lay (v.) Copy link Outline I. To placeII. To fix down, establish. Phr.III. To prostrateIV. To deposit eggs1. părio, pĕpĕri, partum, 32. ēdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (to deposit eggs; whereas pario may include the whole breeding process)3. ēnītor, sus and xus, 3 (lit. to strain out4. as pass. nascor, nātus, 3V. Miscell. Phr. • lay (v.): I. To place: pōno, 3: v. to place; and foll. artt. II. To fix down, establish. Phr.: to l. the foundations, fundamenta jacere (v. foundation). Fig.: to l. one's plans, rationem capere (foll. by ut), Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11; so, r. inire, ib. 4, 2, 7. See also, to form (V.). III. To prostrate: sterno, strāvi, tum, 3: Virg. Aen. 2, 306 (but the expr. is more emphatic than the Eng.). IV. To deposit eggs: 1. părio, pĕpĕri, partum, 3: both with ovum, e. g. Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 57; and absol. Col. 8, 5, init.: Varr. So partŭrio, 4 to be about to l., Col. l. c. 2. ēdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (to deposit eggs; whereas pario may include the whole breeding process): they begin to l. about Jan. 1, circa Kal. Jan. ova e. incipiunt, Col. l. c.: also, edere fetus, id. 8, 11, med. 3. ēnītor, sus and xus, 3 (lit. to strain out: less freq. than preced.). with ova, Col. 8, 11, med.; also absol., ib. paulo ante. 4. as pass. nascor, nātus, 3: to gather up eggs that have been laid, quae nata sunt (ova) recolligere, Col. 8, 5, ad init.: Varr. (Cic. has, ova gignere, of the spawning of fish, N. D. 2, 51, fin.; Ov., ova ponere, Met. 8, 258, poet.) V. Miscell. Phr.: to l. the dust, pulverem sedare, Phaedr. 2, 5, 18. to l. snares, plagas (retia, etc.) tendere, Cic. Off. 3, 17, init.; ponere, Virg. G. 1, 307: to l. siege, obsīdĕre, obsĭdēre (v. to besiege, siege): to l. (violent) hands on any one, [vim et] manus alicui inferre (v. hand, 1, ii.) whatever one could l. hands on, quod cuique temere ad manum venisset, Liv. 38, 21. he laid (the remark) to heart more than any one would have thought, quod verbum in pectus (ejus) altius quam quisquam ratus erat, descendit, Sall. Jug. 11: to l. a thing well to heart, aliquid in pectus demittere, Sall. Jug. 102, ad fin.; in pectus animumque demittere, Liv. 34, 50: incumbere ad aliquid toto pectore (implying earnest pursuit), Cic. Fam. 10, 10: to l. waste, vasto (v. to devastate) to l. blame upon (v. blame, II.). See also foll. artt.
LAY Copy link • LAY 1. v. To put, place, set, ponere (general term); locare, collocare (to give a definite plan to anything, with choice or purpose): to lay in or upon, ponere, collocare in aliqua re; imponere alicui rei, in aliquam rem, or in aliqua re; ponere super aliqua re; e.g., wood upon the hearth (lignum super foco): to lay under, supponere, subjicere alicui rei or sub aliquid: to lay to, apponere, applicare, admovere alicui rei or ad aliquid: to lay wood on the fire, alimentum dare igni; material igni praebere; flammam materia alere: to lay the hand on the mouth, manum ad os apponere: to lay one’s self down, cubare, decumbere (in order to sleep); accumbere (in order to take food; Vid: Bremi, Suet., Caes., 72): to lay one’s self down on or in anything, recumbere in aliqua re; se abjicere in aliquid (☞ not in aliqua re; Vid: Cic., De Or., 1, 7, extr.): to lay a foundation, fundamenta agere (Cic.) or jacere (Cic.), PROP.; facere fundamenta, figuratively (Cic.): to lay an ambush, insidias locare, collocare, ponere [[and Vid: AMBUSH]: to lay a plot, moliri aliquid, [Vid: PLOT]: to lay siege, obsidere (inchoative: obsidere = obsessam tenere); obsidionem (urbi) inferre; operibus cingere: to lay violent hands on, manus alicui afferre; on one’s self, necem sibi consciscere: to lay waste, vastare devastare; populari: to lay a shoot, etc., propagare: to lay to heart, aliqua re moveri or commoveri; de aliqua re laborare; aliquid aegre ferre; aliquid in pectus, or in pectus animumque, demittere. To beat down, as corn or grass, sternere. To keep down, keep from rising, sedare: to lay the dust (humum conspergendo) sedare pulverem (Phaedrus). To give or offer, as a wager, sponsionem facere (Cic.; with one, cum aliquo) pignore certare or contendere (cum aliquo, Nep., to lay a wager). To exclude (an egg) from the body, (ovum) parere, gignere (Cic.), lacere (Varr.), edere (Plin.), ponere, eniti (Col.). To spread (a snare), tendere (e.g., rete, plagas), PROP. and figuratively; (avibus) pedicas ponere (Verg.). 2. adj., laicus (ecclesiastical).