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• domestic (adj.):

I. Belonging to the family:

1. dŏmestĭcus: d. grief, d. luctus, Cic.: d. religious ceremonies, d. religio, Suet.: d. and public affairs, d. et publica, Cic.
2. fămĭliāris, e: d. cares, curae f., Tac.: in-door d. life, interior et f. vita, Suet.: v. family. Phr.: outside the d. circle, extra domum, Cic.: he shared with him the d. circle, quicum domus fuit [et militia] communis, Cic.: straitened d. circumstances, res angusta domi, Juv.

II. Internal, as of a kingdom:

1. dŏmestĭcus: to defend the city from d. plots, urbem a d. insidiis defendere, Cic.
2. intestīnus: v. internal.

III. Fond of home life: perh. frŭgi: (Penelope) so d. and so chaste, tam frugi tamque pudica, Hor.: *diligens rerum domesticarum; quae domi manere potius quam foras cursitare solet.
IV. Of animals kept about the farm-house:

1. villātĭcus: d. fowl, v. gallinae, Varr.: Col.: a d. hound, canis v., Col.: Plin.
2. cŏhortālis, e (kept in the court or farm-yard): d. birds, c. aves, Col.
3. dŏmestĭcus (rare): d. quadrupeds, d. quadrupedes, Cels. (R. and A.).

• DOMESTIC, DOMESTICAL

Kept about [i. e., near] the house, domesticated (of animals), domesticus (e.g., quadrupedes, Cels., 2, 18; a meaning which Freund has overlooked): villaticus (kept about the villa; i. e., country-house and farm; gallinae, Varr.; alites, Plin.; quadrupedes, Plin.): cohortalis (kept in the farm-yard, cohors or cors; aves, Col., 8, 2): domi natus (e.g., omne animal quadrupes domi natum, Cels. 2, 18). Domestic animals, pecus (udis; opposed to fera).
Belonging to the house, domesticus (relating to one’s home, household, or family, opposed to forensis; i. e., relating to public or official life; or opposed to communis, belonging to all others): privatus (relating to private life, or a private individual, opposed to publicus; i. e., relating to the state or the public welfare, etc.; Vid: Cic., Att., 1, 17, 6; non forenses res, non domesticae, non publicae, non privatae carere diutius tuo suavissimo atque amantissimo consilio ac sermone possunt): umbratilis (relating to anything that is done quietly, or at home; e.g., exercitatio): attentus ad rem: diligens (economical, careful): frugi (orderly, homely, good, in a domestic sense): domestic affairs, negotium domesticum: res domesticae: domus (the house): res familiaris, from the context res only (the money matters, property, etc.): negotia domestica: domus officia (duties of the wife): to manage, superintend, etc.: the domestic affairs, negotia domestica curare; domus officia exsequi (of the wife), conficere ea, quae domi debent administrari: the nature of women is adapted for the management of domestic concerns, natura comparata est mulieris ad domesticam diligentiam: domestic evils, malum domesticum; dolor intestinus (pain felt respecting such evils; Severus, in Cic., ad Div., 4, 5, 2); moeror domesticus (grief respecting domestic affairs; opposed to moeror communis, Suet., Cal., 5).
Liking to remain at home, etc., rarus egressu (seldom going abroad; Tac.): *domi focique amans or amantissimus (fond of his home; ☞ domi focique meminisse, Terentianus): *qui parietum umbris libenter se occulit: qui (quae) nidum servat (prov., Hor.): qui libenter domi or domo se tenet or retinet: qui libenter publico caret or se abstinet: qui domo raro excedit or egreditur. To be very domestic, parietum umbris occuli: in interiore aedium parte sedere (both of the Greek women).
Intestine, not foreign, intestinus (occurring in one’s own country; opposed to externus, foreign): domesticus (Vid: above); (The words are found in this connection and order.) intestinus ac domesticus: domestic evils, malum, quod inhaeret in visceribus (of the human body as well as the state): malum intestinum: malum intestinum ac domesticum (of the state): domestic affairs, res domesticae (with reference to the state).

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