humana imagine (Ov., Met., 1, 213). Human life, vita hominis or hominum; vita humana. Human race, genus humanum or hominum; gens humana: the whole human race, universum genus hominum; omnes or cuncti mortales. Human sacrifice, hostia or victima humana: the barbarous custom of offering human sacrifices, barbara consuetudo hominum immolandorum: to offer human sacrifices, pro victimis homines immolare; homines immolare: to offer a human sacrifice, hominem immolare: to offer a human sacrifice to a god, alicui deo humana hostia facere or litare (Plin., 8, 22, 34; Tac., Germ., 9, in.).