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• dwell:

I. To live in a place:

1. hăbĭto, 1: to d. by the road-side, h. in via, Cic.: to d. in anybody's house, apud aliquem h., Cic.: v. to live. Fig.: the mind d.s in the eyes, animus h. in oculis, Plin.: what fear of ill can d. in a happy life, qui potest h. in vita beata mali metus? Cic.
2. incŏlo, ui, ltum, 3 (esp. of tribes or nations): they d. beyond the Rhine, trans Rhenum incolunt, Caes.: Neptune who dwells in the salt regions, Neptunus qui salsis locis inc., Pl. (N.B. In Cic. incolo is always trans.: v. to inhabit.)
3. commŏror, 1 (temporarily): v. to stay, reside.
4. expr. by dŏmĭcĭlium, and less freq. dŏmus or sēdes: to d. at Rome, Romae domicilium habere, Cic.: not to be allowed to d. in the city, urbis domicilio carere, Cic.: they d. under ground, quibus subterraneae sunt domus, Plin.: not to have a settled place to d. in, sedem stabilem et domicilium certum non habere, Cic.: v. abode, dwelling-place.

II. Fig.: to dwell on or upon a subject:

1. commŏror, 1 (to linger upon a point): to d. any longer upon a theme, diutius in aliquo loco c., Cic. Att. 11, 7, 2. Join: versare multis modis eandem rem; haerere in eadem commorarique sententia, Cic. de Or. 40, 137.
2. immŏror, 1: to d. upon a subject, in aliqua re im., Quint.
3. mŏror, 1 (in this sense poet.): why d. on trifles, quid moror in parvis? Ov.
4. haereo, si, sum, 2: Cic. (v. supr. II., 1).
5. hăbĭto, 1 (in connexion with other words): Join: (ibi) commorari, haerere, habitare, Cic. Or. 2, 72, 292.
6. prōsĕquor, sĕcūtus, 3 (to pursue a subject: with acc.): not to d. longer upon the subject, ne longius (rem) prosequamur, Cic.: v. to pursue.

III. To lengthen in pronunciation, to lay the stress of the voice upon:

1. prōdūco, xi, ctum, 3: Ov.: Quint.: v. to lengthen.
2. tractim prōnuntio, 1 (= produco, to lengthen): v. long.

• DWELL

v. PROP. To reside, habitare (general term): incolere (to have one’s usual residence in a place or country): to dwell by or near a place, accolere locum (e.g., viam; flumen): to dwell in or at a place, aliquo loco (☞ not locum) habitare (to have taken up one’s abode in; e.g., urbe): domicilium or sedem ac domicilium habere in aliquo loco (to have one’s residence at): locum incolere (to have one’s usual residence at; e.g., urbem, trans Rhenum, inter mare Alpesque): locum colere (to inhabit it, as being one who tills its soil, makes one of its population, pursues one’s business in it, etc.; e.g., has terras, urbem, circa utramque ripam Rhodani): to dwell with anybody, in alicujus domo, or apud aliquem, habitare; apud aliquem or in alicujus domo deversari (in anybody’s house; the latter only for a time, and as a guest); cum aliquo habitare (to occupy a house jointly with him): to dwell next door to each other, continuas tenere domos: to dwell by or near to, accolere (aliquem locum, Cic., Rep., 8, 5): to dwell near anybody, prope or juxta aliquem habitare; above anybody, supra aliquem habitare; beneath the earth, sub terra habitare: the Troglodytes, who dwell in caves, Troglodytae, quibus subterraneae domus sunt.
FIG., To dwell upon a thing, rem longius prosequi (to pursue it further); morari in re, commorari, habitare, haerere in re (Vid: Cic., De Pr., 2, 72, 292; these three in the order given, where only habitare occurs in this sense): to dwell too long upon anything, longum esse: not to dwell too long upon it, ne longum fiat: to dwell upon trifles, morari in parvis (Ov., A.A., 2, 335): to dwell long on each particular, diu haerere in singulis: to dwell upon a word (= speak it with emphasis), verbum premere (☞ not urgere); upon a syllable, *syllabam cum accentu efferre or enunciare.

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