benefit (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A favour, kindness (q. v.)II. Advantage, profit • benefit (subs.): I. A favour, kindness (q. v.): bĕnĕfĭcĭum: you can confer no greater b. upon me, majus mihi dare b. nullum potes, Cic.: I think that a b. is better bestowed upon the good than upon the successful, melius apud bonos quam apud fortunatos b. collocari puto, Cic. II. Advantage, profit: q. v. Phr.: I should wish you to do what is for your own b., ego quae in rem tuam sint, ea velim facias, Ter.
benefit (v.) Copy link Outline A. Trans.1. prōsum, fui, prŏdesse (with dat.)2. jŭvo, jūvi, jūtum, 1 (with acc.)3. condūcĭt, duxĭt, 3B. Intrans. • benefit (v.): A. Trans.: 1. prōsum, fui, prŏdesse (with dat.): they b. neither themselves nor their fellow-creatures, nec sibi nec alteri prosunt, Cic.: what does it b. me to feign? quid mihi fingere prodest? Ov. 2. jŭvo, jūvi, jūtum, 1 (with acc.): eloquence b.'d the cause, juvit facundia causam, Ov.: he b.s the weary by his health-giving skill, salutari juvat arte fessos, Hor. 3. condūcĭt, duxĭt, 3: usu. with dat., v. beneficial: also acc.: rains do not b. vines, imbres non conducunt vites., Plin.: Cic. Phr.: he is not b.'d by this exception, hac exceptione non afficitur beneficio, Cic. B. Intrans.: v. to profit.
BENEFIT Copy link • BENEFIT 1. beneficium. To confer a benefit on one, beneficium alicui dare, tribuere, in aliquem conferre or deferre; beneficio aliquem afficere; benefacere alicui. Your benefits to me, tua in me officia; tua erga me raerita. As a benefit, pro beneficio; in beneficii loco. Use, advantage, utilitas, usus; commodum, emolumentum. 2. v. conducere, juvare, adjuvare; utilem esse, ex usu esse, usui esse, prodesse, saluti esse. INTR., to benefit by a thing, in rem suam convertere aliquid, fructum capere ex re.